MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT DREYFUS PREMIER WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND, INC.
DREYFUS PREMIER WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND, INC.
August 24, 1994
As Amended, August 3, 2009
The Dreyfus Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
The above-named investment company (the "Company") herewith confirms its agreement with you as follows:
Dreyfus Worldwide Growth Fund (the "Fund"), a series of the Company, desires to employ its capital by investing and reinvesting the same in investments of the type and in accordance with the limitations specified in the Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information as from time to time in effect, copies of which have been or will be submitted to you, and in such manner and to such extent as from time to time may be approved by the Company's Board. The Company desires to employ you to act as the Fund's investment adviser.
In connection with your serving as investment adviser to the Fund, it is understood that from time to time you will employ or associate with yourself such person or persons as you may believe to be particularly fitted to assist you in the performance of this Agreement. Such person or persons may be officers or employees of both you and the Company. The compensation of such person or persons shall be paid by you and no obligation may be incurred on the Company's behalf in any such respect. We have discussed and concur in your employing on this basis Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. to act as the Fund's sub-investment adviser (the "Sub-Investment Adviser") to provide day-to-day management of the Fund's investments.
Subject to the supervision and approval of the Company's Board, you will provide investment management of the Fund's portfolio in accordance with the Fund's investment objectives and policies as stated in its Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information as from time to time in effect. In connection therewith, you will supervise the continuous program of investment, evaluation and, if appropriate, sale and reinvestment of the Fund's assets conducted by the Sub-Investment Adviser. You will furnish to the Company such statistical information, with respect to the investments which the Fund may hold or contemplate purchasing, as the Company may reasonably request. The Company wishes to be informed of important developments materially affecting its portfolio and shall expect you, on your own initiative, to furnish to the Company from time to time such information as you may believe appropriate for this purpose.
In addition, you will supply office facilities (which may be in your own offices), data processing services, clerical, accounting and bookkeeping services, internal auditing and legal services, internal executive and administrative services, and stationery and office supplies;
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prepare reports to the Fund's stockholders, tax returns, reports to and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and state Blue Sky authorities; calculate the net asset value of the Fund's shares; and generally assist in all aspects of the Fund's operations. You shall have the right, at your expense, to engage other entities to assist you in performing some or all of the obligations set forth in this paragraph, provided each such entity enters into an agreement with you in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company. You agree to be liable for the acts or omissions of each such entity to the same extent as if you had acted or failed to act under the circumstances.
You shall exercise your best judgment in rendering the services to be provided to the Fund hereunder and the Company agrees as an inducement to your undertaking the same that neither you nor the Sub-Investment Adviser shall be liable hereunder for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to protect or purport to protect you or the Sub-Investment Adviser against any liability to the Company, the Fund or the Fund's 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, or to which the Sub-Investment Adviser would otherwise be subject by reason of willful malfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties under its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under said agreement.
In consideration of services rendered pursuant to this Agreement, the Fund will pay you on the first business day of each month a fee at the annual rate of .75 of 1% of the value of the Fund's average daily net assets. Net asset value shall be computed on such days and at such time or times as described in the Fund's then-current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information. Upon any termination of this Agreement before the end of any month, the fee for such part of a month shall be pro-rated according to the proportion which such period bears to the full monthly period and shall be payable upon the date of termination of this Agreement.
For the purpose of determining fees payable to you, the value of the Fund's net assets shall be computed in the manner specified in the Company's charter documents for the computation of the value of the Fund's net assets.
You will bear all expenses in connection with the performance of your services under this Agreement and will pay all fees of the Sub-Investment Adviser in connection with its duties in respect of the Fund. All other expenses to be incurred in the operation of the Company, with respect to the Fund (other than those borne by the Sub-Investment Adviser), will be borne by the Company, except to the extent specifically assumed by you. The expenses to be borne by the Company, with respect to the Fund, include, without limitation, the following: organizational costs, taxes, interest, loan commitment fees, interest and distributions paid on securities sold short, brokerage fees and commissions, if any, fees of Board members who are not officers, directors or employees or holders of 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities of you or the Sub-Investment Adviser or any affiliate of you or the Sub-Investment Adviser, Securities and Exchange Commission fees and state Blue Sky qualification fees, advisory fees, charges of custodians, transfer and dividend disbursing agents' fees, certain insurance premiums, industry association fees, outside auditing and legal expenses, costs of independent pricing
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services, costs of maintaining the Company's existence, costs attributable to investor services (including, without limitation, telephone and personnel expenses), costs of preparing and printing prospectuses and statements of additional information for regulatory purposes and for distribution to existing stockholders, costs of stockholders' reports and meetings, and any extraordinary expenses.
If in any fiscal year the aggregate expenses of the Fund (including fees pursuant to this Agreement, but excluding interest, taxes, brokerage and, with the prior written consent of the necessary state securities commissions, extraordinary expenses) exceed the expense limitation of any state having jurisdiction over the Fund, the Fund may deduct from the fees to be paid hereunder, or you will bear, such excess expense to the extent required by state law. Your obligation pursuant hereto will be limited to the amount of your fees hereunder. Such deduction or payment, if any, will be estimated daily, and reconciled and effected or paid, as the case may be, on a monthly basis.
The Company understands that you and the Sub-Investment Adviser now act, and that from time to time hereafter you or the Sub-Investment Adviser may act, as investment adviser to one or more other investment companies and fiduciary or other managed accounts, and the Company has no objection to your and the Sub-Investment Adviser's so acting, provided that when the purchase or sale of securities of the same issuer is suitable for the investment objectives of two or more companies or accounts managed by you which have available funds for investment, the available securities will be allocated in a manner believed by you to be equitable to each company or account. It is recognized that in some cases this procedure may adversely affect the price paid or received by the Fund or the size of the position obtainable for or disposed of by the Fund.
In addition, it is understood that the persons employed by you to assist in the performance of your duties hereunder will not devote their full time to such service and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your right or the right of any of your affiliates to engage in and devote time and attention to other businesses or to render services of whatever kind or nature.
Neither you nor the Sub-Investment Adviser shall be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the performance of your duties or from reckless disregard by you of your obligations and duties under this Agreement and, in the case of the Sub-Investment Adviser, for a loss resulting from willful malfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by it of its obligations and duties under its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement. Any person, even though also your officer, director, partner, employee or agent, who may be or become an officer, Board member, employee or agent of the Company, shall be deemed, when rendering services to the Company or acting on any business of the Company, to be rendering such services to or acting solely for the Company and not as your officer, director, partner, employee or agent or one under your control or direction even though paid by you.
This Agreement shall continue automatically for successive annual periods ending on September 5th of each year, provided such continuance is specifically approved at least
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annually by (i) the Company's Board or (ii) vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of the Fund's outstanding voting securities, provided that in either event its continuance also is approved by a majority of the Company's Board members who are not "interested persons" (as defined in said Act) of any party to this Agreement, by vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. This Agreement is terminable without penalty, on 60 days' notice, by the Company's Board or by vote of holders of a majority of the Fund's outstanding voting securities or, upon not less than 90 days' notice, by you. This Agreement also will terminate automatically in the event of its assignment (as defined in said Act).
The Company recognizes that from time to time your directors, officers and employees may serve as directors, trustees, partners, officers and employees of other corporations, business trusts, partnerships or other entities (including other investment companies) and that such other entities may include the name "Dreyfus" as part of their name, and that your corporation or its affiliates may enter into investment advisory or other agreements with such other entities. If you cease to act as the Fund's investment adviser, the Company agrees that, at your request, the Company will take all necessary action to change the name of the Company and the Fund to a name not including "Dreyfus" in any form or combination of words.
The Company is agreeing to the provisions of this Agreement that limit the Sub-Investment Adviser's liability and other provisions relating to the Sub-Investment Adviser so as to induce the Sub-Investment Adviser to enter into its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you and to perform its obligations thereunder. The Sub-Investment Adviser is expressly made a third party beneficiary of this Agreement with rights as respects the Fund to the same extent as if it had been a party hereto.
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, |
| DREYFUS PREMIER WORLDWIDE |
| GROWTH FUND, INC. |
| By: | /s/ J. Xxxxx Xxxxxxx |
| J. Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
| President |
| Accepted: |
| THE DREYFUS CORPORATION |
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx |
| Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx | |
| Chairman and CEO |
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