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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
To the Board of Directors of
Transamerica Investors, Inc.
In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements of
Transamerica Investors, Inc. (comprising respectively, the Transamerica
Premier Equity Fund, Transamerica Premier Index Fund, Transamerica Premier
Bond Fund, Transamerica Premier Balanced Fund, Transamerica Premier Short-
Intermediate Government Fund, and Transamerica Premier Cash Reserve Fund) for
the year ended December 31, 1996, we considered their internal control
structure, including procedures for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on
the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR,
not to provide assurance on the internal control structure.
The management of Transamerica Investors, Inc. is responsible for establishing
and maintaining an internal control structure. In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies
and procedures. Two of the objectives of an internal control structure are to
provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets
are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and that
transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and
recorded properly to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity
with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or
irregularities may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any
evaluation of the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that it
may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not necessarily
disclose all matters in the internal control structure that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of the specific internal control structure elements does not reduce
to a relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities in amounts
that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited
may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the
normal course of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no
matters involving the internal control structure, including procedures for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined
above as of December 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
February 3, 1997
