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Report of Independent Auditors
To the Shareholders and
Board of Directors of
The Riverfront Funds
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of the Riverfront Funds for the year ended
December 31, 1997, we considered its 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, and not to provide assurance on the internal
control.
The management of the Riverfront 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 internal control, errors
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 of specific
internal control components does not reduce to a
relatively low level the risk that errors 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 at December 31, 1997.
This report is intended solely for the information and use
of the board of directors and management of the
Riverfront Funds and the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Cincinnati, Ohio
February 13, 1998
