FIRST AMENDMENT TO RULE 22C-2 AGREEMENT
Exhibit 24(b)(8.51) | |
FIRST AMENDMENT | |
TO RULE 22C-2 AGREEMENT | |
This First Amendment dated as of March 21, 2011 by and between Columbia Management | |
Investment Services Corp. (formerly RiverSource Service Corporation), as transfer agent for the | |
CMID Distributed Funds (formerly known as the Columbia funds) and the Xxxxxx Funds family of | |
funds (the "Fund"), and ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company, ING National Trust, ING USA | |
Annuity and Life Insurance Company, ReliaStar Life Insurance Company, ReliaStar Life Insurance | |
Company of New York, Security Life of Denver Insurance Company and Systematized Benefits | |
Administrators Inc. (individually an "Intermediary" and collectively the "Intermediaries") is made | |
to the Rule 22c-2 Agreement dated as of April 16, 2007 and effective October 16, 2007 (the | |
"Agreement") and as amended in the assignment letter dated March 10, 2010. Terms defined in the | |
Agreement are used herein as therein defined. | |
RECITALS | |
WHEREAS, ING and Columbia Management Services, Inc. have entered into a an | |
Agreement dated as of April 16, 2007; | |
WHEREAS, Ameriprise Financial, Inc., the parent company of Columbia Management | |
Investment Advisers, LLC (formerly known as RiverSource Investments, LLC), has acquired the | |
long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Advisors, LLC and its related | |
affiliates from Bank of America, N.A.; | |
WHEREAS, in connection with such transaction, in a letter dated March 10, 2010, the | |
Agreement was assigned by Columbia Management Distributors, Inc. to RiverSource Fund | |
Distributors, Inc. and by Columbia Management Services, Inc. to RiverSource Service | |
Corporation; | |
WHEREAS, the RiverSource and Xxxxxxxx branded mutual funds, together with the | |
Columbia branded mutual funds, are now part of the Columbia family of funds (the "CMID | |
Distributed Funds"), which as of the date of this Amendment are covered under the Agreement; | |
WHEREAS, RiverSource Service Corporation has been subsequently renamed Columbia | |
Management Investment Services Corp. and serves as exclusive transfer agent for the CMID | |
Distributed Funds; | |
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and mutual covenants hereinafter | |
contained, the parties agree as follows: | |
1. | Columbia Management Investment Services Corp. hereby replaces RiverSource |
Service Corporation as the transfer agent to the Fund under the Agreement. | |
2. | Except as modified hereby, all other terms and conditions of the Agreement shall |
remain in full force and effect. | |
3. | 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. |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Amendment as of the date first | |||
written above. | |||
ING National Trust | ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company | ||
By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
Name | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name and | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
and Title: | Authorized Representative | Title: | Authorized Representative |
ING USA Annuity and Life Insurance | ReliaStar Life Insurance Company | ||
Company | |||
By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
Name | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
and Title: | Authorized Representative | and Title: | Authorized Representative |
ReliaStar Life Insurance Company of New | Security Life of Denver Insurance Company | ||
York | |||
By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
Name | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name and | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
and Title: | Authorized Representative | Title: | Authorized Representative |
Systematized Benefits Administrators Inc. | Columbia Management Investment Services | ||
Corp. | |||
By: | /s/Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | By: | /s/Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
Name | Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name | Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
and Title: | Authorized Representative | and Title: | Vice President |
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