1.   Associates introduced a new fund to invest in technology stocks amid sneers and snickers from analysts and rival fund groups.

2.   In three years, Mr Kern predicts, every major fund group will offer a microcap fund.

3.   Alliance is the third fund group to pull Orange Country securities from fund portfolios, according to Fund Action, a newsletter published in New York.

4.   American Century, like other fund groups, is addressing these concerns by requiring a code for access and use of a Web browser with encryption technology.

5.   Analysts said Price will have a hard time finding a buyer for his fund group unless he makes a commitment to continue managing the Mutual Series Fund.

6.   Analysts said any potential acquirer would be looking for a pure broking operation, not a fund group of mergers advisor.

7.   And apparently all the fund groups continue providing data to the Investment Company Institute for its monthly compilation of cash-flow trends.

8.   And last fall, the firm lost its modest small-stock team to a start-up fund group.

9.   And, of course, no fund group would guarantee to make up a loss because it does not know how big the loss might be.

10.   Arnott said there is precedent for mixing loads and no-loads in the same fund group.