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To: nick nelson who wrote (37)	10/5/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: Wiselight	Respond to of 104

Thank you for the link. It is much appreciated. Equiverse plans to address many issues of which one will be to attempt to offer a fair and ethical platform to the individual investors around the world and reduce the amount of power and unfair advantage the brokerage community exercise over them. The conflict of interest that exists is overwhelming and unnecessary. **** ""Bounded by Managed, Permeable Borders - To sustain itself, life must be open to exchange with its environment. Yet to maintain its internal coherence, it must be able to manage these exchanges. It thus depends on boundaries that are both managed and permeable - neither totally open nor totally closed. . . . "" (The Post-Corporate World) That's exactly the kind of environment Equiverse would like to create for the benefit of individuals. I will take the time to go over the material you sent via the ratical.org link. Thanks.

To: nick nelson who wrote (37)	10/6/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Wiselight	Respond to of 104

Wall Street has less and less time for small investors. Excerpt from a Merrill lynch internal document: "...We must put limit to on the amount of charity work that we will do or we will not have time to service and grow our base of customers willing and able to pay for quality advice. Remember, velocity on assets is not going to go up, so the game is still more assets in bigger accounts. If there are still FCs that really enjoy servicing small accounts, please let me know, and I will get you a nice salaried job in the Investor Services Group where you can deal with poor people to your heart's content."