Common use of REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELLING FUND Clause in Contracts

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELLING FUND. The Selling Trust, on behalf of the Selling Fund, represents and warrants to the Acquiring Fund as follows: (a) The Selling Trust is a statutory trust duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. (b) The Selling Fund is a separate series of the Selling Trust duly authorized in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Selling Trust Governing Documents. (c) The Selling Trust is registered as an open-end management investment company under the 1940 Act, and such registration has not been revoked or rescinded and is in full force and effect. (d) The Selling Fund is not, and the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement (subject to shareholder approval) will not result, in the violation of any provision of the Selling Trust Governing Documents or of any material agreement, indenture, instrument, contract, lease, or other undertaking to which the Selling Fund is a party or by which it is bound. (e) Except for conversion fees to be payable to the Selling Fund’s transfer agent and custodian in connection with the Reorganization, the Selling Fund has no material contracts or other commitments that will be terminated with liability to the Selling Fund before the Closing Date. (f) No litigation, administrative proceeding, or investigation of or before any court or governmental body is presently pending or to its knowledge threatened against the Selling Fund or any of its properties or assets, which, if adversely determined, would materially and adversely affect its financial condition, the conduct of its business, or the ability of the Selling Fund to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Selling Fund knows of no facts that might form a reasonable basis for the institution of such proceedings and is not a party to or subject to the provisions of any order, decree, or judgment of any court or governmental body that materially and adversely affects its business or its ability to consummate the transactions contemplated herein. (g) The [semi-annual] / [annual] financial statements of the Selling Fund [as of June 30, 2011 and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010] / [for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011], have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and have been audited by an independent registered public accounting firm, and such statements (copies of which have been furnished to the Acquiring Fund) fairly reflect the financial condition of the Selling Fund as of [June 30, 2011] / [December 31, 2011], and there are no known contingent liabilities of the Selling Fund as of such date that are not disclosed in such statements. (h) Since the date of the financial statements referred to in subsection (g) above, there have been no material adverse changes in the Selling Fund’s financial condition, assets, liabilities or business (other than changes occurring in the ordinary course of business) and there are no known contingent liabilities of the Selling Fund arising after such date. For the purposes of this subsection (h), a decline in the net asset value of the Selling Fund shall not constitute a material adverse change. (i) All U.S. federal, state, local and other tax returns and reports of the Selling Fund required by law to be filed by it (taking into account permitted extensions for filing) have been timely filed and are correct in all material respects. All U.S. federal, state, local and other taxes required to be paid (whether or not shown on any such return or report) have been paid, or provision shall have been made for the payment thereof and any such unpaid taxes are properly reflected on the financial statements referred to in subsection (h) above. To the best of the Selling Fund’s knowledge, no tax authority is currently auditing or preparing to audit the Selling Fund, and no assessment for taxes, interest, additions to tax, or penalty has been asserted or threatened against the Selling Fund. (j) All issued and outstanding shares of the Selling Fund are duly and validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable by the Selling Fund. All of the issued and outstanding shares of the Selling Fund will, at the time of the Closing, be held by the persons and in the amounts set forth in the records of the Selling Fund’s transfer agent as provided in Section 3.3. The Selling Fund has no outstanding options, warrants, or other rights to subscribe for or purchase any shares of the Selling Fund, and has no outstanding securities convertible into shares of the Selling Fund. (k) At the time of the Closing, the Selling Fund will have good and marketable title to the Selling Fund’s assets to be transferred to the Acquiring Fund pursuant to Section 1.2, and full right, power, and authority to sell, assign, transfer, and deliver such assets, and the Acquiring Fund will acquire good and marketable title thereto. (l) Other than approval by the Selling Fund Shareholders, the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Selling Fund. Subject to approval by the Selling Fund Shareholders, this Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Selling Fund, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles. (m) The information to be furnished by the Selling Fund for use in no-action letters, applications for orders, registration statements, proxy materials, and other documents that may be necessary in connection with the transactions contemplated herein shall be accurate and complete in all material respects and shall comply in all material respects with U.S. federal securities and other laws and regulations. (n) The current prospectus and statement of additional information of the Selling Fund conform in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and do not include, with respect to the Selling Trust or the Selling Fund, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. (o) From the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 5.7), through the time of the meeting of the Selling Fund Shareholders and on the Closing Date, any written information furnished by the Selling Fund for use in the Proxy Materials (as defined in Section 5.7), or any other materials provided in connection with the Reorganization, does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading. (p) For each taxable year of its operations prior to the Closing Date, the Selling Fund (i) has elected to qualify, and has qualified, as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Code (a “RIC”), (ii) has been eligible to and has computed its U.S. federal income tax under Section 852 of the Code, and (iii) has been, and will be as of the Closing Date treated as a separate corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes pursuant to Section 851(g) of the Code. The Selling Fund will qualify as a RIC as of the Closing Date and will have satisfied as of the close of its most recent prior quarter of its taxable year, the diversification requirements of Section 851(b)(3) of the Code without regard to the last sentence of Section 851(d) of the Code. The Selling Fund has not taken any action, caused any action to be taken or caused any action to fail to be taken which action or failure could cause the Selling Fund to fail to qualify as a RIC under the Code. (q) No governmental consents, approvals, authorizations or filings are required under the 1933 Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), the 1940 Act or Delaware state law, as applicable, for the execution of this Agreement by the Selling Trust on behalf of the Selling Fund, except for the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 5.7) and the Post-Effective Amendment (as defined in Section 8.6) and the filing of any documents that may be required under Delaware state law and except for such other consents, approvals, authorizations and filings as have been made or received and such consents, approvals, authorizations and filings as may be required subsequent to the Closing Date, it being understood, however, that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein must be approved by the shareholders of the Selling Fund as described in Section 5.2. (r) The Selling Trust’s Board of Trustees satisfies the fund governance standards defined in Rule 0-1(a)(7) under the 1940 Act as they currently apply to the Selling Trust.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELLING FUND. The Selling Trust, on behalf of the Selling Fund, represents and warrants to the Acquiring Fund as follows: (a) The Selling Trust is a statutory trust duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. (b) The Selling Fund is a separate series of the Selling Trust duly authorized in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Selling Trust Governing Documents. (c) The Selling Trust is registered as an open-end management investment company under the 1940 Act, and such registration has not been revoked or rescinded and is in full force and effect. (d) The Selling Fund is not, and the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement (subject to shareholder approval) will not result, in the violation of any provision of the Selling Trust Governing Documents or of any material agreement, indenture, instrument, contract, lease, or other undertaking to which the Selling Fund is a party or by which it is boundparty. (e) Except for conversion fees to be payable to the Selling Fund’s transfer agent and custodian in connection with the Reorganization, the Selling Fund has no material contracts or other written commitments that will be terminated with liability to the Selling Fund before the Closing Date, other than as set forth in Schedule A hereto. (f) No To the Selling Fund’s knowledge, no litigation, administrative proceeding, or investigation of or before any U.S. federal or state court or governmental body U.S. federal law enforcement agency or regulatory authority is presently pending or to its knowledge threatened against the Selling Fund or any of its properties or assetsFund, which, if adversely determined, would materially and adversely affect its financial condition, the conduct of its business, condition or the ability of the Selling Fund to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The To the Selling Fund’s knowledge, the Selling Fund knows of no facts that might form a reasonable basis for the institution of such proceedings and is not a party to or subject to the provisions of any order, decree, or judgment of any U.S. federal or state court or governmental body U.S. federal law enforcement agency or regulatory authority that materially and adversely affects its business or its ability to consummate the transactions contemplated herein. (g) The [semi-annual] / [annual] annual financial statements of the Selling Fund [as of June 30, 2011 and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010] / [for the fiscal year ended December October 31, 2011], have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and have been audited by an independent registered public accounting firm, and such statements (copies of which have been furnished to the Acquiring Fund) fairly reflect the financial condition of the Selling Fund as of [June 30, 2011] / [December October 31, 2011], and there are no known contingent liabilities of the Selling Fund as of such date that are not disclosed in such statements. The Acquiring Fund acknowledges that, for purposes of making this representation, the Selling Fund may rely on the opinions rendered by its independent registered public accounting firm in connection with the preparation of those annual financial statements. (h) Since the date of the financial statements referred to in subsection (g) above, there have been no material adverse changes in the Selling Fund’s financial condition, assets, liabilities or business (other than changes occurring in the ordinary course of business) ), and there are the Selling Fund has no known knowledge of any material contingent liabilities of the Selling Fund arising after such date. For the purposes of this subsection (h), a decline in the net asset value of the Selling Fund, including as a result of the payment of any expenses incurred by the Selling Fund in connection with consummating the Reorganization, shall not constitute a material adverse change. (i) All U.S. federal, state, local and other tax returns and reports of the Selling Fund required by law to be filed by it (taking into account permitted extensions for filing) have been timely filed and are correct in all material respects. All U.S. federal, state, local and other taxes required to be paid (whether or not shown on any such return or report) have been paid, or provision shall have been made for the payment thereof and any such unpaid taxes are properly reflected on the financial statements referred to in subsection (h) above. To the best of the Selling Fund’s knowledge, no tax authority is currently auditing or preparing to audit the Selling Fund, and no assessment for taxes, interest, additions to tax, or penalty has been asserted or threatened against the Selling Fund. (j) All issued and outstanding shares of the Selling Fund are duly and validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable by the Selling Fund. All of the issued and outstanding shares of the Selling Fund will, at the time of the Closing, be held by the persons and in the amounts set forth in the records of the Selling Fund’s transfer agent as provided in Section 3.3. The Selling Fund has no outstanding options, warrants, or other rights to subscribe for or purchase any shares of the Selling Fund, and has no outstanding securities convertible into shares of the Selling Fund. (k) At the time of the Closing, the The Selling Fund will have has good and marketable title to the Selling Fund’s assets to be transferred to the Acquiring Fund pursuant to Section 1.2, and full right, power, and authority to sell, assign, transfer, and deliver such assets, and the Acquiring Fund will acquire good and marketable title thereto. (l) Other than approval by the Selling Fund Shareholders, the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Selling Fund. Subject to approval by the Selling Fund Shareholders, this Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Selling Fund, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles. (m) The information to be furnished in writing by the Selling Fund to the Acquiring Fund or its agents for use in the specific purpose of preparing no-action letters, applications for orders, registration statements, proxy materials, and other documents that may be necessary in connection with the transactions contemplated herein Reorganization shall be accurate and complete in all material respects and otherwise shall comply not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements therein, in all material respects with U.S. federal securities and other laws and regulationslight of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. (n) The current prospectus and statement of additional information of the Selling Fund conform in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and do not include, with respect to the Selling Trust or the Selling Fund, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. (o) From the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 5.7), through the time of the meeting of the Selling Fund Shareholders and on the Closing Date, any written information furnished by the Selling Fund for use in the Proxy Materials (as defined in Section 5.7), or any other materials provided in connection with the Reorganization, does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading. (p) For each taxable year of its operations prior to the Closing Date, the Selling Fund (i) has elected to qualify, and has qualified, as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Code (a “RIC”), (ii) has been eligible to and has computed its U.S. federal income tax under Section 852 of the Code, and (iii) has been, and will be as of the Closing Date treated as a separate corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes pursuant to Section 851(g) of the Code. The Selling Fund will qualify as a RIC as of the Closing Date and will have satisfied as of the close of its most recent prior quarter of its taxable year, the diversification requirements of Section 851(b)(3) of the Code without regard to the last sentence of Section 851(d) of the Code. The Selling Fund has not taken any action, caused any action to be taken or caused any action to fail to be taken which action or failure could cause the Selling Fund to fail to qualify as a RIC under the Code. (q) No governmental consents, approvals, authorizations or filings are required under the 1933 Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), the 1940 Act or Delaware state law, as applicable, for the execution of this Agreement by the Selling Trust on behalf of the Selling Fund, except for the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 5.7) and the Post-Effective Amendment (as defined in Section 8.6) and the filing of any documents that may be required under Delaware state law and except for such other consents, approvals, authorizations and filings as have been made or received and such consents, approvals, authorizations and filings as may be required subsequent to the Closing Date, it being understood, however, that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein must be approved by the shareholders of the Selling Fund as described in Section 5.2. (r) The Selling Trust’s Board of Trustees satisfies the fund governance standards defined in Rule 0-1(a)(7) under the 1940 Act currently in effect as they currently apply to the Selling Trust.