ADVISORY AGREEMENT
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT FUND, INC.
0000 Xxxxxx Xx Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
August 27, 1996, as amended
September 7, 2004
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
We, the undersigned AllianceBernstein Real Estate
Investment Fund, Inc. herewith confirm our agreement with you
as.follows:
1. We are an open-end, diversified management
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the "Act"). We are currently authorized to
issue separate classes of shares and our Directors are
authorized to reclassify and issue any unissued shares to any
number of additional classes or series (portfolios) each having
its own investment objective, policies and restrictions, all as
more fully described in the prospectus and the statement of
additional information constituting parts of the Registration
Statement filed on our behalf under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and the Act. We propose to engage in the business
of investing and reinvesting the assets of each of our
portfolios in securities ("the portfolio assets") of the type
and in accordance with the limitations specified in our Charter,
By-Laws, Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of
1933 and the Act ("Registration Statement"), and any
representations made in our prospectus and statement of
additional information, all in such manner and to such extent as
may from time to time be authorized by our Board of Directors.
We enclose copies of the documents listed above and will from
time to time furnish you with any amendments thereof.
2. (a) We hereby employ you to manage the
investment and reinvestment of the portfolio assets as above
specified and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
to provide management and other services specified below.
(b) You will make decisions with respect to all
purchases and sales of the portfolio assets. To carry out such
decisions, you are hereby authorized, as our agent and attorney-in-fact,
for our account and at our risk and in our name, to
place orders for the investment and reinvestment of the
portfolio assets. In all purchases, sales and other
transactions in the portfolio assets you are authorized to
exercise full discretion and act for us in the same manner and
with the same force and effect as we might or could do with
respect to such purchases, sales or other transactions, as well
as with respect to all other things necessary or incidental to
the furtherance or conduct of such purchases, sales or other
transactions.
(c) You will report to our Board of Directors at
each meeting thereof all changes in the portfolio assets since
the prior report, and will also keep us in touch with important
developments affecting the portfolio assets and on your own
initiative will furnish us from time to time with such
information as you may believe appropriate for this purpose,
whether concerning the individual issuers whose securities are
included in the portfolio assets, the industries in which they
engage, or the conditions prevailing in the economy generally.
You will also furnish us with such statistical and analytical
information with respect to the portfolio assets as you may
believe appropriate or as we reasonably may request. In making
such purchases and sales of the portfolio assets, you will bear
in mind the policies set from time to time by our Board of
Directors as well as the limitations imposed by our Charter and
in our Registration Statement, the limitations in the Act and of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, in respect of
regulated investment companies and the investment objective,
policies and restrictions applicable to each of our portfolios.
(d) It is understood that you will from time to
time employ or associate with yourselves such persons as you
believe to be particularly fitted to assist you in the execution
of your duties hereunder, the cost of performance of such duties
to be borne and paid by you. No obligation may be incurred on
our behalf in any such respect. During the continuance of this
agreement and at our request you will provide to us persons
satisfactory to our Board of Directors to serve as our officers.
You or your affiliates will also provide persons, who may be our
officers, to render such clerical, accounting and other services
to us as we may from time to time request of you. Such
personnel may be employees of you or your affiliates. We will
pay to you or your affiliates the cost of such personnel for
rendering such services to us, provided that all time devoted to
the investment or reinvestment of the portfolio assets shall be
for your account. Nothing contained herein shall be construed
to restrict our right to hire our own employees or to contract
for services to be performed by third parties. Furthermore, you
or your affiliates shall furnish us without charge with such
management supervision and assistance and such office facilities
as you may believe appropriate or as we may reasonably request
subject to the requirements of any regulatory authority to which
you may be subject. You or your affiliates shall also be
responsible for the payment of any expenses incurred in
promoting the sale of our shares (other than the portion of the
promotional expenses to be borne by us in accordance with an
effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act and the
costs of printing our prospectuses and other reports to
shareholders and fees related to registration with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and with state regulatory
authorities).
3. It is further agreed that you shall be
responsible for the portion of the net expenses of each of our
portfolios (except interest, taxes, brokerage, fees paid in
accordance with an effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under
the Act, expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles and extraordinary
expenses, all to the extent permitted by applicable state law
and regulation) incurred by us during each of our fiscal years
or portion thereof that this agreement is in effect between us
which, as to a portfolio, in any such year exceeds the limits
applicable to such portfolio under the laws or regulations of
any state in which our shares are qualified for sale (reduced
pro rata for any portion of less than a year). We hereby
confirm that, subject to the foregoing, we shall be responsible
and hereby assume the obligation for payment of all our other
expenses, including: (a) payment of the fee payable to you under
paragraph 5 hereof; (b) custody, transfer and dividend
disbursing expenses; (c) fees of directors who are not your
affiliated persons; (d) legal and auditing expenses; (e)
clerical, accounting and other office costs; (f) the cost of
personnel providing services to us, as provided in subparagraph
(d) of paragraph 2 above; (g) costs of printing our prospectuses
and shareholder reports; (h) cost of maintenance of our
corporate existence; (i) interest charges, taxes, brokerage fees
and commissions; (j) costs of stationery and supplies; (k)
expenses and fees related to registration and filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and with state regulatory
authorities; and (l) such promotional expenses as may be
contemplated by an effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under
the Act provided, however, that our payment of such promotional
expenses shall be in the amounts, and in accordance with the
procedures, set forth in such plan.
4. We shall expect of you, and you will give us the
benefit of, your best judgment and efforts in rendering these
services to us, and we agree as an inducement to your
undertaking these services that you shall not be liable
hereunder for any mistake of judgment or in any event
whatsoever, except for lack of good faith, provided that nothing
herein shall be deemed to protect, or purport to protect, you
against any liability to us or to our security holders to which
you would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance,
bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of your duties
hereunder, or by reason of your reckless disregard of your
obligations and duties hereunder.
5. In consideration of the foregoing, we will pay
you a monthly fee at an annualized rate of .55 of 1.00% of the
first $2.5 billion, .45 of 1.00% of the excess over $2.5 billion
up to $5 billion and .40 of 1.00% of the excess over $5 billion
of our average daily net assets. Such fee shall be payable in
arrears on the last day of each calendar month for services
performed hereunder during such month. If our initial
Registration Statement is declared effective by the Securities
and Exchange Commission after the beginning of a month or this
agreement terminates prior to the end of a month, such fee shall
be prorated according to the proportion which such portion of
the month bears to the full month.
6. This agreement shall become effective on the date
hereof and shall remain in effect until July 31, 1998 and may be
continued for successive twelve-month periods (computed from
each August 1 thereafter) with respect to each portfolio
provided that such continuance is specifically approved at least
annually by the Board of Directors or by the vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of such portfolio (as
defined in the Act), and, in either case, by a majority of the
Board of Directors who are not parties to this agreement or
interested persons, as defined in the Act, of any party to this
agreement (other than as Directors of our corporation), provided
further, however, that if the continuation of this agreement is
not approved as to a portfolio, you may continue to render to
such portfolio the services described herein in the manner and
to the extent permitted by the Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder. Upon the effectiveness of this agreement, it shall
supersede all previous agreements between us covering the
subject matter hereof. This agreement may be terminated with
respect to any portfolio at any time, without the payment of any
penalty, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities (as so defined) of such portfolio, or by a vote of
the Board of Directors on 60 days' written notice to you, or by
you with respect to any portfolio on 60 days' written notice to
us.
7. This agreement may not be transferred, assigned,
sold or in any manner hypothecated or pledged by you and this
agreement shall terminate automatically in the event of any such
transfer, assignment, sale, hypothecation or pledge by you. The
terms "transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as used in this
paragraph shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing
law and any interpretation thereof contained in rules or
regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder.
8. (a) Except to the extent necessary to perform
your obligations hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to
limit or restrict your right, or the right of any of your
employees, or any of the officers or directors of Alliance
Capital Management Corporation, your general partner, who may
also be a Director, officer or employee of ours, or persons
otherwise affiliated with us (within the meaning of the Act) to
engage in any other business or to devote time and attention to
the management or other aspects of any other business, whether
of a similar or dissimilar nature, or to render services of any
kind to any other trust, corporation, firm, individual or
association.
(b) You will notify us of any change in the
general partners of your partnership within a reasonable time
after such change.
9. If you cease to act as our investment adviser,
or, in any event, if you so request in writing, we agree to take
all necessary action to change our name to a name not including
the terms "Alliance," "Xxxxxxxxx" or "AllianceBernstein." You
may from time to time make available without charge to us for
our use such marks or symbols owned by you, including marks or
symbols containing the terms "Alliance," "Xxxxxxxxx" or
"AllianceBernstein" or any variation thereof, as you may
consider appropriate. Any such marks or symbols so made
available will remain your property and you shall have the
right, upon notice in writing, to require us to cease the use of
such xxxx or symbol at any time.
10. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York, provided, however, that
nothing herein shall be construed as being inconsistent with the
Act.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your
understanding, will you kindly so indicate by signing and
returning to us the enclosed copy hereof.
Very truly yours,
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENT FUND, INC.
By:
________________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Secretary
Agreed to and accepted as of
August 27, 1996, as amended September 7, 2004
ALLIANCE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L.P.
By: ALLIANCE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION, its general
partner
By:
________________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Executive Vice President
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