GE INVESTMENT FUNDS INC
497, 1997-07-23
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                                   SUPPLEMENT

               Dated July 23, 1997 to Prospectus Dated May 1, 1997

                           GE Investments Funds, Inc.


Please keep this Supplement with your prospectus dated May 1, 1997.

The following  change is made to the second sentence of the second  paragraph on
page 3:

GMG/Seneca  Capital  Management,  L.L.C.  has changed its name to Seneca Capital
Management, LLC.

The following is added to the end of the second paragraph on page 3:

GEIM has engaged State Street Global Advisors ("SSGA") as investment sub-adviser
to provide day-to-day  portfolio  management to the S&P 500 Index Fund. (As used
herein,  "Adviser"  also refers to SSGA.) For more  information  about SSGA, see
page 35.

The following replaces the third paragraph on page 35:

Seneca,  a limited  liability  company,  is the investment  adviser for the Real
Estate  Securities  Fund  pursuant  to  an  investment   sub-advisory  agreement
effective  July 24,  1997.  Seneca is  located  at 909  Montgomery  Street,  San
Francisco,  CA 94133.  Seneca is a majority  owned  subsidiary of Phoenix Duff &
Phelps  Corporation  ("Phoenix").  PM  Holdings,  a wholly owned  subsidiary  of
Phoenix Home Life Mutual  Insurance  Company,  in turn, owns 60% of the stock of
Phoenix.  The  remaining 40% of the stock of Phoenix is publicly held and traded
on the New York Stock Exchange.  Seneca provides investment  management services
to foundations,  endowments,  corporations,  mutual funds, and private accounts.
Seneca's   predecessor  was  founded  in  1989  and  Seneca  currently   manages
approximately $3.8 billion in equity, fixed-income and real estate assets.

The following is added to the bottom of page 35:

SSGA is the  investment  sub-adviser  to the S&P 500 Index Fund  pursuant  to an
investment  sub-advisory  agreement with GEIM effective July 24, 1997. SSGA is a
division  of State  Street  Bank and Trust  Company  ("State  Street").  SSGA is
located at Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. State Street is
a  wholly-owned  subsidiary  of State Street  Corporation,  a publicly held bank
holding  company.  State Street,  with over $292 billion under  management as of
December 31, 1996, provides complete global investment  management services from
offices  in the United  States,  London,  Sydney,  Hong  Kong,  Tokyo,  Toronto,
Montreal, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Paris, Dubai, Munich and Brussels.

The following is added is to page 36:

The  sub-advisory  agreement  between  SSGA and GEIM  provides  that SSGA  would
receive  from GEIM a maximum  fee for its  services of .05% of the S&P 500 Index
Fund's average daily net assets on an annual basis.

James B. May leads a team of portfolio  managers for the S&P 500 Index Fund. Mr.
May has been an investment officer and portfolio manager in the U.S.  Structured
Products Group of State Street since 1994.  From 1991 to 1993, Mr. May served as
an  Investment  Support  Analyst  in the U.S.  Passive  Services  Group of State
Street.  Mr. May holds a B.S. in finance from Bentley College and an M.B.A. from
Boston College.


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