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EXHIBIT (d)(x)
GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FUND
OF
THE ENTERPRISE GROUP OF FUNDS, INC.
FUND MANAGER'S AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made the 2nd day of October, 2000, is among The
Enterprise Group of Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), a Maryland corporation,
Enterprise Capital Management, Inc., a Georgia corporation (hereinafter
referred to as the "Adviser"), and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (hereinafter referred to as the "Fund Manager").
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(A) The Adviser has entered into an Investment Adviser's
Agreement dated as of July 1, 1999 with the Fund ("Investment Adviser's
Agreement"). Pursuant to the Investment Adviser's Agreement, the Adviser has
agreed to render investment advisory and certain other management services to
all of the portfolios of the Fund (the "Portfolios"), and the Fund has agreed
to employ the Adviser to render such services and to pay to the Adviser certain
fees therefore. The Investment Adviser's Agreement recognizes that the Adviser
may enter into agreements with other investment advisers who will serve as fund
managers to the Portfolios.
(B) The parties hereto wish to enter into an agreement whereby
the Fund Manager will provide to the Global Financial Services Portfolio of the
Fund (the "Global Fund") securities investment advisory services for the Global
Fund.
WITNESSETH THAT:
In consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the Fund,
Adviser and the Fund Manager agree as follows:
(1) The Fund and Adviser hereby employ the Fund Manager
to render certain investment advisory services to the Global Fund, as set forth
herein. The Fund Manager hereby accepts such employment and agrees to perform
such services on the terms herein set forth, and for the compensation herein
provided.
(2) The Fund Manager shall furnish the Global Fund
advice with respect to the investment and reinvestment of the assets of the
Global Fund, or such portion of the assets of the Global Fund as the Adviser
shall specify from time to time, in accordance with the investment objectives,
restrictions and limitations applicable to the Global Fund which are set forth
in the Fund's most recent Registration Statement. The Fund Manager may delegate
its investment advisory and other responsibilities and duties hereunder to an
affiliated person of the Fund Manager, subject to the Fund Manager retaining
overall responsibility for such powers and functions and any and all
obligations and liabilities in connection therewith.
(3) The Fund Manager shall perform a monthly
reconciliation of the Global Fund to the holdings report provided by the Fund's
custodian and bring any material or significant variances regarding holdings or
valuations to the attention of the Adviser.
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(4) The Fund Manager shall for all purposes herein be
deemed to be an independent contractor. The Fund Manager has no authority to
act for or represent the Fund or the Portfolios in any way except to direct
securities transactions pursuant to its investment advice hereunder. The Fund
Manager is not an agent of the Fund or the Portfolios.
(5) It is understood that the Fund Manager does not, by
this Agreement, undertake to assume or pay any costs or expenses of the Fund or
the Portfolios.
(6)(a) The Adviser agrees to pay the Fund Manager for its
services to be furnished under this Agreement, with respect to each calendar
month after the effective date of this Agreement, on the twentieth (20th) day
after the close of each calendar month, a sum equal to 0.042 of 1% of the
average of the daily closing net asset value of the Global Fund managed by the
Fund Manager during such month (that is, 0.50 of 1% per year) for the first
$100,000,000 of assets under management; a sum equal to 0.033 of 1% of the
average of the daily closing net asset value of the Global Fund during such
month (that is, 0.40% per year) for assets from $100,000,000 to $300,000,000;
and a sum equal to 0.025 of 1% of the average of the daily closing net asset
value of the Global Fund during such month (that is, 0.30 of 1% per year) for
assets over $300,000,000.
(6)(b) The payment of all fees provided for hereunder shall
be prorated and reduced for sums payable for a period less than a full month in
the event of termination of this Agreement on a day that is not the end of a
calendar month.
(6)(c) For the purposes of this Paragraph 6, the daily
closing net asset values of the Portfolio shall be computed in the manner
specified in the Registration Statement for the computation of the value of
such net assets in connection with the determination of the net asset value of
the Global Fund shares.
(7) The services of the Fund Manager hereunder are not
to be deemed to be exclusive, and the Fund Manager is free to render services
to others and to engage in other activities so long as its services hereunder
are not impaired thereby. Without in any way relieving the Fund Manager of its
responsibilities hereunder, it is agreed that the Fund Manager may employ
others to furnish factual information, economic advice and/or research, and
investment recommendations, upon which its investment advice and service is
furnished hereunder.
(8) In the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith or
gross negligence in the performance of its duties hereunder, or reckless
disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder, the Fund Manager shall not
be liable to the Fund, the Global Fund or the Adviser or to any shareholder or
shareholders of the Fund, the Global Fund or the Adviser for any mistake of
judgment, act or omission in the course of, or connected with, the services to
be rendered by the Fund Manager hereunder.
(9) The Fund Manager will take necessary steps to
prevent the investment professionals of the Fund Manager and affiliated persons
of the Fund Manager who are responsible for investing assets of the Global Fund
from taking, at any time, a short position in any shares of any holdings of the
Global Fund for any accounts in which such individuals have a beneficial
interest, excluding short positions, including without limitation, short
against-the-box positions, effected for tax reasons. The Fund Manager also will
cooperate with the Fund in adopting a written policy prohibiting xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx with respect to Global Fund transactions insofar as such transactions
may relate to the Fund Manager.
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(10) In connection with the management of the investment
and reinvestment of the assets of the Global Fund, the Fund Manager is
authorized to select the brokers or dealers that will execute purchase and sale
transactions for the Global Fund, and is directed to use its best efforts to
obtain the best available price and most favorable execution with respect to
such purchases and sales of portfolio securities for the Global Fund. Subject
to this primary requirement, and maintaining as its first consideration the
benefits for the Global Fund and its shareholders, the Fund Manager shall have
the right, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of the Fund and of
the Adviser, to follow a policy of selecting brokers and dealers who furnish
statistical research and other services to the Global Fund, the Adviser, or the
Fund Manager and, subject to the Conduct Rules of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc., to select brokers and dealers who sell shares of the
Portfolios.
In lieu of selecting broker-dealers to execute transactions in domestic
equities for the Global Fund, the Fund Manager may execute such transactions
for the Global Fund provided that it "steps-out" such transactions to the
broker-dealers selected by the Fund Manager. A step-out is a service provided
by the New York Stock Exchange and other markets which allows the Fund Manager
to provide the Global Fund with the benefit of the Fund Manager's execution
capabilities at no additional charge and then transfer or "step-out" the
confirmation and settlement responsibilities of such transactions to the
broker-dealer(s) selected by the Fund Manager. In connection with a step-out,
transaction charges shall be paid by the Global Fund to the broker-dealers
selected by the Fund Manager and not to the Fund Manager.
In addition to selecting brokers or dealers to execute transactions
for the Global Fund, the Fund Manager may, subject to obtaining best execution,
also act as a broker for the Global Fund from time to time at rates not
exceeding the usual and customary broker's commission. Under Federal law, the
Fund Manager must obtain the Fund's and the Adviser's consent to effect agency
cross transactions for the Global Fund, which consent is hereby granted. The
Fund Manager represents, warrants and covenants that all agency cross
transactions for the Global Fund will be effected by the Fund Manager strictly
in accordance with Rule 206(3)-2 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. An
agency cross transaction is where the Fund Manager purchases or sells
securities from or to a non-managed account on behalf of a client's managed
account. Pursuant to this consent, the Fund Manager will not effect agency
cross transactions between two managed accounts, that is, the Fund Manager will
only effect an agency cross transaction for the Global Fund with a non-managed
account. When the Fund Manager crosses transactions in connection with a
step-out, the Fund Manager will receive a commission from the transaction only
with respect to the non-managed account and will not receive a commission from
the transaction with respect to the Global Fund. In an agency cross transaction
where the Fund Manager acts as broker for Global Fund, the Fund Manager
receives commissions from both sides of the trade and there is a potentially
conflicting division of loyalties and responsibilities. However, as both sides
to the trade want to execute the transaction at the best price without moving
the market price in either direction, the Fund Manager believes that an agency
cross transaction will aid both sides to the trade in obtaining the best price
for the trade. THE FUND OR THE ADVISER MAY REVOKE THIS CONSENT BY WRITTEN
NOTICE TO THE FUND MANAGER AT ANY TIME.
(11) The Fund may terminate this Agreement by thirty (30)
days written notice to the Adviser and the Fund Manager at any time, without
the payment of any penalty, by vote of the Fund's Board of Directors, or by
vote of a majority of its outstanding voting securities. The Adviser may
terminate this Agreement by thirty (30) days written notice to the Fund Manager
and the Fund Manager may terminate this Agreement by thirty (30) days written
notice to the Adviser, without the payment of any penalty. This Agreement shall
immediately terminate in the event of its assignment, unless an order is issued
by the Securities and Exchange Commission conditionally or unconditionally
exempting such
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assignment from the provision of Section 15 (a) of the Investment Company Act
of 1940, in which event this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
(12) Subject to prior termination as provided above, this
Agreement shall continue in force from the date of execution until October 2,
2002 and from year to year thereafter if its continuance after said date: (1)
is specifically approved on or before said date and at least annually
thereafter by vote of the Board of Directors of the Fund, including a majority
of those Directors who are not parties to this Agreement of interested persons
of any such party, or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the Fund, and (2) is specifically approved at least annually by
the vote of a majority of Directors of the Fund who are not parties to this
Agreement or interested persons of any such party cast in person at a meeting
called for the purpose of voting on such approval.
(13) The Adviser shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Fund Manager, its officers and directors and each person, if any, who controls
the Fund Manager within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933
(any and all such persons shall be referred to as "Indemnified Party"), against
any loss, liability, damage or expense (including the reasonable cost of
investigating or defending any alleged loss, liability, damages or expense and
reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith), arising by reason of
any matter to which this Fund Manager's Agreement relates. However, in no case
(i) is this indemnity to be deemed to protect any particular Indemnified Party
against any liability to which such Indemnified Party would otherwise be
subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the
performance of its duties or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations
and duties under this Fund Manager's Agreement or (ii) is the Adviser to be
liable under this indemnity with respect to any claim made against any
particular Indemnified Party unless such Indemnified Party shall have notified
the Adviser in writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other
first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have
been served upon the Fund Manager or such controlling persons.
The Fund Manager shall indemnify and hold harmless the Adviser and
each of its directors and officers and each person if any who controls the
Adviser within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, against
any loss, liability, damage or expense described in the foregoing indemnity,
but only with respect to the Fund Manager's willful misfeasance, bad faith or
gross negligence in the performance of its duties under this Fund Manager's
Agreement. In case any action shall be brought against the Adviser or any
person so indemnified, in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the
Fund Manager, the Fund Manager shall have the rights and duties given to the
Adviser, and the Adviser and each person so indemnified shall have the rights
and duties given to the Fund Manager by the provisions of subsection (i) and
(ii) of this Paragraph 13.
(14) Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 13 hereof
and as may be required under applicable federal law, this Fund Manager's
Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Georgia.
(15) The Fund Manager agrees to notify the parties within
a reasonable period of time regarding a material change in the membership of
the Fund Manager.
(16) The terms "vote of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities," "assignment" and "interested persons," when used herein,
shall have the respective meanings specified in the Investment Company Act of
1940 as now in effect or as hereafter amended.
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(17) Unless otherwise permitted, all notices,
instructions and advice with respect to security transactions or any other
matters contemplated by this Agreement shall be deemed duly given when received
in writing:
by the Fund Manager: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
by the Adviser: Enterprise Capital Management, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X., Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
by the Fund: The Enterprise Group of Funds, Inc.
c/o Enterprise Capital Management, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X., Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
or by such other person or persons at such address or addresses as shall be
specified by the applicable party, in each case, in a notice similarly given.
Each party may rely upon any notice or other communication from the other
reasonably believed by it to be genuine.
(18) This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which,
when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement.
(19) This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
between the Fund Manager, the Adviser and the Fund relating to the Global Fund.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be
signed by their duly authorized officers and their corporate seals hereunder
duly affixed and attested, as of the date first above written.
THE ENTERPRISE GROUP OF FUNDS, INC.
(SEAL)
ATTEST: /s/ XXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXX By: /s/ XXXXXX XXXXXX
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Secretary Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
ENTERPRISE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.
(SEAL)
ATTEST: /s/ XXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXX By: /s/ XXXXXX XXXXXX
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Secretary Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX & CO., LLC
(SEAL)
ATTEST: By: /s/ XXXX XXXXX XXXX
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxx
