SHE'S UP BY 56%
By Roberta Kirwan

(MONEY Magazine) – Deborah Cole, 45, a Minneapolis pharmaceutical sales rep, insists she's not the gambling type. "Basically," she says, "I like to play it safe." Yet since 1991, with guidance from money manager Lee Kopp, she has kept 70% of her portfolio in growth stocks, many at the cutting edge of technology and telecommunications. Those shares are riskier than the blue chips that make up the rest of her holdings. But they also hold the potential for greater gain, as demonstrated by her overall portfolio's 56% return in 1993. One big winner is DSC Communications, which makes electronics and telephone equipment. She bought it in August 1991 for $4.50 a share and recently sold half of her stake at $68.25.