51.   Big fund companies enjoy an advantage in such a market because they have the buying power to get scarce shares in hot IPOs.

52.   Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote.

53.   Big, publicly traded fund companies, including T. Rowe Price and Franklin Resources, lost a quarter of their value in the third quarter.

54.   Bogle resigned this spring to set up his own fund company, Numeric Investors LP in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

55.   Bond fund sales continued to be moribund, fund companies reported.

56.   Both Citigroup and Banamex had individual pension fund companies, and they were expected to merge the two.

57.   Both are open-end funds, which means the fund company maintains ownership and shares are not traded on the open market.

58.   A big chunk of this money is coming from institutional investors, fund companies said.

59.   A board member of Dresdner said earlier this week that the bank was close to a deal with a fund company, but declined to name it.

60.   A decision tomorrow by a Massachusetts court should clarify just how far fund companies can go to keep clients from following money managers who leave a firm.