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Exhibit 99.J.2
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The ANNUITY BOARD FUNDS TRUST, a Delaware business trust (the "Trust"), and each
of its undersigned trustees and officers hereby nominates, constitutes and
appoints O.S. Hawkins, Rodney R. Miller, and Donald W. Smith (with full power to
each of them to act alone) its true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for
it and on its behalf and in its name, place and stead in any and all capacities,
to make, execute and sign the Trust's Registration Statement on Form N-1A under
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and
all amendments thereto, and to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
and any other regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the offer and sale
of shares of the beneficial interest of the Trust, any such Registration
Statement and amendment, and any and all supplements thereto or to any
prospectus or statement of additional information forming a part thereof, and
any and all exhibits and other documents requisite in connection therewith,
granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as the Trust and the
undersigned trustees and officers itself/themselves might or could do.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the ANNUITY BOARD FUNDS TRUST has caused this power of
attorney to be executed in its name by its President, and attested by its
Secretary, and the undersigned officers and trustees have hereunto set their
hands and seals at Dallas, Texas this 8th day of January, 2001.
ANNUITY BOARD FUNDS TRUST
By: /s/ O.S. Hawkins
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O.S. Hawkins
President
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
/s/ Rodney R. Miller
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Rodney R. Miller,
Secretary
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/s/ George J. Tous van Nijkerk
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George J. Tous van Nijkerk
Trustee, Chairman of the Board
/s/ Alton L. Fannin
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Alton L. Fannin
Trustee
