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• Consultant Services 4.1 The Consultant agrees to perform the following services and undertake the following responsibilities and duties to the Company to be provided by the Consultant to the Company as consulting services (the "Consulting Services"):

• OVERSIGHT SERVICES Oversight services for the Fund provided by Price Associates shall include all oversight of BNY Mellon, Delegates and service providers that provide accounting, administrative, and tax support services and not specifically provided for under each Fund’s Investment Management Agreement. Exhibit B2 For Funds listed on Exhibit A2 (ETFs) Price Associates provides all accounting, administrative, tax and oversight services to the Funds listed on Exhibit A2, including the below. ACCOUNTING SERVICES Accounting Services provided by Price Associates shall include, among other things: · oversight of quality control, including processing results related to fund accounting services provided by Delegates or other third party service providers relating to pricing. Such oversight includes, but is not limited to, review of (a) NAV calculations and fund valuations, (b) securities pricing and resolution of pricing exceptions, and (c) calculation and preparation of any financial information or schedules; · end-of-day INAV oversight for ETFs that provide INAV · determining accounting and valuation policies, instructing Delegates and/or other service providers, and/or providing it with such advice that may be reasonably necessary, to properly account for all financial transactions and to maintain the Fund’s accounting procedures and records so as to ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and tax practices and rules; and · calculating and authorizing expense accruals and payments; annual fund expense budgets; accrual analysis; rollforward calculations; payment of expenses; fees for payment to service providers; · facilitating on behalf of the Fund resolution and remediation of fund accounting issues escalated by Delegates and/or other service providers; · preparing daily NAV calculations, including all necessary component services such as valuation and particularly private company investment valuation, corporate actions processing, trade processing, and performing month-end and fiscal-period-end close processes; · recordkeeping as required; and · such other accounting services as agreed to by the parties not otherwise performed by Price Associates under the Investment Management Agreement. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Administrative Services provided by Price Associates shall include, among other things: · ensuring maintenance for the Fund of all records that may be reasonably required in connection with the audit performed by the Fund’s independent registered public accountants, or by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or such other Federal or state regulatory agencies; · cooperating with the Fund’s independent registered public accountants and taking all reasonable action in the performance of its obligations under the Agreement to assure that the necessary information is made available to such accountants for the expression of their opinion without any qualification as to the scope of their examination including, but not limited to, their opinion included in the Fund’s annual report on Form N-CSR and annual amendment to Form N-1A; · implementing and maintaining the systems, data storage and reporting necessary to perform services outlined herein; · all efforts concerning financial reporting services, including shareholder reports and financial information in regulatory filings; N-PORT and N-CEN; and other financial reporting services as necessary; · determining financial reporting policies, maintaining adequate controls over financial reporting to provide complete and accurate financial information and disclosures that are certified by officers of the Funds. Providing sub-certifications, as requested by officers of the Funds, for the adequacy of such controls and the completeness and accuracy of information included in Form N-CSR or any other form that may require certification; · periodic testing of Internal Revenue Code qualification requirements; · prepare and furnish fund performance information; · prepare and disseminate vendor survey information; · prepare and file Rule 24f-2 notices and payment; and · such other administrative services as agreed to by the parties, not otherwise performed by Price Associates under the Investment Management Agreement.

• Transactional Services The Service Provider shall communicate to its Customers, as to shares of the Fund, purchase, redemption and exchange orders reflecting the orders it receives from its Customers or from any brokers and banks for their Customers. The Service Provider shall also communicate to beneficial owners holding through it, and to any brokers or banks for beneficial owners holding through them, as to shares of the Fund, mergers, splits and other reorganization activities, and require any broker or bank to communicate such information to its Customers.

• Delegation of Investment Management Services Subject to the prior approval of a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not “interested persons”, and, to the extent required by applicable law, by the shareholders of a Fund, the Adviser may, through a sub-advisory agreement or other arrangement, delegate to a sub-advisor any of the duties enumerated in this Agreement, including the management of all or a portion of the assets being managed. Subject to the prior approval of a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not “interested persons”, and, to the extent required by applicable law, by the shareholders of a Fund, the Adviser may adjust such duties, the portion of assets being managed, and the fees to be paid by the Adviser; provided, that in each case the Adviser will continue to oversee the services provided by such company or employees and any such delegation will not relieve the Adviser of any of its obligations under this Agreement.

• Asset Management Services (i) Real Estate and Related Services:

• Marketing Services The Manager shall provide advice and assistance in the marketing of the Vessels, including the identification of potential customers, identification of Vessels available for charter opportunities and preparation of bids.

• Investment Management Services (a) The Manager shall manage the Fund’s assets subject to and in accordance with the investment objectives and policies of the Fund and any directions which the Trust’s Board of Trustees may issue from time to time. In pursuance of the foregoing, the Manager shall make all determinations with respect to the investment of the Fund’s assets and the purchase and sale of its investment securities, and shall take such steps as may be necessary to implement the same. Such determinations and services shall include determining the manner in which any voting rights, rights to consent to corporate action and any other rights pertaining to the Fund’s investment securities shall be exercised. The Manager shall render or cause to be rendered regular reports to the Trust, at regular meetings of its Board of Trustees and at such other times as may be reasonably requested by the Trust’s Board of Trustees, of (i) the decisions made with respect to the investment of the Fund’s assets and the purchase and sale of its investment securities, (ii) the reasons for such decisions and (iii) the extent to which those decisions have been implemented.

• ADMINISTRATION SERVICES The Administrator shall provide the following services, in each case, subject to the control, supervision and direction of the Fund and the review and comment by the Fund's auditors and legal counsel and in accordance with procedures which may be established from time to time between the Fund and the Administrator:

• Development Services Licensee may from time to time wish to augment the RMSS product with additional functionality or utility, or to integrate it with Licensee systems from other sources, and for such purposes may request the provision of development services from RMSS.

• Investment Services The Sub-Adviser will formulate and implement a continuous investment program for the Fund conforming to the investment objective, investment policies and restrictions of the Fund as set forth in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information of the Company as in effect from time to time (together, the "Registration Statement"), the Articles of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company, and any investment guidelines or other instructions received by the Sub-Adviser in writing from the Investment Manager from time to time. Any amendments to the foregoing documents will not be deemed effective with respect to the Sub-Adviser until the Sub-Adviser's receipt thereof. The appropriate officers and employees of the Sub-Adviser will be available to consult with the Investment Manager, the Company and the Directors at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice concerning the business of the Company, including valuations of securities which are not registered for public sale, not traded on any securities market or otherwise may be deemed illiquid for purposes of the ICA; provided it is understood that the Sub-Adviser is not responsible for daily pricing of the Fund's assets. Subject to the supervision and control of the Investment Manager, which in turn is subject to the supervision and control of the Directors, the Sub-Adviser in its discretion will determine which issuers and securities will be purchased, held, sold or exchanged by the Fund or otherwise represented in the Fund's investment portfolio from time to time and, subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Agreement, will place orders with and give instructions to brokers, dealers and others for all such transactions and cause such transactions to be executed. Custody of the Fund will be maintained by a custodian bank (the "Custodian") and the Investment Manager will authorize the Custodian to honor orders and instructions by employees of the Sub-Adviser designated by the Sub-Adviser to settle transactions in respect of the Fund. No assets may be withdrawn from the Fund other than for settlement of transactions on behalf of the Fund except upon the written authorization of appropriate officers of the Company who shall have been certified as such by proper authorities of the Company prior to the withdrawal. The Sub-Adviser will not be responsible for the provision of administrative, bookkeeping or accounting services to the Fund except as specifically provided herein, as required by the ICA or the Advisers Act or as may be necessary for the Sub-Adviser to supply to the Investment Manager, the Fund or the Fund's shareholders the information required to be provided by the Sub-Adviser hereunder. Any records maintained hereunder shall be the property of the Fund and surrendered promptly upon request. In furnishing the services under this Agreement, the Sub-Adviser will comply with and use its best efforts to enable the Fund to conform to the requirements of: (i) the ICA and the regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder; (iii) other applicable provisions of state or federal law; (iv) the Articles of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company; (v) policies and determinations of the Company and the Investment Manager provided to the Sub-Adviser in writing; (vi) the fundamental and non-fundamental investment policies and restrictions applicable to the Fund, as set out in the Registration Statement of the Company in effect, or as such investment policies and restrictions from time to time may be amended by the Fund's shareholders or the Directors and communicated to the Sub-Adviser in writing; (vii) the Registration Statement; and (viii) investment guidelines or other instructions received in writing from the Investment Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Sub-Adviser shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance with limitations or restrictions for which information from the Investment Manager or its authorized agents is required to enable the Sub-Adviser to monitor compliance with such limitations or restrictions unless such information is provided to the Sub-adviser in writing. The Sub-Adviser shall supervise and monitor the activities of its representatives, personnel and agents in connection with the investment program of the Fund. Nothing in this Agreement shall be implied to prevent the Investment Manager from engaging other sub-advisers to provide investment advice and other services to the Fund or to series or portfolios of the Company for which the Sub-Adviser does not provide such services, or to prevent the Investment Manager from providing such services itself in relation to the Fund or such other series or portfolios. The Sub-Adviser shall be responsible for the preparation and filing of Schedule 13-G and Form 13-F on behalf of the Fund. The Sub-Adviser shall not be responsible for the preparation or filing of any other reports required of the Fund by any governmental or regulatory agency, except as expressly agreed in writing.