VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; Calculate capital gains and losses; Calculate daily distribution rate per share; Determine net income; Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; Calculate yields, portfolio dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.
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Samples: Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc.), Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds, Inc.), Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds, Inc.)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: § Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; § Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; § Maintain historical tax lots for each security; § Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; § Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; § Provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; § Calculate capital gains and losses; § Calculate daily distribution rate per share; § Determine net income; § Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; § Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; § Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); § Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; § Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; § Calculate yields, portfolio dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and § Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. § For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.
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Samples: Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds, Inc.), Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Funds, Inc.), Fund Accounting Agreement (T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Funds, Inc.)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: § Journalize investment, capital share share, cash receipts and disbursements, and income and expense activities; § Verify and process security trade activity on T+1; § Utilize month end processing functionality to post T+1 trades on T at fiscal quarter ends as well as October 31st; § Process expense payments and accrual changes on the day following authorized instruction; § Confirm with advisor or sub-advisor, as applicable, the aggregate number of security transactions for each Fund for the prior business day; § Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; § Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; § Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s 's custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide and provide a Fund’s 's investment adviser, administrator, and sub-adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day on a daily basis; § Record daily shareholder activity of each Fund and upon request, as agreed reconcile fund share and activity to transfer agency records; § Calculate various contractual expenses including expense limitations by the partiesclass; § Calculate book capital gains and losses; § Process corporate action activity; § Calculate daily distribution rate per share; § Determine book net income; § Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser's Board, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser's valuation committee in accordance with the Fund's valuation procedures, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s 's investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, except to challenge such a valuation at the request of an Authorized Person, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; Calculate yields, portfolio dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.;
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Samples: Fund Accounting Agreement (Cascades Trust), Fund Accounting Agreement (Aquila Funds Trust)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each the Fund: § Journalize investment, capital share share, corporate action, and income and expense activities; § Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; § Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; § Reconcile cash and investment balances of each the Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide a and provide the Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; § Calculate various contractual expenses; § Calculate capital gains and losses; Calculate daily distribution rate per share; § Determine net income; § Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each the Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; § Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties§ Disseminate Net Asset Value and related data to fund transfer agent, NASDAQ and to statistical reporting agencies; § Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a the Fund’s investment adviser; § Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and § Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes ; § Reconcile fund share and calculate activity to transfer agency records; § Monitor/age income and reclaim receivables balances; and § Provide database company feeds and respond to surveys at the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with direction of the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies Fund as required by regulation and/or instruction mutually agreed upon from TRPtime to time.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Sequoia Fund Inc)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: ∎ Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; ∎ Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; ∎ Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; ∎ Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide and provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; ∎ Calculate various contractual expenses; ∎ Calculate capital gains and losses; ∎ Calculate daily distribution rate per share; ∎ Determine net income; ∎ Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's ’s valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's ’s investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; ∎ Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds • For any Fund that operates as mutually agreed an ETF, such net asset value reports and statements shall be provided to the Fund, to Authorized Participants, and to Authorized Participant Representatives on days when the exchange listing the Fund is operating, in each case by such means as BNY Mellon and the Fund may agree upon between the parties; from time to time. ∎ Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; Calculate yields∎ For Funds operating as ETFs, provide pricing basket to the VIIV agent; ∎ For Funds operating as ETFs, manage the restricted lists of Authorized Participants and Authorized Participant Representatives; ∎ For Funds operating as ETFs, publish basket to NSCC on for each day on which trading occurs on the NYSE; ∎ Compute yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and Calculate ∎ Compute portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes ; and calculate ∎ Preparing and uploading any dividend notices for Funds operating as ETFs to the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRPapplicable listing exchange.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Alger Portfolios)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: ■ Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; ■ Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; ■ Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; ■ Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicablecustodian; Provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties■ Calculate/accrue various contractual expenses; ■ Calculate capital gains and losses; ■ Calculate daily distribution rate per share; ■ Calculate daily income ■ Determine net income; ■ Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's ’s valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's ’s investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; ■ Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Parent Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; ■ Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; ■ Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and ■ Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate BNY Mellon shall provide the market-value Net Asset Value in following fund administration services for each Fund: ■ In accordance with Instructions received from a Fund, and subject to portfolio limitations as provided by such Fund to BNY Mellon in writing from time to time, monitor such Fund’s compliance, on a post-trade basis, with such portfolio limitations, provided that BNY Mellon maintains in the normal course of its business all data necessary to measure the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.compliance;
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Virtus ETF Trust II)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide and provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; Calculate various contractual expenses; Calculate capital gains and losses; Calculate daily distribution rate per share; Determine net income; Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; Calculate yields, portfolio dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes ; and calculate Prepare and furnish the market-value Net Asset Value Fund (at the Fund’s request) with the performance information (including yield and total return information) calculated in accordance with applicable U.S. securities laws and reporting to external databases such information as may reasonably be requested. BNY Mellon shall provide the following financial reporting services for each Fund: Prepare the Fund’s valuation annual and semi-annual shareholder reports1 for shareholder delivery and for inclusion in Form N-CSR; Prepare the Fund’s quarterly schedule of portfolio holdings and condensed financial statements and footnotes for inclusion in Form N-Q and N20b-2; Work with the financial printer to file N30b-2; Prepare, circulate and maintain the Fund’s financial reporting production calendar; Prepare and file (or coordinate the filing of) a Fund’s Form N-SAR; Maintain country codes, industry class codes, security class codes and state codes; Map individual general ledger accounts into master accounts to be displayed in the applicable financial reports; Create components that will specify the proper grouping and sorting for display of portfolio information; Create components that will specify the proper calculation and display of financial data required for each applicable financial report (except for identified manual entries, which BNY Mellon will enter); Process, convert and load security and general ledger data; Coordinate typesetting with the financial printer of data for financial reports provided from external parties to BNY Mellon which, includes, but is not limited to: shareholder letters, “Management Discussion and Analysis” commentary, notes on performance, notes to financials, report of independent auditors, Fund management listing, advisory renewal language, directors and officers table, service providers listing and Fund spectrums; Document publishing, including the output of print-ready PDF files and XXXXX html files (such XXXXX html files will be limited to one per the applicable financial report and unless mutually agreed to in writing between BNY Mellon and a Fund, BNY Mellon will use the same layout for production data for every successive reporting period); Generate financial reports using the financial reporting platform which includes the following: schedules of investments; statements of assets and liabilities; statements of operation; statements of changes; statements of cash flows; financial highlights; notes to financial statements; and tax information Provide the financial printer word documents for the purpose of typesetting the above statements. Unless mutually agreed in writing between BNY Mellon and the Fund, BNY Mellon will use the same layout and format for every successive reporting period for the typeset reports. At the request of a Fund and upon the mutual written agreement of BNY Mellon and the Fund as to the scope of any changes and additional compensation to BNY Mellon and/or to the financial printer providing typesetting services. BNY Mellon will, or will cause the financial printer to change format or layout of reports from time to time. Work with the financial printer to generate XXXXX files for inclusion in Form N-Q, N30b-2 and Form N0CSR filings. BNY Mellon shall provide the following tax services for each Fund: Tax Provision Preparation Prepare fiscal year-end tax provision analysis; Process tax adjustments on securities identified by a Fund that require such treatment; Prepare ROCSOP adjusting entries; and Prepare financial statement footnote disclosures. Excise Tax Distributions Calculations Prepare calendar year tax distribution analysis; Process tax adjustments on securities identified by a Fund that require such treatment; and Prepare annual tax-based distribution estimate for each Fund. Other Tax Services Prepare for the Fund’s auditor’s review the federal and state (single state) income and excise tax returns; Prepare year-end Investment Company Institute broker/dealer reporting and prepare fund distribution calculations disseminated to broker/dealers; and Coordinate U.S.C. Title 26 Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) §855 and excise tax distribution requirements. Uncertain Tax Provisions Documentation of all material tax positions taken by a Fund with respect to specified fiscal years and identified to BNY Mellon (“Tax Positions”); Review of a Fund’s: (i) tax provision work papers, (ii) excise tax distribution work papers, (iii) income and excise tax returns, (iv) tax policies and guidelines at procedures, and (v) Subchapter M compliance work papers; Determine as to whether or not Tax Positions have been consistently applied, and documentation of any inconsistencies; Review relevant statutory authorities; Review tax opinions and legal memoranda prepared by tax counsel or tax auditors to a Fund; Review standard mutual fund industry practices, to the extent such times practices are known to, or may reasonably be determined by, BNY Mellon; and frequencies Delivery of a written report to the applicable Fund detailing such items. BNY Mellon shall provide the following fund administration services for each Fund: In accordance with Instructions received from a Fund, and subject to portfolio limitations as provided by such Fund to BNY Mellon in writing from time to time, monitor such Fund’s compliance, on a post-trade basis, with such portfolio limitations, provided that BNY Mellon maintains in the normal course of its business all data necessary to measure the Fund’s compliance; Monitor the Fund’s status as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the IRC and Subchapter L of the IRC (if required). Establish appropriate expense accruals and compute expense ratios, maintain expense files and coordinate the payment of Fund approved invoices; Calculate Fund approved income and per share amounts required for periodic distributions to be made by the applicable Fund; Calculate total return information; Coordinate a Fund’s annual audit; Supply various normal and customary portfolio and Fund statistical data as requested on an ongoing basis; If the chief executive officer or chief financial officer of a Fund is required to provide a certification as part of a Fund’s Form N-Q or Form N-CSR filing pursuant to regulations promulgated by the SEC under Section 302 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, provide a sub-certification in support of certain matters set forth in the aforementioned certification. Such sub-certification is to be in such form and relating to such matters as agreed to by BNY Mellon in advance. BNY Mellon shall be required to provide the sub-certification only during the term of the Agreement and only if it receives such cooperation as it may request to perform its investigations with respect to the sub-certification. For clarity, the sub-certification is not itself a certification under the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 or under any other law, rule or regulation; Maintain office facilities (which may be in the offices of BNY Mellon or a corporate affiliate); Furnish statistical and research data, data processing services, clerical services, and financial administration services; Provide accounting and bookkeeping services (including the maintenance of such accounts, books and records of the Fund as may be required by section 31(a) of the 1940 Act and the rules thereunder); BNY Mellon shall provide the following regulatory administration services for each Fund: Maintain a regulatory calendar for each Fund listing various SEC filing and Board approval deadlines; Assemble and distribute board materials for quarterly meetings of the Board, including the drafting of agendas and resolutions for such quarterly meetings of the Board (with final selection of agenda items made by Fund counsel); Attend (in-person or telephonically) quarterly Board meetings and draft minutes thereof; Prepare and coordinate the filing of annual post-effective amendments (if needed) to a Fund’s registration statement (not including the initial registration statement or related to the addition of one or more classes of shares or series); Prepare and coordinate the filing of Forms N-CSR, N-Q, and N-PX, as applicable (with the Fund supplying the voting records in the format required by BNY Mellon); Assist the Fund in the handling of SEC examinations by providing requested documents in the possession of BNY Mellon that are on the SEC examination request list; Assist in the preparation of notices of annual meetings of shareholders and proxy materials relating to such meetings; Assist with and/or coordinate such other filings, notices and regulatory matters on such terms and conditions as the parties hereto may mutually agree upon in writing from time to time; and (i) Assist in preparing routine filings for submission to the New York Stock Exchange; (ii) assist in issuance of press releases; (iii) administratively prepare and file with the SEC Forms 3s, 4s and 5s for directors and officers of the Fund; (iv) apprise the Fund’s officers as soon as reasonably practicable of changes in law or regulation and/or instruction from TRPpotentially affecting the Fund or its operations; and (v) provide a report of independent third party compliance review of BNY Mellon’s compliance policies and procedures, to the extent that such report is prepared for BNY Mellon’s client base. Permit persons or entities entering a valid password to have electronic access, via an Internet-based secure website, to current quarterly board meeting materials and such other board meeting materials as may be agreed between BNY Mellon and a Fund.
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VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fundthe Company: § Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; § Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; § Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; § Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide a Fund’s investment adviserand provide the Investment Advisor, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; § Calculate various contractual expenses; § Calculate capital gains and losses; § Calculate daily distribution rate per shareInterest; § Determine net income; § Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviserthe Investment Advisor, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviserInvestment Advisor, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's ’s valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's ’s investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser Investment Advisor or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; § Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; § Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviserthe Investment Advisor at such frequency as approved by the Board; § Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and § Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain ; and § Perform the security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value valuation procedures as described in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRPExhibit A to this Schedule I attached hereto.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Matthews a Share Selections Fund, LLC)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each FundFund in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and/or SEC guidelines for 1940 Act registered investment companies: • Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; • Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; • Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing • Maintain lot relief methodologies as more fully set forth in instructed by the SLDsFund; • Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide and provide a Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; • Calculate various contractual expenses; • Calculate capital gains and losses; • Calculate daily distribution rate per shareshare as required by the Fund’s prospectus; • Determine net income; • Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's ’s valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's ’s investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; • Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; • Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s investment adviser; • Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and • Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (TCW Alternative Funds)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each the Fund: ¡ Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; ¡ Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; ¡ Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; ¡ Reconcile cash and investment balances of each the Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide a and provide the Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, ; ¡ Update the cash availability throughout the day as agreed required by the partiesFund’s investment adviser and report such cash to the investment adviser and other third parties designated by the investment adviser or the Fund; ¡ Calculate various contractual expenses; ¡ Calculate book capital gains and losses; ¡ Calculate daily distribution rate per share; ¡ Determine net income; ¡ Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a the Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each the Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's ’s valuation policies or guidelines, which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes the value of any securities lending cash collateral investment account(s) as provided to BNY Mellon by a securities lending agent or other source approved by the Fund; and in the event of a material deviation in daily prices of a Fund’s investment, second source such prices; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's ’s investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, valuations unless such inaccuracy was caused by BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuraciesnot meeting its Standard of Care (as defined in Section 9); Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; ¡ Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; ¡ Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a the Fund’s investment adviser; ¡ Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and ¡ Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds; ¡ Provide stale price reports, obtain security market quotes tolerance reports and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with other similar reports reasonably requested by the Fund’s valuation policies ; and guidelines at ¡ Preparation of 1099s and related tax forms (for payments to individuals such times as Fund Directors), calculation and frequencies as processing of required by regulation and/or instruction from TRPdistributions, and providing periodic reports to the investment adviser of capital gains/losses to enable the Fund, BNY Mellon and the investment adviser to monitor distribution requirements.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Bridgeway Funds Inc)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: • Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; • Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; • Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; • Reconcile cash and investment balances of each the Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide a and upon request provide the Fund’s investment adviser, as applicable, adviser with the beginning cash balance which is available for investment purposes at start-of-day purposes; the cash availability reporting is indicative only, is provided for information only and upon requestshould not be used for trading purposes, and BNY Mellon gives no warranty, express or implied, as agreed by to the partiesaccuracy, correctness or completeness of the cash availability reporting; • Calculate various contractual expenses; • Calculate capital gains and losses; • Calculate daily distribution rate per share; • Determine net income; • Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a the Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each the Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; • Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; • Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a the Fund’s investment adviser; • Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and • Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Versus Capital Infrastructure Income Fund)
VALUATION SUPPORT AND COMPUTATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES. BNY Mellon shall provide the following valuation support and computation accounting services for each Fund: § Journalize investment, capital share and income and expense activities; § Maintain individual ledgers for investment securities; § Maintain historical tax lots for each security; Corporate action processing as more fully set forth in the SLDs; § Reconcile cash and investment balances of each Fund with the Fund’s custodian or other counterparties as applicable; Provide and provide a Fund’s ’ investment adviser, as applicable, with the beginning cash balance available for investment purposes at start-of-day and upon request, as agreed by the parties; § Calculate various contractual expenses; § Calculate capital gains and losses; § Calculate foreign capital gains tax, Calculate and accrue foreign capital gains tax, if any, in accordance with (i) Instructions provided (1) at the time a market is setup or (2) upon change in the market status, in each case with respect to those markets for which there is not a standard tax rate, or (ii) at the standard rate in markets where a standard rate applies to investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, such as the Trust § Calculate daily distribution rate per share; § Determine net income; § Obtain security market quotes and currency exchange rates from pricing services approved by a Fund’s investment adviser, or if such quotes are unavailable, then obtain such prices from the Fund’s investment adviser, and in either case, calculate the market value of each the Fund’s investments in accordance with the Fund's valuation policies or guidelines; provided, however, that BNY Mellon shall not under any circumstances be under a duty to independently price or value any of the Fund's investments, including securities lending related cash collateral investments (with the exception of the services provided hereunder to Funds utilized for such cash collateral investments), itself or to confirm or validate any information or valuation provided by the investment adviser or any other pricing source, nor shall BNY Mellon have any liability relating to inaccuracies or otherwise with respect to such information or valuations; notwithstanding the foregoing, BNY Mellon shall follow the established procedures and controls to identify exceptions, tolerance breaches, etc. and to research and resolve or escalate any pricing inaccuracies; Application of the established automated price validation rules against prices received from third party vendors and review of exceptions as identified; § Calculate Net Asset Value in the manner specified in the Fund’s Offering Materials (which, for the service described herein, shall include the Fund’s Net Asset Value error policy); Calculate Accumulated Unit Values (“AUV”) for select funds as mutually agreed upon between the parties; § Transmit or make available a copy of the daily portfolio valuation to a Fund’s ’ investment adviser; § Calculate yields, yields and portfolio average dollar-weighted average maturity and dollar-weighted average life as applicable; and § Calculate portfolio turnover rate for inclusion in the annual and semi-annual shareholder reports. For money market funds, obtain security market quotes and calculate the market-value Net Asset Value in accordance with the Fund’s valuation policies and guidelines at such times and frequencies as required by regulation and/or instruction from TRP.
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Samples: Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (Third Avenue Variable Series Trust)