ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
OF
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
WARBURG, PINCUS SELECT ECONOMIC VALUE EQUITY FUND, INC.
HAL LIEBES and STUART J. COHEN, being Vice President and Secretary
and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of WARBURG, PINCUS SELECT ECONOMIC VALUE
EQUITY FUND, INC. (the "Corporation"), a corporation organized and existing
under and by virtue of the Maryland Corporation Law, DO HEREBY CERTIFY:
FIRST: That the Board of Directors of the Corporation adopted the
following resolution at a meeting duly held on October 26, 1999, authorizing the
Corporation to change its name:
RESOLVED, that the name of the Maryland Corporation be, and hereby
is, changed from "Warburg, Pincus Select Economic Value Equity Fund, Inc." to
"Warburg, Pincus Focus Fund, Inc." and that the officers of the Corporation, or
their designees, be, and each of them hereby is, authorized and directed to
execute and file Articles of Amendment to the Corporation's Articles of
Incorporation with the State of Maryland, and supplements or revisions to the
Fund's registration statement, and to do any and all such other lawful acts as
may be necessary or appropriate to perform and carry out the name change.
SECOND: That pursuant to the above resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation, effective as of January 1, 2000, the name of the
Corporation listed below be, and hereby is, changed as follows:
Current Name: Proposed Name:
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WARBURG, PINCUS SELECT ECONOMIC WARBURG, PINCUS FOCUS
VALUE EQUITY FUND, INC. FUND, INC.
THIRD: That the amendment is limited to a change expressly permitted
by ss. 2-605 of the Maryland General Corporation Law to be made without action
by the stockholders and that the Corporation is registered as an open-end
company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed these Articles of
Amendment and do hereby acknowledge that it is the act and deed of each of them
and, under penalty of perjury, to the best of the knowledge, information and
belief of each of them, the matters and facts contained herein are true in all
material respects.
DATE: Decemeber 2, 1999 /s/ Hal Liebes
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Hal Liebes
Vice President and Secretary
ATTEST:
/s/ Stuart J. Cohen
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Stuart J. Cohen
Assistant Secretary
