
You may purchase shares of the Fund directly by mail
or by wire transfer or indirectly through participating
financial intermediaries that have selling arrangements
with the Fund. After you have established an account
with the Fund directly and made your first purchase,
you may make subsequent purchases by mail or telephone
or through the Fund’s automatic investment plan.
The Fund accepts purchase orders for fractional shares.
The Fund reserves the right to withdraw the offering
of Fund shares at any time, without notice.
Important Note to New Taxable Investors: As
of March 31, 2008, the net unrealized appreciation of
the Fund’s portfolio was approximately 44.6% of
the Fund’s NAV. If the Fund sells appreciated
securities and distributes the profit, the distributed
appreciation will be taxable to you either as capital
gains or as ordinary income, depending upon how long
the Fund held the appreciated securities. You should
carefully consider the potential tax effects of an investment
in the Fund, due to the substantial, net unrealized
appreciation of the Fund’s portfolio, prior to
making an investment in the Fund.
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism
and money laundering activities, federal law requires
all financial institutions, including the Fund, to obtain,
verify and record information that identifies each person
opening an account with the Fund. If you are opening
an account with the Fund and do not provide the requested
information, the Fund (or its transfer agent) may not
be able to open an account for you. If the Fund (or
its transfer agent) is unable to verify your identity,
or believes that it has identified potentially criminal
activity, the Fund reserves the right to close your
account or take such other action it deems reasonable
or required by law.
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Minimum Investment Amounts :
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The minimum initial investment amounts required by the
Fund are as follows:
Type of Account |
Minimum
Initial Invesment+ |
Regular |
$5,000 |
IRA |
$2,500 |
+ The Fund does not impose minimum investment amounts
with respect to subsequent investments.
Purchases By Mail
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To make your initial purchase of Fund shares by mail,
complete the appropriate account application, make a
check payable to “Sequoia Fund, Inc.”, and
mail the completed account application and check to:
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Sequoia Fund, Inc.
c/o DST Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 219477
Kansas City, MO 64121-9477 |
If you are sending the check and account application
via express delivery, registered or certified mail,
please send to:
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Sequoia Fund, Inc.
c/o DST Systems, Inc.
430 West 7th Street, 1st Floor
Kansas City, MO 64105 |
Please note that an account cannot he opened without
a completed and signed account application.
To make subsequent purchases by mail, make a check
payable to “Sequoia Fund, Inc.” and mail
the check to the above-referenced address that corresponds
to the method of delivery. Please include your account
number on the check.
Purchases by Wire
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To open an account with the Fund and make an initial
purchase of Fund shares by wire, call 1-800-686-6884
for details. You must complete the appropriate account
application prior to purchasing Fund shares by wire.
To make subsequent purchases by wire, wire your funds
using the instructions set forth below. As indicated
below, please include the Fund’s name and your
account number on the wiring instructions.
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UMB bank, N.A.
ABA #101000695
Sequoia Fund, Inc.
DDA Acct. #9871691772
Ref: (Name and Account Number) |
Wired funds must be received by the Fund prior to the
close of the Exchange on any day in order to receive
the Fund's NAV for that day. Heavy wire traffic over
the Federal Reserve System may delay the arrival of
purchase orders made by wire.
Additional Purchases by Telephone
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You may not make initial purchases of Fund shares by
telephone. You may, however, make additional purchases
of Fund shares by telephone if you have elected such
option on the account application and provided the Fund
with the necessary information to complete such purchases.
Call 1-800-686-6884 for details. Purchases of Fund shares
by telephone will be completed via Automated Clearing
House (“ACH”), and the amount of the purchase
will be deducted from your bank account. Your account
with the Fund will be credited with the additional shares
on the trade date, but the dollar amount will not post
until it clears the banking system.
Additional Purchases by the Automatic Investment
Plan (Via Automated Clearing House)
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You may not make initial purchases of Fund shares by
ACH. You may, however, make additional purchases of
Fund shares by ACH if you have elected the automatic
investment plan option on the account application and
provided the Fund with the necessary information to
complete such purchases. Through the automatic investment
plan, you can make fixed, periodic purchases of Fund
shares by means of automatic money transfers (ACH transfers)
from your bank account. Such purchases are accepted
on the 1st day and 15th day of each month. Please allow
up to 15 days to establish the automatic investment
plan for your Fund account. The Fund may amend or terminate
the terms and conditions of the automatic investment
plan option at any time, and will notify you at least
30 days in advance if it does so.
To cancel or modify the automatic investment plan with
respect to your Fund account, please make your cancellation
or modification request in writing and send the request
to:
If by mail:
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Sequoia Fund, Inc.
c/o DST Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 219477
Kansas City, MO 64121-9477 |
If via express delivery, registered or certified mail:
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Sequoia Fund, Inc.
c/o DST Systems, Inc.
430 West 7th Street, 1st Floor
Kansas City, MO 64105 |
Please allow up to three days to cancel or modify the
automatic investment plan for your Fund account.
Additional Purchase Information
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Orders for the purchase of Fund shares will not be accepted
unless they are in “good order.” A purchase
order is generally in “good order” if an
acceptable form of payment accompanies the purchase
order and the order includes:
(i) |
Your account number; |
(ii) |
The number of shares to be purchased
or the dollar value of the amount to be purchased; |
(iii) |
Any required signatures of all account
owners exactly as they are registered on the account; |
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Any required signature guarantees;
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Any supporting legal documentation
that is required in the case of estates, trusts.
corporations or partnerships, and for certain types
of other accounts. |
Checks must be payable in U.S. dollars and must be
drawn on a U.S. bank. Third party checks (i.e., any
check: which is not made payable to the Fund, DST Systems,
Inc. or a retirement account custodian), credit cards,
money orders, travelers checks, bearer securities, cashiers
checks and cash will not be accepted. You will be charged
(minimum of $2.50) for any check used for the purchase
of Fund shares that is returned unpaid. If you purchased
Fund shares by check, you may not receive the proceeds
of a subsequent redemption request until there is a
reasonable belief that the check has cleared, which
may take up to 15 calendar days after the purchase date.
The transfer agent has adopted reasonable procedures
to protect against unauthorized transactions made by
telephone. Assuming the transfer agent properly acts
on telephone instructions and follows such procedures,
neither the Fund nor the transfer agent will be responsible
for any losses due to transactions authorized by telephone.
Individual Retirement Accounts
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You also may purchase shares for an individual retirement
account, or IRA, including a Roth IRA. IRA investments
are available for regular contributions as well as for
qualified rollover contributions of distributions received
from certain employer-sponsored pension and profit-sharing
plans and from other lRAs. All assets in the IRA are
automatically invested in Fund shares, including all
dividends and capital gain distributions paid on Fund
shares held in the IRA. There is an annual fee of $12.00
for an IRA account.
Keogh Plans
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If you are self-employed, you may purchase Fund shares
through a self-employment retirement plan (often referred
to as a Keogh or HR-10 plan) covering yourself and your
eligible employees.
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