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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (44962)	7/26/2001 6:57:14 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

The reason my back gets stiff when I see comments like that is because it's too easy for an investor to read it and think that s/he needs to know the whole shebang to be successful. Seems to me it is a question of degrees of imperfection. One can hardly expect to be a technology expert, a marketing expert, a sales expert, a support expert, a finance expert, etc. But, by the same token, one can't really just blow off any area either. The issue with regard to a brokerage versus the individual investor isn't because the brokerage types can claim to be expert in all these areas (not with a straight face, anyway). If anything, their expertise lies in how to part people from their money in such a way that a generous amount ends up in their own pockets. An individual investor who selects only a few stocks to focus on potentially has a lot more time per stock than the brokerage weenie is ever going to spend.