From: BizEmail at Saxifrages.org [bizemail@saxifrages.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:00 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Comment on FILE NUMBER S7-36-02 and S7-38-02

Re: File Numbers S7-36-02 and S7-38-02


Mr. Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street NW, 
Washington, DC 20549-0609

Dear Secretary Katz:

I am strongly in support of your proposal to require disclosure of proxy 
voting by mutual funds and investment advisers (File Numbers S7-36-02 and 
S7-38-02). 

I have a large percentage of my personal wealth invested in mutual funds. 
Mutual funds have made diversified investing easier for me, but they also 
have hidden some of the decisions and information I rely on to make my 
choices about when to buy and sell my individual stocks. I find it frustrating 
to not know how my ownership stake is being voted for companies held for me 
by mutual funds. 

Transparency and knowledge are the keys to making any capitalist system both 
safe and efficient. 

Thank you for your consideration of my comments,
Barry Saxifrage
Seattle, Washington