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The Prudential Investment
Portfolios, Inc.
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Prudential Jennison Growth Fund
SUPPLEMENT DATED MAY 23, 2000
PROSPECTUS DATED DECEMBER 2, 1999
How the Fund is Managed
The section entitled 'How the Fund is Managed--Portfolio Managers' is amended
by replacing the third paragraph as follows:
Michael A. Del Balso has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since May 2000.
He is a Director and Executive Vice President of Jennison Associates LLC,
where he has been part of the investment team since 1972. Mr. Del Balso is
also Jennison's Director of Equity Research. Mr. Del Balso received his B.A.
from Yale University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University. He is a member of
the New York Society of Security Analysts.
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