COLUMBIA CONSERVATIVE HIGH YIELD FUND
INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT
This Agreement is made as of the 27th day of March, 2006 between COLUMBIA FUNDS
SERIES TRUST I (the "Trust"), on behalf of its COLUMBIA CONSERVATIVE HIGH YIELD
FUND series (the "Fund"), and COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT ADVISORS, LLC (the "Adviser").
The Trust is registered as an open-end investment company pursuant to the
Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act"). The Adviser is registered as an
investment adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. This
Agreement relates to services to be performed by the Adviser with respect to the
Fund.
The parties agree as follows:
1. DUTIES OF ADVISER. The Adviser shall regularly provide the Fund with
research, advice, and supervision with respect to investment matters and shall
furnish continuously an investment program, recommend what securities shall be
purchased or sold and what portion of the Fund's assets shall be held invested
or uninvested, subject always to the provisions of the Act and the Fund's
Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, and amendments thereto, which amendments
shall be furnished to the Adviser by the Fund. The Adviser shall take any steps
necessary or appropriate to carry out its decisions in regard to the foregoing
matters and the general conduct of the business of the Fund. The Adviser may
take into consideration receipt of research and statistical information and
other services rendered to the Fund in the allocation of commissions from
portfolio brokerage business.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES.
(a) The Adviser shall pay or reimburse the Fund for payments made by the Fund
for all executive salaries and executive expenses, office rent of the Fund,
ordinary office expenses (other than the expense of clerical services relating
to the administration of the Fund), and for any other expenses that, if
otherwise borne by the Fund, would cause the Fund to "be deemed to be acting as
a distributor of securities of which it is the issuer, other than through an
underwriter," pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act. The Adviser shall provide
investment advisory, statistical, and research facilities and all clerical
services relating to research, statistical, and investment work with respect to
the Fund.
(b) The Adviser shall not be required to pay any expenses of the Fund other than
those enumerated in this Agreement. The Fund will assume all other costs,
including the cost of its custodian, legal, auditing, and accounting expenses,
disinterested directors' fees, taxes, and governmental fees, interest, brokers'
commissions, transaction expenses, cost of stock certificates, and any other
expenses (including clerical expenses) of issue, sale, repurchase, or redemption
of shares, expenses of registering or qualifying shares for sale, transfer
taxes, and all expenses of preparing the Fund's registration statement and
prospectus, and the cost of printing and delivering to shareholders prospectuses
and reports.
(c) At the request of the Fund, the Adviser shall pay all or a portion of the
direct and indirect costs, charges and expenses of or related to the Fund's
business and operations. The Adviser will submit to the Fund on a monthly basis
a statement setting forth the cost, charges and expenses paid by the Adviser for
the previous month. Upon receipt of the statement, the Fund shall promptly
reimburse the Adviser for the costs, charges and expenses.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER. For the services to be rendered, the facilities
to be furnished, and the payments to be made by the Adviser, as provided in
Sections 1 and 2 hereof, for each calendar month the Fund shall pay to the
Adviser a fee as shown in the table below (shown in $MM):
$ 0.0 to $ 500.0 0.600%
$ 500.0 to $1,000.0 0.550%
$ 1,000.0 to $1,500.0 0.520%
>$1,500.0 0.490%
4. COVENANTS OF THE ADVISER. In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio
securities for the account of the Fund, neither the Adviser nor any officer,
director, or employee of the Adviser shall act as a principal. The Adviser
covenants that it and its employees will comply with investment restrictions of
the Fund's Bylaws applicable to them. If the Adviser or any of its affiliates
give any advice to clients concerning the shares of the Fund, it will act solely
as investment counsel for the clients and not on behalf of the Fund.
5. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY OF ADVISER. The Adviser shall not 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 a loss
resulting from willful malfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence on the part
of the Adviser in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by
the Adviser of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. The federal
securities laws impose liabilities under certain circumstances on persons who
act in good faith, and therefore nothing herein shall in any way constitute a
waiver or limitation of any rights which the Fund may have under any federal
securities laws.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
(a) This Agreement shall remain in force for two years from the date hereof, and
it may be continued from year to year thereafter if approved annually by a vote
of a majority of the Fund's shareholders or by its Board of Directors and in
either case a vote of a majority of the Board of Directors 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.
(b) This Agreement may be terminated at any time without the payment of any
penalty by vote of the Board of Directors of the Fund, by vote of a majority of
the outstanding shares of the Fund, or by the Adviser, on 60 days written notice
to the other party.
(c) This Agreement shall automatically terminate if it is assigned. The Adviser
shall notify the Fund of any change in the officers or directors of the Adviser
within a reasonable time after the change. The terms "assignment," "vote of a
majority of the outstanding voting securities", and "interested persons" shall
have the meanings specified in the Act.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed as
of the day and year first written above.
COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I, on behalf of its
COLUMBIA CONSERVATIVE HIGH YIELD FUND series
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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By: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President
COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT ADVISORS, LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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By: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
A copy of the document establishing the Trust is filed with the Secretary of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This Agreement is executed by officers not as
individuals and is not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers or
shareholders of the Trust individually but only upon the assets of the Fund.
