SEC Company Response from NAVELLIER MILLENNIUM FUNDS (CIK 0001070026) — Apr 29, 2005
NAVELLIER MILLENNIUM FUNDS (CIK 0001070026)
Date: April 29, 2005 · CIK: 0001070026 · Accession: 0000950149-05-000255
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File numbers found in text: 811-08995
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LAW OFFICES
SAMUEL KORNHAUSER
155 Jackson Street, Suite 1807, San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 981-6281; FAX (415) 981-7616
skornhauser@earthlink.net
SAMUEL KORNHAUSER
VIA EDGAR
April 29, 2005
Kevin Rupert
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW, Mail Stop 5-6
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: The Navellier Millennium Funds N1-A Registration No.'s 33-63155 and
811-08995
Dear Mr. Rupert:
In response to your April 22, 2005 telephone comments concerning the
Navellier Millennium Funds' ("the Fund") February 28, 2005 Rule 485A POS N1-A
filing, I on behalf of the Fund and its Board of Trustees respond as follows:
1. The fund acknowledges that the Fund is responsible for the adequacy
and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; that staff comments or
changes to disclosure in response to staff comments in the filings
reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filing; and that the Fund may not assert
staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the
Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the
United States.
2. With regard to the Fund now having Navellier & Associates, Inc. as
investment adviser, Navellier & Associates, Inc. which is 99% owned
and controlled by Louis Navellier, was always providing the portfolio
managers, staff analysts and all personnel for Navellier Management
Inc. which is also 99% owned and controlled by Louis Navellier. For
efficiency and to reduce duplicative filing fees and registrations
Louis Navellier dissolved Navellier Management Inc. and the exact same
portfolio managers, staff analysts, etc. who had been providing
investment management for the Fund through Navellier Management Inc.
continued on in those exact same capacities performing the same duties
for the fund through Navellier & Associates, Inc.
On December 15, 2004, I send a request for no action (if
necessary) to Douglas Scheidt, Esq., explaining that pursuant to '40
Act Rule 2a-6 and Wells Fargo, Prudential Insurance Co., Invesco and
other no action letters, the Fund felt because there was no change in
investment style, investment advisor, portfolio managers or personnel,
no change in advisory fees or costs, etc. that the change should not
be considered a change in investment advisor and that no shareholder
approval under Section 15(a)(4) should be
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Kevin Rupert
April 29, 2005
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required since there was in reality only a change in name, not in
advisors. The Commission responded after a review of my letter and the
representation that there was no change in the actual control or
management of the investment advisor that in light of our reliance on
Rule 2a-6 it did not appear that a no action letter was necessary. The
change was made pursuant to Rule 2a-6.
3. With regard to your comments, we have made the changes you suggested
i.e., we have noted that excessive trading could have adverse tax
consequences and made specific that it will not be allowed, we
clarified the language that the Fund does not accommodate market
timing, we expanded the disclosure of portfolio holdings section
and broke it out into public and nonpublic (ongoing and ad hoc)
disclosures and specified all persons who many have prior access to
such information and that they had duties not to disclose or trade on
that information. We also expanded the portfolio manager
compensation section to specify all forms of compensation and
incentive percentages. We also gave more detail on the factors
considered by the Board of Trustees in approving the investment
advisory agreement and that the disclosure will go into the annual
report.
We also made clear that the Fund is now a no load fund and
that the former B and C shares are now no load A shares. In the
performance table for the Top 20 Portfolio we eliminated one of the
benchmark indexes, the Russell 3000 Index, and have only used the
Russell 3000 Growth Index, we revised the hypothetical fees in the
examples (1, 3, 5, 10 years) for both the Top 20 and International
Growth portfolios and we gave a five-year history for portfolio
manager Michael Garaventa.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Samuel Kornhauser
SK:kh
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