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EXHIBIT 99(b)(p)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and
appoints MARY JANE MALONEY and JOANNE BENNICK, and each of them, with full power
to act without the other, as a true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full and several power of substitution, to sign any Registration Statement, or
amendment thereto of TRAINER WORTHAM FUNDS (the "Trust") to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; and to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission; and to take any appropriate action to
qualify or register all or part of the securities of the Trust for sale in
various states; granting to such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act requisite and
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully as that person might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or any substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney on the
________ day of ________, 2000.
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Trustee
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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State of )
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County of )
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The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ______day of
________________, 2000, by , Trustee of Trainer Wortham Funds.
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Notary Public
