The Motley Fool - A year ago, Fool contributor Whitney Tilson wrote a piece on a time-honored Wall Street practice: soft dollars. Basically, this is when institutions, such as mutual funds, pay excessive commissions (yes, that's correct) to brokerage firms. In return, the brokerages provide research, software, and other goodies.

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