Here's an alphetical list of the stock funds that will accept initial investments of $250 or less.

Eventually the new corporation stopped accepting investments in February after a total of 20,488 shares had been purchased by 6,672 investors.

The company did, however, accept private investments from companies--often technology firms.

After the two initial start-up grants, the company refused donations but is accepting investments under certain conditions.

The fund plans to continue to accept investments from existing holders.

One way to do that is to accept only large investments, in this case $10,000 or more.

But most important, it would allow some of China's state-owned industries to accept private investments.

Unfortunately, however, we very often advocate making donations to states which choose later on to accept direct foreign investments from China.

In 1845 the first 'permanent' society was established which accepted investments and made loans for house purchase on a continuing basis.

The fund will only accept investments of $10 million or more, Mr. Sites said.