Common use of The manner in which dealing commissions are paid to providers of research services Clause in Contracts

The manner in which dealing commissions are paid to providers of research services. If the conditions for payment have been satisfied, the eligible providers of Research Services may be remunerated for the provision of Research Services as part of the Local Manager’s commission sharing arrangements. Under the commission sharing arrangements, the Local Manager will instruct participating brokers to record a certain portion of dealing commission that is received pursuant to the completion of a Transaction, based upon a previously agreed allocation, as research credits (each a “Pool”). Each of the participating brokers has undertaken to the Local Manager, periodically, subject to an instruction from the Local Manager, to make payments from their Pool to providers of Research Services (including the administering broker itself) as the Local Manager may specify in the instruction(s). Any balance that may remain after allocation instructions have been carried out will be carried forward to the next period. The Local Manager allocates the Pools based on a periodic assessment of the quality of the Research Services provided to the Local Manager by the participating brokers during that period. The Local Manager tends to consider, without limitation, the quality of the analyst service, the sales service, and the company meetings that have been arranged with senior management of companies in which the Local Manager invests for its clients. Decisions are being taken based on a voting system in which the Local Manager equity portfolio managers participate. As part of a relationship management effort, the Local Manager will meet periodically with those providers of Research Services that the Local Manager deems most significant.

The manner in which dealing commissions are paid to providers of research services. If the conditions for payment have been satisfied, the eligible providers of Research Services may be remunerated for the provision of Research Services as part of the Local Manager’s commission sharing arrangements. Under the commission sharing arrangements, the Local Manager will instruct participating brokers to record a certain portion of dealing commission that is received pursuant to the completion of a Transaction, based upon a previously agreed allocation, as research credits (each a “Pool”). Each of the participating brokers has undertaken to the Local Manager, periodically, subject to an instruction from the Local Manager, to make payments from their Pool to providers of Research Services (including the administering broker itself) as the Local Manager may specify in the instruction(s). Any balance that may remain after allocation instructions have been carried out will be carried forward to the next period. The Local Manager allocates the Pools based on a periodic assessment of the quality of the Research Services provided to the Local Manager by the participating brokers during that period. The the Local Manager tends to consider, without limitation, the quality of the analyst service, the sales service, and the company meetings that have been arranged with senior management of companies in which the Local Manager invests for its clients. Decisions are being taken based on a voting system in which the Local Manager equity portfolio managers participate. As part of a relationship management effort, the Local Manager will meet periodically with those providers of Research Services that the Local Manager deems most significant.