Common use of Trust Expenses Clause in Contracts

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany’s obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's ’s prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's ’s prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing and mailing to shareholders of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents documents, and supplements to such documents, required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholdersshareholders and to shareholders making an initial investment in a Series of the Trust, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing and mailing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) printing and mailing of Contract Prospectus supplements required to be provided by the Company to Contract Owners as the direct result of a supplement or material change to a Trust document; (g) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fh) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing and mailing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials, as well as tabulation of voting instructions, as required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany's obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy solicitation materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy ready form or form otherwise suitable for printing or duplication of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (g) printing (or duplicating costs with respect to the statement of additional information) and mailing costs associated with the delivery of the Trust's Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to existing Contract Owners. The Company will submit any bills for printing, duplicating and/or mailing costs, relating to the Trust's Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to the Trust for reimbursement by the Trust, as it relates to the delivery of these materials to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany’s obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing;. (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales -s-ales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) all expenses associated with supplements to the Trust Prospectus that correct any errors or omissions made by the Distributor or Trust within the Trust Prospectus; (i) any reasonable administrative costs or losses incurred for correcting the underlying Contract Owner accounts as a result of any incorrect calculation of the net asset value, any incorrect report of net asset value, or any untimely delay in the reporting of the net asset value to the extent such errors are within the Trust or the Distributor’s control and are not the fault of the Company; (j) all expenses associated with Trust proxy solicitations, including but not limited to, printing, distribution and cost of tabulating of the proxies.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a Rule 12b-l Plan and/or shareholder service plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under ; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany's obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) [printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages);] (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, ; and the printing of all shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to shareholders (including existing Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if Owners). If the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses ’s prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's ’s prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses Prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus Prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses To the extent not inconsistent with Schedule 5, expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing reimbursement of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution its expenses, as applicable, of typesetting and printing of annual Fund Prospectuses, including supplements thereto, periodic shareholder reports to existing Contract Owners currently invested in the TrustOwners; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share such reimbursement shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears limited to the total number lesser of pages);actual costs or $100,000 in any one calendar year. (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (h) any expenses the Company incurs which are directly related to (i) a reorganization of the Trust as defined by Section 2 of the 1940 Act, or (ii) a change in the name of the Trust or of any Fund. Company agrees to use its best efforts to minimize all such expenses and shall provide the Trust or its Distributor with acceptable documentation of such expenses. In the event the Trust determines it will not reimburse the Company for such expenses, then the Distributor shall do so.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (h) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident The Trust assumes and shall pay or cause to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification be paid all expenses of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested not otherwise allocated in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the TrustAgreement, including, without limitation, organizational costs; taxes; expenses for legal and auditing services; the expenses of preparing (including typesetting), printing and mailing reports, Trust Materials, proxy solicitation and tender offer materials and notices to existing shareholders; all fees due under Rule 24f-2 expenses incurred in connection with sales issuing and redeeming Shares; the costs of Trust shares Pricing Sources; the costs of loan credit activity data; the costs of escrow and custodial services; the cost of document retention and archival services, the costs of responding to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent document production requests; the cost of initial and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage ongoing registration of the Shares under Federal and Trustees' feesstate securities laws; and (g) costs associated with attempting to locate lost shareholders; all expenses incurred in connection with any expenses permitted custom programming or systems modifications required to be paid provide any reports or assumed services requested by the Trust pursuant to a planTrust; any expense, if anyapplicable, under Rule 12b-1 under incurred to reprint the 1940 ActTrust documents identifying the Administrator (along with its address and telephone number) as the Trust’s new administrator; costs associated with DST FanMail or similar reporting service; bank service charges; NSCC trading charges; fees and out-of-pocket expenses of directors; the costs of directors’ meetings; insurance; interest; brokerage costs; litigation and other extraordinary or nonrecurring expenses; and all fees and charges of service providers to the Trust. The Trust shall reimburse the Administrator for its reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the performance of the Services, including all reasonable charges for independent third party audit charges, printing, copying, postage, telephone, and fax charges incurred by the Administrator in the performance of its duties.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses ’s prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's ’s prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (h) solicitation of voting instructions, including distribution of Trust proxy materials to Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Informationinformation, Trust's's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing, distribution and solicitation of voting instructions with respect to all proxy materials required to be distributed to existing Contract Owners to the extent the content is initiated by the Trust; printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses other materials and reports (other documents than those specified as being paid for by the Company below) required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages)Owners; (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and/or the prospectuses for other funds available under the Contracts, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers; and (i) printing of all supplements to the Trust's Prospectuses, the content of which is initiated by the Trust, and distribution of such supplements to existing Contract Owners to the extent such distribution does not coincide with a scheduled mailing and printing of annual and semi-annual reports of the Trust for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners or of any other required documents, including, but not limited to, mailing of periodic account reports or Contract Owner statements.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (g) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, proxy materials initiated by the Trust and reports for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners and dissemination of the Trust's Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, proxy materials initiated by the Trust and reports to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust, the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account and the Trust to bear the cost of disseminating such documents to existing Contract Owners funded by the Trust in the proportion described above; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing and dissemination expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 12b-l under the 1940 Act; and (g) printing of the Trust’s Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, proxy materials initiated by the Trust and reports for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners and dissemination of the Trust’s Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, proxy materials initiated by the Trust and reports to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust’s Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract’s prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust’s Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing Trust’s portion such document (relating to the Trust’s Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account and the Trust to bear the cost of disseminating such document to existing Contract Owners funded by the Trust in the same proportion; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing and dissemination expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 Act.Company's obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners. # 1286928 v.9

Trust Expenses. Expenses The Trust will pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and the obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under this Agreement, including (i) the federal securities laws; (b) preparation preparation, printing and filing of the Trust Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits) as originally filed and of each amendment and supplement thereto, (ii) the preparation, 23 printing and delivery to the Underwriters of this Agreement, any Agreement among the Underwriters, the Fundamental Trust Agreements and such other documents as may be required in connection with the SEC offering, purchase, sale, issuance or delivery of the Trust's ProspectusesTrUEPrS, Trust's Statement of Additional Information(iii) the preparation, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials issuance and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy delivery of the foregoing; certificates for the TrUEPrS, including any charges of DTC in connection therewith and any stock or other transfer taxes and any stamp or other duties payable upon the sale, issuance or delivery of the TrUEPrS and the transfer of the TrUEPrS between the Underwriters, (civ) preparation the fees and disbursements of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materialsthe counsel, shareholder reports, prospectuses accountants and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating advisors to the Trust, includingthe U.K. Company, without limitationthe Jersey Holding Company, all the Jersey Charitable Trust and the Jersey Subsidiary (solely in their capacity as such and not in their capacity as counsel to the Underwriters), (v) the qualification of the TrUEPrS under securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 hereof, including filing fees due under Rule 24f-2 and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with sales the preparation of the Blue Sky Survey and any supplement thereto, (vi) any fees payable in connection with the rating of the TrUEPrS, (vii) the printing and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of each preliminary prospectus, any Trust shares Term Sheets and of the Trust Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, (viii) the preparation, printing and delivery to qualified retirement plansthe Underwriters of copies of the Blue Sky Survey and any supplement thereto, custodial, auditing, (ix) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the TrUEPrS, (x) the fees and advisory feesexpenses incurred in connection with the listing of the TrUEPrS on the NYSE, (xi) the fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and expenses required to establish the Trust, the U.K. Company, the Jersey Holding Company, the Jersey Charitable Trust and the Jersey Subsidiary and to document the transactions to which such parties are a party as contemplated by the Registration Statements (gto the extent not paid by the U.K. Company), (xii) any expenses permitted to be paid Australian stamp duty in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Fundamental Trust Agreements, the TrUEPrS and any other agreements or assumed instruments contemplated by the foregoing or the Trust pursuant Registration Statement, and (xiii) all other reasonable costs and expenses (excluding any out of pocket expenses incurred by the Underwriters) incident to a planthe performance of the obligations of the Trust hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 4, if anyincluding without limitation any Australian duties or taxes payable in connection with the issuance, under Rule 12b-1 under sale and delivery of the 1940 ActTrUEPrS or the execution and delivery of the Fundamental Trust Agreements.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, shareholders and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages)Owners; (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (h) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information DocuSign Envelope ID: 67CCC76D-83BE-44B9-82F8-888875986E40 statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany's obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholdersContract Owners with contract value allocated to the relevant Fund, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) distribution, mailing costs, and solicitation of voting instructions related to all proxy statements and other proxy materials required to be distributed to existing Contact Owners in connection with Trust Shares; (g) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fh) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent Accounts and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' feesQualified Persons; and (gi) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 ActPlan and/or shareholder service plan.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) all expenses associated with supplements to the Trust Prospectus that correct any errors or omissions made by the Distributor or Trust within the Trust Prospectus; (i) any reasonable administrative costs or losses incurred for correcting the underlying Contract Owner accounts as a result of any incorrect calculation of the net asset value, any incorrect report of net asset value, or any untimely delay in the reporting of the net asset value to the extent such errors are within the Trust or the Distributor's control and are not the fault of the Company; (j) all expenses associated with Trust proxy solicitations, including but not limited to, printing, distribution and cost of tabulating of the proxies.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, ; and the printing of all shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses prospectus (or portions thereof) <Page> as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy solicitation materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" copy ” form or form otherwise suitable for printing or duplication of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plansplans and Schedule 5 Accounts, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 ActAct and/or a shareholder service plan; and (g) printing (or duplicating costs with respect to the statement of additional information) and mailing costs associated with the delivery of the Trust’s Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to existing Contract Owners. The Company will submit any bills for printing, duplicating and/or mailing costs, relating to the Trust’s Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to the Trust for reimbursement by the Trust, as it relates to the delivery of these materials to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust’s Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract’s prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust’s Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust’s portion of such document (relating to the Trust’s Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustTrust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 ActPlan; and (i) solicitation of voting instructions from Contract Owners, including distribution of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustTrust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 ActPlan; and (i) solicitation of voting instructions from Contract Owners, including distribution of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing;. (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) all expenses associated with supplements to the Trust Prospectus that correct any errors or omissions made by the Distributor or Trust within the Trust Prospectus; (i) any reasonable administrative costs or losses incurred for correcting the underlying Contract Owner accounts as a result of any incorrect calculation of the net asset value, any incorrect report of net asset value, or any untimely delay in the reporting of the net asset value to the extent such errors are within the Trust or the Distributor’s control and are not the fault of the Company; (j) all expenses associated with Trust proxy solicitations, including but not limited to, printing, distribution and cost of tabulating of the proxies.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing;. (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses materials and other documents reports required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares;; [_____] 11/1/99 (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) all expenses associated with supplements to the Trust Prospectus that correct any errors or omissions made by the Distributor or Trust within the Trust Prospectus; (i) any reasonable administrative costs or losses incurred for correcting the underlying Contract Owner accounts as a result of any incorrect calculation of the net asset value, any incorrect report of net asset value, or any untimely delay in the reporting of the net asset value to the extent such errors are within the Trust or the Distributor’s control and are not the fault of the Company; (j) all expenses associated with Trust proxy solicitations, including but not limited to, printing, distribution and cost of tabulating of the proxies.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan and/or shareholder service plan; and (i) provision or printing and delivery of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials. The Trust may elect to retain, at its own expense, a proxy solicitation firm to perform some or all of the 1940 Acttasks necessary for the Company to obtain voting instructions from Contract Owners.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy solicitation materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy form or form otherwise suitable for printing or duplication of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plansplans and Schedule 5 Accounts, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 ActAct and/or a shareholder service plan; and (g) printing (or duplicating costs with respect to the statement of additional information) and mailing costs associated with the delivery of the Trust's Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to existing Contract Owners. The Company will submit any bills for printing, duplicating and/or mailing costs, relating to the Trust's Prospectuses, statement of additional information, reports and proxy soliciting material to the Trust for reimbursement by the Trust, as it relates to the delivery of these materials to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the TrustTrust and to new Contract Owners; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses ’s Prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 12b-l plan under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing, distribution and solicitation of voting instructions with respect to all proxy materials required to be distributed to existing Contract Owners to the extent the content is initiated by the Trust; printing and mailing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses other materials and reports (other documents than those specified as being paid for by the Company below) required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages)Owners; (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; (h) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and/or the prospectuses for other funds available under the Contracts, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers; and (i) printing of all supplements to the Trust's Prospectuses, the content of which is initiated by the Trust, and distribution of such supplements to existing Contract Owners to the extent such distribution does not coincide with a scheduled mailing and printing of annual and semi-annual reports of the Trust for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners or of any other required documents, including, but not limited to, mailing of periodic account reports or Contract Owner statements.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" ready copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal Federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (fe) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and; (gf) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act; and (g) printing of the Trust's Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information and reports for distribution by the Company to existing Contract Owners. If the Trust's Prospectuses are printed by the Company in one document with the prospectus for the Contracts and the prospectuses for other funds, then the expenses of such printing will be apportioned between the Company and the Trust in proportion to the number of pages of the Contract's prospectus, other fund prospectuses and the Trust's Prospectuses, taking account of other relevant factors affecting the expense of printing, such as covers, columns, graphs and charts; the Trust to bear the cost of printing the Trust's portion of such document (relating to the Trust's Prospectuses) for distribution only to owners of existing Contracts funded by the Trust and the Company to bear the expense of printing the portion of such documents relating to the Account; provided, however, the Company shall bear all printing expenses of such combined documents where used for distribution to prospective purchasers or to owners of existing Variable Contracts not funded by the Trust.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's Prospectuses, Trust's Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "camera-ready" copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation preparation, printing and dissemination to Contract Owners of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) solicitation of voting instructions, including distribution of Trust proxy material to Contract Owners, printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the Trust; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's ’s Statement of Additional Information, Trust's ’s Registration Statement, Trust proxy materials and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities law; (d) printing of all proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently invested in the TrustTrust and to new Contract Owners; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses ’s Prospectus (or portions thereof) as part of a larger document containing prospectuses of other investment companies, the Trust shall bear the expense only of its share of the cost of printing the document (for this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus bears to the total number of pages); (e) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust shares; (f) payment of all applicable fees relating to the Trust, including, without limitation, all fees due under Rule 24f-2 in connection with sales of Trust shares to qualified retirement plans, custodial, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' ’ fees; and (g) any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 plan under the 1940 Act.

Trust Expenses. Expenses incident to the Trust's ’s performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement include, but are not limited to, the costs of: (a) registration and qualification of the Trust shares Shares under the federal securities laws; (b) preparation and filing with the SEC of the Trust's ’s Prospectuses, Trust's Summary Prospectuses, Statement of Additional Information, Trust's Registration Statement, Trust information statements, proxy materials statements and other proxy materials, and shareholder reports, and preparation of a "“camera-ready" ” copy of the foregoing; (c) preparation of all statements and notices required by any federal or state securities lawApplicable Law; (d) provision and maintenance of the Fund Documents Web Site; (e) printing of all information statements, proxy statements and other proxy materials, shareholder reports, prospectuses Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and other documents required to be provided by the Trust to its existing shareholders, and providing sufficient copies of the same to the Company for distribution to Contract Owners currently then invested in the TrustAccounts that hold Trust Shares; provided, however, that if the Company prints copies of the Trust's prospectuses a Trust Prospectus (or portions thereof) or Summary Prospectus as part of a larger document containing prospectuses Prospectuses of other investment companies, any expense obligation of the Trust shall bear the expense be limited only of to its share of the cost of printing the document (for document. For this purpose, the Trust's ’s share shall be the percentage of the total cost of the document represented by the ratio that the number of pages of the Trust's prospectus ’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus bears to the total number of pages)pages in the document; (ef) all taxes on the issuance or transfer of Trust sharesShares; (fg) payment of all applicable fees relating to expenses of operating the Trust, including, without limitation, all expenses relating to fees due under for custody, auditing, transfer agency services, legal services, investment management services, and insurance coverage, as well as Trustee compensation and 1940 Act Rule 24f-2 fees in connection with sales of Trust shares Shares to qualified retirement plansSchedule 2 Accounts, custodialSchedule 3 Accounts, auditing, transfer agent and advisory fees, fees for insurance coverage and Trustees' fees; andQualified Persons; (gh) payment of any expenses permitted to be paid or assumed by the Trust pursuant to a plan, if any, under Rule 12b-1 under Plan; and (i) provision or printing of Trust proxy statements and other proxy materials required in connection with the 1940 ActCompany’s obligation to solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners.