1.   These companies through their business of providing life assurance have to create and manage portfolios of financial assets.

2.   Unless an exemption applies, it therefore includes dealing in, arranging transactions in or advising on futures contracts, or managing a portfolio including futures contracts.

3.   And how willing are you to manage your portfolio as it grows?

4.   And most of the newsletter companies also manage portfolios directly, which makes the practice even more lucrative.

5.   Baker manages a portfolio of high-coupon and low-coupon bonds, with very few coupons in the middle range.

6.   Both are no-load funds, and both apply a straightforward plain-vanilla approach to managing their portfolios.

7.   But now the professionals who manage portfolios for mutual funds, college endowments and big corporations will be asking questions.

8.   Dean Poritzky, who most recently managed bond portfolios for retirement plans at Fidelity, joined State Street Research and Management as vice president, portfolio manager.

9.   For many student investors, managing online portfolios is training for a career on Wall Street or in the broader business world.

10.   He was able hire an analyst in Singapore, who had worked at Jardine Fleming Securities, to help manage the portfolio.