Appointment of Investment Manager On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company hereby appoints the Investment Manager as investment manager of the Account with discretionary authority to manage the investment and reinvestment of the funds and assets of the Account in accordance with the terms hereof, and the Investment Manager accepts such appointment. In the course of providing the services contemplated by this Agreement, the Investment Manager shall act as a fiduciary and shall discharge its fiduciary duties and exercise each of its powers under this Agreement with the care, skill and diligence that a registered investment adviser, acting in a like capacity and familiar with insurance company matters, would use in the conduct of a like enterprise with like aims, taking into consideration the facts and circumstances then prevailing, and such fiduciary duties shall specifically include a duty (a) to act with good faith; (b) of loyalty to Company; (c) to provide full and fair disclosure of all material facts; (d) to employ reasonable care to avoid misleading Company; and (e) to act in a manner consistent with the Investment Guidelines for the Account as agreed to between Investment Manager and Company.
Duties of Investment Manager In carrying out its obligation under paragraph 1 hereof, the Investment Manager shall: (a) supervise and manage all aspects of the Fund's operations: (b) provide the Fund or obtain for it, and thereafter supervise, such executive, administrative, clerical and shareholder servicing services as are deemed advisable by the Directors; (c) arrange, but not pay for, the periodic updating of prospectuses and supplements thereto, proxy material, tax returns, reports to the Fund's shareholders, reports to and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, state Blue Sky authorities and other applicable regulatory authorities; (d) provide to the Directors on a regular basis, written financial reports and analyses on the Fund's securities transactions and the operations of comparable investment companies; (e) determine what issuers and securities shall be represented in the Fund's portfolio and regularly report them in writing to the Directors; (f) formulate and implement continuing programs for the purchases and sales of the securities of such issuers and regularly report in writing thereon to the Directors; and (g) take, on behalf of the Fund, all actions which appear to the Company necessary to carry into effect such purchase and sale programs and supervisory functions as aforesaid, including the placing of orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.
Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer (a) Resignation or Voluntary Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer. Discover Bank may, subject to the restrictions of this Section 5.2(a), remove the Asset Representations Reviewer for any reason or for no reason at any time upon thirty (30) calendar days’ prior written notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer may, subject to the restrictions of this Section 5.2(a), resign as Asset Representations Reviewer for any reason or no reason at any time upon sixty (60) calendar days’ prior written notice to Discover Bank and the Issuer. No notice of removal or resignation of the Asset Representations Reviewer may be delivered under this Section 5.2(a)(i) if an Asset Representations Review is ongoing, (ii) on any date that is not more than 90 calendar days after the occurrence of the filing of a Securities Exchange Act Form 10-D reporting that a Delinquency Trigger has occurred, (iii) if the Indenture Trustee is conducting a vote of all Holders of Outstanding Notes pursuant to Section 715(b) of the Indenture as to whether an Asset Representations Review should be conducted or (iv) if the Delinquency Percentage for the immediately preceding Due Period was equal to or greater than 80% of the Maximum Delinquency Percentage for such Due Period. Notwithstanding this Section 5.2(a), if Additional Accounts are designated to the Master Trust in connection with the securitization that (i) were originated under substantially different underwriting standards than the Accounts designated to the Master Trust on the Effective Date and (ii) materially and adversely change the credit composition of the Receivables owned by the Master Trust, the parties to this Agreement shall commence good faith negotiations to modify the provisions regarding the resignation of the Asset Representations Reviewer in this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Asset Representations Reviewer may resign and terminate this Agreement if it does not receive any undisputed payment due under this Agreement (including Section 4.6) or the Fee Letter, which failure continues un-remedied for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice of such failure shall have been given to Discover Bank (with a copy to the Indenture Trustee) (the “Cure Period”). If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Asset Representations Reviewer shall not have been entered into and delivered to Discover Bank within thirty (30) days after the end of the Cure Period, the resigning Asset Representations Reviewer may petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Asset Representations Reviewer.
UNION REPRESENTATION AND COMMITTEES (a) It is mutually agreed that where negotiations are conducted on a joint basis between any or all of the Nursing Homes in the Extendicare chain in the Province of Ontario, the Union will elect or otherwise select a negotiating committee consisting of one (1) representative from each Nursing Home. (b) If negotiations are carried on individually for any or all of the Nursing Homes in the Extendicare chain in the Province of Ontario, it is agreed that the Union will elect or otherwise select a negotiating committee consisting of up to two (2) employees from the full-time bargaining unit, and two (2) employees from the part-time bargaining unit, one (1) of which shall be the Union Chairperson. (c) All members of the committee shall be regular employees of the Employer who have completed their probationary period. (d) The Nursing Home members of the Committee will be paid by the Employer for time used during normally scheduled working hours in negotiation of this Agreement or its successor including all conciliation proceedings but excluding any Arbitration proceedings. Employees on the evening and night shift shall receive paid time off for the actual day of the negotiating meeting. (e) Where the parties participate in group bargaining, the Employer agrees to provide alternative days off in the case where an employee is bargaining on a day off. In the case of a part time employee such alternative days will be capped at two per calendar week. These bargaining days will be treated as days worked for which the employee will receive pay for the hours she would have regularly worked. 7.02 The Employer will recognize a Union Administrative Committee which shall consist of a Union Chairperson and up to three (3) additional committee persons from each bargaining unit, all selected from the members of their respective bargaining units. No more than two (2) committee members shall meet with the Employer at any one time. The Employer shall be advised of the names of members of this committee and shall be notified of any changes from time to time. All members of the committee shall be employees of the Employer who have completed their probationary period. (a) The Union acknowledges that the members of the Union Administrative Committee must continue to perform their regular duties, and that so far as possible all activities of the committee will be carried on outside the regular working hours of the members thereof, unless otherwise mutually arranged. (b) Notwithstanding the above, the Employer agrees that requested time off during working hours for Union Administrative activities will not be arbitrarily withheld. (c) The Employer shall pay representatives and Committee members their respective wages for all time lost from regularly scheduled hours investigating and/or processing grievances, up to but not including the arbitration stage.
Resignation and Removal Successor Asset Representations Reviewer Section 5.1. Eligibility Requirements for Asset Representations Reviewer 18 Section 5.2. Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer 18 Section 5.3. Successor Asset Representations Reviewer 19 Section 5.4. Merger, Consolidation or Succession 20
Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of the Administrator (a) This Agreement shall continue in force until the dissolution of the Issuing Entity, upon which event this Agreement shall automatically terminate. (b) Subject to Section 8(e), the Administrator may resign its duties hereunder by providing the Issuing Entity, the Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer with at least 60 days’ prior written notice. (c) Subject to Section 8(e), the Issuing Entity may remove the Administrator without cause by providing the Administrator, the Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer with at least 60 days’ prior written notice. (d) Subject to Section 8(e), at the sole option of the Issuing Entity, the Administrator may be removed immediately upon written notice of termination from the Issuing Entity to the Administrator, the Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer if any of the following events shall occur: (i) the Administrator shall default in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement and, after notice of such default, shall not cure such default within ten days (or, if such default cannot be cured in such time, shall not give within ten days such assurance of cure as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Entity); (ii) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or order for relief, and such decree or order shall not have been vacated within 60 days, in respect of the Administrator in any involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or appoint a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property or order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; or (iii) the Administrator shall commence a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property, shall consent to the taking of possession by any such official of any substantial part of its property, shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due. The Administrator agrees that if any of the events specified in clauses (ii) or (iii) of this subsection shall occur, it shall give written notice thereof to the Issuing Entity, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Indenture Trustee within seven days after the happening of such event. (e) Upon the Administrator’s receipt of notice of termination, pursuant to Sections 8(c) or (d), or the Administrator’s resignation in accordance with this Agreement, the predecessor Administrator shall continue to perform its functions as Administrator under this Agreement, in the case of termination, only until the date specified in such termination notice or, if no such date is specified in a notice of termination, until receipt of such notice and, in the case of resignation, until the later of: (x) the date 45 days from the delivery to the Issuing Entity, the Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer of written notice of such resignation (or written confirmation of such notice) in accordance with this Agreement and (y) the date upon which the predecessor Administrator shall become unable to act as Administrator, as specified in the notice of resignation and accompanying Opinion of Counsel. In the event of the Administrator’s termination hereunder, the Issuing Entity shall appoint a successor Administrator acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, and the successor Administrator shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in form acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. In the event that a successor Administrator has not been appointed at the time when the predecessor Administrator has ceased to act as Administrator in accordance with this Section, and if the predecessor Administrator is currently serving as the Servicer under the Transaction Documents, the Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the successor Administrator and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to the compensation specified in Section 3. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee shall, if it shall be unable so to act, appoint or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint any established institution having a net worth of not less than $50,000,000 and whose regular business shall include the performance of functions similar to those of the Administrator, as the successor to the Administrator under this Agreement. (f) Upon appointment, the successor Administrator (including the Indenture Trustee acting as successor Administrator) shall be the successor in all respects to the predecessor Administrator and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities arising thereafter relating thereto placed on the predecessor Administrator and shall be entitled to the compensation specified in Section 3 and all the rights granted to the predecessor Administrator by the terms and provisions of this Agreement. (g) Except when and if the Indenture Trustee is appointed successor Administrator, the Administrator may not resign unless it is prohibited from serving as such by law as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Indenture Trustee. No resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to this Section shall be effective until: (i) a successor Administrator shall have been appointed by the Issuing Entity and (ii) such successor Administrator shall have agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. (h) The appointment of any successor Administrator shall be effective only after satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to the proposed appointment.
Engagement of Successor Asset Representations Reviewer Following the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Issuer will engage a successor Asset Representations Reviewer who meets the eligibility requirements of Section 5.1.
Engagement of Asset Representations Reviewer Servicer shall, at all times while any publicly-offered Series of Notes is Outstanding under the Indenture, ensure that an Asset Representations Reviewer has been engaged by Servicer and appointed by Issuer and if the Asset Representations Reviewer gives notice of its intent to resign or Servicer terminates the Asset Representation Reviewer pursuant to the terms of the Asset Representations Review Agreement or if a vacancy exists in the office of Asset Representations Reviewer for any reason (the Asset Representations Reviewer in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Asset Representations Reviewer), Servicer shall promptly appoint and designate a successor Asset Representations Reviewer in accordance with the provisions of the Asset Representations Review Agreement.
Termination Resignation and Successions 7.1 Final Termination. Unless terminated at an earlier date by mutual agreement of the parties hereto, this Agreement shall terminate upon the first to occur of the following: (a) the last Serviced Appointment is terminated, matured or expired under the terms of the applicable Serviced Corporate Trust Contract and all Trust Assets in respect thereof have been fully distributed, (b) the last Serviced Appointment is Transferred to the applicable Purchaser,
Independence of Asset Representations Reviewer The Asset Representations Reviewer will be an independent contractor and will not be subject to the supervision of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee for the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations under this Agreement. Unless authorized by the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, respectively, the Asset Representations Reviewer will have no authority to act for or represent the Issuer or the Owner Trustee and will not be considered an agent of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. Nothing in this Agreement will make the Asset Representations Reviewer and either of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee members of any partnership, joint venture or other separate entity or impose any liability as such on any of them.
