NATIONS FUND TRUST
497, 1996-09-05
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                               Nations Fund Trust

                         Nations Short-Term Income Fund

                       Supplement dated September 5, 1996
                       to Prospectuses dated July 31, 1996

         The combined  prospectuses  for the Primary A,  Primary B,  Investor A,
Investor C and Investor N Shares for Nations  Short-Term  Income Fund are hereby
supplemented by deleting the paragraph regarding David M. Hetherington under the
heading "How The Funds Are Managed" and inserting in its place the following:

               Brad  Pope  is  a  Product  Manager,   Fixed  Income   Management
     for TradeStreet and portfolio  manager for Nations  Short-Term Income Fund.
     He  is  a  senior   member  of  the  Fixed  Income  Team.   As  such,   his
     responsibilities include setting duration policy for the Nations Fund fixed
     income  funds.  Mr.  Pope  has  been  the  portfolio  manager  for  Nations
     Short-Term  Income Fund since August 1996. Prior to assuming this position,
     he was a manager in the structured  products area. He joined the Investment
     Management Group at NationsBank,  TradeStreet's predecessor organization in
     1988.  Mr.  Pope has over nine years of  investment  experience,  including
     working  on the  trading  floor of the  Chicago  Board of Trade.  Mr.  Pope
     received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.



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                               Nations Fund Trust

                           State Municipal Bond Funds

                       Supplement dated September 5, 1996
                       to Prospectuses dated July 31, 1996


         The combined prospectuses for the Primary A, Investor A, Investor C and
Investor N Shares for the  Nations  Fund State  Municipal  Bond Funds are hereby
supplemented  by deleting  the second  full  paragraph  under the  heading  "How
Objectives  Are  Pursued -- State  Intermediate  Municipal  Bond Funds and State
Municipal Bond Funds" and inserting in its place the following:

                  Under normal market  conditions,  the average  dollar-weighted
         maturity and duration of each of the State Intermediate  Municipal Bond
         Funds and State  Municipal  Bond Funds are  expected  to be as follows:
         State  Intermediate  Municipal  Bond Funds --  average  dollar-weighted
         maturity  between three and 10 years and duration  between five and six
         years; State Municipal Bond Funds -- average  dollar-weighted  maturity
         greater than 10 years and duration between 7.5 and 9.5 years.




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