EXHIBIT 5.B.
CMC FUND TRUST
CMC INTERNATIONAL STOCK FUND
INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT
This Agreement is made the 10TH day of December, 1997 between CMC FUND
TRUST, an Oregon business trust, (the "Fund") and COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT CO., an
Oregon corporation having its principal place of business in Portland, Oregon
(the "Adviser"). The Fund is registered as an open-end investment company
pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act"). The Adviser is
registered as an investment adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of
1940. The Fund has established a second series of shares, referred to as "CMC
International Stock Fund" (the "Series"), and this Agreement relates to services
to be performed by the Adviser with respect to that Series.
The parties agree as follows:
1. Duties of Adviser. With respect to the Series, the Adviser shall
regularly provide the Fund with research, advice, and supervision with respect
to investment matters and shall furnish continuously an investment program,
recommend what securities shall be purchased or sold and what portion of the
Fund's assets shall be held invested or uninvested, subject always to the
provisions of the Act and the Fund's Declaration of Trust and Bylaws, and
amendments thereto, which amendments shall be furnished to the Adviser by the
Fund. The Adviser shall take any steps necessary or appropriate to carry out its
decisions in regard to the foregoing matters and the general conduct of the
business of the Fund. The Adviser may take into consideration receipt of
research and statistical information and other services rendered to the Fund in
the allocation of commissions from portfolio brokerage business.
2. Allocation of Charges and Expenses.
(a) With respect to the Series, the Adviser shall pay or reimburse the Fund
for payments made by the Fund for all executive salaries and executive expenses,
office rent of the Fund, ordinary office expenses (other than the expense of
clerical services relating to the administration of the Fund), and for any other
expenses that, if otherwise borne by the Fund, would cause the Fund to "be
deemed to be acting as a distributor of securities of which it is the issuer,
other than through an underwriter," pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act. The
Adviser shall provide investment advisory, statistical, and research facilities
and all clerical services relating to research, statistical, and investment work
with respect to the Series.
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(b) The Adviser shall not be required to pay any expenses of the Fund other
than those enumerated in this Agreement. The Fund will assume all other costs,
including the cost of its custodian, legal, auditing, and accounting expenses,
disinterested directors' fees, taxes, and governmental fees, interest, brokers'
commissions, transaction expenses, cost of stock certificates, and any other
expenses (including clerical expenses) of issue, sale, repurchase, or redemption
of shares, expenses of registering or qualifying shares for sale, transfer
taxes, and all expenses of preparing the Fund's registration statement and
prospectus, and the cost of printing and delivering to shareholders prospectuses
and reports.
3. Compensation of the Adviser. For the services to be rendered, the
facilities to be furnished, and the payments to be made by the Adviser, as
provided in Sections 1 and 2 hereof, for each calendar month the Fund shall pay
to the Adviser a fee computed at the annual rate of .75 of 1 percent of daily
net assets of the Series. If the asset value is not required to be determined on
any particular business day, then for the purposes of this Section 3, the asset
value of a share as last determined shall be deemed to be the asset value of a
share as of the close of business on that day. If there is no business day in
any calendar month, the fee shall be computed on the basis of the asset value of
a share as last determined, multiplied by the average number of shares
outstanding on the last day of the month.
4. Covenants of the Adviser. In connection with purchases or sales of
portfolio securities for the account of the Fund, neither the Adviser nor any
officer, director, or employee of the Adviser shall act as a principal. The
Adviser covenants that it and its employees will comply with investment
restrictions of the Fund's Bylaws applicable to them. If the Adviser or any of
its affiliates give any advice to clients concerning the shares of the Fund, it
will act solely as investment counsel for the clients and not on behalf of the
Fund.
5. Limitation on Liability of Adviser. The Adviser shall not be liable for
any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in
connection with the matters to which this agreement relates, except a loss
resulting from willful malfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence on the part
of the Adviser in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by
the Adviser of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. The federal
securities laws impose liabilities under certain circumstances on persons who
act in good faith, and therefore nothing herein shall in any way constitute a
waiver or limitation of any rights which the Fund may have under any federal
securities laws.
6. Duration and Termination of this Agreement.
(a) This Agreement shall remain in force for two years from the date
hereof, and it may be continued from year to year thereafter if approved
annually by a vote of a majority of the Fund's shareholders or by its trustees
and in either case a vote of a majority
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of the trustees who are not parties to this Agreement or interested persons of
any such party cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on
such approval.
(b) This Agreement may be terminated at any time without the payment of any
penalty by vote of the trustees of the Fund, by vote of a majority of the
outstanding shares of the Fund, or by the Adviser, on 60 days written notice to
the other party.
(c) This Agreement shall automatically terminate if it is assigned. The
Adviser shall notify the Fund of any change in the officers or directors of the
Adviser within a reasonable time after the change. The terms "assignment," "vote
of a majority of the outstanding voting securities", and "interested persons"
shall have the meanings specified in the Act.
7. Applicable to Specific Series. The Adviser agrees that, with respect to
any obligation of the Fund under this Agreement, the Adviser shall look only to
the assets of the Series to which this Agreement relates.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed as
of the day and year first written above.
CMC FUND TRUST
By J. XXXXX XXXXXXX, XX.
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Title: President
COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT CO.
By XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX
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Title: Vice President
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