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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (24319)	1/15/2003 3:23:21 PM
From: ajtj99	Respond to of 30712

Man, that would be nice. I'm a little more greedy. One employee was asking me today when we'll put our money back in the market. I gave them an example that if they'd had $1000 in our employee fund 2-years ago, it's worth about $1,180 now (we had it in the market for only 2-days since Nov. 2001). If they'd have just left it in an S&P index fund, it would be worth about $650.00 I said we'd be looking at either April or fall, and at the time we go in next time, that fictitious $1,000 in an index fund might be worth only $400. I said at that point, the risk reward would be heavily in favor of reward. Currently, the reward is not as compelling in light of the market risk. We'll stay on the sidelines until it's better (we don't have access to short funds in our plan). They're not at all disappointed. This is their retirement, and that's not something I take lightly.