1.   For non-bank finance houses the assets portfolio is dominated by the supply of credit to the personal sector, although credit to industrial and commercial companies is also important.

2.   And few will let real estate dominate their portfolios.

3.   But always maintain a fairly conservative core position to dominate the portfolio.

4.   Her husband readily acknowledges that he does not understand much about the high-tech companies that dominate his portfolio.

5.   In the case of Washington Mutual Investors, for example, the portfolio is dominated by the stocks of utilities and manufacturers of durable goods.

6.   Names like MCI Worldcom, Amazon.com and Cisco Systems tend to dominate the portfolios, showing their managers to be not so much stock-pickers as fad finders.

7.   That thawing will be achieved, however, at the expense of the oil firms that currently dominate the portfolios of most foreign investors in Russia.

8.   The portfolio is dominated by funds with high potential for growth, but also higher than normal risk.

9.   Their portfolios are dominated by issues which, for one reason or another, have been deemed substandard by the bond rating agencies.

10.   Treat it as your core holding, the investment that will dominate your portfolio, even as you eventually add funds in other categories.