Common use of SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY Clause in Contracts

SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY. The Company agrees to provide the following administrative services to the Trust and the Funds: • periodic reporting of information to the Trust, such reports to indicate the number of owners of Contracts that hold through a Contract interests in each Account as defined in the Participation Agreement. • distribution of annual and semi-annual shareholder reports and other shareholder communications to owners of Contracts indirectly invested in one or more Funds. • distribution of Fund prospectuses to owners of Contracts indirectly invested in one or more Funds. • preparation, printing and distribution of confirmation and quarterly account statements to owners of Contracts. • distribution of proxy statements and other proxy material to owners of Contracts indirectly invested in the Funds to which such statements and materials relate. • solicitation of Contract owner voting instructions and tabulation of the same. • provision of telephone inquiry support. • provision of other administrative support to the Trust or the Funds as mutually agreed from time to time between the Trust and the Company. • transmission of purchase and redemption requests to the Trust’s transfer agent. • prepare and provide reports to third-party reporting services. • relieve the Trust or the Funds of other incidental administrative services generally provided by mutual funds to their shareholders by providing the same to Contract owners. The Trust and the Company understand that the Company is obligated by the Participation Agreement to perform, provide or pay for certain of the foregoing services and payments under this Agreement may serve to compensate the Company, in whole or in part, for such Participation Agreement obligations.