485BPOS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2006

1933 Act Registration No. 33-17619
1940 Act Registration No. 811-5349

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

Form N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ( X )

Post-Effective Amendment No. 115 ( X )

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 ( X )

Amendment No. 116 ( X )

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

GOLDMAN SACHS TRUST

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number,
including Area Code 312-655-4400


Howard B. Surloff, Esq.		Copies to:
Goldman, Sachs & Co.		Jeffrey A. Dalke, Esq.
One New York Plaza — 37^th Floor		Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
New York, New York 10004		One Logan Square
		18^th and Cherry Streets
		Philadelphia, PA 19103

(Name and address of agent for service)

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The Class A Shares and the Institutional Shares of the Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund have been created in connection with the proposed acquisition of the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio (the “Portfolio”) of First Funds.

It is anticipated that at a shareholder meeting in March 2006, the shareholders of the Portfolio will be asked to approve a proposed agreement and plan of reorganization whereby the Portfolio would be acquired by the Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund.

The Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund is a newly organized Fund that has been created in connection with the proposed acquisition of the assets and liabilities of the Portfolio. If the reorganization is approved by the Portfolio’s shareholders, for purposes of the reorganization, the Portfolio will be considered the accounting survivor, and accordingly, certain financial highlights and other information relating to the Portfolio has been included in the attached prospectus and presented as if the reorganization has been consummated. However, as of the date of this prospectus, the reorganization has not yet been approved by shareholders and has not occurred.


	The Fund Described In This Prospectus Is Not A Money Market Fund. Investors In The Fund Should Understand That The Net Asset Value (“NAV”) Of The Fund Will Fluctuate Which May Result In A Loss Of A Portion Of The Principal Amount Invested.


	Goldman Sachs’ Municipal Fixed Income Investing Philosophy:
	The Municipal Fixed Income investment philosophy focuses on consistently striving to add value through a disciplined investment approach. The team actively seeks to generate multiple sources of return through a process based on three beliefs:


	n	multiple investment strategies are key to achieving optimal risk-adjusted returns;
	n	short-term, tactical opportunities and long-term, investment views are equally important; and
	n	consistent, long-term returns can best be achieved through a risk aware approach.


	The investment process revolves around three groups: the Fixed Income Strategy Group (FISG), the Top-down Strategy Teams and the Municipal Bond Team. Cross-membership of investment professionals across these groups enables them to fully capitalize on the expertise of the entire investment team.

	*1. Fixed Income Strategy Group establishes overall macro-economic view*—This view serves as the backdrop for the sector allocation, security selection, duration and yield curve strategies.

	*2. Top-down Strategy Teams formulate decisions across all GSAM portfolios*—Using the FISG outlook as a backdrop, these four teams are responsible, to the extent applicable for the Fund, for Cross-Sector, Duration, Country and Currency decisions.

	*3. Municipal Bond Team formulates subsector allocation and security selection decisions*—Concurrently, this team formulates subsector allocation and security selection decisions.

	The Investment Adviser de-emphasizes interest rate predictions as a means of generating incremental return. Instead, the Investment Adviser seeks to add value through the selection of particular securities and investment sector allocation as described above.


	With every fixed-income portfolio, the Investment Adviser applies a team approach that emphasizes risk management and capitalizes on Goldman Sachs’ extensive research capabilities.



	The Fund described in this Prospectus has a target duration. The Fund’s duration approximates its price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. For example, suppose that interest rates fall by one percent which, in turn, causes yields on every bond in the market to fall by the same amount. In this example, the price of a bond with a duration of three years may be expected to rise approximately three percent and the price of a bond with a five year duration may be expected to rise approximately five percent. The converse is also true. Suppose interest rates rise by one percent which, in turn, causes yields on every bond in the market to rise by the same amount. In this second example, the price of a bond with a duration of three years may be expected to fall approximately three percent and the price of a bond with a five year duration may be expected to fall approximately five percent. The longer the duration of a bond, the more sensitive the bond’s price is to changes in interest rates. Maturity measures the time until final payment is due; it takes no account of the pattern of a security’s cash flows over time. In computing portfolio duration, the Fund will estimate the duration of obligations that are subject to prepayment or redemption by the issuer, taking into account the influence of interest rates on prepayments and coupon flows. This method of computing duration is known as “option-adjusted” duration. The Investment Adviser may use futures contracts and options on futures contracts to manage the Fund’s target duration in accordance with its benchmark. The Fund will not be limited as to its maximum weighted average portfolio maturity or the maximum stated maturity with respect to individual securities unless otherwise noted.


	The Fund also has credit rating requirements for the securities it buys. The Fund will deem a security to have met its minimum credit rating requirement if the security has the required rating at the time of purchase from at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) even though it has been rated below the minimum rating by one or more other NRSROs. Unrated securities may be purchased by the Fund if they are determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality. A security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement regardless of its relative ranking (for example, plus or minus) within a designated major rating category (for example, BBB or Baa). If a security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement at the time of purchase and is subsequently downgraded below such rating, the Fund will not be required to dispose of such security. This is so even if the downgrade causes the average credit quality of the Fund to be lower than that stated in the Prospectus. However, during this period,


	the Investment Adviser will only buy securities at or above the Fund’s average rating requirement. If a downgrade occurs, the Investment Adviser will consider what action, including the sale of such security, is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

	References in this Prospectus to the Fund’s benchmark are for informational purposes only, and unless otherwise noted are not necessarily an indication of how the Fund is managed.


	The Fund seeks a high level of current income that is exempt from regular federal income tax and Tennessee State personal income tax and is consistent with preservation of capital.

The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes (measured at time of purchase) (“Net Assets”) in fixed-income securities issued by or on behalf of the State of Tennessee and its political subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities and public authorities and other states, territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia) and the political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities thereof (“Municipal Securities”), the interest on which is exempt

from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes) and is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax. The Fund may also invest up to 20% of its Net Assets in Municipal Securities that are subject to Tennessee State personal income tax. The Fund may invest up to 100% of its Net Assets in private activity bonds, the interest on which (including the Fund’s distributions of such interest) may be a preference item for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax. 100% of the Fund’s portfolio will be invested in U.S. dollar-denominated securities. For more information about the Fund’s investments in Municipal Securities, see “Municipal Securities” in Appendix A—Portfolio Securities and Techniques.”

The Fund is “non-diversified” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), and may invest more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” mutual funds. Therefore, the Fund may be more susceptible to adverse developments affecting any single issuer held in its portfolio, and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of these developments.

The tables below identify some of the investment techniques that may (but are not required to) be used by the Fund in seeking to achieve its investment objectives. Numbers in the tables show allowable usage only; for actual usage, consult the Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports (when available). For more information about these and other investment practices and securities, see Appendix A. The Fund publishes on its website (http://www.gs.com/funds) complete portfolio holdings for the Fund as of the end of each fiscal quarter subject to a thirty calendar-day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. In addition, the Fund publishes on its website selected holdings information monthly subject to a ten calendar-day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. This information will be available on the website until the date on which the Fund files its next quarterly portfolio holdings report on Form N-CSR or Form N-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In addition, a description of the Fund’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Fund’s portfolio securities is available in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“Additional Statement”).

Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of any bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency. The following summarizes important risks that apply to the Fund and may result in a loss of your investment. The Fund should not be relied upon as a complete investment program. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.


n	*NAV Risk*—The risk that the net asset value (“NAV”) of the Fund and the value of your investment will fluctuate.
n	*Interest Rate Risk*—The risk that when interest rates increase, fixed-income securities held by the Fund will decline in value. Long-term fixed-income securities will normally have more price volatility because of this risk than short-term fixed-income securities.
n	*Credit/Default Risk*—The risk that an issuer or guarantor of fixed-income securities held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and repay principal. This risk includes the risk of default on foreign letters of credit or guarantees that back Municipal Securities.
n	*Call Risk*—The risk that an issuer will exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as an asset-backed security) earlier than expected. This may happen when there is a decline in interest rates. Under these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to recoup all of its initial investment and will also suffer from having to reinvest in lower yielding securities.
n	*Extension Risk*—The risk that an issuer will exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as an asset-backed security) later than expected. This may happen when there is a rise in interest rates. Under these circumstances, the value of the obligation will decrease, and the Fund will also suffer from the inability to invest in higher yielding securities.
n	*Derivatives Risk*—The risk that loss may result from the Fund’s investments in options, futures, swaps, options on swaps, structured securities and other derivative investments. These instruments may be leveraged so that small changes may produce disproportionate losses to the Fund.
n	*U.S. Government Securities Risk*—The risk that the U.S. government will not provide financial support to U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises if it is not obligated to do so by law. Although many types of U.S. Government Securities that may be purchased by the Fund, such as those issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) and Federal Home Loan Banks may be chartered or sponsored by Acts of Congress, their securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the United States Treasury and, therefore, are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The maximum potential liability of the issuers of some U.S. Government Securities held by the Fund may greatly exceed their current resources, including their legal right to support from the U.S. Treasury. It is possible that these issuers will not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.
n	*Market Risk*—The risk that the value of the securities in which the Fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies, particular industry sectors or governments and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be temporary or last for extended periods. The Fund’s investments may be


	overweighted from time to time in one or more sectors, which will increase the Fund’s exposure to risk of loss from adverse developments affecting those sectors.
n	*Management Risk*—The risk that a strategy used by the Investment Adviser may fail to produce the intended results.
n	*Liquidity Risk*—The risk that the Fund will not be able to pay redemption proceeds within the time period stated in this Prospectus because of unusual market conditions, an unusually high volume of redemption requests, or other reasons.
n	*Tax Risk*—The Fund may be adversely impacted by changes in tax rates and policies. Because interest income from Municipal Securities in which the Fund invests is normally not subject to regular federal income taxation and is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax, the attractiveness of Municipal Securities in relation to other investment alternatives is affected by changes in federal income tax rates and Tennessee State personal income tax rates or changes in the tax-exempt status of interest income from Municipal Securities. Any proposed or actual changes in such rates or exempt status, therefore, can significantly affect the demand for and supply, liquidity and marketability of Municipal Securities. This could in turn affect the Fund’s net asset value and ability to acquire and dispose of Municipal Securities at desirable yield and price levels. Additionally, the Fund would not be a suitable investment for IRAs, other tax-exempt or tax-deferred accounts or for other investors who are not sensitive to the federal, state or local income tax consequences of their investments.
n	*Concentration Risk*—The risk that if the Fund invests more than 25% of its total assets in issuers within the same state, industry or economic sector, an adverse economic, business or political development may affect the value of the Fund’s investments more than if its investments were not so concentrated.
n	*Non-Diversification Risk*—The Fund is non-diversified, meaning that it is permitted to invest more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” mutual funds. Thus, the Fund may be more susceptible to adverse developments affecting any single issuer held in its portfolio, and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of these developments.
n	*Tennessee Risk*—The Fund intends to invest primarily in Tennessee municipal obligations. The investments of the Fund will, therefore, be affected by political and economic developments within Tennessee and by the financial condition of Tennessee, its public authorities and political sub-divisions. If Tennessee or any of its local governmental entities are unable to meet their financial obligations, the Fund’s income, NAV, and ability to preserve or realize appreciation of capital or liquidity could be adversely affected. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” for regulatory purposes. See Appendix A in this Prospectus for more information concerning the risks of investing in Tennessee.

More information about the Fund’s portfolio securities and investment techniques, and their associated risks, is provided in Appendix A. You should consider the investment risks discussed in this section and in Appendix A. Both are important to your investment choice.

The Fund had not commenced operations prior to the date of this Prospectus. Therefore, no performance information is provided in this section. The Fund first began operations as the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds (the “Predecessor Fund”). In March, 2006, the Predecessor Fund was reorganized as a new portfolio of Goldman Sachs Trust. Performance of the Predecessor Fund is not shown because as part of the reorganization the Predecessor Fund changed its investment adviser to GSAM.

This table describes the fees and expenses that you would pay if you buy and hold Institutional Shares of the Fund.


	*	The “Other Expenses” and “Total Fund Operating Expenses” (after any waivers and expense limitations) are as set forth below. The waivers and expense limitations may be modified or terminated at any time at the option of the Investment Adviser. If this occurs, “Other Expenses” and “Total Fund Operating Expenses” may increase without shareholder approval.


¹		A 2.0% redemption fee will be imposed on the redemption of shares (including by exchange) held for 30 calendar days or less.
²		The Fund is a new investment portfolio, which has acquired the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds, a registered investment company, in a reorganization. Annual operating expenses of the Fund have been estimated for the current year.
³		The Management Agreement provides for management fees at an annual rate equal to the following percentage of the average daily net assets of the Fund:

The following Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund (without the waivers and expense limitations) with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in Institutional Shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Institutional Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Institutions that invest in Institutional Shares on behalf of their customers may charge other fees directly to their customer accounts in connection with their investments. You should contact your institution for information regarding such charges. Such fees, if any, may affect the return such customers realize with respect to their investments.

Certain institutions that invest in Institutional Shares may receive other compensation in connection with the sale and distribution of Institutional Shares or for services to their customers’ accounts and/or the Fund. For additional information regarding such compensation, see “Shareholder Guide” in the Prospectus and “Payments to Intermediaries” in the Additional Statement.



	GSAM has been registered as an investment adviser with the SEC since 1990 and is an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. As of September 30, 2005, GSAM had assets under management of $471.8 billion.


	The Investment Adviser provides day-to-day advice regarding the Fund’s portfolio transactions. The Investment Adviser makes the investment decisions for the Fund and places purchase and sale orders for the Fund’s portfolio transactions in U.S. markets. As permitted by applicable law, these orders may be directed to any brokers, including Goldman Sachs and its affiliates. While the Investment Adviser is ultimately responsible for the management of the Fund, it is able to draw upon the research and expertise of its asset management affiliates for portfolio decisions and management with respect to certain portfolio securities. In addition, the Investment Adviser has access to the research and certain proprietary technical models developed by Goldman Sachs, and will apply quantitative and qualitative analysis in determining the appropriate allocations among categories of issuers and types of securities.

	The Investment Adviser also performs the following additional services for the Fund:


	n	Supervises all non-advisory operations of the Fund
	n	Provides personnel to perform necessary executive, administrative and clerical services to the Fund
	n	Arranges for the preparation of all required tax returns, reports to shareholders, prospectuses and statements of additional information and other reports filed with the SEC and other regulatory authorities
	n	Maintains the records of the Fund
	n	Provides office space and all necessary office equipment and services


	As compensation for its services and its assumption of certain expenses, the Investment Adviser is entitled to the following fees, computed daily and payable monthly, at the annual rates listed below (as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets):


	The Investment Adviser may voluntarily waive a portion of its advisory fees from time to time and discontinue or modify any such voluntary limitations in the future at its discretion.

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	Ben Barber is a Senior Portfolio Manager and serves as the Head of the U.S. Municipal Investment Management Team. As the leader of the Municipal Investment Management Team, Mr. Barber is ultimately responsible for the composition of the Fund’s structure at both the security and sector level. Along with the other portfolio managers on the team, Mr. Barber has specific responsibilities including duration, term structure, trading, and credit research. Each portfolio manager is responsible for liaising with the Municipal Credit Research Department, and promoting his or her fixed income investment ideas to the other members of the team so that a consensus view might be achieved and implemented.

	The Additional Statement provides information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and portfolio manager ownership of securities in the Fund.


	Goldman Sachs, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, serves as the exclusive distributor (the “Distributor”) of the Fund’s shares. Goldman Sachs, P.O. Box 06050, Chicago, IL 60606-6306, also serves as the Fund’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) and, as such, performs various shareholder servicing functions.

	From time to time, Goldman Sachs or any of its affiliates may purchase and hold shares of the Fund. Goldman Sachs reserves the right to redeem at any time some or all of the shares acquired for its own account.

ACTIVITIES OF GOLDMAN SACHS AND ITS AFFILIATES AND OTHER
ACCOUNTS MANAGED BY GOLDMAN SACHS

The involvement of the Investment Adviser, Goldman Sachs and their affiliates in the management of, or their interest in, other accounts and other activities of Goldman Sachs may present conflicts of interest with respect to the Fund or limit the Fund’s investment activities. Goldman Sachs is a full service investment banking broker dealer, asset management and financial services organization and a major participant in global financial markets. As such, it acts as an investor, investment banker, research provider, investment manager, financer, advisor, market maker, trader, prime broker, lender, agent and principal, and has other direct and indirect interests, in the global fixed income, currency, commodity, equity and other markets in which the Fund directly and indirectly invests. Thus, it is likely that the Fund will have multiple business relationships with and will invest in, engage in transactions with, make voting decisions with respect to, or obtain services from entities for which Goldman Sachs performs or seeks to perform investment banking or other services. Goldman Sachs and its affiliates engage in proprietary trading and advise accounts and funds which have investment objectives similar to those of the Fund and/or which engage in and compete for transactions in the same types of securities, currencies and instruments as the Fund. Goldman Sachs and its affiliates will not have any obligation to make available any information regarding their proprietary activities or strategies, or the activities or strategies used for other accounts managed by them, for the benefit of the management of the Fund. The results of the Fund’s investment activities, therefore, may differ from those of Goldman Sachs, its affiliates and other accounts managed by Goldman Sachs and it is possible that the Fund could sustain losses during periods in which Goldman Sachs and its affiliates and other accounts achieve significant profits on their trading for proprietary or other accounts. In addition, the Fund may, from time to time, enter into transactions in which Goldman Sachs or its other clients have an adverse interest. Furthermore, transactions undertaken by Goldman Sachs, its affiliates or Goldman Sachs advised clients may adversely


	impact the Fund. Transactions by one or more Goldman Sachs advised clients or the Investment Adviser may have the effect of diluting or otherwise disadvantaging the values, prices or investment strategies of the Fund. The Fund’s activities may be limited because of regulatory restrictions applicable to Goldman Sachs and its affiliates, and/or their internal policies designed to comply with such restrictions. As a global financial services firm, Goldman Sachs also provides a wide range of investment banking and financial services to issuers of securities and investors in securities. Goldman Sachs, its affiliates and others associated with it may create markets or specialize in, have positions in and affect transactions in, securities of issuers held by the Fund, and may also perform or seek to perform investment banking and financial services for those issuers. Goldman Sachs and its affiliates may have business relationships with and purchase or distribute or sell services or products from or to distributors, consultants or others who recommend the Fund or who engage in transactions with or for the Fund. For more information about conflicts of interest, see the Additional Statement.

	Under a securities lending program approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees, the Fund has retained an affiliate of the Investment Adviser to serve as the securities lending agent for the Fund to the extent that the Fund engages in the securities lending program. For these services, the lending agent may receive a fee from the Fund, including a fee based on the returns earned on the Fund’s investment of the cash received as collateral for the loaned securities. In addition, the Fund may make brokerage and other payments to Goldman Sachs and its affiliates in connection with the Fund’s portfolio investment transactions.


	Officers of the Trust and John Doe Defendants (collectively, the “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Certain investment portfolios of the Trust and GSVIT (collectively, the “Goldman Sachs Funds”) were also named as nominal defendants in the amended complaint. Plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint on April 15, 2005.

	The second amended consolidated complaint, which is brought on behalf of all persons or entities who held shares in the Goldman Sachs Funds between April 2, 1999 and January 9, 2004, inclusive (the “Class Period”), asserts claims involving (i) violations of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”) and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, (ii) common law breach of fiduciary duty, and (iii) unjust enrichment. The complaint alleges, among other things, that during the Class Period, the Defendants made improper and excessive brokerage commission and other payments to brokers that sold shares of the Goldman Sachs Funds and omitted statements of fact in registration statements and reports filed pursuant to the Investment Company Act which were necessary to prevent such registration statements and reports from being materially false and misleading. In addition, the complaint alleges that the Goldman Sachs Funds paid excessive and improper investment advisory fees to Goldman Sachs. The complaint also alleges that GSAM and GSAMI used Rule 12b-1 fees for improper purposes and made improper use of soft dollars. The complaint further alleges that the Trust’s Officers and Trustees breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the foregoing. The plaintiffs in the cases are seeking compensatory damages; rescission of GSAM’s and GSAMI’s investment advisory agreement and return of fees paid; an accounting of all Goldman Sachs Funds-related fees, commissions and soft dollar payments; restitution of all unlawfully or discriminatorily obtained fees and charges; and reasonable costs and expenses, including counsel fees and expert fees.

	Based on currently available information, GSAM believes that the likelihood that the pending purported class and derivative action lawsuit will have a material adverse financial impact on the Goldman Sachs Funds is remote, and the pending action is not likely to materially affect its ability to provide investment management services to its clients, including the Goldman Sachs Funds.


	You may indicate your election on your Account Application. Any changes may be submitted in writing to Goldman Sachs at any time before the record date for a particular dividend or distribution. If you do not indicate any choice, your dividends and distributions will be reinvested automatically in the Fund. If cash dividends are elected with respect to the Fund’s monthly net investment income dividends, then cash dividends must also be elected with respect to the non-long-term capital gains component, if any, of the Fund’s annual dividend.

	The election to reinvest dividends and distributions in additional shares will not affect the tax treatment of such dividends and distributions, which will be treated as received by you and then used to purchase the shares.


	Dividends from investment income and distributions from net capital gains are declared and paid as follows:


	From time to time the portion of the Fund’s dividends may constitute a return of capital.

	When you purchase shares of the Fund, part of the NAV per share may be represented by undistributed income or undistributed realized gains that have previously been earned by the Fund. Therefore, subsequent distributions on such shares from such income or realized gains may be taxable to you even if the NAV of the shares is, as a result of the distributions, reduced below the cost of such shares and the distributions (or portions thereof) represent a return of a portion of the purchase price.


	How Can I Purchase Institutional Shares Of The Fund?
	You may purchase Institutional Shares on any business day at their NAV next determined after receipt of an order. No sales load is charged. To place an order with Goldman Sachs, call 1-800-621-2550 and either:


	n	Wire federal funds to The Northern Trust Company (“Northern”), as subcustodian for State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street”) (the Fund’s custodian) on the next business day; or
	n	Send a check or Federal Reserve draft payable to Goldman Sachs Funds—(Name of Fund and Class of Shares), 71 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606. The Fund will not accept a check drawn on foreign banks, third party checks, cashier’s checks or official checks, temporary checks, electronic checks, drawer checks, cash, money orders, travelers cheques or credit card checks.


	In order to make an initial investment in the Fund, you must furnish to the Fund or Goldman Sachs the Account Application. Purchases of Institutional Shares must be settled within three business days of receipt of a complete purchase order.

	How Do I Purchase Shares Through A Financial Institution?
	Certain institutions (including banks, trust companies, brokers and investment advisers) that provide recordkeeping, reporting and processing services to their customers may be authorized to accept, on behalf of the Trust, purchase, redemption and exchange orders placed by or on behalf of their customers and may designate other intermediaries to accept such orders, if approved by the Trust. In these cases:


	n	The Fund will be deemed to have received an order in proper form when the order is accepted by the authorized institution or intermediary on a business day, and the order will be priced at the Fund’s NAV per share (less any applicable redemption fee) next determined after such acceptance.
	n	Authorized institutions or intermediaries will be responsible for transmitting accepted orders and payments to the Trust within the time period agreed upon by them.


	You should contact your institution or intermediary to learn whether it is authorized to accept orders for the Trust. These institutions may receive payments from the Fund or Goldman Sachs for the services provided by them with respect to the Fund’s Institutional Shares. These payments may be in addition to other payments borne by the Fund.

	The Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may make payments to authorized dealers and other financial intermediaries (“Intermediaries”) from time to time to promote the sale, distribution and/or servicing of shares of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds. These payments are made out of the Investment Adviser’s, Distributor’s and/or their affiliates’ own assets, and are not an additional charge to the Fund. The payments are in addition to the fees described in this Prospectus. Such payments are intended to compensate Intermediaries for, among other things: marketing shares of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds, which may consist of payments relating to the Fund included on preferred or recommended fund lists or in certain sales programs from time to time sponsored by the Intermediaries; access to the Intermediaries’ registered representatives or salespersons, including at conferences and other meetings; assistance in training and education of personnel; marketing support; and/or other specified services intended to assist in the distribution and marketing of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds. The payments may also, to the extent permitted by applicable regulations, contribute to various non-cash and cash incentive arrangements to promote the sale of shares, as well as sponsor various educational programs, sales contests and/or promotions. The additional payments by the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may also compensate Intermediaries for subaccounting, administrative and/or shareholder processing services that are in addition to the fees paid for these services by the Fund. The amount of these additional payments is normally not expected to exceed 0.50% (annualized) of the amount sold or invested through the Intermediaries. Please refer to the “Payments to Intermediaries” section of the Additional Statement for more information about these payments.

	The payments made by the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may be different for different Intermediaries. The presence of these payments and the basis on which an Intermediary compensates its registered representatives or salespersons may create an incentive for a particular Intermediary, registered representative or salesperson to highlight, feature or recommend the Fund based, at least in part, on the level of compensation paid. You should contact your authorized dealer or other Intermediary for more information about the payments it receives and any potential conflicts of interest.


	In addition to Institutional Shares, the Fund also offers other classes of shares to investors. These other share classes are subject to different fees and expenses (which affect performance), have different minimum investment requirements and are entitled to different services than Institutional Shares. Information regarding these other share classes may be obtained from your sales representative or from Goldman Sachs by calling the number on the back cover of this Prospectus.

	What Is My Minimum Investment In The Fund?


	The minimum investment requirement may be waived for current and former officers, partners, directors or employees of Goldman Sachs or any of its affiliates; brokerage or advisory clients of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management; certain mutual fund “wrap” programs and for other investors at the discretion of the Trust’s officers. No minimum amount is required for subsequent investments.

	What Else Should I Know About Share Purchases?
	The Trust reserves the right to:


	n	Refuse to open an account if you fail to (i) provide a Social Security Number or other taxpayer identification number; or (ii) certify that such number is correct (if required to do so under applicable law).
	n	Modify or waive the minimum investment amounts.
	n	Reject or restrict any purchase or exchange order by a particular purchaser (or group of related purchasers) for any reason in its discretion. Without limiting the foregoing, the Trust may reject or restrict purchase and exchange orders by a particular purchaser (or group of related purchasers) when a pattern of frequent purchases, sales or exchanges of Institutional Shares of the Fund is evident, or if purchases, sales or exchanges are, or a subsequent abrupt redemption might be, of a size that would disrupt the management of the Fund.
	n	Close the Fund to new investors from time to time and reopen the Fund whenever it is deemed appropriate by the Fund’s Investment Adviser.


	Generally, the Fund will not allow non-U.S. citizens and certain U.S. citizens residing outside the United States to open an account directly with the Fund.

	The Fund may allow you to purchase shares with securities instead of cash if consistent with the Fund’s investment policies and operations and if approved by the Fund’s Investment Adviser.

	Customer Identification Program
	Federal law requires the Fund to obtain, verify and record identifying information, which may include the name, residential or business street address, date of birth (for an individual), Social Security Number or taxpayer identification number or other identifying information, for each investor who opens an account with the Fund. Applications without the required information may not be accepted by the Fund. After accepting an application, to the extent permitted by applicable law or their customer identification program, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) place limits on transactions in any account until the identity of the investor is verified; (ii) refuse an investment in the Fund; or (iii) involuntarily redeem an investor’s shares and close an account in the event that the Fund is unable to verify an investor’s identity. The Fund


	and its agents will not be responsible for any loss in an investor’s account resulting from the investor’s delay in providing all required identifying information or from closing an account and redeeming an investor’s shares pursuant to the customer identification program.

	How Are Shares Priced?
	The price you pay or receive when you buy, sell or exchange Institutional Shares is the Fund’s next determined NAV. The Fund calculates NAV for a share class (as adjusted for any applicable redemption fee) as follows:


	The Fund’s investments are valued based on market quotations, which may be furnished by a pricing service or provided by securities dealers. If accurate quotations are not readily available, or if the Investment Adviser believes that such quotations do not accurately reflect fair value, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may be determined based on yield equivalents, a pricing matrix or other sources, under valuation procedures established by the Trustees. Debt obligations with a remaining maturity of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost.

	In addition, the Investment Adviser, consistent with applicable regulatory guidance, may determine to make an adjustment to the previous closing prices of securities in light of significant events, to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities at the time of determining the Fund’s NAV. Significant events that could affect a large number of securities in a particular market may include, but are not limited to: situations relating to one or more single issuers in a market sector; significant fluctuations in foreign markets; market disruptions or market closings; governmental actions or other developments; as well as the same or similar events which may affect specific issuers or the securities markets even though not tied directly to the securities markets. Other significant events that could relate to a single issuer may include, but are not limited to: corporate actions such as reorganizations, mergers and buy-outs; corporate announcements on earnings; significant litigation; and regulatory news such as governmental approvals.

	One effect of using fair valuation may be to reduce stale pricing arbitrage opportunities presented by the pricing of Fund shares. However, it involves the risk that the values used by the Fund to price its investments may be different from those used by other investment companies and investors to price the same investments.


	Investments in other registered mutual funds (if any) are valued based on the NAV of those mutual funds (which may use fair value pricing as discussed in their prospectuses).


	n	NAV per share of each share class is generally calculated by the accounting agent on each business day as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (normally 4:00 p.m. New York time) or such later time as the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ market may officially close. This occurs after the determination, if any, of income declared as a dividend. Fund shares will generally not be priced on any day the New York Stock Exchange is closed.
	n	When you buy shares, you pay the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your order in proper form, less any applicable redemption fee.
	n	When you sell shares, you receive the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your order in proper form, less any applicable redemption fee.
	n	On any business day when the Bond Market Association (“BMA”) recommends that the securities markets close early, the Fund reserves the right to close at or prior to the BMA recommended closing time. If the Fund does so, it will cease granting same business day credit for purchase and redemption orders received after the Fund’s closing time and credit will be given to the next business day.
	n	The Trust reserves the right to reprocess purchase (including dividend re-investment), redemption and exchange transactions that were processed at an NAV other than the Fund’s official closing NAV that is subsequently adjusted, and to recover amounts from (or distribute amounts to) shareholders accordingly based on the offered closing NAV as adjusted.
	n	The Trust reserves the right to advance the time by which purchase and redemption orders must be received for same business day credit as otherwise permitted by the SEC.


	Note: The time at which transactions and shares are priced and the time by which orders must be received may be changed in case of an emergency or if regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange is stopped at a time other than 4:00 p.m. New York time. In the event the New York Stock Exchange does not open for business because of an emergency, the Trust may, but is not required to, open one or more Funds for purchase, redemption and exchange transactions if the Federal Reserve wire payment system is open. To learn whether the Fund is open for business during an emergency situation, please call 1-800-621-2550.

	When Will Shares Be Issued And Dividends Begin To Be Paid?


	n	Shares Purchased by Federal Funds Wire:


	n	If a purchase order in proper form specifies a settlement date and is received before the Fund’s NAV is determined that day, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the purchased shares on the later of (i) the


		business day after the purchase order is received; or (ii) the day that the federal funds wire is received by Northern.
	n	If a purchase order in proper form does not specify a settlement date, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the business day after payment is received.


	n	Shares Purchased by Check or Federal Reserve Draft:


	n	If a purchase order in proper form specifies a settlement date and is received before the Fund’s NAV is determined that day, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the business day after payment is received.
	n	If a purchase order in proper form does not specify a settlement date, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the business day after payment is received.


	How Can I Sell Institutional Shares Of The Fund?
	You may arrange to take money out of your account by selling (redeeming) some or all of your shares. Generally, the Fund will redeem its Institutional Shares upon request on any business day at their NAV next determined after receipt of such request in proper form, subject to any applicable redemption fee. You may request that redemption proceeds be sent to you by check or by wire (if the wire instructions are on record). Redemptions may be requested in writing or by telephone.


	Any redemption request that requires money to go to an account or address other than that designated on the Account Application must be in writing and signed by an authorized person designated on the Account Application. The written request may be confirmed by telephone with both the requesting party and the designated bank account to verify instructions.

	Certain institutions and intermediaries are authorized to accept redemption requests on behalf of the Fund as described under “How Do I Purchase Shares Through A Financial Institution?”

	When Do I Need A Medallion Signature To Redeem Shares?
	A Medallion signature guarantee may be required if:


	n	You would like the redemption proceeds sent to an address that is not your address of record; or
	n	You would like to change your current bank designations.


	A signature guarantee must be obtained from a bank, brokerage firm or other financial intermediary that is a member of an approved Medallion Guarantee Program or that is otherwise approved by the Trust. A notary public cannot provide a signature guarantee. Additional documentation may be required for executors, trustees or corporations or when deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent.

	What Do I Need To Know About Telephone Redemption Requests?
	The Trust, the Distributor and the Transfer Agent will not be liable for any loss you may incur in the event that the Trust accepts unauthorized telephone redemption requests that the Trust reasonably believes to be genuine. In an effort to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent redemption and exchange requests by telephone, Goldman Sachs employs reasonable procedures specified by the Trust to confirm that such instructions are genuine. If reasonable procedures are not employed, the Trust may be liable for any loss due to unauthorized or fraudulent transactions. The following general policies are currently in effect:


	n	All telephone requests are recorded.
	n	Any redemption request that requires money to go to an account or address other than that designated on the Account Application must be in writing and signed by an authorized person designated on the Account Application. The written request may be confirmed by telephone with both the requesting party and the designated bank account to verify instructions.
	n	For the 30-day period following a change of address, telephone redemptions will only be filed by a wire transfer to the bank account designated in the Account Application (see immediately preceding bullet point). In order to receive the redemption by check during this time period, the redemption request must be a written, Medallion signature guaranteed letter.
	n	The telephone redemption option may be modified or terminated at any time.


	*Note: It may be difficult to make telephone redemptions in times of drastic economic or market conditions.*

	How Are Redemption Proceeds Paid?
	*By Wire:* You may arrange for your redemption proceeds to be wired as federal funds to the domestic bank account designated in your Account Application. The following general policies govern wiring redemption proceeds:


	n	Redemption proceeds will normally be wired on the next business day in federal funds (for a total of one business day delay), but may be paid up to three business days following receipt of a properly executed wire transfer redemption request. Although redemption proceeds will normally be wired as described above, under certain circumstances, redemption requests or payments may be postponed or suspended as permitted pursuant to Section 22(e) of the Investment Company Act. Generally, under that section, redemption requests or payments


		may be postponed or suspended if (a) the New York Stock Exchange is closed for trading or trading is restricted; (b) an emergency exists which makes the disposal of securities owned by the Fund or the fair determination of the value of the Fund’s net assets not reasonably practicable; or (c) the SEC by order permits the suspension of the right or redemption. If you are selling shares you recently paid for by check, the Fund will pay you when your check has cleared, which may take up to 15 days. If the Federal Reserve Bank is closed on the day that the redemption proceeds would ordinarily be wired, wiring the redemption proceeds may be delayed one additional business day.
	n	To change the bank designated on your Account Application, you must send written instructions signed by an authorized person designated on the Account Application to the Transfer Agent.
	n	Neither the Trust, Goldman Sachs nor any other institution assumes any responsibility for the performance of your bank or any intermediaries in the transfer process. If a problem with such performance arises, you should deal directly with your bank or any such intermediaries.


	*By Check:* You may elect in writing to receive your redemption proceeds by check. Redemption proceeds paid by check will normally be mailed to the address of record within three business days of a properly executed redemption request. If you are selling shares you recently paid for by check, the Fund will pay you when your check has cleared, which may take up to 15 days.

	What Do I Need To Know About The Redemption Fee?
	The Fund will charge a 2% redemption fee on the redemption of shares (including by exchange) held for 30 calendar days or less. For this purpose, the Fund uses a first-in first-out (“FIFO”) method so that shares held longest will be treated as being redeemed first and shares held shortest will be treated as being redeemed last. The redemption fee will be paid to the Fund from which the redemption is made, and is intended to offset the trading costs, market impact and other costs associated with short-term money movements in and out of the Fund. The redemption fee may be collected by deduction from the redemption proceeds or, if assessed after the redemption transaction, through a separate billing.

	The redemption fee does not apply to transactions involving the following:


	n	Redemptions of shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions.
	n	Redemptions of shares that are acquired or redeemed in connection with the participation in a systematic withdrawal program or automatic investment plan.
	n	Redemptions of shares in connection with a regularly scheduled automatic rebalancing of assets by certain mutual fund asset allocation programs.


	n	Redemptions of shares maintained in omnibus accounts by the Fund’s transfer agent on behalf of trust companies and bank trust departments investing assets held in a fiduciary, agency, advisory, custodial or similar capacity and over which the trust companies and bank trust departments or other plan fiduciaries or participants (in the case of certain retirement plans) have full or shared investment discretion.
	n	Total or partial redemptions of shares held through retirement plans and accounts maintained pursuant to Section 401 (tax-qualified pension, profit sharing, 401(k), money purchase and stock bonus plans), 403 (qualified annuity plans and tax-sheltered annuities) and 457 (deferred compensation plans for employees of tax-exempt entities or governments) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that are maintained by the Fund’s transfer agent on an omnibus basis.
	n	Redemption of shares that are issued as part of an investment company reorganization to which a Goldman Sachs Fund is a party.


	The Trust reserves the right to modify or eliminate the redemption fee or waivers at any time and will give 60 days’ prior written notice of any material changes, unless otherwise provided by law. The redemption fee policy may be modified or amended in the future to reflect, among other factors, regulatory requirements mandated by the SEC.

	In addition to the circumstances noted above, the Trust reserves the right to grant additional exceptions based on such factors as operational limitations, contractual limitations and further guidance from the SEC or other regulators.

	What Else Do I Need to Know About Redemptions?
	The following generally applies to redemption requests:


	n	Institutional Shares of the Fund earn dividends declared on the day the shares are redeemed.
	n	Additional documentation may be required when deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. A redemption request will not be in proper form until such additional documentation has been received.
	n	Institutions (including banks, trust companies, brokers and investment advisers) are responsible for the timely transmittal of redemption requests by their customers to the Transfer Agent. In order to facilitate the timely transmittal of redemption requests, these institutions may set times by which they must receive redemption requests. These institutions may also require additional documentation from you.


	The Trust reserves the right to:


	n	Redeem your shares in the event an Institution’s relationship with Goldman Sachs is terminated and you do not transfer your account to another Institution


		with a relationship with Goldman Sachs. The Trust will not be responsible for any loss in an investor’s account resulting from a redemption.
	n	Redeem your shares if your account balance falls below the required Fund minimum as a result of a redemption. The Fund will not redeem your shares on this basis if the value of your account falls below the minimum account balance solely as a result of market conditions. The Fund will give you 60 days’ prior written notice to allow you to purchase sufficient additional shares of the Fund in order to avoid such redemption.
	n	Subject to applicable law, redeem your shares in other circumstances determined by the Board of Trustees to be in the best interest of the Trust.
	n	Pay redemptions by a distribution in-kind of securities (instead of cash). If you receive redemption proceeds in-kind, you should expect to incur transaction costs upon the disposition of those securities.
	n	Reinvest any dividends or other distributions which you have elected to receive in cash should your check for such dividends or other distributions be returned to the Fund as undeliverable or remain uncashed for six months. In addition, that distribution and all future distributions payable to you will be reinvested at the NAV on the day of reinvestment in additional Institutional Shares of the Fund that pays the distributions. No interest will accrue on amounts represented by uncashed distribution or redemption checks.


	Can I Exchange My Investment From One Fund To Another?
	You may exchange Institutional Shares of the Fund at NAV for Institutional Shares of another Goldman Sachs Fund. Redemption of shares (including by exchange) that are held for 30 calendar days or less may, however, be subject to a redemption fee as described above under “What Do I Need To Know About The Redemption


	Fee?” The exchange privilege may be materially modified or withdrawn at any time upon 60 days’ written notice to you.


	You should keep in mind the following factors when making or considering an exchange:


	n	You should obtain and carefully read the prospectus of the Fund you are acquiring before making an exchange.
	n	All exchanges which represent an initial investment in the Fund must satisfy the minimum initial investment requirements of that Fund or the entire balance of the original Fund account should be exchanged. This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Trust.
	n	Telephone exchanges normally will be made only to an identically registered account.
	n	Exchanges are available only in states where exchanges may be legally made.
	n	It may be difficult to make telephone exchanges in times of drastic economic or market conditions.
	n	Goldman Sachs may use reasonable procedures described under “What Do I Need To Know About Telephone Redemption Requests?” in an effort to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent telephone exchange requests.
	n	Exchanges into Goldman Sachs Funds that are closed to new investors may be restricted.
	n	Exchanges into a Fund from another Goldman Sachs Fund may be subject to any redemption fee imposed by the other Goldman Sachs Fund.


	For federal income tax purposes, an exchange from one Goldman Sachs Fund to another is treated as a redemption of the shares surrendered in the exchange, on which you may be subject to tax, followed by a purchase of shares received in the


	exchange. You should consult your tax adviser concerning the tax consequences of an exchange.

	What Types Of Reports Will I Be Sent Regarding Investments in Institutional Shares?
	You will receive an annual shareholder report containing audited financial statements and a semi-annual shareholder report. If you have consented to the delivery of a single copy of shareholder reports, prospectuses and other information to all shareholders who share the same mailing address with your account, you may revoke your consent at any time by contacting Goldman Sachs Funds by phone at 1-800-621-2550 or by mail at Goldman Sachs Funds, 71 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60606. The Funds will begin sending individual copies to you within 30 days after receipt of your revocation. You will be provided with a printed confirmation of each transaction in your account and a monthly statement. A year-to-date statement for your account will be provided upon request made to Goldman Sachs. If your account is held in a “street name” you may receive your statements and conformations on a different schedule.

Policies and Procedures on Excessive Trading Practices. In accordance with the policy adopted by the Board of Trustees, the Trust discourages frequent purchases and redemptions of Fund shares and does not permit market timing or other excessive trading practices. Purchases and exchanges should be made with a view to longer term investment purposes only that are consistent with the investment policies and practices of the Fund. Excessive, short-term (market timing) trading practices may disrupt portfolio management strategies, increase brokerage and administrative costs, harm fund performance and result in dilution in the value of Fund shares held by long-term shareholders. The Trust and Goldman Sachs reserve the right to reject or restrict purchase or exchange requests from any investor. The Trust and Goldman Sachs will not be liable for any loss resulting from rejected purchase or exchange orders. To minimize harm to the Trust and its shareholders (or Goldman Sachs), the Trust (or Goldman Sachs) will exercise this right if, in the Trust’s (or Goldman Sachs’) judgment, an investor has a history of excessive trading or if an investor’s trading, in the judgment of the Trust (or Goldman Sachs), has been or may be disruptive to the Fund. In making this judgment, trades executed in multiple accounts under common ownership or control may be considered together to the extent they can be identified. No waivers of the provisions of the policy established to detect and deter market timing and other excessive trading activity are permitted that would harm the Trust or its shareholders or would subordinate the interest of the Trust or its shareholders to


	those of Goldman Sachs or any affiliated person or associated person of Goldman Sachs.

	To deter excessive shareholder trading, the Fund described in this Prospectus, certain other Fixed Income Funds, and the International Equity Funds (which are offered in separate prospectuses) impose a redemption fee on redemptions made within 30 calendar days of purchase subject to certain exceptions. See “Shareholder Guide—What Do I Need To Know About Redemption Fee?” for more information about the redemption fee, including transactions and certain omnibus accounts to which the redemption fee does not apply.

	Pursuant to the policy adopted by the Board of Trustees, Goldman Sachs has developed criteria that it uses to identify trading activity that may be excessive. Goldman Sachs reviews on a regular, periodic basis available information relating to the trading activity in the Fund in order to assess the likelihood that the Fund may be the target of excessive trading. As part of its excessive trading surveillance process, Goldman Sachs, on a periodic basis, examines transactions that exceed certain monetary thresholds or numerical limits within a period of time. Consistent with the standards described above, if in its judgment, Goldman Sachs detects excessive, short term trading, Goldman Sachs is authorized to reject or restrict a purchase or exchange request and may further seek to close an investor’s account with the Fund. Goldman Sachs may modify its surveillance procedures and criteria from time to time without prior notice regarding the detection of excessive trading or to address specific circumstances. Goldman Sachs will apply the criteria in a manner that, in Goldman Sachs’ judgment, will be uniform.

	Fund shares may be held through omnibus arrangements maintained by intermediaries such as broker-dealers, investment advisers, transfer agents, administrators and insurance companies. In addition, Fund shares may be held in omnibus 401(k) plans, employee benefit plans and other group accounts. Omnibus accounts include multiple investors and such accounts typically provide the Fund with a net purchase or redemption request on any given day where purchases and redemptions of Fund shares by the investors are netted against one another. The identity of individual investors whose purchase and redemption orders are aggregated are not known by the Fund. A number of these financial intermediaries may not have the capability or may not be willing to apply the Fund’s market timing policies or any applicable redemption fee. While Goldman Sachs may monitor share turnover at the omnibus account level, the Fund’s ability to monitor and detect market timing by shareholders or apply any applicable redemption fee in these omnibus accounts is limited. The netting effect makes it more difficult to identify, locate and eliminate market timing activities. In addition, those investors who engage in market timing and other excessive trading activities may employ a variety of


	techniques to avoid detection. There can be no assurance that the Fund and Goldman Sachs will be able to identify all those who trade excessively or employ a market timing strategy, and curtail their trading in every instance.


	The Fund contemplates declaring as dividends each year all or substantially all of its income. Unlike Funds that hold equity securities, distributions from the Fund out of net investment income will generally not be “qualified dividends” eligible for the reduced long-term capital gains tax rate as provided for by recent changes made to the Code. The Fund expects to distribute “exempt-interest dividends” attributable to tax-exempt interest earned by the Fund. Exempt-interest dividends are generally not subject to federal income tax, but may be subject to state or local taxes. However, investments in tax-exempt bonds can also result in the recognition of income or gain by the Fund, and thereby cause a portion of the Fund’s distributions to shareholders to be taxable. Thus, if the value of a bond appreciates while the Fund owns it (aside from the appreciation attributable to original issue discount on that bond), and the Fund then sells the bond at a gain, that gain will generally not be exempt from tax—whether or not the interest income on the bond is exempt. Gain recognized by the Fund on sales of appreciated bonds will generally be short-term or long-term capital gain depending on whether the Fund has held the bonds for more than one year, but “market discount” bonds can cause the Fund to recognize ordinary income. “Market discount” is a discount at which a bond is purchased that is attributable to a decline in the value of the bond after its original issuance. The market discount is then taken into account ratably over the bond’s remaining term to maturity, and the portion that accrues during the Fund’s holding period for the bond is generally treated as taxable ordinary income to the extent of any realized gain on the bond upon disposition or maturity. Distributions attributable to ordinary income and short-term capital gain recognized by the Fund are generally taxable as ordinary income, while distributions attributable to long-term capital gains are taxable as long-term capital gains, no matter how long you have owned your Fund shares.

	Although taxable distributions are generally treated as taxable to you in the year they are paid, distributions declared in October, November or December but paid in January are taxable as if they were paid in December.


	You should note that exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund may be a preference item when determining your federal alternative minimum tax liability. Exempt-interest dividends are also taken into account in determining the taxable portion of social security or railroad retirement benefits. Any interest on indebtedness incurred by you to purchase or carry shares in the Fund will not be deductible for federal income tax purposes.

	If you buy shares of the Fund before it makes a taxable distribution, the distribution will be taxable to you even though it may actually be a return of a portion of your investment. This is known as “buying a dividend.”


	Your sale of Fund shares is a taxable transaction for federal income tax purposes, and may also be subject to state and local taxes. For tax purposes, the exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different Goldman Sachs Fund is the same as a sale. When you sell your shares, you will generally recognize a capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between your adjusted tax basis in the shares and the amount received. Generally, this gain or loss is long-term or short-term depending on whether your holding period exceeds twelve months, except that any loss realized on shares held for six months or less will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of any capital gain dividends that were received on the shares. In addition, any loss realized on shares held for six months or less will be disallowed to the extent of any exempt-interest dividends that were received on the shares.

	Any loss realized on a sale, exchange or redemption of shares of the Fund may be disallowed under “wash sale” rules to the extent the shares disposed of are replaced with other shares of the Fund within a period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the shares are disposed of, such as pursuant to a dividend reinvestment in shares of the Fund. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an adjustment to the basis of the shares acquired.


	Except as stated below, you may be subject to state and local taxes on distribution paid by the Funds and on the redemption or exchange of Fund shares.

	The Tennessee Municipal Fund expects to pay dividends that generally are exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax. This exemption will apply, however, only to the dividends that are derived from interest received by the Fund on Tennessee municipal obligations or on certain federal obligations. For these purposes Tennessee municipal obligations are obligations issued by or on behalf of the State of Tennessee and its respective political subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, and public authorities and certain issuers located outside


	Tennessee such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, the interest from which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax.

	The Tennessee Municipal Fund may also invest in taxable instruments or in Municipal Securities that are not Tennessee municipal obligations. The Fund’s distributions of interest from municipal obligations other than Tennessee municipal obligations, as well as all distributions attributable to capital gain income, may be subject to Tennessee State personal income taxes. In addition, dividends paid by the Fund may be subject to Tennessee corporate franchise and corporate income taxes.


	When you open your account, you should provide your Social Security Number or tax identification number on your Account Application. By law, the Fund must withhold 28% of your taxable distributions and any redemption proceeds if you do not provide your correct taxpayer identification number, or certify that it is correct, or if the IRS instructs the Fund to do so.

	Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax. However, non-U.S. investors generally may file for a tax refund of tax withheld (if any) on distributions of qualified interest income and short-term capital gains made by the Fund to non-U.S. investors after November 1, 2005 and before October 31, 2008.


	The Fund will be subject to the risks associated with fixed-income securities. These risks include interest rate risk, credit risk and call/extension risk. In general, interest rate risk involves the risk that when interest rates decline, the market value of fixed-income securities tends to increase (although some asset-backed securities will have less potential than other debt securities for capital appreciation during periods of declining rates). Conversely, when interest rates increase, the market value of fixed-income securities tends to decline. Credit risk involves the risk that the issuer or guarantor could default on its obligations, and the Fund will not recover its investment. Call risk and extension risk are normally present in asset-backed securities. For example, debtors may have the option to prepay their loans. Therefore, the duration of an asset-backed security can either shorten (call risk) or lengthen (extension risk). In general, if interest rates on new loans fall sufficiently below the interest rates on existing outstanding loans, the rate of prepayment would be expected to increase. Conversely, if loan interest rates rise above the interest rates on existing outstanding loans, the rate of prepayment would be expected to decrease. In either case, a change in the prepayment rate can result in losses to investors.

	The Investment Adviser will not consider the portfolio turnover rate a limiting factor in making investment decisions for the Fund. A high rate of portfolio turnover (100% or more) involves correspondingly greater expenses which must be borne by the Fund and its shareholders and is also likely to result in higher short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders. The portfolio turnover rate is calculated by dividing the lesser of the dollar amount of sales or purchases of portfolio securities by the average monthly value of the Fund’s portfolio securities, excluding securities having a maturity at the date of purchase of one year or less.

	The following sections provide further information on certain types of securities and investment techniques that may be used by the Fund, including their associated risks. Additional information is provided in the Additional Statement, which is available upon request. Among other things, the Additional Statement describes certain fundamental investment restrictions that cannot be changed without shareholder approval. You should note, however, that the Fund’s investment objective and all investment policies not specifically designated as fundamental are non-fundamental, and may be changed without shareholder approval. If there is a


	change in the Fund’s investment objective, you should consider whether the Fund remains an appropriate investment in light of your then current financial position and needs.


	*Fundamental Policies.* As a matter of fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Net Assets of the Fund (measured at the time of purchase) will be invested in Municipal Securities, the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes). In addition, as a matter of fundamental policy, at least 80% of the Tennessee Municipal Fund’s Net Assets (measured at the time of purchase) will be invested, under normal circumstances, in instruments that pay income which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax.

	*Risks of Investing in Tennessee:* The Fund concentrates its investments in Tennessee municipal obligations. Consequently, it is more susceptible to factors adversely affecting issuers of Tennessee municipal obligations, and may be riskier than comparable municipal bond funds and money market funds that do not emphasize these issuers to this degree.

	The Fund’s investments can be affected by political and economic developments within the State of Tennessee, and by the financial condition of Tennessee’s public authorities and political subdivisions.

	While economic conditions in Tennessee continue to show improvement, non-farm job growth in recent years has been modest and the state has experienced a significant loss of manufacturing jobs. Job growth in the service sector has been strong, with the highest growth being in metropolitan areas. The State of Tennessee (the “State”), the largest issuer of Tennessee municipal obligations relies almost exclusively on a 7% sales tax to comply with the state constitutional mandate that annual expenditures not exceed annual revenues and available reserves. The State has recently implemented a series of reforms to “Tenncare,” its healthcare program serving approximately 1.3 million Medicaid eligible, uninsured or uninsurable citizens, in an attempt to reduce costs of the program.

	These factors, among others, could reduce the credit standing of certain issuers of Tennessee municipal obligations. A more detailed discussion of the risks of investing in Tennessee municipal obligations is included in the Additional Statement.

	If Tennessee, or any of its local governmental entities is unable to meet its financial obligations, the Fund’s income, NAV, ability to preserve or realize appreciation of


	capital or liquidity could be adversely affected. Also, the Fund is not a diversified fund under the Investment Company Act (except to the extent that diversification is required for federal income tax purposes). Because it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than do diversified funds, the Fund may be exposed to greater risk in that an adverse change in the condition of one or a small number of issuers would have a greater impact on it.

	*Credit/Default Risks.* Debt securities purchased by the Fund may include securities (including zero coupon bonds) issued by the U.S. government (and its agencies, instrumentalities and sponsored enterprises), state and municipal governmental entities, corporations, banks and other issuers. Some of these fixed-income securities are described in the next section below. Further information is provided in the Additional Statement.

	Debt securities rated BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group (“Standard & Poor’s”), or Baa3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or having a comparable rating by another NRSRO are considered “investment grade.” Securities rated BBB- or Baa3 are considered medium-grade obligations with speculative characteristics, and adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances may weaken their issuers’ capacity to pay interest and repay principal. A security will be deemed to have met a rating requirement if it receives the minimum required rating from at least one such rating organization even though it has been rated below the minimum rating by one or more other rating organizations, or if unrated by such rating organizations, the security is determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable credit quality. If a security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement at the time of purchase and is subsequently downgraded below that rating, the Fund will not be required to dispose of the security. If a downgrade occurs, the Investment Adviser will consider what action, including the sale of the security, is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

	*Risks of Derivative Investments.* The Fund’s transactions in options, futures, options on futures, swaps, interest rate caps, floors and collars, structured securities and inverse floating-rate securities involve additional risk of loss. Loss can result from a lack of correlation between changes in the value of derivative instruments and the portfolio assets (if any) being hedged, the potential illiquidity of the markets for derivative instruments, or the risks arising from margin requirements and related leverage factors associated with such transactions. The use of these management techniques also involves the risk of loss if the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates or currency prices. The Fund may also invest in derivative investments for non-hedging purposes (that is, to seek to increase total return). Investing for non-


	hedging purposes is considered a speculative practice and presents even greater risk of loss. Particular derivative securities may be leveraged such that their exposure (i.e., price sensitivity) to interest rate and/or prepayment risk is magnified.

	Some floating-rate derivative debt securities can present more complex types of derivative and interest rate risks. For example, range floaters are subject to the risk that the coupon will be reduced below market rates if a designated interest rate floats outside of a specified interest rate band or collar. Dual index or yield curve floaters are subject to lower prices in the event of an unfavorable change in the spread between two designated interest rates.

	*Risks of Illiquid Securities.* The Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in illiquid securities which cannot be disposed of in seven days in the ordinary course of business at fair value. Illiquid securities include:


	n	Domestic securities that are not readily marketable
	n	Certain municipal leases and participation interests
	n	Repurchase agreements and time deposits with a notice or demand period of more than seven days
	n	Certain over-the-counter options
	n	Certain structured securities and all swap transactions
	n	Certain restricted securities, unless it is determined, based upon a review of the trading markets for a specific restricted security, that such restricted security is liquid because it is so-called “4(2) commercial paper” or is otherwise eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 (“144A Securities”).


	Investing in 144A Securities may decrease the liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio to the extent that qualified institutional buyers become for a time uninterested in purchasing these restricted securities. The purchase price and subsequent valuation of restricted and illiquid securities normally reflect a discount, which may be significant, from the market price of comparable securities for which a liquid market exists.

	*Temporary Investment Risks.* The Fund may, for temporary defensive purposes, invest a certain percentage of its total assets in:


	n	U.S. Government Securities
	n	Repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. Government Securities


	The Fund may invest more than 20% of its Net Assets in taxable investments.

	When the Fund’s assets are invested in such instruments, the Fund may not be achieving its investment objective.


	This section provides further information on certain types of securities and investment techniques that may be used by the Fund, including their associated risks.

	The Fund may purchase other types of securities or instruments similar to those described in this section if otherwise consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and policies. Further information is provided in the Additional Statement, which is available upon request.

	*Municipal Securities.* The Fund may invest in securities and instruments issued by state and local government issuers. Municipal Securities in which the Fund may invest consist of bonds, notes, commercial paper and other instruments (including participation interests in such securities) issued by or on behalf of the states, territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia) and their political subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities. The interest on tax-free Municipal Securities will normally be exempt from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes but not necessarily exempt from federal alternative minimum tax or from state or local taxes). Because of their tax-exempt status, the yields and market values of Municipal Securities may be more adversely impacted by changes in tax rates and policies than taxable fixed-income securities.

	Municipal Securities include both “general” obligation and “revenue” bonds and may be issued to obtain funds for various purposes. General obligations are secured by the issuer’s pledge of its full faith, credit and taxing power. Revenue obligations are payable only from the revenues derived from a particular facility or class of facilities.

	Municipal Securities are often issued to obtain funds for various public purposes, including the construction of a wide range of public facilities such as bridges, highways, housing, hospitals, mass transportation, schools, streets and water and sewer works. Municipal Securities include private activity bonds, pre-refunded municipal securities and auction rate securities.

	The obligations of the issuer to pay the principal of and interest on a Municipal Security are subject to the provisions of bankruptcy, insolvency and other laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors, such as the Federal Bankruptcy Act, and laws, if any, that may be enacted by Congress or state legislatures extending the time for payment of principal or interest or imposing other constraints upon the enforcement of such obligations. There is also the possibility that, as a result of litigation or other conditions, the power or ability of the issuer to pay when due the principal of or interest on a Municipal Security may be materially affected.


	In addition, Municipal Securities include municipal leases, certificates of participation and “moral obligation” bonds. A municipal lease is an obligation issued by a state or local government to acquire equipment or facilities. Certificates of participation represent interests in municipal leases or other instruments, such as installment purchase agreements. Moral obligation bonds are supported by a moral commitment but not a legal obligation of a state or local government. Municipal leases, certificates of participation and moral obligation bonds frequently involve special risks not normally associated with general obligation or revenue bonds. In particular, these instruments permit governmental issuers to acquire property and equipment without meeting constitutional and statutory requirements for the issuance of debt. If, however, the governmental issuer does not periodically appropriate money to enable it to meet its payment obligations under these instruments, it cannot be legally compelled to do so. If a default occurs, it is likely that the Fund would be unable to obtain another acceptable source of payment. Some municipal leases, certificates of participation and moral obligation bonds may be illiquid.

	Municipal Securities may also be in the form of a tender option bond, which is a Municipal Security (generally held pursuant to a custodial arrangement) having a relatively long maturity and bearing interest at a fixed rate substantially higher than prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rates. The bond is typically issued with the agreement of a third party, such as a bank, broker-dealer or other financial institution, which grants the security holders the option, at periodic intervals, to tender their securities to the institution. After payment of a fee to the financial institution that provides this option, the security holder effectively holds a demand obligation that bears interest at the prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rate. An institution may not be obligated to accept tendered bonds in the event of certain defaults or a significant downgrading in the credit rating assigned to the issuer of the bond. The tender option will be taken into account in determining the maturity of the tender option bonds and the Fund’s duration. There is risk that the Fund will not be considered the owner of a tender option bond for federal income tax purposes, and thus will not be entitled to treat such interest as exempt from federal income tax. Certain tender option bonds may be illiquid.

	Municipal Securities may be backed by letters of credit or other forms of credit enhancement issued by domestic or foreign banks or by other financial institutions. The credit quality of these banks and financial institutions could, therefore, cause a loss to the Fund that invests in Municipal Securities. Letters of credit and other obligations of foreign banks and financial institutions may involve risks in addition to those of domestic obligations because of less publicly available financial and other information, less securities regulation, potential imposition of foreign withholding and other taxes, war, expropriation or other adverse governmental


	actions. Foreign banks and their foreign branches are not regulated by U.S. banking authorities, and are generally not bound by the accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards applicable to U.S. banks.

	The Fund may invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets in Municipal Securities which are related in such a way that an economic, business or political development or change affecting one Municipal Security would also affect the other Municipal Security. For example, the Fund may invest all of its assets in (a) Municipal Securities the interest on which is paid solely from revenues from similar projects such as hospitals, electric utility systems, multi-family housing, nursing homes, commercial facilities (including hotels), steel companies or life care facilities; (b) Municipal Securities whose issuers are in the same state; or (c) industrial development obligations. Concentration of the Fund’s investments in these Municipal Securities will subject the Fund, to a greater extent than if such investment was not so concentrated, to the risks of adverse economic, business or political developments affecting the particular state, industry or other area of concentration.

	In purchasing Municipal Securities, the Fund intends to rely on opinions of bond counsel or counsel to the issuers for each issue as to the excludability of interest on such obligations from gross income for federal income tax purposes. The Fund will not undertake independent investigations concerning the tax-exempt status of such obligations, nor does it guarantee or represent that bond counsels’ opinions are correct. Bond counsels’ opinions will generally be based in part upon covenants by the issuers and related parties regarding continuing compliance with federal tax requirements. Tax laws contain numerous and complex requirements that must be satisfied on a continuing basis in order for bonds to be and remain tax-exempt. If the issuer of a bond or a user of a bond-financed facility fails to comply with such requirements at any time, interest on the bond could become taxable, retroactive to the date the obligation was issued. In that event, a portion of the Fund’s distributions attributable to interest the Fund received on such bond for the current year and for prior years could be characterized or recharacterized as taxable income.

	*U.S. Government Securities.* The Fund may invest in U.S. Government Securities. U.S. Government Securities include U.S. Treasury obligations and obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises. U.S. Government Securities may be supported by (a) the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury; (b) the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the issuer; or (d) only the credit of the issuer. U.S. Government Securities also include Treasury receipts, zero coupon bonds and other stripped


	U.S. Government Securities, where the interest and principal components of stripped U.S. Government Securities are traded independently.

	*Custodial Receipts and Trust Certificates.* The Fund may invest in custodial receipts and trust certificates representing interests in securities held by a custodian or trustee. The securities so held may include U.S. Government Securities, Municipal Securities or other types of securities in which the Fund may invest. The custodial receipts or trust certificates may evidence ownership of future interest payments, principal payments or both on the underlying securities, or, in some cases, the payment obligation of a third party that has entered into an interest rate swap or other arrangement with the custodian or trustee. For certain securities law purposes, custodial receipts and trust certificates may not be considered obligations of the U.S. government or other issuer of the securities held by the custodian or trustee. If for tax purposes the Fund is not considered to be the owner of the underlying securities held in the custodial or trust account, the Fund may suffer adverse tax consequences. As a holder of custodial receipts and trust certificates, the Fund will bear its proportionate share of the fees and expenses charged to the custodial account or trust. The Fund may also invest in separately issued interests in custodial receipts and trust certificates.

	*Asset-Backed Securities.* The Fund may invest in asset-backed securities. Asset-backed securities are securities whose principal and interest payments are collateralized by pools of assets such as auto loans, credit card receivables, leases, installment contracts and personal property. Asset-backed securities are often subject to more rapid repayment than their stated maturity date would indicate as a result of the pass-through of prepayments of principal on the underlying loans. During periods of declining interest rates, prepayment of loans underlying asset-backed securities can be expected to accelerate. Accordingly, the Fund’s ability to maintain positions in such securities will be affected by reductions in the principal amount of such securities resulting from prepayments, and its ability to reinvest the returns of principal at comparable yields is subject to generally prevailing interest rates at that time. If the issuer of an asset-backed security defaults on its payment obligations, there is the possibility that, in some cases, the Fund will be unable to possess and sell the underlying collateral and that the Fund’s recoveries on repossessed collateral may not be available to support payments on the securities. In the event of a default, the Fund may suffer a loss if it cannot sell collateral quickly and receive the amount it is owed.

	*Corporate Debt Obligations; Trust Preferred Securities; Convertible Securities.* The Fund may invest in corporate debt obligations, trust preferred securities and convertible securities. Corporate debt obligations include bonds, notes, debentures, commercial paper and other obligations of corporations to pay interest and repay


	principal. A trust preferred security is a long dated bond (for example, 30 years) with preferred features. The preferred features are that payment of interest can be deferred for a specified period without initiating a default event. The securities are generally senior in claim to standard preferred stock but junior to other bondholders. The Fund may also invest in other short-term obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. corporations, non-U.S. corporations or other entities.

	Convertible securities are preferred stock or debt obligations that are convertible into common stock. Convertible securities generally offer lower interest or dividend yields than non-convertible securities of similar quality. Convertible securities in which the Fund invests are subject to the same rating criteria as its other investments in fixed-income securities. Convertible securities have both equity and fixed-income risk characteristics. Like all fixed-income securities, the value of convertible securities is susceptible to the risk of market losses attributable to changes in interest rates. Generally, the market value of convertible securities tends to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. However, when the market price of the common stock underlying a convertible security exceeds the conversion price of the convertible security, the convertible security tends to reflect the market price of the underlying common stock. As the market price of the underlying common stock declines, the convertible security, like a fixed-income security, tends to trade increasingly on a yield basis, and thus may not decline in price to the same extent as the underlying common stock.

	*Structured Securities and Inverse Floaters.* The Fund may invest in structured securities. Structured securities are securities whose value is determined by reference to changes in the value of specific currencies, interest rates, commodities, indices or other financial indicators (the “Reference”) or the relative change in two or more References. The interest rate or the principal amount payable upon maturity or redemption may be increased or decreased depending upon changes in the applicable Reference. Structured securities may be positively or negatively indexed, so that appreciation of the Reference may produce an increase or decrease in the interest rate or value of the security at maturity. In addition, changes in the interest rates or the value of the security at maturity may be a multiple of changes in the value of the Reference. Consequently, structured securities may present a greater degree of market risk than many types of securities, and may be more volatile, less liquid and more difficult to price accurately than less complex securities.

	Structured securities include, but are not limited to, inverse floating rate debt securities (“inverse floaters”). The interest rate on inverse floaters resets in the opposite direction from the market rate of interest to which the inverse floater is


	indexed. An inverse floater may be considered to be leveraged to the extent that its interest rate varies by a magnitude that exceeds the magnitude of the change in the index rate of interest. The higher the degree of leverage of an inverse floater, the greater the volatility of its market value.

	*Floating and Variable Rate Obligations.* The Fund may purchase floating and variable rate obligations. The value of these obligations is generally more stable than that of a fixed rate obligation in response to changes in interest rate levels. The issuers or financial intermediaries providing demand features may support their ability to purchase the obligations by obtaining credit with liquidity supports. These may include lines of credit, which are conditional commitments to lend, and letters of credit, which will ordinarily be irrevocable both of which may be issued by domestic banks or foreign banks. The Fund may purchase variable or floating rate obligations from the issuers or may purchase certificates of participation, a type of floating or variable rate obligation, which are interests in a pool of debt obligations held by a bank or other financial institutions.

	*Zero Coupon, Deferred Interest, Pay-In-Kind and Capital Appreciation Bonds.* The Fund may invest in zero coupon bonds, deferred interest, pay-in-kind and capital appreciation bonds. These bonds are issued at a discount from their face value because interest payments are typically postponed until maturity. Pay-in-kind securities are securities that have interest payable by the delivery of additional securities. The market prices of these securities generally are more volatile than the market prices of interest-bearing securities and are likely to respond to a greater degree to changes in interest rates than interest-bearing securities having similar maturities and credit quality.

	*Options on Securities and Securities Indices.* A put option gives the purchaser of the option the right to sell, and the writer (seller) of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying instrument during the option period. A call option gives the purchaser of the option the right to buy, and the writer (seller) of the option the obligation to sell, the underlying instrument during the option period. The Fund may write (sell) covered call and put options and purchase put and call options on any securities in which the Fund may invest or on any securities index consisting of securities in which it may invest.

	The writing and purchase of options is a highly specialized activity which involves special investment risks. Options may be used for either hedging or cross-hedging purposes, or to seek to increase total return (which is considered a speculative activity). The successful use of options depends in part on the ability of the Investment Adviser to manage future price fluctuations and the degree of correlation between the options and securities markets. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of changes in market prices or determination of the


	correlation between the instruments or indices on which options are written and purchased and the instruments in the Fund’s investment portfolio, the Fund may incur losses that it would not otherwise incur. The use of options can also increase the Fund’s transaction costs. Options written or purchased by the Fund may be traded on either U.S. exchanges or over-the-counter. Over-the-counter options will present greater possibility of loss because of their greater illiquidity and credit risks.

	*Yield Curve Options.* The Fund may enter into options on the yield “spread” or differential between two securities. Such transactions are referred to as “yield curve” options. In contrast to other types of options, a yield curve option is based on the difference between the yields of designated securities, rather than the prices of the individual securities, and is settled through cash payments. Accordingly, a yield curve option is profitable to the holder if this differential widens (in the case of a call) or narrows (in the case of a put), regardless of whether the yields of the underlying securities increase or decrease.

	The trading of yield curve options is subject to all of the risks associated with the trading of other types of options. In addition, such options present a risk of loss even if the yield of one of the underlying securities remains constant, or if the spread moves in a direction or to an extent which was not anticipated.

	*Futures Contracts and Options on Futures Contracts.* Futures contracts are standardized, exchange-traded contracts that provide for the sale or purchase of a specified financial instrument at a future time at a specified price. An option on a futures contract gives the purchaser the right (and the writer of the option the obligation) to assume a position in a futures contract at a specified exercise price within a specified period of time. A futures contract may be based on particular securities, securities indices and other financial instruments and indices. The Fund may engage in futures transactions on U.S. exchanges.

	The Fund may purchase and sell futures contracts, and purchase and write call and put options on futures contracts, in order to seek to increase total return or to hedge against changes in interest rates, securities prices or to otherwise manage its term structure, sector selection and duration in accordance with its investment objective and policies. The Fund may also enter into closing purchase and sale transactions with respect to such contracts and options. The Trust, on behalf of the Fund, has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Pool Exchange Act and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as a pool operator under that Act with respect to the Fund.


	Futures contracts and related options present the following risks:


	n	While the Fund may benefit from the use of futures and options on futures, unanticipated changes in interest rates, securities prices or currency exchange rates may result in poorer overall performance than if the Fund had not entered into any futures contracts or options transactions.
	n	Because perfect correlation between a futures position and a portfolio position that is intended to be protected is impossible to achieve, the desired protection may not be obtained and the Fund may be exposed to additional risk of loss.
	n	The loss incurred by the Fund in entering into futures contracts and in writing call options on futures is potentially unlimited and may exceed the amount of the premium received.
	n	Futures markets are highly volatile and the use of futures may increase the volatility of the Fund’s NAV.
	n	As a result of the low margin deposits normally required in futures trading, a relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result in substantial losses to the Fund.
	n	Futures contracts and options on futures may be illiquid, and exchanges may limit fluctuations in futures contract prices during a single day.


	*When-Issued Securities and Forward Commitments.* The Fund may purchase when-issued securities and make contracts to purchase or sell securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond customary settlement time. When-issued securities are securities that have been authorized, but not yet issued. When-issued securities are purchased in order to secure what is considered to be an advantageous price or yield to the Fund at the time of entering into the transaction. A forward commitment involves entering into a contract to purchase or sell securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond the customary settlement period.

	The purchase of securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis involves a risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased declines before the settlement date. Conversely, the sale of securities on a forward commitment basis involves the risk that the value of the securities sold may increase before the settlement date. Although the Fund will generally purchase securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis with the intention of acquiring the securities for its portfolio, the Fund may dispose of when-issued securities or forward commitments prior to settlement if the Investment Adviser deems it appropriate.

	*Lending of Portfolio Securities.* The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the lending of securities owned by the Fund to financial institutions such as certain broker-dealers, including, as permitted by the SEC, Goldman Sachs. The borrowers are required to secure their loans continuously with cash, cash equivalents, U.S. Government Securities or letters of credit in an amount


	at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. Cash collateral may be invested by the Fund in short-term investments, including unregistered investment pools managed by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates and from which the Investment Adviser or its affiliates may receive fees. To the extent that cash collateral is so invested, such collateral will be subject to market depreciation or appreciation, and the Fund will be responsible for any loss that might result from its investment of the borrowers’ collateral. If the Investment Adviser determines to make securities loans, the value of the securities loaned may not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the total assets of the Fund (including the loan collateral). Loan collateral (including any investment of that collateral) is not subject to the percentage limitations described elsewhere in this Prospectus regarding investments in particular types of fixed-income and other securities.

	The Fund may lend its securities to increase its income. The Fund may, however, experience delay in the recovery of its securities or incur a loss if the institution with which it has engaged in a portfolio loan transaction breaches its agreement with the Fund or becomes insolvent.

	*Repurchase Agreements.* Repurchase agreements involve the purchase of securities subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at a mutually agreed upon date and price. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with securities dealers and banks which furnish collateral at least equal in value or market price to the amount of their repurchase obligation.

	If the other party or “seller” defaults, the Fund might suffer a loss to the extent that the proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities and other collateral held by the Fund are less than the repurchase price and the Fund’s costs associated with delay and enforcement of the repurchase agreement. In addition, in the event of bankruptcy of the seller, the Fund could suffer additional losses if a court determines that the Fund’s interest in the collateral is not enforceable.

	The Fund, together with other registered investment companies having advisory agreements with the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates, may transfer uninvested cash balances into a single joint account, the daily aggregate balance of which will be invested in one or more repurchase agreements.

	*Borrowings and Reverse Repurchase Agreements.* The Fund can borrow money from banks and other financial institutions, and may enter into reverse repurchase agreements in amounts not exceeding one-third of its total assets. The Fund may not make additional investments if borrowings exceed 5% of its total assets. Reverse repurchase agreements involve the sale of securities held by the Fund subject to the Fund’s agreement to repurchase them at a mutually agreed upon date and price (including interest). These transactions may be entered into as a


	temporary measure for emergency purposes or to meet redemption requests. Reverse repurchase agreements may also be entered into when the Investment Adviser expects that the interest income to be earned from the investment of the transaction proceeds will be greater than the related interest expense. Borrowings and reverse repurchase agreements involve leveraging. If the securities held by the Fund decline in value while these transactions are outstanding, the NAV of the Fund’s outstanding shares will decline in value by proportionately more than the decline in value of the securities. In addition, reverse repurchase agreements involve the risk that the investment return earned by the Fund (from the investment of the proceeds) will be less than the interest expense of the transaction, that the market value of the securities sold by the Fund will decline below the price the Fund is obligated to pay to repurchase the securities, and that the securities may not be returned to the Fund.

	*Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Options on Swaps and Interest Rate Caps, Floors and Collars.* Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the Fund with another party of their respective commitments to pay or receive interest, such as an exchange of fixed-rate payments for floating rate payments. Credit swaps involve the receipt of floating or fixed rate payments in exchange for assuming potential credit losses on an underlying security. Credit swaps give one party to a transaction the right to dispose of or acquire an asset (or group of assets), or the right to receive a payment from the other party, upon the occurrence of specified credit events. Total return swaps give the Fund the right to receive the appreciation in the value of a specified security, index or other instrument in return for a fee paid to the counterparty, which will typically be an agreed upon interest rate. If the underlying asset in a total return swap declines in value over the term of the swap, the Fund may also be required to pay the dollar value of that decline to the counterparty. The Fund may also purchase and write (sell) options contracts on swaps, commonly referred to as swaptions. A swaption is an option to enter into a swap agreement. Like other types of options, the buyer of a swaption pays a non-refundable premium for the option and obtains the right, but not the obligation, to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The seller of a swaption, in exchange for the premium, becomes obligated (if the option is exercised) to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The purchase of an interest rate cap entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index exceeds a predetermined interest rate, to receive payment of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling such interest rate cap. The purchase of an interest rate floor entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index falls below a predetermined interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling the interest rate floor. An interest rate collar is the combination of


	a cap and a floor that preserves a certain return within a predetermined range of interest rates.

	The Fund may enter into swap transactions for hedging purposes or to seek to increase total return. The use of interest rate, credit and total return swaps, options on swaps, and interest rate caps, floors and collars, is a highly specialized activity which involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of market values, interest rates and currency exchange rates, the investment performance of the Fund would be less favorable than it would have been if these investment techniques were not used.

	*Other Investment Companies.* The Fund may invest in securities of other investment companies subject to statutory limitations prescribed by the Investment Company Act. These limitations include a prohibition on the Fund acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any other investment company, and a prohibition on investing more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets in securities of any one investment company or more than 10% of its total assets in securities of all investment companies. The Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any management fees and other expenses paid by such other investment companies. Although the Fund does not expect to do so in the foreseeable future, the Fund is authorized to invest substantially all of its assets in a single open-end investment company or series thereof that has substantially the same investment objective, policies and fundamental restrictions as the Fund. Pursuant to an exemptive order obtained from the SEC, other investment companies in which the Fund may invest include money market funds for which the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates serves as investment adviser, administrator or distributor.


	Annual/Semi-annual Report
	Additional information about the Fund’s investments is available in the Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Fund’s annual reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund’s performance during the last fiscal year. The Fund is a new investment portfolio, which acquired the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds, a registered investment company, in a reorganization. The Fund’s semi-annual report for the fiscal period ended April 30, 2006 will become available to shareholders in June 2006. The annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006 will become available to shareholders in December 2006.

	Statement of Additional Information
	Additional information about the Fund and its policies is also available in the Fund’s Additional Statement. The Additional Statement is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus (is legally considered part of this Prospectus).

	The Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports (when available), and the Additional Statement, are available free upon request by calling Goldman Sachs at 1-800-621-2550. You can also access and download the annual and semi-annual reports (when available) and the Additional Statement at the Fund’s website: http://www.gs.com/funds.

	To obtain other information and for shareholder inquiries:

You may review and obtain copies of Fund documents by visiting the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. You may also obtain copies of Fund documents, after paying a duplicating fee, by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-0102 or by electronic request to: publicinfo@sec.gov. Information on the operation of the public reference room may be obtained by calling the SEC at (202) 942-8090.


	The Fund Described In This Prospectus Is Not A Money Market Fund. Investors In The Fund Should Understand That The Net Asset Value (“NAV”) Of The Fund Will Fluctuate Which May Result In A Loss Of A Portion Of The Principal Amount Invested.


	Goldman Sachs’ Municipal Fixed Income Investing Philosophy:
	The Municipal Fixed Income investment philosophy focuses on consistently striving to add value through a disciplined investment approach. The team actively seeks to generate multiple sources of return through a process based on three beliefs:


	n	multiple investment strategies are key to achieving optimal risk-adjusted returns;
	n	short-term, tactical opportunities and long-term, investment views are equally important; and
	n	consistent, long-term returns can best be achieved through a risk aware approach.


	The investment process revolves around three groups: the Fixed Income Strategy Group (FISG), the Top-down Strategy Teams and the Municipal Bond Team. Cross-membership of investment professionals across these groups enables them to fully capitalize on the expertise of the entire investment team.

	*1. Fixed Income Strategy Group establishes overall macro-economic view*—This view serves as the backdrop for the sector allocation, security selection, duration and yield curve strategies.

	*2. Top-down Strategy Teams formulate decisions across all GSAM portfolios*—Using the FISG outlook as a backdrop, these four teams are responsible, to the extent applicable for the Fund, for Cross-Sector, Duration, Country and Currency decisions.

	*3. Municipal Bond Team formulates subsector allocation and security selection decisions*—Concurrently, this team formulates subsector allocation and security selection decisions.

	The Investment Adviser de-emphasizes interest rate predictions as a means of generating incremental return. Instead, the Investment Adviser seeks to add value through the selection of particular securities and investment sector allocation as described above.


	With every fixed-income portfolio, the Investment Adviser applies a team approach that emphasizes risk management and capitalizes on Goldman Sachs’ extensive research capabilities.


	The Fund described in this Prospectus has a target duration. The Fund’s duration approximates its price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. For example, suppose that interest rates fall by one percent which, in turn, causes yields on every bond in the market to fall by the same amount. In this example, the price of a bond with a duration of three years may be expected to rise approximately three percent and the price of a bond with a five year duration may be expected to rise approximately five percent. The converse is also true. Suppose interest rates rise by one percent which, in turn, causes yields on every bond in the market to rise by the same amount. In this second example, the price of a bond with a duration of three years may be expected to fall approximately three percent and the price of a bond with a five year duration may be expected to fall approximately five percent. The longer the duration of a bond, the more sensitive the bond’s price is to changes in interest rates. Maturity measures the time until final payment is due; it takes no account of the pattern of a security’s cash flows over time. In computing portfolio duration, the Fund will estimate the duration of obligations that are subject to prepayment or redemption by the issuer, taking into account the influence of interest rates on prepayments and coupon flows. This method of computing duration is known as “option-adjusted” duration. The Investment Adviser may use futures contracts and options on futures contracts to manage the Fund’s target duration in accordance with its benchmark. The Fund will not be limited as to its maximum weighted average portfolio maturity or the maximum stated maturity with respect to individual securities unless otherwise noted.

	The Fund also has credit rating requirements for the securities it buys. The Fund will deem a security to have met its minimum credit rating requirement if the security has the required rating at the time of purchase from at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) even though it has been rated below the minimum rating by one or more other NRSROs. Unrated securities may be purchased by the Fund if they are determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality. A security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement regardless of its relative ranking (for example, plus or minus) within a designated major rating category (for example, BBB or Baa). If a security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement at the time of purchase and is subsequently downgraded below such rating, the Fund will not be required to dispose of such security. This is so even if the downgrade causes the average credit quality of the Fund to be lower than that stated in the Prospectus. However, during this period,


	the Investment Adviser will only buy securities at or above the Fund’s average rating requirement. If a downgrade occurs, the Investment Adviser will consider what action, including the sale of such security, is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

	References in this Prospectus to the Fund’s benchmark are for informational purposes only, and unless otherwise noted are not necessarily an indication of how the Fund is managed.

subject to Tennessee State personal income tax. The Fund may invest up to 100% of its Net Assets in private activity bonds, the interest on which (including the Fund’s distributions of such interest) may be a preference item for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax. 100% of the Fund’s portfolio will be invested in U.S. dollar-denominated securities. For more information about the Fund’s investments in Municipal Securities, see “Municipal Securities” in “Appendix A—Portfolio Securities and Techniques.”


	The Fund is “non-diversified” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), and may invest more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” mutual funds. Therefore, the Fund may be more susceptible to adverse developments affecting any single issuer held in its portfolio, and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of these developments.


n	*NAV Risk*—The risk that the net asset value (“NAV”) of the Fund and the value of your investment will fluctuate.
n	*Interest Rate Risk*—The risk that when interest rates increase, fixed-income securities held by the Fund will decline in value. Long-term fixed-income securities will normally have more price volatility because of this risk than short-term fixed-income securities.
n	*Credit/Default Risk*—The risk that an issuer or guarantor of fixed-income securities held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and repay principal. This risk includes the risk of default on foreign letters of credit or guarantees that back Municipal Securities.
n	*Call Risk*—The risk that an issuer will exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as an asset-backed security) earlier than expected. This may happen when there is a decline in interest rates. Under these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to recoup all of its initial investment and will also suffer from having to reinvest in lower yielding securities.
n	*Extension Risk*—The risk that an issuer will exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as an asset-backed security) later than expected. This may happen when there is a rise in interest rates. Under these circumstances, the value of the obligation will decrease, and the Fund will also suffer from the inability to invest in higher yielding securities.
n	*Derivatives Risk*—The risk that loss may result from the Fund’s investments in options, futures, swaps, options on swaps, structured securities and other derivative investments. These instruments may be leveraged so that small changes may produce disproportionate losses to the Fund.

n	*U.S. Government Securities Risk*—The risk that the U.S. government will not provide financial support to U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises if it is not obligated to do so by law. Although many types of U.S. Government Securities that may be purchased by the Fund, such as those issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) and Federal Home Loan Banks may be chartered or sponsored by Acts of Congress, their securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the United States Treasury and, therefore, are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The maximum potential liability of the issuers of some U.S. Government Securities held by the Fund may greatly exceed their current resources, including their legal right to support from the U.S. Treasury. It is possible that these issuers will not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.

n	*Market Risk*—The risk that the value of the securities in which the Fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies, particular industry sectors or governments and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be temporary or last for extended periods. The Fund’s investments may be


	overweighted from time to time in one or more sectors, which will increase the Fund’s exposure to risk of loss from adverse developments affecting those sectors.
n	*Management Risk*—The risk that a strategy used by the Investment Adviser may fail to produce the intended results.
n	*Liquidity Risk*—The risk that the Fund will not be able to pay redemption proceeds within the time period stated in this Prospectus because of unusual market conditions, an unusually high volume of redemption requests, or other reasons.

n	*Tax Risk*—The Fund may be adversely impacted by changes in tax rates and policies. Because interest income from Municipal Securities in which the Fund invests is normally not subject to regular federal income taxation and is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax, the attractiveness of Municipal Securities in relation to other investment alternatives is affected by changes in federal income tax rates and Tennessee State personal income tax rates or changes in the tax-exempt status of interest income from Municipal Securities. Any proposed or actual changes in such rates or exempt status, therefore, can significantly affect the demand for and supply, liquidity and marketability of Municipal Securities. This could in turn affect the Fund’s net asset value and ability to acquire and dispose of Municipal Securities at desirable yield and price levels. Additionally, the Fund would not be a suitable investment for IRAs, other tax-exempt or tax-deferred accounts or for other investors who are not sensitive to the federal, state or local income tax consequences of their investments.

n	*Concentration Risk*—The risk that if the Fund invests more than 25% of its total assets in issuers within the same state, industry or economic sector, an adverse economic, business or political development may affect the value of the Fund’s investments more than if its investments were not so concentrated.
n	*Non-Diversification Risk*—The Fund is non-diversified, meaning that it is permitted to invest more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” mutual funds. Thus, the Fund may be more susceptible to adverse developments affecting any single issuer held in its portfolio, and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of these developments.

n	*Tennessee Risk*—The Fund intends to invest primarily in Tennessee municipal obligations. The investments of the Fund will, therefore, be affected by political and economic developments within Tennessee and by the financial condition of Tennessee, its public authorities and political sub-divisions. If Tennessee or any of its local governmental entities are unable to meet their financial obligations, the Fund’s income, NAV, and ability to preserve or realize appreciation of capital or liquidity could be adversely affected. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” for regulatory purposes. See Appendix A in this Prospectus for more information concerning the risks of investing in Tennessee.

This table describes the fees and expenses that you would pay if you buy and hold Class A or Class C Shares of the Fund.


	*	The “Other Expenses” and “Total Fund Operating Expenses” (after any waivers and expense limitations) of the Fund are as set forth below. The waivers and expense limitations may be modified or terminated at any time at the option of the Investment Adviser. If this occurs, “Other Expenses” and “Total Fund Operating Expenses” may increase without shareholder approval.


¹		The maximum sales charge is a percentage of the offering price. Under certain circumstances, as described in the Shareholder Guide, the maximum sales charge may be reduced or waived entirely. A CDSC of 1% may be imposed on certain redemptions (within 18 months of purchase) of Class A Shares sold without an initial sales charge as part of an investment of $1 million or more.
²		The maximum deferred sales charge (CDSC) is a percentage of the lesser of the NAV at the time of redemption or the NAV when the shares were originally purchased.
³		A CDSC of 1% is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed within 12 months of purchase.
⁴		A 2.0% redemption fee will be imposed on the redemption of shares (including by exchange) held for 30 calendar days or less.

⁵		The Fund is a new investment portfolio, which has acquired the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds, a registered investment company, in a reorganization. Annual operating expenses of the Fund have been estimated for the current year.

⁶		The Management Agreement provides for management fees at an annual rate equal to the following percentage of the average daily net assets of the Fund:

The following Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund (without the waivers and expense limitations) with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in Class A or C Shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

The hypothetical example assumes that a CDSC will not apply to redemptions of Class A Shares within the first 18 months.

Certain institutions that sell Fund shares and/or their salespersons may receive other compensation in connection with the sale and distribution of Class A and Class C Shares for services to their customers’ accounts and/or the Fund. For additional information regarding such compensation, see “What Should I Know When I Purchase Shares Through an Authorized Dealer?” in the Prospectus and “Payments to Intermediaries” in the Additional Statement.


	GSAM has been registered as an investment adviser with the SEC since 1990 and is an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. As of September 30, 2005, GSAM had assets under management of $471.8 billion.

	The Investment Adviser provides day-to-day advice regarding the Fund’s portfolio transactions. The Investment Adviser makes the investment decisions for the Fund and places purchase and sale orders for the Fund’s portfolio transactions in U.S. markets. As permitted by applicable law, these orders may be directed to any brokers, including Goldman Sachs and its affiliates. While the Investment Adviser is ultimately responsible for the management of the Fund, it is able to draw upon the research and expertise of its asset management affiliates for portfolio decisions and management with respect to certain portfolio securities. In addition, the Investment Adviser has access to the research and certain proprietary technical models developed by Goldman Sachs, and will apply quantitative and qualitative analysis in determining the appropriate allocations among categories of issuers and types of securities.

	The Investment Adviser also performs the following additional services for the Fund:


	n	Supervises all non-advisory operations of the Fund
	n	Provides personnel to perform necessary executive, administrative and clerical services to the Fund
	n	Arranges for the preparation of all required tax returns, reports to shareholders, prospectuses and statements of additional information and other reports filed with the SEC and other regulatory authorities
	n	Maintains the records of the Fund
	n	Provides office space and all necessary office equipment and services


	As compensation for its services and its assumption of certain expenses, the Investment Adviser is entitled to the following fees, computed daily and payable monthly, at the annual rates listed below (as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets):


	The Investment Adviser may voluntarily waive a portion of its advisory fees from time to time and discontinue or modify any such voluntary limitations in the future at its discretion.


	Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team


	n	The investment process revolves around three groups: the Fixed Income Strategy Group, the Top-down Strategy Teams, and the Municipal Bond Teams.
	n	These teams strive to maximize risk-adjusted returns by de-emphasizing interest rate anticipation and focusing on security selection and sector allocation
	n	The team manages approximately $139 billion in municipal and taxable fixed-income assets for retail, institutional and high net worth clients

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	Ben Barber is a Senior Portfolio Manager and serves as the Head of the U.S. Municipal Investment Management Team. As the leader of the Municipal Investment Management Team, Mr. Barber is ultimately responsible for the composition of the Fund’s structure at both the security and sector level. Along with the other portfolio managers on the team, Mr. Barber has specific responsibilities including duration, term structure, trading, and credit research. Each portfolio manager is responsible for liaising with the Municipal Credit Research Department, and promoting his or her fixed income investment ideas to the other members of the team so that a consensus view might be achieved and implemented.

	The Additional Statement provides information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and portfolio manager ownership of securities in the Fund.


	Goldman Sachs, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, serves as the exclusive distributor (the “Distributor”) of the Fund’s shares. Goldman Sachs, P.O. Box 06050, Chicago, IL 60606-6306, also serves as the Fund’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) and, as such, performs various shareholder servicing functions.

	From time to time, Goldman Sachs or any of its affiliates may purchase and hold shares of the Fund. Goldman Sachs reserves the right to redeem at any time some or all of the shares acquired for its own account.

ACTIVITIES OF GOLDMAN SACHS AND ITS AFFILIATES AND OTHER
ACCOUNTS MANAGED BY GOLDMAN SACHS


	impact the Fund. Transactions by one or more Goldman Sachs advised clients or the Investment Adviser may have the effect of diluting or otherwise disadvantaging the values, prices or investment strategies of the Fund. The Fund’s activities may be limited because of regulatory restrictions applicable to Goldman Sachs and its affiliates, and/or their internal policies designed to comply with such restrictions. As a global financial services firm, Goldman Sachs also provides a wide range of investment banking and financial services to issuers of securities and investors in securities. Goldman Sachs, its affiliates and others associated with it may create markets or specialize in, have positions in and affect transactions in, securities of issuers held by the Fund, and may also perform or seek to perform investment banking and financial services for those issuers. Goldman Sachs and its affiliates may have business relationships with and purchase or distribute or sell services or products from or to distributors, consultants or others who recommend the Fund or who engage in transactions with or for the Fund. For more information about conflicts of interest, see the Additional Statement.

	Under a securities lending program approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees, the Fund has retained an affiliate of the Investment Adviser to serve as the securities lending agent for the Fund to the extent that the Fund engages in the securities lending program. For these services, the lending agent may receive a fee from the Fund, including a fee based on the returns earned on the Fund’s investment of the cash received as collateral for the loaned securities. In addition, the Fund may make brokerage and other payments to Goldman Sachs and its affiliates in connection with the Fund’s portfolio investment transactions.

On April 2, 2004, Lois Burke, a plaintiff identifying herself as a shareholder of the Goldman Sachs Internet Tollkeeper Fund, filed a purported class and derivative action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“GSG”), GSAM, the Trustees and Officers of Goldman Sachs Trust (the “Trust”), and John Doe Defendants. In addition, certain other investment portfolios of the Trust were named as nominal defendants. On April 19 and May 6, 2004, additional class and derivative action lawsuits containing substantially similar allegations and requests for redress were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. On June 29, 2004, the three complaints were consolidated into one action, In re Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds Fee Litigation, and on November 17, 2004, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended complaint against GSG, GSAM, Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (“GSAMI”), Goldman, Sachs & Co., the Trust, Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust (“GSVIT”) the Trustees and



	Officers of the Trust and John Doe Defendants (collectively, the “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Certain investment portfolios of the Trust and GSVIT (collectively, the “Goldman Sachs Funds”) were also named as nominal defendants in the amended complaint. Plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint on April 15, 2005.



	The second amended consolidated complaint, which is brought on behalf of all persons or entities who held shares in the Goldman Sachs Funds between April 2, 1999 and January 9, 2004, inclusive (the “Class Period”), asserts claims involving (i) violations of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”) and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, (ii) common law breach of fiduciary duty, and (iii) unjust enrichment. The complaint alleges, among other things, that during the Class Period, the Defendants made improper and excessive brokerage commission and other payments to brokers that sold shares of the Goldman Sachs Funds and omitted statements of fact in registration statements and reports filed pursuant to the Investment Company Act which were necessary to prevent such registration statements and reports from being materially false and misleading. In addition, the complaint alleges that the Goldman Sachs Funds paid excessive and improper investment advisory fees to Goldman Sachs. The complaint also alleges that GSAM and GSAMI used Rule 12b-1 fees for improper purposes and made improper use of soft dollars. The complaint further alleges that the Trust’s Officers and Trustees breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the foregoing. The plaintiffs in the cases are seeking compensatory damages; rescission of GSAM’s and GSAMI’s investment advisory agreement and return of fees paid; an accounting of all Goldman Sachs Funds-related fees, commissions and soft dollar payments; restitution of all unlawfully or discriminatorily obtained fees and charges; and reasonable costs and expenses, including counsel fees and expert fees.


	Based on currently available information, GSAM believes that the likelihood that the pending purported class and derivative action lawsuit will have a material adverse financial impact on the Goldman Sachs Funds is remote, and the pending action is not likely to materially affect its ability to provide investment management services to its clients, including the Goldman Sachs Funds.


	You may indicate your election on your Account Application. Any changes may be submitted in writing to Goldman Sachs at any time before the record date for a particular dividend or distribution. If you do not indicate any choice, your dividends and distributions will be reinvested automatically in the Fund. If cash dividends are elected with respect to the Fund’s monthly net investment income dividends, then cash dividends must also be elected with respect to the non-long-term capital gains component, if any, of the Fund’s annual dividend.

	The election to reinvest dividends and distributions in additional shares will not affect the tax treatment of such dividends and distributions, which will be treated as received by you and then used to purchase the shares.

	Dividends from investment income and distributions from net capital gains are declared and paid as follows:


	From time to time the portion of the Fund’s dividends may constitute a return of capital.

	When you purchase shares of the Fund, part of the NAV per share may be represented by undistributed income or undistributed realized gains that have previously been earned by the Fund. Therefore, subsequent distributions on such shares from such income or realized gains may be taxable to you even if the NAV of the shares is, as a result of the distributions, reduced below the cost of such shares and the distributions (or portions thereof) represent a return of a portion of the purchase price.


	How Can I Purchase Class A And Class C Shares Of The Fund?
	You may purchase shares of the Fund through:


	n	Goldman Sachs;
	n	Authorized Dealers; or
	n	Directly from the Trust.


	In order to make an initial investment in the Fund, you must furnish to the Fund, Goldman Sachs or your Authorized Dealer the information in the Account Application. An order will be processed upon receipt of payment.

	To Open an Account:


	n	Complete the Account Application
	n	Mail your payment and Account Application to:


	*Your Authorized Dealer*


	—	Purchases by check or Federal Reserve draft should be made payable to your Authorized Dealer
	—	Your Authorized Dealer is responsible for forwarding payment promptly (within three business days) to the Fund


	or
	*Goldman Sachs Funds* P.O. Box 219711, Kansas City, MO 64121-9711


	—	Purchases by check or Federal Reserve draft should be made payable to Goldman Sachs Funds—(Name of Fund *and* Class of Shares)

	—	Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“BFDS”), the Fund’s sub-transfer agent, will not accept checks drawn on foreign banks, third-party checks, cashier’s checks or official checks, temporary checks, electronic checks, drawer checks, cash, money orders, travelers cheques or credit card checks. In limited situations involving the transfer of retirement assets, BFDS may accept cashier’s checks or official bank checks.

	—	Federal funds wire, Automated Clearing House Network (“ACH”) transfer or bank wires should be sent to State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street”) (the Fund’s custodian). Please call the Fund at 1-800-526-7384 to get detailed instructions on how to wire your money.


	*	The Fund may not be appropriate for IRAs, other tax deferred or tax exempt accounts or for other investors who are not sensitive to federal, state or local income tax consequences of these investments. Please consult with your financial or tax adviser for more information.


	What Alternative Sales Arrangements Are Available?
	The Fund offers two classes of Shares through this Prospectus.


	*	No additional Class C Shares may be purchased by an investor either in an initial purchase or in subsequent purchases if the current market value of the Class C Shares owned and/or purchased is equal to $1,000,000.


	What Else Should I Know About Share Purchases?
	The Trust reserves the right to:


	n	Refuse to open an account if you fail to (i) provide a Social Security Number or other taxpayer identification number; or (ii) certify that such number is correct (if required to do so under applicable law).
	n	Reject or restrict any purchase or exchange order by a particular purchaser (or group of related purchasers) for any reason in its discretion. Without limiting the foregoing, the Trust may reject or restrict purchase and exchange orders by a particular purchaser (or group of related purchasers) when a pattern of frequent purchases, sales or exchanges of shares of the Fund is evident, or if purchases,


		sales or exchanges are, or a subsequent abrupt redemption might be, of a size that would disrupt the management of the Fund.
	n	Close the Fund to new investors from time to time and reopen the Fund whenever it is deemed appropriate by the Fund’s Investment Adviser.
	n	Modify or waive the minimum investment amounts.
	n	Modify the manner in which shares are offered.
	n	Modify the sales charge rates applicable to future purchases of shares.


	Generally, the Fund will not allow non-U.S. citizens and certain U.S. citizens residing outside the United States to open an account directly with the Fund.

	The Fund may allow you to purchase shares with securities instead of cash if consistent with the Fund’s investment policies and operations and if approved by the Fund’s Investment Adviser.


	*Customer Identification Program.* Federal law requires the Fund to obtain, verify and record identifying information, which may include the name, residential or business street address, date of birth (for an individual), Social Security Number or taxpayer identification number or other identifying information, for investors who open an account with the Fund. Applications without the required information may not be accepted by the Fund. After accepting an application, to the extent permitted by applicable law or their customer identification program, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) place limits on transactions in any account until the identity of the investor is verified; (ii) refuse an investment in the Fund; or (iii) involuntarily redeem an investor’s shares and close an account in the event that the Fund is unable to verify an investor’s identity. The Fund and its agents will not be responsible for any loss in an investor’s account resulting from the investor’s delay in providing all required identifying information or from closing an account and redeeming an investor’s shares pursuant to the customer identification program.


	How Are Shares Priced?
	The price you pay or receive when you buy, sell or exchange shares is the Fund’s next determined NAV for a share class (as adjusted for any applicable sales charge or redemption fee). Each share class calculates its NAV as follows:


	The Fund’s investments are valued based on market quotations, which may be furnished by a pricing service or provided by securities dealers. If accurate quotations are not readily available, or if the Investment Adviser believes that such quotations do not accurately reflect fair value, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may be determined based on yield equivalents, a pricing matrix or other sources, under valuation procedures established by the Trustees. Debt obligations with a remaining maturity of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost.

	In addition, the Investment Adviser, consistent with applicable regulatory guidance, may determine to make an adjustment to the previous closing prices in light of significant events, to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities at the time of determining the Fund’s NAV. Significant events that could affect a large number of securities in a particular market may include, but are not limited to: situations relating to one or more single issuers in a market sector; significant fluctuations in foreign markets; market disruptions or market closings; governmental actions or other developments; as well as the same or similar events which may affect specific issuers or the securities markets. Other significant events that could relate to a single issuer may include, but are not limited to: corporate actions such as reorganizations, mergers and buy-outs; corporate announcements on earnings; significant litigation; and regulatory news such as governmental approvals.

	One effect of using fair valuation may be to reduce stale pricing arbitrage opportunities presented by the pricing of Fund shares. However, it involves the risk that the values used by the Fund to price its investments may be different from those used by other investment companies and investors to price the same investments.

	Investments in other registered mutual funds (if any) are valued based on the NAV of those mutual funds (which may use fair value pricing as discussed in their prospectuses).


	n	NAV per share of each share class is generally calculated by the accounting agent on each business day as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (normally 4:00 p.m. New York time) or such later time as the


		New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ market may officially close. This occurs after the determination, if any, of the income to be declared as a dividend. Fund shares will generally not be priced on any day the New York Stock Exchange is closed.
	n	When you buy shares, you pay the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your order in proper form, plus any applicable sales charge.
	n	When you sell shares, you receive the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your order in proper form, less any applicable CDSC or redemption fee.
	n	On any business day when the Bond Market Association (“BMA”) recommends that the securities markets close early, the Fund reserves the right to close at or prior to the BMA recommended closing time. If the Fund does so, it will cease granting same business day credit for purchase (including dividend reinvestment) and redemption orders received after the Fund’s closing time and credit will be given to the next business day.
	n	The Trust reserves the right to reprocess purchase (including dividend reinvestments), redemption and exchange transactions that were processed at an NAV other than the Fund’s official closing NAV that is subsequently adjusted, and to recover amounts from (or distribute amounts to) shareholders accordingly based on the official closing NAV.
	n	The Trust reserves the right to advance the time by which purchase and redemption orders must be received for same business day credit as otherwise permitted by the SEC.

Note: The time at which transactions and shares are priced and the time by which orders must be received may be changed in case of an emergency or if regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange is stopped at a time other than 4:00 p.m. New York time. In the event the New York Stock Exchange does not open for business because of an emergency, the Trust may, but is not required to, open the Fund for purchase, redemption and exchange transactions if the Federal Reserve wire payment system is open. To learn whether the Fund is open for business during an emergency situation, please call 1-800-526-7384.


	What Is The Offering Price Of Class A Shares?
	*The offering price of Class A Shares of the Fund is the next determined NAV per share plus an initial sales charge paid to Goldman Sachs at the time of purchase of shares.* The sales charge varies depending upon the amount you purchase. In some cases, described below, the initial sales charge may be eliminated altogether, and the offering price will be the NAV per share. The current


	You should note that the actual sales charge that appears in your mutual fund transaction confirmation may differ slightly from the rate disclosed above in this Prospectus due to rounding calculations.


	As indicated in the above chart, and as discussed further below and in the section titled “How Can the Sales Charge on Class A Shares Be Reduced?” you may, under certain circumstances, be entitled to pay reduced sales charges on your purchases of Class A Shares or have those charges waived entirely. To take advantage of these discounts, you or your Authorized Dealer or financial intermediary must notify the Fund’s Transfer Agent at the time of your purchase


	order that a discount may apply to your current purchases. You may also be required to provide appropriate documentation to receive these discounts, including:


	(i)	Information or records regarding shares of the Fund or other Goldman Sachs Funds held in all accounts (e.g., retirement accounts) of the shareholder at the financial intermediary;
	(ii)	Information or records regarding shares of the Fund or other Goldman Sachs Funds held in any account of the shareholder at another financial intermediary; and


	(iii)	Information or records regarding shares of the Fund or other Goldman Sachs Funds held at any financial intermediary by related parties of the shareholder, such as members of the same family or household.



	You should note in particular that, if the Fund’s Transfer Agent is properly notified, under the “Right of Accumulation” described below, the “Amount of Purchase” in the chart on the preceding page will be deemed to include all Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares of the Goldman Sachs Funds that were acquired by purchase or exchange that are held at the time of purchase by any of the following persons: (i) you, your spouse and your children; and (ii) any trustee, guardian or other fiduciary of a single trust estate or a single fiduciary account. This includes, for example, any Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares held at a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary other than the one handling your current purchase. In some circumstances, other Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares may be aggregated with your current purchase under the Right of Accumulation as described in the Additional Statement. For purposes of determining the “Amount of Purchase,” all Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares held at the time of purchase will be valued at their current market value.



	You should also note that if you provide the Transfer Agent a signed written Statement of Intention to invest (not counting reinvestments of dividends and distributions) in the aggregate, within a 13-month period, $100,000 or more in Class A Shares of one or more Goldman Sachs Funds, any investments you make during the 13 months will be treated as though the total quantity were invested in one lump sum and you will receive the discounted sales load based on your investment commitment. You must, however, inform the Transfer Agent that the Statement of Intention is in effect each time shares are purchased. Each purchase will be made at the public offering price applicable to a single transaction of the dollar amount specified on the Statement of Intention.


	In addition to the information provided in this Prospectus and the Additional Statement, information about sales charge discounts is available from your Authorized Dealer or financial intermediary and, free of charge, on the Fund’s website at http://www.gs.com/funds.


	What Else Do I Need To Know About Class A Shares’ CDSC?
	Purchases of $1 million or more of Class A Shares will be made at NAV with no initial sales charge. However, if you redeem shares within 18 months after the end of the calendar month in which the purchase was made, CDSC of 1% may be imposed. The CDSC may not be imposed if your Authorized Dealer enters into an agreement with the Distributor to return all or an applicable prorated portion of its commission to the Distributor. The CDSC is waived on redemptions in certain circumstances. See “In What Situations May The CDSC On Class A Or C Shares Be Waived Or Reduced?” below.

	When Are Class A Shares Not Subject To A Sales Load?
	Class A Shares of the Fund may be sold at NAV without payment of any sales charge to the following individuals and entities:


	n	Goldman Sachs, its affiliates or their respective officers, partners, directors or employees (including retired employees and former partners), any partnership of which Goldman Sachs is a general partner, any Trustee or officer of the Trust and designated family members of any of these individuals;

	n	Qualified employee benefit plans of Goldman Sachs;

	n	Trustees or directors of investment companies for which Goldman Sachs or an affiliate acts as sponsor;
	n	Any employee or registered representative of any Authorized Dealer or their respective spouses, children and parents;
	n	Banks, trust companies or other types of depository institutions;
	n	Any state, county or city, or any instrumentality, department, authority or agency thereof, which is prohibited by applicable investment laws from paying a sales charge or commission in connection with the purchase of shares of the Fund;

	n	Section 401(k), profit sharing, money purchase pension, tax-sheltered annuity, defined benefit pension, or other employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) that are sponsored by one or more employers (including governmental or church employers) or employee organizations (“Employee Benefit Plans”) that:


	n	Buy shares of Goldman Sachs Funds worth $500,000 or more; or
	n	Have 100 or more eligible employees at the time of purchase; or
	n	Certify that they expect to have annual plan purchases of shares of Goldman Sachs Funds of $200,000 or more; or
	n	Are provided administrative services by certain third-party administrators that have entered into a special service arrangement with Goldman Sachs relating to such plans; or
	n	Have at the time of purchase aggregate assets of at least $2,000,000.


	n	“Wrap” accounts for the benefit of clients of broker-dealers, financial institutions or financial planners, provided they have entered into an agreement with GSAM specifying aggregate minimums and certain operating policies and standards;
	n	Registered investment advisers investing for accounts for which they receive asset-based fees;
	n	Accounts over which GSAM or its advisory affiliates have investment discretion;

	n	Shareholders receiving distributions from a qualified Employee Benefit Plan invested in the Goldman Sachs Funds and reinvesting such proceeds in a Goldman Sachs IRA;


	n	Shareholders who roll over distributions from any tax-qualified Employee Benefit Plan or tax-sheltered annuity to an IRA which invests in the Goldman Sachs Funds if the tax-qualified Employee Benefit Plan or tax-sheltered annuity receives administrative services provided by certain third-party administrators that have entered into a special service arrangement with Goldman Sachs relating to such plan or annuity; or

	n	Investors who qualify under other exemptions that are stated from time to time in the Additional Statement.


	You must certify eligibility for any of the above exemptions on your Account Application and notify the Fund if you no longer are eligible for the exemption. The Fund will grant you an exemption subject to confirmation of your entitlement. You may be charged a fee if you effect your transactions through a broker or agent.

	How Can The Sales Charge On Class A Shares Be Reduced?


		determining whether a purchase will qualify for the Right of Accumulation and, if qualifying, the applicable sales charge level. To qualify for a reduced sales load, you or your Authorized Dealer must notify the Fund’s Transfer Agent at the time of investment that a quantity discount is applicable. Use of this option is subject to a check of appropriate records. The Additional Statement has more information about the Right of Accumulation.
	n	*Statement of Intention:* You may obtain a reduced sales charge by means of a written Statement of Intention which expresses your non-binding commitment to invest (not counting reinvestments of dividends and distributions) in the aggregate $100,000 or more within a period of 13 months in Class A Shares of one or more of the Goldman Sachs Funds. Any investments you make during the period will receive the discounted sales load based on the full amount of your investment commitment. At your request, purchases made during the previous 90 days may be included; however, capital appreciation does not apply toward these combined purchases. If the investment commitment of the Statement of Intention is not met prior to the expiration of the 13-month period, the entire amount will be subject to the higher applicable sales charge. By selecting the Statement of Intention, you authorize the Transfer Agent to escrow and redeem Class A Shares in your account to pay this additional charge. The Additional Statement has more information about the Statement of Intention, which you should read carefully.


	What Is The Offering Price Of Class C Shares?

	You may purchase Class C Shares of the Fund at the next determined NAV without paying an initial sales charge. However, if you redeem Class C Shares within 12 months of purchase, a CDSC of 1% will normally be deducted from the redemption proceeds. In connection with purchases by Employee Benefit Plans, where Class C Shares are redeemed within 12 months of purchase, a CDSC of 1% may be imposed upon the plan sponsor or third-party administrator.


	Proceeds from the CDSC are payable to the Distributor and may be used in whole or in part to defray the Distributor’s expenses related to providing distribution-related services to the Fund in connection with the sale of Class C Shares, including the payment of compensation to Authorized Dealers. An amount equal to 1% of the amount invested is normally paid by the Distributor to Authorized Dealers.


	When Will Shares Be Issued And Dividends Begin To Be Paid?


	n	Shares Purchased by Federal Funds Wire or ACH Transfer:



	n	If a purchase order in proper form specifies a settlement date and is received before the Fund’s NAV is determined, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the purchased shares on the later of (i) the business day after the purchase order is received; or (ii) the day that the federal funds wire or ACH transfer is received by State Street Bank and Trust Company.

	n	If a purchase order in proper form does not specify a settlement date, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the business day after payment is received.


	n	Shares Purchased by Check or Federal Reserve Draft:


	n	If a purchase order in proper form specifies a settlement date and is received before the Fund’s NAV is determined, shares will be issued and dividends will begin to accrue on the business day after payment is received.
	n	If a purchase order in proper form does not specify a settlement date, shares will be issued and dividends will being to accrue on the business day after payment is received.


	What Else Do I Need To Know About The CDSC On Class A Or C Shares?


	n	The CDSC is based on the lesser of the NAV of the shares at the time of redemption or the original offering price (which is the original NAV).


	n	No CDSC is charged on shares acquired from reinvested dividends or capital gains distributions.
	n	No CDSC is charged on the per share appreciation of your account over the initial purchase price.
	n	When counting the number of months since a purchase of Class C Shares was made, all payments made during a month will be combined and considered to have been made on the first day of that month.


	n	To keep your CDSC as low as possible, each time you place a request to sell shares, the Fund will first sell any shares in your account that do not carry a CDSC and then the shares in your account that have been held the longest.


	In What Situations May The CDSC On Class A Or C Shares Be Waived Or Reduced?
	The CDSC on Class A and Class C Shares that are subject to a CDSC may be waived or reduced if the redemption relates to:



	n	The death or disability (as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) of a participant or beneficiary in an Employee Benefit Plan;


	n	Hardship withdrawals by a participant or beneficiary in an Employee Benefit Plan;

	n	Satisfying the minimum distribution requirements of the Code;
	n	Establishing “substantially equal periodic payments” as described under Section 72(t)(2) of the Code;

	n	The separation from service by a participant or beneficiary in an Employee Benefit Plan;

	n	The death or disability (as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Code) of a shareholder if the redemption is made within one year of the event;

	n	Excess contributions distributed from an Employee Benefit Plan;


	n	Distributions from a qualified Employee Benefit Plan invested in the Goldman Sachs Funds which are being rolled over to a Goldman Sachs IRA in the same share class; or

	n	Redemption proceeds which are to be reinvested in accounts or non-registered products over which GSAM or its advisory affiliates have investment discretion.


	In addition, Class A and C Shares subject to a systematic withdrawal plan may be redeemed without a CDSC. The Fund reserves the right to limit such redemptions, on an annual basis, to 12% of the value of your Class C Shares and 10% of the value of your Class A Shares.

	How Do I Decide Whether To Buy Class A Or C Shares?
	The decision as to which Class to purchase depends on the amount you invest, the intended length of the investment and your personal situation.


	n	*Class A Shares.* If you are making an investment of $100,000 or more that qualifies for a reduced sales charge, you should consider purchasing Class A Shares.

	n	*Class C Shares.* If you are unsure of the length of your investment or plan to hold your investment for less than six years and would prefer not to pay an initial sales charge, you may prefer Class C Shares. By not paying a front-end sales charge, your entire investment in Class C Shares is available to work for you from the time you make your initial investment. However, the distribution and service fee paid by Class C Shares will cause your Class C Shares to have a higher expense ratio, and thus lower performance and lower dividend payments (to the extent dividends are paid) than Class A Shares.

A maximum purchase limitation of $1,000,000 in the aggregate normally applies to purchases of Class C Shares. Once the current value of the Class C Shares in the aggregate across all Goldman Sachs Funds is equal to $1,000,000, you will not be allowed to purchase any additional Class C Shares. Individual purchases exceeding $1,000,000 will be rejected and additional purchases which could cause your holdings in Class C Shares to exceed $1,000,000 will be rejected.


	*Note: Authorized Dealers may receive different compensation for selling Class A or Class C Shares.*

	In addition to Class A and Class C Shares, the Fund also offers another class of shares to investors. This other share class is subject to different fees and expenses (which affect performance), has different minimum investment requirements and are entitled to different services. Information regarding this other share class may be obtained from your sales representative or from Goldman Sachs by calling the number on the back cover of this Prospectus.


	How Can I Sell Class A And Class C Shares Of The Fund?

	You may arrange to take money out of your account by selling (redeeming) some or all of your shares. Generally, the Fund will redeem its shares upon request on any business day at the NAV next determined after receipt of such request in proper form, subject to any applicable CDSC or redemption fee. You may request that redemption proceeds be sent to you by check or by wire (if the wire instructions are on record). Redemptions may be requested in writing or by telephone.


	Any redemption request that requires money to go to an account or address other than that designated on the Account Application must be in writing and signed by an authorized person designated on the Account Application. The written request


	may be confirmed by telephone with both the requesting party and the designated bank account to verify instructions.

	When Do I Need A Medallion Signature Guarantee To Redeem Shares?
	A Medallion signature guarantee is required if:


	n	You are requesting in writing to redeem shares in an amount over $50,000;
	n	You would like the redemption proceeds sent to an address that is not your address of record; or
	n	You would like to change the bank designated on your Account Application.


	A signature guarantee must be obtained from a bank, brokerage firm or other financial intermediary that is a member of an approved Medallion Guarantee Program or that is otherwise approved by the Trust. A notary public cannot provide a signature guarantee. Additional documentation may be required for executors, trustees or corporations or when deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent.

	What Do I Need To Know About Telephone Redemption Requests?
	The Trust, the Distributor and the Transfer Agent will not be liable for any loss you may incur in the event that the Trust accepts unauthorized telephone redemption requests that the Trust reasonably believes to be genuine. The Trust may accept telephone redemption instructions from any person identifying himself or herself as the owner of an account or the owner’s registered representative where the owner has not declined in writing to use this service. Thus, you risk possible losses if a telephone redemption is not authorized by you.

	In an effort to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent redemption and exchange requests by telephone, Goldman Sachs and BFDS each employ reasonable procedures specified by the Trust to confirm that such instructions are genuine. If reasonable procedures are not employed, the Trust may be liable for any loss due to unauthorized or fraudulent transactions. The following general policies are currently in effect:


	n	All telephone requests are recorded.
	n	Proceeds of telephone redemption requests will be sent only to your address of record or authorized bank account designated in the Account Application (unless you provide written instructions and a signature guarantee, indicating another address or account).
	n	For the 30-day period following a change of address, telephone redemptions will only be filled by a wire transfer to the bank account designated in the Account Application (see immediately preceding bullet point). In order to receive the redemptions by check during this time period, the redemption request must be a written, Medallion signature guaranteed letter.


	n	The telephone redemption option does not apply to shares held in a “street name” account. “Street name” accounts are accounts maintained and serviced by your Authorized Dealer. If your account is held in “street name,” you should contact your registered representative of record, who may make telephone redemptions on your behalf.
	n	The telephone redemption option may be modified or terminated at any time.


	*Note: It may be difficult to make telephone redemptions in times of drastic economic or market conditions.*

	How Are Redemption Proceeds Paid?
	*By Wire:* You may arrange for your redemption proceeds to be wired as federal funds to the domestic bank account designated in your Account Application. The following general policies govern wiring redemption proceeds:



	n	Redemption proceeds will normally be wired on the next business day in federal funds (for a total of one business day delay), but may be paid up to three business days following receipt of a properly executed wire transfer redemption request. Although redemption proceeds will normally be wired as described above, under certain circumstances, redemption requests or payments may be postponed or suspended as permitted pursuant to Section 22(e) of the Investment Company Act. Generally, under that section, redemption requests or payments may be postponed or suspended if (i) the New York Stock Exchange is closed for trading or trading is restricted; (ii) an emergency exists which makes the disposal of securities owned by the Fund or the fair determination of the value of the Fund’s net assets not reasonably practicable; or (iii) the SEC by order permits the suspension of the right of redemption. If you are selling shares you recently paid for by check, the Fund will pay you when your check has cleared, which may take up to 15 days. If the Federal Reserve Bank is closed on the day that the redemption proceeds would ordinarily be wired, wiring the redemption proceeds may be delayed one additional business day.

	n	To change the bank designated on your Account Application you must send written instructions (with your signature guaranteed) to the Transfer Agent.
	n	Neither the Trust nor Goldman Sachs assumes any responsibility for the performance of your bank or any intermediaries in the transfer process. If a problem with such performance arises, you should deal directly with your bank or any such intermediaries.


	*By Check:* You may elect to receive your redemption proceeds by check. Redemption proceeds paid by check will normally be mailed to the address of record within three business days of a properly executed redemption request. If you are selling shares you recently paid for by check, the Fund will pay you when your check has cleared, which may take up to 15 days.


	What Do I Need To Know About The Redemption Fee?
	The following generally applies to redemption requests:

	The Fund will charge a 2% redemption fee on the redemption of shares (including by exchange) held for 30 calendar days or less. For this purpose, the Fund uses a first-in first-out (“FIFO”) method so that shares held longest will be treated as being redeemed first and shares held shortest will be treated as being redeemed last. The redemption fee will be paid to the Fund from which the redemption is made, and is intended to offset the trading costs, market impact and other costs associated with short-term money movements in and out of the Fund. The redemption fee may be collected by deduction from the redemption proceeds or, if assessed after the redemption transaction, through a separate billing.

	The redemption fee does not apply to transactions involving the following:


	n	Redemptions of shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions.
	n	Redemptions of shares that are acquired or redeemed in connection with the participation in a systematic withdrawal program or automatic investment plan.
	n	Redemptions of shares in connection with a regularly scheduled automatic rebalancing of assets by certain mutual fund asset allocation programs.
	n	Redemptions of shares maintained in omnibus accounts by the Fund’s transfer agent on behalf of trust companies and bank trust departments investing assets held in a fiduciary, agency, advisory, custodial or similar capacity and over which the trust companies and bank trust departments or other plan fiduciaries or participants (in the case of certain retirement plans) have full or shared investment discretion.
	n	Total or partial redemptions of shares held through retirement plans and accounts maintained pursuant to Section 401 (tax-qualified pension, profit sharing, 401(k), money purchase and stock bonus plans), 403 (qualified annuity plans and tax-sheltered annuities) and 457 (deferred compensation plans for employees of tax-exempt entities or governments) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that are maintained by the Fund’s transfer agent on an omnibus basis.
	n	Redemption of shares that are issued as part of an investment company reorganization to which a Goldman Sachs Fund is a party.


	The Trust reserves the right to modify or eliminate the redemption fee or waivers at any time and will give 60 days’ prior written notice of any material changes, unless otherwise provided by law. The redemption fee policy may be modified or amended in the future to reflect, among other factors, regulatory requirements mandated by the SEC.


	In addition to the circumstances noted above, the Trust reserves the right to grant additional exceptions based on such factors as operational limitations, contractual limitations and further guidance from the SEC or other regulators.

	What Else Do I Need To Know About Redemptions?


	n	Shares of the Fund earn dividends declared on the day the shares are redeemed.
	n	Additional documentation may be required when deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. A redemption request will not be in proper form until such additional documentation has been received.
	n	Institutions (including banks, trust companies, brokers and investment advisers) are responsible for the timely transmittal of redemption requests by their customers to the Transfer Agent. In order to facilitate the timely transmittal of redemption requests, these institutions may set times by which they must receive redemption requests. These institutions may also require additional documentation from you.


	The Trust reserves the right to:


	n	Redeem your shares if your account balance falls below the required Fund minimum as a result of a redemption. The Fund will not redeem your shares on this basis if the value of your account falls below the minimum account balance solely as a result of market conditions. The Fund will give you 60 days’ prior written notice to allow you to purchase sufficient additional shares of the Fund in order to avoid such redemption.

	n	Redeem your shares in the event your Authorized Dealer’s relationship with Goldman Sachs is terminated, and you do not transfer your account to another Authorized Dealer. The Trust will not be responsible for any loss in an investor’s account resulting from the redemption.


	n	Subject to applicable law, redeem your shares in other circumstances determined by the Board of Trustees to be in the best interests of the Trust.

	n	Pay redemptions by a distribution in-kind of securities (instead of cash). If you receive redemption proceeds in-kind, you should expect to incur transaction costs upon the disposition of those securities.
	n	Reinvest any dividends or other distributions which you have elected to receive in cash should your check for such dividends or other distributions be returned to the Fund as undeliverable or remain uncashed for six months. This provision may not apply to certain retirement or qualified accounts. In addition, that distribution and all future distributions payable to you will be reinvested at the NAV on the day of reinvestment in additional shares of the same class of the Fund that pays the distributions. No interest will accrue on amounts represented by uncashed distribution or redemption checks.


	Can I Reinvest Redemption Proceeds In The Same Or Another Goldman Sachs Fund?

	You may redeem shares of the Fund and reinvest a portion or all of the redemption proceeds (plus any additional amounts needed to round off purchases to the nearest full share) at NAV. To be eligible for this privilege, you must have held the shares you want to redeem for at least 30 days and you must reinvest the share proceeds within 90 days after you redeem. You may reinvest as follows:


	n	Class A Shares—Class A Shares of the same Fund or another Goldman Sachs Fund
	n	Class C Shares—Class C Shares of the same Fund or another Goldman Sachs Fund


	n	You should obtain and read the applicable prospectuses before investing in any other Goldman Sachs Funds.
	n	If you pay a CDSC upon redemption of Class A or Class C Shares and then reinvest in Class A or Class C Shares as described above, your account will be credited with the amount of the CDSC you paid. The reinvested shares will, however, continue to be subject to a CDSC. The holding period of the shares acquired through reinvestment will include the holding period of the redeemed shares for purposes of computing the CDSC payable upon a subsequent redemption.

	n	The reinvestment privilege may be exercised at any time in connection with transactions in which the proceeds are reinvested at NAV in a tax-sheltered Employee Benefit Plan. In other cases, the reinvestment privilege may be exercised once per year upon receipt of a written request.

	n	You may be subject to tax as a result of a redemption. You should consult your tax adviser concerning the tax consequences of a redemption and reinvestment.


	Can I Exchange My Investment From One Fund To Another?

	You may exchange shares of the Fund at NAV without the imposition of an initial sales charge or CDSC at the time of exchange for shares of the same class or an equivalent class of another Goldman Sachs Fund. Redemption of shares (including by exchange) that are held for 30 calendar days or less may, however, be subject to a redemption fee as described above under “What Do I Need To Know About The


	You should keep in mind the following factors when making or considering an exchange:



	n	You should obtain and carefully read the prospectus of the Goldman Sachs Fund you are acquiring before making an exchange.

	n	Currently, there is no charge for exchanges, although the Fund may impose a charge in the future.

	n	The exchanged shares may later be exchanged for shares of the same class (or an equivalent class) of the original Fund at the next determined NAV without the imposition of an initial sales charge or CDSC (but subject to any applicable redemption fee) if the amount in the Fund resulting from such exchanges is less than the largest amount on which you have previously paid the applicable sales charge.

	n	When you exchange shares subject to a CDSC, no CDSC will be charged at that time. The exchanged shares will be subject to the CDSC of the shares originally held. For purposes of determining the amount of the applicable CDSC, the length of time you have owned the shares will be measured from the date you acquired the original shares subject to a CDSC and will not be affected by a subsequent exchange.


	n	Eligible investors may exchange certain classes of shares for another class of shares of the same Fund. For further information, call Goldman Sachs Funds at 1-800-526-7384 and see the Additional Statement.

	n	All exchanges which represent an initial investment in the Fund must satisfy the minimum initial investment requirements of that Fund.


	n	Exchanges into a money market fund need not meet the traditional minimum investment requirements for that fund if the entire balance of the original Fund account is exchanged.

	n	Exchanges are available only in states where exchanges may be legally made.
	n	It may be difficult to make telephone exchanges in times of drastic economic or market conditions.
	n	Goldman Sachs and BFDS may use reasonable procedures described under “What Do I Need To Know About Telephone Redemption Requests?” in an effort to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent telephone exchange requests.
	n	Telephone exchanges normally will be made only to an identically registered account.
	n	Exchanges into Goldman Sachs Funds that are closed to new investors may be restricted.

	n	Exchanges into a Fund from another Goldman Sachs Fund may be subject to any redemption fee imposed by the other Goldman Sachs Fund.


	For federal income tax purposes, an exchange from one Goldman Sachs Fund to another is treated as a redemption of the shares surrendered in the exchange, on which you may be subject to tax, followed by a purchase of shares received in the exchange. You should consult your tax adviser concerning the tax consequences of an exchange.


	Can I Arrange To Have Automatic Investments Made On A Regular Basis?

	You may be able to make systematic cash investments through your bank via ACH transfer or your checking account via bank draft each month. The minimum dollar amount for this service is $50 per month. Forms for this option are available from Goldman Sachs, and your Authorized Dealer, or you may check the appropriate box on the Account Application.


	Can My Dividends And Distributions From The Fund Be Invested In Other Funds?
	You may elect to cross-reinvest dividends and capital gains distributions paid by the Fund in shares of the same class or an equivalent class of other Goldman Sachs Funds.


	n	Shares will be purchased at NAV.
	n	No initial sales charge or CDSC will be imposed.
	n	You may elect cross-reinvestment into an identically registered account or a similarly registered account provided that at least one name on the account is registered identically.


	Can I Arrange To Have Automatic Exchanges Made On A Regular Basis?
	You may elect to exchange automatically a specified dollar amount of shares of the Fund for shares of the same class or an equivalent class of other Goldman Sachs Funds.


	n	Shares will be purchased at NAV.
	n	No initial sales charge is imposed.
	n	Shares subject to a CDSC acquired under this program may be subject to a CDSC at the time of redemption from the Fund into which the exchange is made depending upon the date and value of your original purchase.
	n	Automatic exchanges are made monthly on the 15th day of each month or the first business day thereafter.
	n	Minimum dollar amount: $50 per month.


	What Else Should I Know About Cross-Reinvestments And Automatic Exchanges?
	Cross-reinvestments and automatic exchanges are subject to the following conditions:


	n	You must invest an amount in the Fund into which cross-reinvestments or automatic exchanges are being made that is equal to that Fund’s minimum initial investment or continue to cross-reinvest or to make automatic exchanges until such minimum initial investment is met.
	n	You should obtain and read the prospectus of the Fund into which dividends are invested or automatic exchanges are made.


	Can I Have Automatic Withdrawals Made On A Regular Basis?
	You may draw on your account systematically via check or ACH transfer in any amount of $50 or more.


	n	You must have a minimum balance of $5,000 in the Fund.
	n	Checks are mailed the next business day after your selected systematic withdrawal date.
	n	Each systematic withdrawal is a redemption and therefore may be a taxable transaction.
	n	The CDSC applicable to Class A or Class C Shares redeemed under the systematic withdrawal plan may be waived.


	What Types of Reports Will Be Sent Regarding My Investment?
	You will be provided with a printed confirmation of each transaction in your account and an individual quarterly account statement. A year-to-date statement for your account will be provided upon request made to Goldman Sachs. If your account is held in “street name” you may receive your statements and confirmations on a different schedule.


	You will also receive an annual shareholder report containing audited financial statements and a semi-annual shareholder report. If you have consented to the delivery of a single copy of shareholder reports, prospectuses and other information to all shareholders who share the same mailing address with your account, you may revoke your consent at any time by contacting Goldman Sachs Funds by phone at 1-800-526-7384 or by mail at Goldman Sachs Funds, 71 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60606. The Fund will begin sending individual copies to you within 30 days after receipt of your revocation.


	The Fund does not generally provide sub-accounting services.

	What Should I Know When I Purchase Shares Through An Authorized Dealer?

	Authorized Dealers and other financial intermediaries may provide varying arrangements for their clients to purchase and redeem Fund shares. In addition, Authorized Dealers and other financial intermediaries are responsible for providing to you any communication, from a Fund to its shareholders, including but not limited to, prospectus supplements, proxy materials and notices regarding the source of dividend payments pursuant to Section 19 under the Investment Company Act. They may charge additional fees not described in this Prospectus to their customers for such services.


	If shares of the Fund are held in a “street name” account with an Authorized Dealer, all recordkeeping, transaction processing and payments of distributions relating to your account will be performed by the Authorized Dealer, and not by the Fund and its Transfer Agent. Since the Fund will have no record of your transactions, you should contact the Authorized Dealer to purchase, redeem or exchange shares, to make changes in or give instructions concerning the account or



	to obtain information about your account. The transfer of shares in a “street name” account to an account with another dealer or to an account directly with the Fund involves special procedures and will require you to obtain historical purchase information about the shares in the account from the Authorized Dealer. If your Authorized Dealer’s relationship with Goldman Sachs is terminated, and you do not transfer your account to another Authorized Dealer, the Trust reserves the right to redeem your shares. The Trust will not be responsible for any loss in an investor’s account resulting from a redemption.


	Authorized Dealers and other financial intermediaries may be authorized to accept, on behalf of the Trust, purchase, redemption and exchange orders placed by or on behalf of their customers, and if approved by the Trust, to designate other intermediaries to accept such orders. In these cases:



	n	The Fund will be deemed to have received an order that is in proper form when the order is accepted by an Authorized Dealer or intermediary on a business day, and the order will be priced at the Fund’s NAV per share (adjusted for any applicable sales charge or redemption fee) next determined after such acceptance.

	n	Authorized Dealers and intermediaries are responsible for transmitting accepted orders to the Fund within the time period agreed upon by them.


	You should contact your Authorized Dealer or intermediary to learn whether it is authorized to accept orders for the Trust.

	The Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may make payments to Authorized Dealers and other financial intermediaries (“Intermediaries”) from time to time to promote the sale, distribution and/or servicing of shares of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds. These payments are made out of the Investment Adviser’s, Distributor’s and/or their affiliates’ own assets, and are not an additional charge to the Fund. The payments are in addition to the distribution and service fees and sales charges described in this Prospectus. Such payments are intended to compensate Intermediaries for, among other things: marketing shares of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds, which may consist of payments relating to Fund included on preferred or recommended fund lists or in certain sales programs from time to time sponsored by Intermediaries; access to the Intermediaries’ registered representatives or salespersons, including at conferences and other meetings; assistance in training and education of personnel; marketing support; and/or other specified services intended to assist in the distribution and marketing of the Fund and other Goldman Sachs Funds. The payments may also, to the extent permitted by applicable regulations, contribute to various non-cash and cash incentive arrangements to promote the sale of shares, as well as sponsor various educational programs, sales contests and/or promotions. The additional payments by the


	Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may also compensate Intermediaries for subaccounting, administrative, and/or shareholder processing services that are in addition to the fees paid for these services by the Fund. The amount of these additional payments is normally not expected to exceed 0.50% (annualized) of the amount sold or invested through the Intermediaries. Please refer to the “Payments to Intermediaries” section of the Additional Statement for more information about these payments.


	The payments made by the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may be different for different Intermediaries. The presence of these payments and the basis on which an Intermediary compensates its registered representatives or salespersons may create an incentive for a particular Intermediary, registered representative or salesperson to highlight, feature or recommend Fund based, at least in part, on the level of compensation paid. You should contact your Authorized Dealer or Intermediary for more information about the payments it receives and any potential conflicts of interest.


	What Are The Different Distribution And Service Fees Paid By Class A and C Shares?

	The Trust has adopted distribution and service plans (each a “Plan”) under which Class A and Class C Shares bear distribution and service fees paid to Goldman Sachs and Authorized Dealers. If the fees received by Goldman Sachs pursuant to the Plans exceed its expenses, Goldman Sachs may realize a profit from these arrangements. Goldman Sachs generally pays the distribution and service fees on a quarterly basis.

	Under the Plans, Goldman Sachs is entitled to a monthly fee from the Fund for distribution services equal, on an annual basis, to 0.25% and 0.75%, respectively, of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributed to Class A and Class C Shares. Because these fees are paid out of the Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, over time, these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of such charges.

	The distribution fees are subject to the requirements of Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and may be used (among other things) for:


	n	Compensation paid to and expenses incurred by Authorized Dealers, Goldman Sachs and their respective officers, employees and sales representatives;
	n	Commissions paid to Authorized Dealers;
	n	Allocable overhead;
	n	Telephone and travel expenses;


	n	Interest and other costs associated with the financing of such compensation and expenses;
	n	Printing of prospectuses for prospective shareholders;
	n	Preparation and distribution of sales literature or advertising of any type; and
	n	All other expenses incurred in connection with activities primarily intended to result in the sale of Class A and Class C Shares.


	In connection with the sale of Class C Shares, Goldman Sachs normally begins paying the 0.75% distribution fee as an ongoing commission to Authorized Dealers after the shares have been held for one year.


	Under the Plans, Goldman Sachs is also entitled to receive a separate fee equal on an annual basis to 0.25% of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributed to Class C Shares. This fee is for personal and account maintenance services, and may be used to make payments to Goldman Sachs, Authorized Dealers and their officers, sales representatives and employees for responding to inquiries of, and furnishing assistance to, shareholders regarding ownership of their shares or their accounts or similar services not otherwise provided on behalf of the Fund. If the fees received by Goldman Sachs pursuant to the Plans exceed its expenses, Goldman Sachs may realize a profit from this arrangement.

	In connection with the sale of Class C Shares, Goldman Sachs normally begins paying the 0.25% ongoing service fee to Authorized Dealers after the shares have been held for one year.


	(or Goldman Sachs), the Trust (or Goldman Sachs) will exercise this right if, in the Trust’s (or Goldman Sachs’) judgment, an investor has a history of excessive trading or if an investor’s trading, in the judgment of the Trust (or Goldman Sachs), has been or may be disruptive to the Fund. In making this judgment, trades executed in multiple accounts under common ownership or control may be considered together to the extent they can be identified. No waivers of the provisions of the policy established to detect and deter market timing and other excessive trading activity are permitted that would harm the Trust or its shareholders or would subordinate the interests of the Trust or its shareholders to those of Goldman Sachs or any affiliated person or associated person of Goldman Sachs.


	To deter excessive shareholder trading, the Fund described in this Prospectus, certain other Fixed Income Funds and the International Equity Funds (which are offered in separate prospectuses) impose a redemption fee on redemptions made within 30 calendar days of purchase subject to certain exceptions. See “Shareholder Guide—What Do I Need To Know About The Redemptions Fees” for more information about the redemption fee, including transactions and certain omnibus accounts to which the redemption fee does not apply.


	Pursuant to the policy adopted by the Board of Trustees, Goldman Sachs has developed criteria that it uses to identify trading activity that may be excessive. Goldman Sachs reviews on a regular, periodic basis available information relating to the trading activity in the Fund in order to assess the likelihood that the Fund may be the target of excessive trading. As part of its excessive trading surveillance process, Goldman Sachs, on a periodic basis, examines transactions that exceed certain monetary thresholds or numerical limits within a period of time. Consistent with the standards described above, if in its judgment, Goldman Sachs detects excessive, short term trading, Goldman Sachs is authorized to reject or restrict a purchase or exchange request and may further seek to close an investor’s account with the Fund. Goldman Sachs may modify its surveillance procedures and criteria from time to time without prior notice regarding the detection of excessive trading or to address specific circumstances. Goldman Sachs will apply the criteria in a manner that, in Goldman Sachs’ judgment, will be uniform.


	Fund shares may be held through omnibus arrangements maintained by intermediaries such as broker-dealers, investment advisers, transfer agents, administrators and insurance companies. In addition, Fund shares may be held in omnibus 401(k) plans, employee benefit plans and other group accounts. Omnibus accounts include multiple investors and such accounts typically provide the Fund with a net purchase or redemption request on any given day where the purchases and redemptions of Fund shares by the investors are netted against one another. The

identity of individual investors whose purchase and redemption orders are aggregated are not known by the Fund. A number of these financial intermediaries may not have the capability or may not be willing to apply the Fund’s market timing policies or any applicable redemption fee. While Goldman Sachs may monitor share turnover at the omnibus account level, the Fund’s ability to monitor and detect market timing by shareholders or apply any applicable redemption fee in these omnibus accounts is limited. The netting effect makes it more difficult to identify, locate and eliminate market timing activities. In addition, those investors who engage in market timing and other excessive trading activities may employ a variety of techniques to avoid detection. There can be no assurance that the Fund and Goldman Sachs will be able to identify all those who trade excessively or employ a market timing strategy, and curtail their trading in every instance.


	The Fund contemplates declaring as dividends each year all or substantially all of its income. Unlike Funds that hold equity securities, distributions from the Fund out of net investment income will generally not be “qualified dividends” eligible for the reduced long-term capital gains tax rate as provided for by recent changes made to the Code. The Fund expects to distribute “exempt-interest dividends” attributable to tax-exempt interest earned by the Fund. Exempt-interest dividends are generally not subject to federal income tax, but may be subject to state or local taxes. However, investments in tax-exempt bonds can also result in the recognition of income or gain by the Fund, and thereby cause a portion of the Fund’s distributions to shareholders to be taxable. Thus, if the value of a bond appreciates while the Fund owns it (aside from the appreciation attributable to original issue discount on that bond), and the Fund then sells the bond at a gain, that gain will generally not be exempt from tax—whether or not the interest income on the bond is exempt. Gain recognized by the Fund on sales of appreciated bonds will generally be short-term or long-term capital gain depending on whether the Fund has held the bonds for more than one year, but “market discount” bonds can cause the Fund to recognize ordinary income. “Market discount” is a discount at which a bond is purchased that is attributable to a decline in the value of the bond after its original issuance. The market discount is then taken into account ratably over the bond’s remaining term to maturity, and the portion that accrues during the Fund’s holding period for the bond is generally treated as taxable ordinary income to the extent of any realized gain on the bond upon disposition or maturity. Distributions attributable to ordinary income and short-term capital gain recognized by the Fund are generally taxable as ordinary income, while distributions attributable to long-term capital gains are taxable as long-term capital gains, no matter how long you have owned your Fund shares.

	Although taxable distributions are generally treated as taxable to you in the year they are paid, distributions declared in October, November or December but paid in January are taxable as if they were paid in December.


	You should note that exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund may be a preference item when determining your federal alternative minimum tax liability. Exempt-interest dividends are also taken into account in determining the taxable portion of social security or railroad retirement benefits. Any interest on indebtedness incurred by you to purchase or carry shares in the Fund will not be deductible for federal income tax purposes.

	If you buy shares of the Fund before it makes a taxable distribution, the distribution will be taxable to you even though it may actually be a return of a portion of your investment. This is known as “buying a dividend.”


	Your sale of Fund shares is a taxable transaction for federal income tax purposes, and may also be subject to state and local taxes. For tax purposes, the exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different Goldman Sachs Fund is the same as a sale. When you sell your shares, you will generally recognize a capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between your adjusted tax basis in the shares and the amount received. Generally, this gain or loss is long-term or short-term depending on whether your holding period exceeds twelve months, except that any loss realized on shares held for six months or less will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of any capital gain dividends that were received on the shares. In addition, any loss realized on shares held for six months or less will be disallowed to the extent of any exempt-interest dividends that were received on the shares.

	Any loss realized on a sale, exchange or redemption of shares of the Fund may be disallowed under “wash sale” rules to the extent the shares disposed of are replaced with other shares of the Fund within a period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the shares are disposed of, such as pursuant to a dividend reinvestment in shares of the Fund. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an adjustment to the basis of the shares acquired.


	Except as stated below, you may be subject to state and local taxes on distribution paid by the Funds and on the redemption or exchange of Fund shares.

	The Tennessee Municipal Fund expects to pay dividends that generally are exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax. This exemptions will apply, however, only to the dividends that are derived from interest received by the Fund paid on Tennessee municipal obligations or on certain federal obligations. For these purposes Tennessee municipal obligations are obligations issued by or on behalf of the State of Tennessee and its respective political subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, and public authorities and certain issuers located outside


	Tennessee such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, the interest from which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax.

	The Tennessee Municipal Fund may also invest in taxable instruments or in Municipal Securities that are not Tennessee municipal obligations. The Fund’s distributions of interest from municipal obligations other than Tennessee municipal obligations, as well as all distributions attributable to capital gain income, may be subject to Tennessee State personal income taxes. In addition, dividends paid by the Fund may be subject to Tennessee corporate franchise and corporate income taxes.


	When you open your account, you should provide your Social Security Number or tax identification number on your Account Application. By law, each Fund must withhold 28% of your taxable distributions and any redemption proceeds if you do not provide your correct taxpayer identification number, or certify that it is correct, or if the IRS instructs the Fund to do so.

	Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax. However, non-U.S. investors generally may file for a tax refund of tax withheld (if any) on distributions of qualified interest income and short-term capital gains made by the Funds after November 1, 2005 and before October 31, 2008.



	The Fund will be subject to the risks associated with fixed-income securities. These risks include interest rate risk, credit risk and call/extension risk. In general, interest rate risk involves the risk that when interest rates decline, the market value of fixed-income securities tends to increase (although some asset-backed securities will have less potential than other debt securities for capital appreciation during periods of declining rates). Conversely, when interest rates increase, the market value of fixed-income securities tends to decline. Credit risk involves the risk that the issuer or guarantor could default on its obligations, and the Fund will not recover its investment. Call risk and extension risk are normally present in asset-backed securities. For example, debtors may have the option to prepay their loans. Therefore, the duration of an asset-backed security can either shorten (call risk) or lengthen (extension risk). In general, if interest rates on new loans fall sufficiently below the interest rates on existing outstanding loans, the rate of prepayment would be expected to increase. Conversely, if loan interest rates rise above the interest rates on existing outstanding loans, the rate of prepayment would be expected to decrease. In either case, a change in the prepayment rate can result in losses to investors.


	The Investment Adviser will not consider the portfolio turnover rate a limiting factor in making investment decisions for the Fund. A high rate of portfolio turnover (100% or more) involves correspondingly greater expenses which must be borne by the Fund and its shareholders and is also likely to result in higher short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders. The portfolio turnover rate is calculated by dividing the lesser of the dollar amount of sales or purchases of portfolio securities by the average monthly value of the Fund’s portfolio securities, excluding securities having a maturity at the date of purchase of one year or less.


	The following sections provide further information on certain types of securities and investment techniques that may be used by the Fund, including their associated risks. Additional information is provided in the Additional Statement, which is available upon request. Among other things, the Additional Statement describes certain fundamental investment restrictions that cannot be changed without shareholder approval. You should note, however, that the Fund’s investment objective and all investment policies not specifically designated as fundamental are non-fundamental, and may be changed without shareholder approval. If there is a


	change in the Fund’s investment objective, you should consider whether the Fund remains an appropriate investment in light of your then current financial position and needs.



	*Fundamental Policies.* As a matter of fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Net Assets of the Fund (measured at the time of purchase) will be invested in Municipal Securities, the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes). In addition, as a matter of fundamental policy, at least 80% of the Tennessee Municipal Fund’s Net Assets (measured at the time of purchase) will be invested, under normal circumstances, in instruments that pay income which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax.


	*Risks of Investing in Tennessee:* The Fund concentrates its investments in Tennessee municipal obligations. Consequently, it is more susceptible to factors adversely affecting issuers of Tennessee municipal obligations, and may be riskier than comparable municipal bond funds and money market funds that do not emphasize these issuers to this degree.

	The Fund’s investments can be affected by political and economic developments within the State of Tennessee, and by the financial condition of Tennessee’s public authorities and political subdivisions.

	While economic conditions in Tennessee continue to show improvement, non-farm job growth in recent years has been modest and the state has experienced a significant loss of manufacturing jobs. Job growth in the service sector has been strong, with the highest growth being in metropolitan areas. The State of Tennessee (the “State”), the largest issuer of Tennessee municipal obligations relies almost exclusively on a 7% sales tax to comply with the state constitutional mandate that annual expenditures not exceed annual revenues and available reserves. The State has recently implemented a series of reforms to “Tenncare,” its healthcare program serving approximately 1.3 million Medicaid eligible, uninsured or uninsurable citizens, in an attempt to reduce costs of the program.


	These factors, among others, could reduce the credit standing of certain issuers of Tennessee municipal obligations. A more detailed discussion of the risks of investing in Tennessee municipal obligations is included in the Additional Statement.


	If Tennessee, or any of its local governmental entities is unable to meet its financial obligations, the Fund’s income, NAV, ability to preserve or realize appreciation of



	capital or liquidity could be adversely affected. Also, the Fund is not a diversified fund under the Investment Company Act (except to the extent that diversification is required for federal income tax purposes). Because it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than do diversified funds, the Fund may be exposed to greater risk in that an adverse change in the condition of one or a small number of issuers would have a greater impact on it.


	*Credit/Default Risks.* Debt securities purchased by the Fund may include securities (including zero coupon bonds) issued by the U.S. government (and its agencies, instrumentalities and sponsored enterprises), state and municipal governmental entities, corporations, banks and other issuers. Some of these fixed-income securities are described in the next section below. Further information is provided in the Additional Statement.

	Debt securities rated BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group (“Standard & Poor’s”), or Baa3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or having a comparable rating by another NRSRO are considered “investment grade.” Securities rated BBB- or Baa3 are considered medium-grade obligations with speculative characteristics, and adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances may weaken their issuers’ capacity to pay interest and repay principal. A security will be deemed to have met a rating requirement if it receives the minimum required rating from at least one such rating organization even though it has been rated below the minimum rating by one or more other rating organizations, or if unrated by such rating organizations, the security is determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable credit quality. If a security satisfies the Fund’s minimum rating requirement at the time of purchase and is subsequently downgraded below that rating, the Fund will not be required to dispose of the security. If a downgrade occurs, the Investment Adviser will consider what action, including the sale of the security, is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

	*Risks of Derivative Investments.* The Fund’s transactions in options, futures, options on futures, swaps, interest rate caps, floors and collars, structured securities and inverse floating-rate securities involve additional risk of loss. Loss can result from a lack of correlation between changes in the value of derivative instruments and the portfolio assets (if any) being hedged, the potential illiquidity of the markets for derivative instruments, or the risks arising from margin requirements and related leverage factors associated with such transactions. The use of these management techniques also involves the risk of loss if the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates or currency prices. The Fund may also invest in derivative investments for non-hedging purposes (that is, to seek to increase total return). Investing for non-


	hedging purposes is considered a speculative practice and presents even greater risk of loss. Particular derivative securities may be leveraged such that their exposure (i.e., price sensitivity) to interest rate and/or prepayment risk is magnified.

	Some floating-rate derivative debt securities can present more complex types of derivative and interest rate risks. For example, range floaters are subject to the risk that the coupon will be reduced below market rates if a designated interest rate floats outside of a specified interest rate band or collar. Dual index or yield curve floaters are subject to lower prices in the event of an unfavorable change in the spread between two designated interest rates.

	*Risks of Illiquid Securities.* The Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in illiquid securities which cannot be disposed of in seven days in the ordinary course of business at fair value. Illiquid securities include:


	n	Domestic securities that are not readily marketable
	n	Certain municipal leases and participation interests
	n	Repurchase agreements and time deposits with a notice or demand period of more than seven days
	n	Certain over-the-counter options
	n	Certain structured securities and all swap transactions
	n	Certain restricted securities, unless it is determined, based upon a review of the trading markets for a specific restricted security, that such restricted security is liquid because it is so-called “4(2) commercial paper” or is otherwise eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 (“144A Securities”).


	Investing in 144A Securities may decrease the liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio to the extent that qualified institutional buyers become for a time uninterested in purchasing these restricted securities. The purchase price and subsequent valuation of restricted and illiquid securities normally reflect a discount, which may be significant, from the market price of comparable securities for which a liquid market exists.

	*Temporary Investment Risks.* The Fund may, for temporary defensive purposes, invest a certain percentage of its total assets in:


	n	U.S. Government Securities
	n	Repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. Government Securities


	The Fund may invest more than 20% of its Net Assets in taxable investments.

	When the Fund’s assets are invested in such instruments, the Fund may not be achieving its investment objective.


	This section provides further information on certain types of securities and investment techniques that may be used by the Fund, including their associated risks.

	The Fund may purchase other types of securities or instruments similar to those described in this section if otherwise consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and policies. Further information is provided in the Additional Statement, which is available upon request.


	*Municipal Securities.* The Fund may invest in securities and instruments issued by state and local government issuers. Municipal Securities in which the Fund may invest consist of bonds, notes, commercial paper and other instruments (including participation interests in such securities) issued by or on behalf of the states, territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia) and their political subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities. The interest on tax-free Municipal Securities will normally be exempt from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes but not necessarily exempt from federal alternative minimum tax or from state or local taxes). Because of their tax-exempt status, the yields and market values of Municipal Securities may be more adversely impacted by changes in tax rates and policies than taxable fixed-income securities.



	Municipal Securities include both “general” obligation and “revenue” bonds and may be issued to obtain funds for various purposes. General obligations are secured by the issuer’s pledge of its full faith, credit and taxing power. Revenue obligations are payable only from the revenues derived from a particular facility or class of facilities.



	Municipal Securities are often issued to obtain funds for various public purposes, including the construction of a wide range of public facilities such as bridges, highways, housing, hospitals, mass transportation, schools, streets and water and sewer works. Municipal Securities include private activity bonds, pre-refunded municipal securities and auction rate securities.



	The obligations of the issuer to pay the principal of and interest on a Municipal Security are subject to the provisions of bankruptcy, insolvency and other laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors, such as the Federal Bankruptcy Act, and laws, if any, that may be enacted by Congress or state legislatures extending the time for payment of principal or interest or imposing other constraints upon the enforcement of such obligations. There is also the possibility that, as a result of litigation or other conditions, the power or ability of the issuer to pay when due the principal of or interest on a Municipal Security may be materially affected.



	In addition, Municipal Securities include municipal leases, certificates of participation and “moral obligation” bonds. A municipal lease is an obligation issued by a state or local government to acquire equipment or facilities. Certificates of participation represent interests in municipal leases or other instruments, such as installment purchase agreements. Moral obligation bonds are supported by a moral commitment but not a legal obligation of a state or local government. Municipal leases, certificates of participation and moral obligation bonds frequently involve special risks not normally associated with general obligation or revenue bonds. In particular, these instruments permit governmental issuers to acquire property and equipment without meeting constitutional and statutory requirements for the issuance of debt. If, however, the governmental issuer does not periodically appropriate money to enable it to meet its payment obligations under these instruments, it cannot be legally compelled to do so. If a default occurs, it is likely that the Fund would be unable to obtain another acceptable source of payment. Some municipal leases, certificates of participation and moral obligation bonds may be illiquid.



	Municipal Securities may also be in the form of a tender option bond, which is a Municipal Security (generally held pursuant to a custodial arrangement) having a relatively long maturity and bearing interest at a fixed rate substantially higher than prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rates. The bond is typically issued with the agreement of a third party, such as a bank, broker-dealer or other financial institution, which grants the security holders the option, at periodic intervals, to tender their securities to the institution. After payment of a fee to the financial institution that provides this option, the security holder effectively holds a demand obligation that bears interest at the prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rate. An institution may not be obligated to accept tendered bonds in the event of certain defaults or a significant downgrading in the credit rating assigned to the issuer of the bond. The tender option will be taken into account in determining the maturity of the tender option bonds and the Fund’s duration. There is risk that the Fund will not be considered the owner of a tender option bond for federal income tax purposes, and thus will not be entitled to treat such interest as exempt from federal income tax. Certain tender option bonds may be illiquid.



	Municipal Securities may be backed by letters of credit or other forms of credit enhancement issued by domestic or foreign banks or by other financial institutions. The credit quality of these banks and financial institutions could, therefore, cause a loss to the Fund that invests in Municipal Securities. Letters of credit and other obligations of foreign banks and financial institutions may involve risks in addition to those of domestic obligations because of less publicly available financial and other information, less securities regulation, potential imposition of foreign withholding and other taxes, war, expropriation or other adverse governmental



	actions. Foreign banks and their foreign branches are not regulated by U.S. banking authorities, and are generally not bound by the accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards applicable to U.S. banks.



	The Fund may invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets in Municipal Securities which are related in such a way that an economic, business or political development or change affecting one Municipal Security would also affect the other Municipal Security. For example, the Fund may invest all of its assets in (a) Municipal Securities the interest on which is paid solely from revenues from similar projects such as hospitals, electric utility systems, multi-family housing, nursing homes, commercial facilities (including hotels), steel companies or life care facilities; (b) Municipal Securities whose issuers are in the same state; or (c) industrial development obligations. Concentration of the Fund’s investments in these Municipal Securities will subject the Fund, to a greater extent than if such investment was not so concentrated, to the risks of adverse economic, business or political developments affecting the particular state, industry or other area of concentration.



	In purchasing Municipal Securities, the Fund intends to rely on opinions of bond counsel or counsel to the issuers for each issue as to the excludability of interest on such obligations from gross income for federal income tax purposes. The Fund will not undertake independent investigations concerning the tax-exempt status of such obligations, nor does it guarantee or represent that bond counsels’ opinions are correct. Bond counsels’ opinions will generally be based in part upon covenants by the issuers and related parties regarding continuing compliance with federal tax requirements. Tax laws contain numerous and complex requirements that must be satisfied on a continuing basis in order for bonds to be and remain tax-exempt. If the issuer of a bond or a user of a bond-financed facility fails to comply with such requirements at any time, interest on the bond could become taxable, retroactive to the date the obligation was issued. In that event, a portion of the Fund’s distributions attributable to interest the Fund received on such bond for the current year and for prior years could be characterized or recharacterized as taxable income.


	*U.S. Government Securities.* The Fund may invest in U.S. Government Securities. U.S. Government Securities include U.S. Treasury obligations and obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises. U.S. Government Securities may be supported by (a) the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury; (b) the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the issuer; or (d) only the credit of the issuer. U.S. Government Securities also include Treasury receipts, zero coupon bonds and other stripped


	U.S. Government Securities, where the interest and principal components of stripped U.S. Government Securities are traded independently.

	*Custodial Receipts and Trust Certificates.* The Fund may invest in custodial receipts and trust certificates representing interests in securities held by a custodian or trustee. The securities so held may include U.S. Government Securities, Municipal Securities or other types of securities in which the Fund may invest. The custodial receipts or trust certificates may evidence ownership of future interest payments, principal payments or both on the underlying securities, or, in some cases, the payment obligation of a third party that has entered into an interest rate swap or other arrangement with the custodian or trustee. For certain securities law purposes, custodial receipts and trust certificates may not be considered obligations of the U.S. government or other issuer of the securities held by the custodian or trustee. If for tax purposes the Fund is not considered to be the owner of the underlying securities held in the custodial or trust account, the Fund may suffer adverse tax consequences. As a holder of custodial receipts and trust certificates, the Fund will bear its proportionate share of the fees and expenses charged to the custodial account or trust. The Fund may also invest in separately issued interests in custodial receipts and trust certificates.


	*Asset-Backed Securities.* The Fund may invest in asset-backed securities. Asset-backed securities are securities whose principal and interest payments are collateralized by pools of assets such as auto loans, credit card receivables, leases, installment contracts and personal property. Asset-backed securities are often subject to more rapid repayment than their stated maturity date would indicate as a result of the pass-through of prepayments of principal on the underlying loans. During periods of declining interest rates, prepayment of loans underlying asset-backed securities can be expected to accelerate. Accordingly, the Fund’s ability to maintain positions in such securities will be affected by reductions in the principal amount of such securities resulting from prepayments, and its ability to reinvest the returns of principal at comparable yields is subject to generally prevailing interest rates at that time. If the issuer of an asset-backed security defaults on its payment obligations, there is the possibility that, in some cases, the Fund will be unable to possess and sell the underlying collateral and that the Fund’s recoveries on repossessed collateral may not be available to support payments on the securities. In the event of a default, the Fund may suffer a loss if it cannot sell collateral quickly and receive the amount it is owed.


	*Corporate Debt Obligations; Trust Preferred Securities; Convertible Securities.* The Fund may invest in corporate debt obligations, trust preferred securities and convertible securities. Corporate debt obligations include bonds, notes, debentures, commercial paper and other obligations of corporations to pay interest and repay


	principal. A trust preferred security is a long dated bond (for example, 30 years) with preferred features. The preferred features are that payment of interest can be deferred for a specified period without initiating a default event. The securities are generally senior in claim to standard preferred stock but junior to other bondholders. The Fund may also invest in other short-term obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. corporations, non-U.S. corporations or other entities.

	Convertible securities are preferred stock or debt obligations that are convertible into common stock. Convertible securities generally offer lower interest or dividend yields than non-convertible securities of similar quality. Convertible securities in which the Fund invests are subject to the same rating criteria as its other investments in fixed-income securities. Convertible securities have both equity and fixed-income risk characteristics. Like all fixed-income securities, the value of convertible securities is susceptible to the risk of market losses attributable to changes in interest rates. Generally, the market value of convertible securities tends to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. However, when the market price of the common stock underlying a convertible security exceeds the conversion price of the convertible security, the convertible security tends to reflect the market price of the underlying common stock. As the market price of the underlying common stock declines, the convertible security, like a fixed-income security, tends to trade increasingly on a yield basis, and thus may not decline in price to the same extent as the underlying common stock.

	*Structured Securities and Inverse Floaters.* The Fund may invest in structured securities. Structured securities are securities whose value is determined by reference to changes in the value of specific currencies, interest rates, commodities, indices or other financial indicators (the “Reference”) or the relative change in two or more References. The interest rate or the principal amount payable upon maturity or redemption may be increased or decreased depending upon changes in the applicable Reference. Structured securities may be positively or negatively indexed, so that appreciation of the Reference may produce an increase or decrease in the interest rate or value of the security at maturity. In addition, changes in the interest rates or the value of the security at maturity may be a multiple of changes in the value of the Reference. Consequently, structured securities may present a greater degree of market risk than many types of securities, and may be more volatile, less liquid and more difficult to price accurately than less complex securities.

	Structured securities include, but are not limited to, inverse floating rate debt securities (“inverse floaters”). The interest rate on inverse floaters resets in the opposite direction from the market rate of interest to which the inverse floater is


	indexed. An inverse floater may be considered to be leveraged to the extent that its interest rate varies by a magnitude that exceeds the magnitude of the change in the index rate of interest. The higher the degree of leverage of an inverse floater, the greater the volatility of its market value.

	*Floating and Variable Rate Obligations.* The Fund may purchase floating and variable rate obligations. The value of these obligations is generally more stable than that of a fixed rate obligation in response to changes in interest rate levels. The issuers or financial intermediaries providing demand features may support their ability to purchase the obligations by obtaining credit with liquidity supports. These may include lines of credit, which are conditional commitments to lend, and letters of credit, which will ordinarily be irrevocable both of which may be issued by domestic banks or foreign banks. The Fund may purchase variable or floating rate obligations from the issuers or may purchase certificates of participation, a type of floating or variable rate obligation, which are interests in a pool of debt obligations held by a bank or other financial institutions.

	*Zero Coupon, Deferred Interest, Pay-In-Kind and Capital Appreciation Bonds.* The Fund may invest in zero coupon bonds, deferred interest, pay-in-kind and capital appreciation bonds. These bonds are issued at a discount from their face value because interest payments are typically postponed until maturity. Pay-in-kind securities are securities that have interest payable by the delivery of additional securities. The market prices of these securities generally are more volatile than the market prices of interest-bearing securities and are likely to respond to a greater degree to changes in interest rates than interest-bearing securities having similar maturities and credit quality.

	*Options on Securities and Securities Indices.* A put option gives the purchaser of the option the right to sell, and the writer (seller) of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying instrument during the option period. A call option gives the purchaser of the option the right to buy, and the writer (seller) of the option the obligation to sell, the underlying instrument during the option period. The Fund may write (sell) covered call and put options and purchase put and call options on any securities in which the Fund may invest or on any securities index consisting of securities in which it may invest.

	The writing and purchase of options is a highly specialized activity which involves special investment risks. Options may be used for either hedging or cross-hedging purposes, or to seek to increase total return (which is considered a speculative activity). The successful use of options depends in part on the ability of the Investment Adviser to manage future price fluctuations and the degree of correlation between the options and securities markets. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of changes in market prices or determination of the


	correlation between the instruments or indices on which options are written and purchased and the instruments in the Fund’s investment portfolio, the Fund may incur losses that it would not otherwise incur. The use of options can also increase the Fund’s transaction costs. Options written or purchased by the Fund may be traded on either U.S. exchanges or over-the-counter. Over-the-counter options will present greater possibility of loss because of their greater illiquidity and credit risks.

	*Yield Curve Options.* The Fund may enter into options on the yield “spread” or differential between two securities. Such transactions are referred to as “yield curve” options. In contrast to other types of options, a yield curve option is based on the difference between the yields of designated securities, rather than the prices of the individual securities, and is settled through cash payments. Accordingly, a yield curve option is profitable to the holder if this differential widens (in the case of a call) or narrows (in the case of a put), regardless of whether the yields of the underlying securities increase or decrease.

	The trading of yield curve options is subject to all of the risks associated with the trading of other types of options. In addition, such options present a risk of loss even if the yield of one of the underlying securities remains constant, or if the spread moves in a direction or to an extent which was not anticipated.

	*Futures Contracts and Options on Futures Contracts.* Futures contracts are standardized, exchange-traded contracts that provide for the sale or purchase of a specified financial instrument at a future time at a specified price. An option on a futures contract gives the purchaser the right (and the writer of the option the obligation) to assume a position in a futures contract at a specified exercise price within a specified period of time. A futures contract may be based on particular securities, securities indices and other financial instruments and indices. The Fund may engage in futures transactions on U.S. exchanges.

	The Fund may purchase and sell futures contracts, and purchase and write call and put options on futures contracts, in order to seek to increase total return or to hedge against changes in interest rates, securities prices or to otherwise manage its term structure, sector selection and duration in accordance with its investment objective and policies. The Fund may also enter into closing purchase and sale transactions with respect to such contracts and options. The Trust, on behalf of the Fund, has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Pool Exchange Act and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as a pool operator under that Act with respect to the Fund.


	Futures contracts and related options present the following risks:


	n	While the Fund may benefit from the use of futures and options on futures, unanticipated changes in interest rates, securities prices or currency exchange rates may result in poorer overall performance than if the Fund had not entered into any futures contracts or options transactions.
	n	Because perfect correlation between a futures position and a portfolio position that is intended to be protected is impossible to achieve, the desired protection may not be obtained and the Fund may be exposed to additional risk of loss.
	n	The loss incurred by the Fund in entering into futures contracts and in writing call options on futures is potentially unlimited and may exceed the amount of the premium received.
	n	Futures markets are highly volatile and the use of futures may increase the volatility of the Fund’s NAV.
	n	As a result of the low margin deposits normally required in futures trading, a relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result in substantial losses to the Fund.
	n	Futures contracts and options on futures may be illiquid, and exchanges may limit fluctuations in futures contract prices during a single day.


	*When-Issued Securities and Forward Commitments.* The Fund may purchase when-issued securities and make contracts to purchase or sell securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond customary settlement time. When-issued securities are securities that have been authorized, but not yet issued. When-issued securities are purchased in order to secure what is considered to be an advantageous price or yield to the Fund at the time of entering into the transaction. A forward commitment involves entering into a contract to purchase or sell securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond the customary settlement period.

	The purchase of securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis involves a risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased declines before the settlement date. Conversely, the sale of securities on a forward commitment basis involves the risk that the value of the securities sold may increase before the settlement date. Although the Fund will generally purchase securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis with the intention of acquiring the securities for its portfolio, the Fund may dispose of when-issued securities or forward commitments prior to settlement if the Investment Adviser deems it appropriate.

	*Lending of Portfolio Securities.* The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the lending of securities owned by the Fund to financial institutions such as certain broker-dealers, including, as permitted by the SEC, Goldman Sachs. The borrowers are required to secure their loans continuously with cash, cash equivalents, U.S. Government Securities or letters of credit in an amount


	at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. Cash collateral may be invested by the Fund in short-term investments, including unregistered investment pools managed by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates and from which the Investment Adviser or its affiliates may receive fees. To the extent that cash collateral is so invested, such collateral will be subject to market depreciation or appreciation, and the Fund will be responsible for any loss that might result from its investment of the borrowers’ collateral. If the Investment Adviser determines to make securities loans, the value of the securities loaned may not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the total assets of the Fund (including the loan collateral). Loan collateral (including any investment of that collateral) is not subject to the percentage limitations described elsewhere in this Prospectus regarding investments in particular types of fixed-income and other securities.

	The Fund may lend its securities to increase its income. The Fund may, however, experience delay in the recovery of its securities or incur a loss if the institution with which it has engaged in a portfolio loan transaction breaches its agreement with the Fund or becomes insolvent.

	*Repurchase Agreements.* Repurchase agreements involve the purchase of securities subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at a mutually agreed upon date and price. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with securities dealers and banks which furnish collateral at least equal in value or market price to the amount of their repurchase obligation.

	If the other party or “seller” defaults, the Fund might suffer a loss to the extent that the proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities and other collateral held by the Fund are less than the repurchase price and the Fund’s costs associated with delay and enforcement of the repurchase agreement. In addition, in the event of bankruptcy of the seller, the Fund could suffer additional losses if a court determines that the Fund’s interest in the collateral is not enforceable.

	The Fund, together with other registered investment companies having advisory agreements with the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates, may transfer uninvested cash balances into a single joint account, the daily aggregate balance of which will be invested in one or more repurchase agreements.

	*Borrowings and Reverse Repurchase Agreements.* The Fund can borrow money from banks and other financial institutions, and may enter into reverse repurchase agreements in amounts not exceeding one-third of its total assets. The Fund may not make additional investments if borrowings exceed 5% of its total assets. Reverse repurchase agreements involve the sale of securities held by the Fund subject to the Fund’s agreement to repurchase them at a mutually agreed upon date and price (including interest). These transactions may be entered into as a


	temporary measure for emergency purposes or to meet redemption requests. Reverse repurchase agreements may also be entered into when the Investment Adviser expects that the interest income to be earned from the investment of the transaction proceeds will be greater than the related interest expense. Borrowings and reverse repurchase agreements involve leveraging. If the securities held by the Fund decline in value while these transactions are outstanding, the NAV of the Fund’s outstanding shares will decline in value by proportionately more than the decline in value of the securities. In addition, reverse repurchase agreements involve the risk that the investment return earned by the Fund (from the investment of the proceeds) will be less than the interest expense of the transaction, that the market value of the securities sold by the Fund will decline below the price the Fund is obligated to pay to repurchase the securities, and that the securities may not be returned to the Fund.

	*Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Options on Swaps and Interest Rate Caps, Floors and Collars.* Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the Fund with another party of their respective commitments to pay or receive interest, such as an exchange of fixed-rate payments for floating rate payments. Credit swaps involve the receipt of floating or fixed rate payments in exchange for assuming potential credit losses on an underlying security. Credit swaps give one party to a transaction the right to dispose of or acquire an asset (or group of assets), or the right to receive a payment from the other party, upon the occurrence of specified credit events. Total return swaps give the Fund the right to receive the appreciation in the value of a specified security, index or other instrument in return for a fee paid to the counterparty, which will typically be an agreed upon interest rate. If the underlying asset in a total return swap declines in value over the term of the swap, the Fund may also be required to pay the dollar value of that decline to the counterparty. The Fund may also purchase and write (sell) options contracts on swaps, commonly referred to as swaptions. A swaption is an option to enter into a swap agreement. Like other types of options, the buyer of a swaption pays a non-refundable premium for the option and obtains the right, but not the obligation, to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The seller of a swaption, in exchange for the premium, becomes obligated (if the option is exercised) to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The purchase of an interest rate cap entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index exceeds a predetermined interest rate, to receive payment of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling such interest rate cap. The purchase of an interest rate floor entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index falls below a predetermined interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling the interest rate floor. An interest rate collar is the combination of


	a cap and a floor that preserves a certain return within a predetermined range of interest rates.

	The Fund may enter into swap transactions for hedging purposes or to seek to increase total return. The use of interest rate, credit and total return swaps, options on swaps, and interest rate caps, floors and collars, is a highly specialized activity which involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of market values, interest rates and currency exchange rates, the investment performance of the Fund would be less favorable than it would have been if these investment techniques were not used.

	*Other Investment Companies.* The Fund may invest in securities of other investment companies subject to statutory limitations prescribed by the Investment Company Act. These limitations include a prohibition on the Fund acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any other investment company, and a prohibition on investing more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets in securities of any one investment company or more than 10% of its total assets in securities of all investment companies. The Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any management fees and other expenses paid by such other investment companies. Although the Fund does not expect to do so in the foreseeable future, the Fund is authorized to invest substantially all of its assets in a single open-end investment company or series thereof that has substantially the same investment objective, policies and fundamental restrictions as the Fund. Pursuant to an exemptive order obtained from the SEC, other investment companies in which the Fund may invest include money market funds for which the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates serves as investment adviser, administrator or distributor.


	Annual/Semi-annual Report

	Additional information about the Fund’s investments is available in the Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Fund’s annual reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund’s performance during the last fiscal year. The Fund is a new investment portfolio, which acquired the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds, a registered investment company, in a reorganization. The Fund’s semi-annual report for the fiscal period ended April 30, 2006 will become available to shareholders in June 2006. The annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006 will become available to shareholders in December 2006.


	Statement of Additional Information
	Additional information about the Fund and its policies is also available in the Fund’s Additional Statement. The Additional Statement is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus (is legally considered part of this Prospectus).

	The Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports (when available), and the Additional Statement, are available free upon request by calling Goldman Sachs at 1-800-526-7384. You can also access and download the annual and semi-annual reports (when available) and the Additional Statement at the Fund’s website: http://www.gs.com/funds.

	To obtain other information and for shareholder inquiries:

GOLDMAN SACHS TRUST

GOLDMAN SACHS TENNESSEE MUNICIPAL FUND

Class A Shares
Institutional Shares

Supplement Dated January 3, 2006 to the Statement of Additional Information dated January 3, 2006

The Class A and Institutional Shares of the Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund have been created in connection with the proposed acquisition of the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds.

It is anticipated that at a shareholder meeting in March 2006, the shareholders of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds will be asked to approve a proposed agreement and plan of reorganization whereby the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio will be acquired by the Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund.

The Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund is a newly organized Fund that has been created in connection with the proposed acquisition of the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds (the “Predecessor Fund”). If the reorganization is approved by the Predecessor Fund shareholders, for purposes of the reorganization, the Predecessor Fund will be considered the accounting survivor, and accordingly, certain financial information relating to the Predecessor Fund has been included in the attached statement of additional information and presented as if the reorganization has been consummated. However, as of the date of this statement of additional information, the reorganization has not yet been approved by shareholders and has not occurred.

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STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATED JANUARY 3, 2006

Class A Shares
Class C Shares
Institutional Shares

GOLDMAN SACHS TENNESSEE MUNICIPAL FUND
(A portfolio of Goldman Sachs Trust)

Goldman Sachs Trust
71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500
Chicago, Illinois 60606

This Statement of Additional Information (the “Additional Statement”) is not a prospectus. This Additional Statement describes the above-referenced series of Goldman Sachs Trust. This Additional Statement should be read in conjunction with the Class A, Class C and Institutional prospectuses of Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund (the “Fund”), each dated January 3, 2006, as they may be further amended and/or supplemented from time to time (the “Prospectuses”). The Prospectuses may be obtained without charge from Goldman, Sachs & Co. by calling the telephone number, or writing to one of the addresses, listed below or from institutions acting on behalf of their customers. The audited financial statements and related report of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm for the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds (the “Predecessor Fund”), contained in such Predecessor Fund’s 2005 Annual Report are incorporated herein by reference in the section “Financial Statements.” No other parts of the Annual Report are incorporated by reference herein. A copy of the Annual Report may be obtained upon request and without charge by writing Goldman, Sachs & Co., P.O. Box 06050, Chicago, Illinois 60606 or by calling Goldman, Sachs & Co., at the telephone number on the back cover of the Fund’s Prospectus.

GSAM^® is a registered service mark of Goldman, Sachs & Co.


GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET MANAGEMENT, L.P.		GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
Investment Adviser		Distributor
32 Old Slip		85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10005		New York, NY 10004

GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
Transfer Agent
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Chicago, Illinois 60606

Toll free (in U.S.) ...800-621-2550

The date of this Additional Statement is January 3, 2006.

INTRODUCTION

Goldman Sachs Trust (the “Trust”) is an open-end, management investment company. The Trust is organized as a Delaware statutory trust and was established by a Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. The Trust is a successor to a Massachusetts business trust that was combined with the Trust on April 30, 1997. The Trustees of the Trust have authority under the Declaration of Trust to create and classify shares into separate series and to classify and reclassify any series of shares into one or more classes without further action by shareholders. Pursuant thereto, the Trustees have created the following series, among others: Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund (referred to herein as the (“Tennessee Municipal Fund” or the “Fund”). The Fund is a non-diversified, open-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”). The Fund is authorized to issue three classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class C Shares and Institutional Shares. Additional series and classes may be added in the future from time to time.

The Tennessee Municipal Fund is a newly organized fund that has been created in connection with the acquisition of the assets and liabilities of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds (the “Predecessor Fund”). The Predecessor Fund, for purposes of the reorganization, is considered the accounting survivor and accordingly, certain financial history of the Predecessor Fund is included (or incorporated by reference) in this statement of additional information.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (“GSAM” or the “Investment Adviser”), an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (“Goldman Sachs”), serves as the investment adviser to the Fund. In addition, Goldman Sachs serves as the Fund’s distributor and transfer agent. The Fund’s custodian is State Street Bank and Trust Company.

Because the Fund’s shares may be redeemed upon request of a shareholder on any business day at net asset value, the Fund offers greater liquidity than many competing investments, such as certificates of deposit and direct investments in certain securities in which the Fund may invest. However, unlike certificates of deposits, shares of the Fund are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The following information relates to and supplements the description of the Fund’s investment policies contained in the Prospectuses. See the Prospectuses for a more complete description of the Fund’s investment objective and policies. Investing in the Fund entails certain risks and there is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its objective. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the same meaning as in the Prospectuses.

Experienced Management. Successfully creating and managing a portfolio of securities requires professionals with extensive experience. Goldman Sachs’ highly skilled portfolio management team brings together many years of experience in the analysis, valuation and trading of U.S. and foreign fixed-income securities.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE AND POLICIES

The Fund has a distinct investment objective and policies. There can be no assurance that the Fund’s objective will be achieved. The investment objective and policies of the Fund, and the associated risks of the Fund, are discussed in the Fund’s Prospectuses, which should be read carefully before an investment is made. The Fund’s investment objective and all investment policies not specifically designated as fundamental may be changed without shareholder approval. However, as a matter of fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes

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(measured at the time of purchase) (“Net Assets”) of the Fund will be invested in municipal obligations, the interest from which is exempt from regular income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes). In addition, as a matter of fundamental policy, at least 80% of the Fund’s Net Assets will be invested, under normal circumstances, in instruments that pay income which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax. Additional information about the Fund, its policies, and the investment instruments it may hold is provided below.

The Fund’s share price will fluctuate with market, economic and, to the extent applicable, foreign exchange conditions, so that an investment in the Fund may be worth more or less when redeemed than when purchased. The Fund should not be relied upon as a complete investment program.

The following discussion supplements the information in the Fund’s Prospectuses.

Tennessee Municipal Fund

The Fund is not a money market fund. The Fund is designed for investors who seek a high level of current income that is exempt from regular federal income tax and Tennessee State personal income tax and is consistent with preservation of capital. The Fund is appropriate for investors who seek to invest in fixed-income securities issued by or on behalf of states, territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia) and the political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities thereof (“Municipal Securities”) and who are able to accept greater risk with the possibility of higher returns than investors in municipal money market funds. While municipal money market funds almost always maintain a constant net asset value, they must meet stringent high quality credit standards, their portfolios must be broadly diversified and their portfolio securities must have remaining maturities of 397 days or less. An example of an “eligible” investment for the Fund is an auction rate Municipal Security. These securities generally have higher yields than money market Municipal Securities, but are, in many cases, not eligible investments for municipal money market funds.

In addition, unlike a municipal money market fund, the Fund’s increased investment flexibility permits its portfolios to be more easily adjusted to reflect the shape of the current yield curve as well as to respond to anticipated developments that might affect the shape of the yield curve.

The Municipal Securities in which the Fund invests will be rated, at the time of purchase, at least BBB or Baa by an NRSRO or, if unrated, will be determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality. Municipal Securities rated BBB or Baa are considered medium-grade obligations with speculative characteristics, and adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances may weaken their issuers’ capability to pay interest and repay principal. The Fund will have a weighted average credit quality equal to A for securities rated by an NRSRO or, if unrated, determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality. The credit rating assigned to Municipal Securities may reflect the existence of guarantees, letters of credit or other credit enhancement features available to the issuers or holders of such Municipal Securities.

Investors who wish to invest in Municipal Securities may find that a mutual fund structure offers some important advantages when compared to investing in individual Municipal Securities, including:

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The ratings given to Municipal Securities by the rating organizations are difficult to evaluate. For example, some Municipal Securities with relatively low credit ratings have yields comparable to Municipal Securities with much higher ratings. The credit research professionals at Goldman Sachs closely follow market events and are well positioned to judge current and expected credit conditions of municipal issuers;

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	•		Because of the relative inefficiency of the secondary market in Municipal Securities, the value of an individual municipal security is often difficult to determine. As such, investors may obtain a wide range of different prices when asking for quotes from different dealers. In addition, a dealer may have a large inventory of a particular issue that it wants to reduce. Obtaining the best overall prices can require extensive negotiation, which is a function performed by the portfolio manager; and

	•		Market expertise is also an important consideration for municipal investors, and because the Fund may take relatively large positions in different securities, the Fund may be able to obtain more favorable prices in the Municipal Securities market than investors with relatively small positions.

DESCRIPTION OF INVESTMENT SECURITIES AND PRACTICES

Municipal Securities

Under normal circumstances, the Fund intends to invest primarily in Municipal Securities, the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax and Tennessee State personal income tax. These Municipal Securities may include participation interests in such securities the interest on which is, in the opinion of bond counsel or counsel selected by the Investment Adviser, excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes and from Tennessee State personal income taxes, as applicable. The Fund may revise its definition of Municipal Securities in the future to include other types of securities that then exist, the interest on which is or will be, in the opinion of such counsel, excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes and from Tennessee State personal income taxes, as applicable, provided that investing in such securities is consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and policies. The Fund may also invest in taxable Municipal Securities.

The yields and market values of Municipal Securities are determined primarily by the general level of interest rates, the creditworthiness of the issuers of Municipal Securities and economic and political conditions affecting such issuers. The yields and market prices of Municipal Securities may be adversely affected by changes in tax rates and policies, which may have less effect on the market for taxable fixed-income securities. Moreover, certain types of Municipal Securities, such as housing revenue bonds, involve prepayment risks which could affect the yield on such securities. The credit rating assigned to Municipal Securities may reflect the existence of guarantees, letters of credit or other credit enhancement features available to the issuers or holders of such Municipal Securities.

Dividends paid by the Fund that are derived from interest paid on taxable Municipal Securities will be taxable to the Fund’s shareholders.

Municipal Securities are often issued to obtain funds for various public purposes including refunding outstanding obligations, obtaining funds for general operating expenses, and obtaining funds to lend to other public institutions and facilities. Municipal Securities also include certain “private activity bonds” or industrial development bonds, which are issued by or on behalf of public authorities to provide financing aid to acquire sites or construct or equip facilities within a municipality for privately or publicly owned corporations.

Investments in municipal securities are subject to the risk that the issuer could default on its obligations. Such a default could result from the inadequacy of the sources or revenues from which interest and principal payments are to be made or the assets collateralizing such obligations. Revenue bonds, including private activity bonds, are backed only by specific assets or revenue sources and not by

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the full faith and credit of the governmental issuer.

The two principal classifications of Municipal Securities are “general obligations” and “revenue obligations.” General obligations are secured by the issuer’s pledge of its full faith and credit for the payment of principal and interest, although the characteristics and enforcement of general obligations may vary according to the law applicable to the particular issuer. Revenue obligations, which include, but are not limited to, private activity bonds, resource recovery bonds, certificates of participation and certain municipal notes, are not backed by the credit and taxing authority of the issuer, and are payable solely from the revenues derived from a particular facility or class of facilities or, in some cases, from the proceeds of a special excise or other specific revenue source. Nevertheless, the obligations of the issuer of a revenue obligation may be backed by a letter of credit, guarantee or insurance. General obligations and revenue obligations may be issued in a variety of forms, including commercial paper, fixed, variable and floating rate securities, tender option bonds, auction rate bonds, zero coupon bonds, deferred interest bonds and capital appreciation bonds.

In addition to general obligations and revenue obligations, there is a variety of hybrid and special types of Municipal Securities. There are also numerous differences in the security of Municipal Securities both within and between these two principal classifications.

For the purpose of applying the Fund’s investment restrictions, the identification of the issuer of a Municipal Security which is not a general obligation is made by the Investment Adviser based on the characteristics of the Municipal Security, the most important of which is the source of funds for the payment of principal and interest on such securities.

An entire issue of Municipal Securities may be purchased by one or a small number of institutional investors, including the Fund. Thus, the issue may not be said to be publicly offered. Unlike some securities that are not publicly offered, a secondary market exists for many Municipal Securities that were not publicly offered initially and such securities may be readily marketable.

The credit rating assigned to Municipal Securities may reflect the existence of guarantees, letters of credit or other credit enhancement features available to the issuers or holders of such Municipal Securities.

The obligations of the issuer to pay the principal of and interest on a Municipal Security are subject to the provisions of bankruptcy, insolvency and other laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors, such as the Federal Bankruptcy Code, and laws, if any, that may be enacted by Congress or state legislatures extending the time for payment of principal or interest or imposing other constraints upon the enforcement of such obligations. There is also the possibility that, as a result of litigation or other conditions, the power or ability of the issuer to pay when due principal of or interest on a Municipal Security may be materially affected.

While the Fund, under normal circumstances, invests substantially all of its assets in Municipal Securities, the recognition of certain accrued market discount income (if the Fund acquires Municipal Securities or other obligations at a market discount), income from investments other than Municipal Securities and any capital gains generated from the disposition of investments, will result in taxable income. In addition to federal income tax, shareholders may be subject to state, local or foreign taxes on distributions of such income received from the Fund.

From time to time, proposals have been introduced before Congress for the purpose of restricting or eliminating the federal income tax exemption for interest on Municipal Securities. For example, under the Tax Reform Act of 1986, interest on certain private activity bonds must be included in an investor’s

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federal alternative minimum taxable income, and corporate investors must include all tax-exempt interest in their federal alternative minimum taxable income. The Trust cannot predict what legislation, if any, may be proposed in the future in Congress as regards the federal income tax status of interest on Municipal Securities or which proposals, if any, might be enacted. Such proposals, if enacted, might materially and adversely affect the availability of Municipal Securities for investment by the Fund and the Fund’s liquidity and value. In such an event the Board of Trustees would reevaluate the Fund’s investment objectives and policies.

Municipal Leases, Certificates of Participation and Other Participation Interests. The Fund may invest in municipal leases, certificates of participation and other participation interests. A municipal lease is an obligation in the form of a lease or installment purchase which is issued by a state or local government to acquire equipment and facilities. Income from such obligations is generally exempt from state and local taxes in the state of issuance. Municipal leases frequently involve special risks not normally associated with general obligations or revenue bonds. Leases and installment purchase or conditional sale contracts (which normally provide for title to the leased asset to pass eventually to the governmental issuer) have evolved as a means for governmental issuers to acquire property and equipment without meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements for the issuance of debt. The debt issuance limitations are deemed to be inapplicable because of the inclusion in many leases or contracts of “non-appropriation” clauses that relieve the governmental issuer of any obligation to make future payments under the lease or contract unless money is appropriated for such purpose by the appropriate legislative body on a yearly or other periodic basis. In addition, such leases or contracts may be subject to the temporary abatement of payments in the event the issuer is prevented from maintaining occupancy of the leased premises or utilizing the leased equipment. Although the obligations may be secured by the leased equipment or facilities, the disposition of the property in the event of non-appropriation or foreclosure might prove difficult, time consuming and costly, and result in a delay in recovering or the failure to fully recover the Fund’s original investment. To the extent that the Fund invests in unrated municipal leases or participates in such leases, the credit quality rating and risk of cancellation of such unrated leases will be monitored on an ongoing basis.

Certificates of participation represent undivided interests in municipal leases, installment purchase agreements or other instruments. The certificates are typically issued by a trust or other entity which has received an assignment of the payments to be made by the state or political subdivision under such leases or installment purchase agreements.

Certain municipal lease obligations and certificates of participation may be deemed to be illiquid for the purpose of the Fund’s limitation on investments in illiquid securities. Other municipal lease obligations and certificates of participation acquired by the Fund may be determined by the Investment Adviser, pursuant to guidelines adopted by the Trustees of the Trust, to be liquid securities for the purpose of such limitation. In determining the liquidity of municipal lease obligations and certificates of participation, the Investment Adviser will consider a variety of factors, including: (i) the willingness of dealers to bid for the security; (ii) the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the obligation and the number of other potential buyers; (iii) the frequency of trades or quotes for the obligation; and (iv) the nature of the marketplace trades. In addition, the Investment Adviser will consider factors unique to particular lease obligations and certificates of participation affecting the marketability thereof. These include the general creditworthiness of the issuer, the importance to the issuer of the property covered by the lease and the likelihood that the marketability of the obligation will be maintained throughout the time the obligation is held by the Fund.

The Fund may purchase participations in Municipal Securities held by a commercial bank or other financial institution. Such participations provide the Fund with the right to a pro rata undivided interest in the underlying Municipal Securities. In addition, such participations generally provide the

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Fund with the right to demand payment, on not more than seven days’ notice, of all or any part of the Fund’s participation interest in the underlying Municipal Securities, plus accrued interest.

Municipal Notes. Municipal Securities in the form of notes generally are used to provide for short-term capital needs, in anticipation of an issuer’s receipt of other revenues or financing, and typically have maturities of up to three years. Such instruments may include tax anticipation notes, revenue anticipation notes, bond anticipation notes, tax and revenue anticipation notes and construction loan notes. Tax anticipation notes are issued to finance the working capital needs of governments. Generally, they are issued in anticipation of various tax revenues, such as income, sales, property, use and business taxes, and are payable from these specific future taxes. Revenue anticipation notes are issued in expectation of receipt of other kinds of revenue, such as federal revenues available under federal revenue sharing programs. Bond anticipation notes are issued to provide interim financing until long-term bond financing can be arranged. In most cases, the long-term bonds then provide the funds needed for repayment of the notes. Tax and revenue anticipation notes combine the funding sources of both tax anticipation notes and revenue anticipation notes. Construction loan notes are sold to provide construction financing. These notes are secured by mortgage notes insured by the FHA; however, the proceeds from the insurance may be less than the economic equivalent of the payment of principal and interest on the mortgage note if there has been a default. The obligations of an issuer of municipal notes are generally secured by the anticipated revenues from taxes, grants or bond financing. An investment in such instruments, however, presents a risk that the anticipated revenues will not be received or that such revenues will be insufficient to satisfy the issuer’s payment obligations under the notes or that refinancing will be otherwise unavailable.

Tax-Exempt Commercial Paper. Issues of commercial paper typically represent short-term, unsecured, negotiable promissory notes. These obligations are issued by state and local governments and their agencies to finance working capital needs of municipalities or to provide interim construction financing and are paid from general revenues of municipalities or are refinanced with long-term debt. In most cases, tax-exempt commercial paper is backed by letters of credit, lending agreements, note repurchase agreements or other credit facility agreements offered by banks or other institutions.

Pre-Refunded Municipal Securities. The principal of and interest on pre-refunded Municipal Securities are no longer paid from the original revenue source for the securities. Instead, the source of such payments is typically an escrow fund consisting of U.S. Government Securities. The assets in the escrow fund are derived from the proceeds of refunding bonds issued by the same issuer as the pre-refunded Municipal Securities. Issuers of Municipal Securities use this advance refunding technique to obtain more favorable terms with respect to securities that are not yet subject to call or redemption by the issuer. For example, advance refunding enables an issuer to refinance debt at lower market interest rates, restructure debt to improve cash flow or eliminate restrictive covenants in the indenture or other governing instrument for the pre-refunded Municipal Securities. However, except for a change in the revenue source from which principal and interest payments are made, the pre-refunded Municipal Securities remain outstanding on their original terms until they mature or are redeemed by the issuer. Pre-refunded Municipal Securities are usually purchased at a price which represents a premium over their face value.

Private Activity Bonds. The Fund may invest in certain types of Municipal Securities, generally referred to as industrial development bonds (and referred to under current tax law as private activity bonds), which are issued by or on behalf of public authorities to obtain funds to provide privately operated housing facilities, airport, mass transit or port facilities, sewage disposal, solid waste disposal or hazardous waste treatment or disposal facilities and certain local facilities for water supply, gas or electricity. Other types of industrial development bonds, the proceeds of which are used for the construction, equipment, repair or improvement of privately operated industrial or commercial facilities,

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may constitute Municipal Securities, although the current federal tax laws place substantial limitations on the size of such issues. The Fund’s distributions of its interest income from private activity bonds may subject certain investors to the federal alternative minimum tax.

Tender Option Bonds. A tender option bond is a Municipal Security (generally held pursuant to a custodial arrangement) having a relatively long maturity and bearing interest at a fixed rate substantially higher than prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rates. The bond is typically issued with the agreement of a third party, such as a bank, broker-dealer or other financial institution, which grants the security holders the option, at periodic intervals, to tender their securities to the institution and receive the face value thereof. As consideration for providing the option, the financial institution receives periodic fees equal to the difference between the bond’s fixed coupon rate and the rate, as determined by a remarketing or similar agent at or near the commencement of such period, that would cause the securities, coupled with the tender option, to trade at par on the date of such determination. Thus, after payment of this fee, the security holder effectively holds a demand obligation that bears interest at the prevailing short-term, tax-exempt rate. However, an institution will not be obligated to accept tendered bonds in the event of certain defaults or a significant downgrade in the credit rating assigned to the issuer of the bond. The liquidity of a tender option bond is a function of the credit quality of both the bond issuer and the financial institution providing liquidity. Tender option bonds are deemed to be liquid unless, in the opinion of the Investment Adviser, the credit quality of the bond issuer and the financial institution is deemed, in light of the Fund’s credit quality requirements, to be inadequate and the bond would not otherwise be readily marketable. The Fund intends to invest in tender option bonds the interest on which will, in the opinion of bond counsel, counsel for the issuer of interests therein or counsel selected by the Investment Adviser, be exempt from regular federal income tax. However, because there can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) will agree with such counsel’s opinion in any particular case, there is a risk that the Fund will not be considered the owner of such tender option bonds and thus will not be entitled to treat such interest as exempt from such tax. Additionally, the federal income tax treatment of certain other aspects of these investments, including the proper tax treatment of tender option bonds and the associated fees in relation to various regulated investment company tax provisions is unclear. The Fund intends to manage its portfolios in a manner designed to eliminate or minimize any adverse impact from the tax rules applicable to these investments.

Auction Rate Securities. The Fund may invest in auction rate securities. Auction rate securities include auction rate Municipal Securities and auction rate preferred securities issued by closed-end investment companies that invest primarily in Municipal Securities (collectively, “auction rate securities”). Provided that the auction mechanism is successful, auction rate securities usually permit the holder to sell the securities in an auction at par value at specified intervals. The dividend is reset by “Dutch” auction in which bids are made by broker-dealers and other institutions for a certain amount of securities at a specified minimum yield. The dividend rate set by the auction is the lowest interest or dividend rate that covers all securities offered for sale. While this process is designed to permit auction rate securities to be traded at par value, there is some risk that an auction will fail due to insufficient demand for the securities. The Fund will take the time remaining until the next scheduled auction date into account for purpose of determining the securities’ duration.

Dividends on auction rate preferred securities issued by a closed-end fund may be designated as exempt from federal income tax to the extent they are attributable to exempt income earned by the fund on the securities in its portfolio and distributed to holders of the preferred securities, provided that the preferred securities are treated as equity securities for federal income tax purposes and the closed-end fund complies with certain tests under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).

The Fund’s investments in auction rate securities of closed-end funds are subject to the limitations prescribed by the Act and certain state securities regulations. The Fund will indirectly bear its

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proportionate share of any management and other fees paid by such closed-end funds in addition to the advisory fees payable directly by the Fund.

Insurance. The Fund may invest in “insured” tax-exempt Municipal Securities. Insured Municipal Securities are securities for which scheduled payments of interest and principal are guaranteed by a private (non-governmental) insurance company. The insurance only entitles the Fund to receive the face or par value of the securities held by the Fund. The insurance does not guarantee the market value of the Municipal Securities or the value of the shares of the Fund.

The Fund may utilize new issue or secondary market insurance. A new issue insurance policy is purchased by a bond issuer who wishes to increase the credit rating of a security. By paying a premium and meeting the insurer’s underwriting standards, the bond issuer is able to obtain a high credit rating (usually, Aaa from Moody’s or AAA from Standard & Poor’s) for the issued security. Such insurance is likely to increase the purchase price and resale value of the security. New issue insurance policies generally are non-cancelable and continue in force as long as the bonds are outstanding.

A secondary market insurance policy is purchased by an investor (such as the Fund) subsequent to a bond’s original issuance and generally insures a particular bond for the remainder of its term. The Fund may purchase bonds which have already been insured under a secondary market insurance policy by a prior investor, or the Fund may directly purchase such a policy from insurers for bonds which are currently uninsured.

An insured Municipal Security acquired by the Fund will typically be covered by only one of the above types of policies. All of the insurance policies used by the Fund will be obtained only from insurance companies rated, at the time of purchase, A by Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s, or if unrated, determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality.

Standby Commitments. In order to enhance the liquidity of Municipal Securities, the Fund may acquire the right to sell a security to another party at a guaranteed price and date. Such a right to resell may be referred to as a “standby commitment” or liquidity put, depending on its characteristics. The aggregate price which the Fund pays for securities with standby commitments may be higher than the price which otherwise would be paid for the securities. Standby commitments may not be available or may not be available on satisfactory terms.

Standby commitments may involve letters of credit issued by domestic or foreign banks supporting the other party’s ability to purchase the security from the Fund. The right to sell may be exercisable on demand or at specified intervals, and may form part of a security or be acquired separately by the Fund. In considering whether a security meets the Fund’s quality standards, the Fund will look to the creditworthiness of the party providing the Fund with the right to sell as well as the quality of the security itself.

The Fund values Municipal Securities which are subject to standby commitments at amortized cost. The exercise price of the standby commitments is expected to approximate such amortized cost. No value is assigned to the standby commitments for purposes of determining the Fund’s net asset value. The cost of a standby commitment is carried as unrealized depreciation from the time of purchase until it is exercised or expires. Since the value of a standby commitment is dependent on the ability of the standby commitment writer to meet its obligation to repurchase, the Fund’s policy is to enter into standby commitment transactions only with banks, brokers or dealers which present a minimal risk of default.

The Investment Adviser understands that the IRS has issued a favorable revenue ruling to the effect that, under specified circumstances, a registered investment company will be the owner of tax-

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exempt municipal obligations acquired subject to a put option. The IRS has subsequently announced that it will not ordinarily issue advance ruling letters as to the identity of the true owner of property in cases involving the sale of securities or participation interests therein if the purchaser has the right to cause the security, or the participation interest therein, to be purchased by either the seller or a third party. The Fund intends to take the position that it is the owner of any Municipal Securities acquired subject to a standby commitment or acquired or held with certain other types of put rights and that tax-exempt interest earned with respect to such Municipal Securities will be tax-exempt in its hands. There is no assurance that standby commitments will be available to the Fund nor has the Fund assumed that such commitments would continue to be available under all market conditions.

Call Risk and Reinvestment Risk. Municipal Securities may include “call” provisions which permit the issuers of such securities, at any time or after a specified period, to redeem the securities prior to their stated maturity. In the event that Municipal Securities held in the Fund’s portfolio are called prior to the maturity, the Fund will be required to reinvest the proceeds on such securities at an earlier date and may be able to do so only at lower yields, thereby reducing the Fund’s return on its portfolio securities.

U. S. Government Securities

The Fund may invest in U.S. Government Securities. Some U.S. Government Securities (such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds, which differ only in their interest rates, maturities and times of issuance) are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States. Others, such as obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises, are supported either by (i) the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, (ii) the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the issuer or (iii) only the credit of the issuer. The U.S. government is under no legal obligation, in general, to purchase the obligations of its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises. No assurance can be given that the U.S. government will provide financial support to the U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises in the future.

U.S. Government Securities include (to the extent consistent with the Act) securities for which the payment of principal and interest is backed by an irrevocable letter of credit issued by the U.S. government, or its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises. U.S. Government Securities also include (to the extent consistent with the Act) participations in loans made to foreign governments or their agencies that are guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government or its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises. The secondary market for certain of these participations is extremely limited. In the absence of a suitable secondary market, such participations are regarded as illiquid.

The Fund may also purchase U.S. Government Securities in private placements and may also invest in separately traded principal and interest components of securities guaranteed or issued by the U.S. Treasury that are traded independently under the separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities program (“STRIPS”).

Custodial Receipts and Trust Certificates

The Fund may invest in custodial receipts and trust certificates, which may be underwritten by securities dealers or banks, representing interests in securities held by a custodian or trustee. The securities so held may include U.S. Government Securities, Municipal Securities or other types of securities in which the Fund may invest. The custodial receipts or trust certificates are underwritten by securities dealers or banks and may evidence ownership of future interest payments, principal payments or both on the underlying securities, or, in some cases, the payment obligation of a third party that has

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entered into an interest rate swap or other arrangement with the custodian or trustee. For certain securities law purposes, custodial receipts and trust certificates may not be considered obligations of the U.S. government or other issuer of the securities held by the custodian or trustee. As a holder of custodial receipts and trust certificates, the Fund will bear its proportionate share of the fees and expenses charged to the custodial account or trust. The Fund may also invest in separately issued interests in custodial receipts and trust certificates.

Although under the terms of a custodial receipt or trust certificate the Fund would be typically authorized to assert its rights directly against the issuer of the underlying obligation, the Fund could be required to assert through the custodian bank or trustee those rights as may exist against the underlying issuers. Thus, in the event an underlying issuer fails to pay principal and/or interest when due, the Fund may be subject to delays, expenses and risks that are greater than those that would have been involved if the Fund had purchased a direct obligation of the issuer. In addition, in the event that the trust or custodial account in which the underlying securities have been deposited is determined to be an association taxable as a corporation, instead of a non-taxable entity, the yield on the underlying securities would be reduced in recognition of any taxes paid.

Certain custodial receipts and trust certificates may be synthetic or derivative instruments that have interest rates that reset inversely to changing short-term rates and/or have embedded interest rate floors and caps that require the issuer to pay an adjusted interest rate if market rates fall below or rise above a specified rate. Because some of these instruments represent relatively recent innovations, and the trading market for these instruments is less developed than the markets for traditional types of instruments, it is uncertain how these instruments will perform under different economic and interest-rate scenarios. Also, because these instruments may be leveraged, their market values may be more volatile than other types of fixed income instruments and may present greater potential for capital gain or loss. The possibility of default by an issuer or the issuer’s credit provider may be greater for these derivative instruments than for other types of instruments. In some cases, it may be difficult to determine the fair value of a derivative instrument because of a lack of reliable objective information and an established secondary market for some instruments may not exist. In many cases, the Internal Revenue Service has not ruled on the tax treatment of the interest or payments received on the derivative instruments and, accordingly, purchases of such instruments are based on the opinion of counsel to the sponsors of the instruments.

Asset-Backed Securities

Asset-backed securities represent participations in, or are secured by and payable from, assets such as motor vehicle installment sales, installment loan contracts, leases of various types of real and personal property, receivables from revolving credit (credit card) agreements and other categories of receivables. Such assets are securitized through the use of trusts and special purpose corporations. Payments or distributions of principal and interest may be guaranteed up to certain amounts and for a certain time period by a letter of credit or a pool insurance policy issued by a financial institution unaffiliated with the trust or corporation, or other credit enhancements may be present.

The Fund may invest in asset-backed securities. Such securities are often subject to more rapid repayment than their stated maturity date would indicate as a result of the pass-through of prepayments of principal on the underlying loans. During periods of declining interest rates, prepayment of loans underlying asset-backed securities can be expected to accelerate. Accordingly, the Fund’s ability to maintain positions in such securities will be affected by reductions in the principal amount of such securities resulting from prepayments, and its ability to reinvest the returns of principal at comparable yields is subject to generally prevailing interest rates at that time. To the extent that the Fund invests in

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asset-backed securities, the values of the Fund’s portfolio securities will vary with changes in market interest rates generally and the differentials in yields among various kinds of asset-backed securities.

Asset-backed securities present certain additional risks because asset-backed securities generally do not have the benefit of a security interest in collateral that is comparable to mortgage-backed securities. Credit card receivables are generally unsecured and the debtors on such receivables are entitled to the protection of a number of state and federal consumer credit laws, many of which give such debtors the right to set-off certain amounts owed on the credit cards, thereby reducing the balance due. Automobile receivables generally are secured, but by automobiles rather than residential real property. Most issuers of automobile receivables permit the loan servicers to retain possession of the underlying obligations. If the servicer were to sell these obligations to another party, there is a risk that the purchaser would acquire an interest superior to that of the holders of the asset-backed securities. In addition, because of the large number of vehicles involved in a typical issuance and technical requirements under state laws, the trustee for the holders of the automobile receivables may not have a proper security interest in the underlying automobiles. Therefore, if the issuer of an asset-backed security defaults on its payment obligations, there is the possibility that, in some cases, the Fund will be unable to possess and sell the underlying collateral and that the Fund’s recoveries on repossessed collateral may not be available to support payments on these securities.

Zero Coupon, Deferred Interest, Pay-in-Kind and Capital Appreciation Bonds

The Fund may invest in zero coupon, deferred interest, pay-in-kind (“PIK”) and capital appreciation bonds. Zero coupon, deferred interest and capital appreciation bonds are debt securities issued or sold at a discount from their face value and which do not entitle the holder to any periodic payment of interest prior to maturity or a specified date. The original issue discount varies depending on the time remaining until maturity or cash payment date, prevailing interest rates, the liquidity of the security and the perceived credit quality of the issuer. These securities also may take the form of debt securities that have been stripped of their unmatured interest coupons, the coupons themselves or receipts or certificates representing interests in such stripped debt obligations or coupons. The market prices of zero coupon, deferred interest, capital appreciation bonds and PIK securities generally are more volatile than the market prices of interest bearing securities and are likely to respond to a greater degree to changes in interest rates than interest bearing securities having similar maturities and credit quality.

PIK securities may be debt obligations or preferred shares that provide the issuer with the option of paying interest or dividends on such obligations in cash or in the form of additional securities rather than cash. Similar to zero coupon bonds and deferred interest bonds, PIK securities are designed to give an issuer flexibility in managing cash flow. PIK securities that are debt securities can be either senior or subordinated debt and generally trade flat (i.e., without accrued interest). The trading price of PIK debt securities generally reflects the market value of the underlying debt plus an amount representing accrued interest since the last interest payment.

Zero coupon, deferred interest, capital appreciation and PIK securities involve the additional risk that, unlike securities that periodically pay interest to maturity, the Fund will realize no cash until a specified future payment date unless a portion of such securities is sold and, if the issuer of such securities defaults, the Fund may obtain no return at all on its investment. In addition, even though such securities do not provide for the payment of current interest in cash, the Fund is nonetheless required to accrue income on such investments for each taxable year and generally are required to distribute such accrued amounts (net of deductible expenses, if any) to avoid being subject to tax. Because no cash is generally received at the time of the accrual, the Fund may be required to liquidate other portfolio securities to obtain sufficient cash to satisfy federal tax distribution requirements applicable to the Fund. A portion of

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the discount with respect to stripped tax-exempt securities or their coupons may be taxable. See “Taxation.”

Variable and Floating Rate Securities

The interest rates payable on certain securities in which the Fund may invest are not fixed and may fluctuate based upon changes in market rates. A variable rate obligation has an interest rate which is adjusted at pre-designated periods in response to changes in the market rate of interest on which the interest rate is based. Variable and floating rate obligations are less effective than fixed rate instruments at locking in a particular yield. Nevertheless, such obligations may fluctuate in value in response to interest rate changes if there is a delay between changes in market interest rates and the interest reset date for the obligation.

The Fund may invest in “leveraged” inverse floating rate debt instruments (“inverse floaters”), including “leveraged inverse floaters.” The interest rate on inverse floaters resets in the opposite direction from the market rate of interest to which the inverse floater is indexed. An inverse floater may be considered to be leveraged to the extent that its interest rate varies by a magnitude that exceeds the magnitude of the change in the index rate of interest. The higher the degree of leverage inherent in inverse floaters is associated with greater volatility in their market values. Accordingly, the duration of an inverse floater may exceed its stated final maturity. Certain inverse floaters may be deemed to be illiquid securities for purposes of the Fund’s limitation on illiquid investments.

Corporate Debt Obligations

The Fund may invest in corporate debt obligations, including obligations of industrial, utility and financial issuers. Corporate debt obligations include bonds, notes, debentures and other obligations of corporations to pay interest and repay principal. Corporate debt obligations are subject to the risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payments on the obligations and may also be subject to price volatility due to such factors as market interest rates, market perception of the creditworthiness of the issuer and general market liquidity.

Fixed income securities rated BBB or Baa are considered medium-grade obligations with speculative characteristics, and adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances may weaken their issuers’ capacity to pay interest and repay principal. Medium to lower rated and comparable non-rated securities tend to offer higher yields than higher rated securities with the same maturities because the historical financial condition of the issuers of such securities may not have been as strong as that of other issuers. Since medium to lower rated securities generally involve greater risks of loss of income and principal than higher rated securities, investors should consider carefully the relative risks associated with investment in securities which carry medium to lower ratings and in comparable unrated securities. In addition to the risk of default, there are the related costs of recovery on defaulted issues. The Investment Adviser will attempt to reduce these risks through portfolio diversification and by analysis of each issuer and its ability to make timely payments of income and principal, as well as broad economic trends and corporate developments. The Investment Adviser continually monitors the investments in the Fund’s portfolio and evaluates whether to dispose of or to retain corporate debt obligations whose credit ratings or credit quality may have changed.

Commercial Paper and Other Short-Term Corporate Obligations

The Fund may invest in commercial paper and other short-term obligations payable in U.S. dollars and issued or guaranteed by U.S. corporations, non-U.S. corporations or other entities.

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Commercial paper represents short-term unsecured promissory notes issued in bearer form by banks or bank holding companies, corporations and finance companies.

Trust Preferreds

The Fund may invest in trust preferred securities. A trust preferred or capital security is a long dated bond (for example 30 years) with preferred features. The preferred features are that payment of interest can be deferred for a specified period without initiating a default event. From a bondholder’s viewpoint, the securities are senior in claim to standard preferred but are junior to other bondholders. From the issuer’s viewpoint, the securities are attractive because their interest is deductible for tax purposes like other types of debt instruments.

Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Options on Swaps and Interest Rate Caps, Floors and Collars

The Fund may enter into interest rate, credit and total return swaps. The Fund may also enter into interest rate caps, floors and collars. The Fund may also purchase and write (sell) options contracts on swaps, commonly referred to as swaptions. The Fund may enter into swap transactions for hedging purposes or to seek to increase total return. Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the Fund with another party of their respective commitments to pay or receive interest, such as an exchange of fixed-rate payments for floating rate payments. Credit swaps involve the receipt of floating or fixed rate payments in exchange for assuming potential credit losses of an underlying security. Credit swaps give one party to a transaction the right to dispose of or acquire an asset (or group of assets), or the right to receive from or make a payment to the other party, upon the occurrence of specified credit events. Total return swaps are contracts that obligate a party to pay or receive interest in exchange for payment by the other party of the total return generated by a security, a basket of securities, an index, or an index component. A swaption is an option to enter into a swap agreement. Like other types of options, the buyer of a swaption pays a non-refundable premium for the option and obtains the right, but not the obligation, to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The seller of a swaption, in exchange for the premium, becomes obligated (if the option is exercised) to enter into an underlying swap on agreed-upon terms. The purchase of an interest rate cap entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index exceeds a predetermined interest rate, to receive payment of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling such interest rate cap. The purchase of an interest rate floor entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index falls below a predetermined interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling the interest rate floor. An interest rate collar is the combination of a cap and a floor that preserves a certain return within a predetermined range of interest rates. Since interest rate and credit swaps and interest rate caps, floors and collars are individually negotiated, the Fund expects to achieve an acceptable degree of correlation between its portfolio investments and its swap, cap, floor and collar positions.

A great deal of flexibility is possible in the way swap transactions are structured. However, generally the Fund will enter into interest rate, total return and credit swaps on a net basis, which means that the two payment streams are netted out, with the Fund receiving or paying, as the case may be, only the net amount of the two payments. Interest rate, total return and credit swaps do not normally involve the delivery of securities, other underlying assets or principal. Accordingly, the risk of loss with respect to interest rate, total return and credit swaps is normally limited to the net amount of payments that the Fund is contractually obligated to make. If the other party to an interest rate, total return or credit swap defaults, the Fund’s risk of loss consists of the net amount of payments that the Fund is contractually entitled to receive, if any. To the extent that the Fund’s potential exposure in a transaction involving a swap or an interest rate floor, cap or collar is covered by the segregation of cash or liquid assets, the Fund

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and the Investment Adviser believe that the transactions do not constitute senior securities under the Act and, accordingly, will not treat them as being subject to the Fund’s borrowing restrictions.

The Fund will not enter into any interest rate or credit swap transactions unless the unsecured commercial paper, senior debt or claims-paying ability of the other party is rated either A or A-1 or better by Standard & Poor’s or A or P-1 or better by Moody’s or their equivalent ratings. If there is a default by the other party to such a transaction, the Fund will have contractual remedies pursuant to the agreements related to the transaction. The swap market has grown substantially in recent years with a large number of banks and investment banking firms acting both as principals and as agents utilizing standardized swap documentation. As a result, the swap market has become relatively liquid in comparison with the markets for other similar instruments which are traded in the interbank market. The Investment Adviser, under the supervision of the Board of Trustees, is responsible for determining and monitoring the liquidity of the Fund’s transactions in swaps, caps, floors and collars.

The use of interest rate, credit and total return swaps, as well as interest rate caps, floors and collars, is a highly specialized activity which involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of market values, credit quality, interest rates and currency exchange rates, the investment performance of the Fund would be less favorable than it would have been if this investment technique were not used.

Options on Securities and Securities Indices

Writing Covered Options. The Fund may write (sell) covered call and put options on any securities in which it may invest or on any securities index consisting of securities in which it may invest. The Fund may write such options on securities that are listed on national domestic securities exchanges or foreign securities exchanges or traded in the over-the-counter market. A call option written by the Fund obligates the Fund to sell specified securities to the holder of the option at a specified price if the option is exercised before the expiration date. All call options written by the Fund are covered, which means that the Fund will own the securities subject to the option so long as the option is outstanding or the Fund will use the other methods described below. The Fund’s purpose in writing covered call options is to realize greater income than would be realized on portfolio securities transactions alone. However, the Fund may forego the opportunity to profit from an increase in the market price of the underlying security.

A put option written by the Fund obligates the Fund to purchase specified securities from the option holder at a specified price if the option is exercised before the expiration date. All put options written by the Fund would be covered, which means that the Fund will segregate cash or liquid assets with a value at least equal to the exercise price of the put option or will use the other methods described below. The purpose of writing such options is to generate additional income for the Fund. However, in return for the option premium, the Fund accepts the risk that it may be required to purchase the underlying securities at a price in excess of the securities’ market value at the time of purchase.

All call and put options written by the Fund are “covered.” In the case of a call option, the option is “covered” if the Fund owns the instrument underlying the call or has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that instrument without additional cash consideration (or, if additional cash consideration is required, liquid assets in such amount are segregated) upon conversion or exchange of other instruments held by it. A call option is also covered if the Fund holds a call on the same instrument as the option written where the exercise price of the option held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the option written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the option written provided the Fund segregates liquid assets in the amount of the difference. A put option is also covered if the Fund holds a put on the same security as the option written where the exercise price of the option held is (i) equal to or higher

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than the exercise price of the option written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the option written provided the Fund segregates liquid assets in the amount of the difference.

The Fund may terminate its obligations under an exchange-traded call or put option by purchasing an option identical to the one it has written. Obligations under over-the-counter options may be terminated only by entering into an offsetting transaction with the counterparty to such option. Such purchases are referred to as “closing purchase transactions.”

The Fund may also write (sell) covered call and put options on any securities index consisting of securities in which it may invest. Options on securities indices are similar to options on securities, except that the exercise of securities index options requires cash settlement payments and does not involve the actual purchase or sale of securities. In addition, securities index options are designed to reflect price fluctuations in a group of securities or segment of the securities market rather than price fluctuations in a single security.

The Fund may cover call options on a securities index by owning securities whose price changes are expected to be similar to those of the underlying index or by having an absolute and immediate right to acquire such securities without additional cash consideration (or if additional cash consideration is required, liquid assets in such amount are segregated) upon conversion or exchange of other securities held by it. The Fund may also cover call and put options on a securities index by segregating cash or liquid assets, as permitted by applicable law, with a value equal to the exercise price or by owning offsetting options as described above.

The writing of options is a highly specialized activity which involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. The use of options to seek to increase total return involves the risk of loss if the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of fluctuations in securities prices or interest rates. The successful use of options for hedging purposes also depends in part on the ability of the Investment Adviser to predict future price fluctuations and the degree of correlation between the options and securities markets. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of changes in securities prices or determination of the correlation between the securities indices on which options are written and purchased and the securities in the Fund’s investment portfolio, the investment performance of the Fund will be less favorable than it would have been in the absence of such options transactions. The writing of options could increase the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate and, therefore, associated brokerage commissions or spreads.

Purchasing Options. The Fund may purchase put and call options on any securities in which it may invest or options on any securities index consisting of securities in which it may invest. In addition, the Fund may enter into closing sale transactions in order to realize gains or minimize losses on options it had purchased.

The Fund may purchase call options in anticipation of an increase, or put options in anticipation of a decrease (“protective puts”), in the market value of securities of the type in which it may invest. The purchase of a call option would entitle the Fund, in return for the premium paid, to purchase specified securities at a specified price during the option period. The Fund would ordinarily realize a gain on the purchase of a call option if, during the option period, the value of such securities exceeded the sum of the exercise price, the premium paid and transaction costs; otherwise the Fund would realize either no gain or a loss on the purchase of the call option. The purchase of a put option would entitle the Fund, in exchange for the premium paid, to sell specified securities at a specified price during the option period. The purchase of protective puts is designed to offset or hedge against a decline in the market value of the Fund’s securities. Put options may also be purchased by the Fund for the purpose of affirmatively benefiting from a decline in the price of securities which it does not own. The Fund would ordinarily

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realize a gain if, during the option period, the value of the underlying securities decreased below the exercise price sufficiently to cover the premium and transaction costs; otherwise the Fund would realize either no gain or a loss on the purchase of the put option. Gains and losses on the purchase of put options may be offset by countervailing changes in the value of the underlying portfolio securities.

The Fund may purchase put and call options on securities indices for the same purposes as it may purchase options on securities. Options on securities indices are similar to options on securities, except that the exercise of securities index options requires cash payments and does not involve the actual purchase or sale of securities. In addition, securities index options are designed to reflect price fluctuations in a group of securities or segment of the securities market rather than price fluctuations in a single security.

Yield Curve Options. The Fund may enter into options on the yield “spread” or differential between two securities. Such transactions are referred to as “yield curve” options. In contrast to other types of options, a yield curve option is based on the difference between the yields of designated securities, rather than the prices of the individual securities, and is settled through cash payments. Accordingly, a yield curve option is profitable to the holder if this differential widens (in the case of a call) or narrows (in the case of a put), regardless of whether the yields of the underlying securities increase or decrease.

The Fund may purchase or write yield curve options for the same purposes as other options on securities. For example, the Fund may purchase a call option on the yield spread between two securities if the Fund owns one of the securities and anticipates purchasing the other security and wants to hedge against an adverse change in the yield spread between the two securities. The Fund may also purchase or write yield curve options in an effort to increase current income if, in the judgment of the Investment Adviser, the Fund will be able to profit from movements in the spread between the yields of the underlying securities. The trading of yield curve options is subject to all of the risks associated with the trading of other types of options. In addition, however, such options present a risk of loss even if the yield of one of the underlying securities remains constant, or if the spread moves in a direction or to an extent which was not anticipated.

Yield curve options written by the Fund will be “covered.” A call (or put) option is covered if the Fund holds another call (or put) option on the spread between the same two securities and segregates cash or liquid assets sufficient to cover the Fund’s net liability under the two options. Therefore, the Fund’s liability for such a covered option is generally limited to the difference between the amount of the Fund’s liability under the option written by the Fund less the value of the option held by the Fund. Yield curve options may also be covered in such other manner as may be in accordance with the requirements of the counterparty with which the option is traded and applicable laws and regulations. Yield curve options are traded over-the-counter, and established trading markets for these options may not exist.

Risks Associated with Options Transactions. There is no assurance that a liquid secondary market on a domestic or foreign options exchange will exist for any particular exchange-traded option or at any particular time. If the Fund is unable to effect a closing purchase transaction with respect to covered options it has written, the Fund will not be able to sell the underlying securities or dispose of assets held in a segregated account until the options expire or are exercised. Similarly, if the Fund is unable to effect a closing sale transaction with respect to options it has purchased, it will have to exercise the options in order to realize any profit and will incur transaction costs upon the purchase or sale of underlying securities.

Reasons for the absence of a liquid secondary market on an exchange include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) there may be insufficient trading interest in certain options; (ii) restrictions may be

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imposed by an exchange on opening or closing transactions or both; (iii) trading halts, suspensions or other restrictions may be imposed with respect to particular classes or series of options; (iv) unusual or unforeseen circumstances may interrupt normal operations on an exchange; (v) the facilities of an exchange or the Options Clearing Corporation may not at all times be adequate to handle current trading volume; or (vi) one or more exchanges could, for economic or other reasons, decide or be compelled at some future date to discontinue the trading of options (or a particular class or series of options), in which event the secondary market on that exchange (or in that class or series of options) would cease to exist although outstanding options on that exchange that had been issued by the Options Clearing Corporation as a result of trades on that exchange would continue to be exercisable in accordance with their terms.

The Fund may purchase and sell both options that are traded on U.S. and foreign exchanges and options traded over-the-counter with broker-dealers and other types of institutions that make markets in these options. The ability to terminate over-the-counter options is more limited than with exchange-traded options and may involve the risk that the broker-dealers or financial institutions participating in such transactions will not fulfill their obligations.

Transactions by the Fund in options will be subject to limitations established by each of the exchanges, boards of trade or other trading facilities on which such options are traded governing the maximum number of options in each class which may be written or purchased by a single investor or group of investors acting in concert regardless of whether the options are written or purchased on the same or different exchanges, boards of trade or other trading facilities or are held in one or more accounts or through one or more brokers. Thus, the number of options which the Fund may write or purchase may be affected by options written or purchased by other investment advisory clients or the Fund’s Investment Adviser. An exchange, board of trade or other trading facility may order the liquidation of positions found to be in excess of these limits, and it may impose certain other sanctions.

Futures Contracts and Options on Futures Contracts

The Fund may purchase and sell various kinds of futures contracts, and purchase and write call and put options on any of such futures contracts. The Fund may also enter into closing purchase and sale transactions with respect to any of such contracts and options. The futures contracts may be based on various securities (such as U.S. Government Securities), securities indices and any other financial instruments and indices. Financial futures contracts used by the Fund include interest rate futures contracts including, among others, Eurodollar futures contracts. Eurodollar futures contracts are U.S. dollar-denominated futures contracts that are based on the implied forward London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) of a three-month deposit. The Fund will engage in futures and related options transactions in order to seek to increase total return or to hedge against changes in interest rates, securities prices or, to the extent the Fund invests in foreign securities, currency exchange rates, or to otherwise manage its term structure, sector selection and duration in accordance with its investment objective and policies. The Fund may also enter into closing purchase and sale transactions with respect to such contracts and options. The Trust, on behalf of the Fund, has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as a pool operator under that Act with respect to the Fund.

Futures contracts entered into by the Fund have historically been traded on U.S. exchanges or boards of trade that are licensed and regulated by the CFTC or on foreign exchanges. More recently, certain futures may also be traded either over-the-counter or on trading facilities such as derivatives transaction execution facilities, exempt boards of trade or electronic trading facilities that are licensed and/or regulated to varying degrees by the CFTC. Also, certain single stock futures and narrow based security index futures may be traded either over-the-counter or on trading facilities such as contract

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markets, derivatives transaction execution facilities and electronic trading facilities that are licensed and/or regulated to varying degrees by both the CFTC and the SEC or on foreign exchanges.

Neither the CFTC, National Futures Association, SEC nor any domestic exchange regulates activities of any foreign exchange or boards of trade, including the execution, delivery and clearing of transactions, or has the power to compel enforcement of the rules of a foreign exchange or board of trade or any applicable foreign law. This is true even if the exchange is formally linked to a domestic market so that a position taken on the market may be liquidated by a transaction on another market. Moreover, such laws or regulations will vary depending on the foreign country in which the foreign futures or foreign options transaction occurs. For these reasons, the Fund’s investments in foreign futures or foreign options transactions may not be provided the same protections in respect of transactions on United States exchanges. In particular persons who trade foreign futures or foreign options contracts may not be afforded certain of the protective measures provided by the Commodity Exchange Act, the CFTC’s regulations and the rules of the National Futures Association and any domestic exchange, including the right to use reparations proceedings before the CFTC and arbitration proceedings provided by the National Futures Association or any domestic futures exchange. Similarly, these persons may not have the protection of the U.S. securities laws.

Futures Contracts. A futures contract may generally be described as an agreement between two parties to buy and sell particular financial instruments or currencies for an agreed price during a designated month (or to deliver the final cash settlement price, in the case of a contract relating to an index or otherwise not calling for physical delivery at the end of trading in the contract).

When interest rates are rising or securities prices are falling, the Fund can seek to offset a decline in the value of its current portfolio securities through the sale of futures contracts. When interest rates are falling or securities prices are rising, the Fund, through the purchase of futures contracts, can attempt to secure better rates or prices than might later be available in the market when it effects anticipated purchases.

Positions taken in the futures markets are not normally held to maturity but are instead liquidated through offsetting transactions which may result in a profit or a loss. While futures contracts on securities or currency will usually be liquidated in this manner, the Fund may instead make, or take, delivery of the underlying securities or currency whenever it appears economically advantageous to do so. A clearing corporation associated with the exchange on which futures on securities or currency are traded guarantees that, if still open, the sale or purchase will be performed on the settlement date.

Hedging Strategies. Hedging, by use of futures contracts, seeks to establish with more certainty than would otherwise be possible the effective price or rate of return on portfolio securities or securities that the Fund proposes to acquire or the exchange rate of currencies in which portfolio securities are quoted or denominated. The Fund may, for example, take a “short” position in the futures market by selling futures contracts to seek to hedge against an anticipated rise in interest rates or a decline in market prices or foreign currency rates that would adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of the Fund’s portfolio securities. Such futures contracts may include contracts for the future delivery of securities held by the Fund or securities with characteristics similar to those of the Fund’s portfolio securities. If, in the opinion of the Investment Adviser, there is a sufficient degree of correlation between price trends for the Fund’s portfolio securities and futures contracts based on other financial instruments, securities indices or other indices, the Fund may also enter into such futures contracts as part of its hedging strategy. Although under some circumstances prices of securities in the Fund’s portfolio may be more or less volatile than prices of such futures contracts, the Investment Adviser will attempt to estimate the extent of this volatility difference based on historical patterns and compensate for any such differential by having the Fund enter into a greater or lesser number of futures contracts or by attempting to achieve only a partial

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hedge against price changes affecting the Fund’s portfolio securities. When hedging of this character is successful, any depreciation in the value of portfolio securities will be substantially offset by appreciation in the value of the futures position. On the other hand, any unanticipated appreciation in the value of the Fund’s portfolio securities would be substantially offset by a decline in the value of the futures position.

On other occasions, the Fund may take a “long” position by purchasing futures contracts. This may be done, for example, when the Fund anticipates the subsequent purchase of particular securities when it has the necessary cash, but expects the prices or currency exchange rates then available in the applicable market to be less favorable than prices that are currently available.

Options on Futures Contracts. The acquisition of put and call options on futures contracts will give the Fund the right (but not the obligation) for a specified price to sell or to purchase, respectively, the underlying futures contract at any time during the option period. As the purchaser of an option on a futures contract, the Fund obtains the benefit of the futures position if prices move in a favorable direction but limits its risk of loss in the event of an unfavorable price movement to the loss of the premium and transaction costs.

The writing of a call option on a futures contract generates a premium which may partially offset a decline in the value of the Fund’s assets. By writing a call option, the Fund becomes obligated, in exchange for the premium, to sell a futures contract if the option is exercised, which may have a value higher than the exercise price. The writing of a put option on a futures contract generates a premium which may partially offset an increase in the price of securities that the Fund intends to purchase. However, the Fund becomes obligated (upon exercise of the option) to purchase a futures contract if the option is exercised, which may have a value lower than the exercise price. Thus, the loss incurred by the Fund in writing options on futures is potentially unlimited and may exceed the amount of the premium received. The Fund will incur transaction costs in connection with the writing of options on futures.

The holder or writer of an option on a futures contract may terminate its position by selling or purchasing an offsetting option on the same financial instrument. There is no guarantee that such closing transactions can be effected. The Fund’s ability to establish and close out positions on such options will be subject to the development and maintenance of a liquid market.

Other Considerations. The Fund will engage in transactions in futures contracts and related options transactions only to the extent such transactions are consistent with the requirements of the Code for maintaining their qualifications as regulated investment companies for federal income tax purposes.

Transactions in futures contracts and options on futures involve brokerage costs, require margin deposits and may require the Fund to segregate cash or liquid assets, as permitted by applicable law, in an amount equal to the underlying value of such contracts and options.

While transactions in futures contracts and options on futures may reduce certain risks, such transactions themselves entail certain other risks. Thus, while the Fund may benefit from the use of futures and options on futures, unanticipated changes in interest rates or securities prices or currency exchange rates may result in a poorer overall performance for the Fund than if it had not entered into any futures contracts or options transactions. When futures contracts and options are used for hedging purposes, perfect correlation between the Fund’s futures positions and portfolio positions will be impossible to achieve. In the event of an imperfect correlation between a futures position and a portfolio position which is intended to be protected, the desired protection may not be obtained and the Fund may be exposed to risk of loss.

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Perfect correlation between the Fund’s futures positions and portfolio positions will be difficult to achieve, particularly where futures contracts based on specific fixed-income securities or specific currencies are not available. In addition, it is not possible to hedge fully or protect against currency fluctuations affecting the value of securities quoted or denominated in foreign currencies because the value of such securities is likely to fluctuate as a result of independent factors unrelated to currency fluctuations. The profitability of the Fund’s trading in futures depends upon the ability of the Investment Adviser to analyze correctly the futures markets.

Convertible Securities

The Fund may invest in convertible securities. Convertible securities are bonds, debentures, notes, preferred stocks or other securities that may be converted into or exchanged for a specified amount of common stock (or other securities) of the same or different issuer within a particular period of time at a specified price or formula. A convertible security entitles the holder to receive interest that is generally paid or accrued on debt or a dividend that is paid or accrued on preferred stock until the convertible security matures or is redeemed, converted or exchanged. Convertible securities have unique investment characteristics, in that they generally (i) have higher yields than common stocks, but lower yields than comparable non-convertible securities, (ii) are less subject to fluctuation in value than the underlying common stock due to their fixed-income characteristics and (iii) provide the potential for capital appreciation if the market price of the underlying common stock increases.

The value of a convertible security is a function of its “investment value” (determined by its yield in comparison with the yields of other securities of comparable maturity and quality that do not have a conversion privilege) and its “conversion value” (the security’s worth, at market value, if converted into the underlying common stock). The investment value of a convertible security is influenced by changes in interest rates, with investment value normally declining as interest rates increase and increasing as interest rates decline. The credit standing of the issuer and other factors may also have an effect on the convertible security’s investment value. The conversion value of a convertible security is determined by the market price of the underlying common stock. If the conversion value is low relative to the investment value, the price of the convertible security is governed principally by its investment value. To the extent the market price of the underlying common stock approaches or exceeds the conversion price, the price of the convertible security will be increasingly influenced by its conversion value. A convertible security generally will sell at a premium over its conversion value by the extent to which investors place value on the right to acquire the underlying common stock while holding a fixed-income security.

A convertible security may be subject to redemption at the option of the issuer at a price established in the convertible security’s governing instrument. If a convertible security held by the Fund is called for redemption, the Fund will be required to permit the issuer to redeem the security, convert it into the underlying common stock or sell it to a third party. Any of these actions could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective, which, in turn, could result in losses to the Fund. To the extent that the Fund holds a convertible security, or a security that is otherwise converted or exchanged for common stock (e.g., as a result of a restructuring), the Fund may, consistent with its investment objective, hold such common stock in its portfolio.

Lending of Portfolio Securities

The Fund may lend portfolio securities. Under present regulatory policies, such loans may be made to institutions, such as brokers or dealers (including Goldman Sachs), and are required to be secured continuously by collateral in cash, cash equivalents, letters of credit or U.S. Government Securities maintained on a current basis at an amount, marked to market daily, at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. Cash received as collateral for securities lending transactions may be invested in

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short-term investments. Investing the collateral subjects it to market depreciation or appreciation, and the Fund is responsible for any loss that may result from its investment of the borrowed collateral. The Fund will have the right to terminate a loan at any time and recall the loaned securities within the normal and customary settlement time for securities transactions. For the duration of the loan, the Fund will continue to receive the equivalent of the interest or dividends paid by the issuer on the securities loaned and will also receive compensation from investment of the collateral. The Fund will not have the right to vote any securities having voting rights during the existence of the loan, but the Fund may call the loan in anticipation of an important vote to be taken by the holders of the securities or the giving or withholding of their consent on a material matter affecting the investment. As with other extensions of credit there are risks of delay in recovering, or even loss of rights in, the collateral and loaned securities should the borrower of the securities fail financially. However, the loans will be made only to firms deemed to be of good standing, and when the consideration which can be earned currently from securities loans of this type is deemed to justify the attendant risk. In determining whether to lend securities to a particular borrower and during the period of the loan, the creditworthiness of the borrower will be considered and monitored. It is intended that the value of securities loaned by the Fund will not exceed one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the loan collateral).

The Fund’s Board of Trustees has approved the Fund’s participation in a securities lending program and adopted policies and procedures relating thereto. Under the securities lending program, the Fund has retained an affiliate of the Investment Adviser to serve as the securities lending agent for the Fund. For these services the lending agent may receive a fee from the Fund, including a fee based on the returns earned on the Fund’s investment of cash received as collateral for the loaned securities. The lending agent may, on behalf of the Fund, invest cash collateral received by the Fund for securities loans in, among other things, other registered or unregistered funds. These funds include private investing funds or money market funds that are managed by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates for the purpose of investing cash collateral generated from securities lending activities and which pay the Investment Adviser or its affiliates for these services. The Fund’s Board of Trustees will periodically review securities loan transactions for which the Goldman Sachs affiliate has acted as lending agent for compliance with the Fund’s securities lending procedures. Goldman Sachs also has been approved as a borrower under the Fund’s securities lending program, subject to certain conditions.

Restricted and Illiquid Securities

The Fund may purchase securities that are not registered or that are offered in an exempt non-public offering (“Restricted Securities”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act”), including securities eligible for resale to “qualified institutional buyers” pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act. However, the Fund will not invest more than 15% of its net assets in illiquid investments, which include repurchase agreements with a notice or demand period of more than seven days, certain municipal leases, certain over-the-counter options, securities that are not readily marketable and Restricted Securities, unless the Trust determines, based upon a continuing review of the trading markets for the specific Restricted Securities, that such Restricted Securities are liquid. The Trustees have adopted guidelines and delegated to the Investment Adviser the daily function of determining and monitoring the liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio securities. This investment practice could have the effect of increasing the level of illiquidity in the Fund to the extent that qualified institutional buyers become for a time uninterested in purchasing these Restricted Securities.

The purchase price and subsequent valuation of Restricted Securities may reflect a discount from the price at which such securities trade when they are not restricted, since the restriction makes them less liquid. The amount of the discount from the prevailing market price is expected to vary depending upon the type of security, the character of the issuer, the party who will bear the expenses of registering the Restricted Securities and prevailing supply and demand conditions.

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When-Issued and Forward Commitment Securities

The Fund may purchase securities on a when-issued basis or purchase or sell securities on a forward commitment basis beyond the customary settlement time. These transactions involve a commitment by the Fund to purchase or sell securities at a future date beyond the customary settlement time. The price of the underlying securities (usually expressed in terms of yield) and the date when the securities will be delivered and paid for (the settlement date) are fixed at the time the transaction is negotiated. When-issued purchases and forward commitment transactions are negotiated directly with the other party, and such commitments are not traded on exchanges. The Fund will generally purchase securities on a when-issued basis or purchase or sell securities on a forward commitment basis only with the intention of completing the transaction and actually purchasing or selling the securities. If deemed advisable as a matter of investment strategy, however, the Fund may dispose of or negotiate a commitment after entering into it. The Fund may also sell securities it has committed to purchase before those securities are delivered to the Fund on the settlement date. The Fund may realize capital gains or losses in connection with these transactions. For purposes of determining the Fund’s duration, the maturity of when-issued or forward commitment securities for fixed-rate obligations will be calculated from the commitment date. The Fund is generally required to segregate, until three days prior to settlement date, cash and liquid assets in an amount sufficient to meet the purchase price unless the Fund’s obligations are otherwise covered. Alternatively, the Fund may enter into offsetting contracts for the forward sale of other securities that it owns. Securities purchased or sold on a when-issued or forward commitment basis involve a risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased declines prior to the settlement date or if the value of the security to be sold increases prior to the settlement date.

Other Investment Companies

The Fund reserves the right to invest up to 10% of its total assets, calculated at the time of purchase, in the securities of other investment companies, but may neither invest more than 5% of its total assets in the securities of any one investment company nor acquire more than 3% of the voting securities of any other investment company. Pursuant to an exemptive order obtained from the SEC, the Fund may invest in money market funds for which the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates serves as investment adviser, administrator and/or distributor. The Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any management fees and other expenses paid by investment companies in which it invests in addition to the management fees and other expenses paid by the Fund. However, to the extent that the Fund invests in a money market fund for which the Investment Adviser or any of its affiliates acts as investment adviser, the management fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Adviser will, to the extent required by the SEC, be reduced by an amount equal to the Fund’s proportionate share of the management fees paid by such money market fund to the Investment Adviser or its affiliates. Although the Fund does not expect to do so in the foreseeable future, the Fund is authorized to invest substantially all of its assets in a single open-end investment company or series thereof that has substantially the same investment objective, policies and fundamental restrictions as the Fund.

Repurchase Agreements

The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with banks, brokers, and dealers which furnish collateral at least equal in value or market price to the amount of their repurchase obligation. A repurchase agreement is an arrangement under which the Fund purchases securities and the seller agrees to repurchase the securities within a particular time and at a specified price. Custody of the securities is maintained by the Fund’s custodian (or sub-custodian). The repurchase price may be higher than the purchase price, the difference being income to the Fund, or the purchase and repurchase prices may be the same, with interest at a stated rate due to the Fund together with the repurchase price on repurchase. In

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either case, the income to the Fund is unrelated to the interest rate on the security subject to the repurchase agreement.

For purposes of the Act, and generally for tax purposes, a repurchase agreement is deemed to be a loan from the Fund to the seller of the security. For other purposes, it is not always clear whether a court would consider the security purchased by the Fund subject to a repurchase agreement as being owned by the Fund or as being collateral for a loan by the Fund to the seller. In the event of commencement of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings with respect to the seller of the security before repurchase of the security under a repurchase agreement, the Fund may encounter delay and incur costs before being able to sell the security. Such a delay may involve loss of interest or a decline in value of the security. If the court characterizes the transaction as a loan and the Fund has not perfected a security interest in the security, the Fund may be required to return the security to the seller’s estate and be treated as an unsecured creditor of the seller. As an unsecured creditor, the Fund would be at risk of losing some or all of the principal and interest involved in the transaction.

Apart from the risk of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, there is also the risk that the seller may fail to repurchase the security. However, if the market value of the security subject to the repurchase agreement becomes less than the repurchase price (including accrued interest), the Fund will direct the seller of the security to deliver additional securities so that the market value of all securities subject to the repurchase agreement equals or exceeds the repurchase price. Certain repurchase agreements which provide for settlement in more than seven days can be liquidated before the nominal fixed term on seven days or less notice. Such repurchase agreements will be regarded as liquid instruments.

The Fund, together with other registered investment companies having management agreements with the Investment Adviser or its affiliates, may transfer uninvested cash balances into a single joint account, the daily aggregate balance of which will be invested in one or more repurchase agreements.

Reverse Repurchase Agreements

The Fund may borrow money by entering into transactions called reverse repurchase agreements. Under these arrangements, the Fund will sell portfolio securities to dealers in U.S. Government Securities or members of the Federal Reserve System, with an agreement to repurchase the security on an agreed date, price and interest payment. Reverse repurchase agreements involve the possible risk that the value of portfolio securities the Fund relinquishes may decline below the price the Fund must pay when the transaction closes. Borrowings may magnify the potential for gain or loss on amounts invested resulting in an increase in the speculative character of the Fund’s outstanding shares.

When the Fund enters into a reverse repurchase agreement, it places in a separate custodial account either liquid assets or other high grade debt securities that have a value equal to or greater than the repurchase price. The account is then continuously monitored by the Investment Adviser to make sure that an appropriate value is maintained. Reverse repurchase agreements are considered to be borrowings under the Act.

Temporary Taxable Investments

The Fund may invest in the taxable money market instruments described in the foregoing sections. When the Fund’s assets are invested in such instruments, the Fund may not be achieving its investment objective of providing income exempt from federal and/or applicable state or local income taxes.

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Special Risk Considerations Relating to Tennessee Municipal Obligations

The following information constitutes only a brief summary and is based on information from official statements relating to securities offerings of Tennessee issuers, the Tennessee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report dated June 30, 2004, and data from the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Because the Fund invests predominantly in Tennessee municipal securities, the Fund’s investments and its performance are susceptible to various statutory, political, and economic factors that are unique to the State of Tennessee. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion, state constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to Tennessee’s municipal issuers. Tennessee’s economy and finances may be especially vulnerable to changes in the performance of the financial services sector, which historically has been volatile. Furthermore, investors should be aware that economic, budgetary and other conditions within Tennessee are unpredictable and can change at any time. The Fund may involve more risk than an investment in a fund that does not invest predominately in securities of a single state.

As of 2005, Tennessee’s population was approximately 5.9 million people, making it the 16^th most populous state in the United States. In 2004, Tennessee’s per capita annual personal income was approximately $30,000, ranking it 35^th in the country. There has been noticeable improvement in Tennessee’s per capita income relative to the nation as whole; however, state per capita income still trails the national average. In addition, educational attainment for the State lags behind the national average.

Tennessee’s primary non-farm employment sectors include trade, transportation and utilities (21.8%), manufacturing (15.4%), government (15.3%), education and health services (11.9%), professional and business services (10.9%) and leisure and hospitality (9.4%), as measured by 2004 state employment estimates. Tennessee’s unemployment rate fell to 4.9% in 2004 from 5.1% in 2003 versus the national average of 5.5% in 2004. Non-farm job growth in recent years has been modest, and, as in most areas of the country, Tennessee has experienced a decline in manufacturing jobs, both durable and non-durable. Job growth in the service sector has been strong, with the highest growth being in metropolitan areas. Non-metropolitan areas continue to experience the highest unemployment rates in Tennessee.

Tennessee’s State Constitution requires that the total expenditures of the State for any fiscal year not exceed the State’s revenues and reserves, including the proceeds of debt obligations issued to finance capital expenditures and in no year shall the rate of growth of appropriations from State tax revenues exceed the estimated rate of growth of the State’s economy. In the recent past, the Governor and the General Assembly have had to significantly restrict expenditures to comply with these constitutional mandates. The State’s overall spending was primarily in the areas of health and social services (56%), education (25%), law, justice and public safety (5%) and transportation (4%).

Tennessee relies heavily on its 7% state sales tax for its revenue. Sales and use tax revenues represent nearly 65% of all state tax revenues. The state’s heavy reliance on sales and use taxes, which are very susceptible to economic downturns, in recent years has lead to large budget deficits and the use of one-time revenue sources to balance the budget. This has resulted in the state losing it’s AAA general obligation rating. The state was downgraded by Standard & Poor’s to “AA+” in July of 2000. Continued reliance on one-time revenue sources, primarily tobacco settlement funds, to balance the budget led to Standard & Poor’s further downgrading of the rating to “AA” in July of 2001. Fiscal year 2004 marked the first time since then that the budget was balanced without the use of non-recurring revenues; however, rising costs, particularly in the area of healthcare are cause for concern.

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The State’s credit outlook was upgraded to stable from negative in 2004 by both Moody’s and S&P as a result of an improved state economy and no longer relying on non-recurring revenues. As of the date of this SAI, general obligations of the State of Tennessee are rated “AA”, “Aa2” and “AA” by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, respectively. Limited borrowing and the practice of paying for projects on a current basis have helped keep Tennessee’s debt ratios well below the national average. There can be no assurance that the economic conditions on which these ratings are based will continue or that particular bond issues may not be adversely affected by changes in economic, political or other conditions.

As indicated above, a substantial part of the State’s budget problems have been related to healthcare costs. In 1994, the State transformed its Medicaid Program into a managed care project called TennCare, which covers not only Medicaid eligible persons but also certain uninsured or uninsurable persons. In 2005, the State instituted reforms to TennCare that limit benefits for certain enrollees and reduce the number of individuals presently eligible for enrollment. The plan preserves full coverage for approximately 600,000 children on the program and maintains some level of benefits for approximately 400,000 adults who are eligible for Medicaid. While these reforms should lessen the strain of TennCare on the State’s finances, the rising cost of healthcare represents a continuing challenge to the State.

Non-Diversified Status

Since the Fund is “non-diversified” under the Act, it is subject only to certain federal tax diversification requirements. Under federal tax laws, the Fund may, with respect to 50% of its total assets, invest up to 25% of its total assets in the securities of any issuer. With respect to the remaining 50% of the Fund’s total assets, (i) the Fund may not invest more than 5% of its total assets in the securities of any one issuer, and (ii) the Fund may not acquire more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer. These tests apply at the end of each quarter of the taxable year and are subject to certain conditions and limitations under the Code. These tests do not apply to investments in United States Government Securities and regulated investment companies.

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund may engage in active short-term trading to benefit from yield disparities among different issues of securities or among the markets for fixed-income securities, or for other reasons. It is anticipated that the portfolio turnover rate of the Fund will vary from year to year, and may be affected by changes in the holdings of specific issuers, cash requirements for redemption of shares and by requirements which enable the Fund to receive favorable tax treatment. The Fund is not restricted by policy with regard to portfolio turnover and will make changes in its investment portfolio from time to time as business and economic conditions as well as market prices may dictate.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment restrictions set forth below have been adopted by the Trust as fundamental policies that cannot be changed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting securities (as defined in the Act) of the Fund. In addition, the policies of the Fund to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its Net Assets in Municipal Securities the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax (i.e., excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes) are fundamental policies. In addition, as a matter of fundamental policy, at least 80% of the Tennessee Municipal Fund’s Net Assets will be invested, under normal circumstances, in instruments that pay income which is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax. The investment objective of the Fund and all other investment policies or practices of the Fund are considered by the Trust not to be fundamental and

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accordingly may be changed without shareholder approval. As defined in the Act, “a majority of the outstanding voting securities” of the Fund means the vote of (i) 67% or more of the shares of the Fund present at a meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund are present or represented by proxy, or (ii) more than 50% of the shares of the Fund.

For the purposes of the limitations (except for the asset coverage requirement with respect to borrowings), any limitation which involves a maximum percentage shall not be considered violated unless an excess over the percentage occurs immediately after, and is caused by, an acquisition or encumbrance of securities or assets of, or borrowings by, the Fund. The identification of the issuer of a Municipal Security that is not a general obligation is made by the Investment Adviser based on the characteristics of the Municipal Security, the most important of which is the source of funds for the payment of principal and interest on such security.

As a matter of fundamental policy, the Fund may not:

	(1)		Invest more than 25% of its total assets in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry (excluding the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities). (For the purposes of this restriction, state and municipal governments and their agencies, authorities and instrumentalities are not deemed to be industries; telephone companies are considered to be a separate industry from water, gas or electric utilities; personal credit finance companies and business credit finance companies are deemed to be separate industries; and wholly-owned finance companies are considered to be in the industry of their parents if their activities are primarily related to financing the activities of their parents.) This restriction does not apply to investments in Municipal Securities which have been pre-refunded by the use of obligations of the U.S. Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities. The Fund may invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets in Municipal Securities which are related in such a way that an economic, business or political development or change affecting one Municipal Security would also affect the other Municipal Securities. These Municipal Securities include (a) Municipal Securities, the interest on which is paid solely from revenues of similar projects such as hospitals, electric utility systems, multi-family housing, nursing homes, commercial facilities (including hotels), steel companies or life care facilities; (b) Municipal Securities whose issuers are in the same state; and (c) industrial development obligations;

	(2)		Borrow money, except (a) the Fund, to the extent permitted by applicable law, may borrow from banks (as defined in the Act), other affiliated investment companies and other persons or through reverse repurchase agreements in amounts up to 33¹/3% of its total assets (including the amount borrowed); (b) the Fund may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, borrow up to an additional 5% of its total assets for temporary purposes; (c) the Fund may obtain such short-term credits as may be necessary for the clearance of purchases and sales of portfolio securities; (d) the Fund may purchase securities on margin to the extent permitted by applicable law; and (e) the Fund may engage in transactions in mortgage dollar rolls which are accounted for as financings;

	(3)		Make loans, except through (a) the purchase of debt obligations in accordance with the Fund’s investment objective and policies; (b) repurchase agreements with banks, brokers, dealers and other financial institutions; (c) loans of securities as permitted by applicable law; and (d) loans to affiliates of the Fund to the extent permitted by law;

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	(4)		Underwrite securities issued by others, except to the extent that the sale of portfolio securities by the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriting;

	(5)		Purchase, hold or deal in real estate, although the Fund may purchase and sell securities that are secured by real estate or interests therein, securities of real estate investment trusts and mortgage-related securities and may hold and sell real estate acquired by the Fund as a result of the ownership of securities;

	(6)		Invest in commodities or commodity contracts, except that the Fund may invest in currency and financial instruments and contracts that are commodities or commodity contracts; and

	(7)		Issue senior securities to the extent such issuance would violate applicable law.

Notwithstanding any other fundamental investment restriction or policy, the Fund may invest some or all of its assets in a single open-end investment company or series thereof with substantially the same fundamental investment objective, restrictions and policies as the Fund.

In addition to the fundamental policies mentioned above, the Trustees have adopted the following non-fundamental policies which can be changed or amended by action of the Trustees without approval of shareholders.

The Fund may not:

	(1)		Invest in companies for the purpose of exercising control or management;

	(2)		Invest more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets in illiquid investments, including illiquid repurchase agreements with a notice or demand period of more than seven days, securities which are not readily marketable and restricted securities not eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act;

	(3)		Purchase additional securities if the Fund’s borrowings (excluding covered mortgage dollar rolls) exceed 5% of its net assets; or

	(4)		Make short sales of securities, except short sales against-the-box.

TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS

The business and affairs of the Fund are managed under the direction of the Board of Trustees subject to the laws of the State of Delaware and the Trust’s Declaration of Trust. The Trustees are responsible for deciding matters of general policy and reviewing the actions of the Trust’s service providers. The officers of the Trust conduct and supervise the Fund’s daily business operations.

Trustees of the Trust

Information pertaining to the Trustees of the Trust is set forth below. Trustees who are not deemed to be “interested persons” of the Trust as defined in the Act are referred to as “Independent Trustees.” Trustees who are deemed to be “interested persons” of the Trust are referred to as “Interested Trustees.”

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Independent Trustees

Number of

Term of

Portfolios in

Office and

Fund

Position(s)

Length of

Complex

Name,

Held with

Time

Principal Occupation(s)

Overseen by

Other Directorships

Address and Age¹

the Trust²

Served³

During Past 5 Years

Trustee⁴

Held by Trustee⁵

Ashok N. Bakhru
Age: 63

Chairman of
the
Board of
Trustees

Since 1991

President, ABN Associates (July 1994—March 1996 and November 1998—Present); Executive Vice President — Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Coty Inc. (manufacturer of fragrances and cosmetics) (April 1996—November 1998); Director of Arkwright Mutual Insurance Company (1984—1999); Trustee of International House of Philadelphia (program center and residential community for students and professional trainees from the United States and foreign countries) (1989-2004); Member of Cornell University Council (1992-2004); Trustee of the Walnut Street Theater (1992-2004); Trustee, Scholarship America (1998-Present); Trustee, Institute for Higher Education Policy (2003-Present); Director, Private Equity Investors—III and IV (November 1998-Present), and Equity-Limited Investors II (April 2002-Present); and Chairman, Lenders Service Inc. (provider of mortgage lending services) (2000-2003).

Chairman of the Board of Trustees — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

None

John P. Coblentz, Jr.
Age: 64

Trustee

Since 2003

Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP (June 1975 — May 2003).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

None

Patrick T. Harker
Age: 46

Trustee

Since 2000

Dean and Reliance Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (February 2000-Present); Interim and Deputy Dean, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (July 1999-Present); and Professor and Chairman of Department of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (July 1997—August 2000).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

None

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Independent Trustees

Number of

Term of

Portfolios in

Office and

Fund

Position(s)

Length of

Complex

Name,

Held with

Time

Principal Occupation(s)

Overseen by

Other Directorships

Address and Age¹

the Trust²

Served³

During Past 5 Years

Trustee⁴

Held by Trustee⁵

Mary P. McPherson
Age: 70

Trustee

Since 1997

Vice President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (provider of grants for conservation, environmental and educational purposes) (October 1997-Present); Director, Smith College (1998-Present); Director, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation (health educational programs) (1977-Present); Director, Philadelphia Contributionship (insurance) (1985-Present); Director Emeritus, Amherst College (1986—1998); Director, The Spencer Foundation (educational research) (1993-February 2003); member of PNC Advisory Board (banking) (1993-1998); Director, American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1997-Present); and Trustee, Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions (post-retirement medical insurance program for not-for-profit institutions) (since 2005).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

None

Wilma J. Smelcer
Age: 56

Trustee

Since 2001

Chairman, Bank of America, Illinois (banking) (1998-January 2001); and Governor, Board of Governors, Chicago Stock Exchange (national securities exchange) (April 2001-April 2004).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Lawson Products Inc. (distributor of industrial products).

Richard P. Strubel
Age: 66

Trustee

Since 1987

Vice Chairman and Director, Unext, Inc. (provider of educational services via the internet) (2003-Present); President, COO and Director, Unext, Inc. (1999-2003); Director, Cantilever Technologies, Inc. (a private software company) (1999-Present); Trustee, The University of Chicago (1987-Present); and Managing Director, Tandem Partners, Inc. (management services firm) (1990—1999).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Gildan Activewear Inc. (an activewear clothing marketing and manufacturing company);Unext, Inc. (provider of educational services via the internet); Northern Mutual Fund Complex (53 Portfolios).

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Independent Trustees

Number of

Term of

Portfolios in

Office and

Fund

Position(s)

Length of

Complex

Name,

Held with

Time

Principal Occupation(s)

Overseen by

Other Directorships

Address and Age¹

the Trust²

Served³

During Past 5 Years

Trustee⁴

Held by Trustee⁵

Interested Trustees

*Alan A. Shuch
Age: 55

Trustee

Since 1990

Advisory Director — GSAM (May 1999-Present); Consultant to GSAM (December 1994 — May 1999); and Limited Partner, Goldman Sachs (December 1994 — May 1999).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

None

*Kaysie P. Uniacke
Age: 44

Trustee

&

President

Since 2001

Since 2002

Managing Director, GSAM (1997-Present).

Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

President — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (2002-Present) (registered investment companies).

Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (1997 — 2002) (registered investment companies).

Trustee, Gettysburg College.

None


*		These persons are considered to be “Interested Trustees” because they hold positions with Goldman Sachs and own securities issued by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Each Interested Trustee holds comparable positions with certain other companies of which Goldman Sachs, GSAM or an affiliate thereof is the investment adviser, administrator and/or distributor.

¹		Each Trustee may be contacted by writing to the Trustee, c/o Goldman Sachs, One New York Plaza, 37^th Floor, New York, New York, 10004, Attn: Howard B. Surloff.

²		The Trust is a successor to a Massachusetts business trust that was combined with the Trust on April 30, 1997.

³		Each Trustee holds office for an indefinite term until the earliest of: (a) the election of his or her successor; (b) the date the Trustee resigns or is removed by the Board of Trustees or shareholders, in accordance with the Trust’s Declaration of Trust; (c) the date the Trustee attains the age of 72 years (in accordance with the current resolutions of the Board of Trustees, which may be changed by the Trustees without shareholder vote); or (d) the termination of the Trust.

⁴		The Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex consists of the Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust. As of the date of this Additional Statement, the Trust consisted of 62 portfolios, including the Fund described in this Additional Statement, and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust consisted of 11 portfolios.

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⁵		This column includes only directorships of companies required to report to the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (i.e., “public companies”) or other investment companies registered under the Act.

Officers of the Trust

Information pertaining to the officers of the Trust is set forth below.


Officers of the Trust
		Term of Office and
Name, Age	Position(s) Held	Length of Time	Principal Occupation(s)
And Address	With the Trust	Served¹	During Past 5 Years
Kaysie P. Uniacke 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 44	President & Trustee	Since 2002 Since 2001	Managing Director, GSAM (1997-Present). Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies). President — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies). Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (1997—2002) (registered investment companies). Trustee, Gettysburg College.

John M. Perlowski 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 40	Treasurer	Since 1997	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (November 2003 — Present) and Vice President, Goldman Sachs (July 1995-November 2003). Treasurer — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Philip V. Giuca, Jr. 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 43	Assistant Treasurer	Since 1997	Vice President, Goldman Sachs (May 1992-Present). Assistant Treasurer — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

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Officers of the Trust
		Term of Office and
Name, Age	Position(s) Held	Length of Time	Principal Occupation(s)
And Address	With the Trust	Served¹	During Past 5 Years
Peter Fortner 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 47	Assistant Treasurer	Since 2000	Vice President, Goldman Sachs (July 2000-Present); Associate, Prudential Insurance Company of America (November 1985—June 2000); and Assistant Treasurer, certain closed-end funds administered by Prudential (1999 and 2000). Assistant Treasurer — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Kenneth G. Curran 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 41	Assistant Treasurer	Since 2001	Vice President, Goldman Sachs (November 1998-Present); and Senior Tax Manager, KPMG Peat Marwick (accountants) (August 1995—October 1998). Assistant Treasurer — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Charles Rizzo 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 48	Assistant Treasurer	Since 2005	Vice President, Goldman Sachs (August 2005—Present); Managing Director and Treasurer of Scudder Funds, Deutsche Asset Management (April 2003—June 2005); Director, Tax and Financial Reporting, Deutsche Asset Management (August 2002—April 2003); Vice President and Treasurer, Deutsche Global Fund Services (August 1999—August 2002). Assistant Treasurer — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

James A. Fitzpatrick 71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606 Age: 45	Vice President	Since 1997	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (October 1999— Present); and Vice President of GSAM (April 1997—December 1999). Vice President — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Jesse Cole 71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606 Age: 42	Vice President	Since 1998	Vice President, GSAM (June 1998-Present); and Vice President, AIM Management Group, Inc. (investment adviser) (April 1996—June 1998). Vice President — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Kerry K. Daniels 71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606 Age: 42	Vice President	Since 2000	Manager, Financial Control — Shareholder Services, Goldman Sachs (1986-Present). Vice President — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

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Officers of the Trust
		Term of Office and
Name, Age	Position(s) Held	Length of Time	Principal Occupation(s)
And Address	With the Trust	Served¹	During Past 5 Years
James McNamara 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 43	Vice President	Since 2001	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (December 1998-Present); Director of Institutional Fund Sales, GSAM (April 1998—December 2000); and Senior Vice President and Manager, Dreyfus Institutional Service Corporation (January 1993 — April 1998). Vice President—Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies). Trustee — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies) (December 2002-May 2004).

Howard B. Surloff One New York Plaza 37^th Floor New York, NY 10004 Age: 40	Secretary	Since 2001	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (November 2002—Present); Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs and General Counsel to the U.S. Funds Group (December 1997—Present). Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies) (2001-Present) and Assistant Secretary prior thereto.

Dave Fishman 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 41	Assistant Secretary	Since 2001	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (December 2001—Present); and Vice President, Goldman Sachs (1997—December 2001). Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Danny Burke 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 42	Assistant Secretary	Since 2001	Vice President, Goldman Sachs (1987—Present). Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

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Officers of the Trust
		Term of Office and
Name, Age	Position(s) Held	Length of Time	Principal Occupation(s)
And Address	With the Trust	Served¹	During Past 5 Years
Elizabeth D. Anderson 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 36	Assistant Secretary	Since 1997	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (December 2002 — Present); Vice President, Goldman Sachs (1997-December 2002) and Fund Manager, GSAM (April 1996—Present). Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).

Peter V. Bonanno 32 Old Slip New York, NY 10005 Age: 37	Assistant Secretary	Since 2003	Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs (2002—Present); Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Goldman Sachs (1999-2002). Assistant Secretary — Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund Complex (registered investment companies).


¹		Officers hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Trustees or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Each officer holds comparable positions with certain other companies of which Goldman Sachs, GSAM or an affiliate thereof is the investment adviser, administrator and/or distributor.

Standing Board Committees

The Board of Trustees has established seven standing committees in connection with their governance of the Fund — Audit, Governance and Nominating, Compliance, Valuation, Dividend, Schedule E and Contract Review.

The Audit Committee oversees the audit process and provides assistance to the full Board of Trustees with respect to fund accounting, tax compliance and financial statement matters. In performing its responsibilities, the Audit Committee selects and recommends annually to the entire Board of Trustees an independent registered public accounting firm to audit the books and records of the Trust for the ensuing year, and reviews with the firm the scope and results of each audit. All of the Independent Trustees serve on the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee held two meetings during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004.

The Governance and Nominating Committee has been established to: (i) assist the Board of Trustees in matters involving mutual fund governance and industry practices; (ii) select and nominate candidates for appointment or election to serve as Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust or its investment adviser or distributor (as defined by the Act); and (iii) advise the Board of Trustees on ways to improve its effectiveness. All of the Independent Trustees serve on the Governance and Nominating Committee. The Governance and Nominating Committee held three meetings during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004. As stated above, each Trustee holds office for an indefinite term until the occurrence of certain events. In filling Board vacancies, the Governance and Nominating Committee

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will consider nominees recommended by shareholders. Nominee recommendations should be submitted to the Trust at its mailing address stated in the Fund’s Prospectuses and should be directed to the attention of Goldman Sachs Trust Governance and Nominating Committee.

The Compliance Committee has been established for the purpose of overseeing the compliance processes: (i) of the Fund; and (ii) insofar as they relate to services provided to the Fund, of the Fund’s investment adviser, distributor, administrator (if any), and transfer agent, except that compliance processes relating to the accounting and financial reporting processes, and certain related matters, are overseen by the Audit Committee. In addition, the Compliance Committee provides assistance to the full Board of Trustees with respect to compliance matters. The Compliance Committee was formed on May 6, 2004 and met twice during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004. All of the Independent Trustees serve on the Compliance Committee.

The Valuation Committee is authorized to act for the Board of Trustees in connection with the valuation of portfolio securities held by the Fund in accordance with the Trust’s Valuation Procedures. Mr. Shuch and Ms. Uniacke serve on the Valuation Committee. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004, the Valuation Committee held no meetings.

The Dividend Committee is authorized, subject to the ratification of Trustees who are not members of the committee, to declare dividends and capital gain distributions consistent with the Fund’s Prospectuses. Currently, the sole member of the Trust’s Dividend Committee is Ms. Uniacke. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004, the Dividend Committee held twenty-seven meetings with respect to the Fund of the Trust.

The Schedule E Committee is authorized to address potential conflicts of interest regulated by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”). Currently, Mr. Bakhru is the sole member of this committee. The Schedule E Committee did not meet during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004.

The Contract Review Committee has been established for the purpose of overseeing the processes of the Board of Trustees for approving and monitoring the Fund’s investment management, distribution, transfer agency and other agreements with the Fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. The Contract Review Committee is responsible for overseeing the Board of Trustees processes for approving and reviewing the operation of the Fund’s distribution, service, shareholder administration and other plans, and any agreements related to the plans, whether or not such plans and agreements are adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. The Contract Review Committee also provides appropriate assistance to the Board of Trustees in connection with the Board’s approval, oversight and review of the Fund’s other service providers including, without limitation, the Fund’s custodian/accounting agent, sub-transfer agents, professional (legal and accounting) firms and printing firms. The Contract Review Committee was formed on November 4, 2004 and therefore did not meet during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004. All of the Independent Trustees serve on the Contract Review Committee.

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Trustee Ownership of Fund Shares

The following table shows the dollar range of shares beneficially owned by each Trustee in the Fund and other portfolios of the Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust.


		Aggregate Dollar Range of
		Equity Securities in All
		Portfolios in Fund
	Dollar Range of	Complex Overseen By
Name of Trustee	Equity Securities in the Fund¹	Trustee²

Ashok N. Bakhru	$0	Over $100,000
John P. Coblentz, Jr.	$0	Over $100,000
Patrick T. Harker	$0	Over $100,000
Mary P. McPherson	$0	Over $100,000
Alan A. Shuch	$0	Over $100,000
Wilma J. Smelcer	$0	Over $100,000
Richard P. Strubel	$0	Over $100,000
Kaysie P. Uniacke	$0	Over $100,000


¹		The Fund described in this Additional Statement was not yet in operation as of December 31, 2004.


²		Includes the Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust. As of December 31, 2004, the Trust consisted of 57 portfolios (not including the Fund described in this Additional Statement which had not yet been established on that date), and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust consisted of 6 portfolios.

As of December 31, 2005, the Trustees and officers of the Trust as a group owned less than 1% of the outstanding shares of beneficial interest of the Fund.

Board Compensation

The Trust pays each Independent Trustee an annual fee for his or her services as a Trustee of the Trust, plus an additional fee for each regular and special telephonic Board meeting, Governance and Nominating Committee meeting, Compliance Committee meeting, Contract Review Committee meeting and Audit Committee meeting attended by such Trustee. The Independent Trustees are also reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in connection with attending such meetings. The Trust may also pay the incidental costs of a Trustee to attend training or other types of conferences relating to the investment company industry.

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The following tables set forth certain information with respect to the compensation of each Trustee of the Trust for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004:


		Pension or Retirement
	Aggregate	Benefits Accrued as	Total Compensation
	Compensation	Part of the Trust's	From Fund Complex
Name of Trustee	from the Fund*	Expenses	(including the Fund)³

Ashok N. Bakhru¹	$0	$ —	$197,000
Gary D. Black²	$0	—	—
John P. Coblentz	$0	—	$139,500
Patrick T. Harker	$0	—	$139,500
James McNamara²	$0	—	—
Mary P. McPherson	$0	—	$139,500
Alan A. Shuch	$0	—	—
Richard P. Strubel	$0	—	$139,500
Wilma J. Smelcer	$0	—	$139,500
Kaysie P. Uniacke	$0	—	—


*		The Fund described in this Additional Statement was not yet in operation as of October 31, 2004.

¹		Includes compensation as Board Chairman.

²		Messrs. Black and McNamara resigned from the Boards of the Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust effective April 2004 and May 2004, respectively.


³		The Fund Complex consists of the Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust. The Trust consisted of 57 portfolios and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust consisted of 6 portfolios as of October 31, 2004.

Miscellaneous

Class A Shares of the Fund may be sold at net asset value without payment of any sales charge to Goldman Sachs, its affiliates and their respective officers, partners, directors or employees (including retired employees and former partners), any partnership of which Goldman Sachs is a general partner, any Trustee or officer of the Trust and designated family members of any of the above individuals. These and the Fund’s other sales load waivers are due to the nature of the investors and/or the reduced sales effort and expense that are needed to obtain such investments.

The Trust, the Investment Adviser and principal underwriter have adopted codes of ethics under Rule 17j-1 of the Act that permit personnel subject to their particular codes of ethics to invest in securities, including securities that may be purchased or held by the Fund.

INVESTMENT ADVISER

As stated in the Fund’s Prospectuses, GSAM, 32 Old Slip, New York, New York 10005, serves as the Investment Adviser to the Fund. See “Service Providers” in the Fund’s Prospectuses for a description of the Investment Adviser’s duties to the Fund.

Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is among the oldest and largest investment banking firms in the United States. Goldman Sachs is a leader in developing portfolio strategies and in many fields of investing and financing, participating in financial markets worldwide and serving individuals, institutions, corporations and governments. Goldman Sachs also is among the principal market sources for current

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and thorough information on companies, industrial sectors, markets, economies and currencies, and trades and makes markets in a wide range of equity and debt securities 24 hours a day. The firm is headquartered in New York and has offices throughout the United States and in Bangkok, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Calgary, Dublin, Geneva, Frankfurt, George Town, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver and Zurich. It has trading professionals throughout the United States, as well as in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. The active participation of Goldman Sachs in the world’s financial markets enhances its ability to identify attractive investments. Goldman Sachs has agreed to permit the Fund to use the name “Goldman Sachs” or a derivative thereof as part of the Fund’s name for as long as the Fund’s Management Agreement is in effect.

The Investment Adviser is able to draw on the substantial research and market expertise of Goldman Sachs, whose investment research effort is one of the largest in the industry. The Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research Department covers approximately 2,400 companies, over 50 economies and over 25 markets. The in-depth information and analyses generated by Goldman Sachs’ research analysts are available to the Investment Adviser.

For more than a decade, Goldman Sachs has been among the top-ranked firms in Institutional Investor’s annual “All-America Research Team” survey. In addition, many of Goldman Sachs’ economists, securities analysts, portfolio strategists and credit analysts have consistently been highly ranked in respected industry surveys conducted in the United States and abroad. Goldman Sachs is also among the leading investment firms using quantitative analytics (now used by a growing number of investors) to structure and evaluate portfolios. For example, Goldman Sachs’ options evaluation model analyzes a security’s term, coupon and call option, providing an overall analysis of the security’s value relative to its interest risk.

In planning the Fund’s strategies, the portfolio managers also evaluate and monitor individual issues by using analytical techniques that have traditionally been applied to corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities. In particular, the Investment Adviser’s embedded option valuation model provides a picture of an individual security’s relative value and the portfolio’s overall interest rate risk. By constantly reviewing the positions of securities within the portfolio, the Investment Adviser looks for opportunities to enhance the Fund’s yields by fine-tuning the portfolio, using quantitative tools designed for municipal portfolio management. The Investment Adviser has assembled an experienced team of professionals for selection of the Fund’s portfolio securities.

The fixed-income research capabilities of Goldman Sachs available to the Investment Adviser include the Goldman Sachs Fixed Income Research Department and the Credit Department. The Fixed Income Research Department monitors developments in U.S. and foreign fixed-income markets, assesses the outlooks for various sectors of the markets and provides relative value comparisons, as well as analyzes trading opportunities within and across market sectors. The Fixed Income Research Department is at the forefront in developing and using computer-based tools for analyzing fixed-income securities and markets, developing new fixed-income products and structuring portfolio strategies for investment policy and tactical asset allocation decisions. The Credit Department tracks specific governments, regions and industries and from time to time may review the credit quality of the Fund’s investments.

The Management Agreement provides that GSAM, in its capacity as Investment Adviser, may each render similar services to others so long as the services under the Management Agreement are not impaired thereby. The Fund’s Management Agreement was approved by the Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not parties to the Management Agreement or “interested persons” (as such term is defined in the Act) of any party thereto (the “non-interested Trustees”), on November 2,

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2005. At that meeting the Board of Trustees reviewed the written and oral presentations provided by the Investment Adviser in connection with the Trustees’ consideration of the Management Agreement. The Trustees also reviewed, with the advice of legal counsel, their responsibilities under applicable law and met in executive session without representatives of the Investment Adviser present. Among other things, the Trustees reviewed the Management Agreement as it applied to the Funds, including information regarding the terms of the Management Agreement; the fees and expenses to be paid by the Funds; the Investment Adviser’s proposal to voluntarily reimburse certain expenses of the Funds that exceeded a specified level; other benefits to be derived by the Investment Adviser and its affiliates from their relationship with the Funds; and a comparison of the Funds’ fees and expenses with those paid by other similar mutual funds. The Trustees also considered the investment performance of other municipal Funds managed by the Investment Adviser, which the Trustees believed to have been competitive.

In connection with their approval of the Management Agreement for the Funds, the Trustees gave weight to various factors, but did not identify any particular factor as controlling their decision. As part of their review, the Trustees considered the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Investment Adviser. In this regard, the Trustees considered both the investment advisory services and the other, non-advisory, services provided to the Fund by the Investment Adviser and its affiliates. These services include services as the Fund’s transfer agent and distributor. The Trustees noted that many of the portfolio personnel who would be providing services to the Fund were currently providing services to other investment portfolios of the Trust. The Trustees believed that the Investment Adviser was able to provide quality services to the Funds.

The Trustees also considered the contractual fee rates payable by the Funds under the Management Agreement. In this regard, information on the fees payable by the Funds and the Funds’ total operating expense ratios were compared to similar information for mutual funds advised by other, unaffiliated investment management firms. The comparisons of the Funds’ fee rates and total operating expense ratios were prepared by a third-party consultant. These comparisons assisted the Trustees in evaluating the reasonableness of the management fees paid by the Funds.

The Trustees also considered the breakpoints in the contractual fee rates payable by the Funds under the Management Agreement. In approving these fee breakpoints, the Trustees considered the Investment Adviser’s potential economies of scale, and whether the Funds and their shareholders would participate in the benefits of these economies. In this regard, the Trustees considered the projected amount of assets in the Funds, and information comparing fee rates charged by the Investment Adviser with fee rates charged by other, unaffiliated investment managers to other mutual funds. The Trustees agreed that the fee breakpoints were a way to ensure that benefits of scalability would be passed along to shareholders at the specified asset levels. The Trustees also recognized that the Funds were new and the Investment Adviser did not expect to show a profit on its services to the Funds until the Funds’ assets had grown.

In addition, the Trustees considered the other benefits that would be received by the Investment Adviser and its affiliates from the Funds as stated above, including the fees received by them for transfer agency and distribution services. After deliberation, the Trustees concluded that the management fees paid by Funds were reasonable in light of the services provided by the Investment Adviser, its projected costs and the Funds’ reasonably foreseeable asset levels, and that the Management Agreement should be approved.

The Management Agreement will remain in effect until June 30, 2006 and will continue in effect with respect to the Fund from year to year thereafter provided such continuance is specifically approved at least annually by (i) the vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or a majority of

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the Trustees of the Trust, and (ii) the vote of a majority of the non-interested Trustees of the Trust cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval.

The Management Agreement will terminate automatically if assigned (as defined in the Act). The Management Agreement is also terminable at any time without penalty by the Trustees of the Trust or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund on 60 days’ written notice to the Investment Adviser or by the Investment Adviser on 60 days’ written notice to the Trust.

Pursuant to the Management Agreement, the Investment Adviser is entitled to receive the fees set forth below, payable monthly based on the Fund’s average daily net assets:


Fund		Management Fee

Tennessee Municipal		0.45% on the first $1 billion
		0.41% on the next $1 billion
		0.39% over $2 billion

The Investment Adviser performs administrative services for the Fund under the Management Agreement. Such administrative services include, subject to the general supervision of the Trustees of the Trust, (i) providing supervision of all aspects of the Fund’s non-investment operations (other than certain operations performed by others pursuant to agreements with the Fund); (ii) providing the Fund, to the extent not provided pursuant to the agreement with the Trust’s custodian, transfer and dividend disbursing agent or agreements with other institutions, with personnel to perform such executive, administrative and clerical services as are reasonably necessary to provide effective administration of the Fund; (iii) arranging, to the extent not provided pursuant to such agreements, for the preparation, at the Fund’s expense, of the Fund’s tax returns, reports to shareholders, periodic updating of the Fund’s prospectuses and statement of additional information, and reports filed with the SEC and other regulatory authorities; (iv) providing the Fund, to the extent not provided pursuant to such agreements, with adequate office space and certain related office equipment and services; and (v) maintaining all of the Fund’s records other than those maintained pursuant to such agreements.

Predecessor Fund Adviser and Administrator

As explained in the “Introduction” section of this Additional Statement, the Predecessor Fund was reorganized into the Fund. Investment advisory services for the Predecessor Fund were provided by First Tennessee Bank National Association (“First Tennessee”). The Predecessor Fund was obligated to pay First Tennessee a monthly management fee at the annual rate of 0.50% of the Predecessor Fund’s average net assets up to $250 million and 0.45% of the Predecessor Fund’s average net assets over $250 million. For the fiscal years ended June 30, 2005, 2004 and 2003, historical data presented below is that of the Predecessor Fund. For the services provided by First Tennessee under the management agreement with respect to the Predecessor Fund, First Tennessee was paid management fees and waived advisory fees as follows:

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	Year Ended June 30, 2005				Year Ended June 30, 2004				Year Ended June 30, 2003
	Management		Waiver of		Management		Waiver of		Management		Waiver of
	Fees		Fees		Fees		Fees		Fees		Fees

Predecessor Fund	$	738,897	$	295,559	$	878,614	$	351,445	$	916,621	$	366,648

Under the Investment Advisory and Management Agreement with the Predecessor Fund, First Tennessee was authorized, at its own expense, to have sub-advisers to provide investment advice to the Predecessor Fund. First Tennessee was obligated to pay Martin & Company, Inc. a sub-advisory fee at the annual rate of 0.30% of the Predecessor Fund’s average net asset up to $250 million and 0.27% of the Predecessor Fund’s average net assets over $250 million.

ALPS Mutual Funds Services, Inc. (“ALPS”) served as the administrator to the Predecessor Fund. ALPS was entitled to and received from the Predecessor Fund a monthly fee at the annual rate of 0.115% of average net assets. First Tennessee served as the co-administrator to the Predecessor Fund. As the co-administrator, First Tennessee was entitled to receive a monthly fee at the annual rate of 0.085% of average net assets.

The following table summarizes the actual administration fees paid to ALPS and First Tennessee by the Predecessor Fund for the last three fiscal years.


Predecessor Fund	Year Ended		Year Ended		Year Ended
	June 30, 2005		June 30, 2004		June 30, 2003

ALPS	$	169,947	$	202,081	$	247,488
First Tennessee	$	125,612	$	149,364	$	119,161

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Portfolio Managers — Other Accounts Managed by the Portfolio Managers

The following table discloses other accounts within each type of category listed below for which the current portfolio managers of GSAM for the Fund are jointly and primarily responsible for day to day portfolio management.

Number of Other Accounts Managed and Total Assets by Account Type*

Number of Accounts and Total Assets for Which Advisory Fee is Performance Based*

Registered

Other Pooled

Other

Registered

Other Pooled

Other

Name of Portfolio Manager

Investment Companies

Investment Vehicles

Accounts

Investment Companies

Investment Vehicles

Accounts

Number

Assets

Accounts

Managed

Accounts

Managed

Accounts

Managed

Accounts

Managed

Accounts

Managed

Accounts

Managed

Tennessee Municipal Fund

U.S. Fixed Income—Municipal Team

Ben Barber

$5.3 bn

None

844

$11.5 bn

None

Scott Diamond

$5.3 bn

None

844

$11.5 bn

None

Tom Kenny

$5.3 bn

None

844

$11.5 bn

None


*		The information is as of June 30, 2005.

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Conflicts of Interest. The Investment Adviser’s portfolio managers are often responsible for managing the Fund as well as other accounts, including proprietary accounts, separate accounts and other pooled investment vehicles, such as unregistered hedge funds. A portfolio manager may manage a separate account or other pooled investment vehicle which may have materially higher fee arrangements than the Fund and may also have a performance-based fee. The side-by-side management of these funds may raise potential conflicts of interest relating to cross trading, the allocation of investment opportunities and the aggregation and allocation of trades.

The Investment Adviser has a fiduciary responsibility to manage all client accounts in a fair and equitable manner. The Investment Adviser seeks to provide best execution of all securities transactions and aggregate and then allocate securities to client accounts in a fair and timely manner. To this end, the Investment Adviser has developed policies and procedures designed to mitigate and manage the potential conflicts of interest that may arise from side-by-side management. In addition, the Investment Adviser and the Fund have adopted policies limiting the circumstances under which cross-trades may be effected between the Fund and another client account. The Investment Adviser conducts periodic reviews of trades for consistency with these policies. For more information about conflicts of interests that may arise in connection with the portfolio managers’ management of the Fund’s investments and the investments of other accounts, see “Potential Conflicts of Interest — Potential Conflicts Relating to the Allocation of Investment Opportunities Among the Fund and Other Goldman Sachs Accounts and Potential Conflicts Relating to Goldman Sachs’ and the Investment Adviser’s Proprietary Activities and Activities on Behalf of Other Accounts.”

Portfolio Managers — Compensation

The Investment Adviser’s Fixed Income Team’s (the “Fixed Income Team”) compensation package for its portfolio managers is comprised of a base salary and performance bonus. The base salary is fixed. However, the performance bonus is a function of each portfolio manager’s individual performance; the Fixed Income Team’s total revenues for the past year which in part is derived from advisory fees and for certain accounts, performance based fees; his or her contribution to the overall performance of the Fixed Income team; the performance of GSAM; the profitability of Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and anticipated compensation levels among competitor firms. Portfolio managers are rewarded for their ability to outperform a benchmark while managing risk exposure.

The performance bonus for portfolio managers is significantly influenced by the following criteria: (1) overall pre-tax portfolio performance; (2) consistency of performance across accounts with similar profiles; (3) compliance with risk budgets; and (4) communication with other portfolio managers within the research process. In addition, the following factors involving the overall performance of the investment style team are also considered when the amount of performance bonus is determined: (1) whether the teams’ performance exceeded performance benchmarks over one-year and three-year periods (for Fund specific benchmark’s please see below); (2) whether the team managed portfolios within a defined range around a targeted tracking error; (3) whether the team performed consistently with objectives and client commitments; (4) whether the team achieved top tier rankings and ratings (a consideration secondary to the above); and (5) whether the team managed all similarly mandated accounts in a consistent manner.

The benchmark for measuring performance of the Fund is:

Lehman Municipal Aggregate Bond Index

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Other Compensation. In addition to base salary and performance bonus, the Investment Adviser has a number of additional benefits/deferred compensation programs for all portfolio managers in place including (i) a 401(k) program that enables employees to direct a percentage of their pretax salary and bonus income into a tax-qualified retirement plan; (ii) a profit sharing program to which Goldman, Sachs & Co. makes a pretax contribution; and (iii) investment opportunity programs in which certain professionals are eligible to participate subject to certain net worth requirements. Portfolio managers may also receive grants of restricted stock units and/or stock options as part of their compensation.

Certain GSAM portfolio managers may also participate in the firm’s Partner Compensation Plan, which covers many of the firm’s senior executives. In general, under the Partner Compensation Plan, participants receive a base salary and a bonus (which may be paid in cash or in the form of an equity-based award) that is linked to Goldman Sachs’ overall financial performance.

Portfolio Managers — Portfolio Managers’ Ownership of Securities in the Fund

The Fund was not in operation prior to the date of this Additional Statement. Consequently, the portfolio managers owned no securities issued by the Fund.

POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Summary

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., including its affiliates and personnel (collectively for purposes of this “Potential Conflicts of Interest” section, “Goldman Sachs”), is a worldwide, full-service investment banking, broker-dealer, asset management and financial services organization, and a major participant in global financial markets. As a result, Goldman Sachs is engaged in many businesses and has interests in the global fixed income, currency, commodity, equity and other markets in addition to those related to the Fund, including as an investor, investment banker, research provider, investment manager, investment adviser, financer, advisor, market maker, proprietary trader, prime broker, lender and agent. Such additional businesses and interests may give rise to potential conflicts of interest. The following is a brief summary description of certain of these potential conflicts of interest:

•

While the Investment Adviser will make decisions for the Fund in accordance with its obligations to manage the Fund appropriately, the fees, compensation and other benefits (including relating to business relationships of Goldman Sachs) to Goldman Sachs arising therefrom may be greater as a result of certain portfolio, investment, service provider or other decisions made by the Investment Adviser than they would have been had other decisions been made which also might have been appropriate for the Fund.

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Goldman Sachs, its sales personnel and other financial service providers may have conflicts associated with their promotion of the Fund or other dealings with the Fund that would create incentives for them to promote the Fund.

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While the allocation of investment opportunities among Goldman Sachs, the Fund and other funds and accounts managed by Goldman Sachs may raise potential conflicts because of financial or other interests of Goldman Sachs or its personnel, the portfolio managers will not make allocation decisions based on such other factors.

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The Investment Adviser will give advice to and make investment decisions for the Fund as it believes is in the fiduciary interests of the Fund. Advice given to the Fund or investment decisions made for the Fund may differ from, and may conflict with, advice given or investment

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decisions made for Goldman Sachs or other funds or accounts. Actions taken with respect to Goldman Sachs or other funds or accounts may adversely impact the Fund, and actions taken by the Fund may benefit Goldman Sachs or other funds or accounts.

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Goldman Sachs will be under no obligation to provide to the Fund, or effect transactions on behalf of the Fund in accordance with, any market or other information, analysis, technical models or research in its possession.

•

To the extent permitted by the Act, the Fund may enter into transactions in which Goldman Sachs acts as principal, or in which Goldman Sachs acts on behalf of the Fund and the other parties to such transactions. Goldman Sachs will have potentially conflicting interests in connection with such transactions.

•

Goldman Sachs may act as broker, dealer, agent, lender or otherwise for the Fund and will retain all commissions, fees and other compensation in connection therewith.

•

Securities traded for the Fund may, but are not required to, be aggregated with trades for other funds or accounts managed by Goldman Sachs. When transactions are aggregated but it is not possible to receive the same price or execution on the entire volume of securities purchased or sold, the various prices may be averaged, and the Fund will be charged or credited with the average price. Thus, the effect of the aggregation may operate on some occasions to the disadvantage of the Fund.

•

Products and services received by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates from brokers in connection with brokerage services provided to the Fund and other funds or accounts managed by Goldman Sachs may disproportionately benefit other of such funds and accounts based on the relative amounts of brokerage services provided to the Fund and such other funds and accounts.

•

While the Investment Adviser will make proxy voting decisions as it believes appropriate and in accordance with the Investment Adviser’s policies designed to help avoid conflicts of interest, proxy voting decisions made by the Investment Adviser with respect to the Fund’s portfolio securities may favor the interests of other clients or businesses of other divisions or units of Goldman Sachs.

•

Regulatory restrictions (including relating to the aggregation of positions among different funds and accounts) and internal Goldman Sachs policies may restrict investment activities of the Fund. Information held by Goldman Sachs could have the effect of restricting investment activities of the Fund.

Prospective investors should carefully review the following section of this document which more fully describes these and other potential conflicts of interest presented by Goldman Sachs’ other businesses and interests.

As a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, the Investment Adviser is required to file a Form ADV with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Form ADV contains information about assets under management, types of fee arrangements, types of investments, potential conflicts of interest, and other relevant information regarding the Investment Adviser. A copy of Part 1 of the Investment Adviser’s Form ADV is available on the SEC’s website (www.adviserinfo.sec.gov).

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Potential Conflicts Relating to Portfolio Decisions, the Sale of Fund Shares and the Allocation of Investment Opportunities.

Goldman Sachs’ Other Activities May Have an Impact on the Fund

The Investment Adviser makes decisions for the Fund in accordance with its obligations as the Investment Adviser of the Fund. However, Goldman Sachs’ other activities may have a negative effect on the Fund. As a result of the various activities and interests of Goldman Sachs as described in the first paragraph under “Summary” above, it is likely that the Fund will have multiple business relationships with and will invest in, engage in transactions with, make voting decisions with respect to, or obtain services from entities for which Goldman Sachs performs or seeks to perform investment banking or other services. It is also likely that the Fund will undertake transactions in securities in which Goldman Sachs makes a market or otherwise has other direct or indirect interests. In addition, while the Investment Adviser will make decisions for the Fund in accordance with its obligations to manage the Fund appropriately, the fees, compensation and other benefits (including relating to business relationships of Goldman Sachs) to Goldman Sachs arising therefrom may be greater as a result of certain portfolio, investment, service provider or other decisions made by the Investment Adviser for the Fund than they would have been had other decisions been made which also might have been appropriate for the Fund.

Goldman Sachs’ Financial and Other Interests and Relationships May Incentivize Goldman Sachs to Promote the Sale of Fund Shares

Goldman Sachs, its sales personnel and other financial service providers, have interests in promoting sales of the Fund. With respect to Goldman Sachs and its personnel, the remuneration and profitability of activity relating to the Fund may be greater than the provision of other services and sales of other products that might be provided or offered. For example, Goldman Sachs may directly or indirectly receive a portion of the fees and commissions charged to the Fund. Such fees and commissions may be higher than for other products or services, and the remuneration and profitability to Goldman Sachs and such personnel resulting from transactions on behalf of the Fund may be greater than the remuneration and profitability resulting from other products.

Goldman Sachs may also have relationships with, and purchase, or distribute or sell, services or products from or to, distributors, consultants and others who recommend the Fund, or who engage in transactions with or for the Fund. For example, Goldman Sachs regularly participates in industry and consultant sponsored conferences and may purchase educational data related or other services from consultants or other third parties that it deems to be of value to its personnel and its business. The products and services purchased from consultants may include, but are not limited to, those that help Goldman Sachs understand the consultants’ points of view on the investment management process. Consultants and other third parties that provide consulting or other services to potential investors in the Fund may receive fees from Goldman Sachs or the Fund in connection with the distribution of shares in the Fund or other Goldman Sachs products. In addition, Goldman Sachs personnel, including employees of the Investment Adviser, may have board, advisory, brokerage or other relationships with issuers, distributors, consultants and others that may have investments in the Fund or that may recommend investments in the Fund or distribute the Fund. Goldman Sachs may, when it considers it appropriate, make charitable contributions to institutions, including those that have relationships with clients or personnel of clients. Goldman Sachs personnel may also make political contributions in accordance with law. As a result, those persons and institutions may have conflicts associated with their promotion of the Fund or other dealings with the Fund that would create incentives for them to promote the Fund or raise other conflicts.

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Potential Conflicts Relating to the Allocation of Investment Opportunities Among the Fund and Other Goldman Sachs Accounts

Goldman Sachs has potential conflicts in connection with the allocation of investments or transaction decisions for the Fund, including in situations in which Goldman Sachs or its personnel (including personnel of the Investment Adviser) have interests. For example, the Fund may be competing for investment opportunities with current or future accounts or funds managed or advised by Goldman Sachs (including the Investment Adviser). These accounts or funds may provide greater fees or other compensation (such as performance based fees) to Goldman Sachs (including the Investment Adviser) or in which Goldman Sachs (including the Investment Adviser) or its personnel have an interest (collectively, the “Client/GS Accounts”).

Goldman Sachs may manage or advise Client/GS Accounts that have investment objectives that are similar to those of the Fund and/or may seek to make investments in securities or other instruments in which the Fund may invest. This will create potential conflicts and potential differences among the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts, particularly where there is limited availability or limited liquidity for those investments. The Investment Adviser has developed policies and procedures that provide that it will allocate investment opportunities and make purchase and sale decisions among the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts in a manner that it considers, in its sole discretion and consistent with its fiduciary obligation to each Client/GS Account, to be reasonable and equitable over time.

The Investment Adviser will make allocations for the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts with reference to numerous factors that may include, without limitation, relative sizes and expected future sizes of applicable accounts, investment objectives and guidelines, risk tolerance, availability of other investment opportunities, and available cash for investment. Although allocating orders among the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts may create potential conflicts of interest because of the interests of Goldman Sachs or its personnel or because Goldman Sachs may receive greater fees or compensation from one of the Client/GS Account’s allocated orders, the portfolio managers will not make allocation decisions based on such interests or greater fees or compensation.

Allocation decisions among accounts may be more or less advantageous to any one account or group of accounts. The Investment Adviser may determine that an investment opportunity or particular purchases or sales are appropriate for one or more Client/GS Accounts or for itself or an affiliate, but not for the Fund, or is appropriate for, or available to, the Fund but in different sizes, terms or timing than is appropriate for other Client/GS Accounts. Therefore, the amount, timing, structuring or terms of an investment by the Fund may differ from, and performance may be lower than, investments and performance of other Client/GS Accounts.

Other Potential Conflicts Relating to the Management of the Fund by the Investment Adviser

Potential Restrictions and Issues Relating to Information Held by Goldman Sachs

From time to time and subject to the Investment Adviser’s policies and procedures regarding informational barriers, the Investment Adviser may consult with personnel in other areas of Goldman Sachs, or with persons unaffiliated with Goldman Sachs, or may form investment policy committees comprised of such personnel. The performance by such persons of obligations related to their consultation with personnel of the Investment Adviser could conflict with their areas of primary responsibility within Goldman Sachs or elsewhere. In connection with their activities with the Investment Adviser, such persons may receive information regarding the Investment Adviser’s proposed investment activities of the Fund that is not generally available to the public. There will be no obligation on the part of such persons to make available for use by the Fund any information or strategies known to them or

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developed in connection with their own client, proprietary or other activities. In addition, Goldman Sachs will be under no obligation to make available any research or analysis prior to its public dissemination.

The Investment Adviser makes decisions for the Fund based on its investment programs. The Investment Adviser from time to time may have access to certain fundamental analysis and proprietary technical models developed by Goldman Sachs and its personnel. Goldman Sachs will not be under any obligation, however, to effect transactions on behalf of the Fund in accordance with such analysis and models.

In addition, Goldman Sachs has no obligation to seek information or to make available to or share with the Fund any information, investment strategies, opportunities or ideas known to Goldman Sachs personnel or developed or used in connection with other clients or activities. Goldman Sachs and certain of its personnel, including the Investment Adviser’s personnel or other Goldman Sachs personnel advising or otherwise providing services to the Fund, may be in possession of information not available to all Goldman Sachs personnel, and such personnel may act on the basis of such information in ways that have adverse effects on the Fund.

From time to time, Goldman Sachs may come into possession of material, non-public information or other information that could limit the ability of the Fund to buy and sell investments. The investment flexibility of the Fund may be constrained as a consequence. The Investment Adviser generally is not permitted to obtain or use material non-public information in effecting purchases and sales in public securities transactions for the Fund.

Potential Conflicts Relating to Goldman Sachs’ and the Investment Adviser’s Proprietary Activities and Activities On Behalf of Other Accounts

The results of the investment activities of the Fund may differ significantly from the results achieved by Goldman Sachs for its proprietary accounts and from the results achieved by Goldman Sachs for other Client/GS Accounts. The Investment Adviser will manage the Fund and the other Client/GS Accounts it manages in accordance with their respective investment objectives and guidelines. However, Goldman Sachs may give advice, and take action, with respect to any current or future Client/GS Accounts that may compete or conflict with the advice the Investment Adviser may give to the Fund, or may involve a different timing or nature of action than with respect to the Fund.

Transactions undertaken by Goldman Sachs or Client/GS Accounts may adversely impact the Fund. Goldman Sachs and one or more Client/GS Accounts may buy or sell positions while the Fund is undertaking the same or a differing, including potentially opposite, strategy, which could disadvantage the Fund. For example, the Fund may buy a security and Goldman Sachs or Client/GS Accounts may establish a short position in that same security. That subsequent short sale may result in impairment of the price of the security which the Fund holds. Conversely, the Fund may establish a short position in a security and Goldman Sachs or other Client/GS Accounts may buy that same security. The subsequent purchase may result in an increase of the price of the underlying position in the short sale exposure of the Fund and such increase in price would be to the Fund’s detriment.

In addition, transactions in investments by one or more Client/GS Accounts or Goldman Sachs may have the effect of diluting or otherwise disadvantaging the values, prices or investment strategies of the Fund, particularly, but not limited to, in small capitalization, emerging market or less liquid strategies. This may occur when portfolio decisions regarding the Fund are based on research or other information that is also used to support portfolio decisions for other Client/GS Accounts, which could impact the timing and manner in which the portfolio decisions for the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts are implemented. When Goldman Sachs or a Client/GS Account implements a portfolio decision or strategy

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ahead of, or contemporaneously with, similar portfolio decisions or strategies for the Fund, market impact, liquidity constraints, or other factors could result in the Fund receiving less favorable trading results and the costs of implementing such portfolio decisions or strategies could be increased or the Fund could otherwise be disadvantaged. Goldman Sachs may, in certain cases, elect to implement internal policies and procedures designed to limit such consequences to Client/GS Accounts, which may cause the Fund to be unable to engage in certain activities, including purchasing or disposing of securities, when it might otherwise be desirable for it to do so.

Conflicts may also arise because portfolio decisions regarding the Fund may benefit other Client/GS Accounts. For example, the sale of a long position or establishment of a short position by the Fund may impair the price of the same security sold short by (and therefore benefit) Goldman Sachs or other Client/GS Accounts, and the purchase of a security or covering of a short position in a security by the Fund may increase the price of the same security held by (and therefore benefit) Goldman Sachs or other Client/GS Accounts.

The directors, officers and employees of Goldman Sachs, including the Investment Adviser, may buy and sell securities or other investments for their own accounts (including through funds managed by Goldman Sachs, including the Investment Adviser). As a result of differing trading and investment strategies or constraints, positions may be taken by directors, officers and employees that are the same, different from or made at different times than positions taken for the Fund. To reduce the possibility that the Fund will be materially adversely affected by the personal trading described above, the Fund and Goldman Sachs, as the Fund’s Investment Adviser and distributor, has established policies and procedures that restrict securities trading in the personal accounts of investment professionals and others who normally come into possession of information regarding the Fund’s portfolio transactions. The Fund and Goldman Sachs, as the Fund’s Investment Adviser and distributor has adopted a code of ethics (the “Code of Ethics”) in compliance with Section 17(j) of the Act and monitoring procedures relating to certain personal securities transactions by personnel of the Investment Adviser which the Investment Adviser deems to involve potential conflicts involving such personnel, Client/GS Accounts managed by the Investment Adviser and the Fund. The Code requires that personnel of the Investment Adviser comply with all applicable federal securities laws and with the fiduciary duties and anti-fraud rules to which the Investment Adviser is subject. The Code of Ethics can be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-202-942-8090. The Code of Ethics is also available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov. Copies may also be obtained after paying a duplicating fee by writing the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Washington, DC 20549-0102, or by electronic request to publicinfo@sec.gov.

Clients of Goldman Sachs (including Client/GS Accounts) may have, as a result of receiving client reports or otherwise, access to information regarding the Investment Adviser’s transactions or views which may affect such clients’ transactions outside of accounts controlled by personnel of the Investment Adviser, and such transactions may negatively impact the Fund. The Fund may also be adversely affected by cash flows and market movements arising from purchase and sales transactions, as well as increases of capital in, and withdrawals of capital from, other Client/GS Accounts.

The Investment Adviser’s management of the Fund may benefit Goldman Sachs. For example, the Fund may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, invest directly or indirectly in the securities of companies in which Goldman Sachs has an equity, debt or other interest. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Fund may engage in investment transactions which may result in other Client/GS Accounts being relieved of obligations or otherwise divesting of investments or cause the Fund to have to divest certain investments. The purchase, holding and sale of investments by the Fund may

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enhance the profitability of Goldman Sachs’ or other Client/GS Accounts’ own investments in and its activities with respect to such companies.

Goldman Sachs and its clients may pursue or enforce rights with respect to an issuer in which the Fund has invested, and those activities may have an adverse effect on the Fund. As a result, prices, availability, liquidity and terms of the Fund’s investments may be negatively impacted by the activities of Goldman Sachs or its clients, and transactions for the Fund may be impaired or effected at prices or terms that may be less favorable than would otherwise have been the case.

Goldman Sachs may create, write, sell or issue, or act as placement agent or distributor of, derivative instruments with respect to the Fund or with respect to which the underlying securities, currencies or instruments may be those in which the Fund invests, or which may be otherwise based on the performance of the Fund. The structure or other characteristics of the derivative instruments may have an adverse effect on the Fund. For example, the derivative instruments could represent leveraged investments in the Fund, and the leveraged characteristics of such investments could make it more likely, due to events of default or otherwise, that there would be significant redemptions of interests from the Fund more quickly than might otherwise be the case. Goldman Sachs, acting in commercial capacities in connection with such derivative instruments, may in fact cause such a redemption. This may have an adverse effect on the investment management, flexibility and diversification strategies of the Fund and on the amount of fees, expenses and other costs incurred directly or indirectly for the account of the Fund. Similarly, Goldman Sachs (including its personnel or Client/GS Accounts) may invest in the Fund, may hedge its derivative positions by buying or selling shares of the Fund, and reserves the right to redeem some or all of its investments at any time. These investments and redemptions may be made without notice to the shareholders.

Potential Conflicts in Connection with Investments in Goldman Sachs Money Market Funds

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Fund may invest all or some of its short term cash investments in any money market fund advised or managed by Goldman Sachs. In connection with any such investments, the Fund, to the extent permitted by the Act, will pay its share of all expenses (other than advisory and administrative fees) of a money market fund in which it invests which may result in the Fund bearing some additional expenses.

Goldman Sachs May In-Source or Outsource

Subject to applicable law, Goldman Sachs, including the Investment Adviser, may from time to time and without notice to investors in-source or outsource certain processes or functions in connection with a variety of services that it provides to the Fund in its administrative or other capacities. Such in-sourcing or outsourcing may give rise to additional conflicts of interest.

Potential Conflicts That May Arise When Goldman Sachs Acts in a Capacity Other Than Investment Adviser to the Fund

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Fund may enter into transactions and invest in futures, securities, options, or other instruments in which Goldman Sachs serves as the counterparty. The Fund may also enter into cross transactions in which Goldman Sachs acts on behalf of the Fund and for the other party to the transaction. Goldman Sachs may have a potentially conflicting division of responsibilities to both parties to a cross transaction. For example, Goldman Sachs may represent both the Fund and another Client/GS Account in connection with the purchase of a security by the Fund, and Goldman Sachs may receive compensation or other payments from either or both parties, which could influence the decision of Goldman Sachs to cause the Fund to purchase such security. The Fund will only

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consider engaging in a principal or cross transaction with Goldman Sachs or its affiliates on behalf of a Client/GS Account to the extent permitted by applicable law.

When Goldman Sachs acts as broker, dealer, agent, lender or advisor or in other commercial capacities for the Fund, it is anticipated that the commissions, mark-ups, mark-downs, financial advisory fees, underwriting and placement fees, sales fees, financing and commitment fees, brokerage fees, other fees, compensation or profits, rates, terms and conditions charged by Goldman Sachs will be in its view commercially reasonable, although Goldman Sachs, including its sales personnel, will have an interest in obtaining fees and other amounts that are favorable to Goldman Sachs and such sales personnel.

Subject to applicable law, Goldman Sachs (and its personnel and other distributors) will be entitled to retain fees and other amounts that it receives in connection with its service to the Fund as broker, dealer, agent, lender, advisor or in other commercial capacities and no accounting to the Fund or its shareholders will be required, and no fees or other compensation payable by the Fund or its shareholders will be reduced by reason of receipt by Goldman Sachs of any such fees or other amounts.

When Goldman Sachs acts as broker, dealer, agent, advisor or in other commercial capacities in relation to the Fund, Goldman Sachs may take commercial steps in its own interests, which may have an adverse effect on the Fund.

The Fund will be required to establish business relationships with their counterparties based on their own credit standing. Goldman Sachs, including the Investment Adviser, will not have any obligation to allow its credit to be used in connection with the Fund’s establishment of its business relationships, nor is it expected that the Fund’s counterparties will rely on the credit of Goldman Sachs in evaluating the Fund’s creditworthiness.

Potential Conflicts in Connection with Brokerage Transactions and Proxy Voting

Purchases and sales of securities for the Fund may be bunched or aggregated with orders for other Client/GS Accounts. The Investment Adviser and its affiliates, however, are not required to bunch or aggregate orders if portfolio management decisions for different accounts are made separately, or if they determine that bunching or aggregating is not required or is inconsistent with client direction.

Prevailing trading activity frequently may make impossible the receipt of the same price or execution on the entire volume of securities purchased or sold. When this occurs, the various prices may be averaged, and the Fund will be charged or credited with the average price. Thus, the effect of the aggregation may operate on some occasions to the disadvantage of the Fund. In addition, under certain circumstances, the Fund will not be charged the same commission or commission equivalent rates in connection with a bunched or aggregated order.

The Investment Adviser may select brokers (including, without limitation, affiliates of the Investment Adviser) that furnish the Investment Adviser, the Fund, other Client/GS Accounts or their affiliates or personnel, directly or through correspondent relationships, with research or other appropriate services which provide, in the Investment Adviser’s views, appropriate assistance to the Investment Adviser in the investment decision-making process (including with respect to futures, fixed-price offerings and over-the-counter transactions). Such research or other services may include, to the extent permitted by law, research reports on companies, industries and securities; economic and financial data; financial publications; proxy analysis; trade industry seminars; computer data bases; quotation equipment and services; and research-oriented computer hardware, software and other services and products. Research or other services obtained in this manner may be used in servicing the Fund and other Client/GS Accounts, including in connection with Client/GS Accounts other than those that pay commissions to the

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broker relating to the research or other service arrangements. Such products and services may disproportionately benefit other Client/GS Accounts relative to the Fund based on the amount of brokerage commissions paid by the Fund and such other Client/GS Accounts. For example, research or other services that are paid for through one client’s commissions may not be used in managing that client’s account. In addition, other Client/GS Accounts may receive the benefit, including disproportionate benefits, of economies of scale or price discounts in connection with products and services that may be provided to the Fund and to such other Client/GS Accounts.

The Investment Adviser may endeavor to execute trades through brokers who, pursuant to such arrangements, provide research or other services in order to ensure the continued receipt of research or other services the Investment Adviser believes are useful in its investment decision-making processes.

The Investment Adviser may from time to time choose not to engage in the above described “soft dollar arrangements” to varying degrees.

The Investment Adviser has adopted policies and procedures designed to prevent conflicts of interest from influencing proxy voting decisions that it makes on behalf of advisory clients, including the Fund, and to help ensure that such decisions are made in accordance with the Investment Adviser’s fiduciary obligations to its clients. Nevertheless, notwithstanding such proxy voting policies and procedures, actual proxy voting decisions of the Investment Adviser may have the effect of favoring the interests of other clients or businesses of other divisions or units of Goldman Sachs and/or its affiliates provided that the Investment Adviser believes such voting decisions to be in accordance with its fiduciary obligations. For a more detailed discussion of these policies and procedures, see the section of this Additional Statement entitled “Proxy Voting.”

Potential Regulatory Restrictions on Investment Adviser Activity

From time to time, the activities of the Fund may be restricted because of regulatory requirements applicable to Goldman Sachs and/or its internal policies designed to comply with, limit the applicability of, or otherwise relate to such requirements. A client not advised by Goldman Sachs would not be subject to some of those considerations. There may be periods when the Investment Adviser may not initiate or recommend certain types of transactions, or may otherwise restrict or limit its advice in certain securities or instruments issued by or related to companies for which Goldman Sachs is performing investment banking, market making or other services or has proprietary positions. For example, when Goldman Sachs is engaged in an underwriting or other distribution of securities of, or advisory services for, a company, the Fund may be prohibited from or limited in purchasing or selling securities of that company. Similar situations could arise if Goldman Sachs personnel serve as directors of companies the securities of which the Fund wishes to purchase or sell. However, if permitted by applicable law, the Fund may purchase securities or instruments that are issued by such companies or are the subject of an underwriting, distribution, or advisory assignment by Goldman Sachs, or in cases in which Goldman Sachs personnel are directors or officers of the issuer.

The investment activities of Goldman Sachs for its proprietary accounts and for other accounts may also limit the investment strategies and rights of the Fund. For example, in regulated industries, in certain emerging or international markets, in corporate and regulatory ownership definitions, and in certain futures and derivative transactions, there may be limits on the aggregate amount of investment by affiliated investors that may not be exceeded without the grant of a license or other regulatory or corporate consent or, if exceeded, may cause Goldman Sachs, the Fund or other Client/GS Accounts to suffer disadvantages or business restrictions. If certain aggregate ownership thresholds are reached or certain transactions undertaken, the ability of the Investment Adviser on behalf of clients (including the Fund) to purchase or dispose of investments, or exercise rights or undertake business transactions, may be

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restricted by regulation or otherwise impaired. As a result, the Investment Adviser on behalf of clients (including the Fund) may limit purchases, sell existing investments, or otherwise restrict or limit the exercise of rights (including voting rights) when the Investment Adviser, in its sole discretion, deem it appropriate in light of potential regulatory restrictions on ownership or other impairments resulting from reaching investment thresholds.

Distributor and Transfer Agent

Goldman Sachs, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004 serves as the exclusive distributor of shares of the Fund pursuant to a “best efforts” arrangement as provided by a distribution agreement with the Trust on behalf of the Fund. Shares of the Fund are offered and sold on a continuous basis by Goldman Sachs, acting as agent. Pursuant to the distribution agreement, after the Fund’s Prospectuses and periodic reports have been prepared, set in type and mailed to shareholders, Goldman Sachs will pay for the printing and distribution of copies thereof used in connection with the offering to prospective investors. Goldman Sachs will also pay for other supplementary sales literature and advertising costs. Goldman Sachs may enter into sales agreements with certain investment dealers and other financial service firms (the “Authorized Dealers”) to solicit subscriptions for Class A and Class C Shares of the Fund. Goldman Sachs receives a portion of the sales load imposed on the sale, in the case of Class A Shares, or redemption in the case of Class A and Class C Shares, of Fund shares.

Goldman Sachs, 71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60606 serves as the Trust’s transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Under its transfer agency agreement with the Trust, Goldman Sachs has undertaken with the Trust with respect to the Fund to: (i) record the issuance, transfer and redemption of shares; (ii) provide purchase and redemption confirmations and quarterly statements, as well as certain other statements; (iii) provide certain information to the Trust’s custodian and the relevant subcustodian in connection with redemptions; (iv) provide dividend crediting and certain disbursing agent services; (v) maintain shareholder accounts; (vi) provide certain state Blue Sky and other information; (vii) provide shareholders and certain regulatory authorities with tax-related information; (viii) respond to shareholder inquiries; and (ix) render certain other miscellaneous services. For its transfer agency services, Goldman Sachs is entitled to receive a transfer agency fee equal, on an annualized basis, to 0.04% of average daily net assets with respect to the Fund’s Institutional Shares and 0.16% of average daily net assets with respect to the Fund’s Class A and Class C Shares (less transfer agency expenses borne by a share class).

The Trust’s distribution and transfer agency agreements each provide that Goldman Sachs may render similar services to others so long as the services each provides thereunder to the Fund are not impaired thereby. Each such agreement also provides that the Trust will indemnify Goldman Sachs against certain liabilities.

Predecessor Fund Distributor. ALPS Distributors, Inc. (“ADI”) served as the distributor to the Predecessor Fund. As the distributor, ADI sold shares of the Predecessor Fund’s Class I as agent on behalf of First Funds at no additional cost to First Funds. Class C was obligated to pay ADI monthly a 12b-1 fee at the annual rate of up to 0.75% of average net assets for the Predecessor Fund. Class B of the Predecessor Fund were obligated to pay ADI monthly a 12b-1 fee at the annual rate of up to 0.75% of average net assets. All or a portion of the 12b-1 fee was paid out to investment professionals or others involved in the distribution of Class C and Class B Shares. Classes A and C of the Predecessor Fund paid shareholder servicing fees to investment professionals at an annual rate of 0.25% of average net assets. Class B Shares of the Predecessor Fund paid shareholder servicing fees to investment professionals at an annual rate of 0.10% of the Predecessor Fund’s average net assets. Class A, B and C Shares of the Predecessor Fund were reorganized into Class A Shares of the Fund. Class I Shares of the Predecessor Fund were reorganized into Institutional Shares of the Fund.

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The following table summarizes the underwriter commissions paid by the Predecessor Fund to ADI for the last three fiscal years:


	Year Ended		Year Ended		Year Ended
	June 30, 2005		June 30, 2004		June 30, 2003

Predecessor Fund	$	2,340	$	5,928	$	7,184

Expenses

The Trust, on behalf of the Fund, is responsible for the payment of the Fund’s expenses. The expenses include, without limitation, the fees payable to the Investment Adviser, service fees, account service fees, shareholder administration fees and administration fees paid, the fees and expenses of the Trust’s custodian and subcustodians, transfer agent fees and expenses, brokerage fees and commissions, filing fees for the registration or qualification of the Trust’s shares under federal or state securities laws, expenses of the organization of the Trust, fees and expenses incurred by the Trust in connection with membership in investment company organizations, including, but not limited to, the Investment Company Institute, taxes, interest, costs of liability insurance, fidelity bonds or indemnification, any costs, expenses or losses arising out of any liability of, or claim for damages or other relief asserted against, the Trust for violation of any law, legal, tax and auditing fees and expenses (including the cost of legal and certain accounting services rendered by employees of Goldman Sachs, or its affiliates, with respect to the Trust), expenses of preparing and setting in type the Prospectus, Additional Statements, proxy material, reports and notices and the printing and distributing of the same to the Trust’s shareholders and regulatory authorities, shareholder expenses, any expenses assumed by the Fund pursuant to its distribution and service plans, the compensation and expenses of its “non-interested” Trustees, the fees and expenses of pricing services and extraordinary expenses, if any, incurred by the Trust. Except for fees and expenses under any service plan, account service plan, administration plan, shareholder administration plan or distribution and service plan applicable to a particular class and transfer agency fees and expenses, all Fund expenses are borne on a non-class specific basis.

The imposition of the Investment Adviser’s fees, as well as other operating expenses, will have the effect of reducing the total return to investors. From time to time, the Investment Adviser may waive receipt of fees and/or voluntarily assume certain expenses of the Fund, which would have the effect of lowering the Fund’s overall expense ratio and increasing total return to investors at the time such amounts are waived or assumed, as the case may be.

As of the date of this Additional Statement, the Investment Adviser has agreed to reduce or limit certain “Other Expenses” (excluding management fees, service share fees, account service fees, shareholder administration fees, administration fees, distribution and service fees, transfer agency fees and expenses, taxes, interest, brokerage fees and litigation, indemnification, shareholder meeting and other extraordinary expenses exclusive of any expense offset arrangements) to the extent such expenses exceed the following percentage (rounded) of the Fund’s average daily net assets:


	Other
Fund	Expenses


Tennessee Municipal		0.044	%

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Such reductions or limits, if any, are calculated monthly on a cumulative basis and may be modified or discontinued by the Investment Adviser in its discretion at any time.

Fees and expenses of legal counsel, registering shares of the Fund, holding meetings and communicating with shareholders may include an allocable portion of the cost of maintaining an internal legal and compliance department. The Fund may also bear an allocable portion of the costs incurred by the Investment Adviser in performing certain accounting services not being provided by the Trust’s custodian.

Custodian and Sub-Custodians

State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street”), 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, is the custodian of the Trust’s portfolio securities and cash. State Street also maintains the Trust’s accounting records. State Street may appoint domestic and foreign sub-custodians and use depositories from time to time to hold certain securities and other instruments purchased by the Trust in foreign countries and to hold cash and currencies for the Trust.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ernst & Young LLP, 5 Times Square, New York, New York 10036, is the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm. In addition to audit services, Ernst & Young LLP prepares the Fund’s federal and state tax returns, and provides assistance on certain non-audit matters.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS

The portfolio transactions for the Fund are generally effected at a net price without a broker’s commission (i.e., a dealer is dealing with the Fund as principal and receives compensation equal to the spread between the dealer’s cost for a given security and the resale price of such security). In certain foreign countries, debt securities are traded on exchanges at fixed commission rates. In connection with portfolio transactions, the Management Agreement provides that the Investment Adviser shall attempt to obtain the most favorable execution and net price available. The Management Agreement provides that, on occasions when the Investment Adviser deems the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of the Fund as well as its other customers (including any other fund or other investment company or advisory account for which the Investment Adviser or an affiliate acts as investment adviser), the Fund, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations, may aggregate the securities to be sold or purchased for the Fund with those to be sold or purchased for such other customers in order to obtain the best net price and most favorable execution. In such event, allocation of the securities so purchased or sold, as well as the expenses incurred in the transaction, will be made by the Investment Adviser in the manner it considers to be most equitable and consistent with its fiduciary obligations to the Fund and such other customers. In some instances, this procedure may adversely affect the size and price of the position obtainable for the Fund. The Management Agreement permits the Investment Adviser, in its discretion, to purchase and sell portfolio securities to and from dealers who provide the Trust with brokerage or research services in which dealers may execute brokerage transactions at a higher cost to the Fund. Brokerage and research services furnished by firms through which the Fund effects its securities transactions may be used by the Investment Adviser in servicing other accounts and not all of these services may be used by the Investment Adviser in connection with the Fund generating the brokerage credits. Such research or other services may include research reports on companies, industries and securities; economic and financial data; financial publications; computer data bases; quotation equipment and services; and research-oriented computer hardware, software and other services. The fees received

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under the Management Agreement are not reduced by reason of the Investment Adviser receiving such brokerage and research services.

Such services are used by the Investment Adviser in connection with all of its investment activities, and some of such services obtained in connection with the execution of transactions of the Fund may be used in managing other investment accounts. Conversely, brokers furnishing such services may be selected for the execution of transactions of such other accounts, whose aggregate assets may be larger than those of the Fund, and the services furnished by such brokers may be used by the Investment Adviser in providing management services for the Trust. On occasion, a broker-dealer might furnish the Investment Adviser with a service which has a mixed use (i.e., the service is used both for investment and brokerage activities and for other activities). Where this occurs, the Investment Adviser will reasonably allocate the cost of the service, so that the portion or specific component which assists in investment and brokerage activities is obtained using portfolio commissions from the Fund or other managed accounts, and the portion or specific component which provides other assistance (for example, administrative or non-research assistance) is paid for by the Investment Adviser from its own funds.

The Fund is prohibited, in accordance with Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act, from compensating a broker or dealer for any promotion or sale of Fund shares by directing to such broker or dealer the Trust’s portfolio transactions or by making any payment to such broker or dealer received or to be received (which payment may include commissions, mark-ups or mark-downs or other fees) from the Trust’s portfolio transactions effected through another broker or dealer. However, the Fund may direct portfolio transactions to a broker or dealer that promotes or sells shares of the Trust if the Trust’s Board of Trustees approves policies and procedures designed to ensure that the selection of such brokers is not influenced by considerations about the sale of Trust shares. Accordingly, the Trustees (including a majority of the Trustees who are not interested Trustees) have approved policies permitting the Trust to direct portfolio securities transactions to a broker or dealer that promotes or sells shares of the Trust subject to the prohibitions that: a) all persons responsible for selecting such brokers or dealers (including but not limited to trading desk personnel and portfolio managers) may not take into account in connection with their selections the promotion or sale of shares issued by the Trust or any other registered investment company, and b) the Trust, the Investment Adviser and Goldman, Sachs & Co., as the Trust’s distributor, may not enter into any agreement or understanding where the Trust or the Investment Adviser direct, or are expected to direct, portfolio transactions or any payment to a broker or dealer in consideration for the promotion or sale of shares of the Trust or any other registered investment company.

The Fund may participate in the Fund commission recapture program. Under the program, participating broker-dealers will rebate a percentage of commissions earned on the Fund portfolio transactions to the Fund from which they were generated. The rebated commissions are expected to be treated as realized capital gains of the Fund.

Subject to the above considerations, the Investment Adviser may use Goldman Sachs as a broker for the Fund. In order for Goldman Sachs to effect any portfolio transactions for the Fund, the commissions, fees or other remuneration received by Goldman Sachs must be reasonable. This standard would allow Goldman Sachs to receive no more than the remuneration which would be expected to be received by an unaffiliated broker in a commensurate arm’s-length transaction. Furthermore, the Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not “interested” Trustees, have adopted procedures which are reasonably designed to provide that commissions, fees, or other remuneration paid to Goldman Sachs are consistent with the foregoing standard. Brokerage transactions with Goldman Sachs are also subject to such fiduciary standards as may be imposed upon Goldman Sachs by applicable law.

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SHARES OF THE TRUST

The Fund is a series of Goldman Sachs Trust, a Delaware statutory trust established by an Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. The Trustees have authority under the Trust’s Declaration of Trust to create and classify shares of beneficial interest in separate series, without further action by shareholders. The Trustees also have authority to classify and reclassify any series of shares into one or more classes of shares. As of the date of this Additional Statement, the Trustees have classified the shares of the Fund into three classes: Institutional Shares, Class A Shares and Class C Shares. Additional series and classes may be added in the future.

Each Institutional Share, Class A Share and Class C Share of the Fund represents a proportionate interest in the assets belonging to the applicable class of the Fund. All expenses of the Fund are borne at the same rate by each class of shares, except that fees under Distribution and Service Plans are borne exclusively by Class A or Class C Shares and transfer agency fees are borne at different rates by Class A or Class C Shares than Institutional Shares. The Trustees may determine in the future that it is appropriate to allocate other expenses differently among classes of shares and may do so to the extent consistent with the rules of the SEC and positions of the IRS. Each class of shares may have different minimum investment requirements and be entitled to different shareholder services. With limited exceptions, shares of a class may only be exchanged for shares of the same or an equivalent class of another series. See “Shareholder Guide” in the Prospectuses and “Other Information Regarding Purchases, Redemptions, Exchanges and Dividends” below. In addition, the fees and expenses set forth below for each class may be subject to voluntary fee waivers or reimbursements, as discussed in the Fund’s Prospectuses.

Institutional Shares may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge for accounts in the name of an investor or institution that is not compensated by the Fund for services provided to the institution’s customers.

Class A Shares are sold, with an initial sales charge, through brokers and dealers who are members of the NASD and certain other financial service firms that have sales agreements with Goldman Sachs. Class A Shares of the Fund bear the cost of distribution (Rule 12b-1) fees at the aggregate rate of up to 0.25% of the average daily net assets of such Class A Shares. With respect to Class A Shares, the Distributor at its discretion may use compensation for distribution services paid under the Distribution and Services Plan for personal and account maintenance services and expenses so long as such total compensation under the Plan does not exceed the maximum cap on “service fees” imposed by the NASD.

Class C Shares of the Fund are sold subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) through brokers and dealers who are members of the NASD and certain other financial services firms that have sales arrangements with Goldman Sachs. Class C Shares bear the cost of distribution (Rule 12b-1) fees at the aggregate rate of up to 0.75%, respectively, of the average daily net assets attributed to Class C Shares. Class C Shares also bear the cost of service fees at an annual rate of up to 0.25% of the average daily net assets attributed to such Shares.

It is possible that an institution or its affiliate may offer different classes of shares (i.e., Institutional, Class A and Class C Shares) to its customers and thus receive different compensation with respect to different classes of shares of the Fund. Dividends paid by the Fund, if any, with respect to each class of shares will be calculated in the same manner, at the same time on the same day and will be in the same amount, except for differences caused by the fact that the respective transfer agency and Plan fees relating to a particular class will be borne exclusively by that class. Similarly, the net asset value per share may differ depending upon the class of shares purchased.

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Certain aspects of the shares may be altered, after advance notice to shareholders, if it is deemed necessary in order to satisfy certain tax regulatory requirements.

When issued, for the consideration described in the Fund’s Prospectuses shares are fully paid and non-assessable. The Trustees may, however, cause shareholders, or shareholders of a particular series or class, to pay certain custodian, transfer, servicing or similar agent charges by setting off the same against declared but unpaid dividends or by reducing share ownership (or by both means). In the event of liquidation of the Fund, shareholders of the Fund are entitled to share pro rata in the net assets of the applicable class of the Fund available for distribution to such shareholders. All shares are freely transferable and have no preemptive, subscription or conversion rights. The Trustees may require Shareholders to redeem Shares for any reason under terms set by the Trustees.

In the interest of economy and convenience, the Trust does not issue certificates representing the Fund’s shares. Instead, the Transfer Agent maintains a record of each shareholder’s ownership. Each shareholder receives confirmation of purchase and redemption orders from the Transfer Agent. Fund shares and any dividends and distributions paid by the Fund are reflected in account statements from the Transfer Agent.

The Act requires that where more than one series of shares exists, each series must be preferred over all other series in respect of assets specifically allocated to such series. Rule 18f-2 under the Act provides that any matter required to be submitted by the provisions of the Act or applicable state law, or otherwise, to the holders of the outstanding voting securities of an investment company such as the Trust shall not be deemed to have been effectively acted upon unless approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of each series affected by such matter. Rule 18f-2 further provides that a series shall be deemed to be affected by a matter unless the interests of each series in the matter are substantially identical or the matter does not affect any interest of such series. However, Rule 18f-2 exempts the selection of independent public accountants, the approval of principal distribution contracts and the election of trustees from the separate voting requirements of Rule 18f-2.

The Trust is not required to hold annual meetings of shareholders and does not intend to hold such meetings. In the event that a meeting of shareholders is held, each share of the Trust will be entitled, as determined by the Trustees without the vote or consent of the shareholders, either to one vote for each share or to one vote for each dollar of net asset value represented by such share on all matters presented to shareholders including the election of Trustees (this method of voting being referred to as “dollar based voting”). However, to the extent required by the Act or otherwise determined by the Trustees, series and classes of the Trust will vote separately from each other. Shareholders of the Trust do not have cumulative voting rights in the election of Trustees. Meetings of shareholders of the Trust, or any series or class thereof, may be called by the Trustees, certain officers or upon the written request of holders of 10% or more of the shares entitled to vote at such meetings. The Trustees will call a special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing Trustees, if, at any time, less than a majority of Trustees holding office at the time were elected by shareholders. The shareholders of the Trust will have voting rights only with respect to the limited number of matters specified in the Declaration of Trust and such other matters as the Trustees may determine or may be required by law.

The Declaration of Trust provides for indemnification of Trustees, officers, employees and agents of the Trust unless the recipient is adjudicated (i) to be liable by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of such person’s office; or (ii) not to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that such person’s actions were in the best interest of the Trust. The Declaration of Trust provides that, if any shareholder or former shareholder of any series is held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder and not because of the shareholder’s acts or omissions or for some other reason, the shareholder or former shareholder (or the

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shareholder’s heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives or general successors) shall be held harmless from and indemnified against all loss and expense arising from such liability. The Trust, acting on behalf of any affected series, must, upon request by such shareholder, assume the defense of any claim made against such shareholder for any act or obligation of the series and satisfy any judgment thereon from the assets of the series.

The Declaration of Trust permits the termination of the Trust or of any series or class of the Trust (i) by a majority of the affected shareholders at a meeting of shareholders of the Trust, series or class; or (ii) by a majority of the Trustees without shareholder approval if the Trustees determine, in their sole discretion, that such action is in the best interest of the Trust, such series, such class or their shareholders. The Trustees may consider such factors as they, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate in making such determination, including (i) the inability of the Trust or any series or class to maintain its assets at an appropriate size; (ii) changes in laws or regulations governing the Trust or series affecting assets of the type in which it invests; or (iii) economic developments or trends having a significant adverse impact on their business or operations of the Trust or series.

The Declaration of Trust authorizes the Trustees, without shareholder approval, to cause the Trust, or any series thereof, to merge or consolidate with any corporation, association, trust or other organization or sell or exchange all or substantially all of the property belonging to the Trust or any series thereof. In addition, the Trustees, without shareholder approval, may adopt a master-feeder structure by investing all or a portion of the assets of a series of the Trust in the securities of another open-end investment company with substantially the same investment objective, restrictions and policies.

The Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to amend the Declaration of Trust without a shareholder vote. However, shareholders of the Trust have the right to vote on any amendment (i) that would adversely affect the voting rights of shareholders; (ii) that is required by law to be approved by shareholders; (iii) that would amend the provisions of the Declaration of Trust regarding amendments; or (iv) that the Trustees determine to submit to shareholders.

The Trustees may appoint separate Trustees with respect to one or more series or classes of the Trust’s shares (the “Series Trustees”). Series Trustees may, but are not required to, serve as Trustees of the Trust or any other series or class of the Trust. To the extent provided by the Trustees in the appointment of Series Trustees, the Series Trustees may have, to the exclusion of any other Trustees of the Trust, all the powers and authorities of Trustees under the Declaration of Trust with respect to such series or class, but may have no power or authority with respect to any other series or class.

Shareholder and Trustee Liability

Under Delaware law, the shareholders of the Fund are not generally subject to liability for the debts or obligations of the Trust. Similarly, Delaware law provides that a series of the Trust will not be liable for the debts or obligations of any other series of the Trust. However, no similar statutory or other authority limiting statutory trust shareholder liability exists in other states. As a result, to the extent that a Delaware statutory trust or a shareholder is subject to the jurisdiction of courts of such other states, the courts may not apply Delaware law and may thereby subject the Delaware statutory trust shareholders to liability. To guard against this risk, the Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of shareholder liability for acts or obligations of a series. Notice of such disclaimer will normally be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by a series of the Trust. The Declaration of Trust provides for indemnification by the relevant series for all loss suffered by a shareholder as a result of an obligation of the series. The Declaration of Trust also provides that a series shall, upon request, assume the defense of any claim made against any shareholder for any act or obligation of the series and

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satisfy any judgment thereon. In view of the above, the risk of personal liability of shareholders of a Delaware statutory trust is remote.

In addition to the requirements under Delaware law, the Declaration of Trust provides that shareholders of a series may bring a derivative action on behalf of the series only if the following conditions are met: (i) shareholders eligible to bring such derivative action under Delaware law who hold at least 10% of the outstanding shares of the series, or 10% of the outstanding shares of the class to which such action relates, shall join in the request for the Trustees to commence such action; and (ii) the Trustees must be afforded a reasonable amount of time to consider such shareholder request and to investigate the basis of such claim. The Trustees will be entitled to retain counsel or other advisers in considering the merits of the request and may require an undertaking by the shareholders making such request to reimburse the Fund for the expense of any such advisers in the event that the Trustees determine not to bring such action.

The Declaration of Trust further provides that the Trustees will not be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law, but nothing in the Declaration of Trust protects a Trustee against liability to which he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.

NET ASSET VALUE

In accordance with procedures adopted by the Trustees of the Trust, the net asset value per share of each class of the Fund is calculated by determining the value of the net assets attributable to each class of the Fund and dividing by the number of outstanding shares of that class. All securities are valued on each Business Day as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (normally, but not always, 4:00 p.m. New York time) or such later time as the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ market may officially close. The term “Business Day” means any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading, which is Monday through Friday except for holidays. The New York Stock Exchange is closed on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Washington’s Birthday (observed), Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas (observed).

The time at which transactions and shares are priced and the time by which orders must be received may be changed in case of an emergency or if regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange is stopped at a time other than 4:00 p.m. New York Time. The Trust reserves the right to reprocess purchase, redemption and exchange transactions that were initially processed at a net asset value other than the Fund’s official closing net asset value (as the same may be subsequently adjusted), and to recover amounts from (or distribute amounts to) shareholders based on the official closing net asset value. The Trust reserves the right to advance the time by which purchase and redemption orders must be received for same business day credit as otherwise permitted by the SEC. In addition, the Fund may compute its net asset value as of any time permitted pursuant to any exemption, order or statement of the SEC or its staff.

For the purpose of calculating the net asset value of the Fund, investments are valued under valuation procedures established by the Trustees. Portfolio securities, for which accurate market quotations are readily available, other than money market instruments, are valued via electronic feeds to the custodian bank containing dealer-supplied bid quotations or bid quotations from a recognized pricing service. Securities for which a pricing service either does not supply a quotation or supplies a quotation that is believed by the Investment Adviser to be inaccurate, will be valued based on bid-side broker quotations. Securities for which the custodian bank is unable to obtain an external price as provided

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above or with respect to which the Investment Adviser believes an external price does not reflect accurate market values, will be valued by the Investment Adviser in good faith based on valuation models that take into account spread and daily yield changes on government securities (i.e., matrix pricing). Other securities are valued as follows: (i) overnight repurchase agreements will be valued at cost; (ii) term repurchase agreements (i.e., those whose maturity exceeds seven days) and swaps, caps, collars and floors will be valued at the average of the bid quotations obtained daily from at least one dealer; (iii) debt securities with a remaining maturity of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost, which the Trustees have determined to approximate fair value; (iv) spot and forward foreign currency exchange contracts will be valued using a pricing service such as Reuters (if quotations are unavailable from a pricing service or, if the quotations by the Investment Adviser are believed to be inaccurate, the contracts will be valued by calculating the mean between the last bid and asked quotations supplied by at least one independent dealers in such contracts); (v) exchange-traded options and futures contracts will be valued by the custodian bank at the last sale price on the exchange where such contracts and options are principally traded if accurate quotations are readily available; and (vi) over-the-counter options will be valued by a broker identified by the portfolio manager/trader.

Other securities, including those for which a pricing service supplies no exchange quotation or a quotation that is believed by the portfolio manager/trader to be inaccurate, will be valued at fair value as stated in the valuation procedures which were approved by the Board of Trustees.

The value of all assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies will be converted into U.S. dollar values at current exchange rates of such currencies against U.S. dollars last quoted by any major bank. If such quotations are not available, the rate of exchange will be determined in good faith by or under procedures established by the Board of Trustees.

Generally, trading in securities on European, Asian and Far Eastern securities exchanges and on over-the-counter markets in these regions is substantially completed at various times prior to the close of business on each Business Day in New York (i.e., a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading). In addition, European, Asian or Far Eastern securities trading generally or in a particular country or countries may not take place on all Business Days in New York. Furthermore, trading takes place in various foreign markets on days which are not Business Days in New York and days on which the Fund’s net asset values are not calculated. Such calculation does not take place contemporaneously with the determination of the prices of the majority of the portfolio securities used in such calculation. The Fund’s investments are valued based on market quotations which may be furnished by a pricing service or provided by securities dealers. If accurate market quotations are not readily available, or if the Investment Adviser believes that such quotations or prices do not accurately reflect fair value, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may be determined based on yield equivalents, a pricing matrix or other sources, under valuation procedures established by the Trustees.

The proceeds received by the Fund and each other series of the Trust from the issue or sale of its shares, and all net investment income, realized and unrealized gain and proceeds thereof, subject only to the rights of creditors, will be specifically allocated to the Fund or particular series and constitute the underlying assets of the Fund or series. The underlying assets of the Fund will be segregated on the books of account, and will be charged with the liabilities in respect of the Fund and with a share of the general liabilities of the Trust. Expenses of the Trust with respect to the Fund and the other series of the Trust are generally allocated in proportion to the net asset values of the Fund or series except where allocations of direct expenses can otherwise be fairly made.

The Trust has adopted a policy to handle certain NAV related errors occurring in the operation of the Fund, and under certain circumstances neither the Fund nor shareholders who purchase or sell shares

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during periods that errors accrue or occur may be recompensed in connection with the resolution of the error.

TAXATION

The following is a summary of the principal U.S. federal income, and certain state and local, tax considerations regarding the purchase, ownership and disposition of shares in the Fund. This summary does not address special tax rules applicable to certain classes of investors, such as tax-exempt entities, insurance companies and financial institutions. Each prospective shareholder is urged to consult his or her own tax adviser with respect to the specific federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of investing in the Fund. This summary is based on the laws in effect on the date of this Additional Statement, which are subject to change.

General

The Fund is treated as a separate entity for tax purposes, has elected to be treated as a regulated investment company and intends to qualify for such treatment for each taxable year under Subchapter M of Subtitle A, Chapter 1, of the Code. To qualify as such, the Fund must satisfy certain requirements relating to the sources of its income, diversification of its assets and distribution of its income to shareholders. As a regulated investment company, the Fund will not be subject to federal income or excise tax on any net investment income and net realized capital gains that are distributed to its shareholders in accordance with certain timing requirements of the Code.

There are certain tax requirements that the Fund must follow in order to avoid federal taxation. In their efforts to adhere to these requirements, the Fund may have to limit its investment activities in some types of instruments. Qualification as a regulated investment company under the Code requires, among other things, that (i) the Fund derive at least 90% of its gross income (including tax-exempt interest) for its taxable year from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans and gains from the sale or other disposition of stocks or securities, or foreign currencies or other income (including but not limited to gains from options, futures and forward contracts) derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies (the “90% gross income test”); and (ii) the Fund diversify its holdings so that, at the close of each quarter of its taxable year, (a) at least 50% of the market value of its total (gross) assets is comprised of cash, cash items, U.S. Government Securities, securities of other regulated investment companies and other securities limited in respect of any one issuer to an amount not greater in value than 5% of the value of the Fund’s total assets and to not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer, and (b) not more than 25% of the value of its total (gross) assets is invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. Government Securities and securities of other regulated investment companies) or two or more issuers controlled by the Fund and engaged in the same, similar or related trades or businesses.

As a regulated investment company, the Fund will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the portion of its income and capital gains that it distributes to its shareholders in any taxable year for which it distributes, in compliance with the Code’s timing and other requirements, at least 90% of its “investment company taxable income” (which includes dividends, taxable interest, taxable original issue discount income, market discount income, income from securities lending, net short-term capital gain in excess of net long-term capital loss, certain net realized foreign exchange gains, and any other taxable income other than “net capital gain” as defined below and is reduced by deductible expenses) and at least 90% of the excess of its gross tax-exempt interest income, if any, over certain disallowed deductions (“net tax-exempt interest”). The Fund may retain for investment its “net capital gain” (which consists of the excess of its net long-term capital gain over its net short-term capital loss). However, if the Fund retains

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any investment company taxable income or net capital gain, it will be subject to tax at regular corporate rates on the amount retained. If the Fund retains any net capital gain, the Fund may designate the retained amount as undistributed net capital gain in a notice to its shareholders who, if subject to U.S. federal income tax on long-term capital gains, (i) will be required to include in income for federal income tax purposes, as long-term capital gain, their shares of such undistributed amount; and (ii) will be entitled to credit their proportionate shares of the tax paid by the Fund against its U.S. federal income tax liabilities, if any, and to claim refunds to the extent the credit exceeds such liabilities. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, the tax basis of shares owned by a shareholder of the Fund will be increased by the amount of undistributed net capital gain included in the shareholder’s gross income and decreased by the federal income tax paid by the Fund on that amount of net capital gain. The Fund intends to distribute for each taxable year to its shareholders all or substantially all of its investment company taxable income (if any), net capital gain and any net tax-exempt interest. If for any taxable year the Fund does not qualify as a regulated investment company, it will be taxed on all of its investment company taxable income and net capital gain at corporate rates, its net tax-exempt interest (if any) may be subject to the alternative minimum tax, and its distributions to shareholders will be taxable as ordinary dividends to the extent of its current and accumulated earnings and profits.

In order to avoid a 4% federal excise tax, the Fund must distribute or be deemed to have distributed by December 31 of each calendar year at least 98% of its taxable ordinary income for such year, at least 98% of the excess of its capital gains over its capital losses (generally computed on the basis of the one-year period ending on October 31 of such year) and 100% of any taxable ordinary income and the excess of capital gains over capital losses for the prior year that were not distributed during such year and on which the Fund did not pay federal income tax. The Fund anticipates that it will generally make timely distributions of income and capital gains in compliance with these requirements so that it will generally not be required to pay the excise tax.

For federal income tax purposes, dividends declared by the Fund in October, November or December as of a record date in such a month that are actually paid in January of the following year will be treated as if they were received by shareholders on December 31 of the year declared.

The Fund may purchase Municipal Securities together with the right to resell the securities to the seller at an agreed-upon price or yield within a specified period prior to the maturity date of the securities. Such a right to resell is commonly known as a “put” and is also referred to as a “standby commitment.” The Fund may pay for a standby commitment either separately, in cash, or in the form of a higher price for the securities that are acquired subject to the standby commitment, thus increasing the cost of securities and reducing the yield otherwise available. Additionally, the Fund may purchase beneficial interests in Municipal Securities held by trusts, custodial arrangements or partnerships and/or combined with third-party puts and other types of features such as interest rate swaps; those investments may require the Fund to pay “tender fees” or other fees for the various features provided.

The IRS has issued a revenue ruling to the effect that, under specified circumstances, a registered investment company will be the owner of tax-exempt municipal obligations acquired subject to a put option. The IRS has also issued private letter rulings to certain taxpayers (which do not serve as precedent for other taxpayers) to the effect that tax-exempt interest received by a regulated investment company with respect to such obligations will be tax-exempt in the hands of the company and may be distributed to its shareholders as exempt-interest dividends. The IRS has subsequently announced that it will not ordinarily issue advance ruling letters as to the identity of the true owner of property in cases involving the sale of securities or participation interests therein if the purchaser has the right to cause the security, or the participation interest therein, to be purchased by either the seller or a third party. The Fund intends to take the position that it is the owner of any municipal obligations acquired subject to a standby commitment or other third party put and that tax-exempt interest earned with respect to such municipal

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obligations will be tax-exempt in its hands. There is no assurance that the IRS will agree with such position in any particular case. Additionally, the federal income tax treatment of certain other aspects of these investments, including the treatment of tender fees paid by the Fund, in relation to various regulated investment company tax provisions is unclear.

Gains and losses on the sale, lapse, or other termination of options and futures contracts, options thereon and certain forward contracts (except certain foreign currency options, forward contracts and futures contracts) will generally be treated as capital gains and losses. Certain of the futures contracts, forward contracts and options held by the Fund will be required to be “marked-to-market” for federal income tax purposes, that is, treated as having been sold at their fair market value on the last day of the Fund’s taxable year. These provisions may require the Fund to recognize income or gains without a concurrent receipt of cash. Any gain or loss recognized on actual or deemed sales of these futures contracts, forward contracts or options will (except for certain foreign currency options, forward contracts, and futures contracts) be treated as 60% long-term capital gain or loss and 40% short-term capital gain or loss. As a result of certain hedging transactions entered into by the Fund, the Fund may be required to defer the recognition of losses on futures or forward contracts and options or underlying securities or foreign currencies to the extent of any unrecognized gains on related positions held by the Fund and the characterization of gains or losses as long-term or short-term may be changed. The tax provisions described above applicable to options, futures and forward contracts may affect the amount, timing, and character of the Fund’s distributions to shareholders. Certain tax elections may be available to the Fund to mitigate some of the unfavorable consequences described in this paragraph.

The Fund’s investment in zero coupon securities, deferred interest securities, capital appreciation bonds or other securities bearing original issue discount or, if the Fund elects to include market discount in income currently, market discount, as well as any “mark-to-market” gain from certain options, futures or forward contracts, as described above, will generally cause it to realize income or gain prior to the receipt of cash payments with respect to these securities or contracts. In order to obtain cash to enable it to distribute this income or gain, maintain its qualification as a regulated investment company and avoid federal income or excise taxes, the Fund may be required to liquidate portfolio securities that it might otherwise have continued to hold.

Investment in lower-rated securities may present special tax issues for the Fund to the extent actual or anticipated defaults may be more likely with respect to such securities. Tax rules are not entirely clear about issues such as when the Fund may cease to accrue interest, original issue discount, or market discount; when and to what extent deductions may be taken for bad debts or worthless securities; how payment received on obligations in default should be allocated between principal and income; and whether exchanges of debt obligations in a workout context are taxable. These and other issues will be addressed by the Fund, if it invests in such securities, in order to seek to eliminate or minimize any adverse tax consequences.

The federal income tax rules applicable to interest rate, currency and total return swaps, options on swaps, floors, caps and collars are unclear in certain respects, and the Fund may also be required to account for these instruments under tax rules in a manner that, under certain circumstances, may limit its transactions in these instruments.

Taxable U.S. Shareholders — Distributions

The Fund expects to qualify to pay “exempt-interest dividends,” as defined in the Code. To qualify to pay exempt-interest dividends, the Fund must, at the close of each quarter of its taxable year, have at least 50% of the value of its total assets invested in Municipal Securities whose interest is excluded from gross income under Section 103(a) of the Code. In purchasing Municipal Securities, the

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Fund intends to rely on opinions of bond counsel or counsel to the issuers for each issue as to the excludability of interest on such obligations from gross income for federal income tax purposes. The Fund will not undertake independent investigations concerning the tax-exempt status of such obligations, nor does it guarantee or represent that bond counsels’ opinions are correct. Bond counsels’ opinions will generally be based in part upon covenants by the issuers and related parties regarding continuing compliance with federal tax requirements. Tax laws not only limit the purposes for which tax-exempt bonds may be issued and the supply of such bonds, but also contain numerous and complex requirements that must be satisfied on a continuing basis in order for bonds to be and remain tax-exempt. If the issuer of a bond or a user of a bond-financed facility fails to comply with such requirements at any time, interest on the bond could become taxable, retroactive to the date the obligation was issued. In that event, a portion of the Fund’s distributions attributable to interest the Fund received on such bond for the current year and for prior years could be characterized or recharacterized as taxable income. The availability of tax-exempt obligations and the value of the Fund’s portfolio may be affected by restrictive federal income tax legislation enacted in recent years or by similar, future legislation. If the Fund satisfies the applicable requirements, dividends paid by the Fund which are attributable to tax exempt interest on Municipal Securities and designated by the Fund as exempt-interest dividends in a written notice mailed to its shareholders within 60 days after the close of its taxable year may be treated by shareholders as items of interest excludable from their gross income under Section 103(a) of the Code. Exempt-interest dividends the Fund receives from other regulated investment companies, including exempt-interest dividends on auction rate preferred securities of such companies held by the Fund, are treated as interest on Municipal Securities and may be distributed by the Fund as exempt-interest dividends. The recipient of tax-exempt income is required to report such income on his or her federal income tax return. The Code provides that interest on indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry shares of the Fund is not deductible to the extent attributable to exempt-interest dividends.

Although all or a substantial portion of the dividends paid by the Fund may be excluded by shareholders of the Fund from their gross income for federal income tax purposes, the Fund may purchase private activity bonds, the interest from which (including the Fund’s distributions attributable to such interest) may be a preference item for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax (both individual and corporate). All exempt-interest dividends from the Fund, whether or not attributable to private activity bond interest, may increase a corporate shareholder’s liability, if any, for corporate alternative minimum tax, and will be taken into account in determining the extent to which a shareholder’s Social Security or certain railroad retirement benefits are taxable.

The Fund is not intended to constitute a balanced investment program and is not designed for investors seeking capital appreciation or maximum tax-exempt income irrespective of fluctuations in principal. Shares of the Fund would not be suitable for tax-exempt institutions and may not be suitable for retirement plans qualified under Section 401 of the Code, H.R. 10 plans and individual retirement accounts since such plans and accounts are generally tax-exempt and, therefore, would not gain any additional benefit from the Fund’s dividends being tax-exempt. In addition, the Fund may not be an appropriate investment for persons or entities that are “substantial users” of facilities financed by private activity bonds or “related persons” thereof. “Substantial user” is defined under U.S. Treasury Regulations to include a non-exempt person which regularly uses a part of such facilities in its trade or business and whose gross revenues derived with respect to the facilities financed by the issuance of bonds are more than 5% of the total revenues derived by all users of such facilities, which occupies more than 5% of the usable area of such facilities or for which such facilities or a part thereof were specifically constructed, reconstructed or acquired. “Related persons” include certain related natural persons, affiliated corporations, partnerships and its partners and an S corporation and its shareholders. A shareholder is advised to consult his or her tax adviser with respect to whether exempt-interest dividends retain the exclusion under Section 103(a) if such shareholder would be treated as a “substantial user” under Section 147(a)(1) with respect to some or all of the tax-exempt obligations held by the Fund.

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Distributions from investment company taxable income, whether reinvested in additional shares or paid in cash, as defined above, are generally taxable to shareholders who are subject to tax as ordinary income whether paid in cash or reinvested in additional shares. However, distributions to noncorporate shareholders attributable to dividends received by the Fund from U.S. and certain foreign corporations will generally be taxed at the long-term capital gain rate (described below), as long as certain other requirements are met. For these lower rates to apply, the noncorporate shareholders must have owned their Fund shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the Fund’s ex-dividend date. Taxable distributions include distributions from the Fund that are attributable to (i) taxable income, including but not limited to dividends, taxable bond interest, recognized market discount income, original issue discount income accrued with respect to taxable bonds, income from repurchase agreements, income from securities lending, income from dollar rolls, income from interest rate, currency, total return swaps, options on swaps, caps, floors and collars, and a portion of the discount from certain stripped tax-exempt obligations or their coupons; or (ii) capital gains from the sale of securities or other investments (including from the disposition of rights to when-issued securities prior to issuance) or from options, futures or certain forward contracts. Any portion of such taxable distributions that is attributable to the Fund’s net capital gain, as defined above, may be designated by the Fund as a “capital gain dividend,” taxable to shareholders as long-term capital gain whether received in cash or additional shares and regardless of the length of time their shares of the Fund have been held.

It is expected that distributions made by the Fund will ordinarily not qualify for the dividends-received deduction for corporations because qualifying distributions may be made only from the Fund’s dividend income that it receives from stock in U.S. domestic corporations. The Fund does not intend to purchase stock of domestic corporations other than in limited instances, distributions from which may in rare cases qualify as dividends for this purpose. The dividends-received deduction, if available, is reduced to the extent the shares with respect to which the dividends are received are treated as debt-financed under the federal income tax law and is eliminated if the shares are deemed to have been held for less than a minimum period, generally 46 days. Receipt of certain distributions qualifying for the deduction may result in reduction of the tax basis of the corporate shareholder’s shares and may give rise to or increase its liability for federal corporate alternative minimum tax.

Distributions in excess of the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits, as computed for federal income tax purposes, will first reduce a shareholder’s basis in his or her shares and, after the shareholder’s basis is reduced to zero, will generally constitute capital gains to a shareholder who holds his or her shares as capital assets.

Shareholders receiving a distribution in the form of newly issued shares will be treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as receiving a distribution in an amount equal to the amount of cash that they would have received had they elected to receive cash and will have a cost basis in the shares received equal to such amount.

After the close of each calendar year, the Fund will inform shareholders of the federal income tax status of its dividends and distributions for such year, including the portion of such dividends, if any, that qualifies as tax-exempt or as capital gain, the portion, if any, that should be treated as a tax preference item for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax and the foreign tax credits, if any, associated with such dividends. Shareholders who have not held shares of the Fund for the Fund’s full taxable year may have designated as tax-exempt or as a tax preference item a percentage of distributions which is not equal to the actual amount of tax-exempt income or tax preference item income earned by the Fund during the period of their investment in the Fund.

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All distributions, whether received in shares or in cash, as well as redemptions and exchanges, must be reported by each shareholder who is required to file a U.S. federal income tax return.

Different tax treatment, including penalties on certain excess contributions and deferrals, certain pre-retirement and post-retirement distributions, and certain prohibited transactions is accorded to accounts maintained as qualified retirement plans. Shareholders should consult their tax advisers for more information.

Taxable U.S. Shareholders — Sale of Shares

When a shareholder’s shares are sold, redeemed or otherwise disposed of in a transaction that is treated as a sale for tax purposes, the shareholder will generally recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the shareholder’s adjusted tax basis in the shares and the cash, or fair market value of any property, received. (To aid in computing its tax basis, a shareholder should generally retain its account statements for the period that it held shares.) If the shareholder holds the shares as a capital asset at the time of sale, the character of the gain or loss should be capital, and treated as long-term if the shareholder’s holding period is more than one year, and short-term otherwise, subject to the rules described below. Shareholders should consult their own tax advisers with reference to their particular circumstances to determine whether a redemption (including an exchange) or other disposition of Fund shares is properly treated as a sale for tax purposes, as is assumed in this discussion. All or a portion of a sales charge paid in purchasing Class A Shares of the Fund cannot be taken into account for purposes of determining gain or loss on the redemption or exchange of such shares within 90 days after their purchase to the extent shares of the Fund or another fund are subsequently acquired without payment of a sales charge pursuant to the reinvestment or exchange privilege. Any disregarded portion of such charge will result in an increase in the shareholder’s tax basis in the shares subsequently acquired. If a shareholder received a capital gain dividend with respect to shares and such shares have a tax holding period of six months or less at the time of the sale or redemption, then any loss the shareholder realizes on the sale or redemption will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of such capital gain dividend. Also, any losses realized by shareholders who dispose of shares of the Fund with a tax holding period of six months or less are disallowed to the extent of any exempt-interest dividends received with respect to such shares. Additionally, any loss realized on a sale or redemption of shares of the Fund may be disallowed under “wash sale” rules to the extent the shares disposed of are replaced with other shares of the Fund within a period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the shares are disposed of, such as pursuant to a dividend reinvestment in shares of the Fund. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an adjustment to the basis of the shares acquired. The long-term capital gain rate applicable to individuals, estates, and trusts is generally 15%.

Backup Withholding

The Fund will be required to report to the IRS all taxable distributions, as well as gross proceeds from the redemption or exchange of Fund shares, except in the case of certain exempt recipients, i.e., corporations and certain other investors distributions to which are exempt from the information reporting provisions of the Code. Under the backup withholding provisions of Code Section 3406 and applicable Treasury regulations, all such reportable distributions and proceeds may be subject to backup withholding of federal income tax at the specified rate of 28% in the case of non-exempt shareholders who fail to furnish the Fund with their correct taxpayer identification number (“TIN”) and with certain required certifications or if the IRS or a broker notifies the Fund that the number furnished by the shareholder is incorrect or that the shareholder is subject to backup withholding as a result of failure to report interest or dividend income. However, any taxable distributions from the Fund will not be subject to backup withholding if the Fund reasonably estimates that at least 95% of its distributions will be exempt-interest dividends. The Fund may refuse to accept an application that does not contain any required taxpayer

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identification number or certification that the number provided is correct. If the backup withholding provisions are applicable, any such distributions and proceeds, whether taken in cash or reinvested in shares, will be reduced by the amounts required to be withheld. Any amounts withheld may be credited against a shareholder’s U.S. federal income tax liability. If a shareholder does not have a TIN, it should apply for one immediately by contacting the local office of the Social Security Administration or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Backup withholding could apply to payments relating to a shareholder’s account while it is waiting receipt of a TIN. Special rules apply for certain entities. For example, for an account established under a Uniform Gifts or Transfers to Minors Act, the TIN of the minor should be furnished. In addition, non-U.S. shareholders will be required to provide the Fund with the proper IRS Form W-8 or appropriate substitute (as discussed below) in order to avail themselves of this withholding tax exemption. Investors should consult their tax advisers about the applicability of the backup withholding provisions.

Sunset of Tax Provisions

Some of the tax provisions described above are subject to sunset provisions. Specifically, a sunset provision provides that the 15% long-term capital gain rate and the taxation of dividends at the long-term capital gain rate will revert back to a prior version of these provisions in the Code for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2008.

Non-U.S. Shareholders

The foregoing discussion relates solely to U.S. federal income tax law as it applies to “U.S. persons” (i.e., U.S. citizens and residents and U.S. domestic corporations, partnerships, trusts and estates) subject to tax under such law. Distributions attributable to the Fund’s taxable year beginning before January 1, 2005 or after December 31, 2007 from investment company taxable income to a shareholder who is not a U.S. person will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30% (or a lower rate provided by an applicable tax treaty) unless the distributions are effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the shareholder, in which case the distributions will be subject to tax on a net income basis at the graduated rates applicable to U.S. individuals or domestic corporations. Under recent changes to the Code, for distributions attributable to the Fund’s taxable year beginning after December 31, 2004 and before January 1, 2008, non-U.S. shareholders generally will not be subject to withholding tax on distributions attributable to “portfolio interest” or short-term capital gains unless (1) the distributions are effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the shareholder, or (2) with respect to short-term capital gains, the shareholder is a nonresident alien individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year and certain other conditions are met.

Distributions of net capital gain, including amounts retained by the Fund which are designated as undistributed capital gains, to a shareholder who is not a U.S. person will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax unless the distributions are effectively connected with the shareholder’s trade or business in the United States or, in the case of a shareholder who is a nonresident alien individual, the shareholder is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year and certain other conditions are met.

Any capital gain realized by a shareholder who is not a U.S. person upon a sale or redemption of shares of the Fund will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax unless the gain is effectively connected with the shareholder’s trade or business in the United States, or in the case of a shareholder who is a nonresident alien individual, the shareholder is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year and certain other conditions are met.

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Non-U.S. persons who fail to furnish the Fund with the proper IRS Form W-8 (i.e., W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI, W-8 IMY or W-8 EXP) or an acceptable substitute may be subject to backup withholding at the specified rate of 28% on dividends (including on capital gain dividends) and the proceeds of redemptions and exchanges. Also, non-U.S. shareholders may be subject to estate tax. Each shareholder who is not a U.S. person should consult his or her tax adviser regarding the U.S. and non-U.S. tax consequences of ownership of shares of and receipt of distributions from the Fund.

State and Local Taxes

The Fund may be subject to state or local taxes in certain jurisdictions in which the Fund may be deemed to be doing business. A state income (and possibly local income and/or intangible property) tax exemption is generally available to the extent (if any) the Fund’s distributions are derived from interest on (or, in the case of intangible property taxes, the value of its assets is attributable to) certain U.S. Government obligations and/or tax-exempt municipal obligations issued by or on behalf of the particular state or a political subdivision thereof, provided in some states that certain thresholds for holdings of such obligations and/or reporting requirements are satisfied. In addition, in those states or localities which have income tax laws, the treatment of the Fund and its shareholders under such laws may differ from their treatment under federal income tax laws, and investment in the Fund may have tax consequences for shareholders different from those of a direct investment in the Fund’s portfolio securities. Shareholders should consult their own tax advisers concerning these matters. See also the discussion below of applicable provisions of Tennessee law.

Tennessee State Taxation. The following is a general, abbreviated summary of certain provisions of the applicable Tennessee tax law as presently in effect as it directly governs the taxation of resident individual and corporate shareholders of the Fund. This summary does not address the taxation of other shareholders nor does it discuss any local taxes that may be applicable. These provisions are subject to change by legislative, judicial or administrative action, and any such change may be retroactive with respect to Fund transactions.

The following is based on the assumptions that the Fund will qualify under Subchapter M of the Code as a regulated investment company and that it will satisfy the conditions which will cause Fund distributions to qualify as exempt-interest dividends to shareholders.

Distributions from the Fund will not be subject to Tennessee the personal income tax (also known as the Hall Income Tax) to the extent such distributions are attributable to interest on bonds or securities of the U.S. government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities, or on bonds or other securities of the state of Tennessee or any Tennessee county, municipality or political subdivision, including any agency, board authority or commission. Other distributions from the Fund, including dividends attributable to obligations of issuers in other states, and all long-term and short-term capital gains, will not be exempt from personal income taxes in Tennessee.

All distributions from the Fund, regardless of source, will be subject to the Tennessee excise tax applicable to corporations and other nonexempt limited liability entities.

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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The Fund may from time to time quote or otherwise use yield and total return information in advertisements, shareholder reports or sales literature. Thirty-day yield and average annual total return values are computed pursuant to formulas specified by the SEC. The Fund may also from time to time quote distribution rates in reports to shareholders and in sales literature.

Thirty-day yield is derived by dividing net investment income earned during the period by the product of the average daily number of shares outstanding and entitled to receive dividends during the period and the maximum public offering price per share on the last day of such period. Yield is then annualized by assuming that yield is realized each month for 12 months and is reinvested every six months. Net investment income per share is equal to the dividends and interest earned during the period, reduced by accrued expenses for the period. The calculation of net investment income for these purposes may differ from the net investment income determined for accounting purposes.

Tax equivalent yield represents the yield an investor would have to earn to equal, after taxes, the Fund’s tax-free yield. Tax equivalent yield is calculated by dividing the Fund’s tax-exempt yield by one minus a stated federal and/or state tax rate.

Distribution rate for a specified period is calculated by annualizing distributions of net investment income for such period and dividing this amount by the net asset value per share or maximum public offering price on the last day of the period.

Average annual total return (Before Taxes) for a specified period is derived by calculating the actual dollar amount of the investment return on a $1,000 investment made at the maximum public offering price applicable to the relevant class at the beginning of the period, and then calculating the annual compounded rate of return which would produce that amount, assuming a redemption at the end of the period. This calculation assumes a complete redemption of the investment. It also assumes that all dividends and distributions are reinvested at net asset value on the reinvestment dates during the period.

Average annual total return (After Taxes on Distributions) for a specified period is derived by calculating the actual dollar amount of the investment return on a $1,000 investment made at the maximum public offering price applicable to the relevant class at the beginning of the period, and then calculating the annual compounded rate of return (after federal income taxes on distributions but not redemptions) which would produce that amount, assuming a redemption at the end of the period. This calculation assumes a complete redemption of the investment but further assumes that the redemption has no federal income tax consequences. This calculation also assumes that all dividends and distributions, less the federal income taxes due on such distributions, are reinvested at net asset value on the reinvestment dates during the period. In calculating the impact of federal income taxes due on distributions, the federal income tax rates used correspond to the tax character of each component of the distributions (e.g., ordinary income rate for ordinary income distributions, short-term capital gain rate for short-term capital gain distributions and long-term capital gain rate for long-term capital gain distributions). The highest individual marginal federal income tax rate in effect on the reinvestment date is applied to each component of the distributions on the reinvestment date. These tax rates may vary over the measurement period. The effect of applicable tax credits, such as the foreign tax credit, is also taken into account in accordance with federal tax law. The calculation disregards (i) the effect of phase-outs of certain exemptions, deductions and credits at various income levels, (ii) the impact of the federal alternative minimum tax, and (iii) the potential tax liabilities other than federal tax liabilities (e.g., state and local taxes).

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Average annual total return (After Taxes on Distributions and Redemptions) for a specified period is derived by calculating the actual dollar amount of the investment return on a $1,000 investment made at the maximum public offering price applicable to the relevant class at the beginning of the period, and then calculating the annual compounded rate of return (after federal income taxes on distributions and redemptions) which would produce that amount, assuming a redemption at the end of the period. This calculation assumes a complete redemption of the investment. This calculation also assumes that all dividends and distributions, less the federal income taxes due on such distributions, are reinvested at net asset value on the reinvestment dates during the period. In calculating the federal income taxes due on distributions, the federal income tax rates used correspond to the tax character of each component of the distributions (e.g., ordinary income rate for ordinary income distributions, short-term capital gain rate for short-term capital gain distributions and long-term capital gain rate for long-term capital gain distributions). The highest individual marginal federal income tax rate in effect on the reinvestment date is applied to each component of the distributions on the reinvestment date. These tax rates may vary over the measurement period. The effect of applicable tax credits, such as the foreign tax credit, is taken into account in accordance with federal tax law. The calculation disregards the (i) effect of phase-outs of certain exemptions, deductions and credits at various income levels, (ii) the impact of the federal alternative minimum tax, and (iii) the potential tax liabilities other than federal tax liabilities (e.g., state and local taxes). In calculating the federal income taxes due on redemptions, capital gains taxes resulting from a redemption are subtracted from the redemption proceeds and the tax benefits from capital losses resulting from the redemption are added to the redemption proceeds. The highest federal individual capital gains tax rate in effect on the redemption date is used in such calculation. The federal income tax rates used correspond to the tax character of any gains or losses (e.g., short-term or long-term). When the return after taxes on distributions and redemption of shares is higher than returns after taxes on distributions, it is because of realized losses. If realized losses occur upon the sale of shares, capital loss is recorded as a tax benefit which increases returns.

Year-by-year total return and cumulative total return for a specified period are each derived by calculating the percentage rate required to make a $1,000 investment (made at the maximum public offering price per share with all distributions reinvested) at the beginning of such period equal to the actual total value of such investment at the end of such period.

Total return calculations for Class A Shares reflect the effect of paying the maximum initial sales charge. Investment at a lower sales charge would result in higher performance figures. Total return calculations for Class C Shares reflect deduction of the applicable CDSC imposed upon redemption of Class C Shares held for the applicable period. The Fund may also from time to time advertise total return on a cumulative, average, year-by-year or other basis for various specified periods by means of quotations, charts, graphs or schedules. In addition, the Fund may furnish total return calculations based on investments at various sales charge levels or at net asset value. An after-tax total return for the Fund may be calculated by taking its total return and subtracting applicable federal taxes from the portions of the Fund’s total return attributable to capital gain and ordinary income distributions. This after-tax total return may be compared to that of other mutual funds with similar investment objectives as reported by independent sources. Any performance information which is based on the Fund’s net asset value per share would be reduced if any applicable sales charge were taken into account. In addition to the above, the Fund may from time to time advertise its performance relative to certain averages, performance rankings, indices, other information prepared by recognized mutual fund statistical services and investments for which reliable performance information is available. The Fund’s performance quotations do not reflect any fees charged by an Authorized Dealer or other financial intermediary to its customer accounts in connection with investments in the Fund.

Performance data is based on historical results and is not intended to indicate future performance. Total return, 30-day yield, tax equivalent yield and distribution rate will vary based on changes in market

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conditions, portfolio expenses, portfolio investments and other factors. The value of the Fund’s shares will fluctuate and an investor’s shares may be worth more or less than their original cost upon redemption. The Trust may also, at its discretion, from time to time make a list of the Fund’s holdings available to investors upon request.

Performance quotations will be calculated separately for each class of shares in existence. Because each class of shares is subject to different expenses, the performance of each class of shares of the Fund will differ.

PROXY VOTING

The Trust, on behalf of the Fund, has delegated the voting of portfolio securities to the Investment Adviser. The Investment Adviser has adopted policies and procedures (the “Policy”) for the voting of proxies on behalf of client accounts for which the Investment Adviser has voting discretion, including the Fund. Under the Policy, the Investment Adviser’s guiding principles in performing proxy voting are to make decisions that: (i) favor proposals that tend to maximize a company’s shareholder value; and (ii) are not influenced by conflicts of interest. These principles reflect the Investment Adviser’s belief that sound corporate governance will create a framework within which a company can be managed in the interests of its shareholders.

The principles and positions reflected in the Policy are designed to guide the Investment Adviser in voting proxies, and not necessarily in making investment decisions. Senior management of the Investment Adviser will periodically review the Policy to ensure that it continues to be consistent with the Investment Adviser’s guiding principles.

Public Equity Investments. To implement these guiding principles for investments in publicly-traded equities, the Investment Adviser follows proxy voting guidelines (the “Guidelines”) developed by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), except in certain circumstances, which are generally described below. The Guidelines embody the positions and factors the Investment Adviser generally considers important in casting proxy votes. They address a wide variety of individual topics, including, among others, shareholder voting rights, anti-takeover defenses, board structures, the election of directors, executive and director compensation, reorganizations, mergers, and various shareholder proposals. Attached as Appendix B is a summary of the Guidelines.

ISS has been retained to review proxy proposals and make voting recommendations in accordance with the Guidelines. While it is the Investment Adviser’s policy generally to follow the Guidelines and recommendations from ISS, the Investment Adviser’s portfolio management teams (“Portfolio Management Teams”) retain the authority on any particular proxy vote to vote differently from the Guidelines or a related ISS recommendation, in keeping with their different investment philosophies and processes. Such decisions, however, remain subject to a review and approval process, including a determination that the decision is not influenced by any conflict of interest. In forming their views on particular matters, the Portfolio Management Teams are also permitted to consider applicable regional rules and practices, including codes of conduct and other guides, regarding proxy voting, in addition to the Guidelines and recommendations from ISS.

In addition to assisting the Investment Adviser in developing substantive proxy voting positions, ISS also updates and revises the Guidelines on a periodic basis, and the revisions are reviewed by the Investment Adviser to determine whether they are consistent with the Investment Adviser’s guiding principles. ISS also assists the Investment Adviser in the proxy voting process by providing operational, recordkeeping and reporting services.

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The Investment Adviser is responsible for reviewing its relationship with ISS and for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the various services provided by ISS. The Investment Adviser may hire other service providers to replace or supplement ISS with respect to any of the services the Investment Adviser currently receives from ISS.

The Investment Adviser has implemented procedures that are intended to prevent conflicts of interest from influencing proxy voting decisions. These procedures include the Investment Adviser’s use of ISS as an independent third party, a review and approval process for individual decisions that do not follow ISS’s recommendations, and the establishment of information barriers between the Investment Adviser and other businesses within The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Fixed Income and Private Investments. Voting decisions with respect to fixed income securities and the securities of privately held issuers generally will be made by the Fund’s managers based on their assessment of the particular transactions or other matters at issue.

Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 will become available on or through the Fund’s website at http://www.gs.com/funds and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov in August 2006.

PAYMENTS TO INTERMEDIARIES

The Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may make payments to Authorized Dealers and other financial intermediaries (“Intermediaries”) from time to time to promote the sale, distribution and/or servicing of shares of the Fund. These payments (“Additional Payments”) are made out of the Investment Adviser’s, Distributor’s and/or their affiliates own assets, and are not an additional charge to the Fund or their shareholders. The Additional Payments are in addition to the distribution and service fees paid by the Fund described in the Fund’s Prospectuses and this Additional Statement, and are also in addition to the sales commissions payable to Intermediaries as set forth in the Prospectuses.

These Additional Payments are intended to compensate Intermediaries for, among other things: marketing shares of the Fund, which may consist of payments relating to Fund on preferred or recommended fund lists or in certain sales programs from time to time sponsored by the Intermediaries; access to the Intermediaries’ registered representatives or salespersons, including at conferences and other meetings; assistance in training and education of personnel; “finders” or “referral fee” for directing investors to the Fund; marketing support fees for providing assistance in promoting the sale of Fund Shares (which may include promotions in communications with the Intermediaries’ customers, registered representatives, and sales persons); and/or other specified services intended to assist in the distribution and marketing of the Fund. In addition, the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may make Additional Payments (including through sub-transfer agency and networking agreements) for sub-accounting, administrative and/or shareholder processing services that are in addition to the transfer agent, shareholder administration, servicing and processing fees paid by the Fund. The Additional Payments made by the Investment Adviser, Distributor and their affiliates may be a fixed dollar amount; may be based on the number of customer accounts maintained by an Intermediary; may be based on a percentage of the value of shares sold to, or held by, customers of the Intermediary involved; or may be calculated on another basis. Furthermore, the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may, to the extent permitted by applicable regulations, contribute to various non-cash and cash incentive arrangements to promote the sale of shares, as well as sponsor various educational programs, sales contests and/or promotions. The Investment Adviser, Distributor and their affiliates may also pay for the travel expenses, meals, lodging and entertainment of Intermediaries and their salespersons and guests in

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connection with educational, sales and promotional programs subject to applicable NASD regulations. The amount of these Additional Payments (excluding payments made through sub-transfer agency and networking agreements) is normally not expected to exceed 0.50% (annualized) of the amount sold or invested through the Intermediaries. The Additional Payments are negotiated based on a range of factors, including but not limited to, ability to attract and retain assets (including particular classes of Fund’s shares), target markets, customer relationships, quality of service and industry reputation.

For the calendar year ended December 31, 2004, the Investment Adviser, distributor and their affiliates made Additional Payments out of their own assets to approximately 99 Intermediaries. During the calendar year ended December 31, 2004, the Investment Adviser, distributor and their affiliates paid to Intermediaries approximately $35.4 million in Additional Payments (including payments made through sub-transfer agency and networking agreements) with respect to all of the funds of the Trust (not including the Fund included in this Additional Statement which had not yet been established as of December 31, 2004).

The Additional Payments made by the Investment Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates may be different for different Intermediaries and may vary with respect to the type of fund (e.g., equity fund, fixed income fund, specialty fund, asset allocation portfolio or money market fund) sold by the Intermediary. In addition, the Additional Payment arrangements may include breakpoints in compensation which provide that the percentage rate of compensation varies as the dollar value of the amount sold or invested through an Intermediary increases. The presence of these Additional Payments, the varying fee structure and the basis on which an Intermediary compensates its registered representatives or salespersons may create an incentive for a particular Intermediary, registered representative or salesperson to highlight, feature or recommend the Fund based on, at least in part, the level of compensation paid. Shareholders should contact their Authorized Dealer or other Intermediary for more information about the payments they receive and any potential conflicts of interest.

Please contact your Intermediary if you have a question about whether your Intermediary receives the Additional Payments described above. For additional questions, please contact Goldman Sachs Funds at 1-800-621-2550.

OTHER INFORMATION

Selective Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

The Board of Trustees of the Trust and the Investment Adviser have adopted a policy on selective disclosure of portfolio holdings in accordance with regulations that seek to ensure that disclosure of information about portfolio securities is in the best interest of Fund shareholders and to address the conflicts between the interests of shareholders and its service providers. The policy provides that neither the Fund nor the Investment Adviser, Distributor or any agent, or any employee thereof (“Fund Representative”) will disclose the Fund’s portfolio holdings information to any person other than in accordance with the policy. For purposes of the policy, “portfolio holdings information” means the Fund’s actual portfolio holdings, as well as nonpublic information about its trading strategies or pending transactions. Under the policy, neither the Fund nor any Fund Representative may solicit or accept any compensation or other consideration in connection with the disclosure of portfolio holdings information. A Fund Representative may provide portfolio holdings information to third parties if such information has been included in the Fund’s public filings with the SEC or is disclosed on the Fund’s publicly accessible website. Information posted on the Fund’s website may be separately provided to any person commencing the day after it is first published on the Fund’s website.

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Portfolio holdings information that is not filed with the SEC or posted on the publicly available website may be provided to third parties only if the third party recipients are required to keep all portfolio holdings information confidential and are prohibited from trading on the information they receive. Disclosure to such third parties must be approved in advance by the Investment Adviser’s legal or compliance department. Disclosure to providers of auditing, custody, proxy voting and other similar services for the Fund, as well as rating and ranking organizations, will generally be permitted; however, information may be disclosed to other third parties (including, without limitation, individuals, institutional investors, and intermediaries that sell shares of the Fund) only upon approval by the Fund’s Chief Compliance Officer, who must first determine that the Fund has a legitimate business purpose for doing so and check with the Fund Transfer Agent to ascertain whether the third party has been identified as an excessive trader. In general, each recipient of non-public portfolio holdings information must sign a confidentiality and non-trading agreement, although this requirement will not apply when the recipient is otherwise subject to a duty of confidentiality. In accordance with the policy, the identity of those recipients who receive non-public portfolio holdings information on an ongoing basis is as follows: the Investment Adviser and its affiliates, the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm, the Fund’s custodian, the Fund’s legal counsel- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, the Fund’s financial printer- Bowne, and the Fund’s proxy voting service- ISS. These entities are obligated to keep such information confidential. Third party providers of custodial or accounting services to the Fund may release non-public portfolio holdings information of the Fund only with the permission of Fund Representatives. From time to time portfolio holdings information may be provided to broker-dealers solely in connection with the Fund seeking portfolio securities trading suggestions. In providing this information reasonable precautions, including limitations on the scope of the portfolio holdings information disclosed, are taken to avoid any potential misuse of the disclosed information. All marketing materials prepared by the Trust’s principal underwriter is reviewed by Goldman Sachs’ Compliance department for consistency with the Trust’s portfolio holdings disclosure policy.

The equity funds currently intend to publish on the Trust’s website (http://www.gs.com/funds) complete portfolio holdings for each equity fund as of the end of each calendar quarter subject to a fifteen calendar day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. In addition, the equity funds intend to publish on their website month-end top ten holdings subject to a ten calendar day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. The non-money market fixed income funds currently intend to publish complete portfolio holdings on their website as of the end of each fiscal quarter, subject to a thirty calendar day lag, and to post selected holdings information monthly on a ten calendar day lag. The Financial Square Prime Obligations Fund, Financial Square Money Market Fund, Institutional Liquid Assets Prime Obligations Portfolio and Institutional Liquid Assets Money Market Portfolio publish their holdings as of the end of each month subject to a thirty calendar day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. The other Financial Square and Institutional Liquid Assets money market funds publish their holdings as of the end of each calendar quarter subject to a thirty calendar day lag between the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed. The Fund may publish on the website complete portfolio holdings information more frequently if it has a legitimate business purpose for doing so.

Under the policy, Fund Representatives will initially supply the Board of the Trustees with a list of third parties who receive portfolio holdings information pursuant to any ongoing arrangement. In addition, the Board is to receive information, on a quarterly basis, regarding any other disclosures of non-public portfolio holdings information that were permitted during the preceding quarter. In addition, the Board of Trustees is to approve at its meetings a list of Fund Representatives who are authorized to disclose portfolio holdings information under the policy. As of the date of this Additional Statement, only certain officers of the Trust as well as certain senior members of the compliance and legal groups of

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the Investment Adviser have been approved by the Board of Trustees to authorize disclosure of portfolio holdings information.

Miscellaneous

The Fund will redeem shares solely in cash up to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net asset value of the Fund during any 90- day period for any one shareholder. The Fund, however, reserves the right to pay redemptions exceeding $250,000 or 1% of the net asset value of the Fund at the time of redemption by a distribution in kind of securities (instead of cash) from the Fund. The securities distributed in kind would be readily marketable and would be valued for this purpose using the same method employed in calculating the Fund’s net asset value per share. See “Net Asset Value.” If a shareholder receives redemption proceeds in kind, the shareholder should expect to incur transaction costs upon the disposition of the securities received in the redemption.

The right of a shareholder to redeem shares and the date of payment by the Fund may be suspended for more than seven days for any period during which the New York Stock Exchange is closed, other than the customary weekends or holidays, or when trading on such Exchange is restricted as determined by the SEC; or during any emergency, as determined by the SEC, as a result of which it is not reasonably practicable for the Fund to dispose of securities owned by it or fairly to determine the value of its net assets; or for such other period as the SEC may by order permit for the protection of shareholders of the Fund. (The Trust may also suspend or postpone the recordation of the transfer of shares upon the occurrence of any of the foregoing conditions.)

The Prospectuses and this Additional Statement do not contain all the information included in the Registration Statement filed with the SEC under the 1933 Act with respect to the securities offered by the Prospectuses. Certain portions of the Registration Statement have been omitted from the Prospectuses and this Additional Statement pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. The Registration Statement including the exhibits filed therewith may be examined at the office of the SEC in Washington, D.C.

Statements contained in the Prospectuses or in this Additional Statement as to the contents of any contract or other document referred to are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance, reference is made to the copy of such contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which the Prospectuses and this Additional Statement form a part, each such statement being qualified in all respects by such reference.

OTHER INFORMATION REGARDING PURCHASES,
REDEMPTIONS, EXCHANGES AND DIVIDENDS
(Class A Shares and Class C Shares Only)

The following information supplements the information in the Prospectuses under the captions “Shareholder Guide” and “Dividends.” Please see the Prospectuses for more complete information.

Other Purchase Information

The sales load waivers on the Fund’s shares are due to the nature of the investors involved and/or the reduced sales effort that is needed to obtain such investments.

If shares of the Fund are held in a “street name” account with an Authorized Dealer, all recordkeeping, transaction processing and payments of distributions relating to the beneficial owner’s

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account will be performed by the Authorized Dealer, and not by the Fund and its Transfer Agent. Since the Fund will have no record of the beneficial owner’s transactions, a beneficial owner should contact the Authorized Dealer to purchase, redeem or exchange shares, to make changes in or give instructions concerning the account or to obtain information about the account. The transfer of shares in a “street name” account to an account with another dealer or to an account directly with the Fund involves special procedures and will require the beneficial owner to obtain historical purchase information about the shares in the account from the Authorized Dealer.

Right of Accumulation — (Class A)

A Class A shareholder qualifies for cumulative quantity discounts if the current purchase price of the new investment plus the shareholder’s current holdings of existing Class A and/or Class C Shares (acquired by purchase or exchange) of the Fund and Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares of any other Goldman Sachs Fund total the requisite amount for receiving a discount. For example, if a shareholder owns shares with a current market value of $65,000 and purchases additional Class A Shares of the Fund with a purchase price of $45,000, the sales charge for the $45,000 purchase would be 3.0% (the rate applicable to a single purchase of $100,000 or more). Class A Shares purchased without the imposition of a sales charge and shares of another class of the Fund may not be aggregated with Class A and/or Class C Shares purchased subject to a sales charge. Class A and/or Class C Shares of the Fund and any other Goldman Sachs Fund purchased (i) by an individual, his spouse and his children; and (ii) by a trustee, guardian or other fiduciary of a single trust estate or a single fiduciary account, will be combined for the purpose of determining whether a purchase will qualify for such right of accumulation and, if qualifying, the applicable sales charge level. For purposes of applying the right of accumulation, shares of the Fund and any other Goldman Sachs Fund purchased by an existing client of Goldman Sachs Wealth Management or GS Ayco Holding LLC will be combined with Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares and other assets held by all other Goldman Sachs Wealth Management accounts or accounts of GS Ayco Holding LLC, respectively. In addition, Class A and/or Class C Shares of the Fund and Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares of any other Goldman Sachs Fund purchased by partners, directors, officers or employees of the same business organization or by groups of individuals represented by and investing on the recommendation of the same accounting firm, certain affinity groups or other similar organizations (collectively, “eligible persons”) may be combined for the purpose of determining whether a purchase will qualify for the right of accumulation and, if qualifying, the applicable sales charge level. This right of accumulation is subject to the following conditions: (i) the business organization’s, group’s or firm’s agreement to cooperate in the offering of the Fund’s shares to eligible persons; and (ii) notification to the Fund at the time of purchase that the investor is eligible for this right of accumulation. In addition, in connection with SIMPLE IRA accounts, cumulative quantity discounts are available on a per plan basis if (i) your employee has been assigned a cumulative discount number by Goldman Sachs; and (ii) your account, alone or in combination with the accounts of other plan participants also invested in Class A, Class B and/or Class C Shares of the Goldman Sachs Funds totals the requisite aggregate amount as described in the Prospectuses.

Statement of Intention — (Class A)

If a shareholder anticipates purchasing at least $100,000, not counting reinvestments of dividends and distributions, of Class A Shares of the Fund alone or in combination with Class A Shares of any other Goldman Sachs Fund within a 13-month period, the shareholder may purchase shares of the Fund at a reduced sales charge by submitting a Statement of Intention (the “Statement”). Shares purchased pursuant to a Statement will be eligible for the same sales charge discount that would have been available if all of the purchases had been made at the same time. The shareholder or his Authorized Dealer must inform Goldman Sachs that the Statement is in effect each time shares are purchased. There is no obligation to purchase the full amount of shares indicated in the Statement. A shareholder may include the

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value of all Class A Shares on which a sales charge has previously been paid as an “accumulation credit” toward the completion of the Statement, but a price readjustment will be made only on Class A Shares purchased within 90 days before submitting the Statement. The Statement authorizes the Transfer Agent to hold in escrow a sufficient number of shares which can be redeemed to make up any difference in the sales charge on the amount actually invested. For purposes of satisfying the amount specified on the Statement, the gross amount of each investment, exclusive of any appreciation on shares previously purchased, will be taken into account.

The provisions applicable to the Statement, and the terms of the related escrow agreement, are set forth in Appendix D to this Additional Statement.

Cross-Reinvestment of Dividends and Distributions

Shareholders may receive dividends and distributions in additional shares of the same class of the Fund in which they have invested or they may elect to receive them in cash or shares of the same class of other mutual funds sponsored by Goldman Sachs (the “Goldman Sachs Funds”) or ILA Service Shares of the Prime Obligations Fund or the Tax-Exempt Diversified Fund, if they hold Class A Shares of the Fund, or ILA Class C Shares of the Prime Obligations Fund, if they hold Class C Shares of the Fund (the “ILA Funds”).

A Fund shareholder should obtain and read the prospectus relating to the other Goldman Sachs Fund or ILA Fund and its shares and consider its investment objective, policies and applicable fees before electing cross-reinvestment into the Fund. The election to cross-reinvest dividends and capital gain distributions will not affect the tax treatment of such dividends and distributions, which will be treated as received by the shareholder and then used to purchase shares of the acquired fund. Such reinvestment of dividends and distributions in shares of other Goldman Sachs Funds or ILA Funds is available only in states where such reinvestment may legally be made.

Automatic Exchange Program

A Fund shareholder may elect to exchange automatically a specified dollar amount of shares of the Fund for shares of the same class or an equivalent class of another Goldman Sachs Fund involving either an identical account or an account registered in a different name or with a different address, social security or other taxpayer identification number, provided in each case that the account in the acquired fund has been established, appropriate signatures have been obtained and the minimum initial investment requirement has been satisfied. A Fund shareholder should obtain and read the prospectus relating to the other Goldman Sachs Fund and its shares and consider its investment objective, policies and applicable fees and expenses before electing an automatic exchange into that Goldman Sachs Fund.

Class C Exchanges

As stated in the Prospectuses, Goldman Sachs normally begins paying the annual 0.75% distribution fee on Class C Shares to Authorized Dealers after the shares have been held for one year. When an Authorized Dealer enters into an appropriate agreement with Goldman Sachs and stops receiving this payment on Class C Shares that have been beneficially owned by the Authorized Dealer’s customers for at least ten years, those Class C Shares may be exchanged for Class A Shares (which bear a lower distribution fee) of the Fund at their relative net asset value without a sales charge in recognition of the reduced payment to the Authorized Dealer.

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Systematic Withdrawal Plan

A systematic withdrawal plan (the “Systematic Withdrawal Plan”) is available to shareholders of the Fund whose shares are worth at least $5,000. The Systematic Withdrawal Plan provides for monthly payments to the participating shareholder of any amount not less than $50.

Dividends and capital gain distributions on shares held under the Systematic Withdrawal Plan are reinvested in additional full and fractional shares of the Fund at net asset value. The Transfer Agent acts as agent for the shareholder in redeeming sufficient full and fractional shares to provide the amount of the systematic withdrawal payment. The Systematic Withdrawal Plan may be terminated at any time. Goldman Sachs reserves the right to initiate a fee of up to $5 per withdrawal, upon 30 days written notice to the shareholder. Withdrawal payments should not be considered to be dividends, yield or income. If periodic withdrawals continuously exceed new purchases and reinvested dividends and capital gains distributions, the shareholder’s original investment will be correspondingly reduced and ultimately exhausted. The maintenance of a withdrawal plan concurrently with purchases of additional Class A ,or Class C Shares would be disadvantageous because of the sales charge imposed on purchases of Class A Shares or the imposition of a CDSC on redemptions of Class A and Class C Shares. The CDSC applicable to Class C Shares redeemed under a Systematic Withdrawal Plan may be waived. See “Shareholder Guide” in the Prospectuses. In addition, each withdrawal constitutes a redemption of shares, and any gain or loss realized must be reported for federal and state income tax purposes. A shareholder should consult his or her own tax adviser with regard to the tax consequences of participating in the Systematic Withdrawal Plan. For further information or to request a Systematic Withdrawal Plan, please write or call the Transfer Agent.

Offering Price of Class A Shares

Class A Shares of the Fund are sold at a maximum sales charge of 4.5%. Using the initial net asset value per share, the maximum offering price of the Fund’s Class A Shares would be as follows:


	Net Asset		Maximum			Offering Price
Fund	Value		Sales Charge			to Public

Tennessee Municipal	$	10.00		4.5	%	$	10.45

The actual sales charge that is paid by an investor on the purchase of Class A Shares may differ slightly from the sales charge listed above or in the Fund’s Prospectuses due to rounding in the calculations. For example, the sales load disclosed above and in the Fund’s Prospectuses is only shown to one decimal place (i.e., 4.5%). The actual sales charge that is paid by an investor will be rounded to two decimal places. As a result of such rounding in the calculations, the actual sales load paid by an investor may be somewhat greater (4.53%) or somewhat lesser (4.48%) than that listed above or in the Prospectuses. Contact your financial advisor for further information.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

A copy of the Fund’s annual reports (when available) may be obtained upon request and without charge by writing Goldman, Sachs & Co., P.O. Box 06050, Chicago, Illinois 60606 or by calling Goldman, Sachs & Co., at the telephone number on the back cover of the Fund’s Prospectuses. The semi-annual report for the fiscal period ending April 30, 2006 will become available to shareholders in June 2006. The annual report for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2006 will become available to shareholders in December 2006. The audited financial statements and related report of Deloitte & Touche

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LLP, independent registered public accounting firm for the Predecessor Fund, contained in such Predecessor Fund’s 2005 Annual Report are incorporated herein by reference. The financial statements in each Fund’s Annual Report have been incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon such report given upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing. No other parts of any Annual Report are incorporated by reference herein. A copy of the Predecessor Fund Annual Report may be obtained upon request and without charge by writing Goldman, Sachs & Co., P.O. Box 06050, Chicago, Illinois 60606 or by calling Goldman, Sachs & Co., at the telephone number on the back cover of the Fund’s Prospectus.

DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE PLANS
(Class A Shares and Class C Shares Only)

Distribution and Service Plans. As described in the Prospectus, the Trust has adopted, on behalf of Class A and Class C Shares of the Fund, distribution and service plans (each a “Plan”). See “Shareholder Guide — Distribution and Service Fees” in the Prospectus. The distribution fees payable under the Plans are subject to Rule 12b-1 under the Act and finance distribution and other services that are provided to investors in the Fund and enable the Fund to offer investors the choice of investing in either Class A or Class C Shares when investing in the Fund. In addition, the distribution fees payable under the Plans may be used to assist the Fund in reaching and maintaining asset levels that are efficient for the Fund’s operations and investments.

The Plans for the Fund were approved by a majority vote of the Trustees of the Trust, including a majority of the non-interested Trustees of the Trust who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plans, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of approving the Plans on November 2, 2005.

The compensation for distribution services payable under a Plan to Goldman Sachs may not exceed 0.25% and 0.75% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class A and Class C Shares, respectively, of the Fund.

Under the Plan for Class C Shares, Goldman Sachs is also entitled to received a separate fee for personal and account maintenance services equal to an annual basis of 0.25% of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class C Shares. With respect to Class A Shares, the Distributor at its discretion may use compensation for distribution services paid under the Plan for personal and account maintenance services and expenses so long as such total compensation under the Plan does not exceed the maximum cap on “service fees” imposed by the NASD.

Each Plan is a compensation plan which provides for the payment of a specified fee without regard to the expenses actually incurred by Goldman Sachs. If such fee exceeds Goldman Sachs’ expenses, Goldman Sachs may realize a profit from these arrangements. The distribution fees received by Goldman Sachs under the Plans and CDSC on Class A and Class C Shares may be sold by Goldman Sachs as distributor to entities which provide financing for payments to Authorized Dealers in respect of sales of Class A and Class C Shares. To the extent such fees are not paid to such dealers, Goldman Sachs may retain such fees as compensation for its services and expenses of distributing the Fund’s Class A and Class C Shares.

Under each Plan, Goldman Sachs, as distributor of the Fund’s Class A and Class C Shares, will provide to the Trustees of the Trust for their review, and the Trustees of the Trust will review at least quarterly a written report of the services provided and amounts expended by Goldman Sachs under the Plans and the purposes for which such services were performed and expenditures were made.

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The Plans will remain in effect until June 30, 2006 and from year to year thereafter, provided that such continuance is approved annually by a majority vote of the Trustees of the Trust, including a majority of the non-interested Trustees of the Trust who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plans. The Plans may not be amended to increase materially the amount of distribution compensation described therein without approval of a majority of the outstanding Class A or Class C Shares of the Fund and affected share class but may be amended without shareholder approval to increase materially the amount of non-distribution compensation. All material amendments of a Plan must also be approved by the Trustees of the Trust in the manner described above. A Plan may be terminated at any time as to the Fund without payment of any penalty by a vote of a majority of the non-interested Trustees of the Trust or by vote of a majority of the Class A or Class C Shares, respectively, of the affected Fund and affected share class. If a Plan was terminated by the Trustees of the Trust and no successor plan was adopted, the Fund would cease to make payments to Goldman Sachs under the Plan and Goldman Sachs would be unable to recover the amount of any of its unreimbursed expenditures. So long as a Plan is in effect, the selection and nomination of non-interested Trustees of the Trust will be committed to the discretion of the non-interested Trustees of the Trust. The Trustees of the Trust have determined that in their judgment there is a reasonable likelihood that the Plans will benefit the Fund and their Class A and Class C shareholders.

Predecessor Fund Distribution Plan. The Predecessor Fund’s Class B and Class C Shares were subject to a Distribution Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class B Plan, ADI was paid a monthly 12b-1 (distribution) fee at the annual rate of up to 0.75% of Class B’s average daily net assets for the Predecessor Fund. Pursuant to the Class C Plan, ADI was paid a monthly 12b-1 (distribution) fee at the annual rate of up to 0.75% of Class C’s average daily net assets for the Predecessor Fund.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, Classes B and C of the Predecessor Fund paid distribution fees in the following amounts:


	Total		Fees Paid to		Fees Paid to
	Distribution Fees		Intermediaries		First Tennessee		Fees Paid to ADI

Predecessor Fund
Class B	$	20,172	$	0	$	20,172	$	0
Class C	$	25,895	$	21,547	$	4,348	$	0

Predecessor Fund Shareholder Services Plan. In addition to the Rule 12b-1 Distribution Plan described above, Classes A, B and C Shares of the Predecessor Fund adopted a Shareholder Services Plan which paid a service fee at the annual rate of up to 0.25% of average net assets of Classes A and C and up to 0.10% of average net assets of Class B Shares of the Predecessor Fund. The Predecessor Fund’s shareholder servicing fees for Class C were never authorized by the Predecessor Fund’s Board of Trustees.

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APPENDIX A

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES RATINGS

Short-Term Credit Ratings

A Standard & Poor’s short-term issue credit rating is a current opinion of the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to a specific financial obligation having an original maturity of no more than 365 days. The following summarizes the rating categories used by Standard & Poor’s for short-term issues:

“A-1” — Obligations are rated in the highest category and indicate that the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on these obligations is extremely strong.

“A-2” — Obligations are somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.

“A-3” — Obligations exhibit adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“B” — Obligations have significant speculative characteristics. The obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“C” — Obligations are currently vulnerable to nonpayment and are dependent upon favorable business, financial and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“D” — Obligations are in payment default. The “D” rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poor’s believes that such payments will be made during such grace period. The “D” rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.

Local Currency and Foreign Currency Risks — Country risk considerations are a standard part of Standard & Poor’s analysis for credit ratings on any issuer or issue. Currency of repayment is a key factor in this analysis. An obligor’s capacity to repay Foreign Currency obligations may be lower than its capacity to repay obligations in its local currency due to the sovereign government’s own relatively lower capacity to repay external versus domestic debt. These sovereign risk considerations are incorporated in the debt ratings assigned to specific issues. Foreign Currency issuer ratings are also distinguished from local currency issuer ratings to identify those instances where sovereign risks make them different for the same issuer.

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Moody’s short-term ratings are opinions of the ability of issuers to honor short-term financial obligations. These obligations have an original maturity not exceeding thirteen months, unless explicitly noted. The following summarizes the rating categories used by Moody’s for short-term obligations:

“P-1” — Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-1 have a superior ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

“P-2” — Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-2 have a strong ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

“P-3” — Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-3 have an acceptable ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

“NP” — Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Not Prime do not fall within any of the Prime rating categories.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. (“Fitch”) short-term ratings apply to time horizons of less than 12 months for most obligations, or up to three years for U.S. public finance securities, and thus place greater emphasis on the liquidity necessary to meet financial commitments in a timely manner. The following summarizes the rating categories used by Fitch for short-term obligations:

“F1” — Securities possess the highest credit quality. This designation indicates the strongest capacity for timely payment of financial commitments and may have an added “+” to denote any exceptionally strong credit feature.

“F2” — Securities possess good credit quality. This designation indicates a satisfactory capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, but the margin of safety is not as great as in the case of the higher ratings.

“F3” — Securities possess fair credit quality. This designation indicates that the capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is adequate; however, near-term adverse changes could result in a reduction to non-investment grade.

“B” — Securities possess speculative credit quality. This designation indicates minimal capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, plus vulnerability to near-term adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.

“C” — Securities possess high default risk. Default is a real possibility. This designation indicates a capacity for meeting financial commitments which is solely reliant upon a sustained, favorable business and economic environment.

“D” — Securities are in actual or imminent payment default.

The following summarizes the ratings used by Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited (“DBRS”) for commercial paper and short-term debt:

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“R-1 (high)” — Short-term debt rated “R-1 (high)” is of the highest credit quality, and indicates an entity possessing an unquestioned ability to repay current liabilities as they fall due. Entities rated in this category normally maintain strong liquidity positions, conservative debt levels and profitability that is both stable and above average. Companies achieving an “R-1 (high)” rating are normally leaders in structurally sound industry segments with proven track records, sustainable positive future results and no substantial qualifying negative factors. Given the extremely tough definition which DBRS has established for an “R-1 (high)”, few entities are strong enough to achieve this rating.

“R-1 (middle)” — Short-term debt rated “R-1 (middle)” is of superior credit quality and, in most cases, ratings in this category differ from “R-1 (high)” credits by only a small degree. Given the extremely tough definition which DBRS has established for the “R-1 (high)” category, entities rated “R-1 (middle)” are also considered strong credits which typically exemplify above average strength in key areas of consideration for timely repayment of short-term liabilities.

“R-1 (low)” — Short-term debt rated “R-1 (low)” is of satisfactory credit quality. The overall strength and outlook for key liquidity, debt and profitability ratios are not normally as favorable as with higher rating categories, but these considerations are still respectable. Any qualifying negative factors which exist are considered manageable, and the entity is normally of sufficient size to have some influence in its industry.

“R-2 (high)” — Short-term debt rated R-2 (high) is considered to be at the upper end of adequate credit quality. The ability to repay obligations as they mature remains acceptable, although the overall strength and outlook for key liquidity, debt, and profitability ratios are not as strong as credits rated in the R-1 (low) category. Relative to the latter category, other shortcomings often include areas such as stability, financial flexibility, and the relative size and market position of the entity within its industry.

“R-2 (middle) — Short-term debt rated R-2 (middle) is considered to be of adequate credit quality. Relative to the R-2 (high) category, entities rated R-2 (middle) typically have some combination of higher volatility, weaker debt or liquidity positions, lower future cash flow capabilities, or hold a weaker industry position. Ratings in this category would also be more vulnerable to adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.

“R-2 (low)” — Short-term debt rated R-2 (low) is considered to be of only just adequate credit quality, one step up from being speculative. While not yet defined as speculative, the R-2 (low) category signifies that although, repayment is still expected, the certainty of repayment could be impacted by a variety of possible adverse developments, many of which would be outside of the issuer’s control. Entities in this area often have limited access to capital markets and may also have limitations in securing alternative sources of liquidity, particularly during periods of weak economic conditions.

“R-3 (high)”, “R-3 (middle)”, “R-3 (low)” — Short-term debt rated “R-3” is speculative, and within the three subset grades, the capacity for timely payment ranges from mildly speculative to doubtful. “R-3” credits tend to have weak liquidity and debt ratios, and the future trend of these ratios is also unclear. Due to its speculative nature, companies with “R-3” ratings would normally have very limited access to alternative sources of liquidity. Earnings and cash flow would typically be very unstable, and the level of overall profitability of the entity is also likely to be low. The industry environment may be weak, and strong negative qualifying factors are also likely to be present.

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“D” — Short-term debt rated “D” is in arrears. A security rated D implies the issuer has either not met a scheduled payment or the issuer has made it clear that it will be missing such a payment in the near future. In some cases, DBRS may not assign a D rating under a bankruptcy announcement scenario, as allowances for grace periods may exist in the underlying legal documentation. Once assigned, the D rating will continue as long as the missed payment continues to be in arrears, and until such time as the rating is suspended, discontinued, or reinstated by DBRS.

Long-Term Credit Ratings

The following summarizes the ratings used by Standard & Poor’s for long-term issues:

“AAA” — An obligation rated “AAA” has the highest rating assigned by Standard & Poor’s. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.

“AA” — An obligation rated “AA” differs from the highest rated obligations only in small degree. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.

“A” — An obligation rated “A” is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.

“BBB” — An obligation rated “BBB” exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

Obligations rated “BB,” “B,” “CCC,” “CC”, and “C” are regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. “BB” indicates the least degree of speculation and “C” the highest. While such obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.

“BB” — An obligation rated “BB” is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“B” — An obligation rated “B” is more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated “BB,” but the obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. Adverse business, financial or economic conditions will likely impair the obligor’s capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“CCC” — An obligation rated “CCC” is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

“CC” — An obligation rated “CC” is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.

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“C” — The “C” rating may be used to cover a situation where a bankruptcy petition has been filed or similar action has been taken, but payments on this obligation are being continued.

“D” — An obligation rated “D” is in payment default. The “D” rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poor’s believes that such payment will be made during such grace period. The “D” rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.

“r” — The symbol “r” is attached to the ratings of instruments with significant noncredit risks. It highlights risks to principal or volatility of expected returns which are not addressed in the credit rating.

“N.R.” — An “N.R.” attached to an obligation indicates that no rating has been requested, that there is insufficient information on which to base a rating, or that Standard & Poor’s does not rate a particular obligation as a matter of policy.

— PLUS (+) OR MINUS (-) — The ratings from “AA” through “CCC” may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

The following summarizes the ratings used by Moody’s for long-term debt:

“Aaa” — Obligations rated “Aaa” are judged to be of the highest quality, with minimal credit risk.

“Aa” — Obligations rated “Aa” are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.

“A” — Obligations rated “A” are considered upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.

“Baa” — Obligations rated “Baa” are subject to moderate credit risk. They are considered medium-grade and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics.

“Ba” — Obligations rated “Ba” are judged to have speculative elements and are subject to substantial credit risk.

“B” — Obligations rated “B” are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk.

“Caa” — Obligations rated “Caa” are judged to be of poor standing and are subject to very high credit risk.

“Ca” — Obligations rated “Ca” are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some prospect of recovery of principal and interest.

“C” — Obligations rated “C” are the lowest rated class of bonds and are typically in default, with little prospect for recovery of principal or interest.

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Note: Moody’s applies numerical modifiers 1, 2, and 3 in each generic rating classification from “Aa” through “Caa.” The modifier 1 indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category; the modifier 2 indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier 3 indicates a ranking in the lower end of that generic rating category.

The following summarizes long-term ratings used by Fitch:

“AAA” — Securities considered to be investment grade and of the highest credit quality. These ratings denote the lowest expectation of credit risk and are assigned only in case of exceptionally strong capacity for timely payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.

“AA” — Securities considered to be investment grade and of very high credit quality. These ratings denote a very low expectation of credit risk and indicate very strong capacity for timely payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.

“A” — Securities considered to be investment grade and of high credit quality. These ratings denote a low expectation of credit risk. The capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to changes in circumstances or in economic conditions than is the case for higher ratings.

“BBB” — Securities considered to be investment grade and of good credit quality. These ratings denote that there is currently a low expectation of credit risk. The capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is considered adequate, but adverse changes in circumstances and in economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity. This is the lowest investment-grade category.

“BB” — Securities considered to be speculative. These ratings indicate that there is a possibility of credit risk developing, particularly as the result of adverse economic change over time; however, business or financial alternatives may be available to allow financial commitments to be met. Securities rated in this category are not investment grade.

“B” — Securities considered to be highly speculative. These ratings indicate that significant credit risk is present, but a limited margin of safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met; however, capacity for continued payment is contingent upon a sustained, favorable business and economic environment.

“CCC,” “CC” and “C” — Securities have high default risk. Default is a real possibility, and capacity for meeting financial commitments is solely reliant upon sustained, favorable business or economic developments. “CC” ratings indicate that default of some kind appears probable, and “C” ratings signal imminent default.

“DDD,” “DD” and “D” — Securities are in default. The ratings of obligations in these categories are based on their prospects for achieving partial or full recovery in a reorganization or liquidation of the obligor.

Entities rated in this category have defaulted on some or all of their obligations. Entities rated “DDD” have the highest prospect for resumption of performance or continued operation with or

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without a formal reorganization process. Entities rated “DD” and “D” are generally undergoing a formal reorganization or liquidation process; those rated “DD” are likely to satisfy a higher portion of their outstanding obligations, while entities rated “D” have a poor prospect of repaying all obligations.

PLUS (+) or MINUS (-) may be appended to a rating to denote relative status within major rating categories. Such suffixes are not added to the “AAA” category or to categories below “CCC”.

The following summarizes the ratings used by DBRS for long-term debt:

“AAA” — Bonds rated “AAA” are of the highest credit quality, with exceptionally strong protection for the timely repayment of principal and interest. Earnings are considered stable, the structure of the industry in which the entity operates is strong, and the outlook for future profitability is favorable. There are few qualifying factors present which would detract from the performance of the entity. The strength of liquidity and coverage ratios is unquestioned and the entity has established a creditable track record of superior performance. Given the extremely high standard which DBRS has set for this category, few entities are able to achieve a “AAA” rating.

“AA” — Bonds rated “AA” are of superior credit quality, and protection of interest and principal is considered high. In many cases, they differ from bonds rated “AAA” only to a small degree. Given the extremely restrictive definition which DBRS has for the “AAA” category, entities rated “AA” are also considered to be strong credits which typically exemplify above-average strength in key areas of consideration and are unlikely to be significantly affected by reasonably foreseeable events.

“A” — Bonds rated “A” are of satisfactory credit quality. Protection of interest and principal is still substantial, but the degree of strength is less than with “AA”-rated entities. While “A” is a respectable rating, entities in this category are considered to be more susceptible to adverse economic conditions and have greater cyclical tendencies than higher-rated securities.

“BBB” — Bonds rated “BBB” are of adequate credit quality. Protection of interest and principal is considered acceptable, but the entity is fairly susceptible to adverse changes in financial and economic conditions, or there may be other adverse conditions present which reduce the strength of the entity and its rated securities.

“BB” — Bonds rated “BB” are defined to be speculative and non investment-grade, where the degree of protection afforded interest and principal is uncertain, particularly during periods of economic recession. Entities in the “BB” range typically have limited access to capital markets and additional liquidity support. In many cases, deficiencies in critical mass, diversification and competitive strength are additional negative considerations.

“B” — Bonds rated “B” are highly speculative and there is a reasonably high level of uncertainty as to the ability of the entity to pay interest and principal on a continuing basis in the future, especially in periods of economic recession or industry adversity.

“CCC” / “CC” / “C” — Bonds rated in any of these categories are very highly speculative and are in danger of default of interest and principal. The degree of adverse elements present is more severe than long-term bonds rated “B”. Long-term bonds rated below “B” often have characteristics which, if not remedied, may lead to default. In practice, there is little difference between the “CCC” to

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“C” categories, with “CC” and “C” normally used for lower ranking debt of companies where the senior debt is rated in the “CCC” to “B” range.

“D” — Long-term debt rated “D” is in arrears. A security rated “D” implies the issuer has either not met a scheduled payment of interest or principal or that the issuer has made it clear that it will miss such a payment in the near future. In some cases, DBRS may not assign a “D” rating under a bankruptcy announcement scenario, as allowances for grace periods may exist in the underlying legal documentation. Once assigned, the “D” rating will continue as long as the missed payment continues to be in arrears, and until such time as the rating is suspended, discontinued or reinstated by DBRS.

(“high”, “low”) — Each rating category is denoted by the subcategories “high” and “low”. The absence of either a “high” or “low” designation indicates the rating is in the “middle” of the category. The “AAA” and “D” categories do not utilize “high”, “middle”, and “low” as differential grades.

Municipal Note Ratings

A Standard & Poor’s note rating reflects the liquidity factors and market access risks unique to notes due in three years or less. The following summarizes the ratings used by Standard & Poor’s for municipal notes:

“SP-1” — The issuers of these municipal notes exhibit a strong capacity to pay principal and interest. Those issues determined to possess a very strong capacity to pay debt service are given a plus (+) designation.

“SP-2” — The issuers of these municipal notes exhibit a satisfactory capacity to pay principal and interest, with some vulnerability to adverse financial and economic changes over the term of the notes.

“SP-3” — The issuers of these municipal notes exhibit speculative capacity to pay principal and interest.

Moody’s uses three rating categories for short-term municipal obligations that are considered investment grade. These ratings are designated as Municipal Investment Grade (“MIG”) and are divided into three levels — “MIG-1” through “MIG-3”. In addition, those short-term obligations that are of speculative quality are designated “SG”, or speculative grade. MIG ratings expire at the maturity of the obligation. The following summarized the ratings by Moody’s for these short-term obligations:

“MIG-1” — This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by established cash flows, highly reliable liquidity support or demonstrated broad-based access to the market for refinancing.

“MIG-2” — This designation denotes strong credit quality. Margins of protection are ample, although not as large as in the preceding group.

“MIG-3” — This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Liquidity and cash-flow protection may be narrow, and market access for refinancing is likely to be less well-established.

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“SG” — This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Debt instruments in this category may lack sufficient margins of protection.

In the case of variable rate demand obligations (“VRDOs”), a two-component rating is assigned; a long- or short-term debt rating and a demand obligation rating. The first element represents Moody’s evaluation of the degree of risk associated with scheduled principal and interest payments. The second element represents Moody’s evaluation of the degree of risk associated with the ability to receive purchase price upon demand (“demand feature”), using a variation of the MIG rating scale, the Variable Municipal Investment Grade or “VMIG” rating.

When either the long- or short-term aspect of a VRDO is not rated, that piece is designated “NR”, e.g., “Aaa/NR” or “NR/VMIG-1”.

VMIG rating expirations are a function of each issue’s specific structural or credit features.

“VMIG-1” — This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by the superior short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

“VMIG-2” — This designation denotes strong credit quality. Good protection is afforded by the strong short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

“VMIG-3” — This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Adequate protection is afforded by the satisfactory short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

“SG” — This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Demand features rated in this category may be supported by a liquidity provider that does not have an investment grade short-term rating or may lack the structural and/or legal protections necessary to ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

Fitch uses the same ratings for municipal securities as described above for other short-term credit ratings.

About Credit Ratings

A Standard & Poor’s issue credit rating is a current opinion of the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to a specific financial obligation. The issue credit rating is not a recommendation to purchase, sell or hold a financial obligation. Credit ratings may be changed, suspended or withdrawn.

Moody’s credit ratings must be construed solely as statements of opinion and not as recommendations to purchase, sell or hold any securities.

Fitch credit ratings are an opinion on the ability of an entity or a securities issue to meet financial commitments on a timely basis. Fitch credit ratings are used by investors as indications of the likelihood of repayment in accordance with the terms on which they invested. However, Fitch credit

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APPENDIX B

ISS PROXY VOTING GUIDELINES SUMMARY

The following is a summary of certain of the ISS Proxy Voting Guidelines, which form the substantive basis of the Investment Adviser’s Policy on Proxy Voting (“Policy”) with respect to public equity investments. Unlike the abbreviated nature of this summary, the actual ISS Proxy Voting Guidelines address additional voting matters and provide more discussion regarding the factors that may determine ISS’s position on a matter. The Investment Adviser may diverge from the ISS guidelines and a related ISS recommendation on any particular proxy vote or in connection with any individual investment decision.

Auditors

Vote FOR proposals to ratify auditors, unless any of the following apply:

•		An auditor has a financial interest in or association with the company, and is therefore not independent,

•		Fees for non-audit services are excessive, or

•		There is reason to believe that the independent auditor has rendered an opinion which is neither accurate nor indicative of the company’s financial position.

2.		Board of Directors

a.		Voting on Director Nominees in Uncontested Elections

Votes on director nominees should be made on a CASE-BY-CASE basis, examining, among other factors, the following factors: composition of the board and key board committees, attendance at board meetings, corporate governance provisions and takeover activity, long-term company performance relative to a market index, and whether the chairman is also serving as a CEO.

Classification/Declassification of the Board

Vote AGAINST proposals to classify the board.

Vote FOR proposals to repeal classified boards and to elect all directors annually.

Independent Chairman (Separate Chairman/CEO)

Generally vote FOR shareholder proposals requiring the position of chairman to be filled by an independent director unless there are compelling reasons to recommend against the proposal.

Majority of Independent Directors/Establishment of Committees

Vote FOR shareholder proposals asking that a majority or more of directors be independent unless the board composition already meets the proposed threshold by ISS’s definition of independence.

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Vote FOR shareholder proposals asking that board audit, compensation, and/or nominating committees be composed exclusively of independent directors if they currently do not meet that standard.

3.		Shareholder Rights

a.		Shareholder Ability to Act by Written Consent

Vote AGAINST proposals to restrict or prohibit shareholder ability to take action by written consent.

Vote FOR proposals to allow or make easier shareholder action by written consent.

Shareholder Ability to Call Special Meetings

Vote AGAINST proposals to restrict or prohibit shareholder ability to call special meetings.

Vote FOR proposals that remove restrictions on the right of shareholders to act independently of management.

Supermajority Vote Requirements

Vote AGAINST proposals to require a supermajority shareholder vote.

Vote FOR proposals to lower supermajority vote requirements.

Cumulative Voting

Vote AGAINST proposals to eliminate cumulative voting.

Vote proposals to restore or permit cumulative voting on a CASE-BY-CASE basis relative to the company’s other governance provisions.

Confidential Voting

Vote FOR shareholder proposals requesting that corporations adopt confidential voting, use independent vote tabulators and use independent inspectors of election, as long as the proposal includes a provision for proxy contests as follows: In the case of a contested election, management should be permitted to request that the dissident group honor its confidential voting policy. If the dissidents agree, the policy remains in place. If the dissidents will not agree, the confidential voting policy is waived.

Vote FOR management proposals to adopt confidential voting.

4.		Proxy Contests

a.		Voting for Director Nominees in Contested Elections

Votes in a contested election of directors must be evaluated on a CASE-BY-CASE basis, considering the factors that include, among others, the long-term financial performance, management’s track

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record, qualifications of director nominees (both slates), and an evaluation of what each side is offering shareholders.

Reimbursing Proxy Solicitation Expenses

Vote CASE-BY-CASE. Where ISS recommends in favor of the dissidents, ISS also recommends voting for reimbursing proxy solicitation expenses.

Poison Pills

Vote FOR shareholder proposals that ask a company to submit its poison pill to shareholder vote or redeem it.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Vote CASE-BY-CASE on mergers and acquisitions based on such features, among others, as the fairness opinion, pricing, prospects of the combined company, and the negotiating process.

Reincorporation Proposals

Proposals to change a company’s state of incorporation should be evaluated on a CASE-BY-CASE basis, giving consideration to both financial and corporate governance concerns, including the reasons for reincorporating, a comparison of the governance provisions, and a comparison of the jurisdictional laws. Vote FOR reincorporation when the economic factors outweigh any neutral or negative governance changes.

8.		Capital Structure

a.		Common Stock Authorization

Votes on proposals to increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance are determined on a CASE-BY-CASE basis using a model developed by ISS.

Vote AGAINST proposals at companies with dual-class capital structures to increase the number of authorized shares of the class of stock that has superior voting rights.

Vote FOR proposals to approve increases beyond the allowable increase when a company’s shares are in danger of being de-listed or if a company’s ability to continue to operate as a going concern is uncertain.

Dual-class Stock

Vote AGAINST proposals to create a new class of common stock with superior voting rights.

Vote FOR proposals to create a new class of non-voting or sub-voting common stock if:

•

It is intended for financing purposes with minimal or no dilution to current shareholders

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•		It is not designed to preserve the voting power of an insider or significant shareholder

9.		Executive and Director Compensation

Votes with respect to equity based compensation plans should be determined on a CASE-BY-CASE basis. The ISS methodology for reviewing compensation plans primarily focuses on the transfer of shareholder wealth (the dollar cost of pay plans to shareholders instead of simply focusing on voting power dilution). Using the expanded compensation data disclosed under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules, ISS will value every award type. ISS will include in its analyses an estimated dollar cost for the proposed plan and all continuing plans. This cost, dilution to shareholders’ equity, will also be expressed as a percentage figure for the transfer of shareholder wealth, and will be considered along with dilution to voting power. Once ISS determines the estimated cost of the plan, ISS compares it to a company-specific dilution cap.

Vote AGAINST equity plans that explicitly permit repricing of underwater stock options without shareholder approval.

Management Proposals Seeking Approval to Reprice Options

Votes on management proposals seeking approval to reprice options are evaluated on a CASE-BY-CASE basis giving consideration to the following:

•		Historic trading patterns

•		Rationale for the repricing

•		Value-for-value exchange

•		Option vesting

•		Term of the option

•		Exercise price

•		Participation

b.		Employee Stock Purchase Plans

Votes on employee stock purchase plans should be determined on a CASE-BY-CASE basis.

Vote FOR employee stock purchase plans where all of the following apply:

•		Purchase price is at least 85 percent of fair market value;

•		Offering period is 27 months or less; and

•		Potential voting power dilution is ten percent or less.

Vote AGAINST employee stock purchase plans where any of the opposite conditions obtain.

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Shareholder Proposals on Compensation

Generally, vote FOR shareholder proposals seeking additional disclosure of executive and director pay information and shareholder proposals to put option repricings to a shareholder vote. Vote AGAINST shareholder proposals seeking to set absolute levels on compensation or otherwise dictate the amount or form of compensation.

Vote on a CASE-BY-CASE basis for all other shareholder proposals regarding executive and director pay, taking into account company performance, pay level versus peers, pay level versus industry, and long-term corporate outlook.

10.

Social and Environmental Issues

These issues cover a wide range of topics, including consumer and public safety, environment and energy, general corporate issues, labor standards and human rights, military business, and workplace diversity.

Generally, ISS votes CASE-BY-CASE on such proposals. However, there are certain specific topics where ISS generally votes FOR the proposal (e.g., proposals seeking a report on a company’s animal welfare standards) or AGAINST the proposal (e.g., reports on foreign military sales or offsets).

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APPENDIX C

BUSINESS PRINCIPLES OF GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.

Goldman Sachs is noted for its Business Principles, which guide all of the firm’s activities and serve as the basis for its distinguished reputation among investors worldwide.

Our client’s interests always come first. Our experience shows that if we serve our clients well, our own success will follow.

Our assets are our people, capital and reputation. If any of these is ever diminished, the last is the most difficult to restore. We are dedicated to complying fully with the letter and spirit of the laws, rules and ethical principles that govern us. Our continued success depends upon unswerving adherence to this standard.

We take great pride in the professional quality of our work. We have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in everything we undertake. Though we may be involved in a wide variety and heavy volume of activity, we would, if it came to a choice, rather be best than biggest.

We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do. While recognizing that the old way may still be the best way, we constantly strive to find a better solution to a client’s problems. We pride ourselves on having pioneered many of the practices and techniques that have become standard in the industry.

We make an unusual effort to identify and recruit the very best person for every job. Although our activities are measured in billions of dollars, we select our people one by one. In a service business, we know that without the best people, we cannot be the best firm.

We offer our people the opportunity to move ahead more rapidly than is possible at most other places. We have yet to find limits to the responsibility that our best people are able to assume. Advancement depends solely on ability, performance and contribution to the Firm’s success, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or any other impermissible criterion or circumstance.

We stress teamwork in everything we do. While individual creativity is always encouraged, we have found that team effort often produces the best results. We have no room for those who put their personal interests ahead of the interests of the Firm and its clients.

The dedication of our people to the Firm and the intense effort they give their jobs are greater than one finds in most other organizations. We think that this is an important part of our success.

Our profits are a key to our success. They replenish our capital and attract and keep our best people. It is our practice to share our profits generously with all who helped create them. Profitability is crucial to our future.

We consider our size an asset that we try hard to preserve. We want to be big enough to undertake the largest project that any of our clients could contemplate, yet small enough to maintain the loyalty, the intimacy and the esprit de corps that we all treasure and that contribute greatly to our success.

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GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.’S HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE


1869		Marcus Goldman opens Goldman Sachs for business

1890		Dow Jones Industrial Average first published

1896		Goldman, Sachs & Co. joins New York Stock Exchange

1906		Goldman, Sachs & Co. takes Sears Roebuck & Co. public (at 99 years, the firm’s longest-standing client relationship)

		Dow Jones Industrial Average tops 100

1925		Goldman, Sachs & Co. finances Warner Brothers, producer of the first talking film

1956		Goldman, Sachs & Co. co-manages Ford’s public offering, the largest to date

1970		Goldman, Sachs & Co. opens London office

1972		Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1000

1986		Goldman, Sachs & Co. takes Microsoft public

1988		Goldman Sachs Asset Management is formally established

1991		Goldman, Sachs & Co. provides advisory services for the largest privatization in the region of the sale of Telefonos de Mexico

1995		Goldman Sachs Asset Management introduces Global Tactical Asset Allocation Program

		Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 5000

1996		Goldman, Sachs & Co. takes Deutsche Telekom public

		Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 6000

1997		Goldman Sachs Asset Management increases assets under management by 100% over 1996

		Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 7000

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1998		Goldman Sachs Asset Management reaches $195.5 billion in assets under management

		Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 9000

1999		Goldman Sachs becomes a public company

		Goldman Sachs Asset Management launches the Goldman Sachs Internet Tollkeeper Fund; becomes the year’s second most successful new fund launch

2000		Goldman Sachs CORE^SM Tax-Managed Equity Fund launches

		Goldman Sachs Asset Management has total assets under management of $298.5 billion

2001		Goldman Sachs Asset Management reaches $100 billion in money market assets

		Goldman Sachs Asset Management has total assets under management of $306 billion

		Goldman Sachs acquires Spear, Leeds and Kellogg

2002		Advises and services the wealth management needs of 45% of the Forbes 400*

2003		Goldman Sachs acquires The Ayco Company, L.P., one of the oldest and largest financial planning firms in the United States

		Goldman Sachs combines its Australian operations with Australian securities firm JBWere, one of the most respected and oldest (having been founded in 1840) financial institutions in the region, to form Goldman Sachs JBWere


*		Source: Forbes.com September 2002

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APPENDIX D

Statement of Intention
(applicable only to Class A Shares)

If a shareholder anticipates purchasing within a 13-month period Class A Shares of the Fund alone or in combination with Class A Shares of another Goldman Sachs Fund in the amount of $100,000 or more, the shareholder may obtain shares of the Fund at the same reduced sales charge as though the total quantity were invested in one lump sum by checking and filing the Statement of Intention in the Account Application. Income dividends and capital gain distributions taken in additional shares, as well as any appreciation on shares previously purchased, will not apply toward the completion of the Statement of Intention.

To ensure that the reduced price will be received on future purchases, the investor must inform Goldman Sachs that the Statement of Intention is in effect each time shares are purchased. Subject to the conditions mentioned below, each purchase will be made at the public offering price applicable to a single transaction of the dollar amount specified on the Account Application. The investor makes no commitment to purchase additional shares, but if the investor’s purchases within 13 months plus the value of shares credited toward completion do not total the sum specified, the investor will pay the increased amount of the sales charge prescribed in the Escrow Agreement.

Escrow Agreement

Out of the initial purchase (or subsequent purchases if necessary), 5% of the dollar amount specified on the Account Application will be held in escrow by the Transfer Agent in the form of shares registered in the investor’s name. All income dividends and capital gains distributions on escrowed shares will be paid to the investor or to his or her order. When the minimum investment so specified is completed (either prior to or by the end of the 13th month), the investor will be notified and the escrowed shares will be released.

If the intended investment is not completed, the investor will be asked to remit to Goldman Sachs any difference between the sales charge on the amount specified and on the amount actually attained. If the investor does not within 20 days after written request by Goldman Sachs pay such difference in the sales charge, the Transfer Agent will redeem, pursuant to the authority given by the investor in the Account Application, an appropriate number of the escrowed shares in order to realize such difference. Shares remaining after any such redemption will be released by the Transfer Agent.

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PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

Item 23. Exhibits

The following exhibits relating to Goldman Sachs Trust are incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 26 to Goldman Sachs Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Accession No. 000950130-95-002856); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 27 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-96-004931); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 29 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-97-000573); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-97-000805); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 32 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-97-0001846); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-97-004495); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 41 to such Registration Statement (Accession No 0000950130-98-000676); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 44 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-98-002160); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 46 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-98-003563); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 47 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-98-004845); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 48 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-98-005275); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 50 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 51 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-000178); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 52 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-000742); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 53 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-001069); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 54 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-002212); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 55 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-99-002544); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 56 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 57 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-99-003474); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 58 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-99-004208); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 59 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-99-006810); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 60 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-99-004538) (no exhibits filed as part of this Amendment); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 61 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-00-000099) (no exhibits filed as part of this Amendment); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 62 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 63 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-00-001365); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 64 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002072); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 65 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002509); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 66 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-00-003033); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 67 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950130-00-003405); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 68 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500123); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 69 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500156); to Post-Effective

Amendment No. 70 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-01-000419); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 71 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500094); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 72 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 73 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 74 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-002026); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 75 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-003780); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 76 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-006143); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 77 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-006151); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 78 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-007177); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 79 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 80 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011988); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 81 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-03-001754); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-03-004262); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 83 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 84 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-03-009618); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 85 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 86 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 87 to such Registration Statement (Accession No. 0000950123-04-003073); to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-14 relating to the Registrant’s acquisition of the Golden Oak® Family of Funds (“Acquisition”) (Accession No. 0000950123-04-008643); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 88 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Accession No. 0000950123-04-004668) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 93 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 103 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Accession No. 0000950123-05-007490); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 109 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Accession No. 0000950123-05-011442); to Post-Effective Amendment No. 112 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (0000950123-05-014459); and to Post-Effective Amendment No. 114 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (0000950123-05-015341).


		(a)(1).		Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-000573).

		(a)(2).		Amendment No. 1 dated April 24, 1997 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-004495).

		(a)(3).		Amendment No. 2 dated July 21, 1997 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-004495).

		(a)(4).		Amendment No. 3 dated October 21, 1997 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

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		(a)(5).		Amendment No. 4 dated January 28, 1998 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(a)(6).		Amendment No. 5 dated April 23, 1998 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-004845).

		(a)(7).		Amendment No. 6 dated July 22, 1998 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-004845).

		(a)(8).		Amendment No. 7 dated November 3, 1998 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(a)(9).		Amendment No. 8 dated January 22, 1999 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-000742).

		(a)(10).		Amendment No. 9 dated April 28, 1999 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-99-002544).

		(a)(11).		Amendment No. 10 dated July 27, 1999 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294).

		(a)(12).		Amendment No. 11 dated July 27, 1999 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294).

		(a)(13).		Amendment No. 12 dated October 26, 1999 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-004208).

		(a)(14).		Amendment No. 13 dated February 3, 2000 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(a)(15).		Amendment No. 14 dated April 26, 2000 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002509).

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		(a)(16).		Amendment No. 15 dated August 1, 2000 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as amended, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500123).

		(a)(17).		Amendment No. 16 dated January 30, 2001 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

		(a)(18).		Amendment No. 17 dated April 25, 2001 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(a)(19).		Amendment No. 18 dated July 1, 2002 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(a)(20).		Amendment No. 19 dated August 1, 2002 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(a)(21).		Amendment No. 20 dated August 1, 2002 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(a)(22).		Amendment No. 21 dated January 29, 2003 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-001754).

		(a)(23).		Amendment No. 22 dated July 31, 2003 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(a)(24).		Amendment No. 23 dated October 30, 2003 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(a)(25).		Amendment No. 24 dated May 6, 2004 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-008643).

		(a)(26).		Amendment No. 25 dated April 21, 2004 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).

		(a)(27).		Amendment No. 26 dated November 4, 2004 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).

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		(a)(28).		Amendment No. 27 dated February 10, 2005 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-007490).


		(a)(29).		Amendment No. 28 dated May 12, 2005 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-014459).



		(a)(30).		Amendment No. 29 dated June 16, 2005 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-014459).



		(a)(31).		Amendment No. 30 dated August 4, 2005 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-014459).



		(a)(32).		Amendment No. 32 dated December 31, 2005 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-015341).


		(b)(1).		Amended and Restated By-laws of the Delaware business trust dated January 28, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-000573).

		(b)(2).		Amended and Restated By-laws of the Delaware business trust dated January 28, 1997 as amended and restated July 27, 1999. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294).

		(b)(3).		Amended and Restated By-laws of the Delaware business trust dated January 28, 1997 as amended and restated October 30, 2002. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(b)(4).		Amendment to Amended and Restated By-laws of the Delaware business trust dated January 28, 1997 as amended and restated October 30, 2002. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).

		(b)(5).		Amendment No. 1 dated November 4, 2004 to Amended and Restated By- Laws of the Delaware business trust dated January 28, 1997 as amended and restated October 30, 2002. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-007490).

		(c).		Article II, Section 10, Article IV, Section 3, Article V, Article VI, Article VII, Article IX, Section 8 and Section 9 of the Registrant’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit (a)(1) and Article III of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated By-Laws incorporated by reference as Exhibit (b)(3).

		(d)(1).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant, on behalf of Goldman Sachs Short Duration Government Fund, and Goldman Sachs Funds Management, L.P. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(d)(2).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant, on behalf of Goldman Sachs Adjustable Rate Government Fund, and Goldman Sachs Funds Management, L.P. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(d)(3).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant, on behalf of Goldman Sachs Short Duration Tax-Free Fund, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(d)(4).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant, on behalf of Goldman Sachs Core Fixed Income Fund, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

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		(d)(5).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between the Registrant, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(d)(6).		Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Goldman Sachs Fund Management L.P. and Goldman, Sachs Asset Management International. (Accession No. 0000950109-98-005275).

		(d)(7).		Management Agreement dated January 1, 1998 on behalf of the Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Portfolios and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000676).

		(d)(8).		Amended Annex A to Management Agreement dated January 1, 1998 on behalf of the Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Portfolios and Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Conservative Strategy Portfolio) (Accession No. 0000950130-99-000742).

		(d)(9).		Amended Annex A dated April 28, 1999 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-99-002544).

		(d)(10).		Amended Annex A dated July 27, 1999 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294).

		(d)(11).		Amended Annex A dated October 26, 1999 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950130-99-004208).

		(d)(12).		Amended Annex A dated February 3, 2000 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-001365).

		(d)(13).		Amended Annex A dated April 26, 2000 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997 (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002509).

		(d)(14).		Amended Annex A dated January 30, 2001 to Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500094).

		(d)(15).		Amended Annex A dated April 25, 2001 to Management Agreement, dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(d)(16).		Amended Annex A dated August 1, 2002 to Management Agreement, dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(d)(17).		Assumption Agreement dated April 26, 2003 between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (With respect to the Goldman Sachs Short-Duration Tax-Free Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054).

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		(d)(18).		Assumption Agreement dated April 26, 2003 between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (With respect to the Goldman Sachs Money Market Funds). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054).

		(d)(19).		Assumption Agreement dated April 26, 2003 between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (With respect to the Goldman Sachs Fixed Income, Equity, Specialty and Money Market Funds). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054).

		(d)(20).		Assumption Agreement dated April 26, 2003 between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (With respect to the Goldman Sachs Core Fixed Income Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054).

		(d)(21).		Assumption Agreement dated April 26, 2003 between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (With respect to the Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Funds). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-007054).

		(d)(22).		Amended Annex A dated July 31, 2003 to the Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-009618).

		(d)(23).		Amended Annex A dated October 30, 2003 to the Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).


		(d)(24).		Amended Annex A dated November 2, 2005 to the Management Agreement dated April 30, 1997. (Accession No. 0000950123-05-014459).



		(d)(25).		Fee Reduction Commitment dated January 1, 2005 among Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P., Goldman Sachs Asset Management International and Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the Capital Growth, CORE Large Cap Growth, CORE U.S. Equity and International Growth Opportunities Funds. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-007490).



		(d)(26).		Fee Reduction Commitment dated February 25, 2005 among Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P., Goldman Sachs Asset Management International and Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the Government Income and Global Income and Funds. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-007490).



		(d)(27).		Fee Reduction Commitment dated April 29, 2005 between Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. and Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the CORE Tax-Managed Equity Fund. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-007490).



		(d)(28).		Fee Reduction Commitment dated April 29, 2005 between Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. and Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the

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				Aggressive Growth Strategy, Balanced Strategy, Growth and Income Strategy and Growth Strategy Portfolios. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-007490).

		(e)(1).		Distribution Agreement dated April 30, 1997, as amended October 30, 2003. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(f).		Not applicable.

		(g)(1).		Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991, between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950130-95-002856).

		(g)(2).		Custodian Agreement dated December 27, 1978 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, filed as Exhibit 8(a). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(3).		Letter Agreement dated December 27, 1978 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to the fees payable by Registrant pursuant to the Custodian Agreement, filed as Exhibit 8(b). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(4).		Amendment dated May 28, 1981 to the Custodian Agreement referred to above as Exhibit (g)(2). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(5).		Fee schedule relating to the Custodian Agreement between Registrant on behalf of the Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Portfolios and State Street Bank and Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-004495).

		(g)(6).		Letter Agreement dated June 14, 1984 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to a change in wire charges under the Custodian Agreement, filed as Exhibit 8(d). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(7).		Letter Agreement dated March 29, 1983 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to the latter’s designation of Bank of America, N.T. and S.A. as its subcustodian and certain other matters, filed as Exhibit 8(f). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(8).		Letter Agreement dated March 21, 1985 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to the creation of a joint repurchase

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				agreement account, filed as Exhibit 8(g). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(9).		Letter Agreement dated November 7, 1985, with attachments, between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, authorizing State Street Bank and Trust Company to permit redemption of units by check, filed as Exhibit 8(h). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(10).		Money Transfer Services Agreement dated November 14, 1985, including attachment, between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs - Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to transfers of funds on deposit with State Street Bank and Trust Company, filed as Exhibit 8(i). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(11).		Letter Agreement dated November 27, 1985 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, amending the Custodian Agreement. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(12).		Letter Agreement dated July 22, 1986 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to a change in wire charges. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(13).		Letter Agreement dated June 20, 1987 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, amending the Custodian Agreement. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(14).		Letter Agreement between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets, pertaining to the latter’s designation of Security Pacific National Bank as its subcustodian and certain other matters. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(15).		Amendment dated July 19, 1988 to the Custodian Agreement between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(g)(16).		Amendment dated December 19, 1988 to the Custodian Agreement between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company, on behalf of Goldman Sachs — Institutional Liquid Assets. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

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		(g)(17).		Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company on behalf of Goldman Sachs Capital Growth Fund. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(g)(18).		Sub-Custodian Agreement dated March 29, 1983 between State Street Bank and Trust Company and Bank of America, National Trust and Savings Association on behalf of Goldman Sachs Institutional Liquid Assets. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(g)(19).		Fee schedule dated January 8, 1999 relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Conservative Strategy Portfolio). (Accession No. 0000950130-99-000742).

		(g)(20).		Fee schedule dated April 12, 1999 relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Strategic Growth and Growth Opportunities Portfolios). (Accession No. 0000950109-99-002544).

		(g)(21).		Fee schedule dated July 19, 1999 relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Internet Tollkeeper Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-99-005294).

		(g)(22).		Fee schedule dated October 1, 1999 relating to the Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Large Cap Value Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-99-006810).

		(g)(23).		Fee schedule dated January 12, 2000 relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (CORE Tax-Managed Equity Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(24).		Fee schedule dated January 6, 2000 relating to Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (High Yield Municipal Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(25).		Fee schedule dated April 14, 2000 relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Research Select Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002509).

		(g)(26).		Fee schedule dated April 14, 2000 relating to Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust

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				Company (Enhanced Income Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-00-002509).

		(g)(27).		Additional Portfolio Agreement dated September 27, 1999 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(28).		Letter Agreement dated September 27, 1999 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company relating to Custodian Agreement dated December 27, 1978. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(29).		Letter Agreement dated September 27, 1999 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company relating to Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(30).		Letter Agreement dated September 27, 1999 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company relating to Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991. (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(g)(31).		Letter Agreement dated January 29, 2001 relating to Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Global Consumer Growth Fund, Global Financial Services Fund, Global Health Sciences Fund, Global Infrastructure and Resources Fund and Global Technology Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

		(g)(32).		Amendment dated July 2, 2001 to the Custodian Agreement dated December 27, 1978 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(g)(33).		Amendment dated July 2, 2001 to the Custodian Contract dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(g)(34).		Amendment dated July 2, 2001 to the Custodian Contract dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(g)(35).		Form of amendment to the Custodian Agreement dated December 27, 1978 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(g)(36).		Amendment to the Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-02-003780).

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		(g)(37).		Amendment to the Custodian Agreement dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Accession No. 0000950123-02-003780).

		(g)(38).		Letter Amendment dated May 15, 2002 to the Custodian Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(h)(1).		Wiring Agreement dated June 20, 1987 among Goldman, Sachs & Co., State Street Bank and Trust Company and The Northern Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(h)(2).		Letter Agreement dated June 20, 1987 regarding use of checking account between Registrant and The Northern Trust Company. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-000965).

		(h)(3).		Transfer Agency Agreement dated July 15, 1991 between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Accession No. 0000950130-95-002856).

		(h)(4).		Transfer Agency Agreement dated May 1, 1988 between Goldman Sachs Institutional Liquid Assets and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(h)(5).		Transfer Agency Agreement dated April 30, 1997 between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. on behalf of the Financial Square Funds. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(h)(6).		Transfer Agency Agreement dated April 6, 1990 between GS-Capital Growth Fund, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(h)(7).		Form of Retail Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to Class A Shares of Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Portfolios, Goldman Sachs Fixed Income Funds, Goldman Sachs Domestic Equity Funds and Goldman Sachs International Equity Funds. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(h)(8).		Form of Supplemental Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the Administrative Class, Service Class and Cash Management Class of Goldman Sachs - Institutional Liquid Assets Portfolios. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(h)(9).		Form of Supplemental Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the FST Shares, FST Preferred Shares, FST Administration Shares and FST Service Shares of Goldman Sachs Financial Square Funds. (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

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		(h)(10).		Fee schedule relating to Transfer Agency Agreement between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. on behalf of all Funds other than ILA and FST money market funds. (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

		(h)(11).		Fee schedule relating to Transfer Agency Agreement between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. on behalf of the ILA portfolios. (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

		(h)(12).		Form of Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to the Select Class, the Preferred Class, the Administration Class, the Service Class and the Cash Management Class, as applicable, of Goldman Sachs Financial Square Funds, Goldman Sachs Institutional Liquid Assets Portfolios, Goldman Sachs Fixed Income Funds, Goldman Sachs Domestic Equity Funds, Goldman Sachs International Equity Funds and Goldman Sachs Asset Allocation Portfolios. (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

		(h)(13).		Form of fee schedule relating to Transfer Agency Agreement between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. on behalf of the Cash Portfolio (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(h)(14).		Form of Account Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to Institutional Shares of Goldman Sachs U.S. Mortgages Fund and Investment Grade Credit Fund. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(h)(15).		Form of Account Service Agreement on behalf of Goldman Sachs Trust relating to Class A Shares of Goldman Sachs U.S. Mortgages Fund and Investment Grade Credit Fund. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(h)(16).		Goldman Sachs Institutional Liquid Assets Administration Class Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(17).		Goldman Sachs Cash Management Shares Service Plan and Shareholder Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(18).		Goldman Sachs FST Select Class Select Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(19).		Goldman Sachs FST Administration Class Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(20).		Goldman Sachs FST Preferred Class Preferred Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

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		(h)(21).		Goldman Sachs Administration Class Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(22).		Goldman Sachs Institutional Liquid Assets Service Class Service Plan and Shareholder Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(23).		Goldman Sachs Service Class Service Plan and Shareholder Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(24).		Goldman Sachs Cash Portfolio Administration Class Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(25).		Goldman Sachs Cash Portfolio Preferred Class Preferred Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(26).		Goldman Sachs FST Capital Administration Class Capital Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(27).		Goldman Sachs Account Service Plan for Institutional Shares amended and restated as of February 4, 2004 (U.S. Mortgages Fund and Investment Grade Credit Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(28).		Goldman Sachs Account Service Plan for Class A Shares amended and restated as of February 4, 2004 (U.S. Mortgages Fund and Investment Grade Credit Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(h)(29).		Goldman Sachs FST Service Class Service Plan and Shareholder Administration Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(i)(1).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. (With respect to the Asset Allocation Portfolios). (Accession No. 0000950130-97-004495).

		(i)(2).		Opinion of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-001846).

		(i)(3).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. (With respect to Japanese Equity and International Small Cap). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-003563).

		(i)(4).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. (With respect to Cash Management Shares). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-003563).

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		(i)(5).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. (With respect to the European Equity Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(i)(6).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. (With respect to the CORE Large Cap Value Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-98-006081).

		(i)(7).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Conservative Strategy Portfolio). (Accession No. 0000950130-99-001069).

		(i)(8).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Strategic Growth and Growth Opportunities Portfolios). (Accession No. 0000950109-99-002544).

		(i)(9).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Internet Tollkeeper Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-99-004208).

		(i)(10).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Large Cap Value Fund). (Accession No. 0000950130-99-006810).

		(i)(11).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to FST Select Shares). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-000585).

		(i)(12).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the High Yield Municipal Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-001365).

		(i)(13).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the CORE Tax-Managed Equity Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-001365).

		(i)(14).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Research Select Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500123).

		(i)(15).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Enhanced Income Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500123).

		(i)(16).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to Cash Management Shares of certain ILA Portfolios). (Accession No. 0000950109-00-500123).

		(i)(17).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to Global Consumer Growth Fund, Global Financial Services Fund, Global Health Sciences Fund, Global Infrastructure and Resources Fund and Global Technology Fund). (Accession No. 0000950109-01-500540).

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		(i)(18).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to all outstanding Funds and share classes) (Accession No. 0000950123-01-509514).

		(i)(19).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to Financial Square Funds). (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(i)(20).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (With respect to the Concentrated Growth Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-02-011711).

		(i)(21).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(i)(22).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (with respect to the U.S. Mortgages Fund and Investment Grade Credit Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

		(i)(22).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (with respect to the Small/Mid-Cap Growth Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-011442).

		(i)(22).		Opinion of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (with respect to the U.S. Equity Dividend and Premium Fund). (Accession No. 0000950123-03-011442).

		(j).		None.

		(k).		Not applicable.

		(l).		Not applicable.

		(m)(1).		Class A Distribution and Service Plan amended and restated as of May 5, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).

		(m)(2).		Class B Distribution and Service Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(m)(3).		Class C Distribution and Service Plan amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(m)(4).		Cash Management Shares Plan of Distribution pursuant to Rule 12b-1 amended and restated as of February 4, 2004. (Accession No. 0000950123-04-002212).

		(n)(1).		Revised plan dated October 30, 2003 entered into by Registrant pursuant to Rule 18f-3. (Accession No. 0000950123-03-013727).

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		(p)(1).		Code of Ethics — Goldman Sachs Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust dated April 23, 1997, as amended November 4, 2004 (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).

		(p)(2).		Code of Ethics — Goldman, Sachs & Co., Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management International, effective January 23, 1991, as revised November 4, 2004 (Accession No. 0000950123-04-015178).


		(q)(1).		Power of Attorney of Mr. Perlowski. (Accession No. 0000950130-97-000805).



		(q)(2).		Powers of Attorney of Messrs. Bakhru, Coblentz, Harker, Shuch and Strubel, and Mmes. McPherson, Smelcer and Uniacke (Accession No. 0000950123-05-015341).

Item 24. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with Registrant.

Not Applicable.

Item 25. Indemnification

Article IV of the Declaration of Trust of Goldman Sachs Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, provides for indemnification of the Trustees, officers and agents of the Trust, subject to certain limitations. The Declaration of Trust is incorporated by reference to Exhibit (a)(1).

The Management Agreement with each of the Funds (other than the ILA Portfolios) provides that the applicable Investment Adviser will not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by a Fund, except a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Investment Adviser or from reckless disregard by the Investment Adviser of its obligations or duties under the Management Agreement. Section 7 of the Management Agreement with respect to the ILA Portfolios provides that the ILA Portfolios will indemnify the Adviser against certain liabilities; provided, however, that such

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indemnification does not apply to any loss by reason of its willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence or the Adviser’s reckless disregard of its obligation under the Management Agreement. The Management Agreements are incorporated by reference to Exhibits (d)(1) through (d)(7).

Section 9 of the Distribution Agreement between the Registrant and Goldman Sachs dated April 30, 1997, as amended October 30, 2003 and Section 7 of the Transfer Agency Agreements between the Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. dated July 15, 1991, May 1, 1988, April 30, 1997 and April 6, 1990 each provide that the Registrant will indemnify Goldman, Sachs & Co. against certain liabilities. A copy of the Distribution Agreement is included herewith as Exhibit (e)(1). The Transfer Agency Agreements are incorporated by reference as Exhibits (h)(3), (h)(4), (h)(5) and (h)(6), respectively, to the Registrant’s Registration Statement.

Mutual fund and Trustees and officers liability policies purchased jointly by the Registrant, Trust for Credit Unions, Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust and The Commerce Funds insure such persons and their respective trustees, partners, officers and employees, subject to the policies’ coverage limits and exclusions and varying deductibles, against loss resulting from claims by reason of any act, error, omission, misstatement, misleading statement, neglect or breach of duty.

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Item 26. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (“GSAM LP”) and Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (“GSAMI”) are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and serve as investment advisers to the Registrant. Set forth below are the names, businesses and business addresses of certain managing directors of GSAM LP and GSAMI who are engaged in any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature.


Name and Position with
the Investment Advisers	Name and Address of Other Company	Connection with Other Company
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.	The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
Managing Director-	85 Broad Street	Director
GSAM LP	New York, New York 10004

	Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Managing Director
	85 Broad Street
	New York, New York 10004

Robert J. Hurst	The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	Vice Chairman and Director
Managing Director-	85 Broad Street
GSAM LP	New York, New York 10004

	Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Managing Director
	85 Broad Street
	New York, New York 10004

Lloyd C. Blankfein	The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	President, Chief Operating Officer and
Managing Director-	85 Broad Street	Director
GSAM LP	New York, New York 10004

	Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Managing Director
	85 Broad Street
	New York, New York 10004

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Item 27. Principal Underwriters.

(a) Goldman, Sachs & Co. or an affiliate or a division thereof currently serves as distributor of the units of Trust for Credit Unions, for shares of Goldman Sachs Trust and for shares of Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust. Goldman, Sachs & Co., or a division thereof currently serves as administrator and distributor of the units or shares of The Commerce Funds.

(b) Set forth below is certain information pertaining to the Managing Directors of Goldman, Sachs & Co., the Registrant’s principal underwriter, who are members of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.’s Management Committee. None of the members of the management committee holds a position or office with the Registrant.

GOLDMAN SACHS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE


Name and Principal Business Address		Position with Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Lloyd C. Blankfein (1)		Managing Director
Alan M. Cohen (5)		Managing Director
Gary D. Cohn (1)		Managing Director
Christopher A. Cole (1)		Managing Director
Mario Draghi (3)		Managing Director
J. Michael Evans (5)		Managing Director
Edward C. Forst (1)		Managing Director
Richard A. Friedman (1)		Managing Director
Richard J. Gnodde (8)		Managing Director
Suzanne M. Nora Johnson (5)		Managing Director
Robert S. Kaplan (1)		Managing Director
Scott B. Kapnick (3)		Managing Director
Kevin W. Kennedy (1)		Managing Director
Peter S. Kraus (5)		Managing Director
Masanori Mochida (6)		Managing Director
Thomas K. Montag (5)		Managing Director
Gregory K. Palm (1)		General Counsel and Managing Director
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (1)		Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John F.W. Rogers (1)		Managing Director
Eric S. Schwartz (5)		Managing Director
Michael S. Sherwood (7)		Managing Director
David M. Solomon (5)		Managing Director
Esta Stecher (5)		General Counsel and Managing Director
David A. Viniar (4)		Managing Director
John S. Weinberg (1)		Managing Director
Peter A. Weinberg (3)		Managing Director
Jon Winkelried (3)		Managing Director

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(1)		85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004

(2)		32 Old Slip, New York, NY 10005

(3)		Peterborough Court, 133 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2BB, England

(4)		10 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10005

(5)		One New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004

(6)		12-32, Akasaka I-chome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-6006, Japan

(7)		River Court, 120 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2QQ, England

(8)		Cheung Kong Center, 68^th Floor, 2 Queens Road Central, Hong Kong, China

Item 28. Location of Accounts and Records.

The Declaration of Trust, By-laws and minute books of the Registrant and certain investment adviser records are in the physical possession of GSAM LP, 32 Old Slip, New York, New York 10005. All other accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained under Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Rules promulgated thereunder are in the physical possession of State Street Bank and Trust Company, P.O. Box 1713, Boston, Massachusetts 02105 except for certain transfer agency records which are maintained by Goldman, Sachs & Co., 71 South Wacker Street, Suite 500, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

Item 29. Management Services

Not applicable.

Item 30. Undertakings

Not applicable.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 115 under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 115 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City and State of New York on the 3rd day of January, 2006.

GOLDMAN SACHS TRUST
(A Delaware statutory trust)

By: /s/ Howard B. Surloff
Howard B. Surloff
Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to said Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.


Name	Title	Date


¹Kaysie P. Uniacke Kaysie P. Uniacke	President (Chief Executive Officer) and Trustee	January 3, 2006



¹John M. Perlowski John M. Perlowski	Treasurer (Principal Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer)	January 3, 2006



¹Mary Patterson McPherson	Trustee	January 3, 2006
Mary Patterson McPherson



¹Ashok N. Bakhru	Chairman and Trustee	January 3, 2006
Ashok N. Bakhru



¹Alan A. Shuch	Trustee	January 3, 2006
Alan A. Shuch



¹Wilma J. Smelcer	Trustee	January 3, 2006
Wilma J. Smelcer



¹Richard P. Strubel	Trustee	January 3, 2006
Richard P. Strubel



¹Patrick T. Harker	Trustee	January 3, 2006
Patrick T. Harker

CERTIFICATE

The undersigned Secretary for Goldman Sachs Trust (the “Trust”) hereby certifies that the Board of Trustees of the Trust duly adopted the following resolution at a meeting of the Board held on June 16, 2005.

RESOLVED, that the Trustees and Officers of the Trusts who may be required to execute any amendments to the Trust’s Registration Statement be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing Peter Bonanno, James A. Fitzpatrick, James McNamara, John W. Perlowski, and Howard B. Surloff jointly and severally, their attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for said Trustees and Officers in any and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 of the Trusts and any and all amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Trustees and Officers hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: January 3, 2006

/s/ Howard B. Surloff
Howard B. Surloff,
Secretary


FUND FACTS



Duration* (under normal interest rate conditions):		Target = Lehman Brothers Municipal Aggregate Bond Index plus or minus one year Maximum = 12 years




Expected Approximate Interest Rate Sensitivity:		15-year municipal bond




Credit Quality:		Minimum = BBB or Baa by a NRSRO at the time of purchase or, if unrated, determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality
		Weighted Average = A




Benchmark:		Lehman Brothers Municipal Aggregate Bond Index



10 Percent of total assets (including securities lending collateral) (italic type)
10 Percent of net assets (excluding borrowings for investment purposes) (roman type)
• No specific percentage limitation
on usage; limited only by the		Tennessee
objective and strategies of the Fund		Municipal
— Not permitted		Fund


Investment Practices

Borrowings		33 1/3
Credit, Interest Rate and Total Return Swaps*		•
Financial Futures Contracts		•
Interest Rate Floors, Caps and Collars		•
Options (including Options on Futures)		•
Repurchase Agreements		•
Securities Lending		33 1/3
Standby Commitments and Tender Option Bonds		•
When-Issued Securities and Forward Commitments		•



10 Percent of total assets (excluding securities lending collateral) (italic type)
10 Percent of Net Assets (including borrowings for investment purposes) (roman type)
• No specific percentage limitation
on usage; limited only by the		Tennessee
objective and strategies of the Fund		Municipal
— Not permitted		Fund


Investment Securities

Asset-Backed Securities		•
Convertible Securities		•
Corporate Debt Obligations and Trust Preferred Securities		•
Floating and Variable Rate Obligations		•
Structured Securities*		•
Taxable Municipal Securities		20¹
Tax-Free Municipal Securities		80+²
Temporary Investments		•¹
U.S. Government Securities		•


*		Limited to 15% of net assets (together with other illiquid securities) for all structured securities which are not deemed to be liquid and all swap transactions.
¹		The Fund may invest no more than 20% of its Net Assets in taxable investments under normal circumstances. Under unusual conditions, taxable investments may exceed this percentage.
²		The Fund will invest 80% of its Net Assets in Municipal Securities the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax and is exempt from Tennessee State personal income tax.


	Tennessee
	Municipal
	Fund


Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None
Redemption Fees¹		2.0%
Exchange Fees		None





Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that are deducted from Fund assets):²
Management Fees³		0.45%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees		None
Other Expenses⁴*		0.25%

Total Fund Operating Expenses*		0.70%


	THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION HAS NOT APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THESE SECURITIES OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.


	AN INVESTMENT IN A FUND IS NOT A BANK DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY. AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUND INVOLVES INVESTMENT RISKS, AND YOU MAY LOSE MONEY IN THE FUND.


	General Investment Management Approach

	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (“GSAM”), serves as investment adviser to the Tennessee Municipal Fund. GSAM is referred to in this Prospectus as the “Investment Adviser.”


*	The Fund’s duration approximates its price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. Historically, over the last ten years, the duration of the Lehman Brothers Municipal Aggregate Bond has ranged between approximately 6.5 and 8.2 years.



		Tennessee
• Applicable		Municipal
— Not applicable		Fund


NAV		•

Interest Rate		•

Credit/Default		•

Call		•

Extension		•

Derivatives		•

U.S. Government Securities		•

Market		•

Management		•

Liquidity		•

Non-Diversification		•

Tax		•

Concentration		•

Tennessee		•


⁴		“Other Expenses” include transfer agency fees and expenses equal on an annualized basis to 0.04% of the average daily net assets of the Fund’s Institutional Shares, plus all other ordinary expenses not detailed above. The Investment Adviser has voluntarily agreed to reduce or limit “Other Expenses” of the Fund (excluding management fees, transfer agency fees and expenses, taxes, interest, brokerage fees and litigation, indemnification, shareholder meetings and other extraordinary expenses exclusive of any expense offset arrangements) to 0.044% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.


Fund	1 Year		3 Years		5 Years		10 Years


Tennessee Municipal	$	72	$	224	$	390	$	871


Investment Adviser		Fund


Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (“GSAM”) 32 Old Slip New York, New York 10005		Tennessee Municipal


		Contractual Rate


GSAM:

Tennessee Municipal		0.45% on the first $1 billion 0.41% on the next $1 billion 0.39% over $2 billion


		Years
		Primarily
Name and Title	Fund Responsibility	Responsible	Five Year Employment History






Ben Barber Managing Director Head of U.S. Municipal Team	Senior Portfolio Manager— Tennessee Municipal	Since 2006	Mr. Barber joined the Investment Adviser in 1999 as a portfolio manager. Prior to his current position, he managed high yield municipal and municipal bond funds at Franklin Templeton for eight years.

Tom Kenny Managing Director and Co-Head U.S. and Global Fixed Income Teams	Senior Portfolio Manager— Tennessee Municipal	Since 2006	Mr. Kenny joined the Investment Adviser in 1999 as a senior portfolio manager. Previously, he spent 13 years at Franklin Templeton where he was a portfolio manager of high yield municipal and municipal funds, Director of Municipal Research and Director of the Municipal Bond Department.

Scott Diamond Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager	Portfolio Manager— Tennessee Municipal	Since 2006	Mr. Diamond joined the Investment Adviser in 2002 as a portfolio manager. Before joining the Investment Adviser, Mr. Diamond worked for Prudential Financial for nine years where he served as the portfolio manager for national and state specific mutual funds, as well as managing the municipal portfolio of several institutional accounts.


	Dividends


	The Fund pays dividends from its investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains. You may choose to have dividends and distributions paid in:






NOT FDIC-INSURED	May Lose Value	No Bank Guarantee


	Fund Performance


	n	Cash
	n	Additional shares of the same class of the Fund
	n	Shares of the same or an equivalent class of another Goldman Sachs Fund. Special restrictions may apply. See the Additional Statement.



	Investment Income		Capital Gains
	Dividends		Distributions

Fund	Declared	Paid	Declared and Paid


Tennessee Municipal	Daily	Monthly	Annually


	Shareholder Guide

	The following section will provide you with answers to some of the most often asked questions regarding buying and selling the Fund’s Institutional Shares.


Type of Investor		Minimum Investment


n Banks, trust companies or other depository institutions investing for their own account or on behalf of their clients n Section 401(k), profit sharing, money purchase pension, tax- sheltered annuity, defined benefit pension, or other employee benefit plans that are sponsored by one or more employers (including governmental or church employers) or employee organizations* n State, county, city or any instrumentality, department, authority or agency thereof n Corporations with at least $100 million in assets or in outstanding publicly traded securities n “Wrap” account sponsors (provided they have an agreement covering the arrangement with GSAM) n Registered investment advisers investing for accounts for which they receive asset-based fees n Qualified non-profit organizations, charitable trusts, foundations and endowments*		$1,000,000 in Institutional Shares of the Fund alone or in combination with other assets under the management of GSAM and its affiliates

n Individual investors n Accounts over which GSAM or its advisory affiliates have investment discretion		$10,000,000

n Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) for which GSAM or its advisory affiliates act as fiduciary*		No minimum


NAV =		(Value of Assets of the Class) - (Liabilities of the Class) Number of Outstanding Shares of the Class


Instructions For Redemptions:


By Writing:		n Write a letter of instruction that includes:
		n Name(s) and authorized signature(s)
		n Account number
		n The Fund name and Class of Shares
		n The dollar amount you want to sell
		n How and where to send the proceeds
		n Obtain a Medallion Signature Guarantee (see details below)
		n Mail the request to: Goldman Sachs Funds 71 S. Wacker Dr. Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606

By Telephone:		If you have elected the telephone redemption privilege on your Account Application:
		n 1-800-621-2550 (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. New York time)


Instructions For Exchanging Shares:


By Writing:		n Write a letter of instruction that includes:
		n Name(s) and signature(s)
		n Account number
		n The Fund names and Class of Shares
		n The dollar amount to be exchanged
		n Mail the request to: Goldman Sachs Funds 71 S. Wacker Dr. Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606

By Telephone:		If you have elected the telephone exchange privilege on your Account Application:
		n 1-800-621-2550 (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. New York time)


	Taxation

	As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in the Fund will be taxed. The tax information below is provided as general information. More tax information is available in the Additional Statement. You should consult your tax adviser about the federal, state, local or foreign tax consequences of your investment in the Fund.

	Unless your investment is an IRA or other tax-advantaged account, you should consider the possible tax consequences of Fund distributions and the sale of your Fund shares. The Fund may not be suitable for IRAs or other tax advantaged accounts because their returns before taxes are generally lower than those of taxable funds.


	Appendix A Additional Information on Portfolio Risks, Securities and Techniques


	Appendix B Financial Highlights

	The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the Fund’s financial performance for the past five years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned or lost on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions).

	The financial highlights information for the Fund is based on the financial history of the Class I Shares of the Tennessee Tax-Free Portfolio of First Funds (the “Predecessor Fund”), which has been reorganized into the Fund. The information for the Predecessor First Fund has been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP.



		For the Year Ended June 30,

		2005			2004			2003			2002			2001






Selected per-share data




Net asset value, beginning of period		$	10.26		$	10.73		$	10.47		$	10.28		$	9.89

Income from investment operations




Net investment income			0.39			0.40			0.42			0.43			0.44




Net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on investments			0.12			(0.42	)		0.29			0.21			0.39

	Total from investment operations		0.51			(0.02	)		0.71			0.64			0.83

Distributions




Net investment income			(0.39	)		(0.40	)		(0.42	)		(0.43	)		(0.44	)




Net realized gain			(0.03	)		(0.05	)		(0.03	)		(0.02	)		—

	Total distributions		(0.42	)		(0.45	)		(0.45	)		(0.45	)		(0.44	)

Net asset value, end of period		$	10.35		$	10.26		$	10.73		$	10.47		$	10.28

Total return^†			5.05	%		(0.22	)%		6.89	%		6.34	%		8.49	%




Ratios and supplemental data




Net assets, end of period (thousands)		$	107,783		$	143,278		$	163,440		$	164,437		$	168,940




Ratio of expenses to average daily net assets¹			0.69	%		0.65	%		0.63	%		0.64	%		0.62	%




Ratio of net investment income to average net assets			3.72	%		3.83	%		3.93	%		4.14	%		4.29	%




Portfolio turnover rate			11	%		9	%		19	%		8	%		13	%




¹ During the period, various fees were waived. The ratio of expenses to average net assets had such waivers not occurred is as follows			0.89	%		0.85	%		0.83	%		0.84	%		0.82	%


^†		Total return would have been lower had various fees not been waived during the period.


		1 General Investment Management Approach

		4 Fund Investment Objective and Strategies
		4		Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund

		6 Other Investment Practices and Securities

		8 Principal Risks of the Fund

		11 Fund Performance

		12 Fund Fees and Expenses

		15 Service Providers

		21 Dividends

		22 Shareholder Guide
		22		How to Buy Shares
		29		How to Sell Shares

		38 Taxation

		41 Appendix A Additional Information on Portfolio Risks, Securities and Techniques

		56 Appendix B Financial Highlights


	Municipal Fixed Income Funds— Goldman Sachs Tennessee Municipal Fund Prospectus (Institutional Shares)






n By telephone:		1-800-621-2550




n By mail:		Goldman Sachs Funds P.O. Box 06050 Chicago, IL 60606-6306




n By e-mail:		gs-funds@gs.com




n On the Internet:		SEC EDGAR database – http://www.sec.gov Goldman Sachs – http://www.gs.com/funds



	Tennessee
	Municipal Fund

	Class A			Class C


Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases		4.5%	¹		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)²		None	¹		1.0%	³
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None			None
Redemption Fees⁴		2.0%			2.0%
Exchange Fees		None			None





Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that are deducted from Fund assets):⁵
Management Fees⁶		0.45%			0.45%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%			1.00%
Other Expenses⁷*		0.37%			0.37%

Total Fund Operating Expenses*		1.07%			1.82%


	Initial		Additional


Regular Accounts		$1,000		$50

Tax-Sheltered Retirement Plans*		$250		$50

Uniform Gift to Minors Act Accounts/Uniform Transfer to Minors Act Accounts		$250		$50

403(b) Plan Accounts*		$200		No Minimum

SEP IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and Education IRAs*		$50		No Minimum

Automatic Investment Plan Accounts		$50		No Minimum




Maximum Amount You Can Buy in the Aggregate	Class A	No limit

	Class C	$1,000,000*

Initial Sales Charge	Class A	Applies to purchases of less than $1 million—varies by size of investment with a maximum of 4.5%

	Class C	None

CDSC	Class A	1.00% on certain investments of $1 million or more if you sell within 18 months

	Class C	1% if shares are redeemed within 12 months of purchase

Conversion Feature	Class A	None

	Class C	None


		sales charges and commissions paid to Authorized Dealers for Class A Shares of the Fund are as follows:


				Sales Charge			Maximum Dealer
	Sales Charge as			as Percentage			Allowance as
Amount of Purchase	Percentage of			of Net Amount			Percentage of
(including sales charge, if any)	Offering Price			Invested			Offering Price*


Less than $100,000		4.50	%		4.71	%		4.00	%
$100,000 up to (but less than) $250,000		3.00			3.09			2.50
$250,000 up to (but less than) $500,000		2.50			2.56			2.00
$500,000 up to (but less than) $1 million		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1 million or more		0.00	**		0.00	**		***