From: "Elle" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: How important is a Variable Annuitys Insurance Company Rating
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:13:20 -0500
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"kastnna"  wrote
> FWIW I am pro-VA, not anti.

Disclosure, please? Are you in any way involved in selling 
VA products?

The NY Times printed an Op-Ed piece today on "bridge 
maintenance." An engineer wrote it. In it, he commented: 
"Recent technology advances include electronic sensors that 
identify cracks and calculate the speed at which they are 
spreading. (Disclosure: I'm an adviser to a company that 
makes such a device.)"

That disclosure makes him more credible, not less, in my 
mind, at least at first blush. For reputable publications, 
such disclosures are customary, in the interests of 
optimizing information dispersal to the public.