1.   Endo said he is avoiding bank shares and prefers real estate stocks such as Mitsubishi Estate Co. and Mitsui Fudosan.

2.   Fleming prefers Hertz stock.

3.   He prefers conservative stocks, only buys into companies he can understand and abhors managers who display any arrogance.

4.   I generally prefer individual stocks to mutual funds.

5.   Kirton said he preferred financial stocks.

6.   Others prefer beat-up stocks.

7.   Otherwise, they would prefer stocks that are less vulnerable.

8.   Q. But based on your asset allocation model, you far prefer stocks over anything else.

9.   The managers also look for strong cash flows, little debt and prefer stocks that can be easily traded.

10.   The result, she said, is that stocks are overpriced, especially the big-capitalized stocks preferred by individual investors.