And I think it is important to get investor dollars into long-term assets like stocks.

State-of-the-art equipment, purchased by the now-failed companies with investor dollars, is sold off for a fraction of the cost.

The greater the amount invested in the fund, the more the manager gets paid, though typically, solid performers attract more investor dollars.

She sees more investor dollars chasing fewer Treasury issues.

We have to fight fires, deal with 150 high school students, decide whether someone gets a loan or how to invest a billion investor dollars.

The problem is rooted in the 1980's, when bank interest rates were deregulated to compete with money-market funds and other magnets for investor dollars.

Analysts noted also that the long end of the government securities market was being pressured by issuance of corporate debt, which competes for investor dollars.

A sudden influx of investor dollars can also swell cash levels.

Corporations, meanwhile, are competing for investor dollars.

In the vicious competition for investor dollars, managers of the nation's 350-odd mutual fund companies are learning to be salesman.