Performance of Top 10 International Equity Funds Managed by Banks and

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International equity mutual funds, with assets of $25 million or more, ranked by the total return in third quarter

(Dollar amounts in millions) Rank Fund Name 1 59 Wall Street Pacific Basin Eq 2 Mercantile-Interl Equity Tr 3 First American-International A 4 First American-International Y 5 Boston 1784 Funds-Intl Equity A 6 Republic International Equity Adv 7 WM International Gr A 8 Northern Intl Select Equity 9 BNY Hamilton Intl Equity Inst 10 Northern Instl Intl Growth A

Average of the top 10 funds with more than $25 million in assets:

Average of all 104 funds with more than $25 million in assets:

Average of all 222 bank proprietary international stock funds:

Non-Bank International Stock Fund Averages

MSCI World part 2 of 3

Fund Assets Rank Bank Investment Objecti 9/30/99 1 Brown Brothers Harriman & CNon-US Equity $61.22 2 Firstar Corp. Non-US Equity 62.96 3 U.S. Bancorp Non-US Equity 46.01 4 U.S. Bancorp Non-US Equity 454.08 5 Fleet Boston Corp. Non-US Equity 403.03 6 Republic New York Corp. Non-US Equity 156.65 7 Washington Mutual Inc. Non-US Equity 70.38 8 Northern Trust Corp. Non-US Equity 137.13 9 Bank of New York Non-US Equity 183.39 10 Northern Trust Corp. Non-US Equity 121.33

$169.62

215.12

103.71 part 3 of 3

TOTAL RETURNS THROUGH 9/30/99 (%)

Third Year Latest Latest Latest Latest Rank Qtr. to Date 1 Year*3 Years*5 Years*10 Years* 1 13.40% 69.37% 85.77% 10.87% 5.72% - 2 9.35 18.28 41.26 14.49 11.56 - 3 8.99 13.42 32.16 20.22 12.25 - 4 8.98 13.49 32.4 20.41 12.43 - 5 8.8 13.94 33.03 9.24 - - 6 8.65 30.7 53.22 19.47 - - 7 7.8 16.16 31.81 6.9 5.19 - 8 7.74 17.79 36.85 14.87 7.95 - 9 7.69 10.7 32.52 - - - 10 7.34 14.01 41.65 17.47 10.35

8.87% 22.28% 42.07% 14.88% 9.35% N/M

2.07 13.48 32.62 10.01 7.13 7.97%

1.03 15.13 33.06 7.83 6.29 7.34

-1.86 21.39 40.7 1.52 0.76 5.24

0.6 9.37 32.58 18.42 16.87 10.86 ===

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