Delaware Management Company 2005 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
EX-99.d.4
Delaware Management
Company
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0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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February 26, 2010
Re: Expense Limitations
Ladies and Gentlemen:
By our execution of this letter
agreement (the "Agreement"), intending to be legally bound hereby, Delaware
Management Company, a series of Delaware Management Business Trust (the
"Manager"), agrees that in order to improve the performance of certain of the
series of Delaware Pooled Trust listed below (collectively, the “Portfolios”),
the Manager shall waive all or a portion of its investment advisory fees and/or
reimburse expenses (excluding any 12b-1 plan expenses, taxes, interest, inverse
floater program expenses, brokerage fees, short-sale dividend and interest
expenses, certain insurance costs, and non-routine expenses or costs, including,
but not limited to, those relating to reorganizations, litigation, conducting
shareholder meetings, and liquidations (collectively, the “Excluded Expenses”))
in an aggregate amount equal to the amount by which the Portfolios’ total
operating expenses (excluding any Excluded Expenses) exceed the percentages set
forth below for the period February 28, 2010 through February 28, 2011. For
purposes of this Agreement, non-routine expenses may also include such
additional costs and expenses as may be agreed upon from time to time by the
Portfolios’ Board and the Manager. Inverse floater program expenses include, but
are not limited to, interest expense, remarketing fees, liquidity fees, and
trustees’ fees from a Portfolio’s participation in inverse floater programs
where it has transferred its own bonds to a trust that issues the inverse
floaters.
Portfolio | Expense Cap |
Delaware REIT Fund | 1.30% |
DPT Large-Cap Value Equity | 0.70% |
DPT International Equity | 0.90% |
DPT Global Fixed Income | 0.60% |
DPT Select 20 | 0.89% |
DPT High-Yield Bond | 0.59% |
DPT International Fixed Income | 0.60% |
DPT Real Estate Invest Trust II | 0.95% |
DPT Core Plus Fixed Income | 0.45% |
DPT Small Cap Growth Equity | 0.95% |
DPT Focus Xxxx Cap Growth Equity | 0.92% |
DPT Core Focus Fixed Income | 0.43% |
DPT Large Cap Growth Equity | 0.65% |
The Manager acknowledges that it (1)
shall not be entitled to collect on, or make a claim for, waived fees at any
time in the future, and (2) shall not be entitled to collect on, or make a claim
for, reimbursed Fund expenses at any time in the future.
Delaware Management
Company, a series of
Delaware Management Business Trust
Delaware Management Business Trust
By: | /s/Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: | Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer |
Your signature below
acknowledges acceptance of this Agreement:
Delaware Group Equity
Funds IV
By: | /s/Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: | President & Chief Executive Officer | ||
Date: | February 26, 2010 |