PURCHASE AGREEMENTPurchase Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds
The Commerce Funds (the “Trust”), a Delaware business trust, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (“Goldman”), a New York Limited Partnership, hereby agree with each other as follows:
AMENDED AND RESTATED WAIVER AND REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENTWaiver and Reimbursement Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds • Delaware
This Amended and Restated Waiver and Reimbursement Agreement (“Agreement”) dated as of the 1st day of June, 2002 by and between The Commerce Funds (“Commerce”), a Delaware business trust and a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and Commerce Investment Advisors, Inc. (the “Adviser”), a Missouri corporation that serves as an investment adviser to each portfolio of Commerce pursuant to the Advisory Agreement between the Adviser and Commerce dated as of December 31, 1994, as amended.
THE COMMERCE FUNDS St. Louis, MO 63105 September 27, 2002Commerce Funds • December 20th, 2002
ADDENDUM NO. 3 TO ADVISORY AGREEMENTAdvisory Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds
This Addendum No. 3, dated as of the 26th day of September, 2002, among COMMERCE INVESTMENT ADVISORS, INC., (the “Advisor”) with its principal offices and places of business in St. Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri, and THE COMMERCE FUNDS, a Delaware business trust having its principal office and place of business at 4900 Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois (the “Trust”);
THE COMMERCE FUNDS SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENT INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUNDSub-Advisory Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds • Missouri
AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2002, among Commerce Investment Advisors, Inc. (the “Adviser”), and the Bank of Ireland Asset Management (U.S.) Limited, a corporation with its principal office and, place of business at 75 Holly Hill Lane, Greenwich, CT 06830 (“Sub-Adviser”);
ADDENDUM NO. 3 TO ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENTAdministration Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds
This Addendum No. 3, dated as of the 26th day of September 2002, between THE COMMERCE FUNDS, a Delaware Business Trust (the “Trust”) and GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET MANAGEMENT, a business unit of the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., with its principal office and place of business in New York, New York (the “Administrator”);
AMENDED AND RESTATED WAIVER AND REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENTWaiver and Reimbursement Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds • Delaware
Amended and Restated Waiver and Reimbursement Agreement (“Agreement”) dated as of the 27th day of September, 2002 by and among The Commerce Funds (“Commerce”), a Delaware business trust and a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (the “Administrator”), a New York limited partnership, through which Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a unit of the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. serves as Administrator to each portfolio of Commerce pursuant to the Administration Agreement between the Administrator and Commerce dated as of March 8, 1994, as amended.
THE COMMERCE FUNDS St. Louis, MO 63105 September 27, 2002Commerce Funds • December 20th, 2002
Pursuant to Article 17 of the Custodian Contract by and between The Commerce Funds (the “Trust”) and State Street Bank and Trust Company dated December 1, 1994, as amended (the “Agreement”), the Trust hereby requests that you provide services, as set forth in Article 1 of the Agreement, as Custodian to each class of the Trust’s newly established Asset Allocation Fund (the “Fund”), as of September 27, 2002.
ADDENDUM NO. 3 TO DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTDistribution Agreement • December 20th, 2002 • Commerce Funds
This Addendum No. 3, dated as of the 26th day of September 2002, between THE COMMERCE FUNDS, a Delaware Business Trust the “Trust”) and GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO., with its principal office and place of business in Chicago, Illinois (the “Distributor”);
