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PaineWebber
Retirement Money Fund
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PROSPECTUS
AUGUST 31, 2000
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This prospectus offers shares of this money market fund to individual retirement
accounts and qualified retirement plans.
As with all mutual funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission has not
approved or disapproved the fund's shares or determined whether this prospectus
is complete or accurate. To state otherwise is a crime.
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Contents
THE FUND
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What every investor 3 Investment Objective,
should know about Strategies and Risks
the fund 4 Performance
5 Expenses and Fee Tables
6 More About Risks and Investment Strategies
YOUR INVESTMENT
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Information for 7 Managing Your Fund Account
managing your fund -- Buying Shares
account -- Selling Shares
-- Retirement Plan Withdrawals
-- Pricing and Valuation
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Additional important 10 Management
information about 10 Dividends and Taxes
the fund 11 Financial Highlights
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Where to learn more Back Cover
about the fund
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The fund is not a complete or
balanced investment program.
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INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE, STRATEGIES AND RISKS
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FUND OBJECTIVE
Current income consistent with liquidity and conservation of capital.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
The fund is a money market fund and seeks to maintain a stable price of $1.00
per share. The fund invests in a diversified portfolio of high quality money
market instruments of governmental and private issuers.
Money market instruments are short-term debt obligations and similar securities.
They also include longer term bonds that have variable interest rates or other
special features that give them the financial characteristics of short-term
debt. The fund invests in foreign money market instruments only if they are
denominated in U.S. dollars.
PaineWebber Incorporated, the fund's investment adviser, has appointed Mitchell
Hutchins Asset Management Inc. to serve as the fund's sub-adviser. Mitchell
Hutchins selects money market instruments for the fund based on its assessment
of relative values and changes in market and economic conditions. Mitchell
Hutchins considers safety of principal and liquidity in selecting securities for
the fund and thus may not buy securities that pay the highest yield.
PRINCIPAL RISKS
An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is neither insured nor
guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government
agency. While the fund seeks to maintain the value of your investment at $1.00
per share, you may lose money by investing in the fund. Money market instruments
generally have a low risk of loss, but they are not risk-free. The principal
risks presented by the fund are:
Credit Risk -- Issuers of money market instruments may fail to make payments
when due, or they may become less willing or less able to do so.
Interest Rate Risk -- The value of the fund's investments generally will fall
when short-term interest rates rise, and its yield will tend to lag behind
prevailing rates.
Foreign Investing Risk -- The value of the fund's investments in foreign
securities may fall due to adverse political, social and economic developments
abroad. However, because the fund's foreign investments must be denominated in
U.S. dollars, it generally is not subject to the risk of changes in currency
valuations.
More information about risks of an investment in the fund is provided below in
'More About Risks and Investment Strategies.'
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PERFORMANCE
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RISK/RETURN BAR CHART AND TABLE
The following bar chart and table provide information about the fund's
performance and thus give some indication of the risks of an investment in the
fund.
The bar chart shows how the fund's performance has varied from year to year. The
table that follows the bar chart shows the average annual returns over several
time periods for the fund's shares.
The fund's past performance does not necessarily indicate how the fund will
perform in the future.
TOTAL RETURN
[PERFORMANCE GRAPH]
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Total Return............ 7.84% 5.72% 3.36% 2.62% 3.61% 5.39% 4.88% 5.00% 4.93% 4.60%
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Total return January 1 to June 30, 2000 -- 2.71%
Best quarter during years shown: 1st quarter, 1990 -- 1.92%
Worst quarter during years shown: 3rd quarter, 1993 -- 0.64%
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS
as of December 31, 1999
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One Year................................................ 4.60%
Five Years.............................................. 4.96%
Ten Years............................................... 4.79%
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EXPENSES AND FEE TABLES
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FEES AND EXPENSES These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay
if you buy and hold shares of the fund.
SHAREHOLDER TRANSACTION EXPENSES (fees paid directly from your investment)
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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a % of
offering price)............................................. None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of offering
price)...................................................... None
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that are deducted from
fund assets)
Management Fees............................................. 0.40%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees.................... 0.13%*
Other Expenses.............................................. 0.18%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses........................ 0.71%
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* The current rate is 0.125% but has been rounded to 0.13% for purposes of the
table.
EXAMPLE
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund
with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.
This example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The
example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the
fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be
higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS 10 YEARS
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$73 $227 $395 $883
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MORE ABOUT RISKS
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PRINCIPAL RISKS
The main risks of investing in the fund are described below. Other risks of
investing in the fund, along with further detail about some of the risks
described below, are discussed in the fund's Statement of Additional Information
('SAI'). Information on how you can obtain the SAI is on the back cover of this
prospectus.
Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a money market
instrument will not make principal or interest payments when they are due. Even
if an issuer does not default on a payment, a money market instrument's value
may decline if the market believes that the issuer has become less able, or less
willing, to make payments on time. Even the highest quality money market
instruments are subject to some credit risk.
Interest Rate Risk. The value of money market instruments generally can be
expected to fall when short-term interest rates rise and to rise when short-term
interest rates fall. Interest rate risk is the risk that interest rates will
rise, so that the value of the fund's investments will fall. Also, the fund's
yield will tend to lag behind changes in prevailing short-term interest rates.
This means that the fund's income will tend to rise more slowly than increases
in short-term interest rates. Similarly, when short-term interest rates are
falling, the fund's income generally will tend to fall more slowly.
Foreign Investing Risk. Foreign investing involves risks relating to political,
social and economic developments abroad to a greater extent than investing in
the securities of U.S. issuers. In addition, there are differences between U.S.
and foreign regulatory requirements and market practices.
ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
Like all money market funds, the fund is subject to maturity, quality and
diversification requirements designed to help it maintain a stable price of
$1.00 per share. The fund's investment strategies are designed to comply with
these requirements.
Mitchell Hutchins may use a number of professional money management techniques
to respond to changing economic and money market conditions and to shifts in
fiscal and monetary policy. These techniques include varying the fund's
composition and weighted average maturity based upon its assessment of the
relative values of various money market instruments and future interest rate
patterns. Mitchell Hutchins also may buy or sell money market instruments to
take advantage of yield differences.
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MANAGING YOUR FUND ACCOUNT
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BUYING SHARES
Fund shares are offered to retirement plans, including individual retirement
accounts, through brokerage accounts established as retirement plan sweep
accounts at PaineWebber or one of its correspondent firms. The types of
retirement plans that are eligible to buy fund shares are described below. You
can open a retirement plan sweep account by contacting your Financial Advisor.
Your order to buy fund shares will be effective on the business day on which
federal funds become available to the fund. Federal funds are funds deposited by
a commercial bank in an account at a Federal Reserve Bank that can be
transferred to a similar account of another bank in one day and thus can be made
immediately available to the fund. A business day is any day that the Boston
offices of the fund's custodian and the New York City offices of PaineWebber and
its bank are open for business.
The fund has adopted a plan under rule 12b-1 under which the fund pays fees for
services provided to its shareholders at the annual rate of 0.125% of its
average net assets.
The fund and PaineWebber reserve the right to reject a purchase order or suspend
the offering of fund shares.
MINIMUM INVESTMENTS
There is a $25 minimum for the first purchase and no minimum for subsequent
purchases.
The fund may change its minimum investment requirements at any time.
BUYING SHARES AUTOMATICALLY
You must open your fund account with an initial investment of $25 or more. Once
your fund account is opened, PaineWebber automatically invests immediately
available funds of $1 or more in your PaineWebber retirement plan sweep account
in fund shares on a daily basis for settlement the next business day, when
federal funds normally are available. For cash balances arising from the sale of
securities held in a retirement plan sweep account, federal funds availability
can sometimes take longer. This sweep will not take place if the fund account
value after the investment would be less than $25.
BUYING SHARES BY CHECK
You may buy fund shares by depositing a check from a U.S. bank into your
retirement plan sweep account. You should make your check payable to PaineWebber
Retirement Money Fund. You should include your retirement plan sweep account
number on the check.
Federal funds are deemed available to the fund two business days after the
deposit of a personal check and one business day after deposit of a cashier's or
certified check. PaineWebber may benefit from the temporary use of the proceeds
of personal checks if they are converted to federal funds in less than two
business days.
BUYING SHARES BY WIRE
You may buy fund shares by instructing your bank to transfer federal funds by
wire to:
The Bank of New York
ABA 021-000018
PaineWebber Inc.
A/C 890-0114-088, OBI=FBO
[Account Name]/[Brokerage Account Number.]
The wire must include your name and retirement plan brokerage account number.
Investors wishing to transfer federal funds into their account should contact
their PaineWebber Financial Advisors or correspondent firms for appropriate wire
instructions.
If PaineWebber receives a notice from your bank of wire transfer of federal
funds for a purchase of fund shares by 12:00 noon, Eastern time,
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PaineWebber will execute the purchase on that day. Otherwise, PaineWebber will
execute the order on the next business day. PaineWebber and/or your bank may
impose a service charge for wire purchases.
RETIREMENT PLANS ELIGIBLE TO BUY FUND SHARES
Retirement plans available through PaineWebber that are eligible to buy fund
shares include
individual retirement accounts (e.g., traditional, rollover and 'SIMPLE' IRAs)
simplified employee pension plans
cash or deferred arrangements (i.e., 401(k) plans, including SIMPLE 401(k)
plans)
profit sharing plans
money purchase plans
defined benefit plans
target benefit plans
self-employed plans (i.e., Keoghs)
Other retirement plans also may be held in custody at PaineWebber or its
correspondent firms and may be eligible to buy fund shares. Contact your
Financial Advisor for more information regarding these retirement plans.
Although the amount that you may contribute to a retirement plan in any one year
is subject to certain limitations, you may invest and reinvest assets already
held in a retirement plan in the fund without regard to these limitations.
If PaineWebber, Mitchell Hutchins or PW Trust Company serves as investment
manager for, provides investment advice to or otherwise is a fiduciary within
the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or the Internal
Revenue Code to the retirement plan, the plan may not buy fund shares. This
prohibition does not include retirement plans for which PaineWebber, Mitchell
Hutchins or PW Trust Company may be considered a fiduciary solely because it
sponsors a master or prototype plan or because it provides nondiscretionary
trust services to a retirement plan.
SELLING SHARES
You may sell your shares by contacting your Financial Advisor. Your fund shares
will also be sold automatically to settle any outstanding securities purchases
or other debits to your retirement plan sweep account, unless you instruct your
Financial Advisor otherwise.
If the proceeds from selling your fund shares remain in the retirement plan
sweep account, the adverse tax consequences described below for certain
retirement plan distributions will not occur.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It costs the fund money to maintain shareholder accounts. Therefore, the fund
reserves the right to repurchase all shares in any account that has a net asset
value of less than $25. If the fund elects to do this with your account, it will
notify you that you can increase the amount invested to $25 or more within
60 days. This notice may appear on your account statement.
If you sell all your shares, you will receive cash credits to your retirement
plan sweep account for dividends earned on those shares to the date of sale.
If you want to sell shares that you purchased recently, the fund may delay
payment to assure that it has received good payment. If you bought shares by
check, this can take up to 15 days.
RETIREMENT PLAN WITHDRAWALS
A participant's withdrawals from a retirement plan are generally taxable as
ordinary income. Withdrawals prior to the time the participant reaches age
59 1/2, becomes permanently disabled or, for certain employer-sponsored plans,
reaches at least age 55 and is separated from service of the employer who
sponsored the plan may be subject to an additional 10% penalty tax. You should
consult your tax adviser concerning the timing and consequences of withdrawals
from your retirement plan. Sales of your fund shares through the fund's
checkwriting service or systematic withdrawal plan, described below, are treated
as taxable withdrawals from your retirement plan. As a result, any of these
actions could have adverse tax consequences.
You may use these services only if
you are eligible for distributions from your retirement plan,
your retirement plan permits participants to direct the investment of their
retirement plan balances and
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you are at least 59 1/2 years old or, for certain employer-sponsored plans, you
have reached at least age 55 and are separated from service of the employer who
sponsored the plan.
For retirement plans that do not permit participants to direct the investment of
their plan balances, only the plan fiduciary with investment responsibility may
use the checkwriting service or participate in the fund's systematic withdrawal
plan.
You may obtain more information about these programs and obtain the forms needed
to participate from your Financial Advisor. PaineWebber may modify or terminate
the check writing service or systematic withdrawal plan (discussed below) at any
time or impose service fees for these programs.
Checkwriting Service. You may sell $250 or more of your fund shares by using a
check drawn on your fund account. When the fund's transfer agent receives the
check for payment, the transfer agent will arrange for the sale of a sufficient
amount of fund shares to cover the amount of the check. You will continue to
receive dividends until the transfer agent receives the check. The date on which
the transfer agent processes the check, not the date you write on it, determines
the year in which the distribution is reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
If you must take annual distributions by December 31 in a given year, you need
to allow sufficient time for processing your check.
Shareholders will receive copies of their canceled checks. If you have
insufficient funds in your account, the check will be returned to the payee.
Checks written in amounts less than $250 will be returned. You should not
attempt to sell all the shares in your fund account by writing a check because
the amount of fund shares is likely to change each day. You also should not use
the checks to transfer money from a retirement sweep account to another account,
correct excess contributions to a retirement plan or withdraw amount classified
as voluntary contributions to a retirement plan. Your checks may not be used to
purchase securities in transactions with PaineWebber. All sales of fund shares
by check will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service as taxable
distributions.
Charges may be imposed for specially imprinted checks, additional copies of
canceled checks, stop payment orders, checks returned for insufficient funds and
checks written for less than $250. Charges that you do not otherwise pay may be
satisfied through the automatic sale of an appropriate number of your fund
shares.
Systematic Withdrawal Plan. You may sell a portion of your fund shares under the
fund's systematic withdrawal plan at monthly, quarterly or semi-annual
intervals. The minimum withdrawal amounts under the systematic withdrawal plan
are $100 monthly, $300 quarterly and $600 semi-annually. You may not use the
systematic withdrawal plan if you have elected to have income taxes withheld
from your retirement plan withdrawals. The proceeds of sales made under the
systematic withdrawal plan will be mailed directly to you or deposited into a
non-retirement plan account held at PaineWebber.
PRICING AND VALUATION
The price of fund shares is based on net asset value. The net asset value is the
total value of the fund divided by the total number of shares outstanding. In
determining net asset value, the fund values its securities at their amortized
cost. This method uses a constant amortization to maturity of the difference
between the cost of the instrument to the fund and the amount due at maturity.
The fund's net asset value per share is expected to be $1.00 per share, although
this value is not guaranteed.
The fund calculates net asset value once each business day at 12:00 noon,
Eastern time. Your price for buying or selling shares will be the net asset
value that is next calculated after the fund accepts your order. Your Financial
Advisor is responsible for making sure that your order is promptly sent to the
fund when shares are purchased other than through the automatic program
described above.
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MANAGEMENT
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INVESTMENT ADVISER AND SUB-ADVISER
PaineWebber is the investment adviser and administrator of the fund, and its
principal underwriter. Mitchell Hutchins is its sub-adviser and
sub-administrator. PaineWebber is located at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, New York, 10019-6028, and Mitchell Hutchins is located at 51 West 52nd
Street, New York, New York 10019-6114. Mitchell Hutchins is a wholly owned asset
management subsidiary of PaineWebber, which is wholly owned by Paine Webber
Group Inc. ('PW Group'), a publicly owned financial services holding company. On
July 31, 2000, PaineWebber or Mitchell Hutchins was the adviser or sub-adviser
of 31 investment companies with 75 separate portfolios and aggregate assets of
approximately $53.3 billion.
On July 12, 2000, PW Group and UBS AG ('UBS') announced that they had entered
into an agreement and plan of merger under which PW Group will merge into a
wholly owned subsidiary of UBS. If all required approvals are obtained and the
required conditions are satisfied, PW Group and UBS expect to complete the
transaction in the fourth quarter of 2000. UBS, with headquarters in Zurich,
Switzerland, is an internationally diversified organization with operations in
many areas of the financial services industry.
ADVISORY FEES
The fund paid advisory and administration fees to PaineWebber for its most
recent fiscal year at the effective annual rate of 0.40% of its average daily
net assets.
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DIVIDENDS AND TAXES
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DIVIDENDS
The fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly. The fund distributes
any net short-term capital gain annually, but may make more frequent
distributions if necessary to maintain its share price at $1.00 per share.
You will receive dividends in additional shares of the fund. Shares earn
dividends on the day they are purchased but not on the day they are sold.
TAXES
Retirement plan participants ordinarily do not pay taxes on dividends they
receive on fund shares until they withdraw the proceeds from the
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retirement plan. Generally, withdrawals from a retirement plan will be taxable
as ordinary income. Withdrawals made prior to the time the participant reaches
age 59 1/2, becomes permanently disabled or, for certain employer-sponsored
plans, reaches at least age 55 and is separated from service of the employer who
sponsored the plan generally will be subject to an additional tax equal to 10%
of the amount distributed, unless the withdrawals are used to pay certain higher
education expenses or certain acquisition costs of first-time home buyers. The
failure of a retirement plan to distribute sufficient income after a participant
reaches age 70 1/2 may be subject to an excise tax. Moreover, certain
contributions to a retirement plan in excess of the amounts permitted by law may
be subject to an excise tax.
The fund notifies its shareholders following the end of each calendar year of
the amount of all dividends paid that year.
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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The following financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the
fund's financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects
financial results for a single fund share. In the tables, 'total investment
return' represents the rate that an investor would have earned on an investment
in the fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends).
The information in the financial highlights has been audited by Ernst & Young
LLP, independent auditors, whose report, along with the fund's financial
statements, is included in the fund's annual report to shareholders. The annual
report may be obtained without charge by calling 1-800-647-1568.
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2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
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Net asset value, beginning of year.................... $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00
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Net investment income................................. 0.050 0.046 0.049 0.048 0.050
Dividends from net investment income.................. (0.050) (0.046) (0.049) (0.048) (0.050)
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Net asset value, end of year.......................... $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00
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Total investment return(1)............................ 5.14% 4.66% 5.03% 4.89% 5.13%
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Ratios/Supplemental Data:
Net assets, end of year (000's)....................... $4,869,919 $5,090,938 $4,191,018 $3,922,753 $3,500,508
Expenses to average net assets........................ 0.71% 0.71% 0.78% 0.75% 0.70%
Net investment income to average net assets........... 5.01% 4.55% 4.91% 4.79% 5.01%
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(1) Total investment return is calculated assuming a $1,000 investment on the
first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends at net asset
value on the payable dates and a sale at net asset value on the last day of
each year reported.
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If you want more information about the fund, the following documents are
available free upon request:
ANNUAL/SEMI-ANNUAL REPORTS
Additional information about the fund's investments is available in its annual
and semi-annual reports to shareholders.
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (SAI)
The SAI provides more detailed information about the fund and is incorporated by
reference into this prospectus.
You may discuss your questions about the fund by contacting your Financial
Advisor. You may obtain free copies of the fund's annual and semi-annual reports
and its SAI by contacting the fund directly at 1-800-647-1568.
You may review and copy information about the fund, including shareholder
reports and the SAI, at the Public Reference Room of the Securities and Exchange
Commission. You may obtain information about the operations of the SEC's Public
Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-202-942-8090. You can get copies of
reports and other information about the fund:
For a fee, by electronic request
at [email protected] or by
writing the SEC's Public Reference Section,
Washington, D.C. 20549-0102; or
Free from the EDGAR Database on the SEC's Internet
website at: http://www.sec.gov
PaineWebber RMA Money Fund, Inc.
-- PaineWebber Retirement Money Fund
Investment Company Act File No. 811-3503
'c' 2000 PaineWebber Incorporated. All rights reserved.
PAINEWEBBER
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RETIREMENT MONEY FUND
August 31, 2000
STATEMENT OF DIFFERENCES
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