POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

AND RELATED FILINGS

The undersigned trustees and officers of METROPOLITAN WEST FUNDS (the “Trust”) hereby appoint each of DAVID B. LIPPMAN, JOSEPH D. HATTESOHL and DAVID A. HEARTH, their attorneys-in-fact and agents, in all capacities, to execute and to file any documents relating to the Registration Statements on Forms N-1A and N-14 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and under the laws of all states and other domestic and foreign jurisdictions, including any and all amendments thereto, covering the registration and the sale of shares by the Trust, including all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority, including applications for exemptive orders, rulings or filings of proxy materials. The undersigned grant to said attorneys full authority to do every act necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as the undersigned could do if personally present, thereby ratifying all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

The undersigned trustees and officers hereby execute this Power of Attorney as of this 21^st day of July 2009.

By:	/s/ David B. Lippman	By:	/s/ Scott B. Dubchansky
	David B. Lippman, President		Scott B. Dubchansky, Trustee
By:	/s/ Laird Landmann	By:
	Laird Landmann, Trustee		Andrew Tarica, Trustee
By:		By:
	Martin Luther King III, Trustee		Ronald J. Consiglio, Trustee
By:		By:
	Daniel D. Villanueva, Trustee		Peter McMillan, Trustee
By:		By:	/s/ Joseph D. Hattesohl
	Robert G. Rooney, Trustee		Joseph D. Hattesohl, Chief Financial Officer