11.   Balanced funds are suitable for investments with a medium-term time frame -- five to ten years.

12.   Basically, both are balanced funds, dividing their assets between the stock and bond markets.

13.   Balanced funds mix stocks and bonds for a less risky total investment.

14.   A more cautious course would be to use a balanced fund, one which allocates its portfolio among stocks and fixed-income investments.

15.   A. Well, the classical suggestion for an intermediate-time investment such as this is a balanced fund, such as Fidelity Puritan which you already own.

16.   After the array of bank offerings, the first things that come to mind are asset allocation or balanced funds.

17.   Alliance Growth Investors is another balanced fund that has unloaded stocks.

18.   All of these are balanced funds, dividing their assets among the stock and bond markets.

19.   But I think a solid balanced fund such as Puritan is about as conservative as you should let yourself be.

20.   But the odds are that over the long haul, the all-stock funds you began with will probably far outdistance the balanced funds you are now using.