FEDERATED WORLD INVESTMENT SERIES, INC.
(formerly, World Investment Series, Inc.)
Federated Investors Funds
5800 Corporate Drive
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237-7000
March 31, 2000
EDGAR Operations Branch
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Investment Management
450 Fifth Street, Northwest
Washington, DC 20549
RE: FEDERATED WORLD INVESTMENT SERIES, INC. (the "Registrant")
(formerly, World Investment Series, Inc.)
Federated Asia Pacific Growth Fund Federated Emerging Markets Fund
Federated European Growth Fund Federated Global Equity Income Fund
Federated Global Financial Services Fund Federated International
Growth Fund Federated International High Income Fund Federated
International Small Company Fund Federated World Utility Fund
Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares
(collectively, the "Funds")
1933 Act File No. 33-52149
1940 ACT FILE NO. 811-7141
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Dear Sir or Madam:
Pursuant to Rule 497(j) under the Securities Act of 1933, the above-named
Registrant hereby certifies that the definitive form of prospectuses and
statements of additional information of the above-named Funds dated March 31,
2000, that would have been filed under Rule 497(c), do not differ from the form
of prospectuses and statements of additional information of the above-named
Funds contained in the most recent registration statement for the Registrant.
This registration statement was electronically filed Rule 485(b) as
Post-effective amendment No. 20 on March 30, 2000.
If you have any questions regarding this certification, please contact
Heather Aland at (412) 288-1097.
Very truly yours,
/s/ James O. Perry
James O. Perry
Assistant Secretary
