Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions: 1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts or their affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a Trust or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such Trust’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of any Trust shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such Trust relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts under the Other Trust Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a Trust reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts and Funds with respect to which services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant Trust), including, without limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the Administrator, their affiliates, third party Sub-Administrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator to one or more Administrator, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Services hereunder; and (B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator is likely to be required to provide pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • SEC filing classification of the Trusts (i.e., small or large filer); • Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E. 2. The Administrator acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator or that are expected to be used by the Administrator in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator or otherwise previously approved by the Administrator in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • Investment classification of positions; • Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and Funds. The Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas. 3. The Administrator acknowledges and agrees on the following matters: (A) The Administrator has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposes. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise. (B) The Administrator assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the Trusts or Funds. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a Trust uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto. (C) The Administrator may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any Trust (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Trust relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trusts’ investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with such Trust (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the Trusts, the Funds, any of their affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the Trust or a Fund or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the Trust, “Trust Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein, except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement. (D) The Administrator shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Parties. (E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the Administrator nor any Trust has any rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The Administrator, for itself and on behalf of each Trust, automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any Trust. (F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.
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Samples: Master Sub Administration Agreement (Highland Funds I), Master Sub Administration Agreement (Highland Funds Ii)
Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts each Trust by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts or their affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a Trust or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such Trust’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of received by any Trust shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such Trust relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts under the Other Trust Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator each Trust acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a Trust reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts and Funds with respect to which receiving services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant Trust), including, without limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the AdministratorTrusts, their affiliates, third party Sub-Administratorsadministrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator administrator to one or more AdministratorTrusts, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Services hereunder; and
(B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator each Trust is likely to be required to provide pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator each Trust hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • SEC filing classification of the Trusts (i.e., small or large filer); • Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E.
2. The Administrator Each Trust acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator Trust or that are expected to be used by the Administrator Trust in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator Each Trust will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator such Trust or otherwise previously approved by the Administrator such Trust in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator Each Trust acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • Investment classification of positions; • Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and FundsTrusts. The Administrator Each Trust hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator Trust (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas.
3. The Administrator Each Trust acknowledges and agrees on the following matters:
(A) The Administrator Each Trust has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator Trust has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposes. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise.
(B) The Administrator Each Trust assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the Trusts or Fundsit. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a Trust uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto.
(C) The Administrator Each Trust may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any the Trust (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Trust relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator Trust may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trustsits Funds’ investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with such Trust (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) neither the Administrator no Trust nor any Trust Fund may charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator no Trust nor any Trust Fund may use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the TrustsTrust, the Funds, any of their affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the Trust or a Fund or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the Trust, “Trust Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein, except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement.
(D) The Administrator Each Trust shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator each Trust shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Parties.
(E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the Administrator nor any No Trust has any rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The AdministratorEach Trust, for itself and on behalf of each TrustFund, automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any Trust.
(F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.
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Samples: Master Administration Agreement (Highland Funds I), Master Administration Agreement (Highland Funds Ii)
Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicableapplicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts or their affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a Trust the Administrator or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Administrator Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such Trustthe Administrator’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of any Trust received by the Administrator shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such Trust the Administrator relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Administrator Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts Administrator under the Other Trust Administrator Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without Information Classification: Limited Access limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a Trust reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts and Funds with respect to which services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant TrustAdministrator), including, without limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the Administrator, their its affiliates, third party Sub-Administratorsadministrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator to one or more AdministratorTrusts, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) the Administrator will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, hereunder; and
(B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator is likely to be required to provide with respect to each Trust and Fund pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • SEC filing classification of the Trusts (i.e., small or large filer); • Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E.
2. The Administrator acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator or that are expected to be used by the Administrator with respect to each Trust and Fund in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions Information Classification: Limited Access previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator or otherwise previously approved by the Administrator in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN CEN, and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services Services, and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • Investment classification of positions; • Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and FundsTrusts. The Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas.
3. The Administrator acknowledges and agrees on the following matters:
(A) The Administrator has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposespurposes with respect to the Trusts and Funds. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise.
(B) The Administrator assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or and the Trusts or and Funds. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a Trust the Administrator uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust Administrator obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto.
(C) The Administrator or any Trust may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any Trust the Administrator (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Administrator or such Trust relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Information Classification: Limited Access Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator or any Trust may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trusts’ investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with the Administrator or such Trust (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) that neither the Administrator nor any Trust may charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust Administrator has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the Trusts, the Fundseach Trust and Fund, any of their affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the any Trust or a Fund or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the TrustAdministrator, “Trust Administrator Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein), except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust Administrator has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Administrator Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement.
(D) The Administrator shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Administrator Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Administrator Parties.
(E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Information Classification: Limited Access Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the The Administrator nor any Trust has any and Trusts have no rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its their use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The Administrator, for itself and on behalf of each Trustthe Trusts and Funds, automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Administrator Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any Trust.
(F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.
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Samples: Master Sub Administration Agreement (Mutual Funds) (Transamerica Funds)
Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts Trust or their its affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a the Trust or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such the Trust’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of any received by the Trust shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such the Trust relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts Trust under the Other Trust Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator Trust acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a Trust reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts and Funds with respect to which services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant Trust), including, without limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the AdministratorTrust, their its affiliates, third party Sub-Administratorsadministrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator administrator to one or more AdministratorCompanies, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) the Trust will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Services Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, hereunder; and
(B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator Trust is likely to be required to provide pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator Trust hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • SEC filing classification of the Trusts Trust (i.e., small or large filer); • Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E.
2. The Administrator Trust acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator Trust or that are expected to be used by the Administrator Trust in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN CEN, and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator Trust will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator Trust or otherwise previously approved by the Administrator Trust in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator Trust acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN CEN, and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services Services, and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • Investment classification of positions; • Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and FundsTrust. The Administrator Trust hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator Trust (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas.
3. The Administrator Trust acknowledges and agrees on the following matters:
(A) The Administrator Trust has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator Trust has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposes. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise.
(B) The Administrator Trust assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the Trusts or Fundsit. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a the Trust uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto.
(C) The Administrator Trust may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any the Trust (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Trust relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator Trust may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trusts’ investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with such the Trust (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may not charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may not use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the Trusts, the FundsTrust, any of their its affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the Trust or a Fund or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the Trust, “Trust Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose disclose, display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein, except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement.
(D) The Administrator Trust shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator Trust shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Parties.
(E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the Administrator nor any The Trust has any no rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The Administrator, for itself and on behalf of each Trust, Trust automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any Trust.
(F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.
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Samples: Sub Administration Agreement (AB CarVal Opportunistic Credit Fund)
Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts Company or their its affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a Trust the Company or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Company Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such Trustthe Company’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of any Trust received by the Company shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such Trust the Company relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Company Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts Company under the Other Trust Company Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator Company acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a Trust Company reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts and Funds with respect to which receiving services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant TrustCompany), including, without State Street:Select Classification Level limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the AdministratorCompany, their its affiliates, third party Sub-Administratorsadministrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator administrator to one or more AdministratorCompanies, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) the Company will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Services Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, hereunder; and
(B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust Company data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator each Company is likely to be required to provide pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator each Company hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • · SEC filing classification of the Trusts Company (i.e., small or large filer); • · Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • · Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • · Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E.
2. The Administrator Each Company acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator Company or that are expected to be used by the Administrator Company in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN CEN, and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator Company will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator Company or otherwise previously approved by the Administrator Company in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator Company acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN CEN, and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services Services, and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • · Investment classification of positions; • · Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • · General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • · Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and FundsCompany. The Administrator State Street:Select Classification Level Each Company hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator Company (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas.
3. The Administrator Each Company acknowledges and agrees on the following matters:
(A) The Administrator Each Company has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator Company has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposes. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise.
(B) The Administrator Each Company assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the Trusts or Fundsit. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a Trust the Company uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust Company obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto.
(C) The Administrator Each Company may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any Trust the Company (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Trust Company relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator Company may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trusts’ investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with such Trust the Company (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) neither the Administrator nor any Trust Company may not charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust Company has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator nor any Trust Company may not use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. State Street:Select Classification Level Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the Trusts, the FundsCompany, any of their its affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the Trust or a Fund Company or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the TrustCompany, “Trust Company Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose disclose, display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein, except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust Company has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Company Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement.
(D) The Administrator Company shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Company Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator Company shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Company Parties.
(E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the Administrator nor any Trust The Company has any no rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The Administrator, for itself and on behalf of each Trust, Company automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Company Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any TrustCompany.
(F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.. State Street:Select Classification Level Further to the Administration Agreement dated as of August 8, 2022 between AB Active ETFs, Inc. (the “Company”) and State Street Bank and Trust Company (the “Administrator”), the Company and the Administrator mutually agree to update this Annex 1 by adding/removing Funds and/or Portfolios as applicable: AB Ultra Short Income ETF Monthly State Street:Select Classification Level
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Liquidity Risk Measurement Services. [Not Applicable.] Administrator and Trust Duties, Representations and Covenants in Connection with (i) Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and (ii) Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services. The provision of the Services to the Administrator and with respect to the Trusts by the Sub-Administrator is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The parties acknowledge and agree on the following matters: The Services depend, directly or indirectly, on: (i) Required Data and (ii) information concerning the Trusts Trust or their affiliates or any Fund, pooled vehicle, security or other investment or portfolio regarding which a the Trust or its affiliates provide services or is otherwise associated (“Trust Entities”) that is generated or aggregated by the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates in connection with services performed on such Trust’s behalf or otherwise prepared by the Sub-Administrator (“State Street Data,” together with Required Data and Third Party Data (as defined below), “Services-Related Data”). The Sub-Administrator’s obligations, responsibilities and liabilities with respect to any State Street Data used in connection with other services provided hereunder on behalf of any Trust shall be as provided in such respective other agreements between the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates and such Trust relating to such other services (e.g., administration and/or custody services, etc.) from which the State Street Data is derived or sourced (“Other Trust Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or any service schedule(s) shall limit or modify the Sub-Administrator’s or its affiliates’ obligations with respect to the Trusts Trust under the Other Trust Agreements. In connection with the provision of the Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services, and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services by the Sub-Administrator, the Administrator acknowledges and agrees that it will be responsible for providing the Sub-Administrator with any information requested by the Sub-Administrator, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Arranging for the regular provision of all Required Data (including State Street Data, where applicable) and related information to the Sub-Administrator, in formats compatible with Sub-Administrator-provided data templates including, without limitation, Required Data and the information and assumptions required by the Sub-Administrator in connection with a the Trust reporting profile and onboarding checklist, as it, or the information or assumptions required, may be revised at any time by the Sub-Administrator, in its discretion (collectively, the “Onboarding Checklist”) and such other forms and templates as may be used by the Sub-Administrator for such purposes from time to time, for all Trusts Trust and Funds with respect to which services are provided under this Agreement, including but not limited to those to be reported on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN (as determined by the relevant Trust), including, without limitation, arranging for the provision of data from the Administrator, their affiliates, third party Sub-Administrators, prime brokers, custodians, and other relevant parties. If and to the extent that Required Data is already accessible to the Sub-Administrator (or any of its affiliates) in its capacity as Sub-Administrator to one or more AdministratorAdministrators, the Sub-Administrator and such Trust(s) Administrator will agree on the scope of the information to be extracted from the Sub-Administrator’s or any of its affiliate’s systems for purposes of the Sub-Administrator’s provision of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN Support Services and Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, subject to the discretion of the Sub-Administrator, and the Sub-Administrator is hereby expressly authorized to use any such information as necessary in connection with providing the Services hereunder; and
(B) Providing all required information and assumptions not otherwise included in Trust data and assumptions provided pursuant to Section 1(A) above, including but not limited to the Required Data, as may be required in order for the Sub-Administrator to provide the Services. The following are examples of certain types of information that the Administrator is likely to be required to provide pursuant to Sections 1(A) and 1(B) above, and the Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the following categories of information are merely illustrative examples, are by no means an exhaustive list of all such required information, and are subject to change as a result of any amendments to Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN: • SEC filing classification of the Trusts Trust (i.e., small or large filer); • Identification of any data sourced from third parties; • Identification of any securities reported as Miscellaneous; and • Any Explanatory Notes included in N-PORT Section E.
2. The Administrator acknowledges that it has provided to the Sub-Administrator all material assumptions used by the Administrator or that are expected to be used by the Administrator in connection with the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services, and that it has approved all material assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in the provision of the Services prior to the first use of the Services. The Administrator will also be responsible for promptly notifying the Sub-Administrator of any changes in any such material assumptions previously notified to the Sub-Administrator by the Administrator or otherwise previously approved by the any Administrator in connection with the Sub-Administrator’s provision of the Services. The Administrator acknowledges that the completion of Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and the provision of the Quarterly Portfolio of Investments Services and the data required thereby, requires the use of material assumptions in connection with many different categories of information and data, and the use and/or reporting thereof, including, but not limited to the following: • Investment classification of positions; • Assumptions necessary in converting data extracts; • General operational and process assumptions used by the Sub-Administrator in performing the Services; and • Assumptions specific with respect to the Trusts and FundsTrust or any Fund. The Administrator hereby acknowledges and understands that the foregoing categories of information that may involve the use of material assumptions are merely illustrative examples of certain subject matter areas in relation to which the Administrator (and/or the Sub-Administrator on its behalf in connection with the Services) may rely on various material assumptions, and are by no means an exhaustive list of all such subject matter areas.
3. The Administrator acknowledges and agrees on the following matters:
(A) The Administrator has independently reviewed the Services (including, without limitation, the assumptions, market data, securities prices, securities valuations, tests and calculations used in the Services), and the Administrator has determined that the Services are suitable for its purposes. None of the Sub-Administrator or its affiliates, nor their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or service providers (collectively, including the Sub-Administrator, “State Street Parties”) make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Services or otherwise.
(B) The Administrator assumes full responsibility for complying with all securities, tax, commodities and other laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the Trusts Trust or Funds. The Sub-Administrator is not providing, and the Services do not constitute, legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice, or accounting or auditing services advice. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties to this Agreement, the Services are of general application and the Sub-Administrator is not providing any customization, guidance, or recommendations. Where a the Trust uses Services to comply with any law, regulation, agreement, or other Trust obligation, the Sub-Administrator makes no representation that any Service complies with such law, regulation, agreement, or other obligation, and the Sub-Administrator has no obligation of compliance with respect thereto.
(C) The Administrator may use the Services and any reports, charts, graphs, data, analyses and other results generated by the Sub-Administrator in connection with the Services and provided by the Sub-Administrator to any Trust (“Materials”) (a) for the internal business purpose of the Trust relating to the applicable Service or (b) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, of a Form N-PORT template and a Form N-CEN update, including any Portfolio of Investments, if applicable. The Administrator may also redistribute the Materials, or an excerpted portion thereof, to its or the Trusts’ Trust’s investment managers, investment advisers, agents, clients, investors or participants, as applicable, that have a reasonable interest in the Materials in connection with their relationship with such Trust (each a “Permitted Person”); provided, however, (i) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may charge a fee, profit, or otherwise benefit from the redistribution of Materials to Permitted Persons, (ii) data provided by third party sources such as but not limited to market or index data (“Third Party Data”) contained in the Materials may not be redistributed other than Third Party Data that is embedded in the calculations presented in the Materials and not otherwise identifiable as Third Party Data, except to the extent the relevant Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data, or (iii) neither the Administrator nor any Trust may use the Services or Materials in any way to compete or enable any third party to compete with the Sub-Administrator. No Permitted Person shall have any further rights of use or redistribution with respect to, or any ownership rights in, the Materials or any excerpted portion thereof. Except as expressly provided in this Section 3(C), the Administrator, the TrustsTrust, the Funds, any of their affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, investment managers, investment advisers, agents or any other third party, including any client of, or investor or participant in the Trust or a Fund or any Permitted Persons (collectively, including the Trust, “Trust Parties”), may not directly or indirectly, sell, rent, lease, license or sublicense, transmit, transfer, distribute or redistribute, disclose display, or provide, or otherwise make available or permit access to, all or any part of the Services or the Materials (including any State Street Data or Third Party Data contained therein, except with respect to Third Party Data to the extent the Trust has separate license rights with respect to the use of such Third Party Data). Without limitation, Trust Parties shall not themselves nor permit any other person to in whole or in part (i) modify, enhance, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decompile, decompose or disassemble the Services or the Materials; (ii) make copies of the Services, the Materials or portions thereof; (iii) secure any source code used in the Services, or attempt to use any portions of the Services in any form other than machine readable object code; (iv) commercially exploit or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for the benefit of any third party in a service bureau or software-as-a-service environment (or similar structure), or otherwise use the Services or the Materials to perform services for any third party, including for, to, or with consultants and independent contractors; or (v) attempt any of the foregoing or otherwise use the Services or the Materials for any purpose other than as expressly authorized under this Agreement.
(D) The Administrator shall limit the access and use of the Services and the Materials by any Trust Parties to a need-to-know basis and, in connection with its obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator shall be responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of any Trust Parties.
(E) The Services, the Materials and all confidential information of the Sub-Administrator (as confidential information is defined in the Agreement and other than Third Party Data and Required Data), are the sole property of the Sub-Administrator. Neither the Administrator nor any Trust has any rights or interests with respect to all or any part of the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, other than its use and redistribution rights expressly set forth in Section 3(C) herein. The Administrator, for itself and on behalf of each the Trust, automatically and irrevocably assigns to the Sub-Administrator any right, title or interest that it has, or may be deemed to have, in the Services, the Materials or the Sub-Administrator’s confidential information, including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any Trust Party feedback, ideas, concepts, comments, suggestions, techniques or know-how shared with the Sub-Administrator (collectively, “Feedback”) and the State Street Parties shall be entitled to incorporate any Feedback in the Services or the Materials or to otherwise use such Feedback for its own commercial benefit without obligation to compensate the Administrator or any Trust.
(F) The Sub-Administrator may rely on Services-Related Data used in connection with the Services without independent verification. Services-Related Data used in the Services may not be available or may contain errors, and the Services may not be complete or accurate as a result.
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Samples: Sub Administration and Accounting Agreement (NexPoint Credit Strategies Fund)