EXHIBIT (a)(9)
THE PREFERRED GROUP OF MUTUAL FUNDS
AMENDMENT NO. 8
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
The undersigned, being a majority of the Trustees of The Preferred
Group of Mutual Funds, a Massachusetts business trust, created and existing
under an Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated November 19, 1991, as amended
(the "Agreement"), a copy of which is on file in the Office of the Secretary of
State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby direct that this Amendment
No. 8 be filed with the Secretary of State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and do hereby amend to read in its entirety the first sentence of Section 6 of
Article III of the Agreement as follows:
"Without limiting the authority of the Trustees set forth in Section 5,
inter alia, to establish and designate any further Series or Classes or
to modify the rights and preferences of any Series or Classes, the
"Preferred Large Cap Growth Fund", "Preferred Value Fund", "Preferred
International Value Fund", "Preferred Small Cap Growth Fund",
"Preferred Asset Allocation Fund", "Preferred Fixed Income Fund",
"Preferred Short-Term Government Securities Fund", "Preferred Money
Market Fund", "Preferred Mid Cap Growth Fund" and "Preferred
International Growth Fund", shall be, and are hereby established and
designated."
The foregoing amendment shall become effective as of the time it is
filed with the Secretary of State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands for ourselves and
our successors and assigns this 27th day of January, 2003.
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