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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549



FORM N-Q
Quarterly Schedule of Portfolio Holdings of
Registered Management Investment Company

Investment Company Act File Number: 811-00032



Fundamental Investors, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

P.O. Box 7650, One Market, Steuart Tower,
San Francisco, California 94120
(Address of principal executive offices)




Registrant's telephone number, including area code:  (415) 421-9360

Date of fiscal year end: December 31

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2007





Patrick F. Quan
Capital Research and Management Company
P.O. Box 7650, One Market, Steuart Tower
San Francisco, California 94120
(Name and address of agent for service)


Copies to:
Michael Glazer
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
515 South Flower Street, 25th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
(Counsel for the registrant)



ITEM 1 – Schedule of Investments

[logo – America Funds®]



Fundamental InvestorsSM
Investment portfolio

September 30, 2007
   
unaudited
     
   
Market value
Common stocks — 94.72%
Shares
(000)
     
INDUSTRIALS — 15.08%
   
Deere & Co.
5,660,000
$   840,057
Caterpillar Inc.
8,825,000
692,145
General Electric Co.
16,250,000
672,750
Union Pacific Corp.
3,700,000
418,322
Emerson Electric Co.
6,300,000
335,286
Northrop Grumman Corp.
4,166,243
324,967
Parker Hannifin Corp.
2,800,000
313,124
General Dynamics Corp.
3,545,800
299,514
Boeing Co.
2,500,000
262,475
Deutsche Post AG
8,945,000
260,232
Schneider Electric SA
1,962,000
247,904
Mitsubishi Corp.
7,245,800
229,805
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. EADS NV
7,000,000
215,227
Raytheon Co.
2,832,732
180,785
Finmeccanica SpA
6,000,000
174,811
Joy Global Inc.
3,350,000
170,381
KBR, Inc.1
3,950,000
153,141
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
23,388,000
153,040
Lockheed Martin Corp.
1,248,200
135,417
Waste Management, Inc.
3,400,000
128,316
United Technologies Corp.
1,500,000
120,720
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
1,976,000
117,849
AMR Corp.1
4,850,000
108,106
Grafton Group PLC, units
9,500,000
106,406
American Standard Inc.
2,832,300
100,886
Fastenal Co.
2,200,000
99,902
Siemens AG
703,000
96,666
Corporate Executive Board Co.
1,260,000
93,542
United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B
1,200,000
90,120
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
20,000,000
78,418
Kingspan Group PLC
3,500,000
76,867
Roper Industries, Inc.
770,000
50,435
Tyco International Ltd.
1,125,000
49,882
Allied Waste Industries, Inc.1
2,500,000
31,875
Robert Half International Inc.
800,000
23,888
   
7,453,261
     
ENERGY — 13.42%
   
Suncor Energy Inc.
18,547,233
1,764,677
Norsk Hydro ASA
10,840,000
471,418
Norsk Hydro ASA (ADR)
3,500,000
151,725
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
6,404,244
410,384
CONSOL Energy Inc.2
7,400,000
   344,840
Chevron Corp.
3,285,674
307,473
Murphy Oil Corp.
4,343,636
303,577
Exxon Mobil Corp.
3,225,000
298,506
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A (ADR)
3,500,000
287,630
Schlumberger Ltd.
2,650,000
278,250
EnCana Corp.
4,000,000
247,784
Petro-Canada
3,958,500
227,550
OAO LUKOIL (ADR)
2,500,000
207,750
Baker Hughes Inc.
2,285,500
206,541
Marathon Oil Corp.
3,470,000
197,859
Imperial Oil Ltd.
3,608,739
179,165
Smith International, Inc.
2,485,000
177,429
Devon Energy Corp.
2,000,000
166,400
Petróleo Brasileiro SA – Petrobras, ordinary nominative (ADR)
1,300,000
98,150
Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd.
3,637,500
87,896
Quicksilver Resources Inc.1
1,296,100
60,982
Massey Energy Co.
2,011,700
43,895
Saipem SpA, Class S
1,000,000
42,669
Cameco Corp.
869,000
40,159
TOTAL SA
275,000
22,362
CNX Gas Corp.1,3
287,500
8,271
   
6,633,342
     
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — 12.84%
   
Nokia Corp.
18,900,000
718,575
Nokia Corp. (ADR)
11,987,000
454,667
Microsoft Corp.
30,300,000
892,638
Oracle Corp.1
28,250,000
611,612
Texas Instruments Inc.
10,025,000
366,815
International Business Machines Corp.
3,000,000
353,400
Google Inc., Class A1
465,000
263,781
Agilent Technologies, Inc.1
6,981,300
257,470
Yahoo! Inc.1
9,000,000
241,560
Corning Inc.
9,520,000
234,668
Cisco Systems, Inc.1
5,685,000
188,230
Motorola, Inc.
9,256,080
171,515
Apple Inc.1
1,100,000
168,894
Kyocera Corp.
1,725,000
161,874
Comverse Technology, Inc.1
7,684,470
152,153
Paychex, Inc.
3,069,200
125,837
Red Hat, Inc.1
5,350,000
106,304
Autodesk, Inc.1
1,900,000
94,943
Linear Technology Corp.
2,700,000
94,473
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
2,115,000
93,843
Microchip Technology Inc.
2,497,222
90,699
Xilinx, Inc.
3,200,000
83,648
ASML Holding NV1
2,500,000
82,892
EMC Corp.1
3,700,000
76,960
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.1
4,000,000
52,800
Hewlett-Packard Co.
1,000,000
49,790
Nortel Networks Corp.1
2,800,000
47,550
CDW Corp.1
545,000
47,524
Tyco Electronics Ltd.
1,125,000
39,859
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
300,000
21,643
   
6,346,617
     
FINANCIALS — 10.30%
   
Fannie Mae
13,892,800
$   844,821
Citigroup Inc.
10,005,000
466,933
Freddie Mac
7,090,000
418,381
Washington Mutual, Inc.
8,580,000
302,960
Allied Irish Banks, PLC
9,700,000
235,164
AMP Ltd.
25,000,202
233,647
Bank of Ireland
11,797,045
218,709
Bank of America Corp.
3,500,000
175,945
XL Capital Ltd., Class A
2,080,000
164,736
Irish Life & Permanent PLC
7,000,000
155,231
Crédit Agricole SA
4,000,000
154,304
AFLAC Inc.
2,700,000
154,008
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
5,371,000
136,961
U.S. Bancorp
4,000,000
130,120
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Class A1
1,000
118,510
CapitalSource Inc.
5,500,954
111,339
Wachovia Corp.
2,124,900
106,564
Wells Fargo & Co.
2,979,900
106,144
Equity Residential, shares of beneficial interest
2,500,000
105,900
AXA SA
2,145,500
96,013
St. George Bank Ltd.
2,450,279
76,891
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.
6,107,000
70,132
Suruga Bank Ltd.
5,647,000
69,032
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
1,200,000
66,828
Marshall & Ilsley Corp.
1,490,000
65,217
Anglo Irish Bank Corp. PLC
3,011,907
56,955
Fifth Third Bancorp
1,557,700
52,775
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
1,000,000
44,140
MGIC Investment Corp.
1,191,000
38,481
Zions Bancorporation
550,000
37,769
PMI Group, Inc.
870,000
28,449
City National Corp.
400,000
27,804
Old Republic International Corp.
914,000
17,128
   
5,087,991
     
MATERIALS — 9.90%
   
Mosaic Co.1
9,900,000
529,848
Rohm and Haas Co.
8,457,300
470,818
Syngenta AG
2,117,750
456,662
Alcoa Inc.
7,650,000
299,268
Bayer AG, non-registered shares
3,688,000
293,583
Rio Tinto PLC
3,066,709
265,039
Weyerhaeuser Co.
3,583,000
259,051
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
4,500,000
223,020
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc.
2,009,100
212,362
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
2,000,000
209,780
International Paper Co.
5,500,000
197,285
PPG Industries, Inc.
2,500,000
188,875
BHP Billiton Ltd.
4,675,000
184,674
USX Corp.
1,650,000
174,801
Vulcan Materials Co.
1,800,000
160,470
CRH PLC
3,972,330
157,768
Barrick Gold Corp.
3,049,395
122,830
Sigma-Aldrich Corp.
2,320,000
113,077
Newmont Mining Corp.
2,500,000
111,825
RPM International, Inc.
3,440,000
     82,388
Temple-Inland Inc.
1,500,000
78,945
Sealed Air Corp.
1,442,629
36,874
UPM-Kymmene Corp. (ADR)
1,400,000
33,712
Monsanto Co.
350,000
30,009
   
4,892,964
     
HEALTH CARE — 9.09%
   
Merck & Co., Inc.
13,600,000
702,984
Roche Holding AG
3,575,000
648,353
Eli Lilly and Co.
7,670,000
436,653
Schering-Plough Corp.
12,400,000
392,212
Medtronic, Inc.
6,915,200
390,086
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
9,350,000
269,467
Shire PLC (ADR)
3,500,000
258,930
Abbott Laboratories
4,450,000
238,609
Wyeth
5,000,000
222,750
Sanofi-Aventis
1,845,500
156,280
Patterson Companies, Inc.1
3,760,000
145,174
Aetna Inc.
2,310,000
125,364
CIGNA Corp.
2,175,000
115,906
Stryker Corp.
1,450,000
99,702
Novo Nordisk A/S, Class B
640,000
77,269
Amgen Inc.1
1,350,000
76,370
UCB SA
811,450
47,885
WellPoint, Inc.1
599,953
47,348
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.1
463,000
41,851
   
4,493,193
     
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY — 7.75%
   
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
18,910,000
529,858
Target Corp.
7,490,000
476,139
Johnson Controls, Inc.
2,500,000
295,275
Fortune Brands Inc.
3,000,000
244,470
Best Buy Co., Inc.
5,075,000
233,551
McDonald’s Corp.
3,875,000
211,071
Time Warner Inc.
10,500,000
192,780
Toyota Motor Corp.
3,000,000
177,224
Starbucks Corp.1
6,500,000
170,300
CBS Corp., Class B
4,900,000
154,350
Sony Corp.
3,000,000
145,596
Magna International Inc., Class A
1,474,300
141,990
Nikon Corp.
3,977,000
136,875
Macy’s, Inc.
4,000,000
129,280
Carnival Corp., units
2,000,000
96,860
Penn National Gaming, Inc.1
1,500,000
88,530
Kohl’s Corp.1
1,500,000
85,995
Limited Brands, Inc.
3,315,980
75,903
Virgin Media Inc.1
3,000,000
72,810
News Corp., Class A
2,800,000
61,572
Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) Ltd.
18,510,000
55,385
WABCO Holdings Inc.
944,100
44,137
Saks Inc.1
650,000
11,148
   
3,831,099
CONSUMER STAPLES — 6.28%
   
Altria Group, Inc.
10,224,800
$     710,930
Coca-Cola Co.
9,400,000
540,218
PepsiCo, Inc.
4,300,000
315,018
SYSCO Corp.
8,100,000
288,279
Diageo PLC
11,239,200
246,741
Diageo PLC (ADR)
15,200
1,334
Bunge Ltd.
1,987,000
213,503
C&C Group PLC
16,055,047
132,798
Kraft Foods Inc., Class A
3,529,323
121,797
Walgreen Co.
2,400,000
113,376
Avon Products, Inc.
2,680,000
100,580
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
1,400,000
89,922
Tesco PLC
9,205,000
82,649
Goodman Fielder Ltd.
31,711,000
72,545
Procter & Gamble Co.
1,029,000
72,380
   
3,102,070
     
TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES — 4.76%
   
AT&T Inc.
15,912,500
673,258
KDDI Corp.
69,028
512,432
Verizon Communications Inc.
7,950,000
352,026
Vodafone Group PLC
74,783,000
269,805
Vodafone Group PLC (ADR)
221,700
8,048
Sprint Nextel Corp., Series 1
13,700,000
260,300
Qwest Communications International Inc.1
20,500,000
187,780
Inmarsat PLC
9,685,000
90,027
   
2,353,676
     
UTILITIES — 2.96%
   
Questar Corp.
6,000,000
315,180
Exelon Corp.
3,545,000
267,151
Veolia Environnement
2,250,000
193,775
SUEZ SA
2,915,400
171,711
E.ON AG
800,000
147,927
Electricité de France SA
1,334,000
141,064
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.
1,000,000
87,990
FPL Group, Inc.
1,050,000
63,924
Duke Energy Corp.
3,000,000
56,070
Entergy Corp.
150,000
16,243
   
1,461,035
     
MISCELLANEOUS — 2.34%
   
Other common stocks in initial period of acquisition
 
1,153,954
     
     
Total common stocks (cost: $32,470,077,000)
 
46,809,202
     
     
     
     
Convertible securities — 0.03%
Principal amount
 
     
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — 0.03%
   
ASML Holding NV 5.50% convertible notes 20104
¤6,000,000
13,557
     
     
Total convertible securities (cost: $7,009,000)
 
13,557
     
   
unaudited
     
 
Principal amount
Market value
Short-term securities — 5.26%
(000)
(000)
     
Federal Home Loan Bank 4.71%–5.13% due 10/31–12/10/2007
$332,520
$     330,360
International Lease Finance Corp. 5.21%–5.25% due 10/23–11/14/2007
200,000
198,973
AIG Funding, Inc. 5.27% due 10/18/2007
25,000
24,934
Variable Funding Capital Corp. 5.07%–6.00% due 10/3–11/9/20073
180,800
180,089
Park Avenue Receivables Co., LLC 5.24% due 10/9–10/12/20073
96,805
96,651
Jupiter Securitization Co., LLC 6.05%–6.25% due 10/11–12/11/20073
83,500
82,890
CAFCO, LLC 5.245%–6.05% due 10/10–11/15/20073
123,300
122,763
Ciesco LLC 5.245% due 10/3/20073
50,000
49,979
IBM Corp. 5.11%–5.135% due 11/19–11/29/20073
83,800
83,116
IBM Capital Inc. 5.00% due 12/18/20073
38,976
38,530
IBM International Group Capital LLC 5.08% due 12/17/2007
25,000
24,717
IBM International Group Capital LLC 5.22% due 10/30/20073
23,500
23,399
Ranger Funding Co. LLC 5.10%–5.27% due 10/1–12/3/20073
75,000
74,512
Bank of America Corp. 5.40%–5.45% due 11/2–12/14/2007
75,000
74,480
Fannie Mae 4.80%–5.14% due 10/1–12/5/2007
140,953
140,659
Procter & Gamble International Funding S.C.A. 5.21%–5.23% due 10/12–12/6/20073
134,958
134,190
Honeywell International Inc. 5.21%–5.25% due 10/19–10/29/20073
105,000
104,637
Edison Asset Securitization LLC 5.25%–5.85% due 10/9–11/8/20073
85,000
84,635
Freddie Mac 4.89%–5.00% due 10/18–11/8/2007
79,200
78,895
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 5.19%–5.215% due 10/2–11/14/20073
76,000
75,678
Paccar Financial Corp. 5.03%–5.24% due 10/3–12/12/2007
65,900
65,564
Coca-Cola Co. 4.73%–5.25% due 10/11–12/11/20073
65,740
65,254
Target Corp. 4.75%–4.80% due 10/29–11/6/2007
59,150
58,873
E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co. 5.02% due 10/2/20073
50,000
49,986
Private Export Funding Corp. 5.22%–5.23% due 10/25–12/4/20073
46,600
46,307
Abbott Laboratories 5.20%–5.22% due 10/16–10/24/20073
36,700
36,596
Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 5.00% due 10/15/2007
35,700
35,626
NetJets Inc. 4.73%–5.23% due 10/16–11/28/20073
34,605
34,440
United Parcel Service Inc. 5.01% due 10/2/20073
25,000
24,993
Federal Farm Credit Banks 4.73% due 11/21/2007
25,000
24,849
Johnson & Johnson 5.00% due 11/19/20073
23,800
23,615
Hewlett-Packard Co. 4.75% due 11/20/20073
19,000
18,872
John Deere Capital Corp. 5.23% due 10/5/2007
18,000
17,987
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. 4.75% due 10/24/20073
16,930
16,876
CIT Group, Inc. 5.26% due 10/25/20073
15,200
15,145
Brown-Forman Corp. 4.80% due 11/20/20073
15,000
14,898
USAA Capital Corp. 5.24% due 11/15/2007
15,000
14,896
Becton, Dickinson and Co. 5.22% due 10/12/2007
11,700
11,680
     
     
Total short-term securities (cost: $2,600,309,000)
 
2,600,544
     
Total investment securities (cost: $35,077,395,000)
 
49,423,303
Other assets less liabilities
 
(3,239)
     
Net assets
 
$49,420,064

“Miscellaneous” securities include holdings in their initial period of acquisition that have not previously been publicly disclosed.
 
1Security did not produce income during the last 12 months.
2Purchased in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. This security (acquired 10/2/2003 with a cost of $67,784,000) may be subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale.
3Purchased in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. May be resold in the United States in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. The total value of all such securities was $1,506,322,000, which represented 3.05% of the net assets of the fund.
4Valued under fair value procedures adopted by authority of the board of directors. The total value of all such securities was $13,557,000.

ADR = American Depositary Receipts

                                                                                                                                            &# 160;                   unaudited 

Investments in affiliates


A company is considered to be an affiliate of the fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940 if the fund’s holdings in that company represent 5% or more of the outstanding voting shares of that company. Further details on this holding and related transactions during the nine months ended September 30, 2007, appear below.

 
Beginning shares
Additions
Reductions
Ending shares
Dividend
income  
(000)
Market value
of affiliates
at 9/30/07
(000)
             
Comverse Technology, Inc.*
13,130,000
5,445,530
7,684,470
$ —
$ —
             
*Unaffiliated issuer at 9/30/2007.




Federal income tax information
 
(dollars in thousands)
     
Gross unrealized appreciation on investment securities
 
$14,920,798
Gross unrealized depreciation on investment securities
 
(574,890)
Net unrealized appreciation on investment securities
 
14,345,908
Cost of investment securities for federal income tax purposes
 
35,077,395

 




Investments are not FDIC-insured, nor are they deposits of or guaranteed by a bank or any other entity, so you may lose money.

Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the American Funds. This and other important information is contained in each fund’s prospectus, which can be obtained from a financial professional and should be read carefully before investing.
 
 
 
MFGEFP-910-1107O-S10913
 

ITEM 2 – Controls and Procedures

The Registrant’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 30a-3 under the Investment Company Act of 1940), that such controls and procedures are adequate and reasonably designed to achieve the purposes described in paragraph (c) of such rule.

There were no changes in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) that occurred during the Registrant’s last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


ITEM 3 – Exhibits

The certifications required by Rule 30a-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are attached as exhibits hereto.




SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 
FUNDAMENTAL INVESTORS, INC.
   
 
By /s/ Paul G. Haaga, Jr.
 
Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice President and
Principal Executive Officer
 
   
 
Date: November 28, 2007



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


By /s/ Paul G. Haaga, Jr.
Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice President and
Principal Executive Officer
 
Date: November 28, 2007



By /s/ Jeffrey P. Regal
Jeffrey P. Regal, Treasurer and
Principal Financial Officer
 
Date: November 28, 2007
 
EX-99.CERT 2 fi_cert302.htm CERT302 Unassociated Document

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Fundamental Investors, Inc.
One Market, Steuart Tower
Suite 1800
San Francisco, California 94105
Phone (415) 421-9360


CERTIFICATION

I, Paul G. Haaga, Jr., certify that:

1.
I have reviewed this report on Form N-Q of Fundamental Investors, Inc.;
   
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
   
3.
Based on my knowledge, the schedules of investments included in this report fairly present in all material respects the investments of the registrant as of the end of the fiscal quarter for which this report is filed;
   
4.
The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:
   
 
a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
   
 
b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
   
 
c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and
   
 
d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
   
5.
The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's Board of Directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
   
 
a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
   
 
b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
   


Date: November 28, 2007

/s/ Paul G. Haaga, Jr.
Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice President and
Principal Executive Officer
Fundamental Investors, Inc.

 
 

 
 
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Fundamental Investors, Inc.
One Market, Steuart Tower
Suite 1800
San Francisco, California 94105
Phone (415) 421-9360


CERTIFICATION

I, Jeffrey P. Regal, certify that:

1.
I have reviewed this report on Form N-Q of Fundamental Investors, Inc.;
   
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
   
3.
Based on my knowledge, the schedules of investments included in this report fairly present in all material respects the investments of the registrant as of the end of the fiscal quarter for which this report is filed;
   
4.
The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:
   
 
a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
   
 
b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
   
 
c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and
   
 
d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
   
5.
The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's Board of Directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
   
 
a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
   
 
b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
   


Date: November 28, 2007

/s/ Jeffrey P. Regal
Jeffrey P. Regal, Treasurer and
Principal Financial Officer
Fundamental Investors, Inc.

 
 

 

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