Exhibit 99.B9 TRANSFER AGENCY AND SERVICE AGREEMENTTransfer Agency and Service Agreement • November 7th, 1997 • Ge Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
PURCHASE AGREEMENTPurchase Agreement • November 7th, 1997 • Ge Institutional Funds
RECITALSSub-Advisory Agreement • January 27th, 1999 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
RECITALSInvestment Advisory and Administration Agreement • April 25th, 2000 • Ge Institutional Funds
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENTIndemnification Agreement • January 26th, 2024 • State Street Institutional Funds • Delaware
This INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT is made as of the 2nd day of March, 2023 (“Agreement”) by and between State Street Institutional Funds (the “Trust” and each series thereof a “Fund”) and Mark E. Swanson (the “Indemnitee”).
GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTSub-Advisory Agreement • January 28th, 2015 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
This agreement (“Agreement”) is made as of April 1, 2014, by and among GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED (“GEAM”), a Delaware corporation, GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS, a Delaware business trust (“Trust”), on behalf of the SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND (“Fund”), a series of the Trust, solely with respect to Section 13(b) of this Agreement, and SOUTHERNSUN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Delaware company (“Sub-Adviser”).
STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND INVESTMENT SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTInvestment Sub-Advisory Agreement • January 26th, 2024 • State Street Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
AGREEMENT, dated as of February 7, 2023, by and between SSGA FUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Adviser”), and KENNEDY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company (the “Sub-Adviser”).
STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTSub-Advisory Agreement • January 28th, 2021 • State Street Institutional Funds • New York
This agreement (“Agreement”) is made as of August 13, 2020, by and among SSGA FUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. (“SSGA FM”), a Massachusetts corporation, STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS (fka GE Institutional Funds), a Delaware business trust (“Trust”), on behalf of the STATE STREET INSTITUTIONAL SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND (fka Small-Cap Equity Fund) (“Fund”), a series of the Trust, solely with respect to Section 12(b) of this Agreement, and SOUTHERNSUN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Delaware company (“Sub-Adviser”).
AMENDED & RESTATED JOINT INSURED BOND AGREEMENT ELFUN FUNDS GE S&S FUNDS GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS GE INVESTMENTS FUNDS, INC.Joint Insured Bond Agreement • January 24th, 2014 • Ge Institutional Funds
AMENDED & RESTATED JOINT INSURED BOND AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of December 16, 2013, by and among Elfun Trusts, Elfun International Equity Fund, Elfun Diversified Fund, Elfun Tax-Exempt Income Fund, Elfun Income Fund, Elfun Money Market Fund, General Electric S&S U.S. Equity Fund, General Electric S&S Income Fund, GE Institutional Funds, on behalf of all of its series portfolios, and GE Investments Funds, Inc., on behalf of all of its series portfolios (each individually, a “Party” and collectively, the “Parties”).
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN SSGA FUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. AND GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDSInvestment Advisory and Administration Agreement • November 29th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRANSFER AGENT SERVICING AGREEMENTTransfer Agent Servicing Agreement • January 28th, 2021 • State Street Institutional Funds • Wisconsin
The Company hereby appoints USBGFS as transfer agent of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and USBGFS hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the services and duties set forth in this Agreement. USBGFS shall provide the services set forth in Schedules I, II, and III attached hereto, provided that the services set forth in Schedule II shall only be provided following the request of the Company, which services are subject to the additional terms and conditions specified in Schedule II. The services and duties of USBGFS as transfer agent described in Schedule I attached hereto shall include those duties as are normally and customarily performed by transfer agents in conjunction with such descriptions. To the extent the additional terms and conditions specified in Schedule II conflict with the terms and conditions elsewhere in this Agreement, the additional terms and conditions in Schedule II shall control, but only with regard to Electronic
TRANSFER AGENCY SERVICES AGREEMENTTransfer Agency Services Agreement • November 22nd, 2004 • Ge Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
THIS AGREEMENT is made as of September 17, 2004 by and among PFPC Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (“PFPC”), and GE Funds, GE Institutional Funds, GE Lifestyle Funds, GE Investment Funds, Elfun Funds, and S&S Funds (collectively, the “Funds”), on behalf of their respective series set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof (collectively, the “Series”), as such Exhibit A may be amended from time to time, and the GE Stock IRA Program (the “GE IRA Program” and with the Funds, the “GE Fund Products”). Each GE Fund Product is a party to this Agreement for administrative convenience, but this Agreement shall be interpreted as a separate agreement between PFPC and each GE Fund Product.
MASTER ACCOUNTING SERVICES AGREEMENTMaster Accounting Services Agreement • January 28th, 2014 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
AMENDMENT TO MASTER SUB-ADMINISTRATION SERVICES AGREEMENTMaster Sub-Administration Services Agreement • January 27th, 2017 • State Street Institutional Funds
This Amendment to the Master Sub-Administration Services Agreement (the “Amendment”) is made as of April 8, 2016 by and between State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust company (the “Sub-Administrator”), and GE Asset Management Incorporated (the “Administrator”).
MASTER SUB-ADMINISTRATION SERVICES AGREEMENTSub-Administration Services Agreement • January 28th, 2014 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
This Sub-Administration Agreement (“Agreement”) dated and effective as of July 31, 2013, is by and between State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust company (the “Sub-Administrator”), and GE Asset Management Incorporated (the “Administrator”) and, solely with respect to Section 8 hereof, the Companies and Accounts (as defined below).
AMENDMENT TO MASTER SUB-ADMINISTRATION SERVICES AGREEMENTMaster Sub-Administration Services Agreement • January 28th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds
This Amendment to the Master Sub-Administration Services Agreement (the “Amendment”) is made as of October 6, 2015 by and between State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust company (the “Sub-Administrator”), and GE Asset Management Incorporated (the “Administrator”).
TRANSFER AGENCY AND CALL CENTER SERVICES AGREEMENTTransfer Agency and Call Center Services Agreement • January 28th, 2014 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
This Transfer Agency and Call Center Services Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated and effective as of August 12, 2013, is by and among each management investment company identified on Exhibit A attached hereto (each a “Company” and, collectively, the “Companies”), severally and not jointly, each Company acting for and on behalf of such series or portfolios as are currently authorized and issued by the Company and may be authorized and issued by the applicable Company in the future subsequent to the date of this Agreement and listed on Exhibit A and GE Stock IRA (“GE Stock IRA” or “GE Stock IRA Accounts”, and collectively with the Companies, the “GE Parties”) and U.S. BANCORP FUND SERVICES, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company (“USBFS”).
SUPPLEMENTAL ADVISORY FEE WAIVER AGREEMENT with respect to investments in the GE Institutional Money Market FundSupplemental Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement • January 28th, 2014 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
This Supplemental Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement dated as of January 15, 2014 (this “Agreement”) is hereby made by and between GE Asset Management Incorporated (“GEAM”) and GE Institutional Funds, on behalf of its various series (a “Fund Company” and, its series, the “Funds”).
GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS AMENDED AND RESTATED SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT GE Investment Distributors, Inc. 777 Long Ridge Road, Building B Stamford, Connecticut 06927 Dear Sir or Madam: GE Institutional Funds (the "Trust") confirms...Shareholder Servicing and Distribution Agreement • January 26th, 2001 • Ge Institutional Funds
RECITALSSub-Advisory Agreement • November 29th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
AMENDMENT TO MASTER SUB-ADMINISTRATION SERVICES AGREEMENTMaster Sub-Administration Services Agreement • January 28th, 2019 • State Street Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
This Amendment to the Master Sub-Administration Services Agreement is made as of June 29, 2018 (the “Amendment”) by and between State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust company (the “Sub-Administrator”) and SSGA Funds Management, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Administrator”) and shall be effective as set forth in Section 2 below. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment without definition shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Agreement (as defined below).
RECITALSSub-Advisory Agreement • November 29th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO TRANSFER AGENCY SERVICES AGREEMENTTransfer Agency Services Agreement • January 28th, 2011 • Ge Institutional Funds
This AMENDMENT NO. 2 (the “Amendment”) is made as of June 29, 2010, and shall be effective as of January 1, 2010, by and among PNC Global Investment Servicing (U.S.) Inc. (f/k/a PFPC Inc.), a Massachusetts corporation (“PNC”), and each GE Fund Product (as defined below).
MASTER CUSTODIAN AGREEMENTMaster Custodian Agreement • January 28th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
This Master Custodian Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made as of June 1, 2015 by and between each management investment company identified on Appendix A-1 attached hereto, each such management investment company acting on its own behalf and on behalf of any separate series it has designated, in each case separately from, and not jointly or jointly and severally with, any of the other management investment companies (each such management investment company and each management investment company made subject to this Agreement in accordance with Section 10.2 hereof, a “Fund”), GE Asset Management Incorporated (“GEAM”), on behalf of each separate account managed by GEAM identified on Appendix A-2 hereto (each, an “Account”), and STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts trust company (“State Street” or the “Custodian”).
SUPPLEMENTAL ADVISORY FEE WAIVER AGREEMENT with respect to investments in the GE Money Market FundSupplemental Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement • January 29th, 2010 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
This Supplemental Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement (this “Agreement”) is effective as of January 29, 2010, and is hereby made by and between GE Asset Management Incorporated (“GEAM”), and each of the following other parties:
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATEDInvestment Advisory and Administration Agreement • September 4th, 2008 • Ge Institutional Funds
THIS AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) is made as of October 1, 2008, between GE ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED (“GEAM”) and GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS (the “Trust”) on behalf of its Small-Cap Equity Fund (the “Fund”).
AMENDMENT TO MASTER CUSTODIAN AGREEMENTMaster Custodian Agreement • January 28th, 2021 • State Street Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
THIS AMENDMENT is made as of September 30, 2020, by and between GE Institutional Funds (currently known as State Street Institutional Funds), GE Investment Funds, Inc. (currently known as State Street Variable Insurance Series Funds, Inc. and Elfun Funds (each a “Fund”) and STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts trust company (the “Custodian”).
RECITALSSub-Advisory Agreement • November 29th, 2016 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
RECITALSSub-Advisory Agreement • November 7th, 1997 • Ge Institutional Funds • New York
ASSIGNMENT AND AMENDMENTMaster Sub-Administration Services Agreement • January 27th, 2017 • State Street Institutional Funds
THIS ASSIGNMENT AND AMENDMENT, dated as of June 30, 2016, is by and among State Street Bank and Trust Company, GE Asset Management Incorporated, SSGA Funds Management, Inc., solely with respect to those mutual funds identified on Schedule A-1 hereto (each a Fund, collectively the “Funds”), State Street Global Advisors, solely with respect to those separate accounts identified on Schedule A-2 hereto (each an “Account”, collectively the “Accounts”).
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN SSGA FUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. AND GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDSInvestment Advisory and Administration Agreement • January 27th, 2017 • State Street Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
This Investment Advisory and Administration Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made as of this 1st day of July, 2016, between GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS (the “Trust”) on behalf of the various classes of its beneficial interests listed on Appendix A, as it may be amended from time to time by the parties (each, a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”), and SSGA Funds Management, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (“SSGA FM”).
AMENDED AND RESTATED DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTDistribution Agreement • January 26th, 2018 • State Street Institutional Funds
This is to confirm that, in consideration of the agreements set out below, State Street Institutional Funds (formerly the GE Institutional Funds), a business trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), has agreed that State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (the “Distributor”), a Delaware limited liability company, will be, for the period of this Agreement, the distributor of shares of beneficial interest of each series of the Trust (individually a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”).
SSGA FUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT 06905 May 1, 2017Waiver of Fees and Reimbursement Agreement • April 28th, 2017 • State Street Institutional Funds • Massachusetts
This letter agreement (this “Agreement”), effective as of May 1, 2017, is entered into by and between State Street Institutional Funds, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), on behalf of the Fund, and the Fund’s investment adviser, SSGA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSGA FM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of State Street Corporation that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. This Agreement is intended to memorialize an obligation by SSGA FM to waive certain fees otherwise payable to SSGA FM with respect to the Fund under that certain Investment Advisory and Administration Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2016, by and between the Trust and SSGA FM, as may be amended from time to time (the “Advisory Agreement”), and to reimburse the Fund for certain expenses it incurs indirectly through certain of its investments.
Exhibit 99.B6(a) DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT October 16, 1997 GE Investment Services Inc. 3003 Summer Street Stamford, Connecticut 06905 Dear Sirs: This is to confirm that, in consideration of the agreements set out below, GE Institutional Funds, a...Distribution Agreement • November 7th, 1997 • Ge Institutional Funds
Exhibit 99.B6(b) GE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT GE Investment Management Incorporated 3003 Summer Street Stamford, Connecticut 06905 Dear Sir or Madam: GE Institutional Funds (the "Trust") confirms its...Shareholder Servicing and Distribution Agreement • November 7th, 1997 • Ge Institutional Funds
