From: Schusterjaeger@cs.com
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:36 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File Numbers S7-36-02 and S7-38-02
Dear Secretary Katz: 

As an individual investor, I am writing to support the Security and 
Exchange Commission's recently proposed rules regarding proxy voting 
guidelines and vote disclosure by mutual funds and investment advisers,  
File Numbers S7-36-02 and S7-38-02. 

We do our best to ensure that our retirement funds are invested in 
responsibly.  Currently my husband and I have our retirement money 
in mutual funds with Fidelity, TIAA/Cref, Brinson Trust Company 
Collective, Equity Income Fund, and State Street International Fund. 

With almost all our investments managed by mutual funds, I would greatly 
benefit from knowing how mutual funds are voting proxies on my behalf.
This  information would enable me to choose a mutual fund manager that 
is voting proxies in line with my values on issues of importance to me,
from corporate governance to social and environmental issues. 

I urge the SEC to require that disclosure of proxy votes and voting 
guidelines be directly  disclosed on mutual fund and investment advisers' 
web sites, in addition to the SEC's web site.  I believe print copies 
should be made available to those investors that do not have access to 
the web. 

I believe full disclosure of proxy voting (which some socially responsible 
investment funds already do) is an easy but critical step in protecting the 
interests of individual shareholders and addressing some of the corporate 
scandals of the past year. 

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed rules. 

Sincerely, 
Jennifer Schuster Jaeger 
3735 47th Ave. South 
Minneapolis, MN 55406