EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO, POS AMI, 1997-02-27

EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO
POS AMI, 1997-02-27

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As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 1997

File No. 811-8102

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

AMENDMENT NO. 4

THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

P.O. Box 2508 GT, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (809) 949-6644

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

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement has been filed by the Registrant pursuant
to Section 8(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. However,
beneficial interests in the Registrant are not being registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), because such interests will
be issued solely in private placement transactions that do not involve any
"public offering" within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the 1933 Act.
Investments in the Registrant may only be made by other investment companies,
insurance company separate accounts, common or commingled trust funds or similar
organizations or entities that are "accredited investors" within the meaning of
Regulation D under the 1933 Act. This Registration Statement does not constitute
an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any beneficial
interests in the Registrant.

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PART A

Responses to Items 1 through 3 and 5A have been omitted pursuant to
paragraph 4 of Instruction F of the General Instructions to Form N-1A.

ITEM 4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF REGISTRANT.

The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (the "Portfolio") is a
diversified open-end management investment company which was organized as a
trust under the laws of the State of New York on June 16, 1993. Beneficial
interests in the Portfolio are issued solely in private placement transactions
that do not involve any "public offering" within the meaning of Section 4(2) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"). Investments in the
Portfolio may only be made by other investment companies, insurance company
separate accounts, common or commingled trust funds or similar organizations or
entities that are "accredited investors" within the meaning of Regulation D
under the 1933 Act. This Registration Statement does not constitute an offer to
sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any "security" within the meaning
of the 1933 Act.

The Portfolio is advised by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
("Morgan " or the "Advisor").

Investments in the Portfolio are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, Morgan or any other bank. Interests in the Portfolio
are not federally insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the
Federal Reserve Board or any other governmental agency. An investment in the
Portfolio is subject to risk, as the net asset value of the Portfolio will
fluctuate with changes in the value of the Portfolio's holdings.

Part B contains more detailed information about the Portfolio,
including information related to (i) the investment policies and restrictions of
the Portfolio, (ii) the Trustees, officers, Advisor and administrators of the
Portfolio, (iii) portfolio transactions, (iv) rights and liabilities of
investors; and (v) the audited financial statements of the Portfolio at October
31, 1996.

The investment objective of the Portfolio is described below, together
with the policies employed to attempt to achieve this objective. Additional
information about the investment policies of the Portfolio appears in Part B,
under Item 13. There can be no assurance that the investment objective of the
Portfolio will be achieved.

The Portfolio's investment objective is to achieve a high total return
from a portfolio of equity securities of companies in emerging markets. Total
return will consist of realized and unrealized capital gains and losses plus
income.

The Portfolio is designed for long-term investors who want exposure to
the rapidly growing emerging markets. Many investments in emerging markets

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can be considered speculative, and therefore may offer higher potential for
gains and losses and may be more volatile than investments in the developed
markets of the world.

The Advisor considers "emerging markets" to be any country which is
generally considered to be an emerging or developing country by the World Bank,
the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations or its authorities.
These countries generally include every country in the world except Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom and United States. The Portfolio will focus its investments in those
emerging markets countries which it believes have strongly developing economies
and in which the markets are becoming more sophisticated.

A company in an emerging market is one that: (i) has its principal
securities trading market in an emerging market country; (ii) is organized under
the laws of an emerging market; (iii) derives 50% or more of its total revenue
from either goods produced, sales made or services performed in emerging
markets; or (iv) has at least 50% of its assets located in emerging markets.

The Advisor seeks to achieve the Portfolio's investment objective by a
disciplined process of country allocation and company selection. Based on
fundamental research, quantitative analysis, and experienced judgment, the
Advisor identifies those countries where economic and political factors,
including currency movements, are likely to produce above-average returns. Based
on their relative value, the Advisor then selects those companies in each
country's major industry sectors which it believes are best positioned and
managed to take advantage of these economic and political factors.

The Portfolio's investments are primarily denominated in foreign
currencies but it may also invest in securities denominated in the U.S. dollar
or multinational currency units such as the ECU. The Advisor will not routinely
attempt to hedge the Portfolio's foreign currency exposure. However, the Advisor
may from time to time engage in foreign currency transactions if, based on
fundamental research, technical factors, and the judgment of experienced
currency managers, it believes the transactions would be in the Portfolio's best
interest. For further information on foreign currency exchange transactions, see
Additional Investment Information and Risk Factors.

The Advisor intends to manage the Portfolio actively in pursuit of its
investment objective. The Portfolio does not expect to trade in securities for
short-term profits; however, when circumstances warrant, securities may be sold
without regard to the length of time held. To the extent the Portfolio engages
in short-term trading, it may incur increased transaction costs. The portfolio
turnover rates for the Portfolio for fiscal years ended October 31, 1995 and
1996 were 41% and 31%, respectively.

EQUITY INVESTMENTS. In normal circumstances, the Advisor intends to
keep the Portfolio essentially fully invested with at least 65% of the value

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of its total assets in equity securities of companies in emerging markets
consisting of common stocks and other securities with equity characteristics
comprised of preferred stock, warrants, rights, convertible securities, trust
certificates, limited partnership interests and equity participations. The
Portfolio's primary equity investments are the common stock of established
companies in the emerging markets countries the Advisor has identified as
attractive. The assets of the Portfolio ordinarily will be invested in the
securities of issuers in at least three different countries considered to be
emerging markets. The common stock in which the Portfolio may invest includes
the common stock of any class or series or any similar equity interest, such as
trust or limited partnership interests. These equity investments may or may not
pay dividends and may or may not carry voting rights. The Portfolio invests in
securities listed on foreign or domestic securities exchanges and securities
traded in foreign or domestic over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and may invest in
certain restricted or unlisted securities.

Certain emerging markets are closed in whole or in part to equity
investments by foreigners except through specifically authorized investment
funds. Securities of other investment companies may be acquired by the Portfolio
to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the "1940 Act"), that is, the Portfolio may invest up to 10% of its total
assets in securities of other investment companies so long as not more than 3%
of the outstanding voting stock of any one investment company is held by the
Portfolio. In addition, not more than 5% of the Portfolio's total assets may be
invested in the securities of any one investment company. As a shareholder in an
investment fund, the Portfolio would bear its share of that investment fund's
expenses, including its advisory and administration fees. At the same time the
Portfolio would continue to pay its own operating expenses.

The Portfolio may also invest in money market instruments denominated
in U.S. dollars and other currencies, purchase securities on a when-issued or
delayed delivery basis, enter into repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements,
lend its portfolio securities, purchase certain privately placed securities and
enter into forward foreign currency exchange contracts. In addition, the
Portfolio may use options on securities and securities indexes, futures
contracts and options on futures contracts for hedging and risk management
purposes. For a discussion of these investments and investment techniques, see
Additional Investment Information and Risk Factors.

ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT INFORMATION AND RISK FACTORS

CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES. The Portfolio may invest in convertible
securities of domestic and, subject to the Portfolio's investment restrictions,
foreign issuers. The convertible securities in which the Portfolio may invest
include any debt securities or preferred stock which may be converted into
common stock or which carry the right to purchase common stock. Convertible
securities entitle the holder to exchange the securities for a specified number
of shares of common stock, usually of the same company, at specified prices
within a certain period of time.

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COMMON STOCK WARRANTS. The Portfolio may invest in common stock
warrants that entitle the holder to buy common stock from the issuer of the
warrant at a specific price (the strike price) for a specific period of time.
The market price of warrants may be substantially lower than the current market
price of the underlying common stock, yet warrants are subject to similar price
fluctuations. As a result, warrants may be more volatile investments than the
underlying common stock.

Warrants generally do not entitle the holder to dividends or voting
rights with respect to the underlying common stock and do not represent any
rights in the assets of the issuer company. A warrant will expire worthless if
it is not exercised on or prior to the expiration date.

WHEN-ISSUED AND DELAYED DELIVERY SECURITIES. The Portfolio may purchase
securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis. Delivery of and payment
for these securities may take as long as a month or more after the date of the
purchase commitment. The value of these securities is subject to market
fluctuation during this period and for fixed income securities no interest
accrues to the Portfolio until settlement. At the time of settlement a
when-issued security may be valued at less than its purchase price. The
Portfolio maintains with the Custodian a separate account with a segregated
portfolio of securities in an amount at least equal to these commitments. When
entering into a when-issued or delayed delivery transaction, the Portfolio will
rely on the other party to consummate the transaction; if the other party fails
to do so, the Portfolio may be disadvantaged. It is the current policy of the
Portfolio not to enter into when-issued commitments exceeding in the aggregate
15% of the market value of the Portfolio's total assets less liabilities other
than the obligations created by these commitments.

REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS. The Portfolio may engage in repurchase agreement
transactions with brokers, dealers or banks that meet the credit guidelines
established by the Portfolio's Trustees. In a repurchase agreement, the
Portfolio buys a security from a seller that has agreed to repurchase it at a
mutually agreed upon date and price, reflecting the interest rate effective for
the term of the agreement. The term of these agreements is usually from
overnight to one week. A repurchase agreement may be viewed as a fully
collateralized loan of money by the Portfolio to the seller. The Portfolio
always receives securities as collateral with a market value at least equal to
the purchase price plus accrued interest and this value is maintained during the
term of the agreement. If the seller defaults and the collateral value declines,
the Portfolio might incur a loss. If bankruptcy proceedings are commenced with
respect to the seller, the Portfolio's realization upon the disposition of
collateral may be delayed or limited. Investments in certain repurchase
agreements and certain other investments which may be considered illiquid are
limited. See Illiquid Investments; Privately Placed and other Unregistered
Securities below.

LOANS OF PORTFOLIO SECURITIES. Subject to applicable investment
restrictions, the Portfolio is permitted to lend its securities in an amount
up to 33 1/3% of the value of the Portfolio's net assets. The Portfolio may
lend its securities if such loans are secured continuously by cash or

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equivalent collateral or by a letter of credit in favor of the Portfolio at
least equal at all times to 100% of the market value of the securities loaned,
plus accrued interest. While such securities are on loan, the borrower will pay
the Portfolio any income accruing thereon. Loans will be subject to termination
by the Portfolio in the normal settlement time, generally three business days
after notice, or by the borrower on one day's notice. Borrowed securities must
be returned when the loan is terminated. Any gain or loss in the market price of
the borrowed securities which occurs during the term of the loan inures to the
Portfolio and its respective investors. The Portfolio may pay reasonable
finders' and custodial fees in connection with a loan. In addition, the
Portfolio will consider all facts and circumstances including the
creditworthiness of the borrowing financial institution, and the Portfolio will
not make any loans in excess of one year.

Loans of portfolio securities may be considered extensions of credit by
the Portfolio. The risks to the Portfolio with respect to borrowers of its
portfolio securities are similar to the risks to the Portfolio with respect to
sellers in repurchase agreement transactions. See Repurchase Agreements above.
The Portfolio will not lend its securities to any officer, Trustee, Director,
employee or other affiliate of the Portfolio, the Advisor or the placement
agent, unless otherwise permitted by applicable law.

REVERSE REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS. The Portfolio is permitted to enter into
reverse repurchase agreements. In a reverse repurchase agreement, the Portfolio
sells a security and agrees to repurchase it at a mutually agreed upon date and
price, reflecting the interest rate effective for the term of the agreement. For
purposes of the 1940 Act, it is considered a form of borrowing by the Portfolio
and, therefore, a form of leverage. Leverage may cause any gains or losses of
the Portfolio to be magnified. See Investment Restrictions for investment
limitations applicable to reverse repurchase agreements and other bank
borrowings. For more information, see Item 13 in Part B.

INVESTING IN EMERGING MARKETS. The Portfolio invests primarily in
equity securities of companies in emerging markets. Investments in securities of
issuers in emerging markets countries may involve a high degree of risk and many
may be considered speculative. These investments carry all of the risks of
investing in securities of foreign issuers described herein to a heightened
degree.

OTHER FOREIGN INVESTMENT INFORMATION. Generally, investment in
securities of foreign issuers involves somewhat different investment risks from
those affecting securities of U.S. domestic issuers. There may be limited
publicly available information with respect to foreign issuers, and foreign
issuers are not generally subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
standards and requirements comparable to those applicable to domestic companies.
Dividends and interest paid by foreign issuers may be subject to withholding and
other foreign taxes which may decrease the net return on foreign investments as
compared to dividends and interest paid to the Portfolio by domestic companies.

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Investors should realize that the value of the Portfolio's investments
in foreign securities may be adversely affected by changes in political or
social conditions, diplomatic relations, confiscatory taxation, expropriation,
nationalization, limitation on the removal of funds or assets, or imposition of
(or change in) exchange control or tax regulations in those foreign countries.
In addition, changes in government administrations or economic or monetary
policies in the United States or abroad could result in appreciation or
depreciation of portfolio securities and could favorably or unfavorably affect
the Portfolio's operations. Furthermore, the economies of individual foreign
nations may differ from the U.S. economy, whether favorably or unfavorably, in
areas such as growth of gross national product, rate of inflation, capital
reinvestment, resource self-sufficiency and balance of payments position; it may
also be more difficult to obtain and enforce a judgment against a foreign
issuer. Any foreign investments made by the Portfolio must be made in compliance
with U.S. and foreign currency restrictions and tax laws restricting the amounts
and types of foreign investments.

In addition, while the volume of transactions effected on foreign stock
exchanges has increased in recent years, in most cases it remains appreciably
below that of domestic security exchanges. Accordingly, the Portfolio's foreign
investments may be less liquid and their prices may be more volatile than
comparable investments in securities of U.S. companies. Moreover, the settlement
periods for foreign securities, which are often longer than those for securities
of U.S. issuers, may affect portfolio liquidity. In buying and selling
securities on foreign exchanges, purchasers normally pay fixed commissions that
are generally higher than the negotiated commissions charged in the United
States. In addition, there is generally less government supervision and
regulation of securities exchanges, brokers and issuers located in foreign
countries than in the United States.

The Portfolio invests primarily in equity securities of companies in
emerging markets countries. Investments in securities of issuers in emerging
markets countries may involve a high degree of risk and many may be considered
speculative. These investments carry all of the risks of investing in securities
of foreign issuers outlined in this section to a heightened degree. These
heightened risks include (i) greater risks of expropriation, confiscatory
taxation, nationalization, and less social, political and economic stability;
(ii) the small current size of the markets for securities of emerging markets
issuers and the currently low or non-existent volume of trading, resulting in
lack of liquidity and in price volatility; (iii) certain national policies which
may restrict the Portfolio's investment opportunities including restrictions on
investing in issuers or industries deemed sensitive to relevant national
interests; and (iv) the absence of developed legal structures governing private
or foreign investment and private property.

The Portfolio may invest in securities of foreign issuers directly or
in the form of American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs"), European Depositary
Receipts ("EDRs") or other similar securities of foreign issuers. These
securities may not necessarily be denominated in the same currency as the
securities they represent. ADRs are receipts typically issued by a U.S. bank or
trust company evidencing ownership of the underlying foreign securities.

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Certain such institutions issuing ADRs may not be sponsored by the issuer of the
underlying foreign securities. A non-sponsored depository may not provide the
same shareholder information that a sponsored depository is required to provide
under its contractual arrangements with the issuer of the underlying foreign
securities. EDRs are receipts issued by a European financial institution
evidencing a similar arrangement. Generally, ADRs, in registered form, are
designed for use in the U.S. securities markets, and EDRs, in bearer form, are
designed for use in European securities markets.

Since investments in foreign securities involve foreign currencies, the
value of the Portfolio's assets as measured in U.S. dollars may be affected
favorably or unfavorably by changes in currency rates and in exchange control
regulations, including currency blockage. See Foreign Currency Exchange
Transactions.

FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. Because the Portfolio buys and
sells securities and receives interest and dividends in currencies other than
the U.S. dollar, the Portfolio may enter from time to time into foreign currency
exchange transactions. The Portfolio either enters into these transactions on a
spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the foreign currency
exchange market, or uses forward contracts to purchase or sell foreign
currencies. The cost of the Portfolio's spot currency exchange transactions is
generally the difference between the bid and offer spot rate of the currency
being purchased or sold.

A forward foreign currency exchange contract is an obligation by the
Portfolio to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future date, which may be
any fixed number of days from the date of the contract. Forward foreign currency
exchange contracts establish an exchange rate at a future date. These contracts
are entered into in the interbank market directly between currency traders
(usually large commercial banks) and their customers. A forward foreign currency
exchange contract generally has no deposit requirement, and is traded at a net
price without commission. The Portfolio will not enter into forward contracts
for speculative purposes. Neither spot transactions nor forward foreign currency
exchange contracts eliminate fluctuations in the prices of the Portfolio's
securities or in foreign exchange rates, or prevent loss if the prices of these
securities should decline.

The Portfolio may enter into foreign currency exchange transactions in
an attempt to protect against changes in foreign currency exchange rates between
the trade and settlement dates of specific securities transactions or
anticipated securities transactions. The Portfolio may also enter into forward
contracts to hedge against a change in foreign currency exchange rates that
would cause a decline in the value of existing investments denominated or
principally traded in a foreign currency. To do this, the Portfolio would enter
into a forward contract to sell the foreign currency in which the investment is
denominated or principally traded in exchange for U.S. dollars or in exchange
for another foreign currency. The Portfolio will only enter into forward
contracts to sell a foreign currency in exchange for another foreign currency if
the Advisor expects the foreign currency purchased to appreciate against the
U.S. dollar.

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Although these transactions are intended to minimize the risk of loss
due to a decline in the value of the hedged currency, at the same time they
limit any potential gain that might be realized should the value of the hedged
currency increase. In addition, forward contracts that convert a foreign
currency into another foreign currency will cause the Portfolio to assume the
risk of fluctuations in the value of the currency purchased vis a vis the hedged
currency and the U.S. dollar. The precise matching of the forward contract
amounts and the value of the securities involved will not generally be possible
because the future value of such securities in foreign currencies will change as
a consequence of market movements in the value of such securities between the
date the forward contract is entered into and the date it matures. The
projection of currency market movements is extremely difficult, and the
successful execution of a hedging strategy is highly uncertain.

ILLIQUID INVESTMENTS; PRIVATELY PLACED AND OTHER UNREGISTERED
SECURITIES. The Portfolio may not acquire any illiquid securities if, as a
result thereof, more than 15% of the Portfolio's net assets would be in illiquid
investments. Subject to this non-fundamental policy limitation, the Portfolio
may acquire investments that are illiquid or have limited liquidity, such as
private placements or investments that are not registered under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, (the "1933 Act"), and cannot be offered for public sale
in the United States without first being registered under the 1933 Act. An
illiquid investment is any investment that cannot be disposed of within seven
days in the normal course of business at approximately the amount at which it is
valued by the Portfolio. The price the Portfolio pays for illiquid securities or
receives upon resale may be lower than the price paid or received for similar
securities with a more liquid market. Accordingly the valuation of these
securities will reflect any limitations on their liquidity.

The Portfolio may also purchase Rule 144A securities sold to
institutional investors without registration under the 1933 Act. These
securities may be determined to be liquid in accordance with guidelines
established by the Advisor and approved by the Trustees. The Trustees will
monitor the Advisor's implementation of these guidelines on a periodic basis.

FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRANSACTIONS

The Portfolio may (a) purchase exchange traded and OTC put and call
options on equity securities or indexes of equity securities, (b) purchase and
sell futures contracts on indexes of equity securities, and (c) purchase put and
call options on futures contracts on indexes of equity securities. In addition,
the Portfolio may sell (write) exchange traded and OTC put and call options on
equity securities and indexes of equity securities, on futures contracts on
indexes of equity securities and put and call options on futures contracts on
indexes of equity securities. Each of these investments is a derivative
instrument as its value derives from the underlying asset or index.

The Portfolio may use futures contracts and options for hedging and
risk management purposes. The Portfolio may not use futures contracts and
options for speculation. For a more detailed description of these transactions
see Options and Futures Transactions in Item 13 in Part B.

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The Portfolio may utilize options and futures contracts to manage its
exposure to changing interest rates and/or security prices. Some options and
futures strategies, including selling futures contracts and buying puts, tend to
hedge the Portfolio's investments against price fluctuations. Other strategies,
including buying futures contracts, writing puts and calls, and buying calls,
tend to increase market exposure. Options and futures contracts may be combined
with each other or with forward contracts in order to adjust the risk and return
characteristics of the Portfolio's overall strategy in a manner deemed
appropriate to the Advisor and consistent with the Portfolio's objective and
policies. Because combined options positions involve multiple trades, they
result in higher transaction costs and may be more difficult to open and close
out.

The use of options and futures is a highly specialized activity which
involves investment strategies and risks different from those associated with
ordinary portfolio securities transactions, and there can be no guarantee that
their use will increase the Portfolio's return. While the use of these
instruments by the Portfolio may reduce certain risks associated with owning its
portfolio securities, these techniques themselves entail certain other risks. If
the Advisor applies a strategy at an inappropriate time or judges market
conditions or trends incorrectly, options and futures strategies may lower the
Portfolio's return. Certain strategies limit the Portfolio's possibilities to
realize gains as well as its exposure to losses. The Portfolio could also
experience losses if the prices of its options and futures positions were poorly
correlated with its other investments, or if it could not close out its
positions because of an illiquid secondary market. In addition, the Portfolio
will incur transaction costs, including trading commissions and option premiums,
in connection with its futures and options transactions and these transactions
could significantly increase the Portfolio's turnover rate.

The Portfolio may purchase put and call options on securities, indexes
of securities and futures contracts, or purchase and sell futures contracts,
only if such options are written by other persons and if (i) the aggregate
premiums paid on all such options which are held at any time do not exceed 20%
of the Portfolio's net assets, and (ii) the aggregate margin deposits required
on all such futures or options thereon held at any time do not exceed 5% of the
Portfolio's total assets. In addition, the Portfolio will not purchase or sell
(write) futures contracts, options on futures contracts or commodity options for
risk management purposes if, as a result, the aggregate initial margin and
options premiums required to establish these positions exceed 5% of the net
asset value of the Portfolio.

PURCHASING PUT AND CALL OPTIONS. By purchasing a put option, the
Portfolio obtains the right (but not the obligation) to sell the instrument
underlying the option at a fixed strike price. In return for this right, the
Portfolio pays the current market price for the option (known as the option
premium). Options have various types of underlying instruments, including
specific securities, indexes of securities, indexes of securities prices, and
futures contracts. The Portfolio may terminate its position in a put option
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Portfolio may also close out a put option position by entering into an
offsetting transaction, if a liquid market exists. If the option is allowed to
expire, the Portfolio will lose the entire premium it paid. If the Portfolio
exercises a put option on a security, it will sell the instrument underlying the
option at the strike price. If the Portfolio exercises an option on an index,
settlement is in cash and does not involve the actual sale of securities. If an
option is American style, it may be exercised on any day up to its expiration
date. A European style option may be exercised only on its expiration date.

The buyer of a typical put option can expect to realize a gain if the
price of the underlying instrument falls substantially. However, if the price of
the instrument underlying the option does not fall enough to offset the cost of
purchasing the option, a put buyer can expect to suffer a loss (limited to the
amount of the premium paid, plus related transaction costs).

The features of call options are essentially the same as those of put
options, except that the purchaser of a call option obtains the right to
purchase, rather than sell, the instrument underlying the option at the option's
strike price. A call buyer typically attempts to participate in potential price
increases of the instrument underlying the option with risk limited to the cost
of the option if security prices fall. At the same time, the buyer can expect to
suffer a loss if security prices do not rise sufficiently to offset the cost of
the option.

SELLING (WRITING) PUT AND CALL OPTIONS. When the Portfolio writes a put
option, it takes the opposite side of the transaction from the option's
purchaser. In return for receipt of the premium, the Portfolio assumes the
obligation to pay the strike price for the instrument underlying the option if
the other party to the option chooses to exercise it. The Portfolio may seek to
terminate its position in a put option it writes before exercise by purchasing
an offsetting option in the market at its current price. If the market is not
liquid for a put option the Portfolio has written, however, the Portfolio must
continue to be prepared to pay the strike price while the option is outstanding,
regardless of price changes, and must continue to post margin as discussed
below.

If the price of the underlying instrument rises, a put writer would
generally expect to profit, although its gain would be limited to the amount of
the premium it received. If security prices remain the same over time, it is
likely that the writer will also profit, because it should be able to close out
the option at a lower price. If security prices fall, the put writer would
expect to suffer a loss. This loss should be less than the loss from purchasing
and holding the underlying instrument directly, however, because the premium
received for writing the option should offset a portion of the decline.

Writing a call option obligates the Portfolio to sell or deliver the
option's underlying instrument in return for the strike price upon exercise of
the option. The characteristics of writing call options are similar to those of
writing put options, except that writing calls generally is a profitable
strategy if prices remain the same or fall. Through receipt of the option

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premium a call writer offsets part of the effect of a price decline. At the same
time, because a call writer must be prepared to deliver the underlying
instrument in return for the strike price, even if its current value is greater,
a call writer gives up some ability to participate in security price increases.

The writer of an exchange traded put or call option on a security, an
index of securities or a futures contract is required to deposit cash or
securities or a letter of credit as margin and to make mark to market payments
of variation margin as the position becomes unprofitable.

OPTIONS ON INDEXES. The Portfolio may purchase and sell (write) put and
call options on any securities index based on securities in which the Portfolio
may invest. Options on securities indexes are similar to options on securities,
except that the exercise of securities index options is settled by cash payment
and does not involve the actual purchase or sale of securities. In addition,
these options are designed to reflect price fluctuations in a group of
securities or segment of the securities market rather than price fluctuations in
a single security. The Portfolio, in purchasing or selling index options, is
subject to the risk that the value of its portfolio securities may not change as
much as an index because the Portfolio's investments generally will not match
the composition of an index.

For a number of reasons, a liquid market may not exist and thus the
Portfolio may not be able to close out an option position that it has previously
entered into. When the Portfolio purchases an OTC option, it will be relying on
its counterparty to perform its obligations, and the Portfolio may incur
additional losses if the counterparty is unable to perform.

FUTURES CONTRACTS. When the Portfolio purchases a futures contract, it
agrees to purchase a specified quantity of an underlying instrument at a
specified future date or to make a cash payment based on the value of a
securities index. When the Portfolio sells a futures contract, it agrees to sell
a specified quantity of the underlying instrument at a specified future date or
to receive a cash payment based on the value of a securities index. The price at
which the purchase and sale will take place is fixed when the Portfolio enters
into the contract. Futures can be held until their delivery dates or the
position can be (and normally is) closed out before then. There is no assurance,
however, that a liquid market will exist when the Portfolio wishes to close out
a particular position.

When the Portfolio purchases a futures contract, the value of the
futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem with the value of its
underlying instrument. Therefore, purchasing futures contracts will tend to
increase the Portfolio's exposure to positive and negative price fluctuations in
the underlying instrument, much as if it had purchased the underlying instrument
directly. When the Portfolio sells a futures contract, by contrast, the value of
its futures position will tend to move in a direction contrary to the value of
the underlying instrument. Selling futures contracts, therefore, will tend to
offset both positive and negative market price changes, much as if the
underlying instrument had been sold.

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The purchaser or seller of a futures contract is not required to
deliver or pay for the underlying instrument unless the contract is held until
the delivery date. However, when the Portfolio buys or sells a futures contract
it will be required to deposit "initial margin" with its Custodian in a
segregated account in the name of its futures broker, known as a futures
commission merchant (FCM). Initial margin deposits are typically equal to a
small percentage of the contract's value. If the value of either party's
position declines, that party will be required to make additional "variation
margin" payments equal to the change in value on a daily basis. The party that
has a gain may be entitled to receive all or a portion of this amount. The
Portfolio may be obligated to make payments of variation margin at a time when
it is disadvantageous to do so. Furthermore, it may not always be possible for
the Portfolio to close out its futures positions. Until it closes out a futures
position, the Portfolio will be obligated to continue to pay variation margin.
Initial and variation margin payments do not constitute purchasing on margin for
purposes of the Portfolio's investment restrictions. In the event of the
bankruptcy of an FCM that holds margin on behalf of the Portfolio, the Portfolio
may be entitled to return of margin owed to it only in proportion to the amount
received by the FCM's other customers, potentially resulting in losses to the
Portfolio.

The Portfolio will segregate liquid assets in connection with its use
of options and futures contracts to the extent required by the staff of the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Securities held in a segregated account
cannot be sold while the futures contract or option is outstanding, unless they
are replaced with other suitable assets. As a result, there is a possibility
that segregation of a large percentage of the Portfolio's assets could impede
portfolio management or the Portfolio's ability to meet redemption requests or
other current obligations.

For further information about the Portfolio's use of futures and
options and a more detailed discussion of associated risks, see Item 13 in Part
B.

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS. The Portfolio is permitted to invest in money
market instruments although it intends to stay invested in equity securities to
the extent practical in light of its objective and long-term investment
perspective. The Portfolio may make money market investments pending other
investment or settlement, for liquidity or in adverse market conditions. The
money market investments permitted for the Portfolio include obligations of the
U.S. Government and its agencies and instrumentalities, other debt securities,
commercial paper, bank obligations and repurchase agreements. The Portfolio may
also invest in short-term obligations of sovereign foreign governments, their
agencies, instrumentalities and political subdivisions. For more detailed
information about these money market instruments, see Item 13 in Part B.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

As a diversified investment company, 75% of the assets of the Portfolio
are subject to the following fundamental limitations: (a) the Portfolio may not
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issuer, except U.S. Government securities, and (b) the Portfolio may not own
more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer.

The investment objective of the Portfolio, together with the investment
restrictions described below and in Part B, except as noted, are deemed
fundamental policies, i.e., they may be changed only with the approval of the
holders of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Portfolio.

The Portfolio may not (i) purchase securities or other obligations of
issuers conducting their principal business activity in the same industry if its
investments in such industry would exceed 25% of the value of the Portfolio's
total assets, except this limitation shall not apply to investments in U.S.
Government securities; (ii) borrow money except that the Portfolio may (a)
borrow money from banks for temporary or emergency purposes (not for leveraging
purposes) and (b) enter into reverse repurchase agreements for any purpose,
provided that (a) and (b) in total do not exceed one-third of the Portfolio's
total assets less liabilities (other than borrowings); or (iii) issue senior
securities except as permitted by the 1940 Act or any rule, order or
interpretation thereunder.

ITEM 5. MANAGEMENT OF THE PORTFOLIO.

The Board of Trustees provides broad supervision over the affairs of
the Portfolio. The Portfolio has retained the services of Morgan as investment
adviser and administrative services agent. The Portfolio has retained the
services of Funds Distributor, Inc. ("FDI") as co-administrator (the
"Co-Administrator").

The Portfolio has not retained the services of a principal underwriter
or distributor, since interests in the Portfolio are offered solely in private
placement transactions. FDI, acting as agent for the Portfolio, serves as
exclusive placement agent of interests in the Portfolio. FDI receives no
additional compensation for serving as exclusive placement agent to the
Portfolio.

The Portfolio has entered into an Amended and Restated Portfolio Fund
Services Agreement, dated July 11, 1996, with Pierpont Group, Inc. ("Pierpont
Group") to assist the Trustees in exercising their overall supervisory
responsibilities for the Portfolio. The fees to be paid under the agreement
approximate the reasonable cost of Pierpont Group in providing these services to
the Portfolio and other registered investment companies subject to similar
agreements with Pierpont Group. Pierpont Group was organized in 1989 at the
request of the Trustees of The Pierpont Family of Funds for the purpose of
providing these services at cost to those funds. See Item 14 in Part B. The
principal offices of Pierpont Group are located at 461 Fifth Avenue, New York,
New York 10017.

INVESTMENT ADVISOR. The Portfolio has retained the services of Morgan
as investment advisor. Morgan, with principal offices at 60 Wall Street, New
York, New York 10260, is a New York trust company which conducts a general
banking and trust business. Morgan is a wholly owned subsidiary of J.P.
Morgan & Co. Incorporated ("J.P. Morgan"), a bank holding company organized

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under the laws of Delaware. Through offices in New York City and abroad, J.P.
Morgan, through the Advisor and other subsidiaries, offers a wide range of
services to governmental, institutional, corporate and individual customers and
acts as investment adviser to individual and institutional clients with combined
assets under management of over $197 billion (of which the Advisor advises over
$30 billion). Morgan provides investment advice and portfolio management
services to the Portfolio. Subject to the supervision of the Portfolio's
Trustees, Morgan, as Advisor, makes the Portfolio's day-to-day investment
decisions, arranges for the execution of portfolio transactions and generally
manages the Portfolio's investments. See Item 16 in Part B.

The Advisor uses a sophisticated, disciplined, collaborative process
for managing all asset classes. For equity portfolios, the process utilizes
research, systematic stock selection, disciplined portfolio construction and, in
the case of foreign equities, country exposure and currency management. Morgan
has managed portfolios of emerging markets equity securities on behalf of its
clients since 1990. The portfolio managers making investments in emerging
markets work in conjunction with Morgan's emerging markets research analysts, as
well as capital market, credit and economic research analysts, traders and
administrative officers. The equity research analysts, located in New York,
London and Singapore, each cover a different industry, monitoring a universe of
approximately 900 companies in emerging markets countries.

The following persons are primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management and implementation of Morgan's process for the Portfolio (the
inception date of each person's responsibility for the Portfolio and his or her
business experience for the past five years are indicated parenthetically):
Douglas J. Dooley, Managing Director (since November, 1993, and employed by
Morgan since prior to 1992, and has been a portfolio manager of emerging markets
investments since prior to 1992) and Satyen Mehta, Vice President (since
November, 1993, and employed by Morgan since prior to 1992, and has been a
portfolio manager of emerging markets investments since prior to 1992).

As compensation for the services rendered and related expenses borne by
Morgan under the Investment Advisory Agreement with the Portfolio, the Portfolio
has agreed to pay Morgan a fee, which is computed daily and may be paid monthly,
at the annual rate of 1.00% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.

Under a separate agreement, Morgan also provides administrative and
related services to the Portfolio. See Administrative Services Agent below.

CO-ADMINISTRATOR. Pursuant to a Co-Administration Agreement with the
Portfolio, FDI serves as the Co-Administrator for the Portfolio. FDI (i)
provides office space, equipment and clerical personnel for maintaining the
organization and books and records of the Portfolio; (ii) provides officers for
the Portfolio; (iii) files Portfolio regulatory documents and mails Portfolio
communications to Trustees and investors; and (iv) maintains related books and
records. See Administrative Services Agent below.

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For its services under the Co-Administration Agreement, the Portfolio
has agreed to pay FDI fees equal to its allocable share of an annual complex-
wide charge of $425,000 plus FDI's out-of-pocket expenses. The amount allocable
to the Portfolio is based on the ratio of its net assets to the aggregate net
assets of the Portfolio and certain other registered investment companies
subject to similar agreements with FDI.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGENT. Pursuant to the Administrative Services
Agreement with the Portfolio, Morgan provides administrative and related
services to the Portfolio, including services related to tax compliance,
preparation of financial statements, calculation of performance data, oversight
of service providers and certain regulatory and Board of Trustees matters.

Under the Administrative Services Agreement, the Portfolio has agreed
to pay Morgan fees equal to its allocable share of an annual complex-wide
charge. This charge is calculated daily based on the aggregate net assets of the
Portfolio and certain other registered investment companies managed by the
Advisor in accordance with the following annual schedule: 0.09% on the first $7
billion of their aggregate average daily net assets and 0.04% of their aggregate
average daily net assets in excess of $7 billion, less the complex- wide fees
payable to FDI.

PLACEMENT AGENT. FDI, a registered broker-dealer, also serves as
exclusive placement agent for the Portfolio. FDI is a wholly owned indirect
subsidiary of Boston Institutional Group, Inc. FDI's principal business address
is 60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

CUSTODIAN. State Street Bank and Trust Company ("State Street"), 225
Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 serves as the Portfolio's custodian
and fund accounting and transfer agent. State Street keeps the books of account
for the Portfolio.

For the fiscal year ended October 31, 1996, the Portfolio's total
expenses were 1.23% of its average net assets.

ITEM 6. CAPITAL STOCK AND OTHER SECURITIES.

The Portfolio is organized as a trust under the laws of the State of
New York. Under the Declaration of Trust, the Trustees are authorized to issue
beneficial interests in the Portfolio. Each investor is entitled to a vote in
proportion to the amount of its investment in the Portfolio. Investments in the
Portfolio may not be transferred, but an investor may withdraw all or any
portion of its investment at any time at net asset value. Investors in the
Portfolio (e.g., other investment companies, insurance company separate

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accounts and common and commingled trust funds) will each be liable for all
obligations of the Portfolio. However, the risk of an investor in the Portfolio
incurring financial loss on account of such liability is limited to
circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Portfolio
itself was unable to meet its obligations.

As of January 31, 1997, The JPM Institutional Emerging Markets Equity
Fund, The JPM Pierpont Emerging Markets Equity Fund, series of The JPM
Institutional Funds and The JPM Pierpont Funds, respectively, and JPM Emerging
Markets Equity Fund, Ltd., a Bahamas International Business Company, (The JPM
Institutional Emerging Markets Equity Fund and JPM Emerging Markets Equity Fund,
Ltd. collectively referred to as the "Funds") owned 39.92%, 7.42%, and 52.66%,
respectively, of the outstanding interests in the Portfolio. So long as the
Funds control the Portfolio, the Funds may take actions without the approval of
any other holder of beneficial interests in the Portfolio.

Investments in the Portfolio have no preemptive or conversion rights
and are fully paid and nonassessable, except as set forth below. The Portfolio
is not required and has no current intention of holding annual meetings of
investors, but the Portfolio will hold special meetings of investors when in the
judgment of the Trustees it is necessary or desirable to submit matters for an
investor vote. Changes in fundamental policies will be submitted to investors
for approval. Investors have under certain circumstances (e.g., upon application
and submission of certain specified documents to the Trustees by a specified
percentage of the outstanding interests in the Portfolio) the right to
communicate with other investors in connection with requesting a meeting of
investors for the purpose of removing one or more Trustees. Investors also have
the right to remove one or more Trustees without a meeting by a declaration in
writing by a specified percentage of the outstanding interests in the Portfolio.
Upon liquidation of the Portfolio, investors would be entitled to share pro rata
in the net assets of the Portfolio available for distribution to investors.

The net asset value of the Portfolio is determined each business day
other than the holidays listed in Part B ("Portfolio Business Day"). This
determination is made once each Portfolio Business Day as of 4:00 p.m. New York
time (the "Valuation Time"). See Item 19 in Part B.

The "net income" of the Portfolio will consist of (i) all income
accrued, less the amortization of any premium, on the assets of the Portfolio,
less (ii) all actual and accrued expenses of the Portfolio determined in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Interest income
includes discount earned (including both original issue and market discount) on
discount paper accrued ratably to the date of maturity and any net realized
gains or losses on the assets of the Portfolio. All the net income of the
Portfolio is allocated pro rata among the investors in the Portfolio.

The end of the Portfolio's fiscal year is October 31.

Under the anticipated method of operation of the Portfolio, the
Portfolio will not be subject to any income tax. However, each investor in the
Portfolio will be taxable on its share (as determined in accordance with the

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governing instruments of the Portfolio) of the Portfolio's ordinary income and
capital gain in determining its income tax liability. The determination of such
share will be made in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code") and regulations promulgated thereunder.

It is intended that the Portfolio's assets, income and distributions
will be managed in such a way that an investor in the Portfolio will be able to
satisfy the requirements of Subchapter M of the Code, assuming that the investor
invested all of its assets in the Portfolio.

Investor inquiries may be directed to FDI, in care of State Street
Cayman Trust Company, Ltd., at Elizabethan Square, Shedden Road, George Town,
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI (809-949-6644).

ITEM 7. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES.

Beneficial interests in the Portfolio are issued solely in private
placement transactions that do not involve any "public offering" within the
meaning of Section 4(2) of the 1933 Act. Investments in the Portfolio may only
be made by other investment companies, insurance company separate accounts,
common or commingled trust funds, or similar organizations or entities which are
"accredited investors" as defined in Rule 501 under the 1933 Act. This
Registration Statement does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation
of an offer to buy, any "security" within the meaning of the 1933 Act.

An investment in the Portfolio may be made without a sales load. All
investments are made at net asset value next determined after an order is
received in "good order" by the Portfolio. The net asset value of the Portfolio
is determined on each Portfolio Business Day.

There is no minimum initial or subsequent investment in the Portfolio.
However, because the Portfolio intends to be as fully invested at all times as
is reasonably practicable in order to enhance the yield on its assets,
investments must be made in federal funds (i.e., monies credited to the account
of the Custodian by a Federal Reserve Bank).

The Portfolio may, at its own option, accept securities in payment for
investments in its beneficial interests. The securities delivered in kind are
valued by the method described in Item 19 of Part B as of the business day prior
to the day the Portfolio receives the securities. Securities may be accepted in
payment for beneficial interests only if they are, in the judgment of Morgan,
appropriate investments for the Portfolio. In addition, securities accepted in
payment for beneficial interests must: (i) meet the investment objective and
policies of the Portfolio; (ii) be acquired by the Portfolio for investment and
not for resale; (iii) be liquid securities which are not restricted as to
transfer either by law or liquidity of market; and (iv) if stock, have a value
which is readily ascertainable as evidenced by a listing on a stock exchange,
OTC market or by readily available market quotations from a dealer in such
securities. The Portfolio reserves the right to accept or reject at its own
option any and all securities offered in payment for beneficial interests.

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The Portfolio and FDI reserve the right to cease accepting investments
at any time or to reject any investment order.

Each investor in the Portfolio may add to or reduce its investment in
the Portfolio on each Portfolio Business Day. At the Valuation Time on each such
day, the value of each investor's beneficial interest in the Portfolio will be
determined by multiplying the net asset value of the Portfolio by the
percentage, effective for that day, which represents that investor's share of
the aggregate beneficial interests in the Portfolio. Any additions or
reductions, which are to be effected at the Valuation Time on such day, will
then be effected. The investor's percentage of the aggregate beneficial
interests in the Portfolio will then be recomputed as the percentage equal to
the fraction (i) the numerator of which is the value of such investor's
investment in the Portfolio at the Valuation Time on such day plus or minus, as
the case may be, the amount of net additions to or reductions in the investor's
investment in the Portfolio effected as of the Valuation Time, and (ii) the
denominator of which is the aggregate net asset value of the Portfolio as of the
Valuation Time on such day, plus or minus, as the case may be, the amount of net
additions to or reductions in the aggregate investments in the Portfolio by all
investors in the Portfolio. The percentage so determined will then be applied to
determine the value of the investor's interest in the Portfolio as of the
Valuation Time on the following Portfolio Business Day.

ITEM 8. REDEMPTION OR REPURCHASE.

An investor in the Portfolio may redeem all or any portion of its
investment at the net asset value next determined after a request in "good
order" is furnished by the investor to the Portfolio. The proceeds of a
redemption will be paid by the Portfolio in federal funds normally on the next
Portfolio Business Day after the redemption is effected, but in any event within
seven days. Investments in the Portfolio may not be transferred.

The right of any investor to receive payment with respect to any
redemption may be suspended or the payment of the proceeds therefrom postponed
during any period in which the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") is closed
(other than weekends or holidays) or trading on the NYSE is restricted or, to
the extent otherwise permitted by the 1940 Act, if an emergency exists.

The Portfolio reserves the right under certain circumstances, such as
accommodating requests for substantial withdrawals or liquidations, to pay
distributions in kind to investors (i.e., to distribute portfolio securities as
opposed to cash). If securities are distributed, an investor could incur
brokerage, tax or other charges in converting the securities to cash. In
addition, distribution in kind may result in a less diversified portfolio of
investments or adversely affect the liquidity of the Portfolio or the investor's
portfolio, as the case may be.

ITEM 9. PENDING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

Not applicable.

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PART B

ITEM 10. COVER PAGE.

Not applicable.

ITEM 11. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE

General Information and History . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
Investment Objective and Policies . . . . . . . . . . B-1
Management of the Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-13
Control Persons and Principal Holders
of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-16
Investment Advisory and Other Services . . . . . . . B-17
Brokerage Allocation and Other Practices . . . . . . B-22
Capital Stock and Other Securities . . . . . . . . . B-23
Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of
Securities Being Offered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-25
Tax Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-26
Underwriters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-28
Calculations of Performance Data . . . . . . . . . . B-28
Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-28

ITEM 12. GENERAL INFORMATION AND HISTORY.

Not applicable.

ITEM 13. INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE AND POLICIES.

The investment objective of The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (the
"Portfolio") is to provide a high total return from a portfolio of equity
securities consisting of common stocks and other securities with equity
characteristics comprised of preferred stock, warrants, rights, convertible
securities, trust certifications, limited partnership interests and equity
participations (collectively, "Equity Securities") of companies in emerging
markets. The Portfolio seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing
primarily in Equity Securities of emerging markets issuers. Under normal
circumstances, the Portfolio expects to invest at least 65% of its total assets
in such securities. The Portfolio does not intend to invest in U.S. securities
(other than money market instruments), except temporarily, when extraordinary
circumstances prevailing at the same time in a significant number of emerging
markets countries render investments in such countries inadvisable.

The Portfolio is advised by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
("Morgan" or the "Advisor").

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INVESTMENT PROCESS

Country allocation: Morgan's country allocation decision begins with a
forecast of the expected return of each market in the Portfolio's universe.
These expected returns are calculated using a proprietary valuation method that
is forward looking in nature rather than based on historical data. Morgan then
evaluates these expected returns from two different perspectives: first, it
identifies those countries that have high real expected returns relative to
their own history and other nations in their universe. Second, it identifies
those countries that it expects will provide high returns relative to their
currency risk. Countries that rank highly on one or both of these scores are
overweighted relative to the Fund's benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Free
Index, while those that rank poorly are underweighted. To help contain risk,
Morgan places limits on the total size of the Portfolio's country over- and
under-weightings.

Stock selection: Morgan's 12 emerging market equity analysts -- each an
industry specialist -- monitor a universe of approximately 900 companies in
these countries, developing forecasts of earnings and cash flows for the most
attractive among them. Companies are ranked from most to least attractive based
on this research, and then a diversified portfolio is constructed using
disciplined buy and sell rules. The portfolio manager's objective is to
concentrate the Portfolio's holdings in the stocks deemed most undervalued, and
to keep sector weightings relatively close to those of the index. Stocks are
generally held until they fall into the bottom half of Morgan's rankings.

The following discussion supplements the information regarding the
investment objective of the Portfolio and the policies to be employed to achieve
this objective as set forth above and in Part A.

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS

As discussed in Part A, the Portfolio may invest in money market
instruments to the extent consistent with its investment objective and policies.
A description of the various types of money market instruments that may be
purchased by the Portfolio appears below. Also see "Quality and Diversification
Requirements".

U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES. The Portfolio may invest in direct obligations of
the U.S. Treasury, including Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, all of which are
backed as to principal and interest payments by the full faith and credit of the
United States.

ADDITIONAL U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS. The Portfolio may invest in
obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. Government agencies or
instrumentalities. These obligations may or may not be backed by the "full faith
and credit" of the United States. In the case of securities not backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States, the Portfolio must look principally
to the federal agency issuing or guaranteeing the obligation for ultimate
repayment and may not be able to assert a claim against the United States itself
in the event the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitments.
Securities in which the Portfolio may invest that are not backed

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by the full faith and credit of the Unites States include, but are not limited
to, obligations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, and the U.S. Postal Service, each of which has the right
to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to meet its obligations, and obligations of the
Federal Farm Credit System and the Federal Home Loan Banks, both of whose
obligations may be satisfied only by the individual credits of each issuing
agency. Securities which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United
States include obligations of the Government National Mortgage Association, the
Farmers Home Administration, and the Export-Import Bank.

FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS. The Portfolio, subject to its applicable
investment policies, may also invest in short-term obligations of foreign
sovereign governments or of their agencies, instrumentalities, authorities or
political subdivisions. These securities may be denominated in U.S. dollars or
in another currency. See "Foreign Investments".

BANK OBLIGATIONS. The Portfolio, unless otherwise noted in Part A or
below, may invest in negotiable certificates of deposit, time deposits and
bankers' acceptances of (i) banks, savings and loan associations and savings
banks which have more than $2 billion in assets and are organized under the laws
of the United States or any state, (ii) foreign branches of these banks or of
foreign banks (Euros) and (iii) U.S. branches of foreign banks (Yankees). The
Portfolio will not invest in obligations for which the Advisor, or any of its
affiliated persons, is the ultimate obligor or accepting bank. The Portfolio may
also invest in obligations of international banking institutions designated or
supported by national governments to promote economic reconstruction,
development or trade between nations (e.g., the European Investment Bank, the
Inter-American Development Bank, or the World Bank).

COMMERCIAL PAPER. The Portfolio may invest in commercial paper,
including master demand obligations. Master demand obligations are obligations
that provide for a periodic adjustment in the interest rate paid and permit
daily changes in the amount borrowed. Master demand obligations are governed by
agreements between the issuer and Morgan acting as agent, for no additional fee,
in its capacity as investment advisor to the Portfolio and as fiduciary for
other clients for whom it exercises investment discretion. The monies loaned to
the borrower come from accounts managed by the Advisor or its affiliates,
pursuant to arrangements with such accounts. Interest and principal payments are
credited to such accounts. The Advisor, acting as a fiduciary on behalf of its
clients, has the right to increase or decrease the amount provided to the
borrower under an obligation. The borrower has the right to pay without penalty
all or any part of the principal amount then outstanding on an obligation
together with interest to the date of payment. Since these obligations typically
provide that the interest rate is tied to the Federal Reserve commercial paper
composite rate, the rate on master demand obligations is subject to change.
Repayment of a master demand obligation to participating accounts depends on the
ability of the borrower to pay the accrued interest and principal of the
obligation on demand which is continuously monitored by the Portfolio's Advisor.
Since master demand obligations typically are not rated by credit rating
agencies, the Portfolio may invest in such unrated obligations only if at the
time of an investment

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the obligation is determined by the Advisor to have a credit quality which
satisfies the Portfolio's quality restrictions. See "Quality and Diversification
Requirements." Although there is no secondary market for master demand
obligations, such obligations are considered by the Portfolio to be liquid
because they are payable upon demand. The Portfolio does not have any specific
percentage limitation on investments in master demand obligations.

REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS. The Portfolio may enter into repurchase
agreements with brokers, dealers or banks that meet the credit guidelines
approved by the Trustees. In a repurchase agreement, the Portfolio buys a
security from a seller that has agreed to repurchase the same security at a
mutually agreed upon date and price. The resale price normally is in excess of
the purchase price, reflecting an agreed upon interest rate. This interest rate
is effective for the period of time the Portfolio is invested in the agreement
and is not related to the coupon rate on the underlying security. A repurchase
agreement may also be viewed as a fully collateralized loan of money by the
Portfolio to the seller. The period of these repurchase agreements will usually
be short, from overnight to one week, and at no time will the Portfolio invest
in repurchase agreements for more than thirteen months. The securities which are
subject to repurchase agreements, however, may have maturity dates in excess of
thirteen months from the effective date of the repurchase agreement. The
Portfolio will always receive securities as collateral whose market value is,
and during the entire term of the agreement remains, at least equal to 100% of
the dollar amount invested by the Portfolio in each agreement plus accrued
interest, and the Portfolio will make payment for such securities only upon
physical delivery or upon evidence of book entry transfer to the account of the
Custodian. If the seller defaults, the Portfolio might incur a loss if the value
of the collateral securing the repurchase agreement declines and might incur
disposition costs in connection with liquidating the collateral. In addition, if
bankruptcy proceedings are commenced with respect to the seller of the security,
realization upon disposal of the collateral by the Portfolio may be delayed or
limited. See "Investment Restrictions".

The Portfolio may make investments in other debt securities with
remaining effective maturities of not more than thirteen months, including
without limitation corporate and foreign bonds, asset-backed securities and
other obligations described herein.

EQUITY INVESTMENTS

As discussed in Part A, the Portfolio invests primarily in Equity
Securities. The Equity Securities in which the Portfolio invests include those
listed on any domestic or foreign securities exchange or traded in the
over-the-counter (OTC) market as well as certain restricted or unlisted
securities. A discussion of the various types of equity investments which may be
purchased by the Portfolio appears in Part A and below.

EQUITY SECURITIES. The Equity Securities in which the Portfolio may
invest may or may not pay dividends and may or may not carry voting rights.

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Common stock occupies the most junior position in a company's capital structure.

The convertible securities in which the Portfolio may invest include
any debt securities or preferred stock which may be converted into common stock
or which carry the right to purchase common stock. Convertible securities
entitle the holder to exchange the securities for a specified number of shares
of common stock, usually of the same company, at specified prices within a
certain period of time.

The terms of any convertible security determine its ranking in a
company's capital structure. In the case of subordinated convertible debentures,
the holders' claims on assets and earnings are subordinated to the claims of
other creditors, and are senior to the claims of preferred and common
shareholders. In the case of convertible preferred stock, the holders' claims on
assets and earnings are subordinated to the claims of all creditors and are
senior to the claims of common shareholders.

Warrants generally do not entitle the holder to dividends or voting
rights with respect to the underlying securities and do not represent any rights
in the assets of the issuing company. A warrant will expire worthless if it is
not exercised on or prior to the expiration date.

FOREIGN INVESTMENTS

The Portfolio makes substantial investments in foreign countries.
Foreign investments may be made directly in securities of foreign issuers or in
the form of American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and European Depositary
Receipts ("EDRs"). Generally, ADRs and EDRs are receipts issued by a bank or
trust company that evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by a
foreign corporation and that are designed for use in the domestic, in the case
of ADRs, or European, in the case of EDRs, securities markets.

Since investments in foreign securities may involve foreign currencies,
the value of the Portfolio's assets as measured in U.S. dollars may be affected
favorably or unfavorably by changes in currency rates and in exchange control
regulations, including currency blockage. The Portfolio may enter into forward
commitments for the purchase or sale of foreign currencies in connection with
the settlement of foreign securities transactions or to manage the underlying
currency exposure related to foreign investments. The Portfolio will not enter
into such commitments for speculative purposes.

The Portfolio may also invest in countries with emerging economies or
securities markets. Political and economic structures in many of such

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countries may be undergoing significant evolution and rapid development, and
such countries may lack the social, political and economic stability
characteristic of more developed countries. Certain of such countries may have
in the past failed to recognize private property rights and have at times
nationalized or expropriated the assets of private companies. As a result, the
risks described above, including the risks of nationalization or expropriation
of assets, may be heightened. In addition, unanticipated political or social
developments may affect the value of the Portfolio's investments in those
countries and the availability to the Portfolio of additional investments in
those countries. The small size and inexperience of the securities markets in
certain of such countries and the limited volume of trading in securities in
those countries may make the Portfolio's investments in such countries illiquid
and more volatile than investments in more developed countries, and the
Portfolio may be required to establish special custodial or other arrangements
before making certain investments in those countries. There may be little
financial or accounting information available with respect to issuers located in
certain of such countries, and it may be difficult as a result to assess the
value or prospects of an investment in such issuers.

For a description of the risks associated with investing in foreign
securities, see "Additional Investment Information and Risk Factors" in Part A.

ADDITIONAL INVESTMENTS

WHEN-ISSUED AND DELAYED DELIVERY SECURITIES. The Portfolio may purchase
securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis. For example, delivery of
and payment for these securities can take place a month or more after the date
of the purchase commitment. The purchase price and the interest rate payable, if
any, on the securities are fixed on the purchase commitment date or at the time
the settlement date is fixed. The value of such securities is subject to market
fluctuation and for fixed income securities no interest accrues to the Portfolio
until settlement takes place. At the time the Portfolio makes the commitment to
purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis, it will record
the transaction, reflect the value each day of such securities in determining
its net asset value and, if applicable, calculate the maturity for the purposes
of average maturity from that date. At the time of settlement a when-issued
security may be valued at less than the purchase price. To facilitate such
acquisitions, the Portfolio will maintain with the Custodian a segregated
account with liquid assets, consisting of cash, U.S. Government securities or
other appropriate securities, in an amount at least equal to such commitments.
On delivery dates for such transactions, the Portfolio will meet its obligations
from maturities or sales of the securities held in the segregated account and/or
from cash flow. If the Portfolio chooses to dispose of the right to acquire a
when-issued security prior to its acquisition, it could, as with the disposition
of any other portfolio obligation, incur a gain or loss due to market
fluctuation. It is the current policy of the Portfolio not to enter into
when-issued commitments exceeding in the aggregate 15% of the market value of
the Portfolio's total assets, less liabilities other than the obligations
created by when-issued commitments.

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INVESTMENT COMPANY SECURITIES. Securities of other investment companies
may be acquired by the Portfolio to the extent permitted under the 1940 Act.
These limits require that, as determined immediately after a purchase is made,
(i) not more than 5% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets will be
invested in the securities of any one investment company, (ii) not more than 10%
of the value of its total assets will be invested in the aggregate in securities
of investment companies as a group, and (iii) not more than 3% of the
outstanding voting stock of any one investment company will be owned by the
Portfolio. As a shareholder of another investment company, the Portfolio would
bear, along with other shareholders, its pro rata portion of the other
investment company's expenses, including advisory fees. These expenses would be
in addition to the advisory and other expenses that the Portfolio bears directly
in connection with its own operations. The Portfolio has applied for exemptive
relief from the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to permit the
Portfolio to invest in affiliated investment companies. If the requested relief
is granted, the Portfolio would then be permitted to invest in affiliated Funds,
subject to certain conditions specified in the applicable order.

REVERSE REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS. The Portfolio may enter into reverse
repurchase agreements. In a reverse repurchase agreement, the Portfolio sells a
security and agrees to repurchase the same security at a mutually agreed upon
date and price. For purposes of the 1940 Act, a reverse repurchase agreement is
also considered as the borrowing of money by the Portfolio and, therefore, a
form of leverage. The Portfolio will invest the proceeds of borrowings under
reverse repurchase agreements. In addition, the Portfolio will enter into a
reverse repurchase agreement only when the interest income to be earned from the
investment of the proceeds is greater than the interest expense of the
transaction. The Portfolio will not invest the proceeds of a reverse repurchase
agreement for a period which exceeds the duration of the reverse repurchase
agreement. The Portfolio will establish and maintain with the Custodian a
separate account with a segregated portfolio of securities in an amount at least
equal to its purchase obligations under its reverse repurchase agreements. If
interest rates rise during the term of a reverse repurchase agreement, the
Portfolio's entering into the reverse repurchase agreement may have a negative
impact on the Portfolio's net asset value. See "Investment Restrictions" below
for the Portfolio's limitations on reverse repurchase agreements and bank
borrowings.

LOANS OF PORTFOLIO SECURITIES. The Portfolio may lend its securities if
such loans are secured continuously by cash or equivalent collateral or by a
letter of credit in favor of the Portfolio at least equal at all times to 100%
of the market value of the securities loaned, plus accrued interest. While such
securities are on loan, the borrower will pay the Portfolio any income accruing
thereon. Loans will be subject to termination by the Portfolio in the normal
settlement time, generally three business days after notice, or by the borrower
on one day's notice. Borrowed securities must be returned when the loan is
terminated. Any gain or loss in the market price of the borrowed securities
which occurs during the term of the loan inures to the Portfolio and its
investors. The Portfolio may pay reasonable finders' and custodial fees in
connection with a loan. In addition, the Portfolio will consider all facts and
circumstances including the creditworthiness of the borrowing

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financial institution, and no Portfolio will make any loans in excess of one
year. The Portfolio will not lend its securities to any officer, Trustee,
Director, employee or other affiliate of the Portfolio, the Advisor or placement
agent, unless otherwise permitted by applicable law.

PRIVATELY PLACED AND CERTAIN UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. The Portfolio may
invest in privately placed, restricted, Rule 144A or other unregistered
securities as described in Part A.

As to illiquid investments, the Portfolio is subject to a risk that
should the Portfolio decide to sell them when a ready buyer is not available at
a price the Portfolio deems representative of their value, the value of the
Portfolio's net assets could be adversely affected. Where an illiquid security
must be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"), before it may be sold, the Portfolio may be obligated to pay all or part
of the registration expenses, and a considerable period may elapse between the
time of the decision to sell and the time the Portfolio may be permitted to sell
a security under an effective registration statement. If, during such a period,
adverse market conditions were to develop, the Portfolio might obtain a less
favorable price than prevailed when it decided to sell.

QUALITY AND DIVERSIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

The Portfolio intends to meet the diversification requirements of the
1940 Act. To meet these requirements, 75% of the assets of the Portfolio is
subject to the following fundamental limitations: (1) the Portfolio may not
invest more than 5% of its total assets in the securities of any one issuer,
except obligations of the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities,
and (2) the Portfolio may not own more than 10% of the outstanding voting
securities of any one issuer. As for the other 25% of the Portfolio's assets not
subject to the limitation described above, there is no limitation on investment
of these assets under the 1940 Act, so that all of such assets may be invested
in securities of any one issuer, subject to the limitation of any applicable
state securities laws. Investments not subject to the limitations described
above could involve an increased risk to the Portfolio should an issuer, or a
state or its related entities, be unable to make interest or principal payments
or should the market value of such securities decline.

The Portfolio may invest in convertible debt securities, for which
there are no specific quality requirements. In addition, at the time the
Portfolio invests in any commercial paper, bank obligation or repurchase
agreement, the issuer must have outstanding debt rated A or higher by Moody's
Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") or Standard & Poor's Ratings Group
("Standard & Poor's"), the issuer's parent corporation, if any, must have
outstanding commercial paper rated Prime-1 by Moody's or A-1 by Standard &
Poor's, or if no such ratings are available, the investment must be of
comparable quality in the Advisor's opinion. At the time the Portfolio invests
in any other short-term debt securities, they must be rated A or higher by
Moody's or Standard & Poor's, or if unrated, the investment must be of
comparable quality in the Advisor's opinion.

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In determining suitability of investment in a particular unrated
security, the Advisor takes into consideration asset and debt service coverage,
the purpose of the financing, history of the issuer, existence of other rated
securities of the issuer, and other relevant conditions, such as comparability
to other issuers.

OPTIONS AND FUTURES TRANSACTIONS

EXCHANGE TRADED AND OVER-THE-COUNTER OPTIONS. All options purchased or
sold by the Portfolio will be traded on a securities exchange or will be
purchased or sold by securities dealers (OTC options) that meet creditworthiness
standards approved by the Portfolio's Board of Trustees. While exchange-traded
options are obligations of the Options Clearing Corporation, in the case of OTC
options, the Portfolio relies on the dealer from which it purchased the option
to perform if the option is exercised. Thus, when the Portfolio purchases an OTC
option, it relies on the dealer from which it purchased the option to make or
take delivery of the underlying securities. Failure by the dealer to do so would
result in the loss of the premium paid by the Portfolio as well as loss of the
expected benefit of the transaction.

Provided that the Portfolio has arrangements with certain qualified
dealers who agree that the Portfolio may repurchase any option it writes for a
maximum price to be calculated by a predetermined formula, the Portfolio may
treat the underlying securities used to cover written OTC options as liquid. In
these cases, the OTC option itself would only be considered illiquid to the
extent that the maximum repurchase price under the formula exceeds the intrinsic
value of the option.

FUTURES CONTRACTS AND OPTIONS ON FUTURES CONTRACTS. In entering into
futures and options transactions the Portfolio may purchase or sell (write)
futures contracts and purchase put and call options, including put and call
options on futures contracts. In addition, the Portfolio may sell (write) put
and call, including options on futures. Futures contracts obligate the buyer to
take and the seller to make delivery at a future date of a specified quantity of
a financial instrument or an amount of cash based on the value of a securities
index. Currently, futures contracts are available on various types of fixed
income securities, including but not limited to U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and
bills, Eurodollar certificates of deposit and on indexes of fixed income
securities and indexes of equity securities.

Unlike a futures contract, which requires the parties to buy and sell a
security or make a cash settlement payment based on changes in a financial
instrument or securities index on an agreed date, an option on a futures
contract entitles its holder to decide on or before a future date whether to
enter into such a contract. If the holder decides not to exercise its option,
the holder may close out the option position by entering into an offsetting
transaction or may decide to let the option expire and forfeit the premium
thereon. The purchaser of an option on a futures contract pays a premium for the
option but makes no initial margin payments or daily payments of cash in the
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of the underlying contract as does a purchaser or seller of a futures
contract.

The seller of an option on a futures contract receives the premium paid
by the purchaser and may be required to pay initial margin. Amounts equal to the
initial margin and any additional collateral required on any options on futures
contracts sold by the Portfolio are paid by the Portfolio into a segregated
account, in the name of the Futures Commission Merchant, as required by the 1940
Act and the SEC's interpretations thereunder.

COMBINED POSITIONS. The Portfolio may purchase and write options in
combination with each other, or in combination with futures or forward
contracts, to adjust the risk and return characteristics of the overall
position. For example, the Portfolio may purchase a put option and write a call
option on the same underlying instrument, in order to construct a combined
position whose risk and return characteristics are similar to selling a futures
contract. Another possible combined position would involve writing a call option
at one strike price and buying a call option at a lower price, in order to
reduce the risk of the written call option in the event of a substantial price
increase. Because combined options positions involve multiple trades, they
result in higher transaction costs and may be more difficult to open and close
out.

CORRELATION OF PRICE CHANGES. Because there are a limited number of
types of exchange-traded options and futures contracts, it is likely that the
standardized options and futures contracts available will not match the
Portfolio's current or anticipated investments exactly. The Portfolio may invest
in options and futures contracts based on securities with different issuers,
maturities, or other characteristics from the securities in which it typically
invests, which involves a risk that the options or futures position will not
track the performance of the Portfolio's other investments.

Options and futures contracts prices can also diverge from the prices
of their underlying instruments, even if the underlying instruments match the
Portfolio's investments well. Options and futures contracts prices are affected
by such factors as current and anticipated short term interest rates, changes in
volatility of the underlying instrument, and the time remaining until expiration
of the contract, which may not affect security prices the same way. Imperfect
correlation may also result from differing levels of demand in the options and
futures markets and the securities markets, from structural differences in how
options and futures and securities are traded, or from imposition of daily price
fluctuation limits or trading halts. The Portfolio may purchase or sell options
and futures contracts with a greater or lesser value than the securities it
wishes to hedge or intends to purchase in order to attempt to compensate for
differences in volatility between the contract and the securities, although this
may not be successful in all cases. If price changes in the Portfolio's options
or futures positions are poorly correlated with its other investments, the
positions may fail to produce anticipated gains or result in losses that are not
offset by gains in other investments.

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LIQUIDITY OF OPTIONS AND FUTURES CONTRACTS. There is no assurance a
liquid market will exist for any particular option or futures contract at any
particular time even if the contract is traded on an exchange. In addition,
exchanges may establish daily price fluctuation limits for options and futures
contracts and may halt trading if a contract's price moves up or down more than
the limit in a given day. On volatile trading days when the price fluctuation
limit is reached or a trading halt is imposed, it may be impossible for the
Portfolio to enter into new positions or close out existing positions. If the
market for a contract is not liquid because of price fluctuation limits or
otherwise, it could prevent prompt liquidation of unfavorable positions, and
could potentially require the Portfolio to continue to hold a position until
delivery or expiration regardless of changes in its value. As a result, the
Portfolio's access to other assets held to cover its options or futures
positions could also be impaired. (See "Exchange Traded and Over the Counter
Options" above for a discussion of the liquidity of options not traded on an
exchange).

POSITION LIMITS. Futures exchanges can limit the number of futures and
options on futures contracts that can be held or controlled by an entity. If an
adequate exemption cannot be obtained, the Portfolio or the Advisor may be
required to reduce the size of its futures and options positions or may not be
able to trade a certain futures or options contract in order to avoid exceeding
such limits.

ASSET COVERAGE FOR FUTURES CONTRACTS AND OPTIONS POSITIONS. The
Portfolio intends to comply with Section 4.5 of the regulations under the
Commodity Exchange Act, which limits the extent to which the Portfolio can
commit assets to initial margin deposits and option premiums. In addition, the
Portfolio will comply with guidelines established by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) with respect to coverage of options and futures contracts by
mutual funds, and if the guidelines so require, will set aside appropriate
liquid assets in a segregated custodial account in the amount prescribed.
Securities held in a segregated account cannot be sold while the futures
contract or option is outstanding, unless they are replaced with other suitable
assets. As a result, there is a possibility that segregation of a large
percentage of the Portfolio's assets could impede portfolio management or the
Portfolio's ability to meet redemption requests or other current obligations.

RISK MANAGEMENT. The Portfolio may employ non-hedging risk management
techniques. Examples of such strategies include synthetically altering the
duration of a portfolio or the mix of securities in a portfolio. For example, if
the Advisor wishes to extend maturities in a fixed income portfolio in order to
take advantage of an anticipated decline in interest rates, but does not wish to
purchase the underlying long-term securities, it might cause the Portfolio to
purchase futures contracts on long term debt securities. Similarly, if the
Advisor wishes to decrease fixed income securities or purchase equities, it
could cause the Portfolio to sell futures contracts on debt securities and
purchase futures contracts on a stock index. Such non-hedging risk management
techniques are not speculative, but because they involve leverage include, as do
all leveraged transactions, the possibility of losses as well as gains that are
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purchase and sale of the securities themselves rather than their synthetic
derivatives.

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER. The portfolio turnover rates for the fiscal years
ended October 31, 1995 and 1996 were 41% and 31%, respectively. A rate of 100%
indicates that the equivalent of all of the Portfolio's assets have been sold
and reinvested in a year. High portfolio turnover may result in the realization
of substantial net capital gains. To the extent net short term capital gains are
realized, any distributions resulting from such gains are considered ordinary
income for federal income tax purposes. See Item 20 below.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment restrictions below have been adopted by the Portfolio.
Except where otherwise noted, these investment restrictions are "fundamental"
policies which, under the 1940 Act, may not be changed without the vote of a
"majority of the outstanding voting securities" (as defined in the 1940 Act) of
the Portfolio. A "majority of the outstanding voting securities" is defined in
the 1940 Act as the lesser of (a) 67% or more of the voting securities present
at a meeting if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding voting
securities are present or represented by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the
outstanding voting securities. The percentage limitations contained in the
restrictions below apply at the time of the purchase of securities.

Unless Sections 8(b)(1) and 13(a) of the 1940 Act, or any SEC or SEC
staff interpretations thereof, are amended or modified, the Portfolio may not:

1. Purchase any security if, as a result, more than 25% of the value of
the Portfolio's total assets would be invested in securities of issuers
having their principal business activities in the same industry. This
limitation shall not apply to obligations issued or guaranteed by the
U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities;

2. Borrow money, except that the Portfolio may (i) borrow money from banks
for temporary or emergency purposes (not for leveraging purposes) and
(ii) enter into reverse repurchase agreements for any purpose; provided
that (i) and (ii) in total do not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the
Portfolio's total assets (including the amount borrowed) less
liabilities (other than borrowings). If at any time any borrowings come
to exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets, the
Portfolio will reduce its borrowings within three business days to the
extent necessary to comply with the 33 1/3% limitation;

3. With respect to 75% of its total assets, purchase any security if, as a
result, (a) more than 5% of the value of the Portfolio's total assets
would be invested in securities or other obligations of any one issuer;
or (b) the Portfolio would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting
securities of that issuer. This limitation shall not apply to
Government securities (as defined in the 1940 Act);

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4. Make loans to other persons, except through the purchase of debt
obligations, loans of portfolio securities, and participation in
repurchase agreements;

5. Purchase or sell physical commodities or contracts thereon, unless
acquired as a result of the ownership of securities or instruments, but
the Portfolio may purchase or sell futures contracts or options
(including options on futures contracts, but excluding options or
futures contracts on physical commodities) and may enter into foreign
currency forward contracts;

6. Purchase or sell real estate, but the Portfolio may purchase or sell
securities that are secured by real estate or issued by companies
(including real estate investment trusts) that invest or deal in real
estate;

7. Underwrite securities of other issuers, except to the extent the
Portfolio in disposing of portfolio securities, may be deemed an
underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended;

8. Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act or any
rule, order or interpretation thereunder; and

9. Notwithstanding any other investment restriction of the Portfolio, the
Portfolio may invest all of its investable assets in an open-end
management investment company having the same investment objective and
restrictions as the Portfolio.

NON-FUNDAMENTAL INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS. The investment restrictions
described below are not fundamental policies of the Portfolio and may be changed
by the Trustees. These non-fundamental investment policies requires that the
Portfolio may not:

(i) Acquire securities of other investment companies, except as
permitted by the 1940 Act or any rule, order or interpretation thereunder, or in
connection with a merger, consolidation, reorganization, acquisition of assets
or an offer of exchange;

(ii) Acquire any illiquid securities, such as repurchase agreements
with more than seven days to maturity or fixed time deposits with a duration of
over seven calendar days, if as a result thereof, more than 15% of the market
value of the Portfolio's total assets would be in investments that are illiquid;

(iii) Purchase any security if, as a result, the Portfolio would then
have more than 5% of its total assets invested in securities of companies
(including predecessors) that have been in continuous operation for fewer than
three years;

(iv) Invest in warrants (other than warrants acquired by the Portfolio
as part of a unit or attached to securities at the time of purchase) if, as a

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result, the investments (valued at the lower of cost or market) would exceed 5%
of the value of its net assets or if, as a result, more than 2% of the
Portfolio's net assets would be invested in warrants not listed on a recognized
U.S. or foreign stock exchange, to the extent permitted by the applicable state
laws ;

(v) Sell any security short, unless it owns or has the right to obtain
securities equivalent in kind and amount to the securities sold or unless it
covers such short sales as required by the current rules or positions of the SEC
or its staff. Transactions in futures contracts and options shall not constitute
selling securities short;

(vi) Purchase securities on margin, but the Portfolio may obtain such
short-term credits as may be necessary for the clearance of transactions;

(vii) Purchase or retain securities of any issuer if, to the knowledge
of the Portfolio, any of the Portfolio's officers or Trustees or any officer of
the Portfolio's investment adviser individually owns more than 1/2 of 1% of the
issuer's outstanding securities and such persons owning more than 1/2 of 1% of
such securities together beneficially own more than 5% of such securities, all
taken at market; or

(viii) Invest in real estate limited partnerships or purchase interests
in oil, gas or mineral exploration or development programs or leases.

There will be no violation of any investment restriction if that
restriction is complied with at the time the relevant action is taken
notwithstanding a later change in market value of an investment, in net or total
assets, in the securities rating of the investment, or any other later change.

ITEM 14. MANAGEMENT OF THE FUND.

The Trustees and officers of the Portfolio, their business addresses,
principal occupations during the past five years and dates of birth are set
forth below. Their titles may have varied during that period. An asterisk
indicates that a Trustee is an "interested person" (as defined in the 1940 Act)
of the Portfolio.

TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS

Frederick S. Addy - Trustee; Retired; Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer since prior to April 1994, Amoco Corporation. His
address is 5300 Arbutus Cove, Austin, TX 78746, and his date of birth is January
1, 1932.

William G. Burns - Trustee; Retired; Former Vice Chairman and Chief
Financial Officer, NYNEX. His address is 2200 Alaqua Drive, Longwood, FL 32779,
and his date of birth is November 2, 1932.

Arthur C. Eschenlauer - Trustee; Retired; Former Senior Vice President,
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York. His address is 14 Alta Vista Drive,
RD #2, Princeton, NJ 08540, and his date of birth is May 23, 1934.

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Matthew Healey* - Trustee; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer;
Chairman, Pierpont Group, Inc. ("Pierpont Group ") since prior to 1992. His
address is Pine Tree Club Estates, 10286 Saint Andrews Road, Boynton Beach, FL
33436, and his date of birth is August 23, 1937.

Michael P. Mallardi - Trustee; Retired; Senior Vice President, Capital
Cities/ABC, Inc. and President, Broadcast Group since prior to April 1996. His
address is 10 Charnwood Drive, Suffern, NY 10910, and his date of birth is March
17, 1934.

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* Mr. Healey is an "interested person" of the Portfolio as that term is
defined in the 1940 Act.

Each Trustee is currently paid an annual fee of $65,000 (adjusted as of
April 1, 1995) for serving as Trustee of the Master Portfolios (as defined
below), The JPM Pierpont Funds, The JPM Institutional Funds and JPM Series Trust
and is reimbursed for expenses incurred in connection with service as a Trustee.
The Trustees may hold various other directorships unrelated to the Portfolio.

Trustee compensation expenses accrued by the Portfolio for the calendar
year ended December 31, 1996 is set forth below.
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TOTAL TRUSTEE COMPENSATION
ACCRUED BY THE MASTER
AGGREGATE TRUSTEE PORTFOLIOS(*), THE JPM
COMPENSATION ACCRUED BY THE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS AND THE JPM
NAME OF TRUSTEE PORTFOLIO DURING 1996 PIERPONT FUNDS DURING 1996(***)
<S> <C> <C>
Frederick S. Addy, $2,604.12 $65,000
Trustee
William G. Burns, $2,604.12 $65,000
Trustee
Arthur C. Eschenlauer, $2,604.12 $65,000
Trustee
Matthew Healey, $2,604.12 $65,000
Trustee(**), Chairman
and Chief Executive
Officer
Michael P. Mallardi, $2,604.12 $65,000
Trustee
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(*) Includes the Portfolio and 18 other portfolios (collectively, the
"Master Portfolios") for which Morgan acts as investment adviser.

(**) During 1996, Pierpont Group paid Mr. Healey, in his role as Chairman of
Pierpont Group, compensation in the amount of $140,000, contributed
$21,000 to a defined contribution plan on his behalf and paid $21,500
in insurance premiums for his benefit.

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(***) No investment company within the fund complex has a pension or
retirement plan. Currently there are 18 investment companies (15
investment companies comprising the Master Portfolios, The JPM Pierpont
Funds, The JPM Institutional Funds and JPM Series Trust) in the fund
complex.

The Trustees of the Portfolio are the same as the Trustees of each of
the other Master Portfolios, The JPM Pierpont Funds and The JPM Institutional
Funds and JPM Series Trust. In accordance with applicable state requirements, a
majority of the disinterested Trustees have adopted written procedures
reasonably appropriate to deal with potential conflicts of interest arising from
the fact that the same individuals are Trustees of the Master Portfolios, The
JPM Pierpont Funds and The JPM Institutional Funds, up to and including creating
a separate board of trustees.

The Trustees of the Portfolio, in addition to reviewing actions of the
Portfolio's various service providers, decide upon matters of general policy.
The Portfolio has entered into a Portfolio Fund Services Agreement with Pierpont
Group to assist the Trustees in exercising their overall supervisory
responsibilities for the Portfolio's affairs. Pierpont Group was organized in
July 1989 to provide services for The Pierpont Family of Funds, and the Trustees
are the sole shareholders of Pierpont Group. The Portfolio has agreed to pay
Pierpont Group a fee in an amount representing its reasonable costs in
performing these services to the Portfolio and other registered investment
companies subject to similar agreements with Pierpont Group. These costs are
periodically reviewed by the Trustees. The aggregate fees paid to Pierpont Group
by the Portfolio for the period from November 15, 1993 (commencement of
operations) through October 31, 1994 and for the fiscal years ended October 31,
1995 and 1996 were $42,764, $53,162 and $36,851, respectively. The Portfolio has
no employees; its executive officers (listed below), other than the Chief
Executive Officer, are provided and compensated by Funds Distributor, Inc.
("FDI"), a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Boston Institutional Group, Inc.
The Portfolio's officers conduct and supervise the business operations of the
Portfolio.

The officers of the Portfolio, their principal occupations during the
past five years and their dates of birth are set forth below. The business
address of each of the officers unless otherwise noted is 60 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

MATTHEW HEALEY; Chief Executive Officer; Chairman, Pierpont Group,
since prior to 1992. His address is Pine Tree Club Estates, 10286 Saint Andrews
Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33436. His date of birth is August 23, 1937.

MARIE E. CONNOLLY; Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. President
and Chief Executive Officer and Director of FDI, Premier Mutual Fund Services,
Inc. ("Premier Mutual") and an officer of certain investment companies advised
or administered by the Dreyfus Corporation ("Dreyfus") or is affiliates. From
December 1991 to July 1994, she was President and Chief Compliance Officer of
FDI. Her date of birth is August 1, 1957.

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DOUGLAS C. CONROY; Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. Supervisor
of Treasury Services and Administration of FDI and an officer of certain
investment companies advised or administered by Dreyfus or its affiliates.
From April 1993 to January 1995, Mr. Conroy was a Senior Fund Accountant for
Investors Bank & Trust Company. Prior to March 1993, Mr. Conroy was employed
as a fund accountant at The Boston Company, Inc. His date of birth is March
31, 1969.

JACQUELINE HENNING; Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer.
Managing Director, State Street Cayman Trust Company, Ltd. since October 1994.
Prior to October 1994, Mrs. Henning was head of mutual funds at Morgan
Grenfell in Cayman and for five years was Managing Director of Bank of Nova
Scotia Trust Company (Cayman) Limited from September 1988 to September 1993.
Address: P.O. Box 2508 GT, Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor, Shedden Road, George
Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Her date of birth is March 24, 1942.

RICHARD W. INGRAM; President and Treasurer. Senior Vice President and
Director of Client Services and Treasury Administration of FDI, Senior Vice
President of Premier Mutual and an officer of RCM Capital Funds, Inc., RCM
Equity Funds, Inc., Waterhouse Investors Cash Management Fund, Inc. and certain
investment companies advised or administered by Dreyfus or Harris Trust and
Savings Bank ("Harris") or their respective affiliates. From March 1994 to
November 1995, Mr. Ingram was Vice President and Division Manager of First Data
Investor Services Group, Inc. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Ingram was Vice President,
Assistant Treasurer and Tax Director - Mutual Funds of The Boston Company, Inc.
His date of birth is September 15, 1955.

KAREN JACOPPO-WOOD; Vice President and Assistant Secretary. Assistant
Vice President of FDI and an officer of RCM Capital Funds, Inc. and RCM Equity
Funds, Inc., Waterhouse Investors Cash Management Fund, Inc. and Harris or
their respective affiliates. From June 1994 to January 1996, Ms. Jacoppo-
Wood was a Manager, SEC Registration, Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc. From
1988 to May 1994, Ms. Jacoppo-Wood was a senior paralegal at The Boston
Company Advisors, Inc. ("TBCA"). Her date of birth is December 29, 1966.

ELIZABETH A. KEELEY; Vice President and Assistant Secretary. Vice
President and Senior Counsel of FDI and Premier Mutual and an officer of RCM
Capital Funds, Inc., RCM Equity Funds, Inc., Waterhouse Investors Cash
Management Fund, Inc. and certain investment companies advised or administered
by Dreyfus or Harris or their respective affiliates. Prior to September 1995,
Ms. Keeley was enrolled at Fordham University School of Law and received her
JD in May 1995. Prior to September 1992, Ms. Keeley was an assistant at the
National Association for Public Interest Law. Address: FDI, 200 Park Avenue,
New York, New York 10166. Her date of birth is September 14, 1969.

CHRISTOPHER J. KELLEY; Vice President and Assistant Secretary. Vice
President and Associate General Counsel of FDI and Premier Mutual and an
officer of Waterhouse Investors Cash Management Fund, Inc. and certain
investment companies advised or administered by Harris or its affiliates.
From April 1994 to July 1996, Mr. Kelley was Assistant Counsel at Forum
Financial Group. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Kelley was employed by Putnam
Investments in legal and compliance capacities. Prior to September 1992, Mr.

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Kelley was enrolled at Boston College Law School and received his JD in May
1992. His date of birth is December 24, 1964.

LENORE J. MCCABE; Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer.
Assistant Vice President, State Street Bank and Trust Company since November
1994. Assigned as Operations Manager, State Street Cayman Trust Company,
Ltd. since February 1995. Prior to November, 1994, employed by Boston
Financial Data Services, Inc. as Control Group Manager. Address: P.O. Box
2508 GT, Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor, Shedden Road, George Town, Grand
Cayman, Cayman Islands. Her date of birth is May 31, 1961.

MARY A. NELSON; Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. Vice President
and Manager of Treasury Services and Administration of FDI, an officer of RCM
Capital Funds, Inc., RCM Equity Funds, Inc., Waterhouse Investors Cash
Management Fund, Inc. and certain investment companies advised or administered
by Dreyfus or Harris or their respective affiliates. From 1989 to 1994, Ms.
Nelson was an Assistant Vice President and client manager for The Boston
Company, Inc. Her date of birth is April 22, 1964.

JOHN E. PELLETIER; Vice President and Secretary. Senior Vice President
and General Counsel of FDI and Premier Mutual and an officer of RCM Capital
Funds, Inc., RCM Equity Funds, Inc., Waterhouse Investors Cash Management
Fund, Inc. and certain investment companies advised or administered by Dreyfus
or Harris or their respective affiliates. From February 1992 to April 1994,
Mr. Pelletier served as Counsel for TBCA. From August 1990 to February 1992,
Mr. Pelletier was employed as an Associate at Ropes & Gray. His date of birth
is June 24, 1964.

JOSEPH F. TOWER III; Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. Senior
Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of FDI and Premier
Mutual and an officer of Waterhouse Investors Cash Management Fund, Inc. and
certain investment companies advised or administered by Dreyfus. From July
1988 to November 1993, Mr. Tower was Financial Manager of The Boston Company,
Inc. His date of birth is June 13, 1962.

The Portfolio's Declaration of Trust provides that it will indemnify
its Trustees and officers against liabilities and expenses incurred in
connection with litigation in which they may be involved because of their
offices with the Portfolio, unless, as to liability to the Portfolio or its
investors, it is finally adjudicated that they engaged in willful misfeasance,
bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in
their offices, or unless with respect to any other matter it is finally
adjudicated that they did not act in good faith in the reasonable belief that
their actions were in the best interests of the Portfolio. In the case of
settlement, such indemnification will not be provided unless it has been
determined by a court or other body approving the settlement or other
disposition, or by a reasonable determination, based upon a review of readily
available facts, by vote of a majority of disinterested Trustees or in a written
opinion of independent counsel, that such officers or Trustees have not engaged
in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of
their duties.

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ITEM 15. CONTROL PERSONS AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.

Each of the Funds has informed the Portfolio that whenever it is
requested to vote on matters pertaining to the Portfolio (other than a vote by
the Portfolio to continue the operation of the Portfolio upon the withdrawal of
another investor in the Portfolio), it will hold a meeting of its shareholders
and will cast its vote as instructed by those shareholders.

The officers and Trustees of the Portfolio own none of the outstanding
beneficial interests in the Portfolio.

ITEM 16. INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND OTHER SERVICES.

INVESTMENT ADVISOR. The investment advisor to the Portfolio is Morgan
Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a wholly-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan &
Co. Incorporated ("J.P. Morgan"), a bank holding company organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware. Morgan, whose principal offices are at 60 Wall
Street, New York, New York 10260, is a New York trust company which conducts a
general banking and trust business. Morgan is subject to regulation by the New
York State Banking Department and is a member bank of the Federal Reserve
System. Through offices in New York City and abroad, Morgan offers a wide range
of services, primarily to governmental, institutional, corporate and high net
worth individual customers in the U.S. and throughout the world.

J.P. Morgan, through the Advisor and other subsidiaries, acts as
investment advisor to individuals, governments, corporations, employee benefit
plans, mutual funds and other institutional investors with combined assets under
management of $197 billion (of which the Advisor advises over $30 billion).

J.P. Morgan has a long history of service as adviser, underwriter and
lender to an extensive roster of major companies and as a financial advisor to
national governments. The firm, through its predecessor firms, has been in
business for over a century and has been managing investments since 1913.

The basis of the Advisor's investment process is fundamental investment
research as the firm believes that fundamentals should determine an asset's
value over the long term. J.P. Morgan currently employs over 100 full time
research analysts, among the largest research staffs in the money management
industry, in its investment management divisions located in New York, London,
Tokyo, Frankfurt, Melbourne and Singapore to cover companies, industries and

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countries on site. In addition, the investment management divisions employ
approximately 300 capital market researchers, portfolio managers and traders.

The investment advisory services the Advisor provides to the Portfolio
are not exclusive under the terms of the Advisory Agreement. The Advisor is free
to and does render similar investment advisory services to others. The Advisor
serves as investment advisor to personal investors and other investment
companies and acts as fiduciary for trusts, estates and employee benefit plans.
Certain of the assets of trusts and estates under management are invested in
common trust funds for which the Advisor serves as trustee. The accounts which
are managed or advised by the Advisor have varying investment objectives and the
Advisor invests assets of such accounts in investments substantially similar to,
or the same as, those which are expected to constitute the principal investments
of the Portfolio. Such accounts are supervised by officers and employees of the
Advisor who may also be acting in similar capacities for the Portfolio. See Item
17 below.

J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc., also a wholly-owned subsidiary
of J.P. Morgan, is a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940, as amended, which manages employee benefit funds of corporations,
labor unions and state and local governments and the accounts of other
institutional investors, including investment companies. Certain of the assets
of employee benefit accounts under its management are invested in commingled
pension trust funds for which the Advisor serves as trustee. J.P. Morgan
Investment Management Inc. advises the Advisor on investment of the commingled
pension trust funds.

The Portfolio is managed by officers of the Advisor who, in acting for
their customers, including the Portfolio, do not discuss their investment
decisions with any personnel of J.P. Morgan or any personnel of other divisions
of the Advisor or with any of its affiliated persons, with the exception of J.P.
Morgan Investment Management Inc.

As compensation for the services rendered and related expenses such as
salaries of advisory personnel borne by the Advisor under the Investment
Advisory Agreement, the Portfolio has agreed to pay the Advisor a fee, which is
computed daily and may be paid monthly, equal to the annual rate of 1.00% of the
Portfolio's average daily net assets. For the period from November 15, 1993
(commencement of operations) through October 31, 1994 and the fiscal years ended
October 31, 1995 and 1996, the Portfolio paid Morgan $4,122,465, $5,713,506 and
$7,825,873, respectively, in advisory fees to the Advisor.

The Investment Advisory Agreement provides that it will continue in
effect for a period of two years after execution only if specifically approved
annually thereafter (i) by a vote of the holders of a majority of the
Portfolio's outstanding securities or by its Trustees and (ii) by a vote of a
majority of the Portfolio's Trustees who are not parties to the Investment
Advisory Agreement or "interested persons" as defined by the 1940 Act cast in
person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. The
Investment Advisory Agreement will terminate automatically if assigned and is
terminable at any time without penalty by a vote of a majority of the Trustees,
or by a vote of the holders of a majority of the Portfolio's

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outstanding voting securities, on 60 days' written notice to the Advisor and by
the Advisor on 90 days' written notice to the Portfolio.

The Glass-Steagall Act and other applicable laws generally prohibit
banks such as Morgan from engaging in the business of underwriting or
distributing securities, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System has issued an interpretation to the effect that under these laws a bank
holding company registered under the federal Bank Holding Company Act or certain
subsidiaries thereof may not sponsor, organize, or control a registered open-end
investment company continuously engaged in the issuance of its shares, such as
the Portfolio. The interpretation does not prohibit a holding company or a
subsidiary thereof from acting as investment advisor and custodian to such an
investment company. Morgan believes that it may perform the services for the
Portfolio contemplated by the Advisory Agreement without violation of the
Glass-Steagall Act or other applicable banking laws or regulations. State laws
on this issue may differ from the interpretation of relevant federal law, and
banks and financial institutions may be required to register as dealers pursuant
to state securities laws. However, it is possible that future changes in either
federal or state statutes and regulations concerning the permissible activities
of banks or trust companies, as well as further judicial or administrative
decisions and interpretations of present and future statutes and regulations,
might prevent Morgan from continuing to perform such services for the Portfolio.

If Morgan were prohibited from acting as investment advisor to the
Portfolio, it is expected that the Trustees of the Portfolio would recommend to
investors that they approve the Portfolio's entering into a new investment
advisory agreement with another qualified investment advisor selected by the
Trustees.

Under a separate agreement, Morgan also provides administrative and
related services to the Portfolio. See "Administrative Services Agent" in
Part A above.

CO-ADMINISTRATOR. Under the Portfolio's Co-Administration Agreement
dated August 1, 1996, FDI serves as the Portfolio's Co-Administrator. The Co-
Administration Agreement may be renewed or amended by the Trustees without an
investor vote. The Co-Administration Agreement is terminable at any time without
penalty by a vote of a majority of the Trustees of the Portfolio on not more
than 60 days' written notice nor less than 30 days' written notice to the other
party. The Co-Administrator may, subject to the consent of the Trustees of the
Portfolio, subcontract for the performance of its obligations, provided,
however, that unless the Portfolio expressly agrees in writing, the Co-
Administrator shall be fully responsible for the acts and omissions of any
subcontractor as it would for its own acts or omissions. See "Administrative
Services Agent" below.

For its services under the Co-Administration Agreement, the Portfolio
has agreed to pay FDI fees equal to its allocable share of an annual complex-
wide charge of $425,000 plus FDI's out-of-pocket expenses. The amount allocable
to the Portfolio is based on the ratio of its net assets to the aggregate net
assets of The JPM Pierpont Funds, The JPM Institutional Funds,

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the Master Portfolios, JPM Series Trust and JPM Series Trust II. For the period
from August 1, 1996 through October 31, 1996, administrative fees of $5,719 were
paid by the Portfolio to FDI.

The following administrative fees were paid by the Portfolio to
Signature Broker-Dealer Services, Inc. ("SBDS")(which provided placement agent
and administrative services to the Portfolio prior to August 1, 1996): For the
period November 15, 1993 (commencement of operations) through October 31,
1994: $30,828. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 1995: $35,189. For the
period November 1, 1995 through July 31, 1996: $66,251.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGENT. The Portfolio has entered into a
Restated Administrative Services Agreement (the "Services Agreement") with
Morgan, pursuant to which Morgan is responsible for certain administrative and
related services provided to the Portfolio.

Under the Services Agreement, effective August 1, 1996, the Portfolio
has agreed to pay Morgan fees equal to its allocable share of an annual
complex-wide charge. This charge is calculated daily based on the aggregate net
assets of the Master Portfolios and JPM Series Trust in accordance with the
following annual schedule: 0.09% on the first $7 billion of their aggregate
average daily net assets and 0.04% of their aggregate average daily net assets
in excess of $7 billion, less the complex-wide fees payable to FDI. The portion
of this charge payable by the Portfolio is determined by the proportionate share
that its net assets bear to the total net assets of The JPM Pierpont Funds, The
JPM Institutional Funds, the Master Portfolios, the other investors in the
Master Portfolios for which Morgan provides similar services and JPM Series
Trust.

Under administrative services agreements in effect with Morgan from
December 29, 1995 through July 31, 1996, the Portfolio paid Morgan a fee equal
to its proportionate share of an annual complex-wide charge. This charge was
calculated daily based on the aggregate net assets of the Master Portfolios in
accordance with the following schedule: 0.06% of the first $7 billion of the
Master Portfolios' aggregate average daily net assets and 0.03% of the Master
Portfolios' aggregate average daily net assets in excess of $7 billion. Prior to
December 29, 1995, the Portfolio had entered into a financial and fund
accounting services agreement with Morgan, the provisions of which included
certain of the activities described above and, prior to September 1, 1995, also
included reimbursement of usual and customary expenses.

For the period November 15, 1993 (commencement of operations) through
October 31, 1994 and the fiscal years ended October 31, 1995 and 1996, the
Portfolio paid Morgan $347,925, $337,050 and $183,498, respectively, in
administrative service fees.

CUSTODIAN. State Street Bank and Trust Company ("State Street"), 40
King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3Y8, serves as the Portfolio's
custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent. Pursuant to the Custodian
Contract, State Street is responsible for maintaining the books of account and
records of portfolio transactions and holding portfolio securities and cash. In
addition the Custodian has entered into a subcustodian agreement with

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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York for the purpose of holding
participations in master demand obligations. In the case of foreign assets held
outside the United States, the Custodian employs various sub-custodians, who
were approved by the Trustees of the Portfolio in accordance with the
regulations of the SEC. The Custodian maintains portfolio transaction records,
calculates book and tax allocations for the Portfolio, and computes the value of
the interest of each investor. State Street is responsible for maintaining
account records detailing the ownership of interests in the Portfolio. The
Portfolio is responsible for the fees of State Street as custodian for the
Portfolio.

INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS. The independent accountants of the Portfolio
are Price Waterhouse LLP, 1177 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036;
Price Waterhouse LLP conducts an annual audit of the financial statements of the
Portfolio, assists in the preparation and/or review of the Portfolio's federal
and state income tax returns and consults with the Portfolio as to matters of
accounting and federal and state income taxation.

EXPENSES. In addition to the fees payable to the service providers
identified above, the Portfolio is responsible for usual and customary expenses
associated with its operations. Such expenses include organization expenses,
legal fees, insurance costs, the compensation and expenses of the Trustees,
registration fees under federal securities laws, and extraordinary expenses
applicable to the Portfolio. Such expenses also include brokerage expenses.
Under fee arrangements prior to September 1, 1995, Morgan as service agent was
responsible for reimbursements to the Portfolio for SBDS's fees as administrator
and the usual and customary expenses described above (excluding organization and
extraordinary expenses, custodian fees and brokerage expenses).

For the fiscal years ended October 31, 1995 and 1996 the Portfolio's
total expenses were 1.31% and 1.23%, respectively, of its average net assets.

ITEM 17. BROKERAGE ALLOCATION AND OTHER PRACTICES.

The Advisor places orders for the Portfolio for all purchases and sales
of portfolio securities, enters into repurchase agreements, and may enter into
reverse repurchase agreements and execute loans of portfolio securities on
behalf of the Portfolio. See Item 13 above.

Fixed income and debt securities and municipal bonds and notes are
generally traded at a net price with dealers acting as principal for their own
accounts without a stated commission. The price of the security usually includes
profit to the dealers. In underwritten offerings, securities are purchased at a
fixed price which includes an amount of compensation to the underwriter,
generally referred to as the underwriter's concession or discount. On occasion,
certain securities may be purchased directly from an issuer, in which case no
commissions or discounts are paid.

Portfolio transactions for the Portfolio will be undertaken principally
to accomplish the Portfolio's objective in relation to expected movements in

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the general level of interest rates. The Portfolio may engage in short term
trading consistent with its objective.

In connection with portfolio transactions for the Portfolio, the
Advisor intends to seek best price and execution on a competitive basis for both
purchases and sales of securities.

In selecting a broker, the Advisor considers a number of factors
including: the price per unit of the security; the broker's reliability for
prompt, accurate confirmations and on-time delivery of securities; the firm's
financial condition; as well as the commissions charged. A broker may be paid a
brokerage commission in excess of that which another broker might have charged
for effecting the same transaction if, after considering the foregoing factors,
the Advisor decides that the broker chosen will provide the best possible
execution. The Advisor monitors the reasonableness of the brokerage commissions
paid in light of the execution received. The Trustees of the Portfolio review
regularly the reasonableness of commissions and other transaction costs incurred
by the Portfolio in light of facts and circumstances deemed relevant from time
to time, and, in that connection, will receive reports from the Advisor and
published data concerning transaction costs incurred by institutional investors
generally. Research services provided by brokers to which the Advisor has
allocated brokerage business in the past include economic statistics and
forecasting services, industry and company analyses, portfolio strategy
services, quantitative data, and consulting services from economists and
political analysts. Research services furnished by brokers are used for the
benefit of all the Advisor's clients and not solely or necessarily for the
benefit of the Portfolio. The Advisor believes that the value of research
services received is not determinable and does not significantly reduce its
expenses. The Portfolio does not reduce its fee to the Advisor by any amount
that might be attributable to the value of such services.

Subject to the overriding objective of obtaining the best possible
execution of orders, the Advisor may allocate a portion of the Portfolio's
portfolio brokerage transactions to affiliates of the Advisor. In order for
affiliates of the Advisor to effect any portfolio transactions for the
Portfolio, the commissions, fees or other remuneration received by such
affiliates must be reasonable and fair compared to the commissions, fees, or
other remuneration paid to other brokers in connection with comparable
transactions involving similar securities being purchased or sold on a
securities exchange during a comparable period of time. Furthermore, the
Trustees of the Portfolio, including a majority of the Trustees who are not
"interested persons," have adopted procedures which are reasonably designed to
provide that any commissions, fees, or other remuneration paid to such
affiliates are consistent with the foregoing standard.

The Portfolio's portfolio securities will not be purchased from or
through or sold to or through the exclusive placement agent or Advisor or any
other "affiliated person" (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the exclusive
placement agent or Advisor when such entities are acting as principals, except
to the extent permitted by law. In addition, the Portfolio will not purchase
securities during the existence of any underwriting group relating thereto of

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which the Advisor or an affiliate of the Advisor is a member, except to the
extent permitted by law.

On those occasions when the Advisor deems the purchase or sale of a
security to be in the best interests of the Portfolio as well as other
investors, including other Portfolios, the Advisor, to the extent permitted by
applicable laws and regulations, may, but is not obligated to, aggregate the
securities to be sold or purchased for the Portfolio with those to be sold or
purchased for other customers in order to obtain best execution, including lower
brokerage commissions if appropriate. In such event, allocation of the
securities so purchased or sold as well as any expenses incurred in the
transaction will be made by the Advisor in the manner it considers to be most
equitable and consistent with its fiduciary obligations to the Portfolio. In
some instances, this procedure might adversely affect the Portfolio.

If the Portfolio effects a closing purchase transaction with respect to
an option written by it, normally such transaction will be executed by the same
broker-dealer who executed the sale of the option. The writing of options by the
Portfolio will be subject to limitations established by each of the exchanges
governing the maximum number of options in each class which may be written by a
single investor or group of investors acting in concert, regardless of whether
the options are written on the same or different exchanges or are held or
written in one or more accounts or through one or more brokers. The number of
options which the Portfolio may write may be affected by options written by the
Advisor for other investment advisory clients. An exchange may order the
liquidation of positions found to be in excess of these limits, and it may
impose certain other sanctions.

The Portfolio paid the following approximate brokerage commissions for
the period November 15, 1993 (commencement of operations) through October 31,
1994 and for the fiscal years ended October 31, 1995 and 1996: $1,262,905,
$1,475,147 and $1,840,532, respectively.

ITEM 18. CAPITAL STOCK AND OTHER SECURITIES.

Under the Declaration of Trust, the Trustees are authorized to issue
beneficial interests in the Portfolio. Investors are entitled to participate pro
rata in distributions of taxable income, loss, gain and credit of the Portfolio.
Upon liquidation or dissolution of the Portfolio, investors are entitled to
share pro rata in the Portfolio's net assets available for distribution to its
investors. Investments in the Portfolio have no preference, preemptive,
conversion or similar rights and are fully paid and nonassessable, except as set
forth below. Investments in the Portfolio may not be transferred. Certificates
representing an investor's beneficial interest in the Portfolio are issued only
upon the written request of an investor.

Each investor is entitled to a vote in proportion to the amount of its
investment in the Portfolio. Investors in the Portfolio do not have cumulative
voting rights, and investors holding more than 50% of the aggregate beneficial
interest in the Portfolio may elect all of the Trustees if they choose to do so
and in such event the other investors in the Portfolio would not be able to
elect any Trustee. The Portfolio is not required and has no current intention

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to hold annual meetings of investors but the Portfolio will hold special
meetings of investors when in the judgment of the Portfolio's Trustees it is
necessary or desirable to submit matters for an investor vote. No material
amendment may be made to the Portfolio's Declaration of Trust without the
affirmative majority vote of investors (with the vote of each being in
proportion to the amount of its investment).

The Portfolio may enter into a merger or consolidation, or sell all or
substantially all of its assets, if approved by the vote of two thirds of its
investors (with the vote of each being in proportion to its percentage of the
beneficial interests in the Portfolio), except that if the Trustees recommend
such sale of assets, the approval by vote of a majority of the investors (with
the vote of each being in proportion to its percentage of the beneficial
interests of the Portfolio) will be sufficient. The Portfolio may also be
terminated (i) upon liquidation and distribution of its assets if approved by
the vote of two thirds of its investors (with the vote of each being in
proportion to the amount of its investment) or (ii) by the Trustees by written
notice to its investors.

The Portfolio is organized as a trust under the laws of the State of
New York. Investors in the Portfolio will be held personally liable for its
obligations and liabilities, subject, however, to indemnification by the
Portfolio in the event that there is imposed upon an investor a greater portion
of the liabilities and obligations of the Portfolio than its proportionate
beneficial interest in the Portfolio. The Declaration of Trust also provides
that the Portfolio shall maintain appropriate insurance (for example, fidelity
bonding and errors and omissions insurance) for the protection of the Portfolio,
its investors, Trustees, officers, employees and agents covering possible tort
and other liabilities. Thus, the risk of an investor incurring financial loss on
account of investor liability is limited to circumstances in which both
inadequate insurance existed and the Portfolio itself was unable to meet its
obligations.

The Portfolio's Declaration of Trust further provides that obligations
of the Portfolio are not binding upon the Trustees individually but only upon
the property of the Portfolio and that the Trustees will not be liable for any
action or failure to act, but nothing in the Declaration of Trust protects a
Trustee against any liability to which he would otherwise be subject by reason
of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of
the duties involved in the conduct of his office.

ITEM 19. PURCHASE, REDEMPTION AND PRICING OF SECURITIES BEING OFFERED.

Beneficial interests in the Portfolio are issued solely in private
placement transactions that do not involve any "public offering" within the
meaning of Section 4(2) of the 1933 Act.

The value of investments listed on a domestic securities exchange,
other than options on stock indexes, is generally based on the last sale prices
on the New York Stock Exchange at 4:00 P.M. or, in the absence of recorded
sales, at the average of readily available closing bid and asked prices on such
exchange. Securities listed on a foreign exchange are valued at the last

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quoted sale price available before the time when net assets are valued. Unlisted
securities are valued at the average of the quoted bid and asked prices in the
OTC market. The value of each security for which readily available market
quotations exist is based on a decision as to the broadest and most
representative market for such security. For purposes of calculating net asset
value per share, all assets and liabilities initially expressed in foreign
currencies will be converted into U.S. dollars at the prevailing market rates
available at the time of valuation.

Options on stock indexes traded on national securities exchanges are
valued at the close of options trading on such exchanges which is currently 4:10
P.M., New York time. Stock index futures and related options, which are traded
on commodities exchanges, are valued at their last sales price as of the close
of such commodities exchanges which is currently 4:15 P.M., New York time.
Securities or other assets for which market quotations are not readily available
are valued at fair value in accordance with procedures established by and under
the general supervision and responsibility of the Trustees. Such procedures
include the use of independent pricing services which use prices based upon
yields or prices of securities of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type;
indications as to values from dealers; and general market conditions. Short-term
investments which mature in 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost if
their original maturity was 60 days or less, or by amortizing their value on the
61st day prior to maturity, if their original maturity when acquired by the
Portfolio was more than 60 days, unless this is determined not to represent fair
value by the Trustees.

Trading in securities in most foreign markets is normally completed
before trading in U.S. markets and may also take place on days on which the U.S.
markets are closed. If events materially affecting the value of securities occur
between the time when the market in which they are traded closes and the time
when the Portfolio's net asset value is calculated, such securities will be
valued at fair value in accordance with procedures established by and under the
general supervision of the Trustees.

If the Portfolio determines that it would be detrimental to the best
interest of the remaining investors in the Portfolio to make payment wholly or
partly in cash, payment of the redemption price may be made in whole or in part
by a distribution in kind of securities from the Portfolio, in lieu of cash, in
conformity with the applicable rule of the SEC. If interests are redeemed in
kind, the redeeming investor might incur transaction costs in converting the
assets into cash. The Portfolio is in the process of seeking exemptive relief
from the SEC with respect to redemptions in kind. If the requested relief is
granted, the Portfolio would then be permitted to pay redemptions to investors
owning 5% or more of the outstanding beneficial interests in the Portfolio in
securities, rather than in cash, to the extent permitted by the SEC and
applicable law. The method of valuing portfolio securities is described above
and such valuation will be made as of the same time the redemption price is
determined. The Portfolio has elected to be governed by Rule 18f-1 under the
1940 Act pursuant to which the Portfolio is obligated to redeem interests solely
in cash up to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net asset value of the
Portfolio during any 90 day period for any

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one investor. The Portfolio will not redeem in kind except in circumstances in
which an investor is permitted to redeem in kind.

The net asset value of the Portfolio will not be computed on the days
the following legal holidays are observed: New Year's Day, Presidents' Day, Good
Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and
Christmas Day. On days when U.S. trading markets close early in observance of
these holidays, the Portfolio would expect to close for purchases and
withdrawals at the same time. The Portfolio may also close for purchases and
withdrawals at such other times as may be determined by the Trustees to the
extent permitted by applicable law. The days on which net asset value is
determined are the Portfolio's business days.

ITEM 20. TAX STATUS.

The Portfolio is organized as a New York trust. The Portfolio is not
subject to any income or franchise tax in the State of New York. However, each
investor in the Portfolio will be subject to U.S. Federal income tax in the
manner described below on its share (as determined in accordance with the
governing instruments of the Portfolio) of the Portfolio's ordinary income and
capital gain in determining its income tax liability. The determination of such
share will be made in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code") and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Although, as described above, the Portfolio will not be subject to
federal income tax, it will file appropriate income tax returns.

It is intended that the Portfolio's assets will be managed in such a
way that an investor in the Portfolio will be able to satisfy the requirements
of Subchapter M of the Code. For the Portfolio to qualify as a regulated
investment company under Subchapter M of the Code, the Portfolio limits its
investments so that at the close of each quarter of its taxable year (a) no more
than 25% of its total assets are invested in the securities of any one issuer,
except government securities, and (b) with regard to 50% of its total assets, no
more than 5% of its total assets are invested in the securities of a single
issuer, except U.S. Government securities. In addition, the Portfolio must
satisfy certain other requirements including a requirement that the Portfolio
derive less than 30% of its gross income from the sale of stock securities,
options, futures, or forward contracts held less than three months.

Gains or losses on sales of securities by the Portfolio will be treated
as long-term capital gains or losses if the securities have been held by it for
more than one year except in certain cases where the Portfolio acquires a put or
writes a call thereon. Other gains or losses on the sale of securities will be
short-term capital gains or losses. Gains and losses on the sale, lapse or other
termination of options on securities will be treated as gains and losses from
the sale of securities. If an option written by the Portfolio lapses or is
terminated through a closing transaction, such as the repurchase of the option
by the Portfolio of the option from its holder, the Portfolio will realize a
short-term capital gain or loss, depending on whether the premium income is
greater or less than the amount paid by the Portfolio in the

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closing transaction. If securities are purchased by the Portfolio pursuant to
the exercise of a put option written by it, the Portfolio will subtract the
premium received from its cost basis in the securities purchased.

Under the Code, gains or losses attributable to disposition of foreign
currency or to foreign currency contracts, or to fluctuations in exchange rates
between the time the Portfolio accrues income or receivables or expenses or
other liabilities denominated in a foreign currency and the time the Portfolio
actually collects such income or pays such liabilities, are treated as ordinary
income or ordinary loss. Similarly, gains or losses on the disposition of debt
securities held by the Portfolio, if any, denominated in foreign currency, to
the extent attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates between the
acquisition and disposition dates, are also treated as ordinary income or loss.

Forward currency contracts, options and futures contracts entered into
by the Portfolio may create "straddles" for U.S. federal income tax purposes and
this may affect the character and timing of gains or losses realized by the
Portfolio on forward currency contracts, options and futures contracts or on the
underlying securities. Straddles may also result in the loss of the holding
period of underlying securities for purposes of the 30% of gross income test
described above, and therefore, the Portfolio's ability to enter into forward
currency contracts, options and futures contracts may be limited.

Certain options, futures and foreign currency contracts held by the
Portfolio at the end of each fiscal year will be required to be "marked to
market" for federal income tax purposes--i.e., treated as having been sold at
market value. For options and futures contracts, 60% of any gain or loss
recognized on these deemed sales and on actual dispositions will be treated as
long-term capital gain or loss, and the remainder will be treated as short-term
capital gain or loss regardless of how long the Portfolio has held such options
or futures. Any gain or loss recognized on foreign currency contracts will be
treated as ordinary income.

The Portfolio may invest in equity securities of foreign issuers. If
the Portfolio purchases shares in certain foreign investment funds (referred to
as passive foreign investment companies ("PFICs") under the Code), investors who
are U.S. persons generally would be subject to special rules on any "excess
distribution" from such foreign investment fund or gain from the disposition of
such shares. Under these special rules, (i) the gain or excess distribution
would be allocated ratably over the investor's holding period for such shares,
(ii) the amount allocated to the taxable year in which the gain or excess
distribution was realized would be taxable as ordinary income, (iii) the amount
allocated to each prior year, with certain exceptions, would be subject to tax
at the highest tax rate in effect for that year and (iv) the interest charge
generally applicable to underpayments of tax would be imposed in respect of the
tax attributable to each such year. Alternatively, an investor may, if certain
conditions are met, include in its income each year a pro rata portion of the
foreign investment fund's income, whether or not distributed to the Portfolio.

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FOREIGN INVESTORS. It is intended that the Portfolio will conduct its
affairs such that its income and gains will not be effectively connected with
the conduct of a U.S. trade or business. Provided the Portfolio conducts its
affairs in such a manner, allocations of U.S. source dividend income to an
investor who, as to the United States, is a foreign trust, foreign corporation
or other foreign investor will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of
30% (or lower treaty rate), and allocations of portfolio interest (as defined in
the Code) or short term or net long term capital gains to such investors
generally will not be subject to U.S. tax.

STATE AND LOCAL TAXES. The Portfolio may be subject to state or local
taxes in jurisdictions in which the Portfolio is deemed to be doing business. In
addition, the treatment of the Portfolio and its investors in those states which
have income tax laws might differ from treatment under the federal income tax
laws. Investors should consult their own tax advisors with respect to any state
or local taxes.

FOREIGN TAXES. The Portfolio may be subject to foreign withholding taxes
with respect to income received from sources within foreign countries.

OTHER TAXATION. The investment by an investor in the Portfolio does not
cause the investor to be liable for any income or franchise tax in the State of
New York. Investors are advised to consult their own tax advisors with respect
to the particular tax consequences to them of an investment in the Portfolio.

ITEM 21. UNDERWRITERS.

The exclusive placement agent for the Portfolio is FDI, which receives
no additional compensation for serving in this capacity. Investment companies,
insurance company separate accounts, common and commingled trust funds and
similar organizations and entities may continuously invest in the Portfolio.

ITEM 22. CALCULATIONS OF PERFORMANCE DATA.

Not applicable.

ITEM 23. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

The Portfolio's current annual report to investors filed with the SEC
pursuant to Section 30(b) of the 1940 Act and Rule 30b2-1 thereunder is
incorporated herein by reference (Accession No. 0000912057-97-000395).

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APPENDIX A
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITY RATINGS

STANDARD & POOR'S

CORPORATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

AAA - Debt rated AAA has the highest ratings assigned by Standard & Poor's to a
debt obligation. Capacity to pay interest and repay principal is extremely
strong.

AA - Debt rated AA has a very strong capacity to pay interest and repay
principal and differs from the highest rated issues only in a small degree.

A - Debt rated A has a strong capacity to pay interest and repay principal
although it is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes
in circumstances and economic conditions than debt in higher rated
categories.

BBB - Debt rated BBB is regarded as having an adequate capacity to pay interest
and repay principal. Whereas it normally exhibits adequate protection
parameters, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more
likely to lead to a weakened capacity to pay interest and repay principal
for debt in this category than for debt in higher rated categories.

BB - Debt rated BB is regarded as having less near-term vulnerability to
default than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing
uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial or economic
conditions which could lead to inadequate capacity to meet timely interest
and principal payments.

COMMERCIAL PAPER, INCLUDING TAX EXEMPT

A - Issues assigned this highest rating are regarded as having the greatest
capacity for timely payment. Issues in this category are further refined
with the designations 1, 2, and 3 to indicate the relative degree of
safety.

A-1 - This designation indicates that the degree of safety regarding
timely payment is very strong.

SHORT-TERM TAX-EXEMPT NOTES

SP-1 - The short-term tax-exempt note rating of SP-1 is the highest
rating assigned by Standard & Poor's and has a very strong or
strong capacity to pay principal and interest. Those issues
determined to possess overwhelming safety characteristics are
given a "plus" (+) designation.

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SP-2 - The short-term tax-exempt note rating of SP-2 has a satisfactory capacity
to pay principal and interest.

MOODY'S

CORPORATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

Aaa - Bonds which are rated Aaa are judged to be of the best quality. They
carry the smallest degree of investment risk and are generally referred to
as "gilt edge." Interest payments are protected by a large or by an
exceptionally stable margin and principal is secure. While the various
protective elements are likely to change, such changes as can be visualized
are most unlikely to impair the fundamentally strong position of such
issues.

Aa - Bonds which are rated Aa are judged to be of high quality by all
standards. Together with the Aaa group they comprise what are generally
known as high grade bonds. They are rated lower than the best bonds because
margins of protection may not be as large as in Aaa securities or
fluctuation of protective elements may be of greater amplitude or there may
be other elements present which make the long term risks appear somewhat
larger than in Aaa securities.

A - Bonds which are rated A possess many favorable investment attributes and
are to be considered as upper medium grade obligations. Factors giving
security to principal and interest are considered adequate but elements may
be present which suggest a susceptibility to impairment sometime in the
future.

Baa - Bonds which are rated Baa are considered as medium grade obligations,
i.e., they are neither highly protected nor poorly secured. Interest
payments and principal security appear adequate for the present but certain
protective elements may be lacking or may be characteristically unreliable
over any great length of time. Such bonds lack outstanding investment
characteristics and in fact have speculative characteristics as well.

Ba - Bonds which are rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements; their
future cannot be considered as well-assured. Often the protection of
interest and principal payments may be very moderate, and thereby not well
safeguarded during both good and bad times over the future. Uncertainty of
position characterizes bonds in this class.

COMMERCIAL PAPER, INCLUDING TAX EXEMPT

Prime-1 - Issuers rated Prime-1 (or related supporting institutions)
have a superior capacity for repayment of short-term
promissory obligations. Prime-1 repayment capacity will
normally be evidenced by the following characteristics:

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- Leading market positions in well established
industries.
- High rates of return on funds employed.
- Conservative capitalization structures with moderate
reliance on debt and ample asset protection.
- Broad margins in earnings coverage of fixed financial
charges and high internal cash generation.
- Well established access to a range of financial
markets and assured sources of alternate liquidity.

SHORT-TERM TAX EXEMPT NOTES

MIG-1- The short-term tax-exempt note rating MIG-1 is the highest rating
assigned by Moody's for notes judged to be the best quality. Notes with
this rating enjoy strong protection from established cash flows of funds
for their servicing or from established and broad-based access to the
market for refinancing, or both.

MIG-2 - MIG-2 rated notes are of high quality but with margins of
protection not as large as MIG-1.

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PART C

ITEM 24. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

(A) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS INCLUDED IN PART A:

Not applicable.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO PART B:

The audited financial statements included in Item 23 are as follows:

Schedule of Investments at October 31, 1996 Statement of Assets and
Liabilities at October 31, 1996 Statement of Operations for the fiscal
year ended October 31, 1996 Statement of Changes in Net Assets
Supplementary Data Notes to Financial Statements at October 31, 1996

(B) EXHIBITS

1 Declaration of Trust, as amended, of the Registrant.3

2 Restated By-Laws of the Registrant.2

5 Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York ("Morgan").3

8 Custodian Contract between the Registrant and State Street Bank and
Trust Company ("State Street").2

9(a) Co-Administration Agreement between the Registrant and Funds
Distributor, Inc. dated August 1, 1996 ("Co-Administration Agreement").1

9(a)(1) Amended Exhibit I to Co-Administration Agreement.2

9(b) Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between the Registrant and State
Street.2

9(c) Restated Administrative Services Agreement between the Registrant and
Morgan dated August 1, 1996 ("Administrative Services Agreement").1

9(c)(1) Amended Exhibit I to Administrative Services Agreement.2

9(d) Amended and Restated Portfolio Fund Services Agreement between the
Registrant and Pierpont Group, Inc. dated July 11, 1996.1

13 Investment representation letters of initial investors.3

27 Financial Data Schedule.3

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1 Incorporated herein by reference from Amendment No. 3 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on October 9, 1996. (Accession No.
0000912057-96-022363).

2 Incorporated herein by reference from Amendment No. 6 to The U.S. Fixed
Income Portfolio's Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 1997. (Accession No.
00001016964-97-000020)

3 Filed herewith.

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

Not applicable.

ITEM 26. NUMBER OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.

Title of Class: Beneficial Interests

Number of Record Holders: 3 (as of January 31, 1997)

ITEM 27. INDEMNIFICATION.

Reference is hereby made to Article V of the Registrant's Declaration
of Trust, filed as an Exhibit hereto.

The Trustees and officers of the Registrant and the personnel of the
Registrant's co-administrator are insured under an errors and omissions
liability insurance policy. The Registrant and its officers are also insured
under the fidelity bond required by Rule 17g-1 under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended.

ITEM 28. BUSINESS AND OTHER CONNECTIONS OF INVESTMENT ADVISER.

Morgan is a New York trust company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated. Morgan conducts a general banking and trust
business.

To the knowledge of the Registrant, none of the directors, except those
set forth below, or executive officers of Morgan is or has been during the past
two fiscal years engaged in any other business, profession, vocation or
employment of a substantial nature, except that certain officers and directors
of Morgan also hold various positions with, and engage in business for, J.P.
Morgan & Co. Incorporated, which owns all the outstanding stock of Morgan. Set
forth below are the names, addresses, and principal business of each director of
Morgan Guaranty who is engaged in another business, profession, vocation or
employment of a substantial nature.

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Riley P. Bechtel: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bechtel Group,
Inc. (architectural design and construction). His address is Bechtel Group,
Inc., P.O. Box 193965, San Francisco, CA 94119-3965.

Martin Feldstein: President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of
Economic Research, Inc. (national research institution). His address is National
Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
02138-5398.

Hanna H. Gray: President Emeritus, The University of Chicago (academic
institution). Her address is The University of Chicago, Department of History,
1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.

James R. Houghton: Retired Chairman, Corning Incorporated (glass
products). His address is R.D.#2 Spencer Hill Road, Corning, NY 14830.

James L. Ketelsen: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Tenneco Inc. (oil, pipe-lines, and manufacturing). His address is 10 South
Briar Hollow 7, Houston, TX 77027.

John A. Krol: President and Chief Executive Officer, E.I. Du Pont de
Nemours & Company (chemicals and energy company). His address is E.I. Du Pont
de Nemours & Company, 1007 Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19898.

Lee R. Raymond: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exxon Corporation
(oil, natural gas, and other petroleum products). His address is Exxon
Corporation, 5959 Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039-2298.

Richard D. Simmons: Retired; Former President, The Washington Post
Company and International Herald Tribune (newspapers). His address is P.O. Box
242, Sperryville, VA 22740.

Douglas C. Yearley: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Phelps Dodge Corporation (chemicals). His address is Phelps Dodge Corporation,
2600 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004-3014.

ITEM 29. PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITERS.

Not applicable.

ITEM 30. LOCATION OF ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.

The accounts and records of the Registrant are located, in whole or in
part, at the office of the Registrant and the following locations:

Morgan Trust Guaranty Company of New York, 60 Wall Street, New York,
New York 10260-0060 or 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10036 (records
relating to its functions as investment adviser and administrative services
agent).

State Street Bank and Trust Company, 225 Franklin Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109 or 40 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3Y8

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(records relating to its functions as custodian and fund accounting and
transfer agent).

Funds Distributor, Inc., 60 State Street, Suite 1300, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109 or c/o State Street Cayman Trust Company, Ltd., Elizabethan
Square, Shedden Road, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI (records
relating to its functions as co-administrator and exclusive placement agent).

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).

ITEM 31. MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

Not applicable.

ITEM 32. UNDERTAKINGS.

Not applicable.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration
Statement on Form N-1A to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI on the 26th
day of February, 1997.

THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO

By /s/ Lenore J. McCabe
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Lenore J. McCabe
Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT

EX-99.B1 Declaration of Trust, as amended, of the Registrant

EX-99.B5 Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York

EX-99.B13 Investment representation letters of initial investors.

EX-27 Financial Data Schedule

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JPM407

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO DECLARATION OF TRUST OF
THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO

DATED AS OF APRIL 13, 1995

The undersigned, being all the Trustees of The Emerging Markets Equity
Portfolio, a trust organized under the laws of the State of New York (the
"Trust["]) acting pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 10.4 of the
Declaration of Trust dated as of June 16, 1993, as amended, hereby amend in its
entirety paragraph Section 6.2 of the Trust's Declaration of Trust as follows:

6.2. Non-Transferability. A Holder may not transfer, sell or exchange its
Interest except as part of a merger or similar plan of reorganization of a
Holder that qualifies under Section 368 of the Code as permitted by the
Trustees.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this instrument as of
the 13th day of April, 1995. This instrument may be executed by the Trustees on
separate counterparts but shall be effective only when signed by all of the
Trustees.

/s/ F.S. Addy /s/ William G. Burns
Frederick S. Addy William G. Burns

/s/ Arthur C. Eschenlauer /s/ Matthew Healey
Arthur C. Eschenlauer Matthew Healey

/s/ Michael P. Mallardi
Michael P. Mallardi

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AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO DECLARATION OF TRUST OF
THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO

DATED AS OF JUNE 24, 1993

The undersigned, being all the Trustees of The Emerging Markets Equity
Portfolio, a New York Trust (the "Trust["]) acting pursuant to the last
paragraph of Section 10.4 of the Declaration of Trust dated as of June 16, 1993,
hereby amend in its entirety paragraph (a) of Section 10.4 of the Trust's
Declaration of Trust as follows:

(a) This Declaration may be amended by the vote of Holders of more than
50% of all Interests at any meeting of Holders or by an instrument in writing
without a meeting, executed by a majority of the Trustees and consented to by
the Holders of more than 50% of all Interests. Notwithstanding any other
provision hereof, this Declaration may be amended by an instrument in writing
executed by a majority of the Trustees, and without the vote or consent of
Holders, for any one or more of the following purposes: (i) to change the name
of the Trust, (ii) to supply any omission, or to cure, correct or supplement any
ambiguous, defective or inconsistent provision hereof, (iii) to conform this
Declaration to the requirements of applicable federal law or regulations or the
requirements of the applicable provisions of the Code, (iv) to change the state
or other jurisdiction designated herein as the state or other jurisdiction whose
law shall be the governing law hereof, (v) to effect such changes herein as the
Trustees find to be necessary or appropriate (A) to permit the filing of this
Declaration under the law of such state or other jurisdiction applicable to
trusts or voluntary associations, (B) to permit the Trust to elect to be treated
as a "regulated investment company" under the applicable provisions of the Code,
(C) to permit the Trust to comply with fiscal or other statutory or official
requirements of any government authority, or (D) to permit the transfer of
Interests (or to permit the transfer of any other beneficial interest in or
share of the Trust, however denominated), and (vi) in conjunction with any
amendment contemplated by the foregoing clause (iv) or the foregoing clause (v)
to make any and all such further changes or modifications to this Declaration as
the Trustees find to be necessary or appropriate, any finding of the Trustees
referred to in the foregoing clause (v) or the foregoing clause (vi) to be
conclusively evidenced by the execution of any such amendment by a majority of
the Trustees; provided, however, that unless effected in compliance with the
provisions of Section 10.4(b) hereof, no amendment otherwise authorized by this
sentence may be made which would reduce the amount payable with respect to any
Interest upon liquidation of the Trust and; provided, further, that the Trustees
shall not be liable for failing to make any amendment permitted by this Section
10.4(a).

The undersigned have executed this amendment as of the year and date
first written above.

/s/ James B. Craver /s/ Thomas M. Lenz /s/ Andres Saldana
James B. Craver Thomas M. Lenz Andres E. Saldana
As Trustee and not As Trustee and not As Trustee and not
Individually Individually Individually

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JPM70

THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUIYT PORTFOLIO

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DECLARATION OF TRUST

Dated as of June 16, 1993

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I--The Trust 1

Section 1.1 Name 1
Section 1.2 Definitions 1

ARTICLE II--Trustees 3

Section 2.1 Number and Qualification 3
Section 2.2 Term and Election 4
Section 2.3 Resignation, Removal and Retirement 4
Section 2.4 Vacancies 5
Section 2.5 Meetings 5
Section 2.6 Officers; Chairman of the Board 6
Section 2.7 By-Laws 6

ARTICLE III--Powers of Trustees 6

Section 3.1 General 6
Section 3.2 Investments 6
Section 3.3 Legal Title 7
Section 3.4 Sale and Increases of Interests 7
Section 3.5 Decreases and Redemptions of Interests 8
Section 3.6 Borrow Money 8
Section 3.7 Delegation; Committees 8
Section 3.8 Collection and Payment 8
Section 3.9 Expenses 8
Section 3.10 Miscellaneous Powers 9
Section 3.11 Further Powers 9

ARTICLE IV--Investment Management and Administration and Placement
Agent Arrangements 9

Section 4.1 Investment Management and Other Arrangements 10
Section 4.2 Parties to Contract 10

ARTICLE V--Liability of Holders; Limitations of Liability of Trustees,
Officers, etc. 10

Section 5.1 Liability of Holders; Indemnification 11
Section 5.2 Limitations of Liability of Trustees,
Officers, Employees, Agents, Independent
Contractors to Third Parties 11
Section 5.3 Limitations of Liability of Trustees,
Officers, Employees, Agents, Independent
Contractors to Trust, Holders, etc. 11
Section 5.4 Mandatory Indemnification 11

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Section 5.5 No Bond Required of Trustees 12
Section 5.6 No Duty of Investigation; Notice in
Trust Instruments, etc. 12
Section 5.7 Reliance on Experts, etc. 13

ARTICLE VI--Interests 14

Section 6.1 Interests 14
Section 6.2 Non-Transferability 14
Section 6.3 Register of Interests 14

ARTICLE VII--Increases, Decreases, And Redemptions of Interests 14

ARTICLE VIII--Determination of Book Capital Account Balances,
and Distributions 15

Section 8.1 Book Capital Account Balances 15
Section 8.2 Allocations and Distributions to Holders 15
Section 8.3 Power to Modify Foregoing Procedures 15

ARTICLE IX--Holders 15

Section 9.1 Rights of Holders 15
Section 9.2 Meetings of Holders 16
Section 9.3 Notice of Meetings 16
Section 9.4 Record Date for Meetings, Distributions, etc. 16
Section 9.5 Proxies, etc. 17
Section 9.6 Reports 17
Section 9.7 Inspection of Records 17
Section 9.8 Holder Action by Written Consent 17
Section 9.9 Notices 18

ARTICLE X--Duration; Termination; Amendment; Mergers; Etc. 18

Section 10.1 Duration 18
Section 10.2 Termination 19
Section 10.3 Dissolution 20
Section 10.4 Amendment Procedure 20
Section 10.5 Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets 21
Section 10.6 Incorporation 21

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ARTICLE XI--Miscellaneous 22

Section 11.1 Certificate of Designation; Agent for
Service of Process 22
Section 11.2 Governing Law 22
Section 11.3 Counterparts 22
Section 11.4 Reliance by Third Parties 22
Section 11.5 Provisions in Conflict With Law or Regulations 23

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JPM70

DECLARATION OF TRUST

THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO
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This DECLARATION OF TRUST of the The Emerging Markets Equity
Portfolio is made as of the 16th day of June, 1993 by the parties signatory
hereto, as Trustees (as defined in Section 1.2 hereof).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Trustees desire to form a trust fund under the
law of the State of New York for the investment and reinvestment of its assets;
and

WHEREAS, it is proposed that the trust assets be composed of
money and property contributed thereto by the holders of interests in the trust
entitled to ownership rights in the trust;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Trustees hereby declare that they will
hold in trust all money and property contributed to the trust fund and will
manage and dispose of the same for the benefit of the holders of interests in
the Trust and subject to the provisions hereof, to wit:

ARTICLE I

THE TRUST

1.1. NAME. The name of the trust created hereby (the "Trust")
shall be The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio and so far as may be practicable
the Trustees shall conduct the Trust's activities, execute all documents and sue
or be sued under that name, which name (and the word "Trust" wherever
hereinafter used) shall refer to the Trustees as Trustees, and not individually,
and shall not refer to the officers, employees, agents or independent
contractors of the Trust or holders of interests in the Trust.

1.2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Declaration, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:

The term "Interested Person" shall have the meaning given it
in the 1940 Act.

"BOOK CAPITAL ACCOUNT" shall mean, for any Holder at any time,
the Book Capital Account of the Holder for such day, determined in accordance
with Section 8.1 hereof.

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"CODE" shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended from time to time, as well as any non-superseded provisions of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (or any corresponding provision or
provisions of succeeding law).

"COMMISSION" shall mean the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission.

"DECLARATION" shall mean this Declaration of Trust as amended
from time to time. References in this Declaration to "DECLARATION", "HEREOF",
"HEREIN" and "HEREUNDER" shall be deemed to refer to this Declaration rather
than the article or section in which any such word appears.

"FISCAL YEAR" shall mean an annual period determined by the
Trustees which ends on December 31 of each year or on such other day as is
permitted or required by the Code.

"HOLDERS" shall mean as of any particular time all
holders of record of Interests in the Trust.

"INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR(S)" shall mean any regulated
investment company, segregated asset account, foreign investment company, common
trust fund, group trust or other investment arrangement, whether organized
within or without the United States of America, other than an individual, S
corporation, partnership or grantor trust beneficially owned by any individual,
S corporation or partnership.

"INTEREST(S)" shall mean the interest of a Holder in the
Trust, including all rights, powers and privileges accorded to Holders by this
Declaration, which interest may be expressed as a percentage, determined by
calculating, at such times and on such basis as the Trustees shall from time to
time determine, the ratio of each Holder's Book Capital Account balance to the
total of all Holders' Book Capital Account balances. Reference herein to a
specified percentage of, or fraction of, Interests, means Holders whose combined
Book Capital Account balances represent such specified percentage or fraction of
the combined Book Capital Account balances of all, or a specified group of,
Holders.

"INVESTMENT MANAGER AND ADMINISTRATOR" shall mean any party
furnishing services to the Trust pursuant to any investment management or
administration contract described in Section 4.1 hereof.

"MAJORITY INTERESTS VOTE" shall mean the vote, at a meeting of
Holders, of (A) 67% or more of the Interests present or represented at such
meeting, if Holders of more than 50% of all Interests are present or represented
by proxy, or (B) more than 50% of all Interests, whichever is less.

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"PERSON" shall mean and include individuals, corporations,
partnerships, trusts, associations, joint ventures and other entities, whether
or not legal entities, and governments and agencies and political subdivisions
thereof.

"REDEMPTION" shall mean the complete withdrawal of an Interest
of a Holder the result of which is to reduce the Book Capital Account balance of
that Holder to zero, and the term "redeem" shall mean to effect a Redemption.

"TRUSTEES" shall mean each signatory to this Declaration, so
long as such signatory shall continue in office in accordance with the terms
hereof, and all other individuals who at the time in question have been duly
elected or appointed and have qualified as Trustees in accordance with the
provisions hereof and are then in office, and reference in this Declaration to a
Trustee or Trustees shall refer to such individual or individuals in their
capacity as Trustees hereunder.

"TRUST PROPERTY" shall mean as of any particular time any and
all property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, which at such time is
owned or held by or for the account of the Trust or the Trustees.

The "1940 ACT" shall mean the United States Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations
thereunder.

ARTICLE II

TRUSTEES

2.1. NUMBER AND QUALIFICATION. The number of Trustees shall be
fixed from time to time by action of the Trustees taken as provided in Section
2.5 hereof; provided, however, that the number of Trustees so fixed shall in no
event be less than three or more than 15. Any vacancy created by an increase in
the number of Trustees may be filled by the appointment of an individual having
the qualifications described in this Section 2.1 made by action of the Trustees
taken as provided in Section 2.5 hereof. Any such appointment shall not become
effective, however, until the individual named in the written instrument of
appointment shall have accepted in writing such appointment and agreed in
writing to be bound by the terms of this Declaration. No reduction in the number
of Trustees shall have the effect of removing any Trustee from office. Whenever
a vacancy occurs, until such vacancy is filled as provided in Section 2.4
hereof, the Trustees continuing in office, regardless of their number, shall
have all the powers granted to the Trustees and shall discharge all the duties
imposed upon the Trustees by this Declaration. A Trustee shall be an individual
at least 21 years of age who is not under legal disability.

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2.2. TERM AND ELECTION. Each Trustee named herein, or elected
or appointed prior to the first meeting of Holders, shall (except in the event
of resignations, retirements, removals or vacancies pursuant to Section 2.3 or
Section 2.4 hereof) hold office until a successor to such Trustee has been
elected at such meeting and has qualified to serve as Trustee, as required under
the 1940 Act. Subject to the provisions of Section 16(a) of the 1940 Act and
except as provided in Section 2.3 hereof, each Trustee shall hold office during
the lifetime of the Trust and until its termination as hereinafter provided.

2.3. RESIGNATION, REMOVAL AND RETIREMENT. Any Trustee may
resign his or her trust (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an
instrument in writing executed by such Trustee and delivered or mailed to the
Chairman, if any, the President or the Secretary of the Trust and such
resignation shall be effective upon such delivery, or at a later date according
to the terms of the instrument. Any Trustee may be removed by the affirmative
vote of Holders of two-thirds of the Interests or (provided the aggregate number
of Trustees, after such removal and after giving effect to any appointment made
to fill the vacancy created by such removal, shall not be less than the number
required by Section 2.1 hereof) with cause, by the action of two-thirds of the
remaining Trustees. Removal with cause includes, but is not limited to, the
removal of a Trustee due to physical or mental incapacity or failure to comply
with such written policies as from time to time may be adopted by at least
two-thirds of the Trustees with respect to the conduct of the Trustees and
attendance at meetings. Any Trustee who has attained a mandatory retirement age,
if any, established pursuant to any written policy adopted from time to time by
at least two-thirds of the Trustees shall, automatically and without action by
such Trustee or the remaining Trustees, be deemed to have retired in accordance
with the terms of such policy, effective as of the date determined in accordance
with such policy. Any Trustee who has become incapacitated by illness or injury
as determined by a majority of the other Trustees, may be retired by written
instrument executed by a majority of the other Trustees, specifying the date of
such Trustee's retirement. Upon the resignation, retirement or removal of a
Trustee, or a Trustee otherwise ceasing to be a Trustee, such resigning,
retired, removed or former Trustee shall execute and deliver such documents as
the remaining Trustees shall require for the purpose of conveying to the Trust
or the remaining Trustees any Trust Property held in the name of such resigning,
retired, removed or former Trustee. Upon the death of any Trustee or upon
removal, retirement or resignation due to any Trustee's incapacity to serve as
Trustee, the legal representative of such deceased, removed, retired or
resigning Trustee shall execute and deliver on behalf of such deceased, removed,
retired or resigning Trustee such documents as the remaining Trustees shall
require for the purpose set forth in the preceding sentence.

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2.4. VACANCIES. The term of office of a Trustee shall
terminate and a vacancy shall occur in the event of the death, resignation,
retirement, adjudicated incompetence or other incapacity to perform the duties
of the office, or removal, of a Trustee. No such vacancy shall operate to annul
this Declaration or to revoke any existing agency created pursuant to the terms
of this Declaration. In the case of a vacancy, Holders of at least a majority of
the Interests entitled to vote, acting at any meeting of Holders held in
accordance with Section 9.2 hereof, or, to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act,
a majority vote of the Trustees continuing in office acting by written
instrument or instruments, may fill such vacancy, and any Trustee so elected by
the Trustees or the Holders shall hold office as provided in this Declaration.

2.5. MEETINGS. Meetings of the Trustees shall be held from
time to time upon the call of the Chairman, if any, the President, the
Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or any two Trustees. Regular meetings of the
Trustees may be held without call or notice at a time and place fixed by the
By-Laws or by resolution of the Trustees. Notice of any other meeting shall be
mailed or otherwise given not less than 24 hours before the meeting but may be
waived in writing by any Trustee either before or after such meeting. The
attendance of a Trustee at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such
meeting except in the situation in which a Trustee attends a meeting for the
express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground
that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened. The Trustees may act with
or without a meeting. A quorum for all meetings of the Trustees shall be a
majority of the Trustees. Unless provided otherwise in this Declaration, any
action of the Trustees may be taken at a meeting by vote of a majority of the
Trustees present (a quorum being present) or without a meeting by written
consent of a majority of the Trustees.

Any committee of the Trustees, including an executive
committee, if any, may act with or without a meeting. A quorum for all meetings
of any such committee shall be a majority of the members thereof. Unless
provided otherwise in this Declaration, any action of any such committee may be
taken at a meeting by vote of a majority of the members present (a quorum being
present) or without a meeting by written consent of a majority of the members.

With respect to actions of the Trustees and any committee of
the Trustees, Trustees who are Interested Persons of the Trust or otherwise
interested in any action to be taken may be counted for quorum purposes under
this Section 2.5 and shall be entitled to vote to the extent permitted by the
1940 Act.

All or any one or more Trustees may participate in a meeting
of the Trustees or any committee thereof by means of a conference telephone or
similar communications equipment by means of which all individuals participating
in the meeting can hear each

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other and participation in a meeting by means of such communications equipment
shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

2.6. OFFICERS; CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The Trustees shall, from
time to time, elect a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Trustees may
elect or appoint, from time to time, a Chairman of the Board who shall preside
at all meetings of the Trustees and carry out such other duties as the Trustees
may designate. The Trustees may elect or appoint or authorize the President to
appoint such other officers, agents or independent contractors with such powers
as the Trustees may deem to be advisable. The Chairman, if any, shall be and
each other officer may, but need not, be a Trustee.

2.7. BY-LAWS. The Trustees may adopt and, from time to
time, amend or repeal By-Laws for the conduct of the business of the Trust.

ARTICLE III

POWERS OF TRUSTEES

3.1. GENERAL. The Trustees shall have exclusive and absolute
control over the Trust Property and over the business of the Trust to the same
extent as if the Trustees were the sole owners of the Trust Property and such
business in their own right, but with such powers of delegation as may be
permitted by this Declaration. The Trustees may perform such acts as in their
sole discretion they deem proper for conducting the business of the Trust. The
enumeration of or failure to mention any specific power herein shall not be
construed as limiting such exclusive and absolute control. The powers of the
Trustees may be exercised without order of or resort to any court.

3.2. INVESTMENTS. The Trustees shall have power to:

(a) conduct, operate and carry on the business of
an investment company;

(b) subscribe for, invest in, reinvest in, purchase
or otherwise acquire, hold, pledge, sell, assign, transfer, exchange, distribute
or otherwise deal in or dispose of United States and foreign currencies and
related instruments including forward contracts, and securities, including
common and preferred stock, warrants, bonds, debentures, time notes and all
other evidences of indebtedness, negotiable or non-negotiable instruments,
obligations, certificates of deposit or indebtedness, commercial paper,
repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, convertible securities,
forward contracts, options, futures contracts, and other securities, including,
without limitation, those issued, guaranteed or sponsored by any state,

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territory or possession of the United States and the District of Columbia and
their political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities, or by the United
States Government, any foreign government, or any agency, instrumentality or
political subdivision of the United States Government or any foreign government,
or any international instrumentality, or by any bank, savings institution,
corporation or other business entity organized under the laws of the United
States or under any foreign laws; and to exercise any and all rights, powers and
privileges of ownership or interest in respect of any and all such investments
of any kind and description, including, without limitation, the right to consent
and otherwise act with respect thereto, with power to designate one or more
Persons to exercise any of such rights, powers and privileges in respect of any
of such investments; and the Trustees shall be deemed to have the foregoing
powers with respect to any additional instruments in which the Trustees may
determine to invest.

The Trustees shall not be limited to investing in obligations
maturing before the possible termination of the Trust, nor shall the Trustees be
limited by any law limiting the investments which may be made by fiduciaries.

3.3. LEGAL TITLE. Legal title to all Trust Property shall be
vested in the Trustees as joint tenants except that the Trustees shall have the
power to cause legal title to any Trust Property to be held by or in the name of
one or more of the Trustees, or in the name of the Trust, or in the name or
nominee name of any other Person on behalf of the Trust, on such terms as the
Trustees may determine.

The right, title and interest of the Trustees in the Trust
Property shall vest automatically in each individual who may hereafter become a
Trustee upon his due election and qualification. Upon the resignation, removal
or death of a Trustee, such resigning, removed or deceased Trustee shall
automatically cease to have any right, title or interest in any Trust Property,
and the right, title and interest of such resigning, removed or deceased Trustee
in the Trust Property shall vest automatically in the remaining Trustees. Such
vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing
documents have been executed and delivered.

3.4. SALE AND INCREASES OF INTERESTS. The Trustees, in
their discretion, may, from time to time, without a vote of the Holders,
permit any Institutional Investor to purchase an Interest, or increase its
Interest, for such type of consideration, including cash or property, at such
time or times (including, without limitation, each business day), and on such
terms as the Trustees may deem best, and may in such manner acquire other assets
(including the acquisition of assets subject to, and in connection with the
assumption of, liabilities) and businesses. Individuals,

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S corporations, partnerships and grantor trusts that are beneficially owned by
any individual, S corporation or partnership may not purchase Interests. A
Holder which has redeemed its Interest may not be permitted to purchase an
Interest until the later of 60 calendar days after the date of such Redemption
or the first day of the Fiscal Year next succeeding the Fiscal Year during which
such Redemption occurred.

3.5 DECREASES AND REDEMPTIONS OF INTERESTS. Subject to Article
VII hereof, the Trustees, in their discretion, may, from time to time, without a
vote of the Holders, permit a Holder to redeem its Interest, or decrease its
Interest, for either cash or property, at such time or times (including, without
limitation, each business day), and on such terms as the Trustees may deem best.

3.6. BORROW MONEY. The Trustees shall have power to borrow
money or otherwise obtain credit and to secure the same by mortgaging, pledging
or otherwise subjecting as security the assets of the Trust, including the
lending of portfolio securities, and to endorse, guarantee, or undertake the
performance of any obligation, contract or engagement of any other Person.

3.7. DELEGATION; COMMITTEES. The Trustees shall have power,
consistent with their continuing exclusive and absolute control over the Trust
Property and over the business of the Trust, to delegate from time to time to
such of their number or to officers, employees, agents or independent
contractors of the Trust the doing of such things and the execution of such
instruments in either the name of the Trust or the names of the Trustees or
otherwise as the Trustees may deem expedient.

3.8. COLLECTION AND PAYMENT. The Trustees shall have power to
collect all property due to the Trust; and to pay all claims, including taxes,
against the Trust Property; to prosecute, defend, compromise or abandon any
claims relating to the Trust or the Trust Property; to foreclose any security
interest securing any obligation, by virtue of which any property is owed to the
Trust; and to enter into releases, agreements and other instruments.

3.9. EXPENSES. The Trustees shall have power to incur and pay
any expenses which in the opinion of the Trustees are necessary or incidental to
carry out any of the purposes of this Declaration, and to pay reasonable
compensation from the Trust Property to themselves as Trustees. The Trustees
shall fix the compensation of all officers, employees and Trustees. The Trustees
may pay themselves such compensation for special services, including legal and
brokerage services, as they in good faith may deem reasonable, and reimbursement
for expenses reasonably incurred by themselves on behalf of the Trust.

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3.10. MISCELLANEOUS POWERS. The Trustees shall have power to:
(a) employ or contract with such Persons as the Trustees may deem appropriate
for the transaction of the business of the Trust and terminate such employees or
contractual relationships as they consider appropriate; (b) enter into joint
ventures, partnerships and any other combinations or associations; (c) purchase,
and pay for out of Trust Property, insurance policies insuring the Investment
Manager and Administrator, placement agent, Holders, Trustees, officers,
employees, agents or independent contractors of the Trust against all claims
arising by reason of holding any such position or by reason of any action taken
or omitted by any such Person in such capacity, whether or not the Trust would
have the power to indemnify such Person against such liability; (d) establish
pension, profit-sharing and other retirement, incentive and benefit plans for
the Trustees, officers, employees or agents of the Trust; (e) make donations,
irrespective of benefit to the Trust, for charitable, religious, educational,
scientific, civic or similar purposes; (f) to the extent permitted by law,
indemnify any Person with whom the Trust has dealings, including the Investment
Manager and Administrator, placement agent, Holders, Trustees, officers,
employees, agents or independent contractors of the Trust, to such extent as the
Trustees shall determine; (g) guarantee indebtedness or contractual obligations
of others; (h) determine and change the Fiscal Year of the Trust and the method
by which its accounts shall be kept; and (i) adopt a seal for the Trust, but the
absence of such a seal shall not impair the validity of any instrument executed
on behalf of the Trust.

3.11. FURTHER POWERS. The Trustees shall have power to conduct
the business of the Trust and carry on its operations in any and all of its
branches and maintain offices, whether within or without the State of New York,
in any and all states of the United States of America, in the District of
Columbia, and in any and all commonwealths, territories, dependencies, colonies,
possessions, agencies or instrumentalities of the United States of America and
of foreign governments, and to do all such other things and execute all such
instruments as they deem necessary, proper, appropriate or desirable in order to
promote the interests of the Trust although such things are not herein
specifically mentioned. Any determination as to what is in the interests of the
Trust which is made by the Trustees in good faith shall be conclusive. In
construing the provisions of this Declaration, the presumption shall be in favor
of a grant of power to the Trustees. The Trustees shall not be required to
obtain any court order in order to deal with Trust Property.

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ARTICLE IV

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
AND PLACEMENT AGENT ARRANGEMENTS

4.1. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. The
Trustees may in their discretion, from time to time, enter into investment
management and administration contracts or placement agent agreements whereby
the other party to such contract or agreement shall undertake to furnish the
Trustees such investment management and administration, placement agent and/or
other services as the Trustees shall, from time to time, consider appropriate or
desirable and all upon such terms and conditions as the Trustees may in their
sole discretion determine. Notwithstanding any provision of this Declaration,
the Trustees may authorize any Investment Manager and Administrator (subject to
such general or specific instructions as the Trustees may, from time to time,
adopt) to effect purchases, sales, loans or exchanges of Trust Property on
behalf of the Trustees or may authorize any officer, employee or Trustee to
effect such purchases, sales, loans or exchanges pursuant to recommendations of
any such Investment Manager and Administrator (all without any further action by
the Trustees). Any such purchase, sale, loan or exchange shall be deemed to have
been authorized by the Trustees.

4.2. PARTIES TO CONTRACT. Any contract of the character
described in Section 4.1 hereof or in the By-Laws of the Trust may be entered
into with any corporation, firm, trust or association, although one or more of
the Trustees or officers of the Trust may be an officer, director, Trustee,
shareholder or member of such other party to the contract, and no such contract
shall be invalidated or rendered voidable by reason of the existence of any such
relationship, nor shall any individual holding such relationship be liable
merely by reason of such relationship for any loss or expense to the Trust under
or by reason of any such contract or accountable for any profit realized
directly or indirectly therefrom, provided that the contract when entered into
was reasonable and fair and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Article
IV or the By-Laws of the Trust. The same Person may be the other party to one or
more contracts entered into pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof or the By-Laws of the
Trust, and any individual may be financially interested or otherwise affiliated
with Persons who are parties to any or all of the contracts mentioned in this
Section 4.2 or in the By-Laws of the Trust.

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ARTICLE V

LIABILITY OF HOLDERS; LIMITATIONS OF
LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES, OFFICERS ETC.

5.1. LIABILITY OF HOLDERS; INDEMNIFICATION. Each Holder shall
be jointly and severally liable (with rights of contribution inter se in
proportion to their respective Interests in the Trust) for the liabilities and
obligations of the Trust in the event that the Trust fails to satisfy such
liabilities and obligations; provided, however, that, to the extent assets are
available in the Trust, the Trust shall indemnify and hold each Holder harmless
from and against any claim or liability to which such Holder may become subject
by reason of being or having been a Holder to the extent that such claim or
liability imposes on the Holder an obligation or liability which, when compared
to the obligations and liabilities imposed on other Holders, is greater than
such Holder's Interest (proportionate share), and shall reimburse such Holder
for all legal and other expenses reasonably incurred by such Holder in
connection with any such claim or liability. The rights accruing to a Holder
under this Section 5.1 shall not exclude any other right to which such Holder
may be lawfully entitled, nor shall anything contained herein restrict the right
of the Trust to indemnify or reimburse a Holder in any appropriate situation
even though not specifically provided herein. Notwithstanding the
indemnification procedure described above, it is intended that each Holder shall
remain jointly and severally liable to the Trust's creditors as a legal matter.

5.2. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES, OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES, AGENTS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS TO THIRD PARTIES. No Trustee, officer,
employee, agent or independent contractor (except in the case of an agent or
independent contractor to the extent expressly provided by written contract) of
the Trust shall be subject to any personal liability whatsoever to any Person,
other than the Trust or the Holders, in connection with Trust Property or the
affairs of the Trust; and all such Persons shall look solely to the Trust
Property for satisfaction of claims of any nature against a Trustee, officer,
employee, agent or independent contractor (except in the case of an agent or
independent contractor to the extent expressly provided by written contract) of
the Trust arising in connection with the affairs of the Trust.

5.3. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES, OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS TO TRUST, HOLDERS, ETC. No Trustee,
officer, employee, agent or independent contractor (except in the case of an
agent or independent contractor to the extent expressly provided by written
contract) of the Trust shall be liable to the Trust or the Holders for any
action or failure to act (including, without limitation, the failure to compel
in any way any former or acting Trustee to redress any breach of trust)

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except for such Person's own bad faith, willful misfeasance, gross negligence or
reckless disregard of such Person's duties.

5.4. MANDATORY INDEMNIFICATION. The Trust shall indemnify, to
the fullest extent permitted by law (including the 1940 Act), each Trustee,
officer, employee, agent or independent contractor (except in the case of an
agent or independent contractor to the extent expressly provided by written
contract) of the Trust (including any Person who serves at the Trust's request
as a director, officer or trustee of another organization in which the Trust has
any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise) against all liabilities
and expenses (including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in
compromise, as fines and penalties, and as counsel fees) reasonably incurred by
such Person in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or
other proceeding, whether civil or criminal, in which such Person may be
involved or with which such Person may be threatened, while in office or
thereafter, by reason of such Person being or having been such a Trustee,
officer, employee, agent or independent contractor, except with respect to any
matter as to which such Person shall have been adjudicated to have acted in bad
faith, willful misfeasance, gross negligence or reckless disregard of such
Person's duties; provided, however, that as to any matter disposed of by a
compromise payment by such Person, pursuant to a consent decree or otherwise, no
indemnification either for such payment or for any other expenses shall be
provided unless there has been a determination that such Person did not engage
in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the
duties involved in the conduct of such Person's office by the court or other
body approving the settlement or other disposition or by a reasonable
determination, based upon a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a
full trial-type inquiry), that such Person did not engage in such conduct by
written opinion from independent legal counsel approved by the Trustees. The
rights accruing to any Person under these provisions shall not exclude any other
right to which such Person may be lawfully entitled; provided that no Person may
satisfy any right of indemnity or reimbursement granted in this Section 5.4 or
in Section 5.2 hereof or to which such Person may be otherwise entitled except
out of the Trust Property. The Trustees may make advance payments in connection
with indemnification under this Section 5.4, provided that the indemnified
Person shall have given a written undertaking to reimburse the Trust in the
event it is subsequently determined that such Person is not entitled to such
indemnification.

5.5. NO BOND REQUIRED OF TRUSTEES. No Trustee shall, as
such, be obligated to give any bond or surety or other security for the
performance of any of such Trustee's duties hereunder.

5.6. NO DUTY OF INVESTIGATION; NOTICE IN TRUST INSTRUMENTS,
ETC. No purchaser, lender or other Person dealing with any Trustee, officer,
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contractor of the Trust shall be bound to make any inquiry concerning the
validity of any transaction purporting to be made by such Trustee, officer,
employee, agent or independent contractor or be liable for the application of
money or property paid, loaned or delivered to or on the order of such Trustee,
officer, employee, agent or independent contractor. Every obligation, contract,
instrument, certificate or other interest or undertaking of the Trust, and every
other act or thing whatsoever executed in connection with the Trust shall be
conclusively taken to have been executed or done by the executors thereof only
in their capacity as Trustees, officers, employees, agents or independent
contractors of the Trust. Every written obligation, contract, instrument,
certificate or other interest or undertaking of the Trust made or sold by any
Trustee, officer, employee, agent or independent contractor of the Trust, in
such capacity, shall contain an appropriate recital to the effect that the
Trustee, officer, employee, agent or independent contractor of the Trust shall
not personally be bound by or liable thereunder, nor shall resort be had to
their private property for the satisfaction of any obligation or claim
thereunder, and appropriate references shall be made therein to the Declaration,
and may contain any further recital which they may deem appropriate, but the
omission of such recital shall not operate to impose personal liability on any
Trustee, officer, employee, agent or independent contractor of the Trust.
Subject to the provisions of the 1940 Act, the Trust may maintain insurance for
the protection of the Trust Property, the Holders, and the Trustees, officers,
employees, agents and independent contractors of the Trust in such amount as the
Trustees shall deem adequate to cover possible tort liability, and such other
insurance as the Trustees in their sole judgment shall deem advisable.

5.7. RELIANCE ON EXPERTS, ETC. Each Trustee, officer,
employee, agent or independent contractor of the Trust shall, in the performance
of such Person's duties, be fully and completely justified and protected with
regard to any act or any failure to act resulting from reliance in good faith
upon the books of account or other records of the Trust (whether or not the
Trust would have the power to indemnify such Persons against such liability),
upon an opinion of counsel, or upon reports made to the Trust by any of its
officers or employees or by any Investment Manager and Administrator,
accountant, appraiser or other experts or consultants selected with reasonable
care by the Trustees, officers or employees of the Trust, regardless of whether
such counsel or expert may also be a Trustee.

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ARTICLE VI

Interests

6.1. Interests. The beneficial interest in the Trust Property
shall consist of non-transferable Interests except as provided in Section 6.2
hereof. The Interests shall be personal property giving only the rights in this
Declaration specifically set forth. The value of an Interest shall be equal to
the Book Capital Account balance of the Holder of the Interest.

6.2. Non - Transferability. A Holder may not transfer,
sell or exchange its Interest except as part of a merger or similar plan of
reorganization of a Holder as permitted by the Trustees.

6.3. Register of Interests. A register shall be kept at the
Trust under the direction of the Trustees which shall contain the name, address
and Book Capital Account balance of each Holder. Such register shall be
conclusive as to the identity of the Holders. No Holder shall be entitled to
receive payment of any distribution, nor to have notice given to it as herein
provided, until it has given its address to such officer or agent of the Trust
as is keeping such register for entry thereon.

ARTICLE VII

INCREASES, DECREASES AND REDEMPTIONS OF INTERESTS

Subject to applicable law, to the provisions of this
Declaration and to such restrictions as may from time to time be adopted by the
Trustees, each Holder shall have the right to vary its investment in the Trust
at any time without limitation by increasing (through a capital contribution) or
decreasing (through a capital withdrawal) or by a Redemption of its Interest. An
increase in the investment of a Holder in the Trust shall be reflected as an
increase in the Book Capital Account balance of that Holder and a decrease in
the investment of a Holder in the Trust or the Redemption of the Interest of a
Holder shall be reflected as a decrease in the Book Capital Account balance of
that Holder. The Trust shall, upon appropriate and adequate notice from any
Holder increase, decrease or redeem such Holder's Interest for an amount
determined by the application of a formula adopted for such purpose by
resolution of the Trustees; provided that (a) the amount received by the Holder
upon any such decrease or Redemption shall not exceed the decrease in the
Holder's Book Capital Account balance effected by such decrease or Redemption of
its Interest, and (b) if so authorized by the Trustees, the Trust may, at any
time and from time to time, charge fees for effecting any such decrease or
Redemption, at such rates as the Trustees may establish, and may, at any time
and from time to time, suspend such right of decrease or Redemption. The
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decreases or Redemptions shall be as determined by the Trustees from time to
time.

ARTICLE VIII

DETERMINATION OF BOOK CAPITAL ACCOUNT
BALANCES AND DISTRIBUTIONS

8.1. BOOK CAPITAL ACCOUNT BALANCES. The Book Capital Account
balance of each Holder shall be determined on such days and at such time or
times as the Trustees may determine. The Trustees shall adopt resolutions
setting forth the method of determining the Book Capital Account balance of each
Holder. The power and duty to make calculations pursuant to such resolutions may
be delegated by the Trustees to the Investment Manager and Administrator,
custodian, or such other Person as the Trustees may determine. Upon the
Redemption of an Interest, the Holder of that Interest shall be entitled to
receive the balance of its Book Capital Account in cash or in kind. Except as
provided in Section 6.2, a holder may not transfer, sell or exchange its Book
Capital Account balance.

8.2. ALLOCATIONS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO HOLDERS. The Trustees
shall, in compliance with the Code, the 1940 Act and generally accepted
accounting principles, establish the procedures by which the Trust shall make
(i) the allocation of unrealized gains and losses, taxable income and tax loss,
and profit and loss, or any item or items thereof, to each Holder, (ii) the
payment of distributions, if any, to Holders, and (iii) upon liquidation, the
final distribution of items of taxable income and expense. Such procedures shall
be set forth in writing and be furnished to the Trust's accountants. The
Trustees may amend the procedures adopted pursuant to this Section 8.2 from time
to time. The Trustees may retain from the net profits such amount as they may
deem necessary to pay the liabilities and expenses of the Trust, to meet
obligations of the Trust, and as they may deem desirable to use in the conduct
of the affairs of the Trust or to retain for future requirements or extensions
of the business.

8.3. POWER TO MODIFY FOREGOING PROCEDURES. Notwithstanding any
of the foregoing provisions of this Article VIII, the Trustees may prescribe, in
their absolute discretion, such other bases and times for determining the net
income of the Trust, the allocation of income of the Trust, the Book Capital
Account balance of each Holder, or the payment of distributions to the Holders
as they may deem necessary or desirable to enable the Trust to comply with any
provision of the 1940 Act or any order of exemption issued by the Commission or
with the Code.

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ARTICLE IX

HOLDERS

9.1. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS. The ownership of the Trust Property
and the right to conduct any business described herein are vested exclusively in
the Trustees, and the Holders shall have no right or title therein other than
the beneficial interest conferred by their Interests and they shall have no
power or right to call for any partition or division of any Trust Property.

9.2. MEETINGS OF HOLDERS. Meetings of Holders may be called at
any time by a majority of the Trustees and shall be called by any Trustee upon
written request of Holders holding, in the aggregate, not less than 10% of the
Interests, such request specifying the purpose or purposes for which such
meeting is to be called. Any such meeting shall be held within or without the
State of New York and within or without the United States of America on such day
and at such time as the Trustees shall designate. Holders of one-third of the
Interests, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of any business, except as may otherwise be required by the 1940
Act, other applicable law, this Declaration or the By-Laws of the Trust. If a
quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote of the Holders present, in
person or by proxy, holding more than 50% of the total Interests of the Holders
present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting constitutes the action of
the Holders, unless a greater number of affirmative votes is required by the
1940 Act, other applicable law, this Declaration or the By-Laws of the Trust.
All or any one of more Holders may participate in a meeting of Holders by means
of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which
all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation
in a meeting by means of such communications equipment shall constitute presence
in person at such meeting.

9.3. NOTICE OF MEETINGS. Notice of each meeting of Holders,
stating the time, place and purposes of the meeting, shall be given by the
Trustees by mail to each Holder, at its registered address, mailed at least 10
days and not more than 60 days before the meeting. Notice of any meeting may be
waived in writing by any Holder either before or after such meeting. The
attendance of a Holder at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such
meeting except in the situation in which a Holder attends a meeting for the
express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground
that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened. At any meeting, any
business properly before the meeting may be considered whether or not stated in
the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned
without further notice.

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9.4. RECORD DATE FOR MEETINGS, DISTRIBUTIONS, ETC. For the
purpose of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at
any meeting, or to participate in any distribution, or for the purpose of any
other action, the Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90
days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of any
distribution or the taking of any other action, as the case may be, as a record
date for the determination of the Persons to be treated as Holders for such
purpose.

9.5. PROXIES, ETC. At any meeting of Holders, any Holder
entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be
voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the
Secretary, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the Secretary may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote is to be taken. A
proxy may be revoked by a Holder at any time before it has been exercised by
placing on file with the Secretary, or with such other officer or agent of the
Trust as the Secretary may direct, a later dated proxy or written revocation.
Pursuant to a resolution of a majority of the Trustees, proxies may be solicited
in the name of the Trust or of one or more Trustees or of one or more officers
of the Trust. Only Holders on the record date shall be entitled to vote. Each
such Holder shall be entitled to a vote proportionate to its Interest. When an
Interest is held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may vote at any
meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Interest, but if more than one
of them is present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners
or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall
not be received in respect of such Interest. A proxy purporting to be executed
by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior
to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the
challenger.

9.6. REPORTS. The Trustees shall cause to be prepared and
furnished to each Holder, at least annually as of the end of each Fiscal Year, a
report of operations containing a balance sheet and a statement of income of the
Trust prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and
an opinion of an independent public accountant on such financial statements. The
Trustees shall, in addition, furnish to each Holder at least semi-annually
interim reports of operations containing an unaudited balance sheet as of the
end of such period and an unaudited statement of income for the period from the
beginning of the then-current Fiscal Year to the end of such period.

9.7. INSPECTION OF RECORDS. The records of the Trust
shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any
purpose not harmful to the Trust.

9.8. HOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT. Any action which
may be taken by Holders may be taken without a meeting if Holders

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of all Interests entitled to vote consent to the action in writing and the
written consents are filed with the records of the meetings of Holders. Such
consents shall be treated for all purposes as a vote taken at a meeting of
Holders. Each such written consent shall be executed by or on behalf of the
Holder delivering such consent and shall bear the date of such execution. No
such written consent shall be effective to take the action referred to therein
unless, within one year of the earliest dated consent, written consents executed
by a sufficient number of Holders to take such action are filed with the records
of the meetings of Holders.

9.9. NOTICES. Any and all communications, including any
and all notices to which any Holder may be entitled, shall be deemed duly
served or given if mailed, postage prepaid, addressed to a Holder at its
last known address as recorded on the register of the Trust.

ARTICLE X

DURATION; TERMINATION;
AMENDMENT; MERGERS; ETC.

10.1. Duration. Subject to possible termination or dissolution
in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.2 and Section 10.3 hereof,
respectively, the Trust created hereby shall continue until the expiration of 20
years after the death of the last survivor of the initial Trustees named herein
and the following named persons:
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Name Address Date of Birth
<S> <C> <C>
Nicole Catherine Rumery 18 Rio Vista Street 12/21/91
North Billerica, MA 01862

Nelson Stewart Ruble 65 Duck Pond Road 04/10/91
Glen Cove, NY 11542

Shelby Sara Wyetzner 8 Oak Brook Lane 10/18/90
Merrick, NY 11566

Amanda Jehan Sher Coolidge
483 Pleasant Street, #9 08/16/89
Belmont, MA 02178

David Cornelius Johnson 752 West End Avenue, Apt. 10J 05/02/89
New York, NY 10025

Conner Leahy McCabe 100 Parkway Road, Apt. 3C 02/22/89
Bronxville, NY 10708

Andrea Hellegers 530 East 84th Street, Apt. 5H 12/22/88
</TABLE>

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<S> <C> <C>
New York, NY 10028

Emilie Blair Ruble 65 Duck Pond Road 02/24/89
Glen Cove, NY 11542

Brian Patrick Lyons 152-48 Jewel Avenue 01/20/89
Flushing, NY 11367

Caroline Bolger Cima 11 Beechwood Lane 12/23/88
Scarsdale, NY 10583

Katherine Driscoll Cima 11 Beechwood Lane 04/05/92
Scarsdale, NY 10583
</TABLE>
10.2. TERMINATION.

(a) The Trust may be terminated (i) by the
affirmative vote of Holders of not less than two-thirds of all Interests at any
meeting of Holders or by an instrument in writing without a meeting, executed by
a majority of the Trustees and consented to by Holders of not less than
two-thirds of all Interests, or (ii) by the Trustees by written notice to the
Holders. Upon any such termination,

(i) the Trust shall carry on no business except for
the purpose of winding up its affairs;

(ii) the Trustees shall proceed to wind up the
affairs of the Trust and all of the powers of the Trustees under this
Declaration shall continue until the affairs of the Trust have been
wound up, including the power to fulfill or discharge the contracts of
the Trust, collect the assets of the Trust, sell, convey, assign,
exchange or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Trust Property
to one or more Persons at public or private sale for consideration
which may consist in whole or in part of cash, securities or other
property of any kind, discharge or pay the liabilities of the Trust,
and do all other acts appropriate to liquidate the business of the
Trust; provided that any sale, conveyance, assignment, exchange or
other disposition of all or substantially all the Trust Property shall
require approval of the principal terms of the transaction and the
nature and amount of the consideration by the vote of Holders holding
more than 50% of all Interests; and

(iii) after paying or adequately providing for the
payment of all liabilities, and upon receipt of such releases,
indemnities and refunding agreements as they deem necessary for their
protection, the Trustees shall distribute the remaining Trust Property,
in cash or in kind or partly each, among the Holders according to their

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respective rights as set forth in the procedures established pursuant
to Section 8.2 hereof.

(b) Upon termination of the Trust and distribution
to the Holders as herein provided, a majority of the Trustees shall execute and
file with the records of the Trust an instrument in writing setting forth the
fact of such termination and distribution. Upon termination of the Trust, the
Trustees shall thereupon be discharged from all further liabilities and duties
hereunder, and the rights and interests of all Holders shall thereupon cease.

10.3. DISSOLUTION. Upon the bankruptcy of any Holder, or upon
the Redemption of any Interest, the Trust shall be dissolved effective 120 days
after the event. However, the Holders (other than such bankrupt or redeeming
Holder) may, by a unanimous affirmative vote at any meeting of such Holders or
by an instrument in writing without a meeting executed by a majority of the
Trustees and consented to by all such Holders, agree to continue the business of
the Trust even if there has been such a dissolution.

10.4. AMENDMENT PROCEDURE.

(a) This Declaration may be amended by the vote of
Holders of more than 50% of all Interests at any meeting of Holders or by an
instrument in writing without a meeting, executed by a majority of the Trustees
and consented to by the Holders of more than 50% of all Interests.
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, this Declaration may be amended by
an instrument in writing executed by a majority of the Trustees, and without the
vote or consent of Holders, for any one or more of the following purposes: (i)
to change the name of the Trust, (ii) to supply any omission, or to cure,
correct or supplement any ambiguous, defective or inconsistent provision hereof,
(iii) to conform this Declaration to the requirements of applicable federal law
or regulations or the requirements of the applicable provisions of the Code,
(iv) to change the state or other jurisdiction designated herein as the state or
other jurisdiction whose law shall be the governing law hereof, (v) to effect
such changes herein as the Trustees find to be necessary or appropriate (A) to
permit the filing of this Declaration under the law of such state or other
jurisdiction applicable to trusts or voluntary associations, (B) to permit the
Trust to elect to be treated as a "regulated investment company" under the
applicable provisions of the Code, or (C) to permit the transfer of Interests
(or to permit the transfer of any other beneficial interest in or share of the
Trust, however denominated), and (vi) in conjunction with any amendment
contemplated by the foregoing clause (iv) or the foregoing clause (v) to make
any and all such further changes or modifications to this Declaration as the
Trustees find to be necessary or appropriate, any finding of the Trustees
referred to in the foregoing clause (v) or the foregoing clause (vi) to be
conclusively evidenced by the execution

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of any such amendment by a majority of the Trustees; provided, however, that
unless effected in compliance with the provisions of Section 10.4(b) hereof, no
amendment otherwise authorized by this sentence may be made which would reduce
the amount payable with respect to any Interest upon liquidation of the Trust
and; provided, further, that the Trustees shall not be liable for failing to
make any amendment permitted by this Section 10.4(a).

(b) No amendment may be made under Section 10.4(a)
hereof which would change any rights with respect to any Interest by reducing
the amount payable thereon upon liquidation of the Trust or by diminishing or
eliminating any voting rights pertaining thereto, except with the vote or
consent of Holders of two-thirds of all Interests.

(c) A certification in recordable form executed by
a majority of the Trustees setting forth an amendment and reciting that it was
duly adopted by the Holders or by the Trustees as aforesaid or a copy of the
Declaration, as amended, in recordable form, and executed by a majority of the
Trustees, shall be conclusive evidence of such amendment when filed with the
records of the Trust.

Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, until such time as
Interests are first sold, this Declaration may be terminated or amended in any
respect by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees at any meeting of
Trustees or by an instrument executed by a majority of the Trustees.

10.5. MERGER, CONSOLIDATION AND SALE OF ASSETS. The Trust may
merge or consolidate with any other corporation, association, trust or other
organization or may sell, lease or exchange all or substantially all of the
Trust Property, including good will, upon such terms and conditions and for such
consideration when and as authorized at any meeting of Holders called for such
purpose by the affirmative vote of Holders of not less than two-thirds of all
Interests, or by an instrument in writing without a meeting, consented to by
Holders of not less than two-thirds of all Interests, and any such merger,
consolidation, sale, lease or exchange shall be deemed for all purposes to have
been accomplished under and pursuant to the statutes of the State of New York.

10.6. INCORPORATION. Upon a Majority Interests Vote, the
Trustees may cause to be organized or assist in organizing a corporation or
corporations under the law of any jurisdiction or a trust, partnership,
association or other organization to take over the Trust Property or to carry on
any business in which the Trust directly or indirectly has any interest, and to
sell, convey and transfer the Trust Property to any such corporation, trust,
partnership, association or other organization in exchange for the equity
interests thereof or otherwise, and to lend money to,

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subscribe for the equity interests of, and enter into any contract with any such
corporation, trust, partnership, association or other organization, or any
corporation, trust, partnership, association or other organization in which the
Trust holds or is about to acquire equity interests. The Trustees may also cause
a merger or consolidation between the Trust or any successor thereto and any
such corporation, trust, partnership, association or other organization if and
to the extent permitted by law. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as
requiring approval of the Holders for the Trustees to organize or assist in
organizing one or more corporations, trusts, partnerships, associations or other
organizations and selling, conveying or transferring a portion of the Trust
Property to one or more of such organizations or entities.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

11.1. CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION; AGENT FOR SERVICE OF
PROCESS. The Trust shall file, with the Department of State of the State of New
York, a certificate, in the name of the Trust and executed by an officer of the
Trust, designating the Secretary of State of the State of New York as an agent
upon whom process in any action or proceeding against the Trust may be served.

11.2. GOVERNING LAW. This Declaration is executed by the
Trustees and delivered in the State of New York and with reference to the law
thereof, and the rights of all parties and the validity and construction of
every provision hereof shall be subject to and construed in accordance with the
law of the State of New York and reference shall be specifically made to the
trust law of the State of New York as to the construction of matters not
specifically covered herein or as to which an ambiguity exists.

11.3. COUNTERPARTS. This Declaration may be simultaneously
executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original, and such counterparts, together, shall constitute one and the same
instrument, which shall be sufficiently evidenced by any one such original
counterpart.

11.4. RELIANCE BY THIRD PARTIES. Any certificate executed by
an individual who, according to the records of the Trust or of any recording
office in which this Declaration may be recorded, appears to be a Trustee
hereunder, certifying to: (a) the number or identity of Trustees or Holders, (b)
the due authorization of the execution of any instrument or writing, (c) the
form of any vote passed at a meeting of Trustees or Holders, (d) the fact that
the number of Trustees or Holders present at any meeting or executing any
written instrument satisfies the requirements of this Declaration, (e) the form
of any By-Laws adopted by or the identity of any officer elected by the

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Trustees, or (f) the existence of any fact or facts which in any manner relate
to the affairs of the Trust, shall be conclusive evidence as to the matters so
certified in favor of any Person dealing with the Trustees.

11.5. PROVISIONS IN CONFLICT WITH LAW OR REGULATIONS.

(a) The provisions of this Declaration are
severable, and if the Trustees shall determine, with the advice of counsel, that
any of such provisions is in conflict with the 1940 Act, or with other
applicable law and regulations, the conflicting provision shall be deemed never
to have constituted a part of this Declaration; provided, however, that such
determination shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of this
Declaration or render invalid or improper any action taken or omitted prior to
such determination.

(b) If any provision of this Declaration shall be
held invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unenforceability shall attach only to such provision in such jurisdiction and
shall not in any manner affect such provision in any other jurisdiction or any
other provision of this Declaration in any jurisdiction.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this
instrument as of the day and year first above written.

/s/ James B. Craver
James B. Craver
As Trustee and not individually

/s/ Thomas M. Lenz
Thomas M. Lenz
As Trustee and not individually

/s/ Andres Saldana
Andres E. Saldana
As Trustee and not individually

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THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY PORTFOLIO
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

Agreement, made this 20th day of October, 1993, between The Emerging
Markets Equity Portfolio, a trust organized under the law of the State of New
York (the "Portfolio") and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a New York
trust company authorized to conduct a general banking business (the "Advisor"),

WHEREAS, the Portfolio is an open-end diversified management investment
company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
"1940 Act"); and

WHEREAS, the Portfolio desires to retain the Advisor to render
investment advisory services to the Portfolio, and the Advisor is willing to
render such services;

NOW, THEREFORE, this Agreement

W I T N E S S E T H:

that in consideration of the premises and mutual promises hereinafter set forth,
the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. The Portfolio hereby appoints the Advisor to act as
investment adviser to the Portfolio for the period and on the terms set forth in
this Agreement. The Advisor accepts such appointment and agrees to render the
services herein set forth, for the compensation herein provided.

2. Subject to the general supervision of the Trustees of the
Portfolio, the Advisor shall manage the investment operations of the Portfolio
and the composition of the Portfolio's holdings of securities and investments,
including cash, the purchase, retention and disposition thereof and agreements
relating thereto, in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objectives and
policies as stated in the Registration Statement (as defined in paragraph 3(d)
of this Agreement) and subject to the following understandings:

(a) the Advisor shall furnish a continuous investment program
for the Portfolio and determine from time to time what investments or
securities will be purchased, retained, sold or lent by the Portfolio,
and what portion of the assets will be invested or held uninvested as
cash;

(b) the Advisor shall use the same skill and care in the
management of the Portfolio's investments as it uses in the
administration of other accounts for which it has investment
responsibility as agent;
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(c) the Advisor, in the performance of its duties and
obligations under this Agreement, shall act in conformity with the
Declaration of Trust, By-Laws and Registration Statement of the
Portfolio and with the instructions and directions of the Trustees of
the Portfolio and will conform to and comply with the requirements of
the 1940 Act and all other applicable federal and state laws and
regulations;

(d) the Advisor shall determine the securities to be
purchased, sold or lent by the Portfolio and as agent for the Portfolio
will effect portfolio transactions pursuant to its determinations
either directly with the issuer or with any broker and/or dealer in
such securities; in placing orders with brokers and/or dealers the
Advisor intends to seek best price and execution for purchases and
sales; the Advisor shall also determine whether or not the Portfolio
shall enter into repurchase or reverse repurchase agreements;

On occasions when the Advisor deems the purchase or sale of a
security to be in the best interest of the Portfolio as well as other
customers of the Advisor, the Advisor may, to the extent permitted by
applicable laws and regulations, but shall not be obligated to,
aggregate the securities to be so sold or purchased in order to obtain
best execution, including lower brokerage commissions, if applicable.
In such event, allocation of the securities so purchased or sold, as
well as the expenses incurred in the transaction, will be made by the
Advisor in the manner it considers to be the most equitable and
consistent with its fiduciary obligations to the Portfolio;

(e) the Advisor shall maintain books and records with respect
to the Portfolio's securities transactions and shall render to the
Portfolio's Trustees such periodic and special reports as the Trustees
may reasonably request; and

(f) the investment management services of the Advisor to the
Portfolio under this Agreement are not to be deemed exclusive, and the
Advisor shall be free to render similar services to others.

3. The Portfolio has delivered copies of each of the following
documents to the Advisor and will promptly notify and deliver to it all future
amendments and supplements, if any:

(a) Declaration of Trust of the Portfolio (such Declaration of
Trust, as presently in effect and as amended from time to time, is
herein called the "Declaration of Trust");

(b) By-Laws of the Portfolio (such By-Laws, as presently in effect and as
amended from time to time, are herein called the "By-Laws");

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(c) Certified resolutions of the Trustees of the Portfolio
authorizing the appointment of the Advisor and approving the form of
this Agreement;

(d) The Portfolio's Notification of Registration on Form N-8A
and Registration Statement on Form N-1A (No. 811-8102) each under the
1940 Act (the "Registration Statement") as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on October 26, 1993, all
amendments thereto.

4. The Advisor shall keep the Portfolio's books and records
required to be maintained by it pursuant to paragraph 2(e). The Advisor agrees
that all records which it maintains for the Portfolio are the property of the
Portfolio and it will promptly surrender any of such records to the Portfolio
upon the Portfolio's request. The Advisor further agrees to preserve for the
periods prescribed by Rule 31a-2 of the Commission under the 1940 Act any such
records as are required to be maintained by the Advisor with respect to the
Portfolio by Rule 31a-1 of the Commission under the 1940 Act.

5. During the term of this Agreement the Advisor will pay all
expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities under this Agreement,
other than the cost of securities and investments purchased for the Portfolio
(including taxes and brokerage commissions, if any).

6. For the services provided and the expenses borne pursuant
to this Agreement, the Portfolio will pay to the Advisor as full compensation
therefor a fee at an annual rate equal to 1.00% of the Portfolio's average daily
net assets. This fee will be computed daily and payable as agreed by the
Portfolio and the Advisor, but no more frequently than monthly.

7. The Advisor shall not be liable for any error of judgment
or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Portfolio in connection with
the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from a
breach of fiduciary duty with respect to the receipt of compensation for
services (in which case any award of damages shall be limited to the period and
the amount set forth in Section 36(b)(3) of the 1940 Act) or a loss resulting
from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the
performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by it of its obligations
and duties under this Agreement.

8. This Agreement shall continue in effect for a period of more than two
years from the date hereof only so long as such continuance is specifically
approved at least annually in conformity with the requirements of the 1940 Act;
provided, however, that this Agreement may be terminated by the Portfolio at any
time, without the payment of any penalty, by vote of a majority of all the
Trustees of the Portfolio or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the Portfolio on 60 days' written notice to the Advisor, or by the
Advisor at any time, without the payment of any penalty, on 90 days' written
notice to the Portfolio. This

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Agreement will automatically and immediately terminate in the event of its
assignment (as defined in the 1940 Act).

9. The Advisor shall for all purposes herein be deemed to be
an independent contractor and shall, unless otherwise expressly provided herein
or authorized by the Trustees of the Portfolio from time to time, have no
authority to act for or represent the Portfolio in any way or otherwise be
deemed an agent of the Portfolio.

10. This Agreement may be amended by mutual consent, but the
consent of the Portfolio must be approved (a) by vote of a majority of those
Trustees of the Portfolio who are not parties to this Agreement or interested
persons of any such party, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting on such amendment, and (b) by vote of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Portfolio.

11. Notices of any kind to be given to the Advisor by the
Portfolio shall be in writing and shall be duly given if mailed or delivered to
the Advisor at 9 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Managing
Director, Funds Management Division, or at such other address or to such other
individual as shall be specified by the Advisor to the Portfolio. Notices of any
kind to be given to the Portfolio by the Advisor shall be in writing and shall
be duly given if mailed or delivered to the Portfolio c/o Signature Financial
Group (Cayman) Limited at P.O. Box 268, Elizabethan Square, George Town, Grand
Cayman BWI or at such other address or to such other individual as shall be
specified by the Portfolio to the Advisor.

12. The Trustees have authorized the execution of this
Agreement in their capacity as Trustees and not individually and the Advisor
agrees that neither the shareholders nor the Trustees nor any officer, employee,
representative or agent of the Portfolio shall be personally liable upon, or
shall resort be had to their private property for the satisfaction of,
obligations given, executed or delivered on behalf of or by the Portfolio, that
the shareholders, trustees, officers, employees, representatives and agents of
the Portfolio shall not be personally liable hereunder, and that it shall look
solely to the property of the Portfolio for the satisfaction of any claim
hereunder.

13. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original.

14. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
instrument to be executed by their officers designated below as of the 20th day
of October, 1993.

THE EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY
PORTFOLIO

By: /s/ Laura R. Young
Laura R. Young
Assistant Treasurer

MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK

By: /s/ Kathleen H. Tripp
Kathleen H. Tripp
Vice President

EMEIAHUB

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The JPM Institutional Funds
6 St. James Avenue, 9th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
(617) 423-0800

October 18, 1993

The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio
Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 268
George Town, Grand Cayman, BWI

Ladies and Gentlemen:

With respect to our purchase from you, for the account of The JPM
Institutional Emerging Markets Equity Fund, a series of The JPM Institutional
Funds, at the purchase price of $100, of a beneficial interest (an "Initial
Interest") in The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), we hereby
advise you that we are purchasing such Initial Interest for investment purposes
without any present intention of withdrawing or reselling.

The amount paid by the Portfolio on any decrease or withdrawal by us of
any portion of such Initial Interest will be reduced by a portion of any
unamortized organization expenses, determined by the proportion of the amount of
such Initial Interest withdrawn to the aggregate Initial Interests of all
holders of similar Initial Interests then outstanding after taking into account
any prior withdrawals of any such Initial Interest.

Very truly yours,

THE JPM INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS

/s/ Thomas M. Lenz
Thomas M. Lenz
Assistant Secretary

JPM104

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The Pierpont Funds
461 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(212) 685-2547

October 18, 1993

The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio
Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 268
George Town, Grand Cayman, BWI

Ladies and Gentlemen:

With respect to our purchase from you, for the account of The Pierpont
Emerging Markets Equity Fund, a series of The Pierpont Funds, at the purchase
price of $100, of a beneficial interest (an "Initial Interest") in The Emerging
Markets Equity Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), we hereby advise you that we are
purchasing such Initial Interest for investment purposes without any present
intention of withdrawing or reselling.

Very truly yours,

THE PIERPONT FUNDS

/s/ Carol R. Schepp
Carol R. Schepp
Secretary
JPM104

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JPM EMERGING MARKETS FUND, LTD.
Bahamas Financial Center
Shirley & Charlotte Streets
P.O. Box N 4899
Nassau, Bahamas

Telephone: (809) 326 5519 Telecopier (809) 326 5520
=============================================================================

October 18, 1993

The Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio
Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 268
George Town, Grand Cayman, BWI

Ladies & Gentlemen:

With respect to our purchase from you, for the account of JPM Emerging
Markets Fund, Ltd., a Bahamas International Business Company, at the purchase
price of $100,000, of a beneficial interest (an "Initial Interest") in The
Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), we hereby advise you that
we are purchasing such Initial Interest for investment purposes without any
present intention of withdrawing or reselling.

Very truly yours,

JPM Emerging Markets Fund, Ltd.

By: Morgan Trust Company of The Bahamas Limited,
Sole Director

By: /s/ Andrew G. Massie /s/ Daphne C. Dean
Andrew G. Massie Daphne C. Dean
Managing Director Vice President
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