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WILSHIRE TARGET FUNDS, INC.
(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)
JULIE A. TEDESCO, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement)
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WILSHIRE TARGET FUNDS, INC.
(formerly Dreyfus-Wilshire Target Funds, Inc.)
June 7, 1996
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please Help Us - We Need Your Vote
Dear Small Company Growth Portfolio Shareholder:
Recently you received proxy materials from Wilshire
Target Funds, Inc. describing important proposals on
which your vote is needed. Since we have not received
sufficient votes to approve proposals 2 and 3 with
respect to the Small Company Growth Portfolio, we
have adjourned the Special Meeting of Shareholders to
provide additional time for those shareholders who have
not cast their votes to do so now. Please vote today!
Enclosed is a new proxy card; please sign and return it
in the enclosed postage-paid envelope so that these
important issues can be approved.
Proposals 2 and 3 relate to the proposed new investment
advisory agreement and the proposed shareholder services
plan. The Fund's Board of Directors carefully considered
these proposals and unanimously recommended that the
shareholders approve them by voting FOR each proposal.
A substantial vote is required to approve these matters.
Every shareholder's vote is important! Please vote!
Be sure to complete and sign the card before mailing it in
the enclosed envelope.
If you have any questions, please call us at 1-888-200-6796
(toll free) or 1-401-454-9280. Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Thomas D.Stevens
President and Chairman of the Board
DREYFUS-WILSHIRE TARGET FUNDS, INC.
SMALL COMPANY GROWTH PORTFOLIO
The undersigned holder of shares of common stock ("Common Stock")
of Small Company Growth Portfolio (the "Portfolio") of
Dreyfus-Wilshire Target Funds Inc. (the "Company") hereby
appoints RobertD. Guiod and Julie A. Tedesco and each of
them, the attorneys and proxies of the undersigned, with full
power of revocation and substitution, to vote on behalf of the
undersigned as indicated herein, all of the shares of Common Stock
of the Portfolio standing in the name of the undersigned at the
close of business on April 10, 1996, at the Special Meeting of
Shareholders to be held at the offices of Ropes & Gray, One
Franklin Square, 1301 K Street, N.W., Suite 800 East,
Washington, D.C., at noon on Thursday, May 23, 1996, and at
any and all adjournments thereof, with all of the powers the
undersigned would possess if then and there personally present and
especially (but without limiting the general authorization and
power hereby given) to vote as indicated on the proposals, as more
fully described in the Proxy Statement for the meeting. The
undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of Special
Meeting and Proxy Statement and revokes any proxy previously
given.
Sign, Date and return the Proxy Card
Promptly Using the Enclosed Envelope
Date: , 1996
Signature(s) should be exactly as the name or names
appearing on this proxy. If shares are held jointly each
holder should sign. If signing is by attorney, executor,
administrator, trustee or guardian, please give full title.
Signature(s)
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED BY THE COMPANYS BOARD AND WILL BE VOTED FOR
THE PROPOSALS BELOW UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.
1. To elect 5 nominees for Director of the Company
FOR all
nominees listed
(except as marked to the contrary below)
WITHHOLD AUTHORITY
to vote for all nominees
DeWitt F. Bowman, Peter J. Carre, Robert J. Raab, Jr., Thomas
D. Stevens and Anne L. Wexler
(Instruction: To withhold authority for any individual, write his
or her name on the line below)
__________________________________________________________________
2. To approve a new Investment Advisory Agreement
FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
3. To approve a new Rule 12b-1 Plan.
FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
4. To ratify or reject the selection of Coopers & Lybrand
L.L.P. as Independent Public Accountants.
FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN