SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AGREEMENT
AMERINDO FUNDS INC.
Class C Shares
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
SEI Investments Distribution Co.
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Gentlemen:
We herewith confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. We hereby employ you, the Distributor, pursuant to the Distribution and
Service Plan dated September 11, 2000 adopted by us in accordance with
Rule 12b_l (the "Plan") under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the "1940 Act"), to provide the services listed below:
(a) You will perform, or arrange for others including broker-dealers,
banks, savings and loans and other financial institutions with which you have
written agreements and whose clients are Class C shareholders of Amerindo Funds
Inc. (the "Fund") (each institution a "Shareholder Servicing Agent") to perform,
all shareholder servicing functions not performed by us or by our transfer
agent.
(b) In consideration of the foregoing we will pay you a fee at the annual
rate of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the Fund's Class C shares' (the
"Class C Shares") average daily net assets to compensate you for providing
shareholder services to our Class C shareholders (the "Shareholder Servicing
Fee"). Your payment will be accrued by us daily, and will be payable on the last
day of each calendar month for services performed hereunder during that month or
on such other schedule as you shall request us in writing. You may waive your
right to any fee or payment to which you are entitled hereunder, provided such
waiver is delivered to us in writing.
(c) You may make payments from time to time from your Shareholder Servicing
Fee to defray the costs of, and to compensate other Shareholder Servicing Agents
with whom you shall enter into a written agreement for performing shareholder
servicing and related administrative functions on behalf of the Class C Shares.
You will in your sole discretion determine the amount of any payments made
by you pursuant to this Agreement, and you may from time to time in your sole
discretion increase or decrease the amount of such payments; provided, however,
that no such payment will increase the amount which we are required to pay to
you under this Agreement.
2. Except as otherwise provided herein, you will be responsible for the
payment of all expenses incurred by you in rendering the foregoing services,
except that we will pay (i) telecommunications expenses, including the cost of
dedicated lines and CRT terminals, incurred by you, the Broker_Dealers (as
defined in our Distribution Agreement with our distributor) and Shareholder
Servicing Agents in rendering such services, and (ii) the cost of typesetting,
printing and delivering our prospectus to existing Class C shareholders of the
Fund and of preparing and printing subscription application forms for Class C
shareholder accounts.
3. (a) The written agreements between you and Shareholder Servicing Agents
may only be made with Shareholder Servicing Agents who maintain a servicing
relationship, and will, as agents for their customers, perform the following
services for Class C Shareholders, including but not limited to: answer customer
inquiries regarding account status and history, the manner in which purchases
and redemptions of shares of the Fund may be effected and certain other matters
pertaining to the Fund; assist shareholders in designating and changing dividend
options, account designations and addressees; provide necessary personnel and
facilities to establish and maintain shareholder accounts and records; assist in
processing purchase and redemption transactions; arrange for the wiring of
funds; transmit and receive funds in connection with customer orders to purchase
or redeem shares; verify and guarantee shareholder signatures in connection with
redemption orders and transfers and changes in shareholder designated accounts;
furnish (either separately or on an integrated basis with other reports sent to
a Class C shareholder by the Fund) monthly and year-end statements and
confirmation of purchases and redemptions; transmit, on behalf of the Fund,
proxy statements, annual reports, updating prospectuses and other communications
from the Fund to Class C shareholders of the Fund; receive, tabulate and
transmit to the Fund proxies executed by shareholders with respect to meeting of
Class C shareholders of the Fund; and provide such other related services as the
Fund or a Class C shareholder may request. Shareholder Servicing Agents may
waive all or a portion of their Shareholder Servicing Fees.
(b) Payments to Shareholder Servicing Agents to compensate them for
providing shareholder servicing and related administrative functions are subject
to compliance by them with the terms of written agreements satisfactory to our
Board of Directors to be entered into between you and the Shareholder Servicing
Agents.
(c) Shareholder Servicing Agents will be compensated directly by you. We
shall have no obligation or liability to you, them or any Shareholder Servicing
Agent for any such payments under such agreements with Shareholder Servicing
Agents. Our obligation is solely to make payments to you, the Distributor, under
this Shareholder Servicing Agreement and the Distribution Agreement and to the
Adviser under the Advisory Agreement.
4. We will 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 will not be liable
hereunder for any mistake of judgment or for any other cause, provided that
nothing herein shall protect you against any liability to us or to our Class C
shareholders 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. This Agreement will become effective on the date hereof and will remain
in effect until September 10, 2002 and thereafter for successive twelve-month
periods (computed from each September 11th) provided that such continuation is
specifically approved at least annually by vote of our Board of Directors and of
a majority of those of our directors who are not interested persons (as defined
in the 0000 Xxx) and have no direct or indirect financial interest in the
operation of the Plan or in any agreements related to the Plan, cast in person
at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on this Agreement. This Agreement
may be terminated at any time, without the payment of any penalty, by vote of a
majority of our entire Board of Directors, and by a vote of a majority of our
Directors who are not interested persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and who
have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or in
any agreement related to the Plan, or by vote of a majority of our outstanding
Class C voting securities, as defined in the 1940 Act, on sixty days' written
notice to you, or by you on sixty days' written notice to us.
6. 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 in applicable
rules or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
7. 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 officers, directors or employees who may also be a director, officer
or employee of ours, or of a person affiliated with us, as defined in the 1940
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 another corporation,
firm, individual or association.
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,
AMERINDO FUNDS INC.
By:________________
Name: Title:
ACCEPTED:
September 11, 2000
SEI INVESTMENTS DISTRIBUTION CO.
By:_______________
Name:
Title:
