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<PAGE> PAGE 24
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<PAGE> PAGE 28
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<PAGE> PAGE 29
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<PAGE> PAGE 31
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<PAGE> PAGE 33
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<PAGE> PAGE 35
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<PAGE> PAGE 36
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<PAGE> PAGE 37
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<PAGE> PAGE 38
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<PAGE> PAGE 39
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<PAGE> PAGE 40
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<PAGE> PAGE 41
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<PAGE> PAGE 43
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<PAGE> PAGE 45
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<PAGE> PAGE 46
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<PAGE> PAGE 47
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<PAGE> PAGE 48
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<PAGE> PAGE 54
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<PAGE> PAGE 55
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<PAGE> PAGE 56
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<PAGE> PAGE 57
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<PAGE> PAGE 58
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<PAGE> PAGE 59
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<PAGE> PAGE 60
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<PAGE> PAGE 61
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<PAGE> PAGE 70
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The Board of Directors
Nationwide Mutual Funds:
In planning and performing our audits of the
financial statements of the Nationwide Mutual
Funds (the Funds) for the year ended October 31, 1999,
we considered their internal control, including control
activities for safeguarding securities, in order to determine
our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our
opinion on the financial statements and to comply with
the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide
assurance on internal control.
The management of the Funds is responsible for
establishing and maintaining internal control.
In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of controls.
Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit
pertain to the entity's objective of preparing financial
statements for external purposes that are fairly
presented in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles. Those controls include the
safeguarding of assets against unauthorized
acquisition, use, or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal
control, error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
Also, projection of any evaluation of internal control
to future periods is subject to the risk that it
may become inadequate because of changes in conditions
or that the effectiveness of the design
and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of internal control would not
necessarily disclose all matters in internal control that
might be material weaknesses under standards established
by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of one or more internal control components does
not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that misstatements
caused by error or fraud in amounts that would be material
in relation to the financial statements being audited may
occur and not be detected within a timely period by
employees in the normal course of performing their
assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving
internal control and its operation, including controls for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material
weaknesses as defined above as of October 31, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and
use of management, the Board of Directors of the Funds,
and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not
intended to be and should not be used by anyone other
than these specified parties.
KPMG LLP
Columbus, Ohio
December 17, 1999
