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EXHIBIT j(2)
SAMCO FUNDS, INC.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned, as Directors of SAMCO Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), hereby
constitute and appoint CYNTHIA J. SURPRISE, WILLIAM E. VASTARDIS AND PETER J.
BOURKE, and each of them, with full powers of substitution as their true and
lawful attorneys and agents to execute in their name and on their behalf in any
and all capacities the Registration Statement on Form N-1A, and any and all
amendments thereto, filed by the Fund, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any and all instruments
which such attorneys and agents, or any of them, deem necessary or advisable to
enable the Fund to comply with such Acts, the rules, regulations and
requirements of the Commission, and the securities or Blue Sky laws of any state
or other jurisdiction, and the undersigned hereby ratify and confirm as their
own act and deed any and all acts that such attorneys and agents, or any of
them, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Any one of such attorneys
and agents have, and may exercise, all of the powers hereby conferred.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hand this 7th
day of June, 2000.
C. Alan MacDonald
Director /s/: C. Alan MacDonald
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John E. Manley
Director /s/: John E. Manley
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John R. O'Brien
Director /s/: John R. O'Brien
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