Subject: rule 17j-1 Date: 12/11/98 3:56 PM Dear SEC: By all means this rule should be promulageted. It is only fair that these fund managers who hustle our retirement money should have some accountability even if it is in just being required to diclose their salaries we pay and to what extent they own the fund or are selling shares they own. I cannot imagine what harm this could do anyone who is legitimately working for the best interests of the fund he or she manages. There is simply too much money going into these funds for there not to be full and fair disclosure of what the manager is doing and getting from my money. Tom Schubert