Fund Families Available at Merrill Lynch

Fund family listing as of December 2008
Aberdeen AIG SunAmerica AIM Investments Alger Allegiant AllianceBernstein Allianz American Century American Funds AMIDEX Aquila Arrow BlackRock Calamos Calvert Cohen & Steers Columbia Credit Suisse Davis Dean Delaware Diamond Hill Dreyfus Premier DWS Investments Eaton Vance Emerald Evergreen Federated Fidelity Advisor Fifth Third First American First Eagle FPA Franklin Templeton Gabelli GE Goldman Sachs Guardian/RS Investments Hartford Henderson Global Highland Hotchkis and Wiley ICON		ING ISI* IVY Janus Advisor JennisonDryden John Hancock JP Morgan Kelmoore Kensington Kinetics Legg Mason Partners Loomis Sayles Lord Abbett Mainstay Managers Funds MFS Morgan Stanley* Munder Nationwide Natixis North Track* Nuveen Old Mutual Olstein Oppenheimer PIMCO Pioneer Principal Provident Putnam Riversource Russell* Security Global Seligman Sentinel Snow Thornburg Timothy Plan Touchstone Transamerica UBS* Van Eck Van Kampen Victory Virtus (formerly Phoenix) Wells Fargo

No-load/low-load fund families

Alpine Amana American Beacon Ariel Artio Global Artisan Aston Ave Maria Baron Brandywine Cambiar Citizens CRM Delafield Dreyfus Edgewood Fairholme Firsthand Guinness Atkinson Harbor Hennessy Hodges Janus Lazard Legg Mason Capital Management Leuthold Managers Funds Matthews *Eligible for subsequent purchases only

Metropolitan West Muhlenkamp Neuberger Berman Oak Associates Oakmark Oak Value Permanent Perritt Profunds Prudent Bear Rainier Royce Rydex Schroder T. Rowe Price TCW Third Avenue Tocqueville Turner U.S. Global Vanguard* Van Wagoner Wasatch Weitz Westcore Western Asset Management William Blair Wilshire Winslow Wright Yacktman

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