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Re:
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Wilshire
Mutual Funds (the “Registrant” or the
“Fund”)
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Registration Nos.
033-50390
and 811-07076
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1.
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Comment: With
respect to the Large Company Growth Portfolio, Large Company Value
Portfolio, Small Company Growth Portfolio and Small Company Value
Portfolios’ (the “Style Portfolios”) investment objective, please explain
what it means to “provide investment results of a portfolio of publicly
traded common stocks of companies in the applicable sub-category of the
Wilshire 5000 Index.” In addition, for each of the Style
Portfolios, please remove the sentence that states that the Portfolio is
not an index fund.
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2.
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Comment: For
the Small Company Growth Portfolio and the Small Company Value Portfolio,
please remove the footnote to the expense table describing the voluntary
expense cap.
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3.
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Comment:
With respect to the expense table for the Wilshire Large Cap Core 130/30
Fund, please remove the line item “Total Other
Expenses.” In addition, with respect to the footnote
describing the contractual expense cap, please provide disclosure as to
who may terminate the expense cap and under what
circumstances. Please also clarify the terms of the
recoupment.
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4.
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Comment: For the
Style Portfolios, please confirm whether the sub-advisers consider any
other criteria (besides capitalization) in selecting securities (i.e., do
securities have to be in a specific index). In addition, please
confirm whether the Style Portfolios invest in securities other than
common stock.
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5.
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Comment: For
the Large Company Value Portfolio, Small Company Growth Portfolio and the
Wilshire Large Cap Core 130/30 Fund, please confirm that the
capitalization of the companies that the Funds invest in are
correct.
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6.
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Comment: For the
Style Portfolios and the Wilshire Large Cap Core 130/30 Fund, please add
multi-management as a strategy and describe each sub-adviser’s buy/sell
strategy and any related risks.
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7.
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Comment: For
the Wilshire 5000 Index Fund, please provide details as to the Fund’s
“stratified sampling” technique.
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8.
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Comment: For
the Wilshire Large Cap 130/30 Fund, please clarify which equity
investments are principal investments. In addition, please
confirm to what extent the Fund will invest in ETFs and disclose in the
expense table accordingly.
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9.
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Comment: For
each Fund, please remove “Investment Class Shares and
Institutional Class Shares” from the first sentence of the lead-in
paragraph. In addition, please remove the sentence “The chart
and table assume reinvestment of dividends and
distributions.”
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10.
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Comment: Please
remove the sentence under the Large Company Growth Portfolio’s performance
bar chart that reads “The returns for the Portfolio’s Investment Class
shares were lower than the Institutional Class Shares because Investment
Class Shares pay distribution (12b-1)
fees.”
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11.
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Comment: In the
Large Company Growth Portfolio, Large Company Value Portfolio and Small
Company Growth Portfolio's annual return table, footnotes (1) and (2)
should not be footnotes but may follow the table. In addition,
please remove footnote (3) to the
table.
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12.
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Comment: In
the Wilshire Large Cap 130/30 Fund’s annual return table, please remove
footnote (1) and include the inception date in the column heading under
“since inception.” In addition, footnotes (2) and (3) should
not be footnotes but may follow the table and please remove footnote (4)
to the table.
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13.
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Comment: For each
Fund, in the sub-section “To Redeem Shares,” please remove “without a
redemption fee.”
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14.
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Comment: For
each Fund, please remove “are expected to be paid
annually.”
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15.
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Comment: For
each Fund, please replace the term “affiliates” with “related
companies.”
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16.
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Comment: Please
provide more detail as to the following sub-advisers’ buy/sell strategy,
as applicable: Acadian Asset Management, Inc., Los
Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Payden & Rygel, Quest
Investment Management, Inc., Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC, Thompson,
Siegel & Walmsley LLC, TWIN Capital Management, Inc., Sawgrass Asset
Management, L.L.C, and UBS Global Asset Management Americas
Inc.
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17.
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Comment: For
the Wilshire Large Cap 130/30 Fund, under Short Sale Risk, please indicate
that the risks associated with short sales may be unlimited. In
addition, please remove “may” from the last sentence of ETF
Risk.
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18.
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Comment: Please
clarify the meaning of “good
order.”
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19.
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Comment: Please
provide disclosure pursuant to Item 11(a), instruction 2 as to when
calculations of the NAV are made.
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20.
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Comment: For
the Wilshire Large Cap Core 130/30 Fund, please confirm that the portfolio
turnover rate for 2008 is accurate. In addition, for any
portfolio with a portfolio turnover rate higher than
100%, please disclose this as a risk under the principal risks
section.
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Attachment
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