Scope of Agency Services; DST Obligations. DST utilizing the TA2000 System will perform the following services, as applicable:
Scope of Agency Services; DST Obligations. A. DST utilizing the TA2000 System will perform the following services:
(i) issuing, transferring and redeeming book entry shares or cancelling share certificates as applicable;
(ii) maintaining shareholder accounts on the records of the Fund on the TA2000 System in accordance with the instructions and information received by DST from the Fund, the Fund's distributor, manager or managing dealer, the Fund's investment adviser, the Fund’s sponsor, the Fund’s custodian, or the Fund’s administrator and any other person whom the Fund names on Schedule C (each an “Authorized Person”), broker-dealers or shareholders;
(iii) when and if a Fund participates in the DTCC, and to the extent DST supports the functionality of the applicable DTCC program:
(a) DST will accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the Program and the purchase, redemption, exchange and transfer of shares in such accounts through systems or applications offered via the Program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by DST by transmission from DTCC on behalf of broker-dealers and banks which have been established by, or in accordance with the instructions of, an Authorized Person, on the Dealer File maintained by DST,
(b) issuing instructions to the Funds’ banks for the settlement of transactions between the Funds and DTCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants),
(c) providing account and transaction information from each affected Fund’s records on TA2000 in accordance with the applicable Program’s rules, and
(d) maintaining shareholder accounts on TA2000 through the Programs;
(iv) providing control book, also known as transaction journal and super sheet which is a daily record for the Fund of all transactions and receipts and disbursements of money and securities;
(v) preparing shareholder meeting lists as needed for use in connection with shareholder meetings;
(vi) withholding, as required by federal law, taxes on shareholder accounts, performing and paying backup withholding as required for all shareholders, and preparing, filing and providing, in electronic format, the applicable U.S. Treasury Department information returns or K-1 data file, as applicable, to Fund’s vendor of choice;
(vii) disbursing income dividends and capital gains distributions to shareholders and recording reinvestment of dividends and distributions in shares of the Fund;
(viii) preparing and providing, in electronic format, a file to Fund’s prin...
