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Prudential Sector Funds, Inc.
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Prudential Financial Services Fund
Supplement Dated May 8, 2000
Prospectus Dated March 30, 2000
The following replaces the information contained in the Prospectus on page 21
under 'How the Funds are Managed--Portfolio Managers--Prudential Financial
Services Fund':
Bradley Goldberg, CFA, and Bruce Glensky, CFA, are the portfolio managers of
the Strategically Managed portfolio of the Fund, effective May 2000. Mr.
Goldberg is Executive Vice President and Director of Jennison Associates LLC
(Jennison) and a Vice President of The Prudential Investment
Corporation. Mr. Goldberg joined Jennison in 1974 as a portfolio manager. He
earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from New York
University. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Bruce
Glensky, CFA, has been employed by Prudential since 1995, first as an analyst
and then assisting the portfolio manager of Prudential Equity Fund. He earned a
B.S. and an M.B.A. from the University of Missouri. He also holds a CFA
designation.
Mark Stumpp, Ph.D., has been the portfolio manager for the Enhanced Index
portfolio of the Fund since its inception. Mr. Stumpp is a Senior Managing
Director of Prudential Investments. He chairs the Quantitative Management (QM)
group's Investment Policy Committee and is responsible for its model portfolio.
Mr. Stumpp developed the group's tactical asset allocation algorithm. He also
developed and oversees the methodology underlying the group's actively managed
equity portfolios. Mr. Stumpp has managed mutual fund portfolios since 1995 and
has managed investment portfolios for over 11 years. He holds a B.A. from Boston
University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
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