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5 Year Periodic Table of Returns

FIVE YEAR SNAPSHOT OF ASSET CLASS RETURNS (%)

REPORT GENERATED ON 6.8.10

Annual total returns % of selected Indices and Lipper Averages (2005-2010) in order of performance (best to worst)
Annlzd. INDEX AND LIPPER AVERAGE DESCRIPTIONS
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 YTD* Returns
BEST

Dow Jones Industrial Average. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks that typically trade on the New
S&P GS MSCI S&P GS Lip Muni S&P MC Lip S&P MC York Stock Exchange. The Dow, as it is called, is often viewed as a barometer of how shares of the largest U.S. companies are
Com World Com Dbt 400 SmCapVa 400 performing.
25.53 20.07 32.67 -9.09 37.38 9.48 3.27
S&P 500. An unmanaged index that consists of the common stocks of 500 large capitalization companies, within various
industrial sectors, most of which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
S&P MC DJIA Lip LC Gr DJIA Lip S&P MC Lip Muni
400 SmCapGr 400 Dbt Lipper General Municipal Debt Funds Average. Tracks funds that invest primarily in municipal debt issues in the top four credit
12.56 19.05 14.17 -31.93 36.20 9.09 2.95 ratings.

MSCI Russell MSCI Lip Lip LC Gr Russell MSCI Russell 2000. Consists of 2,000 of the smallest securities in the Russell 3000 Index, representing approximately 7% of the
World 2000 World SmCapVa 2000 World Russell 3000 Index total market capitalization.
9.49 18.37 9.04 -33.45 35.08 8.85 2.01 Lipper Small Cap Growth Funds Average. Tracks funds that invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market
capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) less than 250% of the dollar-weighted median of the smallest 500 of the middle
Lip LC Gr Lip DJIA Russell Lip Lip DJIA 1,000 securities of the S&P SuperComposite 1500 Index.
SmCapVa 2000 SmCapVa SmCapGr
6.18 16.57 8.88 -33.79 32.57 7.32 1.94
Lipper Large Cap Growth Funds Average. Tracks funds that invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market
capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) greater than 300% of the dollar-weighted median market capitalization of the
middle 1,000 securities of the S&P SuperComposite 1500 Index.
Lip S&P 500 Lip S&P MC MSCI S&P 500 Lip
SmCapVa SmCapGr 400 World SmCapVa Lipper Small Cap Value Funds Average. Tracks funds that invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market
6.16 15.80 8.69 -36.23 29.99 5.39 0.62 capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) less than 250% of the dollar-weighted median of the smallest 500 of the middle
1,000 securities of S&P SuperComposite 1500 Index.
Lip Lip S&P MC S&P 500 Russell DJIA Russell
S&P MidCap 400. A market value-weighted index that consists of 400 domestic stocks and measures the performance of the
SmCapGr SmCapGr 400 2000 2000 mid-size company segment of the U.S. market
5.66 10.33 7.98 -37.00 27.17 4.82 0.51
MSCI World. Consists of a market-value-weighted average of the performance of more than 1,364 securities listed on the stock
S&P 500 S&P MC S&P 500 Lip LC Gr S&P 500 Lip LC Gr Lip LC Gr exchanges of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
400 Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
4.91 10.32 5.49 -40.70 26.46 4.20 0.50
S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index TR. Tracks investment performance in the commodity markets comparable to the S&P
Russell Lip LC Gr Lip Muni MSCI DJIA MSCI S&P 500 500 or FT equity indices. As such, the S&P GSCI is a composite index of commodity sector returns, representing an unleveraged,
2000 Dbt World World long-only investment in commodity futures that is broadly diversified across the spectrum of commodities.
4.55 5.60 1.15 -40.71 22.68 3.24 0.42

Lip Muni Lip Muni Russell Lip Lip Muni Lip Muni Lip
Dbt Dbt 2000 SmCapGr Dbt Dbt SmCapGr
3.00 4.50 -1.57 -42.11 16.85 1.34 -0.02

DJIA S&P GS Lip S&P GS S&P GS S&P GS S&P GS


WORST

Com SmCapVa Com Com Com Com


1.72 -15.08 -5.54 -46.49 13.48 -0.89 -3.00
*YTD is through 03/31/2010
Source: Lipper, Inc. and Morningstar. Performance information represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. The information provided is for illustrative purposes only and is not meant to
represent the performance of any particular investment. Investing involves risk. Asset class returns are represented by the returns of indices and/or Lipper mutual fund averages and are ranked on an annual total
return basis. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Performance results assume reinvestment of distributions.
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