Shareholder Recordkeeping, Transfer Agency and Investor Relations. 1. SS&C GIDS utilizing the TA2000 System will perform the following services:
(i) issue, transfer and redeem book entry shares or cancelling share certificates as applicable;
(ii) maintain shareholder accounts on the records of Fund on the TA2000 System in accordance with the instructions and information received by SS&C GIDS from Fund, Fund’s distributor, manager or managing dealer, Fund’s investment adviser, Fund’s sponsor, Fund’s custodian, or Fund’s administrator and any other person whom Fund names on Schedule B (each an “Authorized Person”), broker-dealers or shareholders;
(iii) when and if a Fund participates in the DTCC, and to the extent SS&C GIDS supports the functionality of the applicable DTCC program:
(a) 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 SS&C GIDS 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 SS&C GIDS,
(b) issue instructions to Funds’ banks for the settlement of transactions between Funds and DTCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants),
(c) provide account and transaction information from Fund’s records on TA2000 in accordance with the applicable Program’s rules, and
(d) maintain shareholder accounts on TA2000 through the Programs;
(iv) provide transaction journals;
(v) once annually prepare shareholder meeting lists for use in connection with the annual meeting;
(vi) Withhold, as required by federal law, taxes on securityholder accounts, perform and pay backup withholding as required for all securityholders, and prepare, file and provide, 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) disburse income dividends and capital gains distributions to shareholders and record reinvestment of dividends and distributions in shares of Fund;
(viii) prepare and provide, in electronic format, to Fund’s print vendor of choice:
Shareholder Recordkeeping, Transfer Agency and Investor Relations. 1. SS&C DST utilizing the TA2000 System will perform the following services:
Shareholder Recordkeeping, Transfer Agency and Investor Relations. SS&C GIDS utilizing the TA2000 System will perform the following services:
