O PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT O
BT ADVISOR FUNDS
BT INVESTMENT FUNDS
BT PYRAMID MUTUAL FUNDS
January 8, 1997
Effective September 30, 1996, Edgewood Services, Inc. became the
Distributor of the above-named investment companies (the `Funds''),
replacing Signature Broker-Dealer Services, Inc. (`Signature'') a
subsidiary of Signature Financial Group, Inc. (`SFG''). Edgewood
Services, Inc., a registered broker/dealer, is a New York corporation
with principal offices at Clearing Operations, P.O. Box 897,
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0897. Accordingly, references throughout the
materials to Signature and SFG should be replaced with references to
Edgewood Services, Inc. and its affiliates, respectively, as
appropriate.
Please delete the section of the prospectus regarding the purchase and
redemption of Shares and replace with the following:
PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES
HOW TO BUY SHARES
The Trust accepts purchase orders for Shares of the Fund at the NAV per
Share (and, if applicable, of the respective class of shares) next
determined after the order is received on each Valuation Day. See `Net
Asset Value''herein. Shares of the Fund may be available through
Investment Professionals, such as broker/dealers and investment advisers
(including Service Agents).
Purchase orders for Shares of the Fund (including those purchased through a
Service Agent) that are transmitted to the Trust's Transfer Agent (the
`Transfer Agent''), prior to the Valuation Time on any Valuation Day will
be effective at that day's Valuation Time. The Trust and Transfer Agent
reserve the right to reject any purchase order.
Shares must be purchased in accordance with procedures established by the
Transfer Agent and each Service Agent. It is the responsibility of each
Service Agent to transmit to the Transfer Agent purchase and redemption
orders and to transmit to Bankers Trust as the Trust's custodian (the
`Custodian'') purchase payments by the following business day (trade date
+ 1) after an order for Shares is placed. A shareholder must settle with
the Service Agent for his or her entitlement to an effective purchase or
redemption order as of a particular time. Because Bankers Trust is the
Custodian and Transfer Agent of the Trust, funds may be transferred
directly from or to a customer's account held with Bankers Trust to settle
transactions with the Fund without incurring the additional costs or delays
associated with the wiring of Federal funds.
Certificates for Shares will not be issued. Each shareholder's account
will be maintained by a Service Agent or Transfer Agent.
If orders are placed through an Investment Professional, it is the
responsibility of the Investment Professional to transmit the order to buy
Shares of each class to the Transfer Agent before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.
The Transfer Agent must receive payment within one business day after an
order for Shares is placed; otherwise, the purchase order may be canceled
and the investor could be held liable for resulting fees and/or losses.
MINIMUM INVESTMENTS
TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT $2,500
For retirement accounts 500
Through automatic investment plans 1,000
TO ADD TO AN ACCOUNT $250
For retirement accounts 100
Through automatic investment plan 100
MINIMUM BALANCE $1,000
For retirement accounts None
IF YOU ARE NEW TO BT ADVISOR FUNDS, BT INVESTMENT FUNDS, OR BT PYRAMID
MUTUAL FUNDS complete and sign an account application and mail it along
with your check to the address listed below. If there is no account
application accompanying this Prospectus, call the BT Service Center at 1-
800-730-1313.
BT Service Center
P.O. Box 419210
Kansas City, MO 64141-6210
Overnight mailings:
BT Service Center
210 West 10th Street, 8th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64105-1716
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE MONEY INVESTED IN A FUND IN THE BT FAMILY OF FUNDS, you
can:
o Mail an account application with a check,
o Wire money into your account,
o Open an account by exchanging from another fund in the BT Family of
Funds, or
o Contact your Service Agent or Investment Professional.
If you are investing through a tax-sheltered retirement plan, such as an
IRA, for the first time, you will need a special application. Contact your
Investment Professional for more information and a retirement account
application.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT BUYING SHARES
TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT TO ADD TO AN ACCOUNT
BY WIRE Call the BT Service Center at Call your Investment Professional
or wire
1-800-730-1313 to receive additional investment to:
wire instructions for account
establishment.
ROUTING NO.: 021001033
ATTN: Bankers Trust/IFTC Deposit
DDA NO.: 00-226-296
FBO: (Account name)
(Account number)
CREDIT: Fund Number (see table below)
Investment Tax Free Money Fund - 469 Investment Pacific Basin Equity
Fund - 496
Investment NY Tax Free Money Fund - 470 Investment Latin American Equity
Fund - 497
Investment Cash Management Fund - 471 Investment Small Cap Fund - 498
Investment Treasury Money Fund - 472 Investment Utility Fund - 468
Investment Lifecycle Short-Range Fund - 474 Pyramid Investment Money
Market Fund - 460
Investment Lifecycle Mid-Range Fund - 475 Pyramid Investment Limited
Term U.S. Gov't Investment Lifecycle Long-Range Fund - 476 Securities
Fund - 461
Investment Intermediate Tax Free Fund - 467 Pyramid Investment Equity 500
Index
Investment Global High Yield Securities Fund - 462
Fund - 478 Pyramid Investment Equity Appreciation
Fund - Investment International Equity Fund - 463 Investment
Class - 477
Investment Capital Appreciation Fund - 465 Pyramid Institutional Asset
Management
EAFE Equity Index - Advisor Class - 510 Fund - 482
Small Cap Index - Advisor Class - 509
Specify the complete name of the Fund of your choice, and include your
account number and your name.
BY PHONE Contact your Service Agent, Contact your Service Agent,
Investment Professional, or call Investment Professional,
or call
BT's Service Center at BT's Service Center at
1-800-730-1313. If you are an 1-800-730-1313. If you are an
existing shareholder, you may existing shareholder, you may
exchange from another BT account exchange from another BT
account
with the same registration, including, with the same
registration, including,
name, address, and taxpayer name, address, and taxpayer
ID number. ID number.
BY MAIL Complete and sign the account Make your check payable to the
application. Make your check complete name of the Fund of
your payable to the complete name of the choice.
Indicate your Fund account Fund of your choice. Mail to the
number on your check and mail to the appropriate address
indicated on the address printed on your
application. account statement.
HOW TO SELL SHARES
You can arrange to take money out of your Fund account at any time by
selling (redeeming) some or all of your Shares. Your Shares shall be sold
at the next NAV calculated after an order is received by the Transfer
Agent. Redemption requests should be transmitted by customers in accordance
with procedures established by the Transfer Agent and the Shareholder's
Service Agent. Redemption requests for Shares of the Fund received by the
Service Agent and transmitted to the Transfer Agent prior to the Valuation
Time on each Valuation Day will be effective at that day's Valuation Time
and the redemption proceeds normally will be delivered to the shareholder's
account the next day, but in any event within seven calendar days following
receipt of the request.
Service Agents may allow redemptions or exchanges by telephone and may
disclaim liability for following instructions communicated by telephone
that the Service Agent reasonably believes to be genuine. The Service Agent
must provide the investor with an opportunity to choose whether or not to
utilize the telephone redemption or exchange privilege. The Transfer Agent
and the Service Agent must employ reasonable procedures to confirm that
instructions communicated by telephone are genuine. If the Shareholder
Servicing Agent does not do so, it may be liable for any losses due to
unauthorized or fraudulent instructions. Such procedures may include, among
others, requiring some form of personal identification prior to acting upon
instructions received by telephone, providing written confirmation of such
transactions and/or tape recording of telephone instructions.
Redemption orders are processed without charge by the Trust. A Service
Agent may on at least 30 days' notice involuntarily redeem a shareholder's
account with the Fund having a balance below the minimum, but not if an
account is below the minimum due to a change in market value. See `Minimum
Investments''above for minimum balance amounts.
TO SELL SHARES IN A RETIREMENT ACCOUNT, your request must be made in
writing, except for exchanges to other eligible funds in the BT Family of
Funds, which can be requested by phone or in writing. For information on
retirement distributions, contact your Service Agent or call the BT Service
Center at 1-800-730-1313.
IF YOU ARE SELLING SOME BUT NOT ALL OF YOUR NON-RETIREMENT ACCOUNT SHARES,
leave at least $1,000 worth of Shares in the account to keep it open.
TO SELL SHARES BY BANK WIRE you will need to sign up for these services in
advance when completing your account application.
CERTAIN REQUESTS MUST INCLUDE A SIGNATURE GUARANTEE to protect you and
Bankers Trust from fraud. Redemption requests in writing must include a
signature guarantee if any of the following situations apply:
o Your account registration has changed within the last 30 days,
o The check is being mailed to a different address than the one on your
account (record address),
o The check is being made payable to someone other than the account
owner,
o The redemption proceeds are being transferred to a BT account with a
different registration, or
o You wish to have redemption proceeds wired to a non-predesignated bank
account.
A signature guarantee is also required if you change the pre-designated
bank information for receiving redemption proceeds on your account.
You should be able to obtain a signature guarantee from a bank, broker,
dealer, credit union (if authorized under state law), securities exchange
or association, clearing agency, or savings association. A notary public
cannot provide a signature guarantee.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SELLING SHARES
BY WIRE - You must sign up for the wire feature before using it. To verify
that it is in place, call 1-800-730-1313. Minimum wire: $1,000. Your wire
redemption request must be received by the Transfer Agent before 4:00 p.m.
Eastern time for money to be wired on the next business day.
IN WRITING - Write a signed `letter of instruction'' with your name, the
Fund's name and Fund's number, your Fund account number, the dollar amount
or number of Shares to be redeemed, and mail to one of the following
addresses:
BT Service Center
P.O. Box 419210
Kansas City, MO 64141-6210
Overnight mailings:
BT Service Center
210 West 10th Street, 8th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64105-1716
For Trust accounts, the trustee must sign the letter indicating capacity as
trustee. If the trustee's name is not on the account registration, provide
a copy of the trust document certified within the last 60 days.
For a Business or Organization account, at least one person authorized by
corporate resolution to act on the account must sign the letter.
Unless otherwise instructed, the Transfer Agent will send a check to the
account address of record. The Trust reserves the right to close investor
accounts via 30 day notice in writing if the Fund account balance falls
below the Fund minimums.
INVESTOR SERVICES
BT Advisor Funds, BT Investment Funds, and BT Pyramid Mutual Funds provide
a variety of services to help you manage your account.
INFORMATION SERVICES
STATEMENTS AND REPORTS that your Investment Professional or the Transfer
Agent may send to you include the following:
o Confirmation statements (after every transaction that affects your
account balance, including distributions or your account registration)
o Account statements (monthly)
o Financial reports (every six months)
To reduce expenses, only one copy of most financial reports will be mailed,
even if you have more than one account in the Fund. Call your Investment
Professional or the BT Service Center at 1-800-730-3131 if you need
additional copies of financial reports.
EXCHANGE PRIVILEGE
Shareholders may exchange their Shares for shares of certain other funds in
the BT Family of Funds registered in their state. The Fund reserves the
right to terminate or modify the exchange privilege in the future. To make
an exchange, follow the procedures indicated in `Purchase of Shares'' and
`Redemption of Shares'' herein. Before making an exchange, please note the
following:
o Call your Service Agent for information and a prospectus. Read the
prospectus for relevant information.
o Complete and sign an application, taking care to register your new
account in the same name, address and taxpayer identification number
as your existing account(s).
o Each exchange represents the sale of shares of one fund and the
purchase of shares of another, which may produce a gain or loss for tax
purposes. Your Service Agent will receive a written confirmation of each
exchange transaction.
Note that exchanges out of a Fund may be limited to four per calendar year
and that they may have tax consequences for you.
SYSTEMATIC PROGRAMS
TO MOVE MONEY FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT TO BT ADVISOR FUNDS, BT INVESTMENT
FUNDS, OR BT PYRAMID MUTUAL FUNDS
MINIMUM MINIMUM FREQUENCY SETTING UP OR CHANGING
INITIAL SUBSEQUENT
$1,000 $100 Monthly, bimonthly, For a new account, complete the
quarterly or semi-appropriate section
annually on the application.
For existing accounts, call your Investment Professional for an
application. To change the amount or frequency of your investment, contact
your Investment Professional directly or call 1-800-730-1313. Call at least
10 business days prior to your next scheduled investment date.
SYSTEMATIC WITHDRAWAL PROGRAM lets you set up periodic redemptions from
your account. Because of the Shares' front-end sales charge, you may not
want to set up a systematic withdrawal plan during a period when you are
buying Shares on a regular basis.
MINIMUM FREQUENCY SETTING UP OR CHANGING
$100 Monthly, quarterly,To establish, call your Investment Professional
semi-annually or annually or call 1-800-730-1313 after your account is
open. The accounts from which the withdrawals be processed must have a
minimum balance of $10,000.
TAX-SAVING RETIREMENT PLANS
Retirement plans offer significant tax savings and are available to
individuals, partnerships, small businesses, corporations, nonprofit
organizations and other institutions. Contact Bankers Trust for further
information. Bankers Trust can set up your new account in the Fund under a
number of several tax-savings or tax-deferred plans. Minimums may differ
from those listed elsewhere in this Prospectus.
o INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (IRAS): personal savings plans that
offer tax advantages for individuals to set aside money for retirement and
allow new contributions of $2,000 per tax year.
O ROLLOVER IRAS: tax-deferred retirement accounts that retain the
special tax advantages of lump sum distributions from qualified retirement
plans and transferred IRA accounts.
o SIMPLIFIED EMPLOYEE PENSION PLANS (SEP): a relatively easy and
inexpensive alternative to retirement planning for sole proprietors,
partnerships and corporations. Under a SEP, employers make tax-deductible
contributions to their own and to eligible employees' IRA accounts.
Employee contributions are available through a `Salary Deferral'' SEP for
businesses with fewer than 25 eligible employees.
o KEOGH PLANS: defined contribution plans available to individuals with
self-employed income and nonincorporated businesses such as sole
proprietors, professionals and partnerships. Contributions are tax-
deductible to the employer and earnings are tax-sheltered until
distribution.
o CORPORATE PROFIT-SHARING AND MONEY-PURCHASE PLANS: defined
contribution plans available to corporations to benefit their employees by
making contributions on their behalf and in some cases permitting
their employees to make contributions.
o 401(K) PROGRAMS: defined contribution plans available to corporations
allowing tax-deductible employer contributions and permitting employees to
contribute a percentage of their wages on a tax-deferred basis.
o 403(B) CUSTODIAN ACCOUNTS: defined contribution plans open to
employees of most non-profit organizations and educational institutions.
o DEFERRED BENEFIT PLANS: plan sponsors may invest all or part of their
pension assets in the Fund.
BT Investment International Equity Fund 055922868
BT Investment Capital Appreciation Fund 055922819
BT Investment Intermediate Tax-Free Fund 055922801
BT Investment Utility Fund 055922884
BT Investment Tax-Free Money Fund 055922306
BT Investment New York Tax-Free Money Fund 055922207
BT Investment Cash Management Fund 055922108
BT Investment Treasury Money Fund 055922405
BT Investment Lifecycle Short-Range Fund 055922827
BT Investment Lifecycle Mid-Range Fund 055922835
BT Investment Lifecycle Long-Range Fund 055922843
BT Investment Global High Yield Securities Fund 055922777
BT Investment Pacific Basin Equity Fund 055922736
BT Investment Latin American Equity Fund 055922785
BT Investment Small Cap Fund 055922769
BT Investment Money Market Fund 055847206
BT Investment Limited Term U.S. Government Securities Fund 055847305
BT Investment Equity 500 Index Fund 055847107
BT Investment Equity Appreciation Fund - Investment Class 055922751
BT Institutional Asset Management Fund 055847404
BT Advisor Small Cap Index Fund - Advisor Class 05576L858
BT Advisor EAFE Equity Index Fund - Advisor Class 05576L841
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