Exhibit 4
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made as of the 31st day of May, 1997, and amended as of April
30, 1998 and May 1, 2000, by and between Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx Information
Fund, an unincorporated business trust organized under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (hereinafter called the "Fund"), and Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx Advisors Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called
the "Investment Manager"):
WHEREAS, The Fund is engaged in business as an open-end management
investment company and is registered as such under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, The Investment Manager is registered as an investment adviser
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and engages in the business of acting
as investment adviser; and
WHEREAS, The Fund desires to retain the Investment Manager to render
management and investment advisory services in the manner and on the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS, The Investment Manager desires to be retained to perform
services on said terms and conditions:
Now, Therefore, this Agreement
W I T N E S S E T H:
that in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants hereinafter
contained, the Fund and the Investment Manager agree as follows:
1. The Fund hereby retains the Investment Manager to act as investment
manager of the Fund and, subject to the supervision of the Trustees, to
supervise the investment activities of the Fund as hereinafter set forth.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Investment Manager shall
obtain and evaluate such information and advice relating to the economy,
securities and commodities markets and securities and commodities as it deems
necessary or useful to discharge its duties hereunder; shall continuously manage
the assets of the Fund in a manner consistent with the investment objectives and
policies of the Fund; shall determine the securities and commodities to be
purchased, sold or otherwise disposed of by the Fund and the timing of such
purchases, sales and dispositions; and shall take such further action, including
the placing of purchase and sale orders on behalf of the Fund, as the Investment
Manager shall deem necessary or appropriate. The Investment Manager shall also
furnish to or place at the disposal of the Fund such of the information,
evaluations, analyses and opinions formulated or obtained by the Investment
Manager in the discharge of its duties as the Fund may, from time to time,
reasonably request.
2. The Investment Manager shall, at its own expense, maintain such
staff and employ or retain such personnel and consult with such other persons as
it shall from time to time determine to be necessary or useful to the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the staff and personnel of the Investment Manager
shall be deemed to include persons employed or otherwise retained by the
Investment Manager to furnish statistical and other factual data, advice
regarding economic factors and trends, information with respect to technical and
scientific developments, and such other information, advice and assistance as
the Investment Manager may desire. The Investment Manager shall, as agent for
the Fund, maintain the Fund's records and books of account (other than those
maintained by the Fund's transfer agent, registrar, custodian and other
agencies). All such books and records so maintained shall be the property of the
Fund and, upon request therefor, the Investment Manager shall surrender to the
Fund such of the books and records so requested.
3. The Fund will, from time to time, furnish or otherwise make
available to the Investment Manager such financial reports, proxy statements and
other information relating to the business and affairs of the Fund as the
Investment Manager may reasonably require in order to discharge its duties and
obligations hereunder.
4. The Investment Manager shall bear the cost of rendering the
investment management and supervisory services to be performed by it under this
Agreement, and shall, at its own expense, pay the
compensation of the officers and employees, if any, of the Fund who are also
directors, officers or employees of the Investment Manager, and provide such
office space, facilities and equipment and such clerical help and bookkeeping
services as the Fund shall reasonably require in the conduct of its business.
The Investment Manager shall also bear the cost of telephone service, heat,
light, power and other utilities provided to the Fund.
5. The Fund assumes and shall pay or cause to be paid all other
expenses of the Fund, including without limitation: fees pursuant to any plan of
distribution that the Fund may adopt; the charges and expenses of any registrar,
any custodian or depository appointed by the Fund for the safekeeping of its
cash, portfolio securities or commodities and other property, and any stock
transfer or dividend agent or agents appointed by the Fund; brokers' commissions
chargeable to the Fund in connection with portfolio transactions to which the
Fund is a party; all taxes, including securities or commodities issuance and
transfer taxes, and fees payable by the Fund to federal, state or other
governmental agencies; the cost and expense of engraving or printing
certificates representing shares of the Fund; all costs and expenses in
connection with the registration and maintenance of registration of the Fund and
its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission and various states and
other jurisdictions (including filing fees and legal fees and disbursements of
counsel); the cost and expense of printing, including typesetting, and
distributing prospectuses and statements of additional information of the Fund
and supplements thereto to the Fund's shareholders; all expenses of
shareholders' and Trustees' meetings and of preparing, printing and mailing
proxy statements and reports to shareholders; fees and travel expenses of
Trustees or members of any advisory board or committee who are not employees of
the Investment Manager or any corporate affiliate of the Investment Manager; all
expenses incident to the payment of any dividend, distribution, withdrawal or
redemption, whether in shares or in cash; charges and expenses of any outside
service used for pricing of the Fund's shares; charges and expenses of legal
counsel, including counsel to the Trustees of the Fund who are not interested
persons (as defined in the Act) of the Fund or the Investment Manager, and of
independent accountants, in connection with any matter relating to the Fund;
membership dues of industry associations; interest payable on Fund borrowings;
postage; insurance premiums on property or personnel (including officers and
Trustees) of the Fund which inure to its benefit; extraordinary expenses
(including but not limited to legal claims and liabilities and litigation costs
and any indemnification related thereto); and all other charges and costs of the
Fund's operation unless otherwise explicitly provided herein.
6. For the services to be rendered, the facilities furnished, and the
expenses assumed by the Investment Manager, the Fund shall pay to the Investment
Manager monthly compensation determined by applying the following annual rates
to the Fund's daily net assets: 0.75% of daily net assets up to $500 million;
0.725% of the next $2.5 billion; and 0.70% of daily net assets over $3 billion.
Except as hereinafter set forth, compensation under this Agreement shall be
calculated and accrued daily and the amounts of the daily accruals shall be paid
monthly. Such calculations shall be made by applying 1/365ths of the annual
rates to the Fund's net assets each day determined as of the close of business
on that day or the last previous business day. If this Agreement becomes
effective subsequent to the first day of a month or shall terminate before the
last day of a month, compensation for that part of the month this Agreement is
in effect shall be prorated in a manner consistent with the calculation of the
fees as set forth above.
Subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 hereof, payment of the
Investment Manager's compensation for the preceding month shall be made as
promptly as possible after completion of the computations contemplated by
paragraph 7 hereof.
7. In the event the operating expenses of the Fund, including amounts
payable to the Investment Manager pursuant to paragraph 6 hereof, for any fiscal
year ending on a date on which this Agreement is in effect, exceed the expense
limitations applicable to the Fund imposed by state securities laws or
regulations thereunder, as such limitations may be raised or lowered from time
to time, the Investment Manager shall reduce its management fee to the extent of
such excess and, if required, pursuant to any such laws or regulations, will
reimburse the Fund for annual operating expenses in excess of any expense
limitation that may be applicable; provided, however, there shall be excluded
from such expenses the amount of any interest, taxes, brokerage commissions,
distribution fees and extraordinary expenses
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(including but not limited to legal claims and liabilities and litigation costs
and any indemnification related thereto) paid or payable by the Fund. Such
reduction, if any, shall be computed and accrued daily, shall be settled on a
monthly basis, and shall be based upon the expense limitation applicable to the
Fund as at the end of the last business day of the month. Should two or more
such expense limitations be applicable as at the end of the last business day
of the month, that expense limitation which results in the largest reduction in
the Investment Manager's fee shall be applicable.
For purposes of this provision, should any applicable expense
limitation be based upon the gross income of the Fund, such gross income shall
include, but not be limited to, interest on debt securities in the Fund's
portfolio accrued to and including the last day of the Fund's fiscal year, and
dividends declared on equity securities in the Fund's portfolio, the record
dates for which fall on or prior to the last day of such fiscal year, but shall
not include gains from the sale of securities.
8. The Investment Manager will use its best efforts in the supervision
and management of the investment activities of the Fund, but in the absence of
willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of its
obligations hereunder, the Investment Manager shall not be liable to the Fund or
any of its investors for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any act
or omission by the Investment Manager or for any losses sustained by the Fund or
its investors.
9. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the Investment
Manager or any affiliated person of the Investment Manager from acting as
investment adviser or manager for any other person, firm or corporation and
shall not in any way bind or restrict the Investment Manager or any such
affiliated person from buying, selling or trading any securities or commodities
for their own accounts or for the account of others for whom they may be acting.
Nothing in this Agreement shall limit or restrict the right of any Trustee,
officer or employee of the Investment Manager to engage in any other business or
to devote his or her time and attention in part to the management or other
aspects of any other business whether of a similar or dissimilar nature.
10. This Agreement shall remain in effect until April 30, 2001 and from
year to year thereafter provided such continuance is approved at least annually
by the vote of holders of a majority, as defined in the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the "Act"), of the outstanding voting securities of the
Fund or by the Trustees of the Fund; provided that in either event such
continuance is also approved annually by the vote of a majority of the Trustees
of the Fund who are not parties to this Agreement or "interested persons" (as
defined in the Act) of any such party, which vote must be cast in person at a
meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval; provided, however,
that (a) the Fund may, at any time and without the payment of any penalty,
terminate this Agreement upon thirty days' written notice to the Investment
Manager, either by majority vote of the Trustees of the Fund or by the vote of a
majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund; (b) this Agreement
shall immediately terminate in the event of its assignment (to the extent
required by the Act and the rules thereunder) unless such automatic terminations
shall be prevented by an exemptive order of the Securities and Exchange
Commission; and (c) the Investment Manager may terminate this Agreement without
payment of penalty on thirty days' written notice to the Fund. Any notice under
this Agreement shall be given in writing, addressed and delivered, or mailed
post-paid, to the other party at the principal office of such party.
11. This Agreement may be amended by the parties without the vote or
consent of the shareholders of the Fund to supply any omission, to cure, correct
or supplement any ambiguous, defective or inconsistent provision hereof, or if
they deem it necessary to conform this Agreement to the requirements of
applicable federal laws or regulations, but neither the Fund nor the Investment
Manager shall be liable for failing to do so.
12. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York and the applicable provisions of the Act. To the extent
the applicable law of the State of New York, or any of the provisions herein,
conflicts with the applicable provisions of the Act, the latter shall control.
13. The Investment Manager and the Fund each agree that the name
"Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx," which comprises a component of the Fund's name, is
a property right of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx &
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Co. ("MSDW"), the parent of the Investment Manager. The Fund agrees and
consents that (i) it will only use the name "Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx" as a
component of its name and for no other purpose, (ii) it will not purport to
grant to any third party the right to use the name "Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx"
for any purpose, (iii) MSDW, or any corporate affiliate of MSDW, may use or
grant to others the right to use the name "Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx," or any
combination or abbreviation thereof, as all or a portion of a corporate or
business name or for any commercial purpose, including a grant of such right to
any other investment company, (iv) at the request of MSDW or any corporate
affiliate of MSDW, the Fund will take such action as may be required to provide
its consent to the use of the name "Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx," or any
combination or abbreviation thereof, by MSDW or any corporate affiliate of
MSDW, or by any person to whom MSDW or a corporate affiliate of MSDW shall have
granted the right to such use, and (v) upon the termination of any investment
advisory agreement into which a corporate affiliate of MSDW and the Fund may
enter, or upon termination of affiliation of the Investment Manager with its
parent, the Fund shall, upon request of MSDW or any corporate affiliate of
MSDW, cease to use the name "Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx" as a component of its
name, and shall not use the name, or any combination or abbreviation thereof,
as a part of its name or for any other commercial purpose, and shall cause its
officers, trustees and shareholders to take any and all actions which MSDW or
any corporate affiliate of MSDW may request to effect the foregoing and to
reconvey to MSDW any and all rights to such name.
14. The Declaration of Trust establishing Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Information Fund, dated December 7, 1994, a copy of which, together with all
amendments thereto (the "Declaration"), is on file in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provides that the name Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx Information Fund refers to the Trustees under the
Declaration collectively as Trustees, but not as individuals or personally; and
no Trustee, shareholder, officer, employee or agent of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx Information Fund shall be held to any personal liability, nor shall
resort be had to their private property for the satisfaction of any obligation
or claim or otherwise, in connection with the affairs of said Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx Information Fund, but the Trust Estate only shall be liable.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this
Agreement, as amended, on May 1, 2000 in New York, New York.
XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX INFORMATION FUND
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
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Xxxxx Xxxx
Attest:
/s/ Xxxx Xxxx
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Xxxx Xxxx
XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX ADVISORS INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Attest:
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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