XXXXXXX FUND, INC.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
May 1, 1991
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Investment Advisory Agreement
Managed Federal Fund
Dear Sirs:
Xxxxxxx Fund, Inc. (the "Corporation") has been organized under the
laws of the State of Maryland to engage in the business of an investment
company. The shares of capital stock of the Corporation ("Shares") are divided
into multiple series, including Managed Federal Fund (the "Fund"), as
established from time to time by action of the Directors of the Corporation.
Series may be terminated, and additional series established, from time to time
by action of the Directors. The Corporation, on behalf of the Fund, has selected
you to act as the sole investment adviser of the Fund and to provide certain
other services, as more fully set forth below, and you are willing to act as
such investment adviser and to perform such services under the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth. Accordingly, the Corporation agrees with you
as follows:
1. Delivery of Fund Documents. The Corporation has furnished you
with copies properly certified or authenticated of each of the following:
(a) Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation dated June 18, 1982, as
amended from time to time (the "Articles");
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(b) Appropriate evidence of the establishment of the Fund as a series
portfolio of the Corporation;
(c) By-Laws of the Corporation as in effect on the date hereof
(the "By-Laws");
(d) Resolutions of the Directors of the Corporation selecting
you as investment adviser and approving the form of this
Agreement; and
(e) Properly certified or authenticated copies of the Corporation's
Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed by it with the Securities
and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
"Investment Company Act"), together with any financial statements
and exhibits included therein.
The Corporation will furnish you from time to time with copies, properly
certified or authenticated, of all amendments of or supplements to the
foregoing, if any.
2. Name of Fund. The Fund may use any name derived from the name
"Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx", if it elects to do so, only for so long as this
Agreement, any other Investment Advisory Agreement between you and the
Corporation or any extension, renewal or amendment hereof or thereof remains in
effect, including any similar agreement with any organization which shall have
succeeded to your business as investment adviser. At such time as such an
agreement shall no longer be in effect, the Fund will (to the extent that it
lawfully can) cease to use such a name or any other name indicating that it is
advised by or otherwise connected with you or any organization which shall have
so succeeded to your business.
3. Advisory Services. You will regularly provide the Fund with
investment research, advice and supervision and will furnish continuously an
investment program for the Fund consistent with the investment objective and
policies of the Fund. You will determine what securities shall be purchased for
the Fund, what securities shall be
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held or sold by the Fund and what portion of the Fund's assets shall be held
uninvested, subject always to the provisions of the Corporation's Articles and
By-Laws and of the Investment Company Act, and to the investment objective,
policies and restrictions of the Fund, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject, further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Directors may from time to time establish. You shall advise and assist
the officers of the Fund in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to
carry out the decisions of the Board of Directors and the appropriate committees
of the Board of Directors regarding the conduct of the business of the Fund.
4. Allocation of Charges and Expenses. You will pay the compensation
and expenses of all officers and executive employees of the Corporation who are
also employees or affiliates of you or your affiliates and will make available,
without expense to the Fund (except as otherwise provided below), the services
of such of your directors, officers and employees as are reasonably necessary
for the Fund's operations or as may duly be elected officers or directors of the
Corporation, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any limitations
imposed by law. You will pay the Fund's office rent and will provide investment
advisory research and statistical facilities and all clerical services relating
to research, statistical and investment work. You will not be required to pay
any expenses of the Fund other than those specifically allocated to you in this
paragraph 4. In particular, but without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, you will not be required to pay: organization expenses of the Fund;
clerical salaries; fees and expenses incurred by the Fund in connection with
membership in investment company organizations; brokerage and other expenses of
executing portfolio transactions; payment for portfolio pricing services to a
pricing agent, if any; legal, auditing or accounting expenses; trade association
dues; taxes or governmental fees; the fees and expenses of the transfer agent of
the Fund; the cost of preparing share certificates or any other expenses,
including clerical expenses of issue, redemption or repurchase of Shares of the
Fund; the expenses and fees for registering and qualifying securities for sale;
the fees and expenses of Directors of the Corporation who are not employees or
affiliates of you or your affiliates; travel expenses of all officers, directors
and employees; insurance premiums; the cost of preparing and distributing
reports and
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notices to shareholders; public and investor relations expenses or the fees or
disbursements of custodians of the Fund's assets, including expenses incurred in
the performance of any obligations enumerated by the Articles or By-Laws insofar
as they govern agreements with any such custodian. 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 such expenses (i) 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) if the Corporation on behalf
of the Fund shall have adopted a plan in conformity with Rule 12b-1 under the
Investment Company 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 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.
5. Compensation of the Adviser. For all services to be rendered and
payments made as provided in paragraphs 3 and 4 hereof, the Corporation on
behalf of the Fund will pay you on the last day of each month a gross fee which
is equal to the difference between (a) 1/12 of 0.40% of the value of the average
daily net assets of the Fund up to but not exceeding $1.5 billion for such month
and 1/12 of 0.35% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund in
excess of $1.5 billion for such month and (b) the sum, not in excess of the
amount determined under (a), of the amount waived by you from time to time plus
the amount by which the Fund's expenses exceed the lowest applicable expense
limitation (as more fully described herein).
(a) The "value of the average daily net assets" of the Fund is
defined as the average of the values placed on the net assets of the Fund
as of 12:00 noon (New York time), on each day on which the net asset value
of the Fund is determined consistent with the provisions of Rule 22c-1
under the Investment Company Act or, if the Fund lawfully determines the
value of the net assets of the Fund as of some other time on each business
day, as of such time. The value of the net assets of the Fund shall be
determined pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Articles. If,
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pursuant to such provisions, the determination of the net asset value of
the Fund is suspended for any particular business day, then for the
purposes of this paragraph 5, the value of the net assets of the Fund as
last determined shall be deemed to be the value of the net assets of the
Fund as of 12:00 noon or as of such other time as the value of the net
assets of the Fund may lawfully be determined, on that day. If the
determination of the value of the net assets of the Fund has been
suspended pursuant to the Articles for a period including such month, your
compensation payable at the end of such month shall be computed on the
basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund as last determined
(whether during or prior to such month). If the Fund determines the value
of the net assets of its portfolio more than once on any day, the last
such determination thereof on that day shall be deemed to be the sole
determination thereof on that day for the purposes of this paragraph 5.
(b) You agree that in determining your gross compensation for any
fiscal year it shall be reduced by the amount, if any, by which the
expenses of the Fund for such fiscal year exceed the lowest applicable
expense limitation established pursuant to the statutes or regulations of
any jurisdiction in which the Shares of the Fund may be qualified for
offer and sale. You shall refund to the Fund the amount of any reduction
of your compensation pursuant to this paragraph 5 as promptly as
practicable after the end of such fiscal year, provided that you will not
be required to pay the Fund an amount greater than the fee paid to you in
respect of such year pursuant to this Agreement. As used in this paragraph
5, "expenses" shall mean those expenses included in the applicable expense
limitation having the broadest specifications thereof, and "expense
limitation" means a limit on the maximum annual expenses which may be
incurred by an investment company determined (i) by multiplying a fixed
percentage by the average, or by multiplying more than one such percentage
by different specified amounts of the average, of the values of an
investment company's net assets for a fiscal
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year or (ii) by multiplying a fixed percentage by an investment company's
net investment income for a fiscal year. The words "lowest applicable
expense limitation" shall be construed to result in the largest reduction
of your compensation for any fiscal year of the Fund; provided, however,
that nothing in this Agreement shall require you to reduce your fees if
not required by an applicable statute or regulation referred to above in
this paragraph 5.
(c) You may waive all or a portion of your fees provided for
hereunder. To the extent that you agree to waive all or a portion of your
fees or to reimburse a portion of the Fund's expenses, you shall be
contractually bound by the publicly announced waivers or reimbursements.
6. Avoidance of Inconsistent Position. In connection with purchases
or sales of portfolio securities for the account of the Fund, neither you nor
any of your directors, officers or employees will act as a principal or agent or
receive any commission. You or your agent shall arrange for the placing of all
orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's account
with brokers or dealers selected by you. In the selection of such brokers or
dealers and the placing of such orders, you are directed at all times to seek
for the Fund the most favorable execution and net price available. If any
occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of yours
concerning the Shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment counsel for
such clients and not in any way on behalf of the Fund. Your services to the Fund
pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and it is
understood that you may render investment advice, management and other services
to others.
7. Limitation of Liability of Adviser. You shall give the Fund the
benefit of your best judgment and efforts in rendering services under this
Agreement. As an inducement to your undertaking to render these services, the
Fund agrees that you shall not be liable under this Agreement for any mistake in
judgment or in any other event whatsoever except for lack of good faith,
provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to protect or purport to
protect you against any liability to the Fund or its shareholders to which you
would otherwise be subject by
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reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance
of your duties under this Agreement or by reason of your reckless disregard of
your duties and obligations hereunder.
8. Duration and Termination of this Agreement. This Agreement shall
remain in force until May 1, 1993 and from year to year thereafter, but only for
so long as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually (i) by
the vote of a majority of the Directors who are not interested persons of you or
of the Corporation, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting
on such approval, and (ii) by a vote of the Board of Directors or of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. The aforesaid requirement that
continuance of this Agreement be "specifically approved at least annually" shall
be construed in a manner consistent with the Investment Company Act and the
rules and regulations thereunder. This Agreement may, on 60 days' written
notice, be terminated at any time without the payment of any penalty, by the
Board of Directors, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities
of the Fund, or by you. This Agreement shall automatically terminate in the
event of its assignment. In interpreting the provisions of this Agreement, the
definitions contained in Section 2(a) of the Investment Company Act
(particularly the definitions of "interested person," "assignment" and "majority
of the outstanding voting securities"), as from time to time amended, shall be
applied, subject, however, to such exemptions as may be granted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission by any rule, regulation or order.
9. Amendment of this Agreement. No provisions of this Agreement may
be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument
in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of the change, waiver,
discharge or termination is sought, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be
effective until approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Fund and by the Board of Directors, including a
majority of the Directors who are not interested persons of you or of the
Corporation, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on
such approval.
10. Miscellaneous. The captions in this Agreement are included for
convenience of reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the
provisions hereof or
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otherwise affect their construction or effect. The Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same
instrument.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form
of acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Corporation, whereupon this letter shall become a binding
contract.
Yours very truly,
XXXXXXX FUND, INC.
of behalf of
Managed Federal Fund
By______________________________
Title:
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted as of the date thereof.
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX & XXXXX, INC.
By______________________________
Title:
