11.   The big companies, such as food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corp., are preferred investments for institutional funds.

12.   They are often the preferred investments of overseas institutional funds because of their size.

13.   Those big companies are the preferred investments of foreign institutional funds.

14.   While the execution may have been imperfect, market timing is his preferred investment method.

15.   While synthetics involve more paperwork and their returns are usually not fixed, they are fast becoming the preferred investment.

16.   He said other preferred investment sites are Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.

17.   His preferred investment instruments could be government bonds and to a lesser extent, blue-chip stocks from developed markets.