JOINT INSURED BOND RECOVERY AGREEMENT
JOINT INSURED BOND RECOVERY AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, executed as of this 15th day of December, 2009 between Saturna
Capital Corporation, a Washington Corporation (the "Adviser"), Saturna
Brokerage Services, Inc., a Washington Corporation "SBS"), and Amana
Mutual Funds Trust ("Amana"), and Saturna Investment Trust ("SIT"),
Amana and SIT being open-end management investment companies, (all of such entities
herein referred to as the "Parties") this Agreement to become effective
as of the date hereof;
WHEREAS pursuant to the resolutions of the Boards of Trustees of Amana and SIT,
the Trustees of each Trust determined and resolved that a fidelity insurance
bond as required by Rule 17g-1, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, shall
be obtained for each Trust as an insured party issued by the ICI Mutual Insurance
Company for the protection of each of the Parties (the "Bond"). The
Boards and disinterested Trustees determined that the Bond is reasonable as
to amount as such amount is in excess of the coverage required by Rule 17g-1,
giving due consideration to the value of the aggregate assets of the Trusts
to which any covered person may have access, the type and terms of the arrangements
made for the custody and safekeeping of such assets and the nature of the securities
in the portfolio of the Trusts;
AND WHEREAS The Trustees further authorized and approved payment by each Trust
of its portion of the premium of such Bond giving due consideration to the other
parties named as insureds, the nature of the business activities of the other
parties, the amount of the joint insured bond, the total amount of the premium
for such Bond, the ratable allocation of the premium among the parties named
as insureds, and the extent to which the share of the premium allocated to each
Trust is less than the premium that Trust would have to pay to provide and obtain
a single insured bond;
AND WHEREAS The Trustees authorized and directed the Trusts to enter into an
agreement with the other insured parties providing for equitable and proportionate
sharing of recovery under the Bond as a result of a loss sustained by a Trust
and other named insured or insureds, in the form required by Rule 17g-1;
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS THEREFORE AGREED between the Parties that in the event
recovery is received under the Bond as a result of a loss sustained by one or
more of the Parties as named insureds, each party sustaining such loss shall
receive an equitable and proportionate share of the recovery, which amount of
share of recovery shall at least be equal to the amount which each party would
have received had it provided and maintained a single insured bond with the
minimum coverage as required by Rule 17g-1, paragraph (d), subparagraph (1)
as amended of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
By /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx,
President,
Amana Mutual Funds Trust
By /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx,
President,
Saturna Investment Trust
By /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx,
President,
Saturna Capital Corporation
By /s/ Monem A. Salam,
President,
Saturna Brokerage Services, Inc.