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                                                                      EXHIBIT 11


                                  MAGNA FUNDS

                                 Code of Ethics

                              Adopted June 7, 1994
                            As Revised June 2, 1997

     In order to ensure that personnel of Magna Funds (the "Trust") comply with
requirements of Section 17(j) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act")
and of Rule 17j-1 thereunder, the Trust has adopted the Code of Ethics (the
"Code") set forth below.

     The Trust's investment adviser of Magna Bank, N.A. (together with its
parent company and the direct and indirect subsidiaries of such parent company,
"Magna"), and the Trust's principal underwriter and administrator is BISYS Fund
Services Limited Partnership (together with its parent company and the direct
and indirect subsidiaries of such parent company, "BISYS").

1.   Definitions

     (A)  "Access person" means any Trustee, officer or advisory person of the
          Trust; provided, however, that for purposes of this Code, an access
          person does not include any person who is subject to a code of ethics
          adopted by any corporate unit of Magna or of BISYS in compliance with
          Rule 17j-1 under the Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of Magna
          and BISYS shall promptly report to the Trust's Board of Trustees with
          all material facts and circumstances relating to any violations or
          circumstances that could reasonably suggest a violation, or potential
          violation, of its respective code of ethics, by any person who would
          be, but for the proviso clause contained in the first sentence of this
          Section I.A, an access person with respect to the Trust.

     (B)  "Advisory person" means (i) any employee of the Trust or of any
          company in a control relationship to the Trust, who, in connection
          with his or her regular functions or duties, makes, participates in or
          obtains information regarding the purchase or sale of a security by
          the Trust, or whose functions relate to the making of any
          recommendations with respect to such purchases or sales; and (ii) any
          natural person in a control relationship to the Trust who obtains
          information concerning recommendations made to the Trust with regard
          to the purchase or sale of a security.
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(C)  A security is "being considered for purchase or sale" when a recommendation
     to purchase or sell a security has been made and communicated or, with
     respect to the person making the recommendation, when such person seriously
     considers making such a recommendation.

(D)  A security is "being purchased or sold" by the Trust from the time when a
     purchase or sale program has been communicated to the person who places the
     buy and sell orders for the Trust until the time when such program has been
     fully completed or terminated.

(E)  "Beneficial ownership" shall be interpreted in the same manner as it would
     be in determining whether a person is subject to the provisions of Section
     16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations
     thereunder from time to time in effect, except that the determination of
     direct or indirect beneficial ownership shall apply to all securities which
     an access person has or acquires.

(F)  "Control" shall have the same meaning as that set forth in Section 2(a)(9)
     of the Act. Section 2(a)(9) provides that "control" means the power to
     exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of a
     company, unless such power is solely the result of an official position
     with such company.

(G)  "Disinterested Trustee" means a Trustee of the Trust who is not an
     "interested person" of the Trust within the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of
     the Act.

(H)  "Purchase or sale of a security" includes, inter alia, the writing of an
     option to purchase or sell a security.

(I)  "Security" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(36) of the Act,
     except that it shall not include securities issued by the Government of the
     United States, short-term debt securities which are "government securities"
     within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Act, shares of registered
     open-end investment companies, bankers' acceptances, bank certificates of
     deposit, commercial paper and other money market instruments, or such other
     securities as may be excepted under the provisions of Rule 17j-1 from time
     to time in effect.

(J)  "Security held or to be acquired" by the Trust means any security which,
     within the most recent fifteen (15) days, (i) is or has been held by the
     Trust, or (ii) is being or has been considered by the Trust or its
     investment adviser for purchase by the Trust.

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A person who normally only assists in the preparation of public reports, or
receives public reports but receives no information about current
recommendations or trading, is neither an "advisory person" nor an "access
person." A single instance or infrequent, inadvertent instances of obtaining
knowledge does not make one either then or for all times an advisory person.
Under the definition of "advisory person" the phrase "makes...the purchase or
sale" means someone who places orders or otherwise arranges transactions.

II.  Exempted Transactions

     The prohibitions of Section III of this Code shall not apply to the
following transactions by access persons:

          (1)  Purchases or sales effected for any account over which the access
               person has no direct or indirect influence or control.

          (2)  Purchases or sales of securities which are not eligible for
               purchase or sale by the Trust, as determined by reference to the
               Act and blue sky laws and regulations thereunder, the investment
               objectives and policies and investment restrictions of the Trust,
               undertakings made to regulatory authorities, and other policies
               adopted from time to time by the Trust, Magna or BISYS.

          (3)  Purchases or sales which are nonvolitional on the part of either
               the access person or the Trust, including purchases or sales upon
               exercise of puts or calls written by the access person and sales
               from a margin account pursuant to a bona fide margin call.

          (4)  Purchases which are part of an automatic dividend reinvestment
               plan.

          (5)  Purchases effected upon the exercise of rights issued by an
               issuer pro rata to all holders of a class of its securities, to
               the extent such rights were acquired from such issuer, and sales
               of such rights so acquired.

          (6)  Transactions which appear to present no reasonable likelihood of
               harm to the Trust, which are otherwise in accordance with Rule
               17j-1, and which the President of the Trust has authorized in
               advance. Such transactions would normally include purchases or
               sales of up to 500 shares of a security which is being considered
               for purchase or sale by the Trust (but not being purchased or
               sold) if the issuer has a market capitalization of over $1
               billion.

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          (7)  Transactions which the Disinterested Trustees, after
               consideration of all the facts and circumstances, determine to
               have not been fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative as to the
               Trust.

III.  Prohibited Purchases and Sales

      (A) No access person shall, in connection with the purchase or sale,
          directly or indirectly, by such person of a security held or to be
          acquired by the Trust:

          (1)  employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud the Trust;

          (2)  make to the Trust any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
               to state to the Trust a material fact necessary in order to make
               the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
               they are made, not misleading;

          (3)  engage in any act, practice or course of business which would
               operate as a fraud or deceit upon the Trust; or

          (4)  engage in any manipulative practice with respect to the Trust.

      (B) In this connection, subject to the exceptions stated in Section II
          of this Code, it shall be impermissible for any access person to
          purchase or sell, directly or indirectly, any security (or any option
          to purchase or sell such security) in which he or she had, or by
          reason of such transaction acquires, any direct or indirect
          beneficial ownership and which he or she knows or should have known
          at the time of such purchase or sale;

          (1)  is being considered for purchase or sale by the Trust; or

          (2)  is being purchased or sold by the Trust.

      (C) Any access person who questions whether a contemplated transaction is
          prohibited by this Code should discuss the transaction with the
          President of the Trust prior to proceeding with the transaction.

IV.   Reporting

      (A) Every access person shall file with the Secretary of the Trust a
          report containing the information described in Section IV(C) of this
          Code with respect to transactions in any security in which such
          access person has, or by reason of such transaction acquires, any
          direct or indirect beneficial ownership in the


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          security (regardless of whether such transaction is listed in Section
          II(2)-(7)); provided, however, that such access person shall not be
          required to make a report with respect to transactions effected for
          any account over which such person does not have any direct or
          indirect influence or control if such person certifies such fact to
          the Trust, and provided, further, that the term "security" does not
          include the savings or demand deposit accounts of access persons with
          banks or thrifts.

(B)       A Disinterested Trustee of the Trust need only report a transaction,
          if at the time of that transaction, such Trustee knew or, in the
          ordinary course of fulfilling his official duties as a Trustee, should
          have known that, during the 15-day period immediately preceding or
          following the date of the transaction by the Trustee, such security is
          or was purchased or sold by the Trust or was being considered by the
          Trust or by Magna for purchase or sale by the Trust. (The "should have
          known" standard implies no duty of inquiry, does not presume that
          there should have been any deduction or extrapolation from discussions
          or memoranda dealing with tactics to be employed in meeting the
          Trust's investment objectives, or that any knowledge is to be imputed
          because of prior knowledge of the Trust's portfolio holdings, market
          considerations or the Trust's investment policies, objectives and
          restrictions.)

(C)       Every report shall be made not later than 10 days after the end of the
          calendar quarter in which the transaction to which the report relates
          was effected, and shall contain the following information:

          (1)  The date of the transaction and the title and number of shares or
               principal amount of each security involved.

          (2)  The nature of the transaction (i.e., purchase, sale or any other
               type of acquisition or disposition), including information
               sufficient to establish any exemption listed in Sections
               II(2)-(7) which is relied upon;

          (3)  The price at which the transaction was effected; and

          (4)  The name of the broker, dealer or bank with or through whom the
               transaction was effected.

(D)       If an access person is not required to file such a report for any
          quarter because no reportable transactions were effected by such
          access person or because any transaction effected by such access
          person was for an account over which he or she has no direct or
          indirect influence or control, such access person (other than


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          a Disinterested Trustee of the Trust) shall certify these facts to
          the Trust within ten (10) days of the end of such calendar quarter.

     (E)  The making of such report shall not be construed as an admission by
          the person making such report that he or she has any direct or
          indirect beneficial ownership in the security to which the report
          relates, and the existence of any report shall not be construed as an
          admission that any event reported on constitutes a violation of
          Section III(A) hereof.

V.   Review and Enforcement

     (A)  Review

          (1)  The President of the Trust shall cause the reported personal
               securities transactions to be compared with completed and
               contemplated portfolio transactions of the Trust to determine
               whether any transactions (each a "reviewable Transaction") listed
               in Section III may have occurred.

          (2)  If the President of the Trust determines that a Reviewable
               Transaction may have occurred, he or she shall then determine
               whether a violation of this Code may have occurred, taking into
               account all the exemptions provided under Section II. Before
               making any determination that a violation has been committed by
               an individual, the President of the Trust shall give such person
               an opportunity to supply additional information regarding the
               transaction in question.

     (B)  Enforcement

          (1)  If the President of the Trust determines that a violation of this
               Code may have occurred, he or she shall promptly report the
               possible violation to the Trustees of the Trust, who, with the
               exception of any person whose transaction is under consideration,
               shall take such actions as they consider appropriate, including
               imposition of any sanctions that they consider appropriate, which
               sanctions may include, among others, a letter of censure,
               suspension of the right to trade for his or her own account or
               suspension or termination of the employment of the violator.

          (2)  No person shall participate in a determination of whether he or
               she has committed a violation of this Code or in the imposition
               of any sanction against himself or herself. If a securities
               transaction of the President of the Trust is under consideration,
               a Trustee or other officer of the Trust designated for the
               purpose by the vote of the Trustees of the Trust, shall

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          act in all respects in the manner prescribed herein for the President
          of the Trust.

VI.  Investment Adviser's and Principal Underwriter's Codes of Ethics

     Any investment manager, adviser or sub-adviser and any principal
     underwriter of the Trust shall:

     (1)  Submit to the Board of Trustees of the Trust a copy of a Code of
          Ethics adopted by such entity pursuant to Rule 17j-1 and satisfactory
          to the Trust;

     (2)  Promptly report to the Trust in writing any material amendments to
          such Code;

     (3)  Promptly furnish to the Trust upon request at any time and from time
          to time copies of any reports made pursuant to such Code by any person
          who is an access person (or who would be an access person but for the
          proviso clause contained in the first sentence of Section I.A hereof)
          as to the Trust;

     (4)  Shall immediately furnish to the Trust, without request, all material
          information relating to any violations or circumstances that could
          reasonably suggest a violation, or potential violation, of such Code,
          by any person who is an access person (or who would be an access
          person but for the proviso clause contained in the first sentence of
          Section I.A hereof) as to the Trust; and

     (5)  Submit to the Board of Trustees of the Trust, at least annually, a
          written report summarizing any violations or circumstances requiring
          notice under Section VI.4 above that have taken place in the past
          year, or, if no such violations or circumstances have taken place
          during such period, a statement to that effect.

VII. Records

     (A)  The Trust shall maintain records in the manner and to the extent set
          forth below, which records may be maintained on microfilm under the
          conditions described in Rule 31a-2(f)(1) under the Act and shall be
          available for appropriate examination by representatives of the
          Securities and Exchange Commission.

          (1)  A copy of this Code and any other Code which is, or at any time
               within the past five years has been, in effect shall be preserved
               in an easily accessible place.

          (2)  A record of any violation of this Code and of any action taken as
               a result of such violation shall be preserved in an easily
               accessible place for a


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               period of not less than five years following the end of the
               fiscal year in which the violation occurs.

           (3) A copy of each report made pursuant to this Code by any access
               person shall be preserved by the Trust for a period of not less
               than five years from the end of the fiscal year in which it is
               made, the first two years in an easily accessible place.

           (4) A list of all persons who are, or within the past five years have
               been, required to make reports pursuant to this Code shall be
               maintained in an easily accessible place.

      (B)  Confidentiality

           All reports of securities transactions and any other information
           filed with the Trust pursuant to this Code shall be treated as
           confidential, except as regards appropriate examinations by
           representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

VII.  Amendment; Interpretation of Provisions

      The Trustees may from time to time amend this Code or adopt such
interpretations of this Code as they deem appropriate.

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                    UNION PLANTERS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
                                 Code of Ethics
                              Adopted July 15, 1999


         In order to ensure that personnel of Union Planters Bank, National
Association ("UPB", and together with its parent company and the direct and
indirect subsidiaries of such parent company, "Bank") comply with the
requirements of Section 17(j) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act")
and of Rule 17j-1 thereunder, "UPB" has adopted the Code of Ethics (the "Code")
set forth below with respect to its operations as an investment adviser to
proprietary funds which are registered open-end investment companies
("Proprietary Fund").

I.       Definitions

         (A)   "Access person" means any director, officer or general partner of
               UPB or any advisory person of Bank, who, with respect to any
               registered investment company, makes any recommendation,
               participates in the determination of which recommendations shall
               be made, or whose principal function or duties relate to the
               determination of which recommendation shall be made to any
               registered investment company; or who, in connection with his or
               her duties, obtains any information concerning securities
               recommendations being made by UPB to any registered investment
               company.

         (B)   "Advisory person" means (i) an employee of Bank or of any company
               in a control relationship to Bank, who, in connection with his or
               her regular functions or duties, makes, participates in or
               obtains information regarding the purchase or sale of a security
               by a Proprietary Fund, or whose functions relate to the making of
               any recommendations with respect to such purchases or sales; and
               (ii) any natural person in a control relationship to Bank who
               obtains information concerning recommendations made to a
               Proprietary Fund with regard to the purchase or sale of a
               security.

         (C)   A security is "being considered for purchase or sale" by a
               Proprietary Fund when a recommendation to purchase or sell a
               security has been made and communicated or, with respect to the
               person making the recommendation, when such person seriously
               considers making a recommendation.

         (D)   A Security is "being purchased or sold" by a Proprietary Fund
               from the time when a purchase or sale program has been
               communicated to the person who places the buy and sell orders for
               a Proprietary Fund until the time when such program has been
               fully completed or terminated.

         (E)   "Beneficial ownership" shall be interpreted in the same manner as
               it would be in determining whether a person is subject to the
               provisions of Section 16 of the
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               Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations
               thereunder form time to time in effect, except that the
               determination for direct or indirect beneficial ownership shall
               apply to all securities which an access person has or acquires.

         (F)   "Control" shall have the same meaning as that set forth in
               Section 2(a)(9) of the Act. Section 2(a)(9) provides that
               "control" means the power to exercise a controlling influence
               over the management or policies of a company, unless such power
               is solely the result of an official position with such company.

         (G)   "Disinterested Trustee" means a Trustee of a Proprietary Fund
               who is not an "interested person" of the Proprietary Fund within
               the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of the Act.

         (H)   "Purchase or sale of a security" includes, inter alia, the
               writing of an option to purchase or sell a security.

         (I)   "Security" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(36)
               of the Act, except that it shall not includes securities issued
               by the Government of the United States of America, short-term
               debt securities who are "government securities" within the
               meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Act, shares of registered
               open-end investment companies, bankers' acceptances, bank
               certificates of deposit, commercial paper and other money market
               instruments, or such other securities as may be excepted under
               the provisions of Rule 17j-1 from time to time in effect.

         (J)   "Security held or to be acquired" by a Proprietary Fund means
               any security which, within the most recent fifteen (15) days, (i)
               is or has been held by a Proprietary Fund, or (ii) is being or
               has been considered by a Proprietary Fund or its investment
               adviser for purchase by a Proprietary Fund.

         (K)   "UPB compliance officer" shall mean the individual or individuals
               designated from time to time by UPB's Board of Directors to serve
               in such capacity. A person who normally assists in the
               preparation of public reports or receives public reports but
               receives no information about current recommendations or trading,
               is neither an "advisory person' nor an "access person." A single
               instance or infrequent, inadvertent instances of obtaining
               knowledge does not make one either then or for all times an
               advisory person. Under the definition of "advisory person" the
               phrase "makes. . .the purchase or sale" means someone who places
               orders or otherwise arranges transactions.

II.      Exempted Transactions


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         The prohibitions of Section III of this Code shall not apply to the
following transactions by access persons:

         (1)   Purchases or sales effected for any account over which the
               access person has no direct or indirect influence or control.

         (2)   Purchases or sales of securities which are not eligible for
               purchase or sale by a Proprietary Fund, as determined by
               reference to the Act and the blue sky laws and regulations
               thereunder, the investment objectives and policies and investment
               restrictions of a Proprietary Fund, undertakings made to
               regulatory authorities, and other policies adopted from time to
               time by a Proprietary Fund.

         (3)   Purchase or sales which are nonvolitional on the part of
               either the access person or a Proprietary Fund, including
               purchases or sales upon the exercise of puts or calls written by
               the access person and sales from a margin account pursuant to a
               bona fide margin call.

         (4)   Purchases which are part of an automatic dividend reinvestment
               plan.

         (5)   Purchases effected upon the exercise of rights issued by an
               issuer pro rata to all holders of a class of its securities, to
               the extent such rights were acquired from such issuer, and sales
               of such rights so acquired.

         (6)   Transactions which appear to present no reasonable likelihood
               of harm to a Proprietary Fund, which are otherwise in accordance
               with Rule 17j-1, and which the UPB compliance officer has
               authorized in advance. Such transactions would normally include
               (without limitation) purchases or sales of up to 500 shares of a
               security which is being considered for purchase or sale by a
               Proprietary Fund (but not being purchased or sold) if the issuer
               has a market capitalization of over $1 billion.

         (7)   Transactions which the Disinterested Trustees, after
               consideration of all the facts and circumstances, determine to
               have not been fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative as to a
               Proprietary Fund.

III.     Prohibited Purchases and Sales

         (A)   No access person shall, in connection with the purchase or
               sale, directly or indirectly, by such person of a security held
               or to be acquired by a Proprietary Fund:

               (1)  employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud a
                    Proprietary Fund;


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               (2)  make to a Proprietary Fund any untrue statement or a
                    material fact or omit to state to a Proprietary Fund a
                    material fact necessary in order to make the statements
                    made, in light of the circumstances under which they are
                    made, no misleading;

               (3)  engage in any act, practice or course of business which
                    would operate as a fraud or deceit upon a Proprietary Fund;
                    or

               (4)  engage in any manipulative practice with respect to a
                    Proprietary Fund.

         (B)   In this connection, subject to the exceptions stated in
               Section II of this Code, it shall be impermissible for any access
               person to purchase or sell, directly or indirectly, any security
               (or any option to purchase or sell such security) in which he or
               she had, or by reason of such transaction acquires, any direct or
               indirect beneficial ownership and which he or she knows or should
               have known at the time of such purchase or sale:

               (1)  is being considered for purchase or sale by a Proprietary
                    Fund; or

               (2)  is being purchased or sold by a Proprietary Fund.

         (C)   Any access person who questions whether a contemplated
               transaction is prohibited by this Code should discuss the
               transaction with the UPB compliance officer prior to proceeding
               with the transaction.

IV.      Reporting

         (A)   Every access person shall file with the UPB compliance officer a
               report containing the information described in Section IV(B) of
               this Code with respect to transactions in any security in which
               such access person has, or by reason of such transaction
               acquires, any direct or indirect beneficial ownership in the
               security (regardless of whether such transaction is listed in
               Section II(2)-(7); provided, however, that such access person
               shall not be required to make a report with respect to
               transactions effected for any account over which such person does
               not have any direct or indirect influence or control, and
               provided, further, that the term "security" does not include the
               savings or demand deposit accounts of access persons with banks
               or thrifts.

         (B)   Every report shall be made not later than 10 days after the
               end of the calendar quarter in which the transactions to which
               the report relates was effected, and shall contain the following
               information:


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               (1)  the date of the transaction, the title and number of shares,
                    and the principal amount of each security involved;

               (2)  the nature of the transaction (i.e., purchase, sale or any
                    other type of acquisition or disposition), including
                    information sufficient to establish any exemption listed in
                    Section II(2)-(7) which is relied upon;

               (3)  the price at which the transaction was effected; and

               (4)  the name of the broker, dealer or Bank with or through whom
                    the transaction was effected.

               The requirements of this Section IV(B) may be satisfied by
               sending duplicate confirmations of such trades to the UPB
               Compliance Officer.

         (C)   If an access person is not required to file such a report for
               any quarter because no reportable transactions were effected by
               such access person or because any transaction effected by such
               access person was for an account over which he or she has no
               direct or indirect influence or control, such access person shall
               certify these facts to the UPB compliance officer within ten (10)
               days of the end of such calendar quarter.

         (D)   The making of such report shall not be construed as an
               admission by the person making such report that he or she has any
               direct or indirect beneficial ownership in the security to which
               the report relates, and the existence of any report shall not be
               construed as an admission that any event reported or constitutes
               a violation of Section III (A) hereof.

V.       Review and Enforcement

         (A)   Review

               (1)  The UPB compliance officer shall cause the reported personal
                    securities transactions to be compared with completed and
                    contemplated portfolio transactions of a Proprietary Fund to
                    determine whether any transactions (each a "Reviewable
                    Transaction") listed in Section III may have occurred.

               (2)  If the UPB compliance officer determines that a Reviewable
                    Transaction may have occurred, he or she shall then
                    determine whether a violation of this Code may have
                    occurred, taking into account all the exemptions provided
                    under Section II. Before making any determination that a
                    violation has been committed by an individual, the UPB
                    compliance

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                    officer shall give such person an opportunity to supply
                    additional information regarding the transaction in
                    question.

         (B)   Enforcement

               (1)  If the UPB compliance officer determines that a violation of
                    this Code may have occurred, he or she shall promptly report
                    the possible violation to UPB's Board of Directors, who,
                    with the exception of any person whose transaction is under
                    consideration, shall take such actions as they consider
                    appropriate, including imposition of any sanctions that they
                    consider appropriate, which sanctions may include, among
                    others, a letter of censure, suspension of the right to
                    trade for his or her own account or suspension or
                    termination of the employment of the violator.

               (2)  No person shall participate in a determination of whether he
                    or she has committed a violation of this Code or in the
                    imposition of any sanction against himself or herself. If a
                    securities transaction of the UPB compliance officer is
                    under consideration, a director or other officer of a
                    Proprietary Fund designated for the purpose by the vote of
                    UPB's Board of Directors, shall act in all respects in the
                    manner prescribed herein for the UPB compliance officer.

VI.      Obligations under each Proprietary Fund's Code of Ethics

         The UPB compliance officer shall:

         (1)      Submit to the Board of Trustees of each Proprietary Fund a
                  copy of this Code of Ethics adopted pursuant to Rule 17j-1;

         (2)      Promptly report to each Proprietary Fund in writing any
                  material amendments to this Code;

         (3)      Promptly furnish to each Proprietary Fund upon request at any
                  time copies of any reports made pursuant to this Code by any
                  person who is an access person;

         (4)      Shall immediately furnish to each Proprietary Fund, without
                  request, all material information relating to any violations
                  or circumstances that could reasonably suggest a violation, or
                  potential violation, of this Code, by any person who is an
                  access person; and

         (5)      Submit to the Board of Trustees of each Proprietary Fund, at
                  least annually, a written report summarizing any violations or
                  circumstances requiring notice under Section VI.4 above that
                  have taken place in the past year, if no such


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                  violations or circumstances have taken place during such
                  period, a statement to that effect.

VII.     Records

         (A)      Bank shall maintain records in the manner and to the extent
                  set forth below, which records may be maintained on microfilm
                  under the conditions described in Rule 31a-2(f)(1) under the
                  Act and shall be available for appropriate examination by
                  representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

                  (1)      A copy of this Code and any other Code which is, or
                           at any time within the past five years has been, in
                           effect shall be preserved in an easily accessible
                           place.

                  (2)      A record of any violation of this Code and of any
                           action taken as a result of such violation shall be
                           preserved in an easily accessible place for a period
                           of not less than five years following the end of the
                           fiscal year in which the violation occurs.

                  (3)      A copy of each report made pursuant to this Code by
                           an access person shall be preserved for a period of
                           not less than five years from the end of the fiscal
                           year in which it is made, the first two years in an
                           easily accessible place.

                  (4)      A list of all persons who are, or within the past
                           five years have been, required to make reports
                           pursuant to this Code shall be maintained in an
                           easily accessible place.

         (B)      Confidentiality

                  All reports of securities transactions and any other
                  information filed with Bank or a Proprietary Fund pursuant to
                  this Code shall be treated as confidential, except as regards
                  appropriate examinations by representatives of the Securities
                  and Exchange Commission.

VIII.    Amendment:  Interpretation of Provisions

         UPB's Board of Directors may from time to time amend this Code or adopt
such interpretations of this Code as they deem appropriate.



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LIST OF ACCESS PERSONS

Investment Policy Committee Members
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Matthew W. Finn
Paul B. Anderson
Gary J. Guthrie
Lucy Kasson
Lewis G. Laughlin
Allen A. Roche
Richard S. Wimmer
L. Clark Zedric

Securities Trader
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John E. Arendell

Mutual Fund Support
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Chad A. Stafko



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