Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to each Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of Securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of put and call options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers of Securities being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to each Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the Securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or its agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If a Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian at least three Business Days prior to the date of which the Custodian is to take such action.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of domestic securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers of the domestic securities being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the domestic securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian at least three business days prior to the date on which the Custodian is to take such action.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall deliver promptly to the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of call and maturities of securities and participation interests and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers and other persons relating to the securities and participation interests being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall deliver promptly to the Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers and other persons relating to the securities and participation interests whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall cause the Sub-Custodians to transmit promptly to the Custodian, and the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund, all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith) received by the Sub-Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for the account of the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall cause the Sub-Custodian to transmit promptly to the Fund, all written information received by the Sub-Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian of the action the Fund desires such Sub-Custodian to take, provided, however, neither the Custodian nor the Sub-Custodian shall be liable to the Fund for the failure to take any such action unless such instructions are received by the Custodian at least four business days prior to the date on which the Sub-Custodian is to take such action or, in the case of foreign securities, such longer period as shall have been agreed upon in writing by the Custodian and the Sub-Custodian.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of domestic securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers of the domestic securities being held for the Fund by the Custodian, an agent appointed under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian appointed under Section 1. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information received by the Custodian, an agent appointed under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian appointed under Section 1 from issuers of the domestic securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian of such desired action at least 72 hours (excluding holidays and weekends) prior to the time such action must be taken under the terms of the tender, exchange offer, or other similar transaction, and it will be the responsibility of the Custodian to timely transmit to the appropriate person(s) the Fund's notice. Where the Fund does not notify the Custodian of its desired action within the aforesaid 72 hour period, the Custodian shall use its best efforts to timely transmit the Fund's notice to the appropriate person.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith) received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian at least three business days prior to the date on which the Custodian is to take such action.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of securities held domestically and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian at least three business days prior to the date of which the Custodian is to take such action.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Company all written information (including, without limitation, dependency of calls and maturities of securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Company) received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for each Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Company all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Company desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Company shall notify the Custodian at least three business days prior to the date on which the Custodian is to take such action.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund and the investment adviser of the Fund all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund and the investment adviser of the Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund or the investment adviser of the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian in writing at least three business days prior to the date on which the Custodian is to take such action. However, the Custodian shall nevertheless exercise its best efforts to take such action in the event that notification is received three business days or less prior to the date on which action is required. For securities which are not held in nominee name, the Custodian will act as a secondary source of information and will not be responsible for providing corporate action notification to the Fund.
Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The Sub-Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Custodian all written information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and maturities of securities and expirations of rights in connection therewith) received by the Sub-Custodian from issuers of the securities being held for the account of the Fund. With respect to tender or exchange offers, the Sub-Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Custodian all written information received by the Sub-Custodian from issuers of the securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar transactions, the Custodian shall notify the Sub-Custodian of the action the Fund desires the Sub-Custodian to take; provided, however, that the Sub-Custodian shall not be liable to the Fund or the Custodian for the failure to take any such action unless such instructions are received by the Sub-Custodian at least two business days prior to the date on which the Sub-Custodian is to take such action.
