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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS OF
TCW GALILEO FUNDS, INC.
DATED JUNE 15, 1998
The subsection entitled "Portfolio Managers" pertaining to the Convertible
Securities Fund on page 64 is hereby amended by adding the following individual:
Thomas D. Lyon Managing Director, the Adviser, TCW Asset Management
Company and Trust Company of the West since November,
1997. Previously he was Vice President-Portfolio
Management with Transamerica Investment Services.
The subsection entitled "Portfolio Managers" pertaining to the Asia Pacific
Equities Fund on page 67 is hereby amended by adding the following individual:
Michael B. Lai Senior Vice President, the Adviser, TCW Asset
Management Company, TCW Asia Limited and Trust Company
of the West. Previously he was an Associate Director
with BZW Investment Management Hong Kong (August 1994
to June 1997) and a Fund Manager with Lehman Brothers
Global Asset Management.
July 31, 1998
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF
TCW GALILEO FUNDS, INC.
DATED JUNE 15, 1998
The section titled "Investment Restrictions" beginning on page B-23 is
hereby amended to delete investment restriction number 12 which provided that no
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Fund will purchase, write or sell puts, calls, straddles, spreads or
combinations thereof, except that each Fund may (a) purchase put and call
options if the aggregate premiums paid on all such options which are held by the
Fund at any time do not exceed 20% of the Fund's total assets, and (b) write
covered put and call options if the aggregate value of the securities underlying
the calls, the obligations underlying the puts, or the futures contracts
underlying options on futures determined as of the date the options are sold
does not exceed 25% of the Fund's total assets.
July 31, 1998
