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To: erickerickson who wrote (36961)	12/23/2000 1:56:14 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 54805

I also suggest that your portfolio be kept in a separate account in YOUR name only this has been touched on before, but not recently. A lot of the married folk here have dealt with spousal differences in risk-acceptance and investing strategies by setting up separate accounts. Three variables that might be considered when setting up such accounts are tax status; control (individual vs. joint); and investing approach (conservative vs. aggressive, LTB&H vs. trading, etc.). The virtue of dividing family funds up into different pockets with different general rules is that it reduces the need to have fights over each individual purchase or sale, and can reduce the general recriminations as well by forcing frank initial discussions of mutual financial goals, asset allocation, and so forth. In our home we both have individual investing accounts plus a joint one. Even though there is a good deal of overlap in some of the stocks held in them, the formal separation has avoided lots of battles, and allowed me to "learn" (nice euphemism, eh?) while playing with a relatively small portion of the family's total funds. tekboy/Ares@whipped.pov