AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
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PROSPECTUS                                                           MAY 1, 1996
                             AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
                 One Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut 06484

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American Skandia Trust (the "Trust") is a managed,  open-end  investment company
whose separate  portfolios  ("Portfolios")  are  diversified,  unless  otherwise
indicated.  The Trust seeks to meet the differing  investment  objectives of its
Portfolios.  The  Portfolios  as of  the  date  of  this  Prospectus  and  their
investment objectives are as follows:


JanCap  Growth  Portfolio  seeks growth of capital in a manner  consistent  with
preservation  of capital.  T. Rowe Price  International  Equity  Portfolio seeks
total return on its assets from  long-term  growth of capital and income through
investment  primarily  in  established,  non-U.S.  companies.  Founders  Capital
Appreciation  Portfolio seeks capital  appreciation through investment primarily
in common stocks of small U.S.  companies  with market  capitalizations  of $1.5
billion or less. The  Portfolio's  securities  will  ordinarily be traded in the
over-the-counter  market.  INVESCO  Equity Income  Portfolio  seeks high current
income while following sound investment practices, with capital growth potential
as an additional but secondary consideration,  by investing its assets primarily
in  dividend-paying,  marketable common stock of domestic and foreign industrial
issuers.  PIMCO Total  Return Bond  Portfolio  seeks to maximize  total  return,
consistent with  preservation of capital.  PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio
seeks to realize maximum total return,  consistent with  preservation of capital
and  prudent  investment  management.  Berger  Capital  Growth  Portfolio  seeks
long-term  capital  appreciation by investing  primarily in the common stocks of
established companies.


This Prospectus sets forth concisely the information that a prospective investor
should know before  investing  in shares of the Trust and should be retained for
future  reference.  A Statement of  Additional  Information,  dated May 1, 1996,
containing  additional  information  about  the Trust  has been  filed  with the
Securities and Exchange  Commission and is hereby incorporated by reference into
this Prospectus.  That Statement is available without charge upon request to the
Trust at the address listed above or by calling (203) 926-1888.


THESE  SECURITIES  HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR  DISAPPROVED  BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE COMMISSION OR
ANY STATE  SECURITIES  COMMISSION  PASSED UPON THE  ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS
PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.


Shares of the Trust are available, and are marketed as a pooled funding vehicle,
for life  insurance  companies  ("Participating  Insurance  Companies")  writing
variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance  policies.  Shares of the
Trust also may be offered  directly to qualified  pension and retirement  plans,
including, but not limited to, plans under sections 401, 403, 408 and 457 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended ("Qualified Plans"). As of the date of
this Prospectus,  the only  Participating  Insurance Company is American Skandia
Life Assurance Corporation. From time to time, however, the Trust may enter into
participation agreements with other Participating Insurance Companies. The Trust
sells and  redeems  its shares at net asset  value  without  any sales  charges,
commissions or redemption fees. Each variable annuity contract and variable life
insurance  policy  involves fees and expenses not described in this  Prospectus.
Certain Portfolios may not be available in connection with a particular variable
annuity  contract or variable life insurance  policy or Qualified  Plan.  Please
read  the  Prospectus  of the  variable  annuity  contracts  and  variable  life
insurance policies issued by Participating  Insurance  Companies for information
regarding contract fees and expenses and any restrictions on purchases.



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                        Page
Financial Highlights.......................................................4
Investment Objectives and Policies.........................................6
     JanCap Growth Portfolio...............................................6
     T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio..........................8
     Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio..............................11
     INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio......................................14
     PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio....................................16
     PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio................................21
     Berger Capital Growth Portfolio......................................26
Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods...............................28
Regulatory Matters........................................................35
Portfolio Turnover........................................................35
Brokerage Allocation......................................................36
Investment Restrictions...................................................36
Net Asset Values..........................................................36
Purchase and Redemption of Shares.........................................36
Management of the Trust...................................................37
Tax Matters...............................................................42
Organization and Description of Shares of the Trust.......................43
Portfolio Annual Expenses.................................................44
Performance...............................................................45
Transfer and Shareholder Servicing Agent
     and Custodian........................................................46
Counsel and Auditors......................................................47
Other Information.........................................................47







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FINANCIAL  HIGHLIGHTS:  Selected Per Share Data for an Average Share Outstanding
and  Ratios   Throughout  Each  Period:   The  tables  below  contain  financial
information  which has been audited in conjunction with the annual audits of the
financial  statements  of  American  Skandia  Trust by  Deloitte  & Touche  LLP,
Independent Auditors.  Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 1995
and the  Independent  Auditors'  Report  thereon  are  included  in the  Trust's
Statement of Additional Information.



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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                        JanCap Growth Portfolio
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                                                                                    For the Year Ended December 31,
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                                                                               1995         1994         1993       1992(2)
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
<S>                                                                          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
Net Asset Value at Beginning of Period...................................... $  11.22     $  11.78     $  10.53     $ 10.00
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Increase (Decrease) from Investment Operations
    Net Investment Income (Loss)............................................     0.06         0.06         0.03       (0.01)
    Net Realized & Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Investments and Foreign
      Currency Transactions.................................................     4.18        (0.59)        1.22        0.54
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
        Total Increase (Decrease) From Investment Operations................     4.24        (0.53)        1.25        0.53
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Less Dividends and Distributions
    Dividends from Net Investment Income....................................    (0.06)       (0.03)          --          --
    Distributions from Net Realized Capital Gains...........................       --           --           --          --
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
        Total Dividends and Distributions...................................    (0.06)       (0.03)          --          --
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Net Asset Value at End of Period............................................ $  15.40     $  11.22     $  11.78     $ 10.53
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Total Return................................................................    37.98%       (4.51%)      11.87%       5.30%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
    Net Assets at End of Period (in 000's).................................. $431,321     $245,645     $157,852     $15,218
Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets:
      After Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement...................     1.12%        1.18%        1.22%       1.33%(1)
      Before Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement..................     1.12%        1.18%        1.22%       2.21%(1)
Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss)
  to Average Net Assets:
      After Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement...................     0.51%        0.62%        0.35%      (0.90%)(1)
      Before Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement..................     0.51%        0.62%        0.35%      (1.78%)(1)
Portfolio Turnover Rate.....................................................   113.32%       93.92%       92.16%       1.52%
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(1) Annualized
(2) Commenced operations on November 6, 1992.
(3) Commenced operations on January 4, 1994.
(4) Commenced operations on October 20, 1994.
(5) Commenced operations on May 2, 1995.


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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                       Founders Capital           T. Rowe Price
     PIMCO Total Return         INVESCO Equity           Appreciation             International           Berger Capital
       Bond Portfolio          Income Portfolio            Portfolio            Equity Portfolio         Growth Portfolio
    --------------------     --------------------     -------------------     ---------------------     -------------------
     For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended      For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended
        December 31,             December 31,            December 31,             December 31,             December 31,
    --------------------     --------------------     -------------------     ---------------------     -------------------
      1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(3)      1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(4)
    --------     -------     --------     -------     -------     -------     --------     --------     -------     -------
<S> <C>          <C>         <C>          <C>         <C>         <C>         <C>          <C>          <C>         <C>
    $   9.75     $ 10.00     $   9.75     $ 10.00     $ 10.84     $ 10.00     $   9.62     $  10.00     $  9.97     $ 10.00
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
        0.25        0.26         0.25        0.16       (0.04)       0.11         0.07         0.02        0.04        0.01
        1.55       (0.51)        2.65       (0.41)       3.54        0.73         0.99        (0.40)       2.40       (0.04)
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        1.80       (0.25)        2.90       (0.25)       3.50        0.84         1.06        (0.38)       2.44       (0.03)
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       (0.21)         --        (0.15)         --       (0.09)         --        (0.01)          --       (0.01)         --
          --          --           --          --          --          --        (0.02)          --          --          --
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       (0.21)         --        (0.15)         --       (0.09)         --        (0.03)          --       (0.01)         --
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
    $  11.34     $  9.75     $  12.50     $  9.75     $ 14.25     $ 10.84     $  10.65     $   9.62     $ 12.40     $  9.97
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       18.78%      (2.50%)      30.07%      (2.50%)     32.56%       8.40%       11.09%       (3.80%)     24.42%      (0.30%)
    $225,335     $46,493     $176,716     $65,201     $90,460     $28,559     $195,667     $108,751     $45,979     $ 3,030
        0.89%       1.02%(1)     0.98%       1.14%(1)    1.22%       1.30%(1)     1.33%        1.75%(1)    1.17%       1.25%(1)
        0.89%       1.02%(1)     0.98%       1.14%(1)    1.22%       1.55%(1)     1.33%        1.77%(1)    1.17%       1.70%(1)
        5.95%       5.57%(1)     3.34%       3.41%(1)   (0.28%)      2.59%(1)     1.03%        0.45%(1)    0.70%       1.41%(1)
        5.95%       5.57%(1)     3.34%       3.41%(1)   (0.28%)      2.34%(1)     1.03%        0.43%(1)    0.70%       0.97%(1)
      124.41%     139.25%       89.48%      62.87%      68.32%     197.93%       17.11%       15.70%      84.21%       5.36%

<CAPTION>
         PIMCO
        Limited
        Maturity
          Bond
       Portfolio
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        For the
       Year Ended
      December 31,
      ------------
        1995(5)
      ------------
<S>    <C>
        $  10.00
        --------
            0.05
            0.42
        --------
            0.47
        --------
              --
              --
        --------
              --
        --------
        $  10.47
        --------
            4.70%
        $161,940
            0.89%(1)
            0.89%(1)
            4.87%(1)
            4.87%(1)
          204.85%
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INVESTMENT  OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES:  The investment  objective and policies for
each of the Portfolios are described below, and should be considered separately.
While certain  policies apply to all Portfolios,  generally each Portfolio has a
different  investment  objective and certain policies may vary. As a result, the
risks,  opportunities  and returns in each Portfolio may differ.  The investment
objective of each Portfolio  which is specifically  identified as  "fundamental"
may  not be  changed  without  approval  of  the  shareholders  of the  affected
Portfolio.  Each Portfolio's investment objective or investment policies, unless
otherwise  specified,  is not a  fundamental  policy and may be changed  without
shareholder approval.  There can be no assurance that any Portfolio's investment
objective will be achieved.  Risk factors in relation to various  securities and
instruments  in which the Portfolios may invest are described in the sections of
this  Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information  entitled
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods." Additional  information about the
investment objectives and policies of each Portfolio may be found in the Trust's
Statement of Additional Information under "Investment Objectives and Policies."

     American  Skandia  Investment  Services,   Incorporated  ("ASISI")  is  the
investment  manager  ("Investment  Manager")  for the  Trust.  Currently,  ASISI
engages a sub-advisor  ("Sub-advisor")  for each Portfolio.  The Sub-advisor for
each  Portfolio  is as  follows:  (a) JanCap  Growth  Portfolio:  Janus  Capital
Corporation;   (b)  T.  Rowe  Price   International   Equity   Portfolio:   Rowe
Price-Fleming International,  Inc.; (c) Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio:
Founders Asset Management,  Inc.; (d) INVESCO Equity Income  Portfolio:  INVESCO
Trust  Company;  (e) PIMCO  Total  Return  Bond  Portfolio:  Pacific  Investment
Management  Company;   (f)  PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond  Portfolio:   Pacific
Investment  Management Company; and (g) Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:  Berger
Associates, Inc.

         Subject to approval  of the Board of  Trustees of the Trust,  the Trust
may add one or more  portfolios  and may cease to offer one or more  portfolios,
any such cessation to be subject to obtaining required regulatory approvals.

         Each Portfolio may be subject to state  regulatory  requirements  which
may be more restrictive than the stated investment policies,  in which case, the
Sub-advisors will adhere to the more restrictive standard.

JanCap Growth Portfolio:

Investment Objective: The investment objective of the JanCap Growth Portfolio is
growth of capital  in a manner  consistent  with the  preservation  of  capital.
Realization  of income is not a  significant  investment  consideration  and any
income realized on the Portfolio's investments, therefore, will be incidental to
the Portfolio's  objective.  This is a fundamental  investment  objective of the
Portfolio.

Investment Policies:

         The  Portfolio  will pursue its  objective  by  investing  primarily in
common stocks. Common stock investments will be in industries and companies that
the Sub-advisor  believes are  experiencing  favorable demand for their products
and  services,  and which  operate in a  favorable  competitive  and  regulatory
environment.  Although  the  Sub-advisor  expects to invest  primarily in equity
securities,  the Sub-advisor may increase the Portfolio's  cash position without
limitation  when the Sub-advisor is of the opinion that  appropriate  investment
opportunities for capital growth with desirable risk/reward  characteristics are
unavailable.  The  Portfolio  may also  invest to a lesser  degree in  preferred
stocks, convertible securities, warrants, and debt securities when the Portfolio
perceives an opportunity  for capital growth from such securities or so that the
Portfolio  may  receive  a return on its idle  cash.  Debt  securities  that the
Portfolio may purchase include  corporate bonds and debentures (not to exceed 5%
of net assets in bonds rated below  investment  grade),  government  securities,
mortgage- and asset-backed  securities,  zero-coupon  bonds,  indexed/structured
notes,  high-grade  commercial  paper,  certificates  of deposit and  repurchase
agreements.  For a  discussion  of risks  involved  in  lower-rated  securities,
mortgage- and asset-backed securities and zero coupon bonds, see this Prospectus
and the Trust's Statement of Additional  Information under "Certain Risk Factors
and Investment Methods."

         Although it is the general policy of the Portfolio to purchase and hold
securities  for capital  growth,  changes in the  Portfolio  will be made as the
Sub-advisor  deems  advisable.  For example,  Portfolio  changes may result from
liquidity needs,  securities  having reached a price objective,  or by reason of
developments  not  foreseen  at the time of the  original  investment  decision.
Portfolio  changes may be effected  for other  reasons.  In such  circumstances,
investment income will increase and may constitute a large portion of the return
on the Portfolio and the Portfolio will not  participate in the market  advances
or declines to the extent that it would if it were fully invested.

         Because  investment  changes usually will be made without  reference to
the length of time a security has been held, a significant  number of short-term
transactions  may result.  To a limited extent,  the Portfolio may also purchase
individual  securities in anticipation of relatively short-term price gains, and
the rate of portfolio  turnover will not be a determining  factor in the sale of
such securities. However, certain tax rules may restrict the Portfolio's ability
to sell  securities  in some  circumstances  when the security has been held for
less than three months.  Increased  portfolio  turnover  necessarily  results in
correspondingly higher brokerage costs for the Portfolio.

         The Portfolio may invest in "special  situations"  from time to time. A
"special  situation"  arises  when,  in  the  opinion  of the  Sub-advisor,  the
securities of a particular  company will be recognized  and  appreciate in value
due to a specific development, such as a technological breakthrough,  management
change or a new product at that  company.  Investment  in  "special  situations"
carries an additional risk of loss in the event that the anticipated development
does not occur or does not attract the expected attention.

         Foreign  Securities.  The  Portfolio  may also  purchase  securities of
foreign  issuers,  including  foreign equity and debt  securities and depository
receipts.  Foreign  securities  are selected on a  stock-by-stock  basis without
regard to any defined allocation among countries or geographic regions. However,
certain  factors  such as  expected  levels of  inflation,  government  policies
influencing business  conditions,  the outlook for currency  relationships,  and
prospects for economic growth among  countries,  regions or geographic areas may
warrant greater  consideration in selecting  foreign stocks. No more than 25% of
the  Portfolio's  assets may be invested in foreign  securities  denominated  in
foreign currency and not publicly traded in the United States.  For a discussion
of  depository   receipts  and  the  risks  involved  in  investing  in  foreign
securities,  see  this  Prospectus  and  the  Trust's  Statement  of  Additional
Information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Risks of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Futures and Options Transactions.  Subject to certain limitations,  the
Portfolio may purchase and write options on securities,  financial indices,  and
foreign currencies, and may invest in futures contracts on securities, financial
indices,  and  foreign  currencies  ("futures  contracts"),  options  on futures
contracts,   forward  contracts  and  swaps  and  swap-related  products.  These
instruments will be used primarily to hedge the Portfolio's  positions,  against
potential  adverse movements in securities  prices,  foreign currency markets or
interest  rates.  To a limited  extent,  the Portfolio  may also use  derivative
instruments for non-hedging  purposes such as increasing the Portfolio's  income
or otherwise  enhancing return. The Portfolio will not use futures contracts and
options for leveraging purposes.  There can be no assurance,  however,  that the
use of these  instruments  by the  Portfolio  will  assist it in  achieving  its
investment objective.  The use of futures,  options, forward contracts and swaps
involves investment risks and transaction costs to which the Portfolio would not
be subject absent the use of these strategies. The Sub-advisor may, from time to
time,  at its own expense,  call upon the  experience of experts to assist it in
implementing these strategies.

         Risks of Futures and Options Transactions.  There are risks involved in
futures  and  options  transactions.  For a  discussion  of futures  and options
transactions and the risks involved therein,  see this Prospectus under "Certain
Risk Factors and  Investment  Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of  Additional
Information under "Investment Objectives and Policies" and "Certain Risk Factors
and Investment Methods."

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust,  the Portfolio may enter into  repurchase  agreements,
which  involve the purchase of a security by the  Portfolio  and a  simultaneous
agreement  (generally with a bank or dealer) to repurchase the security from the
Portfolio  at a  specified  date  or upon  demand.  The  Portfolio's  repurchase
agreements will at all times be fully  collateralized.  Pursuant to an exemptive
order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Portfolio and other
funds advised by the Sub-advisor  may invest in repurchase  agreements and other
money market  instruments  through a joint trading account.  For a discussion of
repurchase  agreements and the risks involved therein, see this Prospectus under
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Reverse Repurchase Agreements. The Portfolio is permitted to enter into
reverse repurchase agreements.  In a reverse repurchase agreement, the Portfolio
sells a security and agrees to repurchase it at a mutually  agreed upon date and
price. For a discussion of reverse repurchase  agreements and the risks involved
therein,  see  this  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment
Methods."

         When-Issued,  Delayed Delivery and Forward Transactions.  The Portfolio
may purchase  securities  on a  when-issued  or delayed  delivery  basis,  which
generally  involves the purchase of a security  with payment and delivery due at
some time in the future. The Portfolio does not earn interest on such securities
until settlement and bears the risk of market value  fluctuations in between the
purchase and  settlement  dates.  For an additional  discussion  of  when-issued
securities  and certain risks  involved  therein,  see the Trust's  Statement of
Additional Information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Illiquid Securities.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board of
Trustees  of the Trust,  the  Portfolio  may also  invest up to 15% of its total
assets in securities  that are considered  illiquid  because of the absence of a
readily available market or due to legal or contractual restrictions. Securities
eligible  for  resale  under  Rule  144A  of the  Securities  Act of  1933,  and
commercial  paper issued under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, could
be deemed "liquid" when saleable in a readily available market. For a discussion
of illiquid securities and the risks involved therein, see this Prospectus under
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Lending Portfolio Securities.  Subject to the Portfolio's  restrictions
on  lending,  the  Portfolio  may  borrow  money  from or lend  money  to  other
Portfolios  of the Trust or other funds that permit  such  transactions  and are
managed by the Investment Manager or are advised by the Sub-advisor if the Trust
seeks,  on behalf of the Portfolio,  permission to do so from the Securities and
Exchange  Commission.  There is no assurance that such permission will be sought
or  granted.  For a  discussion  of the  risks  involved  in  lending,  see  the
Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Lower-Rated  High-Yield Bonds. The Portfolio may invest no more than 5%
of its net assets (at the time of investment) in lower-rated  high-yield  bonds.
Lower-rated  debt   obligations  are  generally   considered  to  be  high  risk
investments.  The Portfolio does not have any minimum rating criteria applicable
to the  fixed-income  securities in which it invests.  For a discussion of these
instruments  and  the  risks  involved  therein,  see  this  Prospectus  and the
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Borrowing.  Subject to the Portfolio's  restrictions on borrowing,  the
Portfolio may also borrow money from banks.  For a discussion of the limitations
on borrowing by the Portfolio and certain risks involved in borrowing,  see this
Prospectus  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment  Methods" and the Trust's
Statement of Additional Information under "Investment Objectives and Policies."

T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio seeks a
total  return on its  assets  from  long-term  growth  of  capital  and  income,
principally  through  investments  in  common  stocks of  established,  non-U.S.
companies. Investments may be made solely for capital appreciation or solely for
income or any  combination of both for the purpose of achieving a higher overall
return. Total return consists of capital appreciation or depreciation,  dividend
income, and currency gains or losses. This is a fundamental investment objective
of the Portfolio.

Investment Policies:

         The Portfolio intends to diversify  investments broadly among countries
and to  normally  have at least three  different  countries  represented  in the
Portfolio.  The  Portfolio  may invest in  countries of the Far East and Western
Europe as well as South  Africa,  Australia,  Canada and other areas  (including
developing  countries).  Under unusual  circumstances,  the Portfolio may invest
substantially all of its assets in one or two countries.

         In seeking its objective, the Portfolio will invest primarily in common
stocks of established  foreign  companies which have the potential for growth of
capital or income or both.  However,  the Portfolio may also invest in a variety
of other  equity-related  securities,  such as  preferred  stocks,  warrants and
convertible  securities,  as well as corporate and governmental debt securities,
when  considered  consistent  with the  Portfolio's  investment  objectives  and
program.   Under  normal  market  conditions,   the  Portfolio's  investment  in
securities  other  than  common  stocks is  limited to no more than 35% of total
assets.  Under exceptional  economic or market conditions  abroad, the Portfolio
may temporarily  invest all or a major portion of its assets in U.S.  government
obligations  or debt  obligations  of U.S.  companies.  The  Portfolio  will not
purchase  any  debt  security  which  at the time of  purchase  is  rated  below
investment grade. This would not prevent the Portfolio from retaining a security
downgraded to below investment grade after purchase.

         The  Portfolio  may also  invest its  reserves  in  domestic as well as
foreign  money market  instruments.  Also,  the Portfolio may enter into forward
foreign currency exchange  contracts in order to protect against  uncertainty in
the level of future foreign exchange rates.

         In  addition  to  the  investments  described  below,  the  Portfolio's
investments may include,  but are not limited to, American  Depository  Receipts
(ADRs),  bonds,  notes,  other  debt  securities  of  foreign  issuers,  and the
securities of foreign  investment  funds or trusts  (including  passive  foreign
investment companies).

         Cash Reserves.  While the Portfolio will remain  primarily  invested in
common stocks, it may, for temporary defensive measures, invest in cash reserves
without  limitation.  The  Portfolio  may  establish  and  maintain  reserves as
Sub-advisor  believes is advisable to facilitate the Portfolio's cash flow needs
(e.g.,  redemptions,  expenses and  purchases of  portfolio  securities)  or for
temporary,  defensive  purposes.  The  Portfolio's  reserves  may be invested in
domestic and foreign  money market  instruments  rated within the top two credit
categories  by a national  rating  organization,  or if unrated,  of  equivalent
investment quality as determined by the Sub-advisor.

         Convertible  Securities,  Preferred Stocks, and Warrants. The Portfolio
may  invest  in  debt  or  preferred  equity  securities   convertible  into  or
exchangeable  for  equity  securities.  Preferred  stocks  are  securities  that
represent an ownership interest in a corporation providing the owner with claims
on the company's  earnings and assets before common stock owners, but after bond
owners. Warrants are options to buy a stated number of shares of common stock at
a specified  price any time during the life of the warrants  (generally,  two or
more years).

         Risks of Currency Fluctuations. The Portfolio will normally conduct its
foreign currency exchange  transactions  either on a spot (i.e.,  cash) basis at
the spot rate prevailing in the foreign  currency  exchange  market,  or through
entering  into forward  contracts to purchase or sell  foreign  currencies.  The
Portfolio  will  generally  not  enter  into a forward  contract  with a term of
greater than one year.

         The  Portfolio  will  generally  enter into  forward  foreign  currency
exchange  contracts  only under two  circumstances.  First,  when the  Portfolio
enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security  denominated  in a
foreign  currency,  it may  desire  to "lock  in" the U.S.  dollar  price of the
security.  Second,  when Sub-advisor  believes that the currency of a particular
foreign  country  may suffer or enjoy a  substantial  movement  against  another
currency, it may enter into a forward contract to sell or buy the former foreign
currency  (or  another  currency  which  acts  as a  proxy  for  that  currency)
approximating the value of some or all of the Portfolio's securities denominated
in such foreign currency. Under certain circumstances,  the Portfolio may commit
a substantial  portion or the entire value of its portfolio to the  consummation
of these  contracts.  Sub-advisor  will consider the effect such a commitment of
its portfolio to forward  contracts would have on the investment  program of the
Portfolio  and  the   flexibility  of  the  Portfolio  to  purchase   additional
securities.  Although  forward  contracts  will be used primarily to protect the
Portfolio  from  adverse  currency  movements,  they also  involve the risk that
anticipated  currency  movements  will  not  be  accurately  predicted  and  the
Portfolio's total return could be adversely affected as a result.

         For a discussion of foreign  currency  contracts and the risks involved
therein, see this Prospectus and the Trust's Statement of Additional Information
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Futures Contracts and Options. The Portfolio may enter into stock index
or currency  futures  contracts  (or options  thereon) to hedge a portion of the
portfolio,  to provide an efficient means of regulating the Portfolio's exposure
to the equity  markets,  or as a hedge against  changes in prevailing  levels of
currency  exchange  rates.  The  Portfolio  will not use futures  contracts  for
leveraging  purposes.  The Portfolio will limit its use of futures  contracts so
that initial margin deposits and premiums on such contracts used for non-hedging
purposes  will not  equal  more  than 5% of the  Portfolio's  net  assets.  Such
contracts  may be traded on U.S. or foreign  exchanges.  The Portfolio may write
covered call  options and  purchase put and call options on foreign  currencies,
securities,  and stock indices.  The aggregate  market value of the  Portfolio's
currencies or portfolio  securities covering call or put options will not exceed
25% of the Portfolio's total assets.  The Portfolio will not commit more than 5%
of its total assets to premiums when purchasing call or put options.

         Risks of Options and Futures Transactions.  There are risks involved in
options and futures  transactions.  For a discussion  of futures  contracts  and
options and the risks  involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus  and the Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information under "Investment
Objectives and Policies" and "Certain Risk Factors."

         Hybrid  Investments.  The  Portfolio  may invest up to 10% of its total
assets in hybrid instruments.  As part of its investment program and to maintain
greater  flexibility,  the  Portfolio may invest in  instruments  which have the
characteristics of futures, options and securities.  Such instruments may take a
variety of forms,  such as debt instruments with interest or principal  payments
determined by reference to the value of a currency,  security index or commodity
at a future point in time. The risks of such investments  would reflect both the
risks of investing in futures, options,  currencies,  and securities,  including
volatility and illiquidity.  Under certain conditions, the redemption value of a
hybrid instrument could be zero. For a discussion of hybrid  investments and the
risks  involved  therein,  see the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information
under  "Investment  Objectives  and  Policies"  and  "Certain  Risk  Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Passive Foreign  Investment  Companies.  The Portfolio may purchase the
securities of certain foreign  investment funds or trusts called passive foreign
investment companies. Such trusts have been the only or primary way to invest in
certain  countries.  In addition  to bearing  their  proportionate  share of the
trusts' expenses (management fees and operating expenses) shareholders will also
indirectly bear similar expenses of such trusts.

         Illiquid Securities.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board of
Trustees of the Trust,  the Portfolio may acquire  illiquid  securities (no more
than 15% of net  assets).  The  Portfolio  will not invest  more than 10% of its
total assets in restricted securities (other than securities eligible for resale
under Rule 144A of the  Securities  Act of 1933).  For a discussion  of illiquid
securities and the risks involved  therein,  see this Prospectus  under "Certain
Risk Factors and  Investment  Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of  Additional
Information under "Investment Objectives and Policies."

         Lending of  Portfolio  Securities.  As a  fundamental  policy,  for the
purpose of realizing additional income, the Portfolio may lend securities with a
value of up to 33 1/3% of its  total  assets  to  broker-dealers,  institutional
investors,  or other  persons.  Any such loan will be  continuously  secured  by
collateral at least equal to the value of the security loaned. For an additional
discussion of limitations on lending and risks of lending,  see this  Prospectus
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods" and the Trust's Statement of
Additional Information under "Investment Objectives and Policies."

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust,  the  Portfolio may enter into  repurchase  agreements
with a  well-established  securities  dealer or a bank  which is a member of the
Federal Reserve System. For a discussion of repurchase  agreements and the risks
involved therein, see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information under "Investment
Objectives and Policies."

         Portfolio   Turnover.   The  Portfolio  will  not  generally  trade  in
securities for short-term profits, but, when circumstances  warrant,  securities
may be purchased and sold without regard to the length of time held.

     Borrowing.  For a  discussion  of  the  limitations  on  borrowing  by  the
Portfolio and risks involved in borrowing,  see this  Prospectus  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio:

Investment Objective: The investment objective of the Founders Capital
Appreciation Portfolio is capital appreciation.  This is a fundamental objective
of the Portfolio.

Investment Policies:

         To achieve its objective,  the Portfolio will normally  invest at least
65% of its  total  assets  in  common  stocks  of  U.S.  companies  with  market
capitalizations  of $1.5 billion or less. Market  capitalization is a measure of
the size of a company  and is based upon the total  market  value of a company's
outstanding  equity  securities.  Ordinarily,  the  common  stocks  of the  U.S.
companies  selected  for  this  Portfolio  will  not  be  listed  on a  national
securities exchange but will be traded in the over-the-counter market.

         Companies selected for investment  generally will be small corporations
still in the  developing  stages of their life  cycles  that are able to achieve
rapid  growth  in both  sales  and  earnings.  Capable  management  and  fertile
operating areas are two of the most important characteristics of such companies.
In addition,  these  companies  should  employ sound  financial  and  accounting
policies;  demonstrate  effective research and successful  product  development;
provide efficient services; and possess pricing flexibility.

         Risks of Small Cap Investing. Investments in such companies may involve
greater  risk  than is  associated  with  more  established  companies.  Smaller
companies often have limited product lines, markets or financial resources,  and
may be dependent upon one-person management. Securities of smaller companies may
have  limited  marketability  and may be  subject  to  more  abrupt  or  erratic
movements in prices than  securities of larger  companies or the market averages
in general.  Therefore,  the net asset value of the Portfolio may fluctuate more
widely than the popular market averages.

         Fixed  Income  Securities.  The  Portfolio  may  invest in  convertible
securities, preferred stocks, bonds, debentures, and other corporate obligations
when the Sub-advisor  believes that these  investments  offer  opportunities for
capital  appreciation.  Current  income will not be a substantial  factor in the
selection of these  securities.  Bonds,  debentures,  and corporate  obligations
other than convertible securities and preferred stock purchased by the Portfolio
will be rated  at or above  investment  grade  at the time of  purchase  (Baa or
higher  by  Moody's  Investors  Service,  Inc.  ("Moody's")  or BBB or higher by
Standard & Poor's  Corporation  ("S&P")).  Bonds in the lowest  investment grade
category (Baa or BBB) may have speculative characteristics,  with changes in the
economy or other circumstances more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the
bonds to make principal and interest  payments than would occur with bonds rated
in higher categories.  Convertible  securities and preferred stocks purchased by
the Portfolio may be rated in medium and lower  categories by Moody's or S&P (Ba
or lower by Moody's and BB or lower by S&P), but will not be rated lower than B.
The Portfolio may also invest in unrated  convertible  securities  and preferred
stocks  in  instances  in which  the  Sub-advisor  believes  that the  financial
condition  of the  issuer  or  the  protection  afforded  by  the  terms  of the
securities  limits risk to a level  similar to that of  securities  eligible for
purchase by the Portfolio rated in categories no lower than B. Securities  rated
B are referred to as "high risk" securities, generally lack characteristics of a
desirable  investment,  and are deemed  speculative with respect to the issuer's
capacity to pay interest and repay  principal  over a long period of time. At no
time  will  the  Portfolio  have  more  than 5% of its  assets  invested  in any
fixed-income  securities  which are unrated or are rated below  investment grade
either at the time of  purchase or as a result of a  reduction  in rating  after
purchase.  For a description of ratings of  securities,  see the Appendix to the
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information.  For a discussion of the special
risks  involved in  lower-rated  debt  securities,  see this  Prospectus and the
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Foreign  Securities.  The  Portfolio  may invest in  dollar-denominated
American  Depository  Receipts which are traded on exchanges or over-the-counter
in the United States without limit, and in foreign securities. The term "foreign
securities" refers to securities of issuers,  wherever  organized,  which in the
judgment of the Sub-advisor have their principal business  activities outside of
the United States. The determination of whether an issuer's principal activities
are outside of the United  States will be based on the  location of the issuer's
assets,  personnel,  sales, and earnings,  and specifically on whether more than
50% of the issuer's  assets are located,  or more than 50% of the issuer's gross
income is earned, outside of the United States.

         Foreign  investments  may include  securities  issued by countries  not
considered to be major  industrialized  nations.  Such  countries are subject to
more economic, political and business risk than major industrialized nations and
the securities they issue are expected to be more volatile and more uncertain as
to payment of interest and principal.  The secondary  market for such securities
is  expected  to be less  liquid  than for  securities  of major  industrialized
nations.  Examples of such countries include, but are not limited to: Argentina,
Australia,  Austria,  Belgium,  Bolivia,  Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia,  Costa
Rica, Czech Republic,  Denmark,  Ecuador,  Egypt,  Finland,  Greece,  Hong Kong,
Hungary, India, Indonesia,  Ireland,  Italy, Israel, Jordan,  Malaysia,  Mexico,
Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Nigeria,  North Korea, Norway,  Pakistan,  Paraguay,
Peru, Philippines,  Poland, Portugal,  Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa,
South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,  Switzerland,  Taiwan, Thailand,  Turkey,
Uruguay,  Venezuela,  Vietnam  and the  countries  of the former  Soviet  Union.
Investments  may include  securities  created  through the Brady Plan, a program
under which heavily indebted  countries have  restructured  their bank debt into
bonds. Since the Portfolio will pay dividends in dollars,  it may incur currency
conversion  costs.  The  Portfolio  will not  invest  more than 25% of its total
assets in any one foreign country.

         Foreign  Securities Risks.  Investments in foreign  securities  involve
certain risks which are not typically associated with U.S. investments.  Since a
portion of the Portfolio's assets may be invested in foreign securities and some
of its revenue received in foreign  currencies,  the Portfolio's net asset value
may be affected by changes in currency  exchange rates.  For a discussion of the
special  risks  involved in  investing  in  developing  countries  and the risks
involved in foreign investing,  in general,  see this Prospectus and the Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Risk of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The  value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts.  The Portfolio is permitted to use
forward foreign currency  contracts in connection with the purchase or sale of a
specific security. For a discussion of foreign currency  transactions,  see this
Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         The Portfolio may conduct its foreign currency exchange transactions on
a spot (i.e.,  cash) basis at the spot rate  prevailing in the foreign  exchange
currency market, or on a forward basis to "lock in" the U.S. dollar price of the
security.  By entering into a forward  contract for the purchase or sale,  for a
fixed amount of U.S. dollars,  of the amount of foreign currency involved in the
underlying  transactions,  the  Portfolio  attempts  to protect  itself  against
possible loss resulting from an adverse change in the  relationship  between the
U.S.  dollar and the applicable  foreign  currency during the period between the
date on which  the  security  is  purchased  or sold and the date on which  such
payments are made or received.

         In addition, the Portfolio may enter into forward contracts for hedging
purposes.  When the  Sub-advisor  believes  that the  currency  of a  particular
foreign  country may suffer a substantial  decline  against the U.S.  dollar (or
sometimes  against  another  currency),  the  Portfolio  may enter into  forward
contracts to sell, for a fixed dollar or other currency amount, foreign currency
approximating the value of some or all of the its securities denominated in that
currency.  The precise matching of the forward contract amounts and the value of
the securities involved will not generally be possible. The future value of such
securities in foreign currencies changes as a consequence of market movements in
the value of those securities  between the date on which the contract is entered
into and the date it expires.

         The Portfolio  generally  will not enter into forward  contracts with a
term  greater than one year,  or enter into forward  contracts or maintain a net
exposure to such contracts  where the fulfillment of the contracts would require
the Portfolio to deliver an amount of foreign currency in excess of the value of
its  securities  or other  assets  denominated  in that  currency.  Under normal
circumstances,  consideration of the possibility of changes in currency exchange
rates will be incorporated into the Portfolio's long-term investment strategies.

         While  forward  contracts  will be traded to attempt to reduce  certain
risks,  trading in forward  contracts itself entails certain other risks.  Thus,
while  the  Portfolio  may  benefit  from  the  use of  such  contracts,  if the
Sub-advisor  is incorrect in its forecast of currency  prices,  a poorer overall
performance  may result than if it had not entered  into any forward  contracts.
Some forward contracts may not have a broad and liquid market, in which case the
contracts may not be able to be closed at a favorable  price.  Moreover,  in the
event of an imperfect correlation between the forward contract and the portfolio
position  which is intended to be protected,  the desired  protection may not be
obtained.  For an additional  discussion of currency  contracts and the risks of
foreign currency fluctuations,  see this Prospectus and the Trust's Statement of
Additional Information "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Temporary Investments. The Portfolio may invest up to 10% of its assets
for temporary  defensive  purposes in U.S.  government  obligations,  commercial
paper,  bank  obligations,  repurchase  agreements  relating  to each  of  these
securities,  negotiable  U.S.  dollar-denominated  obligations  of domestic  and
foreign  branches  of U.S.  depository  institutions,  U.S.  branches of foreign
depository institutions, and foreign depository institutions,  cash, or in other
cash  equivalents,  if  the  Sub-advisor  determines  it to be  appropriate  for
purposes of enhancing  liquidity or  preserving  capital in light of  prevailing
market or economic conditions. There can be no assurance that the Portfolio will
be able to achieve its investment objective; however, while it is in a defensive
position,  the opportunity to achieve capital growth will be limited;  moreover,
to the extent  that this  assessment  of market  conditions  is  incorrect,  the
Portfolio  will be foregoing  the  opportunity  to benefit  from capital  growth
resulting from increases in the value of equity investments.

         U.S.  government  obligations  include Treasury bills, notes and bonds,
and issues of United States agencies,  authorities and  instrumentalities.  Some
government  obligations,   such  as  Government  National  Mortgage  Association
pass-through  certificates,  are  supported  by the full faith and credit of the
United States  Treasury.  Other  obligations,  such as securities of the Federal
Home Loan  Banks,  are  supported  by the right of the issuer to borrow from the
United States  Treasury;  and others,  such as bonds issued by Federal  National
Mortgage Association (a private  corporation),  are supported only by the credit
of the agency, authority or instrumentality.

         The obligations of foreign branches of U.S. depository institutions may
be general obligations of the parent depository institution in addition to being
an obligation of the issuing  branch.  These  obligations,  and those of foreign
depository institutions,  may be limited by the terms of the specific obligation
and by governmental regulation. The payment of these obligations,  both interest
and  principal,  may also be affected by  governmental  action in the country of
domicile of the institution or branch,  such as imposition of currency  controls
and interest  limitations.  In connection with these investments,  the Portfolio
will be subject to the risks associated with the holding of portfolio securities
overseas,   such  as  possible   changes  in  investment  or  exchange   control
regulations,  expropriation,  confiscatory  taxation,  or political or financial
instability.

         Obligations of U.S. branches of foreign depository  institutions may be
general obligations of the parent depository institution in addition to being an
obligation of the issuing  branch,  or may be limited by the terms of a specific
foreign regulation  applicable to the depository  institutions and by government
regulation (both domestic and foreign).

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust,  the Portfolio may enter into  repurchase  agreements.
The   Portfolio   may  enter   into   repurchase   agreements   with   banks  or
well-established  securities  dealers  meeting the criteria  established  by the
Sub-advisor.  All  repurchase  agreements  entered into by the Portfolio will be
fully  collateralized  and marked to market daily. The Portfolio has not adopted
any limits on the amount of its total assets that may be invested in  repurchase
agreements  which mature in less than seven days. For a discussion of repurchase
agreements and the risks involved  therein,  see this Prospectus  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Illiquid Securities.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board of
Trustees of the Trust, the Portfolio may invest up to 15% of the market value of
its assets in securities which are not readily marketable,  including repurchase
agreements maturing in more than seven days and foreign securities not listed on
a recognized foreign or domestic exchange. The Portfolio may invest in Rule 144A
securities  (securities issued in offerings made pursuant to Rule 144A under the
Securities  Act of  1933),  which  may  or  may  not  be  deemed  to be  readily
marketable. Factors which may be considered by Sub-advisor in evaluating whether
such a security is readily marketable include  eligibility for trading,  trading
activity,   dealer  interest,   purchase   interest,   and  ownership   transfer
requirements.  The  Sub-advisor  is required  to monitor the readily  marketable
nature of each Rule 144A security no less frequently than weekly.  The Portfolio
may invest up to 5% of the market value of its  respective  assets in restricted
securities.

         For an additional  discussion of illiquid or restricted  securities and
the risks involved therein,  see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment  Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information under
"Investment Options and Policies."

         Borrowing.  The Portfolio may borrow money from banks for extraordinary
or  emergency  purposes  in  amounts  up to 10% of its  net  assets.  While  any
borrowings  are  outstanding,  no purchases of  securities  will be made.  For a
discussion of  limitations  on borrowing by the Portfolio and risks  involved in
borrowing,  see this  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors and  Investment
Methods."

         Futures  Contracts  and  Options.  Other  than  as is  limited  in this
section,  the  Portfolio  may enter into  futures  contracts  for the purpose of
hedging  all or a portion  of its  investment  portfolios,  for the  purpose  of
hedging  against  changes in  prevailing  levels of  interest  rates or currency
exchange  rates, or as an efficient means of adjusting its exposure to the bond,
stock and currency  markets.  The Portfolio  will not use futures  contracts for
speculation or leveraging,  and will limit its use of futures  contracts so that
no more than 5% of its total assets will be committed to initial margin deposits
or premiums on such  contracts.  The Portfolio may purchase put and call options
on securities,  financial indices, and currencies. Futures contracts and options
can be highly  volatile and could result in reduction of the  Portfolio's  total
return,  and any attempt to use such investments for hedging purposes may not be
successful.

         Risks of Futures  Contracts  and Options.  There are risks  involved in
futures and options contracts. For a discussion of futures contracts and options
and the risks involved  therein,  see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factor
and  Investment  Methods" and the Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information
under  "Investment  Objectives  and  Policies"  and  "Certain  Risk  Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Portfolio  Turnover.  The  Portfolio  reserves  the  right  to sell its
securities,  regardless of the length of time that they have been held,  when it
is  determined by the  Sub-advisor  that those  securities  have attained or are
unable to meet the  investment  objective of the  Portfolio.  The  Portfolio may
engage in short-term  trading and therefore  normally will have annual portfolio
turnover  rates in excess of 100%.  Such  portfolio  turnover  rates,  which are
considered  to be high,  often may be  greater  than  those of other  investment
companies  seeking  capital  appreciation.  Such turnover  rates would cause the
Portfolio to incur greater  brokerage  commissions  than would  otherwise be the
case.  Such turnover  rates may also generate  larger taxable income and taxable
capital gains than would result from lower  portfolio  turnover  rates,  and may
create higher tax liability for the Portfolio's  shareholders.  A 100% portfolio
turnover  rate  would  occur  if all of the  securities  in the  portfolio  were
replaced during the period.

INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The  investment  objective of the INVESCO  Equity Income
Portfolio  is to seek high  current  income  while  following  sound  investment
practices. This is a fundamental investment objective of the Portfolio.  Capital
growth potential is an additional, but secondary, consideration in the selection
of portfolio securities.

Investment Policies:

         The Portfolio seeks to achieve its objective by investing in securities
which will provide a relatively  high-yield and stable return and which,  over a
period of years, may also provide capital  appreciation.  The Portfolio normally
will  invest  between 60% and 75% of its assets in  dividend-paying,  marketable
common stocks of domestic and foreign  industrial  issuers.  The Portfolio  also
will invest in  convertible  bonds,  preferred  stocks and debt  securities.  In
periods of uncertain market and economic conditions,  as determined by the Board
of Trustees,  the Portfolio may depart from the basic  investment  objective and
assume a defensive position with up to 50% of its assets temporarily invested in
high quality corporate bonds, or notes and government issues, or held in cash.

         The Portfolio's investments in common stocks may, of course, decline in
value.  To minimize  the risk this  presents,  the  Sub-advisor  only invests in
dividend-paying  common stocks of domestic and foreign  industrial issuers which
are marketable;  and will not invest more than 5% of the  Portfolio's  assets in
the securities of any one company or more than 25% of the Portfolio's  assets in
any one industry.

         Debt  Securities.  The Portfolio's  investments in debt securities will
generally be subject to both credit risk and market risk. Credit risk relates to
the ability of the issuer to meet  interest or principal  payments,  or both, as
they come due.  Market risk  relates to the fact that the market  values of debt
securities in which the Portfolio  invests generally will be affected by changes
in the level of interest  rates.  An  increase  in  interest  rates will tend to
reduce the market values of debt securities, whereas a decline in interest rates
will tend to increase  their  values.  Although the  Sub-advisor  will limit the
Portfolio's  debt security  investments to securities it believes are not highly
speculative,  both kinds of risk are  increased by investing in debt  securities
rated below the top four grades by Standard & Poor's  Corporation  ("Standard  &
Poor's) or  Moody's  Investors  Services,  Inc.  ("Moody's")  and  unrated  debt
securities,   other  than  Government  National  Mortgage  Association  modified
pass-through  certificates.  For an  additional  discussion of the special risks
involved in lower-rated  debt  securities,  see this  Prospectus and the Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         In order to decrease  its risk in  investing  in debt  securities,  the
Portfolio  will invest no more than 15% of its assets in debt  securities  rated
below AAA,  AA, A or BBB by Standard & Poor's,  or Aaa, Aa, A or Baa by Moody's,
and in no event will the Portfolio  ever invest in a debt  security  rated below
Caa by  Moody's  or CCC by  Standard  & Poor's.  Lower  rated  bonds by  Moody's
(categories  Ba,  B,  Caa)  are of  poorer  quality  and  may  have  speculative
characteristics.  Bonds  rated Caa may be in  default  or there  may be  present
elements of danger with respect to  principal or interest.  Lower rated bonds by
Standard & Poor's  (categories BB, B, CCC) include those which are regarded,  on
balance,  as predominantly  speculative with respect to the issuer's capacity to
pay interest and repay  principal in accordance  with their terms;  BB indicates
the lowest degree of  speculation  and CCC a high degree of  speculation.  While
such bonds will likely have some quality and protective  characteristics,  these
are  outweighed  by large  uncertainties  or major  risk  exposures  to  adverse
conditions.  For more  information on debt  securities,  see the Appendix to the
Trust's Statement of Additional Information.

         While the  Sub-advisor  will monitor all of the debt  securities in the
Portfolio  for the  issuers'  ability to make  required  principal  and interest
payments and other quality factors,  the Sub-advisor may retain in the Portfolio
a debt security whose rating is changed to one below the minimum rating required
for purchase of such a security.

     Risks Involved in  Lower-Rated  High-Yield  Bonds.  For a discussion of the
special  risks  involved  in  lower-rated  bonds,  see this  Prospectus  and the
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Portfolio Turnover. There are no fixed-limitations  regarding portfolio
turnover. The rate of portfolio turnover may fluctuate as a result of constantly
changing  economic  conditions and market  circumstances.  Securities  initially
satisfying the Portfolio's basic objectives and policies may be disposed of when
they are no longer suitable. As a result, it is anticipated that the Portfolio's
annual portfolio  turnover rate may be in excess of 100%, and may be higher than
that of other investment companies seeking current income with capital growth as
a  secondary  consideration.   Increased  portfolio  turnover  would  cause  the
Portfolio to incur greater brokerage costs than would otherwise be the case.

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust,  the  Portfolio may enter into  repurchase  agreements
with respect to debt instruments eligible for investment by the Portfolio. These
agreements  are entered  into with member banks of the Federal  Reserve  System,
registered  broker-dealers,  and registered  government securities dealers which
are deemed  creditworthy.  A repurchase agreement is a means of investing moneys
for a short period.  In a repurchase  agreement,  the Portfolio  acquires a debt
instrument  (generally  a security  issued by the U.S.  Government  or an agency
thereof, a banker's acceptance or a certificate of deposit) subject to resale to
the seller at an agreed upon price and date  (normally,  the next business day).
In the event that the original  seller  defaults on its obligation to repurchase
the security,  the Portfolio could incur costs or delays in seeking to sell such
security.  To minimize risk, the securities underlying each repurchase agreement
will be maintained with the Portfolio's custodian in an amount at least equal to
the repurchase price under the agreement (including accrued interest),  and such
agreements will be effected only with parties that meet certain creditworthiness
standards  established by the Trust's Board of Trustees.  The Portfolio will not
enter  into a  repurchase  agreement  maturing  in more than  seven days if as a
result more than 15% of the  Portfolio's  total net assets  would be invested in
such repurchase agreements and other illiquid securities.  The Portfolio has not
adopted  any limit on the amount of its total  assets  that may be  invested  in
repurchase agreements maturing in seven days or less.

         Lending  Portfolio   Securities.   The  Portfolio  also  may  lend  its
securities  to  qualified   brokers,   dealers,   banks,   or  other   financial
institutions.  This  practice  permits the Portfolio to earn income,  which,  in
turn,  can be  invested  in  additional  securities  to pursue  the  Portfolio's
investment   objective.   Loans  of  securities   by  the   Portfolio   will  be
collateralized by cash, letters of credit, or securities issued or guaranteed by
the U.S.  Government  or its  agencies,  equal to at least  100% of the  current
market value of the loaned  securities,  determined  on a daily  basis.  Lending
securities  involves  certain risks,  the most  significant of which is the risk
that a  borrower  may  fail to  return a  portfolio  security.  The  Sub-advisor
monitors the  creditworthiness of borrowers in order to minimize such risks. The
Portfolio will not lend any security if, as a result of such loan, the aggregate
value of securities then on loan would exceed 33-1/3% of the  Portfolio's  total
net assets (taken at market value). For an additional discussion on lending, see
this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Foreign  Securities.  The  Portfolio  may invest up to 25% of its total
assets in foreign securities. Investments in securities of foreign companies and
in  foreign  markets  involve  certain  additional  risks  not  associated  with
investments  in domestic  companies  and markets.  The  Portfolio  may invest in
countries  considered to be developing  which may involve  special risks.  For a
discussion  of these risks and the risks of foreign  investing  in general,  see
this  Prospectus  and the Trust's  Statement  of  Additional  Information  under
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Risk of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The  value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Illiquid Securities.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board of
Trustees of the Trust,  the  Portfolio may invest up to 15% of its net assets in
securities  that are illiquid by virtue of legal or contractual  restrictions on
resale or the absence of a readily  available  market.  The Board of Trustees or
the Investment  Manager,  acting pursuant to authority delegated by the Board of
Trustees,  may determine that a readily  available  market exists for securities
eligible for resale  pursuant to Rule 144A under the  Securities Act of 1933, or
any successor to that rule, and therefore  that such  securities are not subject
to the foregoing  limitation.  For a discussion of restricted securities and the
risks  involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus  under "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

     Borrowing.  For a discussion of the risks involved with and the limitations
on borrowing and risks involved in borrowing, see this Prospectus under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The investment  objective of the PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio is to maximize total return,  consistent with preservation of capital.
The Sub-advisor will seek to employ prudent  investment  management  techniques,
especially  in light of the broad range of investment  instruments  in which the
Portfolio may invest.

Investment Policies:

         In selecting securities for the Portfolio, the Sub-advisor will utilize
economic forecasting, interest rate anticipation, credit and call risk analysis,
foreign  currency  exchange  rate  forecasting,  and  other  security  selection
techniques.  The proportion of the Portfolio's assets committed to investment in
securities with particular  characteristics  (such as maturity,  type and coupon
rate) will vary based on the  Sub-advisor's  outlook  for the U.S.  and  foreign
economies, the financial markets and other factors. The Portfolio will invest at
least 65% of its assets in the following types of securities which may be issued
by domestic  or foreign  entities  and  denominated  in U.S.  dollars or foreign
currencies: securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies
or  instrumentalities;  corporate debt securities;  corporate  commercial paper;
mortgage and other  asset-backed  securities;  variable  and floating  rate debt
securities;  bank  certificates  of deposit;  fixed time  deposits  and bankers'
acceptances;   repurchase   agreements   and  reverse   repurchase   agreements;
obligations  of  foreign  governments  or  their   subdivisions,   agencies  and
instrumentalities, international agencies or supranational entities; and foreign
currency exchange-related securities, including foreign currency warrants.

         The Portfolio  will invest in a diversified  portfolio of  fixed-income
securities  of varying  maturities  with a portfolio  duration from three to six
years.  The  duration of the  Portfolio  will vary within the three- to six-year
time frame based upon the  Sub-advisor's  forecast for interest rates, but under
current  conditions is expected to stay within one year of what the  Sub-advisor
believes  to be the  average  duration  of  the  bond  market  as a  whole.  The
Sub-advisor  bases its  analysis of the  average  duration of the bond market on
bond market indices which it believes to be  representative,  and other factors.
The Portfolio may invest up to 10% of its assets in fixed income securities that
are rated  below  investment  grade but rated B or higher by  Moody's  Investors
Services,  Inc.  ("Moody's")  or Standard & Poor's  Corporation  ("S&P") (or, if
unrated,  determined  by  the  Sub-advisor  to be of  comparable  quality).  The
Portfolio will maintain an overall dollar-weighted average quality of at least A
(as rated by Moody's or S&P).  Securities rated B are judged to be predominantly
speculative  with respect to their capacity to pay interest and repay  principal
in accordance with the terms of the  obligations.  The Sub-advisor  will seek to
reduce the risks  associated  with investing in such  securities by limiting the
Portfolio's  holdings  in such  securities  and by the  depth of its own  credit
analysis.  For a  discussion  of the risks  involved in  lower-rated  high-yield
bonds, see this Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         The  Portfolio  may  invest  up to  20%  of its  assets  in  securities
denominated  in foreign  currencies,  and may invest  beyond  this limit in U.S.
dollar-denominated  securities of foreign  issuers.  Portfolio  holdings will be
concentrated  in areas of the bond market (based on quality,  sector,  coupon or
maturity) which the Sub-advisor believes to be relatively undervalued.

         The Portfolio may buy or sell interest rate futures contracts,  options
on  interest  rate  futures  contracts  and options on debt  securities  for the
purpose  of  hedging  against  changes  in the  value of  securities  which  the
Portfolio owns or anticipates  purchasing due to anticipated changes in interest
rates.  The  Portfolio  may engage in  foreign  currency  transactions.  Foreign
currency  exchange  transactions  may be  entered  into the  purpose  of hedging
against foreign currency  exchange risk arising from the Portfolio's  investment
or anticipated investment in securities denominated in foreign currencies.

         The  Portfolio  may enter  into swap  agreements  for the  purposes  of
attempting  to obtain a  particular  investment  return  at a lower  cost to the
Portfolio  than if the  Portfolio had invested  directly in an  instrument  that
provided that desired return.  In addition,  the Portfolio may purchase and sell
securities on a when-issued  and delayed  delivery  basis and enter into forward
commitments to purchase securities;  lend its securities to brokers, dealers and
other  financial  institutions  to earn income;  and borrow money for investment
purposes.  See the Appendix to the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information
for a  description  of Moody's  and S&P's  ratings  applicable  to fixed  income
securities.

         The "total return" sought by the Portfolio will consist of interest and
dividends  from  underlying   securities,   capital  appreciation  reflected  in
unrealized  increases  in value of  portfolio  securities  or realized  from the
purchase  and sale of  securities,  and use of futures and options or gains from
favorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates.  Generally,  over the long
term,  the total  return of the  Portfolio  investing  primarily in fixed income
securities  is not  expected  to be as great  as that  obtained  by a  portfolio
investing in equity securities. At the same time, the market risk and volatility
of a fixed  income  portfolio  is  expected  to be less  than  that of an equity
portfolio, so that a fixed income portfolio is generally considered to be a more
conservative  investment.  The  change  in the  market  value  of  fixed  income
securities (and therefore their capital appreciation or depreciation) is largely
a function of changes in the  current  level of interest  rates.  When  interest
rates are  falling,  a  portfolio  with a shorter  duration  generally  will not
generate as high a level of total return as a portfolio with a longer  duration.
Conversely,  when interest rates are rising, a portfolio with a shorter duration
will generally  outperform longer duration  portfolios.  When interest rates are
flat, shorter duration portfolios  generally will not achieve as high a level of
return as longer duration portfolios (assuming that long-term interest rates are
higher than short-term interest rates, which is commonly the case). With respect
to any  fixed-income  portfolio,  the longer the duration of the portfolio,  the
greater the potential for total return, with, however,  greater attendant market
risk and price  volatility  than for a portfolio  with a shorter  duration.  The
market value of securities  denominated  in currencies  other than U.S.  dollars
also may be affected by movements in foreign currency exchange rates.

         The  Portfolio's  investments  include,  but are not  limited  to,  the
following:

     U.S.  Government  Securities.  The Portfolio may invest in U.S.  Government
Securities. U.S. Government securities are obligations of, or guaranteed by, the
U.S.  Government,  its  agencies  or  instrumentalities.  Some  U.S.  Government
securities,  such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds, and securities  guaranteed
by the Government National Mortgage Association  ("GNMA"),  are supported by the
full faith and credit of the United States; others, such as those of the Federal
Home Loan  Banks,  are  supported  by the right of the issuer to borrow from the
U.S.  Treasury;   others,  such  as  those  of  the  Federal  National  Mortgage
Association ("FNMA"),  are supported by the discretionary  authority of the U.S.
Government to purchase the agency's  obligations;  and still others, such as the
Student Loan  Marketing  Association,  are  supported  only by the credit of the
instrumentality.

         Corporate Debt  Securities.  The Portfolio may invest in corporate debt
securities. Corporate debt securities include corporate bonds, debentures, notes
and other similar corporate debt instruments,  including convertible securities.
Debt   securities   may  be   acquired   with   warrants   attached.   Corporate
income-producing  securities  may also include  forms of preferred or preference
stock. The rate of return or return of principal on some debt obligations may be
linked or indexed to the level of exchange  rates between the U.S.  dollar and a
foreign currency or currencies. Investment in corporate debt securities that are
below investment grade (rated below Baa (Moody's) or BBB (S&P)) are described as
"speculative"  both by Moody's and S&P. For a  description  of the special risks
involved with lower-rated  high-yield bonds, see this Prospectus and the Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Mortgage-Related and Other Asset-Backed  Securities.  The Portfolio may
invest all of its assets in mortgage-related and other asset-backed  securities,
including  mortgage   pass-through   securities  and   collateralized   mortgage
obligations. The value of some mortgage- or asset-backed securities in which the
Portfolio  invests  may be  particularly  sensitive  to  changes  in  prevailing
interest rates, and, like the other investments of the Portfolio, the ability of
the Portfolio to successfully  utilize these instruments may depend in part upon
the ability of the  Sub-advisor  to forecast  interest  rates and other economic
factors correctly. These investments involve special risks. For a description of
these securities and the special risks involved therein, see this Prospectus and
the  Statement  of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and
Investment Methods."

         Repurchase  Agreements.  For  the  purpose  of  achieving  income,  the
Portfolio  may  enter  into   repurchase   agreements,   subject  to  guidelines
promulgated by the Board of Trustees of the Trust. The Portfolio will not invest
more than 15% of its net assets  (taken at current  market  value) in repurchase
agreements  maturing in more than seven days.  For a  discussion  of  repurchase
agreements and the risks involved  therein,  see this Prospectus  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Reverse Repurchase  Agreements and Other Borrowings.  The Portfolio may
enter into reverse repurchase agreements. For a discussion of reverse repurchase
agreements,  see this  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk Factors and  Investment
Methods." The Portfolio will maintain a segregated  account  consisting of cash,
U.S.  Government  securities or high-grade debt obligations,  maturing not later
than  the  expiration  of  the  reverse  repurchase  agreement,   to  cover  its
obligations under reverse repurchase  agreements.  The Portfolio may also borrow
money for investment purposes.  Such a practice will result in leveraging of the
Portfolio's  assets.  Leverage will tend to  exaggerate  the effect on net asset
value of any  increase or decrease in the value of the  Portfolio  and may cause
the Portfolio to liquidate portfolio positions when it would not be advantageous
to do so.

         Lending Portfolio Securities.  For the purpose of achieving income, the
Portfolio  may lend its portfolio  securities,  provided (1) the loan is secured
continuously by collateral  consisting of U.S. Government  securities or cash or
cash equivalents (cash, U.S. Government securities,  negotiable  certificates of
deposit,  bankers'  acceptances  or  letters of  credit)  maintained  on a daily
mark-to-market  basis in an amount at least equal to the current market value of
the  securities  loaned,  (2) the  Portfolio  may at any time  call the loan and
obtain the return of  securities  loaned,  (3) the  Portfolio  will  receive any
interest or dividends received on the loaned  securities,  and (4) the aggregate
value of the  securities  loaned  will not at any time exceed  one-third  of the
total  assets  of the  Portfolio.  For a  discussion  of the risks  involved  in
lending,  see  this  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment
Methods."

         When-Issued  or  Delayed-Delivery   Transactions.   The  Portfolio  may
purchase or sell securities on a when-issued or delayed  delivery  basis.  These
transactions  involve  a  commitment  by  the  Portfolio  to  purchase  or  sell
securities for a predetermined  price or yield, with payment and delivery taking
place more than  seven days in the  future,  or after a period  longer  than the
customary  settlement  period for that type of security.  When delayed  delivery
purchases are  outstanding,  the Portfolio will set aside and maintain until the
settlement date, in a segregated account,  cash, U.S.  Government  securities or
high grade debt obligations in an amount  sufficient to meet the purchase price.
Typically, no income accrues on securities purchased on a delayed delivery basis
prior to time  delivery of the  securities  is made,  although the Portfolio may
earn  income on  securities  it has  deposited  in a  segregated  account.  When
purchasing a security on a delayed  delivery  basis,  the Portfolio  assumes the
rights and risks of ownership of the  security,  including the risk of price and
yield  fluctuations,  and takes such  fluctuations into account when determining
its net asset  value.  Because  the  Portfolio  is not  required  to pay for the
security  until the  delivery  date,  these  risks are in  addition to the risks
associated  with the Portfolio's  other  investments.  If the Portfolio  remains
substantially  fully  invested at a time when  delayed  delivery  purchases  are
outstanding,  the delayed  delivery  purchases may result in a form of leverage.
When  the  Portfolio  has sold a  security  on a  delayed  delivery  basis,  the
Portfolio  does not  participate  in future  gains or losses with respect to the
security.  If the other party to a delayed delivery transaction fails to deliver
or pay for the  security,  the Portfolio  could miss a favorable  price or yield
opportunity  or could suffer a loss. The Portfolio may dispose of or renegotiate
a  delayed  delivery  transaction  after  it  is  entered  into,  and  may  sell
when-issued securities before they are delivered,  which may result in a capital
gain or loss.  There is no  percentage  limitation  on the  extent  to which the
Portfolio may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery basis.

         Foreign  Securities.  The Portfolio may invest directly in U.S. dollar-
or foreign  currency-denominated  fixed income  securities.  The Portfolio  will
limit its  foreign  investments  to  securities  of issuers  based in  developed
countries (including newly industrialized countries, such as Taiwan, South Korea
and  Mexico).  For a  discussion  of the risks  involved in investing in foreign
securities,  see  this  Prospectus  and  the  Trust's  Statement  of  Additional
Information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Brady Bonds.  The Portfolio may invest in Brady Bonds.  Brady Bonds are
securities  created  through the exchange of existing  commercial  bank loans to
sovereign  entities for new obligations in connection  with debt  restructurings
under a debt  restructuring  plan  introduced  by former U.S.  Secretary  of the
Treasury, Nicholas F. Brady. Brady Bonds have been issued only recently, and for
that  reason  do  not  have  a  long  payment   history.   Brady  Bonds  may  be
collateralized  or  uncollateralized,  are  issued in  various  currencies  (but
primarily  the U.S.  dollar),  and are actively  traded in the  over-the-counter
secondary  market.  Brady  Bonds  are  not  considered  to  be  U.S.  Government
Securities.  In light of the  residual  risk of Brady  Bonds  and,  among  other
factors, the history of defaults with respect to commercial bank loans by public
and private  entities in countries  issuing  Brady Bonds,  investments  in Brady
Bonds may be viewed as  speculative.  There can be no assurance that Brady Bonds
acquired by the Portfolio will not be subject to  restructuring  arrangements or
to requests  for new credit,  which may cause the  Portfolio to suffer a loss of
interest or principal on any of its holdings.

         Options on Securities, Securities Indexes and Currencies. The Portfolio
may purchase and write call and put options on  securities,  securities  indexes
and on foreign  currencies,  and enter into futures contracts and use options on
futures  contracts as further described below. The Portfolio may also enter into
swap  agreements  with  respect  to  foreign  currencies,   interest  rates  and
securities  indexes.  The  Portfolio  may use these  techniques to hedge against
changes in interest rates, foreign currency, exchange rates or securities prices
or as part of its overall investment strategy.

         The Portfolio may purchase options on securities to protect holdings in
an underlying or related security against a substantial decline in market value.
A  Portfolio  may  purchase  call  options  on  securities  to  protect  against
substantial  increases in prices of securities the Portfolio intends to purchase
pending  its  ability to invest in such  securities  in an orderly  manner.  The
Portfolio may sell put or call options it has previously purchased,  which could
result in a net gain or loss  depending  on whether  the amount  realized on the
sale is more or less than the  premium and other  transaction  costs paid on the
put or call option  which is sold.  A  Portfolio  may write a call or put option
only if it is "covered" by the  Portfolio  holding a position in the  underlying
securities or by other means which would permit  immediate  satisfaction  of the
Portfolio's obligation as writer of the option. Prior to exercise or expiration,
an option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option on of
the same series.

         Risks of  Options.  The  Portfolio  may  invest in  foreign-denominated
securities  and may buy or sell  put and call  options  on  foreign  currencies.
Currency  options  traded on U.S. or other  exchanges may be subject to position
limits which may limit the ability of the Portfolio to reduce  foreign  currency
risk using such options.  For a discussion of the risks involved in investing in
foreign  currency,  see this Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional
Information  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment   Methods."  For  a
discussion of options and the risks involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus and
the Trust's Statement of Additional  Information under "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Swaps.  The Portfolio may enter into interest rate,  index and currency
exchange  rate  swap  agreements  for the  purposes  of  attempting  to obtain a
particular desired return at a lower cost to the Portfolio than if the Portfolio
had invested  directly in an instrument  that yielded the desired  return.  Swap
agreements  are  two-party  contracts  entered into  primarily by  institutional
investors  for  periods  ranging  from a few weeks to more  than one year.  In a
standard  "swap"  transaction,  two parties  agree to  exchange  the returns (or
differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on particular predetermined
investments  or  instruments.  The gross  returns to be  exchanged  or "swapped"
between the parties are  calculated  with respect to a "notional  amount," i.e.,
the return on or increase in value of a particular  dollar amount  invested at a
particular interest rate, in a particular foreign currency,  or in a "basket" of
securities  representing  a  particular  index.  Commonly  used swap  agreements
include  interest  rate caps,  under which,  in return for a premium,  one party
agrees to make payments to the other to the extent that interest  rates exceed a
specified rate or "cap";  interest floors, under which, in return for a premium,
one party agrees to make payments to the other to the extent that interest rates
fall below a specified level or "floor"; and interest rate collars,  under which
a party sells a cap and purchases a floor or vice versa in an attempt to protect
itself  against  interest  rate  movements  exceeding  given  minimum or maximum
levels.

         The  "notional  amount" of a swap  agreement is only a fictive basis on
which to calculate the  obligations  which the parties to a swap  agreement have
agreed to exchange.  Most swap  agreements  entered into by the Portfolio  would
calculate  the  obligations  of the parties to the  agreement  on a "net basis."
Consequently,  the  Portfolio's  obligations  (or rights) under a swap agreement
will  generally be equal only to the net amount to be paid or received under the
agreement  based on the relative  values of the positions  held by each party to
the agreement ("net amount"). The Portfolio's obligations under a swap agreement
will be accrued daily (offset  against  amounts owed to the  Portfolio)  and any
accrued  unpaid net amounts owed to a swap  counterparty  will be covered by the
maintenance  of  a  segregated  account  consisting  of  cash,  U.S.  Government
securities, or high grade debt obligations, to avoid any potential leveraging of
the  Portfolio.  The  Portfolio  will not enter into a swap  agreement  with any
single party if the net amount owed or to be received under  existing  contracts
with that party would exceed 5% of the Portfolio's total assets.

         Risks of Swaps.  Whether the Portfolio's use of swap agreements will be
successful in furthering its investment objective will depend on the Portfolio's
ability to predict  correctly  whether certain types of investment are likely to
produce  greater  returns than other  investments.  Because  they are  two-party
contracts  and  because  they  have  terms of  greater  than  seven  days,  swap
agreements may be considered illiquid. Moreover, the Portfolio bears the risk of
loss of the amount  expected to be received  under a swap agreement in the event
of a default or bankruptcy of a swap  agreement  counterparty.  The  Sub-advisor
will cause the Portfolio to enter into swap agreements only with  counterparties
that would be eligible for consideration as repurchase agreement  counterparties
under the Portfolio's  repurchase  agreement  guidelines.  Certain  restrictions
imposed on the Portfolio by the Internal  Revenue Code may limit the Portfolio's
ability  to use swap  agreements.  The  swaps  market is  relatively  new and is
largely  unregulated.  It is possible  that  developments  in the swaps  market,
including  potential  governmental   regulation,   could  adversely  affect  the
Portfolio's  ability to terminate existing swap agreements or to realize amounts
to be received under such agreements.

         Futures Contracts and Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may
invest in interest rate futures  contracts,  stock index  futures  contracts and
foreign currency futures contracts and options thereon that are traded on a U.S.
or  foreign  exchange  or board of trade.  The  Portfolio  will only  enter into
futures contracts or futures options which are standardized and traded on a U.S.
or  foreign  exchange  or board of trade,  or  similar  entity,  or quoted on an
automated  quotation system.  The Portfolio will use financial futures contracts
and related  options  only for "bona  fide"  hedging  purposes,  as such term is
defined in the applicable regulations of the CFTC, or, with respect to positions
in  financial  futures  and  related  options  that do not qualify as "bona fide
hedging"  positions,  will enter such  non-hedging  positions only to the extent
that  aggregate  initial  margin  deposit plus  premiums paid by it for the open
futures  options  position,  less the  amount  by which any such  positions  are
"in-the-money," would not exceed 5% of the Portfolio's total assets.

         Risks of  Futures  Contracts  and  Related  Options.  There  are  risks
involved in futures and options contracts. For a discussion of futures contracts
and related options, and the risks involved therein, see this Prospectus and the
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Risk of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The  value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Other  Foreign  Currency  Transactions.  The Portfolio may buy and sell
foreign currency futures contracts and options on foreign currencies and foreign
currency  futures  contracts,  enter  into  forward  foreign  currency  exchange
contracts to reduce the risks of adverse changes in foreign  exchange rates. The
Portfolio  may enter into these  contracts  for the  purpose of hedging  against
foreign  exchange risk arising from the  Portfolio's  investment or  anticipated
investment in securities denominated in foreign currencies.  For a discussion of
foreign  currency   transactions  and  the  risks  involved  therein,  see  this
Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

     Borrowing.  For a  discussion  of  the  limitations  on  borrowing  by  the
Portfolio and certain risks involved therein, see this Prospectus under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The investment  objective of the PIMCO Limited  Maturity
Bond Portfolio is to seek to maximize total return, consistent with preservation
of capital and prudent investment  management.  This is a fundamental investment
objective of the Portfolio.

Investment Policies:

         In selecting  securities for the Portfolio,  the  Sub-advisor  utilizes
economic forecasting, interest rate anticipation, credit and call risk analysis,
foreign  currency  exchange  rate  forecasting,  and  other  security  selection
techniques. The proportion of each Portfolio's assets committed to investment in
securities with particular  characteristics  (such as maturity,  type and coupon
rate) will vary based on the  Sub-advisor's  outlook  for the U.S.  and  foreign
economies, the financial markets, and other factors.

         The  Portfolio  will  invest at least  65% of its  total  assets in the
following  types of  securities,  which  may be issued by  domestic  or  foreign
entities  and  denominated  in U.S.  dollars or foreign  currencies:  securities
issued or guaranteed by the U.S.  Government,  its agencies or instrumentalities
("U.S. Government securities");  corporate debt securities; corporate commercial
paper;  mortgage and other asset-backed  securities;  variable and floating rate
debt securities;  bank certificates of deposit, fixed time deposits and bankers'
acceptances;   repurchase   agreements   and  reverse   repurchase   agreements;
obligations  of  foreign  governments  or  their   subdivisions,   agencies  and
instrumentalities, international agencies or supranational entities; and foreign
currency exchange-related securities, including foreign currency warrants.

         The Portfolio  may hold  different  percentages  of its assets in these
various  types of  securities,  and may invest  all of its assets in  derivative
instruments or in mortgage- or asset-backed securities.  There are special risks
involved in these instruments.

         The Portfolio  will invest in a  diversified  portfolio of fixed income
securities  of varying  maturities  with a portfolio  duration from one to three
years.  The  Portfolio  may  invest up to 10% of its  assets in  corporate  debt
securities  that are  rated  below  investment  grade  but  rated B or higher by
Moody's  or  S&P  (or,  if  unrated,  determined  by  the  Sub-advisor  to be of
comparable  quality).  The  Portfolio may also invest up to 20% of its assets in
securities denominated in foreign currencies. The Portfolio will make use of use
of average portfolio credit quality standards to assist institutional  investors
whose  own  investment   guidelines  limit  its  investments   accordingly.   In
determining the Portfolio's  overall  dollar-weighted  average quality,  unrated
securities  are treated as if rated,  based on the  Sub-advisor's  view of their
comparability  to rated  securities.  The  Portfolio's  investments may range in
quality from  securities  rated in the lowest category in which the Portfolio is
permitted  to invest to  securities  rated in the highest  category (as rated by
Moody's or S&P or, if unrated, determined by the Sub-advisor to be of comparable
quality). The percentage of a the Portfolio's assets invested in securities in a
particular rating category will vary.

         The Portfolio may buy or sell interest rate futures contracts,  options
on  interest  rate  futures  contracts  and options on debt  securities  for the
purpose  of  hedging  against  changes  in the  value of  securities  which  the
Portfolio owns or anticipates  purchasing due to anticipated changes in interest
rates. The Portfolio may invest in securities  denominated in foreign currencies
also may engage in foreign currency exchange  transactions by means of buying or
selling  foreign  currencies  on a spot basis,  entering  into foreign  currency
forward  contracts,  and buying and selling foreign  currency  options,  foreign
currency  futures,  and options on foreign  currency  futures.  Foreign currency
exchange  transactions  may be entered  into for the purpose of hedging  against
foreign  currency  exchange  risk arising  from the  Portfolio's  investment  or
anticipated  investment in securities  denominated  in foreign  currencies.  The
Portfolio also may enter into foreign currency forward contracts and buy or sell
foreign  currencies  or foreign  currency  options for  purposes  of  increasing
exposure  to a  particular  foreign  currency  or to shift  exposure  to foreign
currency fluctuations from one country to another.

         The Portfolio may enter into swap agreements for purposes of attempting
to obtain a particular  investment  return at a lower cost to the Portfolio than
if the  Portfolio  had invested  directly in an  instrument  that  provided that
desired return. In addition, the Portfolio may purchase and sell securities on a
when-issued or  delayed-delivery  basis,  sell securities  short, and enter into
forward  commitments to purchase  securities;  lend their securities to brokers,
dealers and other financial  institutions  to earn income;  and borrow money for
investment purposes. See the Appendix to the Statement of Additional Information
for a  description  of  Moody's  and S&P  ratings  applicable  to  fixed  income
securities.

         The "total return" sought by the Portfolio will consist of interest and
dividends  from  underlying   securities,   capital  appreciation  reflected  in
unrealized   increases  in  value  of  portfolio  securities  (realized  by  the
shareholder  only upon selling shares) or realized from the purchase and sale of
securities,  and use of futures and options,  or gains from favorable changes in
foreign currency exchange rates. Generally, over the long term, the total return
obtained by a portfolio  investing  primarily in fixed income  securities is not
expected to be as great as that obtained by a portfolio  that invests  primarily
in equity securities.  At the same time, the market risk and price volatility of
a fixed  income  portfolio  is  expected  to be  less  than  that  of an  equity
portfolio, so that a fixed income portfolio is generally considered to be a more
conservative  investment.  The change in market value of fixed income securities
(and therefore their capital appreciation or depreciation) is largely a function
of changes in the  current  level of interest  rates.  When  interest  rates are
falling, a portfolio with a shorter duration generally will not generate as high
a level of total return as a portfolio with a longer duration.  Conversely, when
interest rates are rising,  a portfolio  with a shorter  duration will generally
outperform  longer duration  portfolios.  When interest rates are flat,  shorter
duration portfolios  generally will not generate as high a level of total return
as longer duration portfolios (assuming that long-term interest rates are higher
than  short-term  rates,  which is  commonly  the  case).  With  respect  to the
composition  of any fixed  income  portfolio,  the  longer the  duration  of the
portfolio,  the  greater  the  anticipated  potential  for total  return,  with,
however, greater attendant market risk and price volatility than for a portfolio
with  a  shorter  duration.  The  market  value  of  securities  denominated  in
currencies  other than the U.S.  dollar  also may be affected  by  movements  in
foreign currency exchange rates.

         The  Portfolio's  investments  include,  but are not  limited  to,  the
following:

         U.S. Government Securities.  U.S. Government securities are obligations
of, or guaranteed by, the U.S.  Government,  its agencies or  instrumentalities.
Some U.S.  Government  securities,  such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds, and
securities  guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association ("GNMA"),
are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States; others, such as
those of the Federal Home Loan Banks,  are  supported by the right of the issuer
to borrow from the U.S. Treasury;  others, such as those of the Federal National
Mortgage Association ("FNMA"),  are supported by the discretionary  authority of
the U.S. Government to purchase the agency's obligations; and still others, such
as those of the Student Loan  Marketing  Association,  are supported only by the
credit of the instrumentality.

         Corporate Debt Securities.  Corporate debt securities include corporate
bonds, debentures, notes and other similar corporate debt instruments, including
convertible securities.  Debt securities may be acquired with warrants attached.
Corporate  income-producing  securities  may also include  forms of preferred or
preference  stock.  The rate of  return  or  return  of  principal  on some debt
obligations  may be linked or indexed to the level of exchange rates between the
U.S. dollar and a foreign currency or currencies.

         Investments  in corporate  debt  securities  that are below  investment
grade (rated below Baa  (Moody's) or BBB (S&P)) are  described as  "speculative"
both by Moody's and S&P.  Moody's also describes  securities rated Baa as having
speculative  characteristics.  For a description  of the special risks  involved
with lower-rated high-yield bonds, see this Prospectus and the Trust's Statement
of Additional Information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Mortgage-Related and Other Asset-Backed  Securities.  The Portfolio may
invest all of its assets in mortgage- or asset-backed  securities.  The value of
some mortgage- or asset-backed  securities in which the Portfolio invests may be
particularly  sensitive to changes in prevailing  interest rates,  and, like the
other investments of the Portfolio, the ability of the Portfolio to successfully
utilize these instruments may depend in part upon the ability of the Sub-advisor
to forecast interest rates and other economic factors correctly.

         Mortgage-related   securities   include  securities  other  than  those
described above that directly or indirectly represent a participation in, or are
secured  by and  payable  from,  mortgage  loans on real  property,  such as CMO
residuals or stripped mortgage-backed securities ("SMBS"), and may be structured
in classes with rights to receive varying proportions of principal and interest.

         A  common  type of SMBS  will  have  one  class  receiving  some of the
interest and most of the  principal  from the mortgage  assets,  while the other
class will receive most of the interest and the remainder of the  principal.  In
the  most  extreme  case,  one  class  will  receive  all of the  interest  (the
interest-only  or "IO"  class),  while the other  class will  receive all of the
principal  (the  principal-only  or "PO" class).  The yield to maturity on an IO
class is  extremely  sensitive  to the  rate of  principal  payments  (including
prepayments)  on the related  underlying  mortgage  assets,  and a rapid rate of
principal  payments may have a material adverse effect on the Portfolio's  yield
to maturity  from these  securities.  In addition,  the  Portfolio may invest in
other asset-backed securities that have been offered to investors.

         Risks of  Mortgage-related  and Other  Asset-Backed  Securities.  For a
discussion  of the risks  involved in  mortgage-related  and other  asset-backed
securities,  see  this  Prospectus  and  the  Trust's  Statement  of  Additional
information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust, for the purpose of achieving income, the Portfolio may
enter into  repurchase  agreements,  which  entail the  purchase  of a portfolio
eligible  security from a bank or  broker-dealer  that agrees to repurchase  the
security at the Portfolio's cost plus interest within a specified time (normally
one day).  The Portfolio  will not invest more than 15% of its net assets (taken
at current  market value) in repurchase  agreements  maturing in more than seven
days. For a discussion of repurchase  agreements and the risks involved therein,
see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Reverse   Repurchase   Agreements  and  Other  Borrowings.   A  reverse
repurchase  agreement is a form of leverage that involves the sale of a security
by the Portfolio and its agreement to repurchase  the  instrument at a specified
time and price. The Portfolio will maintain a segregated  account  consisting of
cash, U.S.  Government  securities or high-grade debt obligations,  maturing not
later than the  expiration  of the reverse  repurchase  agreement,  to cover its
obligations under reverse repurchase  agreements.  The Portfolio also may borrow
money for investment  purposes,  subject to requirements imposed by the 1940 Act
that the Portfolio  maintain a continuous  asset coverage (that is, total assets
including  borrowings,  less liabilities exclusive of borrowings) of 300% of the
amount  borrowed.  Such a practice will result in leveraging of the  Portfolio's
assets.  Leverage will tend to  exaggerate  the effect on net asset value of any
increase or decrease in the value of the Portfolio's portfolio and may cause the
Portfolio to liquidate  portfolio positions when it would not be advantageous to
do so.

         Lending Portfolio Securities.  For the purpose of achieving income, the
Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities,  provided:  (i) the loan is secured
continuously by collateral  consisting of U.S. Government  securities or cash or
cash equivalents (cash, U.S. Government securities,  negotiable  certificates of
deposit,  bankers'  acceptances  or  letters of  credit)  maintained  on a daily
mark-to-market  basis in an amount at least equal to the current market value of
the  securities  loaned;  (ii) the  Portfolio  may at any time call the loan and
obtain the return of the securities loaned; (iii) the Portfolio will receive any
interest or  dividends  paid on the loaned  securities;  and (iv) the  aggregate
market value of securities  loaned will not at any time exceed  one-third of the
total assets of the  Portfolio.  For a discussion of risks  involved in lending,
see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         When-Issued  or  Delayed  Delivery  Transactions.   The  Portfolio  may
purchase or sell securities on a when-issued or delayed  delivery  basis.  These
transactions  involve  a  commitment  by  the  Portfolio  to  purchase  or  sell
securities for a predetermined  price or yield, with payment and delivery taking
place more than  seven days in the  future,  or after a period  longer  than the
customary  settlement  period for that type of security.  When delayed  delivery
purchases are  outstanding,  the Portfolio will set aside and maintain until the
settlement date in a segregated  account,  cash, U.S.  Government  securities or
high grade debt obligations in an amount  sufficient to meet the purchase price.
Typically, no income accrues on securities purchased on a delayed delivery basis
prior to the time delivery of the securities is made, although the Portfolio may
earn  income on  securities  it has  deposited  in a  segregated  account.  When
purchasing a security on a delayed  delivery  basis,  the Portfolio  assumes the
rights and risks of ownership of the  security,  including the risk of price and
yield  fluctuations,  and takes such  fluctuations into account when determining
its net asset  value.  Because  the  Portfolio  is not  required  to pay for the
security  until the  delivery  date,  these  risks are in  addition to the risks
associated  with the Portfolio's  other  investments.  If the Portfolio  remains
substantially  fully  invested at a time when  delayed  delivery  purchases  are
outstanding,  the delayed  delivery  purchases may result in a form of leverage.
When  the  Portfolio  has sold a  security  on a  delayed  delivery  basis,  the
Portfolio  does not  participate  in future  gains or losses with respect to the
security.  If the other party to a delayed delivery transaction fails to deliver
or pay for the  securities,  the Portfolio could miss a favorable price or yield
opportunity  or could suffer a loss. The Portfolio may dispose of or renegotiate
a  delayed  delivery  transaction  after  it  is  entered  into,  and  may  sell
when-issued securities before they are delivered,  which may result in a capital
gain or loss.  There is no  percentage  limitation  on the  extent  to which the
Portfolios may purchase or sell securities on a delayed-delivery basis.

         Short Sales.  The Portfolio may from time to time effect short sales as
part  of its  overall  portfolio  management  strategies,  including  the use of
derivative  instruments,  or to  offset  potential  declines  in  value  of long
positions in similar  securities as those sold short. A short sale (other than a
short sale  against the box) is a  transaction  in which the  Portfolio  sells a
security it does not own at the time of the sale in anticipation that the market
price of that security will decline. To the extent that the Portfolio engages in
short  sales,  it must  (except in the case of short  sales  "against  the box")
maintain asset coverage in the form of cash, U.S. Government  securities or high
grade debt  obligations  in a segregated  account.  A short sale is "against the
box" to the extent that the Portfolio  contemporaneously  owns, or has the right
to obtain at no added cost, securities identical to those sold short.

         Foreign  Securities.  The Portfolio may invest directly in U.S. dollar-
or foreign currency-denominated fixed income securities of non-U.S. issuers. The
Portfolio  will limit its foreign  investments to securities of issuers based in
developed countries (including Newly Industrialized  Countries,  "NICs", such as
Taiwan,  South Korea and Mexico).  Investing in the securities of issuers in any
foreign  country  involves  special  risks  and   considerations  not  typically
associated  with  investing in U.S.  companies.  For a  discussion  of the risks
involved in foreign investing,  see this Prospectus and the Trust's Statement of
Additional Information under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Options  on  Securities,   Securities  Indexes,  and  Currencies.   The
Portfolio may purchase put options on securities.  One purpose of purchasing put
options is to protect  holdings in an underlying or related  security  against a
substantial  decline in market  value.  The  Portfolio  may also  purchase  call
options on  securities.  One purpose of  purchasing  call  options is to protect
against  substantial  increases in prices of securities the Portfolio intends to
purchase  pending its ability to invest in such securities in an orderly manner.
The Portfolio may sell put or call options it has  previously  purchased,  which
could result in a net gain or loss  depending on whether the amount  realized on
the sale is more or less than the  premium and other  transaction  costs paid on
the put or call  option  which is sold.  The  Portfolio  may write a call or put
option only if the option is  "covered" by the  Portfolio  holding a position in
the  underlying  securities  or by other  means  which  would  permit  immediate
satisfaction  of the  Portfolio's  obligation as writer of the option.  Prior to
exercise or expiration, an option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or
sale of an option of the same series.

         Risks of Options.  The purchase and writing of options involves certain
risks. The Portfolio may buy or sell put and call options on foreign currencies.
Currency  options  traded on U.S. or other  exchanges may be subject to position
limits which may limit the ability of the Portfolio to reduce  foreign  currency
risk using such options.  For a discussion of the risks involved in investing in
foreign  currency,  see this Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional
Information  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment   Methods."  For  a
discussion of options and the risks involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus and
the Trust's Statement of Additional  Information under "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Swap Agreements.  The Portfolio may enter into interest rate, index and
currency  exchange rate swap  agreements  for purposes of attempting to obtain a
particular desired return at a lower cost to the Portfolio than if the Portfolio
had invested  directly in an instrument that yielded that desired  return.  Swap
agreements  are  two-party  contracts  entered into  primarily by  institutional
investors  for  periods  ranging  from a few weeks to more  than one year.  In a
standard  "swap"  transaction,  two parties  agree to  exchange  the returns (or
differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on particular predetermined
investments  or  instruments.  The gross  returns to be  exchanged  or "swapped"
between the parties are  calculated  with respect to a "notional  amount," i.e.,
the return on or increase in value of a particular  dollar amount  invested at a
particular interest rate, in a particular foreign currency,  or in a "basket" of
securities  representing  a  particular  index.  Commonly  used swap  agreements
include  interest  rate caps,  under which,  in return for a premium,  one party
agrees to make payments to the other to the extent that interest  rates exceed a
specified  rate, or "cap";  interest rate floors,  under which,  in return for a
premium,  one party  agrees to make  payments  to the other to the  extent  that
interest  rates fall below a specified  level,  or "floor";  and  interest  rate
collars,  under which a party sells a cap and purchases a floor or vice versa in
an attempt to protect itself against  interest rate  movements  exceeding  given
minimum or maximum levels.

         The "notional  amount" of the swap agreement is only a fictive basis on
which to calculate the  obligations  which the parties to a swap  agreement have
agreed to exchange.  Most swap  agreements  entered into by the Portfolio  would
calculate  the  obligations  of the parties to the  agreement  on a "net basis."
Consequently,  the  Portfolio's  obligations  (or rights) under a swap agreement
will  generally be equal only to the net amount to be paid or received under the
agreement  based on the relative  values of the positions  held by each party to
the agreement  (the "net  amount").  The  Portfolio's  obligations  under a swap
agreement will be accrued daily (offset  against  amounts owed to the Portfolio)
and any  accrued  but unpaid net  amounts  owed to a swap  counterparty  will be
covered  by the  maintenance  of  segregated  assets  consisting  of cash,  U.S.
Government  securities,  or high grade debt obligations,  to avoid any potential
leveraging of the  Portfolio.  A Portfolio  will not enter into a swap agreement
with any single  party if the net amount owed or to be received  under  existing
contracts with that party would exceed 5% of the Portfolio's assets.

         Risks of Swaps.  Whether the Portfolio's use of swap agreements will be
successful  in  furthering   its   investment   objective  will  depend  on  the
Sub-advisor's  ability to predict correctly whether certain types of investments
are likely to produce greater returns than other  investments.  Because they are
two-party  contracts and because they may have terms of greater than seven days,
swap agreements may be considered to be illiquid.  Moreover, the Portfolio bears
the risk of loss of the amount expected to be received under a swap agreement in
the event of the default or bankruptcy  of a swap  agreement  counterparty.  The
Sub-advisor  will cause the  Portfolio to enter into swap  agreements  only with
counterparties that would be eligible for consideration as repurchase  agreement
counterparties under the Portfolio's  repurchase agreement  guidelines.  Certain
restrictions imposed on the Portfolio by the Internal Revenue Code may limit the
Portfolio's ability to use swap agreements. The swaps market is a relatively new
market and is largely unregulated. It is possible that developments in the swaps
market,  including potential government  regulation,  could adversely affect the
Portfolio's  ability to terminate existing swap agreements or to realize amounts
to be received under such agreements.

         Futures Contracts and Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may
invest in interest rate futures  contracts,  stock index  futures  contracts and
foreign currency futures contracts and options thereon ("futures  options") that
are traded on a U.S. or foreign  exchange or board of trade.  The Portfolio will
only enter into futures  contracts or futures options which are standardized and
traded on a U.S. or foreign  exchange or board of trade, or similar  entity,  or
quoted on an automated  quotation  system.  Each  Portfolio  will use  financial
futures contracts and related options only for "bona fide hedging" purposes,  as
such term is defined in applicable  regulations of the CFTC, or, with respect to
positions in financial  futures and related options that do not qualify as "bona
fide  hedging"  positions,  will enter such  non-hedging  positions  only to the
extent that aggregate  initial margin deposits plus premiums paid by it for open
futures  option  positions,  less the  amount  by which any such  positions  are
"in-the-money," would not exceed 5% of the Portfolio's total net assets.

         Risks of Futures  and  Related  Options.  There are risks  involved  in
futures and options contracts. For a discussion of futures contracts and related
options,  and the risks involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus and the Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Risk of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The  value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Other  Foreign  Currency  Transactions.  The Portfolio may buy and sell
foreign currency futures contracts and options on foreign currencies and foreign
currency  futures  contracts,  enter  into  forward  foreign  currency  exchange
contracts to reduce the risks of adverse changes in foreign  exchange rates. The
Portfolio  may enter into these  contracts  for the  purpose of hedging  against
foreign  exchange risk arising from the  Portfolio's  investment or  anticipated
investment in securities denominated in foreign currencies.  For a discussion of
foreign  currency   transactions  and  the  risks  involved  therein,  see  this
Prospectus and the Trust's  Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The  investment  objective of the Berger  Capital Growth
Portfolio is long-term capital appreciation. The Portfolio seeks to achieve this
objective by investing primarily in common stocks of established companies which
the Sub-advisor believes offer favorable growth prospects. Current income is not
an  investment  objective of the  Portfolio,  and any income  produced will be a
by-product of the effort to achieve the Portfolio's objective.

Investment Policies:

         In general,  investment  decisions  for the  Portfolio  are based on an
approach  which seeks out successful  companies  because they are believed to be
more apt to become profitable investments. To evaluate a prospective investment,
the Sub-advisor  analyzes  information from various sources,  including industry
economic  trends,  earnings  expectations and fundamental  securities  valuation
factors to identify companies which in the Sub-advisor's opinion are more likely
to have predictable,  above average earnings growth, regardless of the company's
size and  geographic  location.  The  Sub-advisor  also  takes  into  account  a
company's  management and its innovations in products and services in evaluating
its prospects for continued or future earnings growth.

         In selecting its portfolio  securities,  the Portfolio  places  primary
emphasis on established  companies  which it believes to have  favorable  growth
prospects.  Common  stocks  usually  constitute  all or most of the  Portfolio's
investment  holdings,  but the  Portfolio  remains free to invest in  securities
other  than  common  stocks,  and  may  do so  when  deemed  appropriate  by the
Sub-advisor to achieve the objective of the  Portfolio.  The Portfolio may, from
time to time, take substantial  positions in securities  convertible into common
stocks,  and it may also purchase  government  securities,  preferred stocks and
other senior  securities if its Sub-advisor  believes these are likely to be the
best suited at that time to achieve the Portfolio's  objective.  The Portfolio's
policy of  investing  in  securities  believed to have a  potential  for capital
growth means that a Portfolio  share may be subject to greater  fluctuations  in
value than if the Portfolio invested in other securities.

         Short-Term.  The  Portfolio  may increase its  investment in government
securities and other short-term  interest-bearing  securities without limit when
the  Sub-advisor  believes  market  conditions  warrant  a  temporary  defensive
position,  during which  period it may be more  difficult  for the  Portfolio to
achieve its investment objective.

         Put and Call  Options.  The Portfolio may purchase put and call options
on stock  indices for the  purpose of hedging,  which  includes  establishing  a
position in an equity  equivalent as a temporary  substitute for the purchase of
individual stocks. To hedge the Portfolio to cushion against a decline in value,
the  Portfolio  may buy puts on stock  indices;  to hedge  against  increases in
prices of equities, pending investments in equities, the Portfolio may buy calls
on stock  indices.  No more than 1% of the market value of the  Portfolio's  net
assets at the time of purchase  may be invested in put and call  options.  For a
discussion of the risks  associated  with options,  see this  Prospectus and the
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

     Foreign  Securities.  The Portfolio may invest in both domestic and foreign
securities.  Investments  in  foreign  securities  involve  some  risks that are
different  from the risks of  investing in  securities  of U.S.  issuers.  For a
discussion  of risks  involved  therein,  see this  Prospectus  and the  Trust's
Statement of Additional  Information  under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Risk of  Currency  Fluctuations.  The  value of  Portfolio  investments
denominated in foreign currencies may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by
the relative  strength of the U.S. dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S.
dollar  exchange rates and exchange  control  regulations.  The  Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders by the Portfolio.  The rate of exchange between the U.S. dollar and
other currencies is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign
exchange  markets  and in  some  cases,  exchange  controls.  For an  additional
discussion  of the  risks of  currency  fluctuations,  see this  Prospectus  and
Trust's  Statement of  Additional  Information  under  "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Convertible Securities. The Portfolio may purchase securities which are
convertible  into  common  stock when the  Sub-advisor  believes  they offer the
potential for a higher total return than nonconvertible securities.  While fixed
income securities generally have a priority claim on a corporation's assets over
that of common stock, some of the convertible securities which the Portfolio may
hold are  high-yield/high-risk  securities  that are  subject to special  risks,
including  the risk of default in interest  or  principal  payments  which could
result in a loss of income to the  Portfolio or a decline in the market value of
the securities.  Convertible  securities  often display a degree of market price
volatility that is comparable to common stocks.  The credit risk associated with
convertible  securities  generally  is  reflected  by their  being  rated  below
investment grade by organizations  such as Moody's Investors  Service,  Inc. and
Standard & Poor's  Corporation.  The  Portfolio has no  pre-established  minimum
quality  standards  for  convertible  securities  and may invest in  convertible
securities of any quality, including lower rated or unrated securities. However,
under normal  circumstances,  the  Portfolio  will not invest in any security in
default at the time of purchase or in any  nonconvertible  debt securities rated
below  investment  grade,  and the  Portfolio  will  invest less than 20% of the
market  value of its assets at the time of  purchase in  convertible  securities
rated  below  investment  grade.  For a more  detailed  discussion  of the risks
associated  with these  securities  and their  ratings,  see the Appendix to the
Trust's Statement of Additional Information.

         Zero Coupon Bonds.  The Portfolio may invest in zero coupon bonds or in
"strips." Zero coupon bonds do not make regular interest payments;  rather, they
are  sold at a  discount  from  face  value.  Principal  and  accreted  discount
(representing interest accrued but not paid) are paid at maturity.  "Strips" are
debt securities that are stripped of their interest coupons after the securities
are issued, but otherwise are comparable to zero coupon bonds. The market values
of "strips" and zero coupon bonds generally  fluctuate in response to changes in
interest  rates  to a  greater  degree  than do  interest-paying  securities  of
comparable term and quality. The Portfolio will not invest in mortgage-backed or
other asset-backed securities.

         Repurchase  Agreements.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board
of Trustees of the Trust,  the  Portfolio may enter into  repurchase  agreements
with a  well-established  securities  dealer or a bank  which is a member of the
Federal Reserve System. For a discussion of repurchase  agreements and the risks
involved therein, see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Illiquid Securities.  Subject to guidelines promulgated by the Board of
Trustees of the Trust,  the  Portfolio may invest up to 15% of its net assets in
illiquid securities, including repurchase agreements maturing in more than seven
days.  Securities  eligible for resale under Rule 144A of the  Securities Act of
1933 could be deemed "liquid" when saleable in a readily available market. For a
discussion of illiquid or restricted  securities and the risks involved therein,
see this Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

CERTAIN RISK FACTORS AND INVESTMENT METHODS:

         Some of the risk factors related to certain securities, instruments and
techniques  that may be used by one or more of the  Portfolios  are described in
the "Investment  Objectives and Policies"  section of this Prospectus and in the
"Investment  Objectives  and Policies" and "Certain Risk Factors and  Investment
Methods"  section  of the  Trust's  Statement  of  Additional  Information.  The
following is a description of certain additional risk factors related to various
securities,  instruments  and  techniques.  The risks so described only apply to
those Portfolios which may invest in such securities and instruments or use such
techniques.  Also included is a general  description  of some of the  investment
instruments,  techniques  and  methods  which  may be used by one or more of the
Portfolios.  The methods  described only apply to those Portfolios which may use
such methods.

Derivative Instruments:

         To the extent permitted by the investment  objectives and policies of a
Portfolio,  a  Portfolio  may  purchase  and  write  call  and  put  options  on
securities,  securities indexes and foreign  currencies,  and enter into futures
contracts and use options on futures contracts.  A Portfolio also may enter into
swap  agreements  with  respect  to  foreign  currencies,  interest  rates,  and
securities  indexes.  A  Portfolio  may use these  techniques  to hedge  against
changes in interest rates,  foreign currency exchange rates or securities prices
or as part of their overall investment strategies. A Portfolio may also purchase
and sell  options  relating to foreign  currencies  for  purposes of  increasing
exposure  to a  foreign  currency  or to  shift  exposure  to  foreign  currency
fluctuations from one country to another.

         Derivative  instruments may consist of securities or other  instruments
whose value is derived from or related to the value of some other  instrument or
asset,  and does not include those  securities whose payment of principal and/or
interest  depend  upon cash flows from  underlying  assets,  such as mortgage or
asset-backed  securities.  The value of some  derivative  instruments in which a
Portfolio  invests  may be  particularly  sensitive  to  changes  in  prevailing
interest rates, and, like the other  investments of a Portfolio,  the ability of
the Portfolio to successfully  utilize these instruments may depend in part upon
the ability of the  Sub-advisor  to forecast  interest  rates and other economic
factors correctly. If the Sub-advisor incorrectly forecasts such factors and has
taken positions in derivative  instruments contrary to prevailing market trends,
the Portfolio could be exposed to the risk of a loss.

         A Portfolio might not employ any of the strategies described below, and
no assurance can be given that any strategy used will succeed.  If a Sub-advisor
incorrectly forecasts interest rates, market values or other economic factors in
utilizing a derivatives strategy for a Portfolio,  the Portfolio might have been
in a better  position if it had not entered into the transaction at all. The use
of these  strategies  involves  certain  special  risks,  including  a  possible
imperfect  correlation,  or even no  correlation,  between  price  movements  of
derivative  instruments  and price  movements of related  investments;  the fact
that, while some strategies involving derivative instruments can reduce the risk
of loss,  they can also  reduce  the  opportunity  for gain,  or even  result in
losses, by offsetting favorable price movements in related investments;  and the
possible  inability of the Portfolio to purchase or sell a portfolio security at
a time that  otherwise  would be favorable for it to do so, or the possible need
for the Portfolio to sell a portfolio security at a disadvantageous time, due to
the need for the Portfolio to maintain asset coverage or offsetting positions in
connection  with  transactions  in  derivative   instruments  and  the  possible
inability  of the  Portfolio  to  close  out  or to  liquidate  its  derivatives
positions.

Asset-Backed Securities:

         Asset-backed securities represent a participation in, or are secured by
and payable  from, a stream of payments  generated  by  particular  assets,  for
example,  credit card, automobile or trade receivables.  Asset-backed commercial
paper, one type of asset-backed security, is issued by a special purpose entity,
organized solely to issue the commercial paper and to purchase  interests in the
assets.  The  credit  quality of these  securities  depends  primarily  upon the
quality  of the  underlying  assets  and the  level  of  credit  support  and/or
enhancement provided.

         The underlying  assets (e.g.,  loans) are subject to prepayments  which
shorten the securities' weighted average life and may lower their return. If the
credit  support or  enhancement  is  exhausted,  losses or delays in payment may
result if the  required  payments of principal  and  interest are not made.  The
value of these  securities  also may change  because of changes in the  market's
perception  of the  creditworthiness  of the servicing  agent for the pool,  the
originator  of the pool,  or the  financial  institution  providing  the  credit
support or enhancement.

Mortgage Pass-Through Securities:

         Mortgage pass-through  securities are securities representing interests
in "pools" of mortgage loans secured by residential or commercial  real property
in which payments of both interest and principal on the securities are generally
made  monthly,  in  effect  "passing  through"  monthly  payments  made  by  the
individual borrowers on the mortgage loans which underlie the securities (net of
fees paid to the issuer or  guarantor  of the  securities).  Early  repayment of
principal on some  mortgage-related  securities  (arising  from  prepayments  of
principal due to sale of the underlying property,  refinancing,  or foreclosure,
net of fees and costs which may be incurred)  expose a Portfolio to a lower rate
of return  upon  reinvestment  of  principal.  Also,  if a  security  subject to
prepayment has been purchased at a premium, in the event of prepayment the value
of the premium would be lost. Like other fixed-income securities,  when interest
rates rise, the value of a  mortgage-related  security will  generally  decline;
however,  when  interest  rates are  declining,  the  value of  mortgage-related
securities  with  prepayment   features  may  not  increase  as  much  as  other
fixed-income  securities.  The value of these securities also may change because
of changes in the market's  perception  of the  creditworthiness  of the federal
agency or private  institution  that issued  them.  In  addition,  the  mortgage
securities   market  in  general  may  be  adversely   affected  by  changes  in
governmental regulation or tax policies.

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs):

         CMOs are obligations  fully  collateralized by a portfolio of mortgages
or  mortgage-related  securities.  Payments  of  principal  and  interest on the
mortgages are passed  through to the holders of the CMOs on the same schedule as
they are received,  although  certain  classes of CMOs have priority over others
with  respect  to  the  receipt  of  prepayments  on the  mortgages.  Therefore,
depending on the type of CMOs in which a Portfolio  invests,  the investment may
be  subject  to a greater  or lesser  risk of  prepayment  than  other  types of
mortgage-related  securities.  CMOs  may  also be  less  marketable  than  other
securities.

Stripped Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities:

         Stripped Agency  Mortgage-Backed  securities  represent  interests in a
pool of mortgages,  the cash flow of which has been  separated into its interest
and principal components.  "IOs" (interest only securities) receive the interest
portion of the cash flow while "POs"  (principal  only  securities)  receive the
principal portion.  Stripped Agency Mortgage-Backed  Securities may be issued by
U.S.  Government Agencies or by private issuers similar to those described above
with  respect  to CMOs and  privately-issued  mortgage-backed  certificates.  As
interest  rates  rise  and  fall,  the  value  of IOs  tends to move in the same
direction as interest rates. The value of the other  mortgage-backed  securities
described herein, like other debt instruments, will tend to move in the opposite
direction compared to interest rates.

         The cash flows and yields on IO and PO classes are extremely  sensitive
to the  rate  of  principal  payments  (including  prepayments)  on the  related
underlying  mortgage  assets.  For  example,  a rapid or slow rate of  principal
payments  may  have a  material  adverse  effect  on the  prices  of IOs or POs,
respectively.   If  the  underlying  mortgage  assets  experience  greater  than
anticipated  prepayments of principal,  an investor may fail to recoup fully its
initial investment in an IO class of a stripped  mortgage-backed  security, even
if the IO class is rated AAA or Aaa or is  derived  from a full faith and credit
obligation. Conversely, if the underlying mortgage assets experience slower than
anticipated  prepayments of principal,  the price on a PO class will be affected
more  severely  than  would  be  the  case  with a  traditional  mortgage-backed
security.

Options:

         Call  Options.  A call option on a security  gives the purchaser of the
option,  in return for a premium paid to the writer  (seller),  the right to buy
the  underlying  security  at the  exercise  price at any time during the option
period. Upon exercise by the purchaser, the writer (seller) of a call option has
the obligation to sell the  underlying  security at the exercise  price.  When a
Portfolio  purchases a call option,  it will pay a premium to the party  writing
the option and a commission to the broker  selling the option.  If the option is
exercised by such  Portfolio,  the amount of the premium and the commission paid
may be greater than the amount of the brokerage commission that would be charged
if the security  were to be  purchased  directly.  By writing a call  option,  a
Portfolio  assumes  the risk that it may be  required  to deliver  the  security
having a market  value  higher than its market  value at the time the option was
written.  The  Portfolio  will write call options in order to obtain a return on
its investments from the premiums  received and will retain the premiums whether
or not the options are  exercised.  Any decline in the market value of Portfolio
securities  will be  offset  to the  extent  of the  premiums  received  (net of
transaction  costs).  If an option is  exercised,  the  premium  received on the
option will effectively increase the exercise price.

         During the option  period the writer of a call  option has given up the
opportunity  for capital  appreciation  above the exercise  price should  market
price of the  underlying  security  increase,  but has retained the risk of loss
should the price of the underlying  security decline.  Writing call options also
involves the risk relating to a Portfolio's  ability to close out options it has
written.

         A call option on a  securities  index is similar to a call option on an
individual security, except that the value of the option depends on the weighted
value of the group of securities  comprising the index and all  settlements  are
made in cash. A call option may be terminated by the writer (seller) by entering
into a closing purchase  transaction in which it purchases an option of the same
series as the option previously written.

         Put  Options.  A put option on a security  gives the  purchaser  of the
option, in return for premium paid to the writer (seller), the right to sell the
underlying  security at the exercise price at any time during the option period.
Upon exercise by the purchaser, the writer of a put option has the obligation to
purchase the underlying security at the exercise price. By writing a put option,
a Portfolio  assumes the risk that it may be required to purchase the underlying
security at a price in excess of its current market value.

         A put  option on a  securities  index is  similar to a put option on an
individual security, except that the value of the option depends on the weighted
value of the group of securities  comprising the index and all  settlements  are
made in cash.

         A  Portfolio  may  sell a call  option  or a put  option  which  it has
previously  purchased  prior to purchase (in the case of a call) or the sale (in
the case of a put) of the underlying  security.  Any such sale would result in a
net gain or loss depending on whether the amount received on the sale is more or
less than the premium and other  transaction costs paid on the call or put which
is sold.

Futures Contracts and Related Options:

         A  financial  futures  contract  calls  for  delivery  of a  particular
security at a certain time in the future.  The seller of the contract  agrees to
make  delivery of the type of security  called for in the contract and the buyer
agrees to take  delivery at a specified  future time. A Portfolio may also write
call options and purchase put options on financial  futures contracts as a hedge
to attempt to protect the Portfolio's  securities from a decrease in value. When
a Portfolio  writes a call option on a futures  contract,  it is undertaking the
obligation  of selling a futures  contract at a fixed price at any time during a
specified period if the option is exercised.  Conversely, the purchaser of a put
option on a futures  contract is entitled (but not  obligated) to sell a futures
contract at a fixed price during the life of the option.

         Financial  futures contracts consist of interest rate futures contracts
and  securities  index  futures  contracts.  An interest  rate futures  contract
obligates  the seller of the  contract to  deliver,  and the  purchaser  to take
delivery of,  interest rate  securities  called for in a contract at a specified
future  time at a specified  price.  A stock index  assigns  relative  values to
common stocks included in the index and the index fluctuates with changes in the
market values of the common stocks included. A stock index futures contract is a
bilateral  contract pursuant to which two parties agree to take or make delivery
of an amount of cash equal to a specified  dollar  amount  times the  difference
between  the  stock  index  value at the  close of the last  trading  day of the
contract and the price at which the futures  contract is originally  struck.  An
option on a financial futures contract gives the purchaser the right to assume a
position in the  contract  (a long  position if the option is a call and a short
position  if the  option  is a put) at a  specified  exercise  price at any time
during the period of the option.

         Futures  contracts and options can be highly  volatile and could result
in reduction of a  Portfolio's  total return,  and a Portfolio's  attempt to use
such investments for hedging purposes may not be successful.  Successful futures
strategies require the ability to predict future movements in securities prices,
interest rates and other economic factors.  A Portfolio's  potential losses from
the use of futures  extends  beyond its initial  investment  in such  contracts.
Also,  losses from options and futures  could be  significant  if a Portfolio is
unable to close out its  position  due to  distortions  in the market or lack of
liquidity.

         The use of futures,  options and forward contracts involves  investment
risks and transaction costs to which a Portfolio would not be subject absent the
use of these  strategies.  If a Sub-advisor seeks to protect a Portfolio against
potential adverse movements in the securities, foreign currency or interest rate
markets  using these  instruments,  and such  markets do not move in a direction
adverse to such  Portfolio,  such  Portfolio  could be left in a less  favorable
position than if such strategies had not been used. Risks inherent in the use of
futures,  options,  forward  contracts  and  swaps  include:  (a) the risk  that
interest  rates,  securities  prices and  currency  markets will not move in the
directions anticipated;  (b) imperfect correlation between the price of futures,
options and forward  contracts and movements in the prices of the  securities or
currencies being hedged; (c) the fact that skills needed to use these strategies
are different from those needed to select portfolio securities; (d) the possible
absence of a liquid secondary market for any particular  instrument at any time;
and (e) the possible need to defer closing out certain hedged positions to avoid
adverse tax  consequences.  A Portfolio's  ability to terminate option positions
established in the over-the-counter  market may be more limited than in the case
of exchange-traded options and may also involve the risk that securities dealers
participating in such transactions  would fail to meet their obligations to such
Portfolio.

         The  use  of  options  and  futures  involves  the  risk  of  imperfect
correlation between movements in options and futures prices and movements in the
price  of  securities  which  are the  subject  of a  hedge.  Such  correlation,
particularly  with respect to options on stock indices and stock index  futures,
is  imperfect,  and such risk  increases  as the  composition  of the  Portfolio
diverges from the composition of the relevant index. The successful use of these
strategies also depends on the ability of the Sub-advisor to correctly  forecast
interest rate movements and general stock market price movements.

Foreign Securities:

         Investments in securities of foreign issuers may involve risks that are
not present with domestic  investments.  While investments in foreign securities
are  intended  to  reduce  risk  by  providing  further  diversification,   such
investments  involve  sovereign  risk in  addition  to credit and market  risks.
Sovereign  risk includes  local  political or economic  developments,  potential
nationalization,  withholding  taxes  on  dividend  or  interest  payments,  and
currency  blockage  (which  would  prevent  cash from being  brought back to the
United  States).  Compared to United  States  issuers,  there is generally  less
publicly  available  information  about  foreign  issuers  and there may be less
governmental regulation and supervision of foreign stock exchanges,  brokers and
listed companies.  Fixed brokerage  commissions on foreign securities  exchanges
are  generally  higher  than  in the  United  States.  Foreign  issuers  are not
generally  subject to uniform  accounting  and auditing and financial  reporting
standards, practices and requirements comparable to those applicable to domestic
issuers. Securities of some foreign issuers are less liquid and their prices are
more volatile than securities of comparable domestic issuers. In some countries,
there may also be the possibility of  expropriation  or  confiscatory  taxation,
limitations  on the removal of funds or other  assets,  difficulty  in enforcing
contractual  and  other   obligations,   political  or  social   instability  or
revolution,  or diplomatic  developments which could affect investments in those
countries.  Settlement of transactions in some foreign markets may be delayed or
less  frequent  than in the United  States,  which could affect the liquidity of
investments.  For example,  securities which are listed on foreign  exchanges or
traded in foreign  markets may trade on days (such as Saturday or Holidays) when
a  Portfolio  does not  compute  its price or accept  orders  for the  purchase,
redemption  or  exchange of its  shares.  As a result,  the net asset value of a
Portfolio  may be  significantly  affected by trading on days when  shareholders
cannot make  transactions.  Further,  it may be more  difficult  for the Trust's
agents to keep currently  informed about corporate  actions which may affect the
price of  portfolio  securities.  Communications  between  the U.S.  and foreign
countries  may be less  reliable  than within the U.S.,  increasing  the risk of
delayed settlements or loss of certificates for portfolio securities.

         Investments  by a  Portfolio  in foreign  companies  may  require  such
Portfolio  to hold  securities  and funds  denominated  in a  foreign  currency.
Foreign  investments  may be affected  favorably  or  unfavorably  by changes in
currency rates and exchange  control  regulations.  Thus, such a Portfolio's net
asset value per share will be affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.
Changes  in  foreign  currency  exchange  rates  may also  affect  the  value of
dividends  and  interest  earned,  gains  and  losses  realized  on the  sale of
securities  and net  investment  income and gains,  if any, to be distributed to
shareholders of such a Portfolio.  Foreign currency exchange rates generally are
determined  by the forces of supply and demand in foreign  exchange  markets and
the relative  merits of investment in different  countries,  actual or perceived
changes  in  interest  rates  or  other  complex   factors,   as  seen  from  an
international  perspective.   Currency  exchange  rates  also  can  be  affected
unpredictably by intervention by U.S. or foreign governments or central banks or
the failure to intervene,  or by currency controls or political  developments in
the U.S. or abroad. In addition,  a Portfolio may incur costs in connection with
conversions between various currencies. Investors should understand and consider
carefully the special risks involved in foreign investing. These risks are often
heightened for investments in emerging or developing countries.

         Developing  Countries.   Investing  in  developing  countries  involves
certain risks not typically  associated with investing in U.S.  securities,  and
imposes  risks  greater  than, or in addition to, risks of investing in foreign,
developed  countries.  These  risks  include:  the  risk of  nationalization  or
expropriation  of assets or confiscatory  taxation;  currency  devaluations  and
other  currency  exchange  rate  fluctuations;  social,  economic and  political
uncertainty  and  instability  (including  the  risk of war);  more  substantial
government  involvement  in  the  economy;  higher  rates  of  inflation;   less
government supervision and regulation of the securities markets and participants
in those markets; controls on foreign investment and limitations on repatriation
of invested  capital and on a Portfolio's  ability to exchange local  currencies
for U.S.  dollars;  unavailability  of currency  hedging  techniques  in certain
developing  countries;  the fact that  companies in developing  countries may be
smaller, less seasoned and newly organized companies; the difference in, or lack
of,   auditing  and  financial   reporting   standards,   which  may  result  in
unavailability of material  information  about issuers;  the risk that it may be
more difficult to obtain and/or enforce a judgment in a court outside the United
States;   and  greater  price  volatility,   substantially  less  liquidity  and
significantly smaller market capitalization of securities markets.

American Depository Receipts ("ADRs"), European Depository Receipts ("EDRs") and
Global Depository Receipts ("GDRs"):

         ADRs are  dollar-denominated  receipts  generally  issued by a domestic
bank that represents the deposit of a security of a foreign issuer.  ADRs may be
publicly traded on exchanges or  over-the-counter in the United States. EDRs are
receipts  similar  to ADRs and are  issued  and  traded in  Europe.  GDRs may be
offered  privately  in the  United  States  and also  trade in public or private
markets in other  countries.  Depository  Receipts may be issued as sponsored or
unsponsored  programs.  In sponsored programs,  the issuer makes arrangements to
have its securities traded in the form of a Depository  Receipt.  In unsponsored
programs,  the  issuer  may not be  directly  involved  in the  creation  of the
program.   Although  regulatory  requirements  with  respect  to  sponsored  and
unsponsored   programs  are  generally  similar,   the  issuers  of  unsponsored
Depository  Receipts are not obligated to disclose  material  information in the
United  States  and,  therefore,  the  import  of  such  information  may not be
reflected in the market value of such securities.

Currency Fluctuations:

         Investments  in  foreign  securities  may  be  denominated  in  foreign
currencies. The value of Portfolio investments denominated in foreign currencies
may be affected,  favorably or unfavorably, by the relative strength of the U.S.
dollar,  changes in foreign currency and U.S. dollar exchange rates and exchange
control regulations.  A Portfolio's net asset value per share may, therefore, be
affected  by changes in currency  exchange  rates.  Changes in foreign  currency
exchange rates may also affect the value of dividends and interest earned, gains
and losses  realized on the sale of  securities  and net  investment  income and
gains,  if any, to be distributed to  shareholders  by a Portfolio.  The rate of
exchange  between the U.S.  dollar and other  currencies  is  determined  by the
forces of supply and demand in the foreign  exchange  markets and in some cases,
exchange controls. For an additional discussion, see "Foreign Securities" above.

Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts:

         A forward foreign currency  exchange contract involves an obligation to
purchase or sell a specified  currency at a future date,  which may be any fixed
number of days from the date the  contract is agreed upon by the  parties,  at a
price  set at the time of the  contract.  By  entering  into a  forward  foreign
currency contract, a Portfolio "locks in" the exchange rate between the currency
it will  deliver  and the  currency  it will  receive  for the  duration  of the
contract.  As a result, a Portfolio reduces its exposure to changes in the value
of the  currency it will  deliver and  increases  its exposure to changes in the
value of the currency into which it will exchange.  The effect on the value of a
Portfolio  is similar to selling  securities  denominated  in one  currency  and
purchasing  securities  denominated  in another.  The  Portfolios may enter into
these  contracts  for the  purposes of hedging  against  foreign  exchange  risk
arising from such Portfolio's investment or anticipated investment in securities
denominated  in foreign  currencies.  Although a  Sub-advisor  may, from time to
time,  seek to  protect a  Portfolio  by using  forward  contracts,  anticipated
currency movements may not be accurately predicted and the Portfolio may incur a
gain  or a  loss  on a  forward  contract.  A  forward  contract  may  reduce  a
Portfolio's  losses on securities  denominated in foreign  currency,  but it may
also reduce the  potential  gain on the  securities  depending on changes in the
currency's value relative to the U.S. dollar or other currencies.

Lower-Rated High-Yield Bonds:

         In general the market for lower-rated  high-yield-bonds (commonly known
as "junk  bonds") is more limited than the market for  higher-rated  bonds,  and
because  their  markets may be thinner  and less  active,  the market  prices of
lower-rated  high-yield bonds may fluctuate more than the prices of higher-rated
bonds, particularly in times of market stress. In addition, while the market for
high-yield  corporate debt securities has been in existence for many years,  the
market in recent years has  experienced a dramatic  increase in the  large-scale
use of such  securities  to fund highly  leveraged  corporate  acquisitions  and
restructurings.  Accordingly,  past  experience  may  not  provide  an  accurate
indication  of future  performance  of the  high-yield  bond market,  especially
during periods of economic  recession.  Other risks which may be associated with
lower-rated  high-yield  bonds include their relative  insensitivity to interest
rate changes;  the exercise of any of their  redemption or call  provisions in a
declining  market may result in their  replacement by lower yielding bonds;  and
legislation,  from time to time,  may adversely  affect their market.  Since the
risk of default is higher among  lower-rated  high-yield  bonds, a Sub-advisor's
research  and  analysis  are  an  important   ingredient  in  the  selection  of
lower-rated  high-yield bonds.  Through portfolio  diversification,  good credit
analysis and attention to current  developments and trends in interest rates and
economic  conditions,  investment  risk  may be  reduced,  although  there is no
assurance that losses will not occur.

Illiquid or Restricted Securities:

         The Board of  Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to illiquid  securities.  Illiquid securities are deemed as such because
they are subject to  restrictions on their resale  ("restricted  securities") or
because, based upon their nature or the market for such securities, they are not
readily marketable. Restricted securities are acquired through private placement
transactions,  directly from the issuer or from security  holders,  generally at
higher yields or on terms more favorable to investors than  comparable  publicly
traded securities. However, the restrictions on resale may make it difficult for
a  Portfolio  to  dispose  of  such  securities  at  the  time  considered  most
advantageous by its  Sub-advisor,  and/or may involve expenses that would not be
incurred in the sale of securities that were freely marketable. A Portfolio that
may  purchase  restricted  securities  may  qualify  for  and  trade  restricted
securities in the  "institutional  trading market"  pursuant to Rule 144A of the
Securities Act of 1933. Trading in the institutional trading market may enable a
Sub-advisor  to  dispose  of  restricted  securities  at a time the  Sub-advisor
considers  advantageous and/or at a more favorable price than would be available
if such securities were not traded in such market.  However,  the  institutional
trading market is relatively  new and liquidity of a Portfolio's  investments in
such market  could be impaired if trading  does not develop or  declines.  Risks
associated with restricted  securities  include the potential  obligation to pay
all or part of the  registration  expenses in order to sell  certain  restricted
securities.  A  considerable  period of time may elapse  between the time of the
decision to sell a security and the time a Portfolio may be permitted to sell it
under an effective  registration  statement.  If, during such a period,  adverse
conditions were to develop, a Portfolio might obtain a less favorable price than
prevailing when it decided to sell.

Repurchase Agreements:

         The Board of  Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to repurchase agreements.  Repurchase agreements are agreements by which
a Portfolio purchases a security and obtains a simultaneous  commitment from the
seller to repurchase  the security at an agreed upon price and date.  The resale
price is in excess of the purchase price and reflects an agreed upon market rate
unrelated to the coupon rate on the purchased security. A repurchase transaction
is usually  accomplished either by crediting the amount of securities  purchased
to the account of a Portfolio's  custodian maintained in a central depository or
book-entry  system or by physical  delivery of the  securities  to a Portfolio's
custodian in return for delivery of the purchase price to the seller. Repurchase
transactions  are  intended  to  be  short-term  transactions  with  the  seller
repurchasing the securities, usually within seven days.

         A Portfolio  which enters into a repurchase  agreement  bears a risk of
loss in the event  that the other  party to such an  agreement  defaults  on its
obligation and such Portfolio is delayed or prevented from exercising its rights
to  dispose  of the  collateral  securities,  including  the risk of a  possible
decline in value of the underlying  securities  during the period such Portfolio
seeks to assert  these  rights,  as well as the risk of  incurring  expenses  in
asserting  these  rights and the risk of losing  all or part of the income  from
such an agreement. If the seller institution defaults, a Portfolio might incur a
loss or delay in the  realization  of  proceeds  if the value of the  collateral
securing the repurchase  agreement declines and it might incur disposition costs
in liquidating the collateral.  In the event that such a defaulting seller filed
for  bankruptcy  or  became  insolvent,  disposition  of  such  securities  by a
Portfolio might be delayed pending court action.

Reverse Repurchase Agreements:

         In a reverse repurchase agreement,  a Portfolio transfers possession of
a portfolio  instrument to another person,  such as a broker-dealer or financial
institution in return for a percentage of the instrument's  market value in cash
and  agrees  that  on a  stipulated  date  in the  future  such  Portfolio  will
repurchase the portfolio instrument by remitting the original consideration plus
interest at an agreed upon rate. When effecting reverse  repurchase  agreements,
assets of a Portfolio,  in a dollar  amount  sufficient  to make payment for the
obligations to be repurchased, are segregated on such Portfolio's records at the
trade  date  and are  maintained  until  the  transaction  is  settled.  Reverse
repurchase  agreements  involve the risk that the market value of the securities
retained  by the  Portfolio  may  decline  below  the  repurchase  price  of the
securities sold by the Portfolio which it is obligated to repurchase.

Borrowing:

         Each Portfolio's  borrowings are limited so that immediately after such
borrowing the value of the Portfolio's  assets  (including  borrowings) less its
liabilities (not including borrowings) is at least three times the amount of the
borrowings. Should a Portfolio, for any reason, have borrowings that do not meet
the above test then, within three business days, such Portfolio must reduce such
borrowings so as to meet the necessary  test.  Under such a  circumstance,  such
Portfolio may have to liquidate  securities at a time when it is disadvantageous
to do so. Gains made with additional funds borrowed will generally cause the net
asset  value of such  Portfolio's  shares to rise  faster than could be the case
without borrowings.  Conversely, if investment results fail to cover the cost of
borrowings,  the net asset value of such Portfolio could decrease faster than if
there had been no borrowings.

Convertible Securities and Warrants:

         Convertible  securities  generally  participate in the  appreciation or
depreciation of the underlying stock into which they are  convertible,  but to a
lesser  degree.  Warrants are options to buy a stated number of shares of common
stock at a specified  price any time during the life of the warrants.  The value
of warrants may fluctuate more than the value of the securities  underlying such
warrants.  The value of a warrant  detached  from its  underlying  security will
expire without value if the rights under such warrant are not exercised prior to
its expiration date.

Lending:

         With respect to the lending of securities,  there is the risk of delays
in receiving additional collateral or in the recovery of securities and possible
loss of rights in collateral in the event that a borrower fails financially.

REGULATORY MATTERS:

         In connection with its proposed futures and options  transactions,  the
Trust  filed  with the CFTC a  notice  of  eligibility  for  exemption  from the
definition  of  (and  therefore  from  CFTC  regulation  as) a  "commodity  pool
operator"  under  the  Commodity  Exchange  Act for the  Portfolios.  The  Trust
represents in its notice of eligibility that:

(i) it will not  purchase  or sell  futures or options on futures  contracts  or
stock indices for purposes other than bona fide hedging transactions (as defined
by the CFTC) if as a result the sum of the initial margin  deposits and premiums
required to establish positions in futures contracts and related options that do
not fall within the definition of bona fide hedging transactions would exceed 5%
of the fair market value of each Portfolio's net assets; and

(ii) a Portfolio  will not enter into any  futures  contracts  if the  aggregate
amount of that  Portfolio's  commitments  under  outstanding  futures  contracts
positions would exceed the market value of its total assets.

         Currently,  the Trust  either has or will make a  commitment  regarding
each  Portfolio to the State of California  Department of Insurance to limit its
borrowings  to 10% of the  Portfolio's  net asset value when  borrowing  for any
general  purpose and to an additional 15% (for a total of 25%) when borrowing as
a temporary  measure to  facilitate  redemptions.  For purposes of the foregoing
commitment,  net asset value is the market  value of all  investments  or assets
owned by a Portfolio, less its outstanding liabilities, at the time that any new
or additional borrowing is undertaken.

         Additionally,  the  Trust  either  has made or will  make a  commitment
regarding each Portfolio to the State of California Department of Insurance with
respect to diversification of its foreign investments. Such commitment generally
requires  that a Portfolio:  (i)  (consistent  with the  Portfolio's  investment
policies) invest in a minimum of five different foreign  countries;  except that
this minimum may be reduced to four when foreign  country  investments  comprise
less than 80% of the Portfolio's net asset value, to three when less than 60% of
such assets,  to two when less than 40% of such assets, or to one when less than
20% of such  assets;  and  (ii)  have no more  than 20% of its net  asset  value
invested in securities  of issuers  located in any one foreign  country;  except
that, a Portfolio may have an additional  15% of its net asset value invested in
securities of issuers located in any one of the following countries:  Australia,
Canada,  France,  Japan,  the United  Kingdom or Germany.  (Investments  in U.S.
issuers are not subject to any of the foregoing.)

         The Trust currently does not foresee any  disadvantages  to the holders
of variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies of affiliated
or unaffiliated  Participating  Insurance Companies or participants of Qualified
Plans (see page 2) arising  from the fact that the  interests  of the holders of
variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies and participants
of  Qualified  Plans may differ due to  differences  of tax  treatment  or other
considerations  or due to  conflicts  between  the  affiliated  or  unaffiliated
Participating Insurance Companies or Qualified Plans. Nevertheless, the Trustees
intend  to  monitor  events in order to  identify  any  material  irreconcilable
conflicts which may possibly arise and to determine what action,  if any, should
be taken in response to such  conflicts.  The  variable  annuity  contracts  and
variable  life  insurance  policies are  described in the separate  prospectuses
issued  by  the  Participating   Insurance  Companies.   The  Trust  assumes  no
responsibility for such prospectuses.

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER:

         Each  Portfolio may  generally  change its  investments  at any time in
accordance with its Sub-advisor's  appraisal of factors affecting any particular
issuer or the market or economy in general.  The  frequency  of the  Portfolio's
transactions  -- the  Portfolio's  turnover  rate -- will vary from year to year
depending upon market conditions. High turnover involves correspondingly greater
brokerage  commissions,  other  transaction  costs and a  possible  increase  in
short-term  capital gains or losses.  The anticipated annual rate of turnover is
as follows:

     JanCap Growth Portfolio: not to exceed 200% under normal market conditions.

     T. Rowe Price  International  Equity  Portfolio:  not to exceed  100% under
     normal market conditions.

     Founders Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio:  not to exceed 200% under normal
     market conditions.

     INVESCO  Equity  Income  Portfolio:  not to exceed 200% under normal market
     conditions.

     PIMCO Total Return Bond  Portfolio:  not to exceed 150% under normal market
     conditions.

     PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond  Portfolio:  not to exceed 150% under normal
     market conditions.

     Berger  Capital  Growth  Portfolio:  not to exceed 100% under normal market
     conditions.

         For  further  details  regarding  the  portfolio  turnover  rates,  see
"Portfolio Turnover" in the Trust's Statement of Additional Information.

BROKERAGE ALLOCATION:

         Generally,  the primary  consideration in placing Portfolio  securities
transactions with  broker-dealers  for execution is to obtain,  and maintain the
availability  of,  execution  at the best net  price  available  and in the most
effective manner possible.  The Trust's brokerage allocation policy may permit a
Portfolio to pay a  broker-dealer  which  furnishes  research  services a higher
commission than that which might be charged by another  broker-dealer which does
not  furnish  research  services,   provided  that  such  commission  is  deemed
reasonable  in  relation  to  the  value  of  the  services   provided  by  such
broker-dealer. In addition, each Portfolio's Sub-advisor may consider the use of
broker-dealers  which might be deemed to be their  affiliates,  and may consider
sale  of  shares  of  the  Portfolio,  as  well  as the  recommendations  of the
Investment  Manager,  as a factor in  selection  of  broker-dealers  to  execute
transactions,  subject to the  requirements of best net price and most favorable
execution.  For a complete  discussion of portfolio  transactions  and brokerage
allocation,   see   "Brokerage   Allocation"  in  the  Statement  of  Additional
Information.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS:

         For each  Portfolio  the  Trust  has  adopted  a number  of  investment
restrictions  which are fundamental  policies and may not be changed without the
approval of the holders of a majority of the  affected  Portfolio's  outstanding
voting  securities as defined in the Investment  Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the "1940 Act").  The  Statement of  Additional  Information  describes all the
restrictions on each Portfolio's investment activities.

NET ASSET VALUES:

         The net asset  value  per  share of each  Portfolio  is  determined  by
dividing  the market  value of that  Portfolio's  securities  as of the close of
trading plus any cash or other assets (including dividends and accrued interest)
less all  liabilities  (including  accrued  expenses)  by the  number  of shares
outstanding in that Portfolio. Each Portfolio will determine the net asset value
of its shares on each  "business" day, which is each day that the New York Stock
Exchange (the "NYSE") is open for business,  exclusive of national holidays. The
Trust's Board of Trustees has established procedures for valuing the Portfolios'
securities.  In general, these valuations are based on market value with special
provisions  for:  securities  not listed on an  exchange or  securities  market;
securities  for  which  recent  market  quotations  are not  readily  available;
short-term  obligations;  and  open  short  positions  and  options  written  on
securities. See "Computation of Net Asset Values" in the Statement of Additional
Information.

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES:

         Purchases  of shares  of the  Portfolios  may be made only by  separate
accounts  of  Participating  Insurance  Companies  for the  purpose  of  funding
variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance  policies or by Qualified
Plans.  The separate  accounts of the  Participating  Insurance  Companies place
orders to purchase and redeem  shares of the Trust based on, among other things,
the amount of premium  payments to be invested and the amount of  surrender  and
transfer requests (as defined in the prospectus  describing the variable annuity
contracts  and variable  life  insurance  policies  issued by the  Participating
Insurance  Companies)  to be effected on that day  pursuant to variable  annuity
contracts and variable life insurance policies.  Orders received by the Trust or
the Trust's  transfer  agent are  effected on days on which the NYSE is open for
trading.  For orders  received  before 4:00 P.M.  Eastern  time,  purchases  and
redemptions  of the shares of the Trust are effected at the net asset values per
share  determined as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern time on that same day. Orders received
after 4:00 P.M.  Eastern  time,  are effected at the next  calculated  net asset
values.  Payment for redemptions  will be made by the Trust's  transfer agent on
behalf of the Trust within  seven days after the request is received.  The Trust
does  not  assess  any  fees,  either  when it  sells  or when  it  redeems  its
securities. Surrender charges, mortality and expense risk fees and other charges
may be assessed by Participating  Insurance Companies under the variable annuity
contracts or variable life insurance policies. These fees should be described in
the Participating Insurance Companies' prospectuses.

         As of the date of this  Prospectus,  American  Skandia  Life  Assurance
Corporation is the only Participating  Insurance Company. In the future,  shares
of the Trust may be sold to and held by  separate  accounts  that fund  variable
annuity and variable life  insurance  contracts  issued by both  affiliated  and
unaffiliated  Participating  Insurance  Companies and also directly to Qualified
Plans.  While it is not  anticipated,  should any  conflict  arise  between  the
holders of variable  annuity  contracts and variable life insurance  policies of
affiliated or unaffiliated Participating Insurance Companies and participants in
Qualified  Plans which would require that a substantial  amount of net assets be
withdrawn from the Trust, orderly Portfolio management could be disrupted to the
potential detriment of such holders (see "Other Information" for more details).

MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST:

         As of the date of this Prospectus,  seven Portfolios are available. The
Trust may offer additional Portfolios with a range of investment objectives that
Participating  Insurance  Companies may consider suitable for variable annuities
and variable  life  insurance  policies or that may be  considered  suitable for
Qualified  Plans. The Trust's current approach to achieving this goal is to seek
to have multiple  organizations  unaffiliated with each other be responsible for
conducting the investment  programs for the Portfolios.  Each such  organization
would  be   responsible   for  the   Portfolio  or   Portfolios  to  which  such
organization's expertise is best suited.

         Formerly,  the Trust was known as the  Henderson  International  Growth
Fund,  which  consisted  of only  one  Portfolio.  The  Investment  Manager  was
Henderson  International,  Inc.  Shareholders  of what  was,  at the  time,  the
Henderson  International Growth Fund, approved certain changes in a meeting held
April 17, 1992. These changes included  engagement of a new Investment  Manager,
engagement  of a Sub-advisor  and election of new  Trustees.  Subsequent to that
meeting,  the new Trustees adopted a number of resolutions,  including,  but not
limited to,  resolutions  renaming the Trust.  Since that time the Trustees have
adopted a number of resolutions,  including,  but not limited to, making the new
Portfolios  available  and  adopting  the  form  of  Management  Agreements  and
Sub-advisory  Agreements  between the  Investment  Manager and the Trust and the
Investment Manager and each Sub-advisor, respectively.

     The Trustees are David E.A. Carson, Thomas M. O'Brien, F. Don Schwartz, Jan
R. Carendi and Gordon C. Boronow.  Additional information about the Trustees and
the Trust's  executive  officers  may be found in the  Statement  of  Additional
Information under the section "Management."

Investment   Manager:   American  Skandia  Investment   Services,   Incorporated
("ASISI"), One Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut, acts as Investment Manager
to the Trust. ASISI, a Connecticut  corporation organized in 1991, is registered
as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange  Commission.  Prior to
April 7, 1995, ASISI was known as American  Skandia Life Investment  Management,
Inc. ASISI is a wholly-owned  subsidiary of American Skandia  Investment Holding
Corporation,   whose  indirect   parent  is  Skandia   Insurance   Company  Ltd.
("Skandia").  Skandia is a Swedish company that owns, directly or indirectly,  a
number of insurance  companies in many  countries.  The  predecessor  to Skandia
commenced operations in 1855.

         The  only  Participating  Insurance  Company  as of the  date  of  this
Prospectus  is American  Skandia  Life  Assurance  Corporation,  which is also a
wholly-owned  subsidiary of American  Skandia  Investment  Holding  Corporation.
Certain  officers of the Trust are officers  and/or  directors of one or more of
the following  companies:  ASISI,  American Skandia Life Assurance  Corporation,
American Skandia Marketing,  Incorporated (the principal underwriter for various
annuities   deemed  to  be  securities  for  American   Skandia  Life  Assurance
Corporation) and American Skandia Investment Holding Corporation.

Sub-advisors:

         JanCap  Growth  Portfolio:  Janus  Capital  Corporation,  100  Fillmore
Street,  Denver,  Colorado  80206-4923,  acts as the  Sub-advisor for the JanCap
Growth Portfolio.  Janus Capital Corporation serves as the investment advisor to
the Janus Funds, as well as advisor or sub-advisor to several other mutual funds
and individual,  corporate,  charitable and retirement accounts.  As of December
31,  1995,  Janus  Capital  Corporation  managed  assets worth over $30 billion.
Kansas City Southern  Industries,  Inc.  ("KCSI") owns  approximately 83% of the
outstanding voting stock of Janus Capital Corporation, most of which it acquired
in 1984. KCSI is a  publicly-traded  holding company whose primary  subsidiaries
are engaged in transportation and financial services.

     The portfolio manager responsible for management of the Portfolio is Thomas
F.  Marsico.  Mr.  Marsico  has managed  Janus  Growth and Income Fund since its
inception in May 1991 and Janus Twenty Fund since April 1985.

     T.  Rowe  Price   International   Equity  Portfolio:   Rowe   Price-Fleming
International,  Inc.  ("Price-Fleming")  was founded in 1979 as a joint  venture
between T. Rowe Price  Associates,  Inc. and Robert  Fleming  Holdings  Limited.
Price-Fleming  is one of the  world's  largest  international  mutual fund asset
managers with approximately $20 billion under management as of December 31, 1995
in its offices in Baltimore,  London,  Tokyo and Hong Kong. The Portfolio has an
investment  advisory group that has day-to-day  responsibility  for managing the
Portfolio and developing and executing the Portfolio's  investment program.  The
members of the advisory group are listed below.

     Martin G. Wade,  Christopher Alderson,  Peter Askew, Richard J. Bruce, Mark
J.T.  Edwards,  John R. Ford,  Robert C. Howe, James B.M. Seddon,  Benedict R.F.
Thomas, and David J.L. Warren.

         Martin Wade joined Price-Fleming in 1979 and has 27 years of experience
with Fleming Group (Fleming Group includes  Robert Fleming  Holdings Ltd. and/or
Jardine  Fleming  International  Holdings Ltd.) in research,  client service and
investment  management,  including  assignments  in the Far East and the  United
States.

         Peter Askew joined Price-Fleming in 1988 and has 21 years of experience
managing  multicurrency  fixed income  portfolios.  Christopher  Alderson joined
Price-Fleming  in 1988, and has 9 years of experience  with the Fleming Group in
research and portfolio  management,  including an assignment in Hong Kong. David
Boardman joined  Price-Fleming  in 1988 and has 21 years  experience in managing
multicurrency fixed income portfolios.  Richard J. Bruce joined Price-Fleming in
1991 and has 7 years of  experience in  investment  management  with the Fleming
Group in Tokyo. Mark J.T. Edwards joined  Price-Fleming in 1986 and has 15 years
of  experience  in  financial  analysis,  including 4 years in Fleming  European
research.  John R.  Ford  joined  Price-Fleming  in 1982  and  has 16  years  of
experience  with Fleming Group in research and portfolio  management,  including
assignments  in the Far  East and the  United  States.  Robert  C.  Howe  joined
Price-Fleming  in 1986 and has 16 years of  experience  in economic  research in
Japan.  James  B.M.  Seddon  joined  Price-Fleming  in 1987  and has 9 years  of
experience in investment  management.  Benedict R.F. Thomas joined Price-Fleming
in  1988  and  has  7  years  of  portfolio  management  experience,   including
assignments in London and Baltimore.  David J.L. Warren joined  Price-Fleming in
1984 and has 16 years experience in equity  research,  fixed income research and
portfolio management, including an assignment in Japan.

         Founders Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio:  Founders Asset  Management,
Inc., Founders Financial Center, 2930 East Third Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80206,
has acted as an investment  advisor since 1938 and serves as investment  advisor
to  Founders  Discovery,   Frontier,   Passport,   Special,   Worldwide  Growth,
International Equity Growth, Blue Chip,  Balanced,  Government  Securities,  and
Money Market Funds. Founders,  which is also the investment advisor for a number
of private accounts,  managed assets aggregating approximately $31 billion as of
December 31, 1995.

     The  portfolio  manager  responsible  for  management  of the  Portfolio is
Michael K. Haines,  a Senior Vice  President  of  investments  of Founders.  Mr.
Haines has been  associated  with  Founders for ten years,  serving as assistant
portfolio manager and as a lead portfolio manager.

         INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio: INVESCO Trust Company, a trust company
founded in 1969, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc., P.O.
Box 173706, Denver, Colorado 80217-3706,  which was established in 1932. INVESCO
Trust  Company  serves as  sub-advisor  to INVESCO  Growth Fund,  Inc.,  INVESCO
Dynamics Fund,  Inc.;  INVESCO Money Market Funds,  Inc.;  INVESCO Income Funds,
Inc.; INVESCO Tax-Free Income Funds, Inc.; INVESCO Strategic  Portfolios,  Inc.;
INVESCO Emerging  Opportunity Funds, Inc.; INVESCO Industrial Income Fund, Inc.;
INVESCO Multiple Asset Funds,  Inc.;  INVESCO Specialty Funds, Inc.; and INVESCO
Variable  Investment  Funds,  Inc.  INVESCO Funds Group,  Inc. is a wholly-owned
subsidiary  of  INVESCO  North  American  Holdings,  Inc.  ("INAH"),  a Delaware
corporation,  which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of INVESCO PLC. INVESCO
PLC was organized in 1935.

     The portfolio  managers  responsible  for  management of the INVESCO Equity
Income  Portfolio  are Charles P. Mayer,  Portfolio  Co-Manager;  and Donovan J.
(Jerry) Paul, Portfolio Co-Manager. Mr. Mayer has served as Co-Portfolio Manager
of the  INVESCO  Industrial  Income  Fund  since  1993 and also  has  served  as
Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President of INVESCO Trust Company since 1993.
Mr. Paul has served as  Co-Portfolio  Manager of the INVESCO  Industrial  Income
Fund since 1994 and has served as Senior  Vice  President  (1994 to  present) of
INVESCO Trust Company.

         PIMCO Total  Return Bond  Portfolio  and PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond
Portfolio: Pacific Investment Management Company ("PIMCO") serves as Sub-advisor
to the PIMCO  Total  Return  Bond  Portfolio  and PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond
Portfolio. It is an investment counseling firm founded in 1971 and currently has
over $76.3  billion of assets under  management.  PIMCO is a subsidiary  general
partnership of PIMCO Advisors L.P. ("PIMCO  Advisors").  A majority  interest in
PIMCO Advisors is held by PIMCO Partners,  G.P., a general  partnership  between
Pacific  Financial  Asset  Management  Corporation,  an  indirect  wholly  owned
subsidiary of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and PIMCO Partners,  LLC, a
California  limited  liability company  controlled by the managing  directors of
PIMCO.  PIMCO's address is 840 Newport Center Drive,  Suite 360,  Newport Beach,
California 92660.  PIMCO is a registered  investment advisor with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and a commodity trader advisor with the CFTC.

     The portfolio manager  responsible for management of the PIMCO Total Return
Bond  Portfolio and PIMCO Limited  Maturity Bond  Portfolio is William H. Gross.
Mr. Gross is managing  director of PIMCO Investment  Management  Company and has
been associated with the firm for 24 years.

         Berger  Capital  Growth  Portfolio:   Berger   Associates,   Inc.,  210
University Blvd., Suite 900, Denver, Colorado, 80206, has acted as an investment
advisor since 1973. Berger  Associates  serves as the investment  advisor to the
Berger  Capital  Growth  Portfolio  and  other  mutual  funds,  as  well  as for
retirement plans and  institutional  and private  investors.  As of December 31,
1995, Berger Associates,  Inc., managed assets worth approximately $3.3 billion.
Kansas City Southern  Industries,  Inc.  ("KCSI") owns  approximately 84% of the
outstanding voting stock of Berger  Associates,  Inc., most of which it acquired
in 1994. KCSI is a  publicly-traded  holding company whose primary  subsidiaries
are engaged in transportation services and financial asset management.

         The portfolio  manager  responsible for the management of the Portfolio
is  Rodney L.  Linafelter.  Mr.  Linafelter,  owner of  approximately  8% of the
outstanding  voting  stock  of  Berger  Associates,  is  Vice  President,  Chief
Investment  Officer and a Director of Berger  Associates.  Mr. Linafelter joined
Berger  Associates in January 1990, where he has served as portfolio  manager of
the Berger One Hundred Fund and the Berger  Growth and Income  Fund,  as well as
for retirement plans and institutional and private investors. From April 1986 to
December 1989, Mr. Linafelter was employed as a Financial Consultant (registered
representative)  with Merrill Lynch,  Pierce,  Fenner & Smith,  Inc.,  providing
investment advice to institutions and individuals.

Investment  Management  Agreements:   The  Trust  has  entered  into  Investment
Management Agreements with the Investment Manager (the "Management  Agreements")
which provide that the Investment Manager will furnish each applicable Portfolio
with investment  advice and investment  management and  administrative  services
with respect to the applicable Portfolio subject to the supervision of the Board
of  Trustees  and in  conformity  with the  stated  policies  of the  applicable
Portfolio.  The Investment  Manager has engaged the Sub-advisors  noted above to
conduct the  investment  programs of each  Portfolio,  including  the  purchase,
retention, disposition and lending of securities. Such Sub-advisors are required
to provide  research and  statistical  analysis and to keep books and records of
securities  transactions.  The Investment  Manager is responsible for monitoring
the  activities  of the  Sub-advisors  and  reporting on the  activities  of the
Sub-advisors to the Trustees. The Investment Manager must also provide or obtain
for  the  Trust,  and  thereafter  supervise,  such  executive,  administrative,
accounting,  custody,  transfer agent and shareholder  servicing services as are
deemed advisable by the Board of Trustees.

         Under the terms of the Management  Agreements,  each Portfolio pays all
of its expenses, including, but not limited to, the costs incurred in connection
with the  maintenance of its  registration  under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended,  and the 1940 Act, printing and mailing  prospectuses and statements of
additional information to shareholders,  certain office and financial accounting
services, taxes or governmental fees, brokerage commissions,  Portfolio pricing,
custodial,  transfer and shareholder  servicing agent costs, expenses of outside
counsel and  independent  accountants,  preparation of  shareholder  reports and
expenses of trustee and shareholder meetings. Expenses incurred by the Trust not
directly  attributable to any specific  Portfolio or Portfolios are allocated on
the basis of the net assets of the respective Portfolios.

         The  Investment  Manager  receives a fee,  payable each month,  for the
performance  of its services.  The  Investment  Manager pays each  Sub-advisor a
portion  of such  fee for the  performance  of the  Sub-advisory  services.  The
Investment  Management  fee  payable  may differ from  Portfolio  to  Portfolio,
reflecting the objective,  policies and  restrictions  of each Portfolio and the
nature of each Sub-advisory Agreement. Each Portfolio's fee is accrued daily for
the purposes of determining the offering and redemption price of the Portfolio's
shares. The fees payable to the Investment Manager are as follows:

         JanCap  Growth  Portfolio:  An annual rate of .90% of the average daily
net assets of the Portfolio. For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of
the fee paid by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $2,977,217.

     T. Rowe Price  International  Equity Portfolio:  1.00% of the average daily
net assets of the Portfolio. For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of
the fee paid by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $1,412,350.

     Founders  Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio:  .90% of the average  daily net
assets of the Portfolio. For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of the
fee paid by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $486,749.

     INVESCO  Equity Income  Portfolio:  .75% of the average daily net assets of
the Portfolio.  For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of the fee paid
by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $821,220.

     PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio:  .65% of the average daily net assets of
the Portfolio.  For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of the fee paid
by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $652,311.

         PIMCO Limited  Maturity Bond  Portfolio:  .65% of the average daily net
assets of the Portfolio. For the period May 2, 1995 (commencement of operations)
to December 31, 1995,  the amount of the fee paid by the Trust to the Investment
Manager was $100,949.

     Berger  Capital Growth  Portfolio:  .75% of the average daily net assets of
the Portfolio.  For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount of the fee paid
by the Trust to the Investment Manager was $160,794.

         The Investment  Manager pays each  Sub-advisor  for the  performance of
sub-advisory  services.  The fee to  Sub-advisors  may differ from  Portfolio to
Portfolio,   reflecting  the  objectives,  policies  and  restrictions  of  each
Portfolio and the nature of each Sub-advisory Agreement.  Each Sub-advisor's fee
is  accrued  daily  for  purposes  of  determining  the  amount  payable  to the
Sub-advisor. The fees payable to the present Sub-advisors are as follows:

         Janus Capital  Corporation for the JanCap Growth  Portfolio:  An annual
rate of .60% of the portion of the average daily net assets of the Portfolio not
in excess of $100 million; plus .55% of the portion over $100 million but not in
excess of $1  billion;  plus .50% of the portion  over $1 billion.  For the year
ended  December  31,  1995,  the amount  paid by the  Investment  Manager to the
Sub-advisor was $1,869,411.

         Rowe   Price-Fleming   International,   Inc.  for  the  T.  Rowe  Price
International  Equity  Portfolio:  An annual rate of .75 of 1% of the portion of
the average daily net assets of the Portfolio not in excess of $20 million; plus
 .60 of 1% of the portion of the net assets over $20 million but not in excess of
$50 million;  and .50 of 1% of the portion in excess of $50 million.  Commencing
May 1, 1996, the Sub-advisor  has  voluntarily  agreed to waive a portion of its
fee  equal to .25 of 1% of the  portion  of the  Portfolio's  average  daily net
assets  not in excess of $20  million  and .10 of 1% of the  portion  of the net
assets over $20 million but not in excess of $50 million, so long as the average
daily net assets of the Portfolio equal or exceed $200 million.  The Sub-advisor
may terminate this voluntary  agreement at any time. For the year ended December
31,  1995,  the amount paid by the  Investment  Manager to the  Sub-advisor  was
$786,175.

         Founders Asset Management,  Inc. for the Founders Capital  Appreciation
Portfolio:  An annual rate of .65 of 1% of the portion of the average  daily net
assets of the  Portfolio  not in excess  of $75  million;  plus .60 of 1% of the
portion of the net assets over $75  million  but not in excess of $150  million;
and .55 of 1% of the net  assets in excess of $150  million.  For the year ended
December 31, 1995, the amount paid by the Investment  Manager to the Sub-advisor
was $350,949.

         INVESCO  Trust  Company for the INVESCO  Equity  Income  Portfolio:  An
annual rate of .50 of 1% of the  portion of the average  daily net assets of the
Portfolio not in excess of $25 million; plus .45 of 1% of the portion of the net
assets over $25 million but not in excess of $75 million;  plus .40 of 1% of the
portion  of the net  assets in excess of $75  million  but not in excess of $100
million;  and .35 of 1% of the portion of the net assets over $100 million.  For
the year ended December 31, 1995,  the amount paid by the Investment  Manager to
the Sub-advisor was $482,833.

         Pacific  Investment  Management Company for the PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio:  An annual rate of .30 of 1% of the  average  daily net assets of the
Portfolio not in excess of $150 million; and .25 of 1% on the portion of the net
assets over $150 million.  For the year ended December 31, 1995, the amount paid
by the Investment Manager to the Sub-advisor was $299,969.

         Pacific  Investment  Management  Company for the PIMCO Limited Maturity
Bond  Portfolio:  An annual rate of .30 of 1% of the average daily net assets of
the Portfolio not in excess of $150 million; and .25 of 1% on the portion of the
net  assets  over $150  million.  For the period  May 2, 1995  (commencement  of
operations) to December 31, 1995,  the amount paid by the Investment  Manager to
the Sub-advisor was $47,155.

         Berger  Associates,  Inc. for the Berger Capital Growth  Portfolio:  An
annual  rate of .55% of the  average  daily net assets of the  Portfolio  not in
excess of $25 million; plus .50% of the portion of average daily net assets over
$25  million but not in excess of $50  million;  plus .40% of the portion of the
average daily net assets over $50 million. For the year ended December 31, 1995,
the amount paid by the Investment Manager to the Sub-advisor was $116,002.

         The  current  Investment  Manager  has  agreed,  by  the  terms  of the
Investment  Management  Agreements,  to  reimburse  each  Portfolio  for certain
operating  expenses  so that total  expenses of each  Portfolio  do not exceed a
specified  percentage  of  such  Portfolio's  average  daily  net  assets.  Such
specified   percentage  may  differ  between  the  Portfolios,   reflecting  the
objective, policies and restrictions of each Portfolio and the expenses involved
in conducting an investment program for each Portfolio. See "Investment Manager"
and  "Investment  Management  Agreement" in the Trust's  Statement of Additional
Information.

         The Annual  Report of the Trust for the year ended  December  31, 1995,
contains a  discussion  by the Trust's  management  of the  performance  of each
Portfolio. The Annual report is available free of charge upon request.

Administrator:   PFPC  Inc.,  a  Delaware   corporation  which  is  an  indirect
wholly-owned  subsidiary of PNC Financial Corp. and has its principal offices at
103 Bellevue Parkway,  Wilmington,  Delaware 19809, is the administrator for the
Trust (the "Administrator").  The Administrator provides administrative services
to investment companies and other accounts.

The Administration  Agreement:  The Trust has entered into a Fund Accounting and
Administration Agreement with the Administrator (the "Administration Agreement")
dated May 1, 1992, under which the  Administrator  has agreed to provide certain
fund accounting and administrative services to the Trust, including, among other
services,  accounting  relating to the Trust and investment  transactions of the
Trust;  computation of daily net asset values;  maintaining the Trust's books of
account;  assisting in monitoring,  in conjunction with the Investment  Manager,
compliance with the Trust's  investment  objectives,  policies and restrictions;
providing office space and equipment necessary for the proper administration and
accounting functions of the Trust;  monitoring investment activity and income of
the Trust for compliance  with  applicable tax laws;  preparing and filing Trust
tax returns;  preparing financial information in connection with the preparation
of the  Trust's  annual and  semi-annual  reports and making  requisite  filings
thereof;  preparing schedules of Trust share activity for footnotes to financial
statements;  furnishing  financial  information  necessary for the completion of
certain items to the Trust's  registration  statement,  and necessary to prepare
and file Rule 24f-2 notices;  providing an administrative  interface between the
Investment  Manager and the Trust's  custodian;  creating  and  maintaining  all
necessary  records in accordance with applicable  laws,  rules and  regulations,
including, but not limited to, those records required to be kept pursuant to the
1940 Act; and performing such other duties related to the  administration of the
Trust as may be requested by the Board of Trustees.  The Administrator  does not
have any  responsibility  or authority  for the  management of the assets of the
Trust,  the  determination  of  its  investment  policies,  or  for  any  matter
pertaining to the distribution of securities issued by the Trust.

         As  compensation  for  the  services  and  facilities  provided  by the
Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Trust has agreed to pay to
the Administrator its out-of pocket expenses plus the greater of certain maximum
percentages  of the average  daily net assets of the Trust or certain  specified
minimums  calculated for each Portfolio.  The maximum percentages of the average
daily net assets  are:  (a) 0.10% of the first $200  million;  (b) 0.075% of the
next $200 million; (c) 0.050% of the next $200 million; and (d) 0.03% of average
daily net assets  over $600  million.  The initial  year of this  Administration
Agreement  commenced  on May 1, 1992.  The minimum  amount for the fifth year of
this  Administration  Agreement  is  $75,000  for  each  of  the  JanCap  Growth
Portfolio,  the Founders  Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio,  the INVESCO  Equity
Income  Portfolio,  the PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio and the Berger Capital
Growth  Portfolio.  The  minimum  for the  fifth  year  of  this  Administration
Agreement is $100,000 for the T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio.  The
minimum  amount for the PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond  Portfolio is $75,000 per
year. For a description of the "out-of-pocket"  expenses the Trust is to pay the
Administrator, see "The Administration and Accounting Services Agreement" in the
Trust's Statement of Additional Information.

Sale of Shares:  Shares are sold at net asset value to  Participating  Insurance
Companies and Qualified Plans. Owners of variable annuity contracts and variable
insurance  policies and plan  participants  will receive annual and  semi-annual
reports  including  the  financial  statement of the  Portfolios  that they have
authorized for investment.  The Trust has entered into an agreement for the sale
of shares with American Skandia Life Assurance Corporation  ("ASLAC").  Pursuant
to that agreement, the Trust will pay ASLAC for printing and delivery of certain
documents to the  beneficial  owners of Trust shares who are holders of variable
annuity and variable life  insurance  policies  issued by ASLAC.  Such documents
include  prospectuses,  semi-annual and annual reports and any proxy  materials.
The Trust will pay ASLAC 0.1%, on an annualized basis, of the net asset value of
the shares legally owned by any separate  accounts of ASLAC. The Trust may enter
into Sales Agreements with other  Participating  Insurance  Companies or certain
Qualified Plans in the future.

TAX MATTERS:

         This  discussion  of  federal  income tax  consequences  applies to the
Participating  Insurance  Companies,  Qualified  Plans and plan  participants in
certain   types  of  Qualified   Plans  since  the  separate   accounts  of  the
Participating Insurance Companies,  the Qualified Plans and plan participants in
certain  Qualified  Plans  will be the  shareholders  of the  Trust.  Holders of
variable annuity contracts or variable life insurance  policies must consult the
prospectuses  of their  respective  contracts or policies for information on the
federal income tax  consequences  to such holders,  and plan  participants  must
consult with any applicable plan documents for information on the federal income
tax  consequences  to such holders.  The Trust intends to qualify as a regulated
investment  company by satisfying  the  requirements  under  Subchapter M of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"),  including  requirements
with respect to diversification of assets, distribution of income and sources of
income.  It is the  Trust's  policy to  distribute  to  shareholders  all of its
investment  income  (net of  expenses)  and any  capital  gains  (net of capital
losses) in accordance with the timing  requirements  imposed by the Code so that
the Trust will satisfy the  distribution  requirement of Subchapter M and not be
subject to federal income taxes or the 4% excise tax.

         Distributions by the Trust of its net investment income and the excess,
if any, of its net short-term  capital gain over its net long-term  capital loss
are taxable to shareholders as ordinary income.  These distributions are treated
as dividends for federal  income tax purposes,  but will not qualify for the 70%
dividends-received  deduction for corporate  shareholders.  Distributions by the
Trust of the excess,  if any,  of its net  long-term  capital  gain over its net
short-term capital loss are designated as capital gain dividends and are taxable
to shareholders as long-term capital gains, regardless of the length of time the
shareholder held his shares.

         Portions  of certain  Portfolio's  investment  income may be subject to
foreign income taxes withheld at source.  The Trust may elect to  "pass-through"
to the  shareholders of such Portfolios these foreign taxes, in which event each
shareholder  will be  required to include  his pro rata  portion  thereof in his
gross  income,  but will be able to deduct or (subject  to various  limitations)
claim a foreign tax credit for such amount.

         Distributions  to  shareholders  will be treated in the same manner for
federal income tax purposes whether received in cash or reinvested in additional
shares of the  Trust.  In  general,  distributions  by the Trust are taken  into
account by the shareholders in the year in which they are made. However, certain
distributions  made  during  January  will be treated as having been paid by the
Trust and received by the  shareholders  on December 31 of the preceding year. A
statement setting forth the federal income tax status of all distributions  made
or deemed made during the year,  including  any amount of foreign  taxes "passed
through,"  will be sent to  shareholders  promptly  after the end of each  year.
Notwithstanding  the foregoing,  distributions by the Trust to certain Qualified
Plans may be exempt from federal income tax.

         Under Code  Section  817(h),  a segregated  asset  account upon which a
variable  annuity  contract or variable life  insurance  policy is based must be
"adequately   diversified."  A  segregated  asset  account  will  be  adequately
diversified if it satisfies one of two  alternative  tests set forth in Treasury
regulations.   For  purposes  of  these  alternative  diversification  tests,  a
segregated asset account investing in shares of a regulated  investment  company
will be entitled to "look-through"  the regulated  investment company to its pro
rata  portion  of  the  regulated  investment  company's  assets,  provided  the
regulated  investment  company  satisfies  certain  conditions  relating  to the
ownership  of  its  shares.   The  Trust  intends  to  satisfy  these  ownership
conditions.  Further,  the Trust intends that each Portfolio  separately will be
adequately diversified. Accordingly, a segregated asset account investing solely
in shares of a Portfolio will be adequately diversified,  and a segregated asset
account  investing in shares of one or more Trust Portfolios and shares of other
adequately diversified funds generally will be adequately diversified.

         The foregoing discussion of federal income tax consequences is based on
tax laws and  regulations  in  effect  on the  date of this  Prospectus,  and is
subject to change by  legislative  or  administrative  action.  As the foregoing
discussion is for general  information  only, a prospective  shareholder  should
also review the more detailed  discussion of federal  income tax  considerations
relevant  to the  Trust  that  is  contained  in  the  Statement  of  Additional
Information.  In addition,  each prospective shareholder should consult with his
own  tax  advisor  as to the  tax  consequences  of  investments  in the  Trust,
including  the  application  of state and local  taxes which may differ from the
federal income tax consequences described above.

ORGANIZATION  AND  DESCRIPTION  OF SHARES OF THE TRUST:  The Trust is a managed,
open-end  investment company organized as a Massachusetts  business trust, whose
separate  Portfolios are diversified,  unless otherwise  indicated.  The Trust's
Declaration  of Trust dated  October  31,  1988,  which  governs  certain  Trust
matters,  permits the Trust's  Board of  Trustees to issue  multiple  classes of
shares,  and within  each class,  an  unlimited  number of shares of  beneficial
interest with a par value of $.001 per share.  Each share entitles the holder to
one vote for the  election of  Trustees  and on all other  matters  that are not
specific  to one class of  shares,  and to  participate  equally  in  dividends,
distributions of capital gains and net assets of each applicable Portfolio. Only
shareholders of shares of a specific  Portfolio may vote on matters  specific to
that Portfolio.  Shares of one class may not bear the same economic relationship
to the  Trust as  shares  of  another  class.  In the  event of  dissolution  or
liquidation,  holders of shares of a Portfolio will receive pro rata, subject to
the rights of  creditors,  the  proceeds  of the sale of the assets held in such
Portfolio less the liabilities attributable to such Portfolio. Shareholders of a
Portfolio  will not be liable for the expenses,  obligations or debts of another
Portfolio.

         There are no preemptive or conversion  rights  applicable to any of the
Trust's  shares.  The  Trust's  shares,   when  issued,   will  be  fully  paid,
non-assessable and transferable.  The Trustees may at any time create additional
series of shares without shareholder approval.

         Generally, there will not be annual meetings of shareholders. A Trustee
may, in accordance with certain rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission,
be removed from office when the holders of record of not less than two-thirds of
the  outstanding  shares  either  present a written  declaration  to the Trust's
custodian or vote in person or by proxy at a meeting called for this purpose. In
addition,  the Trustees will promptly call a meeting of shareholders to remove a
Trustee(s) when requested to do so in writing by record holders of not less than
10%  of  the  outstanding  shares.  Finally,  the  Trustees  shall,  in  certain
circumstances,  give  such  shareholders  access  to a  list  of the  names  and
addresses of all other shareholders or inform them of the number of shareholders
and the cost of mailing their request.

         Under   Massachusetts   law,    shareholders   could,   under   certain
circumstances,  be held liable for the  obligations of the Trust.  However,  the
Declaration of Trust disclaims  shareholder liability for acts or obligations of
the  Trust  and  requires  that  notice  of such  disclaimer  be  given  in each
agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the
Trustees to all parties,  and each party thereto must expressly waive all rights
of action directly against  shareholders.  The Declaration of Trust provides for
indemnification  out of the  Trust's  property  for all loss and  expense of any
shareholder  of the Trust  held  liable  on  account  of being or having  been a
shareholder. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account
of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which the Trust would be
unable to meet its obligations  wherein the complaining party was held not to be
bound by the disclaimer.

         The Declaration of Trust further provides that the Trustees will not be
liable for errors of judgment or  mistakes of fact or law.  However,  nothing in
the  Declaration of Trust protects a Trustee  against any liability to which the
Trustee would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance,  bad faith,
gross negligence,  or reckless  disregard of the duties involving the conduct of
his office.  The Declaration of Trust provides for  indemnification by the Trust
of the  Trustees  and officers of the Trust except with respect to any matter as
to which any such person did not act in good faith in the reasonable belief that
his action was in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust. Such person
may not be  indemnified  against  any  liability  to the  Trust  or the  Trust's
shareholders  to which he would  otherwise  be  subject  by  reason  of  willful
misfeasance,  bad faith,  gross  negligence or reckless  disregard of the duties
involved in the conduct of his office.  The Declaration of Trust also authorizes
the purchase of liability insurance on behalf of Trustees and officers.

PORTFOLIO  ANNUAL  EXPENSES  (as a  percentage  of average net  assets):  Unless
otherwise  indicated,  the expenses shown on the following page are for the year
ending December 31, 1995. "N/A" indicates that no entity has agreed to reimburse
the  particular  expense  indicated.  "+" indicates  that no  reimbursement  was
provided in 1995, but that current  arrangements  (which may change) provide for
reimbursement.  The  expenses  of the  portfolios  either  are  currently  being
partially  reimbursed or may be partially  reimbursed in the future.  Management
Fees, Other Expenses and Total Annual Expenses are provided on both a reimbursed
and not reimbursed basis, if applicable.

* Because shares of the Portfolios may be purchased  through variable  insurance
contacts, the prospectus of the participating  insurance company sponsoring such
contract should be carefully  reviewed for  information on relevant  charges and
expenses. The table on the following page does not reflect any such charges.



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Maximum  Sales Load Imposed on Purchases  (as a  percentage  of offering  price)
NONE*  Maximum  Sales Load Imposed on  Reinvested  Dividends (as a percentage of
offering price) NONE* Deferred Sales Load (as a percentage of original  purchase
price  or  redemption  proceeds,  as  applicable)  NONE*  Redemption  Fees (as a
percentage of amount redeemed, if applicable) NONE* Exchange Fee NONE*
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                          Annual Fund Operating Expenses (as a percentage of average net assets)

                                                                                               Total        Total
                                                                                               Annual       Annual
                                    Management   Management     Other           Other          Expenses     Expenses
                                    Fee          Fee            Expenses        Expenses       after any    without any
                                    after any    without any    after any       without any    applicable   applicable
                                    voluntary    voluntary      any applicable  applicable     waiver or    waiver or
                                    waiver       waiver         reimbursement   reimbursement  reimbursementreimbursement
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                  <C>          <C>              <C>            <C>             <C>          <C>  
JanCap Growth                        N/A          0.90%            0.22%          0.22%           1.12%        1.12%
T. Rowe Price
   International Equity              N/A          1.00%            0.33%          0.33%           1.33%        1.33%
Founders Capital Appreciation        N/A          0.90%            0.32%          0.32%           1.22%        1.22%
INVESCO Equity Income                N/A          0.75%            0.23%          0.23%           0.98%        0.98%
PIMCO Total Return Bond              N/A          0.65%            0.24%          0.24%           0.89%        0.89%
PIMCO Limited Maturity
  Bond Portfolio(1)                  N/A          0.65%            0.24%          0.24%           0.89%        0.89%
Berger Capital Growth                N/A          0.75%            0.42%          0.42%           1.17%        1.17%

(1)  This Portfolio commenced operation in May, 1995.  Expenses shown are annualized.
</TABLE>

EXPENSE EXAMPLES:  The examples reflect expenses of the Portfolio.

The  examples  shown assume that the total  annual  expenses for the  Portfolios
throughout the period  specified will be the lower of the total annual  expenses
without  any   applicable   reimbursement   or  expenses  after  any  applicable
reimbursement.

THE  EXAMPLES  ARE  ILLUSTRATIVE   ONLY  -  THEY  SHOULD  NOT  BE  CONSIDERED  A
REPRESENTATION  OF PAST OR FUTURE  EXPENSES OF THE PORTFOLIOS - ACTUAL  EXPENSES
MAY BE GREATER OR LESS THAN THOSE SHOWN.

         Examples (amounts shown are rounded to the nearest dollar)

You would pay the following  expenses on a $1,000 investment  assuming 5% annual
return at the end of each time period.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                                                After:
Portfolio:                                           1 yr.             3 yrs.           5 yrs.            10 yrs.
<S>                                                  <C>               <C>              <C>               <C>
JanCap Growth                                        11                35               61                135
T. Rowe Price International Equity                   14                43               74                161
Founders Capital Appreciation                        13                39               67                148
INVESCO Equity Income                                10                31               54                120
PIMCO Total Return Bond                              9                 28               49                110
PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond                          9                 28               49                110
Berger Capital Growth                                12                37               64                142
</TABLE>

PERFORMANCE:  The Portfolios  may measure  performance in terms of total return,
which is calculated for any specified period of time by assuming the purchase of
shares of the  Portfolio at the net asset value at the  beginning of the period.
Each dividend or other distribution paid by each Portfolio during such period is
assumed to have been reinvested at the net asset value on the reinvestment date.
The shares  then owned as a result of this  process  are valued at the net asset
value  at the end of the  period.  The  percentage  increase  is  determined  by
subtracting  the  initial  value of the  investment  from the  ending  value and
dividing the remainder by the initial value. Each Portfolio's total return shows
a Portfolio's overall dollar or percentage change in value, including changes in
share  price  and  assuming  each   Portfolio's   dividends  and  capital  gains
distributions  are  reinvested.  An average  annual  total  return  reflects the
hypothetical  annually  compounded  return  that  would have  produced  the same
cumulative return if a Portfolio's performance had been constant over the entire
period.  Total  return  figures  are based on the  overall  change in value of a
hypothetical  investment in each  Portfolio.  Because average annual returns for
more than one year tend to smooth out  variations  in each  Portfolio's  return,
investors  should  recognize  that  such  figures  are  not the  same as  actual
year-by-year  results.  To illustrate the components of overall  performance,  a
Portfolio may separate its  cumulative  and average  annual  returns into income
results and capital gains or losses.

         The  Portfolios may also measure  performance  in terms of yield.  Each
Portfolio's  yield  shows  the  rate  of  income  the  Portfolio  earns  on  its
investments as a percentage of the Portfolio's  share price. To calculate yield,
the  Portfolio  takes the  interest  and  dividend  income  it  earned  from its
investments  for a 30-day  period (net of  expenses),  divides it by the average
number of Portfolio  shares  entitled to receive  dividends,  and  expresses the
result as an annualized percentage rate based on the Portfolio's net asset value
at the end of the 30-day period. For the Portfolio's  investments denominated in
foreign  currencies,  income and expenses  are  calculated  in their  respective
currencies and then converted to U.S. dollars.  Yields are calculated  according
to methods that are  standardized  for all stock and bond funds.  Because  yield
calculation  methods differ from the method used for other  accounting  purposes
(in  particular,  currency  gains  and  losses  are not  reflected  in the yield
calculation), a Portfolio's yield may not equal the income paid to shareholders'
accounts or the income reported in the Portfolio's financial statements.

         The  Portfolios  impose no sales or other charges that would impact the
total return or yield computations. Portfolio performance figures are based upon
historical  results and are not  intended to indicate  future  performance.  The
investment  return and principal value of an investment in any of the Portfolios
will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or
less than their original cost.

         Yield and total returns quoted from the  Portfolios  include the effect
of deducting each Portfolio's expenses, but may not include charges and expenses
attributable  to  any  particular  insurance  product.  Because  shares  of  the
Portfolios may be purchased through variable insurance contracts, the prospectus
of the  participating  insurance  company  sponsoring  such  contract  should be
carefully  reviewed for information on relevant charges and expenses.  Excluding
these charges from quotations of each Portfolio's  performance has the effect of
increasing  the  performance  quoted.  The  effect  of these  charges  should be
considered  when  comparing a  Portfolio's  performance  to that of other mutual
funds. In advertising and sales literature, these figures will be accompanied by
figures that reflect the applicable contract charges.

         From time to time in advertisements  or sales material,  the Portfolios
(or participating  insurance companies) may discuss their performance ratings or
other  information as published by recognized  mutual fund statistical or rating
services,   such  as  Lipper  Analytical  Services,   Inc.,  Morningstar  or  by
publications of general  interest,  such as Forbes or Money.  The Portfolios may
also compare their  performance to that of other selected  mutual funds,  mutual
fund averages or recognized  stock market  indicators,  including the Standard &
Poor's  500  Stock  Index,  the  Standard  & Poor  Midcap  Index,  the Dow Jones
Industrial Average, the Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ composite.  In addition, the
Portfolios may compare their total return or yield to the yield on U.S. Treasury
obligations  and to the percentage  change in the Consumer  Price Index.  The T.
Rowe Price  International  Equity  Portfolio may compare its  performance to the
record of global market indicators such as Morgan Stanley Capital  International
Europe,  Australia,  Far East Index (EAFE Index),  an unmanaged index of foreign
common stock prices  translated into U.S. dollars.  Such performance  ratings or
comparisons  may  be  made  with  funds  that  may  have  different   investment
restrictions,  objectives,  policies or techniques  than the Portfolios and such
other funds or market  indicators  may be  comprised of  securities  that differ
significantly from the Portfolios' investments.

TRANSFER AND SHAREHOLDER  SERVICING  AGENT AND CUSTODIAN:  The custodian for all
cash and  securities  of the T. Rowe Price  International  Equity  Portfolio  is
Morgan Stanley Trust Company, One Pierrepont,  Brooklyn, New York. The custodian
for all cash  and  securities  of the  other  Portfolios  is PNC  Bank,  Airport
Business  Center,  International  Court  2,  200  Stevens  Drive,  Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania  19113.  For these  Portfolios,  Morgan  Stanley Trust Company will
serve as co-custodian with respect to foreign  securities.  The Trust's transfer
and shareholder servicing agent is PFPC Inc., 103 Bellevue Parkway,  Wilmington,
Delaware 19809.

COUNSEL AND AUDITORS:  The firm of Werner & Kennedy, 1633 Broadway,  46th Floor,
New York, New York 10019,  is counsel for the Trust.  Deloitte & Touche LLP, 117
Campus  Drive,  Princeton,  New Jersey  08540,  has been  appointed  independent
auditor for the Trust.

OTHER INFORMATION:  This Prospectus omits certain  information  contained in the
registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies
of the registration statement, including items omitted herefrom, may be obtained
from the  Commission  by  paying  the  charges  prescribed  under  its rules and
regulations.   The  Statement  of  Additional   Information   included  in  such
registration statement may be obtained without charge from the Trust's office at
One Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut 06484.

         Shareholder inquiries should be made by telephone to (203) 926-1888 or,
if  in  writing,  to  the  Trust's  office  at  One  Corporate  Drive,  Shelton,
Connecticut  06484.  Holders of variable  annuity  contracts  or  variable  life
insurance policies issued by Participating  Insurance Companies for which shares
of the Trust are the  investment  vehicle will  receive  from the  Participating
Insurance  Companies  unaudited  semi-annual  financial  statements and year-end
financial statements audited by the Trust's independent auditors. If applicable,
each plan participant will receive from the Qualified Plan trustees, or directly
from  the  Trust,   unaudited  semi-annual  financial  statements  and  year-end
financial  statements audited by the Trust's independent  auditors.  Each report
will  show the  investments  owned by the  Trust  and the  market  values of the
investments  and  will  provide  other  information  about  the  Trust  and  its
operations.

NO  PERSON  HAS  BEEN  AUTHORIZED  TO  GIVE  ANY  INFORMATION  OR  TO  MAKE  ANY
REPRESENTATIONS  OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS,  AND INFORMATION
OR  REPRESENTATIONS  NOT HEREIN CONTAINED,  IF GIVEN OR MADE, MUST NOT BE RELIED
UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE TRUST. THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE
AN OFFER OR  SOLICITATION  IN ANY  JURISDICTION  IN WHICH SUCH  OFFERING MAY NOT
LAWFULLY BE MADE.






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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION                                  May 1, 1996

                             AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
                 One Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut 06484

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

American Skandia Trust (the "Trust") is a managed,  open-end  investment company
whose separate  portfolios  ("Portfolios")  are  diversified,  unless  otherwise
indicated.  The Trust seeks to meet the differing  objectives of its Portfolios.
Currently,  these Portfolios  include the JanCap Growth  Portfolio,  the T. Rowe
Price  International   Equity  Portfolio,   the  Founders  Capital  Appreciation
Portfolio,  the INVESCO  Equity  Income  Portfolio,  the PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio,  the PIMCO  Limited  Maturity Bond  Portfolio and the Berger  Capital
Growth Portfolio.

     American  Skandia  Investment  Services,   Incorporated  ("ASISI")  is  the
investment  manager  ("Investment  Manager")  for the  Trust.  Currently,  ASISI
engages a sub-advisor  ("Sub-advisor")  for each Portfolio.  The Sub-advisor for
each  Portfolio  is as  follows:  (a) JanCap  Growth  Portfolio:  Janus  Capital
Corporation;   (b)  T.  Rowe  Price   International   Equity   Portfolio:   Rowe
Price-Fleming International,  Inc.; (c) Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio:
Founders Asset Management,  Inc.; (d) INVESCO Equity Income  Portfolio:  INVESCO
Trust  Company;  (e) PIMCO  Total  Return  Bond  Portfolio:  Pacific  Investment
Management  Company;   (f)  PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond  Portfolio:   Pacific
Investment  Management Company; and (g) Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:  Berger
Associates, Inc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                                                        Page
General Information and History............................................2
Investment Objectives and Policies.........................................2
     JanCap Growth Portfolio...............................................2
     T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio..........................5
     Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio..............................15
     INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio......................................22
     PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio....................................23
     PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio................................35
     Berger Capital Growth Portfolio......................................46
Investment Restrictions...................................................47
Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods...............................53
Portfolio Turnover........................................................69
Management................................................................70
Management of the Trust...................................................71
Brokerage Allocation......................................................73
Allocation of Investments.................................................73
Regulatory Matters........................................................74
Computation of Net Asset Values...........................................74
Purchase and Redemption of Shares.........................................75
Tax Matters...............................................................75
Underwriter...............................................................75
Other Information.........................................................75
Performance...............................................................75
Financial Statements......................................................76
Appendix.................................................................114

This Statement of Additional Information is not a prospectus.  It should be read
in  conjunction  with the  Trust's  current  Prospectus,  a copy of which may be
obtained by writing the Trust's  administrative  office at One Corporate  Drive,
Shelton, Connecticut 06484 or by calling (203) 926-1888.

This Statement relates to the Trust's Prospectus dated May 1, 1996.



<PAGE>


GENERAL INFORMATION AND HISTORY:

     Only the  JanCap  Growth  Portfolio,  T. Rowe  Price  International  Equity
Portfolio,  Founders  Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio,  INVESCO  Equity  Income
Portfolio,  PIMCO Total  Return Bond  Portfolio,  PIMCO  Limited  Maturity  Bond
Portfolio and the Berger Capital Growth  Portfolio are being offered pursuant to
this  Statement of Additional  Information.  Prior to May 1, 1992, the Trust was
known as the Henderson  International  Growth Fund,  which consisted of only one
portfolio.  This Portfolio is now known as the Seligman Henderson  International
Equity  Portfolio,  which is not being offered  pursuant to this Statement.  The
JanCap Growth  Portfolio  was first offered as of November 4, 1992.  The T. Rowe
Price  International   Equity  Portfolio,   the  Founders  Capital  Appreciation
Portfolio,  the INVESCO Equity Income  Portfolio and the PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio  were first offered as of December 31, 1993. The Berger Capital Growth
Portfolio was first offered as of October 19, 1994.  The PIMCO Limited  Maturity
Bond Portfolio was first offered as of May 2, 1995.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES:

     The  following  information  supplements,  and  should  be read in
conjunction  with, the section in the Trust's  Prospectus  entitled  "Investment
Objectives and Policies." The investment objective and supplemental  information
regarding the policies for each of the Portfolios are described below and should
be considered  separately.  Each Portfolio has a different  investment objective
and certain policies may vary. As a result, the risks,  opportunities and return
in each  Portfolio may differ.  There can be no assurance  that any  Portfolio's
investment  objective  will be  achieved.  Certain  risk  factors in relation to
various  securities  and  instruments  in which the  Portfolios  may  invest are
described in this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

     The  objective for each  Portfolio  specifically  noted as its  "investment
objective" and the restrictions  specifically noted as "investment restrictions"
described in the section of this Statement  entitled  "Investment  Restrictions"
are  "fundamental"  policies,  and may not be changed  without  approval  of the
shareholders  of the  affected  Portfolio.  Investment  policies  not  noted  as
"investment  objectives"  or  "investment  restrictions"  are not  "fundamental"
policies.  As  indicated  in  the  "Investment  Restrictions"  section  of  this
Statement, certain investment restrictions apply to all Portfolios, while others
only apply to a specific  Portfolio.  The Trust has the right to modify  without
shareholder  approval  the  investment  policies of any  Portfolio  that are not
specifically   identified  in  the  Trust's  Prospectus  or  this  Statement  as
"fundamental."

     Each portfolio may be subject to state regulatory requirements which may be
more  restrictive  than the  stated  investment  policies,  in which  case,  the
sub-advisor will adhere to the more restrictive standard.

JanCap Growth Portfolio:

Investment Objective: The investment objective of the JanCap Growth Portfolio is
growth of capital  in a manner  consistent  with the  preservation  of  capital.
Realization  of income is not a  significant  investment  consideration  and any
income realized on the Portfolio's investments, therefore, will be incidental to
the Portfolio's objective.

Investment Policies:  The Portfolio may, as a fundamental policy,  invest all of
its assets in the securities of a single open-end management  investment company
with  substantially  the same fundamental  investment  objectives,  policies and
restrictions  as the Portfolio  subject to the prior  approval of the Investment
Manager. The Investment Manager will not approve such investment unless: (a) the
Investment Manager believes, on the advice of counsel, that such investment will
not have an adverse  effect on the tax status of the  annuity  contracts  and/or
life insurance  policies supported by the separate accounts of the Participating
Insurance  Companies  which  purchase  shares of the Trust;  (b) the  Investment
Manager has given prior notice to the Participating  Insurance Companies that it
intends to permit such investment and has determined  whether such Participating
Insurance  Companies intend to redeem any shares and/or discontinue the purchase
of shares because of such investment;  (c) the Trustees have determined that the
fees to be paid by the  Trust  for  administrative,  accounting,  custodial  and
transfer agency services for the Portfolio  subsequent to such an investment are
appropriate,  or the Trustees have approved changes to the agreements  providing
such  services  to reflect a  reduction  in fees;  (d) the  Sub-advisor  for the
Portfolio has agreed to reduce its fee by the amount of any investment  advisory
fees paid to the  investment  manager  of such  open-end  management  investment
company;  and (e)  shareholder  approval is  obtained  if  required by law.  The
Portfolio  will apply for such  exemptive  relief  under the  provisions  of the
Investment  Company Act of 1940, or other such relief as may be necessary  under
the then governing rules and regulations of the Investment  Company Act of 1940,
regarding investments in such investment companies.

     Futures,  Options  and Other  Derivative  Instruments.  The  JanCap  Growth
Portfolio may enter into futures contracts on securities, financial indices, and
foreign  currencies and options on such contracts,  and may invest in options on
securities,  financial  indices and foreign  currencies,  forward  contracts and
swaps.   Please  refer  to  the  description  of  these   strategies  and  these
instruments,  as well as certain risks entailed with the use of such  strategies
and  instruments,  in this Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus  under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

The  Portfolio will not enter into any futures  contracts or options on
futures  contracts if the aggregate amount of the Portfolio's  commitments under
outstanding futures contracts positions and options on futures contracts written
by the  Portfolio  would  exceed  the  market  value of the total  assets of the
Portfolio (i.e., no leveraging).

     The Portfolio may invest in forward  currency  contracts with stated values
of up to the value of the Portfolio's assets.

The  Portfolio  may  buy  or  write  options  in  privately  negotiated
transactions  on the  types of  securities  and  indices  based on the  types of
securities in which the Portfolio is permitted to invest directly. The Portfolio
will effect such transactions  only with investment  dealers and other financial
institutions (such as commercial banks or savings and loan institutions)  deemed
creditworthy,  and only pursuant to procedures  adopted,  by the Sub-advisor for
monitoring the creditworthiness of those entities.  To the extent that an option
bought or written by the Portfolio in a negotiated  transaction is illiquid, the
value of an option bought or the amount of the Portfolio's  obligations under an
option  written  by the  Portfolio,  as the case may be,  will be subject to the
Portfolio's limitation on illiquid investments. In the case of illiquid options,
it may not be possible for the Portfolio to effect an offsetting  transaction at
a time when the Sub-advisor  believes it would be advantageous for the Portfolio
to do so.

     Interest  Rate Swaps and  Purchasing  and  Selling  Interest  Rate Caps and
Floors.  In addition to the strategies noted above,  the Portfolio,  in order to
attempt to protect the value of its  investments  from interest rate or currency
exchange  rate  fluctuations,  may enter into interest rate swaps and may buy or
sell  interest rate caps and floors.  The Portfolio  expects to enter into these
transactions primarily to preserve a return or spread on a particular investment
or  portion  of its  investments.  The  Portfolio  also  may  enter  into  these
transactions  to protect  against any  increase in the price of  securities  the
Portfolio may consider  buying at a later date. The Portfolio does not intend to
use these  transactions  as a  speculative  investment.  See the section in this
Statement  entitled  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment   Methods"  for  a
description of these strategies. Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the
Portfolio with another party of their  respective  commitments to pay or receive
interest,  e.g., an exchange of floating rate payments for fixed rate  payments.
The exchange commitments can involve payments to be made in the same currency or
in  different  currencies.  The  purchase of an interest  rate cap  entitles the
purchaser, to the extent that a specified index exceeds a predetermined interest
rate, to receive payments of interest on a contractually  based principal amount
from the party  selling the interest  rate cap. The purchase of an interest rate
floor entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index falls below a
predetermined  interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a contractually
based principal amount from the party selling the interest rate floor.

The  Portfolio may enter into  interest rate swaps,  caps and floors on
either an asset-based  or  liability-based  basis,  depending upon whether it is
hedging its assets or its liabilities, and will usually enter into interest rate
swaps on a net basis,  i.e.,  the two payment  streams are netted out,  with the
Portfolio  receiving  or paying,  as the case may be, only the net amount of the
two  payments.  The  net  amount  of the  excess,  if  any,  of the  Portfolio's
obligations over its  entitlements  with respect to each interest rate swap will
be calculated on a daily basis and an amount of cash or high-grade liquid assets
having an aggregate net asset value at least equal to the accrued excess will be
maintained  in a  segregated  account  by  the  Portfolio's  custodian.  If  the
Portfolio  enters  into an  interest  rate swap on other than a net  basis,  the
Portfolio  would  maintain a segregated  account in the full amount accrued on a
daily  basis of the  Portfolio's  obligations  with  respect  to the  swap.  The
Portfolio will not enter into any interest rate swap,  cap or floor  transaction
unless the unsecured senior debt or the claims-paying ability of the other party
thereto is rated in one of the three highest  rating  categories of at least one
nationally  recognized  statistical rating  organization at the time of entering
into such transaction.  The Sub-advisor will monitor the creditworthiness of all
counterparties  on an ongoing basis. If there is a default by the other party to
such a transaction, the Portfolio will have contractual remedies pursuant to the
agreements related to the transaction.

     The swap market has grown substantially in recent years with a large number
of banks and  investment  banking firms acting both as principals  and as agents
utilizing standardized swap documentation.  The Sub-advisor has determined that,
as a result, the swap market has become relatively  liquid.  Caps and floors are
more recent  innovations for which  standardized  documentation has not yet been
developed and,  accordingly,  they are less liquid than swaps. To the extent the
Portfolio sells (i.e., writes) caps and floors, it will maintain in a segregated
account cash or high-grade  liquid assets having an aggregate net asset value at
least equal to the full  amount,  accrued on a daily basis,  of the  Portfolio's
obligations with respect to any caps or floors.

     There is no limit on the amount of interest rate swap transactions that may
be entered  into by the  Portfolio.  These  transactions  may in some  instances
involve the delivery of securities or other  underlying  assets by the Portfolio
or its  counterparty  to  collateralize  obligations  under the swap.  Under the
documentation  currently used in those markets, the risk of loss with respect to
interest  rate  swaps is  limited  to the net  amount of the  payments  that the
Portfolio is contractually  obligated to make. If the other party to an interest
rate swap that is not collateralized defaults, the Portfolio would risk the loss
of the net amount of the payments that the Portfolio  contractually  is entitled
to receive. The Portfolio may buy and sell (i.e., write) caps and floors without
limitation, subject to the segregated account requirement described above.

     Repurchase  Agreements and Reverse Repurchase Agreements.  Subject
to guidelines  promulgated by the Board of Trustees of the Trust,  the Portfolio
may enter into repurchase agreements.  The Portfolio may also enter into reverse
repurchase agreements.  For a description of these investment techniques see the
Trust's Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

     Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder Approval.  The
following are  investment  policies  applicable to the JanCap Growth  Portfolio.
These are not "fundamental" investment  restrictions,  and may be changed by the
Trustees without shareholder approval.

         1. The Portfolio will not purchase a security if as a result, more than
15% of its net  assets in the  aggregate,  at market  value,  would be  invested
in securities which cannot be readily resold because of legal or contractual
restrictions  on resale or for which there is no readily  available  market,  or
repurchase  agreements  maturing in more than seven days or securities used as a
cover  for  written  over-the-counter  options,  if any.  The  Trustees,  or the
Investment Manager or the Sub-advisor acting pursuant to authority  delegated by
the  Trustees,  may  determine  that  a  readily  available  market  exists  for
securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, or any successor to such rule, and therefore that such  securities are not
subject to the foregoing limitation.

         2. The Portfolio  may borrow money for temporary or emergency  purposes
(not for  leveraging or  investment) in an amount not exceeding 25% of the value
of its total assets (including the amount borrowed) less liabilities (other than
borrowings).  Any  borrowings  that  come  to  exceed  25% of the  value  of the
Portfolio's  total  assets by reason of a decline in net assets  will be reduced
within  three  business  days to the  extent  necessary  to comply  with the 25%
limitation.  Under such a  circumstance,  the  Portfolio  may have to  liquidate
securities at a time when it is  disadvantageous to do so. This policy shall not
prohibit  reverse  repurchase  agreements  or  deposits  of  assets to margin or
guarantee  positions in futures,  options,  swaps or forward  contracts,  or the
segregation of assets in connection with such contracts.

         3. The  Portfolio  will  not  invest  in  warrants  if,  at the time of
acquisition,  the investment in warrants,  valued at the lower of cost or market
value,  would  exceed 5% of the  Portfolio's  net assets.  Included  within that
amount,  but not to exceed 2% of the value of the Portfolio's net assets, may be
warrants  that are not listed on the New York or American  Stock  Exchange.  For
purposes of this  restriction,  warrants  acquired by the  Portfolio in units or
attached to securities may be deemed to be without value.

         4. The Portfolio  will not enter into any futures  contracts or options
on futures contracts for purposes other than bona fide hedging  transactions (as
defined by the CFTC) if as a result the sum of the initial  margin  deposits and
premium required to establish positions in futures contracts and related options
that do not fall within the definition of bona fide hedging  transactions  would
exceed 5% of the fair market value of the Portfolio's net assets.

         5. The  Portfolio  will not enter  into any  futures  contracts  if the
aggregate  amount  of the  Portfolio's  commitments  under  outstanding  futures
contracts  positions of the Portfolio would exceed the market value of the total
assets of the Portfolio.

         6. The Portfolio will not sell securities short,  unless it owns or has
the right to obtain  securities  equivalent in kind and amount to the securities
sold short, and provided that transactions in options, swaps and forward futures
contracts are not deemed to constitute selling securities short.

         7. The Portfolio  will not mortgage or pledge any  securities  owned or
held by the  Portfolio  in amounts  that exceed,  in the  aggregate,  15% of the
Portfolio's  net asset value,  provided that this  limitation  does not apply to
reverse  repurchase  agreements or in the case of assets  deposited to margin or
guarantee positions in futures, options, swaps or forward contracts or placed in
a segregated account in connection with such contracts.

         8. The Portfolio will not invest directly in oil, gas, or other mineral
exploration  or  development  programs;  however,  the  Portfolio  may  purchase
securities  of issuers  whose  principal  business  activities  fall within such
areas.

         9. The Portfolio will not purchase a security  (other than those issued
by U.S. government agencies and  instrumentalities or instruments  guaranteed by
an entity with a record of more than three years continuous operation, including
that  of  predecessors)  if as a  result,  more  than  5% of the  value  of that
Portfolio's  assets,  at market  value,  would be invested in the  securities of
issuers which,  with their  predecessors,  have been in business less than three
years.

T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio:

Investment   Objective:   The   investment   objective  of  the  T.  Rowe  Price
International  Equity  Portfolio  is to seek a total  return on its assets  from
long-term growth of capital and income principally through investments in common
stocks of established,  non-U.S.  companies.  Investments may be made solely for
capital  appreciation  or solely for income or any  combination  of both for the
purpose of achieving a higher overall return.

          Sub-advisor  regularly analyzes a broad range of international  equity
and fixed  income  markets  in order to assess  the  degree of risk and level of
return that can be expected from each market. Based upon its current assessment,
Sub-advisor believes long-term growth of capital may be achieved by investing in
marketable securities of non-U.S.  companies which have the potential for growth
of capital. Of course, there can be no assurance that Sub-advisor's forecasts of
expected  return  will  be  reflected  in the  actual  returns  achieved  by the
Portfolio.

          The Portfolio's  share price will fluctuate with market,  economic and
foreign exchange conditions,  and your investment may be worth more or less when
redeemed  than when  purchased.  The  Portfolio  should not be relied  upon as a
complete investment program,  nor used to play short-term swings in the stock or
foreign  exchange  markets.   The  Portfolio  is  subject  to  risks  unique  to
international  investing.  Further,  there is no  assurance  that the  favorable
trends discussed below will continue, and the Portfolio cannot guarantee it will
achieve its objective.

Investment  Policies:  It is the present  intention of  Sub-advisor to invest in
companies  based in (or  governments  of or within)  the Far East (for  example,
Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia),  Western Europe (for example, United
Kingdom, Germany,  Netherlands,  France, Spain, and Switzerland),  South Africa,
Australia,  Canada,  and such  other  areas and  countries  as  Sub-advisor  may
determine from time to time.

          In determining  the  appropriate  distribution  of  investments  among
various countries and geographic regions,  Sub-advisor  ordinarily considers the
following  factors:  prospects  for relative  economic  growth  between  foreign
countries;  expected  levels  of  inflation;   government  policies  influencing
business conditions;  the outlook for currency  relationships;  and the range of
individual investment opportunities available to international investors.

          In analyzing  companies for investment,  Sub-advisor  ordinarily looks
for one or more of the  following  characteristics:  an  above-average  earnings
growth per share; high return on invested capital;  healthy balance sheet; sound
financial  and  accounting  policies  and  overall  financial  strength;  strong
competitive   advantages;   effective  research  and  product   development  and
marketing;  efficient service; pricing flexibility;  strength of management; and
general  operating  characteristics  which will enable the  companies to compete
successfully  in their market  place.  While  current  dividend  income is not a
prerequisite in the selection of portfolio companies, the companies in which the
Portfolio  invests  normally  will have a record of paying  dividends,  and will
generally be expected to increase the amounts of such  dividends in future years
as earnings increase.

          It is expected that the  Portfolio's  investments  will  ordinarily be
traded on exchanges  located at least in the  respective  countries in which the
various issuers of such securities are principally based.

          Today, more investment opportunities may exist abroad than in the U.S.
In 1970,  more than  one-half of the world's  equity  capitalization  (the total
market value of the world's  equity  securities  traded on stock  exchanges) was
attributable to U.S. securities.  Now practically the opposite is true. And over
the last ten  years,  the EAFE  Index,  a  widely  accepted  index of  European,
Australian and Far Eastern equity  securities,  has  outperformed the Standard &
Poor's  500 Index.  Although  the EAFE  Index may not be  representative  of the
Portfolio,   Sub-advisor   believes  it  may  be  a  useful   indicator  of  the
opportunities in foreign equity investing.

          Risk  Factors  of  Foreign  Investing.  There  are  special  risks  in
investing  in  the  Portfolio.  Certain  of  these  risks  are  inherent  in any
international  mutual fund  others  relate  more to the  countries  in which the
Portfolio will invest.  Many of the risks are more pronounced for investments in
developing or emerging  countries.  Although  there is no  universally  accepted
definition,  a developing country is generally  considered to be a country which
is in the initial stages of its industrialization  cycle with a per capita gross
national product of less than $8,000.

          Investors  should  understand that all investments have a risk factor.
There can be no  guarantee  against loss  resulting  from an  investment  in the
Portfolio,  and  there  can be no  assurance  that  the  Portfolio's  investment
policies will be successful,  or that its investment objective will be attained.
The Portfolio is designed for individual and institutional  investors seeking to
diversify  beyond  the  United  States in an  actively  researched  and  managed
portfolio,  and is intended  for  long-term  investors  who can accept the risks
entailed in investment in foreign securities.  For a discussion of certain risks
involved in foreign  investing  see this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

          The  Portfolio  will invest in  securities  denominated  in currencies
specified elsewhere herein.

          It is contemplated  that most foreign  securities will be purchased in
over-the-counter markets or on stock exchanged located in the countries in which
the respective  principal  offices of the issuers of the various  securities are
located, if that is the best available market.

          The  Portfolio  may invest in  investment  portfolios  which have been
authorized  by the  governments  of  certain  countries  specifically  to permit
foreign  investment in  securities  of companies  listed and traded on the stock
exchanges in these  respective  countries.  The Portfolio's  investment in these
portfolios is subject to the provisions of the 1940 Act discussed  below. If the
Portfolio invests in such investment  portfolios,  the Portfolio's  shareholders
will bear not only their  proportionate  share of the expenses of the  Portfolio
(including operating expenses and the fees of the Investment Manager),  but also
will bear indirectly similar expenses of the underlying  investment  portfolios.
In  addition,  the  securities  of these  investment  portfolios  may trade at a
premium over their net asset value.

          Apart from the matters described herein, the Portfolio is not aware at
this time of the  existence of any  investment or exchange  control  regulations
which might substantially impair the operations of the Portfolio as described in
the Trust's  Prospectus and this Statement.  It should be noted,  however,  that
this situation could change at any time.

          The Portfolio may invest in companies  located in Eastern Europe.  The
Portfolio will only invest in a company  located in, or a government of, Eastern
Europe or Russia, if the Sub-advisor believes the potential return justifies the
risk.  To the extent any  securities  issued by companies in Eastern  Europe and
Russia are considered  illiquid,  the Portfolio will be required to include such
securities within its 15% restriction on investing in illiquid securities.

          In addition to the  investments  described in the Trust's  Prospectus,
the Portfolio may invest in the following:

          Writing Covered Call Options. The Portfolio may write (sell) "covered"
call options and purchase options to close out options previously written by the
Portfolio.  In writing covered call options,  the Portfolio  expects to generate
additional  premium income which should serve to enhance the  Portfolio's  total
return and reduce the effect of any price  decline of the  security  or currency
involved  in the option.  Covered  call  options  will  generally  be written on
securities or currencies  which, in Sub-advisor's  opinion,  are not expected to
have any major price  increases or moves in the near future but which,  over the
long term, are deemed to be attractive investments for the Portfolio.

          The Portfolio  will write only covered call  options.  This means that
the  Portfolio  will own the  security or  currency  subject to the option or an
option to purchase the same underlying security or currency,  having an exercise
price equal to or less than the exercise price of the "covered"  option, or will
establish and maintain with its custodian for the term of the option, an account
consisting of cash, U.S.  government  securities or other liquid high-grade debt
obligations having a value equal to the fluctuating market value of the optioned
securities  or  currencies.  In order to  comply  with the  requirements  of the
securities or currencies laws in several states,  the Portfolio will not write a
covered call option if, as a result, the aggregate market value of all Portfolio
securities or currencies  covering call or put options exceeds 25% of the market
value of the  Portfolio's  net assets.  Should these state laws change or should
the Portfolio obtain a waiver of their  application,  the Portfolio reserves the
right to increase this  percentage.  In calculating the 25% limit, the Portfolio
will offset,  against the value of assets  covering  written calls and puts, the
value of purchased  calls and puts on identical  securities or  currencies  with
identical maturity dates.

         Portfolio securities or currencies on which call options may be written
will be purchased  solely on the basis of investment  considerations  consistent
with the Portfolio's  investment objective.  The writing of covered call options
is a conservative  investment  technique  believed to involve  relatively little
risk (in  contrast  to the  writing  of naked or  uncovered  options,  which the
Portfolio will not do), but capable of enhancing the  Portfolio's  total return.
When writing a covered call option,  the  Portfolio,  in return for the premium,
gives up the  opportunity  for profit from a price  increase  in the  underlying
security or currency above the exercise price, but conversely,  retains the risk
of loss should the price of the  security or  currency  decline.  Unlike one who
owns  securities  or currencies  not subject to an option,  the Portfolio has no
control  over  when it may be  required  to sell the  underlying  securities  or
currencies, since it may be assigned an exercise notice at any time prior to the
expiration of its obligations as a writer.  If a call option which the Portfolio
has written  expires,  the  Portfolio  will  realize a gain in the amount of the
premium;  however,  such gain may be offset by a decline in the market  value of
the underlying security or currency during the option period. If the call option
is  exercised,  the  Portfolio  will realize a gain or loss from the sale of the
underlying  security or currency,  The Portfolio does not consider a security or
currency  covered by a call  "pledged"  as that term is used in the  Portfolio's
policy which limits the pledging or mortgaging of its assets.

          The premium received is the market value of an option. The premium the
Portfolio  will  receive from  writing a call option will  reflect,  among other
things,  the current  market price of the underlying  security or currency,  the
relationship  of the exercise price to such market price,  the historical  price
volatility of the underlying security or currency,  and the length of the option
period. Once the decision to write a call option has been made, Sub-advisor,  in
determining  whether a particular  call option should be written on a particular
security or  currency,  will  consider  the  reasonableness  of the  anticipated
premium and the likelihood that a liquid  secondary  market will exist for those
options.  The premium received by the Portfolio for writing covered call options
will be  recorded  as a  liability  of the  Portfolio.  This  liability  will be
adjusted daily to the option's  current  market value,  which will be the latest
sale price at the time at which the net asset  value per share of the  Portfolio
is computed (close of the New York Stock  Exchange),  or, in the absence of such
sale,  the  average  of the  latest  bid and asked  price.  The  option  will be
terminated upon expiration of the option, the purchase of an identical option in
a closing  transaction,  or delivery of the underlying security or currency upon
the exercise of the option.

          Call options  written by the Portfolio  will normally have  expiration
dates of less than nine months from the date written.  The exercise price of the
options  may be  below,  equal to, or above  the  current  market  values of the
underlying  securities or  currencies at the time the options are written.  From
time to time, the Portfolio may purchase an underlying  security or currency for
delivery in accordance  with an exercise notice of a call option assigned to it,
rather than  delivering  such security or currency from its  portfolio.  In such
cases, additional costs may be incurred.

          The Portfolio will effect closing  transactions  in order to realize a
profit on an  outstanding  call  option,  to prevent an  underlying  security or
currency from being called, or, to permit the sale of the underlying security or
currency.  The Portfolio  will realize a profit or loss from a closing  purchase
transaction  if the cost of the  transaction  is less or more  than the  premium
received from the writing of the option.  Because  increases in the market price
of a call option will  generally  reflect  increases  in the market price of the
underlying  security or currency,  any loss  resulting  from the repurchase of a
call  option is likely to be offset in whole or in part by  appreciation  of the
underlying security or currency owned by the Portfolio.

          Writing  Covered Put Options.  Although the  Portfolio  has no current
intention  in the  foreseeable  future of writing  American  or  European  style
covered put options and purchasing  put options to close out options  previously
written by the Portfolio, the Portfolio reserves the right to do so.

          The Portfolio  would write put options only on a covered basis,  which
means that the  Portfolio  would  maintain in a segregated  account  cash,  U.S.
government  securities or other liquid  high-grade debt obligations in an amount
not less than the exercise price or the Portfolio will own an option to sell the
underlying  security or currency  subject to the option having an exercise price
equal to or greater  than the  exercise  price of the  "covered"  options at all
times while the put option is outstanding.  (The rules of a clearing corporation
currently  require that such assets be deposited in escrow to secure  payment of
the exercise  price.) The Portfolio would generally write covered put options in
circumstances  where Sub-advisor  wishes to purchase the underlying  security or
currency for the Portfolio's  portfolio at a price lower than the current market
price of the security or currency. In such event the Portfolio would write a put
option at an  exercise  price  which,  reduced by the  premium  received  on the
option, reflects the lower price it is willing to pay. Since the Portfolio would
also receive  interest on debt securities or currencies  maintained to cover the
exercise price of the option,  this technique  could be used to enhance  current
return  during  periods of market  uncertainty.  The risk in such a  transaction
would be that the market  price of the  underlying  security or  currency  would
decline  below the  exercise  price less the premiums  received.  Such a decline
could be  substantial  and result in a  significant  loss to the  Portfolio.  In
addition,  the  Portfolio,  because it does not own the specific  securities  or
currencies  which it may be required to purchase in exercise of the put,  cannot
benefit from appreciation,  if any, with respect to such specific  securities or
currencies.  In order to comply with the  requirements  of several  states,  the
Portfolio  will not write a covered  put option if, as a result,  the  aggregate
market value of all  portfolio  securities  or  currencies  covering put or call
options exceeds 25% of the market value of the  Portfolio's  net assets.  Should
these  state  laws  change  or  should  the  Portfolio  obtain a waiver of their
application,  the Portfolio  reserves the right to increase this percentage.  In
calculating  the 25% limit,  the  Portfolio  will  offset,  against the value of
assets covering written puts and calls, the value of purchased puts and calls on
identical  securities  or  currencies  with  identical  maturity  dates.  For  a
discussion  of certain  risks  involved in options,  see this  Statement and the
Trust's Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

          Purchasing  Put  Options.  The  Portfolio  may  purchase  American  or
European style put options. As the holder of a put option, the Portfolio has the
right to sell the  underlying  security or currency at the exercise price at any
time  during the option  period.  The  Portfolio  may enter  into  closing  sale
transactions  with  respect to such  options,  exercise  them or permit  them to
expire.  The Portfolio may purchase put options for defensive  purposes in order
to protect  against an  anticipated  decline in the value of its  securities  or
currencies.  An example of such use of put options is provided in this Statement
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

          To the extent  required by the laws of certain  states,  the Portfolio
may not be  permitted  to commit  more than 5% of its  assets to  premiums  when
purchasing  call and put  options.  Should these state laws change or should the
Portfolio  obtain a waiver of their  application,  the Portfolio may commit more
than 5% of its assets to premiums  when  purchasing  call and put  options.  The
premium paid by the Portfolio  when  purchasing a put option will be recorded as
an asset of the  Portfolio.  This asset will be adjusted  daily to the  option's
current  market value,  which will be the latest sale price at the time at which
the net asset value per share of the  Portfolio  is computed  (close of New York
Stock  Exchange),  or, in the absence of such sale,  the latest bid price.  This
asset will be terminated upon expiration of the option, the selling (writing) of
an identical option in a closing transaction,  or the delivery of the underlying
security or currency upon the exercise of the option.

          Purchasing  Call  Options.  The  Portfolio  may  purchase  American or
European style call options.  As the holder of a call option,  the Portfolio has
the right to purchase the underlying  security or currency at the exercise price
at any time during the option period  (American  style) or at the  expiration of
the  option  (European  style).  The  Portfolio  may  enter  into  closing  sale
transactions  with  respect to such  options,  exercise  them or permit  them to
expire.  The  Portfolio  may purchase call options for the purpose of increasing
its current return or avoiding tax  consequences  which could reduce its current
return.  The  Portfolio  may also  purchase call options in order to acquire the
underlying  securities or currencies.  Examples of such uses of call options are
provided below.

          To the extent  required by the laws of certain  states,  the Portfolio
may not be  permitted  to commit  more than 5% of its  assets to  premiums  when
purchasing  call and put  options.  Should these state laws change or should the
Portfolio  obtain a waiver of their  application,  the Portfolio may commit more
than 5% of its assets to premiums  when  purchasing  call and put  options.  The
Portfolio may also purchase call options on underlying  securities or currencies
it owns in order to protect  unrealized gains on call options previously written
by  it.  A  call  option  would  be  purchased   for  this  purpose   where  tax
considerations  make it  inadvisable  to realize  such  gains  through a closing
purchase  transaction.  Call  options  may also be  purchased  at times to avoid
realizing losses.

          Dealer  Options.  The Portfolio may engage in  transactions  involving
dealer  options.  Certain  risks  are  specific  to  dealer  options.  While the
Portfolio  would  look to a clearing  corporation  to  exercise  exchange-traded
options, if the Portfolio were to purchase a dealer option, it would rely on the
dealer  from  whom it  purchased  the  option  to  perform  if the  option  were
exercised.  While the Portfolio will seek to enter into dealer options only with
dealers who will agree to and which are expected to be capable of entering  into
closing  transactions  with the  Portfolio,  there can be no assurance  that the
Portfolio will be able to liquidate a dealer option at a favorable  price at any
time prior to  expiration.  Failure  by the dealer to do so would  result in the
loss of the  premium  paid  by the  Portfolio  as  well as loss of the  expected
benefit of the transaction.

          Futures Contracts.

                   Transactions  in  Futures.   The  Portfolio  may  enter  into
financial futures contracts,  including stock index,  interest rate and currency
futures ("futures or futures contracts");  however, the Portfolio has no current
intention of entering  into  interest  rate  futures.  The  Portfolio,  however,
reserves the right to trade in financial futures of any kind.

          Stock  index  futures  contracts  may be used to  attempt to provide a
hedge for a portion of the Portfolio's portfolio,  as a cash management tool, or
as an efficient way for Sub-advisor to implement  either an increase or decrease
in portfolio  market exposure in response to changing market  conditions.  Stock
index futures  contracts are currently  traded with respect to the S&P 500 Index
and other  broad  stock  market  indices,  such as the New York  Stock  Exchange
Composite  Stock Index and the Value Line Composite  Stock Index.  The Portfolio
may, however, purchase or sell futures contracts with respect to any stock index
whose  movements  will, in its judgment,  have a  significant  correlation  with
movements  in the  prices  of  all or  portions  of  the  Portfolio's  portfolio
securities.

          Interest rate or currency futures  contracts may be used to attempt to
hedge  against  changes  in  prevailing  levels of  interest  rates or  currency
exchange  rates in order to establish more  definitely  the effective  return on
securities or currencies  held or intended to be acquired by the  Portfolio.  In
this regard,  the Portfolio  could sell interest rate or currency  futures as an
offset  against the effect of expected  increases in interest  rates or currency
exchange  rates and  purchase  such  futures as an offset  against the effect of
expected declines in interest rates or currency exchange rates.

          The Portfolio  will enter into futures  contracts  which are traded on
national or foreign futures  exchanges and are  standardized as to maturity date
and underlying financial  instrument.  The principal financial futures exchanges
in the United States are the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago,  the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, the New York Futures Exchange, and the Kansas City Board of
Trade.  Futures  exchanges and trading in the United States are regulated  under
the Commodity Exchange Act by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC").
Futures  are  traded in London at the  London  International  Financial  Futures
Exchange,  in Paris at the  MATIF  and in Tokyo  at the  Tokyo  Stock  Exchange.
Although  techniques other than the sale and purchase of futures contracts could
be used for the above-referenced  purposes, futures contracts offer an effective
and  relatively low cost means of  implementing  the  Portfolio's  objectives in
these areas.

          For a discussion of futures  transactions  and certain risks  involved
therein,  see this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

                   Regulatory   Limitations.   The  Portfolio   will  engage  in
transactions  in  futures  contracts  and  options  thereon  only for bona  fide
hedging,  yield  enhancement  and  risk  management  purposes,  in each  case in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the CFTC.

          The Portfolio may not enter into futures  contracts or options thereon
if, with  respect to positions  which do not qualify as bona fide hedging  under
applicable CFTC rules,  the sum of the amounts of initial margin deposits on the
Portfolio's  existing  futures and  premiums  paid for options on futures  would
exceed 5% of the net asset value of the  Portfolio  after  taking  into  account
unrealized  profits and  unrealized  losses on any such contracts it has entered
into;  provided  however,  that in the case of an option that is in-the-money at
the time of purchase, the in-the-money amount may be excluded in calculating the
5% limitation.

          The Portfolio's use of futures  contracts will not result in leverage.
Therefore,  to the extent  necessary,  in  instances  involving  the purchase of
futures  contracts or call options thereon or the writing of put options thereon
by the Portfolio, an amount of cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid,
high-grade debt obligations,  equal to the market value of the futures contracts
and options thereon (less any related margin deposits), will be identified in an
account with the  Portfolio's  custodian to cover the position,  or  alternative
cover will be employed.

          In  addition,   CFTC   regulations  may  impose   limitations  on  the
Portfolio's  ability to engage in certain yield  enhancement and risk management
strategies.  If  the  CFTC  or  other  regulatory  authorities  adopt  different
(including  less  stringent) or  additional  restrictions,  the Portfolio  would
comply with such new restrictions.

          Options  on  Futures  Contracts.  As  an  alternative  to  writing  or
purchasing call and put options on stock index futures,  the Portfolio may write
or purchase call and put options on stock indices. Such options would be used in
a manner similar to the use of options on futures contracts.  From time to time,
a single order to purchase or sell futures contracts (or options thereon) may be
made on behalf of the  Portfolio  and other mutual funds or portfolios of mutual
funds managed by Price-Fleming International,  Inc. or T. Rowe Price Associates,
Inc.  Such  aggregated  orders would be allocated  among the  Portfolio and such
other portfolios in a fair and non-discriminatory manner.

                   Risks of  Transactions in Options on Futures  Contracts.  See
this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors and
Investment  Methods" for a description  of certain risks involved in options and
futures contracts.

          Additional Futures and Options  Contracts.  Although the Portfolio has
no current  intention  of engaging in financial  futures or option  transactions
other than those  described  above, it reserves the right to do so. Such futures
or options  trading might involve risks which differ from those  involved in the
futures and options described above.

          Foreign  Futures and Options.  The Portfolio is permitted to invest in
foreign  futures and options.  For a description of foreign  futures and options
and certain risks involved  therein as well as certain risks involved in foreign
investing,  see this  Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus  under "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

         Foreign Currency Transactions.  The Portfolio will generally enter into
forward foreign currency exchange contracts under two circumstances. First, when
the  Portfolio  enters  into a contract  for the  purchase or sale of a security
denominated in a foreign  currency,  it may desire to "lock in" the U.S.  dollar
price of the security.

         Second, when the Sub-advisor believes that the currency of a particular
foreign  country  may suffer or enjoy a  substantial  movement  against  another
currency,  including the U.S.  dollar,  it may enter into a forward  contract to
sell or buy the amount of the former foreign  currency,  approximating the value
of  some  or all of the  Portfolio's  securities  denominated  in  such  foreign
currency. Alternatively,  where appropriate, the Portfolio may hedge all or part
of its foreign currency  exposure through the use of a basket of currencies or a
proxy currency  where such currency or currencies act as an effective  proxy for
other  currencies.  In such a case,  the  Portfolio  may  enter  into a  forward
contract  where the amount of the foreign  currency to be sold exceeds the value
of the securities  denominated in such currency.  The use of this basket hedging
technique  may be more  efficient  and  economical  than  entering into separate
forward contracts for each currency held in the Portfolio.  The precise matching
of the forward  contract  amounts and the value of the securities  involved will
not generally be possible  since the future value of such  securities in foreign
currencies  will change as a  consequence  of market  movements  in the value of
those  securities  between the date the forward contract is entered into and the
date it matures.  The  projection  of  short-term  currency  market  movement is
extremely  difficult,  and the  successful  execution  of a  short-term  hedging
strategy is highly  uncertain.  Other than as set forth above,  and  immediately
below, the Portfolio will also not enter into such forward contracts or maintain
a net exposure to such contracts  where the  consummation of the contracts would
obligate the Portfolio to deliver an amount of foreign currency in excess of the
value  of the  Portfolio's  securities  or  other  assets  denominated  in  that
currency.  The Portfolio,  however,  in order to avoid excess  transactions  and
transaction costs, may maintain a net exposure to forward contracts in excess of
the value of the  Portfolio's  securities  or other  assets to which the forward
contracts relate  (including  accrued interest to the maturity of the forward on
such securities)  provided the excess amount is "covered" by liquid,  high-grade
debt securities, denominated in any currency, at least equal at all times to the
amount of such excess.  For these  purposes  "the  securities or other assets to
which the forward contracts relate may be securities or assets  denominated in a
single  currency,  or where proxy forwards are used,  securities  denominated in
more  than  one  currency.  Under  normal  circumstances,  consideration  of the
prospect  for  currency  parities  will be  incorporated  into the  longer  term
investment  decisions  made with regard to overall  diversification  strategies.
However,  Sub-advisor  believes that it is important to have the  flexibility to
enter into such forward  contracts when it determines that the best interests of
the Portfolio will be served.

         At the maturity of a forward  contract,  the  Portfolio may either sell
the  portfolio  security and make  delivery of the foreign  currency,  or it may
retain the security and  terminate  its  contractual  obligation  to deliver the
foreign  currency  by  purchasing  an  "offsetting"  contract  obligating  it to
purchase, on the same maturity date, the same amount of the foreign currency.

         As  indicated  above,  it  is  impossible  to  forecast  with  absolute
precision  the market value of portfolio  securities  at the  expiration  of the
forward contract. Accordingly, it may be necessary for the Portfolio to purchase
additional  foreign  currency  on the spot  market (and bear the expense of such
purchase) if the market value of the security is less than the amount of foreign
currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver and if a decision is made to sell
the security and make delivery of the foreign  currency.  Conversely,  it may be
necessary to sell on the spot market some of the foreign currency  received upon
the sale of the  portfolio  security if its market  value  exceeds the amount of
foreign  currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver.  However,  as noted, in
order to avoid excessive  transactions and transaction  costs, the Portfolio may
use liquid, high-grade debt securities denominated in any currency, to cover the
amount  by which  the  value of a  forward  contract  exceeds  the  value of the
securities to which it relates.

         If the  Portfolio  retains  the  portfolio  security  and engages in an
offsetting transaction,  the Portfolio will incur a gain or a loss (as described
below) to the extent that there has been movement in forward contract prices. If
the Portfolio engages in an offsetting  transaction,  it may subsequently  enter
into a new forward contract to sell the foreign currency.  Should forward prices
decline  during the  period  between  the  Portfolio's  entering  into a forward
contract  for the sale of a  foreign  currency  and the date it  enters  into an
offsetting contract for the purchase of the foreign currency, the Portfolio will
realize a gain to the  extent  the price of the  currency  it has agreed to sell
exceeds the price of the  currency  it has agreed to  purchase.  Should  forward
prices increase,  the Portfolio will suffer a loss to the extent of the price of
the currency it has agreed to purchase  exceeds the price of the currency it has
agreed to sell.

         The Portfolio's  dealing in forward foreign currency exchange contracts
will generally be limited to the  transactions  described  above.  However,  the
Portfolio  reserves the right to enter into forward foreign  currency  contracts
for  different  purposes  and under  different  circumstances.  Of  course,  the
Portfolio  is not required to enter into  forward  contracts  with regard to its
foreign  currency-denominated  securities  and  will  not  do so  unless  deemed
appropriate by the  Sub-advisor.  It also should be realized that this method of
hedging  against  a  decline  in the  value of a  currency  does  not  eliminate
fluctuations in the underlying prices of the securities. It simply establishes a
rate of exchange at a future date. Additionally, although such contracts tend to
minimize the risk of loss due to a decline in the value of the hedged  currency,
at the same time,  they tend to limit any potential gain which might result from
an increase in the value of that currency.

         Although  the  Portfolio  values  its  assets  daily  in  terms of U.S.
dollars,  it does not intend to convert its holdings of foreign  currencies into
U.S.  dollars on a daily basis.  It will do so from time to time,  and investors
should be aware of the costs of currency  conversion.  Although foreign exchange
dealers do not charge a fee for  conversion,  they do realize a profit  based on
the difference  (the  "spread")  between the prices at which they are buying and
selling various currencies.  Thus, a dealer may offer to sell a foreign currency
to the Portfolio at one rate,  while  offering a lesser rate of exchange  should
the Portfolio desire to resell that currency to the dealer.

         For an  additional  discussion  of certain  risks  involved  in foreign
investing,  see this  Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus  under "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

          Federal  Tax  Treatment  of  Options,  Futures  Contracts  and Forward
Foreign  Exchange  Contracts.  The  Portfolio  may enter  into  certain  option,
futures,  and forward foreign exchange contracts,  including options and futures
on currencies, which will be treated as Section 1256 contracts or straddles.

          Transactions  which are  considered  Section  1256  contracts  will be
considered to have been closed at the end of the Portfolio's fiscal year and any
gains or losses will be recognized for tax purposes at that time.  Such gains or
losses  from the  normal  closing or  settlement  of such  transactions  will be
characterized as 60% long-term  capital gain or loss and 40% short-term  capital
gain or loss regardless of the holding period of the  instrument.  The Portfolio
will be required to distribute net gains on such  transactions  to  shareholders
even though it may not have closed the transaction and received cash to pay such
distributions.

          Options,  futures and forward foreign  exchange  contracts,  including
options and futures on  currencies,  which offset a foreign  dollar  denominated
bond or currency position may be considered  straddles for tax purposes in which
case a loss on any  position  in a straddle  will be subject to  deferral to the
extent of unrealized gain in an offsetting  position.  The holding period of the
securities  or  currencies  comprising  the straddle will be deemed not to begin
until the straddle is  terminated.  For  securities  offsetting a purchased put,
this  adjustment  of the  holding  period  may  increase  the gain from sales of
securities  held less than three  months.  The  holding  period of the  security
offsetting an "in-the-money qualified covered call" option on an equity security
will not include the period of time the option is outstanding.

          Losses on written  covered  calls and  purchased  puts on  securities,
excluding certain "qualified covered call" options on equity securities,  may be
long-term  capital loss,  if the security  covering the option was held for more
than twelve months prior to the writing of the option.

          In order for the  Portfolio to continue to qualify for federal  income
tax  treatment  as a  regulated  investment  company,  at least 90% of its gross
income  for a  taxable  year  must be  derived  from  qualifying  income,  i.e.,
dividends, interest, income derived from loans of securities, and gains from the
sale of securities or currencies. Pending tax regulations could limit the extent
that  net gain  realized  from  option,  futures  or  foreign  forward  exchange
contracts  on  currencies   is  qualifying   income  for  purposes  of  the  90%
requirement.  In addition,  gains  realized on the sale or other  disposition of
securities,  including option,  futures or foreign forward exchange contracts on
securities or securities indexes and, in some cases,  currencies,  held for less
than three months,  must be limited to less than 30% of the  Portfolio's  annual
gross  income.  In order to avoid  realizing  excessive  gains on  securities or
currencies  held less than three months,  the Portfolio may be required to defer
the closing out of option,  futures or foreign forward exchange contracts beyond
the time when it would  otherwise be  advantageous  to do so. It is  anticipated
that  unrealized  gains on Section  1256  option,  futures and  foreign  forward
exchange  contracts,  which have been open for less than three  months as of the
end of the  Portfolio's  fiscal year and which are  recognized for tax purposes,
will not be considered  gains on  securities or currencies  held less than three
months for purposes of the 30% test.

          Hybrid  Commodity  and  Security  Instruments.  Instruments  have been
developed which combine the elements of futures  contracts or options with those
of debt,  preferred  equity  or a  depository  instrument  (hereinafter  "Hybrid
Instruments").  Often  these  hybrid  instruments  are indexed to the price of a
commodity  or  particular  currency  or a  domestic  or  foreign  debt or equity
securities index. Hybrid instruments may take a variety of forms, including, but
not  limited  to,  debt  instruments  with  interest  or  principal  payments or
redemption terms determined by reference to the value of a currency or commodity
at a future point in time,  preferred  stock with dividend  rates  determined by
reference  to the  value  of a  currency,  or  convertible  securities  with the
conversion terms related to a particular commodity.  For a discussion of certain
risks involved in hybrid  instruments,  see this  Statement  under "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

          Repurchase  Agreements.   The  Portfolio  may  enter  into  repurchase
agreements  through  which an  investor  (such  as the  Portfolio)  purchases  a
security (known as the "underlying security") from a well-established securities
dealer or a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System. Any such dealer
or bank will be on T. Rowe Price  Associates,  Inc. ("T.  Rowe Price")  approved
list and have a credit rating with respect to its short-term debt of at least A1
by Standard & Poor's Corporation,  P1 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or the
equivalent  rating by T. Rowe Price. At that time, the bank or securities dealer
agrees to repurchase the underlying  security at the same price,  plus specified
interest.  Repurchase agreements are generally for a short period of time, often
less than a week.  Repurchase agreements which do not provide for payment within
seven days will be treated as illiquid securities. The Portfolio will only enter
into repurchase  agreements where (i) the underlying  securities are of the type
(excluding  maturity  limitations) which the Portfolio's  investment  guidelines
would allow it to purchase  directly,  (ii) the market  value of the  underlying
security,  including  interest accrued,  will be at all times equal to or exceed
the value of the  repurchase  agreement,  and (iii)  payment for the  underlying
security is made only upon physical delivery or evidence of book-entry  transfer
to the account of the  custodian  or a bank  acting as agent.  In the event of a
bankruptcy or other default of a seller of a repurchase agreement, the Portfolio
could  experience  both delays in  liquidating  the  underlying  securities  and
losses,  including: (a) possible decline in the value of the underlying security
during the period while the Portfolio seeks to enforce its rights  thereto;  (b)
possible  subnormal  levels of income and lack of access to income  during  this
period; and (c) expenses of enforcing its rights.

          The Board of Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to repurchase agreements.

          Illiquid  Securities.   The  Portfolio  may  not  invest  in  illiquid
securities  including  repurchase  agreements  which do not  provide for payment
within  seven days,  if as a result,  they would  comprise  more than 15% of the
value of the Portfolio's net assets.

          Restricted  securities  may  be  sold  only  in  privately  negotiated
transactions  or in a public  offering  with  respect  to  which a  registration
statement is in effect under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act").  Where
registration  is required,  the Portfolio may be obligated to pay all or part of
the registration  expenses and a considerable period may elapse between the time
of the  decision to sell and the time the  Portfolio  may be permitted to sell a
security under an effective  registration  statement.  If, during such a period,
adverse market  conditions  were to develop,  the Portfolio  might obtain a less
favorable  price than prevailed when it decided to sell.  Restricted  securities
will be  priced  at fair  value as  determined  in  accordance  with  procedures
prescribed  by the Trust's  Board of Trustees.  If through the  appreciation  of
illiquid  securities or the  depreciation  of liquid  securities,  the Portfolio
should be in a  position  where more than 15% of the value of its net assets are
invested in illiquid assets, including restricted securities, the Portfolio will
take appropriate steps to protect liquidity.

          Notwithstanding the above, the Portfolio may purchase securities which
while privately placed, are eligible for purchase and sale under Rule 144A under
the 1933 Act. This rule permits certain qualified  institutional buyers, such as
the  Portfolio,  to  trade in  privately  placed  securities  even  though  such
securities  are not  registered  under  the 1933  Act.  Sub-advisor,  under  the
supervision of the Trust's Board of Trustees,  will consider whether  securities
purchased  under Rule 144A are  illiquid  and thus  subject  to the  Portfolio's
restriction of investing no more than 15% of its assets in illiquid  securities.
A  determination  of whether a Rule 144A security is liquid or not is a question
of fact.  In making this  determination  Sub-advisor  will  consider the trading
markets for the specific security taking into account the unregistered nature of
a Rule 144A security. In addition,  Sub-advisor could consider the (1) frequency
of trades and quotes, (2) number of dealers and potential purchasers, (3) dealer
undertakings to make a market,  (4) and the nature of the security and of market
place trades (e.g.,  the time needed to dispose of the  security,  the method of
soliciting  offers and the  mechanics of  transfer).  The liquidity of Rule 144A
securities would be monitored and, if as a result of changed  conditions,  it is
determined  that a Rule 144A  security  is no  longer  liquid,  the  Portfolio's
holdings of illiquid  securities  would be reviewed to determine  what,  if any,
steps are required to assure that the Portfolio does not invest more than 15% of
its assets in illiquid securities.  Investing in Rule 144A securities could have
the effect of increasing the amount of a Portfolio's assets invested in illiquid
securities  if qualified  institutional  buyers are  unwilling to purchase  such
securities.

          The Board of Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to illiquid securities.

          Lending  of  Portfolio  Securities.   For  the  purpose  of  realizing
additional income, the Portfolio may make secured loans of portfolio  securities
amounting  to not  more  than 33 1/3% of its  total  assets.  This  policy  is a
"fundamental policy." Securities loans are made to broker-dealers, institutional
investors,  or other persons pursuant to agreements  requiring that the loans be
continuously  secured by  collateral at least equal at all times to the value of
the securities lent marked to market on a daily basis.  The collateral  received
will  consist of cash,  U.S.  government  securities,  letters of credit or such
other  collateral as may be permitted  under its investment  program.  While the
securities are being lent, the Portfolio will continue to receive the equivalent
of the interest or dividends  paid by the issuer on the  securities,  as well as
interest on the  investment of the  collateral  or a fee from the borrower.  The
Portfolio  has a right to call  each  loan and  obtain  the  securities  on five
business  days'  notice or, in  connection  with  securities  trading on foreign
markets,  within  such  longer  period of time which  coincides  with the normal
settlement  period for  purchases  and sales of such  securities in such foreign
markets. The Portfolio will not have the right to vote securities while they are
being lent, but it will call a loan in  anticipation  of any important vote. The
risks in  lending  portfolio  securities,  as with other  extensions  of secured
credit,  consist of possible delay in receiving additional  collateral or in the
recovery of the securities or possible loss of rights in the  collateral  should
the  borrower  fail  financially.  Loans will only be made to persons  deemed by
Sub-advisor to be of good standing and will not be made unless,  in the judgment
of Sub-advisor, the consideration to be earned from such loans would justify the
risk.

     Other Lending/Borrowing. Subject to approval by the Securities and Exchange
Commission,  the Portfolio may make loans to, or borrow funds from, other mutual
funds  sponsored or advised by  Sub-advisor  or T. Rowe Price  Associates,  Inc.
(collectively,  "Price  Portfolios").  The Portfolio has no current intention of
engaging in these practices at this time.

     Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder Approval.  The
following  limitations are applicable to the T. Rowe Price International  Equity
Portfolio.  As a  matter  of  operating  policy  which  can be  changed  without
shareholder approval, the Portfolio may not:

     1. Purchase  additional  securities  when money borrowed  exceeds 5% of the
Portfolio's total assets.

     2. Invest in companies for the purpose of exercising management or control;

     3. Purchase illiquid securities and securities of unseasoned issuers if, as
a result,  more than 15% of its net assets would be invested in such securities,
provided that the Portfolio will not invest more than 10% of its total assets in
restricted  securities and not more than 5% of its total assets in securities of
unseasoned  issuers.  Securities  eligible  for  resale  under  Rule 144A of the
Securities Act of 1933 are not included in the 10% limitation but are subject to
the 15% limitation;

     4.  Purchase  securities  of open-end or  closed-end  investment  companies
except in  compliance  with the  Investment  Company Act of 1940 and  applicable
state law. Duplicate fees may result from such purchases;

     5.  Purchase  participations  or other  direct  interests  in or enter into
leases with  respect to oil,  gas,  other  mineral  exploration  or  development
programs;

     6. Invest in puts, calls, straddles, spreads, or any combination thereof to
the extent permitted by the Prospectus and this Statement;

     7. Purchase  securities on margin,  except (i) for use of short-term credit
necessary  for  clearance  of purchases  of  Portfolio  securities  and (ii) the
Portfolio  may make margin  deposits in  connection  with futures  contracts and
other permissible investments;

     8. Mortgage,  pledge,  hypothecate or, in any manner, transfer any security
owned by the Portfolio as a security for indebtedness except as may be necessary
in  connection  with  permissible   borrowings  or  investments  and  then  such
mortgaging, pledging, or hypothecating may not exceed 33 1/3% of the Portfolio's
total assets at the time of borrowing or investment;

     9. Purchase a security (other than obligations  issued or guaranteed by
the  U.S.,  and  foreign,   state  or  local   government,   their  agencies  or
instrumentalities) if, as a result, more than 5% of the value of the Portfolio's
total assets would be invested in the securities of issuers which at the time of
purchase had been in operation for less than three years (for this purpose,  the
period of operation  of any issuer shall  include the period of operation of any
predecessor or unconditional guarantor of such issuer); provided,  however, that
this  restriction  does not  apply  to the  purchase  of  securities  of  pooled
investment vehicles or mortgage- or asset-backed securities;

    10. Effect short sales of securities;

    11. Invest in warrants  if, as a result  thereof,  more than 2% of the
value of the total assets of the Portfolio  would be invested in warrants  which
are not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or a
recognized foreign exchange, or more than 5% of the value of the total assets of
the  Portfolio  would be  invested  in  warrants  whether or not so listed.  For
purposes of these  percentage  limitations,  the warrants  will be valued at the
lower of cost or market  and  warrants  acquired  by the  Portfolio  in units or
attached to securities may be deemed to be without value;

    12. Purchase  or  retain  the  securities  of any  issuer  if,  to the
knowledge of the Trust's  management,  those officers and directors of the Trust
and of the Investment  Manager,  who each own beneficially more than 0.5% of the
outstanding securities of such issuer, together own beneficially more than 5% of
such securities;

    13.  Purchase a futures  contract or an option thereon if, with respect
to positions in futures or options on futures which do not  represent  bona fide
hedging,  the  aggregate  initial  margin and premiums on such  positions  would
exceed 5% of the Portfolio's net assets.

         Notwithstanding   anything  in  the  above  fundamental  and  operating
restrictions to the contrary, the Portfolio may, as a fundamental policy, invest
all of its assets in the securities of a single open-end  management  investment
company with substantially the same fundamental investment objectives,  policies
and  restrictions  as  the  Portfolio  subject  to  the  prior  approval  of the
Investment  Manager.  The  Investment  Manager will not approve such  investment
unless: (a) the Investment Manager believes, on the advice of counsel, that such
investment  will not have an  adverse  effect on the tax  status of the  annuity
contracts and/or life insurance  policies  supported by the separate accounts of
the  Participating  Insurance  Companies which purchase shares of the Trust; (b)
the  Investment  Manager has given prior notice to the  Participating  Insurance
Companies that it intends to permit such  investment and has determined  whether
such  Participating  Insurance  Companies  intend to redeem  any  shares  and/or
discontinue purchase of shares because of such investment; (c) the Trustees have
determined that the fees to be paid by the Trust for administrative, accounting,
custodial and transfer agency  services for the Portfolio  subsequent to such an
investment  are  appropriate,  or the  Trustees  have  approved  changes  to the
agreements  providing  such  services  to reflect a reduction  in fees;  (d) the
Sub-advisor  for the Portfolio has agreed to reduce its fee by the amount of any
investment  advisory  fees  paid to the  investment  manager  of  such  open-end
management  investment  company;  and (e)  shareholder  approval  is obtained if
required by law. The Portfolio  will apply for such  exemptive  relief under the
provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"), or other such
relief as may be necessary under the then governing rules and regulations of the
1940 Act, regarding investments in such investment companies.

          In  addition  to  the  restrictions   described  above,  some  foreign
countries limit, or prohibit, all direct foreign investment in the securities of
their companies.  However, the governments of some countries have authorized the
organization of investment  portfolios to permit indirect foreign  investment in
such  securities.  For tax  purposes  these  portfolios  may be known as Passive
Foreign  Investment  Companies.  The Portfolio is subject to certain  percentage
limitations  under the 1940 Act and certain  states  relating to the purchase of
securities of investment companies, and may be subject to the limitation that no
more than 10% of the value of the  Portfolio's  total  assets may be invested in
such securities.

Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio:

Investment Policies:

         Options On Stock  Indices and Stocks.  For a  discussion  of options on
stock indices and stocks and certain  risks  involved  therein,  see the Trust's
Prospectus  and this  Statement  under  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and  Investment
Methods."

         Transactions in options are subject to limitations, established by each
of the exchanges upon which options are traded,  governing the maximum number of
options which may be written or held by a single  investor or group of investors
acting in  concert,  regardless  of whether  the options are held in one or more
accounts.  Thus, the number of options the Portfolio may hold may be affected by
options held by other  advisory  clients of the  Sub-advisor.  As of the date of
this Statement,  the Sub-advisor believes that these limitations will not affect
the purchase of stock index options by the Portfolio.

         As indicated,  the Portfolio may purchase  options on stock indices.  A
call  option on a stock  index  gives a  Purchaser  the right to buy,  and a put
option on a stock index gives a purchaser the right to sell, a designated number
of shares of the underlying  instrument (the stock index) at the option exercise
price.  The  Portfolio  purchases  put  options on stock  indices to protect the
Portfolio  against  decline in value.  The Portfolio  purchases  call options on
stock indices to establish a position in equities as a temporary  substitute for
purchasing individual stocks that then may be acquired over the option period in
a manner designed to minimize adverse price  movements.  Purchasing put and call
options on stock indices also permits  greater time for evaluation of investment
alternatives.  When the Sub-advisor  believes that the trend of stock prices may
be  downward,  particularly  for a short  period of time,  the  purchase  of put
options on stock  indices may  eliminate the need to sell less liquid stocks and
possibly  repurchase  them later.  The purpose of these  transactions  is not to
generate  gain, but to "hedge"  against  possible  loss.  Therefore,  successful
hedging  activity  will not produce net gain to the  Portfolio.  Any gain in the
price of a call  option is likely to be offset by higher  prices  the  Portfolio
must pay in rising markets, as cash reserves are invested. In declining markets,
any increase in the price of a put option is likely to be offset by lower prices
of stocks owned by the Portfolio.

         The  Portfolio  may  purchase  only those put and call options that are
listed on a domestic exchange or quoted on the automatic quotation system of the
National  Association of Securities Dealers ("NASDAQ").  Options traded on stock
exchanges  are either  broadly  based,  such as the  Standard & Poor's 500 Stock
Index and 100 Stock Index,  or involve stocks in a designated  industry or group
of industries.  The Portfolio may utilize either broadly based or market segment
indices in seeking a better correlation between the indices and its portfolio.

         The value of a stock index option  depends upon  movements in the level
of the stock index  rather  than the price of a  particular  stock.  Whether the
Portfolio will realize a gain or a loss from its option activities  depends upon
movements  in the level of stock  prices  generally  or in an industry or market
segment,  rather than movements in the price of a particular  stock.  Purchasing
call and put options on stock indices involves the risk that the Sub-advisor may
be incorrect in its  expectations  as to the extent of the various  stock market
movements or the time within which the options are based. To compensate for this
imperfect  correlation,  the Portfolio may enter into options  transactions in a
greater  dollar  amount  than the  securities  being  hedged  if the  historical
volatility of the prices of the  securities  being hedged is different  from the
historical volatility of the stock index.

         Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts (or
options  thereon) for hedging  purposes.  U.S.  futures  contracts are traded on
exchanges which have been designated "contract markets" by the Commodity Futures
Trading  Commission  ("CFTC") and must be executed through a futures  commission
merchant (an "FCM") or brokerage firm which is a member of the relevant contract
market.  Although  futures  contracts  by their  terms call for the  delivery or
acquisition of the  underlying  commodities or a cash payment based on the value
of the  underlying  commodities,  in most cases the  contractual  obligation  is
offset  before the  delivery  date of the  contract by buying,  in the case of a
contractual  obligation  to  sell,  or  selling,  in the  case of a  contractual
obligation to buy, an identical futures contract on a commodities exchange. Such
a  transaction   cancels  the  obligation  to  make  or  take  delivery  of  the
commodities.

         The acquisition or sale of a futures contract could occur, for example,
if the Portfolio held or considered  purchasing  equity securities and sought to
protect  itself from  fluctuations  in prices  without  buying or selling  those
securities.  For example,  if prices were  expected to decrease,  the  Portfolio
could sell equity index futures contracts,  thereby hoping to offset a potential
decline in the value of equity  securities in the  portfolio by a  corresponding
increase in the value of the futures contract position held by the Portfolio and
thereby  prevent the  Portfolio's  net asset value from  declining as much as it
otherwise would have. The Portfolio also could protect  against  potential price
declines  by  selling  portfolio   securities  and  investing  in  money  market
instruments.  However,  since the  futures  market is more  liquid than the cash
market, the use of futures contracts as an investment  technique would allow the
Portfolio  to maintain a defensive  position  without  having to sell  portfolio
securities.

         Similarly,  when prices of equity  securities are expected to increase,
futures contracts could be bought to attempt to hedge against the possibility of
having to buy equity  securities at higher  prices.  This technique is sometimes
known as an anticipatory  hedge.  Since the fluctuations in the value of futures
contracts should be similar to those of equity  securities,  the Portfolio could
take advantage of the potential rise in the value of equity  securities  without
buying them until the market had stabilized. At that time, the futures contracts
could be liquidated  and the Portfolio  could buy equity  securities on the cash
market.

         The Portfolio  may also enter into  interest rate and foreign  currency
futures  contracts.  Interest rate futures  contracts  currently are traded on a
variety of fixed income  securities,  including  long-term U.S.  Treasury Bonds,
Treasury Notes,  Government National Mortgage Association modified  pass-through
mortgage-backed  securities,  U.S.  Treasury Bills, bank certificates of deposit
and commercial paper. Foreign currency futures contracts currently are traded on
the British pound, Canadian dollar,  Japanese yen, Swiss franc, West German mark
and on Eurodollar deposits.

         Futures contracts entail risks.  Although the Sub-advisor believes that
use of  such  contracts  could  benefit  the  Portfolio,  if  the  Sub-advisor's
investment judgment were incorrect, the Portfolio's overall performance could be
worse than if the Portfolio had not entered into futures contracts. For example,
if the Portfolio hedged against the effects of a possible  decrease in prices of
securities  held in its portfolio and prices  increased  instead,  the Portfolio
would lose part or all of the benefit of the increased value of these securities
because of offsetting losses in the Portfolio's futures positions.  In addition,
if the Portfolio had  insufficient  cash, it might have to sell  securities from
its  portfolio  to meet margin  requirements.  Those sales could be at increased
prices which  reflect the rising market and could occur at a time when the sales
would be  disadvantageous  to the  Portfolio.  For a discussion of certain risks
involved in futures  contracts,  see the Trust's  Prospectus  and this Statement
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         The Portfolio will not, as to any positions,  whether long,  short or a
combination  thereof,  enter into  futures  and  options  thereon  for which the
aggregate initial margins and premiums exceed 5% of the fair market value of its
assets  after  taking  into  account  unrealized  profits  and losses on options
entered into. In the case of an option that is "in-the-money,"  the in-the-money
amount may be  excluded  in  computing  such 5%. In  general a call  option on a
future  is  "in-the-money"  if the  value of the  future  exceeds  the  exercise
("strike") price of the call; a put option on a future is  "in-the-money" if the
value of the future  which is the  subject of the put is  exceeded by the strike
price of the put. The Portfolio may use futures and options  thereon  solely for
bona fide hedging or for other  non-speculative  purposes.  As to long positions
which are used as part of the  Portfolio's  strategies and are incidental to its
activities in the underlying cash market,  the "underlying  commodity  value" of
the Portfolio's  futures and options thereon must not exceed the sum of (i) cash
set aside in an  identifiable  manner,  or short-term  U.S. debt  obligations or
other  dollar-denominated  high-quality,  short-term  money  instruments  so set
aside,  plus  sums  deposited  on  margin;  (ii)  cash  proceeds  from  existing
investments  due in 30 days;  and  (iii)  accrued  profits  held at the  futures
commission merchant. The "underlying commodity value" of a future is computed by
multiplying the size of the future by the daily  settlement price of the future.
For an option on a future,  that value is the underlying  commodity value of the
future underlying the option.

         Unlike  the  situation  in which  the  Portfolio  purchases  or sells a
security,  no price is paid or received by the  Portfolio  upon the  purchase or
sale of a futures contract.  Instead,  the Portfolio is required to deposit in a
segregated asset account an amount of cash or qualifying  securities  (currently
U.S. Treasury bills),  currently in a minimum amount of $15,000.  This is called
"initial  margin." Such initial margin is in the nature of a performance bond or
good faith deposit on the contract.  However, since losses on open contracts are
required to be reflected in cash in the form of variation margin  payments,  the
Portfolio  may be  required  to make  additional  payments  during the term of a
contract to its broker.  Such payments  would be required,  for example,  where,
during the term of an interest rate futures contract purchased by the Portfolio,
there was a general  increase in interest rates,  thereby making the Portfolio's
securities less valuable.  In all instances  involving the purchase of financial
futures  contracts by the Portfolio,  an amount of cash together with such other
securities as permitted by applicable regulatory  authorities to be utilized for
such purpose,  at least equal to the market value of the future contracts,  will
be  deposited  in  a  segregated  account  with  the  Portfolio's  custodian  to
collateralize  the  position.  At any time prior to the  expiration of a futures
contract,  the  Portfolio  may elect to close its position by taking an opposite
position which will operate to terminate the Portfolio's position in the futures
contract.

         Because futures  contracts are generally  settled within a day from the
date they are closed out,  compared  with a settlement  period of seven days for
some types of securities,  the futures markets can provide superior liquidity to
the securities markets.  Nevertheless,  there is no assurance a liquid secondary
market will exist for any particular futures contract at any particular time. In
addition,  futures  exchanges may establish daily price  fluctuation  limits for
futures  contracts  and may halt trading if a  contract's  price moves upward or
downward  more than the limit in a given day. On volatile  trading days when the
price fluctuation limit is reached,  it would be impossible for the Portfolio to
enter into new  positions  or close out  existing  positions.  If the  secondary
market  for a futures  contract  were not liquid  because  of price  fluctuation
limits or  otherwise,  the  Portfolio  would not  promptly be able to  liquidate
unfavorable  futures  positions and potentially could be required to continue to
hold a futures  position until the delivery  date,  regardless of changes in its
value.  As a result,  the  Portfolio's  access to other assets held to cover its
futures positions also could be impaired.

         Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may purchase put and call
options on  futures  contracts.  An option on a futures  contract  provides  the
holder with the right to enter into a "long" position in the underlying  futures
contract,  in the case of a call option, or a "short" position in the underlying
futures  contract,  in the case of a put option,  at a fixed exercise price to a
stated  expiration  date. Upon exercise of the option by the holder,  a contract
market clearing house establishes a corresponding  short position for the writer
of the option, in the case of a call option,  or a corresponding  long position,
in the case of a put  option.  In the event  that an option  is  exercised,  the
parties will be subject to all the risks  associated with the trading of futures
contracts, such as payment of variation margin deposits.

         A position in an option on a futures  contract may be terminated by the
purchaser or seller prior to expiration by effecting a closing  purchase or sale
transaction,  subject to the availability of a liquid secondary market, which is
the purchase or sale of an option of the same series  (i.e.,  the same  exercise
price and  expiration  date) as the option  previously  purchased  or sold.  The
difference between the premiums paid and received represents the trader's profit
or loss on the transaction.

         An option,  whether  based on a futures  contract,  a stock  index or a
security,  becomes worthless to the holder when it expires.  Upon exercise of an
option,  the exchange or contract market clearing house assigns exercise notices
on a random basis to those of its members which have written options of the same
series and with the same  expiration  date.  A  brokerage  firm  receiving  such
notices then assigns them on a random basis to those of its customers which have
written options of the same series and expiration  date. A writer  therefore has
no control  over  whether an option will be  exercised  against it, nor over the
time of such exercise.

         The purchase of a call option on a futures  contract is similar in some
respects  to the  purchase  of a call  option  on an  individual  security.  See
"Options on Foreign  Currencies"  below.  Depending on the pricing of the option
compared to either the price of the futures  contract  upon which it is based or
the price of the underlying  instrument,  ownership of the option may or may not
be  less  risky  than  ownership  of the  futures  contract  or  the  underlying
instrument. As with the purchase of futures contracts, when the Portfolio is not
fully invested it could buy a call option on a futures contract to hedge against
a market advance.

         The  purchase of a put option on a futures  contract is similar in some
respects to the purchase of protective put options on portfolio securities.  For
example,  the Portfolio would be able to buy a put option on a futures  contract
to hedge its portfolio against the risk of falling prices.

         The amount of risk the Portfolio would assume if it bought an option on
a  futures  contract  would be the  premium  paid for the  option  plus  related
transaction  costs. In addition to the correlation  risks discussed  above,  the
purchase  of an option also  entails  the risk that  changes in the value of the
underlying  futures  contract  will not fully be  reflected  in the value of the
options bought.

         Options on Foreign  Currencies.  The Portfolio may buy and sell options
on foreign  currencies for hedging purposes in a manner similar to that in which
futures on foreign  currencies would be utilized.  For example, a decline in the
U.S.  dollar  value of a foreign  currency  in which  portfolio  securities  are
denominated would reduce the U.S. dollar value of such securities, even if their
value in the foreign  currency  remained  constant.  In order to protect against
such diminutions in the value of portfolio  securities,  the Portfolio could buy
put options on the foreign currency. If the value of the currency declines,  the
Portfolio  would have the right to sell such currency for a fixed amount in U.S.
dollars and would thereby offset, in whole or in part, the adverse effect on its
portfolio  which  otherwise  would  have  resulted.  Conversely,  when a rise is
projected  in the U.S.  dollar  value of a currency  in which  securities  to be
acquired are denominated,  thereby  increasing the cost of such securities,  the
Portfolio  could buy call options  thereon.  The purchase of such options  could
offset,  at least  partially,  the effects of the adverse  movements in exchange
rates.

         Options on foreign currencies traded on national  securities  exchanges
are within the jurisdiction of the SEC, as are other  securities  traded on such
exchanges. As a result, many of the protections provided to traders on organized
exchanges  will be available with respect to such  transactions.  In particular,
all foreign  currency  option  positions  entered into on a national  securities
exchange are cleared and guaranteed by the Options Clearing Corporation ("OCC"),
thereby reducing the risk of counterparty  default.  Further, a liquid secondary
market in options traded on a national  securities  exchange may be more readily
available  than  in the  over-the-counter  market,  potentially  permitting  the
Portfolio  to  liquidate  open  positions  at a  profit  prior  to  exercise  or
expiration, or to limit losses in the event of adverse market movements.

         The  purchase and sale of  exchange-traded  foreign  currency  options,
however,  is  subject  to the risks of the  availability  of a liquid  secondary
market described above, as well as the risks regarding adverse market movements,
margining  of  options  written,  the  nature of the  foreign  currency  market,
possible  intervention  by  governmental  authorities,  and the effects of other
political and economic events. In addition,  exchange-traded  options on foreign
currencies involve certain risks not presented by the  over-the-counter  market.
For example,  exercise and  settlement of such options must be made  exclusively
through the OCC,  which has  established  banking  relationships  in  applicable
foreign countries for this purpose.  As a result,  the OCC may, if it determines
that  foreign  governmental  restrictions  or taxes  would  prevent  the orderly
settlement  of  foreign  currency  option  exercises,  or would  result in undue
burdens on the OCC or its clearing member, impose special procedures on exercise
and  settlement,  such as  technical  changes in the  mechanics  of  delivery of
currency, the fixing of dollar settlement prices, or prohibitions on exercise.

         Risk Factors of Investing in Futures and Options. The successful use of
the  investment  practices  described  above with respect to futures  contracts,
options on futures contracts, and options on securities indices, securities, and
foreign  currencies  draws upon skills and  experience  which are different from
those needed to select the other  instruments  in which the  Portfolio  invests.
Should  interest  or exchange  rates or the prices of  securities  or  financial
indices move in an unexpected  manner, the Portfolio may not achieve the desired
benefits of futures  and  options or may  realize  losses and thus be in a worse
position than if such strategies had not been used. Unlike many  exchange-traded
futures  contracts  and options on futures  contracts,  there are no daily price
fluctuation  limits with  respect to options on  currencies  and  negotiated  or
over-the-counter  instruments,  and adverse  market  movements  could  therefore
continue  to an  unlimited  extent  over a period  of  time.  In  addition,  the
correlation  between  movements in the price of the  securities  and  currencies
hedged or used for cover will not be  perfect  and could  produce  unanticipated
losses.

         The  Portfolio's  ability to dispose of its  positions in the foregoing
instruments   will  depend  on  the   availability  of  liquid  markets  in  the
instruments. Markets in a number of the instruments are relatively new and still
developing  and it is impossible to predict the amount of trading  interest that
may exist in those  instruments  in the  future.  Particular  risks  exist  with
respect to the use of each of the foregoing instruments and could result in such
adverse consequences to the Portfolio as the possible loss of the entire premium
paid for an option  bought by the  Portfolio,  as the  writer of a covered  call
option, to benefit from the appreciation of the underlying  securities above the
exercise  price  of the  option,  and the  possible  need to defer  closing  out
positions in certain instruments to avoid adverse tax consequences. As a result,
no  assurance  can be  given  that  the  Portfolio  will be  able  to use  those
instruments effectively for the purposes set forth above.

         In addition, options on U.S. Government securities,  futures contracts,
options  on  futures  contracts,   forward  contracts  and  options  on  foreign
currencies may be traded on foreign  exchanges and  over-the-counter  in foreign
countries.  Such  transactions  are subject to the risk of governmental  actions
affecting  trading in or the prices of foreign  currencies  or  securities.  The
value of such  positions  also could be affected  adversely by (i) other complex
foreign  political and economic  factors,  (ii) lesser  availability than in the
United  States of data on which to make trading  decisions,  (iii) delays in the
Portfolio's  ability to act upon economic  events  occurring in foreign  markets
during nonbusiness hours in the United States,  (iv) the imposition of different
exercise and settlement terms and procedures and margin requirements than in the
United States, and (v) low trading volume.

         For an additional  discussion of certain risks  involved in futures and
options,  see this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

     Foreign Securities.  Investments in foreign countries involve certain risks
which are not typically  associated with U.S.  investments.  For a discussion of
the risks involved in foreign  investments,  see the Trust's Prospectus and this
Statement under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Forward  Contracts  For  Purchase  or Sale of Foreign  Currencies.  The
Portfolio generally will conduct its foreign currency exchange transactions on a
spot (i.e.,  cash)  basis at the spot rate  prevailing  in the foreign  exchange
currency market. When the Portfolio purchases or sells a security denominated in
a foreign  currency,  it may  enter  into a forward  foreign  currency  contract
("forward contract") for the purchase or sale, for a fixed amount of dollars, of
the amount of foreign currency involved in the underlying security  transaction.
A forward  contract  involves  an  obligation  to  purchase  or sell a  specific
currency at a future  date,  which may be any fixed number of days from the date
of the contract  agreed upon by the  parties,  at a price set at the time of the
contract. In this manner, the Portfolio may obtain protection against a possible
loss  resulting  from an adverse  change in the  relationship  between  the U.S.
dollar and the foreign  currency during the period between the date the security
is  purchased  or sold and the date  upon  which  payment  is made or  received.
Although such  contracts tend to minimize the risk of loss due to the decline in
the  value of the  hedged  currency,  at the same  time  they  tend to limit any
potential gain which might result should the value of such currency increase.

         Forward contracts are traded in the interbank market conducted directly
between currency  traders (usually large commercial  banks) and their customers.
Generally a forward contract has no deposit requirement,  and no commissions are
charged at any stage for trades. Although foreign exchange dealers do not charge
a fee for conversion,  they do realize a profit based on the difference  between
the prices at which they buy and sell various  currencies.  When the Sub-Advisor
believes  that  the  currency  of a  particular  foreign  country  may  suffer a
substantial  decline against the U.S. dollar the Portfolio may each enter into a
forward  contract to sell, for a fixed amount of dollars,  the amount of foreign
currency  approximating  the value of some or all of those Portfolio  securities
denominated  in such foreign  currency.  The Portfolio  will not enter into such
forward  contracts  or  maintain  a net  exposure  to such  contracts  where the
consummation  of the contracts would obligate the Portfolio to deliver an amount
of foreign currency in excess of the value of its portfolio  securities or other
assets denominated in that currency. The custodian will place cash or high grade
liquid debt securities in a separate account with the custodian of the Portfolio
in an  amount  equal  to  the  value  of  its  total  assets  committed  to  the
consummation of forward contracts entered into under the above circumstances. If
the value of the securities placed in the separate account declines,  additional
cash or  securities  will be placed in the  account on a daily basis so that the
value of the account will equal the amount of the Portfolio's  commitments  with
respect to such contracts.

         At the consummation of a forward contract for delivery by the Portfolio
of a foreign  currency,  the  Portfolio  may either make delivery of the foreign
currency or terminate its contractual obligation to deliver the foreign currency
by  purchasing  an offsetting  contract  obligating it to purchase,  at the same
maturity date, the same amount of the foreign currency. If the Portfolio chooses
to make  delivery  of the  foreign  currency,  it may be required to obtain such
currency through the sale of portfolio  securities  denominated in such currency
or through  conversion  of other  Portfolio  assets  into such  currency.  It is
impossible  to  forecast  the  market  value  of  portfolio  securities  at  the
expiration  of the forward  contract.  Accordingly,  it may be necessary for the
Portfolio to purchase  additional  foreign currency on the spot market (and bear
the expense of such  purchase)  if the market value of the security is less than
the amount of foreign  currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver,  and if a
decision is made to sell the security and make delivery of the foreign currency.
Conversely,  it may be  necessary to sell on the spot market some of the foreign
currency  received on the sale of the  portfolio  security  if its market  value
exceeds the amount of foreign currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver.

         If the  Portfolio  retains  the  portfolio  security  and engages in an
offsetting  transaction,  it will incur a gain or loss to the extent  that there
has been movement in spot or forward contract prices.  If the Portfolio  engages
in an  offsetting  transaction,  it may  subsequently  enter into a new  forward
contract to sell the foreign currency.  Should forward prices decline during the
period between the Portfolio's  entering into a forward contract for the sale of
a foreign  currency and the date it enters into an  offsetting  contract for the
purchase of the  foreign  currency,  the  Portfolio  will  realize a gain to the
extent the price of the  currency it has agreed to sell exceeds the price of the
currency  it has  agreed  to  purchase.  Should  forward  prices  increase,  the
Portfolio  will  suffer a loss to the  extent the price of the  currency  it has
agreed to purchase exceeds the price of the currency it has agreed to sell.

         Dealings in forward  contracts by the Portfolio  will be limited to the
transactions  described above. Of course, the Portfolio is not required to enter
into  such  transactions   with  regard  to  its  foreign   currency-denominated
securities and will not do so unless deemed  appropriate by the Sub-advisor.  It
also  should  be  realized  that  this  method  of  protecting  the value of the
Portfolio's  securities  against a decline in the value of a  currency  does not
eliminate  fluctuations in the underlying  prices of the  securities.  It simply
establishes  a rate of exchange  which can be  achieved at some future  point in
time.  Additionally,  although such  contracts tend to minimize the risk of loss
due to the  decline in the value of the hedged  currency,  at the same time they
tend to limit any  potential  gain which might  result  should the value of such
currency increase.

         Illiquid  Securities.  As  discussed  in the  Trust's  Prospectus,  the
Portfolio may invest up to 15% of the value of its total assets, measured at the
time of  investment,  in  investments  which  are not  readily  marketable.  The
Portfolio  may also  invest  up to 5% of the value of its  assets in  restricted
securities.   Restricted   securities  are  securities   which  are  subject  to
restrictions  on  resale  because  they  have  not  been  registered  under  the
Securities Act of 1933. Other types of illiquid  securities are securities which
may be  subject to other  types of resale  restrictions  or which,  due to their
market or the nature of the  security,  have no readily  available  markets  for
their  disposition.  The Portfolio may invest in Rule 144A securities  which, as
disclosed  in the  Prospectus,  may or may  not  be  readily  marketable.  These
limitations  on resale and  marketability  may have the effect of preventing the
Portfolio  from  disposing  of  such a  security  at the  time  desired  or at a
reasonable  price. In addition,  in order to resell a restricted  security,  the
Portfolio  might have to bear the expense and incur the delays  associated  with
effecting  registration.  In purchasing illiquid securities,  the Portfolio does
not  intend to engage  in  underwriting  activities,  except to the  extent  the
Portfolio may be deemed to be a statutory  underwriter  under the Securities Act
in disposing  of such  securities.  Illiquid  securities  will be purchased  for
investment  purposes  only and not for the  purpose  of  exercising  control  or
management  of other  companies.  For an  additional  discussion  of illiquid or
restricted  securities,  see the Trust's  Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors
and Investment Methods."

         The Board of  Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to illiquid securities.

         Low-Rated and Unrated Fixed Income Securities. The Portfolio may invest
up to 5% of its assets in convertible  securities and preferred stocks which are
unrated or are rated below investment grade either at the time of purchase or as
a result of reduction in rating after  purchase.  Investment in  lower-rated  or
unrated  securities is generally  considered to be high risk  investment.  These
debt  securities  are  generally  subject to two kinds of risk,  credit risk and
market risk.  Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer to meet  interest
or principal  payments,  or both, as they come due. The ratings given a security
by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") and Standard & Poor's Corporation
("S&P") provide a generally useful guide as to such credit risk. The Appendix to
this Statement  provides a description of such debt security ratings.  The lower
the rating  given a security  by a rating  service,  the greater the credit risk
such rating service perceives to exist with respect to the security.  Increasing
the  amount  of the  Portfolio's  assets  invested  in  unrated  or lower  grade
securities,  while intended to increase the yield produced by those assets, will
also increase the risk to which those assets are subject.

         Market  risk  relates  to the  fact  that  the  market  values  of debt
securities in which the Portfolio  invests generally will be affected by changes
in the level of interest  rates.  An  increase  in  interest  rates will tend to
reduce the market values of such securities, whereas a decline in interest rates
will tend to increase their values.  Medium and lower rated  securities  (Baa or
BBB and lower) and non-rated securities of comparable quality tend to be subject
to wider  fluctuations in yields and market values than higher rated  securities
and may have  speculative  characteristics.  In order  to  decrease  the risk in
investing in debt  securities,  in no event will the Portfolio  ever invest in a
debt security rated below B by Moody's or by S&P. Of course,  relying in part on
ratings  assigned by credit agencies in making  investments will not protect the
Portfolio from the risk that the securities in which they invest will decline in
value,  since credit ratings  represent  evaluations of the safety of principal,
dividend, and interest payments on debt securities, and not the market values of
such  securities,  and such  ratings  may not be  changed  on a timely  basis to
reflect subsequent events.

         Because  investment in medium and lower rated securities  involves both
greater credit risk and market risk,  achievement of the Portfolio's  investment
objectives may be more dependent on the  Sub-advisor's  own credit analysis than
is the case for funds that do not invest in such  securities.  In addition,  the
share price and yield of the Portfolio  may  fluctuate  more than in the case of
funds  investing  in  higher  quality,  shorter  term  securities.  Moreover,  a
significant  economic downturn or major increase in interest rates may result in
issuers of lower rated securities experiencing increased financial stress, which
would adversely affect their ability to service their principal,  dividend,  and
interest  obligations,  meet projected  business  goals,  and obtain  additional
financing.  In this  regard,  it should be noted  that while the market for high
yield,  high risk debt  securities has been in existence for many years and from
time to time has experienced economic downturns in recent years, this market has
involved a  significant  increase  in the use of high yield debt  securities  to
Portfolio  highly leveraged  corporate  acquisitions  and  restructurings.  Past
experience  may  not,  therefore,  provide  an  accurate  indication  of  future
performance  of the high  yield  debt  securities  market,  particularly  during
periods of economic recession.  Furthermore,  expenses incurred in recovering an
investment in a defaulted  security may  adversely  affect the  Portfolio's  net
asset  value.  Finally,  while the  Sub-advisor  attempts to limit  purchases of
medium and lower rated securities to securities having an established  secondary
market,  the secondary  market for such  securities  may be less liquid than the
market for higher  quality  securities.  The reduced  liquidity of the secondary
market for such securities may adversely affect the market price of, and ability
of the  Portfolio to value,  particular  securities  at certain  times,  thereby
making it difficult to make  specific  valuation  determinations.  The Portfolio
does not invest in any medium and lower rated  securities  which present special
tax consequences, such as zero coupon bonds or pay-in-kind bonds.

         The Sub-advisor  seeks to reduce the overall risks  associated with the
Portfolio's  investments  through  diversification  and consideration of factors
affecting  the value of securities  it considers  relevant.  No assurance can be
given,  however,  regarding  the degree of success that will be achieved in this
regard or that the Portfolio will achieve its investment objectives.

         For an additional discussion of the certain risks involved in low-rated
or unrated  securities,  see this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder  Approval.
The  following   limitations  are  applicable  only  to  the  Founders   Capital
Appreciation Portfolio. As a matter of operating policy, which may be changed by
the Trustees without shareholder approval, the Portfolio will not:

         1. Invest in  interests  in oil, gas or other  mineral  exploration  or
development  programs  or  leases,  although  the  Portfolio  may  invest in the
securities of issuers which invest in or sponsor such programs or leases.

         2. Invest more than 15% of the market value of its assets in securities
which are not readily marketable,  including  repurchase  agreements maturing in
over seven days and foreign  securities  not listed on a  recognized  foreign or
domestic exchange.

         3. Participate in any joint trading account.

         4. Purchase more than 10% of any class of securities of any single 
issuer or purchase more than 10% of the voting securities of any single issuer.

         5. Invest more than 5% of the market value of its assets in  securities
of companies which with their predecessors have a continuous operating record of
less than three years.

         6. Purchase securities of other investment  companies,  except that the
Portfolio may purchase such securities in the open market where no commission or
profit to a sponsor  or dealer  other  than the  customary  broker's  commission
results from such purchase, and in no event in excess of 10% of the value of the
Portfolio's  assets,  and except in connection with a purchase or acquisition in
accordance with a plan of reorganization, merger or consolidation.

         7. Acquire or retain the  securities  of any issuer if any  officer or
director of the Sub-advisor  owns  beneficially  more than one-half of 1% of the
issuer's outstanding  securities and the aggregate owned by such persons exceeds
5% of such securities.

         8. Invest in companies for the purpose of exercising control or
management.

         9. Pledge,  mortgage  or  hypothecate  its  assets  except  to  secure
permitted  borrowings,  and then only in an amount up to 15% of the value of the
Portfolio's net assets taken at the lower of cost or market value at the time of
such borrowings.

        10. Invest more than 5% of the market value of its assets in restricted
securities.

        11. Purchase warrants, valued at the lower of cost or market, in excess
of 5% of total  assets,  except that the  purchase of warrants not listed on the
New York or American Stock Exchanges is limited to 2% of total net assets.

        12. Purchase  securities of any issuer (other than  obligations of, or
guaranteed by, the United States government,  its agencies or instrumentalities)
if, as a result,  more than 5% of the value of the  Portfolio's  assets would be
invested in securities of that issuer.

INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio:

Investment  Objective:  The INVESCO Equity Income  Portfolio  seeks high current
income while following  sound  investment  practices.  The Portfolio will pursue
this  objective  by  investing  its assets in  securities  which will  provide a
relatively  high-yield and stable return and which,  over a period of years, may
also  provide  capital  appreciation.  Capital  growth  potential is a secondary
factor in the selection of portfolio securities. The Portfolio invests in common
stocks, as well as convertible bonds and preferred stocks.

Investment Policies:  In pursuing its investment  objective,  the Portfolio will
endeavor to select and purchase securities  providing reasonably secure dividend
or  interest  income.   Sometimes   warrants  are  acquired  when  offered  with
income-producing  securities,  but the  warrants  are  disposed  of at the first
favorable  opportunity.  Acquiring  warrants  involves a risk that the Portfolio
will lose the  premium it pays to acquire  warrants  if the  Portfolio  does not
exercise  a warrant  before it  expires.  The major  portion  of the  investment
portfolio normally consists of common stocks,  convertible bonds and debentures,
and preferred stocks;  however,  there may also be substantial  holdings of debt
securities, including non-investment grade and unrated debt securities.

         As  discussed  in  the  section  of  the  Trust's  Prospectus  entitled
"Investment  Objective and Policies," the debt securities in which the Portfolio
invests are generally subject to two kinds of risk, credit risk and market risk.
The  ratings  given a debt  security by Moody's  and  Standard & Poor's  ("S&P")
provide a generally  useful guide as to such credit  risk.  The lower the rating
given a debt security by such rating  service,  the greater the credit risk such
rating service perceives to exist with respect to such security.  Increasing the
amount of  Portfolio  assets  invested  in unrated or lower grade (Ba or less by
Moody's,  BB or less by S&P) debt  securities,  while  intended to increase  the
yield produced by the Portfolio's debt securities, will also increase the credit
risk to which those debt securities are subject.

         Lower rated debt  securities  and  non-rated  securities  of comparable
quality  tend to be subject to wider  fluctuations  in yields and market  values
than higher  rated debt  securities  and may have  speculative  characteristics.
Although  the  Portfolio  may invest in debt  securities  assigned  lower  grade
ratings by S&P or Moody's,  the  Portfolio's  investments  have  generally  been
limited  to debt  securities  rated B or higher by either S&P or  Moody's.  Debt
securities  rated  lower  than  B  by  either  S&P  or  Moody's  may  be  highly
speculative. The Sub-advisor intends to limit such Portfolio investments to debt
securities  which are not believed by the  Sub-advisor to be highly  speculative
and which are rated at least CCC or Caa,  respectively,  by S&P or  Moody's.  In
addition,  a significant  economic  downturn or major increase in interest rates
may well result in issuers of lower rated debt securities experiencing increased
financial  stress which would  adversely  affect their  ability to service their
principal and interest  obligations,  to meet projected  business goals,  and to
obtain additional  financing.  While the Sub-advisor attempts to limit purchases
of lower  rated debt  securities  to  securities  having an  established  retail
secondary  market,  the market for such  securities  may not be as liquid as the
market for higher rated debt securities.

         For an additional  discussion of certain risks  involved in lower rated
or unrated  securities,  see this  Statement  and the Trust's  Prospectus  under
"Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         As discussed in the Trust's  Prospectus,  the  Portfolio may enter into
repurchase  agreements with respect to debt instruments  eligible for investment
by the Portfolio,  with member banks of the Federal Reserve  System,  registered
broker-dealers,  and  registered  government  securities  dealers.  A repurchase
agreement  may be considered a loan  collateralized  by  securities.  The resale
price  reflects  an agreed  upon  interest  rate  effective  for the  period the
instrument is held by the Portfolio and is unrelated to the interest rate on the
underlying  instrument.  In these  transactions,  the securities acquired by the
Portfolio (including accrued interest earned thereon) must have a total value in
excess of the value of the repurchase agreement, and are held by the Portfolio's
Custodian Bank until repurchased.

         Another  practice  in which  the  Portfolio  may  engage is to lend its
securities  to  qualified   brokers,   dealers,   banks,   or  other   financial
institutions.  While  voting  rights may pass with the loaned  securities,  if a
material event (e.g.,  proposed  merger,  sale of assets,  or liquidation) is to
occur  affecting  an  investment  on  loan,  the  loan  must be  called  and the
securities voted. Loans of securities made by the Portfolio will comply with all
other applicable  regulatory  requirements,  including the rules of the New York
Stock Exchange and the  requirements  of the Investment  Company Act of 1940 and
the Rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.

PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio:

Investment Policies:

         Borrowing. The Portfolio may borrow for temporary purposes in an amount
not exceeding five percent of the value of its total assets.  The Portfolio also
may borrow for investment purposes. Such a practice will result in leveraging of
the  Portfolio's  assets  and may cause the  Portfolio  to  liquidate  portfolio
positions  when it would not be  advantageous  to do so. This  borrowing  may be
unsecured. The Investment Company Act of 1940 requires the Portfolio to maintain
continuous  asset coverage  (that is, total assets  including  borrowings,  less
liabilities exclusive of borrowings) of 300% of the amount borrowed. If the 300%
asset  coverage  should  decline  as a result  of market  fluctuations  or other
reasons, the Portfolio may be required to sell some of its holdings within three
days to reduce the debt and restore the 300% asset coverage,  even though it may
be  disadvantageous  from an investment  standpoint  to sell  securities at that
time.  Borrowing  will tend to  exaggerate  the effect on net asset value of any
increase or decrease in the market value of the  Portfolio.  Money borrowed will
be subject to interest  costs which may or may not be recovered by  appreciation
of the  securities  purchased.  The  Portfolio  also may be required to maintain
minimum  average  balances  in  connection  with  such  borrowing  or  to  pay a
commitment  or  other  fee to  maintain  a  line  of  credit;  either  of  these
requirements would increase the cost of borrowing over the stated interest rate.

         The Portfolio  also may enter into  "mortgage  dollar rolls," which are
similar to reverse repurchase agreements in certain respects. In a "dollar roll"
transaction  the Portfolio  sells a  mortgage-related  security  (such as a GNMA
security) to a dealer and simultaneously agrees to repurchase a similar security
(but not the same security) in the future at a  pre-determined  price. A "dollar
roll" can be viewed,  like a reverse repurchase  agreement,  as a collateralized
borrowing in which the Portfolio pledges a mortgage-related security to a dealer
to obtain cash. Unlike in the case of reverse repurchase agreements,  the dealer
with which the Portfolio  enters into a dollar roll transaction is not obligated
to return the same  securities as those  originally  sold by the Portfolio,  but
only  securities   which  are   "substantially   identical."  To  be  considered
"substantially  identical,  " the securities returned to the Portfolio generally
must: (1) be  collateralized by the same types of underlying  mortgages;  (2) be
issued by the same  agency and be part of the same  program;  (3) have a similar
original stated maturity;  (4) have identical net coupon rates; (5) have similar
maturity:  (4) have  identical net coupon rates;  (5) have similar market yields
(and therefore  price);  and (6) satisfy "good delivery"  requirements,  meaning
that the aggregate  principal  amounts of the securities  delivered and received
back must be within 2.5% of the initial amount delivered.

         Dollar roll transactions  involve the risk that the market value of the
securities sold may decline below the repurchase price of those securities.  The
securities that are repurchased will be  collateralized  with different pools of
mortgages with different prepayment histories,  and as a result, the borrower is
subject to a greater degree of prepayment related uncertainty.

         The  Portfolio's  obligations  under a dollar  roll  agreement  must be
covered by cash or high quality debt securities equal in value to the securities
subject to repurchase by the Portfolio,  maintained in a segregated  account. To
the extent that the Portfolio collateralized its obligations under a dollar roll
agreement, the asset coverage requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940
will  not  apply  to  such  transactions.   Furthermore,   because  dollar  roll
transactions  may be for terms ranging  between one and six months,  dollar roll
transactions  may be deemed  "illiquid" and subject to the  Portfolio's  overall
limitations on investments in illiquid securities.

         Corporate Debt Securities.  The Portfolio's investments in U.S. dollar-
or foreign currency-denominated corporate debt securities of domestic or foreign
issuers are limited to corporate debt securities  (corporate bonds,  debentures,
notes  and other  similar  corporate  debt  instruments,  including  convertible
securities) which meet the minimum ratings criteria set forth for the Portfolio,
or, if  unrated,  are in the  Sub-advisor's  opinion  comparable  in  quality to
corporate debt securities in which the Portfolio may invest.  The rate of return
or return of principal on some debt  obligations may be linked or indexed to the
level of  exchange  rates  between  the U.S.  dollar and a foreign  currency  or
currencies.

         Among  the  corporate  bonds in which  the  Portfolio  may  invest  are
convertible  securities.  A convertible security is a bond, debenture,  note, or
other  security that entitles the holder to acquire common stock or other equity
securities of the same or a different issuer. A convertible  security  generally
entitles the holder to receive  interest paid or accrued  until the  convertible
security  matures or is redeemed,  converted or  exchanged.  Before  conversion,
convertible  securities  have  characteristics  similar to  nonconvertible  debt
securities.   Convertible   securities   rank  senior  to  common   stock  in  a
corporation's capital structure and, therefore,  generally entail less risk than
the  corporation's  common  stock,  although  the  extent to which  such risk is
reduced  depends  in large  measure  upon the  degree to which  the  convertible
security sells above its value as a fixed income security.

         A  convertible  security may be subject to  redemption at the option of
the issuer at a  predetermined  price.  If a  convertible  security  held by the
Portfolio is called for redemption, the Portfolio will be required to permit the
issuer to redeem the security and convert it to underlying common stock, or will
sell the convertible  security to a third party.  The Portfolio  generally would
invest in convertible  securities for their favorable price  characteristics and
total return potential and would normally not exercise an option to convert.

         Investments  in  securities  rated  below  investment  grade  that  are
eligible for purchase by the  Portfolio  (i.e.,  rated B or better by Moody's or
S&P) are described as "speculative" by both Moody's and S&P. Investment in lower
rated corporate debt securities  ("high yield  securities")  generally  provides
greater  income  and  increased   opportunity  for  capital   appreciation  than
investments in higher quality securities, but they also typically entail greater
price  volatility and principal and income risk. These high yield securities are
regarded as high risk and predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's
continuing ability to meet principal and interest payments. The market for these
securities is relatively new, and many of the outstanding  high yield securities
have not endured a major business recession. A long-term track record on default
rates,  such as that for investment  grade corporate  bonds,  does not exist for
this market. Analysis of the creditworthiness of issuers of debt securities that
are high  yield may be more  complex  than for  issuers of higher  quality  debt
securities.

         High yield,  high risk  securities  may be more  susceptible to real or
perceived adverse economic and competitive  industry  conditions than investment
grade securities.  The price of high yield securities have been found to be less
sensitive to interest-rate  adverse economic  downturns or individual  corporate
developments.  A  projection  of an  economic  downturn or of a period of rising
interest rates, for example, could cause a decline in high yield security prices
because the advent of a recession could lessen the ability of a highly leveraged
company to make principal and interest  payments on its debt  securities.  If an
issuer of high yield securities defaults,  in addition to risking payment of all
or a portion of interest  and  principal,  the  Portfolio  may incur  additional
expenses to seek recovery.  In the case of high yield  securities  structured as
zero-coupon  or  pay-in-kind  securities,  their market prices are affected to a
greater extent by interest rate changes,  and therefore tend to be more volatile
than securities which pay interest periodically and in cash.

         The  secondary  market on which high yield,  high risk  securities  are
traded may be less  liquid  than the market for higher  grade  securities.  Less
liquidity in the secondary  trading market could  adversely  affect the price at
which the Portfolio could sell a high yield security, and could adversely affect
the  daily  net  asset  value of the  shares.  Adverse  publicity  and  investor
perceptions,  whether or not based on  fundamental  analysis,  may  decrease the
values and  liquidity of high yield  securities  especially  in a  thinly-traded
market.  When secondary  markets for high yield  securities are less liquid than
the market for higher grade  securities,  it may be more  difficult to value the
securities  because such  valuation may require more  research,  and elements of
judgment  may  play a  greater  role  in the  valuation  because  there  is less
reliable,  objective data available. The Sub-advisor seeks to minimize the risks
of investing in all securities through diversification, in-depth credit analysis
and attention to current developments in interest rates and market conditions.

         For an additional  discussion of certain risks  involved in lower rated
debt  securities,  see this Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus under "Certain
Risk Factors and Investment Objectives."

         Participation on Creditors  Committees.  The Portfolio may from time to
time  participate  on  committees  formed by  creditors  to  negotiate  with the
management of financially  troubled issuers of securities held by the Portfolio.
Such  participation may subject the Portfolio to expenses such as legal fees and
may make the  Portfolio  an  "insider" of the issuer for purposes of the federal
securities laws, and therefore may restrict the Portfolio's  ability to trade in
or acquire additional positions in a particular security when it might otherwise
desire to do so.  Participation  by the  Portfolio on such  committees  also may
expose the Portfolio to potential  liabilities under the federal bankruptcy laws
or other laws governing the rights of creditors and debtors.  The Portfolio will
participate  on such  committees  only when the  Sub-advisor  believes that such
participation  is necessary or desirable to enforce the Portfolio's  rights as a
creditor or to protect the value of securities held by the Portfolio.

         Mortgage-Related  and Other Asset-Backed  Securities.  Mortgage-related
securities  are interests in pools of mortgage  loans made to  residential  home
buyers, including mortgage loans made by savings and loan institutions, mortgage
bankers,  commercial banks and others.  Pools of mortgage loans are assembled as
securities for sale to investors by various governmental, government-related and
private organizations (see "Mortgage  Pass-Through  Securities").  The Portfolio
may also invest in debt securities which are secured with collateral  consisting
of mortgage-related securities (see "Collateralized Mortgage Obligations"),  and
in other types of mortgage-related securities.

     Mortgage   Pass-Through   Securities.   The   Portfolio   may   invest   in
mortgage-backed  securities.  For an additional  discussion  of  mortgage-backed
securities  and certain  risks  involved  therein,  see this  Statement  and the
Trust's Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Interests  in pools of  mortgage-related  securities  differ from other
forms of debt  securities,  which  normally  provide  for  periodic  payment  of
interest in fixed amounts with principal  payments at maturity or specified call
dates.  Instead,  these  securities  provide a monthly payment which consists of
both  interest  and  principal  payments.   In  effect,  these  payments  are  a
"pass-through" of the monthly payments made by the individual borrowers on their
residential or commercial  mortgage loans, net of any fees paid to the issuer or
guarantor of such  securities.  Additional  payments are caused by repayments of
principal  resulting  from the sale of the underlying  property,  refinancing or
foreclosure,  net of fees or costs which may be incurred.  Some mortgage-related
securities  (such as  securities  issued  by the  Government  National  Mortgage
Association) are described as "modified  pass-through." These securities entitle
the holder to receive all interest and principal  payments owned on the mortgage
pool, net of certain fees, at the scheduled  payment dates regardless of whether
or not the mortgagor actually makes the payment.

         The principal governmental guarantor of mortgage-related  securities is
the Government National Mortgage  Association  ("GNMA").  GNMA is a wholly owned
United States Government  corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.  GNMA is authorized to guarantee, with the full faith and credit of
the United States  Government,  the timely  payment of principal and interest on
securities  issued by  institutions  approved  by GNMA (such as savings and loan
institutions,  commercial  banks and  mortgage  bankers)  and backed by pools of
FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed mortgages.

         Government-related  guarantors  (i.e., not backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States  Government)  include the Federal National  Mortgage
Association ("FNMA") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage  Corporation  ("FHLMC").
FNMA  is  a   government-sponsored   corporation   owned   entirely  by  private
stockholders.  It is subject to general  regulation  by the Secretary of Housing
and Urban  Development.  FNMA  purchases  conventional  (i.e.,  not  insured  or
guaranteed  by any  government  agency)  residential  mortgages  from a list  of
approved  seller/servicers  which include state and federally  chartered savings
and loan associations,  mutual savings banks, commercial banks and credit unions
and mortgage bankers. Pass-though securities issued by FNMA are guaranteed as to
timely  payment of principal and interest by FNMA but are not backed by the full
faith and credit of the United States Government.

         FHLMC was created by Congress in 1970 for the purpose of increasing the
availability   of   mortgage   credit   for   residential   housing.   It  is  a
government-sponsored  corporation formerly owned by the twelve Federal Home Loan
Banks and now owned entirely by private stockholders. FHLMC issues Participation
Certificates  ("PC's") which represent interests in conventional  mortgages from
FHLMC's national portfolio.  FHLMC guarantees the timely payment of interest and
ultimate  collection of principal,  but PCs are not backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States Government.

         Commercial  banks,  savings  and loan  institutions,  private  mortgage
insurance  companies,  mortgage  bankers and other secondary market issuers also
create  pass-though  pools of  conventional  residential  mortgage  loans.  Such
issuers may, in addition,  be the originators and/or servicers of the underlying
mortgage  loans as well as the  guarantors of the  mortgage-related  securities.
Pools created by such  nongovernmental  issuers generally offer a higher rate of
interest  than  government  and  government-related  pools  because there are no
direct or indirect  government  or agency  guarantees  of payments in the former
pools.  However,  timely payment of interest and principal of these pools may be
supported  by various  forms of insurance or  guarantees,  including  individual
loan, title, pool and hazard insurance and letters of credit.  The insurance and
guarantees  are  issued  by  governmental  entities,  private  insurers  and the
mortgage poolers.  Such insurance and guarantees and the creditworthiness of the
issuers  thereof will be considered in  determining  whether a  mortgage-related
security  meets  the  Trust's  investment  quality  standards.  There  can be no
assurance  that the private  insurers or guarantors  can meet their  obligations
under the insurance  policies or guarantee  arrangements.  The Portfolio may buy
mortgage-related  securities  without  insurance or  guarantees  if,  through an
examination of the loan experience and practices of the originator/servicers and
poolers, the Sub-advisor determines that the securities meet the Trust's quality
standards.  Although  the market for such  securities  is becoming  increasingly
liquid,  securities  issued by certain private  organizations may not be readily
marketable.  The Portfolio will not purchase mortgage-related  securities or any
other  assets which in the  Sub-advisor's  opinion are illiquid if, as a result,
more than 15% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets will be illiquid.

         Mortgage-backed  securities  that are issued or  guaranteed by the U.S.
Government,   its  agencies  or  instrumentalities,   are  not  subject  to  the
Portfolios'  industry   concentration   restrictions,   set  forth  below  under
"Investment  Restrictions,"  by virtue of the exclusion from that test available
to  all  U.S.   Government   securities.   In  the  case  of  privately   issued
mortgage-related  securities  do  not  represent  interests  in  any  particular
"industry" or group of industries.  The assets underlying such securities may be
represented by the Portfolio of first lien residential mortgages (including both
whole  mortgage  loans and mortgage  participation  interests)  or portfolios of
mortgage  pass-through  securities  issued or guaranteed by GNMA, FNMA or FHLMC.
Mortgage loans underlying a mortgage-related  security may in turn be insured or
guaranteed by the Federal Housing  Administration  or the Department of Veterans
Affairs.  In  the  case  of  private  issue  mortgage-related  securities  whose
underlying   assets   are   neither   U.S.   Government   securities   nor  U.S.
Government-insured  mortgages,  to the extent that real properties securing such
assets may be located  in the same  geographical  region,  the  security  may be
subject to a greater risk of default  that other  comparable  securities  in the
event of adverse  economic,  political or business  developments that may affect
such  region and  ultimately,  the  ability of  residential  homeowners  to make
payments of principal and interest on the underlying mortgages.

         Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs). A CMO is a hybrid between a
mortgage-backed bond and a mortgage  pass-through  security.  Similar to a bond,
interest and prepaid principal is paid, in most cases, semiannually. CMOs may be
collateralized by whole mortgage loans, but are more typically collateralized by
portfolios of mortgage  pass-through  securities  guaranteed by GNMA,  FHLMC, or
FNMA, and their income streams.

         CMOs are  structured  into multiple  classes,  each bearing a different
stated  maturity.  Actual  maturity  and  average  life  will  depend  upon  the
prepayment  experience  of the  collateral.  CMOs provide for a modified form of
call protection through a de facto breakdown of the underlying pool of mortgages
according  to how  quickly the loans are repaid.  Monthly  payment of  principal
received from the pool of underlying mortgages,  including prepayments, is first
returned to investors holding the shortest maturity class. Investors holding the
longer maturity  classes  receive  principal only after the first class has been
retired.  An investor is partially  guarded against a sooner than desired return
or principal because of the sequential payments.

         In a typical CMO transaction,  a corporation ("issuer") issues multiple
series  (e.g.,  A, B, C, Z) of the CMO  bonds  ("Bonds").  Proceeds  of the Bond
offering are used to purchase  mortgages or mortgage  pass-through  certificates
("Collateral").  The  Collateral is pledged to a third party trustee as security
for the Bonds.  Principal and interest  payments from the Collateral are used to
pay principal on the Bonds in the order A, B, C, Z. The Series A, B, and C Bonds
all bear current interest. Interest on the Series Z Bond is accrued and added to
principal  and a like amount is paid as  principal on the Series A, B, or C Bond
currently  being  paid off.  When the Series A, B, and C Bonds are paid in full,
interest and  principal on the Series Z Bond begins to be paid  currently.  With
some CMOs, the issuer serves as a conduit to allow loan  originators  (primarily
builders  or  savings  and loan  associations)  to  borrow  against  their  loan
portfolios.

         FHLMC  Collateralized   Mortgage  Obligations.   FHLMC  CMOs  are  debt
obligations of FHLMC issued in multiple classes having different  maturity dates
which  are  secured  by the  pledge  of a pool of  conventional  mortgage  loans
purchased by FHLMC.  Unlike FHLMC PCs, payments of principal and interest on the
CMOs are made  semiannually,  as opposed  to  monthly.  The amount of  principal
payable on each semiannual payment date is determined in accordance with FHLMC's
mandatory sinking fund schedule,  which, in turn, is equal to approximately 100%
of FHA  prepayment  experience  applied to the  mortgage  collateral  pool.  All
sinking  fund  payments  in the  CMOs are  allocated  to the  retirement  of the
individual classes of bonds in the order of their stated maturities.  Payment of
principal on the mortgage loans in the  collateral  pool in excess of the amount
of FHLMC's  minimum sinking fund obligation for any payment date are paid to the
holders  of the  CMOs  as  additional  sinking  fund  payments.  Because  of the
"pass-through"  nature of all principal payments received on the collateral pool
in  excess  of  FHLMC's  minimum  sinking  fund  requirement,  the rate at which
principal of the CMOs is actually repaid is likely to be such that each class of
bonds will be retired in advance of its scheduled maturity date.

         If  collection  of principal  (including  prepayments)  on the mortgage
loans during any  semiannual  payment  period is not  sufficient to meet FHLMC's
minimum  sinking fund  obligation on the next sinking fund payment  date,  FHLMC
agrees to make up the deficiency from its general funds.

         Criteria for the mortgage  loans in the pool backing the FHLMC CMOs are
identical to those of FHLMC PCs. FHLMC has the right to substitute collateral in
the event of delinquencies and/or defaults.

         Other Mortgage-Related  Securities.  Other mortgage-related  securities
include  securities other than those described above that directly or indirectly
represent a participation in, or are secured by and payable from, mortgage loans
on  real   property,   including  CMO  residuals  or  stripped   mortgage-backed
securities.  Other mortgage-related  securities may be equity or debt securities
issued by agencies or  instrumentalities  of the U.S.  Government  or by private
originators  of, or investors in,  mortgage  loans,  including  savings and loan
associations,  homebuilders, mortgage banks, commercial banks, investment banks,
partnerships, trusts and special purpose entities of the foregoing.

         CMO Residuals.  CMO residuals are derivative mortgage securities issued
by  agencies  or   instrumentalities  of  the  U.S.  Government  or  by  private
originators  of, or investors in,  mortgage  loans,  including  savings and loan
associations,  homebuilders,  mortgage banks, commercial banks, investment banks
and special purpose entities of the foregoing.

         The cash flow generated by the mortgage  assets  underlying a series of
CMOs is applied first to make required payments of principal and interest on the
CMOs and second to pay the related  administrative  expenses of the issuer.  The
residual in a CMO structure generally represents the interest in any excess cash
flow remaining after making the foregoing payments.  Each payment of such excess
cash flow to a holder of the related CMO  residual  represents  income  and/or a
return of capital.  The amount of residual cash flow  resulting  from a CMO will
depend on, among other things,  the  characteristics of the mortgage assets, the
coupon  rate of each  class of CMO,  prevailing  interest  rates,  the amount of
administrative expenses and the prepayment experience on the mortgage assets. In
particular,  the yield to maturity on CMO  residuals is  extremely  sensitive to
prepayments on the related underlying  mortgage assets, in the same manner as an
interest-only ("IO") class of stripped  mortgage-backed  securities.  See "Other
Mortgage-Related   Securities  --  Stripped   Mortgage-Backed   Securities."  In
addition,  if a series of a CMO  includes  a class  that  bears  interest  at an
adjustable  rate, the yield to maturity on the related CMO residual will also be
extremely  sensitive  to changes  in the level of the index upon which  interest
rate  adjustments  are  based.  As  described  below with  respect  to  stripped
mortgage-backed  securities,  in certain circumstances the Portfolio may fail to
recoup fully its initial investment in a CMO residual.

         CMO  residuals  are  generally  purchased  and  sold  by  institutional
investors through several investment banking firms acting as brokers or dealers.
The CMO  residual  market has only very  recently  developed  and CMO  residuals
currently  may not  have the  liquidity  of other  more  established  securities
trading in other markets.  Transactions in CMO residuals are generally completed
only after careful review of the  characteristics of the securities in question.
In addition,  CMO residuals may or, pursuant to an exemption therefrom,  may not
have  been  registered  under  the  Securities  Act of  1933,  as  amended.  CMO
residuals,  whether or not registered  under such Act, may be subject to certain
restrictions on transferability, and may be deemed "illiquid" and subject to the
Portfolio's limitations on investment in illiquid securities.

         Stripped   Mortgage-Backed    Securities.    Stripped   mortgage-backed
securities ("SMBS") are derivative multi-class mortgage securities.  SMBS may be
issued by agencies or instrumentalities  of the U.S.  Government,  or by private
originators  of, or investors in,  mortgage  loans,  including  savings and loan
associations,  mortgage banks,  commercial  banks,  investment banks and special
purpose entities of the foregoing.

         SMBS are usually  structured  with two classes that  receive  different
proportions  of the interest and principal  distributions  on a pool of mortgage
assets. A common type of SMBS will have one class receiving some of the interest
and most of the principal from the mortgage  assets,  which the other class will
receive  most of the interest and the  remainder of the  principal.  In the most
extreme case,  one class will receive all of the interest (the IO class),  while
the other class will receive all of the principal  (the  principal-only  or "PO"
class). The yield to maturity on an IO class is extremely  sensitive to the rate
of  principal  payments  (  including  prepayments)  on the  related  underlying
mortgage  assets,  and a rapid rate of  principal  payments  may have a material
adverse effect on the Portfolio's  yield to maturity from these  securities.  If
the underlying  mortgage assets experience greater than anticipated  prepayments
of principal,  the Portfolio may fail to fully recoup its initial  investment in
these  securities  even  if  the  security  is in  one  of  the  highest  rating
categories.

         Although SMBS are purchased and sold by institutional investors through
several investment banking firms acting as brokers or dealers,  these securities
were only recently developed. As a result,  established trading markets have not
yet developed and,  accordingly,  these securities may be deemed  "illiquid" and
subject to the Portfolio's limitations on investment in illiquid securities.

         Other Asset-Backed Securities.  Similarly, the Sub-advisor expects that
other asset-backed  securities  (unrelated to mortgage loans) will be offered to
investors in the future. Several types of asset-backed securities may be offered
to  investors,   including  Certificates  for  Automobile  Receivables.   For  a
discussion of automobile  receivables,  see this  Statement  under "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment  Methods."  Consistent  with the  Portfolio's  investment
objectives  and  policies,  the  Sub-advisor  also may invest in other  types of
asset-backed securities.

         Foreign Securities. The Portfolio may invest in U.S. dollar- or foreign
currency-denominated  corporate debt  securities of foreign  issuers  (including
preferred or preference  stock),  certain  foreign bank  obligations  (see "Bank
Obligations")  and U.S. dollar- or foreign  currency-denominated  obligations of
foreign  governments  or their  subdivisions,  agencies  and  instrumentalities,
international  agencies and supranational  entities. The Portfolio may invest up
to 20% of its assets in securities  denominated in foreign  currencies,  and may
invest  beyond  this  limit in U.S.  dollar-denominated  securities  of  foreign
issuers.  The  Portfolio  will limit its foreign  investments  to  securities of
issuers  based  in  developed  countries  (which  include  Newly  Industrialized
Countries  ("NICs") such as Mexico,  Taiwan and South  Korea).  Investing in the
securities of foreign  issuers  involves  special risks and  considerations  not
typically  associated  with  investing in U.S.  companies.  For a discussion  of
certain risks involved in foreign  investments,  see the Trust's  Prospectus and
this Statement under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         The Portfolio also may purchase and sell foreign  currency  options and
foreign  currency  futures  contracts  and  related  options  (see  ""Derivative
Instruments"),  and enter into forward foreign  currency  exchange  contracts in
order to protect  against  uncertainty in the level of future  foreign  exchange
rates in the purchase and sale of securities.

         A forward foreign currency  contract involves an obligation to purchase
or sell a specific  currency at a future date,  which may be any fixed number of
days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at
the tine of the contract.  These  contracts may be bought or sold to protect the
Portfolio  against a  possible  loss  resulting  from an  adverse  change in the
relationship  between foreign  currencies and the U.S. dollar or, open positions
in forward  contracts are covered by the segregation with the Trust's  custodian
of high quality short-term investments are marked to market daily. Although such
contracts  are  intended  to  minimize  the risk of loss due to a decline on the
value  of the  hedged  currencies,  at the same  time,  they  tend to limit  any
potential gain which might result should the value of such currencies increase.

         Brady Bonds.  The Portfolio may invest in Brady Bonds.  Brady Bonds are
securities  created  through the exchange of existing  commercial  bank loans to
sovereign  entities for new obligations in connection  with debt  restructurings
under a debt  restructuring  plan  introduced  by former U.S.  Secretary  of the
Treasury,  Nicholas F. Brady (the "Brady Plan").  Brady Plan debt restructurings
have been implemented in several  countries,  including in Argentina,  Bulgaria,
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic,  Jordan,  Mexico,  Nigeria, the Philippines,
Uruguay,  and Venezuela.  In addition,  Brazil has concluded a Brady-like  plan.
Ecuador  has  reached  an  agreement  with  its  lending  banks,  but  the  full
consummation of Ecuador's Brady Plan is still pending. It is expected that other
countries will undertake a Brady Plan in the future, including Panama, Peru, and
Poland.

         Brady Bonds have been issued only recently, and accordingly do not have
a long payment history.  Brady Bonds may be collateralized or  uncollateralized,
are issued in various  currencies  (primarily the U.S.  dollar) and are actively
traded in the over-the-counter secondary market.

         U.S. dollar-denominated, collateralized Brady Bonds, which may be fixed
rate par bonds or floating rate discount bonds, are generally  collateralized in
full as to principal by U.S. Treasury zero coupon bonds having the same maturity
as the Brady  Bonds.  Interest  payments  on these  Brady  Bonds  generally  are
collateralized  on a  one-year  or  longer  rolling-forward  basis  by  cash  or
securities  in an amount that,  in the case of fixed rate bonds,  is equal to at
least one year of  interest  payments  or, in the case of  floating  rate bonds,
initially  is  equal to at  least  one  year's  interest  payments  based on the
applicable  interest  rate at that time and is  adjusted  at  regular  intervals
thereafter.  Certain  Brady Bonds are entitled to "value  recovery  payments" in
certain circumstances, which in effect constitute supplemental interest payments
but  generally  are not  collateralized.  Brady Bonds are often viewed as having
three  or  four  valuation  components:  (i)  the  collateralized  repayment  of
principal at final maturity;  (ii) the collateralized  interest payments;  (iii)
the uncollateralized interest payments; and (iv) any uncollateralized  repayment
of  principal  at  maturity  (these  uncollateralized   amounts  constitute  the
"residual risk").

         Most Mexican  Brady Bonds issued to date have  principal  repayments at
final  maturity  fully  collateralized  by U.S.  Treasury  zero coupon bonds (or
comparable  collateral  denominated  in other  currencies)  and interest  coupon
payments  collateralized on an 18-month  rolling-forward  basis by funds held in
escrow by an agent for the bondholders.  A significant portion of the Venezuelan
Brady  Bonds  and the  Argentine  Brady  Bonds  issued  to date  have  principal
repayments at final maturity  collateralized  by U.S. Treasury zero coupon bonds
(or comparable  collateral  denominated  in other  currencies)  and/or  interest
coupon  payments  collateralized  on a 14-month (for Venezuela) or 12-month (for
Argentina)  rolling-forward basis by securities held by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York as collateral agent.

         Brady Bonds involve  various risk factors  including  residual risk and
the  history of defaults  with  respect to  commercial  bank loans by public and
private  entities of countries  issuing  Brady Bonds.  There can be no assurance
that  Brady  Bonds in which the  Portfolio  may  invest  will not be  subject to
restructuring  arrangements  or to requests for new credit,  which may cause the
Portfolio to suffer a loss of interest or principal on any of its holdings.

         Bank  Obligations.  Bank  obligations  in which the  Portfolios  invest
include certificates of deposit, bankers' acceptances,  and fixed time deposits.
Certificates  of  deposit  are  negotiable  certificates  issued  against  funds
deposited  in a  commercial  bank for a  definite  period of time and  earning a
specified  return.  Bankers'  acceptances  are  negotiable  drafts  or  bills of
exchange,  normally  drawn  by an  importer  or  exporter  to pay  for  specific
merchandise,  which are "accepted" by a bank,  meaning, in effect, that the bank
unconditionally  agrees to pay the face  value of the  instrument  on  maturity.
Fixed time deposits are bank  obligations  payable at a stated maturity date and
bearing interest at a fixed rate. Fixed time deposits may be withdrawn on demand
by the investor,  but may be subject to early  withdrawal  penalties  which vary
depending upon market  conditions and the remaining  maturity of the obligation.
There are no  contractual  restrictions  on the right to  transfer a  beneficial
interest in a fixed time deposit to a third party,  although  there is no market
for such  deposits.  The Portfolio  will not invest in fixed time deposits which
(1) are not subject to prepayment or (2) provide for  withdrawal  penalties upon
prepayment (other an overnight deposits) if, in the aggregate,  more than 15% of
its assets would be invested in such deposits, repurchase agreements maturing in
more than seven days and other illiquid assets.

         The  Portfolio  will  limit  its  investments  in  United  States  bank
obligations  to obligation of United States bank  (including  foreign  branches)
which have more than $1 billion in total  assets at the time of  investment  and
are member of the Federal  Reserve System or are examined by the  Comptroller of
the  Currency or whose  deposits  are insured by the Federal  Deposit  Insurance
Corporation. The Portfolio also may invest in certificates of deposit of savings
and loan  associations  (federally or state  chartered  and  federally  insured)
having total assets in excess $1 billion.

         The Portfolio will limit its investments in foreign bank obligations to
United States  dollar- or foreign  currency-denominated  obligations  of foreign
banks  (including  United States branches of foreign banks) which at the time of
investment  (i)  have  more  than  $10  billion,  or  the  equivalent  in  other
currencies,  in total  assets;  (ii) in terms of assets are among the 75 largest
foreign banks in the world;  (iii) have  branches or agencies ( limited  purpose
offices which do not offer all banking services) in the United States;  and (iv)
in the opinion of the Sub-advisor,  are of an investment  quality  comparable to
obligations of United States banks in which the Portfolio may invest. Subject to
the Portfolio's limitation on concentration of no more than 25% of its assets in
the securities of issuers in particular industry,  there is no limitation on the
amount of the Portfolio's assets which may be invested in obligations of foreign
banks which meet the conditions set forth herein.

         Obligations  of foreign banks  involve  somewhat  different  investment
risks than those  affecting  obligations  of United States banks,  including the
possibilities that their liquidity could be impaired because of future political
and economic  developments,  that their  obligations may be less marketable than
comparable obligations of United States banks, that a foreign jurisdiction might
impose withholding taxes on interest income payable on those  obligations,  that
foreign  deposits  may be  seized or  nationalized,  that  foreign  governmental
restrictions  such as exchange  controls  may be adopted  which might  adversely
affect the payment of principal and interest on those  obligations  and that the
selection of those  obligations may be more difficult  because there may be less
publicly  available  information  concerning  foreign  banks or the  accounting,
auditing  and  financial   reporting   standards,   practices  and  requirements
applicable  to foreign  banks may differ from those  applicable to United States
banks.  Foreign banks are not  generally  subject to  examination  by any United
States Government agency or instrumentality.

         Derivative  Instruments.  In pursuing  its  individual  objective,  the
Portfolio  may, as described in the  Prospectus,  purchase and sell (write) both
put options and call  options on  securities,  securities  indexes,  and foreign
currencies,  and enter into interest  rate,  foreign  currency and index futures
contracts  and  purchase and sell  options on such  futures  contracts  ("future
options")  for  hedging  purposes.  The  Portfolio  also  may  enter  into  swap
agreements  with respect to foreign  currencies,  interest  rates and indexes of
securities.  If other types of financial  instruments,  including other types of
options,  futures  contracts,  or futures options are traded in the future,  the
Portfolio  may also use those  instruments,  provided  that the Trust's Board of
Trustees determines that their use is consistent with the Portfolio's investment
objective,   and  provided  that  their  use  is  consistent  with  restrictions
applicable to options and futures  contracts  currently  eligible for use by the
Trust (i.e., that written call or put options will be "covered" or "secured" and
that futures and futures options will be used only for hedging purposes).

         Options on Securities and Indexes.  The Portfolio may purchase and sell
both put and call options on debt or other securities or indexes in standardized
contracts traded on foreign or national securities  exchanges,  boards of trade,
or  similar   entities,   or  quoted  on  NASDAQ  or  on  a  regulated   foreign
over-the-counter  market,  and agreements  sometimes called cash puts, which may
accompany the purchase of a new issue of bonds from a dealer.

         The Portfolio  will write call options and put options only if they are
"covered."  In the case of a call option on a security,  the option is "covered"
if the Portfolio  owns the security  underlying  the call or has an absolute and
immediate right to acquire that security without  additional cash  consideration
(or, if additional cash  consideration is required,  cash or cash equivalents in
such amount are placed in a segregated account by its custodian) upon conversion
or exchange of other  securities held by the Portfolio.  For a call option on an
index, the option is covered if the Portfolio  maintains with its custodian cash
or cash  equivalents  equal to the contract value. A call option is also covered
if the Portfolio  holds a call on the same security or index as the call written
where  the  exercise  price of the call  held is (i)  equal to or less  than the
exercise ice of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the
call written,  provided the difference is maintained by the Portfolio in cash or
cash equivalents in a segregated  account with its custodian.  A put option on a
security  or an index  is  "covered"  if the  Portfolio  maintains  cash or cash
equivalents  equal  to the  exercise  price  in a  segregated  account  with its
custodian. A put option is also covered if the Portfolio holds a put on the same
security or index as the put written where the exercise price of the put held is
(i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less
than  the  exercise  price  of the  put  written,  provided  the  difference  is
maintained by the Portfolio in cash or cash equivalents in a segregated  account
with its custodian.

         If an option written by the Portfolio expires, the Portfolio realizes a
capital  gain equal to the premium  received at the time the option was written.
If an option  purchased by the  Portfolio  expires  unexercised,  the  Portfolio
realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid.

         Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an option may be closed
out by an  offsetting  purchase or sale of an option of the same  series  (type,
exchange,  underlying security or index, exercise price, and expiration).  There
can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be
effected when the Portfolio desires.

         The  Portfolio  will  realize  a capital  gain from a closing  purchase
transaction if the cost of the closing option is less than the premium  received
from writing the option,  or if it is more, the Portfolio will realize a capital
loss. If the premium  received from a closing sale  transaction is more than the
premium paid to purchase the option,  the Portfolio  will realize a capital gain
or, if it is less,  the  Portfolio  will realize a capital  loss.  The principal
factors  affecting the market value of a put or a call option include supply and
demand,  interest rates, the current market price of the underlying  security or
index in relation to the exercise  price of the option,  the  volatility  of the
underlying security or index, and the time remaining until the expiration date.

         The premium paid for a put or call option purchased by the Portfolio is
an asset of the  Portfolio.  The premium  received  for a option  written by the
Portfolio is recorded as a deferred credit.  The value of an option purchased or
written  is  marked to market  daily and is valued at the  closing  price on the
exchange  on which it is traded or, if not traded on an  exchange  or no closing
price is available, at the mean between the last bid and asked prices.

         Risks  Associated  with Options on  Securities  and Indexes.  There are
several risks  associated  with  transactions  in options on  securities  and on
indexes.  For a  discussion  of certain  risks  involved  in  options,  see this
Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Foreign  Currency  Options.  The Portfolio may buy or sell put and call
options on foreign  currencies  either on exchanges  or in the  over-the-counter
market. A put option on a foreign currency gives the purchaser of the option the
right to sell a foreign currency at the exercise price until the option expires.
Currency  options  traded on U.S. or other  exchanges may be subject to position
limits which may limit the ability of the Portfolio to reduce  foreign  currency
risk using such options.  Over-the-counter options differ from traded options in
that they are two-party  contracts with price and other terms negotiated between
buyer  and  seller,  and  generally  do not  have as much  market  liquidity  as
exchange-traded options.

         Futures Contracts and Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may
use interest rate, foreign currency or index futures contracts, as specified for
the Portfolio in the  Prospectus.  An interest rate,  foreign  currency or index
futures  contract  provides  for the future  sale by one party and  purchase  by
another  party  of a  specified  quantity  of a  financial  instrument,  foreign
currency or the cash value of an index at a specified  price and time. A futures
contract on an index is an agreement pursuant to which two parties agree to take
or make delivery of an amount of cash equal to the difference  between the value
of the index at the close of the last  trading day of the contract and the price
at which the index  contract was  originally  written.  Although the value of an
index  might be a function  of the value of  certain  specified  securities,  no
physical delivery of these securities is made.

         The  Portfolio  may  purchase  and write call and put futures  options.
Futures  options  possess  many  of  the  same  characteristics  as  options  on
securities and indexes  (discussed above). A futures option gives the holder the
right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short
position (put) in a futures  contract at a specified  exercise price at any time
during the period of the  option.  Upon  exercise of a call  option,  the holder
acquires a long position in the futures  contract and the writer is assigned the
opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true.

         To  comply  with  applicable  rules of the  Commodity  Futures  Trading
Commission  under  which  the  Trust  and the  Portfolio  avoid  being  deemed a
"commodity pool" or a "commodity pool operator," the Portfolio intends generally
to limit its use of futures contracts and futures options to "bona fide hedging"
transactions, as such term is defined in applicable regulations, interpretations
and practice.  For example,  the Portfolio might use futures  contracts to hedge
against anticipated changes in interest rates that might adversely affect either
the value of the Portfolio's securities or the price of the securities which the
Portfolio intends to purchase.  The Portfolio's  hedging  activities may include
sales of futures contracts as an offset against the effect or expected increases
in interest rates,  and purchases of futures  contracts as an offset against the
effect of expected  declines in interest rates.  Although other techniques could
be used to reduce that Portfolio's  exposure to interest rate fluctuations,  the
Portfolio  may be able to hedge its exposure more  effectively  and perhaps at a
lower cost by using futures contracts and futures options.

         The  Portfolio  will only  enter into  futures  contracts  and  futures
options which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign  exchange,  board
of trade, or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

         When a purchase or sale of a futures contract is made by the Portfolio,
the Portfolio is required to deposit with its  custodian (or broker,  if legally
permitted) a specified amount of cash or U.S.  Government  securities  ("initial
margin").  The margin required for a futures  contract is set by the exchange on
which  the  contract  is  traded  and may be  modified  during  the  term of the
contract.  The  initial  margin is in the nature of a  performance  bond or good
faith deposit on the futures  contract  which is returned to the Portfolio  upon
termination  of the contract,  assuming all  contractual  obligations  have been
satisfied.  Each Portfolio expects to earn interest income on its initial margin
deposits.  A futures  contract  held by the  Portfolio  is  valued  daily at the
official  settlement  price of the exchange on which it is traded.  Each day the
Portfolio pays or receives cash, called  "variation  margin," equal to the daily
change in value of the  futures  contract.  This  process is known as "market to
market."  Variation  margin  does  not  represent  a  borrowing  or  loan by the
Portfolio  but is instead a settlement  between the  Portfolio and the broker of
the amount one would owe the other if the futures contract expired. In computing
daily net asset  value,  each  Portfolio  will mark to market  its open  futures
positions.

         The  Portfolio  is also  required to deposit and  maintain  margin with
respect to put and call options on futures  contracts written by it. Such margin
deposits will vary  depending on the nature of the underlying  futures  contract
(and the related initial margin  requirements),  the current market value of the
option, and other futures positions held by the Portfolio.

         Although some futures  contracts call for making or taking  delivery of
the underlying  securities,  generally these obligations are closed out prior to
delivery by offsetting  purchases or sales of matching  futures  contracts (same
exchange,  underlying  security or index, and delivery month).  If an offsetting
purchase  price is less than the original sale price,  the Portfolio  realizes a
capital  gain,  or if  it is  more,  the  Portfolio  realizes  a  capital  loss.
Conversely,  if an  offsetting  sale  price is more than the  original  purchase
price,  the Portfolio  realizes a capital gain, or if it is less,  the Portfolio
realizes a capital loss.  The  transaction  costs must also be included in these
calculations.

         Limitations  on Use of Futures and  Futures  Options.  In general,  the
Portfolios  intend to enter into  positions  in futures  contracts  and  related
options  only for "bona fide  hedging"  purposes.  With  respect to positions in
futures and related options that do not constitute bona fide hedging  positions,
the Portfolio will not enter into a futures  contract or futures option contract
if,  immediately  thereafter,  the aggregate initial margin deposits relating to
such positions plus premiums paid by it for open futures option positions,  less
the amount by which any such options are "in-the-money,"  would exceed 5% of the
Portfolio's  total assets. A call option is  "in-the-money"  if the value of the
futures contract that is the subject of the option exceeds the exercise price. A
put option is  "in-the-money"  if the  exercise  price  exceeds the value of the
futures contract that is the subject of the option.

         When  purchasing a futures  contract,  the Portfolio will maintain with
its  custodian  (and  mark-to-market  on a daily  basis) cash,  U.S.  Government
securities,  or other  highly  liquid debt  securities  that,  when added to the
amounts deposited with a futures commission merchant as margin, are equal to the
market value of the futures contract.  Alternatively,  the Portfolio may "cover"
its  position by  purchasing a put option on the same  futures  contract  with a
strike  price as high or  higher  than the  price  of the  contract  held by the
Portfolio.

         When selling a futures  contract,  the Portfolio will maintain with its
custodian (and  mark-to-market  on a daily basis) liquid assets that, when added
to the amount deposited with a futures commission  merchant as margin, are equal
to the market value of the instruments  underlying the contract.  Alternatively,
the Portfolio may "cover" its position by owning the instruments  underlying the
contract (or, in the case of an index  futures  contract,  the Portfolio  with a
volatility  substantially  similar  to that of the  index on which  the  futures
contract is based),  or by holding a call option  permitting  the  Portfolio  to
purchase  the same  futures  contract at a price no higher than the price of the
contract  written by the  Portfolio  (or at a higher price if the  difference is
maintained in liquid assets with the Trust's custodian).

         When selling a call option on a futures  contract,  the Portfolio  will
maintain with its custodian  (and  mark-to-market  on a daily basis) cash,  U.S.
Government  securities,  or other highly liquid debt securities that, when added
to the amounts deposited with a futures commission merchant as margin, equal the
total  market  value  of  the  futures  contract  underlying  the  call  option.
Alternatively,  the  Portfolio  may cover its  position by entering  into a long
position in the same futures contract at a price no higher than the strike price
of the call option,  by owning the instruments  underlying the futures contract,
or by holding a separate  call option  permitting  the Portfolio to purchase the
same  futures  contract at a price not higher than the strike  price of the call
option sold by the Portfolio.

         When selling a put option on a futures  contract,  the  Portfolio  will
maintain with its  custodian  (and mark-to  market on a daily basis) cash,  U.S.
Government  securities,  or other highly liquid debt  securities  that equal the
purchase   price  of  the  futures   contract,   less  any  margin  on  deposit.
Alternatively,  the Portfolio  may cover the position  either by entering into a
short position in the same futures contract,  or by owning a separate put option
permitting  it to sell the same futures  contract so long as the strike price of
the  purchased put option is the same or higher than the strike price of the put
option sold by the Portfolio.

         Swap Agreements. The Portfolios may enter into interest rate, index and
currency  exchange rate swap  agreements  for purposes of attempting to obtain a
particular desired return at a lower cost to the Portfolio than if the Portfolio
had invested  directly in an instrument that yielded that desired return.  For a
discussion of swap  agreements,  see the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Investment
Objectives  and Policies." The  Portfolio's  obligations  under a swap agreement
will be accrued daily (offset  against any amounts owing to the  Portfolio)  and
any accrued but unpaid net amounts owed to a swap counterpart will be covered by
the  maintenance of a segregated  account  consisting of cash,  U.S.  Government
securities, or high grade debt obligations, to avoid any potential leveraging of
the  Portfolio's  portfolio.  The Portfolio will not enter into a swap agreement
with any single party if the net amount owned or to be received  under  existing
contracts with that party would exceed 5% of the Portfolio's assets.

         Whether the  Portfolio's  use of swap  agreements will be successful in
furthering  its  investment  objective  of  total  return  will  depend  on  the
Sub-advisor's  ability correctly to predict whether certain types of investments
are likely to produce greater returns than other  investments.  Because they are
two party  contracts and because they may have terms of greater than seven days,
swap agreements may be considered to be illiquid.  Moreover, the Portfolio bears
the risk of loss of the amount expected to be received under a swap agreement in
the event of the default or  bankruptcy  of a swap  agreement  counterpart.  The
Sub-advisor  will cause the  Portfolio to enter into swap  agreements  only with
counterparties that would be eligible for consideration as repurchase  agreement
counterparties under the Portfolio's  repurchase agreement  guidelines.  Certain
restrictions  imposed on the  Portfolios by the Internal  Revenue Code may limit
the Portfolios' ability to use swap agreements. The swaps market is a relatively
new market and is largely  unregulated.  It is possible that developments in the
swaps market, including potential government regulation,  could adversely affect
the  Portfolio's  ability to terminate  existing  swap  agreements or to realize
amounts to be received under such agreements.

         Certain  swap  agreements  are  exempt  from  most  provisions  of  the
Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") and,  therefore,  are not regulated as futures or
commodity option transactions under the CEA, pursuant to regulations approved by
the  Commodity  Futures  Trading  Commission  ("CFTC").   To  qualify  for  this
exemption,  a swap  agreement  must be entered into by "eligible  participants,"
which includes the  following,  provided the  participants'  total assets exceed
established  levels:  a bank or trust  company,  savings  association  or credit
union,  insurance  company,  investment  company subject to regulation under the
Investment  Company  Act of  1940,  commodity  pool,  corporation,  partnership,
proprietorship,  organization,  trust or other  entity,  employee  benefit plan,
governmental entity, broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, natural person,
or regulated  foreign  person.  To be eligible,  natural  persons and most other
entities  must have total  assets  exceeding  $10 million;  commodity  pools and
employee  benefit plans must have assets exceeding $5 million.  In addition,  an
eligible swap transaction must meet three conditions.  First, the swap agreement
may not be part of a fungible class of agreements  that are  standardized  as to
their material  economic terms.  Second,  the  creditworthiness  of parties with
actual or  potential  obligations  under the swap  agreement  must be a material
consideration  in entering into or determining  the terms of the swap agreement,
including pricing,  cost or credit enhancement terms. Third, swap agreements may
not be  entered  into  and  traded  on or  through  a  multilateral  transaction
execution facility.

         This exemption is not exclusive,  and partnerships may continue to rely
on existing  exclusions for swaps,  such as the Policy  Statement issued in July
1989 which  recognized a safe harbor for swap  transactions  from  regulation as
futures or commodity option  transactions under the CEA or its regulations.  The
Policy  Statement  applies  to swap  transactions  settled in cash that (1) have
individual  tailored  terms,  (2) lack  exchange-style  offset  and the use of a
clearing organization or margin system, (3) are undertaken in conjunction with a
line of business, and (4) are not marketed to the public.

         Foreign Currency Exchange-Related  Securities. The Portfolio may invest
in foreign  currency  warrants,  principal  exchange rate linked  securities and
performance  indexed  paper.  For a description of these  instruments,  see this
Statement under "Certain Risk Factor and Investment Methods."

         Warrants to Purchase Securities. The Portfolio may invest in or acquire
warrants to purchase  equity or fixed  income  securities.  Bonds with  warrants
attached to purchase equity securities have many  characteristics of convertible
bonds and their  prices may, to some  degree,  reflect  the  performance  of the
underlying  stock.  Bonds also may be issued with warrants  attached to purchase
additional  fixed  income  securities  at the same  coupon  rate.  A decline  in
interest  rates  would  permit  the  Portfolio  to buy  additional  bonds at the
favorable rate or to sell the warrants at a profit.  If interest rates rise, the
warrants  would  generally  expire with no value.  The Portfolio will not invest
more than 5% of its net assets,  valued at the lower cost or market, in warrants
to purchase securities. Included within that amount, but not to exceed 2% of the
Portfolio's net assets,  may be warrants that rare not listed on the New York or
American Stock Exchanges.  Warrants  acquired in units or attached to securities
will be deemed to be without value for purposes of this restriction.

         Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder  Approval.
The following  limitations  are  applicable  only to the PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio.  The  following  investment  policies  may be changed by the Trustees
without shareholder approval.

         1. The  Portfolio  will not  invest  more than 15% of the assets of the
Portfolio  (taken at market  value at the time of the  investment)  in "illiquid
securities,"  illiquid securities being defined to include securities subject to
legal  or  contractual   restrictions  on  resale  (which  may  include  private
placements),  repurchase  agreements  maturing in more than seven days,  certain
options  traded over the counter that the  Portfolio has  purchased,  securities
being used to cover options a Portfolio has written, securities for which market
quotations are not readily  available,  or other  securities which legally or in
the Sub-advisor's option may be deemed illiquid.

         2. The Portfolio  will not invest in a security if, as a result of such
investment  more than 5% of its total assets  (taken at market value at the time
of such  investment)  would be invested  in  securities  of issuers  (other than
issuers  of  Federal  agency  obligations)   having  a  record,   together  with
predecessors or unconditional guarantors, of less than three years of continuous
operation.

         3. The Portfolio will not purchase  securities for the Portfolio  from,
or sell  portfolio  securities to, any of the officers and directors or Trustees
of the Trust or of the Investment Manager or of the Sub-advisor.

         4. The  Portfolio  will not  invest  more than 5% of the  assets of the
Portfolio  (taken at market value at the time of investment) in any  combination
of interest only, principal only, or inverse floating rate securities.

PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio:

Investment Policies:

         Borrowing. The Portfolio may borrow for temporary purposes in an amount
not exceeding five percent of the value of its total assets.  The Portfolio also
may borrow for investment purposes. Such a practice will result in leveraging of
the  Portfolio's  assets  and may cause the  Portfolio  to  liquidate  portfolio
positions  when it would not be  advantageous  to do so. This  borrowing  may be
unsecured. The Investment Company Act of 1940 requires the Portfolio to maintain
continuous  asset coverage  (that is, total assets  including  borrowings,  less
liabilities exclusive of borrowings) of 300% of the amount borrowed. If the 300%
asset  coverage  should  decline  as a result  of market  fluctuations  or other
reasons,  the Portfolio  may be required to sell some of its portfolio  holdings
within three days to reduce the debt and restore the 300% asset  coverage,  even
though  it  may  be  disadvantageous  from  an  investment  standpoint  to  sell
securities at that time.  Borrowing  will tend to  exaggerate  the effect on net
asset value of any increase or decrease in the market  value of the  Portfolio's
securities.  Money  borrowed will be subject to interest  costs which may or may
not be recovered by appreciation of the securities purchased. The Portfolio also
may be required to maintain  minimum  average  balances in connection  with such
borrowing  or to pay a  commitment  or other fee to  maintain  a line of credit;
either of these  requirements  would  increase  the cost of  borrowing  over the
stated interest rate.

         Among the forms of borrowing in which the  Portfolio  may engage is the
entry  into  reverse  repurchase  agreements.  A  reverse  repurchase  agreement
involves the sale of the Portfolio-eligible  security by the Portfolio,  coupled
with its agreement to repurchase  the  instrument at a specified time and price.
The Portfolio will maintain a segregated  account with its Custodian  consisting
of cash, U.S. Government  securities or high quality debt securities equal (on a
daily  mark-to-market   basis)  to  its  obligations  under  reverse  repurchase
agreements with  broker-dealers  (but not banks).  However,  reverse  repurchase
agreements involve the risk that the market value of securities  retained by the
Portfolio may decline below the repurchase  price of the securities  sold by the
Portfolio which it is obligated to repurchase.  To the extent that the Portfolio
collateralizes its obligations under a reverse repurchase  agreement,  the asset
coverage requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940 will not apply.

         The Portfolio  also may enter into  "mortgage  dollar rolls," which are
similar to reverse repurchase agreements in certain respects. In a "dollar roll"
transaction  the Portfolio  sells a  mortgage-related  security  (such as a GNMA
security) to a dealer and simultaneously agrees to repurchase a similar security
(but not the same security) in the future at a  pre-determined  price. A "dollar
roll" can be viewed,  like a reverse repurchase  agreement,  as a collateralized
borrowing in which the Portfolio pledges a mortgage-related security to a dealer
to obtain cash. Unlike in the case of reverse repurchase agreements,  the dealer
with which the Portfolio  enters into a dollar roll transaction is not obligated
to return the same  securities as those  originally  sold by the Portfolio,  but
only  securities   which  are   "substantially   identical."  To  be  considered
"substantially  identical," the securities  returned to the Portfolio  generally
must: (1) be  collateralized by the same types of underlying  mortgages;  (2) be
issued by the same  agency and be part of the same  program;  (3) have a similar
original stated maturity;  (4) have identical net coupon rates; (5) have similar
market  yields  (and  therefore   price);   and  (6)  satisfy  "good   delivery"
requirements,  meaning that the aggregate  principal  amounts of the  securities
delivered and received back must be within 2.5% of the initial amount delivered.

         Dollar roll transactions  involve the risk that the market value of the
securities sold may decline below the repurchase price of those securities.  The
securities that are repurchased will be  collateralized  with different pools of
mortgages with different prepayment histories,  and as a result, the borrower is
subject to a greater degree of prepayment related uncertainty.

         The  Portfolio's  obligations  under a dollar  roll  agreement  must be
covered by cash or high quality debt securities equal in value to the securities
subject to repurchase by the Portfolio,  maintained in a segregated  account. To
the extent that the Portfolio collateralizes its obligations under a dollar roll
agreement, the asset coverage requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940
will  not  apply  to  such  transactions.   Furthermore,   because  dollar  roll
transactions  may be for terms ranging  between one and six months,  dollar roll
transactions  may be deemed  "illiquid" and subject to the  Portfolio's  overall
limitations on investments in illiquid securities.

         Corporate Debt Securities.  The Portfolio's investments in U.S. dollar-
or foreign currency-denominated corporate debt securities of domestic or foreign
issuers are limited to corporate debt securities  (corporate bonds,  debentures,
notes  and other  similar  corporate  debt  instruments,  including  convertible
securities) which meet the minimum ratings criteria set forth for the Portfolio,
or, if  unrated,  are in the  Sub-advisor's  opinion  comparable  in  quality to
corporate debt securities in which the Portfolio may invest.  The rate of return
or return of principal on some debt  obligations may be linked or indexed to the
level of  exchange  rates  between  the U.S.  dollar and a foreign  currency  or
currencies.

         Among  the  corporate  bonds in which  the  Portfolio  may  invest  are
convertible  securities.  A convertible security is a bond, debenture,  note, or
other  security that entitles the holder to acquire common stock or other equity
securities of the same or a different issuer. A convertible  security  generally
entitles the holder to receive  interest paid or accrued  until the  convertible
security  matures or is redeemed,  converted or  exchanged.  Before  conversion,
convertible  securities  have  characteristics  similar to  nonconvertible  debt
securities.   Convertible   securities   rank  senior  to  common   stock  in  a
corporation's capital structure and, therefore,  generally entail less risk than
the  corporation's  common  stock,  although  the  extent to which  such risk is
reduced  depends  in large  measure  upon the  degree to which  the  convertible
security sells above its value as a fixed income security.

         A  convertible  security may be subject to  redemption at the option of
the issuer at a  predetermined  price.  If a  convertible  security  held by the
Portfolio is called for  redemption,  the Portfolio  would be required to permit
the issuer to redeem the security and convert it to underlying  common stock, or
would sell the convertible  security to a third party.  The Portfolio  generally
would invest in convertible securities for their favorable price characteristics
and total return potential and would normally not exercise an option to convert.

         Investments  in  securities  rated  below  investment  grade  that  are
eligible for purchase by the  Portfolio  (i.e.,  rated B or better by Moody's or
S&P),  are  described as  "speculative"  by both Moody's and S&P.  Investment in
lower rated  corporate  debt  securities  ("high  yield  securities")  generally
provides greater income and increased  opportunity for capital appreciation than
investments in higher quality securities, but they also typically entail greater
price  volatility and principal and income risk. These high yield securities are
regarded as predominantly  speculative  with respect to the issuer's  continuing
ability to meet principal and interest payments. The market for these securities
is relatively  new, and many of the outstanding  high yield  securities have not
endured a major business  recession.  A long-term track record on default rates,
such as that for  investment  grade  corporate  bonds,  does not  exist for this
market.  Analysis of the creditworthiness of issuers of debt securities that are
high  yield  may be more  complex  than  for  issuers  of  higher  quality  debt
securities.

         High yield  securities  may be more  susceptible  to real or  perceived
adverse  economic and competitive  industry  conditions  than  investment  grade
securities.  The  prices of high  yield  securities  have been  found to be less
sensitive to  interest-rate  changes  than  higher-rated  investments,  but more
sensitive to adverse economic downturns or individual corporate developments.  A
projection of an economic  downturn or of a period of rising interest rates, for
example,  could cause a decline in high yield security prices because the advent
of a recession  could lessen the ability of a highly  leveraged  company to make
principal  and interest  payments on its debt  securities.  If an issuer of high
yield securities defaults, in addition to risking payment of all or a portion of
interest and  principal,  the  Portfolio may incur  additional  expenses to seek
recovery.  In the case of high yield  securities  structured as  zero-coupon  or
pay-in-kind securities,  their market prices are affected to a greater extent by
interest rate changes,  and therefore  tend to be more volatile than  securities
which pay interest periodically and in cash.

         The secondary  market on which high yield  securities are traded may be
less liquid than the market for higher grade  securities.  Less liquidity in the
secondary trading market could adversely affect the price at which the Portfolio
could sell a high yield security, and could adversely affect the daily net asset
value of the shares. Adverse publicity and investor perceptions,  whether or not
based on  fundamental  analysis,  may decrease the values and  liquidity of high
yield securities  especially in a thinly-traded  market.  When secondary markets
for high yield  securities  are less  liquid  than the  market for higher  grade
securities,  it may be more  difficult  to value  the  securities  because  such
valuation may require more research, and elements of judgment may play a greater
role in the valuation because there is less reliable,  objective data available.
The  Sub-advisor  seeks to minimize  the risks of  investing  in all  securities
through  diversification,  in-depth  credit  analysis  and  attention to current
developments in interest rates and market conditions.

         For a discussion of the risks involved in lower-rated  debt securities,
see this  Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus  under "Certain Risk Factors and
Investment Methods."

         Participation on Creditors  Committees.  The Portfolio may from time to
time  participate  on  committees  formed by  creditors  to  negotiate  with the
management of financially  troubled issuers of securities held by the Portfolio.
Such  participation may subject the Portfolio to expenses such as legal fees and
may make the  Portfolio  an  "insider" of the issuer for purposes of the federal
securities laws, and therefore may restrict the Portfolio's  ability to trade in
or acquire additional positions in a particular security when it might otherwise
desire to do so.  Participation  by the  Portfolio on such  committees  also may
expose the Portfolio to potential  liabilities under the federal bankruptcy laws
or other laws governing the rights of creditors and debtors. The Portfolio would
participate  on such  committees  only  when  the  Adviser  believed  that  such
participation was necessary or desirable to enforce the Portfolio's  rights as a
creditor or to protect the value of securities held by the Portfolio.

         Mortgage-Related  and Other Asset-Backed  Securities.  Mortgage-related
securities are interests in pools of residential or commercial  mortgage  loans,
including  mortgage  loans  made by  savings  and  loan  institutions,  mortgage
bankers,  commercial banks and others.  Pools of mortgage loans are assembled as
securities for sale to investors by various governmental, government-related and
private organizations (see "Mortgage  Pass-Through  Securities").  The Portfolio
may also invest in debt securities which are secured with collateral  consisting
of mortgage-related securities (see "Collateralized Mortgage Obligations"),  and
in other types of mortgage-related securities.

     Mortgage   Pass-Through   Securities.   The   Portfolio   may   invest   in
mortgage-backed  securities.  For an additional  discussion  of  mortgage-backed
securities  and certain  risks  involved  therein,  see this  Statement  and the
Trust's Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Interests  in pools of  mortgage-related  securities  differ from other
forms of debt  securities,  which  normally  provide  for  periodic  payment  of
interest in fixed amounts with principal  payments at maturity or specified call
dates.  Instead,  these  securities  provide a monthly payment which consists of
both  interest  and  principal  payments.   In  effect,  these  payments  are  a
"pass-through" of the monthly payments made by the individual borrowers on their
residential or commercial  mortgage loans, net of any fees paid to the issuer or
guarantor of such  securities.  Additional  payments are caused by repayments of
principal  resulting  from the sale of the underlying  property,  refinancing or
foreclosure,  net of fees or costs which may be incurred.  Some mortgage-related
securities  (such as  securities  issued  by the  Government  National  Mortgage
Association) are described as "modified  pass-through." These securities entitle
the holder to receive all interest and  principal  payments owed on the mortgage
pool, net of certain fees, at the scheduled  payment dates regardless of whether
or not the mortgagor actually makes the payment.

         The principal governmental guarantor of mortgage-related  securities is
the Government National Mortgage  Association  ("GNMA").  GNMA is a wholly owned
United States Government  corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.  GNMA is authorized to guarantee, with the full faith and credit of
the United States  Government,  the timely  payment of principal and interest on
securities  issued by  institutions  approved  by GNMA (such as savings and loan
institutions,  commercial  banks and  mortgage  bankers)  and backed by pools of
FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed mortgages.

         Government-related  guarantors  (i.e., not backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States  Government)  include the Federal National  Mortgage
Association ("FNMA") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage  Corporation  ("FHLMC").
FNMA  is  a   government-sponsored   corporation   owned   entirely  by  private
stockholders.  It is subject to general  regulation  by the Secretary of Housing
and Urban  Development.  FNMA  purchases  conventional  (i.e.,  not  insured  or
guaranteed  by any  government  agency)  residential  mortgages  from a list  of
approved  seller/servicers  which include state and federally  chartered savings
and loan associations,  mutual savings banks, commercial banks and credit unions
and mortgage bankers.  Pass-through  securities issued by FNMA are guaranteed as
to timely  payment of  principal  and interest by FNMA but are not backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States Government.

         FHLMC was created by Congress in 1970 for the purpose of increasing the
availability   of   mortgage   credit   for   residential   housing.   It  is  a
government-sponsored  corporation formerly owned by the twelve Federal Home Loan
Banks and now owned entirely by private stockholders. FHLMC issues Participation
Certificates  ("PCs") which represent  interests in conventional  mortgages from
FHLMC's national portfolio.  FHLMC guarantees the timely payment of interest and
ultimate  collection of principal,  but PCs are not backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States Government.

         Commercial  banks,  savings  and loan  institutions,  private  mortgage
insurance  companies,  mortgage  bankers and other secondary market issuers also
create  pass-through  pools of conventional  residential  mortgage  loans.  Such
issuers may, in addition,  be the originators and/or servicers of the underlying
mortgage  loans as well as the  guarantors of the  mortgage-related  securities.
Pools created by such non-governmental  issuers generally offer a higher rate of
interest  than  government  and  government-related  pools  because there are no
direct or indirect  government  or agency  guarantees  of payments in the former
pools.  However,  timely payment of interest and principal of these pools may be
supported  by various  forms of insurance or  guarantees,  including  individual
loan, title, pool and hazard insurance and letters of credit.  The insurance and
guarantees  are  issued  by  governmental  entities,  private  insurers  and the
mortgage poolers.  Such insurance and guarantees and the creditworthiness of the
issuers  thereof will be considered in  determining  whether a  mortgage-related
security  meets  the  Trust's  investment  quality  standards.  There  can be no
assurance  that the private  insurers or guarantors  can meet their  obligations
under the  insurance  policies  or  guarantee  arrangements.  The  Fixed  Income
Portfolio may buy  mortgage-related  securities  without insurance or guarantees
if,  through  an  examination  of  the  loan  experience  and  practices  of the
originator/servicers  and poolers,  the Adviser  determines  that the securities
meet the Trust's quality  standards.  Although the market for such securities is
becoming increasingly liquid, securities issued by certain private organizations
may not be readily  marketable.  No  Portfolio  will  purchase  mortgage-related
securities or any other assets which in the  Adviser's  opinion are illiquid if,
as a result,  more than 15% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets will be
illiquid.

         Mortgage-backed  securities  that are issued or  guaranteed by the U.S.
Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, are not subject to the Portfolio'
industry   concentration   restrictions,   set  forth  below  under  "Investment
Restrictions,"  by virtue of the exclusion  from that test available to all U.S.
Government  securities.   In  the  case  of  privately  issued  mortgage-related
securities, the Portfolio take the position that mortgage-related  securities do
not represent interests in any particular "industry" or group of industries. The
assets  underlying  such securities may be represented by the Portfolio of first
lien  residential  mortgages  (including  both whole mortgage loans and mortgage
participation  interests)  or  portfolios  of mortgage  pass-through  securities
issued  or  guaranteed  by GNMA,  FNMA or FHLMC.  Mortgage  loans  underlying  a
mortgage-related  security may in turn be insured or  guaranteed  by the Federal
Housing  Administration  or the Department of Veterans  Affairs.  In the case of
private issue  mortgage-related  securities whose underlying  assets are neither
U.S. Government securities nor U.S. Government-insured  mortgages, to the extent
that  real  properties   securing  such  assets  may  be  located  in  the  same
geographical  region,  the  security may be subject to a greater risk of default
than other comparable securities in the event of adverse economic,  political or
business  developments that may affect such region and, ultimately,  the ability
of  residential  homeowners  to make  payments of principal  and interest on the
underlying mortgages.

         Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs). A CMO is a hybrid between a
mortgage-backed bond and a mortgage  pass-through  security.  Similar to a bond,
interest and prepaid principal is paid, in most cases, semiannually. CMOs may be
collateralized by whole mortgage loans, but are more typically collateralized by
portfolios of mortgage  pass-through  securities  guaranteed by GNMA,  FHLMC, or
FNMA, and their income streams.

         CMOs are  structured  into multiple  classes,  each bearing a different
stated  maturity.  Actual  maturity  and  average  life  will  depend  upon  the
prepayment  experience  of the  collateral.  CMOs provide for a modified form of
call protection through a de facto breakdown of the underlying pool of mortgages
according  to how  quickly the loans are repaid.  Monthly  payment of  principal
received from the pool of underlying mortgages,  including prepayments, is first
returned to investors holding the shortest maturity class. Investors holding the
longer maturity  classes  receive  principal only after the first class has been
retired.  An investor is partially  guarded against a sooner than desired return
of principal because of the sequential payments.

         In a typical CMO transaction,  a corporation ("issuer") issues multiple
series (e.g., A, B, C, Z) of CMO bonds ("Bonds").  Proceeds of the Bond offering
are  used  to  purchase   mortgages   or  mortgage   pass-through   certificates
("Collateral").  The  Collateral is pledged to a third party trustee as security
for the Bonds.  Principal and interest  payments from the Collateral are used to
pay principal on the Bonds in the order A, B, C, Z. The Series A, B, and C Bonds
all bear current interest. Interest on the Series Z Bond is accrued and added to
principal  and a like amount is paid as  principal on the Series A, B, or C Bond
currently  being  paid off.  When the Series A, B, and C Bonds are paid in full,
interest and  principal on the Series Z Bond begins to be paid  currently.  With
some CMOs, the issuer serves as a conduit to allow loan  originators  (primarily
builders  or  savings  and loan  associations)  to  borrow  against  their  loan
portfolios.

         FHLMC  Collateralized   Mortgage  Obligations.   FHLMC  CMOs  are  debt
obligations of FHLMC issued in multiple classes having different  maturity dates
which  are  secured  by the  pledge  of a pool of  conventional  mortgage  loans
purchased by FHLMC.  Unlike FHLMC PCs, payments of principal and interest on the
CMOs are made  semiannually,  as opposed  to  monthly.  The amount of  principal
payable on each semiannual payment date is determined in accordance with FHLMC's
mandatory sinking fund schedule,  which, in turn, is equal to approximately 100%
of FHA  prepayment  experience  applied to the  mortgage  collateral  pool.  All
sinking  fund  payments  in the  CMOs are  allocated  to the  retirement  of the
individual classes of bonds in the order of their stated maturities.  Payment of
principal on the mortgage loans in the  collateral  pool in excess of the amount
of FHLMC's  minimum sinking fund obligation for any payment date are paid to the
holders  of the  CMOs  as  additional  sinking  fund  payments.  Because  of the
"pass-through"  nature of all principal payments received on the collateral pool
in  excess  of  FHLMC's  minimum  sinking  fund  requirement,  the rate at which
principal of the CMOs is actually repaid is likely to be such that each class of
bonds will be retired in advance of its scheduled maturity date.

         If  collection  of principal  (including  prepayments)  on the mortgage
loans during any  semiannual  payment  period is not  sufficient to meet FHLMC's
minimum  sinking fund  obligation on the next sinking fund payment  date,  FHLMC
agrees to make up the deficiency from its general funds.

         Criteria for the mortgage  loans in the pool backing the FHLMC CMOs are
identical to those of FHLMC PCs. FHLMC has the right to substitute collateral in
the event of delinquencies and/or defaults.

         Other Mortgage-Related  Securities.  Other mortgage-related  securities
include  securities other than those described above that directly or indirectly
represent a participation in, or are secured by and payable from, mortgage loans
on  real   property,   including  CMO  residuals  or  stripped   mortgage-backed
securities.  Other mortgage-related  securities may be equity or debt securities
issued by agencies or  instrumentalities  of the U.S.  Government  or by private
originators  of, or investors in,  mortgage  loans,  including  savings and loan
associations,  homebuilders, mortgage banks, commercial banks, investment banks,
partnerships, trusts and special purpose entities of the foregoing.

         CMO residuals are derivative  mortgage securities issued by agencies or
instrumentalities  of the U.S.  Government  or by  private  originators  of,  or
investors  in,  mortgage  loans,   including  savings  and  loan   associations,
homebuilders,  mortgage banks,  commercial  banks,  investment banks and special
purpose entities of the foregoing.

         The cash flow generated by the mortgage  assets  underlying a series of
CMOs is applied first to make required payments of principal and interest on the
CMOs and second to pay the related  administrative  expenses of the issuer.  The
residual in a CMO structure generally represents the interest in any excess cash
flow remaining after making the foregoing payments.  Each payment of such excess
cash flow to a holder of the related CMO  residual  represents  income  and/or a
return of capital.  The amount of residual cash flow  resulting  from a CMO will
depend on, among other things,  the  characteristics of the mortgage assets, the
coupon  rate of each  class of CMO,  prevailing  interest  rates,  the amount of
administrative expenses and the prepayment experience on the mortgage assets. In
particular,  the yield to maturity on CMO  residuals is  extremely  sensitive to
prepayments on the related underlying  mortgage assets, in the same manner as an
interest-only ("IO") class of stripped  mortgage-backed  securities.  See "Other
Mortgage-Related   Securities  --  Stripped   Mortgage-Backed   Securities."  In
addition,  if a series of a CMO  includes  a class  that  bears  interest  at an
adjustable  rate, the yield to maturity on the related CMO residual will also be
extremely  sensitive  to changes  in the level of the index upon which  interest
rate  adjustments  are  based.  As  described  below with  respect  to  stripped
mortgage-backed  securities,  in certain circumstances the Portfolio may fail to
recoup fully its initial investment in a CMO residual.

         CMO  residuals  are  generally  purchased  and  sold  by  institutional
investors through several investment banking firms acting as brokers or dealers.
The CMO  residual  market has only very  recently  developed  and CMO  residuals
currently  may not  have the  liquidity  of other  more  established  securities
trading in other markets.  Transactions in CMO residuals are generally completed
only after careful review of the  characteristics of the securities in question.
In addition,  CMO residuals may or, pursuant to an exemption therefrom,  may not
have  been  registered  under  the  Securities  Act of  1933,  as  amended.  CMO
residuals,  whether or not registered  under such Act, may be subject to certain
restrictions on transferability, and may be deemed "illiquid" and subject to the
Portfolio's limitations on investment in illiquid securities.

         Stripped   Mortgage-Backed    Securities.    Stripped   mortgage-backed
securities ("SMBS") are derivative multi-class mortgage securities.  SMBS may be
issued by agencies or instrumentalities  of the U.S.  Government,  or by private
originators  of, or investors in,  mortgage  loans,  including  savings and loan
associations,  mortgage banks,  commercial  banks,  investment banks and special
purpose entities of the foregoing.

         SMBS are usually  structured  with two classes that  receive  different
proportions  of the interest and principal  distributions  on a pool of mortgage
assets. A common type of SMBS will have one class receiving some of the interest
and most of the principal from the mortgage  assets,  while the other class will
receive  most of the interest and the  remainder of the  principal.  In the most
extreme case,  one class will receive all of the interest (the IO class),  while
the other class will receive all of the principal  (the  principal-only  or "PO"
class). The yield to maturity on an IO class is extremely  sensitive to the rate
of principal payments (including prepayments) on the related underlying mortgage
assets,  and a rapid rate of  principal  payments  may have a  material  adverse
effect on the  Portfolio's  yield to  maturity  from  these  securities.  If the
underlying  mortgage assets experience  greater than anticipated  prepayments of
principal,  the  Portfolio  may fail to fully recoup its initial  investment  in
these  securities  even  if  the  security  is in  one  of  the  highest  rating
categories.

         Although SMBS are purchased and sold by institutional investors through
several investment banking firms acting as brokers or dealers,  these securities
were only recently developed. As a result,  established trading markets have not
yet developed and,  accordingly,  these securities may be deemed  "illiquid" and
subject to the Portfolio's limitations on investment in illiquid securities.

         Other Asset-Backed Securities.  Similarly, the Sub-advisor expects that
other asset-backed  securities  (unrelated to mortgage loans) will be offered to
investors in the future. Several types of asset-backed  securities maybe offered
to  investors,   including  Certificates  for  Automobile  Receivables.   For  a
discussion of automobile  receivables,  see this  Statement  under "Certain Risk
Factors and Investment Methods."

         Foreign Securities. The Portfolio may invest in U.S. dollar- or foreign
currency-denominated  corporate debt  securities of foreign  issuers  (including
preferred or preference  stock),  certain  foreign bank  obligations  (see "Bank
Obligations")  and U.S. dollar- or foreign  currency-denominated  obligations of
foreign  governments  or their  subdivisions,  agencies  and  instrumentalities,
international agencies and supranational  entities. The Portfolio will limit its
foreign investments to securities of issuers based in developed countries (which
include Newly Industrialized Countries ("NICs") such as Mexico, Taiwan and South
Korea).  Investing in the securities of foreign issuers  involves  special risks
and  considerations not typically  associated with investing in U.S.  companies.
The Portfolio  also may purchase and sell foreign  currency  options and foreign
currency futures  contracts and related options (see "Derivative  Instruments"),
and enter into forward foreign currency  exchange  contracts in order to protect
against  uncertainty  in the  level  of  future  foreign  exchange  rates in the
purchase and sale of securities.

         A forward foreign currency  contract involves an obligation to purchase
or sell a specific  currency at a future date,  which may be any fixed number of
days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at
the time of the contract.  These  contracts may be bought or sold to protect the
Portfolio  against a  possible  loss  resulting  from an  adverse  change in the
relationship  between  foreign  currencies  and the U.S.  dollar or to  increase
exposure to a particular  foreign currency.  Open positions in forward contracts
are  covered by the  segregation  with the  Trust's  custodian  of high  quality
short-term  investments and are marked to market daily.  Although such contracts
are  intended to minimize  the risk of loss due to a decline in the value of the
hedged currencies, at the same time, they tend to limit any potential gain which
might result should the value of such currencies increase.

         Bank  Obligations.  Bank  obligations  in which the  Portfolio  invests
include certificates of deposit, bankers' acceptances,  and fixed time deposits.
Certificates  of  deposit  are  negotiable  certificates  issued  against  funds
deposited  in a  commercial  bank for a  definite  period of time and  earning a
specified  return.  Bankers'  acceptances  are  negotiable  drafts  or  bills of
exchange,  normally  drawn  by an  importer  or  exporter  to pay  for  specific
merchandise,  which are "accepted" by a bank,  meaning, in effect, that the bank
unconditionally  agrees to pay the face  value of the  instrument  on  maturity.
Fixed time deposits are bank  obligations  payable at a stated maturity date and
bearing interest at a fixed rate. Fixed time deposits may be withdrawn on demand
by the investor,  but may be subject to early  withdrawal  penalties  which vary
depending upon market  conditions and the remaining  maturity of the obligation.
There are no  contractual  restrictions  on the right to  transfer a  beneficial
interest in a fixed time deposit to a third party,  although  there is no market
for such  deposits.  The Portfolio  will not invest in fixed time deposits which
(1) are not subject to prepayment or (2) provide for  withdrawal  penalties upon
prepayment (other than overnight  deposits) if, in the aggregate,  more than 15%
of its assets would be invested in such deposits, repurchase agreements maturing
in more than seven days and other illiquid assets.

         The  Portfolio  will  limit  its  investments  in  United  States  bank
obligations to obligations of United States banks (including  foreign  branches)
which have more than $1 billion in total  assets at the time of  investment  and
are members of the Federal  Reserve System or are examined by the Comptroller of
the  Currency or whose  deposits  are insured by the Federal  Deposit  Insurance
Corporation. The Portfolio also may invest in certificates of deposit of savings
and loan  associations  (federally or state  chartered  and  federally  insured)
having total assets in excess of $1 billion.

         The Portfolio will limit its investments in foreign bank obligations to
United States  dollar- or foreign  currency-denominated  obligations  of foreign
banks  (including  United States branches of foreign banks) which at the time of
investment  (i)  have  more  than  $10  billion,  or  the  equivalent  in  other
currencies,  in total  assets;  (ii) in terms of assets are among the 75 largest
foreign  banks in the world;  (iii) have branches or agencies  (limited  purpose
offices which do not offer all banking services) in the United States;  and (iv)
in the opinion of the Sub-advisor,  are of an investment  quality  comparable to
obligations of United States banks in which the Portfolio may invest. Subject to
the Trust's limitation on concentration of no more than 25% of its assets in the
securities  of issuers in a particular  industry,  there is no limitation on the
amount of the Portfolio's assets which may be invested in obligations of foreign
banks which meet the conditions set forth herein.

         Obligations  of foreign banks  involve  somewhat  different  investment
risks than those  affecting  obligations  of United States banks,  including the
possibilities that their liquidity could be impaired because of future political
and economic  developments,  that their  obligations may be less marketable than
comparable obligations of United States banks, that a foreign jurisdiction might
impose withholding taxes on interest income payable on those  obligations,  that
foreign  deposits  may be  seized or  nationalized,  that  foreign  governmental
restrictions  such as exchange  controls  may be adopted  which might  adversely
affect the payment of principal and interest on those  obligations  and that the
selection of those  obligations may be more difficult  because there may be less
publicly  available  information  concerning  foreign  banks or the  accounting,
auditing  and  financial   reporting   standards,   practices  and  requirements
applicable  to foreign  banks may differ from those  applicable to United States
banks.  Foreign banks are not  generally  subject to  examination  by any United
States Government agency or instrumentality.

         Short Sales.  The  Portfolio may make short sales of securities as part
of their overall portfolio management strategies involving the use of derivative
instruments  and to offset  potential  declines  in long  positions  in  similar
securities.  A short  sale is a  transaction  in  which  the  Portfolio  sells a
security it does not own in anticipation  that the market price of that security
will decline.

         When the Portfolio makes a short sale, it must borrow the security sold
short and deliver it to the  broker-dealer  through which it made the short sale
as collateral for its obligation to deliver the security upon  conclusion of the
sale. The Portfolio may have to pay a fee to borrow particular securities and is
often obligated to pay over any accrued interest on such borrowed securities.

         If the price of the security sold short  increases  between the time of
the short sale and the time and the  Portfolio  replaces the borrowed  security,
the  Portfolio  will  incur a  loss;  conversely,  if the  price  declines,  the
Portfolio will realize a capital gain. Any gain will be decreased,  and any loss
increased, by the transaction costs described above. The successful use of short
selling may be adversely affected by imperfect  correlation between movements in
the price of the security sold short and the securities being hedged.

         To the  extent  that the  Portfolio  engages  in short  sales,  it will
provide  collateral to the  broker-dealer and (except in the case of short sales
"against the box") will maintain  additional asset coverage in the form of cash,
U.S.  Government  securities  or high grade  debt  obligations  in a  segregated
account.  The  Portfolio  does not intend to enter into short sales  (other than
those  "against the box") if  immediately  after such sale the  aggregate of the
value of all  collateral  plus the  amount in such  segregated  account  exceeds
one-third of the value of the  Portfolio's  net assets.  This  percentage may be
varied by action of the Trust's Board of Trustees.  A short sale is "against the
box" to the extent that the Portfolio  contemporaneously  owns, or has the right
to obtain at no added  cost,  securities  identical  to those  sold  short.  The
Portfolio will engage in short selling to the extent permitted by the Investment
Company Act of 1940 and rules and interpretations thereunder.

         Derivative Instruments.  In pursuing its objective,  the Portfolio may,
as described in the  Prospectus,  purchase and sell (write) both put options and
call options on securities,  securities  indexes,  and foreign  currencies,  and
enter into  interest  rate,  foreign  currency and index  futures  contracts and
purchase and sell  options on such futures  contracts  ("futures  options")  for
hedging  purposes.  The  Portfolio  also may purchase and sell foreign  currency
options for purposes of  increasing  exposure to a foreign  currency or to shift
exposure to foreign  currency  fluctuations  from one  country to  another.  The
Portfolio  also  may  enter  into  swap   agreements  with  respect  to  foreign
currencies,  interest  rates  and  indexes  of  securities.  If  other  types of
financial instruments,  including other types of options,  futures contracts, or
futures  options  are traded in the  future,  the  Portfolio  may also use those
instruments,  provided that the Trust's Board of Trustees  determines that their
use is consistent with the Portfolio's  investment objective,  and provided that
their use is  consistent  with  restrictions  applicable  to options and futures
contracts  currently  eligible for use by the Trust (i.e.,  that written call or
put options will be "covered" or "secured" and that futures and futures  options
will be used only for hedging purposes).

         Options on Securities and Indexes.  The Portfolio may purchase and sell
both put and call options on debt or other securities or indexes in standardized
contracts traded on foreign or national securities  exchanges,  boards of trade,
or  similar   entities,   or  quoted  on  NASDAQ  or  on  a  regulated   foreign
over-the-counter  market, and agreements,  sometimes called cash puts, which may
accompany the purchase of a new issue of bonds from a dealer.

         The Portfolio  will write call options and put options only if they are
"covered."  In the case of a call option on a security,  the option is "covered"
if the Portfolio  owns the security  underlying  the call or has an absolute and
immediate right to acquire that security without  additional cash  consideration
(or, if additional cash  consideration is required,  cash or cash equivalents in
such amount are placed in a segregated account by its custodian) upon conversion
or exchange of other  securities held by the Portfolio.  For a call option on an
index, the option is covered if the Portfolio  maintains with its custodian cash
or cash  equivalents  equal to the contract value. A call option is also covered
if the Portfolio  holds a call on the same security or index as the call written
where  the  exercise  price of the call  held is (i)  equal to or less  than the
exercise  price of the call written,  or (ii) greater than the exercise price of
the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Portfolio in cash
or cash equivalents in a segregated account with its custodian.  A put option on
a security or an index is  "covered"  if the  Portfolio  maintains  cash or cash
equivalents  equal  to the  exercise  price  in a  segregated  account  with its
custodian. A put option is also covered if the Portfolio holds a put on the same
security or index as the put written where the exercise price of the put held is
(i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less
than  the  exercise  price  of the  put  written,  provided  the  difference  is
maintained by the Portfolio in cash or cash equivalents in a segregated  account
with its custodian.

         If an option written by the Portfolio expires, the Portfolio realizes a
capital  gain equal to the premium  received at the time the option was written.
If an option  purchased by the  Portfolio  expires  unexercised,  the  Portfolio
realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid.

         Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an option may be closed
out by an  offsetting  purchase or sale of an option of the same  series  (type,
exchange,  underlying security or index, exercise price, and expiration).  There
can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be
effected when the Portfolio desires.

         The  Portfolio  will  realize  a capital  gain from a closing  purchase
transaction if the cost of the closing option is less than the premium  received
from writing the option, or, if it is more, the Portfolio will realize a capital
loss. If the premium  received from a closing sale  transaction is more than the
premium paid to purchase the option,  the Portfolio  will realize a capital gain
or, if it is less,  the  Portfolio  will realize a capital  loss.  The principal
factors  affecting the market value of a put or a call option include supply and
demand,  interest rates, the current market price of the underlying  security or
index in relation to the exercise  price of the option,  the  volatility  of the
underlying security or index, and the time remaining until the expiration date.

         The premium paid for a put or call option purchased by the Portfolio is
an asset of the  Portfolio.  The premium  received for an option  written by the
Portfolio is recorded as a deferred credit.  The value of an option purchased or
written  is  marked to market  daily and is valued at the  closing  price on the
exchange  on which it is traded or, if not traded on an  exchange  or no closing
price is available, at the mean between the last bid and asked prices.

         Risks  Associated  with Options on  Securities  and Indexes.  There are
several risks  associated  with  transactions  in options on  securities  and on
indexes.  For a  discussion  of certain  risks  involved  in  options,  see this
Statement and the Trust's  Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment
Methods."

         Foreign  Currency  Options.  The Portfolio may buy or sell put and call
options on foreign  currencies  either on exchanges  or in the  over-the-counter
market. A put option on a foreign currency gives the purchaser of the option the
right to sell a foreign currency at the exercise price until the option expires.
Currency  options  traded on U.S. or other  exchanges may be subject to position
limits which may limit the ability of the Portfolio to reduce  foreign  currency
risk using such options.  Over-the-counter options differ from traded options in
that they are two-party  contracts with price and other terms negotiated between
buyer  and  seller,  and  generally  do not  have as much  market  liquidity  as
exchange-traded options.

         Futures Contracts and Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may
use interest  rate,  foreign  currency or index futures  contracts.  An interest
rate, foreign currency or index futures contract provides for the future sale by
one party and purchase by another  party of a specified  quantity of a financial
instrument,  foreign currency or the cash value of an index at a specified price
and time. A futures  contract on an index is an agreement  pursuant to which two
parties  agree  to take or make  delivery  of an  amount  of cash  equal  to the
difference  between the value of the index at the close of the last  trading day
of the  contract  and the  price at which  the  index  contract  was  originally
written.  Although  the value of an index  might be a  function  of the value of
certain specified securities, no physical delivery of these securities is made.

         The  Portfolio  may  purchase  and write call and put futures  options.
Futures  options  possess  many  of  the  same  characteristics  as  options  on
securities and indexes  (discussed above). A futures option gives the holder the
right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short
position (put) in a futures  contract at a specified  exercise price at any time
during the period of the  option.  Upon  exercise of a call  option,  the holder
acquires a long position in the futures  contract and the writer is assigned the
opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true.

         To  comply  with  applicable  rules of the  Commodity  Futures  Trading
Commission  under  which  the  Trust  and the  Portfolio  avoid  being  deemed a
"commodity pool" or a "commodity pool operator," the Portfolio intends generally
to limit its use of futures contracts and futures options to "bona fide hedging"
transactions, as such term is defined in applicable regulations, interpretations
and practice.  For example,  the Portfolio might use futures  contracts to hedge
against anticipated changes in interest rates that might adversely affect either
the value of the Portfolio's securities or the price of the securities which the
Portfolio intends to purchase.  The Portfolio's  hedging  activities may include
sales of futures contracts as an offset against the effect of expected increases
in interest rates,  and purchases of futures  contracts as an offset against the
effect of expected  declines in interest rates.  Although other techniques could
be used to reduce that Portfolio's  exposure to interest rate fluctuations,  the
Portfolio  may be able to hedge its exposure more  effectively  and perhaps at a
lower cost by using futures contracts and futures options.

         The  Portfolio  will only  enter into  futures  contracts  and  futures
options which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign  exchange,  board
of trade, or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

         When a purchase or sale of a futures contract is made by the Portfolio,
the Portfolio is required to deposit with its  custodian (or broker,  if legally
permitted) a specified amount of cash or U.S.  Government  securities  ("initial
margin").  The margin required for a futures  contract is set by the exchange on
which  the  contract  is  traded  and may be  modified  during  the  term of the
contract.  The  initial  margin is in the nature of a  performance  bond or good
faith deposit on the futures  contract  which is returned to the Portfolio  upon
termination  of the contract,  assuming all  contractual  obligations  have been
satisfied.  The Portfolio  expects to earn interest income on its initial margin
deposits.  A futures  contract  held by the  Portfolio  is  valued  daily at the
official  settlement  price of the exchange on which it is traded.  Each day the
Portfolio pays or receives cash, called  "variation  margin," equal to the daily
change in value of the futures  contract.  This  process is known as "marking to
market."  Variation  margin  does  not  represent  a  borrowing  or  loan by the
Portfolio  but is instead a settlement  between the  Portfolio and the broker of
the amount one would owe the other if the futures contract expired. In computing
daily net asset  value,  the  Portfolio  will  mark to market  its open  futures
positions.

         The  Portfolio  is also  required to deposit and  maintain  margin with
respect to put and call options on futures  contracts written by it. Such margin
deposits will vary  depending on the nature of the underlying  futures  contract
(and the related initial margin  requirements),  the current market value of the
option, and other futures positions held by the Portfolio.

         Although some futures  contracts call for making or taking  delivery of
the underlying  securities,  generally these obligations are closed out prior to
delivery by offsetting  purchases or sales of matching  futures  contracts (same
exchange,  underlying  security or index, and delivery month).  If an offsetting
purchase  price is less than the original sale price,  the Portfolio  realizes a
capital  gain,  or if  it is  more,  the  Portfolio  realizes  a  capital  loss.
Conversely,  if an  offsetting  sale  price is more than the  original  purchase
price,  the Portfolio  realizes a capital gain, or if it is less,  the Portfolio
realizes a capital loss.  The  transaction  costs must also be included in these
calculations.

         Limitations  on Use of Futures and  Futures  Options.  In general,  the
Portfolio  intends to enter into  positions  in futures  contracts  and  related
options  only for "bona fide  hedging"  purposes.  With  respect to positions in
futures and related options that do not constitute bona fide hedging  positions,
the Portfolio will not enter into a futures  contract or futures option contract
if,  immediately  thereafter,  the aggregate initial margin deposits relating to
such positions plus premiums paid by it for open futures option positions,  less
the amount by which any such options are "in-the-money,"  would exceed 5% of the
Portfolio's  total net assets. A call option is  "in-the-money"  if the value of
the  futures  contract  that is the subject of the option  exceeds the  exercise
price. A put option is "in-the-money" if the exercise price exceeds the value of
the futures contract that is the subject of the option.

         When  purchasing a futures  contract,  the Portfolio will maintain with
its  custodian  (and  mark-to-market  on a daily  basis) cash,  U.S.  Government
securities,  or other  highly  liquid debt  securities  that,  when added to the
amounts deposited with a futures commission merchant as margin, are equal to the
market value of the futures contract.  Alternatively,  the Portfolio may "cover"
its  position by  purchasing a put option on the same  futures  contract  with a
strike  price as high or  higher  than the  price  of the  contract  held by the
Portfolio.

         When selling a futures  contract,  the Portfolio will maintain with its
custodian (and  mark-to-market  on a daily basis) liquid assets that, when added
to the amount deposited with a futures commission  merchant as margin, are equal
to the market value of the instruments  underlying the contract.  Alternatively,
the Portfolio may "cover" its position by owning the instruments  underlying the
contract (or, in the case of an index  futures  contract,  the Portfolio  with a
volatility  substantially  similar  to that of the  index on which  the  futures
contract is based),  or by holding a call option  permitting  the  Portfolio  to
purchase  the same  futures  contract at a price no higher than the price of the
contract  written by the  Portfolio  (or at a higher price if the  difference is
maintained in liquid assets with the Trust's custodian).

         When selling a call option on a futures  contract,  the Portfolio  will
maintain with its custodian  (and  mark-to-market  on a daily basis) cash,  U.S.
Government  securities,  or other highly liquid debt securities that, when added
to the amounts deposited with a futures commission merchant as margin, equal the
total  market  value  of  the  futures  contract  underlying  the  call  option.
Alternatively,  the  Portfolio  may cover its  position by entering  into a long
position in the same futures contract at a price no higher than the strike price
of the call option,  by owning the instruments  underlying the futures contract,
or by holding a separate  call option  permitting  the Portfolio to purchase the
same  futures  contract at a price not higher than the strike  price of the call
option sold by the Portfolio.

         When selling a put option on a futures  contract,  the  Portfolio  will
maintain with its custodian  (and  mark-to-market  on a daily basis) cash,  U.S.
Government  securities,  or other highly liquid debt  securities  that equal the
purchase   price  of  the  futures   contract,   less  any  margin  on  deposit.
Alternatively,  the Portfolio  may cover the position  either by entering into a
short position in the same futures contract,  or by owning a separate put option
permitting  it to sell the same futures  contract so long as the strike price of
the  purchased put option is the same or higher than the strike price of the put
option sold by the Portfolio.

     Risks in Futures  Contracts  and Related  Options.  For a discussion of the
risks  involved  in futures  contracts  and  related  options,  see the  Trust's
Prospectus and this Statement under "Certain Factors and Investment Methods."

         Swap Agreements.  The Portfolio may enter into interest rate, index and
currency  exchange rate swap  agreements  for purposes of attempting to obtain a
particular desired return at a lower cost to the Portfolio than if the Portfolio
had invested  directly in an instrument that yielded that desired return.  For a
discussion of swap  agreements,  see the Trust's  Prospectus  under  "Investment
Objectives and Policies." The  Portfolio's  obligations (or rights) under a swap
agreement  will generally be equal only to the net amount to be paid or received
under the agreement  based on the relative  values of the positions held by each
party to the agreement (the "net amount").  The Portfolio's  obligations under a
swap  agreement  will be accrued daily (offset  against any amounts owing to the
Portfolio)  and any accrued but unpaid net amounts  owed to a swap  counterparty
will be covered by the maintenance of a segregated  account  consisting of cash,
U.S.  Government  securities,  or high  grade  debt  obligations,  to avoid  any
potential leveraging of the Portfolio's portfolio.  The Portfolio will not enter
into a swap  agreement  with any single  party if the net  amount  owed or to be
received  under  existing  contracts  with  that  party  would  exceed 5% of the
Portfolio's assets.

         Whether the  Portfolio's  use of swap  agreements will be successful in
furthering  its  investment  objective  of  total  return  will  depend  on  the
Sub-advisor's  ability correctly to predict whether certain types of investments
are likely to produce greater returns than other  investments.  Because they are
two party  contracts and because they may have terms of greater than seven days,
swap agreements may be considered to be illiquid.  Moreover, the Portfolio bears
the risk of loss of the amount expected to be received under a swap agreement in
the event of the default or bankruptcy  of a swap  agreement  counterparty.  The
Sub-advisor  will cause the  Portfolio to enter into swap  agreements  only with
counterparties that would be eligible for consideration as repurchase  agreement
counterparties  under the Portfolio'  repurchase agreement  guidelines.  Certain
restrictions imposed on the Portfolio by the Internal Revenue Code may limit the
Portfolio' ability to use swap agreements.  The swaps market is a relatively new
market and is largely unregulated. It is possible that developments in the swaps
market,  including potential government  regulation,  could adversely affect the
Portfolio's  ability to terminate existing swap agreements or to realize amounts
to be received under such agreements.

         Certain  swap  agreements  are  exempt  from  most  provisions  of  the
Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") and,  therefore,  are not regulated as futures or
commodity option transactions under the CEA, pursuant to regulations approved by
the  Commodity  Futures  Trading  Commission  ("CFTC").   To  qualify  for  this
exemption,  a swap  agreement  must be entered into by "eligible  participants,"
which includes the  following,  provided the  participants'  total assets exceed
established  levels:  a bank or trust  company,  savings  association  or credit
union,  insurance  company,  investment  company subject to regulation under the
Investment  Company  Act of  1940,  commodity  pool,  corporation,  partnership,
proprietorship,  organization,  trust or other  entity,  employee  benefit plan,
governmental entity, broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, natural person,
or regulated  foreign  person.  To be eligible,  natural  persons and most other
entities  must have total  assets  exceeding  $10 million;  commodity  pools and
employee  benefit plans must have assets exceeding $5 million.  In addition,  an
eligible swap transaction must meet three conditions.  First, the swap agreement
may not be part of a fungible class of agreements  that are  standardized  as to
their material  economic terms.  Second,  the  creditworthiness  of parties with
actual or  potential  obligations  under the swap  agreement  must be a material
consideration  in entering into or determining  the terms of the swap agreement,
including pricing,  cost or credit enhancement terms. Third, swap agreements may
not be  entered  into  and  traded  on or  through  a  multilateral  transaction
execution facility.

         This exemption is not exclusive,  and participants may continue to rely
on existing  exclusions for swaps,  such as the Policy  Statement issued in July
1989 which  recognized a safe harbor for swap  transactions  from  regulation as
futures or commodity option  transactions under the CEA or its regulations.  The
Policy  Statement  applies  to swap  transactions  settled in cash that (1) have
individually  tailored terms,  (2) lack  exchange-style  offset and the use of a
clearing organization or margin system, (3) are undertaken in conjunction with a
line of business, and (4) are not marketed to the public.

         Foreign Currency  Exchange Related  Securities.  The Portfolio may also
invest in foreign currency  warrants,  principal exchange rate linked securities
and  performance  indexed paper.  For a discussion of these,  see this Statement
under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         Warrants to Purchase Securities. The Portfolio may invest in or acquire
warrants to purchase  equity or fixed  income  securities.  Bonds with  warrants
attached to purchase equity securities have many  characteristics of convertible
bonds and their  prices may, to some  degree,  reflect  the  performance  of the
underlying  stock.  Bonds also may be issued with warrants  attached to purchase
additional  fixed  income  securities  at the same  coupon  rate.  A decline  in
interest  rates  would  permit  the  Portfolio  to buy  additional  bonds at the
favorable rate or to sell the warrants at a profit.  If interest rates rise, the
warrants would generally expire with no value.

         The Portfolio will not invest more than 5% of its net assets, valued at
the lower of cost or market, in warrants to purchase securities. Included within
that amount, but not to exceed 2% of the Portfolio's net assets, may be warrants
that  are not  listed  on the New York or  American  Stock  Exchanges.  Warrants
acquired in units or attached to  securities  will be deemed to be without value
for purposes of this restriction.

         Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder  Approval.
The following  limitations  are  applicable  to the PIMCO Limited  Maturity Bond
Portfolio.  The  following  investment  policies  may be changed by the Trustees
without shareholder approval. The Portfolio may not:

         1. Invest more than 15% of the assets of the Portfolio (taken at market
value  at the  time  of  the  investment)  in  "illiquid  securities",  illiquid
securities being defined to include  securities  subject to legal or contractual
restrictions  on resale  (which  may  include  private  placements),  repurchase
agreements  maturing in more than seven days,  certain  options  traded over the
counter  that a Portfolio  has  purchased,  securities  being used to cover such
options a Portfolio has written,  securities for which market quotations are not
readily  available,  or other securities  which legally or in the  Sub-advisor's
opinion may be deemed illiquid.

         2. Invest in a security if, as a result of such  investment,  more than
5% of its total assets  (taken at market  value at the time of such  investment)
would be invested in securities of issuers (other than issuers of Federal agency
obligations)  having a  record,  together  with  predecessors  or  unconditional
guarantors, of less than three years of continuous operation.

         3. Invest more than 5% of the assets of the Portfolio  (taken at market
value at the time of investment) in any combination of interest only,  principal
only, or inverse floating rate securities.

         The  Staff of the  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  has taken the
position that purchased OTC options and the assets used as cover for written OTC
options  are  illiquid  securities.  Therefore,  the  Portfolio  has  adopted an
investment  policy pursuant to which the Portfolio will not purchase or sell OTC
options if, as a result of such transactions, the sum of the market value of OTC
options currently outstanding which are held by the Portfolio,  the market value
of the underlying  securities covered by OTC call options currently  outstanding
which were sold by the Portfolio and margin deposits on the Portfolio's existing
OTC  options  on  futures  contracts  exceeds  15% of the  total  assets  of the
Portfolio,  taken at  market  value,  together  with  all  other  assets  of the
Portfolio which are illiquid or are otherwise not readily  marketable.  However,
if an OTC  option  is  sold  by  the  Portfolio  to a  primary  U.S.  Government
securities  dealer recognized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and if the
Portfolio has the unconditional  contractual right to repurchase such OTC option
from the  dealer at a  predetermined  price,  then the  Portfolio  will treat as
illiquid such amount of the underlying  securities equal to the repurchase price
less the  amount by which the option is  "in-the-money"  (i.e.,  current  market
value of the  underlying  securities  minus  the  option's  strike  price).  The
repurchase  price with the primary dealers is typically a formula price which is
generally based on a multiple of the premium  received for the option,  plus the
amount by which the option is "in-the-money."

Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:

Investment Policies:

         Index Options. An option on a stock index gives the holder the right to
receive,  upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing level of
the stock index on which the option is based is less than (in the case of a put)
or a greater  than (in the case of a call) the  exercise  price of the  options.
This amount of cash is equal to the difference  between the closing price of the
index  and the  exercise  price  of the  option  expressed  in  dollars  times a
specified multiple (the "multiplier"). The writer of the option is obligated, in
return for the purchase price (the  "premium")  paid to him, to make delivery of
this amount. Options are traded on a number of different indices.

         Hedging.  The  Portfolio  will  purchase  put and call options on stock
indices  for the  purpose of hedging  and not for  speculation.  Hedging  may be
employed to cushion the Portfolio  against possible declines in the market value
of its  securities,  or to  establish  a position in an equity  equivalent  as a
temporary substitute for the purchase of individual stocks. To hedge a Portfolio
against a decline in value,  the  Portfolio  may buy a put on a stock index.  To
protect  the  Portfolio  against an  increase in the price of equities at a time
when the Portfolio has a substantial cash equivalent position, the Portfolio may
buy a call on a stock index pending investment in equities.

         When  the  Sub-advisor  believes  the  trend  of  stock  prices  may be
downward,  particularly  over a short period of time,  the  Portfolio  may hedge
through  the  purchase  of a put on a stock  index to  cushion  the  anticipated
decline in value of the Portfolio's holdings. This is an alternative to the sale
and possible  subsequent  repurchase of stocks,  which might involve significant
transaction  costs.  Conversely,  the purchase of a call option on a stock index
may allow the Portfolio to quickly obtain  exposure to common stock  equivalents
in a rising market,  thus permitting the Portfolio to purchase stocks  gradually
over the option period in a manner designed to minimize adverse price movements,
and with more thorough  evaluation of  investment  alternatives.  The purpose of
purchasing  put and call options on stock  indices is therefore  not to generate
gains, but to hedge. Successful hedging activities are not designed to produce a
net gain to a  Portfolio.  Any gain in the price of a put option is likely to be
offset  by lower  prices of stocks  owned by the  Portfolio  and any gain in the
price of a call option is likely to be offset by the higher prices the Portfolio
must pay in rising markets as it increases its holdings of common stocks.

         Restricted  Securities.  The  Portfolio  expects  that  any  restricted
securities would be acquired either from institutional  investors who originally
acquired the  securities  in private  placements or directly from the issuers of
the  securities  in private  placements.  Restricted  securities  are  generally
subject to legal or  contractual  delays on resale.  Restricted  securities  and
securities that are not readily marketable may sell at a discount from the price
they  would  bring  if  freely  marketable.  For a  discussion  of  illiquid  or
restricted  securities  and  certain  risks  involved  therein,  see the Trust's
Prospectus under "Certain Risk Factors and Investment Methods."

         The Board of  Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to illiquid securities.

         Repurchase   Agreements.   The  Portfolio  may  enter  into  repurchase
agreements  through  which an  investor  (such  as the  Portfolio)  purchases  a
security (known as the "underlying security") from a well-established securities
dealer  or a bank  which is a member of the  Federal  Reserve  System.  Any such
dealer or bank will be on  Sub-advisor's  approved list and have a credit rating
with  respect  to its  short-term  debt of at  least  A1 by  Standard  &  Poor's
Corporation,  P1 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or the equivalent rating by
Sub-advisor.  At that time,  the bank or securities  dealer agrees to repurchase
the underlying security at the same price, plus specified  interest.  Repurchase
agreements  are  generally  for a short period of time,  often less than a week.
Repurchase agreements which do not provide for payment within seven days will be
considered  illiquid.  The Portfolio will only enter into repurchase  agreements
where  (i)  the  underlying  securities  are of  the  type  (excluding  maturity
limitations)  which the  Portfolio's  investment  guidelines  would  allow it to
purchase directly,  (ii) the market value of the underlying security,  including
interest  accrued,  will be at all  times  equal to or  exceed  the value of the
repurchase agreement, and (iii) payment for the underlying security is made only
upon physical delivery or evidence of book-entry  transfer to the account of the
custodian  or a bank  acting as agent.  In the  event of a  bankruptcy  or other
default of a seller of a repurchase  agreement,  the Portfolio could  experience
both delays in liquidating the underlying securities and losses,  including: (a)
possible decline in the value of the underlying security during the period while
the Portfolio seeks to enforce its rights thereto; (b) possible subnormal levels
of income and lack of access to income  during this period;  and (c) expenses of
enforcing its rights.

         The Board of  Trustees  of the Trust has  promulgated  guidelines  with
respect to repurchase agreements.

         Investment Policies Which May Be Changed Without Shareholder  Approval.
Set forth below are "non-fundamental" investment restrictions applicable only to
the Berger Capital Growth  Portfolio,  which may be changed without  shareholder
approval:

         1. The Portfolio may purchase put and call options on stock indexes for
the purpose of hedging,  but no more than 1% of the Portfolio's total net assets
at the  time of  purchase  of such an  option  may be  invested  in put and call
options.

         2. The Portfolio may not purchase or sell any interest in an oil, gas
or mineral  development or exploration program, including investments in oil, 
gas or mineral leases.

         3. The Portfolio's investment in warrants,  valued at the lower of cost
or  market,  may not  exceed  5% of the  value of the  Portfolio's  net  assets.
Included  within  that  amount,  but  not  to  exceed  2% of  the  value  of the
Portfolio's  net  assets,  may be  warrants  that are not listed on the New York
Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange.

         4. The Portfolio  does not  currently  intend to purchase any security,
including any repurchase  agreement  maturing in more than seven days,  which is
not  readily  marketable,  if more than 15% of the net  assets of the  Portfolio
taken at  market  value  at the  time of  purchase  would  be  invested  in such
securities.

Investment Objective and Policy Applicable to All Portfolios: In order to permit
the sale of shares of the Trust to separate accounts of Participating  Insurance
Companies in certain states,  the Trust may make  commitments  more  restrictive
than the  restrictions  described  in the  section  of this  Statement  entitled
"Investment  Restrictions."  Should the Trust determine that any such commitment
is no longer in the best  interests  of the Trust and its  shareholders  it will
revoke  the  commitment  and  terminate  sales  of its  shares  in the  state(s)
involved.

         The Board of Trustees of the Trust may,  from time to time,  promulgate
guidelines with respect to the investment policies of the Portfolios.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS:

         The investment restrictions set forth below are "fundamental" policies.
See the  subsection  of  this  Statement  entitled  "Investment  Objectives  and
Policies" for further discussion of "fundamental"  policies of the Trust and the
requirements for changing such "fundamental" policies.

         Certain  investment  restrictions apply to all Portfolios of the Trust.
Such investment  restrictions are described below.  Investment restrictions that
apply  to  each  of  these  Portfolios  separately  are  also  described  below.
Investment  restrictions  that are not "fundamental" may be found in the general
description of the Investment  Policies of each  Portfolio,  as described in the
section of the Trust's Prospectus entitled "Investment  Objectives and Policies"
and in the  section  of  this  Statement  entitled  "Investment  Objectives  and
Policies."

     Investment  Restrictions  Applicable to All of the Portfolios Except the T.
Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio:

1. A Portfolio  will not  purchase  securities  of other  investment  companies,
except   in   connection   with  a   merger,   consolidation,   acquisition   or
reorganization,  or by purchase in the open market of  securities  of closed-end
investment  companies  where no  underwriter  or dealer's  commission or profit,
other than a customary broker's commission,  is involved and only if immediately
thereafter not more than 10% of this Portfolio's  total assets, at market value,
would be invested in such  securities,  or by  investing  no more than 5% of the
Portfolio's total assets in other open-end investment companies or by purchasing
no more than 3% of any one open-end investment company's securities.

2. A Portfolio will not buy any securities or other property on margin (except
for such short-term credits as are necessary for the clearance of transactions).

3. A Portfolio will not invest in companies for the purpose of exercising
control or management.

4. A Portfolio  will not  underwrite  securities  issued by others except to the
extent  that the  Portfolio  may be deemed an  underwriter  when  purchasing  or
selling securities.

5. A Portfolio will not purchase or retain  securities of any issuer (other than
the shares of such  Portfolio)  if to the Trust's  knowledge,  the  officers and
Trustees of the Trust and the officers and directors of the  Investment  Manager
who  individually  own  beneficially  more  than  1/2 of 1% of  the  outstanding
securities  of such  issuer,  together  own  beneficially  more  than 5% of such
outstanding securities.

6. A Portfolio will not issue senior securities.

Investment Restrictions Applicable Only to the JanCap Growth Portfolio:

1. The  Portfolio  will not purchase a security if as a result,  that  Portfolio
would own more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any issuer.

2. As to 75% of the value of its total  assets,  the  Portfolio  will not invest
more than 5% of its total assets,  at market value, in the securities of any one
issuer (except cash items and securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
Government, its agencies or instrumentalities).

3. The Portfolio  will not purchase a security if as a result,  more than 25% of
its total  assets,  at market  value,  would be  invested in the  securities  of
issuers  principally  engaged in the same industry (except  securities issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities).

4. The Portfolio will not purchase or sell real estate (although it may purchase
securities secured by real estate interests or interests  therein,  or issued by
companies  or  investment  trusts  which  invest  in real  estate  or  interests
therein).

5. The Portfolio will not purchase or sell physical commodities other than
foreign  currencies  unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities (but
this shall not  prevent  the  Portfolio  from  purchasing  or  selling  options,
futures,  swaps and forward  contracts or from investing in securities and other
instruments backed by physical commodities).

6. The Portfolio will not lend any security or make any other loan, if as a
result,  more than 25% of its total assets would be lent to other parties (but
this limitation does not apply to purchases of commercial paper, debt securities
or to repurchase agreements).

     Investment  Restrictions Only Applicable to the T. Rowe Price International
Equity Portfolio:

          The following  fundamental  policies should be read in connection with
the notes set forth below. The notes are not fundamental  policies.  As a matter
of fundamental policy, the Portfolio may not:

1. Borrow money  except that the  Portfolio  may (i) borrow for  non-leveraging,
temporary or emergency purposes and (ii) engage in reverse repurchase agreements
and make other investments or engage in other transactions,  which may or may be
deemed to  involve a  borrowing,  in a manner  consistent  with the  Portfolio's
investment objective and policies, provided that the combination of (i) and (ii)
shall not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets (including
the amount  borrowed)  less  liabilities  (other than  borrowings) or such other
percentage  permitted  by law. Any  borrowings  which come to exceed this amount
will be reduced in accordance with applicable law. The Portfolio may borrow from
banks,  other  Price  Portfolios  or other  persons to the extent  permitted  by
applicable law;

2. Purchase or sell physical commodities; except that the Portfolio may enter
into futures  contracts and options thereon;

3. Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a result,  more than 25% of
the value of the Portfolio's total assets would be invested in the securities of
issuers having their principal business activities in the same industry;

4. Make loans,  although the Portfolio may (i) purchase money market  securities
and enter into  repurchase  agreements;  (ii)  acquire  publicly-distributed  or
privately  placed  debt  securities  and  purchase  debt;  (iii) lend  portfolio
securities;  and (iv)  participate  in an interfund  lending  program with other
Price  Portfolios  provided  that no such loan may be made if, as a result,  the
aggregate  of such loans  would  exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the  Portfolio's
total assets;

5. Purchase a security if, as a result,  with respect to 75% of the value of the
Portfolio's total assets, more than 5% of the value of its total assets would be
invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than  obligations  issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities);

6. Purchase a security if, as a result,  with respect to 75% of the value of the
Portfolio's total assets,  more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of
any issuer  would be held by the  Portfolio  (other than  obligations  issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities);

7. Purchase or sell real estate  unless  acquired as a result of  ownership  of
securities or other  instruments  (but this shall not prevent the Portfolio from
investing in securities or other  instruments  back by real estate or securities
of companies engaged in the real estate business);

8. Issue senior securities except in compliance with the Investment Company
Act of 1940; or

9. Underwrite securities issued by other persons,  except to the extent that the
Portfolio  may  be  deemed  to be an  underwriter  within  the  meaning  of  the
Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase and sale of its portfolio
securities in the ordinary course of pursuing its investment program.

     Notes:  The  following  notes should be read in  connection  with the above
described fundamental policies. The notes are not fundamental policies.

         With respect to investment restrictions (1) and (4), the Portfolio will
not  borrow or lend to any other  Price  Portfolio  unless  it  applies  for and
receives an exemptive order from the SEC or the SEC issues rules permitting such
transactions.  The  Portfolio  has no current  intention of engaging in any such
activity  and there is no assurance  the SEC would grant any order  requested by
the Portfolio or promulgate any rules allowing the transactions.

         With respect to  investment  restriction  (2), the  Portfolio  does not
consider currency contracts or hybrid investments to be commodities.

         For the purposes of investment  restriction (3), United States federal,
state or local governments,  or related agencies and instrumentalities,  are not
considered an industry. Foreign governments are considered an industry.

         For purposes of investment restriction (4), the Portfolio will consider
the  acquisition  of a debt security to include the execution of a note or other
evidence of an extension of credit with a term of more than nine months.

Investment Restrictions Applicable Only to the Founders Capital Appreciation 
Portfolio:

         As a matter of fundamental policy, the Portfolio will not:

1. Purchase any securities on margin except to obtain such short-term credits
as may be necessary for the clearance of transactions.

2. Sell securities short.

3. Make  loans to other  persons;  the  purchase  of a  portion  of an issue of
publicly distributed bonds, debentures or other securities is not considered the
making of a loan by the Portfolio.  The Portfolio may also enter into repurchase
agreements  by  purchasing  U.S.  Government   securities  with  a  simultaneous
agreement with the seller to repurchase them at the original purchase price plus
accrued interest.

4. Underwrite the securities of other issuers.

5. Invest in commodities,  commodity futures contracts, real estate, real estate
mortgage  loans or other  illiquid  interests  in real  estate,  except that the
Portfolio  may invest in  securities  of issuers  which  invest in  commodities,
commodity  futures,  real estate,  real estate  mortgage loans or other illiquid
interests in real estate.

6. Make any investment  which would  concentrate  25% or more of the Portfolio's
total  assets in the  securities  of issuers  having  their  principal  business
activities in the same industry, provided that this limitation does not apply to
obligations  issued  or  guaranteed  by the U.S.  government,  its  agencies  or
instrumentalities.

7. Issue any senior securities.

8. Borrow money, except for extraordinary or emergency  purposes,  and then only
from banks in amounts up to 10% of the  Portfolio's  net assets  computed at the
lesser of cost or value.

Investment Restrictions Applicable Only to the INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio:

     The Portfolio has adopted certain fundamental investment restrictions.
Under these restrictions, the Portfolio may not:

1. Issue preference shares or create any funded debt;

2. Sell short;

3. Borrow money except from banks in excess of 5% of the value of its total net
assets, and when borrowing, it is a temporary measure for emergency purposes;

4. Buy or sell real estate, commodities, commodity contracts (however, the 
Portfolio may purchase securities of companies investing in real estate);

5. Purchase any security or enter into a repurchase  agreement,  if as a result,
more than 15% of its net assets would be invested in repurchase  agreements  not
entitling the holder to payment of principal and interest  within seven days and
in securities  that are illiquid by virtue of legal or contractual  restrictions
on resale or the  absence of a readily  available  market.  The  Trustees or the
Investment Manager or the Sub-advisor, acting pursuant to authority delegated by
the  Trustees,  may  determine  that  a  readily  available  market  exists  for
securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, or any successor to that rule, and therefore that such  securities are not
subject to the foregoing limitation;

6. Purchase securities if the purchase would cause the Portfolio, at the time, 
to have more than 5% of its total assets invested in the securities of any one
company or to own more than 10% of the voting  securities of any one company
(except obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government);

7. Make loans to any person,  except through the purchase of debt  securities in
accordance with the Portfolio's investment policies, or the lending of portfolio
securities to broker-dealers or other institutional  investors,  or the entering
into  repurchase  agreements  with member banks of the Federal  Reserve  System,
registered  broker-dealers and registered  government  securities  dealers.  The
aggregate value of all portfolio securities loaned may not exceed 33-1/3% of the
Portfolio's total net assets (taken at current value); or

8. Invest more than 25% of the value of the Portfolio's assets in one particular
industry.

     Investment  Restrictions  Applicable  Only to the PIMCO  Total  Return Bond
Portfolio:

The following are fundamental investment restrictions.

1. The  Portfolio  will not  invest  in a  security  if,  as a  result  of such
investment, more than 25% of its total assets (taken at market value at the time
of  investment)  would be  invested  in  securities  of issuers of a  particular
industry,  except that this restriction  does not apply to securities  issued or
guaranteed  by the U.S.  government  or its  agencies or  instrumentalities  (or
repurchase agreements with respect thereto);

2. The Portfolio will not, with respect to 75% of its total assets,  invest in a
security  if, as a result of such  investment,  more than 5% of its total assets
(taken at  market  value at the time of  investment)  would be  invested  in the
securities  of any one issuer,  except that this  restriction  does not apply to
securities  issued or  guaranteed  by the U.S.  government  or its  agencies  or
instrumentalities (or repurchase agreements with respect thereto);

3. The  Portfolio  will not,  with  respect  to 75% of its  assets,  invest in a
security if, as a result of such investment,  it would hold more than 10% (taken
at the time of  investment)  of the  outstanding  voting  securities  of any one
issuer;

4. The Portfolio will not purchase or sell real estate (although it may purchase
securities secured by real estate or interests therein,  or securities issued by
companies which invest in real estate, or interests therein);

5. The Portfolio will not purchase or sell commodities  contracts or oil, gas or
mineral programs. This restriction shall not prohibit the Portfolio,  subject to
restrictions  stated in the Trust's  Prospectus and elsewhere in this Statement,
from purchasing,  selling or entering into futures contracts, options on futures
contracts,  foreign currency forward contracts, foreign currency options, or any
interest  rate,   securities   related  or  foreign   currency-related   hedging
instrument,  including swap agreements and other derivative instruments, subject
to compliance with any applicable  provisions of the federal  securities laws or
commodities laws;

6. The  Portfolio  will not  borrow  money,  issue  senior  securities,  pledge,
mortgage,  hypothecate its assets, except that the Portfolio may (i) borrow from
banks or enter into reverse repurchase agreements,  or employ similar investment
techniques,  and  pledge  its  assets  in  connection  therewith,  but  only  if
immediately  after each  borrowing  there is an asset  coverage of 300% and (ii)
enter into  transactions  in  options,  futures and options on futures and other
derivative instruments as described in the Trust's Prospectus and this Statement
(the deposit of assets in escrow in  connection  with the writing of covered put
and call  options and the purchase of  securities  on a  when-issued  or delayed
delivery  basis,  collateral  arrangements  with respect to initial or variation
margin  deposits for future  contracts and  commitments  entered into under swap
agreements or other derivative instruments,  will not be deemed to be pledges of
the Portfolio's assets);

7. The Portfolio will not lend funds or other assets,  except that the Portfolio
may, consistent with its investment  objective and policies:  (a) invest in debt
obligations,  including  bonds,  debentures or other debt  securities,  bankers'
acceptances and commercial  paper,  even though the purchase of such obligations
may be deemed to be the making of a loan, (b) enter into repurchase  agreements,
and (c) lend its Portfolio  securities in an amount not to exceed  one-third the
value of its  total  assets,  provided  such  loans are and in  accordance  with
applicable guidelines  established by the SEC and the Trust's Board of Trustees;
or

8. The Portfolio will not maintain a short position, or purchase,  write or sell
puts, calls, straddles,  spreads or combinations thereof, except as set forth in
the Trust's Prospectus and this Statement for transactions in options,  futures,
and  options on futures  transactions  arising  under swap  agreements  or other
derivative instruments.

Investment Restrictions Applicable Only to the PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond 
Portfolio:

The Portfolio may not:

1. Invest in a security if, as a result of such investment, more than 25% of its
total  assets  (taken at market value at the time of such  investment)  would be
invested in the  securities of issuers in any particular  industry,  except that
this restriction  does not apply to securities  issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
Government or its agencies or instrumentalities  (or repurchase  agreements with
respect thereto);

2. With  respect to 75% of its assets, invest in a security  if, as a result of
such investment,  more than 5% of its total assets (taken at market value at the
time of such  investment)  would be  invested in  securities  of any one issuer,
except that this restriction  does not apply to securities  issued or guaranteed
by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities;

3. With  respect to 75% of its assets, invest in a security if, as a result of
such investment, it would hold more than 10% (taken at the time of such
investment) of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer;

4. Purchase or sell real estate (although it may purchase securities secured by
real estate or interests therein, or securities issued by companies which invest
in real estate, or interests therein);

5. Purchase or sell commodities or commodities  contracts or oil, gas or mineral
programs.  This  restriction  shall  not  prohibit  the  Portfolio,  subject  to
restrictions  described in the Prospectus and elsewhere in this Statement,  from
purchasing, selling or entering into futures contracts, options, or any interest
rate,   securities-related  or  foreign   currency-related  hedging  instrument,
including  swap  agreements  and  other  derivative   instruments,   subject  to
compliance  with  any  applicable   provisions  of  the  federal  securities  or
commodities laws;

6. Borrow money, issue senior securities, or pledge, mortgage or hypothecate its
assets,  except  that the  Portfolio  may (i)  borrow  from  banks or enter into
reverse  repurchase  agreements,  or employ similar investment  techniques,  and
pledge its assets in connection  therewith,  but only if immediately  after each
borrowing  there is asset coverage of 300% and (ii) enter into  transactions  in
options,  futures  and options on futures and other  derivative  instruments  as
described  in the  Prospectus  and in this  Statement  (the deposit of assets in
escrow in  connection  with the writing of covered put and call  options and the
purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed  delivery  basis,  collateral
arrangements  with respect to initial or variation  margin  deposits for futures
contracts and commitments entered into under swap agreements or other derivative
instruments, will not be deemed to be pledges of the Portfolio assets);

7. Lend any funds or other assets,  except that a Portfolio may, consistent with
its investment objective and policies: (a) invest in debt obligations, including
bonds,  debentures or other debt securities,  banker'  acceptance and commercial
paper,  even  though the  purchase of such  obligations  may be deemed to be the
making  of  loans,  (b)  enter  into  repurchase  agreements,  and (c)  lend its
portfolio  securities  in an amount not to exceed  one-third of the value of its
total  assets,  provided  such  loans  are made in  accordance  with  applicable
guidelines established by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Trust's
Board of Trustees; or

8. Maintain a short position, or purchase, write or sell puts, calls, straddles,
spreads or combinations  thereof,  except on such conditions as may be set forth
in the Prospectus and in this Statement.

Investment Restrictions Applicable Only to the Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:

The following fundamental restrictions apply to the Berger Capital Growth 
Portfolio. The Portfolio may not:

1. Purchase the securities of any one issuer (except U.S. Government securities)
if  immediately  after  and as a result  of such  purchase  (a) the value of the
holdings of the  Portfolio in the  securities  of such issuer  exceeds 5% of the
value of the Portfolio's total assets or (b) the Portfolio owns more than 10% of
the outstanding voting securities or of any class of securities of such issuer.

2. Purchase  securities  of any company with a record of less than three years'
continuous  operation  (including that of  predecessors)  if such purchase would
cause the Portfolio's  investments in all such companies taken at cost to exceed
5% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets.

3. Invest in any one industry more than 25% of the value of its total assets at
the time of such investment.

4. Purchase securities on margin from a broker or dealer or make short sales of
securities.

5. Make loans, except that the Portfolio may enter into repurchase agreements in
accordance  with the Trust's  investment  policies.  The Portfolio does not, for
this purpose,  consider the purchase of all or a portion of an issue of publicly
distributed  bonds,  bank loan  participation  agreements,  bank certificates of
deposit,  bankers' acceptances,  debentures or other securities,  whether or not
the purchase is made upon the  original  issuance of the  securities,  to be the
making of a loan.

6. Borrow in excess of 5% of the value of its total assets, or pledge, mortgage,
or hypothecate its assets taken at market value to an extent greater than 10% of
the  Portfolio's  total assets taken at cost (and no borrowing may be undertaken
except  from  banks  as a  temporary  measure  for  extraordinary  or  emergency
purposes).

7. Act as a securities  underwriter  (except to the extent the  Portfolio may be
deemed  an  underwriter  under  the  Securities  Act of 1933 in  disposing  of a
security),  issue senior  securities  (except to the extent  permitted under the
Investment Company Act of 1940),  invest in real estate although it may purchase
shares of a real estate investment trust), or invest in commodities or commodity
contracts.

8. Participate on a joint or joint and several basis in any securities trading
account.

CERTAIN RISK FACTORS AND INVESTMENT METHODS:

         Some of the investment instruments, techniques and methods which may be
used by one or more  of the  Portfolios  and the  risks  attendant  thereto  are
described below.  Other risk factors and investment  methods may be described in
the  "Investment   Objectives  and  Policies"  and  "Certain  Risk  Factors  and
Investment  Methods"  section in the Trust's  Prospectus and in the  "Investment
Objectives  and Policies"  section of this  Statement.  The risks and investment
methods  described below apply only to those Portfolios which may invest in such
instruments or use such techniques.

Debt Obligations:

         Yields on short,  intermediate,  and long-term securities are dependent
on a variety of factors, including, the general conditions of the money and bond
markets, the size of a particular offering, the maturity of the obligation,  and
the rating of the issue.  Debt securities with longer maturities tend to produce
higher  yields  and  are  generally  subject  to  potentially   greater  capital
appreciation and depreciation than obligations with shorter maturities and lower
yields.  The market  prices of debt  securities  usually  vary,  depending  upon
available  yields. An increase in interest rates will generally reduce the value
of  portfolio  investments,  and a decline  in  interest  rates  will  generally
increase the value of  portfolio  investments.  The ability of the  Portfolio to
achieve its investment objectives is also dependent on the continuing ability of
the issuers of the debt securities in which the Portfolio  invests to meet their
obligations for the payment of interest and principal when due.

Special Risks Associated with Low-Rated and Comparable Unrated Securities:

         Low-rated and comparable unrated  securities,  while generally offering
higher yields than investment-grade securities with similar maturities,  involve
greater risks,  including the  possibility  of default or  bankruptcy.  They are
regarded as predominantly  speculative with respect to the issuer's  capacity to
pay interest and repay principal.  The special risk considerations in connection
with such  investments are discussed  below.  See the Appendix of this Statement
for a discussion of securities ratings.

         Effect of  Interest  Rates and  Economic  Changes.  The  low-rated  and
comparable   unrated  securities  market  is  relatively  new,  and  its  growth
paralleled  a long  economic  expansion.  As a result,  it is not clear how this
market  may  withstand  a  prolonged  recession  or  economic  downturn.  Such a
prolonged  economic downturn could severely disrupt the market for and adversely
affect the value of such securities.

         All interest-bearing  securities typically experience appreciation when
interest  rates decline and  depreciation  when interest  rates rise. The market
values of low-rated and comparable unrated securities tend to reflect individual
corporate  developments  to a greater  extent than do  higher-rated  securities,
which react  primarily to  fluctuations  in the general level of interest rates.
Low-rated and comparable  unrated  securities  also tend to be more sensitive to
economic  conditions  than  are  higher-rated  securities.  As  a  result,  they
generally  involve  more  credit  risks  than  securities  in  the  higher-rated
categories. During an economic downturn or a sustained period of rising interest
rates,  highly leveraged issuers of low-rated and comparable  unrated securities
may experience  financial  stress and may not have  sufficient  revenues to meet
their payment obligations.  The issuer's ability to service its debt obligations
may also be adversely affected by specific corporate developments,  the issuer's
inability to meet specific projected business  forecasts,  or the unavailability
of  additional  financing.  The  risk of loss due to  default  by an  issuer  of
low-rated  and  comparable  unrated  securities  is  significantly  greater than
issuers  of  higher-rated  securities  because  such  securities  are  generally
unsecured and are often subordinated to other creditors.  Further, if the issuer
of a low-rated and comparable  unrated  security  defaulted,  a Portfolio  might
incur additional expenses to seek recovery.  Periods of economic uncertainty and
changes would also generally result in increased volatility in the market prices
of low-rated and comparable  unrated  securities  and thus in a Portfolio's  net
asset value.

         As previously  stated,  the value of such a security will decrease in a
rising  interest rate market and  accordingly,  so will a Portfolio's  net asset
value. If a Portfolio  experiences  unexpected net redemptions in such a market,
it may be forced to  liquidate  a portion of its  portfolio  securities  without
regard to their investment  merits.  Due to the limited  liquidity of high-yield
securities  (discussed  below) a  Portfolio  may be  forced to  liquidate  these
securities  at a  substantial  discount.  Any such  liquidation  would  reduce a
Portfolio's  asset base over which  expenses could be allocated and could result
in a reduced rate of return for a Portfolio.

         Payment  Expectations.  Low-rated  and  comparable  unrated  securities
typically contain  redemption,  call, or prepayment  provisions which permit the
issuer of such securities  containing  such provisions to, at their  discretion,
redeem the  securities.  During periods of falling  interest  rates,  issuers of
high-yield  securities  are  likely  to  redeem or  prepay  the  securities  and
refinance them with debt securities with a lower interest rate. To the extent an
issuer  is able to  refinance  the  securities,  or  otherwise  redeem  them,  a
Portfolio may have to replace the  securities  with a  lower-yielding  security,
which would result in a lower return for a Portfolio.

         Credit  Ratings.   Credit  ratings  issued  by  credit-rating  agencies
evaluate the safety of principal and interest payments of rated securities. They
do not,  however,  evaluate the market value risk of  low-rated  and  comparable
unrated  securities and,  therefore,  may not fully reflect the true risks of an
investment.  In  addition,  credit-rating  agencies  may or may not make  timely
changes in a rating to reflect changes in the economy or in the condition of the
issuer  that  affect  the market  value of the  security.  Consequently,  credit
ratings  are  used  only  as a  preliminary  indicator  of  investment  quality.
Investments  in  low-rated  and  comparable  unrated  securities  will  be  more
dependent  on the  Sub-advisor's  credit  analysis  than  would be the case with
investments in investment-grade debt securities.  The Sub-advisor may employ its
own credit research and analysis,  which could include a study of existing debt,
capital  structure,  ability to service debt and to pay dividends,  the issuer's
sensitivity to economic conditions, its operating history, and the current trend
of earnings. The Sub-advisor continually monitors the investments in a Portfolio
and  evaluates  whether  to  dispose of or to retain  low-rated  and  comparable
unrated securities whose credit ratings or credit quality may have changed.

         Liquidity and Valuation.  A Portfolio may have difficulty  disposing of
certain low-rated and comparable  unrated securities because there may be a thin
trading market for such securities.  Because not all dealers maintain markets in
all low-rated and comparable unrated securities,  there is no established retail
secondary market for many of these securities. A Portfolio anticipates that such
securities  could be sold only to a limited  number of dealers or  institutional
investors.  To the extent a secondary trading market does exist, it is generally
not as liquid as the secondary market for higher-rated securities. The lack of a
liquid  secondary  market may have an adverse  impact on the market price of the
security.  As a result, a Portfolio's  asset value and a Portfolio's  ability to
dispose of particular securities, when necessary to meet a Portfolio's liquidity
needs or in response to a specific economic event, may be impacted.  The lack of
a liquid secondary market for certain securities may also make it more difficult
for the Portfolio to obtain accurate market quotations for purposes of valuing a
Portfolio.  Market  quotations  are  generally  available on many  low-rated and
comparable  unrated  issues  only from a limited  number of dealers  and may not
necessarily  represent  firm bids of such  dealers or prices  for actual  sales.
During  periods of thin  trading,  the spread  between  bid and asked  prices is
likely to increase  significantly.  In addition,  adverse publicity and investor
perceptions,  whether or not based on  fundamental  analysis,  may  decrease the
values and liquidity of low-rated and comparable unrated securities,  especially
in a thinly-traded market.

Put and Call Options:

         Writing (Selling) Call Options.  A call option gives the holder (buyer)
the "right to  purchase"  a  security  or  currency  at a  specified  price (the
exercise  price),  at expiration of the option  (European  style) or at any time
until a certain date (the  expiration  date)  (American  style).  So long as the
obligation  of the writer of a call  option  continues,  he may be  assigned  an
exercise  notice  by the  broker-dealer  through  whom  such  option  was  sold,
requiring him to deliver the underlying  security or currency against payment of
the exercise price.  This obligation  terminates upon the expiration of the call
option,  or such  earlier  time at which the writer  effects a closing  purchase
transaction by repurchasing an option identical to that previously sold.

          When  writing a call option,  a Portfolio,  in return for the premium,
gives up the  opportunity  for profit from a price  increase  in the  underlying
security or currency above the exercise price,  but conversely  retains the risk
of loss should the price of the  security or  currency  decline.  Unlike one who
owns  securities  or currencies  not subject to an option,  the Portfolio has no
control  over  when it may be  required  to sell the  underlying  securities  or
currencies, since it may be assigned an exercise notice at any time prior to the
expiration of its  obligation as a writer.  If a call option which the Portfolio
has written  expires,  the  Portfolio  will  realize a gain in the amount of the
premium;  however,  such gain may be offset by a decline in the market  value of
the underlying security or currency during the option period. If the call option
is  exercised,  a  Portfolio  will  realize  a gain or loss from the sale of the
underlying security or currency.

          Writing (Selling) Put Options. A put option gives the purchaser of the
option the right to sell, and the writer (seller) has the obligation to buy, the
underlying  security or currency at the exercise  price during the option period
(American style) or at the expiration of the option (European style). So long as
the obligation of the writer continues, he may be assigned an exercise notice by
the  broker-dealer  through  whom such  option was sold,  requiring  him to make
payment of the exercise  price against  delivery of the  underlying  security or
currency.  The  operation  of put  options in other  respects,  including  their
related risks and rewards, is substantially identical to that of call options.

         Premium  Received  from Writing Call or Put Options.  A Portfolio  will
receive a  premium  from  writing a put or call  option,  which  increases  such
Portfolio's return in the event the option expires  unexercised or is closed out
at a profit.  The amount of the premium will reflect,  among other  things,  the
relationship  of the market  price of the  underlying  security to the  exercise
price of the  option,  the term of the option and the  volatility  of the market
price of the underlying  security.  By writing a call option, a Portfolio limits
its  opportunity  to  profit  from  any  increase  in the  market  value  of the
underlying  security  above the exercise  price of the option.  By writing a put
option,  a Portfolio  assumes  the risk that it may be required to purchase  the
underlying  security for an exercise  price higher than its then current  market
value,  resulting in a potential  capital loss if the purchase price exceeds the
market  value  plus the amount of the  premium  received,  unless  the  security
subsequently appreciates in value.

         Closing Transactions.  Closing transactions may be effected in order to
realize a profit  on an  outstanding  call  option,  to  prevent  an  underlying
security or currency from being called, or, to permit the sale of the underlying
security or currency.  A Portfolio  may  terminate an option that it has written
prior to its expiration by entering into a closing purchase transaction in which
it purchases an option having the same terms as the option written.  A Portfolio
will  realize  a  profit  or loss  from  such  transaction  if the  cost of such
transaction  is less or more than the premium  received  from the writing of the
option.  In the case of a put option,  any loss so incurred  may be partially or
entirely  offset by the premium  received from a simultaneous or subsequent sale
of a  different  put option.  Because  increases  in the market  price of a call
option will  generally  reflect  increases in the market price of the underlying
security,  any loss  resulting from the repurchase of a call option is likely to
be  offset  in whole or in part by  unrealized  appreciation  of the  underlying
security owned by such Portfolio.

          Furthermore, effecting a closing transaction will permit the Portfolio
to write another call option on the underlying  security or currency with either
a different  exercise price or expiration date or both. If the Portfolio desires
to sell a  particular  security or currency  from its  portfolio on which it has
written a call  option,  or  purchased  a put  option,  it will seek to effect a
closing  transaction prior to, or concurrently with, the sale of the security or
currency.  There is, of course,  no assurance that the Portfolio will be able to
effect such closing  transactions at a favorable  price. If the Portfolio cannot
enter into such a transaction, it may be required to hold a security or currency
that it might  otherwise  have sold.  When the  Portfolio  writes a covered call
option, it runs the risk of not being able to participate in the appreciation of
the underlying securities or currencies above the exercise price, as well as the
risk  of  being  required  to hold  on to  securities  or  currencies  that  are
depreciating  in value.  This  could  result in higher  transaction  costs.  The
Portfolio will pay  transaction  costs in connection with the writing of options
to close out previously  written options.  Such  transaction  costs are normally
higher than those applicable to purchases and sales of portfolio securities.

          Purchasing Call Options.  Call options may be purchased by a Portfolio
for the purpose of acquiring the  underlying  securities  or currencies  for its
portfolio.  Utilized in this fashion,  the purchase of call options  enables the
Portfolio to acquire the  securities or currencies at the exercise  price of the
call option plus the premium paid. At times the net cost of acquiring securities
or  currencies  in this  manner  may be less  than  the  cost of  acquiring  the
securities  or  currencies  directly.  This  technique  may also be  useful to a
Portfolio in purchasing a large block of securities or currencies  that would be
more difficult to acquire by direct market purchases. So long as it holds such a
call  option  rather  than the  underlying  security  or  currency  itself,  the
Portfolio is partially protected from any unexpected decline in the market price
of the  underlying  security or currency  and in such event could allow the call
option to expire,  incurring a loss only to the extent of the  premium  paid for
the option.

          Purchasing  Put Options.  A Portfolio  may purchase a put option on an
underlying security or currency (a "protective put") owned by the Portfolio as a
defensive  technique in order to protect  against an anticipated  decline in the
value of the security or currency. Such hedge protection is provided only during
the life of the put option when the Portfolio,  as the holder of the put option,
is able to sell the  underlying  security or currency at the put exercise  price
regardless  of  any  decline  in  the  underlying  security's  market  price  or
currency's  exchange value. For example,  a put option may be purchased in order
to protect unrealized appreciation of a security or currency where a Sub-advisor
deems it desirable  to continue to hold the security or currency  because of tax
considerations.  The premium paid for the put option and any  transaction  costs
would reduce any capital gain  otherwise  available  for  distribution  when the
security or currency is eventually sold.

          If a Portfolio purchases put options at a time when the Portfolio does
not own the  underlying  security or currency.  By  purchasing  put options on a
security or  currency it does not own,  the  Portfolio  seeks to benefit  from a
decline in the market price of the underlying  security or currency.  If the put
option is not sold when it has remaining  value,  and if the market price of the
underlying  security or currency  remains  equal to or greater than the exercise
price  during the life of the put  option,  the  Portfolio  will lose its entire
investment  in the put option.  In order for the  purchase of a put option to be
profitable, the market price of the underlying security or currency must decline
sufficiently  below the  exercise  price to cover the  premium  and  transaction
costs, unless the put option is sold in a closing sale transaction.

          Dealer Options.  Exchange-traded  options  generally have a continuous
liquid market while dealer options have none.  Consequently,  the Portfolio will
generally be able to realize the value of a dealer option it has purchased  only
by  exercising it or reselling it to the dealer who issued it.  Similarly,  when
the Portfolio writes a dealer option, it generally will be able to close out the
option  prior  to its  expiration  only  by  entering  into a  closing  purchase
transaction with the dealer to which the Portfolio  originally wrote the option.
While the Portfolio will seek to enter into dealer options only with dealers who
will agree to and which are  expected  to be capable of  entering  into  closing
transactions  with the  Portfolio,  there can be no assurance that the Portfolio
will be able to liquidate a dealer option at a favorable price at any time prior
to expiration.  Until the Portfolio,  as a covered dealer call option writer, is
able to effect a closing purchase transaction,  it will not be able to liquidate
securities  (or other  assets)  used as cover  until the  option  expires  or is
exercised.  In the event of insolvency of the contra party, the Portfolio may be
unable to  liquidate a dealer  option.  With  respect to options  written by the
Portfolio,  the  inability  to enter  into a closing  transaction  may result in
material losses to the Portfolio. For example, since the Portfolio must maintain
a secured position with respect to any call option on a security it writes,  the
Portfolio may not sell the assets which it has segregated to secure the position
while it is  obligated  under  the  option.  This  requirement  may  impair  the
Portfolio's ability to sell portfolio  securities at a time when such sale might
be advantageous.

          The Staff of the SEC has  taken the  position  that  purchased  dealer
options and the assets used to secure the written  dealer  options are  illiquid
securities.  The  Portfolio  may treat the cover used for written OTC options as
liquid if the dealer agrees that the Portfolio may  repurchase the OTC option it
has written for a maximum price to be calculated by a predetermined  formula. In
such cases,  the OTC option would be considered  illiquid only to the extent the
maximum  repurchase  price under the formula  exceeds the intrinsic value of the
option.  To this extent,  the Portfolio  will treat dealer options as subject to
the Portfolio's  limitation on unmarketable  securities.  If the SEC changes its
position on the  liquidity  of dealer  options,  the  Portfolio  will change its
treatment of such instrument accordingly.

         Certain Risk Factors in Writing Call Options and in Purchasing Call and
Put Options:  During the option period, a Portfolio,  as writer of a call option
has, in return for the premium received on the option,  given up the opportunity
for capital appreciation above the exercise price should the market price of the
underlying security increase, but has retained the risk of loss should the price
of the underlying security decline. The writer has no control over the time when
it may be required to fulfill its obligation as a writer of the option. The risk
of purchasing a call or put option is that the Portfolio may lose the premium it
paid plus  transaction  costs. If the Portfolio does not exercise the option and
is unable to close out the position  prior to expiration of the option,  it will
lose its entire investment.

         An option position may be closed out only on an exchange which provides
a secondary  market.  There can be no assurance that a liquid  secondary  market
will exist for a particular  option at a particular time and that the Portfolio,
can close out its position by effecting a closing transaction.  If the Portfolio
is  unable  to  effect  a  closing  purchase  transaction,  it  cannot  sell the
underlying  security  until the  option  expires  or the  option  is  exercised.
Accordingly,  the Portfolio may not be able to sell the underlying security at a
time when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so. Possible  reasons for the
absence of a liquid  secondary  market include the following:  (i)  insufficient
trading interest in certain options;  (ii) restrictions on transactions  imposed
by an exchange;  (iii) trading halts,  suspensions or other restrictions imposed
with  respect  to  particular   classes  or  series  of  options  or  underlying
securities;  (iv)  inadequacy  of the  facilities of an exchange or the clearing
corporation  to  handle  trading  volume;  and  (v) a  decision  by one or  more
exchanges  to  discontinue  the  trading of options  or impose  restrictions  on
orders.  In  addition,  the hours of trading  for options may not conform to the
hours during which the underlying  securities are traded. To the extent that the
options  markets  close  before  the  markets  for  the  underlying  securities,
significant  price and rate movements can take place in the  underlying  markets
that cannot be  reflected in the options  markets.  The purchase of options is a
highly  specialized  activity  which  involves  investment  techniques and risks
different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions.

         Each exchange has established  limitations governing the maximum number
of call  options,  whether  or not  covered,  which may be  written  by a single
investor  acting  alone or in concert  with others  (regardless  of whether such
options are written on the same or different exchanges or are held or written on
one or more accounts or through one or more brokers).  An exchange may order the
liquidation  of  positions  found to be in  violation of these limits and it may
impose other sanctions or restrictions.

Options on Stock Indices:

         Options on stock indices are similar to options on specific  securities
except  that,  rather than the right to take or make  delivery  of the  specific
security  at a specific  price,  an option on a stock index gives the holder the
right to receive,  upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing
level of that stock index is greater  than, in the case of a call, or less than,
in the case of a put, the exercise  price of the option.  This amount of cash is
equal to such difference between the closing price of the index and the exercise
price of the option expressed in dollars multiplied by a specified multiple. The
writer of the option is obligated,  in return for the premium received,  to make
delivery of this amount. Unlike options on specific securities,  all settlements
of  options  on stock  indices  are in cash and gain or loss  depends on general
movements  in the stocks  included in the index  rather than price  movements in
particular  stocks.  A stock index futures contract is an agreement in which one
party  agrees to  deliver  to the other an  amount of cash  equal to a  specific
amount multiplied by the difference  between the value of a specific stock index
at the close of the last  trading day of the contract and the price at which the
agreement is made. No physical delivery of securities is made.

         Risk  Factors  in  Options on  Indices.  Because  the value of an index
option  depends  upon the  movements  in the level of the index rather than upon
movements  in the price of a particular  security,  whether the  Portfolio  will
realize  a gain or a loss on the  purchase  or sale  of an  option  on an  index
depends upon the movements in the level of prices in the market  generally or in
an industry or market  segment  rather than upon  movements  in the price of the
individual security. Accordingly, successful use of positions will depend upon a
Sub-advisor's  ability to predict  correctly  movements in the  direction of the
market  generally or in the  direction of a particular  industry.  This requires
different  skills  and  techniques  than  predicting  changes  in the  prices of
individual securities.

         Index prices may be distorted if trading of securities  included in the
index is  interrupted.  Trading  in index  options  also may be  interrupted  in
certain circumstances, such as if trading were halted in a substantial number of
securities  in the index.  If this  occurred,  a Portfolio  would not be able to
close out options  which it had written or  purchased  and, if  restrictions  on
exercise were imposed, might be unable to exercise an option it purchased, which
would result in substantial losses.

         Price movements in Portfolio  securities  will not correlate  perfectly
with  movements in the level of the index and therefore,  a Portfolio  bears the
risk that the price of the  securities  may not increase as much as the level of
the index.  In this  event,  the  Portfolio  would bear a loss on the call which
would not be completely offset by movements in the prices of the securities.  It
is also  possible  that the index  may rise  when the  value of the  Portfolio's
securities does not. If this occurred,  a Portfolio  would  experience a loss on
the call which would not be offset by an increase in the value of its securities
and might also experience a loss in the market value of its securities.

         Unless a Portfolio  has other  liquid  assets which are  sufficient  to
satisfy the exercise of a call on the index,  the Portfolio  will be required to
liquidate securities in order to satisfy the exercise.

         When a Portfolio has written a call on an index, there is also the risk
that  the  market  may  decline  between  the time  the  Portfolio  has the call
exercised  against it, at a price which is fixed as of the closing  level of the
index  on the date of  exercise,  and the  time  the  Portfolio  is able to sell
securities. As with options on securities, the Sub-advisor will not learn that a
call has been exercised until the day following the exercise date, but, unlike a
call on securities  where the Portfolio  would be able to deliver the underlying
security in settlement, the Portfolio may have to sell part of its securities in
order to make settlement in cash, and the price of such securities might decline
before they could be sold.

         If a  Portfolio  exercises  a put  option  on an  index  which  it  has
purchased before final  determination of the closing index value for the day, it
runs the risk that the level of the underlying  index may change before closing.
If this  change  causes  the  exercised  option to fall  "out-of-the-money"  the
Portfolio will be required to pay the difference between the closing index value
and the exercise price of the option  (multiplied by the applicable  multiplier)
to the assigned writer. Although the Portfolio may be able to minimize this risk
by withholding exercise  instructions until just before the daily cutoff time or
by selling rather than exercising an option when the index level is close to the
exercise price,  it may not be possible to eliminate this risk entirely  because
the cutoff  time for index  options  may be earlier  than those  fixed for other
types of  options  and may occur  before  definitive  closing  index  values are
announced.

Trading in Futures:

          A  futures  contract  provides  for the  future  sale by one party and
purchase  by  another  party  of a  specified  amount  of a  specific  financial
instrument (e.g.,  units of a stock index) for a specified price, date, time and
place  designated at the time the contract is made.  Brokerage fees are incurred
when a  futures  contract  is  bought  or  sold  and  margin  deposits  must  be
maintained. Entering into a contract to buy is commonly referred to as buying or
purchasing a contract or holding a long  position.  Entering  into a contract to
sell is commonly referred to as selling a contract or holding a short position.

          Unlike when the  Portfolio  purchases  or sells a  security,  no price
would  be paid or  received  by the  Portfolio  upon the  purchase  or sale of a
futures  contract.  Upon entering into a futures  contract,  and to maintain the
Portfolio's open positions in futures contracts, the Portfolio would be required
to deposit with its custodian in a segregated account in the name of the futures
broker an amount of cash,  U.S.  government  securities,  suitable  money market
instruments,  or liquid, high-grade debt securities,  known as "initial margin."
The margin required for a particular  futures contract is set by the exchange on
which the contract is traded,  and may be  significantly  modified  from time to
time by the exchange  during the term of the  contract.  Futures  contracts  are
customarily  purchased  and sold on margins that may range upward from less than
5% of the value of the contract being traded.

         Margin is the amount of funds that must be deposited  by the  Portfolio
with its custodian in a segregated account in the name of the futures commission
merchant in order to initiate  futures  trading and to maintain the  Portfolio's
open positions in futures contracts.  A margin deposit is intended to ensure the
Portfolio's  performance  of the futures  contract.  The margin  required  for a
particular futures contract is set by the exchange on which the futures contract
is traded,  and may be significantly  modified from time to time by the exchange
during the term of the  futures  contract.  Futures  contracts  are  customarily
purchased  and sold on margins  that may range  upward  from less than 5% of the
value of the futures contract being traded.

          If the price of an open futures  contract  changes (by increase in the
case of a sale or by decrease in the case of a purchase) so that the loss on the
futures contract reaches a point at which the margin on deposit does not satisfy
margin requirements, the broker will require an increase in the margin. However,
if the value of a position  increases  because of favorable price changes in the
futures  contract so that the margin deposit  exceeds the required  margin,  the
broker will pay the excess to the Portfolio.

          These subsequent payments,  called "variation margin," to and from the
futures broker,  are made on a daily basis as the price of the underlying assets
fluctuate  making the long and short  positions in the futures  contract more or
less valuable, a process known as "marking to the market." The Portfolio expects
to earn  interest  income  on its  margin  deposits.  Although  certain  futures
contracts, by their terms, require actual future delivery of and payment for the
underlying  instruments,  in practice most futures  contracts are usually closed
out before the delivery date.  Closing out an open futures contract  purchase or
sale is effected by entering into an  offsetting  futures  contract  purchase or
sale,  respectively,  for the same aggregate amount of the identical  securities
and the same delivery  date. If the  offsetting  purchase price is less than the
original sale price, the Portfolio realizes a gain; if it is more, the Portfolio
realizes  a loss.  Conversely,  if the  offsetting  sale  price is more than the
original  purchase  price,  the Portfolio  realizes a gain;  if it is less,  the
Portfolio  realizes a loss. The transaction costs must also be included in these
calculations.  There can be no assurance,  however,  that the Portfolio  will be
able to enter  into an  offsetting  transaction  with  respect  to a  particular
futures  contract at a particular  time.  If the  Portfolio is not able to enter
into an offsetting  transaction,  the Portfolio  will continue to be required to
maintain the margin deposits on the futures contract.

          For example,  one contract in the Financial  Times Stock  Exchange 100
Index future is a contract to buy 25 pounds sterling  multiplied by the level of
the UK Financial  Times 100 Share Index on a given future date.  Settlement of a
stock index futures  contract may or may not be in the underlying  security.  If
not in the underlying security, then settlement will be made in cash, equivalent
over time to the  difference  between the contract price and the actual price of
the underlying asset at the time the stock index futures contract expires.

         Options on futures  are  similar to options on  underlying  instruments
except that options on futures give the purchaser  the right,  in return for the
premium paid, to assume a position in a futures contract (a long position if the
option is a call and a short  position  if the option is a put),  rather than to
purchase or sell the futures contract, at a specified exercise price at any time
during the period of the option.  Upon  exercise of the option,  the delivery of
the  futures  position  by the  writer of the option to the holder of the option
will be accompanied by the delivery of the  accumulated  balance in the writer's
futures margin account which  represents the amount by which the market price of
the futures  contract,  at exercise,  exceeds (in the case of a call) or is less
than (in the case of a put) the  exercise  price of the  option  on the  futures
contract.  Alternatively,  settlement may be made totally in cash. Purchasers of
options who fail to exercise  their  options prior to the exercise date suffer a
loss of the premium paid.

         The writer of an option on a futures  contract  is  required to deposit
margin  pursuant  to  requirements   similar  to  those  applicable  to  futures
contracts. Upon exercise of an option on a futures contract, the delivery of the
futures position by the writer of the option to the holder of the option will be
accompanied  by  delivery  of the  accumulated  balance in the  writer's  margin
account.  This amount  will be equal to the amount by which the market  price of
the futures contract at the time of exercise exceeds,  in the case of a call, or
is less  than,  in the case of a put,  the  exercise  price of the option on the
futures contract.

         Although  financial  futures  contracts  by their terms call for actual
delivery or acceptance of securities, in most cases the contracts are closed out
before the settlement date without the making or taking of delivery. Closing out
is accomplished by effecting an offsetting transaction.  A futures contract sale
is closed out by effecting a futures  contract  purchase for the same  aggregate
amount of securities  and the same delivery  date. If the sale price exceeds the
offsetting  purchase price, the seller  immediately would be paid the difference
and would  realize a gain.  If the  offsetting  purchase  price exceeds the sale
price, the seller would immediately pay the difference and would realize a loss.
Similarly,  a futures  contract  purchase  is closed out by  effecting a futures
contract  sale  for the  same  securities  and the same  delivery  date.  If the
offsetting sale price exceeds the purchase price,  the purchaser would realize a
gain,  whereas if the purchase  price  exceeds the  offsetting  sale price,  the
purchaser would realize a loss.

         Commissions  on  financial   futures   contracts  and  related  options
transactions  may be higher than those which would apply to purchases  and sales
of securities directly.

         A public  market  exists in interest  rate futures  contracts  covering
primarily  the  following  financial  instruments:  U.S.  Treasury  bonds;  U.S.
Treasury notes;  Government  National  Mortgage  Association  ("GNMA")  modified
pass-through mortgage-backed securities; three-month U.S. Treasury bills; 90-day
commercial paper; bank certificates of deposit;  and Eurodollar  certificates of
deposit.  It is expected that Futures contracts trading in additional  financial
instruments will be authorized. The standard contract size is generally $100,000
for Futures  contracts in U.S.  Treasury bonds,  U.S.  Treasury notes,  and GNMA
pass-through   securities  and  $1,000,000  for  the  other  designated  Futures
contracts.  A public  market  exists in Futures  contracts  covering a number of
indexes,  including,  but not limited to, the  Standard & Poor's 500 Index,  the
Standard  & Poor's 100 Index,  the  NASDAQ 100 Index,  the Value Line  Composite
Index and the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index.

Certain Risks Relating to Futures Contracts and Related Options. There are 
special risks involved in futures transactions.

                   Volatility and Leverage.  The prices of futures contracts are
volatile  and are  influenced,  among other  things,  by actual and  anticipated
changes in the market and interest  rates,  which in turn are affected by fiscal
and  monetary  policies and  national  and  international  policies and economic
events.

          Most United States futures  exchanges  limit the amount of fluctuation
permitted  in futures  contract  prices  during a single  trading day. The daily
limit  establishes  the maximum amount that the price of a futures  contract may
vary either up or down from the previous day's  settlement price at the end of a
trading  session.  Once the daily limit has been reached in a particular type of
futures  contract,  no  trades  may be made on that day at a price  beyond  that
limit.  The daily limit governs only price movement during a particular  trading
day and therefore does not limit potential losses, because the limit may prevent
the  liquidation  of  unfavorable   positions.   Futures  contract  prices  have
occasionally moved to the daily limit for several  consecutive trading days with
little or no trading, thereby preventing prompt liquidation of futures positions
and subjecting some futures traders to substantial losses.

          Because of the low margin deposits required,  futures trading involves
an extremely  high degree of  leverage.  As a result,  a relatively  small price
movement in a futures contract may result in immediate and substantial  loss, as
well as gain, to the investor.  For example, if at the time of purchase,  10% of
the value of the futures  contract is  deposited  as margin,  a  subsequent  10%
decrease in the value of the futures  contract  would  result in a total loss of
the margin  deposit,  before any deduction  for the  transaction  costs,  if the
account  were then closed out. A 15%  decrease  would  result in a loss equal to
150% of the original  margin  deposit,  if the contract were closed out. Thus, a
purchase  or sale of a futures  contract  may  result in losses in excess of the
amount invested in the futures contract. However, the Portfolio would presumably
have sustained  comparable  losses if, instead of the futures  contract,  it had
invested  in  the   underlying   instrument  and  sold  it  after  the  decline.
Furthermore,  in the case of a futures contract purchase, in order to be certain
that the  Portfolio has  sufficient  assets to satisfy its  obligations  under a
futures  contract,  the Portfolio  earmarks to the futures contract money market
instruments  equal in value to the current  value of the  underlying  instrument
less the margin deposit.

                   Liquidity.  The  Portfolio  may elect to close some or all of
its futures positions at any time prior to their expiration. The Portfolio would
do so to reduce  exposure  represented  by long  futures  positions  or increase
exposure  represented  by short futures  positions.  The Portfolio may close its
positions by taking  opposite  positions  which would  operate to terminate  the
Portfolio's position in the futures contracts. Final determinations of variation
margin  would then be made,  additional  cash would be required to be paid by or
released to the Portfolio, and the Portfolio would realize a loss or a gain.

          Futures  contracts  may be closed out only on the exchange or board of
trade where the contracts were initially traded.  Although the Portfolio intends
to purchase or sell futures contracts only on exchanges or boards of trade where
there appears to be an active market, there is no assurance that a liquid market
on an exchange or board of trade will exist for any  particular  contract at any
particular  time.  In such  event,  it might not be  possible to close a futures
contract,  and in the event of adverse  price  movements,  the  Portfolio  would
continue  to be  required  to make  daily cash  payments  of  variation  margin.
However,  in the event futures  contracts have been used to hedge the underlying
instruments,  the Portfolio  would continue to hold the  underlying  instruments
subject to the hedge until the futures  contracts  could be terminated.  In such
circumstances,  an increase in the price of the underlying instruments,  if any,
might partially or completely offset losses on the futures contract. However, as
described  below,  there  is no  guarantee  that  the  price  of the  underlying
instruments  will, in fact,  correlate  with the price  movements in the futures
contract and thus provide an offset to losses on a futures contract.

                   Hedging Risk. A decision of whether,  when,  and how to hedge
involves skill and judgment, and even a well-conceived hedge may be unsuccessful
to some degree because of unexpected  market  behavior,  market or interest rate
trends.  There are several risks in connection  with the use by the Portfolio of
futures contracts as a hedging device.  One risk arises because of the imperfect
correlation  between  movements  in the  prices  of the  futures  contracts  and
movements in the prices of the underlying  instruments  which are the subject of
the hedge.  Sub-advisor will,  however,  attempt to reduce this risk by entering
into futures contracts whose movements, in its judgment, will have a significant
correlation  with  movements  in  the  prices  of  the  Portfolio's   underlying
instruments sought to be hedged.

          Successful  use of futures  contracts  by the  Portfolio  for  hedging
purposes  is also  subject  to a  Sub-advisor's  ability  to  correctly  predict
movements  in the  direction  of the  market.  It is  possible  that,  when  the
Portfolio  has sold  futures  to hedge its  portfolio  against a decline  in the
market, the index,  indices, or underlying  instruments on which the futures are
written might advance and the value of the  underlying  instruments  held in the
Portfolio's  portfolio might decline. If this were to occur, the Portfolio would
lose money on the  futures and also would  experience  a decline in value in its
underlying  instruments.  However,  while this might occur to a certain  degree,
Sub-advisor  may believe that over time the value of the  Portfolio's  portfolio
will tend to move in the same direction as the market indices which are intended
to correlate to the price movements of the underlying  instruments  sought to be
hedged.  It is also  possible  that if the  Portfolio  were to hedge against the
possibility  of a decline  in the market  (adversely  affecting  the  underlying
instruments held in its portfolio) and prices instead  increased,  the Portfolio
would lose part or all of the  benefit of  increased  value of those  underlying
instruments that it has hedged,  because it would have offsetting  losses in its
futures  positions.  In  addition,  in such  situations,  if the  Portfolio  had
insufficient  cash, it might have to sell  underlying  instruments to meet daily
variation margin  requirements.  Such sales of underlying  instruments might be,
but would not  necessarily  be, at increased  prices  (which  would  reflect the
rising market).  The Portfolio  might have to sell  underlying  instruments at a
time when it would be disadvantageous to do so.

          In  addition  to the  possibility  that  there  might be an  imperfect
correlation,  or no correlation at all,  between price  movements in the futures
contracts and the portion of the portfolio being hedged,  the price movements of
futures  contracts  might not correlate  perfectly  with price  movements in the
underlying   instruments  due  to  certain  market   distortions.   First,   all
participants in the futures market are subject to margin deposit and maintenance
requirements.  Rather  than  meeting  additional  margin  deposit  requirements,
investors might close futures contracts through  offsetting  transactions  which
could distort the normal  relationship  between the underlying  instruments  and
futures markets.  Second, the margin requirements in the futures market are less
onerous than margin requirements in the securities markets,  and as a result the
futures market might attract more  speculators  than the securities  markets do.
Increased  participation  by  speculators in the futures market might also cause
temporary price  distortions.  Due to the possibility of price distortion in the
futures  market and also  because of the  imperfect  correlation  between  price
movements in the underlying  instruments  and movements in the prices of futures
contracts, even a correct forecast of general market trends by Sub-advisor might
not result in a successful hedging transaction over a very short time period.

         Certain Risks of Options on Futures  Contracts.  The Portfolio may seek
to close out an option  position  by  writing  or  buying an  offsetting  option
covering the same index, underlying instruments, or contract and having the same
exercise  price and  expiration  date.  The ability to  establish  and close out
positions  on such  options  will be  subject  to the  maintenance  of a  liquid
secondary  market.  Reasons for the absence of a liquid  secondary  market on an
exchange include the following:  (i) there may be insufficient  trading interest
in certain options;  (ii)  restrictions may be imposed by an exchange on opening
transactions or closing  transactions or both; (iii) trading halts,  suspensions
or other  restrictions  may be imposed  with  respect to  particular  classes or
series of  options,  or  underlying  instruments;  (iv)  unusual  or  unforeseen
circumstances may interrupt normal operations on an exchange; (v) the facilities
of an  exchange  or a clearing  corporation  may not at all times be adequate to
handle current trading volume; or (vi) one or more exchanges could, for economic
or other reasons,  decide or be compelled at some future date to discontinue the
trading of options (or a particular class or series of options),  in which event
the  secondary  market on that  exchange  (or in the class or series of options)
would cease to exist, although outstanding options on the exchange that had been
issued by a clearing  corporation  as a result of trades on that exchange  would
continue to be exercisable in accordance with their terms. There is no assurance
that higher than anticipated  trading activity or other unforeseen  events might
not,  at  times,  render  certain  of the  facilities  of  any  of the  clearing
corporations inadequate, and thereby result in the institution by an exchange of
special  procedures  which may interfere with the timely execution of customers'
orders.

Foreign Futures and Options:

         Participation  in foreign  futures  and  foreign  options  transactions
involves  the  execution  and clearing of trades on or subject to the rules of a
foreign  board of  trade.  Neither  the  National  Futures  Association  nor any
domestic exchange regulates activities of any foreign boards of trade, including
the execution, delivery and clearing of transactions, or has the power to compel
enforcement of the rules of a foreign board of trade or any  applicable  foreign
law. This is true even if the exchange is formally  linked to a domestic  market
so that a position  taken on the market may be liquidated  by a  transaction  on
another market.  Moreover,  such laws or regulations  will vary depending on the
foreign  country in which the  foreign  futures or foreign  options  transaction
occurs.  For these  reasons,  customers  who trade  foreign  futures  or foreign
options  contracts  may  not be  afforded  certain  of the  protective  measures
provided by the Commodity  Exchange Act, the CFTC's regulations and the rules of
the National Futures Association and any domestic exchange,  including the right
to use reparations proceedings before the Commission and arbitration proceedings
provided by the National Futures  Association or any domestic futures  exchange.
In particular, Portfolios received from customers for foreign futures or foreign
options  transactions  may not be provided the same  protections  as  Portfolios
received in respect of  transactions  on United  States  futures  exchanges.  In
addition,  the price of any foreign  futures or foreign  options  contract  and,
therefore, the potential profit and loss thereon may be affected by any variance
in the foreign  exchange rate between the time your order is placed and the time
it is liquidated, offset or exercised.

          Foreign  Currency  Futures  Contracts and Related  Options.  A forward
foreign currency  exchange contract involves an obligation to purchase or sell a
specific  currency at a future date,  which may be any fixed number of days from
the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties,  at a price set at the time
of the contract.  These contracts are principally traded in the interbank market
conducted  directly between currency traders (usually large,  commercial  banks)
and their customers.  A forward contract  generally has no deposit  requirement,
and no commissions are charged at any stage for trades.

          Depending  on the  applicable  investment  policies  and  restrictions
applicable to a Portfolio, a Portfolio will generally enter into forward foreign
currency  exchange  contracts under two  circumstances.  First, when a Portfolio
enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security  denominated  in a
foreign  currency,  it may  desire  to "lock  in" the U.S.  dollar  price of the
security.  By entering into a forward  contract for the purchase or sale,  for a
fixed  amount of  dollars,  of the amount of foreign  currency  involved  in the
underlying security  transactions,  the Portfolio will be able to protect itself
against a possible loss  resulting  from an adverse  change in the  relationship
between  the U.S.  dollar and the  subject  foreign  currency  during the period
between the date the security is purchased or sold and the date on which payment
is made or received.

          Second, when a Sub-advisor  believes that the currency of a particular
foreign  country  may suffer or enjoy a  substantial  movement  against  another
currency,  including the U.S.  dollar,  it may enter into a forward  contract to
sell or buy the amount of the former foreign  currency,  approximating the value
of  some  or all of the  Portfolio's  securities  denominated  in  such  foreign
currency. Alternatively,  where appropriate, the Portfolio may hedge all or part
of its foreign currency  exposure through the use of a basket of currencies or a
proxy currency where such  currencies or currency act as an effective  proxy for
other  currencies.  In such a case,  the  Portfolio  may  enter  into a  forward
contract  where the amount of the foreign  currency to be sold exceeds the value
of the securities  denominated in such currency.  The use of this basket hedging
technique  may be more  efficient  and  economical  than  entering into separate
forward contracts for each currency held in the Portfolio.  The precise matching
of the forward  contract  amounts and the value of the securities  involved will
not generally be possible  since the future value of such  securities in foreign
currencies  will change as a  consequence  of market  movements  in the value of
those  securities  between the date the forward contract is entered into and the
date it matures.  The  projection  of  short-term  currency  market  movement is
extremely  difficult,  and the  successful  execution  of a  short-term  hedging
strategy is highly uncertain.

          As  indicated  above,  it is  impossible  to  forecast  with  absolute
precision  the market value of portfolio  securities  at the  expiration  of the
forward contract.  Accordingly,  it may be necessary for a Portfolio to purchase
additional  foreign  currency  on the spot  market (and bear the expense of such
purchase) if the market value of the security is less than the amount of foreign
currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver and if a decision is made to sell
the security and make delivery of the foreign  currency.  Conversely,  it may be
necessary to sell on the spot market some of the foreign currency  received upon
the sale of the  portfolio  security if its market  value  exceeds the amount of
foreign  currency the Portfolio is obligated to deliver.  However,  as noted, in
order to avoid excessive  transactions and transaction  costs, the Portfolio may
use liquid,  high-grade debt securities,  denominated in any currency,  to cover
the  amount by which the value of a forward  contract  exceeds  the value of the
securities to which it relates.

          If the  Portfolio  retains the  portfolio  security  and engages in an
offsetting transaction,  the Portfolio will incur a gain or a loss (as described
below) to the extent that there has been movement in forward contract prices. If
the Portfolio engages in an offsetting  transaction,  it may subsequently  enter
into a new forward contract to sell the foreign currency.  Should forward prices
decline  during the  period  between  the  Portfolio's  entering  into a forward
contract  for the sale of a  foreign  currency  and the date it  enters  into an
offsetting contract for the purchase of the foreign currency, the Portfolio will
realize a gain to the  extent  the price of the  currency  it has agreed to sell
exceeds the price of the  currency  it has agreed to  purchase.  Should  forward
prices increase,  the Portfolio will suffer a loss to the extent of the price of
the currency it has agreed to purchase  exceeds the price of the currency it has
agreed to sell.

         Purchase and Sale of Currency Futures Contracts and Related Options. As
noted  above,  a currency  futures  contract  sale  creates an  obligation  by a
Portfolio,  as seller,  to  deliver  the  amount of  currency  called for in the
contract at a  specified  future time for a special  price.  A currency  futures
contract  purchase creates an obligation by a Portfolio,  as purchaser,  to take
delivery  of an amount of  currency  at a  specified  future time at a specified
price.  Although the terms of currency futures contracts specify actual delivery
or receipt, in most instances the contracts are closed out before the settlement
date without the making or taking of delivery of the currency.  Closing out of a
currency futures contract is effected by entering into an offsetting purchase or
sale transaction. Unlike a currency futures contract, which requires the parties
to buy and sell currency on a set date, an option on a currency futures contract
entitles  its holder to decide on or before a future date  whether to enter into
such a  contract.  If the holder  decides  not to enter into the  contract,  the
premium paid for the option is fixed at the point of sale.

Interest Rate Swaps and Interest Rate Caps and Floors:

         Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the Portfolio  with another
party of their  respective  commitments  to pay or receive  interest,  e.g.,  an
exchange  of  floating  rate  payments  for fixed rate  payments.  The  exchange
commitments can involve payments to be made in the same currency or in different
currencies.  The purchase of an interest rate cap entitles the purchaser, to the
extent that a specified index exceeds a predetermined  interest rate, to receive
payments of interest on a contractually  based  principal  amount from the party
selling the interest rate cap. The purchase of an interest  rate floor  entitles
the purchaser,  to the extent that a specified index falls below a predetermined
interest  rate,  to  receive  payments  of  interest  on a  contractually  based
principal amount from the party selling the interest rate floor.

Hybrid Instruments:

         Hybrid instruments combine the elements of futures contracts or options
with  those  of debt,  preferred  equity  or a  depository  instrument  ("Hybrid
Instruments").   The  risks  of  investing  in  Hybrid  Instruments   reflect  a
combination of the risks from investing in securities,  futures and  currencies,
including volatility and lack of liquidity.  Reference is made to the discussion
of futures and forward  contracts in this  Statement  for a discussion  of these
risks. Further, the prices of the Hybrid Instrument and the related commodity or
currency  may  not  move in the  same  direction  or at the  same  time.  Hybrid
Instruments  may bear  interest or pay  preferred  dividends at below market (or
even relatively  nominal)  rates. In addition,  because the purchase and sale of
Hybrid  Instruments  could  take  place in an  over-the-counter  market  or in a
private  transaction  between  the  Portfolio  and  the  seller  of  the  Hybrid
Instrument, the creditworthiness of the contra party to the transaction would be
a risk factor which the  Portfolio  would have to consider.  Hybrid  Instruments
also may not be subject to regulation of the CFTC, which generally regulates the
trading of commodity futures by U.S. persons, the SEC, which regulates the offer
and  sale  of  securities  by and to U.S.  persons,  or any  other  governmental
regulatory authority.

Foreign Currency Exchange-Related Securities:

         Certain   Portfolios  may  invest  in  foreign  currency  warrants  and
performance indexed paper.

         Foreign Currency Warrants. Foreign currency warrants are warrants which
entitle the holder to receive  from their  issuer an amount of cash  (generally,
for warrants issued in the United States,  in U.S.  dollars) which is calculated
pursuant to a  predetermined  formula and based on the  exchange  rate between a
specified  foreign  currency and the U.S.  dollar as of the exercise date of the
warrant. Foreign currency warrants generally are exercisable upon their issuance
and expire as of a specified date and time.  Foreign currency warrants have been
issued  in  connection  with U.S.  dollar-denominated  debt  offerings  by major
corporate  issuers in an attempt to reduce the foreign  currency  exchange  risk
which,  from the point of view of prospective  purchasers of the securities,  is
inherent  in  the  international  fixed-income  marketplace.   Foreign  currency
warrants may attempt to reduce the foreign  exchange  risk assumed by purchasers
of a security by, for example, providing for a supplemental payment in the event
that the U.S. dollar  depreciates  against the value of a major foreign currency
such as the  Japanese Yen or German  Deutschmark.  The formula used to determine
the amount  payable  upon  exercise of a foreign  currency  warrant may make the
warrant worthless unless the applicable  foreign currency exchange rate moves in
a particular  direction (e.g., unless the U.S. dollar appreciates or depreciates
against  the  particular  foreign  currency  to which the  warrant  is linked or
indexed). Foreign currency warrants are severable from the debt obligations with
which they may be  offered,  and may be listed on  exchanges.  Foreign  currency
warrants may be exercisable  only in certain  minimum  amounts,  and an investor
wishing to exercise warrants who possesses less than the minimum number required
for  exercise  may be  required  either  to sell  the  warrants  or to  purchase
additional warrants, thereby incurring additional transaction costs. In the case
of any exercise of warrants, there may be a time delay between the time a holder
of warrants  gives  instructions  to  exercise  and the time the  exchange  rate
relating to exercise is  determined,  during which time the exchange  rate could
change  significantly,  thereby  affecting  both the market and cash  settlement
values of the warrants being exercised.  The expiration date of the warrants may
be accelerated  if the warrants  should be delisted from an exchange or if their
trading should be suspended  permanently,  which would result in the loss of any
remaining "time value" of the warrants (i.e., the difference between the current
market  value and the  exercise  value of the  warrants),  and,  in the case the
warrants were  "out-of-the-money,"  in a total loss of the purchase price of the
warrants.  Warrants are generally unsecured obligations of their issuers and are
not  standardized  foreign  currency  options  issued  by the  Options  Clearing
Corporation ("OCC"). Unlike foreign currency options issued by OCC, the terms of
foreign  exchange  warrants  generally  will  not be  amended  in the  event  of
governmental or regulatory  actions affecting  exchange rates or in the event of
the imposition of other regulatory controls affecting the international currency
markets.  The initial  public  offering  price of foreign  currency  warrants is
generally  considerably in excess of the price that a commercial user of foreign
currencies might pay in the interbank  market for a comparable  option involving
significantly  larger amounts of foreign  currencies.  Foreign currency warrants
are subject to significant  foreign exchange risk,  including risks arising from
complex political or economic factors.

         Principal  Exchange  Rate Linked  Securities.  Principal  exchange rate
linked  securities  are debt  obligations  the  principal on which is payable at
maturity in an amount that may vary based on the exchange  rate between the U.S.
dollar and a particular  foreign  currency at or about that time.  The return on
"standard"  principal exchange rate linked securities is enhanced if the foreign
currency to which the security is linked  appreciates  against the U.S.  dollar,
and is adversely affected by increases in the foreign exchange value of the U.S.
dollar.  "Reverse"  principal  exchange  rate  linked  securities  are  like the
"standard" securities,  except that their return is enhanced by increases in the
value of the U.S.  dollar and  adversely  impacted by  increases in the value of
foreign currency. Interest payments on the securities are generally made in U.S.
dollars at rates that  reflect the degree of foreign  currency  risk  assumed or
given up by the  purchaser of the notes (i.e.,  at  relatively  higher  interest
rates if the  purchaser  has  assumed  some of the  foreign  exchange  risk,  or
relatively  lower  interest  rates if the issuer has assumed some of the foreign
exchange  risk,  based on the  expectations  of the current  market).  Principal
exchange rate linked  securities may in limited cases be subject to acceleration
of  maturity  (generally,  not  without  the  consent  of  the  holders  of  the
securities),  which may have an  adverse  impact  on the value of the  principal
payment to be made at maturity.

         Performance   Indexed   Paper.   Performance   indexed  paper  is  U.S.
dollar-denominated  commercial  paper the  yield of which is  linked to  certain
foreign  exchange  rate  movements.  The yield to the  investor  on  performance
indexed paper is  established  at maturity as a function of spot exchange  rates
between  the U.S.  dollar  and a  designated  currency  as of or about that time
(generally,  the index  maturity two days prior to  maturity).  The yield to the
investor  will be  within  a range  stipulated  at the time of  purchase  of the
obligation,  generally  with a guaranteed  minimum rate of return that is below,
and a  potential  maximum  rate of return that is above,  market  yields on U.S.
dollar-denominated  commercial paper, with both the minimum and maximum rates of
return on the investment  corresponding to the minimum and maximum values of the
spot exchange rate two business days prior to maturity.

Zero Coupon Securities:

         Zero coupon  securities  pay no cash income and are sold at substantial
discounts  from their value at  maturity.  When held to  maturity,  their entire
income,  which  consists of  accretion of  discount,  comes from the  difference
between the issue price and their value at maturity.  Zero coupon securities are
subject to greater market value  fluctuations  from changing interest rates than
debt obligations of comparable  maturities  which make current  distributions of
interest (cash).  Zero coupon securities which are convertible into common stock
offer the  opportunity  for capital  appreciation as increases (or decreases) in
market  value of such  securities  closely  follows the  movements in the market
value  of the  underlying  common  stock.  Zero  coupon  convertible  securities
generally are expected to be less volatile than the underlying common stocks, as
they usually are issued with  maturities of 15 years or less and are issued with
options and/or redemption  features  exercisable by the holder of the obligation
entitling  the  holder to  redeem  the  obligation  and  receive a defined  cash
payment.

         Zero coupon securities  include  securities issued directly by the U.S.
Treasury,  and U.S. Treasury bonds or notes and their unmatured interest coupons
and  receipts  for  their  underlying  principal  ("coupons")  which  have  been
separated by their holder,  typically a custodian  bank or investment  brokerage
firm. A holder will separate the interest coupons from the underlying  principal
(the "corpus") of the U.S. Treasury  security.  A number of securities firms and
banks have  stripped the  interest  coupons and receipts and then resold them in
custodial receipt programs with a number of different names, including "Treasury
Income  Growth  Receipts"  (TIGRSTM)  and  Certificate  of Accrual on Treasuries
(CATSTM).  The underlying U.S.  Treasury bonds and notes  themselves are held in
book-entry form at the Federal Reserve Bank or, in the case of bearer securities
(i.e.,  unregistered  securities  which are owned  ostensibly  by the  bearer or
holder  thereof),  in trust on  behalf of the  owners  thereof.  Counsel  to the
underwriters  of these  certificates or other evidences of ownership of the U.S.
Treasury  securities have stated that, for federal tax and securities  purposes,
in their opinion  purchasers of such certificates,  such as the Portfolio,  most
likely will be deemed the beneficial holder of the underlying U.S.
Government securities.

         The U.S. Treasury has facilitated transfers of ownership of zero coupon
securities by accounting  separately for the beneficial  ownership of particular
interest coupon and corpus payments on Treasury  securities  through the Federal
Reserve  book-entry  record  keeping  system.  The  Federal  Reserve  program as
established by the Treasury Department is known as "STRIPS" or "Separate Trading
of Registered  Interest and Principal of Securities."  Under the STRIPS program,
the  Portfolio  will be able to have its  beneficial  ownership  of zero  coupon
securities recorded directly in the book-entry  record-keeping system in lieu of
having to hold  certificates  or other  evidences of ownership of the underlying
U.S.
Treasury securities.

         When U.S.  Treasury  obligations  have been stripped of their unmatured
interest  coupons  by the  holder,  the  principal  or  corpus is sold at a deep
discount  because the buyer  receives  only the right to receive a future  fixed
payment on the  security  and does not receive  any rights to periodic  interest
(cash) payments. Once stripped or separated,  the corpus and coupons may be sold
separately.  Typically,  the coupons are sold  separately  or grouped with other
coupons with like  maturity  dates and sold bundled in such form.  Purchasers of
stripped  obligations   acquire,  in  effect,   discount  obligations  that  are
economically  identical to the zero coupon  securities  that the Treasury  sells
itself.

When-Issued Securities:

         The price of  when-issued  securities,  which may be expressed in yield
terms, is fixed at the time the commitment to purchase is made, but delivery and
payment for the when-issued securities take place at a later date. Normally, the
settlement date occurs within 90 days of the purchase. During the period between
purchase and  settlement,  no payment is made by the Portfolio to the issuer and
no interest accrues to the Portfolio. Forward commitments involve a risk of loss
if the value of the security to be purchased  declines  prior to the  settlement
date,  which  risk  is in  addition  to the  risk of  decline  in  value  of the
Portfolio's other assets.  Such when-issued  securities may be sold prior to the
settlement date. The price of such  securities,  which may be expressed in yield
terms, is fixed at the time the commitment to purchase is made, but delivery and
payment for the when-issued securities take place at a later date. Normally, the
settlement  date  occurs  within  one month of the  purchase.  During the period
between  purchase  and  settlement,  no payment is made by the  Portfolio to the
issuer and no interest accrues to the Portfolio.  Forward  commitments involve a
risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased  declines prior to the
settlement  date,  which risk is in  addition to the risk of decline in value of
the Portfolio's other assets. While when-issued  securities may be sold prior to
the settlement date, the Portfolio  intends to purchase such securities with the
purpose  of  actually  acquiring  them  unless  a  sale  appears  desirable  for
investment reasons.

Mortgage-Backed Securities:

         Principal and interest  payments made on the mortgages in an underlying
mortgage pool are passed  through to the Portfolio.  Unscheduled  prepayments of
principal  shorten the  securities'  weighted  average  life and may lower their
total return.  (When a mortgage in the underlying  mortgage pool is prepaid,  an
unscheduled  principal  prepayment  is passed  through  to the  Portfolio.  This
principal  is  returned  to the  Portfolio  at par.  As a result,  if a mortgage
security  were  trading  at a  premium,  its total  return  would be  lowered by
prepayments,  and if a mortgage securities were trading at a discount, its total
return would be increased by  prepayments.)  The value of these  securities also
may change because of changes in the market's perception of the creditworthiness
of the federal  agency that issued them.  In addition,  the mortgage  securities
market  in  general  may  be  adversely  affected  by  changes  in  governmental
regulation or tax policies.

Asset-Backed Securities:

         Asset-backed    securities   directly   or   indirectly   represent   a
participation  interest  in, or are  secured by and  payable  from,  a stream of
payments  generated by  particular  assets such as motor  vehicle or credit card
receivables.  Payments of principal and interest may be guaranteed up to certain
amounts  and for a  certain  time  period  by a letter  of  credit  issued  by a
financial  institution  unaffiliated  with the entities  issuing the securities.
Asset-backed  securities  may be  classified  as  pass-through  certificates  or
collateralized obligations.

         Pass-through  certificates are asset-backed  securities which represent
an undivided  fractional  ownership  interest in an  underlying  pool of assets.
Pass-through certificates usually provide for payments of principal and interest
received to be passed  through to their  holders,  usually  after  deduction for
certain  costs  and  expenses  incurred  in  administering  the  pool.   Because
pass-through  certificates  represent  an ownership  interest in the  underlying
assets,  the  holders  thereof  bear  directly  the risk of any  defaults by the
obligors on the underlying assets not covered by any credit support.  See "Types
of Credit Support."

         Asset-backed  securities issued in the form of debt  instruments,  also
known as  collateralized  obligations,  are  generally  issued  as the debt of a
special  purpose entity  organized  solely for the purpose of owning such assets
and  issuing  such  debt.  Such  assets  are most often  trade,  credit  card or
automobile receivables.  The assets collateralizing such asset-backed securities
are pledged to a trustee or  custodian  for the benefit of the holders  thereof.
Such  issuers   generally  hold  no  assets  other  than  those  underlying  the
asset-backed  securities and any credit support provided. As a result,  although
payments on such asset-backed  securities are obligations of the issuers, in the
event of defaults  on the  underlying  assets not covered by any credit  support
(see "Types of Credit  Support"),  the  issuing  entities  are  unlikely to have
sufficient  assets to satisfy  their  obligations  on the  related  asset-backed
securities.

         Methods of Allocating Cash Flows.  While many  asset-backed  securities
are issued with only one class of security,  many  asset-backed  securities  are
issued in more than one class, each with different payment terms. Multiple class
asset-backed securities are issued for two main reasons. First, multiple classes
may be used as a  method  of  providing  credit  support.  This is  accomplished
typically through creation of one or more classes whose right to payments on the
asset-backed  security is made  subordinate to the right to such payments of the
remaining  class or classes.  See "Types of Credit  Support."  Second,  multiple
classes may permit the issuance of securities with payment terms, interest rates
or other characteristics  differing both from those of each other and from those
of the underlying  assets.  Examples include  so-called  "strips"  (asset-backed
securities  entitling the holder to  disproportionate  interests with respect to
the  allocation of interest and principal of the assets  backing the  security),
and securities  with a class or classes having  characteristics  which mimic the
characteristics of non-asset-backed  securities, such as floating interest rates
(i.e.,  interest  rates  which  adjust  as a  specified  benchmark  changes)  or
scheduled amortization of principal.

         Asset-backed  securities in which the payment streams on the underlying
assets are allocated in a manner  different  than those  described  above may be
issued in the future.  The Portfolio may invest in such asset-backed  securities
if such investment is otherwise  consistent  with its investment  objectives and
policies and with the investment restrictions of the Portfolio.

         Types of Credit Support.  Asset-backed securities are often backed by a
pool of assets representing the obligations of a number of different parties. To
lessen the effect of failures by obligors on underlying assets to make payments,
such  securities  may contain  elements of credit  support.  Such credit support
falls into two classes:  liquidity  protection and protection  against  ultimate
default by an obligor on the underlying assets.  Liquidity  protection refers to
the  provision of advances,  generally by the entity  administering  the pool of
assets,  to ensure that scheduled  payments on the underlying pool are made in a
timely fashion.  Protection against ultimate default ensures ultimate payment of
the obligations on at least a portion of the assets in the pool. Such protection
may be  provided  through  guarantees,  insurance  policies or letters of credit
obtained  from  third  parties,   through   various  means  of  structuring  the
transaction   or  through  a  combination  of  such   approaches.   Examples  of
asset-backed  securities with credit support arising out of the structure of the
transaction   include    "senior-subordinated    securities"   (multiple   class
asset-backed  securities with certain classes subordinate to other classes as to
the  payment  of  principal  thereon,  with  the  result  that  defaults  on the
underlying assets are borne first by the holders of the subordinated  class) and
asset-backed   securities  that  have  "reserve   portfolios"   (where  cash  or
investments,  sometimes  funded  from a portion of the  initial  payments on the
underlying  assets, are held in reserve against future losses) or that have been
"over collateralized"  (where the scheduled payments on, or the principal amount
of, the underlying assets substantially exceeds that required to make payment of
the asset-backed  securities and pay any servicing or other fees). The degree of
credit  support  provided  on  each  issue  is  based  generally  on  historical
information  respecting the level of credit risk  associated with such payments.
Delinquency or loss in excess of that  anticipated  could  adversely  affect the
return on an investment in an asset-backed security. Additionally, if the letter
of credit is exhausted,  holders of asset-backed  securities may also experience
delays in  payments  or  losses  if the full  amounts  due on  underlying  sales
contracts are not realized.

         Automobile Receivable Securities. Asset-backed securities may be backed
by receivables  from motor vehicle  installment  sales  contracts or installment
loans secured by motor  vehicles  ("Automobile  Receivable  Securities").  Since
installment  sales  contracts for motor  vehicles or  installment  loans related
thereto  ("Automobile  Contracts")  typically  have shorter  durations and lower
incidences  of  prepayment,  Automobile  Receivable  Securities  generally  will
exhibit a shorter average life and are less susceptible to prepayment risk.

         Most entities that issue  Automobile  Receivable  Securities  create an
enforceable  interest in their respective  Automobile Contracts only by filing a
financing  statement  and by having the  servicer of the  Automobile  Contracts,
which is usually  the  originator  of the  Automobile  Contracts,  take  custody
thereof. In such circumstances, if the servicer of the Automobile Contracts were
to sell the same  Automobile  Contracts  to another  party,  in violation of its
obligation  not to do so,  there is a risk  that such  party  could  acquire  an
interest  in the  Automobile  Contracts  superior  to  that  of the  holders  of
Automobile Receivable Securities.  Also although most Automobile Contracts grant
a security  interest in the motor  vehicle  being  financed,  in most states the
security  interest in a motor vehicle must be noted on the  certificate of title
to create an enforceable  security  interest  against  competing claims of other
parties. Due to the large number of vehicles involved,  however, the certificate
of  title  to  each  vehicle  financed,  pursuant  to the  Automobile  Contracts
underlying the Automobile Receivable Security, usually is not amended to reflect
the assignment of the seller's  security interest for the benefit of the holders
of the Automobile  Receivable  Securities.  Therefore,  there is the possibility
that  recoveries on repossessed  collateral may not, in some cases, be available
to support  payments on the securities.  In addition,  various state and federal
securities  laws give the motor  vehicle  owner the right to assert  against the
holder of the owner's Automobile Contract certain defenses such owner would have
against the seller of the motor  vehicle.  The assertion of such defenses  could
reduce payments on the Automobile Receivable Securities.

         Credit  Card  Receivable  Securities.  Asset-backed  securities  may be
backed by  receivables  from  revolving  credit card  agreements  ("Credit  Card
Receivable  Securities").  Credit  balances on revolving  credit card agreements
("Accounts") are generally paid down more rapidly than are Automobile Contracts.
Most of the Credit Card Receivable  Securities issued publicly to date have been
Pass-Through  Certificates.  In order to  lengthen  the  maturity of Credit Card
Receivable  Securities,  most such securities  provide for a fixed period during
which only interest  payments on the  underlying  Accounts are passed through to
the security holder and principal payments received on such Accounts are used to
Portfolio the transfer to the pool of assets  supporting the related Credit Card
Receivable  Securities of additional credit card charges made on an Account. The
initial fixed period  usually may be shortened  upon the occurrence of specified
events  which  signal a  potential  deterioration  in the  quality of the assets
backing the security,  such as the  imposition of a cap on interest  rates.  The
ability of the issuer to extend the life of an issue of Credit  Card  Receivable
Securities  thus depends upon the continued  generation of additional  principal
amounts  in  the  underlying   accounts   during  the  initial  period  and  the
non-occurrence  of specified  events.  An acceleration  in cardholders'  payment
rates or any other event  which  shortens  the period  during  which  additional
credit  card  charges on an  Account  may be  transferred  to the pool of assets
supporting  the  related  Credit  Card  Receivable  Security  could  shorten the
weighted average life and yield of the Credit Card Receivable Security.

         Credit card holders are entitled to the protection of a number of state
and federal  consumer  credit laws,  many of which give such holder the right to
set off  certain  amounts  against  balances  owed on the credit  card,  thereby
reducing amounts paid on Accounts.  In addition,  unlike most other asset-backed
securities, Accounts are unsecured obligations of the cardholder.

Warrants:

         Investments in warrants is pure speculation in that they have no voting
rights,  pay no dividends,  and have no rights with respect to the assets of the
corporation  issuing them.  Warrants  basically  are options to purchase  equity
securities at a specific price valid for a specific  period of time. They do not
represent  ownership of the securities but only the right to buy them.  Warrants
differ  from call  options  in that  warrants  are  issued by the  issuer of the
security which may be purchased on their  exercise,  whereas call options may be
written or issued by anyone.  The prices of  warrants  do not  necessarily  move
parallel to the prices of the underlying securities.

Certain Risks of Foreign Investing:

          Currency Fluctuations. Investment in securities denominated in foreign
currencies  involves  certain  risks. A change in the value of any such currency
against the U.S. dollar will result in a corresponding change in the U.S. dollar
value of a Portfolio's  assets  denominated in that currency.  Such changes will
also affect a Portfolio's income.  Generally,  when a given currency appreciates
against the dollar (the dollar  weakens) the value of a  Portfolio's  securities
denominated  in that  currency  will  rise.  When a given  currency  depreciates
against  the  dollar  (the  dollar  strengthens).  The  value  of a  Portfolio's
securities denominated in that currency would be expected to decline.

          Investment and Repatriation  Restrictions.  Foreign  investment in the
securities  markets of certain foreign  countries is restricted or controlled in
varying degrees. These restrictions may at times limit or preclude investment in
certain of such countries and may increase the cost and expenses of a Portfolio.
Investments  by foreign  investors are subject to a variety of  restrictions  in
many  developing  countries.  These  restrictions  may  take  the  form of prior
governmental  approval,  limits  on the  amount  or type of  securities  held by
foreigners, and limits on the types of companies in which foreigners may invest.
Additional  or  different  restrictions  may be  imposed at any time by these or
other countries in which a Portfolio invests.  In addition,  the repatriation of
both investment  income and capital from several foreign countries is restricted
and controlled under certain  regulations,  including in some cases the need for
certain government consents.  Although these restrictions may in the future make
it undesirable to invest in these  countries,  Sub-advisor does not believe that
any current  repatriation  restrictions  would  affect its decision to invest in
these countries.

          Market  Characteristics.   Foreign  securities  may  be  purchased  in
over-the-counter markets or on stock exchanges located in the countries in which
the respective  principal  offices of the issuers of the various  securities are
located,  if that is the  best  available  market.  Foreign  stock  markets  are
generally not as developed or efficient as, and may be more volatile than, those
in the United States.  While growing in volume,  they usually have substantially
less volume than U.S.  markets and a Portfolio's  securities  may be less liquid
and  more  volatile  than  securities  of  comparable  U.S.  companies.   Equity
securities may trade at  price/earnings  multiples  higher than  comparable U.S.
securities and such levels may not be sustainable.  Fixed commissions on foreign
stock  exchanges  are  generally  higher  than  negotiated  commissions  on U.S.
exchanges,  although a Portfolio will endeavor to achieve the most favorable net
results  on its  portfolio  transactions.  There is  generally  less  government
supervision  and  regulation  of foreign  stock  exchanges,  brokers  and listed
companies  than  in  the  United  States.  Moreover,  settlement  practices  for
transactions in foreign markets may differ from those in U.S.  markets,  and may
include delays beyond periods customary in the United States.

          Political  and  Economic  Factors.  Individual  foreign  economies  of
certain  countries may differ  favorably or unfavorably  from the United States'
economy in such respects as growth of gross national product, rate of inflation,
capital  reinvestment,   resource   self-sufficiency  and  balance  of  payments
position.  The internal  politics of certain foreign countries are not as stable
as in the United States.

          Governments in certain foreign countries  continue to participate to a
significant  degree,   through  ownership  interest  or  regulation,   in  their
respective  economies.  Action by these  governments  could  have a  significant
effect on market prices of securities and payment of dividends. The economies of
many foreign  countries are heavily dependent upon  international  trade and are
accordingly  affected by protective  trade  barriers and economic  conditions of
their trading partners. The enactment by these trading partners of protectionist
trade  legislation  could have a significant  adverse effect upon the securities
markets of such countries.

          Information  and   Supervision.   There  is  generally  less  publicly
available  information about foreign companies comparable to reports and ratings
that are published about companies in the United States.  Foreign  companies are
also  generally  not  subject  to uniform  accounting,  auditing  and  financial
reporting standards,  practices and requirements  comparable to those applicable
to U.S. companies.

          Taxes.  The dividends and interest payable on certain of a Portfolio's
foreign  securities may be subject to foreign  withholding  taxes, thus reducing
the  net  amount  of  income  available  for  distribution  to  the  Portfolio's
shareholders.  A shareholder otherwise subject to U.S. federal income taxes may,
subject to certain  limitations,  be entitled to claim a credit or deduction for
U.S.  federal  income tax  purposes for his or her  proportionate  share of such
foreign taxes paid by the Portfolio.

          Costs.  Investors  should  understand  that the  expense  ratio of the
Portfolio can be expected to be higher than  investment  companies  investing in
domestic  securities  since  the cost of  maintaining  the  custody  of  foreign
securities and the rate of advisory fees paid by the Portfolio are higher.

          Other.   With  respect  to  certain  foreign   countries,   especially
developing and emerging  ones,  there is the  possibility of adverse  changes in
investment  or  exchange  control  regulations,  expropriation  or  confiscatory
taxation,  limitations on the removal of funds or other assets of the Portfolio,
political or social instability,  or diplomatic  developments which could affect
investments by U.S. persons in those countries.

          Eastern Europe.  Changes  occurring in Eastern Europe and Russia today
could have long-term  potential  consequences.  As restrictions fall, this could
result in  rising  standards  of  living,  lower  manufacturing  costs,  growing
consumer spending, and substantial economic growth.  However,  investment in the
countries  of  Eastern  Europe and  Russia is highly  speculative  at this time.
Political and economic reforms are too recent to establish a definite trend away
from  centrally-planned  economies  and state owned  industries.  In many of the
countries  of Eastern  Europe and Russia,  there is no stock  exchange or formal
market  for  securities.  Such  countries  may  also  have  government  exchange
controls,   currencies  with  no  recognizable  market  value  relative  to  the
established  currencies of western market economies,  little or no experience in
trading in securities, no financial reporting standards, a lack of a banking and
securities  infrastructure  to handle such trading,  and a legal tradition which
does not recognize rights in private property. In addition,  these countries may
have national policies which restrict  investments in companies deemed sensitive
to the country's national interest.  Further,  the governments in such countries
may require governmental or  quasi-governmental  authorities to act as custodian
of the Portfolio's  assets invested in such countries and these  authorities may
not qualify as a foreign custodian under the Investment  Company Act of 1940 and
exemptive relief from such Act may be required.  All of these considerations are
among the factors  which  could cause  significant  risks and  uncertainties  to
investment in Eastern Europe and Russia.

          Latin  America.  The  political  history  of  certain  Latin  American
countries has been characterized by political  uncertainty,  intervention by the
military in civilian  and  economic  spheres,  and  political  corruption.  Such
developments,  if they were to reoccur,  could reverse  favorable  trends toward
market and  economic  reform,  privatization  and removal of trade  barriers and
result in significant  disruption in securities  markets.  Persistent  levels of
inflation or in some cases,  hyperinflation,  have led to high  interest  rates,
extreme  measures  by  governments  to keep  inflation  in check and a generally
debilitating effect on economic growth. Although inflation in many countries has
lessened,  there is no guarantee it will remain at lower levels. In addition,  a
number of Latin  American  countries  are also  among  the  largest  debtors  of
developing  countries.  There  have been  moratoria  on, and  reschedulings  of,
repayment with respect to these debts.  Such events can restrict the flexibility
of  these  debtor  nations  in  the  international  markets  and  result  in the
imposition of onerous conditions on their economics.

          Certain Latin American countries may have managed currencies which are
maintained  at  artificial  levels  to the U.S.  dollar  rather  than at  levels
determined  by the  market.  This  type of system  can lead to sudden  and large
adjustments in the currency  which,  in turn, can have a disruptive and negative
effect on foreign investors.  Certain Latin American countries also may restrict
the free  conversion of their  currency into foreign  currencies,  including the
U.S.  dollar.  There is no  significant  foreign  exchange  market  for  certain
currencies and it would,  as a result,  be difficult for the Portfolio to engage
in  foreign  currency   transactions  designed  to  protect  the  value  of  the
Portfolio's interests in securities denominated in such currencies.

PORTFOLIO  TURNOVER:  High turnover involves  correspondingly  greater brokerage
commissions,  other  transaction  costs and a possible  increase  in  short-term
capital gains or losses.  The turnover rate for the JanCap growth  Portfolio for
the year ended  December 31, 1994 was 93.92% and for the year ended December 31,
1995 was 113.32%.  The turnover rate for the T. Rowe Price International  Equity
Portfolio from January 3, 1994 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 1994
was 15.70% and for the year ended  December  31, 1995 was 17.11%.  The  turnover
rate for the  Founders  Capital  Appreciation  Portfolio  from  January  3, 1994
(commencement  of  operations) to December 31, 1994 was 197.93% and for the year
ended  December 31, 1995 was 68.32%.  The turnover  rate for the INVESCO  Equity
Income  Portfolio from January 3, 1994  (commencement of operations) to December
31, 1994 was 62.87% and for the year ended  December  31,  1995 was 89.48%.  The
turnover  rate for the PIMCO Total  Return Bond  Portfolio  from January 3, 1994
(commencement  of  operations) to December 31, 1994 was 139.25% and for the year
ended  December 31, 1995 was 124.41%.  The turnover rate for the Berger  Capital
Growth Portfolio from October 19, 1994  (commencement of operations) to December
31, 1994 was 5.36% and for the year ended  December  31,  1995 was  84.21%.  The
turnover rate for the PIMCO Limited  Maturity  Bond  Portfolio  from May 2, 1995
(commencement of operations) to December 31, 1995 was 204.85%.

MANAGEMENT:  The overall  management of the business and affairs of the Trust is
vested  with  the  Board  of  Trustees.  The  Board  of  Trustees  approves  all
significant  agreements  between the Trust and persons or  companies  furnishing
services  to the  Trust,  including  the  Trust's  agreements  with the  Trust's
Investment  Manager and the agreements  between the Investment  Manager and each
Sub-advisor,  Administrator,  Custodian and Transfer and  Shareholder  Servicing
Agent.  The  day-to-day  operations  of the Trust are  delegated  to the Trust's
officers  subject always to the investment  objectives and policies of the Trust
and to the general supervision of the Board of Trustees.

         The Trustees and officers of the Trust and their principal  occupations
are listed below.  Unless otherwise  indicated,  the address of each Trustee and
executive officer is One Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut 06484:

Name, Office and Age                       Principal Occupation

Gordon C. Boronow*+                        President and
  Vice President and Trustee               Chief Operating Officer:
     43                                    American Skandia Life
                                           Assurance Corporation

Jan R. Carendi*+                           Executive Vice President
  President, Principal Executive Officer   and Member of Corporate Management
  and Trustee                              Group, Skandia Insurance Company Ltd.
     51              

David E. A. Carson                         President, Chairman and
  Trustee                                  Chief Executive Officer:
     61                                    People's Bank
                                           850 Main Street
                                           Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604

Richard G. Davy, Jr.*+                     Controller
  Controller                               American Skandia Investment
     47                                    Services, Incorporated

Thomas M. Mazzaferro*+                     Executive Vice President and
  Treasurer                                Chief Financial Officer:
     43                                    American Skandia Life
                                           Assurance Corporation

Thomas M. O'Brien                          President and
  Trustee                                  Chief Executive Officer:
     45                                    North Side Savings Bank
                                           170 Tulip Avenue
                                           Floral Park, New York  11001

Mary Ellen O'Leary*                        Corporate Counsel:
  Secretary                                American Skandia Life
     36                                    Assurance Corporation

M. Priscilla Pannell*+                     Assistant Corporate Secretary:
  Assistant Corporate Secretary            American Skandia Life
     61                                    Assurance Corporation

F. Don Schwartz                            Management Consultant
  Trustee                                  1101 Penn Grant Road
     60                                    Lancaster, PA 17602

* Interested person as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.

+  Individuals  are officers  and/or  directors of one or more of the  following
companies:  The  Investment  Manager  (ASISI),  American  Skandia Life Assurance
Corporation, American Skandia Marketing, Incorporated (the principal underwriter
for  various  annuities  deemed  to be  securities  for  American  Skandia  Life
Assurance  Corporation)  and the  immediate  parent of each  these  companies  -
American Skandia Investment Holding Corporation.

         The  interested  Trustees  and  officers  of the  Trust do not  receive
compensation  directly from the Trust for serving in such  capacities.  However,
those officers and Trustees of the Trust who are affiliated  with the Investment
Manager  or  the  Trust's   Transfer  and   Shareholder   Servicing   Agent  and
Administrator may receive remuneration indirectly, as such entities will receive
fees from the Trust for the services  they provide.  Each of the other  Trustees
receives an annual fee paid by the Trust plus  expenses  for each meeting of the
Board and of shareholders  which he or she attends.  For the year ended December
31, 1995, the Trust paid to its disinterested Trustees fees and expenses for all
meetings  of the Board and any  committee  meetings  attended  in the  aggregate
amount of $69,958.

         Under the terms of the Massachusetts General Corporation Law, the Trust
may  indemnify  any person who was or is a Trustee,  officer or  employee of the
Trust to the maximum extent permitted by the Massachusetts  General  Corporation
Law;  provided,  however,  that any such  indemnification  (unless  ordered by a
court) shall be made by the Trust only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination   that   indemnification   of  such   persons  is  proper  in  the
circumstances. Such determination shall be made (i) by the Board of Trustees, by
a  majority  vote of a  quorum  which  consists  of  Trustees  who  are  neither
"interested  persons"  of the  Trust  as  defined  in  Section  2(a)(19)  of the
Investment  Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"), nor parties to the proceeding,
or (ii) if the required quorum is not obtainable or if a quorum of such Trustees
so directs by independent legal counsel in a written opinion. No indemnification
will be  provided  by the Trust to any  Trustee  or officer of the Trust for any
liability to the Trust or its shareholders to which he or she would otherwise be
subject  by reason of  willful  misfeasance,  bad  faith,  gross  negligence  or
reckless disregard of duty.

MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST:

         Investment Management Agreements: The Trust has entered into Investment
Management Agreements with the Investment Manager (the "Management Agreements").
The Investment  Manager  furnishes each  Portfolio  with  investment  advice and
certain  administrative  services  with  respect to the  applicable  Portfolio's
assets  subject to the  supervision  of the Board of Trustees and in  conformity
with the stated policies of the applicable Portfolio. The Investment Manager has
engaged the Sub-advisors noted below to conduct the investment  programs of each
Portfolio.  Under the terms of the Management Agreements, the Investment Manager
furnishes,  at its expense,  such personnel as is required by each Portfolio for
the proper  conduct of its affairs and engages the  Sub-advisors  to conduct the
investment programs pursuant to the Investment  Manager's  obligations under the
Management Agreements. The Investment Manager, not the Trust, is responsible for
the  expenses  of  conducting  the  investment  programs.   The  Sub-advisor  is
responsible  for the expenses of conducting the investment  programs in relation
to the  applicable  Portfolio  pursuant to  agreements  between  the  Investment
Manager and each  Sub-advisor.  Each Portfolio  pays all of its other  expenses,
including but not limited to, brokerage commissions,  legal, auditing,  taxes or
governmental  fees,  the  cost  of  preparing  share  certificates,   custodian,
depository,  transfer and shareholder  servicing agent costs, expenses of issue,
sale,  redemption  and  repurchase  of  shares,   expenses  of  registering  and
qualifying  shares  for  sale,  insurance  premiums  on  property  or  personnel
(including  officers and Trustees if  available) of the Trust which inure to its
benefit,  expenses  relating to Trustee and  shareholder  meetings,  the cost of
preparing and  distributing  reports and notices to  shareholders,  the fees and
other expenses incurred by the Trust in connection with membership in investment
company  organizations  and the cost of  printing  copies  of  prospectuses  and
statements of  additional  information  distributed  to  shareholders.  Expenses
incurred by the Trust not directly  attributable  to any specific  Portfolio and
Portfolios  are  allocated  on the  basis of the net  assets  of the  respective
Portfolios.

         Under the terms of the Management Agreements, the Investment Manager is
permitted to render services to others.  The Management  Agreements provide that
neither the Investment  Manager nor its personnel  shall be liable for any error
of judgment  or mistake of law or for any act or omission in the  administration
or management of the applicable Portfolios,  except for willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance of its or their duties or by reason
of  reckless  disregard  of  its or  their  obligations  and  duties  under  the
Management Agreements.

         The  Investment  Manager  has  agreed  by the  terms of the  Management
Agreements for the Portfolios to reimburse each Portfolio for any fiscal year in
order to prevent Portfolio  expenses  (exclusive of taxes,  interest,  brokerage
commissions  and  extraordinary  expenses,   determined  by  the  Trust  or  the
Investment  Manager,  but inclusive of the  management  fee),  from  exceeding a
specified percentage of each Portfolio's average daily net assets, as follows:

         JanCap Growth Portfolio:  1.35%

         T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio:  1.75%
         Commencing May 1, 1996, the Investment  Manager has voluntarily  agreed
         to reimburse certain operating expenses in excess of 1.71% for the 
         T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio. This voluntary agreement
         may be terminated by the Investment Manager at any time.

         Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio:  1.30%

         INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio:  1.20%

         PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio:  1.05%

         PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio:  1.05%

         Berger Capital Growth Portfolio:  1.25%

         Each  Management  Agreement  will continue in effect from year to year,
provided it is approved, at least annually, in the manner stipulated in the 1940
Act. This requires that each Management Agreement and any renewal be approved by
a vote of the majority of the Trustees who are not parties thereto or interested
persons of any such party, cast in person at a meeting  specifically  called for
the  purpose  of voting  on such  approval.  Each  Management  Agreement  may be
terminated  without  penalty on sixty days' written notice by vote of a majority
of the Board of  Trustees  or by the  Investment  Manager,  or by  holders  of a
majority  of  the   applicable   Portfolio's   outstanding   shares,   and  will
automatically terminate in the event of its "assignment" as that term is defined
in the 1940 Act.

         The  Administrator  and Transfer and Shareholder  Servicing Agent: PFPC
Inc., a Delaware corporation which is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of PNC
Financial Corp., 103 Bellevue  Parkway,  Wilmington,  Delaware 19809,  currently
serves as the Trust's  Administrator and as the Trust's Transfer and Shareholder
Servicing Agent.

     The  Administration  and  Accounting  Services  Agreement:  Under  a  Trust
Accounting and Administration  Agreement (the "Administration  Agreement") dated
May 1, 1992, PFPC, Inc. (the  "Administrator")  provides certain fund accounting
and administrative services to the Trust, as described in the Prospectus.

         Pursuant   to  the   terms  of  the   Administration   Agreement,   the
Administrator shall not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or
for any loss or expense suffered by the Trust, in connection with the matters to
which  the  Administration  Agreement  relates,  except  for a loss  or  expense
resulting from willful  misfeasance,  bad faith, or gross negligence on its part
in the  performance  of its  duties  or  from  reckless  disregard  by it of its
obligations  and duties under this  Agreement.  Any person,  even though also an
officer, director,  partner, employee or agent of the Administrator,  who may be
or become an officer,  Trustee,  employee or agent of the Trust, shall be deemed
when  rendering  services  to the Trust or acting on any  business  of the Trust
(other than services or business in connection with the  Administrator's  duties
hereunder)  to be rendering  such services to or acting solely for the Trust and
not as an officer,  director, partner employee or agent or one under the control
or direction of the Administrator even though paid by them.

         Compensation   for  the  services  and   facilities   provided  by  the
Administrator  under the Administration  Agreement includes the  Administrator's
out-of pocket expenses.  "Out-of-pocket"  expenses of the Administrator include,
but are not limited to: postage and mailing, forms, envelopes, checks, toll-free
lines (if requested by the Trust),  telephone,  hardware and telephone lines for
remote  terminals (if required by the Trust),  wire fees,  certificate  issuance
fees,  microfiche and microfilm,  telex,  federal express,  outside  independent
pricing  service  charges,  record  retention/storage  and  proxy  solicitation,
mailing and tabulation expenses (if required by the Trust).

         For the period from  January 1, 1995 to December  31,  1995,  the Trust
paid its current Administrator  $2,080,598.  For the period from January 1, 1994
to December 31, 1994, the Trust paid its current Administrator  $1,192,633.  For
the period from June 30, 1993 to December 31,  1993,  the Trust paid its current
Administrator  $228,037.  For the period  January 1, 1993 to June 30, 1993,  the
Trust  paid  its  current  Administrator  $82,623  for  administrative  services
rendered.

         The  Administration  Agreement provides that it will continue in effect
from year to year. The Administration Agreement is terminable,  without penalty,
by the Board of Trustees,  by vote of a majority (as defined in the 1940 Act) of
the outstanding  voting securities,  or by the  Administrator,  on not less than
sixty days' notice. The Administration  Agreement shall automatically  terminate
upon its assignment by the  Administrator  without the prior written  consent of
the  Trust,   provided,   however,   that  no  such  assignment   shall  release
Administrator from its obligations under this Agreement.

BROKERAGE  ALLOCATION:  Subject  to the  supervision  of the Board of  Trustees,
decisions to buy and sell  securities  for the Trust are made for each Portfolio
by its Sub-advisor. Each Sub-advisor is authorized to allocate the orders placed
by it on behalf of the  applicable  Portfolio  to such  brokers who also provide
research or  statistical  material,  or other  services to the  Portfolio or the
Sub-advisor for the use of the applicable Portfolio. Such allocation shall be in
such  amounts  and  proportions  as the  Sub-advisor  shall  determine  and  the
Sub-advisor  will report on said allocations  either to the Investment  Manager,
which  will  report  on such  allocations  to the  Board  of  Trustees,  or,  if
requested,  directly to the Board of Trustees.  Such  reports will  indicate the
brokers  to whom such  allocations  have been made and the basis  therefor.  The
Sub-advisor  may  consider  sale  of  shares  of the  Portfolio,  as well as the
recommendations  of the  Investment  Manager,  as  factors in the  selection  of
brokers  to  execute  portfolio  transactions  for a  Portfolio,  subject to the
requirements of best net price and most favorable execution.

         Subject  to the  rules  promulgated  by  the  SEC,  as  well  as  other
regulatory  requirements,  a Sub-advisor  also may allocate orders to brokers or
dealers  affiliated  with  the  Sub-advisor  or  the  Investment  Manager.  Such
allocation  shall be in such amounts and  proportions as the  Sub-advisor  shall
determine  and the  Sub-advisor  will report on said  allocations  either to the
Investment  Manager,  which  will  report  on such  allocations  to the Board of
Trustees, or, if requested, directly to the Board of Trustees.

         In  selecting a broker to execute  each  particular  transaction,  each
Sub-advisor  will  take the  following  into  consideration:  the best net price
available; the reliability, integrity and financial condition of the broker; the
size and  difficulty  in  executing  the  order;  and the value of the  expected
contribution  of the broker to the investment  performance of the Portfolio on a
continuing  basis.  Accordingly,  the cost of the brokerage  commissions  in any
transaction  may be  greater  than that  available  from  other  brokers  if the
difference  is reasonably  justified by other aspects of the execution  services
offered.  Subject to such  policies and  procedures as the Board of Trustees may
determine, a Sub-advisor shall not be deemed to have acted unlawfully or to have
breached  any duty solely by reason of its having  caused a  Portfolio  to pay a
broker  that  provides  research  services  to  the  Sub-advisor  an  amount  of
commission  for effecting an investment  transaction  in excess of the amount of
commission another broker would have charged for effecting that transaction,  if
the  Sub-advisor  determines  in good faith that such amount of  commission  was
reasonable  in relation to the value of the  research  service  provided by such
broker  viewed  in  terms  of  either  that   particular   transaction   or  the
Sub-advisor's ongoing responsibilities with respect to a Portfolio. For the year
ended  December 31, 1993, for the year ended December 31, 1994, and for the year
ended  December 31,  1995,  respectively,  aggregate  brokerage  commissions  of
$928,123,  $2,244,147  and  $3,220,077,  respectively,  were paid in relation to
brokerage  transactions  for the Trust.  Less than 1% of the  Trust's  aggregate
brokerage commissions were paid to affiliates of Sub-advisors for the year ended
December 31, 1995.

ALLOCATION OF INVESTMENTS: The Sub-advisors have other advisory clients, some of
which have similar  investment  objectives to one or more  Portfolios  for which
advisory services are being provided.  In addition, a Sub-advisor may be engaged
to provide advisory services for more than one of the Trust's Portfolios.  There
will be times when a  Sub-advisor  may recommend  purchases  and/or sales of the
same securities for a Portfolio and such  Sub-advisor's  other clients.  In such
circumstances,  it will be the policy of each Sub-advisor to allocate  purchases
and  sales  among a  Portfolio  and its other  clients,  including  other  Trust
Portfolios  for  which it  provides  advisory  services,  in a manner  which the
Sub-advisor deems equitable,  taking into  consideration such factors as size of
account,  concentration of holdings,  investment  objectives,  tax status,  cash
availability,  purchase  costs,  holding  period  and  other  pertinent  factors
relative to each account.

REGULATORY MATTERS:  The Staff of Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has
taken the  position  that the  purchase  and sale of futures  contracts  and the
writing of related options may involve senior securities for the purposes of the
restrictions  contained in Section 18 of the  Investment  Company Act of 1940 on
investment  companies' issuing senior securities.  However, the Staff has issued
letters declaring that it will not recommend enforcement action under Section 18
if an investment company:

         (i) sells futures contracts to offset expected declines in the value of
the  investment  company's  securities,  provided  the  value  of  such  futures
contracts does not exceed the total market value of those  securities (plus such
additional  amount as may be necessary  because of differences in the volatility
factor of the securities vis-a-vis the futures contracts);

         (ii) writes call options on futures  contracts,  stock indexes or other
securities,  provided that such options are covered by the investment  company's
holding of a corresponding long futures position, by its ownership of securities
which correlate with the underlying stock index, or otherwise;

         (iii)  purchases  futures  contracts,  provided the investment  company
establishes a segregated account ("cash segregated  account") consisting of cash
or cash equivalents in an amount equal to the total market value of such futures
contracts less the initial margin deposited therefor; and

         (iv) writes put options on futures  contracts,  stock  indexes or other
securities,  provided that such options are covered by the investment  company's
holding of a  corresponding  short  futures  position,  by  establishing  a cash
segregated  account in an amount equal to the value of its obligation  under the
option, or otherwise.

         Each  Portfolio  will  conduct its  purchases  and sales of any futures
contracts and writing of related  options  transactions  in accordance  with the
foregoing.

COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUES:  The Trust determines the net asset values of a
Portfolio's shares at the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the "Exchange"),
currently  4:00 p.m.,  on each day that the Exchange is open for business and on
such other days as there is sufficient trading in such Portfolio's securities to
affect  materially  its net asset  value per share  except for New  Year's  Day,
Presidents'  Day,  Good  Friday,  Memorial  Day,  Independence  Day,  Labor Day,
Thanksgiving and Christmas.

         The net asset value per share of all of the Portfolios is determined by
dividing the market value of its  securities as of the close of trading plus any
cash or other assets (including  dividends and accrued interest receivable) less
all  liabilities   (including  accrued  expenses),   by  the  number  of  shares
outstanding.  Portfolio  securities,  including open short positions and options
written,  are  valued  at the last  sale  price on the  securities  exchange  or
securities market on which such securities primarily are traded.  Securities not
listed on an exchange or  securities  market,  or securities in which there were
not  transactions,  are valued at the  average of the most  recent bid and asked
prices,  except in the case of open  short  positions  where the asked  price is
available. Any securities or other assets for which recent market quotations are
not readily  available  are valued at fair market  value as  determined  in good
faith by the Board of Trustees. Short-term obligations with more than sixty days
remaining to maturity are valued at current  market value until the sixtieth day
prior to  maturity,  and will then be valued on an  amortized  cost basis on the
value on such date unless the Trustees  determine that this amortized cost value
does  not  represent  fair  market  value.  Expenses  and  fees,  including  the
investment  management  fees,  are accrued  daily and taken into account for the
purpose of determining net asset value of shares.

         Generally,  trading in foreign  securities,  as well as U.S. Government
securities, money market instruments and repurchase agreements, is substantially
completed  each day at various  times  prior to the close of the  Exchange.  The
values of such securities used in computing the net asset value of the shares of
a Portfolio are determined as of such times. Foreign currency exchange rates are
also  generally  determined  prior to the close of the  Exchange.  Occasionally,
events  affecting the value of such securities and such exchange rates may occur
between the times at which they are  determined  and the close of the  Exchange,
which will not be reflected in the  computation  of net asset values.  If during
such periods events occur which materially  affect the value of such securities,
the  securities  will be valued at their fair market value as determined in good
faith by the Trustees.

         For  purposes  of  determining  the net  asset  value per share of each
Portfolio all assets and liabilities  initially  expressed in foreign currencies
will be  converted  into U.S.  dollars  quoted by a major bank that is a regular
participant in the foreign  exchange market or on the basis of a pricing service
that takes into account the quotes provided by a number of such major banks.

     PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES: A complete  description of the manner by
which the Trust's shares may be purchased and redeemed appears in the Prospectus
under the heading "Purchase and Redemption of Shares."

TAX MATTERS: A description of some of the tax considerations generally affecting
the  Trust  and its  shareholders  is found  in the  section  of the  Prospectus
entitled "Tax Matters." No attempt is made to present a detailed  explanation of
the tax  treatment  of the  Trust or its  shareholders.  The  discussion  in the
Prospectus is not intended as a substitute for careful tax planning.

UNDERWRITER: The Trust is presently used for funding variable annuities, and may
also be used for funding variable life insurance. Pursuant to an exemptive order
of the  Securities and Exchange  Commission,  the Trust may also sell its shares
directly to  qualified  plans.  If the Trust does so, it intends to use American
Skandia   Marketing,   Incorporated   ("ASM,   Inc.")  or   another   affiliated
broker-dealer  as  underwriter,  if so required by applicable  law. ASM, Inc. is
registered as a  broker-dealer  with the Securities and Exchange  Commission and
the National  Association of Securities  Dealers. It is an affiliate of American
Skandia Life Assurance Corporation,  being a wholly-owned subsidiary of American
Skandia Investment Holding Corporation.  As of the date of this Statement,  ASM,
Inc. has not received  payments from the Trust in connection  with any brokerage
or underwriting services provided to the Trust.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Principal Holders: As of April 15, 1996, the amount of shares of the Trust owned
by the nine  persons  who were  officers  and  directors  at that time,  and are
expected to be officers and directors as of the date of this Statement,  and who
are shown as such in the section of this Statement  entitled  "Management,"  was
less than one percent of the shares.

The Participating  Insurance  Companies and Qualified Plans are not obligated to
continue to invest in shares of any Portfolio under all circumstances.  Variable
annuity  and  variable  life  insurance  policy  holders  should  refer  to  the
prospectuses  for such products for a description of the  circumstances in which
such a change might occur.

Reports to  Holders:  Holders of variable  annuity  contracts  or variable  life
insurance  policies issued by  Participating  Insurance  Companies and Qualified
Plans for which shares of the Trust are the investment vehicle will receive from
the  Participating  Insurance  Companies  or  Qualified  Plans,  as  applicable,
unaudited  semi-annual  financial  statements  and  audited  year-end  financial
statements.  Participants  in Qualified  Plans will receive from trustees of the
Qualified Plans, or directly from the Trust as applicable, unaudited semi-annual
financial statements and audited year-end financial statements. Each report will
show the investments owned by the Trust and the market values of the investments
and will provide other information about the Trust and its operations

Performance  Information:  The  Prospectus  contains a brief  description of how
performance is  calculated.  Quotations of average annual return for a Portfolio
will be expressed in terms of the average annual  compounded rate of return of a
hypothetical investment in such Portfolio over periods of 1, 5, and 10 years (up
to the life of the  Portfolio).  These are the annual total rates of return that
would equate the initial amount invested to the ending redeemable  value.  These
rates of return are calculated  pursuant to the following  formula:  P(1+T)n=ERV
(where P= a hypothetical initial payment of $1,000, T = the average annual total
return,  n = the  number of years  and ERV = the  ending  redeemable  value of a
hypothetical  $1,000  payment made at the  beginning  of the period).  All total
return  figures  reflect the  deduction  of a  proportional  share of  Portfolio
expenses on an annual basis, and assume that all dividends and distributions are
reinvested  when  paid.  The total  return  of each  Portfolio,  computed  as of
December 31, 1995, is shown in the table on the following page:


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<CAPTION>


                                                                          Total Return
                Portfolio Name                Date Available   One Year  Three       Five          Since
                                                 for Sale                  Years       Years     Inception

- --------------------------------------------- ---------------- --------- ----------- ---------- ------------
<S>                                                <C>          <C>         <C>         <C>         <C>   
JanCap Growth Portfolio                          11/6/92       37.98%      13.80%       N/A       14.97%
T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio      1/4/94       11.09%       N/A         N/A         3.40%
Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio           1/4/94       32.56%       N/A         N/A       19.99%
INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio                   1/4/94       30.07%       N/A         N/A       12.69%
PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio                 1/4/94       18.78%       N/A         N/A         7.66%
PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio             5/2/95         N/A        N/A         N/A         7.14%
Berger Capital Growth Portfolio                  10/20/94      24.42%       N/A         N/A       19.67%
</TABLE>

         Quotations of a Portfolio's  yield are based on the  investment  income
per share earned during a particular 30-day period (including dividends, if any,
and  interest),  less  expenses  accrued  during  the  period  ("net  investment
income"),  and are computed by dividing net  investment  income by the net asset
value  per  share on the  last day of the  period,  according  to the  following
formula:

                            YIELD = 2[(a-b + 1)6 -1]
                                       cd

where    a = dividend and interest income
         b = expenses accrued for the period
         c = average daily number of shares  outstanding  during the period that
         were  entitled  to receive  dividends  d = maximum  net asset value per
         share on the last day of the period

         Such  Portfolio's  total  return  is based  on the  overall  dollar  or
percentage  change  in  value  of a  hypothetical  investment  in the  Portfolio
assuming  dividend  distributions  are  reinvested.  A  cumulative  total return
reflects the  hypothetical  annual  compounded rate that would have produced the
same  cumulative  total return if performance  had been constant over the entire
period.  Because  average  annual  returns  tend to smooth out  variations  in a
Portfolio's  performance,  investors should recognize that they are not the same
as actual year-by-year results.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS:  Included in this Statement of Additional  Information are
audited financial statements for the Trust for the year ended December 31, 1995.
To  the  extent  and  only  to the  extent  that  any  statement  in a  document
incorporated  by reference  into this  Statement is modified or  superseded by a
statement in this  Statement or in a  later-filed  document,  such  statement is
hereby deemed so modified or superseded and not part of this Statement.

        You may  obtain,  without  charge,  a copy  of any or all the  documents
incorporated  by reference  in this  Statement,  including  any exhibits to such
documents which have been specifically  incorporated by reference. We do so upon
receipt of your written or oral request. Please address your request to American
Skandia Trust,  P.O. Box 883, Shelton,  Connecticut,  06484. Our phone number is
(203) 926-1888.


AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
JANCAP GROWTH PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES        VALUE
                                   ----------   ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
COMMON STOCK -- 84.8%
AEROSPACE-DEFENSE -- 2.4%
    Lockheed Martin Corp. ........    112,550   $  8,891,450
    McDonnell Douglas Corp. ......     16,250      1,495,000
                                                ------------
                                                  10,386,450
                                                ------------
BANKING -- 10.3%
    Chemical Banking Corp. .......    281,450     16,535,188
    Citicorp......................    231,545     15,571,401
    First Bank System, Inc. ......     82,375      4,087,859
    First Chicago NBD Corp. ......     46,075      1,819,963
    First Interstate Bancorp......     45,275      6,180,038
                                                ------------
                                                  44,194,449
                                                ------------
BEVERAGES & BOTTLING -- 6.1%
    Coca-Cola Co. ................    148,600     11,033,550
    Coca-Cola Enterprises,
      Inc. .......................    151,850      4,061,988
    Pepsico, Inc. ................    204,475     11,425,041
                                                ------------
                                                  26,520,579
                                                ------------
BIOPHARMACEUTICALS -- 3.1%
    Amgen, Inc. ..................    225,025     13,360,859
                                                ------------
BROADCASTING -- 0.1%
    Infinity Broadcasting Corp.
      Cl-A*.......................     11,475        427,444
                                                ------------
CHEMICALS -- 4.2%
    Cytec Industries, Inc. .......     88,525      5,521,747
    Hercules, Inc. ...............     67,700      3,816,588
    Monsanto Co. .................     70,200      8,599,500
                                                ------------
                                                  17,937,835
                                                ------------
COMPUTER SERVICES &
  SOFTWARE -- 5.8%
    Cisco Systems, Inc.*..........    170,125     12,695,578
    First Data Corp. .............    182,500     12,204,688
                                                ------------
                                                  24,900,266
                                                ------------
COMPUTERS -- 4.1%
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.*.......    384,600     17,547,375
                                                ------------
CONSUMER GOODS & SERVICES -- 2.6%
    Coleman Co., Inc.*............     75,875      2,665,109
    CUC International, Inc. ......    135,450      4,622,231
    Lowe's Companies, Inc. .......    114,625      3,839,938
                                                ------------
                                                  11,127,278
                                                ------------
CONSUMER PRODUCTS -- 0.5%
    General Electric Co. .........     28,700      2,066,400
                                                ------------

<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES        VALUE
                                   ----------   ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT -- 0.8%
    Duracell International,
      Inc. .......................     69,000   $  3,570,750
                                                ------------
ELECTRONICS -- 4.8%
    Altera Corp. .................    163,825      8,150,294
    Diebold, Inc. ................     49,100      2,718,913
    Lexmark International Group,
      Inc. Cl-A...................    400,000      7,300,000
    National Semiconductor
      Corp.*......................    118,725      2,641,631
                                                ------------
                                                  20,810,838
                                                ------------
ENTERTAINMENT -- 2.4%
    Walt Disney Co. ..............    177,725     10,485,775
                                                ------------
FINANCIAL SERVICES -- 8.5%
    Charles Schwab Corp. (New)....    182,700      3,676,838
    Federal Home Loan Mortgage
      Association.................     10,175        849,613
    Federal National Mortgage
      Association.................     90,215     11,197,937
    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. ....    316,875     16,160,625
    Morgan Stanley Group, Inc. ...     58,225      4,694,391
                                                ------------
                                                  36,579,404
                                                ------------
FOOD PROCESSING -- 0.3%
    Pioneer Hi-Bred
      International...............     23,000      1,279,375
                                                ------------
FOREST PRODUCTS -- 0.8%
    Georgia Pacific Corp. ........     11,750        806,344
    Willamette Industries,
      Inc. .......................     50,300      2,829,375
                                                ------------
                                                   3,635,719
                                                ------------
HOME BUILDER -- 0.3%
    D.R. Horton, Inc.*............    107,625      1,264,594
                                                ------------
HOTELS & MOTELS -- 1.2%
    Hospitality Franchise
      Systems, Inc. ..............     65,625      5,364,844
                                                ------------
MACHINERY & HEAVY
  EQUIPMENT -- 0.6%
    Caterpillar, Inc. ............     46,525      2,733,344
                                                ------------
MEDICAL & MEDICAL SERVICES -- 1.2%
    Medtronic, Inc. ..............     36,450      2,036,644
    Oxford Health Plans, Inc. ....     39,100      2,888,513
                                                ------------
                                                   4,925,157
                                                ------------
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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES        VALUE
                                   ----------   ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
METALS & STEELS -- 1.7%
    Phelps Dodge Corp. ...........    118,900   $  7,401,525
                                                ------------
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 7.2%
    Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. ....     49,700      4,267,988
    Merck & Co., Inc. ............    168,275     11,064,081
    Pfizer, Inc. .................    180,750     11,387,250
    Warner Lambert Co. ...........     46,175      4,484,747
                                                ------------
                                                  31,204,066
                                                ------------
PRINTING & PUBLISHING -- 1.1%
    Gartner Group, Inc. Cl-A......    100,000      4,787,500
                                                ------------
RESTAURANTS -- 3.8%
    Boston Chicken, Inc. .........    122,175      3,924,872
    McDonald's Corp. .............    274,625     12,392,453
                                                ------------
                                                  16,317,325
                                                ------------
RETAIL-SPECIALTY -- 0.7%
    Nike, Inc. ...................     44,100      3,070,463
                                                ------------
SAVINGS & LOAN
  ASSOCIATIONS -- 1.4%
    Fidelity Federal Bank FSB.....  2,682,439      5,869,177
                                                ------------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 5.1%
    Ascend Communications,
      Inc.*.......................    102,350      8,303,144
    Premisys Communications,
      Inc. .......................     20,000      1,120,000
    Sprint Corp. .................    103,700      4,135,038
    Tele-Communications
      International, Inc.*........     78,600      1,788,150
    US Robotics, Inc. ............     75,975      6,666,806
                                                ------------
                                                  22,013,138
                                                ------------
TRANSPORTATION -- 3.7%
    AMR Corp. ....................    134,100      9,956,925
    Delta Air Lines, Inc. ........     48,525      3,584,784
    UAL Corp. ....................     13,550      2,418,675
                                                ------------
                                                  15,960,384
                                                ------------
TOTAL COMMON STOCK
  (COST $301,903,995).............               365,742,313
                                                ------------

<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES        VALUE
                                   ----------   ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
PREFERRED STOCK -- 0.7%
FINANCIAL SERVICES
    American Express Convertible
      6.25%
        (COST $2,780,360).........     56,000   $  3,108,000
                                                ------------
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 2.4%
FINANCIAL SERVICES -- 0.3%
    Reuters Holdings PLC..........     22,725      1,252,716
                                                ------------
HEALTH -- 0.5%
    Smithkline Beecham PLC
      (Unit)......................     43,300      2,403,150
                                                ------------
RETAIL -- 1.6%
    Fila Holding SPA..............    148,075      6,737,413
                                                ------------
TOTAL AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS
  (COST $8,536,059)...............                10,393,279
                                                ------------
FOREIGN STOCKS -- 6.8%
COMPUTERS -- 2.8%
    Sap AG Vorzug -- (DEM)........     77,810     11,816,352
                                                ------------
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 4.0%
    Roche Holding AG-
      Genussshein -- (SW).........      2,187     17,303,711
                                                ------------
TOTAL FOREIGN STOCKS
  (COST $22,958,932)..............                29,120,063
                                                ------------
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS --
  MONEY MARKET FUNDS -- 0.0%
    Temporary Investment Cash
      Fund........................      9,686          9,686
    Temporary Investment Fund.....      9,685          9,685
                                                ------------
      (COST $19,371)..............                    19,371
                                                ------------
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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)       VALUE
                            ---------  -------   ------------
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
COMMERCIAL PAPER -- 6.0%
    Ford Motor Credit Co.
      5.75%...............  01/02/96   $15,800   $ 15,797,476
    General Electric
      Capital Corp.
      5.95%...............  01/04/96    10,000      9,995,042
                                                  -----------
TOTAL COMMERCIAL PAPER
  (COST $25,792,518)......                         25,792,518
                                                  -----------
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS -- 2.3%
    Federal Home Loan Bank
      5.66%
        (COST
      $9,976,417).........  01/16/96    10,000      9,976,417
                                                  -----------
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST $371,967,652**) -- 103.0%....             444,151,961
LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF
  OTHER ASSETS -- (3.0%).............             (12,831,188)
                                                  -----------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%.................            $431,320,773
                                                  ===========
 
<CAPTION>
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax
  basis is as follows:
    Gross appreciation...............             $75,256,541
    Gross depreciation...............              (3,077,801)
                                                   ----------
    Net appreciation.................             $72,178,740
                                                   ----------
                                                   ----------
Foreign currency exchange contracts outstanding at December
  31, 1995:
</TABLE>
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                  PRINCIPAL
                   AMOUNT                         UNREALIZED
                   COVERED       EXPIRATION      APPRECIATION
TYPE             BY CONTRACT       MONTH        (DEPRECIATION)
<S>      <C>     <C>             <C>            <C>
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------
Sell     DEM      9,127,000         02/96          $145,741
Sell     DEM      6,000,000         04/96            36,562
                                                    182,303
Buy      FIM     13,500,000         02/96           (23,719)
Sell     FIM     13,500,000         02/96           121,478
                                                     97,759
                                                   $280,062
</TABLE>
 
            COUNTRY/CURRENCY ABBREVIATIONS
- ----------------------------------------------------------
DEM - Germany/German Deutschemark
FIM - Finland/Finnish Markka
SW - Switzerland/Swiss Franc
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Non-income producing securities.
** Cost for Federal income tax purposes was $371,973,221.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.


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PIMCO TOTAL RETURN BOND PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
CORPORATE BONDS -- 8.3%
AIRLINES -- 1.5%
    American Air
      Equipment
      10.19%.............   05/26/15    $   250    $   308,780
    AMR Corp.
      10.45%.............   11/15/11        100        124,250
    United Air Lines,
      Inc.
      10.67%.............   05/01/04        500        606,875
      10.02%.............   03/22/14      2,000      2,393,755
                                                   -----------
                                                     3,433,660
                                                   -----------
ELECTRIC POWER -- 1.5%
    Cleveland Electric
      9.11%..............   07/22/96        250        253,125
      8.75%..............   11/15/05        100         99,500
    CMS Energy Corp.
      9.50%..............   10/01/97        150        157,688
    Commonwealth Edison
      Corp.
      6.50%..............   07/15/97        750        757,500
    Illinois Power Co.
      5.85%..............   10/01/96      2,000      2,000,000
                                                   -----------
                                                     3,267,813
                                                   -----------
FINANCIAL -- 0.4%
    Ohio Edison First Mortgage
      8.50%..............   05/01/96      1,000      1,008,750
                                                   -----------
INDUSTRIAL -- 0.3%
    Arkla, Inc.
      9.20%..............   12/18/97        500        528,750
                                                   -----------
OIL -- 0.7%
    Occidental Petroleum Corp.
      9.63%..............   07/01/99        500        510,625
      11.75%.............   03/15/11      1,000      1,058,750
                                                   -----------
                                                     1,569,375
                                                   -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
PUBLISHING -- 1.7%
    Time Warner, Inc.
      7.45%..............   02/01/98    $ 2,000    $ 2,062,500
      6.84%..............   08/15/00        437        437,000
      7.98%..............   08/15/04        262        277,720
      8.11%..............   08/15/06        525        565,031
      8.18%..............   08/15/07        525        570,281
                                                   -----------
                                                     3,912,532
                                                   -----------
REAL ESTATE -- 2.2%
    Spieker Properties
      6.95%..............   12/15/02      5,000      5,018,750
                                                   -----------
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS
  (COST $17,842,452).....                           18,739,630
                                                   -----------
SOVEREIGN ISSUES -- 1.9%
    Republic of Argentina
      FRB
      6.81%..............   03/31/05      3,000      2,124,375
    United Mexican States
      Cl-B
      6.25%..............   12/31/19      1,500        984,375
    United Mexican States
      Cl-C
      6.97%..............   12/31/19      1,000        722,500
    United Mexican States
      Cl-D
      6.55%..............   12/31/19        500        361,250
    United Mexican States
      (Rights)*..........                 3,807              0
                                                   -----------
TOTAL SOVEREIGN ISSUES
  (COST $4,251,622)......                            4,192,500
                                                   -----------
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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES -- 1.7%
    Countrywide
      Adjustable Rate
      Mortgage
      6.70%..............   03/25/24    $ 1,476    $ 1,514,874
      7.66%..............   11/25/24      1,529      1,568,524
    Guardian Adjustable
      Rate Mortgage
      7.14%..............   12/25/19        100         71,116
    Saxon Adjustable Rate
      Mortgage
      7.79%..............   05/25/24        742        765,223
                                                   -----------
TOTAL MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES
  (COST $3,859,629)......                            3,919,737
                                                   -----------
COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE SECURITIES -- 5.6%
    Citicorp Mortgage
      Securities, Inc.
      7.73%..............   10/25/22        875        878,543
    Collateralized
      Mortgage Security
      Corp.
      7.99%..............   05/01/17        495        509,976
    Mortgage Capital
      Trust VI
      9.50%..............   02/01/18      1,327      1,363,293
    Prudential Securities
      CMO Trust
      7.50%..............   03/25/19        292        291,076
    Prudential-Bache
      CMO Trust
      8.40%..............   03/20/21      2,977      3,169,690
    Resolution Trust
      Corp.
      8.00%..............   09/25/21        712        721,516
    Rothschild L.F.
      Mortgage Trust
      9.95%..............   08/01/17      3,390      3,689,666
    Ryland Mortgage
      Securities Corp.
      7.91%..............   09/25/23      1,929      1,958,277
                                                   -----------
TOTAL COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE
  SECURITIES
  (COST $12,154,765).....                           12,582,037
                                                   -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
MEDIUM TERM NOTES -- 1.8%
FINANCE
    General Motors
      Acceptance Corp.
      6.70%..............   05/20/96    $ 2,000    $ 2,008,160
      7.75%..............   07/18/96      2,000      2,022,420
                                                   -----------
        (COST
          $4,002,777)....                            4,030,580
                                                   -----------
<CAPTION>
                                        PRINCIPAL
                                         IN LOCAL
                                       CURRENCY****
                                          (000)
                            ----------------------------------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
FOREIGN BONDS -- 4.7%
CANADA -- 1.3%
    Canadian Government
      8.75%..............   12/01/05      3,500      2,865,011
                                                   -----------
GERMANY -- 3.4%
    German Government
      6.25%..............   01/04/24     11,900      7,732,834
                                                   -----------
TOTAL FOREIGN BONDS
  (COST $10,194,113).....                           10,597,845
                                                   -----------
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                                         (000)
                                        -------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
  OBLIGATIONS -- 18.1%
FEDERAL HOME LOAN
  MORTGAGE CORP. -- 4.0%
    8.25%................   08/01/17    $   761        791,936
    7.00%***.............   04/25/19        625         68,339
    6.09%................   02/01/24      3,917      4,005,508
    8.00%................   01/16/26      4,000      4,145,625
                                                   -----------
                                                     9,011,408
                                                   -----------
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE
  ASSOCIATION -- 3.0%
    5.55%................   02/13/96      1,000        993,272
    9.40%................   07/25/03        426        447,547
    6.25%***.............   05/25/08        236         76,812
    6.50%***.............   06/25/14      3,000        262,734
    8.50%................   11/25/18      2,066      2,063,741
</TABLE>


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PIMCO TOTAL RETURN BOND PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
    6.90%................   05/25/23    $   179    $   160,475
    7.29%................   01/01/24        670        688,985
    7.00%................   04/25/24        562        523,762
    6.23%................   04/01/25      1,560      1,628,675
                                                   -----------
                                                     6,846,003
                                                   -----------
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL
  MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION -- 11.1%
    7.00%................   06/20/22      3,046      3,104,598
    7.38%................   04/20/23      3,938      3,997,391
    6.50%................   10/20/23        846        860,037
    7.50%................   12/20/23        482        492,285
    7.25%................   09/20/24      1,791      1,835,079
    6.50%................   10/20/24      4,677      4,776,027
    6.50%................   01/22/26     10,000      9,918,750
                                                   -----------
                                                    24,984,167
                                                   -----------
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT
  AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (COST $40,350,525).....                           40,841,578
                                                   -----------
U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS -- 30.9%
U.S. TREASURY
  BILLS -- 0.5%
    5.22%#...............   02/08/96         55         54,682
    5.27%#...............   02/08/96        105        104,393
    5.29%#...............   02/08/96         55         54,682
    5.34%#...............   02/08/96        105        104,393
    5.35%#...............   02/08/96         40         39,769
    5.39%#...............   02/08/96         40         39,769
    5.45%#...............   02/08/96         95         94,451
    5.27%................   02/15/96        150        149,011
    5.28%................   02/15/96        100         99,340
    5.31%#...............   02/22/96        330        327,640
                                                   -----------
                                                     1,068,130
                                                   -----------
U.S. TREASURY
  NOTES -- 30.4%
    4.38%................   08/15/96     10,000      9,948,599
    6.50%................   09/30/96     40,000     40,350,000
    6.38%................   08/15/02     17,400     18,273,130
                                                   -----------
                                                    68,571,729
                                                   -----------
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS
  (COST $69,158,328).....                           69,639,859
                                                   -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                          PAR
                            MATURITY     (000)        VALUE
                            --------    -------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>        <C>
COMMERCIAL PAPER -- 11.4%
    Abbott Laboratories
      5.62%..............   01/09/96    $ 4,100    $ 4,094,880
    BellSouth Telecomm,
      Inc.
      5.75%..............   01/12/96        700        698,770
      5.75%..............   01/09/96      2,500      2,496,806
    Canadian Wheat Board
      5.49%..............   03/05/96        700        692,809
    General Electric Capital Corp.
      5.65%..............   01/31/96      4,100      4,080,696
    Hewlett-Packard Co.
      5.67%..............   01/09/96        700        699,092
      5.55%..............   03/05/96      2,800      2,771,234
      5.53%..............   03/12/96      3,500      3,460,287
    Mexico Treasury Bills
      16.59%.............   01/18/96        600        597,642
    National Rural
      Utility
      5.55%..............   03/18/96      1,500      1,481,700
    Pitney Bowes Credit,
      Inc.
      5.66%..............   01/26/96      1,200      1,195,283
    Procter & Gamble Co.
      5.67%..............   01/24/96      3,500      3,486,996
                                                   -----------
TOTAL COMMERCIAL PAPER
  (COST $25,757,788).....                           25,756,195
                                                   -----------
OPTIONS -- 0.0%
    CME Put Option on Eurodollar
      Futures, Strike Price $90.75,
      Expire 06/17/96...............      750              0
    CME Put Option on Eurodollar
      Futures, Strike Price $91.00,
      Expire 06/17/96...............    1,500          1,500
    Written CME Put Option on
      Eurodollar Futures, Strike
      Price $94.00,
      Expire 03/18/96...............    2,000         (2,000)
                                                 -----------
TOTAL OPTIONS
  (COST ($29,962))..................                    (500)
                                                 -----------
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PIMCO TOTAL RETURN BOND PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                    -------    ------------
<S>                                 <C>        <C>
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS -- 1.3%
    Temporary Investment Cash
      Fund.......................   1,451,819  $  1,451,819
    Temporary Investment Fund....   1,451,818     1,451,818
                                                -----------
      (COST $2,903,637)..........                 2,903,637
                                                -----------
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (COST
  $190,445,674**) -- 85.7%.......               193,203,098
OTHER ASSETS LESS
  LIABILITIES -- 14.3%...........                32,132,331
                                                -----------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%.............              $$225,335,429
                                                ===========
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a
  tax basis is
as follows:
    Gross appreciation...........                $3,026,754
    Gross depreciation...........                  (299,974)
                                                  ---------
    Net appreciation.............                $2,726,780
                                                  ---------
                                                  ---------
</TABLE>
 
Foreign currency exchange contracts outstanding at December 31, 1995:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                  PRINCIPAL
                   AMOUNT                         UNREALIZED
                   COVERED       EXPIRATION     APPRECIATION/
TYPE             BY CONTRACT       MONTH        (DEPRECIATION)
<S>      <C>     <C>             <C>            <C>
- ----------------------------------------------------------
Sell      CAN       153,125         01/96          $     16
Sell      DEM     7,106,000         01/96             2,078
Sell      DEM     4,524,850         12/96           (28,308)
                                                   --------
                                                   $(26,214)
                                                   ========
</TABLE>
 
# Securities with an aggregate market value of $819,779, which have been
  segregated with the custodian to cover margin requirements for the following
  open futures contracts at December, 31, 1995:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        UNREALIZED
                TYPE                     CONTRACTS     APPRECIATION
<S>                                      <C>           <C>
- ----------------------------------------------------------
U.S. Treasury 5 Year Note (03/96)           350          $301,172
U.S. Treasury 10 Year Note (03/96)          196           211,500
U.S. Treasury 30 Year Note (03/96)          104           143,000
German Treasury 10 Year Note (03/96)         60            88,435
                                                         --------
                                                         $744,107
                                                         ========
</TABLE>
 
                         COUNTRY/CURRENCY ABBREVIATIONS
- ----------------------------------------------------------
CAN - Canada/Canadian Dollar
DEM - Germany/German Deutschemark
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Non-income producing securities.
 ** Cost for Federal income tax purposes was $190,476,318.
 *** Interest Only Securities.
**** Currency of countries indicated.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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INVESCO EQUITY INCOME PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES       VALUE
                                     -------   ------------
<S>                                  <C>       <C>
COMMON STOCK -- 64.5%
AEROSPACE -- 2.0%
    Boeing Co.......................  20,000   $  1,567,500
    Lockheed Martin Corp............  25,000      1,975,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  3,542,500
                                                 ----------
AIRLINES -- 0.6%
    KLM Royal Dutch Airlines........  30,000      1,057,500
                                                 ----------
AUTOMOBILES -- 1.4%
    Chrysler Corp. .................  10,000        553,750
    Ford Motor Co. .................  30,000        870,000
    General Motors Corp. Cl-H.......  20,000        982,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,406,250
                                                 ----------
AUTOMOTIVE PARTS-EQUIPMENT -- 1.3%
    Borg Warner Automotive Corp. ...  40,000      1,280,000
    Eaton Corp. ....................  20,000      1,072,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,352,500
                                                 ----------
BANKING -- 0.7%
    BankAmerica Corp. ..............  20,000      1,295,000
                                                 ----------
BEVERAGES -- 1.0%
    Seagram Co. LTD. ...............  50,000      1,731,250
                                                 ----------
BREWERIES & DISTILLERS -- 1.6%
    Anheuser-Busch Companies,
      Inc. .........................  25,000      1,671,875
    Coors (Adolph) Co. Cl-B.........  50,000      1,106,250
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,778,125
                                                 ----------
BROADCASTING -- 1.2%
    Comcast Corp. Special Cl-A......  35,000        636,563
    U.S. West Media Group...........  80,000      1,520,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,156,563
                                                 ----------
BUILDING & BUILDING SUPPLIES -- 0.5%
    Masco Corp......................  30,000        941,250
                                                 ----------
CHEMICALS -- 6.2%
    Agrium, Inc. ...................  70,000      3,150,000
    Arco Chemical Co. ..............  20,000        972,500
    Lawter International, Inc. ..... 100,000      1,162,500
    Olin Corp. .....................  35,000      2,598,750
    Vigoro Corp. ...................  50,000      3,087,500
                                                 ----------
                                                 10,971,250
                                                 ----------
COMPUTERS -- 1.8%
    Honeywell, Inc. ................  30,000      1,458,750
    International Business Machines
      Corp. ........................  18,000      1,651,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  3,110,250
                                                 ----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES       VALUE
                                     -------   ------------
<S>                                  <C>       <C>
CONGLOMERATES -- 0.8%
    Tenneco, Inc. ..................  30,000   $  1,488,750
                                                 ----------
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT -- 1.1%
    General Electric Co. ...........  27,000      1,944,000
                                                 ----------
ELECTRONICS -- 1.2%
    Hewlett-Packard Co. ............  15,000      1,256,250
    Intel Corp. ....................  15,000        851,250
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,107,500
                                                 ----------
ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION -- 2.0%
    Fluor Corp. ....................  14,000        924,000
    Foster Wheeler Corp. ...........  60,000      2,550,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  3,474,000
                                                 ----------
ENTERTAINMENT -- 1.5%
    Time Warner, Inc. ..............  25,000        946,875
    Walt Disney Co. ................  30,000      1,770,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,716,875
                                                 ----------
FINANCIAL-BANK & TRUST -- 3.9%
    Bank of New York Co., Inc. .....  20,000        975,000
    Chase Manhattan Corp. ..........  30,000      1,818,750
    Citicorp........................  15,000      1,008,750
    Mellon Bank Corp. ..............  30,000      1,612,500
    NDB Bancorp, Inc. ..............  36,200      1,429,900
                                                 ----------
                                                  6,844,900
                                                 ----------
FINANCIAL SERVICES -- 2.2%
    American Express Co. ...........  20,000        827,500
    Beneficial Corp. ...............  15,000        699,375
    H&R Block, Inc. ................  60,000      2,430,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  3,956,875
                                                 ----------
FOODS -- 2.6%
    General Mills, Inc. ............  25,000      1,443,750
    Heinz, H.J. Co. ................  33,000      1,093,125
    Philip Morris Companies,
      Inc. .........................  15,000      1,357,500
    Quaker Oats Co. ................  20,000        690,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  4,584,375
                                                 ----------
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES       VALUE
                                     -------   ------------
<S>                                  <C>       <C>
HOTELS & MOTELS -- 0.8%
    Hilton Hotels Corp. ............  23,000   $  1,414,500
                                                 ----------
INSURANCE -- 2.1%
    Allmerica Property & Casualty,
      Inc. .........................  80,000      2,160,000
    Ohio Casualty Corp. ............  40,000      1,550,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  3,710,000
                                                 ----------
MANUFACTURING -- 2.3%
    Allied-Signal, Inc. ............  25,000      1,187,500
    Eastman Kodak Co. ..............  25,000      1,675,000
    Whitman Corp. ..................  50,000      1,162,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  4,025,000
                                                 ----------
MEDICAL -- 0.6%
    Baxter International, Inc. .....  25,000      1,046,875
                                                 ----------
MEDICAL PRODUCTS -- 1.3%
    Becton Dickinson & Co. .........  30,000      2,250,000
                                                 ----------
METALS & MINING -- 0.8%
    ASARCO, Inc. ...................  25,000        800,000
    Newmont Mining Corp. ...........  12,994        587,979
                                                 ----------
                                                  1,387,979
                                                 ----------
MISCELLANEOUS -- 0.8%
    Service Corp. International.....  32,000      1,408,000
                                                 ----------
OIL -- 3.0%
    Amoco Corp. ....................  14,000      1,006,250
    Atlantic Richfield Co. .........   8,000        886,000
    Chevron Corp. ..................  20,000      1,050,000
    Exxon Corp. ....................  12,000        961,500
    Mobil Corp. ....................  12,000      1,344,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  5,247,750
                                                 ----------
OIL & GAS -- 0.5%
    Sonat, Inc. ....................  25,000        890,625
                                                 ----------
OIL EQUIPMENT & SERVICES -- 3.8%
    Dresser Industries, Inc. .......  70,000      1,706,250
    Halliburton Co. ................  35,000      1,771,875
    Schlumberger LTD. ..............  11,000        761,750
    Union Pacific Resources Group... 100,000      2,537,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  6,777,375
                                                 ----------
PAPER & FOREST PRODUCTS -- 0.5%
    Champion International Corp. ...  20,000        840,000
                                                 ----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES       VALUE
                                     -------   ------------
<S>                                  <C>       <C>
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 2.6%
    Abbott Laboratories.............  20,000   $    835,000
    American Home Products Corp. ...  15,000      1,455,000
    Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc. .......  58,000      2,247,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  4,537,500
                                                 ----------
PUBLISHING -- 0.7%
    R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. ......  30,000      1,181,250
                                                 ----------
RAILROADS -- 2.8%
    Canadian National Railways*.....  35,550        533,250
    Illinois Central Corp. .........  25,000        959,375
    Kansas City Southern Industries,
      Inc. .........................  40,000      1,830,000
    Union Pacific Corp. ............  25,000      1,650,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  4,972,625
                                                 ----------
REAL ESTATE -- 1.2%
    Patriot American Hospitality....  80,000      2,060,000
                                                 ----------
RETAIL FOOD CHAINS -- 0.5%
    Albertson's, Inc. ..............  30,000        986,250
                                                 ----------
RETAIL-SPECIALTY -- 1.5%
    Jostens, Inc. ..................  30,000        727,500
    Limited, Inc. ..................  60,000      1,042,500
    Melville Corp. .................  30,000        922,500
                                                 ----------
                                                  2,692,500
                                                 ----------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 4.9%
    AT&T Corp. .....................  40,000      2,590,000
    Bell Atlantic Corp. ............  15,000      1,003,125
    GTE Corp. ......................  20,000        880,000
    NYNEX Corp. ....................  25,000      1,350,000
    U.S. West, Inc. ................  80,000      2,860,000
                                                 ----------
                                                  8,683,125
                                                 ----------
TRANSPORTATION -- 0.2%
    Overseas Shipholding Group,
      Inc. .........................  17,000        323,000
                                                 ----------
TOTAL COMMON STOCK
  (COST $97,722,347)................            113,894,067
                                                 ----------
PREFERRED STOCK -- 0.6%
GOLD MINING
    Amax Gold, Inc. $3.75 Cl-B
      (COST $996,575)...............  20,000      1,090,000
                                                 ----------
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES       VALUE
                                     -------   ------------
<S>                                  <C>       <C>
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 0.8%
ELECTRONICS -- 0.4%
    Nokia Corp. Cl-A ...............  20,000   $    777,500
                                                 ----------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 0.4%
    Cable & Wireless PLC............  30,000        633,750
                                                 ----------
TOTAL AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS
  (COST $1,830,404).................              1,411,250
                                                 ----------
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)
                            --------    ------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
CORPORATE BONDS -- 12.8%
AIRLINES -- 0.3%
    Delta Air Lines, Inc.
      9.30%..............   01/02/11    $  500         592,125
                                                  ------------
BROADCASTING -- 1.8%
    Allbritton Communications
      Co., Senior
      Subordinate Notes
      11.50%.............   08/15/04     1,000       1,055,000
    Benedek Broadcast
      Corp., Senior
      Secured Notes
      11.88%.............   03/01/05       500         525,000
    Granite Broadcasting
      Corp., Senior
      Subordinate Notes
      10.38%.............   05/15/05     1,000       1,030,000
    Outlet Broadcasting,
      Inc.
      10.88%.............   07/15/03       500         560,000
                                                  ------------
                                                     3,170,000
                                                  ------------
CABLE TELEVISION -- 2.2%
    Cablevision
      Industries,
      Debentures Cl-B
      9.25%..............   04/01/08     1,000       1,070,000
    Century
      Communications
      11.88%.............   10/15/03     1,000       1,076,250
    Diamond Cable Co.
      5.75%..............   12/15/05     2,000       1,165,000
 
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)        VALUE
                            --------    ------    ------------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
    Marcus Cable Co.
      5.24%..............   12/15/05    $  900    $    612,000
                                                  ------------
                                                     3,923,250
                                                  ------------
CAPITAL GOODS -- 0.2%
    Jones Intercable,
      Senior Subordinate
      Debentures
      10.50%.............   03/01/08       250         273,750
                                                  ------------
CHEMICALS -- 0.6%
    Rexene Corp.
      11.75%.............   12/01/04       500         528,750
    Sifto Canada, Inc.
      8.50%..............   07/15/00       500         482,500
                                                  ------------
                                                     1,011,250
                                                  ------------
ENTERTAINMENT -- 0.9%
    Viacom, Inc.,
      Subordinate
      Debentures
      8.00%..............   07/07/06     1,500       1,533,750
                                                  ------------
FINANCE -- 1.2%
    Associates Corp. of
      North America
      8.55%..............   07/15/09       425         510,531
    Empress River Casino
      10.75%.............   04/01/02       500         516,250
    General Motors
      Acceptance Corp.
      7.13%..............   06/01/99       500         520,625
    Tembec Finance
      9.88%..............   09/30/05       500         495,000
                                                  ------------
                                                     2,042,406
                                                  ------------
HEALTHCARE -- 0.6%
    Tenet Healthcare
      Corp.
      9.63%..............   09/01/02       500         551,250
      8.63%..............   12/01/03       500         525,625
                                                  ------------
                                                     1,076,875
                                                  ------------
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<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)        VALUE
                            --------    ------    ------------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
INDUSTRIAL -- 0.8%
    Crown Paper Co.
      11.00%.............   09/01/05    $  500    $    438,750
    Lenfest
      Communications,
      Inc., Senior Notes
      8.38%..............   11/01/05     1,000       1,006,250
                                                  ------------
                                                     1,445,000
                                                  ------------
OIL & GAS -- 0.3%
    Transtexas Gas
      11.50%.............   06/15/02       500         515,000
                                                  ------------
PAPER & PAPER PRODUCTS -- 0.3%
    Repap New Brunswick
      10.63%.............   04/15/05       500         491,875
                                                  ------------
PUBLISHING -- 0.8%
    News America Holdings
      8.50%..............   02/15/05     1,000       1,128,750
      8.50%..............   02/23/25       250         289,375
                                                  ------------
                                                     1,418,125
                                                  ------------
RAILROADS -- 0.6%
    Southern Pacific
      Railroad, Senior
      Notes
      9.38%..............   08/15/05     1,000       1,091,250
                                                  ------------
RECREATIONAL -- 0.1%
    United Artists
      Theatre
      11.50%.............   05/01/02       175         187,688
                                                  ------------
RETAIL DRUGS -- 0.4%
    Revco D.S., Inc.
      9.13%..............   01/15/00       650         699,563
                                                  ------------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 0.5%
    Centennial Cellular,
      Senior Notes
      8.88%..............   11/01/01     1,000         980,000
                                                  ------------
TRANSPORTATION -- 0.6%
    Overseas Shipholding
      Group, Inc.
      8.00%..............   12/01/03     1,000       1,033,521
                                                  ------------
 
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)        VALUE
                            --------    ------    ------------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
UTILITIES -- 0.6%
    Commonwealth Edison
      Corp.
      8.38%..............   10/15/06    $1,000    $  1,132,500
                                                  ------------
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS
  (COST $22,023,553).....                           22,617,928
                                                  ------------
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
  OBLIGATIONS -- 5.9%
FEDERAL HOME LOAN
  MORTGAGE CORP. -- 4.9%
    6.50%................   06/01/10       949         955,734
    7.50%................   07/01/09       889         915,498
    6.50%................   10/01/10     1,948       1,960,956
    6.50%................   11/01/10     1,954       1,967,223
    7.00%................   04/01/24       968         977,949
    7.00%................   07/01/24       873         882,215
    8.00%................   12/01/24       930         964,500
                                                  ------------
                                                     8,624,075
                                                  ------------
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL
  MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION -- 1.0%
    7.50%................   10/15/23     1,797       1,849,890
                                                  ------------
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT
  AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (COST $9,990,980)......                           10,473,965
                                                  ------------
U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS -- 9.9%
U.S. TREASURY
  BONDS -- 2.8%
    7.63%................   02/15/25     4,000       4,889,200
                                                  ------------
U.S. TREASURY
  NOTES -- 7.1%
    5.38%................   11/30/97     3,000       3,010,350
    5.88%................   06/30/00     1,000       1,021,520
    6.50%................   05/15/05     8,000       8,518,639
                                                  ------------
                                                    12,550,509
                                                  ------------
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY
  OBLIGATIONS
  (COST $16,864,826).....                           17,439,709
                                                  ------------
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<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)        VALUE
                            --------    ------    ------------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
COMMERCIAL PAPER -- 2.0%
    General Electric
      Capital Corp.
      5.91%
        (COST
          $3,500,000)....   01/04/96    $3,500    $  3,500,000
                                                  ------------
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES
                                   ----------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS --
  MONEY MARKET FUNDS -- 2.4%
    Temporary Investment Cash
      Fund.......................   2,157,381      2,157,381
    Temporary Investment Fund....   2,157,381      2,157,381
                                                ------------
      (COST $4,314,762)..........                  4,314,762
                                                ------------
 
<CAPTION>
                                                   VALUE
                                                ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST
  $157,243,447**) -- 98.9%.......               $174,741,681
OTHER ASSETS LESS
  LIABILITIES -- 1.1%............                  1,974,186
                                                ------------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%.............               $176,715,867
                                                ============
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a
  tax basis is
as follows:
    Gross appreciation.......................    $18,956,413
    Gross depreciation.......................     (1,458,179)
                                                  ----------
    Net appreciation.........................    $17,498,234
                                                  ----------
                                                  ----------
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** Also cost for Federal income tax purposes.
 
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<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                    -------    -----------
<S>                                 <C>        <C>
COMMON STOCK -- 82.5%
AUTOMOTIVE
  PARTS-EQUIPMENT -- 0.3%
    Top Source Technologies,
      Inc.*......................    46,000    $   322,000
                                               -----------
BROADCASTING -- 1.2%
    Comcast U.K. Cable
      Partners*..................    45,000        562,500
    SFX Broadcasting Cl-A*.......    18,700        565,675
                                               -----------
                                                 1,128,175
                                               -----------
BUILDING & BUILDING
  SUPPLIES -- 1.6%
    Harsco Corp. ................    25,000      1,453,125
                                               -----------
BUSINESS SERVICES -- 0.5%
    Norrell Corp. ...............    17,000        499,375
                                               -----------
COMMERCIAL SERVICES -- 2.1%
    Medaphis Corp.*..............    32,000      1,184,000
    Meta Group, Inc. ............    22,875        700,547
                                               -----------
                                                 1,884,547
                                               -----------
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT -- 0.6%
    Anadigics, Inc.*.............    26,000        552,500
                                               -----------
COMPUTER
  SERVICES & SOFTWARE -- 17.6%
    Adobe Systems, Inc. .........    13,000        806,000
    Astea International, Inc.*...    29,800        681,675
    Avant Corp. .................    39,450        759,413
    Broadway & Seymour, Inc.*....    18,175        295,344
    Computron Software, Inc.*....    41,300        743,400
    Dendrite International,
      Inc.*......................    62,075      1,117,350
    Dialogic Corp. ..............    12,000        462,000
    Eagle Point Software
      Corp.*.....................    32,200        692,300
    Geoworks.....................    49,100        932,900
    GT Interactive Software......    43,750        612,500
    HCIA, Inc.*..................    27,500      1,285,625
    Informix Corp.*..............    19,500        585,000
    Madge NV.....................    25,000      1,118,750
    Manugistics Group, Inc. .....    10,425        153,769
    Network General Corp.*.......    23,000        767,625
    Parametric Technology
      Corp.*.....................    14,000        931,000
    Platinum Technology..........    25,500        468,563
    PRI Automation, Inc.*........    22,750        799,094
    Scopus Technology, Inc. .....    18,125        457,656
    7th Level, Inc. .............    18,000        252,000
    Symantec Corp. ..............    23,000        534,750
    Sync Research, Inc. .........     8,650        391,413
    Triple P NV..................    46,700        467,000
    Wonderware Corp. ............    34,700        594,238
                                               -----------
                                                15,909,365
                                               -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                    -------    -----------
<S>                                 <C>        <C>
COMPUTERS -- 6.3%
    Alantec Corp.*................    28,000    $ 1,631,000
    Computervision Corp. .........    55,000        845,625
    Gandalf Technologies, Inc.*...    31,000        527,000
    Mylex Corp. ..................    40,250        769,781
    Printronix, Inc.*.............    21,850        305,900
    Radisys Corp. ................    46,900        551,075
    Stormedia, Inc.*..............    27,800      1,014,700
                                                -----------
                                                  5,645,081
                                                -----------
CONSUMER GOODS & SERVICES -- 0.9%
    Quicksilver, Inc.*............    25,000        854,688
                                                -----------
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT -- 2.2%
    Microchip Technology, Inc.*...    23,050        841,325
    Sanmina Holdings*.............    22,325      1,158,109
                                                -----------
                                                  1,999,434
                                                -----------
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY -- 0.5%
    Tegal Corp. ..................    40,525        415,381
                                                -----------
ELECTRONICS -- 7.4%
    Altera Corp.*.................     7,000        348,250
    DSP Group, Inc.*..............    54,700        629,050
    LAM Research Corp.*...........    10,000        457,500
    LSI Logic Corp.*..............    15,000        491,250
    Maxim Integrated Products,
      Inc.*.......................    33,000      1,270,500
    Orbit Semiconductor, Inc.*....    43,175        420,956
    Speedfam International,
      Inc. .......................    65,250        734,063
    Tencor Instruments............    19,075        464,953
    Teradyne, Inc.*...............    25,000        625,000
    Tylan General, Inc. ..........    69,000        845,250
    Vitesse Semiconductor,
      Inc. .......................    31,000        395,250
                                                -----------
                                                  6,682,022
                                                -----------
ENTERTAINMENT -- 1.1%
    Anchor Gaming*................    16,275        370,256
    Movie Gallery, Inc.*..........    11,900        362,950
    WMS Industries, Inc.*.........    16,000        262,000
                                                -----------
                                                    995,206
                                                -----------
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL -- 0.8%
    United Waste Systems..........    20,000        745,000
                                                -----------
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<CAPTION>
                                     SHARES        VALUE
                                     -------    -----------
<S>                                  <C>        <C>
FINANCIAL SERVICES -- 2.1%
    Banco Latinoamericano de
      Exportaciones SA...........    24,000    $ 1,116,000
    Credit Acceptance Corp. .....    20,075        416,556
    Mercury Finance Co. .........    30,000        397,500
                                               -----------
                                                 1,930,056
                                               -----------
FOOD PRODUCTS -- 0.3%
    General Nutrition
      Companies, Inc.*...........    10,000        230,000
                                               -----------
FUNERAL SERVICES -- 0.6%
    Loewen Group, Inc. ..........    22,125        560,039
                                               -----------
HEALTHCARE -- 0.8%
    Healthsource, Inc.*..........    20,000        720,000
                                               -----------
HOME FURNISHINGS & HOUSEWARES -- 0.1%
    Catalina Lighting, Inc.*.....    18,025         87,872
                                               -----------
HOTELS & GAMING -- 1.5%
    Trump Hotels & Casino
      Resort*....................    61,700      1,326,550
                                               -----------
INSURANCE -- 0.7%
    HCC Insurance Holdings,
      Inc.*......................    18,000        666,000
                                               -----------
INSURANCE-LIFE -- 1.0%
    Reliastar Financial Corp. ...    20,000        887,500
                                               -----------
LEISURE TIME -- 0.2%
    Golf Enterprises, Inc. ......    30,000        217,500
                                               -----------
MANUFACTURING -- 4.1%
    Asyst Technologies, Inc.*....    45,900      1,617,975
    Authentic Fitness Corp. .....    40,000        830,000
    Plantronics, Inc.*...........    14,000        505,750
    Wolverine World Wide,
      Inc. ......................    22,500        708,750
                                               -----------
                                                 3,662,475
                                               -----------
MEDICAL & MEDICAL
  SERVICES -- 4.6%
    Gulf South Medical Supply*...    30,000        907,500
    Horizon Healthcare Corp.*....    29,725        750,556
    Multicare Companies, Inc.*...    36,000        864,000
    Orthodontic Centers of
      America, Inc.*.............    16,000        772,000
    Sola International, Inc. ....    33,000        833,250
                                               -----------
                                                 4,127,306
                                               -----------
OIL & GAS -- 1.3%
    Seitel, Inc.*................    32,300      1,142,613
                                               -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                    -------    -----------
<S>                                  <C>        <C>
OIL & GAS-EQUIPMENT & SERVICES -- 1.0%
    Falcon Drilling Co., Inc.*....    60,000    $   900,000
                                                -----------
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 1.9%
    Pharmaceutical Resources,
      Inc.*.......................    35,900        269,250
    Watson Pharmaceuticals,
      Inc.*.......................    30,000      1,470,000
                                                -----------
                                                  1,739,250
                                                -----------
PUBLISHING -- 0.2%
    Desktop Data, Inc.*...........     9,500        232,750
                                                -----------
RESTAURANTS -- 0.6%
    Doubletree Corp.*.............    21,400        561,750
                                                -----------
RETAIL -- 7.2%
    Creative Computers Corp.*.....    64,350      1,174,388
    Henry Schein, Inc. ...........    31,200        920,400
    Insight Enterprises, Inc. ....    43,000        537,500
    Maxim Group...................    26,475        357,413
    Officemax, Inc.*..............    21,840        488,670
    Proffitt's, Inc.*.............    26,975        708,094
    The Sports Authority, Inc.*...    19,200        391,200
    Tiffany & Co. (New)...........     9,000        454,500
    Trend-Lines, Inc. Cl-A*.......    55,000        550,000
    U.S. Office Products Co.*.....    41,500        944,125
                                                -----------
                                                  6,526,290
                                                -----------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 3.9%
    Arch Communications
      Group, Inc. ................    20,000        480,000
    Frontier Corp. ...............    32,000        960,000
    Intermedia Communications of
      Florida, Inc.*..............    32,000        560,000
    LCI International, Inc.*......    48,250        989,125
    Worldcom, Inc.*...............    15,000        528,750
                                                -----------
                                                  3,517,875
                                                -----------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS-EQUIPMENT -- 1.9%
    Inter-Tel, Inc. Cl-A..........    55,125        847,547
    Periphonics Corp..............    30,000        832,500
                                                -----------
                                                  1,680,047
                                                -----------
TEXTILES -- 3.1%
    Nautica Enterprises, Inc.*....    30,000      1,312,500
    Supreme International Corp....    42,000        672,000
    Warnaco Group, Inc. Cl-A......    31,000        775,000
                                                -----------
                                                  2,759,500
                                                -----------
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<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                    -------    -----------
<S>                                 <C>        <C>
TRANSPORTATION -- 2.0%
    Mark VII, Inc.*..............    30,000    $   474,375
    Western Pacific Airlines,
      Inc........................    23,150        387,763
    Wisconsin Central Transport Corp.*...  14,775     971,456
                                               -----------
                                                 1,833,594
                                               -----------
TRUCKING -- 0.3%
    Celadon Group, Inc.*.........    28,000        252,000
                                               -----------
TOTAL COMMON STOCK
  (COST $62,330,368).............               74,646,866
                                               -----------
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 0.7%
DRUGS
    Teva Pharmaceutical
      Industries LTD.
        (COST $304,524)..........    13,000        602,875
                                               -----------
FOREIGN STOCKS -- 4.7%
BROADCASTING -- 0.9%
    Flextech PLC -- (UK)*........   107,000        784,248
                                               -----------
GLASS-PRODUCTS -- 0.9%
    Hoya Corp. -- (JPN)..........    25,000        858,982
                                               -----------
MANUFACTURING -- 0.7%
    Hunter Douglas -- (NETH).....    13,356        619,235
                                               -----------
RESTAURANTS -- 0.7%
    J.D. Wetherspoon -- (UK).....    60,000        598,155
                                               -----------
RETAIL-MERCHANDISING -- 0.8%
    Next PLC Ord. -- (UK)........   100,000        708,097
                                               -----------
TRANSPORTATION-EQUIPMENT -- 0.7%
    IHC Caland -- (NETH).........    20,000        673,023
                                               -----------
TOTAL FOREIGN STOCKS
  (COST $3,501,612)..............                4,241,740
                                               -----------
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<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)        VALUE
                            --------    ------    -----------
<S>                         <C>         <C>       <C>
COMMERCIAL PAPER -- 10.5%
    Allergan, Inc.
      5.82%..............   01/02/96    $  440    $   439,929
    American General
      Finance Corp.
      5.63%..............   01/02/96       955        954,851
    Ciesco, LP
      5.75%..............   01/04/96     1,365      1,364,346
    Ford Motor Credit Co.
      5.77%..............   01/11/96       985        983,421
    General Electric
      Capital Corp.
      5.80%..............   01/03/96       935        934,699
    Pacific Bell
      5.80%..............   01/08/96     1,000        998,867
    PHH Corp.
      5.85%..............   01/10/96     1,540      1,537,748
    Raytheon Co.
      5.65%..............   01/05/96     1,115      1,114,300
    Texaco, Inc.
      5.80%..............   01/09/96     1,200      1,198,453
TOTAL COMMERCIAL PAPER
  (COST $9,526,614).................                9,526,614
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST $75,663,118 **) -- 98.4%....               89,018,095
OTHER ASSETS LESS
  LIABILITIES -- 1.6%...............                1,441,611
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%................              $90,459,706
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax
  basis is as follows:
    Gross appreciation........................    $17,000,989
    Gross depreciation........................     (3,646,012)
    Net appreciation..........................    $13,354,977
COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS
- ---------------------------------------------------------
JPN - Japan
NETH - Netherlands
UK - United Kingdom
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 * Non-income producing securities.
** Also cost for Federal income tax purposes.
 
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
FOREIGN STOCKS -- 84.9%
ARGENTINA -- 0.1%
    Compania Naviera Perez Compac
      S.A.C.F.I.M.F.A............    35,014    $    185,574
    Sociedad Comercial del
      Plata*.....................    14,380          38,107
    Telecom Argentina Stet-Fran
      Tel SA Cl-B................    10,450          49,324
                                                -----------
                                                    273,005
                                                -----------
AUSTRALIA -- 1.7%
    Amcor LTD. ..................    21,000         148,426
    Australian Gas Light Co. ....   104,321         391,951
    Broken Hill Proprietary Co.
      LTD. ......................    32,747         462,907
    Burns Philip & Co. LTD. .....    78,783         176,428
    Coca-Cola Amatil LTD. .......    22,251         177,631
    Fletcher Challenge Forest
      Division LTD. .............     1,702           2,406
    Lend Lease Corp. ............    19,486         282,700
    News Corp. ..................    45,228         241,602
    Publishing & Broadcasting....    49,300         172,024
    Sydney Harbour Casino
      Holdings*..................    88,000         111,301
    Tab Corp. ...................    71,000         200,729
    TNT LTD., Convertible
      PFD. Cl-A..................   150,000         213,154
    Westpac Banking Corp. .......    71,000         314,828
    WMC LTD. ....................    34,377         220,979
    Woodside Petroleum LTD. .....    52,000         266,171
                                                -----------
                                                  3,383,237
                                                -----------
AUSTRIA -- 0.2%
    Creditanstalt-Bankverein
      PFD. ......................     1,600          82,222
    Energie Versorgung Nieder....       520          71,448
    Flughafen Wien AG............     1,581         105,086
    Oesterreichsche
      Elektrizitats..............     1,800         108,214
                                                -----------
                                                    366,970
                                                -----------
BELGIUM -- 1.0%
    Generale de Banque SA........     1,330         470,647
    Kredietbank NV...............     3,370         920,859
    Societe Generale de
      Belgique...................       220          18,184
    U.C.B. NPV...................       474         630,310
                                                -----------
                                                  2,040,000
                                                -----------
BRAZIL -- 0.3%
    Brazil Fund, Inc.***.........    29,290         618,751
                                                -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
CANADA -- 0.3%
    Alcan Aluminum LTD. .........    13,510    $    418,724
    Macmillan Bloedel LTD. ......     8,290         102,471
    Royal Bank of Canada.........     5,140         119,069
                                                -----------
                                                    640,264
                                                -----------
CHILE -- 0.5%
    Five Arrows Chile Investment
      Trust***...................   118,730         351,440
    Genesis Chile Fund***........     9,350         378,675
    The Chile Fund***............     9,294         241,644
                                                -----------
                                                    971,759
                                                -----------
DENMARK -- 0.2%
    Den Danske Bank AB...........     3,630         250,354
    Teledanmark Cl-B.............     1,180          64,383
    Unidanmark...................     3,310         163,912
                                                -----------
                                                    478,649
                                                -----------
FINLAND -- 0.1%
    Nokia Series PFD. Cl-A.......     7,004         275,446
                                                -----------
FRANCE -- 7.0%
    Accor........................     4,480         579,953
    Assurances Generales de
      France.....................     6,123         205,038
    Carrefour Supermarch SA......     2,035       1,234,504
    Castorama Duois Investisse...     1,996         326,859
    Charguers SA.................     2,344         466,646
    Cie des Gaz Petrole..........     2,392         189,992
    Cie des Gaz Petrole
      (Warrants)*................       217           1,850
    Credit Local Ord. ...........     1,928         154,319
    Ecco Ste Ord. ...............     3,904         590,682
    Generale des Eaux............    17,980       1,794,879
    GTM Entrepose SA.............     2,500         175,345
    Guilbert SA..................     1,480         173,762
    Hermes International.........       152          28,553
    L'Oreal......................       870         232,888
    LaFarge-Coppee SA............     6,641         427,817
    Lapeyre......................     5,525         275,263
    Legrand......................     2,600         401,348
    Louis Vuitton Moet
      Hennessy...................     4,430         922,634
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Pinault Printemps Redoute....     3,763    $    750,679
    Poliet-Ex Lambert Freres.....     4,950         402,064
    Rexel........................     1,175         198,412
    Sanofi SA....................     2,527         161,965
    Societe Generale.............     1,470         181,593
    Societe Nationale Elf
      Aquitaine..................     7,780         573,154
    Sodexho SA...................     1,150         338,132
    St. Gobain*..................     8,260         914,124
    Television Francais..........    10,240       1,097,703
    Total Cl-B...................     8,910         601,277
    Valeo........................     7,504         347,505
                                                -----------
                                                 13,748,940
                                                -----------
GERMANY -- 4.1%
    Allianz Holdings Reg'd. .....       581       1,140,773
    Altana AG....................       362         210,759
    Ava Allgemeine Handels
      Der Verbrau................       130          43,962
    Bayer AG.....................     2,878         764,149
    Bilfinger & Berger Bau AG....       630         239,402
    Buderus AG...................       407         158,918
    Deutsche Bank AG.............    10,210         484,801
    Fielmann AG PFD. ............     1,348          69,740
    Gehe AG*.....................     1,664         852,768
    Gehe AG (New)*...............       406         202,547
    Hoechst AG...................       742         201,771
    Hornbach Baumarkt AG.........     1,300          55,927
    Hornbach Holding AG PFD. ....     3,350         284,500
    Krones AG PFD. ..............       456         184,409
    Mannesmann AG................     1,748         556,381
    Praktiker Bau Und Heimwerker
      Market*....................     3,779         108,559
    Rhoen-Klinicum AG............     5,760         572,305
    Schering AG..................     6,473         430,119
    Siemens AG...................       326         179,116
    Veba AG......................    18,060         773,173
    Veba AG (Warrants)*..........     1,220         194,373
    Volkswagen AG................     1,095         367,240
    Volkswagen International
      Finance (Warrants)*........       370          31,216
                                                -----------
                                                  8,106,908
                                                -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
HONG KONG -- 4.0%
    Dao Heng Bank Group..........   117,000    $    420,646
    First Pacific Co. ...........   638,845         710,525
    Guangdong Investment LTD. ...   589,000         354,204
    Guangzhou Investment Co.
      LTD. ...................... 1,828,000         349,884
    Guoco Group LTD. ............   150,000         723,579
    Hong Kong Land Holdings......   595,831       1,102,287
    Hutchison Whampoa LTD. ......   260,000       1,583,726
    Maanshan Iron and Steel......   710,000          99,167
    Shanghai Petrochemical Co.
      LTD. ...................... 1,060,000         305,015
    Swire Pacific LTD. Cl-A......    92,000         713,879
    Wharf Holdings...............   383,000       1,275,445
    Yizheng Chemical Fibre
      Co. .......................   822,000         184,972
                                                -----------
                                                  7,823,329
                                                -----------
ITALY -- 1.8%
    Assicurazioni Generali.......    30,756         744,456
    Banca Fideuram SPA...........   126,770         146,442
    Danieli & Co. ...............    14,954          40,480
    Danieli & Co. (Warrants)*....       875             457
    Ente Nazionale
      Idrocarburi (ENI)*.........    49,000         171,199
    Instituto Mobiliare
      Italiano...................    13,000          81,838
    Instituto National
      Assicurazioni..............    57,480          76,170
    Italgas Ord. ................    61,936         188,323
    Mondadori (Arnoldo)
      Editore SPA................    13,399         116,066
    Ras Ord. ....................     2,410          27,377
    Rinascente...................    22,800         137,934
    Sasib di Risp................    47,260         115,435
    Sasib SPA....................    13,598          59,922
    SME (Meridionale di
      Finanziara)................    36,752          75,077
    Stet di Risp.................    73,220         149,344
    Stet Ord. ...................   156,480         442,301
    Stet (Warrants)*.............     1,000          14,920
    Telecom Italia Mobile*.......   199,773         351,505
    Telecom Italia SPA...........   268,453         417,425
    Telecom Italia SPA di Risp...   100,718         123,131
    Union Cem March Emil SPA*....     8,642          46,515
                                                -----------
                                                  3,526,317
                                                -----------
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
JAPAN -- 21.8%
    Advantest Co. LTD. ..........     4,000    $    205,188
    Alps Electric Co. LTD. ......    31,000         357,046
    Amada Co. ...................    65,000         641,696
    Canon, Inc. .................    72,000       1,303,136
    Citizen Watch Co. ...........    34,000         259,969
    Dai Ichi Seiyaku.............    59,000         839,431
    Dai Nippon Screen
      Manufacturing..............    57,000         499,826
    Daifuku Co. LTD. ............    14,000         197,832
    Daiwa House Industry Co. ....    69,000       1,135,308
    DDI Corp. ...................        45         348,432
    East Japan Railway Co. ......       185         898,858
    Fanuc Co. ...................    16,000         692,218
    Hitachi LTD. ................   100,000       1,006,581
    Hitachi Zosen Corp. .........    96,000         497,096
    Honda Motor Co. LTD. ........    23,000         474,158
    Inax.........................    32,000         303,523
    Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha
      LTD.*......................    36,000         116,725
    Ito-Yokado Co. LTD. .........    21,000       1,292,683
    Kokuyo Co. LTD. .............    28,000         650,407
    Komatsu LTD. ................    77,000         633,469
    Komori Corp. ................    22,000         553,620
    Kumagai Gumi Co. ............    60,000         240,999
    Kuraray Co. LTD. ............    59,000         645,277
    Kyocera......................    22,000       1,633,178
    Makita Electric Corp. .......    43,000         686,702
    Matsushita Electric
      Industrial Co. ............    65,000       1,056,911
    Mauri Co. ...................    49,000       1,019,648
    Mitsubishi Corp. ............    42,000         516,260
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industry....   183,000       1,457,695
    Mitsubishi Paper Mills
      LTD. ......................    44,000         264,460
    Mitsui Fudosan...............    95,000       1,167,731
    Mitsui Petrochemical
      Industries.................    29,000         237,176
    Murata Manufacturing Co. ....    18,000         662,021
    National House Industrial
      Co. .......................    18,000         329,268
    NEC Corp. ...................   104,000       1,268,293
    Nippon Hodo..................    17,000         287,940
    Nippon Steel Corp. ..........   350,000       1,199,187
    Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
      Corp. .....................        84         678,862
    Nippondenso Co. LTD. ........    71,000       1,326,268
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Nomura Securities Co.
      LTD. ......................    67,000    $  1,459,059
    Pioneer Electronic Corp. ....    33,000         603,659
    Sangetsu Co. ................    11,000         276,810
    Sankyo Pharmaceuticals.......    41,000         920,635
    Sega Enterprises.............     6,700         369,628
    Sekisui Chemical Co. LTD. ...    74,000       1,088,657
    Sekisui House................    53,000         677,120
    Seven Eleven Japan Co.
      LTD. ......................     7,000         493,225
    Sharp Corp. .................    70,000       1,117,886
    Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. ......    23,000         476,384
    Sony Corp. ..................    18,400       1,102,362
    Sumitomo Corp. ..............   108,000       1,097,561
    Sumitomo Electric
      Industries.................   102,000       1,224,158
    Sumitomo Forestry Co.
      LTD. ......................    38,000         581,107
    TDK Corp. ...................    17,000         867,112
    Teijin LTD. .................   105,000         536,585
    Tokio Marine & Fire
      Insurance Co. .............    31,000         405,052
    Tokyo Electron LTD. .........    12,000         464,576
    Tokyo Steel Manufacturing....    30,000         551,684
    Toppan Printing Co. LTD. ....    22,000         289,586
    Yurtec Corp. ................    21,750         381,025
                                                -----------
                                                 42,568,949
                                                -----------
KOREA -- 1.3%
    Choung Bank Co. .............    20,000         255,588
    Hanil Bank...................    11,000         126,533
    Hanil Securities Co. ........    10,060         120,036
    Kookmin Bank*................    10,739         209,356
    Korea Electric Power
      Corp. .....................    12,600         554,256
    Pohang Iron & Steel Co. .....     6,030         436,631
    Samsung Co. LTD. (New)*......        60          10,906
    Samsung Electronics Co.*.....     1,940         355,155
    Samsung Electronics Co.
      (New)*.....................       205          37,263
    Seoul Bank...................    16,000         139,808
    Yukong.......................     5,471         190,370
    Yukong LTD. (1st New)*.......       284           9,845
                                                -----------
                                                  2,445,747
                                                -----------
MALAYSIA -- 2.8%
    Affin Holdings Berhad........   463,000         893,400
    Affin Holdings (Warrants)*...    72,600          47,744
    Berjaya Sports Toto..........   158,000         367,095
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Commerce Asset Holdings
      Berhad (Warrants)*.........    74,000    $    190,872
    MBF Capital Berhad...........   251,000         254,025
    Multi-Purpose Holdings BHD...   383,000         561,062
    Renong Berhad................   329,000         487,139
    Technology Resources
      Industry*..................   408,000       1,205,009
    United Engineers.............   231,000       1,473,655
                                                -----------
                                                  5,480,001
                                                -----------
MEXICO -- 0.6%
    Cemex SA Cl-B................    39,999         143,633
    Fomento Ecenomico Mexicano
      SA.........................    58,849         136,041
    Gruma SA de CV BCP*..........    22,333          63,809
    Grupo Embotellador de Mexico
      Cl-B NPV*..................    10,080           4,385
    Grupo Embotellador de Mexico
      SA de CV Cl-B/D/L*.........   148,677         249,082
    Grupo Financiero Banamex
      Cl-B.......................    90,270         150,528
    Grupo Financiero Banamex
      Cl-L.......................       736           1,082
    Grupo Financiero
      Bancomer Cl-L*.............     1,725             444
    Grupo Industrial Maseca SA de
      CV Cl-B....................   156,955          95,804
    Grupo Modelo Cl-C............    12,116          56,489
    Grupo Sidek SA de CV*........    36,774          15,760
    Kimberly-Clark de Mexico
      SA.........................    12,254         185,242
                                                -----------
                                                  1,102,299
                                                -----------
NETHERLANDS -- 8.9%
    ABN AMRO Holdings NV.........    11,880         541,178
    Ahold NV.....................     9,340         381,236
    AKZO Nobel NV................     1,902         219,986
    CSM NV.......................    19,284         841,204
    Elsevier NV..................   246,049       3,281,267
    Fortis Amev NV...............     7,927         531,035
    Hagemeyer NV.................     4,242         221,524
    ING Groep NV.................    18,540       1,238,542
    Koninklijke Nederland........    13,138         477,314
    Nutricia Verenigde
      Bedrijven..................     3,480         281,488
    Polygram NV..................    19,217       1,020,308
    Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. ...    20,836       2,911,093
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Unilever PLC.................     7,150    $  1,004,752
    Wolters Kluwer...............    47,754       4,517,391
                                                -----------
                                                 17,468,318
                                                -----------
NEW ZEALAND -- 0.6%
    Air New Zealand LTD. ........    57,000         193,638
    Carter Holt Harvey LTD. .....    78,000         168,159
    Fernz Corp. .................    43,100         113,755
    Fletcher Challenge LTD. .....    49,000         113,001
    Fletcher Challenge
      Forest Division............   121,952         173,683
    Telecom Corp. of New Zealand
      LTD. ......................    78,000         336,319
                                                -----------
                                                  1,098,555
                                                -----------
NORWAY -- 1.4%
    Bergesen Cl-A Ord. ..........     5,170         102,942
    Kvaerner AS..................     6,050         214,159
    Norsk Hydro AS...............    30,390       1,277,456
    Orkla Cl-A...................    19,470         969,192
    Saga Petroleum...............     8,260         103,119
                                                -----------
                                                  2,666,868
                                                -----------
PERU -- 0.0%
    Telefonica de Peru...........    26,690          56,563
                                                -----------
PORTUGAL -- 0.3%
    Jeronimo Martins.............    11,070         614,589
                                                -----------
SINGAPORE -- 2.5%
    DBS Land.....................   101,000         341,380
    Development Bank Singapore
      (Foreign)..................    30,000         373,356
    Far East-Levingston
      Shipbuilding LTD. .........    30,000         141,069
    Jurong Shipyard..............    33,000         254,349
    Keppel Corp. ................    20,000         178,193
    Neptune Orient Lines.........    76,000          85,448
    Overseas Union Bank
      LTD. (Foreign).............    81,000         558,443
    Overseas Union Enterprises...    50,000         252,793
    Sembawang Shipyard...........    47,000         260,890
    Singapore International
      Airlines...................    28,000         261,349
    Singapore Land...............   106,000         685,829
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Singapore Press Holdings
      (Foreign)..................    21,000    $    371,235
    Total Access
      Communications*............    12,000          78,000
    United Industrial Corp. .....   174,000         171,022
    United Overseas Bank LTD. ...    74,400         715,486
    United Overseas Bank LTD.
      (Warrants)*................    27,092         109,196
                                                -----------
                                                  4,838,038
                                                -----------
SPAIN -- 2.2%
    Banco de Santander SA........    11,626         585,870
    Banco Popular Espanol........     1,600         296,169
    Centros Comerciales Pryca
      Ord. ......................    20,089         423,058
    Empresa Nacional de
      Electridad.................    18,678       1,061,794
    Fomentos de Construcciones
      y Contra...................     2,730         210,087
    Gas Natural SDG..............     3,088         482,939
    Iberdrola SA.................    46,483         426,944
    Repsol SA....................    17,044         560,612
    Sevillana de Electricidad....    28,475         221,957
                                                -----------
                                                  4,269,430
                                                -----------
SWEDEN -- 2.0%
    AGA AB Cl-B..................     2,500          31,432
    ASEA AB Cl-A.................     3,790         367,906
    Astra AB Cl-B................    40,300       1,595,139
    Atlas Copco AB Cl-B..........    21,740         327,188
    Electrolux Co. ..............    13,060         535,608
    Esselte......................     5,800          86,854
    Hennes & Mauritz AB Cl-B.....     4,870         271,187
    Sandvik AB Cl-A..............     3,610          63,295
    Sandvik AB Cl-B..............    22,210         389,415
    Scribona Cl-B................     5,500          58,770
    Stora Kopparbergs Cl-B.......    16,600         198,615
                                                -----------
                                                  3,925,409
                                                -----------
SWITZERLAND -- 3.9%
    BBC Brown Boveri AG-Bearer...     1,079       1,253,672
    Ciba Geigy AG................       570         501,647
    CS Holdings..................     3,860         395,773
    Nestle SA....................     1,478       1,635,245
    Roche Holding
      AG-Genussshein.............       215       1,701,097
    Sandoz AG....................       997         912,886
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Swiss Bank Corp. ............     1,560    $    637,094
    Union Bank of Switzerland....       530         574,439
                                                -----------
                                                  7,611,853
                                                -----------
THAILAND -- 0.9%
    Advanced Information Services
      (Foreign)..................    10,400         182,485
    Advanced Information Services
      (Local)....................     8,000         141,644
    Bangkok Bank PLC.............    32,500         394,800
    Bank of Ayudhya LTD. ........    31,600         176,880
    Land and House Public Co. ...     4,400          72,314
    Siam Cement Co. LTD. ........     3,000         166,256
    Siam Commercial Bank.........    22,900         301,818
    Thai Farmer Bank (Foreign)...    24,200         244,017
                                                -----------
                                                  1,680,214
                                                -----------
UNITED KINGDOM -- 14.4%
    Abbey National PLC...........   138,000       1,362,899
    Argos PLC....................    85,160         788,151
    Argyll Group PLC.............   121,660         642,324
    Asda Group PLC...............   377,450         647,663
    British Airports Authorities
      PLC........................    20,440         153,940
    British Gas PLC..............    86,210         340,031
    British Petroleum Co. PLC....    53,840         450,631
    Cable & Wireless PLC.........   138,000         985,745
    Cadbury Schweppes PLC........   117,456         970,319
    Caradon PLC..................   181,700         551,606
    Coats Viyella PLC............    74,270         201,827
    Compass Group PLC............    56,000         425,665
    East Midlands Electricity
      PLC........................    54,385         563,291
    Electrocomponents PLC........    35,000         195,658
    GKN PLC......................    13,000         157,256
    Glaxo Wellcome PLC...........    85,000       1,207,724
    Grand Metropolitan Ord.
      PLC........................   155,300       1,118,966
    Guinness Ord. ...............   124,640         917,410
    Heywood Williams Group
      Ord. ......................    32,010         122,278
    Hillsdown Holdings PLC.......    55,160         144,757
    Kingfisher PLC...............   127,950       1,076,880
    Ladbroke Group PLC...........   103,000         234,316
    Laing (John) PLC Cl-A NV.....    70,000         301,096
    London Electricity Ord.
      PLC........................    64,770         577,316
    National Grid PLC*...........    94,011         291,239
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<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    National Westminster Ord.
      PLC........................   228,670    $  2,304,525
    Rank Organisation PLC
      Reg'd. ....................   113,120         818,565
    Reed International PLC.......   137,370       2,094,744
    Rolls-Royce PLC..............    60,140         176,503
    RTZ Corp. Ord. PLC Reg'd. ...    60,600         880,798
    Sears Holdings PLC...........    44,490          71,849
    Shell Transport & Trading Co.
      Ord. PLC...................   116,000       1,534,706
    Smith David Holdings PLC.....    97,900         431,746
    Smithkline Beecham (Units)...   220,220       2,400,609
    Spring Ram Corp. PLC.........    12,000           5,031
    T & N Corp. PLC..............   133,680         336,286
    Tesco PLC....................   102,000         470,418
    Tomkins Ord. PLC.............   283,220       1,240,225
    United News and Media PLC....   105,470         908,975
                                                -----------
                                                 28,103,968
                                                -----------
TOTAL FOREIGN STOCKS
  (COST $153,238,339)............               166,184,376
                                                -----------
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 2.8%
    A.F.P. Provida SA............     1,152          31,824
    Banco de Galicia
      Buenos Aires SA............     6,207         128,019
    Buenos Aires Embotelladora...     1,535          31,659
    Cemex SA*....................    50,068         338,741
    Cervecerias Unidas (CCU).....     3,628          84,351
    Cesp-Cia Energetica
      de Sao Paolo*..............     5,020          43,835
    Chilectra Metropolitana SA...     3,196         154,450
    Chilgener SA.................     4,371         109,275
    Cifra SA de CV NPV*..........   432,174         454,215
    Companhia Energetica de Minas
      Geras......................     6,068         134,230
    Compania de Telefonos
      de Chile SA................     2,020         167,408
    Electrobras-Centrais Eletr
      Bras.......................    16,358         221,324
    Empresa National
      de Electridad SA...........    14,096         320,684
    Enersis SA...................     5,314         151,449
    Enron Global Power &
      Pipeline...................     1,356          33,731
 
<CAPTION>
                                   SHARES         VALUE
                                  ---------    ------------
<S>                               <C>          <C>
    Huaneng Power
      International, Inc.*.......    35,000    $    503,125
    Panamerica Beverages,
      Inc. ......................     7,120         227,840
    Repsol SA....................       110           3,616
    Sociedad Comercial del
      Plata*.....................     1,640          43,468
    Telebras.....................    23,784       1,126,767
    Telecome Argentina Cl-B......       941          44,815
    Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras
      SA.........................       217          10,449
    Telefonica de Argentina......    14,780         402,755
    Telekomunikasi Indonesia*....    16,000         404,000
    Uniao Siderurgicas de Minas
      Gerais SA..................    23,370         189,951
                                                -----------
TOTAL AMERICAN DEPOSITORY
  RECEIPTS
  (COST $6,564,517)..............                 5,361,981
                                                -----------
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY SECURITIES -- 0.6%
    Banco Frances del Rio de la
      Plata......................     2,643          71,031
    Sociedad Anoni...............    13,600         294,100
    Telefonos de Mexico SA.......    22,584         719,865
    Transportadora de Gas del
      Sur........................     2,632          33,887
    Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas
      Gerais SA..................    11,100          90,221
                                                -----------
TOTAL AMERICAN DEPOSITORY
  SECURITIES
  (COST $1,196,437)..............                 1,209,104
                                                -----------
GLOBAL DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 0.4%
    Grupo Televisia..............    12,639         284,378
    Samsung Electronics def
      del (New)*.................        92           8,878
    Samsung Electronics def
      del*.......................        62           5,983
    Samsung Electronics N/V*.....     6,000         360,000
    Samsung Electronics Rfd.*....       593          35,580
    Samsung Electronics
      Rfd. (New)*................        11           1,062
                                                -----------
TOTAL GLOBAL DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS
  (COST $837,943)................                   695,881
                                                -----------
GLOBAL DEPOSITORY SECURITIES -- 0.0%
    Grupo Financiero Bancomer
      Cl-B
      (COST $62,422).............     2,330          13,980
                                                -----------
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                    PRINCIPAL
                                     IN LOCAL
                                   CURRENCY****
                         MATURITY     (000)         VALUE
                         --------- ------------  ------------
<S>                      <C>       <C>           <C>
FOREIGN BONDS -- 0.0%
BELGIUM -- 0.0%
    Kredietbank NV
      5.75%............. 11/30/03        900     $     32,749
                                                 ------------
ITALY -- 0.0%
    Danieli & Co.
      7.25%............. 01/01/00      5,250            2,935
                                                 ------------
TOTAL FOREIGN BONDS
  (COST $29,798)..................                     35,684
                                                 ------------
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST
  $161,929,456**) -- 88.7%........                173,501,006
OTHER ASSETS
  LESS LIABILITIES -- 11.3%.......                 22,166,287
                                                 ------------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%..............               $195,667,293
                                                 ============
 
<CAPTION>
<S>                      <C>       <C>           <C>
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax
  basis is as follows:
    Gross appreciation.........................   $19,515,366
    Gross depreciation.........................    (8,309,983)
                                                   ----------
    Net appreciation...........................   $11,205,383
                                                   ----------
                                                   ----------
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Unless otherwise noted, all foreign stocks are common stock.
 
  * Non-income producing securities.
 ** Cost for Federal income tax purposes was $162,295,623.
 *** Closed-end funds.
**** Currency of countries indicated.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                   --------    -----------
<S>                                <C>         <C>
COMMON STOCK -- 82.3%
AEROSPACE -- 1.5%
    Boeing Co. .................      9,000    $   705,375
                                               -----------
AUTOMOBILES -- 1.5%
    Chrysler Corp. .............     12,000        664,500
                                               -----------
AUTOMOTIVE
  PARTS-EQUIPMENT -- 0.6%
    Lear Seating Corp.*.........     10,000        290,000
                                               -----------
BIOPHARMACEUTICALS -- 2.9%
    Amgen, Inc.*................     14,000        831,250
    Curative Technology,
      Inc.*.....................     35,000        498,750
                                               -----------
                                                 1,330,000
                                               -----------
BUSINESS SERVICES -- 0.8%
    Paging Network, Inc.*.......     15,000        365,625
                                               -----------
COMMUNICATIONS -- 2.8%
    GTECH Holdings Group*.......     12,000        312,000
    Micro Warehouse, Inc.*......     11,000        475,750
    Western Atlas, Inc.*........     10,000        505,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,292,750
                                               -----------
COMPUTER SERVICES &
  SOFTWARE -- 4.2%
    American Online, Inc. ......     10,000        375,000
    Bay Networks, Inc. .........     13,500        555,187
    First Data Corp. ...........      5,550        371,156
    Oracle Systems Corp.*.......     10,000        423,750
    Parametric Technology
      Corp.*....................      3,000        199,500
                                               -----------
                                                 1,924,593
                                               -----------
COMPUTERS -- 2.4%
    Cisco Systems, Inc.*........      7,500        559,688
    EMC Corp.*..................     35,000        538,125
                                               -----------
                                                 1,097,813
                                               -----------
DRUGS -- 2.9%
    Merck & Co., Inc. ..........     10,000        657,500
    Watson Pharmaceuticals,
      Inc.*.....................     14,000        686,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,343,500
                                               -----------
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT -- 0.7%
    Sanmina Holdings*...........      6,500        337,188
                                               -----------
ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS -- 4.0%
    Elsag Bailey Process NV*....     20,000        537,500
    Intel Corp. ................      9,000        510,750
    Solectron Corp.*............     18,000        794,250
                                               -----------
                                                 1,842,500
                                               -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                   --------    -----------
<S>                                <C>         <C>
ELECTRONICS -- 2.9%
    Dovatron International,
      Inc.*.....................      8,000    $   270,000
    Input Output, Inc.*.........     10,000        577,500
    Motorola, Inc. .............      3,000        171,000
    SCI Systems, Inc.*..........      9,000        279,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,297,500
                                               -----------
ENVIRONMENTAL
  INSTRUMENTS -- 1.4%
    Thermo Electron Corp.*......     12,000        624,000
                                               -----------
FINANCIAL -- 0.5%
    First USA, Inc. ............      5,000        221,875
                                               -----------
FINANCIAL SERVICES -- 1.8%
    H&R Block, Inc. ............     13,000        526,500
    Waterhouse Investment
      Services, Inc. ...........     12,500        309,375
                                               -----------
                                                   835,875
                                               -----------
HEALTHCARE -- 7.7%
    Health Management
      Association, Inc. Cl-A....     22,500        587,812
    Healthsouth Rehabilitation
      Corp.*....................     20,000        582,500
    Horizon Healthcare Corp.*...     25,000        631,250
    Oxford Health Plans,
      Inc. .....................      7,500        554,063
    Total Renal Care
      Holdings*.................     18,000        531,000
    United Healthcare Corp......     10,000        655,000
                                               -----------
                                                 3,541,625
                                               -----------
HOSPITAL-INFORMATION
  SYSTEM -- 1.3%
    HBO & Co. ..................      8,000        613,000
                                               -----------
INSURANCE -- 3.6%
    Conseco, Inc. ..............     10,000        626,250
    Tidewater, Inc. ............     18,000        567,000
    USF&G Corp. ................     28,000        472,500
                                               -----------
                                                 1,665,750
                                               -----------
MACHINERY-MINING -- 1.0%
    Case Corp. .................     10,000        457,500
                                               -----------
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<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                   --------    -----------
<S>                                <C>         <C>
MANUFACTURING -- 2.4%
    Black & Decker Corp. .......     15,000    $   528,750
    Eastman Kodak Co. ..........      8,500        569,500
                                               -----------
                                                 1,098,250
                                               -----------
MEDIA -- 0.8%
    New World Communications,
      Inc. Cl-A*................     22,000        385,000
                                               -----------
MEDICAL & MEDICAL
  SERVICES -- 6.4%
    Apria Healthcare Group,
      Inc. .....................     20,000        565,000
    Columbia Healthcare
      Corp. ....................     12,000        609,000
    Conmed Corp. ...............     21,000        525,000
    IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. ...     15,000        705,000
    Lincare Holdings, Inc.*.....     22,000        550,000
                                               -----------
                                                 2,954,000
                                               -----------
MEDICAL PRODUCTS -- 4.0%
    Boston Scientific Corp.*....      9,000        441,000
    Guidant.....................     17,000        718,250
    Lunar Corp. ................     24,000        660,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,819,250
                                               -----------
OFFICE EQUIPMENT -- 2.2%
    Officemax, Inc.*............     14,000        313,250
    Staples, Inc.*..............     13,000        316,875
    Viking Office Products,
      Inc.*.....................      8,000        372,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,002,125
                                               -----------
OIL & GAS-EQUIPMENT & SERVICES -- 7.9%
    Baker Hughes, Inc. .........     25,000        609,375
    BJ Services Co.*............     25,000        725,000
    Dresser Industries, Inc. ...     20,000        487,500
    Halliburton Co. ............     12,000        607,500
    Schlumberger LTD. ..........      8,000        554,000
    Sonat Offshore Drilling,
      Inc. .....................     15,000        671,250
                                               -----------
                                                 3,654,625
                                               -----------
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 3.1%
    Biochem Pharmaceutical,
      Inc.*.....................     20,000        802,500
    Pfizer, Inc. ...............     10,000        630,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,432,500
                                               -----------
PUBLISHING -- 0.7%
    Time Warner, Inc. ..........      8,000        303,000
                                               -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                   --------    -----------
<S>                                <C>         <C>
RECREATIONAL -- 0.5%
    Mirage Resorts, Inc.*.......      7,000    $   241,500
                                               -----------
RETAIL -- 2.9%
    Federated Department
      Stores, Inc.*.............     15,000        412,500
    General Nutrition Companies,
      Inc.*.....................     20,000        460,000
    Nine West Group, Inc. ......     12,000        450,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,322,500
                                               -----------
RETAIL MAIL ORDER -- 1.5%
    CUC International, Inc. ....     20,000        682,500
                                               -----------
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 3.3%
    ECI Telecom LTD. ...........     25,000        570,312
    Intelcom Group, Inc.*.......     20,000        247,500
    Worldcom, Inc.*.............     20,000        705,000
                                               -----------
                                                 1,522,812
                                               -----------
TEXTILES -- 1.2%
    Tommy Hilfiger Corp.*.......     13,000        550,875
                                               -----------
TRANSPORTATION -- 0.9%
    Western Pacific Airlines,
      Inc.*.....................     25,000        418,750
                                               -----------
TOTAL COMMON STOCK
  (COST $33,195,213)............                37,838,656
                                               -----------
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS -- 5.8%
ELECTRONICS -- 1.3%
    Nokia Corp. Cl-A ...........     16,000        622,000
                                               -----------
MANUFACTURING -- 1.3%
    Luxottica Group SPA.........     10,000        585,000
                                               -----------
OIL & GAS -- 0.6%
    Petroleum Geo Services*.....     12,000        300,000
                                               -----------
PHARMACEUTICALS -- 0.8%
    Elan Corp. PLC*.............      7,500        364,687
                                               -----------
PUBLISHING -- 0.6%
    News Corp. LTD. ............     12,500        267,188
                                               -----------
RETAIL -- 1.2%
    Fila Holding SPA............     12,000        546,000
                                               -----------
TOTAL AMERICAN DEPOSITORY
  RECEIPTS
  (COST $2,432,529).............                 2,684,875
                                               -----------
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                    SHARES        VALUE
                                   --------    -----------
<S>                                <C>         <C>
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS --
  MONEY MARKET FUNDS -- 4.2%
    Temporary Investment Cash
      Fund......................    963,888    $   963,888
    Temporary Investment Fund...    963,887        963,887
                                               -----------
      (COST $1,927,775).........                 1,927,775
                                               -----------
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                        PAR
                        MATURITY       (000)
                        ---------   ------------
<S>                     <C>         <C>             <C>
U.S. TREASURY BILLS -- 8.2%
  5.28%
    (COST
      $3,779,491).....   01/11/96   $      3,785      3,779,491
                                                    -----------
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST
  $41,335,008**) -- 100.5%.......                    46,230,797
LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF
  OTHER ASSETS -- (0.5)%.........                      (252,037)
                                                    -----------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%.............                   $45,978,760
                                                    ===========
 
<CAPTION>
<S>                     <C>         <C>             <C>
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax
  basis is as follows:
    Gross appreciation..........................     $5,560,455
    Gross depreciation..........................       (664,666)
                                                      ---------
    Net appreciation............................     $4,895,789
                                                      ---------
                                                      ---------
</TABLE>
 
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 * Non-income producing securities.
** Also cost for Federal income tax purposes.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)       VALUE
                            --------   -------   ------------
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
CORPORATE BONDS -- 1.6%
ELECTRIC POWER
  CMS Energy Corp.
    9.50%.................. 10/01/97   $ 1,000   $  1,051,250
  Texas Utilities Co.
    6.38%.................. 05/01/99     1,500      1,499,856
                                                  -----------
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS
  (COST $2,499,976).................                2,551,106
                                                  -----------
COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE SECURITIES -- 1.0%
  Merrill Lynch Mortgage
    Investors Cl-B
    7.67%
      (COST $1,513,304).... 06/15/21     1,491      1,543,139
                                                  -----------
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS -- 21.0%
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK -- 0.4%
  5.70%.................... 01/02/96       700        699,889
                                                  -----------
FEDERAL HOME LOAN
  MORTGAGE CORP. -- 3.2%
  8.00%.................... 01/16/26     5,000      5,182,031
                                                  -----------
FEDERAL NATIONAL
  MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION -- 10.3%
  5.37%.................... 03/12/96     1,000        989,064
  6.38%.................... 01/01/25       924        936,685
  5.88%.................... 05/01/25     2,028      2,069,013
  6.36%.................... 01/24/26    12,500     12,640,600
                                                  -----------
                                                   16,635,362
                                                  -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)       VALUE
                            --------   -------   ------------
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE
  ASSOCIATION -- 7.1%
  7.25%.................... 07/20/17   $   404   $    413,865
  7.25%.................... 08/20/17       494        505,617
  7.25%.................... 09/20/17       418        429,091
  7.00%.................... 01/15/24        56         56,771
  7.00%.................... 02/15/24        62         62,589
  7.00%.................... 04/15/24       440        445,611
  7.38%.................... 05/20/24     4,402      4,495,266
  7.00%.................... 06/15/24        63         63,552
  7.25%.................... 07/20/24       540        553,013
  7.00%.................... 07/15/25       458        464,347
  7.00%.................... 08/15/25     1,930      1,954,280
  7.00%.................... 01/22/26     2,000      2,022,500
                                                  -----------
                                                   11,466,502
                                                  -----------
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT
  AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
    (COST $33,729,071)..............               33,983,784
                                                  -----------
U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS -- 12.4%
U.S. TREASURY BILLS -- 0.0%
  5.27%#................... 02/08/96        10          9,942
  5.30%#................... 02/08/96        60         59,653
  5.00%#................... 02/15/96        15         14,901
  5.35%#................... 02/15/96        10          9,934
                                                  -----------
                                                       94,430
                                                  -----------
U.S. TREASURY NOTES -- 12.4%
  4.38%.................... 08/15/96     5,000      4,974,300
  6.50%.................... 09/30/96    15,000     15,131,250
                                                  -----------
                                                   20,105,550
                                                  -----------
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS
  (COST $20,168,250)................               20,199,980
                                                  -----------
</TABLE>
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
PIMCO LIMITED MATURITY BOND PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                         PAR
                            MATURITY    (000)       VALUE
                            --------   -------   ------------
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
COMMERCIAL PAPER -- 10.8%
  Abbott Laboratories
    5.62%.................. 01/09/96   $ 2,000   $  1,997,502
  BellSouth Telecomm, Inc.
    5.75%.................. 01/09/96     1,000        998,722
  Canadian Wheat Board
    5.58%.................. 03/01/96     1,000        990,305
    5.49%.................. 03/05/96     1,300      1,286,644
  Commonwealth Bank of
    Australia
    5.54%.................. 03/13/96     2,500      2,471,250
  Hewlett-Packard Co.
    5.53%.................. 03/12/96     2,000      1,977,307
  General Electric Capital
    Corp.
    5.84%.................. 01/26/96       300        298,783
    5.65%.................. 01/31/96       900        895,762
  KFW International Finance
    Corp.
    5.53%.................. 03/06/96       800        791,659
  National Rural Utility
    5.55%.................. 03/06/96       800        791,659
    5.63%.................. 03/08/96       500        494,633
    5.55%.................. 03/18/96     2,000      1,975,600
  Pitney Bowes Credit, Inc.
    5.66%.................. 01/26/96       100         99,607
  Shell Oil Co.
    5.65%.................. 01/26/96     2,500      2,490,191
                                                  -----------
TOTAL COMMERCIAL PAPER
  (COST $17,564,082)................               17,559,624
                                                  -----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                       SHARES       VALUE
                                       -------   ------------
<S>                         <C>        <C>       <C>
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS --
  MONEY MARKET FUNDS -- 0.4%
    Temporary Investment
      Cash Fund.....................   289,707   $    289,707
    Temporary Investment Fund.......   289,706        289,706
                                                  -----------
      (COST $579,413)...............                  579,413
                                                  -----------
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
  (COST $76,054,096*) -- 47.2%......               76,417,046
OTHER ASSETS LESS
  LIABILITIES -- 52.8%..............               85,523,348
                                                  -----------
NET ASSETS -- 100.0%................             $161,940,394
                                                  ===========
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:
The aggregate unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax
  basis is
as follows:
    Gross appreciation........................       $368,223
    Gross depreciation........................         (5,273)
                                                      -------
    Net appreciation..........................       $362,950
                                                      -------
                                                      -------
</TABLE>
 
# Securities with an aggregate market value of $94,430, which have been
  segregated with the custodian to cover margin requirements for the following
  open futures contracts at December 31, 1995:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                      UNREALIZED
               TYPE                    CONTRACTS     APPRECIATION
   ----------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                    <C>           <C>
U.S. Treasury 5 Year Note (03/96)          90          $ 92,813
U.S. Treasury 10 Year Note (03/96)         20            32,500
                                                     ------------
                                                       $125,313
                                                     ============
</TABLE>
 
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* Also cost for Federal income tax purposes.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
 
STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
DECEMBER 31, 1995
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                  PIMCO                                                                  PIMCO
                                                  Total      INVESCO       Founders      T. Rowe Price     Berger       Limited
                                    JanCap       Return       Equity       Capital       International     Capital      Maturity
                                    Growth        Bond        Income     Appreciation       Equity         Growth         Bond
                                   Portfolio    Portfolio    Portfolio    Portfolio        Portfolio      Portfolio    Portfolio
                                   ---------    ---------    --------    ------------    -------------    ---------    ----------
<S>                                <C>          <C>          <C>         <C>             <C>              <C>          <C>
ASSETS
    Investments in securities at
      value (A) (Note 1)........   $ 444,152    $ 193,203    $174,742      $ 89,018        $ 173,501       $46,231      $  76,417
    Cash in bank, including
      foreign currency
      holdings..................          --          452           1            85           21,226            --             --
    Receivable for securities
      sold......................         246           --          --            --               46            --          1,034
    Receivable for dividends and
      interest..................         224        2,784       1,062            18              548            23            454
    Receivable for fund shares
      sold (Note 6).............       2,282       42,734       1,066         2,780              617           137        104,848
    Unrealized appreciation on
      foreign currency exchange
      contracts and futures
      (Note 1)..................         280          182          --            --               --            --             24
                                    --------     --------    --------       -------         --------       -------       --------
        TOTAL ASSETS............     447,184      239,355     176,871        91,901          195,938        46,391        182,777
                                    --------     --------    --------       -------         --------       -------       --------
LIABILITIES
    Payable for securities
      purchased.................      15,450       13,864          --         1,351               12           371         20,793
    Unrealized depreciation on
      foreign currency exchange
      contracts and futures
      (Note 1)..................          --           26          --            --               --            --             --
    Advisory fee payable (Note
      2)........................         327           95         109            64              158            27             28
    Shareholder servicing fee
      payable (Note 2)..........          36           15          14             7               16             4              4
    Accrued expenses............          50           20          32            19               85            10             12
                                    --------     --------    --------       -------         --------       -------       --------
        TOTAL LIABILITIES.......      15,863       14,020         155         1,441              271           412         20,837
                                    --------     --------    --------       -------         --------       -------       --------
NET ASSETS......................   $ 431,321    $ 225,335    $176,716      $ 90,460        $ 195,667       $45,979      $ 161,940
                                    ========     ========    ========       =======         ========       =======       ========
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
Common stock (unlimited number
  of shares authorized, $.001
  par value per share)..........   $      28    $      20    $     14      $      6        $      18       $     4      $      15
Additional paid-in capital......     334,097      209,801     150,532        75,443          183,647        41,133        160,498
Undistributed net investment
  income (loss).................       1,412        5,951       3,658          (141)           1,601           150            765
Accumulated net realized gain
  (loss) on investments and
  foreign currency
  transactions..................      23,307        6,094       5,013         1,797           (1,173)         (204)           174
Accumulated net unrealized
  appreciation on investments,
  foreign currency transactions,
  and forward currency
  contracts.....................      72,477        3,469      17,499        13,355           11,574         4,896            488
                                    --------     --------    --------       -------         --------       -------       --------
NET ASSETS......................   $ 431,321    $ 225,335    $176,716      $ 90,460        $ 195,667       $45,979      $ 161,940
                                    ========     ========    ========       =======         ========       =======       ========
Shares of common stock
  outstanding...................      28,014       19,865      14,133         6,350           18,365         3,707         15,465
Net asset value, offering and
  redemption price per share
  (Note 1)......................   $   15.40    $   11.34    $  12.50      $  14.25        $   10.65       $ 12.40      $   10.47
                                    ========     ========    ========       =======         ========       =======       ========
(A) Investments at cost.........   $ 371,968    $ 190,446    $157,243      $ 75,663        $ 161,929       $41,335      $  76,054
                                    ========     ========    ========       =======         ========       =======       ========
</TABLE>
 
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See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1995
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS)
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                    PIMCO                                                                 PIMCO
                                                    Total      INVESCO      Founders      T. Rowe Price     Berger       Limited
                                      JanCap       Return      Equity       Capital       International     Capital     Maturity
                                      Growth        Bond       Income     Appreciation       Equity         Growth        Bond
                                     Portfolio    Portfolio    Portfolio   Portfolio        Portfolio      Portfolio    Portfolio(1)
                                     ---------    ---------    -------    ------------    -------------    ---------    ---------
<S>                                  <C>          <C>          <C>        <C>             <C>              <C>          <C>
INVESTMENT INCOME (NOTE 1)
    Interest......................    $ 2,275      $ 6,857     $2,789       $    419         $   632        $   329      $   906
    Dividends.....................      3,110           --      1,943             88           2,694             72           --
                                      -------      -------     -------       -------         -------         ------       ------
        Total Investment Income...      5,385        6,857      4,732            507           3,326            401          906
                                      -------      -------     -------       -------         -------         ------       ------
EXPENSES
    Investment advisory fees (Note
      2)..........................      2,977          652        821            487           1,412            161          101
    Shareholder servicing fees
      (Note 2)....................        331          100        109             54             141             21           16
    Administration and accounting
      fees........................        278          105        110             76             141             53           16
    Custodian fees................         70           24         25             35             140             10            3
    Professional fees.............         47           13         14              7              18              3            3
    Registration fees.............        (33)         (16)       (23 )           (9)            (38)            (1)          --
    Trustees' fees and expenses
      (Note 2)....................         12            3          3              2               5              1           --
    Insurance fees................          8            3          3              1               5             --           --
    Amortization of organization
      costs (Note 1)..............          2           --          1             --              --             --           --
    Miscellaneous expenses........          7            7         11              5              48              3            2
                                      -------      -------     -------       -------         -------         ------       ------
        Total Expenses............      3,699          891      1,074            658           1,872            251          141
                                      -------      -------     -------       -------         -------         ------       ------
Net Investment Income (Loss)......      1,686        5,966      3,658           (151)          1,454            150          765
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN
  (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS AND
  FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
  (NOTE 1)
    Net realized gain (loss) on
      investments and foreign
      currency transactions.......     38,435        6,557      5,268          2,836            (908)          (195)         174
    Net unrealized appreciation on
      investments, foreign
      currency transactions, and
      forward currency
      contracts...................     58,329        4,574     19,246         10,589          15,141          4,860          488
                                      -------      -------     -------       -------         -------         ------       ------
    Net Increase in Net Assets
      resulting from Operations...    $98,450      $17,097     $28,172      $ 13,274         $15,687        $ 4,815      $ 1,427
                                      =======      =======     =======       =======         =======         ======       ======
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Commenced operations on May 2, 1995.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS)
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                     PIMCO Total Return Bond
                                                                   JanCap Growth Portfolio                  Portfolio
                                                                ------------------------------    ------------------------------
                                                                    1995             1994             1995            1994(1)
                                                                -------------    -------------    -------------    -------------
<S>                                                             <C>              <C>              <C>              <C>
FROM OPERATIONS
    Net investment income (loss).............................     $   1,686        $   1,245        $   5,966        $   1,256
    Net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign
      currency transactions..................................        38,435          (15,037)           6,557             (463)
    Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on
      investments,
      foreign currency transactions, and forward currency
      contracts..............................................        58,329            4,596            4,574           (1,104)
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
      Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from
        Operations...........................................        98,450           (9,196)          17,097             (311)
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS
    Dividends to shareholders from net investment income.....        (1,363)            (447)          (1,271)              --
    Distributions to shareholders from capital gains.........            --               --               --               --
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
        Total Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders....        (1,363)            (447)          (1,271)              --
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
    Proceeds from shares sold................................       135,311          117,459          199,583           49,723
    Net asset value of shares issued in reinvestment of
      dividends and distributions............................         1,363              447            1,271               --
    Cost of shares redeemed..................................       (48,085)         (20,470)         (37,838)          (2,919)
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
      Increase in Net Assets from Capital Share
        Transactions.........................................        88,589           97,436          163,016           46,804
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
        Total Increase in Net Assets.........................       185,676           87,793          178,842           46,493
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
NET ASSETS
    Beginning of period......................................       245,645          157,852           46,493               --
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
    End of period............................................     $ 431,321        $ 245,645        $ 225,335        $  46,493
                                                                   ========         ========        =========        =========
SHARES ISSUED AND REDEEMED
    Shares sold..............................................         9,644           10,265           18,460            5,067
    Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and
      distributions..........................................           119               37              128               --
    Shares redeemed..........................................        (3,650)          (1,801)          (3,491)            (299)
                                                                   --------         --------         --------        ---------
      Net Increase in Shares Outstanding.....................         6,113            8,501           15,097            4,768
                                                                   ========         ========         ========        =========
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Commenced operations on January 4, 1994.
(2) Commenced operations on October 20, 1994.
(3) Commenced operations on May 2, 1995.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                                       Berger
                                             Founders Capital Appreciation                                             Capital
             INVESCO Equity Income                                                T. Rowe Price International          Growth
                   Portfolio                           Portfolio                       Equity Portfolio               Portfolio
        -------------------------------     -------------------------------     -------------------------------     -------------
            1995             1994(1)            1995             1994(1)            1995             1994(1)            1995
        -------------     -------------     -------------     -------------     -------------     -------------     -------------
<S>     <C>               <C>               <C>               <C>               <C>               <C>               <C>
          $   3,658          $ 1,056           $  (151)          $   290          $   1,454         $     268          $   150
              5,268             (255)            2,836            (1,039)              (908)              (16)            (195)
             19,246           (1,748)           10,589             2,767             15,141            (3,567)           4,860
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
             28,172             (947)           13,274             2,018             15,687            (3,315)           4,815
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
             (1,056)              --              (280)               --               (121)               --               (3)
                 --               --                --                --               (249)               --               --
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
             (1,056)              --              (280)               --               (370)               --               (3)
             93,257           66,925            62,848            29,373            101,284           122,535           42,283
              1,056               --               280                --                370                --                3
             (9,914)            (777)          (14,221)           (2,832)           (30,055)          (10,469)          (4,149)
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
             84,399           66,148            48,907            26,541             71,599           112,066           38,137
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
            111,515           65,201            61,901            28,559             86,916           108,751           42,949
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
             65,201               --            28,559                --            108,751                --            3,030
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
          $ 176,716          $65,201           $90,460           $28,559          $ 195,667         $ 108,751          $45,979
           ========          =======          ========           =======           ========           =======         ========
              8,188            6,769             4,764             2,908             10,012            12,383            3,773
                105               --                26                --                 41                --               --
               (850)             (79)           (1,074)             (274)            (2,997)           (1,074)            (370)
           --------          -------          --------           -------           --------           -------         --------
              7,443            6,690             3,716             2,634              7,056            11,309            3,403
           ========          =======          ========           =======           ========           =======         ========
 
<CAPTION>
         Berger
         Capital        PIMCO Limited
         Growth         Maturity Bond
        Portfolio          Portfolio
      -------------     -------------
         1994(2)           1995(3)
      -------------     -------------
<S>     <C>             <C>
         $     3          $     765
              (9)               174
              36                488
        --------          ---------
              30              1,427
        --------          ---------
              --                 --
              --                 --
        --------          ---------
              --                 --
           3,077            166,622
              --                 --
             (77)            (6,109)
        --------          ---------
           3,000            160,513
        --------          ---------
           3,030            161,940
        --------          ---------
              --                 --
        --------          ---------
         $ 3,030          $ 161,940
        ========          =========
             312             16,062
              --                 --
              (8)              (597)
        --------          ---------
             304             15,465
        ========          =========
</TABLE>
 
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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
 
PER SHARE DATA (FOR A SHARE OUTSTANDING THROUGHOUT EACH PERIOD)
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                        JanCap Growth Portfolio
                                                                             ----------------------------------------------
                                                                                    For the Year Ended December 31,
                                                                             ----------------------------------------------
                                                                               1995         1994         1993       1992(2)
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
<S>                                                                          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
Net Asset Value at Beginning of Period...................................... $  11.22     $  11.78     $  10.53     $ 10.00
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Increase (Decrease) from Investment Operations
    Net Investment Income (Loss)............................................     0.06         0.06         0.03       (0.01)
    Net Realized & Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Investments and Foreign
      Currency Transactions.................................................     4.18        (0.59)        1.22        0.54
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
        Total Increase (Decrease) From Investment Operations................     4.24        (0.53)        1.25        0.53
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Less Dividends and Distributions
    Dividends from Net Investment Income....................................    (0.06)       (0.03)          --          --
    Distributions from Net Realized Capital Gains...........................       --           --           --          --
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
        Total Dividends and Distributions...................................    (0.06)       (0.03)          --          --
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Net Asset Value at End of Period............................................ $  15.40     $  11.22     $  11.78     $ 10.53
                                                                             --------     --------     --------     -------
Total Return................................................................    37.98%       (4.51%)      11.87%       5.30%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
    Net Assets at End of Period (in 000's).................................. $431,321     $245,645     $157,852     $15,218
Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets:
      After Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement...................     1.12%        1.18%        1.22%       1.33%(1)
      Before Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement..................     1.12%        1.18%        1.22%       2.21%(1)
Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss)
  to Average Net Assets:
      After Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement...................     0.51%        0.62%        0.35%      (0.90%)(1)
      Before Advisory Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement..................     0.51%        0.62%        0.35%      (1.78%)(1)
Portfolio Turnover Rate.....................................................   113.32%       93.92%       92.16%       1.52%
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Annualized
(2) Commenced operations on November 6, 1992.
(3) Commenced operations on January 4, 1994.
(4) Commenced operations on October 20, 1994.
(5) Commenced operations on May 2, 1995.
 
See Notes to Financial Statements.
 

<PAGE>

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                       Founders Capital           T. Rowe Price
     PIMCO Total Return         INVESCO Equity           Appreciation             International           Berger Capital
       Bond Portfolio          Income Portfolio            Portfolio            Equity Portfolio         Growth Portfolio
    --------------------     --------------------     -------------------     ---------------------     -------------------
     For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended      For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended       For the Year Ended
        December 31,             December 31,            December 31,             December 31,             December 31,
    --------------------     --------------------     -------------------     ---------------------     -------------------
      1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(3)      1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(3)       1995       1994(4)
    --------     -------     --------     -------     -------     -------     --------     --------     -------     -------
<S> <C>          <C>         <C>          <C>         <C>         <C>         <C>          <C>          <C>         <C>
    $   9.75     $ 10.00     $   9.75     $ 10.00     $ 10.84     $ 10.00     $   9.62     $  10.00     $  9.97     $ 10.00
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
        0.25        0.26         0.25        0.16       (0.04)       0.11         0.07         0.02        0.04        0.01
        1.55       (0.51)        2.65       (0.41)       3.54        0.73         0.99        (0.40)       2.40       (0.04)
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
        1.80       (0.25)        2.90       (0.25)       3.50        0.84         1.06        (0.38)       2.44       (0.03)
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       (0.21)         --        (0.15)         --       (0.09)         --        (0.01)          --       (0.01)         --
          --          --           --          --          --          --        (0.02)          --          --          --
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       (0.21)         --        (0.15)         --       (0.09)         --        (0.03)          --       (0.01)         --
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
    $  11.34     $  9.75     $  12.50     $  9.75     $ 14.25     $ 10.84     $  10.65     $   9.62     $ 12.40     $  9.97
    --------     -------     --------     -------     --------    --------    --------     --------     --------    --------
       18.78%      (2.50%)      30.07%      (2.50%)     32.56%       8.40%       11.09%       (3.80%)     24.42%      (0.30%)
    $225,335     $46,493     $176,716     $65,201     $90,460     $28,559     $195,667     $108,751     $45,979     $ 3,030
        0.89%       1.02%(1)     0.98%       1.14%(1)    1.22%       1.30%(1)     1.33%        1.75%(1)    1.17%       1.25%(1)
        0.89%       1.02%(1)     0.98%       1.14%(1)    1.22%       1.55%(1)     1.33%        1.77%(1)    1.17%       1.70%(1)
        5.95%       5.57%(1)     3.34%       3.41%(1)   (0.28%)      2.59%(1)     1.03%        0.45%(1)    0.70%       1.41%(1)
        5.95%       5.57%(1)     3.34%       3.41%(1)   (0.28%)      2.34%(1)     1.03%        0.43%(1)    0.70%       0.97%(1)
      124.41%     139.25%       89.48%      62.87%      68.32%     197.93%       17.11%       15.70%      84.21%       5.36%
 
<CAPTION>
         PIMCO
        Limited
        Maturity
          Bond
       Portfolio
      ------------
        For the
       Year Ended
      December 31,
      ------------
        1995(5)
      ------------
<S>     <C>
        $  10.00
        --------
            0.05
            0.42
        --------
            0.47
        --------
              --
              --
        --------
              --
        --------
        $  10.47
        --------
            4.70%
        $161,940
            0.89%(1)
            0.89%(1)
            4.87%(1)
            4.87%(1)
          204.85%
</TABLE>
 
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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
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1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
American Skandia Trust (the "Trust"), was organized under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts on October 31, 1988, as a "Massachusetts Business
Trust". The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, as a diversified, open-end management investment company. The Trust
operates as a series company, issuing nineteen classes of shares of beneficial
interest during 1995. These financial statements report on seven of the nineteen
portfolios: JanCap Growth Portfolio ("JanCap"), PIMCO Total Return Bond
Portfolio ("PIMCO"), INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio ("INVESCO"), Founders
Capital Appreciation Portfolio ("Founders"), T. Rowe Price International Equity
Portfolio ("T. Rowe"), Berger Capital Growth Portfolio ("Berger"), and PIMCO
Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio ("Limited Maturity") (collectively "the
Portfolios").
 
The following is a summary of the Trust's significant accounting policies:
 
SECURITY VALUATION
 
Securities are valued at the close of regular trading on each business day the
New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is open. Securities are valued at the last sale
price on the securities exchange or securities market on which such securities
primarily are traded. Securities not listed on an exchange or securities market,
or securities on which there were no transactions, are valued at the average of
the most recent bid and asked prices. Any securities or other assets for which
recent market quotations are not readily available are valued at fair value as
determined in good faith by the Board of Trustees.
 
Short-term obligations with less than sixty days remaining to maturity are
valued at amortized cost. Short-term obligations with more than sixty days
remaining to maturity are valued at current market value until the sixtieth day
prior to maturity, and thereafter are valued on an amortized cost basis based on
the value on such date.
 
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION AND
FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS
 
The Trust's investment valuations, other assets, and liabilities initially
expressed in foreign currencies are converted each business day into U.S.
dollars based upon current exchange rates determined prior to the close of the
NYSE. Purchases and sales of foreign investments and income and expenses are
converted into U.S. dollars based upon currency exchange rates prevailing on the
respective dates of such transactions. Gains and losses attributable to changes
in foreign currency exchange rates are recorded for financial statement purposes
as net realized gains and losses on investments and foreign currency
transactions.
 
A foreign currency exchange contract (FCEC) is a commitment to purchase or sell
a specified amount of foreign currency at the settlement date at a specified
rate. FCECs are used to hedge against foreign exchange rate risk arising from a
Portfolio's investment or anticipated investment in securities denominated in
foreign currencies. Risks may arise upon entering into FCECs from the potential
inability of counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts. Also, when
utilizing FCECs a Portfolio gives up the opportunity to profit from favorable
exchange rate movements during the term of the contract. FCECs are
marked-to-market daily at the applicable exchange rates and any gains or losses
are recorded as unrealized until the contract settlement date.
 
FUTURES AND OPTIONS
 
Certain Portfolios, as permitted by the Trust's prospectus, may enter into
futures contracts and purchase and write both put and call options. Futures
contracts provide for the future sale by one party and purchase by another of a
specified amount of a financial instrument at an agreed upon price and date. Put
and call options give the holder the right to sell or purchase, respectively, a
specified
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
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amount of a security or currency at a specified price on a certain date. For
both futures and options, risks arise from possible illiquidity and from
movements in security values, interest rates or currency values.
 
Futures and purchased options are valued based on their quoted daily settlement
prices. The premium received for a written option is recorded as an asset with
an equal liability which is marked-to-market based on the option's quoted daily
settlement price. Fluctuations in the value of futures and options are recorded
as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until terminated, at which time
realized gains (losses) are recognized.
 
INVESTMENT TRANSACTIONS AND
INVESTMENT INCOME
 
Security transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Realized gains and
losses from security transactions are recognized on the FIFO cost basis.
Dividend income is recognized on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is
accrued daily. Gains or losses on premiums from expired options are recognized
on the date of expiration.
 
DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS
 
Dividends and distributions arising from net investment income and net
short-term and long-term capital gains, if any, are declared and paid annually.
 
ORGANIZATION COSTS
 
The Trust bears all costs in connection with its organization, including the
initial fees and expenses of registering and qualifying its shares for
distribution under Federal and state securities regulations. All such costs are
being amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of five years from May 1,
1992.
 
TAX MATTERS
 
It is the Trust's policy to comply with the requirements of the Internal Revenue
Code pertaining to regulated investment companies and to distribute all of its
taxable income, as well as any net realized gains to its shareholders.
Therefore, no federal income tax provision has been made. Foreign taxes have
been provided for dividend and interest income earned on foreign investments in
accordance with the applicable country's tax rates and, to the extent
unrecoverable, are recorded as a reduction of investment income.
 
2. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
    AGREEMENTS, INVESTMENT
    SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTS AND
    TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
 
The Portfolios have entered into Investment Management Agreements with American
Skandia Investment Services, Inc., formerly American Skandia Life Investment
Management, Inc., ("Investment Manager") which provide that the Investment
Manager will furnish each Portfolio with investment advice and investment
management and administrative services. The Investment Manager has engaged the
following entities as sub-advisors for their respective Portfolios: Janus
Capital Corporation for JanCap, Pacific Investment Management Co. for PIMCO and
Limited Maturity, INVESCO Trust Co. for INVESCO, Founders Asset Management Inc.
for Founders, Rowe Price-Fleming International, a United Kingdom corporation,
for T. Rowe, and Berger Associates, Inc. for Berger. The Investment Manager
receives a fee computed daily and paid monthly based on an annual rate of .90%,
 .65%, .75%, .90%, 1.00%, .75%, and .65% of the average daily net assets of the
JanCap, PIMCO, INVESCO, Founders, T. Rowe, Berger, and Limited Maturity
Portfolios, respectively.
 
The Investment Manager pays each sub-advisor a fee computed daily and payable
monthly based on an annual rate of .60%, .30%, .50%, .65%, .75%, .55%, and .30%
of the average daily net assets of the JanCap, PIMCO, INVESCO, Founders, T.
Rowe, Berger, and Limited Maturity Portfolios, respectively. The annual rates of
the fees payable by the Investment Manager to the sub-advisors of all
Portfolios, are reduced for Portfolio net assets in excess of specified levels.
 

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AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
DECEMBER 31, 1995
 
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The Investment Manager has agreed to reimburse each Portfolio for the amount, if
any, by which the total operating and management expenses (after fee waivers and
expense reimbursements) of the Portfolio for any fiscal year exceed the most
restrictive state blue sky expense limitation in effect from time to time, to
the extent required by such limitation. The Investment Management Agreement with
each Portfolio also provides that the Investment Manager will reimburse the
Portfolio to prevent its expenses from exceeding a specific percentage limit.
During the year ended December 31, 1995, no reimbursements of the Portfolios
were necessary pursuant to these provisions.
 
The Trust has entered into an agreement for the sale of shares with American
Skandia Life Assurance Corporation ("ASLAC") pursuant to which it pays ASLAC a
shareholder servicing fee at an annual rate of 0.1% of each Portfolio's average
daily net assets.
 
Certain officers and/or Trustees of the Trust are also officers and/or directors
of the Investment Manager. During the year ended December 31, 1995, the Trust
made no direct payments to its officers or interested Trustees.
 
3. PURCHASES AND SALES OF
    SECURITIES
 
The cost of security purchases and proceeds from the sales of securities,
excluding short-term obligations, during the year ended December 31, 1995 were
($ in thousands): $481,042 and $338,056 for JanCap, $229,857 and $87,401 for
PIMCO, $175,237 and $93,917 for INVESCO, $77,534 and $32,394 for Founders,
$90,390 and $22,238 for T. Rowe, $54,444 and $15,457 for Berger and $100,645 and
$44,050 for Limited Maturity.
 
4. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
Certain Portfolios, as permitted by the Trust's prospectus, may trade financial
instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of investing
activities and to assist in managing exposure to market risks such as changes in
interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. The financial instruments
include written options, forward foreign currency exchange contracts and futures
contracts.
 
The notional or contractual amounts of these instruments represent the
investment the Trust has in particular classes of financial instruments and do
not necessarily represent the amounts potentially subject to risk. The
measurement of the risks associated with these instruments is meaningful only
when all related and offsetting transactions are considered.
 
5. CAPITAL LOSS CARRYOVERS
 
At December 31, 1995, for Federal income tax purposes, capital loss carryovers
which may be applied against future net taxable realized gains of each
succeeding year until the earlier of utilization or expiration in 2002 were ($
in thousands): $9 for Berger. Capital loss carryovers that expire in 2003 were
($ in thousands): $418 for T. Rowe and $195 for Berger.

6. FUND SUBSTITUTION

On December 29, 1995, pursuant to an exemptive order granted by the Securities
and Exchange Commission, ASLAC effected a substitution involving various
Portfolios and other unaffiliated mutual funds offered as investment options in
its annuity contracts. As a result of that substitution, on December 29, 1995,
the separate accounts of ASLAC effected purchases of the shares of various
Portfolios of the Trust, including ($ in thousands unaudited):

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                            Value of Fund Shares
                Portfolio                         Purchased
- -----------------------------------------   ---------------------
<S>                                         <C>
JanCap...................................         $     623
PIMCO....................................            44,198
Limited Maturity.........................           101,712
</TABLE>


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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SHAREHOLDERS,
AMERICAN SKANDIA TRUST:

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including
the portfolios of investments of JanCap Growth Portfolio, PIMCO Total Return
Bond Portfolio, INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio, Founders Capital Appreciation
Portfolio, T. Rowe Price International Equity Portfolio, Berger Capital Growth
Portfolio and PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio of American Skandia Trust
(the "Trust") as of December 31, 1995, the related statements of operations and
changes in net assets and the financial highlights for each of the periods
presented. These financial statements and the financial highlights are the
responsibility of the Trust's management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements and the financial highlights based on our
audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform our audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and the financial
highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned at December
31, 1995 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and where replies
were not received, we performed other auditing procedures. An audit also
includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.

In our opinion, such financial statements and financial highlights present
fairly, in all material respects, the financial positions of JanCap Growth
Portfolio, PIMCO Total Return Bond Portfolio, INVESCO Equity Income Portfolio,
Founders Capital Appreciation Portfolio, T. Rowe Price International Equity
Portfolio, Berger Capital Growth Portfolio, and PIMCO Limited Maturity Bond
Portfolio of American Skandia Trust as of December 31, 1995, the results of
their operations, the changes in their net assets, and the financial highlights
for the respective stated periods in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.

Deloitte & Touche LLP
Princeton, New Jersey
February 9, 1996




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                                    APPENDIX

Description of Certain Debt Securities Ratings

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's")

         Aaa -- Bonds which are rated Aaa are judged to be of the best  quality.
They carry the smallest degree of investment risk and are generally  referred to
as "gilt edge."  Interest  payments are protected by a large,  or  exceptionally
stable,  margin, and principal is secure.  While the various protective elements
are  likely to change,  it is  improbable  that such  changes  would  impair the
fundamentally strong position of such issues.

         Aa -- Bonds which are rated Aa are judged to be of high  quality by all
standards. Together with the Aaa group they comprise what are generally known as
high grade  bonds.  They are rated  lower than the highest  rated bonds  because
margins  of  protection  may not be as large as in Aaa  securities,  or  because
fluctuation of protective elements may be of greater amplitude, or because there
may be other  elements  present which make the long-term  risks appear  somewhat
larger than Aaa securities.

         A --  Bonds  which  are  rated  A  possess  many  favorable  investment
attributes and are to be considered as upper medium grade  obligations.  Factors
giving security to principal and interest are considered  adequate,  but certain
characteristics  may exist which suggest a  susceptibility  to impairment in the
future.

         Baa -- Bonds  which  are  rated  Baa are  considered  as  medium  grade
obligations,  i.e.,  they are  neither  highly  protected  nor  poorly  secured.
Although  interest  payments  and  principal  security  appear  adequate for the
present, certain protective elements may be lacking or may be characteristically
unreliable  over time. Such bonds lack high quality  investment  characteristics
and in fact have speculative characteristics as well.

         Ba -- Bonds which are rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements;
their future  cannot be  considered  as well  assured.  Often the  protection of
interest  and  principal  payments  may be very  moderate  and  thereby not well
safeguarded  during  both good and bad times  over the  future.  Uncertainty  of
position characterizes bonds in this class.

         B -- Bonds  which  are  rated B  generally  lack  characteristics  of a
desirable  investment.  Assurance  of  interest  and  principal  payments  or of
maintenance  of other terms of the contract  over any long period of time may be
small.

         Caa -- Bonds which are rated Caa are of poor standing.  Such issues may
be in  default  or there may be  present  elements  of danger  with  respect  to
principal or interest.

         Ca --  Bonds  which  are  rated  Ca  represent  obligations  which  are
speculative  to a large  degree.  Such issues are often in default or have other
marked shortcomings.

         C -- Bonds  which are rated C are the lowest  rated  class of bonds and
issues so rated can be  regarded  as having  extremely  poor  prospects  of ever
attaining any real investment standing.

Standard & Poor's Corporation ("Standard & Poor's")

         AAA -- Debt  issues  rated  AAA have the  highest  rating  assigned  by
Standard & Poor's.  Capacity to pay  interest  and repay  principal is extremely
strong.

         AA -- Debt issues  rated AA have a strong  capacity to pay interest and
repay principal, and differ only in small degree from the highest rated issues.

         A -- Debt issues  rated A have a strong  capacity to pay  interest  and
repay principal but they are somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of
changes in  circumstances  and  economic  conditions  than debt issues in higher
rated categories.

         BBB -- Debt  issues  rated  BBB are  regarded  as  having  an  adequate
capacity to pay interest and repay  principal.  Whereas  they  normally  exhibit
adequate  protection   parameters,   adverse  economic  conditions  or  changing
circumstances are more likely to weaken their capacity to pay interest and repay
principal for debt in this category than in higher rated categories.

         BB, B, CCC, CC -- Debt rated BB, B, CCC, and CC is regarded on balance,
as predominantly  speculative with respect to capacity to pay interest and repay
principal in  accordance  with the terms of the  obligation.  BB  indicates  the
lowest degree of speculation and CC is the highest degree of speculative.  While
such debt will likely have some quality and  protective  characteristics,  these
are  outweighed  by large  uncertainties  of major  risk  exposures  to  adverse
conditions.

         C -- The rating C is reserved  for income bonds on which no interest is
paid.

         D --  Debt  rated D is in  default,  and  payment  of  interest  and/or
repayment of principal is in arrears.

Description of Certain Commercial Paper Ratings

Moody's

         Prime-1 -- Issuers (or related supporting  institutions)  rated Prime-1
have a superior capacity for repayment of short-term debt  obligations.  Prime-1
repayment capacity will normally be evidenced by the following  characteristics:
leading market positions in well-established industries; high rates of return on
funds employed; conservative capitalization structures with moderate reliance on
debt and ample asset  protection;  broad  margins in earnings  coverage of fixed
financial charges and high internal cash generation; and well-established access
to a range of financial markets and assured sources of alternate liquidity.

         Prime-2 -- Issuers rated Prime-2 (or related  supporting  institutions)
have a strong ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations.  This
will normally be evidenced by many of the characteristics  cited above, but to a
lesser degree.  Earnings trends and coverage  ratios,  while sound,  may be more
subject to variation.  Capitalization characteristics,  while still appropriate,
may be more  affected by  external  conditions.  Ample  alternate  liquidity  is
maintained.

         Prime-3 -- Issuers rated Prime-3 (or related  supporting  institutions)
have an acceptable  ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations.
The  effect of  industry  characteristics  and market  compositions  may be more
pronounced.  Variability in earnings and  profitability may result in changes in
the  level of debt  protection  measurements  and may  require  relatively  high
financial leverage. Adequate alternate liquidity is maintained.

Standard & Poor's

         A -- Issues  assigned  this  highest  rating are regarded as having the
greatest  capacity for timely  payment.  Issues in this category are  delineated
with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 to indicate the relative degree of safety.

         A-1 -- This designation indicates that the degree of security regarding
timely payment is either overwhelming or very strong. Those issues determined to
possess  overwhelming  security  characteristics  are  given  a  plus  (+)  sign
designation.

         A-2 -- Capacity for timely  payment on issues with this  designation is
strong.  However,  the  relative  degree of safety is not as high as for  issues
designated "A-1".

         A-3 -- Issues carrying this  designation  have a satisfactory  capacity
for timely payment.  They are, however,  somewhat more vulnerable to the adverse
effects of the changes in  circumstances  than  obligations  carrying the higher
designations.



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