EXHIBIT 5(a)
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT
Security Capital U.S. Real Estate Shares Incorporated
Amended and Restated December 16, 1997
Security Capital (US) Management Group Incorporated
00 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
We, the undersigned Security Capital U.S. Real Estate Shares Incorporated,
herewith confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. We are an open-end, non-diversified management investment company.
Our Directors are authorized to reclassify and issue any unissued shares to any
number of additional classes or series (portfolios), each having its own
investment objective, policies and restrictions, without shareholder approval,
all as more fully described in our prospectus and statement of additional
information.
We propose to engage in the business of investing and reinvesting our
assets in securities of the type and in accordance with the limitations
specified in our Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws and any representations made
in our prospectus and statement of additional information, all in such manner
and to such extent as may from time to time be authorized by our Board of
Directors. We enclose copies of the documents listed above and will from time
to time furnish you with any amendments thereof.
2. (a) We hereby employ you to manage the investment and reinvestment of
our assets as above specified and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, to provide management, investment, advisory and other services
specified below.
(b) You will make decisions with respect to all purchases and sales of
our portfolio securities. To carry out such decisions, you are hereby
authorized, as our agent and attorney-in-fact, for our account and at our risk
and in our name, to place orders for the investment and reinvestment of our
assets. In all purchases, sales and other transactions in our portfolio
securities you are authorized to exercise full discretion and act for us in the
same manner and with the same force and effect as we might or could do with
respect to such purchases, sales or other transactions, as well as with respect
to all other things necessary or incidental to the furtherance or conduct of
such purchases, sales or other transactions.
(c) You will report to our Board of Directors at each meeting thereof
all changes in our portfolio since the prior report, and will also keep us in
touch with important developments affecting our portfolio and on your own
initiative will furnish us from time to time with such information as you may
believe appropriate for this purpose, whether concerning the individual issuers
whose securities are included in our portfolio, the industries in which they
engage, or the conditions prevailing in the economy generally. You will also
furnish us with such statistical and analytical information with respect to our
portfolio securities as you may believe appropriate or as we reasonably may
request. In making such purchases and sales of our portfolio securities, you
will bear in mind the policies set from time to time by our Board of Directors
as well as the limitations imposed by our Articles of Incorporation, the
Investment
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Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") and the Securities Act of 1933, and of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, in respect of regulated investment
companies.
(d) It is understood that you will from time to time employ or
associate with yourselves such persons as you believe to be particularly fitted
to assist you in the execution of your duties hereunder, the cost of performance
of such duties to be borne and paid by you. No obligation may be incurred on
our behalf in any such respect. During the continuance of this Agreement at our
request you will provide us persons satisfactory to our Board of Directors to
serve as our officers.
3. We propose to retain the services of an administrator, which shall be
a firm acceptable to you, to administer all aspects of our operations except
those which are your responsibility pursuant to this Agreement. We will bear
the cost of and pay the fee of the administrator. Our initial Administrator
will be Security Capital (US) Management Group Incorporated.
4. It is further agreed that you shall pay the fees and expenses
associated with the printing and mailing of our prospectus and statement of
additional information, and any other sales literature, to parties other than
existing shareholders. We hereby confirm that, subject to the foregoing, we
shall be responsible and hereby assume the obligation for payment of all our
other expenses, including: (a) payment of the fee payable to you under
paragraph 6 hereof; (b) charges and expenses of our administrator, custodian,
transfer, and dividend disbursing agent; (c) fees of directors who are not your
affiliated persons; (d) legal and auditing expenses; (e) compensation of our
officers, Directors and employees who do not devote any part of their time to
your affairs or the affairs of your affiliates other than us; (f) costs of
printing our prospectuses
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and stockholder reports; (g) costs of proxy solicitation; (h) costs of
maintenance of corporate existence; (i) interest charges, taxes, brokerage fees
and commissions; (j) costs of stationery and supplies; (k) expenses and fees
related to registration and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and with state regulatory authorities; and (l) upon the approval of the Board of
Directors, costs of your personnel or your affiliates rendering clerical,
accounting and other office services.
5. We shall expect of you, and you will give us the benefit of, your best
judgment and efforts in rendering these services to us, and we agree as an
inducement to your undertaking these services that you shall not be liable
hereunder for any mistake of judgment or in any event whatsoever, except for
lack of good faith, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to protect, or
purport to protect, you against any liability to us or to our security holders
to which you would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance of your duties hereunder, or by
reason of your reckless disregard of your obligations and duties hereunder.
6. In consideration of the foregoing we will pay you a monthly fee at an
annualized rate of .60 of 1% of the average daily net assets of each class of
shares. Such fee shall be payable in arrears on the last day of each calendar
month for services performed hereunder during such month. If this Agreement
terminates prior to the end of a month, such fee shall be prorated according to
the proportion which such portion of the month bears to the full month.
7. This Agreement shall become effective on the date it is approved by
the vote of a majority of the Company's outstanding voting securities, as
defined in the Act, and shall continue in effect until the second anniversary of
the date hereof and may be continued for
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successive twelve-month periods (computed from each January 1) with respect to
each portfolio provided that such continuance is specifically approved at least
annually by the Board of Directors or by majority vote of the holders of the
outstanding voting securities of such portfolio (as defined in the Act), and, in
either case, by a majority of the Board of Directors who are not interested
persons, as defined in the Act, of any party to this Agreement (other than as
Directors of our corporation), provided further, however, that if the
continuation of this Agreement is not approved, you may continue to render the
services described herein in the manner and to the extent permitted by the Act
and the rules and regulations thereunder. Upon the effectiveness of this
Agreement, it shall supersede all previous agreements between us covering the
subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be terminated at any time, without the
payment of any penalty, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities (as so defined) or by a vote of a majority of the Board of Directors
on 60 days' written notice to you, or by you on 60 days' written notice to us.
8. This Agreement may not be transferred, assigned, sold or in any manner
hypothecated or pledged by you and this Agreement shall terminate automatically
in the event of any such transfer, assignment, sale, hypothecation or pledge by
you. The terms "transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as used in this paragraph
shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing law and any interpretation
thereof contained in rules or regulations promulgated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission thereunder.
9. Except to the extent necessary to perform your obligations hereunder,
nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your right, or the right of
any of your officers, directors or employees, who may also be a Director,
officer or employee of ours, or persons otherwise
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affiliated with us (within the meaning of the Act) to engage in any other
business or to devote time and attention to the management or other aspects of
any other business, whether of a similar or dissimilar nature, or to render
services of any kind to any other trust, corporation, firm, individual or
association.
10. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of Illinois, provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as
being inconsistent with the Act.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, will you kindly
so indicate by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy hereof.
Very truly yours,
Security Capital U.S. Real Estate Shares
Incorporated
By:/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx Xx.
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx Xx.
President
Agreed to and accepted as
of the date first set forth above
By:/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
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