Common use of Transfer Agency Services Clause in Contracts

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”): (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders; (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (b) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, the Fund on behalf of itself andthe Portfolios, where as applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as appropriate, of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act asact, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act asact, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. Each Fund hereby authorizes the Transfer Agent to take instructions from and communicate with CSSI, as agent for such Fund, as to each of the services set forth in this Section 1.1. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Fund on behalf of each of its Portfolios, as applicable, and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesAgent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, Shares and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of each Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust or the Articles of Incorporation of the assets of the Fund Fund, as applicable (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold maintain such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process requests for the redemption requests of Shares and redemption directions directions, and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian, and with respect to the CVS Portfolios, deliver redemption proceeds to the applicable Separate Account; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fundapplicable Fund or CSSI, except that with respect to the CVS Portfolios, the Transfer Agent shall execute transactions directly with Insurance Companies which have entered Fund Participation Agreements (as defined in Section 1.5) with CVS, as identified by CVS or CSSI; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemptionredemption of Shares, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by a Fund on behalf of the Fund or any applicable Portfolio, to the extent such dividends are not reinvested in additional Portfolio thereof, as shares pursuant to the case may beprospectus; (ih) If applicable, issue Deposit the requisite number of Shares into the appropriate Shareholder account as replacement certificates for those certificates a certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed destroyed, upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and applicable Fund (such as a surety bond obtained by the Shareholder). The Transfer Agent at its option, option may issue deposit the requisite number of Shares into the appropriate Shareholder account as replacement certificates in place of for a mutilated stock certificates certificate upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and each Fund, its Shareholders and CSSI as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundFund or CSSI, as applicable, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund or CSSI, as applicable, on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund, provided however, that the Transfer Agent shall only record the issuance of Shares of CVS Portfolios to Separate Accounts of Insurance Companies which have been identified by the Fund or CSSI as having signed Fund Participation Agreements with CVS; (mk) Issue replacement checks for checks originally issued by or on behalf of a Fund, and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder's representation that the original check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the applicable Fund, whether made by the Fund or CSSI, and the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (l) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund a Fund, or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Fund, including CSSI, or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“"TPAs”") on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund or CSSI, as applicable, to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s 's or CSSI's contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes;; and (nm) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the each Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing the bank or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with banks deemed appropriate by the ProceduresTransfer Agent.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, the Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Fund and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system Create and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive accounts, receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist as authorized by the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders; (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by to sell shares of the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beFund; (ih) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as and provide information regarding such accounts to the foregoing;Fund and its Shareholders; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”statement(s) of each additional information ("prospectus") of the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with the prospectus and the procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Trust Instrument of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s 's representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) amended, a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts (demand deposit accounts or "DDAs") as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for to the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including including, but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Portfolio dividends; (m) Report abandoned property to state authorities as authorized by the Fund dividends in accordance with the policies and distributions. The procedures agreed upon by the Fund and the Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust CompanyAgent; (n) Provide Shareholder proxy coordination; (o) Receive Provide Shareholder account information through various means, including but not limited to, telephone calls, correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondenceresearch; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers Monitor transactions in the Fund for market timing activity in accordance with the Proceduresspecifications and procedures agreed upon by the parties in writing, which may be amended from time to time. The services provided under this Section 1.1(p) will be ministerial only and such monitoring will not subject the Transfer Agent to any liability for failure to detect market timing activity; provided, however that the Transfer Agent shall be liable for its willful misconduct in connection with performing the services in this Section 1.1(p); and (q) Account for and administer the redemption fees on the redemption and exchange of Shares.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of common stock or beneficial interest, as the case maybe, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account open‑account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each such Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundor Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Fund and their respective Portfolios, (the “"Procedures”") and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s 's account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s 's recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers broker‑dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s 's representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”17Ad‑10(e) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“"TPAs”") on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s 's contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including but by not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companydividends; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond promptly to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures; and (q) If requested by the Fund (and as mutually agreed upon by the parties as to any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses), provide any additional related services (i.e., pertaining to escheatments, abandoned property, garnishment orders, bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, Internal Revenue Service or state tax authority tax levies and summonses, and U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control and all matters relating to the foregoing).

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with written procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund, on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (bi) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of SharesShares from the Fund, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of a Portfolio as identified by the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cii) Pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions from the Fund and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers dealers, distributors, sub-transfer agents, or other intermediaries authorized by the Fund who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Fund; (fv) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers process transfer of Shares by the registered owners Shareholders thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by the Fund; (hvii) Prepare process and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (iviii) If applicablemaintain the register of Shareholders, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fundrecord Shareholder account information changes, and the Transfer Agent at its optionprovide reports of account activity to each Portfolio, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnityas applicable; (jix) If applicable, issue replacement checks calculate fees due under distribution plans and place stop orders provide for payment of commission to intermediaries on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, shareholder purchases; and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kx) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the Fund applicable Portfolio and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Exchange Act”) ), a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are (1) authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and (2) issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of each Portfolio that are authorized which are authorized and issued and outstanding but outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares, to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the ProceduresPortfolio.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein set forth below, as the “Services”):further set forth on Schedule 2.1: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests (i) in hard copy and (ii) by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannera manner set forth in (ii), the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Trust, on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Funds, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):shall: (ai) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process receive orders for the purchase of SharesShares from the Trust, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of a Fund as identified by the assets of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cii) Pursuant pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process receive redemption requests and redemption directions from the Trust and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundTrust who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Trust; (fv) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers process Shareholder account maintenance instructions (excluding instructions to change an account’s registration or wire instructions) received directly from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized per procedures established by mutual agreement of the Transfer Agent and the Trust; (vii) process transfer of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by the Trust; (hviii) Prepare process and transmit payments for any dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may be;applicable Fund; and (iix) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the applicable Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also ; and provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of each Fund which are authorized and issued and outstanding but Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios the respective portfolios, if any, of a Fund the Funds (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Fund and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesAgent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of each Fund authorized pursuant to the assets Declaration of the Trust of each Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the each Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beeach Fund; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the each Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the each Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the each Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the each Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the each Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the each Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Fund and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesAgent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):shall: (ai) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process receive orders for the purchase of SharesShares from such Fund, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of the such Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cii) Pursuant pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive receive requests for acceptance the repurchase of Shares in connection with tender offers and process redemption directions from each Fund and deliver appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (iv) receive redemption requests and redemption directions from each Fund and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ev) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through and (div) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the each Fund who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of such Fund; (fvi) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersFund or the Shareholders who have tendered Shares for repurchase; (gvii) Effect transfers process transfer of Shares of a Fund by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by such Fund; (hviii) Prepare process and transmit payments for any dividends and or distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be;each Fund; and (iix) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the each such Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also ; and provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of each Fund which are authorized and issued and outstanding but Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the relevant Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interests, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a each Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundand any Portfolios, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Fund on behalf of each of the Funds Portfolios (the “Procedures”) ), as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (in compliance with all such services referred laws, rules and regulations applicable to herein as the “Services”):its transfer agency business: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the applicable Fund or Funds on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures;. (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of the authorized by each Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to the transactions in items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may shall also execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the Fundeach Fund either directly or through its principal underwriter; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by each Fund on behalf of the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the each Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the each Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the each Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which that are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the each Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which that are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the each Fund; (l) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (m) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures (n) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the a Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the a Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-third- party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerfrom a Fund, broker-dealers of record and TPAs, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the a Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the a Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (no) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing the bank or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and respond other services provided to Shareholder correspondence;each Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation from such banks for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; and (p) Process Subject to Section 8.4 below (“As Of” Adjustments), reprocess Share transactions to correct any request from errors in the computation of the net asset value or public offering price of a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers Fund’s Shares in accordance with the Proceduresreprocessing procedures established and agreed upon by the Funds and the Transfer Agent from time to time.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, the Administrator on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its each Trust and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each FundTrust’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund a Trust and of any Portfolios of a Fund Trust (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”statement(s) of additional information of each Fund as provided to Trust, on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Administrator (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund applicable Portfolio on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of the Fund a Portfolio as identified by such Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the respective Portfolios; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by a Trust on behalf of the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those provide Shareholders with appropriate documentation in place of certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, each Trust and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnityapplicable Portfolios; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of of, account for for, and advise each Trust through its Administrator, and the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Administrator on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the Fund Administrator and Trust to require its each Trust’s broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such appropriate documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s Administrator and the Trusts’ contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondencecorrespondence in accordance with the procedures mutually agreed upon by the Administrator and Transfer Agent; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures; and (q) Except as otherwise instructed by the Administrator, on behalf of a Trust, the Transfer Agent shall process all transactions in a Trust, in accordance with the procedures mutually agreed upon by the Administrator and the Transfer Agent with respect to the proper net asset value to be applied to purchases received in good order by the Transfer Agent or by the Administrator or any other person or firm on behalf of the Administrator or such Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators or individual Shareholders before cut-offs established by such Trust. Orders received by the Transfer Agent from financial intermediaries after market close will receive such offering price for the next day unless such orders were received by financial intermediary from its customers, participants or policy holders prior to such offering price determination, and supporting information is subsequently transmitted to the Transfer Agent in accordance with an agreement between such financial intermediary and Administrator and/or Distributor or as allowed by law. With regards to the execution of purchase, redemption and exchange requests, Transfer Agent oversight measures include, but are not limited to: (i) call authentication; (ii) time stamping and call archiving technology for orders by telephone; (iii) time stamping and image routing technology for fax orders; (iv) optical scanning and workflow distribution technology for mailed requests; and (v) time stamping and archiving technology for e-mail and internet orders. The Transfer Agent shall report to Administrator any known exceptions to the foregoing.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation from such bank or banks for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.; and

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs employ and appoints appoint the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) and as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectusProspectus”) of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of Fund authorized by the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In With respect to items the transactions enumerated in 1.1 (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the Fund, deemed to be acting as a limited agent of the Fund (“Designated Agents”). The Transfer Agent will execute transactions only from Designated Agents that have adopted and implemented internal controls reasonably designed to ensure that: (i) order or redemption requests for a Portfolio received by the Designated Agent, or a limited agent of such Designated Agent in an arrangement permitted by the Fund (“Sub-Agent”), in proper form by the time specified in the Prospectus with respect to the Portfolio (the “Closing Time”) on a business day will be processed as of that business day and (ii) order or redemption requests received by the Designated Agent or its Sub-Agent in proper form after the Closing Time for the Portfolio on a business day will be processed as of the next business day; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (mj) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry Subject to such additional policies and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by procedures the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannermay establish, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining process orders or redemption requests received in proper form by the Transfer Agent or a Designated Agent or Sub-Agent (i) by the Closing Time on a business day, as of that business day, and (ii) after the Closing Time on a business day, as of the next business day, provided in each case that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under Designated Agent forwards any such orders or requests received by the 1940 Act, and it will be Designated Agent or its Sub-Agent to the responsibility of Transfer Agent by the cut-off time the Fund to require its broker-dealers sets for receipt of such forwarded orders or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changesrequests; (nk) Open, maintain Provide escheatment services as necessary; (l) Submit through the Office of Foreign Assets Control database and managesuch other lists or databases of restricted individuals or entities as may be required from time to time by applicable regulatory authorities: (i) all new account and registration maintenance transactions; (ii)_the names of payees of redemption funds where the payee is not the shareholder of record; and (iii) periodically, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as Fund and the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited tomay reasonably agree, the processing names of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company;all record shareholders; and (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (pm) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers “as of” transactions in accordance with applicable policies and procedures of the ProceduresFund.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest, $ par value, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (bi), (ii) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, the Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Fund and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beFund; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trusts, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfoliosthe Funds, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter the Trusts' authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund of the respective Funds of the Trusts ("Shareholders") and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”"Prospectus") of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Trusts on behalf of the applicable Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by written agreement between the Transfer Agent and Trusts on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Funds, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of Trusts authorized by the Fund Trusts (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In With respect to items the transactions enumerated in 1.1 (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the FundTrusts, deemed to be acting as a limited agent of the Trusts. The Transfer Agent will execute transactions only from broker-dealers and other financial institutions who have adopted and implemented internal controls reasonably designed to ensure that order or redemption requests received in proper form by the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on that day and order or redemption requests received in proper form after the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on the next business day; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trusts on behalf of the case may beapplicable Fund; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trusts and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trusts and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trusts which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrusts, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trusts on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trusts; and (mj) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained Orders or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction redemption requests received in proper form by the foregoing mannerterms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed by the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that day and orders or redemption requests received in proper form after the original source documentation is terms specified in good orderthe Prospectus (currently, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as processed by the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for on the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Proceduresnext business day.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest, $ par value, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interests, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with written procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-e- mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-third- party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, recordkeeper for certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, ANY accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Fund, on behalf of each of its Portfolios, as applicable, and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesAgent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):for each Fund: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the applicable Articles of Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the case may be, of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders;"). (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account;. (c) Send to the vendor designated by the Fund a file consisting of information the vendor will use to generate confirmation statements in such form as the Fund and the Transfer Agent agree upon from time to time. (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian;Custodian setting forth the number of shares of the applicable Fund and Portfolio thereof to be redeemed. Such redemptions shall be reflected on appropriate accounts maintained by the Transfer Agent reflecting outstanding shares of the Fund and Shares attributed to individual accounts. (e) In respect to of the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund;Funds. (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders;Shareholders in accordance with procedures described in the Fund's prospectus as most recently provided by the Fund to the Transfer Agent. (g) Promptly after Transfer Agent has received written instructions from the Fund that the sale of Shares of the Fund has been suspended or discontinued, the Transfer Agent shall prohibit the issuance of any Shares of the Fund. (h) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions;. (hi) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund, on behalf of the applicable Portfolio. The Transfer Agent will, on the designated payment date, automatically reinvest all dividends in additional Shares, unless the Shareholder has requested otherwise, at net asset values on the payment date. (j) Without any further action by the Board of Trustees or any officer of The China-U.S. Growth Fund or any Portfolio thereofCastle Convertible Fund, as the case may be; (i) If applicableInc., issue replacement certificates for those certificates for Shares of either such Fund alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification properly executed affidavits and lost certificate bonds, satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting Agent, naming the Transfer Agent and the Fund, Fund and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity;as obligors under the bond. (ji) If applicableIn the event that any check or other order for the payment of money is returned unpaid for any reason or is rejected by the Transfer Agent, issue (i) give prompt notice of such return to the Fund and electronically send copies of all check writing drafts the Transfer Agent is rejecting for review by the Fund; (ii) cancel the purchase order against all Shares issued in exchange for such check or order, and (iii) take such other action as the Fund and Transfer Agent agree is appropriate. (ii) Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on the Shareholder’s 's representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement;replacement in the absence of the Transfer Agent's negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. (k1) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, includinginclude, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not be limited to, the processing number of Share purchases Shares held by each holder of record, the holder's name or names, address and redemptions taxpayer identification numbers and whether the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing Shares are held in certificated or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.uncertificated form; and

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicablecertificates are authorized by the Fund, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent Bank to act as, and the Transfer Agent Bank agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock, $.01 par value, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan plans provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. The Bank agrees that it will perform the following services: (a) In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesBank, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):Bank shall: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (bi) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cii) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In respect to the transactions in items (bi), (ii) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may Bank shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fv) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hvii) Prepare As dividend disbursing agent only, prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any on behalf of the applicable Portfolio thereof, as including the crediting of shareholder accounts in the case may beof dividend reinvestment plans; (iviii) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent Bank of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent Bank and protecting the Transfer Agent Bank and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent Bank at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kix) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;foregoing and (lx) Record the issuance of Shares shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent Bank shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Sharesshares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Sharesshares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity. In addition, comply with requirements of Rule 17f-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) governing missing, lost, counterfeit and stolen securities; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfoliosthe Funds, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, registrar, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios the respective Funds of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement statement(s) of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the Funds, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Trust on behalf of the Funds (the “Procedures”) its Funds, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets Trust authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly only with those broker-dealers authorized approved in advance in writing by the FundTrust; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Fund; (ih) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting that reasonably protects the Transfer Agent and the FundTrust, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the FundTrust, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Trust shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement, provided that the Transfer Agent acted in good faith and without negligence or willful misconduct; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trust; and (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and entry, electronic instructions, including e-mail email communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided performed by the Fund Trust or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerrequests, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining may rely on the Trust to ensure that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under of the 1940 ActInvestment Company Act of 1940, and it the Trust will be require the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the FundTrust’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (nm) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for to the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including but by not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends Trust dividends; (n) Report abandoned property to state authorities as authorized by the Trust in accordance with the policies and distributions. The procedures agreed upon by the Trust and the Transfer Agent; provided that the Trust agrees to pay the Transfer Agent may maintain for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company;services; and (o) Receive correspondence pertaining Provide coordination and assistance with respect to any former, existing or new proxy statements of the Trust and Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondencemeetings; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change Research and provide Shareholders with their account registrationinformation through various means, beneficiaryincluding but not limited to, beneficiary information, transfer telephone calls and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.correspondence;

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties), the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):shall: (ai) Establish establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund Trust on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the ProceduresShareholder; (bii) Receive for acceptance and process receive orders for the purchase of SharesShares from the Trust and process all purchases that meet the Transfer Agent’s processing guidelines, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of Trust as identified by the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (ciii) Pursuant pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account;; Information Classification: Limited Access (div) Receive for acceptance receive repurchase requests and repurchase directions from the Trust and process redemption requests and redemption directions all repurchases that meet the Transfer Agent’s processing guidelines, and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ev) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through (div) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundTrust who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Trust; (fvi) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemptionrepurchase, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvii) Effect transfers process Shareholder account maintenance instructions (excluding instructions to change an account’s registration or wire instructions) received directly from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized per procedures established by mutual agreement of the Transfer Agent and the Trust; (viii) process transfer of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by the Trust; (hix) Prepare process and transmit payments for any dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be;Trust; and (ix) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also ; and provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of the Trust which are authorized and issued and outstanding but Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the ProceduresTrust.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services set forth below for the Funds set forth on Schedule A hereto, for which the Transfer Agent maintains all of the applicable shareholder records on the DST TA2000 System (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”defined below): (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may bea Fund; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (nm) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Share dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (on) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (po) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each FundThe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent hereby agrees to act as, its as transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to for the shareholders Trust's shares of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund beneficial interest (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program"Shares"). In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Trust and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the appropriate custodian of the assets of the Fund Trust (the “each a "Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions described in items (a), (b) through ), and (d) c), above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the FundTrust shareholders ("Shareholders"); (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners Shareholders thereof upon receipt of the appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for of dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which Trust that are authorizedissued and outstanding, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstandingTrust. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but outstanding, and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the ProceduresTrust.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interests, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a each Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundand any Portfolios, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Fund on behalf of each of the Funds Portfolios (the “Procedures”) ), as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (in compliance with all such services referred laws, rules and regulations applicable to herein as the “Services”):its transfer agency business: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the applicable Fund or Funds on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures;. (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of the authorized by each Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to the transactions in items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may shall also execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the Fundeach Fund either directly or through its principal underwriter; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by each Fund on behalf of the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the each Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the each Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the each Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which that are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the each Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which that are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the each Fund; (l) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (m) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures (n) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the a Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the a Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerfrom a Fund, broker-dealers of record and TPAs, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the a Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the a Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (no) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing the bank or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and respond other services provided to Shareholder correspondence;each Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation from such banks for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; and (p) Process Subject to Section 8.4 below (“As Of” Adjustments), reprocess Share transactions to correct any request from errors in the computation of the net asset value or public offering price of a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers Fund’s Shares in accordance with the Proceduresreprocessing procedures established and agreed upon by the Funds and the Transfer Agent from time to time.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter Fund‘s authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping record keeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”17Ad- I 0(e) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorizedauthorized , based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s Fund‘s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the record keeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each FundPortfolio’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, registrar, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus offering memorandum(a) and Statement statement(s) of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectusoffering memorandum”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the Portfolios, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Trust, on behalf of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets Trust authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly only with those broker-dealers authorized approved in advance in writing by the FundTrust; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting that reasonably protects the Transfer Agent and the FundTrust, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the FundTrust, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Trust shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement, provided that the Transfer Agent acted in good faith and without negligence or willful misconduct; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trust; and (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and entry, electronic instructions, including e-mail email communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided performed by the Fund Trust or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerrequests, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining may rely on the Trust to ensure that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under of the 1940 ActInvestment Company Act of 1940, and it the Trust will be require the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the FundTrust’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (nm) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for to the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including but by not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends Portfolio dividends; (n) Report abandoned property to state authorities as authorized by the Trust in accordance with the policies and distributions. The procedures agreed upon by the Trust and the Transfer Agent; provided that the Trust agrees to pay the Transfer Agent may maintain for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company;services; and (o) Receive correspondence pertaining Provide coordination and assistance with respect to any former, existing or new proxy statements of the Trust and Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondencemeetings; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change Research and provide Shareholders with their account registrationinformation through various means, beneficiaryincluding but not limited to, beneficiary information, transfer telephone calls and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.correspondence;

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Trust, on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Funds, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):shall: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (bi) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of SharesShares from the Trust, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of a Fund as identified by the assets of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cii) Pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions from the Trust and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundTrust who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Trust; (fv) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers process transfer of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by the Trust; (hvii) Prepare process and transmit payments for any dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Fund; (iviii) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the applicable Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also ; and provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of each Fund which are authorized and issued and outstanding but Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.; and

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, the Administrator on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its each Trust and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each FundTrust’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund a Trust and of any Portfolios of a Fund Trust (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”statement(s) of additional information of each Fund as provided to Trust, on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Administrator (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund applicable Portfolio on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of the Fund a Portfolio as identified by such Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the respective Portfolios; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by a Trust on behalf of the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, each Trust and the Fundapplicable Portfolios, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of of, account for for, and advise each Trust through its Administrator, and the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l1) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Administrator on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the Fund Administrator and Trust to require its each Trust’s broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such appropriate documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s Administrator and the Trusts’ contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures; and (q) Except as otherwise instructed by the Administrator on behalf of a Trust, the Transfer Agent shall process all transactions in a Trust in accordance with the procedures mutually agreed upon by the Administrator and the Transfer Agent with respect to the proper net asset value to be applied to purchases received in good order by the Transfer Agent or by the Administrator or any other person or firm on behalf of the Administrator or such Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators or individual Shareholders before cut-offs established by such Trust. The Transfer Agent shall report to Administrator any known exceptions to the foregoing.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios the respective portfolios, if any, of a Fund the Funds (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Fund and the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesAgent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets relevant Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of the Trust of such Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive Subject to agreed upon procedures for repurchase of Shares, receive for acceptance and process redemption repurchase requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall only execute transactions directly with broker-dealers each Fund and with authorized by shareholder servicing intermediaries (as the case may be) of such Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemptionrepurchase, pay over over, or cause to be paid over over, in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholdersinstructed; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by each Fund; (h) Pursuant to written procedures agreed to by the parties, manually calculate the estimated compensation based on the individual purchase amount for each purchase order for specific shareholder servicing intermediaries identified by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as and display such estimated compensation amounts on the case may bepurchase report provided to the Fund; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the a Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the such Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the each Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the each Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the each Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each FundPortfolio’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each the Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information (additional information of the “prospectus”) Fund, on behalf of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Fund and its Portfolios (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund Portfolio or Fund, as the case may be, on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of a Portfolio as identified by the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, order and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (nm) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundFund and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (on) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (po) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, the Administrator on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Trust and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fundthe Trust’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund the Trust and of any Portfolios of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”statement(s) of each Fund as provided to additional information of the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust, on behalf of the applicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Trust and its Portfolios (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund applicable Portfolio on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of a Portfolio as identified by the assets of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust and the respective Portfolios; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, the Trust and the Fundapplicable Portfolios, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of of, account for for, and advise the Fund Trust through its Administrator, and its the Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust and each Portfolio, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Administrator on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust and each Portfolio; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund Administrator, the Trust or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Administrator, the Trust or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the Fund Administrator and Trust to require its the Trust’s broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such appropriate documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the FundAdministrator and the Trust’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures; and (q) Except as otherwise instructed by the Administrator on behalf of the Trust, the Transfer Agent shall process all transactions in the Trust in accordance with the procedures mutually agreed upon by the Administrator and the Transfer Agent with respect to the proper net asset value to be applied to purchases received in good order by the Transfer Agent or by the Administrator or any other person or firm on behalf of the Administrator or the Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators or individual Shareholders before cut-offs established by the Trust. The Transfer Agent shall report to Administrator any known exceptions to the foregoing.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement statement(s) of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with the prospectus and the procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Trust Instrument of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) amended, a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts (demand deposit accounts or “DDAs”) as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for to the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including including, but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Portfolio dividends; (m) Report abandoned property to state authorities as authorized by the Fund dividends in accordance with the policies and distributions. The procedures agreed upon by the Fund and the Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust CompanyAgent; (n) Provide Shareholder proxy coordination; (o) Receive Provide Shareholder account information through various means, including but not limited to, telephone calls, correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondenceresearch; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers Monitor transactions in the Fund for market timing activity in accordance with the Proceduresspecifications and procedures agreed upon by the parties in writing, which may be amended from time to time. The services provided under this Section 1.1(p) will be ministerial only and such monitoring will not subject the Transfer Agent to any liability for failure to detect market timing activity; provided, however that the Transfer Agent shall be liable for its willful misconduct in connection with performing the services in this Section 1.1(p); and (q) Account for and administer the redemption fees on the redemption and exchange of Shares.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, Strong Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Strong Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund of the Strong Funds ("Shareholders") and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Strong Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with the requirements of each Strong Fund prospectus and the procedures established from time to time by agreement between each Strong Fund and the Transfer Agent or such Strong Fund policies and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom procedures as have been (or may from time communicated to time be) agreed upon in writing and accepted by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets Strong Funds authorized pursuant to the Articles of the Incorporation of each Strong Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the FundStrong Funds; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beStrong Funds; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the FundStrong Funds, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Strong Funds and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Strong Funds and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Strong Funds which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundStrong Funds, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Strong Funds on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the FundStrong Funds; (mk) Accept any informationProvide certain agreed upon services to 403(b), recordsKeoghs, documents401(k), datapension, certificatesand profit sharing plans, transaction requests by machine readable inputindividual retirement accounts ("IRAs"), facsimileSIMPLE-IRAs, data entry and electronic instructions, including eSEP-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators IRAs (“TPAs”"Retirement Accounts") on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received directly investing in the foregoing mannerStrong Funds, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with mutually agreed upon procedures; and (l) Provide information and reports to assist the ProceduresStrong Funds in monitoring short-term trading in the Strong Funds, in accordance with mutually agreed upon procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock, $_____ par value, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (bi), (ii) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the FundFund and Shareholders; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;foregoing records of account including the master securityholder file (containing the names, addresses and account positions of all shareholders of record) as required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and (lj) Record the issuance and redemption of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund and its designated agents on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, the Administrator on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its each Trust and the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each FundTrust’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund a Trust and of any Portfolios of a Fund Trust (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”statement(s) of additional information of each Fund as provided to Trust, on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds Administrator (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund applicable Portfolio on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of the Fund a Portfolio as identified by such Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the respective Portfolios; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by a Trust on behalf of the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, each Trust and the Fundapplicable Portfolios, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of of, account for for, and advise each Trust through its Administrator, and the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Administrator on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of each Trust and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and each Portfolio; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Administrator, a Trust or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and it will be the responsibility of the Fund Administrator and Trust to require its each Trust’s broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such appropriate documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s Administrator and the Trusts’ contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundAdministrator on behalf of each Trust and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures; and (q) Except as otherwise instructed by the Administrator on behalf of a Trust, the Transfer Agent shall process all transactions in a Trust in accordance with the procedures mutually agreed upon by the Administrator and the Transfer Agent with respect to the proper net asset value to be applied to purchases received in good order by the Transfer Agent or by the Administrator or any other person or firm on behalf of the Administrator or such Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators or individual Shareholders before cut-offs established by such Trust. The Transfer Agent shall report to Administrator any known exceptions to the foregoing.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares or beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund), including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lI) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Companyother services provided to the Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, the Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Fund and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beFund; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;. (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes;; and (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing the bank or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and respond other services provided to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from the Fund hereunder, including the management of such accounts, the Transfer Agent may receive a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with portion of its compensation that is based upon the Proceduresaverage balances of such accounts.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each CornerCap and the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfoliosthe Portfolio(s), hereby employs employ and appoints appoint the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and Portfolio of any Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) and as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectusProspectus”) of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent Fund on behalf of each Portfolio, as applicable and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of Fund authorized by the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In With respect to items the transactions enumerated in 1.1 (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the Fund, deemed to be acting as a limited agent of the Fund. The Transfer Agent will execute transactions only from broker-dealers and other financial institutions who have adopted and implemented internal controls reasonably designed to ensure that order or redemption requests received in proper form by the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on that day and order or redemption requests received in proper form after the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on the next business day; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;; and (mj) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained Orders or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction redemption requests received in proper form by the foregoing mannerterms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed by the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that day and orders or redemption requests received in proper form after the original source documentation is terms specified in good orderthe Prospectus (currently, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as processed by the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for on the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Proceduresnext business day.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Trust, on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):shall: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (bi) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of SharesShares from the Trust, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of a Portfolio as identified by the assets of the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cii) Pursuant pursuant to such purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold book such Shares in book entry form in Share issuance to the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process receive redemption requests and redemption directions from the Trust and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In with respect to the transactions in items (bi) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may execute shall process transactions received directly with from broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the FundTrust who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Trust; (fv) At at the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers process transfer of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructionsproper instruction and approval by the Trust; (hvii) Prepare process and transmit payments for any dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may be;applicable Portfolio; and (iviii) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record record the issuance of Shares of the Fund applicable Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also ; and provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares of each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding outstanding; but Transfer Agent shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares to determine if there are authorized Shares available for issuance or to take cognizance of any laws relating to to, or corporate actions required for, the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the ProceduresTrust.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfoliosthe Portfolio(s), hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its as the Trust’s transfer agent for each class of each Fundthe Trust’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and Portfolio of any Portfolios of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) and as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectusProspectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the applicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent Trust on behalf of each Portfolio, as applicable and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of Trust authorized by the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In With respect to items the transactions enumerated in 1.1(a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-broker dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the FundTrust, deemed to be acting as a limited agent of the Trust. The Transfer Agent will execute transactions only from broker dealers and other financial institutions who have adopted and implemented internal controls reasonably designed to ensure that order or redemption requests received in proper form by the terms specified in the Prospectus will be processed on that day and order or redemption requests received in proper form after the terms specified in the Prospectus will be processed on the next business day; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended Commission (the “1934 ActSEC”) Rule 17Ad-10(e) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trust; and (mj) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained Orders or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction redemption requests received in proper form by the foregoing mannerterms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed by the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that day and orders or redemption requests received in proper form after the original source documentation is terms specified in good orderthe Prospectus (currently, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as processed by the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for on the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Proceduresnext business day.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers dealers, banks, or trust entities authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“Shareholders”) as set out and described in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information (additional information of the “prospectus”) Fund, on behalf of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties), in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom there from as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund Portfolio or Fund, as the case may be, on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets of a Portfolio as identified by the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming ShareholdersShareholders or other appropriately designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification reasonably satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, the Fund and the Fundapplicable Portfolios, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such If requested in proper and reasonable form, such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Funda Portfolio, and, as between the Fund such Portfolio and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Portfolio shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”) ), a record of the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of full and fractional Shares of the Fund and each Portfolio which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or a Portfolio or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or a Portfolio or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders, or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, order and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the FundFund and the Portfolios, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund Portfolio dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Companythe bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent in accordance with applicable law; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence;; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each such Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its common stock (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a such Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Funds on behalf of the Funds (the “Procedures”) their Portfolios, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets Funds authorized pursuant to the organizational documents of the Fund Funds (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the FundFunds; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Funds on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the applicable Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (ji) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the applicable Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the such Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kj) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Funds and its their respective Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lk) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Funds and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the such Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the each Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Funds. (ml) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and entry, electronic instructions, including e-mail email communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided performed by the Fund Funds or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Funds or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerrequests, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining may rely on the Funds to ensure that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under of the 1940 ActInvestment Company Act of 1940, and it the Funds will be require the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s Funds’ contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfoliosthe Funds, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, registrar and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios the respective Funds of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus prospectus(es) and Statement statement(s) of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the Funds, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each Trust on behalf of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Funds, as applicable, and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof as soon as reasonably practicable to the custodian of the assets of Trust authorized by the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver effect redemptions. Deliver the appropriate documentation instructions thereof to the Custodian. (d) The Transfer Agent will execute transactions directly with those broker-dealers or intermediaries who have been approved in advance in writing by the distributor. In the event that a transaction is requested by a broker-dealer who has not been pre-approved in writing by the distributor, the Transfer Agent will notify the Trust and the distributor as soon as reasonably practicable of the request. The Transfer Agent may accept or reject the requested transaction in accordance with procedures established from time to time. The Trust shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from the Transfer Agent executing such transactions with any broker-dealers that have not been pre-approved in writing by the distributor, provided that the Transfer Agent acted in good faith and without negligence or willful misconduct; (e) In respect to items (b) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by from the Custodian custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Fund; (ih) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on a Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the FundTrust, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund Trust shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement, provided that the Transfer Agent acted in good faith and without negligence or willful misconduct; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”17Ad-l0(e) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trust; and (mk) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, CRT data entry and entry, electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided performed by the Fund Trust or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund Trust or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing mannerrequests, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining may rely on the Trust to ensure that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 ActInvestment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and it the Trust will be require the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the FundTrust’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (nI) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, Maintain such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for to the performance of its duties under this Agreementhereunder, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends the Trust dividends; (m) Report abandoned property to state authorities as authorized by the Trust in accordance with the policies and distributions. The procedures agreed upon by the Trust and the Transfer Agent; provided that the Trust agrees to pay the Transfer Agent may maintain for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such accounts at State Street Bank services; and (n) Provide coordination and assistance with respect to proxy statements of the Trust Companyand Shareholder meetings; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any formerResearch and provide Shareholders with their account information through various means, existing or new Shareholder accountincluding but not limited to, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping telephone calls and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request Provide the Trust with periodic reports on trading activity in the Trust based on parameters provided to the Transfer Agent by the Trust, as amended from a Shareholder time to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer time. The services to be performed by the Transfer Agent For the Trust under this section 1.1(p) will be ministerial only and rollovers the Transfer Agent shall have no responsibility for monitoring or reviewing market timing activities; and (q) Account for and administer the redemption fees if applicable on the redemption and exchange of Shares in accordance with written procedures agreed upon with the ProceduresTrust; (r) Answer telephone inquiries on such dates and times as the parties shall mutually agree. Such inquiries may include requests for information on account set-up and other general questions regarding operation of the Funds; and (s) Process order or redemption requests received in proper form by the times specified in the Prospectus.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest, as the case may be, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a Fund (“"Shareholders”) as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund"), including without limitation any periodic investment plan, dividend reinvestment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds and their respective Portfolios, (the “"Procedures”") and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiespatties, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s 's account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s 's recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of a Fund authorized pursuant to the assets organizational documents of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders; "); (c) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; ; (d) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; ; (e) In respect to items (ba) through (d) above, the Transfer Agent may execute transactions directly with broker-dealers or other intermediaries authorized by the each Fund; ; (f) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; Shareholders or other designated payees; (g) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; ; (h) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the a Fund or on behalf of any Portfolio thereof, as the case may be; ; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; ; (j) If applicable, issue Issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s 's representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the a Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; ; (k) Maintain records of account for and advise the each Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (l1) Record the issuance of Shares of the each Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Funds on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; Funds; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests in printed form or by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-broker- dealers of record or third-party administrators (“"TPAs”") on behalf of individual Shareholders or directly from individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 22c- l under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such appropriate documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the a Fund’s 's contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; ; (n) Open, maintain Maintain and manage, as agent for the a Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank the bank or banks deemed appropriate by the Transfer Agent. In connection with the recordkeeping and Trust Company; other services provided to a Fund hereunder, the Transfer Agent may receive compensation from such banks for the management of such accounts and such compensation may be calculated based upon the average balances of such accounts; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; ; and (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Trust, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its as transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter the Portfolios’ authorized and issued shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”), the Portfolios’ dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing the Portfolios’ agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a Fund the Trust (“Shareholders”) and as set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectusProspectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the applicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the parties, the The Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian of the assets of Trust authorized by the Fund Trust (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In With respect to items the transactions enumerated in 1.1 (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the FundTrust, and will be deemed to be acting as a limited agent of the Trust. The Transfer Agent will execute transactions only from broker-dealers and other financial institutions who have adopted and implemented internal controls reasonably designed to ensure that purchase order, exchange or redemption requests received in proper form by the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on that day and purchase order, exchange or redemption requests received in proper form after the terms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed on the next business day; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner redemption proceeds to such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (i) If applicable, issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kh) Maintain records of of, account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (li) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund Trust and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund Trust which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundTrust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;Trust and ALPS Distributors, Inc., the Portfolios’ principal underwriter; and (mj) Accept any informationOrders, recordsexchanges, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction redemption requests received in proper form by the foregoing mannerterms specified in the Prospectus (currently, the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be processed by the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that day and orders, exchanges, or redemption requests received in proper form after the original source documentation is terms specified in good orderthe Prospectus (currently, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange) will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as processed by the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for on the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Proceduresnext business day.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent Bank to act as, and the Transfer Agent Bank agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its common stock, $___ par value, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan plans provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. The Bank agrees that it will perform the following services: (a) In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesBank, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):Bank shall: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (bi) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cii) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (diii) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (eiv) In respect to the transactions in items (bi), (ii) through and (diii) above, the Transfer Agent may Bank shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fv) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gvi) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hvii) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (iviii) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent Bank of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent Bank and protecting the Transfer Agent Bank and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent Bank at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (kix) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;foregoing and (lx) Record the issuance of Shares shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent Bank shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Sharesshares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Sharesshares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its Portfolios, the Fund hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter authorized and issued shares of its common shares (“Shares”), dividend disbursing agent agent, and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any Portfolios of a the Fund (“Shareholders”) as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “prospectus”) of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fund, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Fund and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation of the Fund (the “Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as the case may beFund; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to on behalf of the Transfer Agent by each Fundapplicable Portfolio, including including, without limitation limitation, any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers and other financial institutions authorized by the Fund who shall thereby be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing; (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund;; and (mk) Accept In the event any informationcheck or other order for the transfer of money is returned unpaid, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained take such steps as it may deem appropriate or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of may instruct to protect the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, and the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Proceduresfinancial loss.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Fundthe Administrator, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, the Trust and its Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, its as the Trust's transfer agent for each class of each Fund’s now or hereafter the Trust's authorized and issued Class J, Class K, Institutional Class and Administrative Class shares of its beneficial interest, (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulationagent, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a Fund the Trust (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus prospectuses and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each FundTrust on behalf of the applicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent Administrator on behalf of the Trust and each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Trust authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund Trust (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number and class of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers authorized by the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as Trust on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent Agent, the Administrator, and the FundTrust, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund Trust and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorizedAuthorized, based upon data provided to it by the FundAdministrator on behalf of the Trust, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide the Fund Administrator or the Trust on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained Administrator or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the ProceduresTrust.

Transfer Agency Services. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each the Fund, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, its the Portfolios, hereby employs and appoints the Transfer Agent to act as, and the Transfer Agent agrees to act as, as its transfer agent for each class of each the Fund’s now or hereafter 's authorized and issued shares of its beneficial interest (“"Shares”"), dividend disbursing agent agent, custodian of certain retirement plans and shareholder servicing agent in connection with any dividend reinvestment, accumulation, open-account or similar plan provided to the shareholders of each Fund and of any the respective Portfolios of a the Fund (“"Shareholders”") as and set out in the currently effective prospectus and Statement statement of Additional Information additional information (the “"prospectus”") of each the Fund as provided to the Transfer Agent by each Fundon behalf OF THE applicable Portfolio, including without limitation any periodic investment plan or periodic withdrawal program. In accordance with procedures established from time to time by agreement between the Transfer Agent and Fund on behalf of each of the Funds (the “Procedures”) Portfolios, as applicable and the Service Levels (defined below) to be established by the parties, in each case with such changes or deviations therefrom as have been (or may from time to time be) agreed upon in writing by the partiesTransfer Agent, the Transfer Agent agrees that it will perform the following services (all such services referred to herein as the “Services”):services: (a) Establish each Shareholder’s account in the Fund on the Transfer Agent’s recordkeeping system and maintain such account for the benefit of such Shareholder in accordance with the Procedures; (b) Receive for acceptance and process acceptance, orders for the purchase of Shares, and promptly deliver payment and appropriate documentation thereof to the custodian Custodian of the assets Fund authorized pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Fund (the “"Custodian”) and assist the Fund’s administrator with the calculation and payment of commissions and distribution and shareholder servicing fees to dealers related to such orders"); (cb) Pursuant to purchase orders, issue the appropriate number of Shares and hold such Shares in book entry form in the appropriate Shareholder account; (dc) Receive for acceptance and process ACCEPTANCE redemption requests and redemption directions and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof to the Custodian; (ed) In respect to the transactions in items (a), (b) through and (dc) above, the Transfer Agent may shall execute transactions directly with broker-dealers broker(.)dealers authorized by the Fund; (fe) At the appropriate time as and when it receives monies paid to it by the Custodian with respect to any redemption, pay over or cause to be paid over in the appropriate manner such monies as instructed by the redeeming Shareholders; (gf) Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions; (hg) Prepare and transmit payments for dividends and distributions declared by the Fund or any Portfolio thereof, as on behalf of the case may beapplicable Portfolio; (ih) If applicable, issue Issue replacement certificates for those certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon receipt by the Transfer Agent of indemnification satisfactory to the Transfer Agent and protecting the Transfer Agent and the Fund, and the Transfer Agent at its option, may issue replacement certificates in place of mutilated stock certificates upon presentation thereof and without such indemnity; (j) If applicable, issue replacement checks and place stop orders on original checks based on Shareholder’s representation that a check was not received or was lost. Such stop orders and replacements will be deemed to have been made at the request of the Fund, and, as between the Fund and the Transfer Agent, the Fund shall be responsible for all losses or claims resulting from such replacement; (ki) Maintain records of account for and advise the Fund and its Shareholders as to the foregoing;; and (lj) Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain pursuant pprsuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-10(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) a record of the total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the THE Fund, and issued and outstanding. The Transfer Agent shall also provide PROVIDE the Fund on a regular basis with the total number of Shares which are authorized and issued and outstanding but and shall have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares, to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance of OF any laws relating to the issue or sale of such Shares, which functions fi.mctions shall be the sole responsibility of the Fund; (m) Accept any information, records, documents, data, certificates, transaction requests by machine readable input, facsimile, data entry and electronic instructions, including e-mail communications, which have been prepared, maintained or provided by the Fund or any other person or firm on behalf of the Fund or from broker-dealers of record or third-party administrators (“TPAs”) on behalf of individual Shareholders. With respect to transaction requests received in the foregoing manner, the Transfer Agent shall not be responsible for determining that the original source documentation is in good order, which includes compliance with Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act, and it will be the responsibility of the Fund to require its broker-dealers or TPAs to retain such documentation. E-mail exchanges on routine matters may be made directly with the Fund’s contact at the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent will not act on any e-mail communications coming to it directly from Shareholders requesting transactions, including, but not limited to, monetary transactions, change of ownership, or beneficiary changes; (n) Open, maintain and manage, as agent for the Fund, such bank accounts as the Transfer Agent shall deem necessary for the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to, the processing of Share purchases and redemptions and the payment of Fund dividends and distributions. The Transfer Agent may maintain such accounts at State Street Bank and Trust Company; (o) Receive correspondence pertaining to any former, existing or new Shareholder account, process such correspondence for proper recordkeeping and respond to Shareholder correspondence; (p) Process any request from a Shareholder to change account registration, beneficiary, beneficiary information, transfer and rollovers in accordance with the Procedures.,