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MASSACHUSETTS INVESTORS TRUST
Supplement to the Current Statement of Additional Information
Massachusetts Investors Trust's Statement of Additional Information dated
May 1, 1998 is supplemented by amending the fifth paragraph on page 19 to read
as follows:
From time to time the Fund may also discuss or quote the views
of its distributor, its investment adviser and other financial
planning, legal, tax, accounting, insurance, estate planning and other
professionals, or from surveys, regarding individual and family
financial planning. Such views may include information regarding:
retirement planning, including issues concerning social security; tax
management strategies; estate planning; general investment techniques
(e.g., asset allocation and disciplined saving and investing); business
succession; ideas and information provided through the MFS Heritage
PlanningSM program, an intergenerational financial planning assistance
program; issues with respect to insurance (e.g., disability and life
insurance and Medicare supplemental insurance); issues regarding
financial and health care management for elderly family members; the
history of the mutual fund industry; investor behavior; and other
similar or related matters.
The date of this Supplement is March 4, 1999.
