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Filed Pursuant to Rule 497(e)
Registration File No.: 33-54047
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS OF
MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER
SELECT DIMENSIONS INVESTMENT SERIES
DATED MAY 1, 1999
The sentences pertaining to the Developing Growth Portfolio of the Fund in
the section of the Prospectus entitled "Portfolio Management" are hereby
replaced by the following:
DEVELOPING GROWTH PORTFOLIO -- Armon Bar-Tur, Vice President of the
Investment Manager, has been the primary portfolio manager of the
Portfolio since July 12, 1999. Mr. Bar-Tur had assisted the former
primary portfolio manager of the Portfolio since May 1998. Mr. Bar-Tur
has been a portfolio manager with the Investment Manager since October
1996, prior to which time he was a research analyst with Merrill Lynch
Asset Management.
July 12, 1999
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