91.   Even so, there is precedent for a move by the real estate investment trust.

92.   Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. is a real estate management and development company and holds an interest in the Simon DeBartolo Group Inc., a real estate investment trust.

93.   Fidelity plans to offer investment trusts to individual and institutional investors.

94.   Fidelity started marketing investments trusts last November.

95.   Fidelity hopes to use its marketing and customer-service savvy to compete with Japanese firms selling investment trusts.

96.   Fidelity, in addition to boosting bond underwriting, is adding more variable annuities and unit investment trusts to its product mix.

97.   FelCor is an Irving, Texas-based real estate investment trust.

98.   Filing shelf registrations is a standard practice among real estate investment trusts like Starwood, said Mark Benson, analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.

99.   Executives at Phoenix-based Starwood, a real estate investment trust, declined to comment.

100.   Financial advisers seem less divided on the potential benefits of real estate investment trusts, or REITs, which buy property and return most of the income to shareholders.