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The top 10 U.S. mutual funds invested in foreign stocks in three categories. Rankings are for this year through April 30

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY

1 Oakmark International I 35.11%

2 Longleaf Partners International 20.56%

3 Templeton Funds Foreign A* 20.50%

4 PIMCO International Growth Institutional 20.42%

5 Morgan Grenfell International Equity Institutional

19.75%

6 Brandes Investment Trust International Equity 19.50%

7 Nations Funds International Value Primary A* 19.48%

8 Tocqueville International Value 18.96%

9 Northstar International Value A 18.73% 10 Masters Select International 18.72%

INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP

1 Warburg Pincus International Small Cap 64.33%

2 Oakmark International Small Cap I 45.24%

3 T. Rowe Price International Discovery 24.35%

4 Oppenheimer International Small Company A* 22.82%

5 Schroder Capital International Small Companies

Investors 21.89%

6 Federated International Small Company A* 20.00%

7 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter International Small

Cap* 16.77%

8 Lord Abbet Securities Trust International A* 16.06%

9 Nicholas-Applegate International Small Cap

Growth I 14.77% 10 Pilgrim International Small Cap Growth Q 14.70%

EMERGING MARKET EQUITY

1 Lexington Troika Russia 50.76%

2 World Funds Third Millennium Russia 43.37%

3 BT Institutional Global Emerging Markets Equity 39.96%

4 Montgomery Funds II Emerging Markets Focus* 37.89%

5 Dreyfus Premier Emerging Markets R* 35.87%

6 GMO Trust Evolving Countries 34.55%

7 Sanford Bernstein Emerging Markets 33.98%

8 Dreyfus International Emerging Markets 31.69%

9 Forum Emerging Markets 31.44% 10 BT Investment Global Emerging Market Equity 30.90%

* Fund has multiple share classes; all returns were nearly identical Source: Lipper Inc. ===

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