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WM Strategic Asset Management Portfolios
601 West Main Avenue, Suite 300
Spokane, WA 99201
March 30, 1998
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: WM Strategic Asset Management Portfolios (File Nos. 333-01999, 811-07577)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of WM Strategic Asset Management Portfolios (the "Trust"), the
undersigned hereby certifies, pursuant to Rule 497(j) under the Securities Act
of 1933, that the forms of Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
that would have been filed under Rule 497 would not have differed from those
included in Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Trust's Registration
Statement, as filed electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on March 27, 1998.
WM STRATEGIC ASSET MANAGEMENT PORTFOLIOS
By: JOHN T. WEST
John T. West
Vice President and Secretary
