ADVISORY AGREEMENT
ALLIANCE SHORT-TERM MULTI-MARKET TRUST, INC.
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
July 22, 1992
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
We 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 (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 and the Act. We are
engaged in the business of investing and reinvesting our assets
in securities of the type and in accordance with the limitations
specified in our Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Registration
Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Act, 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 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 assets in each of our Portfolios 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 securities in each of our Portfolios. 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 our
assets. In all purchases, sales and other transactions in
securities in each of our Portfolios 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 Directors at each
meeting thereof all changes in each Portfolio since the prior
report, and will also keep us in touch with important
developments affecting any Portfolio 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 companies whose securities are included in our
Portfolios, 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 securities in each of our Portfolios as you may
believe appropriate or as we reasonably may request. In making
such purchases and sales of securities in each of our Portfolios,
you will bear in mind the policies set from time to time by our
Directors as well as the limitations imposed by our Articles of
Incorporation and in our Registration Statement under the Act and
the Securities Act of 1933, the limitations in the Act and of the
Internal Revenue Code in respect of regulated investment
companies and the investment objective, policies and restrictions
for 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 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 at such rates as shall from time to time be agreed
upon between us, provided that all time devoted to the investment
or reinvestment of securities in each of our Portfolios 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 (other than us) shall furnish us without charge
with such management supervision and assistance and such office
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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 (other than
us) 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 stockholders 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 fees 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 stockholder reports;
(h) cost of maintenance of 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
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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
fee at the annual percentage rate of .55 of 1% of the average
daily value of the net assets of each Portfolio managed by you.
Such fee shall be accrued by us daily and shall be payable in
arrears on the last day of each calendar month for services
performed hereunder during such month. Your reimbursement, if
any, of our expenses as provided in paragraph 3 hereof, shall be
estimated and paid to us monthly in arrears, at the same time as
our payment to you for such month. Payment of the advisory fee
will be reduced or postponed, if necessary, with any adjustments
made after the end of the year.
6. This agreement shall become effective on the date
hereof and shall remain in effect until December 31, 1992 and
thereafter for successive twelve-month periods (computed from
each January 1) with respect to each Portfolio provided that such
continuance is specifically approved at least annually by our
Directors or by majority vote of the holders of the outstanding
voting securities (as defined in the Act) of such Portfolio, and,
in either case, by a majority of our Directors who are not
parties to this agreement or interested persons, as defined in
the Act, of any such party (other than as Directors of the Fund)
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 a majority of our Directors on sixty days' written notice to
you, or by you with respect to any Portfolio on sixty days'
written notice to us.
7. This agreement may not be transferred, assigned,
sold or in any matter 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.
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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 Directors of Alliance Capital Management Corporation,
general partner, who may also be a trustee, 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 the name of our corporation to a name
not including the word "Alliance". 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
name "Alliance " or any variation thereof, as you may consider
appropriate. Any such marks or symbols so made available will
remain your property and you will have the right, upon notice in
writing, to require us to cease the use of such xxxx or symbol at
any time.
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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,
Alliance Short-Term Multi-
Market Trust, Inc.
By /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
_____________________
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Chairman
Accepted: As of July 22, 1992
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
By Alliance Capital Management Corporation,
general partner
By \s\ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
__________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Executive Vice President
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