Subject: File No. S7-14-08
From: Frank Osborn
Affiliation: insurance and financial services

October 23, 2008

Equity Indexed products should only be sold by Registered Reps with FINRA oversight.

They are complicated products that too often are over simplified when sold to consumers. Sometimes agents, or those who train them, don't even understand the product(s).

I speak from 32 years experience in insurance and financial services.