Exhibit 1(c)
SIERRA ASSET MANAGEMENT PORTFOLIOS
AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
The undersigned, being a majority of the trustees of the Sierra Asset
Management Portfolios ("the Trust"), a Massachusetts business trust created and
existing under an Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated March 26, 1996 as
amended and restated July 19, 1996 ("the Declaration of Trust"), a copy of which
is on file in the office of the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
having determined to change the name of the Trust from the Sierra Asset
Management Portfolios to WM Strategic Asset Management Portfolios, pursuant to
ARTICLE I, Section 1.1 and ARTICLE IX, Section 9.8 of said Declaration of Trust
do hereby amend the Declaration of Trust so that the Section 1.1 of ARTICLE I is
amended and restated as follows:
This Trust shall be known as "WM Strategic Asset Management
Portfolios" and the Trustees shall conduct the business of the Trust
under that name or any other name as they may from time to time
determine.
All other appropriate references in the Declaration of Trust are amended to
reflect the fact that the new name of the Trust is "WM Strategic Asset
Management Portfolios."
In addition, the undersigned, being a majority of the Trust, pursuant to
ARTICLE IV, Section 1 of the Declaration of Trust, hereby change the name of the
following series of Shares (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) (i) from
Capital Growth Portfolio to Strategic Growth Portfolio; (ii) from Growth
Portfolio to Conservative Growth Portfolio; and (iii) Value Portfolio to
Flexible Income Portfolio.
This amendment will be effective as of the close of business on March 20,
1998.
This instrument may be executed in counterparts, which together shall
constitute a single instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands for ourselves and for
our successors and assigns this 20th day of March, 1998.
XXXXX X. XXXXXXXX XXXXX X. XXXXXXX, M.D.
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, M.D.
XXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX, Esq. XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Esq. Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
XXXXXX X. XXXXX, Esq. XXXX X. ENGLISH
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq Xxxx X. English
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX, XX. Ph.D XXXXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx. Ph.D Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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