FORM A
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
SUBJECT TO BOARD APPROVAL
EX-99.B5A10
Exhibit 24(b)(5)(a)(10)
DELAWARE POOLED TRUST, INC.
THE SMALL-CAP GROWTH EQUITY PORTFOLIO
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT, made by and between DELAWARE POOLED TRUST, INC. (the
"Fund"), a Maryland corporation, for The Small-Cap Growth Equity Portfolio
(the "Portfolio"), and DELAWARE MANAGEMENT COMPANY (the "Investment Manager"),
a series of Delaware Management Business Trust, a Delaware business trust.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Fund has been organized and operates as an investment
company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and engages in the
business of investing and reinvesting its assets in securities; and
WHEREAS, the Investment Manager is a registered Investment Adviser
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and engages in the business of
providing investment management services; and
WHEREAS, the Investment Manager serves as the investment manager for
other portfolios of the Fund, and the Fund desires to retain the Investment
Manager to serve as the investment manager for this Portfolio effective as of
the date of this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein
contained, and each of the parties hereto intending to be legally bound, it is
agreed as follows:
1. The Fund hereby employs the Investment Manager to manage the
investment and reinvestment of the Portfolio's assets and to administer its
affairs, subject to the direction of the Board and officers of the Fund for
the period and on the terms hereinafter set forth. The Investment Manager
hereby accepts such employment and agrees during such period to render the
services and assume the obligations herein set forth for the compensation
herein provided. The Investment Manager shall, for all purposes herein, be
deemed to be an independent contractor, shall not in any way be deemed an
agent of the Fund and shall, unless otherwise expressly provided and
authorized, have no authority to act for or represent the Fund in any way. The
Investment Manager shall regularly make decisions as to what securities to
purchase and sell on behalf of the Portfolio, and shall give written
instructions to the Trading Department
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maintained by the Fund for implementation of such decisions, and shall furnish
the Board of Directors of the Fund with such information and reports regarding
the Portfolio's investments as the Investment Manager deems appropriate or as
the Directors of the Fund may reasonably request.
2. The Fund shall conduct its own business and affairs and shall bear
the expenses and salaries necessary and incidental thereto including, but not
in limitation of the foregoing, the costs incurred in: the maintenance of its
corporate existence; the maintenance of its own books, records and procedures;
dealing with its own shareholders; the payment of dividends; transfer of
stock, including issuance, redemption and repurchase of shares; preparation of
share certificates; reports and notices to shareholders; calling and holding
of shareholders' meetings; miscellaneous office expenses; brokerage
commissions; custodian fees; legal and accounting fees; taxes; and federal and
state registration fees. The Portfolio shall bear all of its own
organizational costs.
Directors, officers and employees of the Investment Manager
may be directors, officers and employees of the funds of which Delaware
Management Company, Inc. is Investment Manager. Directors, officers and
employees of the Investment Manager who are directors, officers and/or
employees of the funds shall not receive any compensation from the funds for
acting in such dual capacity.
In the conduct of the respective businesses of the parties
hereto and in the performance of this Agreement, the Fund and Investment
Manager may share facilities common to each, with appropriate proration of
expenses between them.
3. (a) The Fund shall place and execute its own orders for the
purchase and sale of portfolio securities with broker/dealers. Subject to the
primary objective of obtaining the best available prices and execution, the
Fund will place orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities with
such broker/dealers selected from among those designated from time to time by
the Investment Manager, who provide statistical, factual and financial
information and services to the Fund, to the Investment Manager, or to any
other fund for which the Investment Manager provides investment advisory
services and/or with broker/dealers who sell shares of the Fund or who sell
shares of any other fund for which the Investment Manager provides investment
advisory services. Broker/dealers who sell shares of the funds of which
Delaware Management Company, Inc. is investment manager, shall only receive
orders for the purchase or sale of portfolio securities to the extent that the
placing of such orders is in compliance with the Rules of the Securities and
Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (a) above
and subject to such policies and procedures as may be adopted by the Board of
Directors and officers of the Fund, the Investment Manager may ask the Fund,
and the Fund may agree, to pay a member of an exchange, broker or dealer an
amount of commission for effecting a securities transaction in excess of the
amount of commission another member of an exchange, broker or dealer would
have charged for effecting that transaction, in such instances where it, and
the Investment
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Manager, have determined in good faith that such amount of commission was
reasonable in relation to the value of the brokerage and research services
provided by such member, broker or dealer, viewed in terms of either that
particular transaction or the Investment Manager's overall responsibilities
with respect to the Fund and to other funds or other advisory accounts for
which the Investment Manager exercises investment discretion.
4. As compensation for the services to be rendered to the Fund by the
Investment Manager under the provisions of this Agreement, the Fund shall pay
to the Investment Manager a fee calculated in accordance with the following
schedule: ____
If this Agreement is terminated prior to the end of any
calendar month, the management fee shall be prorated for the portion of any
month in which this Agreement is in effect according to the proportion which
the number of calendar days during which the Agreement is in effect bears to
the number of calendar days in the month, and shall be payable within 10 days
after the date of termination.
5. The services to be rendered by the Investment Manager to the Fund
under the provisions of this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive,
and the Investment Manager shall be free to render similar or different
services to others so long as its ability to render the services provided for
in this Agreement shall not be impaired thereby.
6. The Investment Manager, its directors, officers, employees, agents
and shareholders may engage in other businesses, may render investment
advisory services to other investment companies, or to any other corporation,
association, firm or individual, and may render underwriting services to the
Fund or to any other investment company, corporation, association, firm or
individual.
7. In the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross
negligence, or a reckless disregard of the performance of duties of the
Investment Manager to the Fund, the Investment Manager shall not be subject to
liabilities to the Fund or to any shareholder of the Fund for any action or
omission in the course of, or connected with, rendering services hereunder or
for any losses that may be sustained in the purchase, holding or sale of any
security, or otherwise.
8. This Agreement shall be executed and become effective as of the
date written below [if approved by the vote of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Portfolio]. It shall continue in effect for a period
of two years from such date and may be renewed thereafter only so long as such
renewal and continuance is specifically approved at least annually by the
Board of Directors of the Fund or by vote of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Portfolio and only if the terms and the renewal
hereof have been approved by the vote of a majority of the Directors of the
Fund who are not parties hereto or interested persons of any such party, cast
in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be terminated by the Fund at
any time, without the payment of a penalty, on sixty days' written notice to
the Investment Manager of the
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Fund's intention to do so, pursuant to action by the Board of Directors of the
Fund or pursuant to vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of
the Portfolio. The Investment Manager may terminate this Agreement at any
time, without the payment of penalty, on sixty days' written notice to the
Fund of its intention to do so. Upon termination of this Agreement, the
obligations of all the parties hereunder shall cease and terminate as of the
date of such termination, except for any obligation to respond for a breach of
this Agreement committed prior to such termination, and except for the
obligation of the Fund to pay to the Investment Manager the fee provided in
paragraph 4 hereof, prorated to the date of termination. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
9. This Agreement shall extend to and bind the heirs, executors,
administrators and successors of the parties hereto.
10. For the purposes of this Agreement, the terms "vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities;" "interested persons;" and "assignment"
shall have the meanings defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Agreement by having it signed by their duly authorized officers as of the ____
day of _______________, 199_.
DELAWARE POOLED TRUST, INC. DELAWARE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, a series of
for THE SMALL-CAP GROWTH Delaware Management Business Trust
EQUITY PORTFOLIO
By: By:
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
Attest: Attest:
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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