EXPENSE CAP/REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit (d)(ii)(B)
This
Agreement is entered into as of the 12th day of August, 2008
between Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx & Co. Incorporated (the “Advisor”) and Baird Funds,
Inc. (the “Corporation”), on behalf of the Riverfront Long-Term Growth Fund (the
“Fund”).
WHEREAS,
the Advisor desires to contractually agree to waive a portion of its advisory
fee or reimburse the Fund’s operating expenses to ensure that the Fund’s total
operating expenses do not exceed the levels described below.
NOW
THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
The
Advisor agrees that, for the term of this Agreement, it will reduce its
compensation as provided for in the Investment Advisory Agreement between the
Corporation on behalf of the Fund and the Advisor and/or assume expenses for the
Fund to the extent necessary to ensure that the Fund’s total operating expenses,
including the costs, fees and expenses indirectly incurred by the Fund as a
result of its investment in shares of other investment companies but excluding
taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses, do not exceed the
following annual percentages of the average daily net assets attributable to the
Fund’s Institutional Class and Investor Class shares:
Institutional
Class
|
Investor
Class
|
|
Riverfront Long-Term Growth Fund |
0.90%
|
1.15%
|
The
Advisor shall be entitled to recoup such amounts from the Fund for a period of
up to three (3) years from the date the Advisor reduced its compensation and/or
assumed expenses for the Fund, provided that the expense ratios in those future
years are less than the limits specified herein and less than the limits in
effect in those future years.
This
Agreement shall continue in effect until December 31,
2011. Thereafter this Agreement shall automatically continue
thereafter for successive renewal terms of one year each, unless either party
notifies the other party of its desire to terminate this Agreement prior to such
renewal.
XXXXXX X.
XXXXX & CO. INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Its: Managing
Director
BAIRD
FUNDS, INC. (on behalf of the Riverfront Long-Term Growth Fund)
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Its:
Secretary