Message-ID: <24358527.1075860223120.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: ted.murphy@enron.com To: john.lavorato@enron.com, john.sherriff@enron.com, rick.buy@enron.com, mark.taylor@enron.com, tana.jones@enron.com Subject: Employee Trading Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Ted Murphy X-To: John J Lavorato, John Sherriff, Rick Buy, Mark Taylor, Tana Jones X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mark_Taylor_Jun2001\Notes Folders\Archive\6_00 X-Origin: Taylor-M X-FileName: mtaylor.nsf Given the proliferation of new products and the potential of Enron Net Works to continue this trend, I am soliciting guidance as to the proper administration of the Risk Management Policy regarding employee trading. The following is the verbatim language from the Policy: "Section VII. Miscellaneous Employee Trading. No employee may engage in the trading of any Position for the benefit of any party other than an Enron Company (whether for theri own account of thr the account of any third party) where such Position relates to (i) any financial instrument, security, financial asset or liability whch falls within such employee's responsibility at an Enron Compay or (ii) any other commodity included in any Commodity Group." Administration of this policy has been limited to the efforts of Mark Taylor and Tana Jones in the Legal Department primarily consisting of employees "confessing" to trading certain products. In the past, if the product has been one that Enron does not trade, the employee is told that it is ok. If it is a product that we do trade, then they are informed to comply with policy. Restrictions on the trading of financial instruments, such as equities, interest rates and foriegn exchange have been limited to those that are currently managing those books for an Enron Company or those who might have access to information that was not in the public domain. Generally, we have found that people have traded yen, S&P futures, metals and agricultural products. Now that we have authorized the trading of a wide variety of agricultural products and metals, we may need to advise employees not to trade them (immediately, soon, never???). We may also consider changing the policy or altering our enforcement methods. Please advise your guidance as to how to proceed. Ted