21.   The ads feature Scudder telephone representatives offering assistance to investors, ranging from the novice to the experienced, on how to build a portfolio.

22.   The composition of stock indexes is important to many investors because fund managers use the indexes to guide them in building their portfolios.

23.   The fund firm had once hoped to build a portfolio of far-flung businesses, from a Ghanaian gold mine and a Polish brokerage to Russian bank and timber operations.

24.   The goal is to build your portfolio.

25.   The Motley Fools scoff at such foolishness and explain how they built portfolios that outperform the market.

26.   These so-called no-load stocks, which include names like Exxon, Dial and US West, enable people like DeMoll to go solo in building a portfolio.

27.   Through acquisitions it has built a portfolio of Web companies, each with a distinctive audience.

28.   Time is the most critical factor in building a portfolio, and the earlier you get started, the less difficult the task will be later on.

29.   Try to build a portfolio of investments in different types of stocks, or even buy shares in a bond fund or two.

30.   Wolf said he had successfully built a portfolio of investments that included buildings in Prague and a new chain of cosmetics stores, Body Basics.