MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
DREYFUS GLOBAL GROWTH FUND
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
November 6, 1995
The Dreyfus Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
The above-named investment company (the "Fund")
herewith confirms its agreement with you as follows:
The Fund desires to employ its capital by investing and
reinvesting the same in investments of the type and in accordance
with the limitations specified in its charter documents and in
its 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 Fund's Board. The Fund
desires to employ you to act as its investment adviser.
In this connection 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 who are employed by both you and the
Fund. The compensation of such person or persons shall be paid
by you and no obligation may be incurred on the Fund's behalf in
any such respect.
Subject to the supervision and approval of the Fund'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 obtain and provide investment research and
will supervise the Fund's investments and conduct a continuous
program of investment, evaluation and, if appropriate, sale and
reinvestment of the Fund's assets. You will furnish to the Fund
such statistical information, with respect to the investments
which the Fund may hold or contemplate purchasing, as the Fund
may reasonably request. The Fund wishes to be informed of
important developments materially affecting its portfolio and
shall expect you, on your own initiative, to furnish to the Fund
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; 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 Fund. 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 Fund agrees
as an inducement to your undertaking the same that you shall not
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
against any liability to the Fund or to its 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.
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. The fee for the period from the date of the
commencement of the public sale of the Fund's shares to the end
of the month during which such sale shall have been commenced
shall be pro-rated according to the proportion which such period
bears to the full monthly period, and 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 Fund'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. All other
expenses to be incurred in the operation of the Fund will be
borne by the Fund, except to the extent specifically assumed by
you. The expenses to be borne by 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 your officers, directors or
employees or holders of 5% or more of your outstanding voting
securities or any of your affiliates, 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 services, costs of maintaining the Fund'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 Fund understands that you now act, and that from
time to time hereafter you may act, as investment adviser to one
or more other investment companies and fiduciary or other managed
accounts, and the Fund has no objection to your 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.
You shall not 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. 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 Fund, shall be
deemed, when rendering services to the Fund or acting on any
business of the Fund, to be rendering such services to or acting
solely for the Fund 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 until March 16, 1997, and
thereafter shall continue automatically for successive annual
periods ending on March 16 of each year, provided such
continuance is specifically approved at least annually by (i) the
Fund'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 Fund'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 Fund's
Board or by vote of holders of a majority of the Fund's shares
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 Fund 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 Fund agrees that, at
your request, the Fund will take all necessary action to change
the name of the Fund to a name not including "Dreyfus" in any
form or combination of words.
This Agreement has been executed on behalf of the Fund
by the undersigned officer of the Fund in his capacity as an
officer of the Fund. The obligations of this Agreement shall
only be binding upon the assets and property of the Fund and
shall not be binding upon any Board member, officer or
shareholder of the Fund individually.
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 GLOBAL GROWTH FUND
By:___________________________
Accepted:
THE DREYFUS CORPORATION
By:_______________________________
