Date:    03/22/2000  8:35 AM

Subject: Comment Regarding Proposed Regulation FD

Dear Chairman,
     I am taking this opportunity to voice my support of proposed Regulation FD.
 I am in complete agreement with the principle of fair disclosure.  As currently
practiced, selective disclosure is a disservice to the investment community and 
serves to foster and perpetuate an environment in which research is clouded at 
best and compromised at worst.  The proposed Regulation FD would serve to 
release analysts from a feeling that they need to "play ball" to maintain access
to critical information or suffer by having less information than their peers or
competitors who are willing to "play ball".  Selective disclosure is unfair to 
small firms without the client base of the major firms, as well as the investing
public, Jane and John Doe.
     
     Thank you.
     
     
Gary L. Carter
Director of Investments
City of Hartford Pension Commission