The Commerce Funds
Institutional Shares
Service Shares
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Supplement dated September 29, 1999 to
Statement of Additional Information dated
March 1, 1999
Under "ADDITIONAL PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION INFORMATION," the following should be
added:
Institutional Shares are offered primarily to:
investors maintaining qualified accounts at bank trust departments or
trust companies, for funds held within those accounts, including
institutions affiliated with Commerce Bancshares, Inc. and its
subsidiaries (for example, Commerce Bank Investment Management Group
clients);
participants in employer-sponsored defined contribution plans when such
plans offer the Commerce Funds as one of their investment options;
any investor who has been a continuous shareholder in The Commerce
Funds since January 1, 1997 or before;
employees, directors, advisory directors, officers and retirees (as
well as their spouses and legal dependents) of Commerce Bancshares,
Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., State Street Bank and Trust Company and
National Financial Data Services, Inc. or their subsidiaries or
affiliates; and
financial planners and their clients.
Service Shares are offered primarily to:
individuals, corporations or other entities, purchasing for their own
accounts or for the accounts of others, and to qualified banks, savings
and loan associations, and broker/dealers on behalf of their customers;
and
financial planners and their clients.
