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Filed Pursuant to Rule 497(e)
Registration File No.: 333-39791
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS OF
TCW/DW EMERGING MARKETS OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
DATED MARCH 31, 1998
The first paragraph under the subsection entitled "Portfolio Management"
under the section of the Prospectus entitled "INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE AND
POLICIES" is hereby replaced by the following:
The Fund's portfolio is actively managed by each Co-Adviser acting
independently, each with a view to achieving the Fund's investment
objective. Terence F. Mahony, Managing Director of TCW, and Michael
P. Reilly, Managing Director of TCW, are the primary portfolio
managers of TCW for the Fund and Robert L. Meyer, Managing Director
of MSAM and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated ("MS&Co."), and Andy
Skov, a Principal of MSAM and of MS&Co., are the primary portfolio
managers of MSAM for the Fund. Mr. Mahony has been a primary
portfolio manager of the Fund since July 1996 and has been a
portfolio manager with TCW Asia Ltd. since April 1996, prior to
which time he was Chief Investment Officer for Global Emerging
Markets at HSBC Asset Management (September 1993 -- April 1996). Mr.
Reilly has been a primary portfolio manager of the Fund since
December 1994 and has been a portfolio manager with affiliates of
the TCW Group for over five years. Mr. Meyer has been with MSAM
since 1989. He is a co-manager of MSAM's emerging markets group and
head of MSAM's Latin America team. Mr. Skov has been with MSAM
since 1994 as a Portfolio Manager and prior thereto he worked in the
Latin America group at Bankers Trust in corporate finance, research
and sales.
October 28, 1998
