UBS Funds Rule 485(b) filed 3/4/2005

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As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2005
File No. 033-47287
File No. 811-06637

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 [X]
Pre-Effective Amendment No. [ ]
Post-Effective Amendment No. 45 [X]

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 [ ]
Amendment No. 46 [X]

(Check appropriate box or boxes.)

THE UBS FUNDS
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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

One North Wacker, Chicago, Illinois 60606
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(Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)

Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code 312-525-7100
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Mark F. Kemper, Esq.
UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.
One North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606
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(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Please send copies of all communications to:

Bruce G. Leto, Esq.
Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, LLP
2600 One Commerce Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 564-8027

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

_____ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
__X__ on March 6, 2005 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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_____ on [Date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485

If appropriate, check the following box:

_____ This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for
a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This Post-Effective Amendment relates only to the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund.
No other information relating to any other series of the Registrant is amended
or superseded hereby.

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The UBS Funds

UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund

Prospectus

March 6, 2005

This prospectus offers Class A, Class C and Class Y shares in the UBS Absolute
Return Bond Fund (the "Fund"), a series of The UBS Funds (the "Trust"). Each
class has different sales charges and ongoing expenses. You can choose the class
that is best for you based on how much you plan to invest and how long you plan
to hold your Fund shares. Class Y shares are available only to certain types of
investors.

As with all mutual funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission has not
approved or disapproved the Fund's shares or determined whether this prospectus
is complete or accurate. To state otherwise is a crime.

Not FDIC Insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

Contents

The UBS Funds
What every investor should know about the Fund

Page

Investment Objective, Strategies, Securities Selection and Risks.............3
Performance..................................................................8
Expenses and Fee Tables......................................................9

Your Investment
Information for managing your Fund account

Managing Your Fund Account.................................................11
--Flexible Pricing
--Buying Shares
--Selling Shares
--Exchanging Shares
--Pricing and Valuation

Additional Information
Additional important information about the Fund

Management..................................................................23

Dividends and Taxes.........................................................25

Financial Highlights........................................................27

Where to learn more about the Fund..................................back cover

The Fund is not a complete or balanced investment program

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Investment Objective, Strategies, Securities Selection and Risks

Fund Objective

The Fund seeks to achieve consistent absolute positive returns over time
regardless of the market environment.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund invests in securities and other investments to gain exposure to global
fixed income markets and generate positive returns under a variety of market
cycles. The Fund invests in fixed income securities of issuers located within
and outside the U.S. The Fund also may invest in open-end investment companies
advised by UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (the "Advisor") to gain
exposure to certain global fixed income markets. The Fund is a non-diversified
fund.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets
(plus borrowings for investment purposes, if any) in fixed income securities
and/or investments that provide exposure to fixed income securities. Investments
in fixed income securities may include debt securities of governments throughout
the world (including the U.S.), their agencies and instrumentalities, debt
securities of corporations and supranationals, inflation protected securities,
convertible bonds, warrants, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed
securities, equipment trusts and other collateralized debt securities. The
Fund's investments in debt securities may include both fixed rate and floating
rate securities. In addition to investments in issuers in developed markets, the
Fund also may invest up to 20% of its net assets in debt securities of emerging
market issuers.

Based on the Advisor's assessment of market conditions, up to 20% of the Fund's
net assets may be invested in fixed income securities that provide higher yields
and are lower-rated. Lower-rated securities are bonds rated below BBB- by
Standard & Poor's Ratings Group ("S&P") or below Baa3 by Moody's Investor's
Service, Inc. ("Moody's"). Securities rated in these categories are considered
to be of poorer quality and predominately speculative. Bonds in these categories
may also be called "high yield bonds" or "junk bonds."

The Fund may invest in other open-end investment companies advised by the
Advisor to gain exposure to various asset classes, including but not limited to
emerging market and high yield asset classes. The Fund does not pay fees in
connection with its investment in the investment companies advised by the
Advisor, but may pay expenses associated with such investments.

In employing its investment strategies for the Fund, the Advisor attempts to
generate positive returns over time regardless of market conditions by managing
the risks and market exposures of the Fund's portfolio. The Advisor actively
manages portfolio duration along with credit quality, sector and individual
security selection, including country and currency exposure. Duration measures a
fixed income security's price sensitivity to interest rates by indicating the
approximate change in a fixed income security's price if interest rates move up
or down in 1% increments. For example, when the level of interest rates
increases by 1%, the value of a fixed income

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security or a portfolio of fixed income securities having a positive duration of
three years generally will decrease by approximately 3% and the value of a fixed
income security or a portfolio of fixed income securities having a negative
duration of three years generally will increase by approximately 3%. Conversely,
when the level of interest rates decreases by 1%, the value of a fixed income
security or a portfolio of fixed income securities having a positive duration of
three years generally will increase by approximately 3% and the value of a fixed
income security or a portfolio of fixed income securities having a negative
duration of three years generally will decrease by approximately 3%.

The Fund intends to use financial futures, forward agreements, options, swaps
and other derivatives (collectively, "Derivatives") to manage the risks and
market exposures of its portfolio. The Fund may establish short positions in
fixed income securities through the use of Derivatives to achieve a negative
portfolio duration in an effort to take advantage of periods of rising interest
rates and provide the potential for appreciation. The Advisor expects that the
duration of the Fund's portfolio will be between approximately +3 years and -3
years depending on the level and expected future direction of interest rates.

In employing its investment strategies for the Fund, the Advisor attempts to
achieve a total rate of return for the Fund that meets or exceeds the return on
LIBOR (a short-term interest rate that banks charge one another and that is
generally representative of the most competitive and current cash rates
available) by 0.70% to 0.80% per year, net of fees over full (credit and
interest rate) fixed income market cycles. A typical fixed income market cycle
is one to three years. The Advisor does not represent or guarantee that the Fund
will meet this total return goal.

Securities Selection

The Advisor's investment style is focused on investment fundamentals. The
Advisor believes that investment fundamentals determine and describe future cash
flows that define long term investment value. The Advisor tries to identify and
exploit periodic discrepancies between market prices and fundamental value. In
analyzing these price/value differences the Advisor also takes into account
cyclical market drivers which may influence near term dynamics of market prices.

To implement this style, the Advisor purchases securities for the Fund by using
active asset allocation strategies across global fixed income markets and active
security selection within each market. In deciding which securities to
emphasize, the Advisor uses both quantitative and fundamental analysis to
identify securities that it believes are underpriced relative to their
fundamental value.

When determining fundamental value, the Advisor considers broadly based market
data and indices that represent asset classes or markets and economic variables
such as real interest rates, inflation and monetary policy. The valuation of
asset classes reflects an integrated, fundamental analysis of global markets.

The Fund actively manages its currency exposure and attempts to generate
positive returns and manage risk through sophisticated currency management
techniques, including hedging strategies.

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These decisions are integrated with analysis of global market and economic
conditions.

The Fund may invest in all types of fixed income securities of U.S. and foreign
issuers. The Advisor emphasizes those fixed income market sectors, and selects
for the Fund those securities, that appear to be most undervalued relative to
their yields and potential risks. A stringent, research-based approach to issuer
selection helps the Advisor to identify the credit quality and relative
attractiveness of individual issuers. The Advisor selects individual securities
for investment by using duration, yield curve and sector analysis. In analyzing
the relative attractiveness of sectors and securities, the Advisor considers:

- - Duration

- - Yield

- - Potential for capital appreciation

- - Current credit quality as well as possible credit upgrades or downgrades

- - Narrowing or widening of spreads between sectors, securities of different
credit qualities or securities of different maturities

- - For mortgage-related and asset-backed securities, anticipated changes in
average prepayment rates

The Fund may invest in cash or cash equivalent instruments, including shares of
an affiliated investment company. When market conditions warrant, the Fund may
make substantial temporary defensive investments in cash equivalents, which may
affect the Fund's ability to pursue its investment objective. The Fund may have
high portfolio turnover, which may result in higher costs for brokerage
commissions, transaction costs and taxable gains. The trading costs and tax
effects associated with portfolio turnover may adversely affect the Fund's
performance.

Principal Risks

An investment in the Fund is not guaranteed; you may lose money by investing in
the Fund. The other principal risks presented by an investment in the Fund are:

Interest Rate Risk--The risk that changing interest rates may adversely affect
the value of an investment. An increase in prevailing interest rates typically
causes the value of fixed income securities to fall, while a decline in
prevailing interest rates may cause the market value of fixed income securities
to rise. When the Fund has a negative portfolio duration, a decline in interest
rates may negatively impact the Fund's value. Changes in interest rates will
affect the value of longer-term fixed income securities more than shorter-term
securities and higher quality securities more than lower quality securities.

Credit Risk--The risk that the issuer of bonds with ratings below BBB- (S&P) or
below Baa3 (Moody's) will default or otherwise be unable to honor a financial
obligation. These securities are considered to be predominately speculative with
respect to an issuer's capacity to pay interest and repay principal in
accordance with the terms of the obligations. Lower-rated bonds are more likely
to be subject to an issuer's

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default or downgrade than investment grade (higher-rated) bonds.

Prepayment or Call Risk--The risk that issuers will prepay fixed rate
obligations when interest rates fall, forcing the Fund to reinvest in
obligations with lower interest rates than the original obligations.

U.S. Government Agency Obligations Risk-Government agency obligations have
different levels of credit support, and therefore, different degrees of credit
risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. government
that are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as
the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie Mae, present little credit risk.
Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by the U.S.
government that are supported only by the issuer's right to borrow from the U.S.
Treasury, subject to certain limitations, such as securities issued by Federal
Home Loan Banks, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
sponsored by the U.S. government that are supported only by the credit of the
issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater
degree of credit risk.

Management Risk-The risk that the investment strategies, techniques and risk
analyses employed by the Advisor, while designed to enhance potential returns,
may not produce the desired results. The Advisor may be incorrect in its
assessment of the value of securities or assessment of market or interest rate
trends, which can result in losses to the Fund. Also, in some cases derivatives
or other investments may be unavailable or the Advisor may choose not to use
them under market conditions when their use, in hindsight, may be determined to
have been beneficial to the Fund.

Market Risk-The risk that the market value of the Fund's investments will
fluctuate as the stock and bond markets fluctuate. Market risk may affect a
single issuer, industry or section of the economy, or it may affect the market
as a whole.

Foreign Investing and Emerging Markets Risks--The risk that prices of the Fund's
investments in foreign securities may go down because of unfavorable foreign
government actions, political instability or the absence of accurate information
about foreign issuers. Also, a decline in the value of foreign currencies
relative to the U.S. dollar will reduce the value of securities denominated in
those currencies. Also, foreign securities are sometimes less liquid and harder
to sell and to value than securities of U.S. issuers. Each of these risks is
more severe for securities of issuers in emerging market countries.

Non-Diversification Risk--The risk that the Fund will be more volatile than a
diversified fund because the Fund invests its assets in a smaller number of
issuers. The gains and losses on a single security may, therefore, have a
greater impact on the Fund's net asset value.

Derivatives Risk--The Fund's investments in derivatives may rise or fall more
rapidly than other investments. For some derivatives, it is possible for a Fund
to lose more than the amount it invested in the derivative instrument. The use
of derivatives may not succeed for various reasons, including unexpected changes
in the value of the derivatives or the assets underlying them.

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Other Information

Commodity Pool Operator Exemption- The Trust has claimed an exclusion from the
definition of the term "commodity pool operator" under the Commodity Exchange
Act ("CEA"), and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as a
pool operator under the CEA.

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Performance

There is no performance information quoted for the Fund as the Fund had not
commenced investment operations as of the date of this prospectus.

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Expenses and Fee Tables

Fees and Expenses These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay
if you buy, sell and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Transaction Expenses (fees paid directly from your investment)*

Class A Class C Class Y

Maximum Front-End Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on
Purchases (as a % of offering price).......... 2.50% None None
Maximum Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(CDSC) (as a % of purchase or sales price,
whichever is less)............................ None** 0.50% None
Exchange Fee..................................... None None None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that are deducted from Fund assets)***

Class A Class C Class Y

Management Fees.................................. 0.55% 0.55% 0.55%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees......... 0.15% 0.50% None
Other Expenses****............................... 0.32% 0.32% 0.32%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses............. 1.02% 1.37% 0.87%

Management Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursements..... 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%

Net Expenses*****................................ 1.00% 1.35% 0.85%

* Securities dealers or other financial institutions, including UBS Financial
Services Inc., may charge a fee to process a redemption of shares. UBS
Financial Services Inc. currently charges a fee of $5.25.

** Purchases of $250,000 or more that were not subject to a front-end sales
charge are subject to a 0.50% CDSC if sold within one-year of the purchase
date.

*** The fees and expenses are based on estimates.

**** Includes an administrative fee of 0.075% paid by the Fund to UBS Global
Asset Management (US) Inc. ("UBS Global AM").

*****The Trust, with respect to the Fund, and the Advisor have entered into a
written agreement pursuant to which the Advisor has agreed to waive a
portion of its fees and/or to reimburse expenses to the extent that the
Fund's expenses, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, otherwise would
exceed "Net Expenses" rates shown in the table above for each of the Class
A, Class C and Class Y shares, as applicable. Pursuant to the written
agreement, the Advisor is entitled to be reimbursed for any fees it waives
and expenses it reimburses for a period of three years following such fee
waivers and expense reimbursements, to the extent that such reimbursement
of the Advisor by the Fund will not cause the Fund to exceed any applicable
expense limit that is in place for the Fund.

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Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods unless
otherwise stated. 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:

1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years

Class A................................. $349 $565 * *
Class C (assuming sale of all shares
at end of period)..................... $187 $432 * *
Class C (assuming no sale of shares).... $137 $432 * *
Class Y (assuming sale of all shares
at end of period)..................... $87 $276 * *

* The Fund has not projected expenses beyond the three-year period shown
because the Fund had not commenced investment operations as of the date of
this prospectus.

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Managing Your Fund Account

Flexible Pricing

The Fund offers three classes of shares--Class A, Class C and Class Y. Each
class has different sales charges and ongoing expenses. You can choose the class
that is best for you, based on how much you plan to invest and how long you plan
to hold your shares of the Fund. Class Y shares are only available to certain
types of investors.

The Fund has adopted separate plans pertaining to the Class A and Class C shares
of the Fund under rule 12b-1 that allows the Fund to pay service and (for Class
C shares) distribution fees for the sale of the Fund's shares and services
provided to shareholders. Because the 12b-1 fees for Class C shares are paid out
of the Fund's assets on an ongoing basis, over time they will increase the cost
of your investment and may cost you more than if you paid other types of sales
charges, such as the front-end sales charge for Class A shares.

You may qualify for a waiver of certain sales charges on Class A and Class C
shares. See "Sales Charge Waivers for Class A and Class C Shares" below. You may
also qualify for a reduced sales charge on Class A shares. See "Sales Charge
Reductions for Class A Shares" below.

Class A Shares

Class A shares have a front-end sales charge that is included in the offering
price of the Class A shares. This sales charge is paid at the time of purchase
and is not invested in the Fund. Class A shares pay an annual service fee of
0.15% of average net assets, but they pay no distribution fees. The ongoing
expenses for Class A shares are lower than for Class C shares.

The Class A sales charges for the Fund are described in the following table:

Class A Sales Charges:

Reallowance to Selected
Sales Charge as a Percentage of: Dealers as Percentage
Amount of Investment Offering Price Net Amount Invested of Offering Price

Less than $50,000....... 2.50 2.56 2.00
$50,000 to $99,999...... 2.00 2.04 1.75
$100,000 to $249,999.... 1.00 1.01 0.90
$250,000 and over (1)... None None 0.50

(1) A contingent deferred charge of 0.50% of the shares' offering price or the
net asset value at the time of sale by the shareholder, whichever is less,
is charged on sales of shares made within one year of the purchase date.
Class A shares representing reinvestment of dividends are not subject to
this 0.50% charge. Withdrawals in the first year after purchase of up to
12% of the value of the Fund account under the Fund's Automatic Cash
Withdrawal Plan are not subject to this charge.

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If you intend to purchase more than $5 million of Class A shares, you should
instead purchase Class Y shares, which have lower on-going expenses.

Class C Shares

Class C shares pay an annual 12b-1 distribution fee of 0.25% of average net
assets, as well as an annual 12b-1 service fee of 0.25% of average net assets.
Class C shares do not convert to another class of shares. This means that you
will pay the 12b-1 fees for as long as you own your shares.

Class C shares also have a contingent deferred sales charge of 0.50%, applicable
if you sell your shares within one year of the date you purchased them. We
calculate the deferred sales charge on sales of Class C shares by multiplying
0.50% by the lesser of the net asset value of the Class C shares at the time of
purchase or the net asset value at the time of sale.

Sales Charge Waivers for Class A and Class C Shares

Class A Front-end Sales Charge Waivers. Front-end sales charges will be waived
if you buy Class A shares with proceeds from the following sources:

1. Redemptions from any registered mutual fund for which UBS Global AM or any
of its affiliates serves as principal underwriter if you:

o Originally paid a front-end sales charge on the shares; and

o Reinvest the money within 60 days of the redemption date.

The Fund's front-end sales charge will also not apply to Class A purchases by or
through:

2. Employees of UBS AG and its subsidiaries and members of the employees'
immediate families; and members of the Board of Directors/Trustees of any
investment company for which UBS Global AM or any of its affiliates serves
as principal underwriter.

3. Trust companies and bank trust departments investing on behalf of their
clients if clients pay the bank or trust company an asset-based fee for
trust or asset management services.

4. Retirement plans and deferred compensation plans that have assets of at
least $1 million or at least 25 eligible employees.

5. Broker-dealers and other financial institutions (including registered
investment advisers and financial planners) that have entered into a
selling agreement with UBS Global AM (or otherwise have an arrangement with
a broker-dealer or other financial institution with respect to sales of
Fund shares), on behalf of clients participating in a fund supermarket,
wrap program, or other program in which clients pay a fee for advisory
services, executing transactions in Fund shares, or for otherwise
participating in the program.

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6. Employees of broker-dealers and other financial institutions (including
registered investment advisers and financial planners) that have entered
into a selling agreement with UBS Global AM (or otherwise having an
arrangement with a broker-dealer or other financial institution with
respect to sales of Fund shares), and their immediate family members, as
allowed by the internal policies of their employer.

7. Insurance company separate accounts.

8. Shareholders of the Class N shares of any UBS Fund who held such shares at
the time they were redesignated as Class A shares.

9. Reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividends.

10. College savings plans organized under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue
Code (the "IRC").

11. A UBS Financial Services Inc. Adviser who was formerly employed as an
investment executive with a competing brokerage firm, and

o you were the Financial Advisor's client at the competing brokerage
firm;

o within 90 days of buying shares in the Fund, you sell shares of one or
more mutual funds that were principally underwritten by the competing
brokerage firm or its affiliates, and you either paid a sales charge
to buy those shares, pay a contingent deferred sales charge when
selling them or held those shares until the contingent deferred sales
charge was waived; and

o you purchase an amount that does not exceed the total amount of money
you received from the sale of the other mutual fund.

Class A and Class C Shares Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers. The
contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for:

o Exchanges between funds for which UBS Global AM or one of its affiliates
serves as principal underwriter, if purchasing the same class of shares;

o Redemptions following the death or disability of the shareholder or
beneficial owner;

o Tax-free returns of excess contributions from employee benefit plans;

o Distributions from employee benefit plans, including those due to plan
termination or plan transfer;

o Redemptions made in connection with the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan,
provided that such redemptions:

-- are limited annually to no more than 12% of the original account
value;

-- are made in equal monthly amounts, not to exceed 1% per month; and

-- the minimum account value at the time the Automatic Cash Withdrawal
Plan was initiated was no less than $5,000; and

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o Redemptions of shares purchased through retirement plans.

Sales Charge Reductions for Class A Shares

Right of Accumulation

A purchaser of Class A shares may qualify for a reduction of the front-end sales
charge on purchases of Class A shares by combining a current purchase with
certain other Class A, Class B, Class C and/or Class P or Y shares of Family
Funds (please note that any Family Fund that is a money market fund will not
count for purposes of the right of accumulation discount or for purposes of
satisfying the terms of a Letter of Intent) already owned. To determine if you
qualify for a reduction of the front-end sales charge, the amount of your
current purchase is added to the current net asset value of your other Class A,
Class B, Class C and/or Class P or Y shares, as well as those Class A, Class B,
Class C and/or Class P or Y shares of your spouse and children under the age of
21 and who reside in the same household. If you are the sole owner of a company,
you may also add any company accounts, including retirement plan accounts
invested in Class A, Class B, Class C and/or Class P or Y shares of the Family
Funds. Companies with one or more retirement plans may add together the total
plan assets invested in Class A, Class B, Class C and/or Class P or Y shares of
the Family Funds to determine the front-end sales charge that applies. To
qualify for the discount on a purchase through a financial institution, when
each purchase is made the investor or institution must provide UBS Global AM
with sufficient information to verify that the purchase qualifies for the
privilege or discount. The right of accumulation may be amended or terminated by
UBS Global AM at any time as to purchases occurring thereafter.

Shares purchased through a broker/dealer may be subject to different procedures
concerning Rights of Accumulation. Please contact your investment professional
for more information.

Letter of Intent

Investors may also obtain reduced sales charges for Class A shares for
investments of a particular amount by means of a written Letter of Intent, which
expresses the investor's intention to invest that amount within a period of 13
months in shares of one or more Family Funds. Each purchase of Class A shares
under a Letter of Intent will be made at the public offering price applicable at
the time of such purchase to a single transaction of the total dollar amount
indicated in the Letter of Intent. A Letter of Intent may include purchases of
Class A, Class B, Class C and/or Class Y shares made not more than three months
prior to the date that investor signs a Letter of Intent and during the 13-month
period in which the Letter of Intent is in effect; however, the 13-month period
during which the Letter of Intent is in effect will begin on the date on which
the Letter of Intent is signed.

Investors do not receive credit for shares purchased by the reinvestment of
distributions. Investors qualifying for a right of accumulation discount
(described above) may purchase shares under a single Letter of Intent.

The Letter of Intent is not a binding obligation upon the investor to purchase
the full amount indicated. The minimum initial investment under a Letter of
Intent is 5% of such amount, and must be

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invested immediately. Class A shares purchased with the first 5% of such amount
may be held in escrow to secure payment of the higher sales charge applicable to
the shares actually purchased if the full amount indicated is not purchased.
When the full amount indicated has been purchased, the escrow will be released.
If an investor desires to redeem escrowed shares before the full amount has been
purchased, the shares will be released only if the investor pays the sales
charge that, without regard to the Letter of Intent, would apply to the total
investment made to date.

Letter of Intent forms may be obtained from UBS Global AM or from investment
professionals. Investors should read the Letter of Intent carefully.

Note on Sales Charge Waivers for Class A and Class C Shares

Additional information concerning sales charge reductions and waivers is
available in the Fund's statement of additional information (the "SAI"). If you
think you qualify for any of the sales charge waivers or reductions described
above, you may need to notify and/or provide documentation to UBS Global AM. You
will also need to notify UBS Global AM of the existence of other accounts in
which there are holdings eligible to be aggregated to meet certain sales load
breakpoints. Information you may need to provide to UBS Global AM may include:

o Information or records regarding shares of the Fund or other funds held in
all accounts at any financial intermediary;

o Information or records regarding shares of the Fund or other funds held in
any account at any financial intermediary by related parties of the
shareholder, such as members of the same family; and/or

o Any information that may be necessary for UBS Global AM to determine your
eligibility for a reduction or waiver of a sales charge.

For more information, you should contact your investment professional or call
1-800-647-1568. If you want information on the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan,
see the SAI or contact your investment professional. Also, information regarding
the Fund's distribution arrangements and the applicable sales charge reductions
and waivers is available on the Fund's website, free of charge, at
http://www.ubs.com/globalam.

Class Y Shares

Shareholders pay no front-end sales charges on Class Y shares. However, as
principal underwriter of the Fund, UBS Global AM may make on-going payments out
of its own resources, in an amount up to 25% of the net management fee, to
affiliated and unaffiliated dealers that sell Class Y shares of the Fund. The
net management fee is the contractual management fee less any management fee
waivers.

The following are eligible to purchase Class Y shares:

o Shareholders of the Class I shares of any UBS Fund who held such shares as
of the date the shares were redesignated Class Y shares;

o Retirement plans with 5,000 or more eligible employees or $100 million or
more in plan assets;

o Retirement plan platforms/programs that include Fund shares if the
platform/program covers plan assets of at least $100 million;

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o Trust companies and bank trust departments purchasing shares on behalf of
their clients in a fiduciary capacity;

o Banks, registered investment advisors and other financial institutions
purchasing fund shares for their clients as part of a discretionary asset
allocation model portfolio;

o College savings plans organized under Section 529 of the IRC, if
shareholder servicing fees are paid exclusively outside of the
participating funds;

o Other investors as approved by the Trust's Board of Trustees;

o Shareholders who invest a minimum initial amount of $5 million in the Fund.
An institutional investor may aggregate its holdings with holdings of
certain related institutional investors to meet the foregoing minimums; and

o Foundations, Endowments and Religious and other charitable organizations
described in Section 501(c)(3) of the IRC.

Class Y shares do not pay ongoing 12b-1 distribution or service fees. The
ongoing expenses for Class Y shares are the lowest of all the classes.

Buying Shares

You can buy Fund shares through your investment professional at a broker-dealer
or other financial institution with which UBS Global AM has a dealer agreement.

If you wish to invest in other Family Funds, you can do so by:

o Contacting your investment professional (if you have an account at a
financial institution that has entered into a dealer agreement with UBS
Global AM);

o Buying shares through the transfer agent as described below; or

o Opening an account by exchanging shares from another Family Fund.

Selected securities dealers or other financial institutions, including UBS
Financial Services Inc., may charge a processing fee to confirm a purchase. UBS
Financial Services Inc. currently charges a fee of $5.25.

The Fund and UBS Global AM reserve the right to reject a purchase order or
suspend the offering of shares.

Through Financial Institutions/Professionals

As mentioned above, the Fund has entered into one or more sales agreements with
brokers, dealers or other financial intermediaries ("Service Providers"), as
well as with financial institutions (banks and bank trust departments) (each an
"Authorized Dealer"). The Authorized Dealer, or intermediaries designated by the
Authorized Dealer (a "Sub-designee"), may in some cases be authorized to accept
purchase and redemption orders that are in "good form" on behalf of the Fund.
The Fund will be deemed to have received a purchase or redemption order

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when the Authorized Dealer or Sub-designee receives the order in good form. Such
orders will be priced at the Fund's net asset value next computed after such
order is received in good form by the Authorized Dealer or Subdesignee. These
Authorized Dealers may charge the investor a transaction fee or other fee for
their services at the time of purchase. These fees would not be otherwise
charged if you purchased shares directly from the Fund. It is the responsibility
of such Authorized Dealers or Sub-designees to promptly forward purchase orders
with payments to the Fund.

Additional Compensation to Affiliated Dealer

UBS Global AM pays its affiliate, UBS Financial Services Inc., the following
additional compensation in connection with the sale of Fund shares:

o 0.05% of the value (at the time of sale) of all shares of the Fund sold
through UBS Financial Services Inc.

o a monthly retention fee at the annual rate of 0.10% of the value of shares
of the Fund that are held in a UBS Financial Services Inc. account at
month-end.

The foregoing payments are made by UBS Global AM out of its own resources.

Minimum Investments:

Class A and Class C shares:

To open an account...................... $1,000
To add to an account.................... $100

The Fund may waive or reduce these amounts for:

o Employees of UBS Global AM or its affiliates; or

o Participants in certain pension plans, retirement accounts, unaffiliated
investment programs or the Fund's automatic investment plan.

Market Timers. The interests of the Fund's long-term shareholders and the Fund's
ability to manage its investments may be adversely affected when the Fund's
shares are repeatedly bought and sold in response to short-term market
fluctuations--sometimes known as "market timing." Market timing may cause the
Fund to have difficulty implementing long-term investment strategies, because it
would have more difficulty predicting how much cash it would need to have
available to meet redemption requests and to invest. Market timing also may
force the Fund to sell portfolio securities at disadvantageous times to raise
the cash needed to buy a market timer's Fund shares. Market timing also may
materially increase the Fund's transaction costs, administrative costs or taxes.
These factors may hurt the Fund's performance and its shareholders.

In addition, the nature of the Fund's portfolio holdings may allow a shareholder
to engage in a short-term trading strategy to take advantage of possible delays
between the change in the Fund's portfolio holdings and the reflection of that
change in the Fund's net asset value (often called "arbitrage market timing").
Such a delay may occur if the Fund has significant investments in non-US
securities, where due to time zone differences, the value of those securities is
established some time before the Fund calculates its net asset value. In such
circumstances, the available market

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prices for such non-US securities may not accurately reflect the latest
indications of value at the time the Fund calculate its net asset value. There
is a possibility that arbitrage market timing may dilute the value of Fund
shares if redeeming shareholders receive proceeds (and buying shareholders
receive shares) based upon a net asset value which does not reflect appropriate
fair value prices. One of the objectives of the Fund's fair value pricing
procedures is to minimize the possibilities of this type of arbitrage market
timing.

The Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted the following policies as a means
to discourage, detect and prevent market timing. The Fund will reject purchase
orders and exchanges into the Fund by any person, group or account that UBS
Global AM determines to be a market timer. UBS Global AM maintains market timing
prevention procedures under which it reviews daily reports from the Fund's
transfer agent of all accounts that engaged in transactions in Fund shares that
exceed a specified monetary threshold and effected such transactions within a
certain period of time to evaluate whether any such account had engaged in
market timing activity. In evaluating the account transactions, UBS Global AM
will consider the potential harm of the trading or exchange activity to the Fund
or its shareholders. If UBS Global AM determines, in its sole discretion, that a
shareholder has engaged in market timing, the shareholder will be temporarily or
permanently barred from making future purchases or exchanges into the Fund. In
addition, if a Financial Advisor is identified as the Financial Advisor of two
or more accounts that have engaged in market timing, the Financial Advisor will
be prohibited from making additional purchases of the Fund on behalf of its
clients.

Shares of the Fund may be held through omnibus account arrangements, whereby a
broker-dealer, investment advisor, retirement plan sponsor or other financial
intermediary (each a "Financial Intermediary") maintains an omnibus account with
the Fund for trading on behalf of its customers or participants. Omnibus
accounts are accounts that aggregate the transactions of underlying
shareholders, thus making it difficult to identify individual underlying account
holder activity. UBS Global AM reviews purchase and redemption activity in
omnibus accounts on a daily basis to seek to identify an unusual pattern of
trading activity within a short period of time. If UBS Global AM detects an
unusual pattern of trading activity, UBS Global AM will notify the Financial
Intermediary of the omnibus account and will request that the Financial
Intermediary use its best efforts to identify and bar any customer or
participant that is engaging in market timing, if possible.

While the Fund will encourage Financial Intermediaries to apply the Fund's
market timing policies to their customers or participants who invest in the Fund
through an omnibus account, the Fund is limited in its ability to monitor the
trading activity or enforce the Fund's market timing policies with respect to
customers of Financial Intermediaries. For example, although UBS Global AM
reviews the trading activity of omnibus accounts, UBS Global AM may not be able
to detect market timing that may be facilitated by Financial Intermediaries or
made difficult to identify in the omnibus accounts used by those Financial
Intermediaries for aggregated purchases, exchanges and

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redemptions on behalf of their customers or participants.

While the Fund will seek to take actions (directly and with the assistance of
Financial Intermediaries) that will detect market timing, the Fund's efforts may
not be completely successful in minimizing or eliminating such trading activity.

Certain types of transactions will also be exempt from the market timing
prevention procedures, such as purchases and redemptions through UBS Global AM's
Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan and redemptions by wrap fee accounts that have an
automatic rebalancing feature.

Selling Shares

You can sell your Fund shares at any time. If you own more than one class of
shares, you should specify which class you want to sell. If you do not, the Fund
will assume that you want to sell shares in the following order: Class A, then
Class C and last, Class Y.

If you want to sell shares that you purchased recently, the Fund may delay
payment until it verifies that it has received good payment. If you hold your
shares through a financial institution, you can sell shares by contacting your
investment professional, or an Authorized Dealer or Sub-designee, for more
information. Important note: Each institution or professional may have its own
procedures and requirements for selling shares and may charge fees. If you
purchased shares through the Fund's transfer agent, you may sell them as
explained below.

If you sell Class A shares and then repurchase Class A shares of the same Fund
within 365 days of the sale, you can reinstate your account without paying a
sales charge.

Securities dealers or other financial institutions, including UBS Financial
Services Inc., may charge a fee to process a redemption of shares. UBS Financial
Services Inc. currently charges a fee of $5.25.

The Fund reserves the right to pay redemptions "in kind" (i.e., payment in
securities rather than cash) if the investment you are redeeming is large enough
to affect the Fund's operations (for example, if it represents more than
$250,000 or 1% of the Fund's assets). In these cases, you might incur brokerage
costs converting the securities to cash.

It costs the Fund money to maintain shareholder accounts. Therefore, the Fund
reserves the right to repurchase all shares in any account that has a net asset
value of less than $500. If the Fund elects to do this with your account, it
will notify you that you can increase the amount invested to $500 or more within
60 days. The Fund will not repurchase shares in accounts that fall below $500
solely because of a decrease in the Fund's net asset value.

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering
activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify
and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. If you
do not provide the information requested, the Fund may not be able to maintain
your account. If the Fund is unable to verify your identity or that of another
person(s) authorized to act on your behalf, the

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Fund and UBS Global AM reserve the right to close your account and/or take such
other action they deem reasonable or required by law. Fund shares will be
redeemed and valued in accordance with the net asset value next calculated after
the determination has been made to close the account.

Exchanging Shares

You may exchange Class A or Class C shares of the Fund for shares of the same
class of most other Family Funds. You may not exchange Class Y shares.

You will not pay either a front-end sales charge or a deferred sales charge when
you exchange shares. Also, you may have to pay a deferred sales charge if you
later sell the shares you acquired in the exchange. A fund will use the date of
your original share purchase to determine whether you must pay a deferred sales
charge when you sell the shares of the fund acquired in the exchange.

Other Family Funds may have different minimum investment amounts. You may not be
able to exchange your shares if the value of shares you exchange is not as large
as the minimum investment amount in that other fund.

You may exchange shares of one fund for shares of another fund only after the
first purchase has settled and the first fund has received your payment.

If you hold your Fund shares through a financial institution, you may exchange
your shares by placing an order with that institution. If you hold Fund shares
through the Fund's transfer agent, you may exchange your shares as explained
below.

The Fund may modify or terminate the exchange privilege at any time.

Transfer Agent

If you wish to invest in this Fund or any other of the Family Funds through the
Fund's transfer agent, PFPC Inc., you can obtain an application by calling
1-800-647-1568. You must complete and sign the application and mail it, along
with a check to the transfer agent.

You may also sell or exchange your shares by writing to the Fund's transfer
agent. Your letter must include:

o Your name and address;

o Your account number;

o The name of the fund whose shares you are selling, and if exchanging
shares, the name of the fund whose shares you want to buy;

o The dollar amount or number of shares you want to sell and/or exchange; and

o A guarantee of each registered owner's signature. A signature guarantee may
be obtained from a financial institution, broker, dealer or clearing agency
that is a participant in one of the medallion programs recognized by the
Securities Transfer Agents Association. These are: Securities Transfer
Agents Medallion Program (STAMP), Stock Exchanges Medallion Program (SEMP)
and the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Signature Program (MSP). The Fund
will not accept signature guarantees that are not part of these programs.

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Applications to purchase shares (along with a check), and letters requesting
redemptions of shares or exchanges of shares through the transfer agent should
be mailed to:

PFPC Inc.
Attention: UBS Mutual Funds
760 Moore Road
King of Prussia, PA 19406

You do not have to complete an application when you make additional investments
in the Fund.

Pricing and Valuation

The price at which you may buy, sell or exchange Fund shares is based on the net
asset value per share. The Fund calculates net asset value on days that the New
York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is open. The Fund calculates net asset value
separately for each class as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE
(generally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern time). The NYSE normally is not open, and the
Fund does not price its shares, on most national holidays and on Good Friday.

Your price for buying, selling or exchanging shares of the Fund will be based on
the net asset value (adjusted for any applicable sales charges) that is next
calculated after the Fund (or an Authorized Dealer or Sub-designee) receives
your order in good form. If you place your order through a financial
institution, your investment professional is responsible for making sure that
your order is promptly sent to the Fund.

The Fund calculates its net asset value based on the current market value for
its portfolio securities. The Fund normally obtains market values for its
securities from independent pricing services that use reported last sales
prices, current market quotations or, if market prices are not readily
available, valuations from computerized 'matrix' systems that derive values
based on comparable securities. If a market value is not available from an
independent pricing source for a particular security, that security is valued at
a fair value determined by or under the direction of the Trust's Board. The Fund
normally uses the amortized cost method to value bonds that will mature in 60
days or less.

The Trust's Board of Trustees has delegated to the UBS Global Asset Management
Funds' Valuation Committee the responsibility for making fair value
determinations with respect to the Fund's portfolio securities. The types of
securities for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are
not limited to: foreign securities under some circumstances, as discussed below;
securities of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; securities whose
trading has been halted or suspended; fixed-income securities that are in
default and for which there is no current market value quotation; and securities
that are restricted as to transfer or resale. The need to fair value the Fund's
portfolio securities may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets
or thinly traded domestic securities, and when a security subject to a trading
limit or collar on the exchange or market on which it is primarily traded
reaches the "limit up" or "limit down" price and no trading has taken place at
that price.

The Fund expects to price most of its portfolio securities based on current
market value, as discussed above. Securities and assets for which market
quotations are not readily available may

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be valued based upon appraisals received from a pricing service using a
computerized matrix system or formula method that takes into consideration
market indices, matrices, yield curves and other specific adjustments. This may
result in the securities being valued at a price different from the price that
would have been determined had the matrix or formula method not been used.
Securities also may be valued based upon appraisals derived from information
concerning the security or similar securities received from recognized dealers
in those securities. If the Fund concludes that a market quotation is not
readily available for a Fund's portfolio security for any number of reasons,
including the occurrence of a "significant event" (e.g., natural disaster or
governmental action), after the close of trading in its principal domestic or
foreign market but before the close of regular trading on the NYSE, the Fund may
use fair value methods to reflect those events. This policy is intended to
assure that the Fund's net asset value fairly reflects security values as of the
time of pricing.

Valuing securities at fair value involves greater reliance on judgment than
valuing securities that have readily available market quotations. Fair value
determinations can also involve reliance on quantitative models employed by a
fair value pricing service. There can be no assurance that the Fund could obtain
the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security at
approximately the time at which the Fund determines its net asset value per
share. As a result, the Fund's sale or redemption of its shares at net asset
value, at a time when a holding or holdings are valued at fair value, may have
the effect of diluting or increasing the economic interest of existing
shareholders.

The Fund may invest in securities that trade primarily in foreign markets that
trade on weekends or other days on which the Fund does not calculate net asset
value. As a result, the Fund's net asset value may change on days when you will
not be able to buy and sell your Fund shares.

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Management

Investment Advisor

UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (the "Advisor"), a Delaware
corporation located at One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, is an
investment advisor registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
As of December 31, 2004, the Advisor had approximately $61.3 billion in assets
under management. The Advisor is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of UBS AG
("UBS") and a member of the UBS Global Asset Management Division, which had
approximately $527.4 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2004.
UBS is an internationally diversified organization headquartered in Zurich,
Switzerland, with operations in many areas of the financial services industry.

Portfolio Management

Investment decisions for the Fund are made by an investment management team at
the Advisor. The team members listed below coordinate the investment management
team's management of the Fund's portfolio. The team members also have access to
additional portfolio managers and analysts within the various asset classes and
markets in which the Fund invests. Information about the portfolio managers
primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund is provided
below.

John A. Penicook is the Global Head of Fixed Income at UBS Global Asset
Management. Mr. Penicook has been a Managing Director of UBS Global Asset
Management since 1995.

Michael Markowitz is the Head of Short Duration Fixed Income at UBS Global Asset
Management. Mr. Markowitz has been a Managing Director of UBS Global Asset
Management since 1994.

Thomas Clarkson has been a Managing Director of UBS Global Asset Management
since 2004. From 2001 until 2004, Mr. Clarkson was an Executive Director of UBS
Global Asset Management.

Phillip Apel is a Senior Portfolio Manager and has been a Managing Director of
UBS Global Asset Management since 1992.

Giovanni Pagani is a Senior Portfolio Manager and has been a Managing Director
of UBS Global Asset Management since 1995.

The SAI for the Fund provides information about the Fund's portfolio managers'
compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and the portfolio
managers' ownership of Fund shares.

Advisory Fees

The investment advisory fee (expressed as a percentage of average net assets)
payable to the Advisor, before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by the
Fund is presented in the table below.

The Advisor has contractually agreed to waive its fees and/or reimburse certain
expenses so that the total operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 fees) of the Fund
do not exceed the amounts listed in the table below under "Total Expense

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Limit." The contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement agreement will
remain in place for the Fund's fiscal year ending June 30, 2005. Thereafter, the
expense limit for the Fund will be reviewed each year, at which time the
continuation of the expense limit will be discussed by the Advisor and the Board
of Trustees. The contractual fee waiver agreement also provides that the Advisor
is entitled to reimbursement of fees it waived and/or expenses it reimbursed for
a period of three years following such fee waivers and expense reimbursements,
provided that the reimbursement by the Fund of the Advisor will not cause the
total operating expense ratio to exceed the contractual limit as then may be in
effect for that Fund.

Total
Expense
Limit Advisory Fee
Assets under Management Fee
0.85% $0 - $500 million 0.55%
On the next $ 500 million 0.50%
- $1 billion
On the next $1 billion - 0.475%
$1.5 billion
On the next $ 1.5 billion 0.45%
- $ 2 billion
Above $ 2 billion 0.425%

Administrator

UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. ("UBS Global AM"), located at 51 West 52nd
Street, New York, NY 10019-6114, is the administrator of the Fund. UBS Global AM
is an indirect wholly owned asset management subsidiary of UBS. The Fund pays
UBS Global AM at the annual contract rate of 0.075% of its average daily net
assets for administrative services.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

The Fund will generally post on its website at http://www.ubs.com/globalam, the
ten largest stock portfolio holdings of the Fund, and the percentage that each
of these holdings represents of the Fund's total assets, as of the most recent
calendar-quarter end, 14 calendar days after the end of the calendar quarter.
The Fund will file its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for
the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Forms
N-Q are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's forms N-Q may
be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C.
Information on the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained
by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. Additionally, you may obtain copes of Forms N-Q from
the Fund upon request by calling 1-800-647-1568. The Fund's complete schedule of
portfolio holdings for the second and fourth quarters of each fiscal year are
filed with the SEC on Form N-CSR and appear in the semi-annual and annual
reports, respectively, sent to shareholders. The semi-annual and annual reports
for the Fund will be posted on the Fund's website at
http://www.ubs.com/globalam. Please consult the Fund's SAI for a description of
the policies and procedures that govern disclosure of the fund's portfolio
holdings.

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Dividends and Taxes

Dividends and Distributions

Income dividends are normally declared, and paid quarterly. Capital gains, if
any, are distributed annually. The amount of any distributions will vary, and
there is no guarantee the Fund will pay either income dividends or capital gain
distributions.

Classes with higher expenses are expected to have lower income dividends. For
example Class C shares are expected to have the lowest dividends of the Fund's
shares, while Class Y shares are expected to have the highest.

You will receive income dividends and capital gain distributions in additional
shares of the same class of the Fund unless you notify your investment
professional or the Fund in writing that you elect to receive them in cash.
Clients who own Fund shares through certain wrap fee programs may not have the
option of electing to receive dividends in cash. Distribution options may be
changed at any time by requesting a change in writing. Dividends and
distributions are reinvested on the reinvestment date at the net asset value
determined at the close of business on that date.

If you invest in the Fund shortly before it makes a distribution, you may
receive some of your investment back in the form of a taxable distribution.

Taxes

In general, if you are a taxable investor, Fund distributions are taxable to you
as either ordinary income or capital gains. This is true whether you reinvest
your distributions in additional Fund shares or receive them in cash. Every
January, you will receive a statement that shows the tax status of distributions
you received for the previous year. Distributions declared in December but paid
in January are taxable as if they were paid in December.

For federal income tax purposes, Fund distributions of short-term capital gains
are taxable to you as ordinary income. Fund distributions of long-term capital
gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have
owned your shares. A portion of income dividends designated by the Fund may be
qualified dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at
long-term capital gains rates, provided certain holding period requirements are
met.

By law, the Fund must withhold a portion of your taxable distributions and
redemption proceeds unless you:

o provide your correct social security or taxpayer identification number,

o certify that this number is correct,

o certify that you are not subject to backup withholding, and

o certify that you are a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien).

A Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so. When you sell your
shares in the Fund, you may realize a capital gain or loss. For tax purposes, an
exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different Family Fund is the same
as a sale.

When you sell your shares in the Fund, you may realize a capital gain or loss.
For tax purposes, an exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different
Family Fund is the same as a sale.

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Fund distributions and gains from the sale of your Fund shares generally are
subject to state and local taxes. Any foreign taxes the Fund pays on its
investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit. Non-U.S.
investors may be subject to U.S. withholding or estate tax, and are subject to
special U.S. tax certification requirements. You should consult your tax advisor
about the federal, state, local or foreign tax consequences of your investment
in the Fund.

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Financial Highlights

No financial information is presented for the Fund because it had not commenced
operations as of the date of this prospectus.

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If you want more information about [UBS GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT LOGO]
the Fund, the following documents
are available free upon request:

Annual/Semi-Annual Reports
The UBS Funds
Additional information about the Fund's investments will
be available in the Fund's annual and semiannual reports UBS Absolute Return
to shareholders. As of the date of this prospectus, Bond Fund
annual and semi-annual reports are not yet available
because the Fund has not commenced operations. Prospectus

Statement of Additional Information (SAI)

The SAI provides more detailed information about the Fund
and is incorporated by reference into this prospectus
(i.e. it is legally considered a part of this prospectus).

You may discuss your questions about the Fund by
contacting your investment professional. You may obtain
free copies of the Fund's annual and semiannual reports
and the SAI by contacting the Fund directly at
1-800-647-1568 or by accessing the documents
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You may review and copy information about the Fund,
including shareholder reports and the SAI, at the Public
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and other information about the Fund:

o For a fee, by electronic request at publicinfo@sec.gov
or by writing the SEC's Public Reference Section,
Washington, D.C. 20549-0102; or

o Free from the EDGAR Database on the SEC's Internet
website at: http://www.sec.gov.

The UBS Funds
Investment Company Act File No. 811-6637 March 6, 2005

The UBS Funds
UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund

One North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Dated March 6, 2005

The UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund (the "Fund") is a series of The UBS Funds, an
open-end management investment company (the "Trust").

UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary
of UBS AG ("UBS"), serves as the investment advisor for the Fund. UBS Global
Asset Management (US) Inc. ("UBS Global AM (US)") serves as the administrator
and underwriter for the Fund. UBS Global AM is an indirect wholly owned asset
management subsidiary of UBS.

This SAI is not a prospectus and should be read only in conjunction with the
Fund's current Prospectus, dated March 6, 2005. A copy of the Prospectus may be
obtained by calling your investment professional or by calling the Trust toll
free at 1-800-647-1568. The Prospectus contains more complete information about
the Fund. You should read it carefully before investing.

Table of Contents

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUST............................................1
Diversification Status......................................................1
General Definitions.........................................................1
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES..........................................................2
Cash and Cash Equivalents...................................................2
Repurchase Agreements.......................................................3
Reverse Repurchase Agreements...............................................3
Borrowing...................................................................4
Loans of Portfolio Securities...............................................4
Swaps.......................................................................4
Futures.....................................................................6
Options.....................................................................7
Index Options..............................................................10
Special Risks of Options on Indices........................................10
Rule 144A and Illiquid Securities..........................................11
Investment Company Securities and Investments in Affiliated
Investment Companies.....................................................12
Issuer Location............................................................13
Eurodollar Securities......................................................13
Foreign Securities.........................................................13
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts.........................................13
Non-Deliverable Forwards...................................................14
Options on Foreign Currencies..............................................15
Short Sales................................................................16
Lower Rated Debt Securities................................................16
Inflation Protected Securities.............................................18
Pay-In-Kind Bonds..........................................................18
Convertible Securities.....................................................18
Credit-Linked Securities...................................................19
When-Issued Securities.....................................................20
Mortgage-Backed Securities and Mortgage Pass-Through Securities............20
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations ("CMOs") and Real Estate
Mortgage Investment Conduits ("REMICs")..................................23
Dollar Rolls...............................................................24
To-Be-Announced Securities.................................................24
Other Mortgage-Backed Securities...........................................24
Asset-Backed Securities....................................................25
Equipment Trust Certificates...............................................26
Zero Coupon and Delayed Interest Securities................................26
Structured Notes...........................................................28
Emerging Markets Investments...............................................28
Risks of Investing in Emerging Markets.....................................30
Other Investments..........................................................32

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SECONDARY RISKS...............................................................32
INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS.......................................................32
MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST.......................................................33
Trustees...................................................................33
Officers...................................................................35
CONTROL PERSONS AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF SECURITIES...........................41
INVESTMENT ADVISORY, PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITING AND OTHER SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS....41
Advisor....................................................................41
Administrative, Accounting and Custody Services............................45
Principal Underwriting Arrangements........................................46
Transfer Agency Services...................................................48
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm..............................48
Legal Counsel..............................................................48
Personal Trading Policies..................................................48
Proxy Voting Policies......................................................49
Portfolio Holdings Disclosure Policies And Procedures......................50
Bank Line of Credit........................................................53
PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE COMMISSIONS..............................54
Portfolio Turnover.........................................................55
SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST.................................................55
REDUCED SALES CHARGES, ADDITIONAL PURCHASE, EXCHANGE AND REDEMPTION
INFORMATION AND OTHER SERVICES................................................56
Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers........................................56
Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan--Class A and Class C........................59
Individual Retirement Accounts.............................................60
Transfer of Accounts.......................................................60
Transfer of Securities.....................................................60
NET ASSET VALUE...............................................................61
TAXATION......................................................................61
Additional Information on Distributions and Taxes..........................61
Distributions..............................................................61
Investments in Foreign Securities..........................................62
Redemption of Shares.......................................................64
PERFORMANCE CALCULATIONS......................................................67
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM........................................................68

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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUST

The Trust currently offers shares of the following sixteen series, representing
separate portfolios of investments: UBS U.S. Bond Fund, UBS High Yield Fund, UBS
U.S. Large Cap Equity Fund, UBS U.S. Large Cap Value Equity Fund, UBS U.S. Large
Cap Growth Fund, UBS U.S. Small Cap Equity Fund, UBS U.S. Small Cap Growth Fund,
UBS U.S. Real Estate Equity Fund, UBS Global Allocation Fund, UBS Global Equity
Fund, UBS Global Bond Fund, UBS International Equity Fund, UBS Emerging Markets
Debt Fund, UBS Emerging Markets Equity Fund, UBS Dynamic Alpha Fund and UBS
Absolute Return Bond Fund. This SAI relates to the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund
(the "Fund"). The Fund currently offers three classes of shares: the Class A
shares, the Class C shares and the Class Y shares. Class A shares have a
front-end sales charge, a contingent deferred sales charge ("CDSC") in the first
year of ownership for purchases of $250,000 or more, and are subject to annual
12b-1 plan service fees of 0.15% of average daily net assets of the Fund. Class
C shares have a CDSC and are subject to annual 12b-1 distribution fees of 0.25%
of average daily net assets, as well as annual 12b-1 plan service fees of 0.25%
of average daily net assets. Class Y shares, which are designed primarily for
institutional investors, have no sales charges and are not subject to annual
12b-1 plan expenses. The Trust is a Delaware statutory trust organized on
December 1, 1993.

Diversification Status

The Fund is classified as "non-diversified" for purposes of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Act"), which means that the Fund is not
limited by the Act with regard to the portion of its assets that may be invested
in the securities of a single issuer. To the extent that the Fund as a
non-diversified fund makes investments in excess of 5% of its total assets in
the securities of a particular issuer, its exposure to the risks associated with
that issuer is increased. Because the Fund as a non-diversified Fund may invest
in a limited number of issuers, the performance of particular securities may
adversely affect the performance of the Fund or subject the Fund to greater
price volatility than that experienced by diversified investment companies.

General Definitions

As used throughout this SAI, the following terms shall have the meanings listed:

"Act" shall mean the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

"Administrator" or "UBS Global AM (US)" shall mean UBS Global Asset Management
(US) Inc., which serves as the Fund's administrator.

"Advisor" shall mean UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc., which serves
as the Fund's investment advisor.

"Board" shall mean the Board of Trustees of the Trust.

"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

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"Family Funds" shall mean the Fund and other funds for which UBS Global Asset
Management (US) Inc. or any of its affiliates serves as principal underwriter.

"Fund" or "Series" shall mean the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund.

"Moody's" shall mean Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

"SEC" shall mean the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings Group.

"Trust" shall mean The UBS Funds, an open-end management investment company
registered under the Act.

"UBS Global AM" shall mean collectively UBS Global Asset Management (Americas)
Inc. and UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc.

"Underwriter" or "UBS Global AM (US)" shall mean UBS Global Asset Management
(US) Inc., which serves as the Fund's underwriter.

"1933 Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The following discussion of investment techniques and instruments supplements
and should be read in conjunction with the investment objective and policies set
forth in the Fund's Prospectus. The investment practices described below, except
for the discussion of percentage limitations with respect to portfolio loan
transactions and borrowing, are not fundamental and may be changed by the Board
without the approval of the shareholders.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Series may invest its assets in short-term debt securities (including
repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements) of corporations, the
U.S. government and its agencies and instrumentalities and banks and finance
companies, which may be denominated in any currency.

The Series may also invest a portion of its assets in shares issued by money
market mutual funds. When unusual market conditions warrant, the Series may make
substantial temporary defensive investments in cash equivalents up to a maximum
of 100% of its net assets. Cash equivalent holdings may be in any currency
(although such holdings may not constitute "cash or cash equivalents" for tax
diversification purposes under the Code).

Under the terms of an exemptive order issued by the SEC, the Series may invest
cash (i) held for temporary defensive purposes; (ii) not invested pending
investment in securities; (iii) that is set aside to cover an obligation or
commitment of the Series to purchase securities or other assets at a later date;
(iv) to be invested on a strategic management basis (i-iv are herein referred to
as "Uninvested Cash"); and (v) collateral that it receives from the borrowers of
its portfolio securities in connection with the Series' securities lending
program, in a series of shares of UBS

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Supplementary Trust (the "Supplementary Trust Series"). UBS Supplementary Trust
is a private investment pool that has retained the Advisor to manage its
investments. Certain Trustees of the Trust also serve as Trustees of the UBS
Supplementary Trust. The Supplementary Trust Series invests in U.S.
dollar-denominated money market instruments having a dollar-weighted average
maturity of 90 days or less, and operates in accordance with Rule 2a-7 under the
Act. The Series' investment of Uninvested Cash in shares of the Supplementary
Trust Series will not exceed 25% of the Series' total assets.

Repurchase Agreements

When the Series enters into a repurchase agreement, it purchases securities from
a bank or broker-dealer which simultaneously agrees to repurchase the securities
at a mutually agreed upon time and price, thereby determining the yield during
the term of the agreement. As a result, a repurchase agreement provides a fixed
rate of return insulated from market fluctuations during the term of the
agreement. The term of a repurchase agreement generally is short, possibly
overnight or for a few days, although it may extend over a number of months (up
to one year) from the date of delivery. Repurchase agreements are considered
under the Act to be collateralized loans by the Series to the seller secured by
the securities transferred to the Series. Repurchase agreements will be fully
collateralized and the collateral will be marked-to-market daily. The Series may
not enter into a repurchase agreement having more than seven days remaining to
maturity if, as a result, such agreement, together with any other illiquid
securities held by the Series, would exceed 15% of the value of the net assets
of the Series.

Repurchase agreements are securities for purposes of the tax diversification
requirements that must be met for pass-through treatment under the Code.
Accordingly, the Series will limit the value of its repurchase agreements on
each of the quarterly testing dates to ensure compliance with Subchapter M of
the Code.

Reverse Repurchase Agreements

Reverse repurchase agreements involve sales of portfolio securities of the
Series to member banks of the Federal Reserve System or securities dealers
believed creditworthy, concurrently with an agreement by the Series to
repurchase the same securities at a later date at a fixed price which is
generally equal to the original sales price plus interest. The Series retains
record ownership and the right to receive interest and principal payments on the
portfolio securities involved. In connection with each reverse repurchase
transaction, the Series will direct its custodian bank to place cash, U.S.
government securities, equity securities and/or investment and non-investment
grade debt securities in a segregated account of the Series in an amount equal
to the repurchase price. Any assets designated as segregated by the Series with
respect to any reverse repurchase agreements, when-issued securities, options,
futures, forward contracts or other derivative transactions shall be liquid,
unencumbered and marked-to-market daily (any such assets designated as
segregated are referred to in this SAI as "Segregated Assets"), and such
Segregated Assets shall be maintained in accordance with pertinent positions of
the SEC.

A reverse repurchase agreement involves the risk that the market value of the
securities retained by a Series may decline below the price of the securities
the Series has sold but is obligated to repurchase under the agreement. In the
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agreement files for bankruptcy or becomes insolvent, the Series' use of the
proceeds of the agreement may be restricted pending a determination by the other
party, or its trustee or receiver, whether to enforce the Series' obligation to
repurchase the securities. Reverse repurchase agreements are considered
borrowings by the Series and as such, are subject to the same investment
limitations.

Borrowing

The Series may borrow money as a temporary measure for extraordinary purposes or
to facilitate redemptions. The Series may also borrow money for investment
purposes. The Series will not borrow money in excess of 33 1/3% of the value of
its total assets. Any borrowing will be done from a bank with the required asset
coverage of at least 300%. In the event that such asset coverage shall at any
time fall below 300%, the Series shall, within three days thereafter (not
including Sundays or holidays), or such longer period as the SEC may prescribe
by rules and regulations, reduce the amount of its borrowings to such an extent
that the asset coverage of such borrowings shall be at least 300%.

When the Series borrows money for investment purposes, it is engaging in a form
of leverage, which increases investment risk while increasing investment
opportunity. The money borrowed for such leveraging purposes will be subject to
interest costs which may or may not be recovered by appreciation of the
securities purchased and may exceed the income from the securities purchased.

Loans of Portfolio Securities

The Series may lend portfolio securities to qualified broker-dealers and
financial institutions pursuant to agreements provided: (1) the loan is secured
continuously by collateral marked-to-market daily and maintained in an amount at
least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the Series
may call the loan at any time and receive the securities loaned; (3) the Series
will receive any interest or dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4)
the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed 33
1/3% of the total assets of the Series.

Collateral will consist of U.S. and non-U.S. securities, cash equivalents or
irrevocable letters of credit. Loans of securities involve a risk that the
borrower may fail to return the securities or may fail to maintain the proper
amount of collateral. Therefore, the Series will only enter into portfolio loans
after a review of all pertinent factors by the Advisor under the supervision of
the Board, including the creditworthiness of the borrower and then only if the
consideration to be received from such loans would justify the risk.
Creditworthiness will be monitored on an ongoing basis by the Advisor.

Swaps

The Series may engage in swaps, including but not limited to interest rate
swaps, currency swaps, credit default swaps and index swaps, and the purchase or
sale of related caps, floors, collars and other derivative instruments. The
Series expects to enter into these transactions to preserve a return or spread
on a particular investment or portion of the portfolio's duration, to

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protect against any increase in the price of securities the Series anticipates
purchasing at a later date, or to gain exposure to certain markets in the most
economical way possible.

Interest rate swaps involve the exchange by the Series with another party of
their respective commitments to receive or pay interest (e.g., an exchange of
fixed rate payments for floating rate payments) with respect to a notional
amount of principal. Currency swaps involve the exchange of cash flows on a
notional amount based on changes in the values of referenced currencies.

The Series also may purchase credit default swaps. In that case, the Series
would be entitled to receive the par (or other agreed-upon) value of a
referenced debt obligation from the counterparty to the contract in the event of
a default by a third party, such as a U.S. or foreign issuer, on the debt
obligation. In return, the Series would pay to the counterparty a periodic
stream of payments over the term of the contract provided that no event of
default has occurred. If no default occurs, the Series would have spent the
stream of payments and received no benefit from the contract. When the Series is
the seller of a swap contract, it receives the stream of payments but is
obligated to pay upon default of the referenced debt obligation. As the seller,
the Series would be exposed to may of the same risks as leverage since, if a
credit event occurs, the seller may be required to pay the buyer the full
notional value of the contract net of any amounts owed by the buyer related to
its delivery of deliverable obligations.

The purchase of a cap entitles the purchaser to receive payments on a notional
principal amount from the party selling the cap to the extent that a specified
index exceeds a predetermined interest rate or amount. The purchase of an
interest rate floor entitles the purchaser to receive payments on a notional
principal amount from the party selling the floor to the extent that a specified
index falls below a predetermined interest rate or amount. A collar is a
combination of a cap and a floor that preserves a certain return with a
predetermined range of interest rates or values.

The use of swaps involves investment techniques and risks different from those
associated with ordinary portfolio security transactions. If the Advisor is
incorrect in its forecast of market values, interest rates and other applicable
factors, the investment performance of the Series will be less favorable than it
would have been if this investment technique was never used. Swaps do not
involve the delivery of securities or other underlying assets or principal, and
are subject to counterparty risk. If the other party to a swap defaults and
fails to consummate the transaction, the Series' risk of loss consists of the
net amount of interest payments that the Series is contractually entitled to
receive. Under Internal Revenue Service rules, any lump sum payment received or
due under the notional principal contract must be amortized over the life of the
contract using the appropriate methodology prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Service.

If there is a default by the counterparty to a swap contract, the Series will be
limited to contractual remedies pursuant to the agreements related to the
transaction. There is no assurance that a swap contract counterparty will be
able to meet its obligations pursuant to a swap contract or that, in the event
of a default, the Series will succeed in pursuing contractual remedies. The
Series thus assumes the risk that it may be delayed in or prevented from
obtaining payments owed to it pursuant to a swap contract. However, the amount
at risk is only the net unrealized gain, if any, on the swap, not the entire
notional amount. The Advisor will closely monitor,

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subject to the oversight of the Board, the creditworthiness of swap
counterparties in order to minimize the risk of swaps.

The Advisor and the Trust do not believe that the Series' obligations under swap
contracts are senior securities and, accordingly, the Series will not treat them
as being subject to its borrowing or senior securities restrictions. However,
the net amount of the excess, if any, of the Series' obligations over its
entitlements with respect to each swap contract will be accrued on a daily basis
and an amount of Segregated Assets having an aggregate market value at least
equal to the accrued excess will be segregated in accordance with SEC positions.
To the extent that the Series cannot dispose of a swap in the ordinary course of
business within seven days at approximately the value at which the Series has
valued the swap, the Series will treat the swap as illiquid and subject to its
overall limit on illiquid investments of 15% of the Series' net assets.

Futures

The Series may enter into contracts for the purchase or sale for future delivery
of securities, indices and foreign currencies.

A purchase of a futures contract means the acquisition of a contractual right to
obtain delivery to the Series of the securities or foreign currency called for
by the contract at a specified price during a specified future month. When a
futures contract is sold, the Series incurs a contractual obligation to deliver
the securities or foreign currency underlying the contract at a specified price
on a specified date during a specified future month.

When the Series enters into a futures transaction, it must deliver to the
futures commission merchant selected by the Series an amount referred to as
"initial margin." This amount is maintained by the futures commission merchant
in a segregated account at the custodian bank. Thereafter, a "variation margin"
may be paid by the Series to, or drawn by the Series from, such account in
accordance with controls set for such accounts, depending upon changes in the
price of the underlying securities subject to the futures contract. The Series
may also effect futures transactions through futures commission merchants who
are affiliated with the Advisor or the Series in accordance with procedures
adopted by the Board.

The Series will enter into futures transactions on domestic exchanges and, to
the extent such transactions have been approved by the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission for sale to customers in the United States, on foreign exchanges.

While futures contracts provide for the delivery of securities, deliveries
usually do not occur. Contracts are generally terminated by entering into
offsetting transactions.

The Series may enter into futures contracts to protect against the adverse
affects of fluctuations in security prices, interest rates or foreign exchange
rates without actually buying or selling the securities or foreign currency. For
example, if interest rates are expected to increase, the Series might enter into
futures contracts for the sale of debt securities. Such a sale would have much
the same effect as selling an equivalent value of the debt securities owned by
the Series. If interest rates did increase, the value of the debt securities in
the portfolio would decline, but the value of the futures contracts to the
Series, if any, would increase, thereby keeping the net asset value of the
Series from declining as much as it otherwise would have. Similarly, when it is

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expected that interest rates may decline, futures contracts may be purchased to
hedge in anticipation of subsequent purchases of securities at higher prices.
Since the fluctuations in the value of futures contracts should be similar to
those of debt securities, the Series could take advantage of the anticipated
rise in value of debt securities without actually buying them until the market
had stabilized. At that time, the futures contracts could be liquidated and the
Series could then buy debt securities on the cash market. The Series may also
enter into futures contracts as a low cost method for gaining or reducing
exposure to a particular currency or securities market without directly
investing in those currencies or securities.

To the extent that market prices move in an unexpected direction, the Series may
not achieve the anticipated benefits of futures contracts or may realize a loss.
For example, if the Series is hedged against the possibility of an increase in
interest rates that would adversely affect the price of securities held in its
portfolio and interest rates decrease instead, the Series would lose part or all
of the benefit of the increased value that it has because it would have
offsetting losses in its futures position. In addition, in such situations, if
the Series had insufficient cash, it may be required to sell securities from its
portfolio to meet daily variation margin requirements. The Series may be
required to sell securities at a time when it may be disadvantageous to do so.

Options

The Series may purchase and write call or put options on foreign or U.S.
securities and indices and enter into related closing transactions. The Series
may also purchase exchange-listed call options on particular market segment
indices to achieve temporary exposure to a specific industry.

The Series may invest in options that are either listed on U.S. or recognized
foreign exchanges or traded over-the-counter. Certain over-the-counter options
may be illiquid. Thus, it may not be possible to close options positions and
this may have an adverse impact on the Series' ability to effectively hedge its
securities. The Series has been notified by the SEC that it considers
over-the-counter options to be illiquid. Accordingly, the Series will only
invest in such options to the extent consistent with its 15% limit on
investments in illiquid securities.

Purchasing Call Options--The Series may purchase call options on securities to
the extent that premiums paid by the Series do not aggregate more than 20% of
the Series' total assets. When the Series purchases a call option, in return for
a premium paid by the Series to the writer of the option, the Series obtains the
right to buy the security underlying the option at a specified exercise price at
any time during the term of the option. The writer of the call option, who
receives the premium upon writing the option, has the obligation, upon exercise
of the option, to deliver the underlying security against payment of the
exercise price. The advantage of purchasing call options is that the Series may
alter portfolio characteristics and modify portfolio maturities without
incurring the cost associated with transactions.

The Series may, following the purchase of a call option, liquidate its position
by effecting a closing sale transaction. This is accomplished by selling an
option of the same series as the option previously purchased. The Series will
realize a profit from a closing sale transaction if the price received on the
transaction is more than the premium paid to purchase the original call

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option; the Series will realize a loss from a closing sale transaction if the
price received on the transaction is less than the premium paid to purchase the
original call option.

Although the Series will generally purchase only those call options for which
there appears to be an active secondary market, there is no assurance that a
liquid secondary market on an exchange will exist for any particular option, or
at any particular time, and for some options no secondary market on an exchange
may exist. In such event, it may not be possible to effect closing transactions
in particular options, with the result that the Series would have to exercise
its options in order to realize any profit and would incur brokerage commissions
upon the exercise of such options and upon the subsequent disposition of the
underlying securities acquired through the exercise of such options. Further,
unless the price of the underlying security changes sufficiently, a call option
purchased by the Series may expire without any value to the Series, in which
event the Series would realize a capital loss that will be short-term unless the
option was held for more than one year.

Call Writing--The Series may write call options from time to time on such
portions of its portfolio, without limit, as the Advisor determines is
appropriate in seeking to achieve the Series' investment objective. The
advantage to the Series of writing calls is that the Series receives a premium,
which is additional income. However, if the security rises in value, the Series
may not fully participate in the market appreciation.

During the option period for a call option, the writer may be assigned an
exercise notice by the broker-dealer through whom such call option was sold,
requiring the writer to deliver the underlying security against payment of the
exercise price. This obligation is terminated upon the expiration of the option
or upon entering a closing purchase transaction. A closing purchase transaction,
in which the Series, as writer of an option, terminates its obligation by
purchasing an option of the same series as the option previously written, cannot
be effected once the option writer has received an exercise notice for such
option.

Closing purchase transactions will ordinarily be effected to realize a profit on
an outstanding call option, to prevent an underlying security from being called,
to permit the sale of the underlying security or to enable the Series to write
another call option on the underlying security with either a different exercise
price or expiration date or both. The Series may realize a net gain or loss from
a closing purchase transaction depending upon whether the net amount of the
original premium received on the call option is more or less than the cost of
effecting the closing purchase transaction. Any loss incurred in a closing
purchase transaction may be partially or entirely offset by the premium received
from a sale of a different call option on the same underlying security. Such a
loss may also be wholly or partially offset by unrealized appreciation in the
market value of the underlying security. Conversely, a gain resulting from a
closing purchase transaction could be offset in whole or in part by a decline in
the market value of the underlying security.

If a call option expires unexercised, the Series will realize a short-term
capital gain in the amount of the premium on the option less the commission
paid. Such a gain, however, may be offset by depreciation in the market value of
the underlying security during the option period. If a call option is exercised,
the Series will realize a gain or loss from the sale of the underlying security

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equal to the difference between the cost of the underlying security and the
proceeds of the sale of the security plus the amount of the premium on the
option less the commission paid.

The Series will generally write call options on a covered basis. A call option
written by a Series is "covered" if the Series owns the underlying security
covered by the call or has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that
security without additional cash consideration (or for additional cash
consideration held in a segregated account by the Series' custodian) upon
conversion or exchange of other securities held by the Series. A call option is
also deemed to be covered if the Series holds a call on the same security and in
the same principal amount as the call written and the exercise price of the call
held (i) is equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written or (ii)
is greater than the exercise price of the call written if the difference is
maintained by the Series in Segregated Assets in a segregated account with its
custodian.

From time to time, the Series will write a call option that is not covered as
indicated above but where the Series will maintain, with its custodian for the
term of the option, Segregated Assets in a segregated account having a value
equal to the fluctuating market value of the optioned securities or currencies.
While such an option would be "covered" with sufficient collateral to satisfy
SEC prohibitions on issuing senior securities, this type of strategy would
expose the funds to the risks of writing uncovered options. When writing
uncovered call options, the Series is subject to the risk of having to purchase
the security or currency subject to the option at a price higher than the
exercise price of the option. As the price of a security or currency could
appreciate substantially, the Series' loss could be significant.

Purchasing Put Options--The Series may only purchase put options to the extent
that the premiums on all outstanding put options do not exceed 20% of a Series'
total assets. The Series will, at all times during which it holds a put option,
own the security covered by such option. With regard to the writing of put
options, the Series will limit the aggregate value of the obligations underlying
such put options to 50% of its total assets.

A put option purchased by the Series gives it the right to sell one of its
securities for an agreed price up to an agreed date. The Series intends to
purchase put options in order to protect against a decline in the market value
of the underlying security below the exercise price less the premium paid for
the option ("protective puts"). The ability to purchase put options will allow
the Series to protect unrealized gains in an appreciated security in their
portfolios without actually selling the security. If the security does not drop
in value, the Series will lose the value of the premium paid. The Series may
sell a put option that it has previously purchased prior to the sale of the
securities underlying such option. Such sale will result in a net gain or loss
depending on whether the amount received on the sale is more or less than the
premium and other transaction costs paid on the put option that is sold.

The Series may sell a put option purchased on individual portfolio securities.
Additionally, the Series may enter into closing sale transactions. A closing
sale transaction is one in which the Series, when it is the holder of an
outstanding option, liquidates its position by selling an option of the same
series as the option previously purchased.

Writing Put Options--The Series may also write put options on a secured basis
which means that the Series will maintain in a segregated account with its
custodian Segregated Assets in an

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amount not less than the exercise price of the option at all times during the
option period. The amount of Segregated Assets held in the segregated account
will be adjusted on a daily basis to reflect changes in the market value of the
securities covered by the put option written by the Series. Secured put options
will generally be written in circumstances where the Advisor wishes to purchase
the underlying security for the Series' portfolio at a price lower than the
current market price of the security. In such event, the Series would write a
secured put option at an exercise price which, reduced by the premium received
on the option, reflects the lower price it is willing to pay.

Following the writing of a put option, the Series may wish to terminate the
obligation to buy the security underlying the option by effecting a closing
purchase transaction. This is accomplished by buying an option of the same
series as the option previously written. The Series may not, however, effect
such a closing transaction after it has been notified of the exercise of the
option.

Index Options

The Series may purchase exchange-listed call options on fixed income indices and
sell such options in closing sale transactions for hedging purposes. The Series
also may purchase call options on indices primarily as a substitute for taking
positions in certain securities or particular market segment. The Series may
also purchase call options on an index to protect against increases in the price
of securities underlying that index that the Series intends to purchase pending
its ability to invest in such securities.

In addition, the Series may purchase put options on fixed income indices and
sell such options in closing sale transactions. The Series may purchase put
options on broad market indices in order to protect its fully invested portfolio
from a general market decline. Put options on market segments may be bought to
protect the Series from a decline in value of heavily weighted industries in the
Series' portfolio. Put options on fixed income indices may also be used to
protect the Series' investments in the case of a major redemption.

The Series may also write (sell) put and call options on fixed income indices.
While the option is open, the Series will maintain a segregated account with its
custodian in an amount equal to the market value of the option.

Options on indices are similar to regular options except that an option on an
index gives the holder the right, upon exercise, to receive an amount of cash if
the closing level of the index upon which the option is based is greater than
(in the case of a call) or lesser than (in the case of a put) the exercise price
of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the
closing price of the index and the exercise price of the option expressed in
dollars times a specified multiple (the "multiplier"). The indices on which
options are traded include both U.S. and non-U.S. markets.

Special Risks of Options on Indices

The Series' purchases of options on indices will subject it to the risks
described below.

Because the value of an index option depends upon movements in the level of the
index rather than the price of a particular security, whether the Series will
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of an option on an index depends upon movements in the level of prices in the
market generally or in an industry or market segment rather than movements in
the price of a particular security. Accordingly, successful use by the Series of
options on indices is subject to the Advisor's ability to predict correctly the
direction of movements in the market generally or in a particular industry. This
requires different skills and techniques than predicting changes in the prices
of individual securities.

Index prices may be distorted if trading of a substantial number of securities
included in the index is interrupted causing the trading of options on that
index to be halted. If a trading halt occurred, the Series would not be able to
close out options which it had purchased and the Series may incur losses if the
underlying index moved adversely before trading resumed. If a trading halt
occurred and restrictions prohibiting the exercise of options were imposed
through the close of trading on the last day before expiration, exercises on
that day would be settled on the basis of a closing index value that may not
reflect current price information for securities representing a substantial
portion of the value of the index.

If a Series holds an index option and exercises it before final determination of
the closing index value for that day, it runs the risk that the level of the
underlying index may change before closing. If such a change causes the
exercised option to fall `out-of-the-money,' the Series will be required to pay
the difference between the closing index value and the exercise price of the
option (times the applicable multiplier) to the assigned writer. Although the
Series may be able to minimize this risk by withholding exercise instructions
until just before the daily cutoff time or by selling rather than exercising the
option when the index level is close to the exercise price, it may not be
possible to eliminate this risk entirely because the cutoff times for index
options may be earlier than those fixed for other types of options and may occur
before definitive closing index values are announced.

Rule 144A and Illiquid Securities

The Series may invest in securities that are exempt under Rule 144A from the
registration requirements of the 1933 Act. Those securities purchased under Rule
144A are traded among qualified institutional investors.

The Board has instructed the Advisor to consider the following factors in
determining the liquidity of a security purchased under Rule 144A: (i) the
security can be sold within seven days at approximately the same amount at which
it is valued by the Series; (ii) there is reasonable assurance that the security
will remain marketable throughout the period it is expected to be held by the
Series, taking into account the actual frequency of trades and quotations for
the security (expected frequency in the case of initial offerings); (iii) at
least two dealers make a market in the security; (iv) there are at least three
sources from which a price for the security is readily available; (v) settlement
is made in a "regular way" for the type of security at issue; and (vi) for Rule
144A securities that are also exempt from registration under Section 3(c)(7) of
the Act, there is a sufficient market of "qualified purchasers" (as defined in
the Act) to assure that it will remain marketable throughout the period it is
expected to be held by the Series. Although having delegated the day-to-day
functions, the Board will continue to monitor and periodically review the
Advisor's selection of Rule 144A securities, as well as the Advisor's
determinations as to their liquidity. Investing in securities under Rule 144A
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the level of the Series' illiquidity to the extent that qualified institutional
buyers become, for a time, uninterested in purchasing these securities. After
the purchase of a security under Rule 144A, however, the Board and the Advisor
will continue to monitor the liquidity of that security to ensure that that
Series has no more than 15% of its net assets in illiquid securities.

The Series will limit investments in securities of issuers which the Series is
restricted from selling to the public without registration under the 1933 Act to
no more than 15% of the Series' net assets, excluding restricted securities
eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A that have been determined to be liquid
pursuant to a policy and procedures adopted by the Trust's Board which includes
continuing oversight by the Board.

If the Advisor determines that a security purchased in reliance on Rule 144A
which was previously determined to be liquid, is no longer liquid and, as a
result, the Series' holdings of illiquid securities exceed the Series' 15% limit
on investment in such securities, the Advisor will determine what action shall
be taken to ensure that the Series continues to adhere to such limitation,
including disposing of illiquid assets which may include such Rule 144A
securities.

Investment Company Securities and Investments in Affiliated Investment Companies

Subject to the provisions of any exemptive orders issued by the SEC (as
described in the following paragraphs), securities of other investment companies
may be acquired by the Series to the extent that such purchases are consistent
with the Series' investment objectives and restrictions and are permitted under
the Act. The Act requires that, as determined immediately after a purchase is
made, (i) not more than 5% of the value of the Series' total assets will be
invested in the securities of any one investment company, (ii) not more than 10%
of the value of the Series' total assets will be invested in securities of
investment companies as a group and (iii) not more than 3% of the outstanding
voting stock of any one investment company will be owned by the Series. Certain
exceptions to these limitations may apply. As a shareholder of another
investment company, the Series would bear, along with other shareholders, its
pro rata portion of the other investment company's expenses, including advisory
fees. These expenses would be in addition to the expenses that the Series would
bear in connection with its own operations.

The Series may invest in securities issued by other registered investment
companies advised by the Advisor pursuant to exemptive relief granted by the
SEC. The Series will invest in corresponding portfolios of UBS Relationship
Funds to the extent that the Advisor determines that such investments are a more
efficient means for the Series to gain exposure to the asset classes referred to
below than by the Series investing directly in individual securities. For
example, to gain exposure to fixed income securities of issuers located in
emerging market countries, the Series may invest that portion of its assets
allocated to emerging market investments in the UBS Emerging Markets Debt
Relationship Fund. In lieu of investing directly in certain high yield, higher
risk securities, the Series may invest a portion of its assets in the UBS High
Yield Relationship Fund. In order to gain exposure to mortgage-backed
securities, the Series may invest in the UBS U.S. Securitized Mortgage
Relationship Fund.

In addition to the portfolios of UBS Relationship Funds described above, the
Series may invest in other portfolios of the UBS Relationship Funds or other
affiliated investment companies to the extent permitted by the exemptive relief
granted by the SEC. Each portfolio of UBS

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Relationship Funds in which the Series may invest is permitted to invest in the
same securities of a particular asset class in which the Series is permitted to
invest directly, and with similar risks. Pursuant to undertakings with the SEC,
the Series will not be subject to the imposition of double management or
administration fees with respect to its investments in portfolios of UBS
Relationship Funds.

Issuer Location

The Advisor considers a number of factors to determine whether an investment is
tied to a particular country, including whether: the investment is issued or
guaranteed by a particular government or any of its agencies, political
subdivisions, or instrumentalities; the investment has its primary trading
market in a particular country; the issuer is organized under the laws of,
derives at least 50% of its revenues from, or has at least 50% of its assets in
a particular country; the investment is included in an index representative of a
particular country or region; and the investment is exposed to the economic
fortunes and risks of a particular country.

Eurodollar Securities

The Series may invest in Eurodollar securities, which are fixed income
securities of a U.S. issuer or a foreign issuer that are issued outside the
United States. Interest and dividends on Eurodollar securities are payable in
U.S. dollars.

Foreign Securities

Investors should recognize that investing in foreign issuers involves certain
considerations, including those set forth in the Series' Prospectus, which are
not typically associated with investing in U.S. issuers. Since the securities of
foreign companies are frequently denominated in foreign currencies, and since
the Series may temporarily hold uninvested reserves in bank deposits in foreign
currencies, the Series will be affected favorably or unfavorably by changes in
currency rates and in exchange control regulations and may incur costs in
connection with conversions between various currencies. The investment policies
of the Series permit it to enter into forward foreign currency exchange
contracts, futures, options and interest rate swaps in order to hedge portfolio
holdings and commitments against changes in the level of future currency rates.

Forward Foreign Currency Contracts

The Series may purchase or sell currencies and/or engage in forward foreign
currency transactions in order to expedite settlement of portfolio transactions
and to manage currency risk.

Forward foreign currency contracts are traded in the inter-bank market conducted
directly between currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their
customers. A forward contract generally has no deposit requirement and no
commissions are charged at any stage for trades. The Series will account for
forward contracts by marking-to-market each day at current forward contract
values.

The Series will only enter into forward contracts to sell, for a fixed amount of
U.S. dollars or other appropriate currency, an amount of foreign currency, to
the extent that the value of the

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short forward contract is covered by the underlying value of securities
denominated in the currency being sold. Alternatively, when the Series enters
into a forward contract to sell an amount of foreign currency, the Series'
custodian or sub-custodian will place Segregated Assets in a segregated account
of the Series in an amount not less than the value of the Series' total assets
committed to the consummation of such forward contracts. If the additional
Segregated Assets placed in the segregated account decline, additional cash or
securities will be placed in the account on a daily basis so that the value of
the account will equal the amount of the Series' commitments with respect to
such contracts.

Non-Deliverable Forwards

The Series may, from time to time, engage in non-deliverable forward
transactions to manage currency risk or to gain exposure to a currency without
purchasing securities denominated in that currency. A non-deliverable forward is
a transaction that represents an agreement between the Series and a counterparty
(usually a commercial bank) to buy or sell a specified (notional) amount of a
particular currency at an agreed upon foreign exchange rate on an agreed upon
future date. Unlike other currency transactions, there is no physical delivery
of the currency on the settlement of a non-deliverable forward transaction.
Rather, the Series and the counterparty agree to net the settlement by making a
payment in U.S. dollars or another fully convertible currency that represents
any differential between the foreign exchange rate agreed upon at the inception
of the non-deliverable forward agreement and the actual exchange rate on the
agreed upon future date. Thus, the actual gain or loss of a given
non-deliverable forward transaction is calculated by multiplying the
transaction's notional amount by the difference between the agreed upon forward
exchange rate and the actual exchange rate when the transaction is completed.

When the Series enters into a non-deliverable forward transaction, the Series'
custodian will place Segregated Assets in a segregated account of the Series in
an amount not less than the value of the Series' total assets committed to the
consummation of such non-deliverable forward transaction. If the additional
Segregated Assets placed in the segregated account decline in value or the
amount of the Series' commitment increases because of changes in currency rates,
additional cash or securities will be placed in the account on a daily basis so
that the value of the account will equal the amount of the Series' commitments
under the non-deliverable forward agreement.

Since the Series generally may only close out a non-deliverable forward with the
particular counterparty, there is a risk that the counterparty will default on
its obligation under the agreement. If the counterparty defaults, the Series
will have contractual remedies pursuant to the agreement related to the
transaction, but there is no assurance that contract counterparties will be able
to meet their obligations pursuant to such agreements or that, in the event of a
default, the Series will succeed in pursuing contractual remedies. The Series
thus assumes the risk that it may be delayed or prevented from obtaining
payments owed to it pursuant to non-deliverable forward transactions.

In addition, where the currency exchange rates that are the subject of a given
non-deliverable forward transaction do not move in the direction or to the
extent anticipated, the Series could sustain losses on the non-deliverable
forward transaction. The Series' investment in a particular non-deliverable
forward transaction will be affected favorably or unfavorably by factors that

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affect the subject currencies, including economic, political and legal
developments that impact the applicable countries, as well as exchange control
regulations of the applicable countries. These risks are heightened when a
non-deliverable forward transaction involves currencies of emerging market
countries because such currencies can be volatile and there is a greater risk
that such currencies will be devalued against the U.S. dollar or other
currencies.

Options on Foreign Currencies

The Series also may purchase and write put and call options on foreign
currencies (traded on U.S. and foreign exchanges or over-the-counter markets) to
manage the Series' exposure to changes in currency exchange rates. The Series
may purchase and write options on foreign currencies for hedging purposes in a
manner similar to that in which futures contracts on foreign currencies, or
forward contracts, will be utilized. For example, a decline in the dollar value
of a foreign currency in which portfolio securities are denominated will reduce
the dollar value of such securities, even if their value in the foreign currency
remains constant. In order to protect against such diminutions in the value of
portfolio securities, the Series may purchase put options on the foreign
currency. If the dollar price of the currency does decline, a Series will have
the right to sell such currency for a fixed amount in dollars and will thereby
offset, in whole or in part, the adverse effect on its portfolio which otherwise
would have resulted.

Conversely, where a rise in the dollar value of a currency in which securities
to be acquired are denominated is projected, thereby increasing the dollar price
of such securities, the Series may purchase call options on such currency.

The purchase of such options could offset, at least partially, the effects of
the adverse movement in exchange rates. As in the case of other types of
options, however, the benefit to the Series to be derived from purchases of
foreign currency options will be reduced by the amount of the premium and
related transaction costs. In addition, where currency exchange rates do not
move in the direction or to the extent anticipated, the Series could sustain
losses on transactions in foreign currency options, which would require it to
forego a portion or all of the benefits of advantageous changes in such rates.

The Series may write options on foreign currencies for the same types of hedging
purposes. For example, where the Series anticipates a decline in the dollar
value of foreign currency denominated securities due to adverse fluctuations in
exchange rates, it could, instead of purchasing a put option, write a call
option on the relevant currency. If the expected decline occurs, the option will
most likely not be exercised, and the diminution in the value of portfolio
securities will be offset by the amount of the premium received.

Similarly, instead of purchasing a call option to hedge against an anticipated
increase in the dollar cost of securities to be acquired, the Series could write
a put option on the relevant currency, which, if rates move in the manner
projected, will expire, unexercised and allow the Series to hedge such increased
cost up to the amount of the premium. As in the case of other types of options,
however, the writing of a foreign currency option will constitute only a partial
hedge up to the amount of the premium, and only if rates move in the expected
direction. If this does not occur, the option may be exercised and the Series
would be required to purchase or sell the underlying currency at a loss that may
not be offset by the amount of the premium. Through

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the writing of options on foreign currencies, the Series also may be required to
forego all or a portion of the benefit that might otherwise have been obtained
from favorable movements in exchange rates.

The Series may also engage in options transactions for non-hedging purposes. The
Series may use options transactions to gain exposure to a currency when the
Advisor believes that exposure to the currency is beneficial to the Series but
believes that the securities denominated in that currency are unattractive.

The Series may write covered call options on foreign currencies. A call option
written on a foreign currency by the Series is "covered" if the Series owns the
underlying foreign currency covered by the call or has an absolute and immediate
right to acquire that foreign currency without additional cash consideration (or
for additional cash consideration held in a segregated account by the custodian
bank) upon conversion or exchange of other foreign currency held in its
portfolio. A call option is also covered if the Series has a call on the same
foreign currency and in the same principal amount as the call written where the
exercise price of the call held (a) is equal to or less than the exercise price
of the call written, or (b) is greater than the exercise price of the call
written if the difference is maintained by the Series in Segregated Assets in a
segregated account with its custodian bank.

With respect to writing put options, at the time the put is written, the Series
will establish a segregated account with its custodian bank consisting of
Segregated Assets in an amount equal in value to the amount the Series will be
required to pay upon exercise of the put. The account will be maintained until
the put is exercised, has expired, or the Series has purchased a closing put of
the same series as the one previously written.

Short Sales

The Series may from time to time sell securities short. The Advisor may engage
in a short sale of a security if it anticipates that the price of a security
will decline or in an attempt to limit exposure to a possible decline in the
value of portfolio securities. To effect a short sale, the Series borrows the
security from a broker or other institution to complete the sale. The Series
then must replace the borrowed security by purchasing it at market price at the
time of replacement. The Series will incur a profit or a loss, depending upon
whether the market price of the security decreases or increases between the date
of the short sale and the date on which the Series must replace the borrowed
security. All short sales will be fully covered pursuant to SEC guidelines.
Short sales represent an aggressive trading practice with a high risk/return
potential, and short sales involve special considerations. Risks of short sales
include the risk that possible losses from short sales may be unlimited (e.g.,
if the price of a security sold short rises), whereas losses from direct
purchases of securities are limited to the total amount invested, and the risk
that the Series may be unable to replace a borrowed security sold short.

Lower Rated Debt Securities

Fixed income securities rated lower than Baa3 by Moody's or BBB- by S&P are
below investment grade and are considered to be of poor standing and
predominantly speculative. Such securities ("lower rated securities") are
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a substantial degree of credit risk. Lower rated securities may be issued as a
consequence of corporate restructurings, such as leveraged buy-outs, mergers,
acquisitions, debt recapitalizations or similar events. Also, lower rated
securities are often issued by smaller, less creditworthy companies or by highly
leveraged (indebted) firms, which are generally less able than more financially
stable firms to make scheduled payments of interest and principal. The risks
posed by securities issued under such circumstances are substantial.

In the past, the high yields from lower rated securities have more than
compensated for the higher default rates on such securities. However, there can
be no assurance that diversification will protect the Series from widespread
bond defaults brought about by a sustained economic downturn, or that yields
will continue to offset default rates on lower rated securities in the future.
Issuers of these securities are often highly leveraged, so that their ability to
service their debt obligations during an economic downturn or during sustained
periods of rising interest rates may be impaired. In addition, such issuers may
not have more traditional methods of financing available to them and may be
unable to repay debt at maturity by refinancing. The risk of loss due to default
by the issuer is significantly greater for the holders of lower rated securities
because such securities may be unsecured and may be subordinated to other
creditors of the issuer. Further, an economic recession may result in default
levels with respect to such securities in excess of historic averages.

The value of lower rated securities will be influenced not only by changing
interest rates, but also by the bond market's perception of credit quality and
the outlook for economic growth. When economic conditions appear to be
deteriorating, lower rated securities may decline in market value due to
investors' heightened concern over credit quality, regardless of prevailing
interest rates.

Especially at such times, trading in the secondary market for lower rated
securities may become thin and market liquidity may be significantly reduced.
Even under normal conditions, the market for lower rated securities may be less
liquid than the market for investment grade corporate bonds. There are fewer
securities dealers in the high yield market and purchasers of lower rated
securities are concentrated among a smaller group of securities dealers and
institutional investors. In periods of reduced market liquidity, lower rated
securities prices may become more volatile and the Series' ability to dispose of
particular issues when necessary to meet the Series' liquidity needs or in
response to a specific economic event such as a deterioration in the
creditworthiness of the issuer may be adversely affected.

Lower rated securities frequently have call or redemption features that would
permit an issuer to repurchase the security from the Series. If a call were
exercised by the issuer during a period of declining interest rates, the Series
likely would have to replace such called security with a lower yielding
security, thus decreasing the net investment income to the Series and any
dividends to investors.

Besides credit and liquidity concerns, prices for lower rated securities may be
affected by legislative and regulatory developments. For example, from time to
time, Congress has considered legislation to restrict or eliminate the corporate
tax deduction for interest payments or to regulate corporate restructurings such
as takeovers or mergers. Such legislation may

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significantly depress the prices of outstanding lower rated securities. A
description of various corporate debt ratings appears in Appendix A to this SAI.

Securities issued by foreign issuers rated below investment grade entail greater
risks than higher rated securities, including risk of untimely interest and
principal payment, default, price volatility and may present problems of
liquidity, valuation and currency risk.

Inflation Protected Securities

Inflation protected securities are debt securities whose principal and/or
interest payments are adjusted for inflation, unlike debt securities that make
fixed principal and interest payments. Inflation-protected securities include
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities ("TIPS"), which are securities issued by
the U.S. Treasury. The interest rate paid by TIPS is fixed, while the principal
value rises or falls based on changes in a published Consumer Price Index
("CPI"). Thus, if inflation occurs, the principal and interest payments on the
TIPS are adjusted accordingly to protect investors from inflationary loss.
During a deflationary period, the principal and interest payments decrease,
although the TIPS' principal amounts will not drop below their face amounts at
maturity. In exchange for the inflation protection, TIPS generally pay lower
interest rates than typical U.S. Treasury securities. Only if inflation occurs
will TIPS offer a higher real yield than a conventional Treasury bond of the
same maturity.

Other issuers of inflation-protected debt securities include other U.S.
government agencies or instrumentalities, corporations and foreign governments.
There can be no assurance that the CPI or any foreign inflation index will
accurately measure the real rate of inflation in the prices of goods and
services. Moreover, there can be no assurance that the rate of inflation in a
foreign country will be correlated to the rate of inflation in the United
States.

Pay-In-Kind Bonds

The Series may invest in pay-in-kind bonds. Pay-in-kind bonds are securities
that pay interest through the issuance of additional bonds. The Series will be
deemed to receive interest over the life of such bonds and may be treated for
federal income tax purposes as if interest were paid on a current basis,
although no cash interest payments are received by the Series until the cash
payment date or until the bonds mature.

Convertible Securities

The Series may invest in convertible securities, which generally offer lower
interest or dividend yields than non-convertible debt securities of similar
quality. The value of convertible securities may reflect changes in the value of
the underlying common stock. Convertible securities entail less credit risk than
the issuer's common stock because they rank senior to common stock. Convertible
securities entitle the holder to exchange the securities for a specified number
of shares of common stock, usually of the same company, at specified prices
within a certain period of time and to receive interest or dividends until the
holder elects to convert. The provisions of any convertible security determine
its ranking in a company's capital structure. In the case of subordinated
convertible debentures, the holder's claims on assets and earnings are
subordinated to the claims of other creditors and are senior to the claims of
preferred and common shareholders. In the case of preferred stock and
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on assets and earnings are subordinated to the claims of all creditors but are
senior to the claims of common shareholders.

Credit-Linked Securities

The Series may invest in credit-linked securities. Credit-linked securities are
debt securities that represent an interest in a pool of, or are otherwise
collateralized by, one or more corporate debt obligations or credit default
swaps on corporate debt or bank loan obligations. Such debt obligations may
represent the obligations of one or more corporate issuers. The Series has the
right to receive periodic interest payments from the issuer of the credit-linked
security (usually the seller of the underlying credit default swap(s)) at an
agreed-upon interest rate, and a return of principal at the maturity date.

The Series bears the risk of loss of its principal investment, and the periodic
interest payments expected to be received for the duration of its investment in
the credit-linked security, in the event that one or more of the debt
obligations underlying bonds or debt obligations underlying the credit default
swaps go into default or otherwise become non-performing. Upon the occurrence of
such a credit event (including bankruptcy, failure to timely pay interest or
principal, or a restructuring) with respect to an underlying debt obligation
(which may represent a credit event of one or more underlying obligers), the
Series will generally reduce the principal balance of the related credit-linked
security by the Series' pro rata interest in the par amount of the defaulted
underlying debt obligation in exchange for the actual value of the defaulted
underlying obligation or the defaulted underlying obligation itself, thereby
causing the Series to lose a portion of its investment. As a result, on an
ongoing basis, interest on the credit-linked security will accrue on a smaller
principal balance and a smaller principal balance will be returned at maturity.
To the extent a credit-linked security represents an interest in underlying
obligations of a single corporate issuer, a credit event with respect to such
issuer presents greater risk of loss to the Series than if the credit-linked
security represented an interest in underlying obligations of multiple corporate
issuers.

In addition, the Series bears the risk that the issuer of the credit-linked
security will default or become bankrupt. In such an event, the Series may have
difficulty being repaid, or fail to be repaid, the principal amount of its
investment and the remaining periodic interest payments thereon.

An investment in credit-linked securities also involves reliance on the
counterparty to the swap entered into with the issuer to make periodic payments
to the issuer under the terms of the credit default swap. Any delay or cessation
in the making of such payments may be expected in certain instances to result in
delays or reductions in payments to the Series as an investor in such
credit-linked securities. Additionally, credit-linked securities are typically
structured as limited recourse obligations of the issuer of such securities such
that the securities issued will usually be obligations solely of the issuer and
will not be obligations or responsibilities of any other person.

Most credit-linked securities are structured as Rule 144A securities so that
they may be freely traded among institutional buyers. The Series will generally
only purchase credit-linked securities that are determined to be liquid in
accordance with the Series' liquidity guidelines. However, the market for
credit-linked securities may be, or suddenly can become, illiquid. The other
parties to the transaction may be the only investors with sufficient
understanding of the derivative to be interested in bidding for it. Changes in
liquidity may result in significant, rapid and unpredictable changes in the
prices for credit-linked securities. In certain cases, a market price for a
credit-linked security may not be available or may not be reliable, and the
Series could experience difficulty in selling such security at a price the
investment manager believes is fair. In the event a credit-linked security is
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Series will include such security in calculating its limitation on investments
in illiquid securities.

The value of a credit-linked security will typically increase or decrease with
any change in value of the underlying debt obligations, if any, held by the
issuer and the credit default swap. Further, in cases where the credit-linked
security is structured such that the payments to the Series are based on amounts
received in respect of, or the value of performance of, any underlying debt
obligations specified in the terms of the relevant credit default swap,
fluctuations in the value of such obligation may affect the value of the
credit-linked security.

The collateral of a credit-linked security may be one or more credit default
swaps, which are subject to additional risks. See "INVESTMENT STRATEGIES--Swaps"
for a description of additional risks associated with credit default swaps.

When-Issued Securities

The Series may purchase securities offered on a "when-issued" or "forward
delivery" basis. When so offered, the price, which is generally expressed in
yield terms, is fixed at the time the commitment to purchase is made, but
delivery and payment for the when-issued or forward delivery securities take
place at a later date. During the period between purchase and settlement, no
payment is made by the purchaser to the issuer and no interest on the
when-issued or forward delivery security accrues to the purchaser. While
when-issued or forward delivery securities may be sold prior to the settlement
date, it is intended that the Series will purchase such securities with the
purpose of actually acquiring them unless a sale appears desirable for
investment reasons. At the time the Series makes the commitment to purchase a
security on a when-issued or forward delivery basis, it will record the
transaction and reflect the value of the security in determining its net asset
value. The market value of when-issued or forward delivery securities may be
more or less than the purchase price. The Advisor does not believe that the
Series' net asset value or income will be adversely affected by its purchase of
securities on a when-issued or forward delivery basis. The Series will establish
a segregated account in which it will maintain Segregated Assets equal in value
to commitments for when-issued or forward delivery securities. The Segregated
Assets maintained by the Series with respect to any when-issued or forward
delivery securities shall be liquid, unencumbered and marked-to-market daily,
and such Segregated Assets shall be maintained in accordance with pertinent SEC
positions.

Mortgage-Backed Securities and Mortgage Pass-Through Securities

The Series may also invest in mortgage-backed securities, which are interests in
pools of mortgage loans, including mortgage loans made by savings and loan
institutions, mortgage bankers, commercial banks and others. Pools of mortgage
loans are assembled as securities for sale to investors by various governmental,
government-related and private organizations as further described below. The
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collateral consisting of mortgage-backed securities (see "Collateralized
Mortgage Obligations") and in other types of mortgage-related securities.

The timely payment of principal and interest on mortgage-backed securities
issued or guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association ("GNMA") is
backed by GNMA and the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. These
guarantees, however, do not apply to the market value of Series shares. Also,
securities issued by GNMA and other mortgage-backed securities may be purchased
at a premium over the maturity value of the underlying mortgages. This premium
is not guaranteed and would be lost if prepayment occurs. Mortgage-backed
securities issued by U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities other than
GNMA are not "full faith and credit" obligations. Certain obligations, such as
those issued by the Federal Home Loan Bank are supported by the issuer's right
to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, while others such as those issued by Fannie
Mae, formerly known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, are supported
only by the credit of the issuer. Unscheduled or early payments on the
underlying mortgages may shorten the securities' effective maturities and reduce
returns. The Series may agree to purchase or sell these securities with payment
and delivery taking place at a future date. A decline in interest rates may lead
to a faster rate of repayment of the underlying mortgages and expose the Series
to a lower rate of return upon reinvestment. To the extent that such
mortgage-backed securities are held by the Series, the prepayment right of
mortgagors may limit the increase in net asset value of the Series because the
value of the mortgage-backed securities held by the Series may not appreciate as
rapidly as the price of noncallable debt securities.

Interests in pools of mortgage-backed securities differ from other forms of debt
securities, which normally provide for periodic payment of interest in fixed
amounts with principal payments at maturity or specified call dates. Instead,
these securities provide a monthly payment, which consists of both interest and
principal payments. In effect, these payments are a "pass-through" of the
monthly payments made by the individual borrowers on their mortgage loans, net
of any fees paid to the issuer or guarantor of such securities. Additional
payments are caused by repayments of principal resulting from the sale of the
underlying property, refinancing or foreclosure, net of fees or costs that may
be incurred. Some mortgage-backed securities (such as securities issued by the
GNMA) are described as "modified pass-through." These securities entitle the
holder to receive all interest and principal payments owed on the mortgage pool,
net of certain fees, at the scheduled payments dates regardless of whether or
not the mortgagor actually makes the payment.

Any discount enjoyed on the purchases of a pass-through type mortgage-backed
security will likely constitute market discount. As the Series receives
principal payments, it will be required to treat as ordinary income an amount
equal to the lesser of the amount of the payment or the "accrued market
discount." Market discount is to be accrued either under a constant rate method
or a proportional method. Pass-through type mortgage-backed securities purchased
at a premium to face will be subject to a similar rule requiring recognition of
an offset to ordinary interest income, an amount of premium attributable to the
receipt of principal. The amount of premium recovered is to be determined using
a method similar to that in place for market discount. The Series may elect to
accrue market discount or amortize premium notwithstanding the amount of
principal received but such election will apply to all bonds held and thereafter
acquired unless permission is granted by the Commissioner of the Internal
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The principal governmental guarantor of mortgage-related securities is GNMA,
which is a wholly-owned U.S. government corporation within the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. GNMA is authorized to guarantee, with the full
faith and credit of the U.S. government, the timely payment of principal and
interest on securities issued by institutions approved by GNMA (such as savings
and loan institutions, commercial banks and mortgage bankers) and backed by
pools of mortgages which are insured by the Federal Housing Authority or
guaranteed by the Veterans Administration. These guarantees, however, do not
apply to the market value or yield of mortgage-backed securities or to the value
of Series shares. Also, GNMA securities often are purchased at a premium over
the maturity value of the underlying mortgages. This premium is not guaranteed
and should be viewed as an economic offset to interest to be earned. If
prepayments occur, less interest will be earned and the value of the premium
paid will be lost.

Government-related guarantors (i.e., not backed by the full faith and credit of
the U.S. government) include Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (formerly known as the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation). Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored
corporation owned entirely by private stockholders. It is subject to general
regulation of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Fannie Mae
purchases conventional (i.e., not insured or guaranteed by any government
agency) mortgages from a list of approved seller/servicers which include state
and federally chartered savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks,
commercial banks and credit unions and mortgage bankers. Pass-through securities
issued by Fannie Mae are guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and
interest by Fannie Mae but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the
U.S. government.

Freddie Mac is a corporate instrumentality of the U.S. government and was
created by Congress in 1970 for the purpose of increasing the availability of
mortgage credit for residential housing. Its stock is owned by the twelve
Federal Home Loan Banks. Freddie Mac issues Participation Certificates ("PCs"),
which represent interests in conventional mortgages from Freddie Mac's national
portfolio. Freddie Mac guarantees the timely payment of interest and ultimate
collection of principal, but PCs are not backed by the full faith and credit of
the U.S. government.

Commercial banks, savings and loan institutions, private mortgage insurance
companies, mortgage bankers and other secondary market issuers also create
pass-through pools of conventional mortgage loans. Such issuers may, in
addition, be the originators and/or servicers of the underlying mortgage loans
as well as the guarantors of the mortgage-related securities. Pools created by
such non-governmental issuers generally offer a higher rate of interest than
government and government-related pools because there are no direct or indirect
government or agency guarantees of payments. However, timely payment of interest
and principal of these pools may be supported by various forms of insurance or
guarantees, including individual loan, title, pool and hazard insurance and
letters of credit. The insurance guarantees are issued by governmental entities,
private insurers and the mortgage poolers. Such insurance and guarantees and the
creditworthiness of the issuers thereof will be considered in determining
whether a mortgage-related security meets the Series' investment quality
standards. There can be no assurance that the private insurers or guarantors can
meet their obligations under the insurance policies or guarantee or guarantees,
even if through an examination of the loan experience and practices of the
originators/servicers and poolers, the Advisor determines that the securities
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the Series' quality standards. Although the market for such securities is
becoming increasingly liquid, securities issued by certain private organizations
may not be readily marketable.

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations ("CMOs") and Real Estate Mortgage Investment
Conduits ("REMICs")

A CMO is a debt security on which interest and prepaid principal are paid, in
most cases, semi-annually. CMOs may be collateralized by whole mortgage loans
but are more typically collateralized by portfolios of mortgage pass-through
securities guaranteed by GNMA, Freddie Mac, or Fannie Mae and their income
streams. Privately-issued CMOs tend to be more sensitive to interest rates than
Government-issued CMOs.

CMOs are structured into multiple classes, each bearing a different stated
maturity. Actual maturity and average life will depend upon the prepayment
experience of the collateral. CMOs provide for a modified form of call
protection through a de facto breakdown of the underlying pool of mortgages
according to how quickly the loans are repaid. Monthly payments of principal
received from the pool of underlying mortgages, including prepayments, is first
returned to investors holding the shortest maturity class. Investors holding the
longer maturity classes receive principal only after the first class has been
retired. An investor is partially guarded against a sooner than desired return
of principal because of the sequential payments.

In a typical CMO transaction, a corporation issues multiple series (e.g., A, B,
C, Z) of CMO bonds ("Bonds"). Proceeds of the Bond offering are used to purchase
mortgages or mortgage pass-through certificates ("Collateral"). The Collateral
is pledged to a third party trustee as security for the Bonds. Principal and
interest payments from the Collateral are used to pay principal on the Bonds in
the order A, B, C, Z. The Series A, B and C Bonds all bear current interest.
Interest on the Series Z Bond is accrued and added to principal and a like
amount is paid as principal on the Series A, B, or C Bond currently being paid
off. When the Series A, B and C Bonds are paid in full, interest and principal
on the Series Z Bond begins to be paid currently. With some CMOs, the issuer
serves as a conduit to allow loan originators (primarily builders or savings and
loan associations) to borrow against their loan portfolios. REMICs are private
entities formed for the purpose of holding a fixed pool of mortgages secured by
an interest in real property. REMICs are similar to CMOs in that they issue
multiple classes of securities.

REMICs are entities that own mortgages and elect REMIC status under the Code.
The Series will purchase only regular interests in REMICs. REMIC regular
interests are treated as debt of the REMIC and income/discount thereon must be
accounted for on the "catch-up method," using a reasonable prepayment assumption
under the original issue discount rules of the Code.

CMOs and REMICs issued by private entities are not government securities and are
not directly guaranteed by any government agency. They are secured by the
underlying collateral of the private issuer. Yields on privately-issued CMOs, as
described above, have been historically higher than yields on CMOs issued or
guaranteed by U.S. government agencies. However, the risk of loss due to default
on such instruments is higher since they are not guaranteed by the U.S.
government. Such instruments also tend to be more sensitive to interest rates
than U.S. government-issued CMOs. The Series will not invest in subordinated
privately-issued CMOs.

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For federal income tax purposes, the Series will be required to accrue income on
CMOs and REMIC regular interests using the "catch-up" method, with an aggregate
prepayment assumption.

Dollar Rolls

The Series may enter into dollar rolls in which the Series sells securities and
simultaneously contracts to repurchase substantially similar securities on a
specified future date. In the case of dollar rolls involving mortgage-backed
securities, the mortgage-backed securities that are purchased typically will be
of the same type and will have the same or similar interest rate and maturity as
those sold, but will be supported by different pools of mortgages. The Series
forgoes principal and interest paid during the roll period on the securities
sold in a dollar roll, but the Series is compensated by the difference between
the current sales price and the price for the future purchase as well as by any
interest earned on the proceeds of the securities sold. The Series could also be
compensated through receipt of fee income. The Series intends to enter into
dollar rolls only with government securities dealers recognized by the Federal
Reserve Board, or with member banks of the Federal Reserve. The Trust does not
believe the Series' obligations under dollar rolls are senior securities and
accordingly, the Series, as a matter of non-fundamental policy, will not treat
dollar rolls as being subject to its borrowing or senior securities
restrictions. In addition to the general risks involved in leveraging, dollar
rolls are subject to the same risks as repurchase and reverse repurchase
agreements.

To-Be-Announced Securities

A to-be-announced mortgage-backed security ("TBA") is a mortgage-backed
security, such as a GNMA pass-through security, that is purchased or sold with
specific pools that will constitute that GNMA pass-through security to be
announced on a future settlement date. At the time of purchase of a TBA, the
seller does not specify the particular mortgage-backed securities to be
delivered but rather agrees to accept any mortgage-backed security that meets
specified terms. The Series and the seller would agree upon the issuer, interest
rate and terms of the underlying mortgages, but the seller would not identify
the specific underlying mortgages until shortly before it issues the
mortgage-backed security. TBAs increase interest rate risks because the
underlying mortgages maybe less favorable than anticipated by the Series.

Other Mortgage-Backed Securities

The Advisor expects that governmental, government-related or private entities
may create mortgage loan pools and other mortgage-related securities offering
mortgage pass-through and mortgage-collateralized investments in addition to
those described above. The mortgages underlying these securities may include
alternative mortgage instruments, that is, mortgage instruments whose principal
or interest payments may vary or whose terms to maturity may differ from
customary long-term fixed rate mortgages. As new types of mortgage-related
securities are developed and offered to investors, the Advisor will, consistent
with the Series' investment objective, policies and quality standards, consider
making investments in such new types of mortgage-related securities.

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Asset-Backed Securities

The Series may invest a portion of its assets in debt obligations known as
"asset-backed securities." Asset-backed securities are securities that represent
a participation in, or are secured by and payable from, a stream of payments
generated by particular assets, most often a pool or pools of similar assets
(e.g., receivables on home equity and credit loans and receivables regarding
automobile, credit card, mobile home and recreational vehicle loans, wholesale
dealer floor plans and leases).

Such receivables are securitized in either a pass-through or a pay-through
structure. Pass-through securities provide investors with an income stream
consisting of both principal and interest payments in respect of the receivables
in the underlying pool. Pay-through asset-backed securities are debt obligations
issued usually by a special purpose entity, which are collateralized by the
various receivables and in which the payments on the underlying receivables
provide that the Series pays the debt service on the debt obligations issued.
The Series may invest in these and other types of asset-backed securities that
may be developed in the future.

The credit quality of these securities depends primarily upon the quality of the
underlying assets and the level of credit support and/or enhancement provided.
Such asset-backed securities are subject to the same prepayment risks as
mortgage-backed securities. For federal income tax purposes, the Series will be
required to accrue income on pay-through asset-backed securities using the
"catch-up" method, with an aggregate prepayment assumption.

The credit quality of most asset-backed securities depends primarily on the
credit quality of the assets underlying such securities, how well the entity
issuing the security is insulated from the credit risk of the originator or any
other affiliated entities, and the amount and quality of any credit support
provided to the securities. The rate of principal payment on asset-backed
securities generally depends on the rate of principal payments received on the
underlying assets, which in turn may be affected, by a variety of economic and
other factors. As a result, the yield on any asset-backed security is difficult
to predict with precision and actual yield to maturity may be more or less than
the anticipated yield to maturity. Asset-backed securities may be classified as
"pass-through certificates" or "collateralized obligations."

Asset-backed securities are often backed by a pool of assets representing the
obligations of a number of different parties. To lessen the effect of failures
by obligors on underlying assets to make payment, such securities may contain
elements of credit support. Such credit support falls into two categories: (i)
liquidity protection; and (ii) protection against losses resulting from ultimate
default by an obligor on the underlying assets. Liquidity protection refers to
the provision of advances, generally by the entity administering the pool of
assets, to ensure that the receipt of payments due on the underlying pool is
timely. Protection against losses resulting from ultimate default enhances the
likelihood of payments of the obligations on at least some of the assets in the
pool. Such protection may be provided through guarantees, insurance policies or
letters of credit obtained by the issuer or sponsor from third parties, through
various means of structuring the transaction or through a combination of such
approaches. The Series will not pay any additional fees for such credit support,
although the existence of credit support may increase the price of a security.

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Due to the shorter maturity of the collateral backing such securities, there is
less of a risk of substantial prepayment than with mortgage-backed securities.
Such asset-backed securities do, however, involve certain risks not associated
with mortgage-backed securities, including the risk that security interests
cannot be adequately, or in many cases, ever, established. In addition, with
respect to credit card receivables, a number of state and federal consumer
credit laws give debtors the right to set off certain amounts owed on the credit
cards, thereby reducing the outstanding balance. In the case of automobile
receivables, there is a risk that the holders may not have either a proper or
first security interest in all of the obligations backing such receivables due
to the large number of vehicles involved in a typical issuance and technical
requirements under state laws. Therefore, recoveries on repossessed collateral
may not always be available to support payments on the securities.

Examples of credit support arising out of the structure of the transaction
include "senior-subordinated securities" (multiple class securities with one or
more classes subordinate to other classes as to the payment of principal thereof
and interest thereon, with the result that defaults on the underlying assets are
borne first by the holders of the subordinated class), creation of "reserve
funds" (where cash or investments, sometimes funded from a portion of the
payments on the underlying assets, are held in reserve against future losses)
and "over collateralization" (where the scheduled payments on, or the principal
amount of, the underlying assets exceeds that required to make payments of the
securities and pay any servicing or other fees). The degree of credit support
provided for each issue is generally based on historical credit information
respecting the level of credit risk associated with the underlying assets.
Delinquencies or losses in excess of those anticipated could adversely affect
the return on an investment in such issue.

Equipment Trust Certificates

The Series may invest in equipment trust certificates. The proceeds of those
certificates are used to purchase equipment, such as railroad cars, airplanes or
other equipment, which in turn serve as collateral for the related issue of
certificates. The equipment subject to a trust generally is leased by a
railroad, airline or other business, and rental payments provide the projected
cash flow for the repayment of equipment trust certificates. Holders of
equipment trust certificates must look to the collateral securing the
certificates, and any guarantee provided by the lessee or any parent corporation
for the payment of lease amounts, in the case of default in the payment of
principal and interest on the certificates.

Zero Coupon and Delayed Interest Securities

The Series may invest in zero coupon or delayed interest securities which pay no
cash income until maturity or a specified date when the securities begin paying
current interest (the "cash payment date") and are sold at substantial discounts
from their value at maturity. When held to maturity or cash payment date, the
entire income of such securities, which consists of accretion of discount, comes
from the difference between the purchase price and their value at maturity or
cash payment date. The discount varies depending on the time remaining until
maturity or cash payment date, prevailing interest rates, liquidity of the
security and the perceived credit quality of the issuer. The discount, in the
absence of financial difficulties of the issuer, decreases as the final maturity
or cash payment date of the security approaches. The market prices of zero
coupon and delayed interest securities are generally more volatile and more
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changes in interest rates than the market prices of securities having similar
maturities and credit qualities that pay interest periodically.

Zero coupon securities are subject to greater market value fluctuations from
changing interest rates than debt obligations of comparable maturities, which
make current distributions of interest (cash). Zero coupon convertible
securities offer the opportunity for capital appreciation as increases (or
decreases) in market value of such securities closely follow the movements in
the market value of the underlying common stock. Zero coupon convertible
securities generally are expected to be less volatile than the underlying common
stocks as they usually are issued with short maturities (15 years or less) and
are issued with options and/or redemption features exercisable by the holder of
the obligation entitling the holder to redeem the obligation and receive a
defined cash payment.

Zero coupon securities include securities issued directly by the U.S. Treasury,
and U.S. Treasury bonds or notes and their unmatured interest coupons and
receipts for their underlying principal ("coupons") which have been separated by
their holder, typically a custodian bank or investment brokerage firm. A holder
will separate the interest coupons from the underlying principal (the "corpus")
of the U.S. Treasury security. A number of securities firms and banks have
stripped the interest coupons and receipts and then resold them in custodial
receipt programs with a number of different names, including "Treasury Income
Growth Receipts" ("TIGRS") and Certificate of Accrual on Treasuries ("CATS").
The underlying U.S. Treasury bonds and notes themselves are held in book-entry
form at the Federal Reserve Bank or, in the case of bearer securities (i.e.,
unregistered securities which are owned ostensibly by the bearer or holder
thereof), in trust on behalf of the owners thereof. Counsel to the underwriters
of these certificates or other evidences of ownership of the U.S. Treasury
securities has stated that for federal tax and securities purposes, in its
opinion, purchasers of such certificates, such as the Series, most likely will
be deemed the beneficial holder of the underlying U.S. government securities.

The U.S. Treasury has facilitated transfers of ownership of zero coupon
securities by accounting separately for the beneficial ownership of particular
interest coupon and corpus payments on Treasury securities through the Federal
Reserve book-entry record-keeping system. The Federal Reserve program as
established by the U.S. Treasury Department is known as "STRIPS" or "Separate
Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities." Under the STRIPS
program, the Series will be able to have its beneficial ownership of zero coupon
securities recorded directly in the book-entry record-keeping system in lieu of
having to hold certificates or other evidences of ownership of the underlying
U.S. Treasury securities.

When U.S. Treasury obligations have been stripped of their unmatured interest
coupons by the holder, the principal or corpus is sold at a deep discount
because the buyer receives only the right to receive a future fixed payment on
the security and does not receive any rights to periodic interest (cash)
payments. Once stripped or separated, the corpus and coupons may be sold
separately. Typically, the coupons are sold separately or grouped with other
coupons with like maturity dates and sold in such bundled form. Purchasers of
stripped obligations acquire, in effect, discount obligations that are
economically identical to the zero coupon securities that the U.S. Treasury
sells itself. These stripped securities are also treated as zero coupon
securities with original issue discount for tax purposes.

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Structured Notes

Structured notes are derivative debt securities, the interest rate and/or
principal of which is determined by an unrelated indicator. The value of the
principal of and/or interest on structured notes is determined by reference to
changes in the return, interest rate or value at maturity of a specific asset,
reference rate, or index (the "reference instrument") or the relative change in
two or more reference instruments. The interest rate or the principal amount
payable upon maturity or redemption may be increased or decreased, depending
upon changes in the applicable reference instruments. Structured notes may be
positively or negatively indexed, so that an increase in value of the reference
instrument may produce an increase or a decrease in the interest rate or value
of the structured note at maturity. In addition, changes in the interest rate or
the value of the structured note at maturity may be calculated as a specified
multiple of the change in the value of the reference; therefore, the value of
such note may be very volatile. Structured notes may entail a greater degree of
market risk than other types of debt securities because the investor bears the
risk of the reference instrument. Structured notes may also be more volatile,
less liquid, and more difficult to accurately price than less complex securities
or more traditional debt securities.

Emerging Markets Investments

The Series may invest in debt securities of emerging markets issuers, or
securities with respect to which the return is derived from debt securities of
issuers in emerging markets. The Series also may invest in debt securities of
corporate issuers in developing countries.

The Series' investments in emerging market government and government-related
securities may consist of: (i) debt securities or obligations issued or
guaranteed by governments, governmental agencies or instrumentalities and
political subdivisions located in emerging market countries (including
participation in loans between governments and financial institutions), (ii)
debt securities or obligations issued by government owned, controlled or
sponsored entities located in emerging market countries and (iii) interests in
issuers organized and operated for the purpose of restructuring the investment
characteristics of instruments issued by any of the entities described above.

The Series' investments in the fixed income securities of emerging market
issuers may include investments in Structured Securities, Loan Participation and
Assignments (as such capitalized terms are defined below), Brady Bonds and
certain non-publicly traded securities.

The Series may invest a portion of its assets in entities organized and operated
solely for the purpose of restructuring the investment characteristics of
sovereign debt obligations. This type of restructuring involves the deposit
with, or purchase by, an entity, such as a corporation or trust, of specified
instruments (such as commercial bank loans or Brady Bonds) and the issuance by
that entity of one or more classes of securities ("Structured Securities")
backed by, or representing interests in, the underlying instruments. The cash
flow of the underlying instruments may be apportioned among the newly issued
Structured Securities to create securities with different investment
characteristics, such as varying maturities, payment priorities and interest
rate provisions, and the extent of the payments made with respect to Structured
Securities is dependent on the extent of the cash flow on the underlying
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Structured Securities of the type in which the Series anticipate investing
typically involve no credit enhancement, their credit risk generally will be
equivalent to that of the underlying instruments. The Series is permitted to
invest in a class of Structured Securities that is either subordinated or
unsubordinated to the right of payment of another class. Subordinated Structured
Securities are typically sold in private placement transactions, and there
currently is no active trading market for Structured Securities. Thus,
investments by the Series in Structured Securities will be limited by the
Series' prohibition on investing more than 15% of its net assets in illiquid
securities.

The Series may invest in fixed rate and floating rate loans ("Loans") arranged
through private negotiations between an issuer of sovereign debt obligations and
one or more financial institutions ("Lenders"). The Series' investments in Loans
are expected in most instances to be in the form of a participation in loans
("Participation") and assignments of all or a portion of Loans ("Assignments")
from third parties. The Series will have the right to receive payments of
principal, interest and any fees to which they are entitled only from the Lender
selling the Participation and only upon receipt by the Lender of the payments
from the borrower. In the event of the insolvency of the Lender selling a
Participation, the Series may be treated as a general creditor of the Lender and
may not benefit from any set-off between the Lender and the borrower. Certain
Participations may be structured in a manner designed to avoid purchasers of
Participations being subject to the credit risk of the Lender with respect to
the Participations. Even under such a structure, in the event of the Lender's
insolvency, the Lender's servicing of the Participation may be delayed and the
assignability of the Participation may be impaired. The Series will acquire the
Participations only if the Lender interpositioned between the Series and the
borrower is determined by the Advisor to be creditworthy.

When the Series purchases Assignments from Lenders, it will acquire direct
rights against the borrower on the Loan. However, because Assignments are
arranged through private negotiations between potential assignees and potential
assignors, the rights and obligations acquired by the Series as the purchaser of
an Assignment may differ from, and be more limited than, those held by the
assigning Lender.

The Series may invest in Brady Bonds, which are securities created through the
exchange of existing commercial bank loans to public and private entities in
certain emerging markets for new bonds in connection with debt restructurings
under a debt restructuring plan introduced by former U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury, Nicholas F. Brady (the "Brady Plan"). Brady Plan debt restructurings
have been implemented to date in Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Costa Rica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, the
Philippines, Poland, Russia, Uruguay, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Brady Bonds
may be collateralized or uncollateralized, are issued in various currencies (but
primarily the U.S. dollar), and are actively traded in over-the-counter
secondary markets. Dollar-denominated, collateralized Brady Bonds, which may be
fixed-rate bonds or floating-rate bonds, are generally collateralized in full as
to principal by U.S. Treasury zero coupon bonds having the same maturity as the
bonds.

Brady Bonds are often viewed as having three or four valuation components: the
collateralized repayment of principal at final maturity; the collateralized
interest payments; the uncollateralized interest payments; and any
uncollateralized repayment of principal at maturity (these uncollateralized
amounts constitute the "residual risk"). In light of the residual risk of Brady

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Bonds and the history of defaults of countries issuing Brady Bonds with respect
to commercial bank loans by public and private entities, investments in Brady
Bonds may be viewed as speculative. There can be no assurance that the Brady
Bonds in which the Series invests will not be subject to restructuring
arrangements or to requests for a new credit which may cause the Series to
suffer a loss of interest or principal in any of its holdings.

The Series also may invest in privately placed securities. As a result of the
absence of a public trading market for these securities, they may be less liquid
than publicly traded securities.

The Series' investments in emerging market securities will at all times be
limited by the Series' prohibition on investing more than 15% of its net assets
in illiquid securities.

Risks of Investing in Emerging Markets

There are additional risks inherent in investing in less developed countries
which are applicable to the Series. The Series considers a country to be an
"emerging market" if it is defined as an emerging or developing economy by any
one of the following: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(i.e., the World Bank), the International Finance Corporation, or the United
Nations or its authorities. An emerging market security is a security issued by
a government or other issuer that, in the opinion of the Advisor, has one or
more of the following characteristics: (i) the principal trading market of the
security is an emerging market; (ii) the primary revenue of the issuer (at least
50%) is generated from goods produced or sold, investments made, or services
performed in an emerging market country; or (iii) at least 50% of the assets of
the issuer are situated in emerging market countries.

Compared to the United States and other developed countries, emerging countries
may have relatively unstable governments, economies based on only a few
industries, and securities markets that trade only a small number of securities
and employ settlement procedures different from those used in the United States.
Prices in these markets tend to be volatile and, in the past, securities in
these countries have offered greater potential for gain (as well as loss) than
securities of companies located in developed countries. Further, investments by
foreign investors are subject to a variety of restrictions in many emerging
countries. Countries such as those in which the Series may invest have
historically experienced and may continue to experience, high rates of
inflation, high interest rates, exchange rate fluctuations or currency
depreciation, large amounts of external debt, balance of payments and trade
difficulties and extreme poverty and unemployment. Additional factors which may
influence the ability or willingness to service debt include, but are not
limited to, a country's cash flow situation, the availability of sufficient
foreign exchange on the date a payment is due, the relative size of its debt
service burden to the economy as a whole, its government's policy towards the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other international agencies and
the political constraints to which a government debtor may be subject.

The ability of a foreign government or government-related issuer to make timely
and ultimate payments on its external debt obligations will be strongly
influenced by the issuer's balance of payments, including export performance,
its access to international credits and investments, fluctuations in interest
rates and the extent of its foreign reserves. A country whose exports are
concentrated in a few commodities or whose economy depends on certain strategic
imports could be

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vulnerable to fluctuations in international prices of these commodities or
imports. To the extent that a country receives payment for its exports in
currencies other than dollars, its ability to make debt payments denominated in
dollars could be adversely affected. If a foreign government or
government-related issuer cannot generate sufficient earnings from foreign trade
to service its external debt, it may need to depend on continuing loans and aid
from foreign governments, commercial banks, and multilateral organizations, and
inflows of foreign investment. The commitment on the part of these foreign
governments, multilateral organizations and others to make such disbursements
may be conditioned on the government's implementation of economic reforms and/or
economic performance and the timely service of its obligations. Failure to
implement such reforms, achieve such levels of economic performance or repay
principal or interest when due may curtail the willingness of such third parties
to lend funds, which may further impair the issuer's ability or willingness to
service its debts in a timely manner. The cost of servicing external debt will
also generally be adversely affected by rising international interest rates,
because many external debt obligations bear interest at rates which are adjusted
based upon international interest rates. The ability to service external debt
will also depend on the level of the relevant government's international
currency reserves and its access to foreign exchange. Currency devaluations may
affect the ability of a governmental issuer to obtain sufficient foreign
exchange to service its external debt.

As a result of the foregoing, a governmental issuer may default on its
obligations. If such a default occurs, the Series may have limited effective
legal recourse against the issuer and/or guarantor. Remedies must, in some
cases, be pursued in the courts of the defaulting country itself, and the
ability of the holder of foreign government and government-related debt
securities to obtain recourse may be subject to the political climate in the
relevant country. In addition, no assurance can be given that the holders of
commercial bank debt will not contest payments to the holders of other foreign
government and government-related debt obligations in the event of default under
their commercial bank loan agreements.

The issuers of the government and government-related debt securities in which
the Series expects to invest have in the past experienced substantial
difficulties in servicing their external debt obligations, which has led to
defaults on certain obligations and the restructuring of certain indebtedness.
Restructuring arrangements have included, among other things, reducing and
rescheduling interest and principal payments by negotiating new or amended
credit agreements or converting outstanding principal and unpaid interest to
Brady Bonds, and obtaining new credit to finance interest payments. Holders of
certain foreign government and government-related debt securities may be
requested to participate in the restructuring of such obligations and to extend
further loans to their issuers. There can be no assurance that the Brady Bonds
and other foreign government and government-related debt securities in which the
Series may invest will not be subject to similar defaults or restructuring
arrangements which may adversely affect the value of such investments.
Furthermore, certain participants in the secondary market for such debt may be
directly involved in negotiating the terms of these arrangements and may
therefore have access to information not available to other market participants.

Payments to holders of the high yield, high risk, foreign debt securities in
which the Series may invest may be subject to foreign withholding and other
taxes. Although the holders of foreign government and government-related debt
securities may be entitled to tax gross-up payments from the issuers of such
instruments, there is no assurance that such payments will be made.

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Other Investments

The Board may, in the future, authorize the Series to invest in securities other
than those listed in this SAI and in the Prospectus, provided such investment
would be consistent with the Series' investment objective and that it would not
violate any fundamental investment policies or restrictions applicable to the
Series.

SECONDARY RISKS

The principal risks of investing in the Fund are described in the "Principal
Risks" section of the Prospectus. The secondary risks of investing in the Fund
are described in Appendix B hereto.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment restrictions set forth below are fundamental policies and may not
be changed as to the Fund without the approval of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities (as defined in the Act) of the Fund. Unless otherwise
indicated, all percentage limitations listed below apply to the Fund only at the
time of the transaction. Accordingly, if a percentage restriction is adhered to
at the time of investment, a later increase or decrease in the percentage that
results from a relative change in values or from a change in the Fund's total
assets will not be considered a violation. The Fund may not:

(i) Purchase or sell real estate, except that the Fund may purchase or sell
securities of real estate investment trusts;

(ii) Purchase or sell commodities, except that the Fund may purchase or
sell currencies, may enter into futures contracts on securities, currencies and
other indices or any other financial instruments, and may purchase and sell
options on such futures contracts;

(iii) Issue securities senior to the Fund's presently authorized shares of
beneficial interest, except that this restriction shall not be deemed to
prohibit the Fund from: (a) making any permitted borrowings, loans or pledges;
(b) entering into options, futures contracts, forward contracts, repurchase
transactions, or reverse repurchase transactions; or (c) making short sales of
securities to the extent permitted by the Act and any rule or order thereunder,
or SEC staff interpretations thereof;

(iv) Make loans to other persons, except: (a) through the lending of its
portfolio securities; (b) through the purchase of debt securities, loan
participations and/or engaging in direct corporate loans for investment purposes
in accordance with its investment objectives and policies; and (c) to the extent
the entry into a repurchase agreement is deemed to be a loan;

(v) Borrow money in excess of 33 1/3% of the value of its assets, except as
a temporary measure for extraordinary or emergency purposes to facilitate
redemptions. All borrowings will be done from a bank and to the extent that such
borrowing exceeds 5% of the value of the Fund's assets, asset coverage of at
least 300% is required;

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(vi) Concentrate (invest more than 25% of its net assets) in securities of
issuers in a particular industry (other than securities issued or guaranteed by
the U.S. government or any of its agencies); and

(vii) Act as an underwriter, except to the extent the Fund may be deemed to
be an underwriter when selling its own shares.

MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST

The Trust is a Delaware statutory trust. Under Delaware law, the Board has
overall responsibility for managing the business and affairs of the Trust. Each
Trustee of the Trust is an Independent Trustee because he or she is not
considered an "interested person" of the Trust under the 1940 Act. The Trustees
elect the officers of the Trust, who are responsible for administering the
day-to-day operations of the Series.

The Trustees and executive officers of the Trust, along with their principal
occupations over the past five years and their affiliations, if any, with the
Advisor, are listed below.

Trustees

Term of Number of
Office(1) Portfolios in
Position(s) and Length Fund Complex Other
Name, Address Held with of Time Principal Occupation(s) Overseen by Directorships
and Age Trust Served During Past 5 Years Trustee Held by Trustee

Walter E. Auch Trustee Since 1994 Mr. Auch is retired (since Mr. Auch is a Mr. Auch is a
6001 N. 62nd Place 1986). trustee of Trustee of
Paradise Valley, three Advisors Series
AZ 85253 investment Trust (16
Age: 83 companies portfolios);
(consisting of Smith Barney
42 portfolios) Fund Complex (27
for which UBS portfolios); and
Global Asset Nicholas
Management Applegate
(Americas) Inc. Institutional
("UBS Global AM Funds (19
(Americas)") or portfolios).
one of its
affiliates
serves as
investment
advisor,
sub-advisor or
manager.

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Frank K. Reilly Chairman Since 1993 Mr. Reilly is a Professor at Mr. Reilly is a Mr. Reilly is a
Mendoza College and Trustee the University of Notre Dame director or Director of
of Business since 1982. trustee of four Discover Bank;
University of investment Morgan Stanley
Notre Dame companies Trust and FSB.
Notre Dame, IN (consisting of
46556-5649 43 portfolios)
Age: 68 for which UBS
Global AM
(Americas) or
one of its
affiliates
serves as
investment
advisor,
sub-advisor or
manager.

Edward M. Roob Trustee Since 1995 Mr. Roob is retired (since Mr. Roob is a Mr. Roob is a
841 Woodbine Lane 1993). Mr. Roob was a director or Trustee of the
Northbrook, IL Committee Member of the trustee of four AHA Investment
60002 Chicago Stock Exchange from investment Funds (6
Age: 70 1993-1999. companies portfolios).
(consisting of
43 portfolios)
for which UBS
Global AM
(Americas) or
one of its
affiliates
serves as
investment
advisor,
sub-advisor or
manager.

Adela Cepeda Trustee Since 2004 Ms. Cepeda is founder and Ms. Cepeda is a Ms. Cepeda is a
A.C. Advisory, president of A.C. Advisory, director or director of
Inc. Inc. (since 1995). trustee of four Lincoln National
161 No. Clark investment Income Fund,
Street companies Inc. and Lincoln
Suite 4975 (consisting of National
Chicago, IL 60601 43 portfolios) Convertible
Age: 46 for which UBS Securities Fund,
Global AM Inc. She is also
(Americas) or a Director of
one of its Amalgamated Bank
affiliates of Chicago
serves as (2003) and
investment Wyndham
advisor, International,
sub-advisor or Inc. (2004).
manager.

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J. Mikesell Thomas Trustee Since 2004 Mr. Thomas is President and Mr. Thomas is a Mr. Thomas is a
Federal Home Loan CEO of Federal Home Loan Bank director or director and
Bank of Chicago of Chicago (since 2004). Mr. trustee of four chairman of the
111 East Wacker Thomas was an independent investment Finance
Drive financial advisor (2001-2004). companies Committee for
Chicago, IL 60601 He was managing director of (consisting of Evanston
Age: 53 Lazard Freres & Co. (1995 to 43 portfolios) Northwestern
2001). for which UBS Healthcare. He
Global AM is also a vice
(Americas) or president of the
one of its Board of
affiliates Trustees for
serves as Mid-Day Club.
investment
advisor,
sub-advisor or
manager.

(1) Each Trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

Officers

Term of
Position(s) Office+ and
Held with the Length of
Name, Address and Age Trust Time Served Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

W. Douglas Beck* Vice President Since 2003 Mr. Beck is an executive director and head of mutual
Age: 37 fund product management of UBS Global AM (since 2002).
From March 1998 to November 2002, he held various
positions at Merrill Lynch, the most recent being first
vice president and co-manager of the managed solutions
group. Mr. Beck is vice president of 20 investment
companies (consisting of 76 portfolios) for which UBS
Global AM (Americas) or one of its affiliates serves as
investment advisor, sub-advisor or manager.

Rose Ann Bubloski* Vice Since 2004 Ms. Bubloski is an associate director and a senior
Age: 36 President and manager of the mutual fund finance department of UBS
Assistant Global AM. Ms. Bubloski is vice president and assistant
Treasurer treasurer of four investment companies (consisting of 43
portfolios) for which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of
its affiliates serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor
or manager.

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Term of
Position(s) Office+ and
Held with the Length of
Name, Address and Age Trust Time Served Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

Michael J. Calhoun** Assistant Since 2004 Mr. Calhoun is an Associate Director, Associate General
Age: 37 Secretary Counsel, and Assistant Secretary of UBS Global AM
(Americas) since 2004. He is also an Assistant Secretary
of UBS Global Asset Management Trust Company since 2004.
He was an Associate at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a law firm,
during 2003; an Associate at D'Ancona & Pflaum LLC, a
law firm, from 2000-2003; a Summer Associate at D'Ancona
& Pflaum LLC during 1999; and a Projects Assistant for
Active Temporary Services, Inc. from 1994-1997. Mr.
Calhoun attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law
from 1997-2000. Mr. Calhoun is assistant secretary of
four investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios)
for which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of its
affiliates serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor or
manager.

Mary Capasso** Assistant Since 2004 Ms. Capasso is an Associate Director, Assistant General
Age: 33 Secretary Counsel and Assistant Secretary of UBS Global AM since
2003. Previously, Ms. Capasso was employed at Van Kampen
Investments (1998-2000) and Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC
(2000-2003). Ms. Capasso is assistant secretary of four
investment companies (consisting of 42 portfolios) for
which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of its affiliates
serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor or manager.

James Capezzuto* Vice Since 2004 Mr. Capezzuto is director and assistant general counsel
Age: 40 President and at UBS Global AM (since 2004). Prior to joining UBS
Assistant Global AM, he was senior vice president, senior
Secretary compliance manager at Bank of America (from 2003-2004).
Prior to that he was general counsel at Steinberg Priest
& Sloane and prior to that, he was director and senior
counsel at Deutsche Asset Management (1996-2002). Mr.
Capezzuto is a vice president and assistant secretary of
20 investment companies (consisting of 76 portfolios)
for which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of its
affiliates serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor or
manager.

Thomas Disbrow* Vice Since 2004 Mr. Disbrow is a director and a co-head of the mutual
Age: 38 President and fund finance department of UBS Global AM. Prior to
Assistant November 1999, he was a vice president of Zweig/Glaser
Treasurer Advisers. Mr. Disbrow is vice president and treasurer of
16 investment companies (consisting of 34 portfolios)
and vice president and assistant treasurer of four
investment companies (consisting of 42 portfolios) for
which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of its affiliates
serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor or manager.

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Term of
Position(s) Office+ and
Held with the Length of
Name, Address and Age Trust Time Served Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

Mark F. Kemper** Vice Since 1999 Mr. Kemper is general counsel of UBS Global Asset
Age: 46 President and and 2004, Management-Americas region (since July 2004). Mr. Kemper
Secretary respectively is also an executive director of UBS Global AM
(Americas) and was its deputy general counsel from July
2001 to July 2004. He has been secretary of UBS Global
AM (Americas) since 1999 and assistant secretary of UBS
Global Asset Management Trust Company since 1993. Mr.
Kemper is secretary of UBS Global AM (US) (since 2004).
Mr. Kemper is vice president and secretary of 20
investment companies (consisting of 76 portfolios) for
which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of its affiliates
serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor or manager.

Joseph T. Malone* Vice Since 2004 Mr. Malone is a director and a co-head of the mutual
Age: 37 President, fund finance department of UBS Global AM. From August
Treasurer and 2000 through June 2001, he was controller at AEA
Principal Investors Inc. From March 1998 to August 2000, Mr.
Accounting Malone was a manager within the investment management
Officer services of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC. Mr. Malone is
the vice president and assistant treasurer of 16
investment companies (consisting of 33 portfolios) and
vice president, treasurer and principal accounting
officer of four investment companies (consisting of 43
portfolios) for which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of
its affiliates serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor
or manager.

Joseph McGill* Vice Since 2004 Mr. McGill is executive director and chief compliance
Age: 42 President and officer at UBS Global AM (since 2003). Prior to joining
Chief UBS Global AM, he was Assistant General Counsel at J.P.
Compliance Morgan Investment Management (from 1999-2003). Mr.
Officer McGill is a vice president and chief compliance officer
for 20 investment companies (consisting of 75
portfolios) for which UBS Global AM (Americas) or one of
its affiliates serves as investment advisor, sub-advisor
or manager.

Joseph A. Varnas* President Since 2002 Mr. Varnas is a managing director (since March 2003),
Age: 36 global head of information technology and operations
(since March 2004) and head of product
management-Americas (since November 2002) of UBS Global
AM. He was head of technology of UBS Global AM from
November 2002 to March 2004. From 2000 to 2001, he was
manager of product development in Investment Consulting
Services at UBS Financial Services Inc. Mr. Varnas was a
senior analyst in the Global Securities Research and
Economics Group at Merrill Lynch from 1995 to 1999. Mr.
Varnas is president of 20 investment companies
(consisting of 76 portfolios) for which UBS Global AM
(Americas) or one of its affiliates serves as investment
advisor, sub-advisor or manager.

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Term of
Position(s) Office+ and
Held with the Length of
Name, Address and Age Trust Time Served Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

Keith A. Weller* Vice Since 2004 Mr. Weller is a director and associate general counsel
Age: 43 President and of UBS Global AM. Mr. Weller is a vice president and
Assistant assistant secretary of 20 investment companies
Secretary (consisting of 76 portfolios) for which UBS Global AM
(Americas) or one of its affiliates serves as investment
advisor, sub-advisor or manager.
____________________

* This person's business address is 51 West 52nd Street, New York, NY
10019-6114.

** This person's business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
60606.

+ Officers of the Trust are appointed by the Trustees and serve at the
pleasure of the Board.

INFORMATION ABOUT INDEPENDENT TRUSTEE OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES ISSUED BY UBS
GLOBAL AM OR ANY COMPANY CONTROLLING,
CONTROLLED BY OR UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH UBS GLOBAL AM

As of December 31, 2004, the Independent Trustees did not own any securities
issued by UBS Global AM or any company controlling, controlled by or under
common control with UBS Global AM.

INFORMATION ABOUT TRUSTEE OWNERSHIP OF FUND SHARES

Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in All
Registered Investment Companies Overseen by Trustee for
Dollar Range of Equity which UBS Global AM (Americas) or an Affiliate Serves as
Independent Trustees Securities in Fund+ Investment Advisor, Sub-Advisor or Manager+
- -------------------- ------------------- -------------------------------------------

Walter E. Auch None $10,001 - $50,000

Frank K. Reilly None over $100,000

Edward M. Roob None over $100,000

Adela Cepeda None $10,001 - $50,000

J. Mikesell Thomas None None

+ Information regarding ownership is as of December 31, 2004.

NOTE REGARDING RANGES: In disclosing the dollar range of equity securities
beneficially owned by a trustee in these columns, the following ranges will be
used: (i) none; (ii) $1-$10,000; (iii) $10,001-$50,000; (iv) $50,001-$100,000;
or (v) over $100,000.

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COMPENSATION TABLE

Trustees

Pension or Total
Annual Retirement Compensation
Aggregate Benefits Accrued From the Trust and
Compensation As Part of Fund Fund Complex
Name and Position Held From the Trust/1/ Expenses Paid to Trustees

Walter E. Auch, Trustee $19,200 N/A $54,300/2/
Frank K. Reilly, Trustee $19,200 N/A $66,300/2/
Edward M. Roob, Trustee $19,200 N/A $66,300/2/
Adela Cepeda, Trustee $8,100 N/A $32,700/3/
J. Mikesell Thomas, Trustee $8,100 N/A $32,700/3/

/1/ Represents aggregate annual compensation paid by the Trust to each Trustee
indicated for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. Ms. Cepeda and Mr.
Thomas were elected to serve on Board of Trustees of the Trust on March 29,
2004.

/2/ This amount represents the aggregate amount of compensation paid to the
Trustees for service on the Board of Directors/Trustees of three (with
regard to Mr. Auch) and four (with regard to Messrs. Reilly and Roob) other
investment companies managed by UBS Global AM (Americas) or an affiliate
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004.

/3/ This amount represents the amount of compensation paid to Ms. Cepeda and
Mr. Thomas for service on the Board of Directors of one other investment
company managed by UBS Global AM (Americas) for the fiscal year ended June
30, 2004, and beginning on March 29, 2004, two other investment companies
managed by UBS Global AM (Americas).

Prior to July 1, 2004, the Trust paid each Independent Trustee a fee of $6,000
per year, plus $300 per Series per meeting. As of July 1, 2004, each Independent
Trustee receives, in the aggregate from the UBS Global AM family of funds, an
annual retainer of $30,000 for serving as a Board member, a $2,000 retainer for
serving as an Audit Committee member, and a $2,000 retainer for serving as a
Nominating, Compensation and Governance Committee member. The foregoing fees
will be allocated among all such funds as follows: (i) one-half of the expense
will be allocated pro rata based on the funds' relative net assets at the end of
the calendar quarter preceding the date of payment; and (ii) one-half of the
expense will be allocated equally according to the number of such funds (i.e.,
expenses divided by number of funds). Each Independent Trustee will receive $300
per Series for each regular Board meeting (and each in-person special meeting)
actually attended from the Trust. The Trust reimburses each Trustee and officer
for out-of-pocket expenses in connection with travel and attendance at Board
meetings.

No officer, director or employee of UBS Global AM or any of its affiliates
presently receive any compensation from the Trust for acting as a Board member
or officer.

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Each Trustee sits on the Trust's Audit Committee, which has the responsibility,
among other things, to: (i) select, oversee and set the compensation of the
Trust's independent registered public accounting firm; (ii) oversee the Trust's
accounting and financial reporting policies and practices, its internal controls
and, as appropriate, the internal controls of certain service providers; (iii)
oversee the quality and objectivity of the Fund's financial statements and the
independent audit(s) thereof; and (iv) act as a liaison between the Trust's
independent registered public accounting firm and the full Board. The Audit
Committee met three times during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004.

Each Trustee sits on the Trust's Nominating, Compensation and Governance
Committee (the "Nominating Committee"), which has the responsibility, among
other things, to: (i) make recommendations and to consider shareholder
recommendations for nominations for Board members; (ii) review Board governance
procedures and recommend any appropriate changes to the full Board; (iii)
periodically review Independent Trustee compensation and recommend any changes
to the Independent Trustees as a group; and (iv) make recommendations to the
full Board for nominations for membership on all committees, review all
committee assignments annually and periodically review the responsibilities and
need for all committees of the Board.

The Nominating Committee will consider nominees recommended by Qualifying Fund
Shareholders if an Independent Trustee vacancy on the Board occurs. A Qualifying
Fund Shareholder is a shareholder that: (i) owns of record, or beneficially
through a financial intermediary,1/2of 1% or more of the Trust's outstanding
shares; and (ii) has been a shareholder of at least1/2of 1% of the Trust's total
outstanding shares for 12 months or more prior to submitting the recommendation
to the Nominating Committee. In order to recommend a nominee, a Qualifying Fund
Shareholder should send a letter to the chairperson of the Nominating Committee,
Mr. Walter Auch, care of the Secretary of the Trust at UBS Global Asset
Management, One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and indicate on the
envelope "Nominating Committee." The Qualifying Fund Shareholder's letter should
include: (i) the name and address of the Qualifying Fund Shareholder making the
recommendation; (ii) the number of shares of each class and series of shares of
the Trust which are owned of record and beneficially by such Qualifying Fund
Shareholder and the length of time that such shares have been so owned by the
Qualifying Fund Shareholder; (iii) a description of all arrangements and
understandings between such Qualifying Fund Shareholder and any other person or
persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the recommendation is
being made; (iv) the name and address of the nominee; and (v) the nominee's
resume or curriculum vitae. The Qualifying Fund Shareholder's letter must be
accompanied by a written consent of the individual to stand for election if
nominated for the Board and to serve if elected by shareholders.

The Nominating, Compensation and Governance Committee met one time during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 2004.

There is no separate Investment Committee. Items pertaining to these matters are
submitted to the full Board.

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CONTROL PERSONS AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

As of the date of this SAI, UBS Global AM (US) owned 100% of all outstanding
shares of the Fund and thus may be deemed a controlling shareholder of the Fund
until additional shareholders purchase shares. As of the same date, none of the
Trustees or officers of the Fund beneficially owned any of the outstanding
shares of the Fund.

Any person who owns beneficially, either directly or through one or more
controlled companies, more than 25% of the voting securities of the Fund is
presumed to control the Fund under the provisions of the Act. Note that a
controlling person possesses the ability to control the outcome of matters
submitted for shareholder vote of the Fund.

INVESTMENT ADVISORY, PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITING AND OTHER SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS

Advisor

UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. manages the assets of the Fund
pursuant to its investment advisory agreement with the Fund (the "Agreement").
The Advisor is an investment management firm managing approximately $61.3
billion, as of December 31, 2004, primarily for institutional pension and
profit-sharing funds. The Advisor is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS
AG ("UBS") and a member of the UBS Global Asset Management Division, which had
approximately $527.4 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2004.

The Advisor also serves as the investment advisor or sub-advisor to twenty-five
other investment companies: UBS Relationship Funds, Fort Dearborn Income
Securities, Inc., UBS (US) Group Trust, Allmerica Core Equity Fund-Large Value,
AXP Partners Small Growth Fund, BB&T International Equity Fund, Enterprise
Growth & Income Portfolio (Enterprise Accumulation Trust), Enterprise Growth and
Income Fund (Enterprise Group of Funds), Enterprise Strategic Allocation Fund
(Enterprise Group of Funds), Guardian UBS Large Cap Value Fund, Guardian UBS
Small Cap Value Fund, Guardian UBS VC large Cap Value Fund, Guardian UBS VC
Small Cap Value Fund, ING DSI Enhanced S&P 500 Portfolio, ING UBS Tactical Asset
Allocation Portfolio, ING UBS U.S. Balanced Portfolio, JPMorgan Multi-Manager
Small Cap Growth Fund, Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust-Global Asset
Allocation Fund, Manulife Global Allocation Trust, MTB (formerly Vision)
International Equity Fund, Ohio National Small Cap Growth, Principal Partners
Small Cap Growth Fund II, Principal Small Cap Growth Fund, Inc., Principal
Variable Contracts Fund, Inc., and Saratoga Health & Biotechnology Portfolio.

Pursuant to its Agreement with the Trust, on behalf of the Fund, the Advisor
will receive from the Fund for providing investment advisory services a monthly
fee at an annual rate according to the following fee schedule: 0.55% on the
first $500 million of assets under management; 0.50% on the next $500 million to
$1 billion of assets under management; 0.475% on the next $1 billion to $ 1.5
billion of assets under management; 0.450% on the next $1.5 billion to $ 2
billion of assets under management; and 0.425% above $2 billion of assets under
management. The Advisor is responsible for paying its expenses. The Fund will
pay the following expenses: (1) the fees and expenses of the Trust's Independent
Trustees; (2) the salaries and expenses of any of

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the Trust's officers or employees who are not affiliated with the Advisor; (3)
interest expenses; (4) taxes and governmental fees; (5) brokerage commissions
and other expenses incurred in acquiring or disposing of portfolio securities;
(6) the expenses of registering and qualifying shares for sale with the SEC and
with various state securities commissions; (7) auditing and legal costs; (8)
insurance premiums; (9) fees and expenses of the Trust's custodian,
administrator and transfer agent and any related services; (10) expenses of
obtaining quotations of the Funds' portfolio securities and of pricing the
Funds' shares; (11) expenses of maintaining the Trust's legal existence and of
shareholders' meetings; (12) expenses of preparation and distribution to
existing shareholders of reports, proxies and prospectuses; and (13) fees and
expenses of membership in industry organizations.

The Fund is subject to a contractual expense limit at the rate of 0.85% of the
Fund's average daily net assets, excluding any 12b-1 Plan fees. The contractual
fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement agreement will remain in place until
June 30, 2005. Thereafter, the expense limit for the Fund will be reviewed each
year, at which time the continuation of the expense limit will be considered by
the Advisor and the Board of Trustees. The contractual fee waiver agreement also
provides that the Advisor is entitled to reimbursement of fees it waived and/or
expenses it reimbursed for a period of three years following such fee waivers
and expense reimbursements, provided that the reimbursement by the Fund of the
Advisor will not cause the total operating expense ratio to exceed the
contractual limit as then may be in effect for the Fund.

General expenses of the Trust (such as costs of maintaining corporate existence,
legal fees, insurance, etc.) will be allocated among the Fund and the other
series of the Trust in proportion to their relative net assets. Expenses that
relate exclusively to the Fund, such as certain registration fees, brokerage
commissions and other portfolio expenses, will be borne directly by the Fund.

At the December 14, 2004 meeting of the Trust's Board of Trustees, the Trustees
considered and approved for a period of two years the Agreement between the
Trust and the Advisor on behalf of the Fund.

In considering the approval of the Agreement, the Trustees analyzed the nature,
quality and scope of the services to be provided to the Fund by the Advisor,
including the investment strategies and techniques to be employed by the Advisor
in managing the Fund. The Trustees also reviewed the revenues projected to be
received and the expenses project to be incurred by the Advisor in performing
the services required under the Agreement, as well as the cost allocation
methods used in calculating such expenses. The Trustees considered the fees to
be paid to the Advisor under the Agreement, as well as the compensation to be
paid to UBS Global AM (US), the Advisor's affiliate, for the administrative
services to be provided to the Fund. In addition, the Trustees reviewed the
Fund's projected fees and expense ratio in comparison to the fees and expenses
of comparable bond funds and other series of the Trust.

The Trustees also evaluated: (i) the investment advisory personnel at the
Advisor responsible for managing the Fund, and the Advisor's in-house research
capabilities, as well as other resources available to the Advisor's personnel,
including research services available to the Advisor as a result of securities
transactions effected for the other series of the Trust and the Advisor's other
investment advisory clients; and (ii) the procedures of the Advisor to ensure
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Fund's investment restrictions, relevant tax and reporting requirements, as well
as the procedures of the Advisor with respect to possible conflicts of interest,
including the Advisor's code of ethics, trade allocation procedures for its
various investment advisory clients, and best execution procedures. The Trustees
gave substantial consideration to the fees to be paid under the Agreement. The
Board considered the fact that the advisory fee to be paid to the Advisor
contains "breakpoints" that will decrease the advisory fee payable to the
Advisor as the Fund's assets increase. The Trustees noted that the fee analysis
presented by the Advisor indicated that the Fund should realize economies of
scale as the Fund's assets grow. The Trustees noted that the maximum advisory
fee for the Fund was lower than the average advisory fee in the bond fund
universe. The Trustees also considered that the Advisor has agreed to a one-year
contractual expense cap on the Fund's total annual operating expenses at a rate
that is lower than the current median total expense ratio for the bond fund
universe. The Trustees also noted that the Advisor has more than twenty years of
experience in managing global investment portfolios and that the investment
advisory personnel responsible for managing the Fund have significant experience
managing other bond series in the UBS Family of Funds. Based on these
considerations and the overall high-quality of the personnel, operations,
financial condition, investment advisory capabilities and methodologies of the
Advisor, the Trustees concluded that the advisory fee to be paid under the
Agreement is fair and reasonable, and the scope and quality of services to be
provided by the Advisor to the Fund were consistent with the Fund's operational
requirements and sufficient to approve the Agreement between the Trust and the
Advisor.

Portfolio Managers. UBS Global AM's investment professionals are organized into
investment management teams, with a particular team dedicated to a specific
asset class. Certain members of the Fixed-Income Team are responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund. The following team members coordinate the
team's management of the Fund's portfolio: John A. Penicook, Michael Markowitz,
Thomas Clarkson, Philip Apel and Giovanni Pagani (the "Portfolio Management
Team").

The following table provides information relating to other accounts managed by
the members of the Portfolio Management Team listed above as of February 28,
2005:

Registered Other Pooled
Investment Investment Other
Companies Vehicles Accounts

Number of Accounts Managed 23 11 100*
Number of Accounts Managed with
Performance-Based Advisory Fees None None None
Assets Managed (in millions) $27,883 $2,110 $14,638
Assets Managed with Performance-
Based Advisory Fees (in millions) None None None

* approximately

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The Portfolio Management Team's management of the Fund and other accounts could
result in potential conflicts of interest if the Fund and other accounts have
different objectives, benchmarks and fees because the Portfolio Management Team
must allocate its time and investment expertise across multiple accounts,
including the Fund. The Advisor manages such competing interests for the time
and attention of portfolio managers by having portfolio managers focus on a
particular investment discipline. The Portfolio Management Team manages the Fund
and other accounts utilizing a model portfolio approach that groups similar
accounts within a model portfolio. The Portfolio Management Team manages
accounts according to the appropriate model portfolio, including where possible,
those accounts that have specific investment restrictions. Accordingly,
portfolio holdings, position sizes, and industry and sector exposures tend to be
similar across accounts, which may minimize the potential for conflicts of
interest.

If a portfolio manager identifies a limited investment opportunity that may be
suitable for more than one account or model portfolio, the Fund may not be able
to take full advantage of that opportunity due to an allocation of filled
purchase or sale orders across all eligible model portfolios and accounts. To
deal with these situations, the Advisor has adopted procedures for allocating
portfolio trades across multiple accounts to provide fair treatment to all
accounts. The Advisor may execute orders for the same security for both the Fund
and other accounts. With respect to such orders, the Advisor determines which
broker to use to execute each order, consistent with its duty to seek best
execution for the transaction. The Advisor may aggregate trades of several
accounts to obtain more favorable execution and lower brokerage commissions. The
Advisor has adopted procedures to address the conflicts that may arise when
executing orders for multiple accounts.

The compensation received by the portfolio managers includes a base salary and
incentive compensation based on their personal performance. UBS Global AM's
compensation and benefits programs are designed to provide its investment
professionals with incentives to excel, and to promote an entrepreneurial,
performance-oriented culture. They also align the interests of the investment
professionals with the interests of UBS Global AM's clients. Overall
compensation can be grouped into four categories:

o Competitive salary, benchmarked to maintain competitive compensation
opportunities.
o Annual bonus, tied to individual contributions and investment performance.
o UBS equity awards, promoting company-wide success and employee retention.
o Partnership Incentive Program (PIP), a phantom-equity-like program for key
senior staff.

Base salary is used to recognize the experience, skills and knowledge that the
investment professionals bring to their roles. Salary levels are monitored and
adjusted periodically in order to remain competitive within the investment
management industry.

Annual bonuses are strictly and rigorously correlated with performance. As such,
annual incentives can be highly variable, and are based on three components: 1)
the firm's overall business success; 2) the performance of the respective asset
class and/or investment mandate; and 3) an individual's specific contribution to
the firm's results. UBS Global AM strongly believes that tying bonuses to both
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performance closely aligns the investment professionals' interests with those of
UBS Global AM's clients.

Analyst Incentives. Because UBS Global AM values its proprietary research, it
has designed a compensation system that has made investment analysis a highly
regarded career within the firm. Analyst incentives are tied to the performance
of the model portfolios, which UBS Global AM evaluates over rolling three-year
periods. One-third of each analyst's rating is based upon the performance of the
model global sector portfolio; one-third on the model local sector portfolio;
and one-third is a qualitative assessment of their contribution. UBS Global AM
believes that this system closely aligns the analysts' incentives with its
clients.

UBS AG Equity. Senior investment professionals may receive a portion of their
annual performance-based incentive in the form of deferred or restricted UBS AG
shares or employee stock options. UBS Global AM believes that this reinforces
the critical importance of creating long-term business value and also serves as
an effective retention tool as the equity shares typically vest over a number of
years.

Broader equity share ownership is encouraged for all employees through "Equity
Plus." This long-term incentive program gives employees the opportunity to
purchase UBS stock with after-tax funds from their bonus or salary. Two UBS
stock options are given for each share acquired and held for two years. UBS
Global AM feels this engages its employees as partners in the firm's success,
and helps to maximize its integrated business strategy.

Partnership Incentive Program (PIP). Designed to promote an entrepreneurial
culture and drive long-term thinking, the PIP is a phantom equity-like program
for key senior staff (approximately top 2%). By tying compensation to overall
firm performance over the mid-to longer-term, the program offers significant
compensation opportunities for UBS Global AM's senior staff.

As of the date of this SAI, none of the team members identified above owned
shares of the Fund because the Fund has not yet been publicly offered.

Administrative, Accounting and Custody Services

Administrative and Accounting Services. UBS Global AM (US), with its principal
office located at 51 West 52nd Street, New York, New York 10019-6114, serves as
the Fund's administrator. The Administrator is an indirect wholly-owned asset
management subsidiary of UBS. The Administrator is an affiliate of the Advisor.

As administrator, the Administrator supervises and manages all aspects (other
than investment advisory activities) of the Fund's operations. Under the
Administration Contract, the Administrator will not be liable for any error of
judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund, the Trust or
any of its shareholders in connection with the performance of the Administration
Contract, except a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence on the part of the Administrator in the performance of its duties or
from reckless disregard of its duties and obligations thereunder. The
Administration Contract terminates automatically upon its assignment and is
terminable at any time without penalty by the Board or by vote of the holders of
a majority of the Fund's outstanding voting securities, on 60 days' written
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Administrator, or by the Administrator on 60 days' written notice to the Trust.
The Fund pays a fee to the Administrator that is computed daily and paid monthly
at an annual rate of 0.075% of average daily net assets of the Fund.

J.P. Morgan Investors Services Co. ("J.P. Morgan") provides accounting,
portfolio valuation and certain administrative services for the Fund under a
Multiple Services Agreement between the Trust and JPMorgan Chase Bank. J.P.
Morgan is located at 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108-3913 and is a corporate
affiliate of JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Custody Services. JPMorgan Chase Bank, located at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New
York 10017, provides custodian services for the securities and cash of the Fund.
The custody fee schedule is based primarily on the net amount of assets held
during the period for which payment is being made plus a per transaction fee for
transactions during the period. JPMorgan Chase Bank utilizes foreign
sub-custodians under procedures approved by the Board in accordance with
applicable legal requirements.

Principal Underwriting Arrangements

UBS Global AM (US) (the "Underwriter") acts as the principal underwriter of each
class of shares of the Fund pursuant to a Principal Underwriting Contract with
the Trust. The Principal Underwriting Contract requires the Underwriter to use
its best efforts, consistent with its other businesses, to sell shares of the
Fund. Shares of the Fund are offered continuously. The Underwriter enters into
dealer agreements with other broker-dealers (affiliated and non-affiliated) and
with other financial institutions to authorize them to sell Fund shares.

Under separate plans pertaining to the Class A and Class C shares of the Fund
adopted by the Trust in the manner prescribed under Rule 12b-1 under the Act
(each, respectively, a "Class A Plan" and "Class C Plan," and collectively,
"Plans"), the Fund pays the Underwriter a service fee, accrued daily and payable
monthly, at the annual rate of 0.15% of the average daily net assets of Class A
shares and 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class C shares. Under the
Class C Plan, the Fund pays the Underwriter a distribution fee, accrued daily
and payable monthly, at the annual rate of 0.25% of the average daily net assets
of the class of shares. There is no distribution plan with respect to the Fund's
Class Y shares and the Fund pays no service or distribution fees with respect to
its Class Y shares.

The Underwriter uses the service fees under the Plans for Class A and Class C
shares primarily to pay dealers for shareholder servicing, currently at the
annual rate of 0.15% for Class A shares and 0.25% for Class C shares of the
aggregate investment amounts maintained in the Fund by each dealer. Each dealer
then compensates its investment professionals for shareholder servicing that
they perform and offsets its own expenses in servicing and maintaining
shareholder accounts including related overhead expenses.

The Underwriter uses the distribution fees under the Class C Plan to offset the
commissions it pays to dealers for selling the Fund's Class C shares, and to
offset the Fund's marketing costs attributable to Class C shares, such as the
preparation, printing and distribution of sales literature, advertising and
prospectuses and other shareholder materials to prospective investors. The
Underwriter may also use distribution fees to pay additional compensation to
dealers and to offset other costs allocated to the Underwriter's distribution
activities.

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The Underwriter receives the proceeds of the initial sales charge paid when
Class A shares are bought and of the contingent deferred sales charge paid upon
sales of shares. These proceeds also may be used to cover distribution expenses.

The Plans and the Principal Underwriting Contract specify that the Fund must pay
service and distribution fees to the Underwriter as compensation for its service
and distribution related activities, not as reimbursement for specific expenses
incurred. Therefore, even if the Underwriter's expenses for the Fund exceeds the
service or distribution fees it receives, the Fund will not be obligated to pay
more than those fees. On the other hand, if the Underwriter's expenses are less
than such fees, it will retain its full fees and realize a profit. Expenses in
excess of service and distribution fees received or accrued through the
termination date of any Plan will be the Underwriter's sole responsibility and
not that of the Funds. Annually, the Board reviews the Plans and the
Underwriter's corresponding expenses for each class of shares of the Fund
separately from the Plans and expenses of the other classes of shares.

Among other things, each Plan provides that (1) the Underwriter will submit to
the Board at least quarterly, and the Board members will review, reports
regarding all amounts expended under the Plan and the purposes for which such
expenditures were made, (2) the Plan will continue in effect only so long as it
is approved at least annually, and any material amendment thereto is approved by
the Board, including those Board members who are not "interested persons" of the
Trust and who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of
the Plan or any agreement related to the Plan, acting in person at a meeting
called for that purpose, (3) payments by the Fund under the Plan shall not be
materially increased without the approval by a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the relevant class of the Fund; and (4) while the Plan
remains in effect, the selection and nomination of Board members who are not
"interested persons" of the Trust shall be committed to the discretion of the
Board members who are not "interested persons" of the Trust.

In reporting amounts expended under the Plans to the Board members, the
Underwriter allocates expenses attributable to the sale of each class of the
Fund's shares to such class based on the ratio of sales of shares of such class
to the sales of both classes of shares. The fees paid by one class of the Fund's
shares will not be used to subsidize the sale of any other class of the Fund's
shares.

In approving the Class A Plan and the Class C Plan, the Board considered all the
features of the distribution system and the anticipated benefits to the Fund and
its shareholders. With regard to each Plan, the Board considered: (1) the
advantages to the shareholders of economies of scale resulting from growth in
the Fund's assets and potential continued growth; (2) the services to be
provided to the Fund and its shareholders by the Underwriter; (3) the services
to be provided by dealers pursuant to each dealer agreement with the
Underwriter; and (4) the anticipated Underwriter shareholder service-related
and, where applicable, distribution-related expenses and costs.

With respect to each Plan, the Board considered all compensation that the
Underwriter would receive under the Plan and the Principal Underwriting
Contract, including service fees and, as applicable, initial sales charges,
distribution fees and contingent deferred sales charges. The Board also
considered the benefits that would accrue to the Underwriter under each Plan in
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the Underwriter would receive service, distribution, advisory and administrative
fees that are calculated based upon a percentage of the average net assets of
the Fund which fees would increase if the Plans were successful and the Fund
attained and maintained significant asset levels.

Transfer Agency Services

PFPC Inc. ("PFPC"), a subsidiary of PNC Bank, N.A., serves as the Trust's
transfer and dividend disbursing agent. It is located at 760 Moore Road, King of
Prussia, PA 19406.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ernst & Young LLP ("Ernst & Young"), New York, New York, is the independent
registered public accounting firm of the Fund.

Legal Counsel

Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is legal
counsel to the Trust and the Independent Trustees.

Personal Trading Policies

The Trust, the Advisor and the Underwriter have adopted a Code of Ethics. The
Code of Ethics establishes standards by which employees of UBS Global AM
(including all employees of the Advisor and Underwriter) (together, "Covered
Persons") must abide when engaging in personal securities trading conduct.

Under the Code of Ethics, Covered Persons are prohibited from: (i) knowingly
buying, selling or transferring any security (subject to narrow exceptions)
within five calendar days before or after that same security, or an equivalent
security, is purchased or sold by the Fund; (ii) entering into a net short
position with respect to any security that is held by the Fund; (iii) purchasing
or selling futures (except currency forwards) that are not traded on an
exchange, as well as options on any type of futures; and (iv) acquiring
securities in an initial public offering (other than a new offering of a
registered open-end investment company).

In addition, Covered Persons must obtain prior written approval before
purchasing, selling or transferring any security subject to certain exceptions
listed in the Code of Ethics. Covered Persons and Trustees are required to file
the following reports: (1) an initial holdings report disclosing all securities
owned by the Covered Person or Interested Trustee and any securities accounts
maintained by the Covered Person or Interested Trustee, which must be filed
within ten days of becoming a Covered Person or Interested Trustee (Independent
Trustees are not required to file this report); and (2) quarterly reports of
security investment transactions and new securities accounts. Independent
Trustees need only report a transaction in a security if such Trustee, at the
time of the transaction, knew or should have known, in the ordinary course of
fulfilling his official duties as a Trustee, that, during the 15-day period
immediately preceding or after the date of the transaction by the Trustee, such
security was purchased or sold by the Fund, or was being considered for purchase
or sale by the Fund.

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A copy of the Code of Ethics has been filed with and is available through the
SEC.

Proxy Voting Policies

The Board of Trustees believes that the voting of proxies on securities held by
the Fund is an important element of the overall investment process. As such, the
Board has delegated the responsibility to vote such proxies to UBS Global AM
(Americas). Following is a summary of UBS Global AM (Americas)'s proxy voting
policy.

You may obtain information about the Fund's proxy voting decisions, without
charge, online on the Trust's website (www.ubs.com/ubsglobalam-proxy) or the
EDGAR database on the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).

The proxy voting policy of UBS Global AM (Americas) is based on its belief that
voting rights have economic value and must be treated accordingly. Generally,
UBS Global AM (Americas) expects the boards of directors of companies issuing
securities held by its clients to act as stewards of the financial assets of the
company, to exercise good judgment and practice diligent oversight with the
management of the company. While there is no absolute set of rules that
determine appropriate corporate governance under all circumstances and no set of
rules will guarantee ethical behavior, there are certain benchmarks, which, if
substantial progress is made toward, give evidence of good corporate governance.
UBS Global AM (Americas) may delegate to an independent proxy voting and
research service the authority to exercise the voting rights associated with
certain client holdings. Any such delegation shall be made with the direction
that the votes be exercised in accordance with UBS Global AM (Americas)'s proxy
voting policy.

When UBS Global AM (Americas)'s view of a company's management is favorable, UBS
Global AM (Americas) generally supports current management initiatives. When UBS
Global AM (Americas)'s view is that changes to the management structure would
probably increase shareholder value, UBS Global AM (Americas) may not support
existing management proposals. In general, UBS Global AM (Americas): (1) opposes
proposals which act to entrench management; (2) believes that boards should be
independent of company management and composed of persons with requisite skills,
knowledge and experience; (3) opposes structures which impose financial
constraints on changes in control; (4) believes remuneration should be
commensurate with responsibilities and performance; and (5) believes that
appropriate steps should be taken to ensure the independence of the registered
public accounting firm.

UBS Global AM (Americas) has implemented procedures designed to identify whether
it has a conflict of interest in voting a particular proxy proposal, which may
arise as a result of its or its affiliates' client relationships, marketing
efforts or banking, investment banking and broker/dealer activities. To address
such conflicts, UBS Global AM (Americas) has imposed information barriers
between it and its affiliates who conduct banking, investment banking and
broker/dealer activities and has implemented procedures to prevent business,
sales and marketing issues from influencing its proxy votes. Whenever UBS Global
AM (Americas) is aware of a conflict with respect to a particular proxy, its
appropriate local corporate governance committee is required to review and agree
to the manner in which such proxy is voted.

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Portfolio Holdings Disclosure Policies And Procedures

Introduction. UBS Global AM and the Trust's Board of Trustees have adopted
portfolio holdings disclosure policies and procedures to govern the disclosure
of the portfolio holdings of the Fund. The Trust's policy with respect to the
release of portfolio holdings is to only release such information consistent
with applicable legal requirements and the fiduciary duties owed to
shareholders. Subject to the limited exceptions described below, the Trust will
not make available to anyone outside of UBS Global Asset Management non-public
information with respect to its portfolio holdings, until such time as the
information is made available to all shareholders or the general public. A
description of the type and frequency of portfolio holdings that are disclosed
to the public is contained in the Fund's Prospectus.

The portfolio holdings disclosure policies and procedures require that the UBS
Global AM Legal and Compliance Departments address any material conflicts of
interest regarding a disclosure of portfolio holdings and determine whether a
disclosure of the Fund's portfolio holdings is for a legitimate business purpose
and in the best interest of the Fund's shareholders prior to an officer of the
Trust or an attorney in the UBS Global AM Legal Department authorizing the
disclosure of portfolio holdings. The UBS Global AM Legal and Compliance
Departments will periodically review how the Fund's portfolio holdings are being
disclosed to and used by, if at all, service providers, UBS Global AM
affiliates, fiduciaries, and broker-dealers to ensure that such use is for
legitimate business reasons and in the best interests of the Fund's
shareholders.

The Trust's Board of Trustees exercises continuing oversight of the disclosure
of Fund portfolio holdings by: (i) overseeing the implementation and enforcement
of the portfolio holdings disclosure policies and procedures, the Trust's code
of ethics and policies and procedures regarding the misuse of inside information
by the chief compliance officer of the Trust; (ii) considering reports and
recommendations by the chief compliance officer concerning any material
compliance matters (as defined in Rule 38a-1 under the Act and Rule 206(4)-7
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940) that may arise in connection with any
portfolio holdings governing policies; and (iii) considering whether to approve
or ratify any amendment to any portfolio holdings governing policies. UBS Global
AM and the Board reserve the right to amend the Trust's policies and procedures
regarding the disclosure of portfolio holdings of the Fund at any time and from
time to time without prior notice in their sole discretion.

Disclosure of Complete Portfolio Holdings to Service Providers Subject to
Confidentiality and Trading Restrictions. UBS Global AM, for legitimate business
purposes, may disclose Fund complete portfolio holdings at times it deems
necessary and appropriate to rating and ranking organizations, financial
printers, proxy voting service providers, pricing information vendors,
third-parties that deliver analytical, statistical or consulting services and
other third parties that provide services (collectively, "Service Providers") to
UBS Global Asset Management and/or the Fund.

Disclosure of complete portfolio holdings to a Service Provider is conditioned
on the Service Provider being subject to a duty of confidentiality, including a
duty not to trade on the basis of any material nonpublic information, pursuant
to the terms of the service agreement between the Service Provider and the Trust
or UBS Global AM, or the terms of a separate confidentiality agreement. The
frequency with which complete portfolio holdings may be disclosed to a Service

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Provider, and the length of lag, if any, between the date of information and the
date on which the information is disclosed to the Service Provider, is
determined based on the facts and circumstances, including, without limitation,
the nature of the portfolio holdings information to be disclosed, the risk of
harm to the Fund and its shareholders, and the legitimate business purposes
served by such disclosure. Disclosure of Fund complete portfolio holdings to a
Service Provider must be authorized by an officer of the Trust or by an attorney
in the UBS Global Asset Management Legal Department.

Disclosure of Complete Portfolio Holdings to UBS Global Asset Management
Affiliates and Certain Fiduciaries Subject to Confidentiality and Trading
Restrictions. Fund complete portfolio holdings may be disclosed between and
among the following persons (collectively, "Affiliates and Fiduciaries") for
legitimate business purposes within the scope of their official duties and
responsibilities, subject to such persons' continuing duty of confidentiality
and duty not to trade on the basis of any material nonpublic information, as
such duties are imposed under the Trust's and/or UBS Global Asset Management
code of ethics, the Trust's policies and procedures regarding the prevention of
the misuse of inside information, by agreement or under applicable laws, rules
and regulations: (i) persons who are subject to the codes of ethics or the
policies and procedures regarding the prevention of the misuse of inside
information; (ii) an investment adviser, distributor, administrator, transfer
agent or custodian to the Fund; (iii) an accounting firm, an auditing firm or
outside legal counsel retained by UBS Global Asset Management or the Trust; (iv)
an investment adviser to whom complete portfolio holdings are disclosed for due
diligence purposes when the adviser is in merger or acquisition talks with the
Fund's current adviser; and (v) a newly hired investment adviser or sub-adviser
to whom complete portfolio holdings are disclosed prior to the time it commences
its duties.

The frequency with which complete portfolio holdings may be disclosed between
and among Affiliates and Fiduciaries, and the length of the lag, if any, between
the date of the information and the date on which the information is disclosed
between and among the Affiliates and Fiduciaries, is determined by such
Affiliates and Fiduciaries based on the facts and circumstances, including,
without limitation, the nature of the portfolio holdings information to be
disclosed, and the risk of harm to the Fund and its shareholders, and the
legitimate business purposes served by such disclosure.

Arrangements to Disclose Portfolio Holdings to Service Providers and
Fiduciaries. As of the date of this SAI, the specific Service Providers and
Fiduciaries with whom the Trust has arrangements to provide portfolio holdings
in advance of their release to the general public in the course of performing or
to enable them to perform services for the Fund are:

o JP Morgan Chase Bank, the Fund's Custodian, receives portfolio holdings
information daily on a real-time basis.

o Thomas Corporation receives portfolio holdings information so that it may
assist the Fund in production of its quarterly fact sheet on a quarterly
basis. The portfolio holdings information is provided with a one-day lag
between the date of the portfolio holdings information and the date on
which the information is disclosed to Thomas Corporation.

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o Ernst & Young receives portfolio holdings information on an annual and
semi-annual basis, for reporting purposes. There is a 30-day lag between
the date of portfolio holdings information and the date on which the
information is disclosed to Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young also receives
portfolio holdings information once a year at a month-end for annual audit
purposes. In this case, there is no lag between the date of the portfolio
holdings information and the date on which the information is disclosed to
Ernst & Young.

o The rating agencies of Morningstar, Standard & Poor's and Lipper receive
portfolio holdings information on a monthly basis so that the Fund may be
included in each rating agency's industry reports and other materials.
There is a 30-day lag between the date of the portfolio holdings
information and the date on which the information is disclosed to the
rating agencies.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings to Broker-Dealers in the Normal Course of
Managing Fund Assets. An investment adviser, administrator or custodian for the
Fund may, for legitimate business purposes within the scope of their official
duties and responsibilities, disclose portfolio holdings (whether partial
portfolio holdings or complete portfolio holdings) and other investment
positions comprising the Fund to one or more broker-dealers during the course
of, or in connection with, normal day-to-day securities and derivatives
transactions with or through such broker-dealers subject to the broker-dealer's
legal obligation not to use or disclose material nonpublic information
concerning the Fund's portfolio holdings, other investment positions, securities
transactions or derivatives transactions without the consent of the Fund or its
agents. The Fund has not given its consent to any such use or disclosure and no
person or agent of UBS Global AM is authorized to give such consent except as
approved by the Trust's Board of Trustees. In the event consent is given to
disclose portfolio holdings to a broker-dealer, the frequency with which the
portfolio holdings may be disclosed to a broker-dealer, and the length of the
lag, if any, between the date of the information and the date on which the
information is disclosed to the broker-dealer, is determined based on the facts
and circumstances, including, without limitation, the nature of the portfolio
holdings information to be disclosed, and the risk of harm to the Fund and its
shareholders, and the legitimate business purposes served by such disclosure.

Disclosure of Non-Material Information. Policies and procedures regarding
non-material information permit the officers of the Trust, UBS Global Asset
Management Fund portfolio managers and senior officers of UBS Global AM Finance,
Compliance and Legal Departments (collectively, "Approved Representatives") to
disclose any views, opinions, judgments, advice or commentary, or any
analytical, statistical, performance or other information, in connection with or
relating to the Fund or its portfolio holdings and/or other investment positions
(collectively, commentary and analysis) or any changes in the portfolio holdings
of the Fund that occurred after the most recent calendar-quarter end (recent
portfolio changes) to any person if such information does not constitute
material nonpublic information.

An Approved Representative must make a good faith determination whether the
information constitutes material nonpublic information, which involves an
assessment of the particular facts and circumstances. UBS Global AM believes
that in most cases recent portfolio changes that involve a few or even several
securities in a diversified portfolio or commentary and analysis

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would be immaterial and would not convey any advantage to a recipient in making
an investment decision concerning the Fund. Nonexclusive examples of commentary
and analysis about the Fund include: (i) the allocation of the Fund's portfolio
holdings and other investment positions among various asset classes, sectors,
industries and countries; (ii) the characteristics of the stock and bond
components of the Fund's portfolio holdings and other investment positions;
(iii) the attribution of Fund returns by asset class, sector, industry and
country; and (iv) the volatility characteristics of the Fund. An Approved
Representative may in its sole discretion determine whether to deny any request
for information made by any person, and may do so for any reason or no reason.

Approved Representatives include persons employed by or associated with UBS
Global AM who have been authorized by the UBS Global AM's Legal Department to
disclose recent portfolio changes and/or commentary and analysis in accordance
with the applicable policies and procedures.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings As Required by Applicable Law. Fund portfolio
holdings and other investment positions comprising a Fund shall be disclosed to
any person as required by applicable laws, rules and regulations. Examples of
such required disclosure include, but are not limited to, disclosure of Fund
portfolio holdings: (i) in a filing or submission with the SEC or another
regulatory body; (ii) in connection with seeking recovery on defaulted bonds in
a federal bankruptcy case; (iii) in connection with a lawsuit; or (iv) as
required by court order.

Prohibitions on Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings. No person is authorized to
disclose Fund portfolio holdings or other investment positions (whether online
at www.ubs.com in writing, by fax, by e-mail, orally or by other means) except
in accordance with the applicable policies and procedures. In addition, no
person is authorized to make disclosure pursuant to these policies and
procedures if such disclosure is otherwise unlawful under the antifraud
provisions of the federal securities laws (as defined in Rule 38a 1 under the
Act). Furthermore, UBS Global AM, in its sole discretion, may determine not to
disclose portfolio holdings or other investment positions comprising the Fund to
any person who could otherwise be eligible to receive such information under the
applicable policies and procedures, or may determine to make such disclosures
publicly as provided by the policies and procedures.

Prohibitions on Receipt of Compensation or Other Consideration. The portfolio
holdings disclosure policies and procedures prohibit the Fund, its investment
adviser and any other person to pay or receive any compensation or other
consideration of any type for the purpose of obtaining disclosure of Fund
portfolio holdings or other investment positions. "Consideration" includes any
agreement to maintain assets in the Fund or in other investment companies or
accounts managed by the investment adviser or by any affiliated person of the
investment adviser.

Bank Line of Credit

The Fund participates with other funds managed by UBS Global AM in a $50 million
committed credit facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, to be utilized for temporary
financing until the settlement of sales or purchases of portfolio securities,
the repurchase or redemption of shares at the request of shareholders and other
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arrangement, the Fund has agreed to pay a commitment fee, pro rata, based on the
relative asset size of the funds participating in the credit facility. Interest
is charged to each fund at rates based on prevailing market rates at the time of
borrowings.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE COMMISSIONS

The Advisor is responsible for decisions to buy and sell securities for the Fund
and for the placement of the Fund's portfolio business and the negotiation of
commissions, if any, paid on such transactions. Fixed income securities in which
the Fund invests are traded in the over-the-counter market. These securities are
generally traded on a net basis with dealers acting as principal for their own
accounts without a stated commission, although the bid/ask spread quoted on
securities includes an implicit profit to the dealers. In over-the-counter
transactions, orders are placed directly with a principal market-maker unless a
better price and execution can be obtained by using a broker. Brokerage
commissions are paid on transactions in listed securities, futures contracts and
options thereon. The Advisor is responsible for effecting portfolio transactions
and will do so in a manner deemed fair and reasonable to the Fund. Under its
investment advisory agreement with the Fund, the Advisor is authorized to
utilize the trading desk of its foreign affiliates to execute foreign securities
transactions, but monitors the selection by such affiliates of brokers and
dealers used to execute transactions for the Fund.

The primary consideration in all portfolio transactions will be prompt execution
of orders in an efficient manner at the most favorable price. However, subject
to policies established by the Board of the Trust, the Fund may pay a
broker-dealer a commission for effecting a portfolio transaction for the Fund in
excess of the amount of commission another broker-dealer would have charged if
the Advisor determines in good faith that the commission paid was reasonable in
relation to the brokerage or research services provided by such broker-dealer,
viewed in terms of that particular transaction or such firm's overall
responsibilities with respect to the clients, including the Fund, as to which
the Advisor exercises investment discretion. In selecting and monitoring
broker-dealers and negotiating commissions, the Advisor considers the firm's
reliability, the quality of its execution services on a continuing basis and its
financial condition. When more than one firm is believed to meet these criteria,
preference may be given to brokers who provide research or statistical material
or other services to the Fund or to the Advisor. Such services include advice,
both directly and in writing, as to the value of the securities; the
advisability of investing in, purchasing or selling securities; and the
availability of securities, or purchasers or sellers of securities, as well as
analyses and reports concerning issues, industries, securities, economic factors
and trends, portfolio strategy and the performance of accounts. This allows the
Advisor to supplement its own investment research activities and obtain the
views and information of others prior to making investment decisions. The
Advisor is of the opinion that, because this material must be analyzed and
reviewed by its staff, the receipt and use of such material does not tend to
reduce expenses but may benefit the Fund by supplementing the Advisor's
research.

The Advisor effects portfolio transactions for other investment companies and
advisory accounts. Research services furnished by dealers through whom the Fund
effects its securities transactions may be used by the Advisor in servicing all
of their accounts; not all such services may be used in connection with the
Fund. In the opinion of the Advisor, it is not possible to measure separately
the benefits from research services to each of the accounts (including the
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will attempt to equitably allocate portfolio transactions among the Fund and
others whenever concurrent decisions are made to purchase or sell securities by
the Fund and another. In making such allocations between the Fund and others,
the main factors to be considered are the respective investment objectives, the
relative size of portfolio holdings of the same or comparable securities, the
availability of cash for investment, the size of investment commitments
generally held and the opinions of the persons responsible for recommending
investments to the Fund and the others. In some cases, this procedure could have
an adverse effect on the Fund. In the opinion of the Advisor, however, the
results of such procedures will, on the whole, be in the best interest of each
of the clients.

When buying or selling securities, the Fund may pay commissions to brokers who
are affiliated with the Advisor or the Fund. The Fund may purchase securities in
certain underwritten offerings for which an affiliate of the Fund or the Advisor
may act as an underwriter. The Fund may effect futures transactions through, and
pay commissions to, futures commission merchants who are affiliated with the
Advisor or the Fund in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board.

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund is free to dispose of its portfolio securities at any time, subject to
complying with the Code and the Act, when changes in circumstances or conditions
make such a move desirable in light of the Fund's investment objective. The Fund
will not attempt to achieve or be limited to a predetermined rate of portfolio
turnover, such a turnover always being incidental to transactions undertaken
with a view to achieving that Fund's investment objective.

The Fund does not intend to use short-term trading as a primary means of
achieving its investment objective. The rate of portfolio turnover shall be
calculated by dividing (a) the lesser of purchases and sales of portfolio
securities for the particular fiscal year by (b) the monthly average of the
value of the portfolio securities owned by the Fund during the particular fiscal
year. Such monthly average shall be calculated by totaling the values of the
portfolio securities as of the beginning and end of the first month of the
particular fiscal year and as of the end of each of the succeeding eleven months
and dividing the sum by 13.

A high portfolio turnover rate (over 100%) may involve correspondingly greater
brokerage commissions and other transaction costs, which will be borne directly
by the Fund and ultimately by the Fund's shareholders. In addition, high
portfolio turnover may result in increased short-term capital gains, which, when
distributed to shareholders, are treated as ordinary income.

SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

The Trust currently offers three classes of shares for the Fund: the UBS
Fund-Class A (the Class A shares), UBS Fund-Class C (the Class C shares) and UBS
Fund-Class Y (the Class Y shares). The Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited
number of shares of beneficial interest with a $0.001 par value per share. Each
share of beneficial interest represents an equal proportionate interest in the
assets and liabilities of the Fund and has identical voting, dividend,
redemption, liquidation, and other rights and preferences as the other classes
of the Fund, except that only the Class A shares may vote on any matter
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Class C shares may vote on matters that affect only the Class C Plan. No class
may vote on matters that affect only another class. Under Delaware law, the
Trust does not normally hold annual meetings of shareholders. Shareholders'
meetings may be held from time to time to consider certain matters, including
changes to the Fund's fundamental investment objective and fundamental
investment policies, changes to the Fund's investment advisory agreement and the
election of Trustees when required by the Act. When matters are submitted to
shareholders for a vote, shareholders are entitled to one vote per share with
proportionate voting for fractional shares. The shares of the Fund do not have
cumulative voting rights or any preemptive or conversion rights, and the
Trustees have authority, from time to time, to divide or combine the shares of
the Fund into a greater or lesser number of shares so affected. In the case of a
liquidation of the Fund, each shareholder of the Fund will be entitled to share,
based upon the shareholder's percentage share ownership, in the distribution out
of assets, net of liabilities, of the Fund. No shareholder is liable for further
calls or assessment by the Fund.

On any matters affecting only one series or class, only the shareholders of that
series or class are entitled to vote. On matters relating to the Trust but
affecting the series of the Trust differently, separate votes by the affected
series or classes are required. With respect to the submission to shareholder
vote of a matter requiring separate voting by series or class, the matter shall
have been effectively acted upon with respect to any series or class if a
majority of the outstanding voting securities of that series or class votes for
the approval of the matter, notwithstanding that: (1) the matter has not been
approved by a majority of the outstanding voting securities of any other series
or class; and (2) the matter has not been approved by a majority of the
outstanding voting securities of the Trust.

The Trustees of the Trust do not intend to hold annual meetings of shareholders
of the Fund. The SEC, however, requires the Trustees to promptly call a meeting
for the purpose of voting upon the question of removal of any Trustee when
requested to do so by not less than 10% of the outstanding shareholders of the
Fund. In addition, subject to certain conditions, shareholders of the Fund may
apply to the Fund to communicate with other shareholders to request a
shareholders' meeting to vote upon the removal of a Trustee or Trustees.

REDUCED SALES CHARGES, ADDITIONAL PURCHASE, EXCHANGE AND REDEMPTION
INFORMATION AND OTHER SERVICES

Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers

Waivers of Sales Charges--Class A Shares. The following additional sales charge
waivers are available for Class A shares if you:

o Acquire shares in connection with a reorganization pursuant to which the
Fund acquires substantially all of the assets and liabilities of another
fund in exchange solely for shares of the acquiring Fund;

o Acquire shares in connection with the disposition of proceeds from the sale
of shares of Managed High Yield Plus Fund Inc. that were acquired during
that fund's initial public offering of shares and that meet certain other
conditions described in its prospectus; or

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o Acquire shares in connection with shares purchased by UBS Global AM or any
affiliate on behalf of a discretionary advisory client.

Reinstatement Privilege--Class A Shares. Shareholders who have redeemed Class A
shares may reinstate their account without a sales charge by notifying the
transfer agent of such desire and forwarding a check for the amount to be
purchased within 365 days after the date of redemption. The reinstatement will
be made at the net asset value per share next computed after the notice of
reinstatement and check are received. The amount of a purchase under this
reinstatement privilege cannot exceed the amount of the redemption proceeds.
Gain on a redemption will be taxable regardless of whether the reinstatement
privilege is exercised, although a loss arising out of a redemption will not be
deductible to the extent the reinstatement privilege is exercised within 30 days
after redemption, in which event an adjustment will be made to the shareholder's
tax basis for shares acquired pursuant to the reinstatement privilege. Gain or
loss on a redemption also will be readjusted for federal income tax purposes by
the amount of any sales charge paid on Class A shares, under the circumstances
and to the extent described in "Taxes--Special Rule for Class A Shareholders,"
below.

Purchases of Class A Shares Through the UBS Financial Services Inc.
InsightOne(SM) Program. Investors who purchase shares through the UBS Financial
Services Inc. InsightOne(SM) Program are eligible to purchase Class A shares of
the funds for which the Underwriter serves as investment advisor or investment
manager without a sales load, and may exchange those shares for Class A shares
of the Fund. The UBS Financial Services Inc. InsightOne(SM) Program offers a
nondiscretionary brokerage account to UBS Financial Services Inc. clients for an
asset-based fee at an annual rate of up to 1.50% of the assets in the account.
Account holders may purchase or sell certain investment products without paying
commissions or other markups/markdowns.

Payments by UBS Global AM(US)--Class Y Shares. Class Y shares are sold without
sales charges and do not pay ongoing 12b-1 distribution or service fees. As
distributor of the Class Y shares, the Underwriter may, from time to time, make
payments out of its own resources to dealers who sell Class Y shares of the
Family Funds to shareholders who buy $5 million or more at any one time.

Purchases of Shares Through the PACE(SM) Multi Advisor Program. An investor who
participates in the PACE(SM) Multi Advisor Program is eligible to purchase Class
A shares. The PACE(SM) Multi Advisor Program is an advisory program sponsored by
UBS Financial Services Inc. that provides comprehensive investment services,
including investor profiling, a personalized asset allocation strategy using an
appropriate combination of funds, and a quarterly investment performance review.
Participation in the PACE(SM) Multi Advisor Program is subject to payment of an
advisory fee at the effective maximum annual rate of 1.5% of assets. Employees
of UBS Financial Services Inc. and its affiliates are entitled to a waiver of
this fee. Please contact your UBS Financial Services Inc. Financial Advisor or
UBS Financial Services Inc. correspondent firms for more information concerning
mutual funds that are available through the PACE(SM) Multi Advisor Program.

Additional Information Regarding Purchases Through Letter of Intent. To the
extent that an investor purchases less than the dollar amount indicated on the
Letter of Intent within the 13-month period, the sales charge will be adjusted
upward for the entire amount purchased at the end of the 13-

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month period. This adjustment will be made by redeeming shares first from
amounts held in escrow, and then from the account to cover the additional sales
charge, the proceeds of which will be paid to the investor's investment
professional and UBS Global AM (US), as applicable, in accordance with the
Prospectus.

Letters of Intent are not available for certain employee benefit plans.

Additional Exchange and Redemption Information. As discussed in the Prospectus,
eligible shares of the Fund may be exchanged for shares of the corresponding
class of other series of the Trust and most other Family Funds. Class Y shares
are not eligible for exchange.

Shareholders will receive at least 60 days' notice of any termination or
material modification of the exchange offer, except no notice need be given if,
under extraordinary circumstances, either redemptions are suspended under the
circumstances described below or the Fund temporarily delays or ceases the sales
of its shares because it is unable to invest amounts effectively in accordance
with the Fund's investment objective, policies and restrictions.

The Trust will satisfy redemption requests in cash to the fullest extent
feasible, so long as such payments would not, in the opinion of the Advisor or
the Board, result in the necessity of the Fund selling assets under
disadvantageous conditions and to the detriment of the remaining shareholders of
the Fund. Pursuant to the Trust's Agreement and Declaration of Trust, payment
for shares redeemed may be made either in cash or in-kind, or partly in cash and
partly in-kind. Under unusual circumstances, when the Board deems it in the best
interest of the Fund's shareholders, the Trust may make payment for shares
repurchased or redeemed in whole or in part in securities of the Fund taken at
current values. With respect to such redemptions in kind, the Trust has made an
election pursuant to Rule 18f-1 under the Act. This will require the Trust to
redeem in cash at a shareholder's election in any case where the redemption
involves less than $250,000 (or 1% of the Fund's net asset value at the
beginning of each 90-day period during which such redemptions are in effect, if
that amount is less than $250,000), during any 90-day period for any one
shareholder. Should payment be made in securities, the redeeming shareholder may
incur brokerage costs in converting such securities to cash. In-kind payments to
non-affiliated shareholders need not constitute a cross-section of the Fund's
portfolio. Where a shareholder has requested redemption of all or a part of the
shareholder's investment and where the Fund computes such redemption in-kind,
the Fund will not recognize gain or loss for federal tax purposes on the
securities used to compute the redemption, but the shareholder will recognize
gain or loss equal to the difference between the fair market value of the
securities received and the shareholder's basis in the Fund shares redeemed.
Pursuant to redemption in-kind procedures adopted by the Board on behalf of the
Fund, the Trust is permitted to pay redemptions in-kind to shareholders that are
affiliated persons of the Fund by nature of a greater than 5% ownership interest
in the Fund.

The Fund may suspend redemption privileges or postpone the date of payment
during any period: (1) when the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is closed or
trading on the NYSE is restricted as determined by the SEC; (2) when an
emergency exists, as defined by the SEC, that makes it not reasonably
practicable for the Fund to dispose of securities owned by it or fairly to
determine the value of its assets; or (3) as the SEC may otherwise permit. The
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may be more or less than the shareholder's cost, depending on the market value
of the Fund's portfolio at the time.

Financial Institutions. The Fund may authorize financial institutions, or their
agents, to accept on the Fund's behalf purchase and redemption orders that are
in "good form" in accordance with the policies of those institutions. The Fund
will be deemed to have received these purchase and redemption orders when such
financial institution or its agent accepts them. Like all customer orders, these
orders will be priced based on the Fund's net asset value next computed after
receipt of the order by the financial institutions or their agents. Financial
institutions may include retirement plan service providers who aggregate
purchase and redemption instructions received from numerous retirement plans or
plan participants.

Automatic Investment Plan--Class A and Class C Shares. The Underwriter or your
investment professional offers an automatic investment plan with a minimum
initial investment of $1,000 through which the Fund will deduct $50 or more on a
monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis from the investor's bank account
to invest directly in the Fund's Class A or Class C shares. In addition to
providing a convenient and disciplined manner of investing, participation in the
automatic investment plan enables an investor to use the technique of "dollar
cost averaging." When a shareholder invests the same dollar amount each month
under the plan, the shareholder will purchase more shares when the Fund's net
asset value per share is low and fewer shares when the net asset value per share
is high. Using this technique, a shareholder's average purchase price per share
over any given period will be lower than if the shareholder purchased a fixed
number of shares on a monthly basis during the period. Of course, investing
through the automatic investment plan does not assure a profit or protect
against loss in declining markets. Additionally, because the automatic
investment plan involves continuous investing regardless of price levels, an
investor should consider his or her financial ability to continue purchases
through periods of both low and high price levels. An investor should also
consider whether a large, single investment would qualify for sales load
reductions.

Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan--Class A and Class C

The Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan allows investors to set up monthly, quarterly
(March, June, September and December), semi-annual (June and December) or annual
(December) withdrawals from their Family Fund accounts. A minimum balance of
$5000 must be maintained and the minimum withdrawal amount is $100.

Withdrawals under the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan will not be subject to a
contingent deferred sales charge if the investor withdraws no more than 12% of
the value of the Fund account when the shareholder signed up for the plan
(during the first year under the plan). Shareholders who elect to receive
dividends or other distributions in cash may not participate in the plan.

An investor's participation in the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan will terminate
automatically if the "Initial Account Balance" (a term that means the value of
the Fund account at the time the shareholder elects to participate in the
Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan), less aggregate redemptions made other than
pursuant to the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan, is less than the minimum value
specified above. Purchases of additional shares of the Fund concurrent with

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withdrawals are ordinarily disadvantageous to shareholders because of tax
liabilities and, for Class A shares, initial sales charges. On or about the 20th
of a month for monthly, quarterly and semi-annual plans, your investment
professional will arrange for redemption by the Fund of sufficient Fund shares
to provide the withdrawal payments specified by participants in the Automatic
Cash Withdrawal Plan. The payments generally are mailed approximately five
Business Days (defined under "Net Asset Value") after the redemption date.
Withdrawal payments should not be considered dividends, but redemption proceeds.
If periodic withdrawals continually exceed reinvested dividends and other
distributions, a shareholder's investment may be correspondingly reduced. A
shareholder may change the amount of the automatic cash withdrawal or terminate
participation in the Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan at any time without charge
or penalty by written instructions with signatures guaranteed to your investment
professional or PFPC. Instructions to participate in the plan, change the
withdrawal amount or terminate participation in the plan will not be effective
until five days after written instructions with signatures guaranteed are
received by PFPC. Shareholders may request the forms needed to establish an
Automatic Cash Withdrawal Plan from their investment professionals or PFPC at
1-800-647-1568.

Individual Retirement Accounts

Self-directed IRAs are available in which purchases of shares of Family Funds
and other investments may be made. Investors considering establishing an IRA
should review applicable tax laws and should consult their tax advisors.

Transfer of Accounts

If investors holding Class A, Class C or Class Y shares of the Fund in a
brokerage account transfer their brokerage accounts to another firm, the Fund
shares will be moved to an account with PFPC. However, if the other firm has
entered into a dealer agreement with the Underwriter relating to the Fund, the
shareholder may be able to hold Fund shares in an account with the other firm.

Transfer of Securities

At the discretion of the Trust, investors may be permitted to purchase Fund
shares by transferring securities to the Fund that meet the Fund's investment
objective and policies. Securities transferred to the Fund will be valued in
accordance with the same procedures used to determine the Fund's net asset value
at the time of the next determination of net asset value after such acceptance.
Shares issued by the Fund in exchange for securities will be issued at net asset
value per share of the Fund determined as of the same time. All dividends,
interest, subscription, or other rights pertaining to such securities shall
become the property of the Fund and must be delivered to the Fund by the
investor upon receipt from the issuer. Investors who are permitted to transfer
such securities will be required to recognize a gain or loss on such transfer
and pay tax thereon, if applicable, measured by the difference between the fair
market value of the securities and the investors' basis therein. Securities will
not be accepted in exchange for shares of the Fund unless: (1) such securities
are, at the time of the exchange, eligible to be included in the Fund's
portfolio and current market quotations are readily available for such
securities; (2) the investor represents and warrants that all securities offered
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restrictions upon their sale by the Fund under the 1933 Act, or under the laws
of the country in which the principal market for such securities exists, or
otherwise; and (3) the value of any such security (except U.S. government
securities) being exchanged, together with other securities of the same issuer
owned by the Fund, will not exceed 5% of the Fund's net assets immediately after
the transaction.

NET ASSET VALUE

The Fund determines its net asset value per share separately for each class of
shares, normally as of the close of regular trading (usually 4:00 p.m., Eastern
time) on the NYSE on each Business Day when the NYSE is open. Prices will be
calculated earlier when the NYSE closes early because trading has been halted
for the day. Currently the NYSE is open for trading every day (each such day a
"Business Day") except Saturdays, Sundays, and the following holidays: New
Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial
Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Securities that are listed on exchanges normally are valued at the last sale
price on the day the securities are valued or, lacking any sales on such day, at
the last available bid price. In cases where securities are traded on more than
one exchange, the securities are generally valued on the exchange considered by
the Advisor as the primary market. Securities traded in the over-the-counter
market and listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") normally are valued at
the Nasdaq Official Closing Price ("NOCP"); other over-the-counter securities
are valued at the last bid price available prior to valuation (other than
short-term investments that mature in 60 days or less, which are valued as
described further below). Where market quotations are readily available,
portfolio securities are valued based upon market quotations, provided those
quotations adequately reflect, in the judgment of the Advisor, the fair value of
the security. Where those market quotations are not readily available,
securities are valued based upon appraisals received from a pricing service
using a computerized matrix system or based upon appraisals derived from
information concerning the security or similar securities received from
recognized dealers in those securities. All other securities and other assets
are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by or under the direction
of the Board. It should be recognized that judgment often plays a greater role
in valuing thinly traded securities, including many lower rated bonds, than is
the case with respect to securities for which a broader range of dealer
quotations and last-sale information is available. The amortized cost method of
valuation generally is used to value debt obligations with 60 days or less
remaining until maturity, unless the Board determines that this does not
represent fair value.

TAXATION

Additional Information on Distributions and Taxes

Distributions

Distributions of Net Investment Income. The Fund receives income generally in
the form of dividends and interest on its investments. This income, less
expenses incurred in the operation of the Fund, constitutes the Fund's net
investment income from which income dividends may be paid to you. The Fund
calculates income dividends and capital gains distributions the same way

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for each class. The amount of any income dividends per share will differ,
however, generally due to any differences in the distribution and service (Rule
12b-1) fees applicable to the classes. If you are a taxable investor, any income
dividends the Fund pays are taxable to you as ordinary income, except that, a
portion of the income dividends designated by the Fund will be qualified
dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at long-term
capital gain rates.

Capital Gain Distributions. The Fund may realize capital gains and losses on the
sale or other disposition of its portfolio securities. Distributions from net
short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions
from net long-term capital gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains,
regardless of how long you have owned your shares in the Fund. Any net capital
gains realized by the Fund generally are distributed once each year, and may be
distributed more frequently, if necessary, to reduce or eliminate excise or
income taxes on the Fund.

Investments in Foreign Securities

The next four paragraphs describe tax considerations that are applicable to the
Fund's investments in foreign securities.

Effect of Foreign Withholding Taxes. The Fund may be subject to foreign
withholding taxes on income from certain foreign securities. This, in turn,
could reduce the Fund's income dividends paid to you.

Pass-Through of Foreign Tax Credits. If more than 50% of the Fund's total assets
at the end of a fiscal year is invested in foreign securities, the Fund may
elect to pass through to you your pro rata share of foreign taxes paid by the
Fund. If this election is made, the Fund may report more taxable income to you
than it actually distributes. You will then be entitled either to deduct your
share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax
credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax (subject to
limitations for certain shareholders). The Fund will provide you with the
information necessary to complete your personal income tax return if it makes
this election.

You should also be aware that use of foreign dividends, designated by the Fund
as dividends from qualifying foreign corporations and subject to reduced rates
of taxation on qualified dividend income, may reduce the otherwise available
foreign tax credits on your federal income tax return. Shareholders in these
circumstances should talk with their personal tax advisors about their foreign
tax credits and the procedures that they should follow to claim these credits on
their personal income tax returns.

Effect of Foreign Debt Investments and Hedging on Distributions. Most foreign
exchange gains realized on the sale of debt securities are treated as ordinary
income by the Fund. Similarly, foreign exchange losses realized on the sale of
debt securities generally are treated as ordinary losses. These gains when
distributed are taxable to you as ordinary income, and any losses reduce the
Fund's ordinary income otherwise available for distribution to you. This
treatment could increase or decrease the Fund's ordinary income distributions to
you, and may cause some or all of the Fund's previously distributed income to be
classified as a return of capital. A return of capital generally is not taxable
to you, but reduces the tax basis of your

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shares in the Fund. Any return of capital in excess of your basis, however, is
taxable as a capital gain.

PFIC Securities. The Fund may invest in securities of foreign entities that
could be deemed for tax purposes to be passive foreign investment companies
(PFICs). When investing in PFIC securities, the Fund intends to mark-to-market
these securities and recognizes any gains at the end of its fiscal and excise
(described below) tax years. Deductions for losses are allowable only to the
extent of any current or previously recognized gains. These gains (reduced by
allowable losses) are treated as ordinary income that the Fund is required to
distribute, even though it has not sold the securities. You should also be aware
that the designation of a foreign security as a PFIC security will cause its
income dividends to fall outside of the definition of qualified foreign
corporation dividends. These dividends generally will not qualify for the
reduced rate of taxation on qualified dividends when distributed to you by the
Fund.

Information on the Amount and Tax Character of Distributions. The Fund will
inform you of the amount of your income dividends and capital gain distributions
at the time they are paid, and will advise you of their tax status for federal
income tax purposes shortly after the close of each calendar year. If you have
not owned your Fund shares for a full year, the Fund may designate and
distribute to you, as ordinary income, qualified dividends or capital gains, a
percentage of income that may not be equal to the actual amount of each type of
income earned during the period of your investment in the Fund. Distributions
declared in December but paid in January are taxable to you as if paid in
December.

Election to be Taxed as a Regulated Investment Company. The Fund intends to
elect and qualify, to be treated as a regulated investment company under
Subchapter M of the Code. As a regulated investment company, the Fund generally
will pay no federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to you.
The Board reserves the right not to elect or maintain regulated investment
company status for the Fund if the Board determines this course of action to be
beneficial to shareholders. In that case, the Fund would be subject to federal,
and possibly state, corporate taxes on its taxable income and gains, and
distributions to you would be taxed as dividend income to the extent of the
Fund's earnings and profits.

Excise Tax Distribution Requirements. To avoid federal excise taxes, the Code
requires a fund to distribute to you by December 31 of each year, at a minimum,
the following amounts:

o 98% of its taxable ordinary income earned during the calendar year;

o 98% of its capital gain net income earned during the twelve month period
ending October 31; and

o 100% of any undistributed amounts of these categories of income or gain
from the prior year.

The Fund intends to declare and pay these distributions in December (or to pay
them in January, in which case you must treat them as received in December), but
can give no assurances that its distributions will be sufficient to eliminate
all taxes.

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Redemption of Shares

Redemptions. Redemptions (including redemptions in-kind) and exchanges of Fund
shares are taxable transactions for federal and state income tax purposes. If
you redeem your Fund shares, or exchange them for shares of a different Family
Fund, the Internal Revenue Service requires you to report any gain or loss on
your redemption or exchange. If you hold your shares as a capital asset, any
gain or loss that you realize is a capital gain or loss and is long-term or
short-term, generally depending on how long you have owned your shares.

Redemptions at a Loss within Six Months of Purchase. Any loss incurred on the
redemption or exchange of shares held for six months or less is treated as a
long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gains distributed
to you by the Fund on those shares.

Special Rule for Class A and C Shareholders. A special tax rule applies when a
shareholder sells or exchanges shares of the Fund within 90 days of purchase and
subsequently acquires shares of the Fund or another Family Fund without paying a
sales charge due to the 365-day reinstatement privilege or the exchange
privilege. In these cases, any gain on the sale or exchange of the original
shares would be increased, or any loss would be decreased, by the amount of the
sales charge paid when those shares were bought, and that amount would increase
the basis in the Fund or Family Fund shares subsequently acquired.

Wash Sales. All or a portion of any loss that you realize on the redemption of
your Fund shares is disallowed to the extent that you buy other shares in the
Fund (through reinvestment of dividends or otherwise) within 30 days before or
after your share redemption. Any loss disallowed under these rules is added to
your tax basis in the new shares.

U.S. Government Securities. The income earned on certain U.S. government
securities is exempt from state and local personal income taxes if earned
directly by you. States also grant tax-free status to mutual fund dividends paid
to you from interest earned on these securities, subject in some states to
minimum investment or reporting requirements that must be met by the. The income
on Fund investments in certain securities, such as repurchase agreements,
commercial paper and federal agency-backed obligations (e.g., Government
National Mortgage Association (GNMA) or Fannie Mae securities), generally does
not qualify for tax-free treatment. The rules on exclusion of this income are
different for corporations.

Qualified Dividend Income for Individuals. For individual shareholders, it is
anticipated that a portion of the income dividends paid by the Fund will be
qualified dividend income eligible for taxation at long-term capital gain rates.
This reduced rate of taxation generally is available for dividends paid by the
Fund out of income earned on its investment in:

o domestic corporations, and

o qualified foreign corporations, including:

- corporations incorporated in a possession of the U.S.,

- corporations eligible for income tax treaty benefits with the U.S.
under treaties determined by the Treasury Department to be qualified,
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- corporations whose stock is traded on domestic securities exchange.

Dividends from corporations exempt from tax, dividends from passive foreign
investment companies (PFICs), and dividends paid from interest earned by the
Fund on debt securities generally will not qualify for this favorable tax
treatment.

Both the Fund and the investor must meet certain holding period requirements to
qualify Fund dividends for this treatment. Specifically, the Fund must hold the
stock for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before
the stock becomes ex-dividend. Similarly, investors must hold their Fund shares
for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the Fund
distribution goes ex-dividend. The ex-dividend date is the first date following
the declaration of a dividend on which the purchaser of stock is not entitled to
receive the dividend payment. When counting the number of days you held your
Fund shares, include the day you sold your shares but not the day you acquired
these shares.

While the income received in the form of a qualified dividend is taxed at the
same rates as long-term capital gains, such income will not be considered as a
long-term capital gain for other federal income tax purposes. For example, you
will not be allowed to offset your long-term capital losses against qualified
dividend income on your federal income tax return. Any qualified dividend income
that you elect to be taxed at these reduced rates also cannot be used as
investment income in determining your allowable investment interest expense. For
other limitations on the amount of or use of qualified dividend income on your
income tax return, please contact your personal tax advisor.

After the close of its fiscal year, the Fund will designate the portion of its
ordinary dividend income that meets the definition of qualified dividend income
taxable at reduced rates. If 95% or more of the Fund's income is from qualified
sources, it will be allowed to designate 100% of its ordinary income
distributions as qualified dividend income. This designation rule may have the
effect of converting small amounts of ordinary income or net short-term capital
gains, that otherwise would be taxable as ordinary income, into qualified
dividend income eligible for taxation at reduced rates.

Dividends-Received Deduction for Corporations. For corporate shareholders, it is
anticipated that a portion of the dividends paid by the Fund will qualify for
the dividends-received deduction, provided certain holding period requirements
are met. You may be allowed to deduct these qualified dividends, thereby
reducing the tax that you would otherwise be required to pay. The
dividends-received deduction is available only with respect to dividends
designated by the Fund as qualifying for this treatment. Qualifying dividends
generally are limited to dividends of domestic corporations. All dividends
(including the deducted portion) are included in your calculation of alternative
minimum taxable income.

Investment in Complex Securities. The Fund may invest in complex securities that
could require it to adjust the amount, timing and/or tax character (ordinary or
capital) of gains and losses it recognizes on these investments. This, in turn,
could affect the amount, timing and/or tax character of income distributed to
you. For example:

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Derivatives. With respect to the Funds' investment in certain options, futures,
forwards or foreign currency contracts, it could be required to mark-to-market
these contracts and realize any unrealized gains and losses at its fiscal year
end even though it continues to hold the contracts. Under these rules, gains or
losses on the contracts generally would be treated as 60% long-term and 40%
short-term gains or losses, but gains or losses on certain foreign currency
contracts would be treated as ordinary income or losses. In determining its net
income for excise tax purposes, the Fund also would be required to
mark-to-market these contracts annually as of October 31 (for capital gain net
income) and December 31 (for taxable ordinary income), and to realize and
distribute any resulting income and gains.

Constructive Sales. The Fund's entry into a short sale transaction or an option
or other contract could be treated as the "constructive sale" of an "appreciated
financial position," causing it to realize gain, but not loss, on the position.

Tax Straddles. The Fund's investment in options, futures, forwards, or foreign
currency contracts (or in substantially similar or related property) in
connection with certain hedging transactions could cause it to hold offsetting
positions in securities. If the Fund's risk of loss with respect to specific
securities in its portfolio is substantially diminished by the fact that it
holds other securities, the Fund could be deemed to have entered into a tax
"straddle" or to hold a "successor position" that would require any loss
realized by it to be deferred for tax purposes.

Securities Purchased at Discount. The Fund may invest in securities issued or
purchased at a discount, such as zero coupon, step-up or payment-in-kind (PIK)
bonds, that could require it to accrue and distribute income not yet received.
If it invests in these securities, the Fund could be required to sell securities
in its portfolio that it otherwise might have continued to hold in order to
generate sufficient cash to make these distributions.

Short Sales and Securities Lending Transactions. The Fund's entry into a short
sale transaction or an option or other contract could be treated as the
"constructive sale" of an "appreciated financial position," causing it to
realize gain, but not loss, on the position. Additionally, the Fund's entry into
securities lending transactions may cause the replacement income earned on the
loaned securities to fall outside of the definition of qualified dividend
income. This replacement income generally will not be eligible for reduced rates
of taxation on qualified dividend income.

Non-U.S. Shareholders. Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding or
estate tax, and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements.

The United Sates imposes a flat 30% withholding tax (or lower treaty rate) on
U.S. source dividends. Capital gain dividends paid by a Fund from long-term
capital gains are generally exempt from withholding. The American Jobs Creation
Act of 2004 also exempts from withholding dividends paid by a Fund from interest
income and short-term capital gains to the extent such income would be exempt if
earned directly by the non-U.S. shareholder. Thus, capital gain dividends paid
by a Fund from either long-term or short-term capital gains (other than gain
realized on disposition of U.S. real property interests) are not subject to U.S.
withholding tax unless the gain is effectively connected with the conduct of a
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the United States or you are a nonresident alien individual present in the
United States for a period or periods aggregating 183 days or more during the
taxable year.

Similarly, interest-related dividends paid by a Fund from qualified interest
income are not subject to U.S. withholding tax. "Qualified interest income"
includes, in general, (1) bank deposit interest; (2) short-term original
discount; (3) interest (including original issue discount, market discount, or
acquisition discount) on an obligation which is in registered form, unless it is
earned on an obligation issued by a corporation or partnership in which the Fund
is a 10-percent shareholder or is contingent interest; and (4) any
interest-related dividend from another RIC.

The exemption from withholding for short-term capital gain dividends and
interest-related dividends paid by a Fund is effective for dividends paid with
respect to taxable years of the Fund beginning after December 31, 2004 and
before January 1, 2008.

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 also provides a partial exemption from
U.S estate tax for stock in a Fund held by the estate of a nonresident decedent.
The amount treated as exempt is based upon the proportion of the assets held by
the Fund at the end of the quarter immediately preceding the decedent's death
that are debt obligations, deposits, or other property that would generally be
treated as situated outside the United States if held directly by the estate.
This provision applies to decedents dying after December 31, 2004 and before
January 1, 2008.

Special U.S. tax certification requirements apply to non-U.S. Shareholders both
to avoid U.S. back up withholding imposed at a rate of 28% and to obtain the
benefits of any treaty between the United States and the shareholder's country
of residence. In general, a non-U.S. shareholder must provide a Form W-8 BEN (or
other Form W-8 if applicable) to establish that you are not a U.S. person, to
claim that you are the beneficial owner of the income and, if applicable, to
claim a reduced rate of, or exemption from, withholding as a resident of a
country with which the United States has an income tax treaty. A Form W-8BEN
provided without a U.S. taxpayer identification number will remain in effect for
a period beginning on the date signed and ending on the last day of the third
succeeding calendar year unless an earlier change of circumstances makes the
information on the form incorrect.

You should consult your tax advisor about the federal, state, local or foreign
tax consequences of an investment in a Fund.

PERFORMANCE CALCULATIONS

From time to time, performance information, such as yield or total return, may
be quoted in advertisements or in communications to present or prospective
shareholders. Performance quotations represent the Fund's past performance and
should not be considered as representative of future results. The current yield
will be calculated by dividing the net investment income earned per share by the
Fund during the period stated in the advertisement (based on the average daily
number of shares entitled to receive dividends outstanding during the period) by
the maximum net asset value per share on the last day of the period and
annualizing the result on a semi-annual compounded basis. The Fund's total
return may be calculated on an annualized and aggregate basis for various
periods (which periods will be stated in the advertisement). Average

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annual return reflects the average percentage change per year in value of an
investment in the Fund. Aggregate total return reflects the total percentage
change over the stated period.

To help investors better evaluate how an investment in the Fund might satisfy
their investment objectives, advertisements regarding the Fund may discuss yield
or total return as reported by various financial publications. Advertisements
may also compare yield or total return to other investments, indices and
averages. The following publications, benchmarks, indices and averages may be
used: Lipper Mutual Fund Performance Analysis; Lipper Fixed Income Analysis;
Lipper Mutual Fund Indices; Morgan Stanley Indices; Lehman Brothers Treasury
Index; Salomon Smith Barney Indices; Dow Jones Composite Average or its
component indices; Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index or its component indices;
Wilshire Indices; The New York Stock Exchange composite or component indices;
CDA Mutual Fund Report; Weisenberger-Mutual Funds Panorama and Investment
Companies; Mutual Fund Values and Mutual Fund Service Book, published by
Morningstar, Inc.; comparable portfolios managed by the Advisor; and financial
publications, such as Business Week, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Financial
World, Forbes, Fortune, Money Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, et
al., which rate fund performance over various time periods.

The principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate, so that an
investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original
cost. Any fees charged by banks or other institutional investors directly to
their customer accounts in connection with investments in shares of the Fund
will not be included in the Fund's calculations of yield or total return.

Performance information for the various classes of shares of the Fund will vary
due to the effect of expense ratios on the performance calculations.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT
REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Because the Fund is new, financial statements are not yet available for the
Fund.

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APPENDIX A

CORPORATE DEBT RATINGS

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. describes classifications
of corporate bonds as follows:

Aaa. Bonds that are rated Aaa are judged to be of the best quality. They carry
the smallest degree of investment risk and are generally referred to as
"gilt-edged." Interest payments are protected by a large or by an exceptionally
stable margin and principal is secure. While the various protective elements are
likely to change, such changes as can be visualized are most unlikely to impair
the fundamentally strong position of such issues.

Aa. Bonds that are rated Aa are judged to be of high quality by all standards.
Together with the Aaa group, they comprise what are generally known as high
grade. They are rated lower than the best bonds because margins of protection
may not be as large as in Aaa securities or fluctuation of protective elements
may be of greater amplitude or there may be other elements present which make
the long-term risks appear somewhat larger than in Aaa securities.

A. Bonds that are rated A possess many favorable investment attributes and are
to be considered as upper medium-grade obligations. Factors giving security to
principal and interest are considered adequate, but elements may be present
which suggest a susceptibility to impairment sometime in the future.

Baa. Bonds that are rated Baa are considered as medium-grade obligations, (i.e.,
they are neither highly protected nor poorly secured). Interest payments and
principal security appear adequate for the present but certain protective
elements may be lacking or may be characteristically unreliable over any great
length of time. Such bonds lack outstanding investment characteristics and in
fact have speculative characteristics as well.

Ba. Bonds that are rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements; their
future cannot be considered as well assured. Often the protection of interest
and principal payments may be very moderate and thereby not well safeguarded
during both good and bad times over the future. Uncertainty of position
characterizes bonds in this class.

B. Bonds that are rated B generally lack characteristics of the desirable
investment. Assurance of interest and principal payments or of maintenance of
other terms of the contract over any long period of time may be small.

CAA. Bonds that are rated Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may be in
default or there may be present elements of danger with respect to principal or
interest.

Ca. Bonds that are rated Ca represent obligations that are speculative in a high
degree. Such issues are often in default or have other marked shortcomings.

C. Bonds that are rated C are the lowest rated class of bonds and issues so
rated can be regarded as having extremely poor prospects of ever attaining any
real investment standing.

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Note: Moody's also supplies numerical indicators 1, 2, and 3 to rating
categories. The modifier 1 indicates the security is in the higher end of its
rating category; the modifier 2 indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier
3 indicates a ranking toward the lower end of the category.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Group describes classifications of corporate bonds as
follows:

AAA. This is the highest rating assigned by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group to a
debt obligation and indicates an extremely strong capacity to pay principal and
interest.

AA. Bonds rated AA also qualify as high-quality debt obligations. Capacity to
pay principal and interest is very strong and in the majority of instances, they
differ from the AAA issues only in small degree.

A. Bonds rated A have a strong capacity to pay principal and interest, although
they are somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in
circumstances and economic conditions.

BBB. Bonds rated BBB are regarded as having an adequate capacity to pay
principal and interest. Whereas they normally exhibit adequate protection
parameters, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more
likely to lead to a weakened capacity to pay principal and interest for bonds in
this category than for bonds in the A category.

BB. Debt rated BB has less near-term vulnerability to default than other
speculative grade debt. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or
exposure to adverse business, financial or economic conditions which could lend
to inadequate capacity to meet timely interest and principal payments.

B. Debt rated B has a greater vulnerability to default but presently has the
capacity to meet interest payments and principal repayments. Adverse business,
financial or economic conditions would likely impair capacity or willingness to
pay interest and repay principal.

CCC. Debt rated CCC has a current identifiable vulnerability to default, and is
dependent upon favorable business, financial and economic conditions to meet
timely payments of interest and repayment of principal. In the event of adverse
business, financial or economic conditions, it is not likely to have the
capacity to pay interest or repay principal.

CC. The rating CC is typically applied to debt subordinated to senior debt,
which is assigned an actual or implied CCC rating.

C. The rating C is typically applied to debt subordinated to senior debt, which
is assigned an actual or implied CCC rating.

D. Debt rated D is in default, or is expected to default upon maturity or
payment date.

CI. The rating CI is reserved for income bonds on which no interest is being
paid.

Plus (+) or minus (-): The ratings from AA to CCC may be modified by the
addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major
rating categories.

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APPENDIX B

SECONDARY RISKS

Listed below are the secondary risks of investing in the Fund.

Counterparty Risk The risk that when the Fund engages in repurchase, reverse
repurchase, derivative, when-issued, forward commitment, delayed settlement,
securities lending and swap transactions with another party, it relies on the
other party to consummate the transaction and is subject to the risk of default
by the other party. Failure of the other party to complete the transaction may
cause the Fund to incur a loss or to miss an opportunity to obtain a price
believed to be advantageous.

Credit Risk The risk that the issuer of a security, or the counterparty to a
contract, will default or otherwise be unable to honor a financial obligation.
Debt securities rated below investment grade are especially susceptible to this
risk.

Derivative Risk The risk that downward price changes in a security may result in
a loss greater than the Fund's investment in the security. This risk exists
through the use of certain securities or techniques that tend to magnify changes
in an index or market.

High Yield Risk The risk that the issuer of bonds with ratings of BB (S&P) or Ba
(Moody's) or below will default or otherwise be unable to honor a financial
obligation. These securities are considered to be of poor standing and are
predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's capacity to pay interest
and repay principal in accordance with the terms of the obligations and involve
major risk exposure. Bonds in this category may also be called "high yield
bonds" or "junk bonds."

Non-Public Securities Risk The risk that there may be a less liquid market for
unlisted securities than for publicly traded securities. The Fund, therefore,
may not be able to resell its investments. In addition, less disclosure is
required from non-public companies. Although unlisted securities may be resold
in private transactions, the prices realized from the sale may be less than what
the investing Fund considers the fair value of the securities.

Prepayment Risk The risk that issuers will prepay fixed rate obligations when
interest rates fall, forcing the Fund to reinvest in obligations with lower
interest rates than the original obligations.

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THE UBS FUNDS

PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 23. EXHIBITS

(a) Articles of Incorporation.

(1) Certificate of Trust of the Registrant dated August 9, 1993, as
filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware on August 13, 1993, is incorporated herein by reference
to Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") on September 15, 1998.

(i) Amendment to Certificate of Trust dated February 15, 2002
changing the Trust's name to The UBS Funds, is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 39 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on September 30, 2002.

(2) Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust (the
"Declaration") effective as of September 28, 2004, as
amended, is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 42 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 13, 2004.

(b) By-Laws.

(1) By-Laws of The UBS Funds (f/k/a The Brinson Funds) dated August
9, 1993, are incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 17 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on August 29, 1996.

(i) Amendment to the By-Laws dated April 25, 2002 is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 37 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(1) Form of Specimen Share Certificate of The UBS Funds is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
21 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
September 15, 1998.

(2) The rights of security holders of the Registrant are further
defined in the following sections of the Registrant's By-Laws and
Declaration and are herein incorporated by reference to such
documents as applicable:

(i) By-Laws.

Article II - "Meeting of Shareholders."

(ii) Declaration.

Article III - "Shares" and Article IV - "Shareholders' Voting
Powers and Meetings."

(d) Investment Advisory Contracts.

(1) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between UBS
Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (the "Advisor") and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS Global Allocation Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS Global Allocation Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(2) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS Global Bond Fund
is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS Global Bond Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(3) Investment Advisory Agreement dated April 25, 1995 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS International
Equity Fund (f/k/a Global (Ex-U.S.) Equity Fund and Brinson
Non-U.S. Equity Fund) is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on September 15, 1998.

(i) Certificate of the Secretary and resolutions redesignating
the Global (Ex-U.S.) Equity Fund as the International Equity
Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 33 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on December 7, 2000.

(ii) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated April 25, 1995 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS International Equity Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(4) Amended Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002, as
amended July 1, 2003 and January 1, 2004, between the Advisor and
the Registrant on behalf of the UBS Global Equity Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
October 28, 2004.

(5) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap
Equity Fund (f/k/a UBS U.S. Equity Fund) is incorporated herein
by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 39 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637)
as filed electronically with the SEC on September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated February 17, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap Equity Fund
(f/k/a UBS U.S. Equity Fund) is incorporated herein by
reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on October
28, 2004.

(ii) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap Equity Fund
(f/k/a UBS U.S. Equity Fund) is incorporated herein by
reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on October
28, 2004.

(6) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Bond Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Bond Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(7) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap
Growth Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund
is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(8) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Small Cap
Growth Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Small Cap Growth Fund
is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(9) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS High Yield Fund
is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS High Yield Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(10) Investment Advisory Agreement dated December 10, 1998 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS Emerging Markets
Equity Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 25 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on March 1, 1999.

(i) Form of Certificate of the Secretary and resolutions
restating the Investment Advisory Agreement of the UBS
Emerging Markets Equity Fund is incorporated herein by
reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on July 31,
2001.

(11) Investment Advisory Agreement dated December 10, 1998 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS Emerging Markets
Debt Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 25 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on March l, 1999.

(i) Form of Certificate of the Secretary and resolutions
restating the Investment Advisory Agreement of the UBS
Emerging Markets Debt Fund is incorporated herein by
reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on July 31,
2001.

(12) Investment Advisory Agreement dated May 23, 2000 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Small Cap
Equity Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 31 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on August 29, 2000.

(i) Form of Certificate of the Secretary and resolutions
restating the Investment Advisory Agreement of the UBS U.S.
Small Cap Equity Fund is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on July 31, 2001.

(13) Investment Advisory Agreement dated July l, 2002 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap
Value Equity Fund (f/k/a UBS U.S. Value Equity Fund) is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
September 30, 2002.

(i) Amendment dated February 17, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap Value Equity
Fund (f/k/a UBS U.S. Value Equity Fund) is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on October 28, 2004.

(ii) Amendment dated July 1, 2004 to Investment Advisory
Agreement dated July 1, 2002 between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Large Cap Value Equity
Fund (f/k/a UBS U.S. Value Equity Fund) is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on October 28, 2004.

(14) Investment Advisory Agreement dated December 7, 2000 between the
Advisor and the Registrant on behalf of the UBS U.S. Real Estate
Equity Fund is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 34 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on July 31, 2001.

(i) Form of Certificate of the Secretary and resolutions
restating the Investment Advisory Agreement of the UBS U.S.
Real Estate Equity Fund is incorporated herein by reference
to Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on July 31,
2001.

(15) Form of Investment Advisory Agreement between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS Dynamic Alpha Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
42 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
October 13, 2004.

(16) Form of Investment Advisory Agreement between the Advisor and the
Registrant on behalf of the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
44 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
December 21, 2004.

(e) Underwriting Contracts.

(1) Principal Underwriting Contract, dated November 5, 2001, between
UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. (f/k/a Brinson Advisors,
Inc.) and the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(f) Bonus or Profit Sharing Contracts.

Not Applicable.

(g) Custodian Agreements.

(1) Custodial arrangements are provided under the Multiple Services
Agreement dated May 9, 1997, as amended, between Morgan Stanley
Trust Company and succeeded by JPMorgan Chase Bank (f/k/a The
Chase Manhattan Bank), and the Registrant on behalf of each
series of the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 25 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on March 1, 1999.

(i) Amendment dated May 9, 2000 relating to Fee Obligation and
Continuation of the Registrant's Multiple Services Agreement
is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 31 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on August 29, 2000.

(ii) Amended Attachment A, as amended through August 19, 2003, to
the Registrant's Multiple Services Agreement is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on October 28, 2003.

(iii)Revised Schedule B3, as approved through August 19, 2003 to
the Registrant's Multiple Services Agreement is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on October 28, 2003.

(iv) Amended Schedule B1 and Schedule F, as amended through April
28, 2000, to the Registrant's Multiple Services Agreement is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 31 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on August 29, 2000.

(v) Amendment, dated May 21, 2001 relating to the Appointment of
Brinson Advisors, Inc. to serve as administrator to the
Trust is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 39 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on September 30, 2002.

(vi) Form of Amended Attachment A to the Registrant's Multiple
Services Agreement is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(vii)Form of Revised Schedule B3 to the Registrant's Multiple
Services Agreement is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(viii)Form of Amended Schedule B1 and Schedule F to the
Registrant's Multiple Services Agreement is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on October 28, 2004.

(ix) Form of Revised Schedule A to the Registrant's Multiple
Services Agreement is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(h) Other Material Contracts.

(1) Administration Contract, dated May 21, 2001, as revised June 3,
2002, between UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. (f/k/a
Brinson Advisors Inc.) and the Registrant is incorporated herein
by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637)
as filed electronically with the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(i) Amendment to Schedule A, dated as of September 28, 2004, of
the Administration Contract is incorporated herein by
reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on October
28, 2004.

(2) Transfer Agency and Related Services Agreement, dated August 20,
2001, between PFPC Inc. and the Registrant is incorporated herein
by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637)
as filed electronically with the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(i) Amendment to Exhibit B to the Transfer Agency and Related
Services Agreement, approved August 19, 2003, between PFPC
Inc. and the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference
to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and
811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on October
28, 2003.

(ii) Amendment to Exhibit A, dated as of September 28, 2004, of
the Transfer Agency and Related Services Agreement is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment
No. 43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A
(Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(i) Legal Opinion.

(1) Legal Opinion of Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, LLP is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
42 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
October 13, 2004.

(j) Other Opinions.

(1) Powers of Attorney appointing Mark F. Kemper, Keith A. Weller,
James Capezzuto, Mary Capasso, Michael Calhoun, Stephen
Fleischer, Bruce G. Leto, Mark A. Sheehan and Jana L. Cresswell
as attorneys-in-fact and agents to Frank K. Reilly, Walter E.
Auch, Edward M. Roob, Adela Cepeda, J. Mikesell Thomas, Joseph T.
Malone and Joseph A. Varnas is incorporated herein by reference
to Post-Effective Amendment No. 44 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on December 21, 2004.

(k) Omitted Financial Statements.

Not Applicable.

(l) Initial Capital Agreements.

(1) Letter of Understanding Relating to Initial Capital, dated July
1, 1992, is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective
Amendment No. 21 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with
the SEC on September 15, 1998.

(m) Rule 12b-1 Plan.

(1) Shareholder Services Plan dated October 29, 2001, as revised
April 8, 2002, relating to Class A shares (f/k/a Brinson Fund
Class A shares) of each series of the Registrant is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287
and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on July 19,
2002.

(2) Rule 12b-1 Plan dated October 29, 2001, as revised April 8, 2002,
relating to the Class B shares (f/k/a/ Brinson Fund Class B
shares) of each series of the Registrant is incorporated herein
by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637)
as filed electronically with the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(3) Rule 12b-1 Plan dated October 29, 2001, as revised April 8, 2002,
relating to the Class C shares (f/k/a Brinson Fund Class C
shares) of each series of the Registrant is incorporated herein
by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637)
as filed electronically with the SEC on July 19, 2002.

(4) Form of Shareholder Services Plan relating to Class A shares of
each series of the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference
to Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(5) Form of Rule 12b-1 Plan relating to the Class B shares of each
series of the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(6) Form of Rule 12b-1 Plan relating to the Class C shares of each
series of the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 43 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on October 28, 2004.

(i) Form of Addendum to Rule 12b-1 Plan relating to the Class C
shares of each series of the Registrant is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 44 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC
on December 21, 2004.

(7) Form of Shareholder Services Plan relating to Class A shares on
behalf of the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund is incorporated
herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 44 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287
and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on December
21, 2004.

(n) Rule 18f-3 Plan.

(1) Amended and Restated Multiple Class Plan pursuant to Rule 18f-3,
effective as of December 14, 2004, on behalf of each series of
the Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to
Post-Effective Amendment No. 44 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (Nos. 33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed
electronically with the SEC on December 21, 2004.

(p) Codes of Ethics.

(1) Joint Code of Ethics of Registrant, the investment adviser, the
sub-adviser and the principal underwriter of the Registrant, is
incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No.
43 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Nos.
33-47287 and 811-6637) as filed electronically with the SEC on
October 28, 2004.

ITEM 24. PERSONS CONTROLLED BY OR UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH THE REGISTRANT

None.

ITEM 25. INDEMNIFICATION

Under the terms of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act ("DSTA") and the
Registrant's Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as
amended, ("Declaration of Trust"), no officer or trustee of the Registrant shall
have any liability to the Registrant, its shareholders, or any other party for
damages, except to the extent such limitation of liability is precluded by
Delaware law, the Declaration of Trust or the By-Laws of the Registrant.

Subject to the standards and restrictions set forth in the Declaration of Trust,
DSTA, Section 3817, permits a statutory trust to indemnify and hold harmless any
trustee, beneficial owner or other person from and against any and all claims
and demands whatsoever. DSTA, Section 3803 protects trustees, officers, managers
and other employees, when acting in such capacity, from liability to any person
other than the Registrant or beneficial owner for any act, omission or
obligation of the Registrant or any trustee thereof, except as otherwise
provided in the Declaration of Trust.

Indemnification of the Trustees and officers of the Registrant is provided for
in Article VII, Sections 2 through 4 of the Registrant's Declaration of Trust
effective as of September 28, 2004, as amended, as follows:

Section 2. Indemnification and Limitation of Liability. The Trustees shall
not be responsible or liable in any event for any neglect or wrong-doing of
any officer, agent, employee, Manager or Principal Underwriter of the
Trust, nor shall any Trustee be responsible for the act or omission of any
other Trustee, and, subject to the provisions of the Bylaws, the Trust out
of its assets may indemnify and hold harmless each and every Trustee and
officer of the Trust from and against any and all claims, demands, costs,
losses, expenses, and damages whatsoever arising out of or related to such
Trustee's performance of his or her duties as a Trustee or officer of the
Trust; provided that nothing herein contained shall indemnify, hold
harmless or protect any Trustee or officer from or against any liability to
the Trust or any Shareholder to which he or she would otherwise be subject
by reason of wilful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless
disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.

Every note, bond, contract, instrument, certificate or undertaking and
every other act or thing whatsoever issued, executed or done by or on
behalf of the Trust or the Trustees or any of them in connection with the
Trust shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued, executed or done
only in or with respect to their or his or her capacity as Trustees or
Trustee, and such Trustees or Trustee shall not be personally liable
thereon.

Section 3. Trustee's Good Faith Action, Expert Advice, No Bond or Surety.
The exercise by the Trustees of their powers hereunder shall be binding
upon everyone interested in or dealing with the Trust. A Trustee shall be
liable to the Trust and to any Shareholder solely for his or her own
willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of
the duties involved in the conduct of the office of Trustee and shall not
be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law. The Trustees
may take advice of counsel or other experts with respect to the meaning and
operation of this Declaration of Trust and shall be under no liability for
any act or omission in accordance with such advice nor for failing to
follow such advice. The Trustees shall not be required to give any bond as
such, nor any surety if a bond is required.

Section 4. Insurance. The Trustees shall be entitled and empowered to the
fullest extent permitted by law to purchase with Trust assets insurance for
liability and for all expenses, reasonably incurred or paid or expected to
be paid by a Trustee or officer in connection with any claim, action, suit
or proceeding in which he or she becomes involved by virtue of his or her
capacity or former capacity with the Trust, whether or not the Trust would
have the power to indemnify him or her against such liability under the
provisions of this Article.

Indemnification of Registrant's advisors, custodian, transfer agent, accounting
services provider, administrator and distributor against certain stated
liabilities is provided for in the following documents:

(a) Each Series' investment advisory agreement between the Registrant, on
behalf of the series, and UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.,
all of which are incorporated herein by reference, as follows:

(1) Section 6 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS International Equity Fund, dated April 25, 1995, as amended;

(2) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Bond Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(3) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS High Yield Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(4) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Allocation Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(5) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Equity Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(6) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Value Equity Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(7) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(8) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Small Cap Equity Fund, dated May 23, 2000, as amended;

(9) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Small Cap Growth Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(10) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS U.S. Real Estate Equity Fund, dated December 7, 2000, as
amended;

(11) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS Global Allocation Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(12) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS Global Bond Fund, dated July 1, 2002;

(13) Section 7 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS Global Equity Fund, dated July 1, 2002, as amended and
restated July 1, 2003;

(14) Section 6 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS Emerging Markets Debt Fund, dated December 10, 1998, as
amended;

(15) Section 6 of the Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf of the
UBS Emerging Markets Equity Fund, dated December 10, 1998, as
amended;

(16) Section 7 of the Form of Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf
of the UBS Dynamic Alpha Fund;

(17) Section 7 of the Form of Investment Advisory Agreement on behalf
of the UBS Absolute Return Bond Fund.

(b) Sections I.8(a), I.8(c)(iii), I.10, II.A.2, II.B.5, II.C.6, III.1.,
III.2.(b) through III.2.(e), III.4.(e) and III.9.(b) of the Multiple
Services Agreement dated May 9, 1997, as amended, between Morgan
Stanley Trust Company, as succeeded by JPMorgan Chase Bank (formerly
known as The Chase Manhattan Bank) and the Registrant, on behalf of
its series, which is incorporated herein by reference.

(c) Section 9(a) of the Principal Underwriting Contract between UBS Global
Asset Management (US) Inc. (formerly known as Brinson Advisors, Inc.)
and the Registrant on behalf of each series dated November 5, 2001,
which is incorporated herein by reference.

(d) Section 12 of the Transfer Agency and Related Services Agreement
between PFPC Inc. and the Registrant on behalf of each series dated
August 20, 2001, which is incorporated herein by reference.

(e) Sections 8 and 9 of the Administration Contract between UBS Global
Asset Management (US) Inc. (formerly known as Brinson Advisors, Inc.)
and the Registrant on behalf of each series dated May 21, 2001, as
revised on June 3, 2002, which is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 26. BUSINESS AND OTHER CONNECTIONS OF THE INVESTMENT MANAGER

UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. provides investment advisory
services consisting of portfolio management for a variety of individuals and
institutions and as of June 30, 2004 had approximately $54.3 billion in assets
under management. It presently provides investment advisory services to three
other investment companies.

For information as to any other business, vocation or employment of a
substantial nature in which the Registrant's investment advisor and each officer
of the Registrant's investment advisor is or has been engaged for his or her own
account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee,
within the last two fiscal years, see UBS Global Asset Management (Americas)
Inc.'s Form ADV (File #801-34910) filed under the Investment Advisers Act of
1940, as amended, which is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 27. PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITER

(a) UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. serves as principal underwriter
and/or investment advisor, sub-advisor or manager for the following other
investment companies:

UBS Index Trust
UBS Investment Trust
UBS Master Series, Inc.
UBS Money Series
UBS Series Trust
Global High Income Dollar Fund Inc.
Insured Municipal Income Fund Inc.
Investment Grade Municipal Income Fund Inc.
Managed High Yield Plus Fund Inc.
UBS Pace Select Advisors Trust
Strategic Global Income Fund, Inc.
SMA Relationship Trust
UBS Cashfund Inc.
UBS Managed Municipal Trust
UBS Municipal Money Market Series
UBS RMA Money Fund Inc.
UBS RMA Tax-Free Fund Inc.

(b) UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. is the Registrant's principal
underwriter. The directors and officers of UBS Global Asset Management (US)
Inc., their principal business addresses and their positions and offices
with UBS Global Asset Management (US) Inc. are identified in its Form ADV
filed with the SEC (registration number 801-13219) and such information is
incorporated herein by reference. The information set forth below is
furnished for those directors and officers of UBS Global Asset Management
(US) Inc. who also serve as directors or officers of the Registrant.

Positions and Offices with Positions and Offices with
Name and Business Add Underwriter the Registrant

W. Douglas Beck* Executive Director and Head of Vice President
Mutual Fund Product Management
of UBS Global AM

James Capezzuto* Director and Assistant General Vice President and
Counsel of UBS Global AM Assistant Secretary

Thomas Disbrow* Director and Co-Head of the Vice President and
Mutual Fund Finance Department Assistant Treasurer
of UBS Global AM

Mark F. Kemper** Secretary of UBS Global AM Vice President and Secretary

Roseann Bubloski* Associate Director and Senior Vice President and
Manager of the Mutual Fund Assistant Treasurer
Finance Department of UBS
Global AM

Joseph T. Malone* Director and Co-Head of the Vice President and Treasurer
Mutual Fund Finance Department
of UBS Global AM

Joseph McGill* Executive Director and Chief Vice President and Chief
Compliance Officer of UBS Compliance Officer
Global AM

Joseph A. Varnas* Managing Director, Global Head President
of Product Information,
Technology and Operations and
Head of Product Management -
Americas of UBS Global AM

Keith A. Weller* Director and Senior Associate Vice President and
General Counsel of UBS Global Assistant Secretary
AM

* This person's business address is 51 West 52nd Street, New York, New York
10019-6114.

** This person's business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
60606.

ITEM 28. LOCATION OF ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS

All accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section
31(a) [15 U.S.C. 80a-3-(a)] and rules under that section, are maintained by
JPMorgan Chase Bank ("JPMorgan Chase"), 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York
10017 with the exception of those maintained by the Registrant's investment
advisor, UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc., One North Wacker Drive,
Chicago, IL, 60606 and sub-advisor, UBS Global Asset Management (New York) Inc.,
51 West 52nd Street New York, New York 10019-6114.

JPMorgan Chase provides general sub-administrative, accounting, portfolio
valuation, and custodian services to the Registrant, including the coordination
and monitoring of any third-party service providers and maintains all such
records relating to these services.

ITEM 29. MANAGEMENT SERVICES

There are no management related service contracts not discussed in Part A or
Part B.

ITEM 30. UNDERTAKINGS

Not Applicable.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the
Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of
this registration statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has
duly caused Post-Effective Amendment No. 45/46 to this registration statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of New
York, and the State of New York on the 4th day of March, 2005.

THE UBS FUNDS

By:/s/ Joseph Varnas
Joseph Varnas*
President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement
has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated:

Signature Title Date

/s/ Frank K. Reilly Chairman and March 4, 2005
Frank K. Reilly* Trustee

/s/ Walter E. Auch Trustee March 4, 2005
Walter E. Auch*

/s/ Edward M. Roob Trustee March 4, 2005
Edward M. Roob*

/s/ Adela Cepeda Trustee March 4, 2005
Adela Cepeda*

/s/ J. Mikesell Thomas Trustee March 4, 2005
J. Mikesell Thomas*

/s/ Joseph T. Malone Treasurer and Principal March 4, 2005
Joseph T. Malone* Accounting Officer

* By: /s/ James Capezzuto
James Capezzuto, Attorney-in-Fact
(Pursuant to Power of Attorney, filed herewith)

EXHIBIT LIST

There are no exhibits being filed with this filing.

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