Fifth Amendment to the Master Shareholder Services Agreement for the Franklin Templeton Funds
Exhibit 24(b)(8.64) | ||
Fifth Amendment to the Master Shareholder Services Agreement for | ||
the Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Funds | ||
Effective as of the 1st day of July, 2013, this Amendment is made to the Master Shareholder Services | ||
Agreement for the Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Funds dated August 28, 2000, as amended, (the “Agreement”) | ||
between ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company and ING Financial Advisers, LLC (collectively | ||
“you”), Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Investor Services, LLC (“Transfer Agent”) and Franklin Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Distributors, Inc. (“Distributors,” together Transfer Agent and Distributors shall be referred to as “we” or | ||
“us”). | ||
The parties hereby amend the Agreement as follows: | ||
1. Section 7.B. of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated as follows: | ||
B. | In recognition of the Benefit Plan services you provide to Benefit Plan | |
participants investing indirectly in Fund shares through annuity contracts and separate accounts | ||
Transfer Agent will, on behalf of each Fund, pay you a fee of (__) basis points per annum | ||
of the average daily net asset value of the Fund’s shares issued to a separate account over a three- | ||
month period. Beneficial owner servicing fees may be changed in Transfer Agent’s discretion or | ||
in the discretion of the Funds’ boards of directors or trustees upon reasonable notice to you. | ||
Transfer Agent will not remit beneficial owner servicing fees on behalf of Class | ||
R6 shares of Funds designed for certain employer sponsored retirement plans. | ||
Transfer Agent will also not remit beneficial owner servicing fees on behalf of | ||
certain Funds designed for institutional investors. Currently, these Funds include (i) Templeton | ||
Institutional Funds: Emerging Market Series, Foreign Equity Series (Primary Shares), Foreign | ||
Smaller Companies Series and Global Equity Series; (ii) Franklin Global Trust: Franklin | ||
Xxxxxxxxx Emerging Market Debt Opportunities Fund; and (iii) Institutional Fiduciary Trust: | ||
Money Market Portfolio. Transfer Agent also may not remit beneficial owner servicing fees on | ||
behalf of future Funds designed for institutional investors. | ||
Additionally, Transfer Agent will not remit beneficial owner servicing fees on | ||
behalf of Franklin Xxxxxxxxx money funds. Currently, these include (i) Franklin Money Fund; | ||
(ii) Franklin Tax-Exempt Money Fund; (iii) Franklin California Tax-Exempt Money Fund; (iv) | ||
Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Money Fund – Class A, Class C, and Class R. Transfer Agent also may not | ||
remit beneficial owner servicing fees on behalf of future Franklin Xxxxxxxxx money funds. | ||
The beneficial owner servicing fees set forth in this Agreement shall be payable | ||
quarterly on an off-calendar quarter basis (quarters ending in January, April, July and October). | ||
If this Agreement is not superseding an existing agreement whereby you receive beneficial owner | ||
servicing fees from us, your payments will begin to accrue at the beginning of the next off- | ||
calendar quarter after the effective date of this Agreement. You shall provide Transfer Agent | ||
with a statement (“Statement”) within fifteen (15) days of the end of each calendar month setting |
forth on a Fund by Fund basis the total number of Benefit Plan participants in each Benefit Plan | |||
with an indirect interest in each Fund’s shares registered to each separate account as of the last | |||
business day of that calendar month, along with any other supporting data reasonably requested | |||
by Transfer Agent. Beneficial owner servicing fees for a quarter are payable only upon your | |||
timely delivery and our receipt and acceptance of each complete and accurate monthly Statement | |||
for the months within the quarter. Once a beneficial owner servicing fee becomes payable, we | |||
will make every effort to deliver payment within thirty (30) days. | |||
Except to the extent amended by this amendment, the Agreement shall remain unchanged and in full force | |||
and effect. | |||
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have each caused this amendment to be executed by its | |||
duly authorized officer. | |||
ING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY | FRANKLIN XXXXXXXXX | ||
COMPANY | DISTRIBUTORS, INC. | ||
By: /s/Xxxx Xxxxxxx | By: /s/Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||
Name: | Xxxx Xxxxxxx | Name: | Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
Title: | Vice President | Title: | Vice President |
Date: | 7/10/13 | Date: | 7/24/13 |
ING FINANCIAL ADVISERS, LLC | FRANKLIN XXXXXXXXX INVESTOR | ||
SERVICES, LLC | |||
By: /s/Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | By: /s/Xxxxx X. Xxx, Xx. | ||
Name: | Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxx, Xx. |
Title: | President | Title: | President |
Date: | 7/15/13 | Date: | 7/22/13 |