EXHIBIT 4(a)
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
DREYFUS PREMIER INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
August 24, 1994
As Amended, January 12, 1998
The Dreyfus Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
The above-named investment company (the "Fund") consisting of the
series named on Schedule 1 hereto, as such Schedule may be revised from time to
time (each, a "Series"), 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 the Fund's 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. We have
discussed and concur in your employing on this basis the indicated sub-advisers
(the "Sub-Investment Advisers") named on Schedule 1 hereto to act as the Fund's
sub- investment adviser with respect to the Series indicated on Schedule 1
hereto (the "Sub-Advised Series") to provide day-to- day management of the
Sub-Advised Series' investments.
Subject to the supervision and approval of the Fund's Board, you will
provide investment management of each Series' portfolio in accordance with such
Series' 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 each Series' investments and conduct, or with respect to the
Sub-Advised Series, supervise, a continuous program of investment, evaluation
and, if appropriate, sale and reinvestment of such Series' assets. You will
furnish to the Fund such statistical information, with respect to the
investments which a Series may hold or contemplate purchasing, as the Fund may
reasonably request. The Fund wishes to be informed of important developments
materially affecting any Series' 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
each Series' stockholders, tax returns, reports to and filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and state Blue Sky authorities; calculate the
net asset value of each Series' 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 neither you nor a Sub-Investment Adviser shall be
liable hereunder for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss
suffered by one or more Series, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to
protect or purport to protect you or the Sub-Investment Adviser against any
liability to the Fund or a Series 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, or to which the
Sub-Investment Adviser would otherwise be subject by reason of willful
misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties
under its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you or by reason of its
reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under said Agreement.
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 rate set
forth opposite each Series' name on Schedule 1 hereto. 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 a Series' 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 each
Series' net assets shall be computed in the manner specified in the Fund's
charter documents for the computation of the value of each Series' net assets.
You will bear all expenses in connection with the performance of your
services under this Agreement and will pay all fees of each Sub-Investment
Adviser in connection with its duties in respect of the Fund. All other expenses
to be incurred in the operation of the Fund (other than those borne by any Sub-
Investment Adviser) 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 those of any Sub- Investment Adviser or any affiliate of
you or any Sub-Investment Adviser, 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.
As to each Series, if in any fiscal year the aggregate expenses of
such Series (including fees pursuant to this Agree ment, 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 such Series, 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 and each Sub-Investment Adviser now act,
and that from time to time hereafter you or a Sub-Investment Adviser 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 and the Sub-
Investment Adviser's 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 one or
more Series or the size of the position obtainable for or disposed of by one or
more Series.
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.
Neither you nor a Sub-Investment Adviser shall 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, in the case of you,
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 and, in the case of a
Sub-Investment Adviser, for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith
or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or from
reckless disregard by it of its obligations and duties under its Sub-Investment
Advisory Agreement with you. 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.
As to each Series, this Agreement shall continue until the date set
forth opposite such Series' name on Schedule 1 hereto (the "Reapproval Date")
and thereafter shall continue automatically for successive annual periods ending
on the day of each year set forth opposite the Series' name on Schedule 1 hereto
(the "Reapproval Day"), 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 such Series' 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. As to each Series,
this Agreement is terminable without penalty, on 60 days' notice, by the Fund's
Board or by vote of holders of a majority of such Series' shares or, upon not
less than 90 days' notice, by you. This Agreement also will terminate
automatically, as to the relevant Series, 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.
The Fund is agreeing to the provisions of this Agreement that limit a
Sub-Investment Adviser's liability and other provisions relating to a
Sub-Investment Adviser so as to induce the Sub-Investment Adviser to enter into
its Sub- Investment Advisory Agreement with you and to perform its obligations.
Each Sub-Investment Adviser is expressly made a third party beneficiary of this
Agreement with rights as respects the Sub-Advised Series to the same extent as
if it had been a party hereto.
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 PREMIER INTERNATIONAL
FUNDS, INC.
By:______________________________
Accepted:
THE DREYFUS CORPORATION
By:_______________________________
SCHEDULE 1
ANNUAL FEE AS
A PERCENTAGE
OF AVERAGE
NAME OF SERIES DAILY NET ASSETS REAPPROVAL DATE REAPPROVAL DAY
Dreyfus Premier ----% September 11, 2000 September 11th
European Equity
Fund1
Dreyfus Premier 1.00% September 11, 1999 September 11th
Global Allocation
Fund
Dreyfus Premier 1.25% September 11, 1999 September 11th
Greater China
Fund2
Dreyfus Premier 0.75% September 11, 1999 September 11th
International
Growth Fund
Revised: October 20, 1998
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1 The Dreyfus Corporation has employed Xxxxxx Capital Management Limited to
act as sub-investment adviser to this Series.
2 The Dreyfus Corporation has employed Xxxxx U.S. Investment Advisors Limited
to act as sub-investment adviser to this Series.
