JPM INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS
485BPOS, 1997-12-17
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   As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 17, 1997.
                    Registration Nos. 033-54642 and 811-07342
    


                     U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                                ----------------
                                    FORM N-1A



   
             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 43
    


                                       and

   
         REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
                                AMENDMENT NO. 44
    


                           THE JPM INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS
               (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

            60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

               Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code:
                                 (617) 557-0700

   
                 Christopher Kelley, c/o Funds Distributor, Inc.
            60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)
    

                         Copy to: Stephen K. West, Esq.
                                  Sullivan & Cromwell
                                  125 Broad Street
                                  New York, New York 10004

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

   
[ ] Immediately  upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph  (b) 
[ ] 60 days after  filing  pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)(i) 
[ ] on (date)  pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)(i) 
[ ] 75 days  after  filing  pursuant  to paragraph (a)(ii) 
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) of Rule 485.
    

If appropriate, check the following box:

   
[X]  this  post-effective  amendment  designates  a  new  effective  date  for a
previously filed post-effective amendment.
    

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The U.S. Equity, U.S. Small Company and Series Portfolios have also executed
this Registration Statement.
    

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                                EXPLANATORY NOTE

   
         This post-effective  amendment No. 43 to the Registrant's  registration
statement on Form N-1A (File No.  033-54642)  is being filed with respect to The
JPM Institutional  Disciplined Equity, U.S. Equity and U.S. Small Company Funds,
separate  series of shares of the  Registrant,  for the purpose of delaying  the
effectiveness  of each Fund's  "simplified"  prospectus  from  December 17, 1997
until January 2, 1998,  which were filed as part of a 485APOS  filing on October
21, 1997 in post-effective amendment no. 41 (Accession No.
0001042058-97-000007).
    


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                                     PART C


ITEM 24.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

(a) Financial Statements

The following financial statements are included in Part A:

   
None
    

The following financial statements are incorporated by reference into Part B:

   
None
    

(b) Exhibits

Exhibit Number

1.       Declaration of Trust, as amended, was filed as Exhibit No. 1 to
         Post-Effective Amendment No. 25 to the Registration Statement filed on
         September 26, 1996 (Accession Number 0000912057-96-021281).

1(a).    Amendment No. 5 to Declaration of Trust; Fifth Amended and Restated
         Establishment and Designation of Series of Shares of Beneficial
         Interest.*

1(b).Amendment  No. 6 to  Declaration  of  Trust;  Sixth  Amended  and  Restated
     Establishment  and  Designation of Series of Shares of Beneficial  Interest
     filed  as  Exhibit  No.  1(b) to  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  31 to the
     Registration   Statement   on   February   28,   1997   (Accession   Number
     0001016964-97-000041).

1(c).Amendment  No. 7 to  Declaration  of Trust;  Seventh  Amended and  Restated
     Establishment  and  Designation of Series of Shares of Beneficial  Interest
     filed  as  Exhibit  No.  1(c) to  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  32 to the
     Registration  Statement  on April 15, 1997  (Accession  Number  0001016964-
     97-000053).

1(d).Amendment  No. 8 to  Declaration  of Trust;  Eighth  Amended  and  Restated
     Establishment  and  Designation of Series of Shares of Beneficial  Interest
     filed  as  Exhibit  No.  1(d) to  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  40 to the
     Registration  Statement on October 9, 1997  (Accession  Number  0001016964-
     97-000158).

2.       Restated By-Laws of Registrant.*

4.       Form of Share Certificate.*

6.       Distribution Agreement between Registrant and Funds Distributor, Inc.
         ("FDI").*


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8.       Custodian Contract between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust
         Company ("State Street").*

9(a).    Co-Administration Agreement between Registrant and FDI.*

9(b).    Restated Shareholder Servicing Agreement between Registrant and Morgan
         Guaranty Trust Company of New York ("Morgan Guaranty").**

9(c).    Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between Registrant and State
         Street.*

9(d).   Restated Administrative Services Agreement between Registrant and Morgan
        Guaranty.*

9(e).    Fund Services Agreement, as amended, between Registrant and Pierpont
         Group, Inc.*

9(f). Service Plan with respect to Registrant's Service Money Market Funds.**

10.      Opinion and consent of Sullivan & Cromwell.*

11.      Consents of independent accountants. (to be filed by amendment)

13.      Purchase agreements with respect to Registrant's initial shares.*

16.      Schedule for computation of performance quotations.*

18.      Powers of Attorney were filed as Exhibit No. 18 to Post-Effective
         Amendment No. 40 to the Registration Statement on October 9, 1997
         (Accession Number 0001016964-97-000158).

27.      Financial Data Schedules. (to be filed by amendment)
- -------------------------

*        Incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 29 to
the Registration Statement filed on December 26, 1996 (Accession Number
0001016964-96-000061).

**       Incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 33 to
the Registration Statement filed on April 30, 1997 (Accession Number
00001016964-97-000059).

ITEM 25.  PERSONS CONTROLLED BY OR UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH REGISTRANT.

Not applicable.


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ITEM 26.  NUMBER OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.

   
Shares of Beneficial Interest ($0.001 par value).
Title of Class:  Number of Record Holders as of October 14, 1997.

The JPM Institutional Prime Money Market Fund: 138
The JPM Institutional Federal Money Market Fund: 23
The JPM Institutional Bond Fund: 161
The JPM Institutional Diversified Fund: 47
The JPM Institutional U.S. Small Company Fund: 462
The JPM Institutional International Equity Fund: 371
The JPM Institutional Emerging Markets Equity Fund: 462
The JPM Institutional International Bond Fund: 9
The JPM Institutional Short Term Bond Fund: 29
The JPM Institutional U.S. Equity Fund: 140
The JPM Institutional Tax Exempt Money Market Fund: 87
The JPM Institutional Tax Exempt Bond Fund: 185
The JPM Institutional New York Total Return Bond Fund: 74
The JPM Institutional European Equity Fund: 6
The JPM Institutional Japan Equity Fund: 8
The JPM Institutional Asia Growth Fund: 2
The JPM Institutional Disciplined Equity Fund: 99
The JPM Institutional International Opportunities Fund: 168
The JPM Institutional Global Strategic Income Fund: 77
The JPM Institutional Treasury Money Market Fund: 7
The JPM Institutional Service Prime Money Market Fund: 1
The JPM Institutional Service Federal Money Market Fund: 1
The JPM Institutional Service Tax Exempt Money Market Fund: 1
The JPM Institutional Service Treasury Money Market Fund: 4
    

ITEM 27.  INDEMNIFICATION.

Reference  is made to  Section  5.3 of  Registrant's  Declaration  of Trust  and
Section 5 of Registrant's Distribution Agreement.

Registrant,  its Trustees and officers are insured against  certain  expenses in
connection with the defense of claims, demands,  actions, suits, or proceedings,
and certain liabilities that might be imposed as a result of such actions, suits
or proceedings.

Insofar as indemnification  for liabilities  arising under the Securities Act of
1933,  as amended (the "1933 Act"),  may be  permitted to  directors,  trustees,
officers and controlling persons of the Registrant and the principal underwriter
pursuant to the  foregoing  provisions  or otherwise,  the  Registrant  has been
advised  that in the opinion of the  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  such
indemnification  is against  public  policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is,
therefore,  unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities  (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, trustee, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant
and the principal  underwriter in connection with the successful  defense of any
action,  suite  or  proceeding)  is  asserted  against  the  Registrant  by such
director, trustee, officer or controlling person or principal

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underwriter in connection with the shares being registered, the Registrant will,
unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by  controlling
precedent,  submit to a court of appropriate  jurisdiction  the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

ITEM 28.  BUSINESS AND OTHER CONNECTIONS OF INVESTMENT ADVISER.

Not Applicable.

ITEM 29.  PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITERS.

(a) FDI, located at 60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, is
the principal underwriter of the Registrant's shares.

FDI acts as principal  underwriter of the following  investment  companies other
than the Registrant:

BJB Investment Funds
Burridge Funds
Foreign Fund, Inc.
Fremont Mutual Funds, Inc.
Harris Insight Funds Trust
H.T. Insight Funds, Inc. d/b/a
Harris Insight Funds
LKCM Fund
Monetta Fund, Inc.
Monetta Trust
The Munder Framlington Funds Trust
The Munder Funds, Inc.
The Munder Funds Trust
The PanAgora Institutional Funds
RCM Capital Funds, Inc.
RCM Equity Funds, Inc.
The Skyline Funds
St. Clair Money Market Fund
Waterhouse Investors Cash Management Funds, Inc.
The JPM Pierpont Funds
JPM Series Trust
JPM Series Trust II

FDI is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a broker-dealer
and is a member of the National  Association  of Securities  Dealers.  FDI is an
indirect wholly-owned  subsidiary of Boston Institutional Group, Inc., a holding
company all of whose outstanding shares are owned by key employees.

(b) The  information  required by this Item 29(b) with respect to each director,
officer and partner of FDI is incorporated  herein by reference to Schedule A of
Form BD filed by FDI with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the
Securities Act of 1934 (SEC File No. 8-20518).


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(c) Not applicable.

ITEM 30.  LOCATION OF ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.

PIERPONT GROUP, INC.:  461 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (records
relating to its assisting the Trustees in carrying out their duties in
supervising the Registrant's affairs).

MORGAN  GUARANTY  TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK: 60 Wall Street,  New York, New York
10260-0060,  522 Fifth Avenue,  New York,  New York 10036 or 9 West 57th Street,
New York,  New York 10019  (records  relating to its  functions  as  shareholder
servicing agent and administrative services agent).

STATE  STREET  BANK AND  TRUST  COMPANY:  1776  Heritage  Drive,  North  Quincy,
Massachusetts  02171 and 40 King Street West, Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada M5H 3Y8
(records relating to its functions as fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent
and dividend disbursing agent).

FUNDS DISTRIBUTOR, INC.:  60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston, Massachusetts
02109 (records relating to its functions as distributor and co-administrator).

ITEM 31.  MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

Not Applicable.

ITEM 32.  UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)      If the  information  called for by Item 5A of Form N-1A is contained in
         the latest annual report to shareholders,  the Registrant shall furnish
         each  person  to  whom a  prospectus  is  delivered  with a copy of the
         Registrant's  latest  annual  report to  shareholders  upon request and
         without charge.

(b)      The Registrant  undertakes to comply with Section 16(c) of the 1940 Act
         as  though  such  provisions  of the 1940 Act  were  applicable  to the
         Registrant,  except  that the  request  referred  to in the third  full
         paragraph  thereof  may  only be made by  shareholders  who hold in the
         aggregate  at least 10% of the  outstanding  shares of the  Registrant,
         regardless  of the net asset  value of shares  held by such  requesting
         shareholders.

   
(c)      The Registrant undertakes to file a Post-Effective Amendment on behalf
         of The JPM Institutional Treasury Money Market Fund, The JPM
         Institutional Service Treasury Money Market Fund, The JPM Institutional
         Service Federal Money Market Fund, The JPM Institutional Service Prime
        Money Market Fund, The JPM Institutional Service Tax Exempt Money Market
         Fund and The JPM Institutional Bond Fund - Ultra using financial
         statements which need not be certified, within four to six months from
         the commencement of public investment operations of such funds.
    

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                                   SIGNATURES


   
Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment
Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this registration  statement
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,  thereto duly authorized,  in the
City of Boston and  Commonwealth of  Massachusetts  on the 16th day of December,
1997.
    

THE JPM INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS


   
By       /s/ Richard W. Ingram
         -----------------------
         Richard W. Ingram
         President and Treasurer
    

Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,  this  registration
statement  has been  signed  below by the  following  persons in the  capacities
indicated on December 16, 1997.

   
/s/ Richard W. Ingram
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Richard W. Ingram
President and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
    

Matthew Healey*
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Matthew Healey
Trustee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

Frederick S. Addy*
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Frederick S. Addy
Trustee

William G. Burns*
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William G. Burns
Trustee

Arthur C. Eschenlauer*
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Arthur C. Eschenlauer
Trustee

Michael P. Mallardi*
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Michael P. Mallardi
Trustee



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*By      /s/ Richard W. Ingram
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         Richard W. Ingram
         as attorney-in-fact pursuant to a power of attorney previously filed.
    

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                                   SIGNATURES

Each  Portfolio  has  duly  caused  this  registration  statement  on Form  N-1A
("Registration  Statement") of The JPM  Institutional  Funds (the "Trust") (File
No.  033-54642)  to be signed on its  behalf by the  undersigned,  thereto  duly
authorized,  in the  City of  George  Town,  Grand  Cayman,  on the  16th day of
December, 1997.

   
THE U.S. EQUITY PORTFOLIO, THE U.S. SMALL COMPANY PORTFOLIO AND THE SERIES
PORTFOLIO

         /s/ Jacqueline Henning
By       -------------------------
         Jacqueline Henning
         Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer

Pursuant  to  the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act of  1933,  the  Trust's
Registration  Statement  has been signed below by the  following  persons in the
capacities indicated on December 16, 1997.
    


Richard W. Ingram*
- ----------------------------
Richard W. Ingram
President and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) of the
Portfolios

Matthew Healey*
- ----------------------------
Matthew Healey
Trustee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) of
the Portfolios

Frederick S. Addy*
- ----------------------------
Frederick S. Addy
Trustee of the Portfolios

William G. Burns*
- ----------------------------
William G. Burns
Trustee of the Portfolios

Arthur C. Eschenlauer*
- ----------------------------
Arthur C. Eschenlauer
Trustee of the Portfolios

Michael P. Mallardi*
- ----------------------------
Michael P. Mallardi
Trustee of the Portfolios

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         /s/ Jacqueline Henning
*By      ------------------------
         Jacqueline Henning
         as attorney-in-fact pursuant to a power of attorney previously filed.
    

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