EX-99.OTHER 9 d557132dex99other.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

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, DAVID S. DEVITO 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 20th day of May 2013.

 

By:   

 /s/ David B. Lippman

      By:   

 /s/ Charles Baldiswieler

    David B. Lippman, President           Charles Baldiswieler, Trustee
By:   

 /s/ Laird Landmann

      By:   

 /s/ Andrew Tarica

    Laird Landmann, Trustee           Andrew Tarica, Trustee
By:   

 /s/ Martin Luther King III

      By:   

 /s/ Ronald J. Consiglio

    Martin Luther King III, Trustee           Ronald J. Consiglio, Trustee
By:   

 /s/ Daniel D. Villanueva

      By:   

 /s/ Peter McMillan

    Daniel D. Villanueva, Trustee           Peter McMillan, Trustee
By:   

 /s/ Robert G. Rooney

      By:   

 /s/ David S. Devito

    Robert G. Rooney, Trustee         

 David S. Devito,

 Chief Financial Officer

By:   

 /s/ Patrick Haden

        
    Patrick Haden, Trustee