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EXHIBIT (D)(XIV)
BALANCED PORTFOLIO
OF
ENTERPRISE ACCUMULATION TRUST
PORTFOLIO MANAGER'S AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made the ____ day of ____________, 1999, is among
Enterprise Accumulation Trust (the "Fund"), a Massachusetts business trust,
Enterprise Capital Management, Inc., a Georgia corporation (hereinafter referred
to as the "Adviser"), and Montag & Xxxxxxxx, Inc., a Georgia corporation,
(hereinafter referred to as the "Portfolio Manager").
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(A) The Adviser has entered into an Investment Adviser's Agreement with
the Fund ("Investment Adviser's Agreement"). Pursuant to the Investment
Adviser's Agreement, the Adviser has agreed to render investment advisory and
certain other management services to all of the Portfolios of the Fund (the
"Portfolios"), and the Fund has agreed to employ the Adviser to render such
services and to pay to the Adviser certain fees therefore. The Investment
Adviser's Agreement recognizes that the Adviser may enter into agreements with
other investment advisers who will serve as Portfolio Managers to the Portfolios
of the Fund.
(B) The parties hereto wish to enter into an agreement whereby the
Portfolio Manager will provide to the Balanced Portfolio of the Fund (the
"Balanced Portfolio") securities investment advisory services for that Fund.
WITNESSETH THAT:
In consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the Fund,
Adviser and the Portfolio Manager agree as follows:
(1) The Fund and Adviser hereby employ the Portfolio Manager
to render certain investment advisory services to the Balanced Portfolio, as set
forth herein. The Portfolio Manager hereby accepts such employment and agrees to
perform such services on the terms herein set forth, and for the compensation
herein provided.
(2) The Portfolio Manager shall furnish the Balanced Portfolio
advice with respect to the investment and reinvestment of the assets of the
Balanced Portfolio, or such portion of the assets of the Balanced Portfolio as
the Adviser shall specify from time to time, in accordance with the investment
objectives, restrictions and limitations applicable to the Balanced Portfolio
which are set forth in the Fund's most recent Registration Statement.
(3) The Portfolio Manager shall perform a monthly
reconciliation of the Balanced Portfolio to the holdings report provided by the
Fund's custodian and bring any material or significant variances regarding
holdings or valuations to the attention of the Adviser.
(4) The Portfolio Manager shall for all purposes herein be
deemed to be an independent contractor. The Portfolio Manager has no authority
to act for or represent the Fund or the Portfolios in any way except to direct
securities transactions pursuant to its investment advice hereunder. The
Portfolio Manager is not an agent of the Fund or the Portfolios.
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(5) It is understood that the Portfolio Manager does not, by
this Agreement, undertake to assume or pay any costs or expenses of the Fund or
the Portfolio.
(6)(a) The Adviser agrees to pay the Portfolio Manager for its
services to be furnished under this Agreement, with respect to each calendar
month after the effective date of this Agreement, on the twentieth (20th) day
after the close of each calendar month, a sum equal to 0.025 of 1% of the
average of the daily closing net asset value of the Balanced Portfolio managed
by the Portfolio Manager during such month (that is, 0.30 of 1% per year) for
the first $100,000,000 of assets under management; and a sum equal to 0.0208 of
1% of the average of the daily closing net asset value of the Balanced Portfolio
during such month (that is, 0.25 of 1% per year) for the next $100,000,000 of
assets under management (up to $200,000,000); and a sum equal to .0167 of 1% of
the average daily closing net asset value of the Balanced Fund during such month
(that is .2 of 1% per year) for assets under management over $200,000,000.
(6)(b) The payment of all fees provided for hereunder shall be
prorated and reduced for sums payable for a period less than a full month in the
event of termination of this Agreement on a day that is not the end of a
calendar month.
(6)(c) For the purposes of this Paragraph 6, the daily closing
net asset values of the Portfolio shall be computed in the manner specified in
the Registration Statement for the computation of the value of such net assets
in connection with the determination of the net asset value of the Balanced
Portfolio shares.
(7) The services of the Portfolio Manager hereunder are not
to be deemed to be exclusive, and the Portfolio Manager is free to render
services to others and to engage in other activities so long as its services
hereunder are not impaired thereby. Without in any way relieving the Portfolio
Manager of its responsibilities hereunder, it is agreed that the Portfolio
Manager may employ others to furnish factual information, economic advice and/or
research, and investment recommendations, upon which its investment advice and
service is furnished hereunder.
(8) In the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence in the performance of its duties hereunder, or reckless disregard of
its obligations and duties hereunder, the Portfolio Manager shall not be liable
to the Fund, the Balanced Portfolio or the Adviser or to any shareholder or
shareholders of the Fund, the Balanced Portfolio or the Adviser for any mistake
of judgment, act or omission in the course of, or connected with, the services
to be rendered by the Portfolio Manager hereunder.
(9) The Portfolio Manager will take necessary steps to
prevent the investment professionals of the Portfolio Manager who are
responsible for investing assets of the Balanced Portfolio from taking, at any
time, a short position in any shares of any holdings of the Balanced Portfolio
for any accounts in which such individuals have a beneficial interest, excluding
short positions, including without limitation, short against-the-box positions,
effected for tax reasons. The Portfolio Manager also will cooperate with the
Fund in adopting a written policy prohibiting xxxxxxx xxxxxxx with respect to
Balanced Portfolio transactions insofar as such transactions may relate to the
Portfolio Manager.
(10) In connection with the management of the investment and
reinvestment of the assets of the Balanced Portfolio, the Portfolio Manager is
authorized to select the brokers or dealers that will execute purchase and sale
transactions for the Balanced Portfolio, and is directed to use its best efforts
to obtain the best available price and most favorable execution with respect to
such purchases and sales of portfolio securities for the Balanced Portfolio.
Subject to this primary requirement, and maintaining as its first consideration
the benefits for the Balanced Portfolio and its shareholders, the
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Portfolio Manager shall have the right, subject to the approval of the Board of
Trustees of the Portfolio and of the Adviser, to follow a policy of selecting
brokers and dealers who furnish statistical research and other services to the
Balanced Portfolio, the Adviser, or the Portfolio Manager and, subject to the
Conduct Rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., to select
brokers and dealers who sell shares of the Portfolios.
(11) The Fund may terminate this Agreement by thirty (30) days
written notice to the Adviser and the Portfolio Manager at any time, without the
payment of any penalty, by vote of the Fund's Board of Trustees, or by vote of a
majority of its outstanding voting securities. The Adviser may terminate this
Agreement by thirty (30) days written notice to the Portfolio Manager and the
Portfolio Manager may terminate this Agreement by thirty (30) days written
notice to the Adviser, without the payment of any penalty. This Agreement shall
immediately terminate in the event of its assignment, unless an order is issued
by the Securities and Exchange Commission conditionally or unconditionally
exempting such assignment from the provision of Section 15 (a) of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, in which event this Agreement shall remain in full force
and effect.
(12) Subject to prior termination as provided above, this
Agreement shall continue in force from the date of execution until December 31,
1999 and from year to year thereafter if its continuance after said date: (1) is
specifically approved on or before said date and at least annually thereafter by
vote of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, including a majority of those
Trustees who are not parties to this Agreement of interested persons of any such
party, or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the
Fund, and (2) is specifically approved at least annually by the vote of a
majority of Trustees of the Fund who are not parties to this Agreement or
interested persons of any such party cast in person at a meeting called for the
purpose of voting on such approval.
(13) The Adviser shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Portfolio Manager, its officers and Trustees and each person, if any, who
controls the Portfolio Manager within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act of 1933 (any and all such persons shall be referred to as
"Indemnified Party"), against any loss, liability, damage or expense (including
the reasonable cost of investigating or defending any alleged loss, liability,
damages or expense and reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection
therewith), arising by reason of any matter to which this Portfolio Manager's
Agreement relates. However, in no case (i) is this indemnity to be deemed to
protect any particular Indemnified Party against any liability to which such
Indemnified Party would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance,
bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of
reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Portfolio Manager's
Agreement or (ii) is the Adviser to be liable under this indemnity with respect
to any claim made against any particular Indemnified Party unless such
Indemnified Party shall have notified the Adviser in writing within a reasonable
time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the
nature of the claim shall have been served upon the Portfolio Manager or such
controlling persons.
The Portfolio Manager shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Adviser and each of its Trustees and officers and each person if any who
controls the Adviser within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of
1933, against any loss, liability, damage or expense described in the foregoing
indemnity, but only with respect to the Portfolio Manager's willful misfeasance,
bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties under this
Portfolio Manager's Agreement. In case any action shall be brought against the
Adviser or any person so indemnified, in respect of which indemnity may be
sought against the Portfolio Manager, the Portfolio Manager shall have the
rights and duties given to the Adviser, and the Adviser and each person so
indemnified shall have the rights and duties given to the Portfolio Manager by
the provisions of subsection (i) and (ii) of this Paragraph 13.
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(14) Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 13 hereof and
as may be required under applicable federal law, this Portfolio Manager's
Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Georgia.
(15) The Portfolio Manager agrees to notify the parties within
a reasonable period of time regarding a material change in the membership of the
Portfolio Manager.
(16) The terms "vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities," "assignment" and "interested persons," when used herein, shall have
the respective meanings specified in the Investment Company Act of 1940 as now
in effect or as hereafter amended.
(17) Unless otherwise permitted, all notices, instructions and
advice with respect to security transactions or any other matters contemplated
by this Agreement shall be deemed duly given when received in writing:
by the Portfolio Manager: Montag & Xxxxxxxx, Inc.
1100 Atlanta Financial Center
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
by the Adviser: Enterprise Capital Management, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X., Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
by the Portfolio: The Enterprise Group of Funds, Inc.
c/o Enterprise Capital Management, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X., Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
or by such other person or persons at such address or addresses as shall be
specified by the applicable party, in each case, in a notice similarly given.
Each party may rely upon any notice or other communication from the other
reasonably believed by it to be genuine.
(18) This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which,
when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement.
(19) This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between
the Portfolio Manager, the Adviser and the Fund relating to the Balanced
Portfolio.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be signed
by their duly authorized officers and their corporate seals hereunder duly
affixed and attested, as of the date first above written.
ENTERPRISE ACCUMULATION TRUST
(SEAL)
ATTEST: By:
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Secretary Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
ENTERPRISE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.
(SEAL)
ATTEST: By:
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Secretary Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
MONTAG & XXXXXXXX, INC.
(SEAL)
ATTEST: By:
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Secretary
Name:
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Title:
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