Subject: Proposed Rule 17Ad-18 - Transfer Agent Year 2000 Reports
Date:    4/23/98 1:31 PM
     
     
     
First Data Investor Services Group, Inc. ("FDISG") is the transfer agent 
for several investment companies.  FDISG fully supports the comments made 
by the Investment Company Institute in its April 13, 1998 letter addressed 
to Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary, related to Proposed temporary Rule 17Ad-18.