Xxxxxxx Tax Free Money Fund
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
September 7, 1998
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Investments, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Investment Management Agreement
Xxxxxxx Tax Free Money Fund
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Xxxxxxx Tax Free Money Fund (the "Trust") has been established as a
Massachusetts business trust to engage in the business of an investment company.
Pursuant to the Trust's Declaration of Trust, as amended from time-to-time (the
"Declaration"), the Board of Trustees may divide the Trust's shares of
beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, (the "Shares") into separate
series, or funds. Series may be abolished and dissolved, and additional series
established, from time to time by action of the Trustees.
The Trust has selected you to act as the sole investment manager of the
Trust and to provide certain other services, as more fully set forth below, and
you have indicated that you are willing to act as such investment manager and to
perform such services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Trust agrees with you as follows:
1. Delivery of Documents. The Trust engages in the business of
investing and reinvesting the assets of the Trust in the manner and in
accordance with the investment objectives, policies and restrictions specified
in the currently effective Prospectus (the "Prospectus") and Statement of
Additional Information (the "SAI") included in the Trust's Registration
Statement on Form N-1A, as amended from time to time, (the "Registration
Statement") filed by the Trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, (the "1940 Act") and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Copies of
the documents referred to in the preceding sentence have been furnished to you
by the Trust. The Trust has also furnished you with copies properly certified or
authenticated of each of the following additional documents related to the
Trust:
(a) The Declaration dated December 8, 1987, as amended to date.
(b) By-Laws of the Trust as in effect on the date hereof (the "By-Laws").
(c) Resolutions of the Trustees of the Trust and the shareholders of the Trust
selecting you as investment manager and approving the form of this
Agreement.
The Trust will furnish you from time to time with copies, properly
certified or authenticated, of all amendments of or supplements, if any, to the
foregoing, including the Prospectus, the SAI and the Registration Statement.
2. Sublicense to Use the Xxxxxxx Trademarks. As exclusive licensee of
the rights to use and sublicense the use of the "Xxxxxxx," "Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Investments, Inc." and "Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc." trademarks (together,
the "Xxxxxxx Marks"), you hereby grant the Trust a nonexclusive right and
sublicense to use (i) the "Xxxxxxx" name and xxxx as part of the Trust's name
(the "Trust Name"), and (ii) the Xxxxxxx Marks in connection with the Trust's
investment products and services, in each case only for so long as this
Agreement, any other investment management agreement between you and the Trust,
or any extension, renewal or amendment hereof or thereof remains in effect, and
only for so long as you are a licensee of the Xxxxxxx Marks, provided however,
that you agree to use your best efforts to maintain your license to use and
sublicense the Xxxxxxx Marks. The Trust agrees that it shall have no right to
sublicense or assign rights to use the Xxxxxxx Marks, shall acquire no interest
in the Xxxxxxx Marks other than the rights granted herein, that all of the
Trust's uses of the Xxxxxxx Marks shall inure to the benefit of Xxxxxxx Trust
Company as owner and licensor of the Xxxxxxx Marks (the "Trademark Owner"), and
that the Trust shall not challenge the validity of the Xxxxxxx Marks or the
Trademark Owner's ownership thereof. The Trust further agrees that all services
and products it offers in connection with the Xxxxxxx Marks shall meet
commercially reasonable standards of quality, as may be determined by you or the
Trademark Owner from time to time, provided that you acknowledge that the
services and products the Trust rendered during the one-year period preceding
the date of this Agreement are acceptable. At your reasonable request, the Trust
shall cooperate with you and the Trademark Owner and shall execute and deliver
any and all documents necessary to maintain and protect (including but not
limited to in connection with any trademark infringement action) the Xxxxxxx
Marks and/or enter the Trust as a registered user thereof. At such time as this
Agreement or any other investment management agreement shall no longer be in
effect between you (or your successor) and the Trust, or you no longer are a
licensee of the Xxxxxxx Marks, the Trust shall (to the extent that, and as soon
as, it lawfully can) cease to use the Trust Name or any other name indicating
that it is advised by, managed by or otherwise connected with you (or any
organization which shall have succeeded to your business as investment manager)
or the Trademark Owner. In no event shall the Trust use the Xxxxxxx Marks or any
other name or xxxx confusingly similar thereto (including, but not limited to,
any name or xxxx that includes the name "Xxxxxxx") if this Agreement or any
other investment advisory agreement between you (or your successor) and the
Trust is terminated.
3. Portfolio Management Services. As manager of the assets of the
Trust, you shall provide continuing investment management of the assets of the
Trust in accordance with the investment objectives, policies and restrictions
set forth in the Prospectus and SAI; the applicable provisions of the 1940 Act
and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (the "Code") relating to
regulated investment companies and all rules and regulations thereunder; and all
other applicable federal and state laws and regulations of which you have
knowledge; subject always to policies and instructions adopted by the Trust's
Board of Trustees. In connection therewith, you shall use reasonable efforts to
manage the Trust so that it will qualify as a regulated investment company under
Subchapter M of the Code and regulations issued thereunder. The Trust shall have
the benefit of the investment analysis and research, the review of current
economic conditions and trends and the consideration of long-range investment
policy generally available to your investment advisory clients. In managing the
Trust in accordance with the requirements set forth in this section 3, you shall
be entitled to receive and act upon advice of counsel to the Trust or counsel to
you. You shall also make available to the Trust promptly upon request all of the
Trust's investment records and ledgers as are necessary to assist the Trust in
complying with the requirements of the 1940 Act and other applicable laws. To
the extent required by law, you shall furnish to regulatory authorities having
the requisite authority any information or reports in connection with the
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services provided pursuant to this Agreement which may be requested in order to
ascertain whether the operations of the Trust are being conducted in a manner
consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
You shall determine the securities, instruments, investments,
currencies, repurchase agreements, futures, options and other contracts relating
to investments to be purchased, sold or entered into by the Trust and place
orders with broker-dealers, foreign currency dealers, futures commission
merchants or others pursuant to your determinations and all in accordance with
Trust policies as expressed in the Registration Statement. You shall determine
what portion of the Trust's portfolio shall be invested in securities and other
assets and what portion, if any, should be held uninvested.
You shall furnish to the Trust's Board of Trustees periodic reports on
the investment performance of the Trust and on the performance of your
obligations pursuant to this Agreement, and you shall supply such additional
reports and information as the Trust's officers or Board of Trustees shall
reasonably request.
4. Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management
services specified above in section 3, you shall furnish at your expense for the
use of the Trust such office space and facilities in the United States as the
Trust may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your
affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services
necessary for operating as an open-end investment company and not provided by
persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing
reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports
and notices to Trust shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual
arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of,
accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents,
accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers
and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Trust
operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations,
including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials,
post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on
Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the
tabulation of proxies by the Trust's transfer agent; assisting in the
preparation and filing of the Trust's federal, state and local tax returns;
preparing and filing the Trust's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section
4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations
matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of
net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Trust under
applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be
maintained for the Trust all books, records and reports and any other
information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records
and reports and other information are not maintained by the Trust's custodian or
other agents of the Trust; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of
the Trust; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with
respect to the Trust's operations and consulting with the Trust's independent
accountants, legal counsel and the Trust's other agents as necessary in
connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Trust's operating expense
budgets; reviewing the Trust's bills; processing the payment of bills that have
been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Trust in determining the
amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Trust to its
shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to
shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the
custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for
such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise
assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Trust's
business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees.
Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the
obligations of any agent of the Trust or any other person not a party to this
Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Trust.
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5. Allocation of Charges and Expenses. Except as otherwise specifically
provided in this section 5, you shall pay the compensation and expenses of all
Trustees, officers and executive employees of the Trust (including the Trust's
share of payroll taxes) who are affiliated persons of you, and you shall make
available, without expense to the Trust, the services of such of your directors,
officers and employees as may duly be elected officers of the Trust, subject to
their individual consent to serve and to any limitations imposed by law. You
shall provide at your expense the portfolio management services described in
section 3 hereof and the administrative services described in section 4 hereof.
You shall not be required to pay any expenses of the Trust other than
those specifically allocated to you in this section 5. In particular, but
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you shall not be responsible,
except to the extent of the reasonable compensation of such of the Trust's
Trustees and officers as are directors, officers or employees of you whose
services may be involved, for the following expenses of the Trust: organization
expenses of the Trust (including out-of-pocket expenses, but not including your
overhead or employee costs); fees payable to you and to any other Trust advisors
or consultants; legal expenses; auditing and accounting expenses; maintenance of
books and records which are required to be maintained by the Trust's custodian
or other agents of the Trust; telephone, telex, facsimile, postage and other
communications expenses; taxes and governmental fees; fees, dues and expenses
incurred by the Trust in connection with membership in investment company trade
organizations; fees and expenses of the Trust's accounting agent, custodians,
subcustodians, transfer agents, dividend disbursing agents and registrars;
payment for portfolio pricing or valuation services to pricing agents,
accountants, bankers and other specialists, if any; expenses of preparing share
certificates and, except as provided below in this section 5, other expenses in
connection with the issuance, offering, distribution, sale, redemption or
repurchase of securities issued by the Trust; expenses relating to investor and
public relations; expenses and fees of registering or qualifying Shares of the
Trust for sale; interest charges, bond premiums and other insurance expense;
freight, insurance and other charges in connection with the shipment of the
Trust's portfolio securities; the compensation and all expenses (specifically
including travel expenses relating to Trust business) of Trustees, officers and
employees of the Trust who are not affiliated persons of you; brokerage
commissions or other costs of acquiring or disposing of any portfolio securities
of the Trust; expenses of printing and distributing reports, notices and
dividends to shareholders; expenses of printing and mailing Prospectuses and
SAIs of the Trust and supplements thereto; costs of stationery; any litigation
expenses; indemnification of Trustees and officers of the Trust; costs of
shareholders' and other meetings; and travel expenses (or an appropriate portion
thereof) of Trustees and officers of the Trust who are directors, officers or
employees of you to the extent that such expenses relate to attendance at
meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Trust or any committees thereof or
advisors thereto held outside of Boston, Massachusetts or New York, New York.
You shall not be required to pay expenses of any activity which is
primarily intended to result in sales of Shares of the Trust if and to the
extent that (i) such expenses are required to be borne by a principal
underwriter which acts as the distributor of the Trust's Shares pursuant to an
underwriting agreement which provides that the underwriter shall assume some or
all of such expenses, or (ii) the Trust shall have adopted a plan in conformity
with Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act providing that the Trust (or some other
party) shall assume some or all of such expenses. You shall be required to pay
such of the foregoing sales expenses as are not required to be paid by the
principal underwriter pursuant to the underwriting agreement or are not
permitted to be paid by the Trust (or some other party) pursuant to such a plan.
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6. Management Fee. For all services to be rendered, payments to be made
and costs to be assumed by you as provided in sections 3, 4 and 5 hereof, the
Trust shall pay you in United States Dollars on the last day of each month the
unpaid balance of a fee equal to the excess of 1/12 of 0.50 of 1 percent of the
average daily net assets as defined below of the Fund for such month; provided
that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds
$500 million, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average
of such values in excess of $500 million shall be 1/12 of 0.48 of 1 percent of
such portion over any compensation waived by you from time to time (as more
fully described below). You shall be entitled to receive during any month such
interim payments of your fee hereunder as you shall request, provided that no
such payment shall exceed 75 percent of the amount of your fee then accrued on
the books of the Trust and unpaid.
The "average daily net assets" of the Trust shall mean the average of
the values placed on the Trust's net assets as of 4:00 p.m. (New York time) on
each day on which the net asset value of the Trust is determined consistent with
the provisions of Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act or, if the Trust lawfully
determines the value of its net assets as of some other time on each business
day, as of such time. The value of the net assets of the Trust shall always be
determined pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Declaration and the
Registration Statement. If the determination of net asset value does not take
place for any particular day, then for the purposes of this section 6, the value
of the net assets of the Trust as last determined shall be deemed to be the
value of its net assets as of 4:00 p.m. (New York time), or as of such other
time as the value of the net assets of the Trust's portfolio may be lawfully
determined on that day. If the Trust determines the value of the net assets of
its portfolio more than once on any day, then the last such determination
thereof on that day shall be deemed to be the sole determination thereof on that
day for the purposes of this section 6.
You may waive all or a portion of your fees provided for hereunder and
such waiver shall be treated as a reduction in purchase price of your services.
You shall be contractually bound hereunder by the terms of any publicly
announced waiver of your fee, or any limitation of the Trust's expenses, as if
such waiver or limitation were fully set forth herein.
7. Avoidance of Inconsistent Position; Services Not Exclusive. In
connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities and other investments
for the account of the Trust, neither you nor any of your directors, officers or
employees shall act as a principal or agent or receive any commission. You or
your agent shall arrange for the placing of all orders for the purchase and sale
of portfolio securities and other investments for the Trust's account with
brokers or dealers selected by you in accordance with Trust policies as
expressed in the Registration Statement. If any occasion should arise in which
you give any advice to clients of yours concerning the Shares of the Trust, you
shall act solely as investment counsel for such clients and not in any way on
behalf of the Trust.
Your services to the Trust pursuant to this Agreement are not to be
deemed to be exclusive and it is understood that you may render investment
advice, management and services to others. In acting under this Agreement, you
shall be an independent contractor and not an agent of the Trust. Whenever the
Trust and one or more other accounts or investment companies advised by the
Manager have available funds for investment, investments suitable and
appropriate for each shall be allocated in accordance with procedures believed
by the Manager to be equitable to each entity. Similarly, opportunities to sell
securities shall be allocated in a manner believed by the Manager to be
equitable. The Trust recognizes that in some cases this procedure may adversely
affect the size of the position that may be acquired or disposed of for the
Trust.
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8. Limitation of Liability of Manager. As an inducement to your
undertaking to render services pursuant to this Agreement, the Trust agrees that
you shall not be liable under this Agreement for any error of judgment or
mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Trust in connection with the
matters to which this Agreement relates, provided that nothing in this Agreement
shall be deemed to protect or purport to protect you against any liability to
the Trust or its shareholders to which you would otherwise be subject by reason
of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of your
duties, or by reason of your reckless disregard of your obligations and duties
hereunder. Any person, even though also employed by you, who may be or become an
employee of and paid by the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his or her employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely
for the Trust and not as your employee or agent.
9. Duration and Termination of This Agreement. This Agreement shall
remain in force until September 30, 1999, and continue in force from year to
year thereafter, but only so long as such continuance is specifically approved
at least annually (a) by the vote of a majority of the Trustees who are not
parties to this Agreement or interested persons of any party to this Agreement,
cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval,
and (b) by the Trustees of the Trust, or by the vote of a majority of the
outstanding voting securities of the Trust. The aforesaid requirement that
continuance of this Agreement be "specifically approved at least annually" shall
be construed in a manner consistent with the 1940 Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder and any applicable SEC exemptive order therefrom.
This Agreement may be terminated with respect to the Trust at any time,
without the payment of any penalty, by the vote of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Trust or by the Trust's Board of Trustees on 60 days'
written notice to you, or by you on 60 days' written notice to the Trust. This
Agreement shall terminate automatically in the event of its assignment.
10. Amendment of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement may be
changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in
writing signed by the party against whom enforcement of the change, waiver,
discharge or termination is sought, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be
effective until approved in a manner consistent with the 1940 Act and rules and
regulations thereunder and any applicable SEC exemptive order therefrom.
11. Limitation of Liability for Claims. The Declaration, a copy of
which, together with all amendments thereto, is on file in the Office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provides that the name "Xxxxxxx
Tax Free Money Fund" refers to the Trustees under the Declaration collectively
as Trustees and not as individuals or personally, and that no shareholder of the
Trust, or Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, shall be subject to
claims against or obligations of the Trust to any extent whatsoever, but that
the Trust estate only shall be liable.
You are hereby expressly put on notice of the limitation of liability
as set forth in the Declaration and you agree that the obligations assumed by
the Trust pursuant to this Agreement shall be limited in all cases to the Trust
and its assets, and you shall not seek satisfaction of any such obligation from
the shareholders or any shareholder of the Trust or any other series of the
Trust, or from any Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust. You
understand that the rights and obligations of each series, under the Declaration
are separate and distinct from those of any and all other series.
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12. Miscellaneous. The captions in this Agreement are included for
convenience of reference only and in no way define or limit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect. This
Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
In interpreting the provisions of this Agreement, the definitions
contained in Section 2(a) of the 1940 Act (particularly the definitions of
"affiliated person," "assignment" and "majority of the outstanding voting
securities"), as from time to time amended, shall be applied, subject, however,
to such exemptions as may be granted by the SEC by any rule, regulation or
order.
This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provided that nothing herein shall be construed
in a manner inconsistent with the 1940 Act, or in a manner which would cause the
Trust to fail to comply with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Code.
This Agreement shall supersede all prior investment advisory or
management agreements entered into between you and the Trust.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please execute the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
effective as of the date of this Agreement.
Yours very truly,
XXXXXXX TAX FREE MONEY FUND
By: ______________________________
Vice President
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted as of the date hereof.
XXXXXXX XXXXXX INVESTMENTS, INC.
By: ______________________________
Managing Director
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