FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT TO DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 99.(e)(16)
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT TO
This Fifteenth Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of the 1st day of March 2018 by and between American Beacon Funds and American Beacon Select Funds, each a Massachusetts business trust that acts as an open-end investment company (the “Client”), and Resolute Investment Distributors, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Resolute”) is entered into as of October 11, 2021 (the “Effective Date”).
The attached amended and restated Schedule 1 to add the American Beacon Xxxxxxx Equity Opportunities Fund’s A Class and C Class shares, and the American Beacon Xxxxxxx XXXX Cap Equity Fund’s A Class, C Class, and R6 Class shares is hereby incorporated into the Agreement, as amended, on behalf of each Fund of a Trust listed on Schedule 1 hereto, as may be amended from time to time (each, a “Fund”), and supersedes any prior Schedule 1 to the Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed in their names and on their behalf by and through their duly authorized officers, as of the Effective Date.
| AMERICAN BEACON FUNDS | |||
| AMERICAN BEACON SELECT FUNDS | |||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | ||
| Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
| Vice President | |||
| RESOLUTE INVESTMENT | |||
| DISTRIBUTORS, INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Xxxx X. Needles, Jr. | ||
| Xxxx X. Needles, Jr. | |||
| Chairman, President & CEO | |||
Amended and Restated Schedule 1
Funds and Classes of the Client
As of October 11, 2021
| Funds | Classes |
| American Beacon Funds | |
| AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| AHL TargetRisk Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| AHL TargetRisk Core Fund | A, C, Y, R6 |
| ARK Transformational Innovation Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Xxxx & Xxxxxx Small Cap Growth Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, |
| Balanced Fund | R5, Investor, Advisor, X, X, X |
| Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx | X0, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Bridgeway Large Cap Value Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Continuous Capital Emerging Markets Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| Frontier Markets Income Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Quality Bond Fund | R5, Investor, Y, R6 |
| International Equity Fund | R5, Investor, Advisor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Large Cap Value Fund | R5, Investor, Advisor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Mid-Cap Value Fund | R5, Investor, Advisor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| NIS Core Plus Bond Fund | A, C, Y, R6 |
| Xxxxxxx Equity Opportunities Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| Xxxxxxx XXXX Cap Equity Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| SiM High Yield Opportunities Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| Small Cap Value Fund | R5, Investor, Advisor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Sound Point Floating Rate Income Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, SP |
| SSI Alternative Income Fund | R5, Investor, Y |
| Xxxxxxxx Mid-Cap Growth Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| Xxxxxxxx Small Cap Growth Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y, R6 |
| The London Company Income Equity Xxxx | X0, Xxxxxxxx, X, X, X, X0 |
| Xxxxxxxxxxx International Value Fund | R5, Investor, Y |
| TwentyFour Sustainable Short Term Bond Fund | A, C, Y, R6 |
| TwentyFour Strategic Income Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| Zebra Small Cap Equity Fund | R5, Investor, A, C, Y |
| American Beacon Select Funds | |
| U.S. Gov’t. Money Market Select Fund | Select |
