Through its diverse offering, Cardinal
Health delivers integrated health-care solutions that help customers reduce
their costs, improve efficiency and deliver better care to patients.

CRAFund Advisors Issues Brief Addressing Changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

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Cardinal Health Chief Legal Officer Named One of the Most Influential Asian American Lawyers

4 million in facilities
providing affordable health care, $140 million in job creation, employment
training, and other community development activities.

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Fong has been previously recognized for his efforts by the Asian American
Bar Association of New York, the Asian American Bar Association of the San
Francisco Bay Area, and the Organization of Chinese Americans. LAUDERDALE, Fla.crafund.
With $630 million under management representing 300 institutional
shareholders with combined assets of $1.

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Fong, the company's
executive vice president and chief legal officer, will be honored by the Asian
American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) for his contributions to
promoting social justice and diversity and for outstanding personal and
professional achievements as one of the most influential Asian American
lawyers in the United States. More
information about the company may be found at http://www.

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"As a
company, Cardinal Health shares Ivan's vision through the longstanding support
we have provided in our communities and by fostering diversity and inclusion
within our workforce and among our suppliers .

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He is
also a leader of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and a
recent appointee to Cardinal Health's Corporate Diversity and Inclusion
Council. Cardinal Health's diversity and inclusion strategy involves several
key initiatives, including a supplier diversity program, recruitment and
training programs, employee mentoring, and diversity and inclusion awareness. The
company manufactures, packages and distributes pharmaceuticals and medical
supplies, offers a range of clinical services and develops automation products
that improve the management and delivery of supplies and medication for
hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies.)

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Fong Receives Justice in Action Award for Advancing Social Justice and
Equality

DUBLIN, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc.com. FT.

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Presented tonight at AALDEF's annual Lunar New Year Gala in New York, Fong
will receive the Justice in Action award, the organization's highest
recognition.
Founded by CRAFund Advisors in 1999, the CRA Qualified Investment Fund is
a no-load, high credit quality, fixed income mutual fund that aims to deliver
competitive financial performance while supporting community and economic
development in neighborhoods across the country .

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(NYSE: CAH), the leading provider of products and services supporting the
health-care industry , announced today that Ivan K.
Walter, chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health.

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8 trillion , the Fund has purchased
$1. CRAIX assets have purchased high-quality, fixed-income securities
used to finance more than 95,000 affordable rental housing units, 2,781 home
mortgages for low- and moderate -income families, $23.

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Since 1974, AALDEF has honored exceptional individuals who have
paved the way for racial justice and equality.

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AALDEF
is a founding member of the Public Interest Law Center in TriBeCa, which
includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Puerto Rican
Legal Defense and Education Fund.

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"Ivan is a seasoned leader with uncompromising standards and we are proud
to have him as part of Cardinal Health's management team," said Robert D."

ABOUT CRAFUND ADVISORS
CRAFund Advisors is a fixed-income money manager formed in 1998 to oversee
fixed -income community development investments on behalf of the nation's
largest financial institutions .

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Paperwork for banks in the
'intermediate small' category -- those institutions with assets between $250
million and $1 billion -- will be dramatically reduced, while not allowing
them to ignore or decrease their current lending, service and investment
activities. (All impact figures are
as of 06/30/2005.

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The CRAFund guide, entitled "The Community Reinvestment Act: The 2005
Joint Ruling in Perspective," explains the CRA rule changes for bank officials
and others.

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CRAFund Advisors Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Barbara VanScoy,
who is the author of the report summarizing the new rules, said: "It is our
considered opinion that the rule changes will help increase the ability of
smaller banks nationwide to apply more resources to community development in
the form of investments, loans and services.

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Fong has advanced these ideals as an advocate of pro bono work,
particularly among in-house corporate counsel, and as one of the few Asian
Americans who are the chief legal officers of Fortune 500 companies."

About the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Founded in 1974, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a
New York-based organization that promotes and protects the civil rights of
Asian Americans nationwide. (NYSE: CAH) is a $75
billion, global company serving the health-care industry with a broad
portfolio of products and services., CRAFund Advisors today issued
a four-page summary guide explaining in plain English the late July 2005
changes made to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) by the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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AALDEF litigates cases that have broad impact on
Asian American communities, educates Asian Americans about their legal rights,
trains students for careers in public interest law, and shapes public policies
to ensure the equal participation of Asian Americans in our democracy.

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16 on the Fortune
500, Cardinal Health employs more than 55,000 people on six continents.3 billion in securities that have advanced community development activities
-- including housing, healthcare, and job creation projects -- in all 50
states.

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About Cardinal Health
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc.cardinalhealth. The easy-to-read document can be viewed or downloaded online at
http: //www. In addition to its central role as the
registered investment advisor to the CRA Qualified Investment Fund (CRAIX),
CRAFund Advisors also manages separate accounts for institutional investors .