INVESTORS MARK SERIES FUND INC
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EX-99


Report of Independent Auditors

The Contract Holders and Board of Directors
Investors Mark Series Fund

In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Investors 
Mark Series Fund (the Fund) for the year ended December 31, 1998, we 
considered its internal control, including control activities for 
safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for 
the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to 
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, and not to provide assurance on 
the internal control.

The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining 
internal control. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments 
by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs 
of controls. Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the 
entity's objective of preparing financial statements for external purposes 
that are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting 
principles. Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against 
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.

Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors or fraud may 
occur and not he detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal 
control to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become 
inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the 
design and operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all 
matters in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards 
established by the American institute of Certified Public Accountants. A 
material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or 
more of the specific internal control components does not reduce to a 
relatively low level the risk that errors or fraud in amounts that would be 
material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and 
not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of 
performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving 
internal control and its operation, including controls for safeguarding 
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above at 
December 31, 1998.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Board of 
Directors and management of the Fund and the Securities and Exchange 
Commission and is not intended to he, and should not be, used by anyone other 
than these specified parties.

                                                /s/Ernst & Young LLP
                                                Ernst & Young LLP

Kansas City, Missouri 
February 12, 1999
	
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