EXHIBIT 13(a)
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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(Registrant) (the "Fund"), a Massachusetts business trust, and
_________ (the "Distributor"), hereby agree as follows:
1. The Fund hereby offers the Distributor and the Distributor hereby
purchases ___ shares (of each of the Investor A, Investor B, Investor C, Service
and Institutional classes) of the ______ Portfolio (collectively, the "Shares")
for $___ per Share. The Fund hereby acknowledges receipt from the Distributor
of funds in full payment for the foregoing Shares.
2. The Distributor represents and warrants to the Fund that the
foregoing Shares are being acquired for investment purposes and not with a view
to the distribution thereof.
3. "(Registrant)" and "Trustees of (Registrant)" refer respectively
to the trust created and the Trustees, as trustees but not individually or
personally, acting from time to time under a Declaration of Trust dated December
22, 1988 which is hereby referred to and a copy of which is on file at the
office of the State Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and at the
principal office of the Fund. The obligations of "(Registrant)" entered into in
the name or on behalf thereof by any of the Trustees, officers, representatives
or agents are made not individually, but in such capacities, and are not binding
upon any of the Trustees, shareholders, officers, representatives or agents of
the Fund personally, but bind only the Trust Property (as defined in the
Declaration of Trust), and all persons dealing with any class of shares of the
Fund must look solely to the Trust Property belonging to such class for the
enforcement of any claims against the Fund.
IN AGREEMENT WHEREOF, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the
parties hereto have executed this Purchase Agreement as of ______________.
(REGISTRANT)
By:__________________________
Name:
Title:
(DISTRIBUTOR)
By:__________________________
Name:
Title:
