Trustee Fees In accordance with any applicable Declaration of Investment Account or separate schedule published by the Trustee from time to time, the Trustee shall be compensated for its investment management and other services to the Investment Accounts. In addition, the Trustee may charge to and receive from each Participating Trust such reasonable Trustee fees in accordance with the existing published Trustee’s Fee Schedule or such other fee as may be negotiated by and between the Trustee and Participating Trust. The fee schedule set forth in the applicable Declaration of Investment Account may be modified by the Trustee from time to time on sixty (60) calendar days advanced notice to the Participating Trust. If the Plan Fiduciary files an objection with the Trustee at least five (5) calendar days before the day on which such fee modification will take effect, the Trustee may withdraw the participation of the Participating Trust from the Investment Account on or before the Valuation Date as of which such new or modified fee is to take effect.
Compensation; Allocation of Costs and Expenses (a) In full consideration of the provision of the services of the Administrator, the Corporation shall reimburse the Administrator for the costs and expenses incurred by the Administrator in performing its obligations and providing personnel and facilities hereunder, including the costs and expenses charged by any sub-administrator that may be retained by the Administrator to provide services to the Corporation or on the Administrator’s behalf.
(b) The Corporation will bear all costs and expenses that are incurred in its operation, administration, and transactions and not specifically assumed by the Corporation’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”), pursuant to that certain Investment Advisory Agreement, dated as of [•], 2021, by and between the Corporation and the Adviser (the “Advisory Agreement”). Costs and expenses to be borne by the Corporation include, but are not limited to, those relating to: expenses deemed to be “organization and offering expenses” of the Corporation for purposes of Conduct Rule 2310(a)(12) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (for purposes of this Agreement, such expenses, exclusive of commissions, the dealer manager fee and any discounts, are hereinafter referred to as “Organization and Offering Expenses”); expenses incurred by the Adviser and payable to third parties, including agents, consultants and other advisors, in monitoring the financial and legal affairs of the Corporation, and news and quotation subscriptions; the cost of calculating the Corporation’s net asset value; the cost of effecting sales and repurchases of shares of the Corporation’s common stock and other securities; management and incentive fees payable pursuant to the Advisory Agreement; fees payable to third parties, including agents, consultants and other advisors, relating to, or associated with, making investments, and, if necessary, enforcing its rights, and valuing investments (including third-party valuation firms); placement agent fees and expenses, rating agency expenses; fees to arrange debt financings for the Corporation; distributions on the Corporation’s shares; administration fees payable under this Agreement; the allocated costs incurred by the Administrator in providing managerial assistance to those portfolio companies that request it; transfer agent and custodial fees; fees and expenses associated with marketing efforts (including attendance at investment conferences and similar events); federal and state registration fees; any exchange listing fees; federal, state, local, and other taxes; independent directors’ fees and expenses, including any legal counsel or other advisors retained by, or at the discretion or for the benefit of, the independent directors; brokerage commissions; costs of proxy statements, stockholders’ reports and notices; costs of preparing government filings, including periodic and current reports with the SEC; the Corporation’s fidelity bond, directors and officers/errors and omissions liability insurance, and any other insurance premiums; indemnification payments; expenses relating to the development and maintenance of the Corporation’s website; other operations and technology costs; direct costs and expenses of administration, including printing, mailing, copying, telephone, fees of independent accountants and outside legal costs; and all other expenses incurred by the Corporation or the Administrator in connection with administering the Corporation’s business, including, but not limited to, payments under this Agreement based upon the Corporation’s allocable portion of the Administrator’s overhead in performing its obligations under this Agreement, including rent, travel and the allocable portion of the cost of the Corporation’s chief compliance officer and chief financial officer and their respective staffs, including operations and tax professionals, and administrative staff providing support services in respect of the Corporation.
Payment of Trust Expenses and Compensation of Trustees The Trustees are authorized to pay or to cause to be paid out of the principal or income of the Trust, or partly out of principal and partly out of income, and to charge or allocate the same to, between or among such one or more of the Series and Classes that may be established and designated pursuant to Article IV, as the Trustees deem fair, all expenses, fees, charges, taxes and liabilities incurred or arising in connection with the Trust, or in connection with the management thereof, including, but not limited to, the Trustees' compensation and such expenses and charges for the services of the Trust's officers, employees, investment adviser, administrator, distributor, principal underwriter, auditor, counsel, depository, custodian, transfer agent, dividend disbursing agent, accounting agent, Shareholder servicing agent, and such other agents, consultants, and independent contractors and such other expenses and charges as the Trustees may deem necessary or proper to incur. Without limiting the generality of any other provision hereof, the Trustees shall be entitled to reasonable compensation from the Trust for their services as Trustees and may fix the amount of such compensation.
Allocation of Charges and Expenses Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section 4, you shall pay the compensation and expenses of all Trustees, officers and executive employees of the Trust (including the Fund's share of payroll taxes) who are affiliated persons of you, and you shall make available, without expense to the Fund, the services of such of your directors, officers and employees as may duly be elected officers of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any limitations imposed by law. You shall provide at your expense the portfolio management services described in section 2 hereof and the administrative services described in section 3 hereof. You shall not be required to pay any expenses of the Fund other than those specifically allocated to you in this section 4. In particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you shall not be responsible, except to the extent of the reasonable compensation of such of the Fund's Trustees and officers as are directors, officers or employees of you whose services may be involved, for the following expenses of the Fund: organization expenses of the Fund (including out of-pocket expenses, but not including your overhead or employee costs); fees payable to you and to any other Fund advisors or consultants; legal expenses; auditing and accounting expenses; maintenance of books and records which are required to be maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Trust; telephone, telex, facsimile, postage and other communications expenses; taxes and governmental fees; fees, dues and expenses incurred by the Fund in connection with membership in investment company trade organizations; fees and expenses of the Fund's accounting agent for which the Trust is responsible pursuant to the terms of the Fund Accounting Services Agreement, custodians, subcustodians, transfer agents, dividend disbursing agents and registrars; payment for portfolio pricing or valuation services to pricing agents, accountants, bankers and other specialists, if any; expenses of preparing share certificates and, except as provided below in this section 4, other expenses in connection with the issuance, offering, distribution, sale, redemption or repurchase of securities issued by the Fund; expenses relating to investor and public relations; expenses and fees of registering or qualifying Shares of the Fund for sale; interest charges, bond premiums and other insurance expense; freight, insurance and other charges in connection with the shipment of the Fund's portfolio securities; the compensation and all expenses (specifically including travel expenses relating to Trust business) of Trustees, officers and employees of the Trust who are not affiliated persons of you; brokerage commissions or other costs of acquiring or disposing of any portfolio securities of the Fund; expenses of printing and distributing reports, notices and dividends to shareholders; expenses of printing and mailing Prospectuses and SAIs of the Fund and supplements thereto; costs of stationery; any litigation expenses; indemnification of Trustees and officers of the Trust; and costs of shareholders' and other meetings. You shall not be required to pay expenses of any activity which is primarily intended to result in sales of Shares of the Fund if and to the extent that (i) such expenses are required to be borne by a principal underwriter which acts as the distributor of the Fund's Shares pursuant to an underwriting agreement which provides that the underwriter shall assume some or all of such expenses, or (ii) the Trust on behalf of the Fund shall have adopted a plan in conformity with Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act providing that the Fund (or some other party) shall assume some or all of such expenses. You shall be required to pay such of the foregoing sales expenses as are not required to be paid by the principal underwriter pursuant to the underwriting agreement or are not permitted to be paid by the Fund (or some other party) pursuant to such a 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" 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.
Payment of Trust Expenses The Trustees are authorized to pay or to cause to be paid out of the principal or income of the Trust, or partly out of principal and partly out of income, and according to any allocation to a particular Series and Class made by them pursuant to Section 6.1(f) hereof, all expenses, fees, charges, taxes and liabilities incurred or arising in connection with the business and affairs of the Trust or in connection with the management thereof, including, but not limited to, the Trustees' compensation and such expenses and charges for the services of the Trust's officers, employees, Investment Adviser, Administrator, Distributor, Principal Underwriter, auditor, counsel, Custodian, Transfer Agent, Dividend Disbursing Agent, Accounting Agent, Shareholder Servicing Agent, and such other agents, consultants, and independent contractors and such other expenses and charges as the Trustees may deem necessary or proper to incur.
The Owner Trustee’s Compensation Compensation for all services rendered by Wilmington Trust under this Agreement (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) shall be paid to Wilmington Trust pursuant to Section 4.4(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 5.4(b) of the Indenture, as applicable (in either case to the extent of Available Funds available therefor), in accordance with the terms of an applicable fee letter. Wilmington Trust shall, upon its request and in accordance with an applicable fee letter, be reimbursed pursuant to Section 4.4(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 5.4(b) of the Indenture, as applicable (in either case to the extent of Available Funds available therefor), for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by Wilmington Trust in accordance with any provision of this Agreement (including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, experts and counsel as Wilmington Trust may employ in connection with the exercise, enforcement and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder or amendments or modifications hereto, including but not limited to expenses related to Sections 4.3 and 5.3 hereof), except any such expense that may be attributable to its willful misconduct, gross negligence (other than an error in judgment) or bad faith. To the extent not paid in full from Available Funds pursuant to Section 4.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 5.4(b) of the Indenture, as applicable (whether by application of the limitation set forth in Section 4.4(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or otherwise), on or before the Payment Date following the end of the Collection Period that includes the 30th day after the request therefor, such fees and reasonable expenses shall be paid by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.11 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement (without regard to such limitation). The provisions of this Section 8.1 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee.
Trustee's Fees (a) As compensation for its services hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to the Trustee Fee and any amounts payable under clauses 5(a)(iii) and 5(b)(iv) above. The Trustee Fee shall be paid by the Depositor and not from Trust Property. The Trustee shall bear all Ordinary Expenses. Failure by the Depositor to pay such amount shall not entitle the Trustee to any payment or reimbursement from the Trust, nor shall such failure release the Trustee from the duties it is required to perform under the Trust Agreement.
(b) Extraordinary Expenses shall not be paid out of the Trust Property unless all the holders of the Class A-1 Certificates and Class A-2 Certificates then outstanding have directed the Trustee to incur such Extraordinary Expenses. The Trustee may incur other Extraordinary Expenses if any lesser percentage of the Certificateholders requesting such action pursuant hereto reimburse the Trustee for the cost thereof from their own funds in advance. If Extraordinary Expenses are not approved unanimously as set forth in the first sentence of this Section 6(b), such Extraordinary Expenses shall not be an obligation of the Trust, and the Trustee shall not file any claim against the Trust therefor notwithstanding failure of Certificateholders to reimburse the Trustee.
Servicing Compensation; Payment of Certain Expenses by Servicer The Servicer shall be entitled to receive the Servicing Fee in accordance with Section 3.03 as compensation for its services in connection with servicing the Mortgage Loans. Moreover, additional servicing compensation in the form of late payment charges and certain other receipts not required to be deposited in the Collection Account as specified in Section 3.02 shall be retained by the Servicer. The Servicer shall be required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities hereunder (including payment of all other fees and expenses not expressly stated hereunder to be for the account of the Securityholders, including, without limitation, the fees and expenses of the Administrator, Owner Trustee, Indenture Trustee and any Custodian) and shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as specifically provided herein.
Costs and Expenses: Allocation of Costs A. The Transfer Agent will be responsible for all expenses, costs and other charges arising out of the performance of its obligations pursuant to this Contract, including the fees and disbursements of any third party retained to perform any of the services to the Fund on behalf of the Transfer Agent; all paper, typesetting, printing, stationery, envelopes, postage, labeling costs, mail sorting and other similar costs of preparing and mailing any dividend or redemption payment, all shareholder reports (including the cost of printing and mailing prospectuses sent to current shareholders, including the beneficial owners of Accounts), tax statements, confirmations, notices and statements of account; all telephone and computer equipment and usage charges; all personnel expenses, heat, light, rent, utilities, equipment purchases or rentals; all insurance premiums associated with FIIOC’s provision of services under this Contract, unless the Trustees of the Fund shall have specifically authorized an allocation of all or a portion of the premium to the Fund; all costs associated with the provision of check redemption services (including, the costs of printing and mailing of checks and checkbooks to shareholders, the charges of any vendor retained by the Fund to process checks for payment, and the charges of sending canceled checks to shareholders); and all other necessary expenses associated with the provision of services under the Contract.
B. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Fund shall be required to bear all expenses for all Accounts associated with: (i) all fees and expenses of registering shares for sale under the state securities laws (“blue sky charges”); and (ii) the holding of annual or special meetings of Fund shareholders, including: the costs of typesetting, printing, postage and mailing of notices, proxy cards and proxy statements (and, if requested by a shareholder, annual reports sent to those shareholders that have opened accounts subsequent to the last regular mailing date of such reports to shareholders); the fees and other disbursements of any agent hired to mail proxy materials and/or tabulate proxies; all charges incurred by any proxy soliciting agent; the reasonable and customary fees and handling charges of brokers, banks and other intermediaries for forwarding proxy materials; all other customary expenses associated with the holding of shareholder meetings.
C. The Fund shall not bear expenses for Accounts associated with charges of any bank for establishing and operating accounts for the receipt of funds for share purchases and the payment of dividends, distributions and redemption proceeds (together, “bank charges”). The Transfer Agent shall look exclusively to FMR for payment of bank charges.
D. Any amounts earned by the bank accounts established pursuant to paragraph 3(D) above on overnight repurchase agreements or money market funds shall be allocated to the Fund on a pro rata basis based on the amount of moneys attributable to the Fund invested in such repurchase agreements or money market funds.
