TRANSFER, DIVIDEND DISBURSING AND SHAREHOLDERS’ SERVICING AGENT AGREEMENTTransfer, Dividend Disbursing and Shareholders’ Servicing Agent Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust • Massachusetts
This agreement (the “Agreement”) is made as of this 1 day of Oct, 2006, by and between Columbia Acorn Trust, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Trust”) acting on behalf of its series all as listed on Schedule A hereto (as the same may from time to time be amended to add or delete one or more series of the Trust) (each series of the Trust, if any, being hereinafter referred to as a “Fund”), Columbia Management Services, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (“CMS”), and Columbia Management Advisors, LLC (“CMA”), a Delaware limited liability company.
AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST AND COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLCManagement Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), is hereby made on July 31, 2006 by and between Columbia Acorn Trust (the “Trust”), a business trust organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on behalf of each of its portfolio series (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), and Columbia Management Group, LLC, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (hereinafter called “CMG”), on behalf of Columbia Management Distributor, Inc. (“CMD”), Columbia Management Services, Inc. (“CMS”) (formerly Liberty Funds Services, Inc.), Columbia Wanger Asset Management, L.P. (“CWAM”) and Columbia Management Advisors, LLC (“CMA”). CMD, CMS, CWAM and CMA are subsidiaries of CMG and are collectively referred to herein as the “Service Providers.”
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTDistribution Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust
This Amendment No. 1 to the Distribution Agreement (the “Amendment”) is hereby made by and between Columbia Acorn Trust (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust and Columbia Management Distributors, Inc. (“CMDI”), a Massachusetts corporation. This Amendment is dated as of July 18, 2006. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Distribution Agreement dated as of August 22, 2005 (the “Agreement”).
AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENTInvestment Advisory Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust • Illinois
Columbia Acorn Trust, a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end diversified management investment company (“Columbia Acorn”), and Columbia Wanger Asset Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 as an investment adviser (“Columbia WAM”), agree that:
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST, COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC. ANDParticipation Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust
THIS AMENDMENT, effective as of 1st day of May, 2007, by and among Columbia Acorn Trust, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Fund”), and Columbia Management Distributors, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the “Underwriter”) and ML Life Insurance Company of New York, a New York life insurance company (the “Company”);
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST, COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC. AND MERRILL LYNCH LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYParticipation Agreement • April 30th, 2007 • Columbia Acorn Trust
THIS AMENDMENT, effective as of the 1st day of May, 2007, by and among Columbia Acorn Trust, a Massachusetts business trust corporation (the “Fund”), Columbia Management Distributors, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the “Underwriter”) and Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Company, an Arkansas life insurance company (the “Company”);
