Amendment to Financial Administration and Accounting Services Agreement
Exhibit (h)(53) under Form N-1A
Exhibit 10 under Item 601/Reg. S-K
Amendment to Financial Administration
and Accounting Services Agreement
This Amendment to Financial Administration and Accounting Services Agreement (this “Amendment”) is dated as of October 14, 2015, by and among each of the investment companies listed on Exhibit A hereto (each, a “Trust”) and State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street” or “Administrator”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Trusts and State Street are parties to a certain Financial Administration and Accounting Services Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2011 (such agreement, together with all exhibits, schedules, and any other documents executed or delivered in connection therewith, the (“Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties agree as follows:
1. Amendments. The Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Section III.A of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of paragraph 11:
“12. Schedules A and A(i) attached hereto as Exhibit 1 are added to the Agreement as Schedules A and A(i).
(b) Exhibit A to Schedules A and A(i) is added to the Agreement.
2. No Other Amendments. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.
3. Governing Law. This Amendment shall be deemed to have been made in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and shall be governed by and construed under and in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts without giving effect to its conflict of laws principles and rules.
4. | This Amendment may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be executed in either original or electronically transmitted form (e.g., faxes or emailed portable document format (PDF) form), and the parties hereby adopt as original any signatures received via electronically transmitted form. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to Financial Administration and Accounting Services Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.
State Street Bank and Trust Company
By: _// Xxxxxx Xxxxx //_________________________________
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
Each of the Investment Companies
Listed on Exhibit A attached hereto
By: __//Xxxx Xxxxxxx//________________________________
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Fund Treasurer