As more people get rid of their brokers and mutual-fund managers and start trading for themselves, the thinking goes, the stock market gets less efficient.

Turn your money over to mutual-fund managers.

Plenty of other mutual-fund managers have also been buying shares of both banks in recent months.

It is these shareholders and their mutual-fund managers who put unremitting pressure on companies to raise stock prices, whatever the human cost, he suggested.

My stockbroker executes trades for the private client accounts of a nationally known and highly successful mutual-fund manager.

A mutual-fund manager looks good by outperforming his or her relevant "benchmark" - for instance, the S&P 500.

Whatever the reason, Michael Price, a mutual-fund manager, has a soft spot for the rag trade.

To be sure, you shouldn't take your money from a mutual-fund manager and run it yourself.

Some mutual-fund managers and institutional shareholders of Sun Microsystems stock are evidently cool to a merger at any price.

There are a large number of investment bankers, mutual-fund managers, some high-profile dot-com people.