PAINEWEBBER MANAGED ASSETS TRUST
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PAINEWEBBER MANAGED ASSETS TRUST

CERTIFICATE OF VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY


     I, Dianne E. O Donnell, Vice President and Secretary of PaineWebber 
     Managed Assets Trust ( Trust ), hereby certify that the board of trustees 
     of the Trust adopted the following resolutions which became effective 
     on November 10, 1995;

     RESOLVED, that the unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest 
     previously known as the  Class D shares  of PaineWebber Capital 
     Appreciation Fund be renamed the  Class C shares of that Fund; and be 
     it further

     RESOLVED, that the unlimited number of shares of  beneficial  interest 
     previously known as the  Class C shares  of PaineWebber Capital 
     Appreciation Fund be renamed the Class Y shares of that Fund. 

Dated: December 15, 1995        By:/s/ Dianne E. O Donnell    
                                Dianne E. O Donnell
                                Vice President and Secretary
                                PaineWebber Managed Assets
                                Trust


New York, New York (ss)

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1995.



/s/ Karyn Freeman        
               Notary Public










Board of Trustees
PaineWebber Capital Appreciation Fund


In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of
PaineWebber Capital Appreciation Fund for the year ended March 31, 1996,
we considered its internal control structure, including procedures for
safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures 
for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and 
to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on 
the internal control structure.

The management of PaineWebber Capital Appreciation Fund is responsible for
establishing and maintaining an internal control structure.  In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess 
the expected benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies
and procedures.  Two of the objectives of an internal control structure are to
provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are
safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and that
transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and
recorded properly to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity 
with generally accepted accounting principles.

Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or
irregularities may occur and not be detected.  Also, projection of any 
evaluation of the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that it 
may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of the internal control structure would not necessarily
disclose all matters in the internal control structure that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants.  A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of the specific internal control structure elements does not reduce
to a relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities in amounts
that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited
may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the
normal course of performing their assigned functions.  However, we noted no
matters involving the internal control structure, including  procedures for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined
above as of March 31, 1996.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and
the Securities and Exchange Commission.



                                            ERNST & YOUNG LLP


May 14, 1996



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