SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Agreement is made as of the 7th day of April, 1999 between Pioneer
Funds Distributor, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("PFD"), and Pioneer Strategic
Income Fund, a Delaware business trust (the "Fund").
WHEREAS, the Fund wishes to sell to PFD, and PFD wishes to purchase
from the Trust, $100,000 of shares of beneficial interest of the Fund
10,000 shares at a purchase price of $10.00 per share (collectively, the
"Shares"); and
WHEREAS, PFD is purchasing the Shares for the purpose of providing the
initial capitalization of the Fund as required by the Investment Company Act of
1940;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Simultaneously with the execution of this Agreement, PFD is
delivering to the Fund a check in the amount of $100,000 in full payment for
the Shares.
2. PFD agrees that it is purchasing the Shares for investment and has
no present intention of redeeming or reselling the Shares.
3. PFD further agrees that it may not withdraw the Shares from the
Fund at a rate, which at any time during the Fund's first five years of
operations, exceeds in the aggregate $1,666.67 per month.
Executed as of the date first set forth above.
PIONEER FUNDS DISTRIBUTOR, INC.
PIONEER STRATEGIC INCOME FUND
