SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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NOTIFICATION OF ELECTION PURSUANT TO RULE 18f-1
UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940.
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Mentor Variable Investment Portfolios
Exact Name of Registrant
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NOTIFICATION OF ELECTION
Mentor Variable Investment Portfolios, a registered open-end series
investment company, on behalf of its Balanced Portfolio, Capital Growth
Portfolio, Perpetual International Portfolio, Growth Portfolio and Strategy
Portfolio, hereby notifies the Securities and Exchange Commission that it elects
to commit itself to pay in cash all redemptions by a shareholder of record as
provided by Rule 18f-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. It is
understood that this election is irrevocable while such Rule is in effect unless
the Commission by order upon application permits the withdrawal of this
Notification of Election.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 18f-1 under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, the registrant has caused this notification of election to be duly
executed on its behalf in the City of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia
on the 22nd day of January, 1998.
Mentor Variable Investment Portfolios
(Name of Registrant)
By: /s/ Paul F. Costello
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President
Attest: /s/ Terry L. Perkins
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Clerk
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