1.   Many companies also compare them to bonds, with a guaranteed principal and a fixed rate of return.

2.   The new hires will sell investment trusts, commodity funds and other products without guaranteed principal, the paper said.

3.   It did this by promising an annual interest rate of about seven percent with the guaranteed principal, not permitted under the law unless official permission is granted.

4.   It did this by promising an annual interest rate of about seven percent with the guaranteed principal.