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THE SESSIONS GROUP
3435 Stelzer Road
Columbus, Ohio 43219
November 5, 1997
VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Attention: Filing Desk
Stop 1-4
Washington, D.C. 20549-1004
Subject: The Sessions Group -- Securities Act of 1933
Registration No. 33-21489 and Investment Company
Act of 1940 File No. 811-5545 -- Rule 497(j) Filing
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of The Sessions Group (the "Group"), the undersigned hereby
certifies, on behalf of the Group, that the form of Statement of Additional
Information for the Riverside Capital Funds, constituting six funds of the
Group, which would have been filed under paragraph (c) of Rule 497 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, would not have differed from that contained
in the most recent post-effective amendment to the Group's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A as filed on October 31, 1997, and that the text of such
post-effective amendment has been filed electronically.
THE SESSIONS GROUP
By /s/ Walter B. Grimm
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Walter B. Grimm, President
