1.   Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street.

2.   Although the broad market averages are basically flat this year, the Nasdaq Composite, where individual investors have placed many of their bets, has been hammered.

3.   As a wholesaler, Herzog trades orders first placed by investors through retail brokerages or order-entry firms.

4.   A spokesman declined to speculate on why investors are placing a lower value on Conseco stock than the company does.

5.   Clearing agents are firms that actually execute trades which investors place with their brokers.

6.   He said that for the first time at Morgan Stanley, institutional investors had placed orders for the Fannie Mae notes electronically and had the orders confirmed electronically.

7.   He said American investors had placed too much faith in domestic stocks, especially technology stocks, and should be spreading their bets.

8.   Hoechst hopes investors will place a higher value on its drug business if it is separated from the parent company.

9.   ING Barings recommended investors place more money in Mexican stocks after they underperformed other markets in the region early this year.

10.   Investors placed bids for more than five times the amount of notes available.