-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, E4RVgpAOufqsg82WCpEen+7YT/g/OzPCHA8Hu0O3Fd17kDjBeSW4DVkH8JXlDIl1 CQQUtEO8MSEz7B1qtXUcfA== 0000899681-08-000813.txt : 20080825 0000899681-08-000813.hdr.sgml : 20080825 20080825144018 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899681-08-000813 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080825 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080825 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20080825 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LAZARD FUNDS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874964 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-40682 FILM NUMBER: 081036555 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10112 BUSINESS PHONE: 2126326000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10112 0000874964 S000010264 Lazard Emerging Markets Portfolio C000028360 Open Shares LZOEX C000028361 Institutional Shares LZEMX 497 1 lazardemerging-497_082508.htm

The Lazard Funds, Inc.

Lazard Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (the “Portfolio”)

The Portfolio is closed to most new investors as of September 30, 2008.

Who Can Invest in the Portfolio?

If you were a direct shareholder of the Portfolio (in your own name or as a beneficial owner of shares held in someone else’s name) on September 30, 2008, and your account remains open, you may make additional investments in the Portfolio or open additional accounts in the Portfolio under the same primary Identification Number (SSN/TIN). In addition, you may continue to reinvest your dividends and capital gain distributions in shares of the Portfolio.

The following categories of investors may continue to invest in the Portfolio or open a new account:

 

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Financial advisors, planners, consultants, institutions and intermediaries with existing clients in the Portfolio at the time of the close.

 

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Sponsor fee-based programs with existing clients in or allocations to the Portfolio at the time of the close.

 

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Retirement or employee benefit plans (including 401(k) and other defined contribution plans), and their participants, that currently may invest in the Portfolio at the time of the close.

 

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If you are transferring or “rolling over” into an IRA Account from an employee benefit plan through which you held shares of the Portfolio at the time of the close.

 

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Employees of the Portfolio’s Investment Manager or its affiliates, or an immediate family member of either.

 

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If shares of the Portfolio have been transferred to you from an existing shareholder or if you have received shares of the Portfolio as a gift from an existing shareholder of the Portfolio.

 

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Directors of the Fund.

The Portfolio may ask you to verify that you meet one of the guidelines above prior to permitting you to open a new account in the Portfolio. The Fund’s Board of Directors and Investment Manager reserve the right to close a portfolio of the Fund at any time (including closing a portfolio to one or more of the above categories of investors) or to re-open a closed portfolio to all investors at any future date.

If you have any questions about whether you are able to purchase shares of Lazard Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio, please call 800-823-6300.

Dated: August 25, 2008

 

 

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