FOURTH AMENDMENT TO SERVICES AGREEMENT
Exhibit 24(b)(8.118) | ||
FOURTH AMENDMENT | ||
TO SERVICES AGREEMENT | ||
This Fourth Amendment dated as of August 3, 2009 by and between ING Life Insurance and | ||
Annuity Company (formerly Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company) (“ING Life”), ING Institutional | ||
Plan Services, LLP (“ING Institutional”), ING Financial Advisers, LLC (formerly Aetna Investment | ||
Services, Inc.)(“ING Financial”)(collectively “ING”), and MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (“MFS”) is made to | ||
the Services Agreement dated as of April 1, 1998 (the “Agreement”) as amended on June 24, 1998, | ||
December 28, 1998, and July 1, 1999. Terms defined in the Agreement are used herein as therein defined. | ||
WHEREAS, the parties wish to add ING Institutional to the Agreement; and | ||
WHEREAS, the parties wish to amend certain other provisions of the Agreement, as provided | ||
below. | ||
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and mutual covenants hereinafter | ||
contained, the parties agree as follows: | ||
1. | All references in the Agreement to Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company (“ALIAC”) | |
are changed to ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company (“ILIAC”), and all references in the Agreement to | ||
Aetna Investment Services, Inc. (“AISI”) are changed to ING Financial Advisers, LLC (“ING Financial”). | ||
The defined term “Aetna” is changed to “ING.” | ||
2. | ING Institutional is hereby added to the Agreement as an additional recordkeeper, and all | |
provisions relating to ING Life in the Agreement are hereby amended to refer to both ING Life and ING | ||
Institutional. The defined term “ING” in the Agreement is hereby amended to include ING Life, ING | ||
Institutional, and ING Financial (collectively, “Service Provider”). | ||
3. Addition of MFS Party. MFS Service Center, Inc. (“MFSC”), which serves as transfer agent | ||
with respect to each of the Funds (each, a “Fund”), is hereby added as a party to the Agreement for | ||
purposes of (i) receiving certain representations, warranties and covenants from the Service Provider | ||
with respect to the shareholder services provided pursuant to the Agreement and the Service Provider’s | ||
operations, controls and procedures, and (ii) advancing on behalf of the Funds all or a portion of the fees | ||
payable under the Agreement to the extent the Funds determine in their sole discretion that such | ||
payments are entitled to reimbursement under the Funds’ policies with respect to shareholder servicing | ||
payments as in effect from time to time. MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. and MFSC are referred to | ||
collectively as “MFS.” | ||
4. | Paragraph 2 of the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the | |
following: | ||
i. | Omnibus Account. |
The parties agree that up to two omnibus accounts, each held in the name of the | |
Nominee, may be maintained for those Plan assets directed for investment in the Funds | |
(“Account” or “Accounts”). One such omnibus account may be maintained in | |
connection with Plans for which ING Life is providing various recordkeeping and other | |
administrative services, and the other such omnibus account may be maintained in | |
connection with Plans for which ING Institutional is providing various recordkeeping | |
and other administrative services. Alternatively, one Account may be maintained in | |
connection with Plans for which both ING Life and ING Institutional shall provide such | |
recordkeeping and administrative services. ING Life or ING Institutional, as service | |
agents for the Plans, and ING Financial, as broker-dealer of record on the Accounts, shall | |
facilitate purchase and sale transactions with respect to the Account in accordance with | |
the Agreement. | |
5. | Paragraph 5 of the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the |
following: | |
5. Fees. | |
(a) Servicing Fees: The provision of shareholder and administrative services to | |
the Plans shall be the responsibility of Service Provider and shall not be the | |
responsibility of MFS. These administrative services are described in Schedule C to this | |
Agreement (attached). In consideration of Service Provider’s performance of the | |
administrative services described in Schedule C, MFS agrees to pay Service Provider the | |
Fees described in Schedule B (“Additional Fee”). The Nominee will be recognized as | |
the sole shareholder of Fund shares purchased under this Agreement. It is further | |
recognized that there will be a substantial savings in administrative expense and | |
recordkeeping expenses by virtue of having one shareholder rather than multiple | |
shareholders. In consideration of the administrative savings resulting from such | |
arrangement, MFS agrees to pay or cause to be paid an annual fee as specified in | |
Schedule B (attached), based on the average net assets invested in the Funds through | |
Service Provider’s arrangements with Plans in each calendar quarter. Within thirty (30) | |
days after the end of each calendar quarter MFS shall provide Service Provider with a | |
statement showing the aggregate value of Service Provider’s accounts for the preceding | |
quarter and include therewith a payment to Service Provider for the compensation due in | |
accordance with this paragraph. | |
(b) 12b-1 Fees. To compensate ING Financial for its distribution of Fund | |
Shares, MFS shall make quarterly payments to ING Financial, as specified in Schedule B | |
(attached), based on the average net assets invested in Fund shares through ING Life’s | |
arrangements with Plans in each calendar quarter. MFS will make such payments to ING | |
Financial within thirty (30) days after the end of each calendar quarter. Each payment | |
will be accompanied by a statement showing the calculation of the fee payable to ING | |
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Financial for the quarter and such other supporting data as may be reasonably requested | ||
by ING Financial. | ||
(c) Sources of Payment. | ||
i. The parties agree and acknowledge that the source(s) of fees provided | ||
for pursuant to this Agreement may, at the discretion of MFS, be | ||
comprised of any one or more of the following: (i) shareholder servicing | ||
payments paid directly or indirectly by MFSC and reimbursed by the | ||
Funds, (ii) Rule 12b-1 service fees paid by the Funds to MFD, and | ||
indirectly to the Service Provider in accordance with the Funds’ Rule 12b- | ||
1 Plan, or (iii) program servicing fees, paid by MFS or their affiliates from | ||
their own resources. The source of payment may change from time to time | ||
among these sources at MFS’ discretion, and MFS shall have no obligation | ||
to inform the Service Provider as to the source(s) of any payments. | ||
ii. | The Service Provider acknowledges that it shall not be entitled to | |
any Additional Fee to the extent that it fails to provide MFS with the | ||
information and certifications requested by MFS pursuant to Section 11(e) | ||
of this Agreement. | ||
(d) Calculation of Fees; Verification of Data and Services. The Service Provider | ||
acknowledges that MFS shall have exclusive responsibility for calculating payments due to | ||
the Service Provider under the Agreement except that Service Provider shall calculate the | ||
per participant fee. Upon Service Provider’s request, MFS shall provide to Service | ||
Provider supporting data showing the calculations for the payments, and Service Provider | ||
reserves the right to dispute any such calculations. With respect to any information a party | ||
maintains (the “Maintaining Party”) that is necessary to form the basis of any fee | ||
calculation hereunder, the Maintaining Party will, at the other party’s request, provide | ||
copies and electronic files of all the historical records necessary to enable the other party or | ||
its representatives to verify the accuracy of any information provided by the Maintaining | ||
Party that forms the basis of the fee calculation. The Maintaining Party agrees that it will | ||
permit the other party or its representatives to have reasonable access to its employees and | ||
records for the purposes of verifying the Maintaining Party’s compliance with the terms of | ||
this Agreement and verifying the accuracy of any information provided by the Maintaining | ||
Party that forms the basis of the fee calculation. In addition, if requested by the other party, | ||
the Maintaining Party will provide a certification (which may take the form of a control | ||
report or set of agreed upon standards) satisfactory to the other party that certifies the | ||
accuracy of any information provided by the Maintaining Party that forms the basis of the | ||
fee calculation. | ||
6. | The following is added as Section 11(d) to the Agreement: | |
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(d) Representations of ING Institutional. ING Institutional represents and |
warrants: |
(i) that it (1) is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State |
of Delaware, (2) is in good standing in that jurisdiction, (3) is in material compliance |
with all applicable federal and state laws, (4) is duly licensed and authorized to conduct |
business in every jurisdiction where such license or authorization is required, and will |
maintain such license or authorization in effect at all times during the term of this |
Agreement, and (5) has full authority to enter into this Agreement and carry out its |
obligations pursuant to it terms; and |
(ii) that it is authorized under the Plans to (1) provide administrative services to |
the Plans and (2) facilitate transactions in the Fund through the Account. |
7. The following is added as Section 11(e) to the Agreement: |
(e) (i)Service Provider has implemented controls and procedures that are reasonably designed to |
ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as the terms of the Agreement. Without |
limiting the foregoing, these controls are reasonably designed to ensure, and MFS may request |
certification on an annual basis with respect to, each of the following: |
A) Orders for Fund shares received by the Service Provider for each Fund comply |
with the Fund’s restrictions with respect to eligibility to purchase shares; |
B) Orders for Fund shares received by the Service Provider prior to the Fund’s |
pricing time set forth in its prospectus (i.e., the close of the New York Stock Exchange – |
normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) are segregated from those received by the Service Provider |
at or after such time, and are properly transmitted to the Funds (or their agents) for execution |
at the current day’s net asset value (“NAV”); and orders received by the Service Provider at or |
after such time are properly transmitted to the Funds (or their agents) for execution at the next |
day’s NAV; |
C) Late trading in Fund shares by holders of shares of Accounts and/or Account |
shareholders, as applicable, is identified and prevented, and market timing in Fund shares by |
holders of shares of Accounts and/or Account shareholders, as applicable, is identified and |
prevented pursuant to Service Provider’s Excessive Trading Policy, attached hereto as |
Schedule D; |
D) Compliance with all applicable federal, state and foreign laws, rules and |
regulations regarding the detection and prevention of money laundering activity; |
E) Effective business continuity and disaster recovery systems with respect to the |
Services; |
F) Any other party to whom the Service Provider assigns or delegates any of the |
Services is responsible for, and has controls and procedures that are reasonably designed to |
ensure, each of the above. |
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(ii) Service Provider will, if requested by MFD or any Fund, periodically provide MFS or the Fund with a |
completed due diligence questionnaire addressing Service Provider’s control structure and its performance |
of the Services. |
(iii) The Service Provider agrees that it will comply with all applicable federal, state and foreign laws, rules |
and regulations regarding the detection and prevention of money laundering activity. Without limiting the |
foregoing, to the extent that the Service Provider is a financial institution subject to the USA Patriot Act of |
2001 and the Bank Secrecy Act (collectively, the “AML Acts”), which require among other things, that |
financial institutions adopt compliance programs to guard against money laundering, the Service Provider |
agrees that it will comply with applicable AML Acts and applicable anti-money laundering rules of self- |
regulatory organizations in all relevant respects. The Service Provider represents and warrants that it has |
undertaken appropriate inquiry and due diligence regarding the customers that the Service Provider |
introduces or on whose behalf the Service Provider purchases Shares, and that, to the Service Provider’s |
knowledge, no such customers are individuals or entities identified on the lists of prohibited persons |
administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury (including the list of |
Specially Designated Nationals), and are not otherwise subject to sanctions applicable to certain nationals or |
residents of countries subject to the U.S. sanctions. |
8. | The following is added as Sections 11(f) of the Agreement: |
(f) Each party represents that it: | |
(i) shall maintain and preserve all records as required by law to be maintained and | |
preserved in connection with providing the shareholder services and in making | |
Shares available to the Plan accounts. Upon the request of MFS, the Service | |
Provider shall provide copies of all the historical records relating to transactions | |
between the Funds and the Plan accounts, written communications regarding the | |
Funds to or from such Plan accounts and other materials, in each case to the extent | |
necessary for an MFS or any Fund to meet its recordkeeping obligations under | |
applicable law or regulation, including to comply with any request of a | |
governmental body or self-regulatory organization. | |
(ii) shall adopt policies and practices related to the protection of non-public | |
personal information pursuant to SEC Regulation S-P, to the extent required by | |
law. These policies and practices are designed to comply with Regulation S-P in | |
all material respects, including, but not limited to, the obligation to provide | |
appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards reasonably designed | |
to (A) ensure the security and confidentiality of customer records or information; | |
(B) protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of | |
customer records and information; and (C) protect against unauthorized access to | |
or use of customer records or information that could result in substantial harm or | |
inconvenience to any customer. Each of the parties to this Agreement affirms that | |
is has procedures in place reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public | |
customer information and it will maintain such information that it may acquire | |
pursuant to this Agreement in confidence and in accord with all applicable privacy | |
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laws. Each of the parties agrees not to use, or permit the use of, any such customer | |
information for any purpose except to carry out the terms of this Agreement and/or | |
pursuant to any exceptions set forth in such privacy laws. This provision shall | |
survive the termination of this Agreement. | |
9. | The following replaces Section 12(b) of the Agreement: |
(b) Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be given or | |
made in writing and shall be delivered personally, or sent by telex, facsimile, express | |
delivery or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to the | |
party or parties to whom they are directed at the following address, or at such other | |
addresses as may be designated by notice from such party to all other parties. | |
To ING Life/ING Financial/ING Institutional: | |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx | |
Counsel | |
ING Americas Legal Services | |
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxx, X0X | |
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 | |
Fax: 000-000-0000 | |
If to MFD: | |
MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. | |
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxx, XX 00000 | |
Attention: President | |
with a copy to: | |
Massachusetts Financial Services Company | |
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxx, XX 00000 | |
Attention: General Counsel | |
If to MFSC: | |
MFS Service Center, Inc. | |
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxx, XX 00000 | |
Attention: President | |
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with a copy to: | |
Massachusetts Financial Services Company | |
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxx, XX 00000 | |
Attention: General Counsel | |
Any notice, demand or other communication given in a manner prescribed | in this |
Subsection (b) shall be deemed to have been delivered on receipt. |
10. The following paragraph is added under Section 12 “Miscellaneous” of the Agreement: | |
(g) The parties agree that transactions in the Funds by Plans or Plan Participants pursuant to the | |
terms of this Agreement are not subject to any redemption fees that may otherwise be required by the | |
Funds; provided however that upon written request by MFS, ING Life and ING Institutional will | |
implement such redemptions fees in a time frame and manner mutually acceptable to all parties. | |
11. Schedule A, attached, is hereby added to the Agreement. | |
12. Schedule B, attached, is hereby added to the Agreement. | |
13. | In the event that there is any conflict between the terms of this Fourth Amendment and the |
Agreement it is the intention of the parties hereto that the terms of this Fourth Amendment shall control, and | |
the Agreement shall be interpreted on that basis. Except as modified hereby, all other terms and conditions | |
of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. | |
14. | This Amendment may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be |
deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Amendment. | |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Amendment as of the date first | |||
written above. | |||
ING LIFE INSURANCE AND | MFS FUND DISTRIBUTORS, INC. | ||
ANNUITY COMPANY | |||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X Xxxxxx | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx | Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx |
Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx | Title: | President |
Title: Vice President | |||
ING FINANCIAL ADVISERS, LLC | MFS SERVICE CENTER, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Jago |
Name: | Xxxxx Xxxxxx | Name: | Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Jago |
Title: COO/VP | Title: | President | |
ING INSTITUTIONAL PLAN SERVICES, LLC | |||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx attorney in fact | ||
Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |||
Title: Vice President | |||
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Schedule A |
List of Available Funds |
All A Class shares of MFS Funds |
All I Class shares of MFS Funds* |
All R1, R2, R3, and R4 Class shares of MFS Funds |
* Class I Shares shall be available solely to Plans that held such Shares as of the date of this |
Amendment. |
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Schedule B | |||||||
Fee Schedule | |||||||
To the extent Service Provider provides shareholder services to Plans that hold shares in Funds and Share | |||||||
Classes for which the Funds have adopted Rule 12b-1 Plan(s), MFS will pay Service Provider an annual | |||||||
shareholder servicing fee upon the terms and conditions set forth in the applicable 12b-1 Plan(s) and in | |||||||
the then-current prospectuses of such Funds PROVIDED THAT MFS shall be obligated to pay this fee | |||||||
solely to the extent it has received payment from the relevant Funds. | |||||||
FOR CLASS A SHARES—Additional Fee | |||||||
In addition to the 12b-1 shareholder servicing fees referenced above, MFS shall pay an Additional Fee of | |||||||
___% of the average daily net asset value of all Plan assets invested in the Funds (including assets | |||||||
invested through reinvestment of dividends and distributions) | |||||||
Also, a $___ per participant fee shall be paid solely with respect to Plans for which ING Institutional | |||||||
Plan Services, LLC serves as recordkeeper and that hold Class A Shares as of April 30, 2009, or to Plans | |||||||
for which ING Institutional Plan Services LLC served as recordkeeper and that held Class A Shares as of | |||||||
April 30, 2009, and are now recordkept by another ING affiliated platform No other per participant fees | |||||||
shall be payable under this Agreement. | |||||||
FOR CLASS R SHARES—Additional Fee | |||||||
Share Class | R1 | R2* | R3 | R4 | |||
Additional | ___% | ___% | ___% | ___% | |||
Fee | |||||||
FOR CLASS I SHARES—Additional Fee | |||||||
The Additional Fee shall be ___% of the average daily net assets value of all Plan assets invested in | |||||||
Class I of the Fund (including assets invested through reinvestment of dividends and distributions) for the | |||||||
Plans listed in the Schedule below. No Plans may be added to the Schedule without the prior written | |||||||
approval of MFS*. | |||||||
NAME OF PLAN | |||||||
Cedars Sinai | |||||||
________________________ | |||||||
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Schedule C | |
The Services | |
Service Provider shall perform, either directly or in conjunction with other Plan appointed service | |
providers, the following services, all in accordance with the terms of this Agreement: | |
1. | Maintain separate records for each Plan, which records shall reflect Shares purchased |
and redeemed, including the date and price for all transactions, and Share balances. | |
2. | Disburse or credit to the Plans, and maintain records of, all proceeds of redemptions of |
shares and all other distributions not reinvested in Shares. | |
3. | Prepare, and transmit to the Plans or the Plan Representatives, periodic account |
statements showing the total number of Shares owned by each Plan as of the statement closing date, | |
purchases and redemptions of Shares by the Plan during the period covered by the statement, and the | |
dividends and other distributions paid to the Plan during the statement period (whether paid in cash or | |
reinvested in Shares). | |
4. | Transmit to the transfer agent of each Fund purchase orders and redemption requests |
placed by the Plans in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Agreement. | |
5. | Transmit to the Plans or Plan Representatives the Funds’ confirmations of purchase |
orders and redemption requests placed by the Plans. | |
6. | Maintain all account balance information for the Plans and daily and monthly purchase |
summaries expressed in Shares and dollar amounts. | |
7. | Settle purchase order and redemption requests placed by Service Provider on behalf of |
the Plans in accordance with the terms of each Fund's prospectus. | |
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