1.   A check with local investment gurus on why that is so and what the family has to gain by selling the team now.

2.   After all, no less an investment guru than Warren E. Buffett recently dumped his holdings in zero-coupon bonds, a position he had amassed last year.

3.   After observing such lopsided results, some investment gurus are having second thoughts about their distrust of startups.

4.   Cook is an evangelizing investment guru who spreads his word through seminars, tapes and best-selling books.

5.   He schmoozed with investment gurus, hung in Vegas, and considered suburban real estate.

6.   Investment guru Jim Rogers has opinions on everything from business school to the Mexican stock market.

7.   Investors often develop a cultlike devotion to one investment guru or another.

8.   Money managers and investment gurus, such as Mark Mobius at the Franklin Templeton Group in San Mateo, have become global stars of the finance world.

9.   Or so goes the theories about the stock and bond market by bond investment guru Bill Gross.

10.   Others abdicated responsibility for their money to would-be investment gurus.