Common use of Administrative Services Clause in Contracts

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Adviser agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Adviser or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Adviser to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to employees of the FundManager or its affiliates.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Portfolio such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Portfolio may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund Portfolio necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Portfolio shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Portfolio operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the FundPortfolio's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the FundPortfolio's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the FundPortfolio's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund Portfolio under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Portfolio all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the FundPortfolio's custodian or other agents of the FundPortfolio; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the FundPortfolio; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the FundPortfolio's operations and consulting with the FundPortfolio's independent accountants, legal counsel and the FundPortfolio's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the FundPortfolio's operating expense budgets; reviewing the FundPortfolio's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Portfolio in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund Portfolio to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the FundPortfolio's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Portfolio or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundPortfolio.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.other

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Trust such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Trust may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Trust shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Trust operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the FundTrust's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the FundTrust's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the FundTrust's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund Trust under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Trust all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the FundTrust's custodian or other agents of the FundTrust; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the FundTrust; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the FundTrust's operations and consulting with the FundTrust's independent accountants, legal counsel and the FundTrust's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the FundTrust's operating expense budgets; reviewing the FundTrust's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Trust in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund Trust to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the FundTrust's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Trust or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundTrust.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.Corporation's

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open a closed-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Fund's Registration Statement, and semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 ActSAR; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Funds all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Funds' custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the FundFunds; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's Funds' operations and consulting with the Fund's Funds' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's Funds' other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Funds in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's Funds' business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Funds or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open- end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.'s

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.;

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.counsel

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any Subadviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition Subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use terms of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction supervision and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees ("Trustees. Nothing "), Administrator shall provide the following services with respect to the Trust: (a) Preparation and maintenance of the Trust's registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"); (b) Preparation and periodic updating of the prospectus and statement of additional information for the Fund ("Prospectus"); (c) Preparation, filing with appropriate regulatory authorities, and dissemination of various reports for the Fund, including but not limited to semiannual reports to shareholders under Section 30(d) of the 1940 Act, annual and semiannual reports on Form N-SAR, and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2; (d) Arrangement for all meetings of shareholders, including the collection of all information required for preparation of proxy statements, the preparation and filing with appropriate regulatory agencies of such proxy statements, the supervision of solicitation of shareholders and shareholder nominees in connection therewith, tabulation (or supervision of the tabulation) of votes, response to all inquiries regarding such meetings from shareholders, the public and the media, and preparation and retention of all minutes and all other records required to be kept in connection with such meetings; (e) Maintenance and retention of all Trust charter documents and the filing of all documents required to maintain the Trust's status as a Massachusetts business trust and as a registered open-end investment company; (f) Arrangement and preparation and dissemination of all materials for meetings of the Board of Trustees and committees thereof and preparation and retention of all minutes and other records thereof; (g) Preparation and filing of the Trust's Federal, state, and local income tax returns and calculation of any tax required to be paid in connection therewith; (h) Calculation of all Trust and Fund expenses and arrangement for the payment thereof; (i) Calculation of and arrangement for payment of all income, capital gain, and other distributions to shareholders of each Fund; (j) Determination, after consultation with the officers of the Trust, of the jurisdictions in which shares of beneficial interest of each Fund ("Shares") shall be registered or qualified for sale, or may be sold pursuant to an exemption from such registration or qualification, and preparation and maintenance of the registration or qualification of the Shares for sale under the securities laws of each such jurisdiction; (k) Provision of the services of persons who may be appointed as officers of the Trust by the Board of Trustees (it is agreed that some person or persons may be officers of both the Trust and the Administrator, and that the existence of any such dual interest shall not affect the validity of this Agreement shall be deemed except as otherwise provided by specific provision of applicable law); (l) Preparation and, subject to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent approval of the Trust's Chief Financial Officer, dissemination of the Trust's and each Fund's quarterly financial information to the Board of Trustees and preparation of such other reports relating to the business and affairs of the Trust and each Fund or any other person not a as the officers and Board of Trustees may from time to time reasonably request; (m) Administration of the Trust's Code of Ethics and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees of Trustee and officer compliance therewith; (n) Provision of internal legal, accounting, compliance, audit, and risk management services and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees with respect to such services; (o) Negotiation, administration, and oversight of third party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundTrust including, but not limited to, custody, tax, transfer agency, disaster recovery, audit, and legal services; (p) Negotiation and arrangement for insurance desired or required of the Trust and administering all claims thereunder; (q) Response to all inquiries by regulatory agencies, the press, and the general public concerning the business and affairs of the Trust, including the oversight of all periodic inspections of the operations of the Trust and its agents by regulatory authorities and responses to subpoenas and tax levies; (r) Handling and resolution of any complaints registered with the Trust by shareholders, regulatory authorities, and the general public; (s) Monitoring legal, tax, regulatory, and industry developments related to the business affairs of the Trust and communicating such developments to the officers and Board of Trustees as they may reasonably request or as the Administrator believes appropriate; (t) Administration of operating policies of the Trust and recommendation to the officers and the Board of Trustees of the Trust of modifications to such policies to facilitate the protection of shareholders or market competitiveness of the Trust and Fund and to the extent necessary to comply with new legal or regulatory requirements; (u) Responding to surveys conducted by third parties and reporting of Fund performance and other portfolio information; and (v) Filing of claims, class actions involving portfolio securities, and handling administrative matters in connection with the litigation or settlement of such claims.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Funds all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Funds or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any subadviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "“SEC"”) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's ’s transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's ’s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's ’s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's ’s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's ’s operations and consulting with the Fund's ’s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's ’s other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's ’s operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's ’s bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's ’s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund. You are authorized to delegate to such agents as you may deem desirable to assist you in performing your duties under this Section 4, provided that (i) the Trust’s Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust or any party to this Agreement, has given its prior approval to any such delegation, (ii) you are responsible for compensating such agent, and (iii) you shall be fully responsible and liable to the Fund for the acts or omissions of any such agents as you are for your own acts and omissions under the Agreement.

Administrative Services. In addition (a) The Manager will provide general administrative services as hereinafter set forth ("Administrative Services"), all subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use overall direction and control of the Fund such Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board"). (b) Such Administrative Services shall not include investment advisory, custodian, underwriting and distribution, transfer agency or pricing and bookkeeping services, but shall include; (i) provision of office space space, equipment and facilities necessary in connection with the United States as services to be performed hereunder and the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, maintenance of the headquarters of the Trust; (ii) maintenance of the corporate books and you (or one or more records of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf (other than those of its records maintained by the Sub-Advisers referred to in paragraph 2(B)(c) below, the transfer agent, the custodian and the pricing and bookkeeping agent); (iii) administration of all dealings and relationships with the Trustees for meetings of the Fund necessary Board, the scheduling of such meetings and the conduct thereof; (iv) preparation and filing of proxy materials and administration of arrangements for operating as an open end investment company meetings of shareholders or beneficial owners of the Funds; (v) preparation and not provided by persons not parties filing of all required reports and all updating and other amendments to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervisingRegistration Statement under the Investment Company Act, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission Act of 1933, as amended (the "SECSecurities Act"), and the rules and regulations thereunder; (vi) calculation of distributions required or advisable under the Investment Company Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"); (vii) periodic computation and reporting to the Trustees of each Fund's compliance with diversification and other regulatory portfolio requirements of the Investment Company Act and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary the Code; (viii) development and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments implementation of general shareholder and beneficial owner correspondence and communications relating to the Registration StatementFunds, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in including the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state shareholder and local tax returnsbeneficial owner reports as are required or deemed advisable; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 (ix) general oversight of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of custodial, net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal value computation, portfolio accounting, financial statement preparation, legal, tax and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained accounting services performed for the Fund Trust or the Funds by others. It is understood that the Manager may, in its discretion and at its expense, delegate some or all books, records of its administrative duties and reports and any other information required responsibilities under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund this subsection 2A to its shareholdersaffiliate, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholdersLiberty Financial Companies, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agentInc. ("LFC"), the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundmajority or greater owned subsidiaries of LFC.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Trust such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Trust may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Trust shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Trust operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the FundTrust's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the FundTrust's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the FundTrust's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Trust shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares the Trust's shares of the Fund beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, ("shares") under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Trust all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the FundTrust's custodian or other agents of the FundTrust; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the FundTrust; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the FundTrust's operations and consulting with the FundTrust's independent accountants, legal counsel and the FundTrust's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the FundTrust's operating expense budgets; reviewing the FundTrust's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Trust in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund Trust to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the FundTrust's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Trust or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundTrust.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund. You are authorized to delegate to such agents as you may deem desirable to assist you in performing your duties under this section 4, provided that (i) the Trust's Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust or any party to this Agreement, has given its prior approval to any such delegation, (ii) you are responsible for compensating any such agent, and (iii) you shall be fully responsible and liable to the Trust for the acts or omissions of any such agents as you are for your own acts and omissions under the Agreement.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to each Fund to the portfolio management extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or a Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to the perform services on behalf of a Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Adviser agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to each Fund to the portfolio management extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to a Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or a Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Adviser or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Adviser to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to the perform services on behalf of a Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment objective(s), legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to employees of the FundManager or its affiliates.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to each Fund to the portfolio management extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to a Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space and facilities as contemplated in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you this Agreement; (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youb) shall render to the Trust administrative services providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of distributions and attending to routine shareholder communications; supervising(e) coordinating and supervising the daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio; (f) providing fund accounting services, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, to state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the extent appropriate, Fund; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the performance ofFund’s compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents maintaining and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by monitoring the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise ’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics and other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies applicable to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills(k) preparing regulatory reports; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or a Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to the perform services on behalf of a Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund each Series such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund each Series may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund each Series necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Series shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Trust or Series operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's each Series' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's each Series' federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's each Series' federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Series shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund each Series under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund each Series all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's each Series' custodian or other agents of the Fundeach Series; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fundeach Series; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's each Series' operations and consulting with the Fund's each Series' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's each Series' other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's each Series' operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's each Series' bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund each Series in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund each Series to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's each Series' business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Series or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundeach Series.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Portfolios such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Portfolios may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Portfolios necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Portfolio shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Portfolio operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Portfolios' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fundeach Portfolio's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fundeach Portfolio's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund each Portfolio under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund each Portfolio all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Portfolios' custodian or other agents of the FundPortfolios; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fundeach Portfolio; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fundeach Portfolio's operations and consulting with the Fund's Portfolios' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's Portfolios' other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fundeach Portfolio's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fundeach Portfolio's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund each Portfolio in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund each Portfolio to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fundeach Portfolio's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund a Portfolio or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundPortfolios.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's operations and consulting with the each Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.and

Administrative Services. In addition Subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for terms of this Agreement and the use supervision and control of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising("Trustees"), negotiating contractual arrangements with, Administrator shall provide the following services with respect to the extent appropriate, Fund: (a) Preparation and monitoring maintenance of the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings Fund's registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"); (b) Preparation and other periodic updating of the prospectus and statement of additional information for the Fund ("Prospectus"); (c) Preparation, filing with appropriate regulatory authorities, and self-regulatory organizationsdissemination of various reports for the Fund, including, including but not limited toto semiannual reports to shareholders under Section 30(d) of the 1940 Act, preliminary annual and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual semiannual reports on Form N-SAR SAR, and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under 24f-2; (d) Arrangement for all meetings of shareholders, including the 1940 Actcollection of all information required for preparation of proxy statements, the preparation and filing with appropriate regulatory agencies of such proxy statements, the supervision of solicitation of shareholders and shareholder nominees in connection therewith, tabulation (or supervision of the tabulation) of votes, response to all inquiries regarding such meetings from shareholders, the public and the media, and preparation and retention of all minutes and all other records required to be kept in connection with such meetings; overseeing (e) Maintenance and retention of all Fund charter documents and the tabulation filing of proxies by all documents required to maintain the Fund's transfer agentstatus as a Massachusetts business trust and as a registered open-end investment company; assisting in (f) Arrangement and preparation and dissemination of all materials for meetings of the Board of Trustees and committees thereof and preparation and retention of all minutes and other records thereof; (g) Preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state state, and local income tax returns; preparing returns and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing any tax required to be maintained paid in connection therewith; (h) Calculation of all Fund expenses and arrangement for the Fund payment thereof; (i) Calculation of and arrangement for payment of all booksincome, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Actcapital gain, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents distributions to shareholders of the Fund; assisting in establishing (j) Determination, after consultation with the accounting policies officers of the Fund, of the jurisdictions in which shares of beneficial interest of the Fund ("Shares") shall be registered or qualified for sale, or may be sold pursuant to an exemption from such registration or qualification, and preparation and maintenance of the registration or qualification of the Shares for sale under the securities laws of each such jurisdiction; assisting in (k) Provision of the resolution services of accounting issues persons who may be appointed as officers of the Fund by the Board of Trustees (it is agreed that some person or persons may arise with respect to be officers of both the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel Fund and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholdersAdministrator, and providing that the transfer and dividend paying agentexistence of any such dual interest shall not affect the validity of this Agreement except as otherwise provided by specific provision of applicable law); (l) Preparation and, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties subject to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct approval of the Fund's businessChief Financial Officer, subject dissemination of the Fund's quarterly financial information to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed Trustees and preparation of such other reports relating to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent business and affairs of the Fund or any other person not a as the officers and Board of Trustees may from time to time reasonably request; (m) Administration of the Fund's Code of Ethics and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees of Trustee and officer compliance therewith; (n) Provision of internal legal, accounting, compliance, audit, and risk management services and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees with respect to such services; (o) Negotiation, administration, and oversight of third party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund including, but not limited to, custody, tax, transfer agency, disaster recovery, audit, and legal services; (p) Negotiation and arrangement for insurance desired or required of the Fund and administering all claims thereunder; (q) Response to all inquiries by regulatory agencies, the press, and the general public concerning the business and affairs of the Fund, including the oversight of all periodic inspections of the operations of the Fund and its agents by regulatory authorities and responses to subpoenas and tax levies; (r) Handling and resolution of any complaints registered with the Fund by shareholders, regulatory authorities, and the general public; (s) Monitoring legal, tax, regulatory, and industry developments related to the business affairs of the Fund and communicating such developments to the officers and Board of Trustees as they may reasonably request or as the Administrator believes appropriate; (t) Administration of operating policies of the Fund and recommendation to the officers and the Board of Trustees of the Fund of modifications to such policies to facilitate the protection of shareholders or market competitiveness of the Fund and to the extent necessary to comply with new legal or regulatory requirements; (u) Responding to surveys conducted by third parties and reporting of Fund performance and other portfolio information; and (v) Filing of claims, class actions involving portfolio securities, and handling administrative matters in connection with the litigation or settlement of such claims.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Funds all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Funds' custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's Funds' operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Funds in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's Funds' business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Funds or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition The Administrator shall provide directly or supervise and assist third parties in connection with the provision of a variety of services to conduct the non-portfolio management affairs and business of the Trust and each Fund thereof and all matters incidental thereto, such services being subject to change due to new regulatory rules, additional Board requests, or enhancements to the portfolio management Administrator’s policies and procedures. These services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement includinginclude, but are not limited to, preparing reports the following: (i) oversight of the Funds’ primary service providers; (ii) oversight of all financial and operational activities related to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board AMG Funds complex, as well as all administrative services performed on behalf of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising(iii) oversight of nightly calculation of net asset value and portfolio pricing, negotiating contractual arrangements withincluding fair value pricing; (iv) preparation or review of Fund expense budgets, to the extent appropriatemonitoring of daily accruals and calculating or reviewing adjustments as necessary; (v) review of supporting documentation for tax returns and reviewing and/or filing all extensions and tax returns; (vi) coordination with a Fund’s auditors, and monitoring the performance ofcustodian, fund accounting agents, custodians, depositoriesagent, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers agent and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operationsservice providers; preparing (vii) monitoring and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") identification of Passive Foreign Investment Companies and other regulatory complex securities; (viii) oversight of preparation and self-regulatory organizationsfiling or preparation and filing of all prospectuses, includingregistration statements and amendments thereto and shareholder communications required by the SEC and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statementincluding annual, semi-annual and quarterly shareholder reports on Form and Forms N-SAR SAR, N-CSR, N-Q, N-PX, 24f-2, 1099s and notices pursuant such other reports as may be required; (ix) updating prospectus financial information, delivering prospectuses and other regulatory materials to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies shareholders, and making available and providing financial, accounting and statistical information required by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting Trust in the preparation of registration statements, reports and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable other documents required by federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained , and such information as the Trust may reasonably request for use in the Fund all bookspreparation of registration statements, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other documents required by federal and state securities laws and such information are not maintained by as the Fund's custodian Trust may reasonably request for use in the preparation of such documents or of other agents materials necessary or helpful for the underwriting and distribution of the FundTrust’s shares; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of (x) calculating dividends and distributions available to be paid shareholders and communicating such information to the Funds’ transfer agent, fund accounting agent and outside tracking firms such as Morningstar and Broadridge; (xi) monitoring Fund compliance with SEC, IRS and state regulations including daily review of compliance reporting provided by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing Funds’ service providers; (xii) oversight and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct administration of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.Funds’ interfund

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund. You are authorized to delegate to such agents as you may deem desirable to assist you in performing your duties under this section 4, provided that (i) the Corporation's Board of Directors, including a majority of the Directors who are not interested persons of the Corporation or any party to this Agreement, has given its prior approval to any such delegation, (ii) you are responsible for compensating any such agent, and (iii) you shall be fully responsible and liable to the Fund for the acts or omissions of any such agents as you are for your own acts and omissions under the Agreement.

Administrative Services. In addition Subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use terms of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction supervision and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees ("Trustees. Nothing "), Administrator shall provide the following services with respect to the Trust: (a) Preparation and maintenance of the Trust's registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"); (b) Preparation and periodic updating of the prospectus and statement of additional information for the Fund ("Prospectus"); (c) Preparation, filing with appropriate regulatory authorities, and dissemination of various reports for the Fund, including but not limited to semiannual reports to shareholders under Section 30(d) of the 1940 Act, annual and semiannual reports on Form N-SAR, and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2; (d) Arrangement for all meetings of shareholders, including the collection of all information required for preparation of proxy statements, the preparation and filing with appropriate regulatory agencies of such proxy statements, the supervision of solicitation of shareholders and shareholder nominees in connection therewith, tabulation (or supervision of the tabulation) of votes, response to all inquiries regarding such meetings from shareholders, the public and the media, and preparation and retention of all minutes and all other records required to be kept in connection with such meetings; (e) Maintenance and retention of all Trust charter documents and the filing of all documents required to maintain the Trust's status as a Massachusetts business trust and as a registered open-end investment company; (f) Arrangement and preparation and dissemination of all materials for meetings of the Board of Trustees and committees thereof and preparation and retention of all minutes and other records thereof; (g) Preparation and filing of the Trust's Federal, state, and local income tax returns and calculation of any tax required to be paid in connection therewith; (h) Calculation of all Trust and Fund expenses and arrangement for the payment thereof; (i) Calculation of and arrangement for payment of all income, capital gain, and other distributions to shareholders of each Fund; (j) Determination, after consultation with the officers of the Trust, of the jurisdictions in which shares of beneficial interest of each Fund ("Shares") shall be registered or qualified for sale, or may be sold pursuant to an exemption from such registration or qualification, and preparation and maintenance of the registration or qualification of the Shares for sale under the securities laws of each such jurisdiction; (k) Provision of the services of persons who may be appointed as officers of the Trust by the Board of Trustees (it is agreed that some person or persons may be officers of both the Trust and the Administrator, and that the existence of any such dual interest shall not affect the validity of this Agreement shall be deemed except as otherwise provided by specific provision of applicable law); (l) Preparation and, subject to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent approval of the Trust's Chief Financial Officer, dissemination of the Trust's and each Fund's quarterly financial information to the Board of Trustees and preparation of such other reports relating to the business and affairs of the Trust and each Fund or any other person not a as the officers and Board of Trustees may from time to time reasonably request; (m) Administration of the Trust's Code of Ethics and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees of Trustee and officer compliance therewith; (n) Provision of internal legal, accounting, compliance, audit, and risk management services and periodic reporting to the Board of Trustees with respect to such services; (o) Negotiation, administration, and oversight of third party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundTrust including, but not limited to, custody, tax, transfer agency, disaster recovery, audit, and legal services; (p) Negotiation and arrangement for insurance desired or required of the Trust and administering all claims thereunder; (q) Response to all inquiries by regulatory agencies, the press, and the general public concerning the business and affairs of the Trust, including the oversight of all periodic inspections of the operations of the Trust and its agents by regulatory authorities and responses to subpoenas and tax levies; (r) Handling and resolution of any complaints registered with the Trust by shareholders, regulatory authorities, and the general public; (s) Monitoring legal, tax, regulatory, and industry developments related to the business affairs of the Trust and communicating such developments to the officers and Board of Trustees as they may reasonably request or as the Administrator believes appropriate; (t) Administration of operating policies of the Trust and recommendation to the officers and the Board of Trustees of the Trust of modifications to such policies to facilitate the protection of shareholders or market competitiveness of the Trust and Fund and to the extent necessary to comply with new legal or regulatory requirements; (u) Responding to surveys conducted by third parties and reporting of Fund performance and other portfolio information; and (v) Filing of claims, class actions involving portfolio securities, and handling administrative matters in connection with the litigation or settlement of such claims.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager shall provide the following administrative services in connection with the operation of the Trust and the Fund: (1) coordinate, supervise and make all payments to the portfolio management services specified above in section Fund's transfer agent and various subtransfer agents and omnibus account servicers and record-keepers; (2, you shall ) receive and tabulate shareholder votes; (3) furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space statistical and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you research data; (4) coordinate (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youassist in) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company preparation and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") of registration statements, notices, shareholder reports, and other regulatory material required to be filed under applicable laws; (5) prepare and selffile with the states registration statements, notices, reports, and other material required to be filed under applicable laws; (6) prepare and file Form 24F-2s and N-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments SARs; (7) review bills submitted to the Registration StatementFund and, semi-upon determining that a b▇▇▇ is appropriate, allocate amounts to the Fund and instruct the Fund's custodian to pay such bills; (8) coordinate (or assist in) the preparation of reports and other information materials regarding the Fund, including prospectuses, proxies and other shareholder communications; (9) prepare expense table and performance information for annual reports updates; (10) provide legal and regulatory advice to the Fund in connection with its other administrative functions, including assignment of matters to outside legal counsel on Form N-SAR behalf of the Trust and notices pursuant supervising the work of such counsel; (11) provide office facilities and clerical support for the Fund; (12) develop and implement procedures for monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements and compliance with the Fund's investment objectives, policies and restrictions; (13) serve as liaison between the Fund and its independent auditors; (14) prepare and file tax returns; (15) review payments of Fund expenses; (16) prepare expense budgeting and accruals; (17) provide communication, coordination, and supervision services with regard to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting , custodian, fund accountant, any co-administrators, and other service organizations that render recordkeeping or shareholder communication services; (18) provide information to the Fund's distributor concerning fund performance and administration; (19) provide reports to the Fund's board of directors regarding its activities; (20) assist in the preparation and filing assembly of meeting materials, including comparable fee information, as required, for the Fund's federal, state and local tax returnsboard of directors; preparing and filing and (21) provide any other administrative services reasonably necessary for the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares operation of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing other than those services that are to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained provided by the FundTrust's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying disbursing agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's businessfund accountant, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated require Funds Management to provide any services to the Fundthat may not be provided by it under applicable banking laws and regulations.

Administrative Services. In addition (a) During the Term of this Agreement, the Manager shall, subject to the portfolio management terms hereof, provide to each Obligor the following administrative services specified above in section 2accordance with the Operation Standards (collectively, you shall furnish at your expense for the use “Administrative Services”): (i) clerical, bookkeeping and accounting services, including maintenance of general records of the Fund Obligors, as necessary or appropriate in light of the nature of the Obligors’ business and the requirements of the Indenture and the other Transaction Documents; (ii) maintain accurate books of account and records of the transactions of each Obligor, render statements or copies thereof from time to time as reasonably requested by such office space Obligor; (iii) prepare and facilities file, or cause to be prepared and filed, all franchise, withholding, income and other tax returns of such Obligor required to be filed by it and arrange for any taxes owing by such Obligor to be paid to the appropriate authorities out of funds of such Obligor available for such purpose, all on a timely basis and in accordance with applicable law, rules or regulations; (iv) administer such Obligor’s performance under the United States as Indenture and the Fund may require for its reasonable needsother Transaction Documents, including (A) preparing and you delivering (or one or more of your affiliates designated by youcausing to be prepared and delivered) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of such Obligor such Opinions of Counsel, Officers’ Certificates, reports, notices and other documents as are required under such Indenture and the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company other Transaction Documents and not provided by persons not parties (B) holding, maintaining and preserving such Indenture and the other Transaction Documents and books and records relating to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to such Indenture and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees other Transaction Documents and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriatetransactions contemplated or funded thereby, and monitoring making such books and records available for inspection in accordance with the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents terms of such Indenture and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and the other persons in any capacity deemed to Transaction Documents; (v) take all actions on behalf of such Obligor as may be necessary or desirable appropriate in order for such Obligor to Fund operations; preparing remain duly organized and qualified to carry out its business under applicable law, rules or regulations, including making all necessary or appropriate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returnsauthorities under corporate and other applicable statutes; preparing and (vi) manage all litigation instituted by or against such Obligor, including retaining on behalf of and filing for the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant account of such Obligor legal counsel to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor perform such services as may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing negotiating any settlements to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary entered into in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring provided that, with respect to any such litigation that refers to any property interest of the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Fund's bills; processing Noteholders, in litigation papers accompanying a summons as a result of the payment of bills that have been approved conveyance by an authorized personAsset Entity to the Indenture Trustee, the Manager shall act on behalf of the Indenture Trustee to manage such litigation and shall promptly advise the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer, what action, if any, the Manager is taking, or intends to take, in connection therewith; assisting provided, further, the Fund Manager shall answer and appear on the Indenture Trustee’s behalf, but in determining no event shall the amount Manager accept a default judgment to the extent the related proceeding asserts any personal or institutional claims against the Indenture Trustee without the consent of dividends the Indenture Trustee; provided, further, that, during a Special Servicing Period, the Servicer shall be entitled to assume the rights and distributions available obligations of the Manager pursuant to this clause (vi). (b) The Obligors acknowledge that, for tax purposes, the Manager will allocate the value of its services among the Obligors on a basis determined by the Manager in its reasonable discretion and the Obligors agree to be paid bound by the Fund such allocation and to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent file any required tax returns on a basis consistent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundallocation.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Fund s transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.counsel

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open- end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.the

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the FundTrust; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the FundTrust's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust and the Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.3

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "“SEC"”) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's ’s transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's ’s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's ’s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Funds all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's ’s custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's ’s operations and consulting with the Fund's ’s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's ’s other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's ’s operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's ’s bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's ’s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Funds or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you You shall furnish at your expense not be responsible for the use of the Fund such furnishing office space and facilities in the United States as to the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render not be responsible for rendering to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; , supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, except to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not required to be maintained by the Fund's custodian investment adviser of a registered investment company under the 1940 Act or other agents the Investment Advisers Act of the Fund1940, as amended; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request Corporation in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund each Series such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund each Series may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund each Series necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Series shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Trust or Series operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's each Series' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's each Series' federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's each Series' federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration registration, qualification, or other requirements regarding the offering of Shares of the Fund each Series under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund each Series all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's each Series' custodian or other agents of the Fundeach Series; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fundeach Series; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's each Series' operations and consulting with the Fund's each Series' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's each Series' other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's each Series' operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's each Series' bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund each Series in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund each Series to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's each Series' business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Series or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundeach Series.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares the Fund's shares of capital stock, $.33 1/3 par value per share (the Fund "Shares") under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an a person authorized personby the Fund; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's its business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's operations and consulting with the each Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open a Closed-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 ActSAR; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset valuesecurities; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's operations and consulting with the each Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense telephone, equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space as contemplated in this Agreement; (b) providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require approving bills for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services payment on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements withnotices of dividends, capital gains distributions and tax credits and attending to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers routine correspondence and other persons in any capacity deemed communications with individual Fund shareholders when asked to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies do so by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian ’s shareholder servicing agent or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing (e) coordinating and supervising the accounting policies daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio , including collecting quotations from pricing services engaged by the Fund; assisting in (f) providing fund accounting services, including preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations, periodic earnings reports and other financial data, as appropriate; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with organizations serving the resolution Fund, including custodians, transfer agents, public accounting firms, law firms, printers and other third party service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the Fund other than those maintained by the custodian and transfer agent; (i) preparing and filing of accounting issues that may arise domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the Fund’s compliance with all subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and other applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, maintaining and monitoring the Fund’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics or other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies adopted by the Trust’s Board of Trustees or by the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing ’s investment manager and sub-advisor and other policies applicable to the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person(k) preparing regulatory reports, including without limitations, NSARs, proxy statements, and U.S. and foreign ownership reports; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agentSarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to (a) Sub-Administrator, at its expense, shall supply the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and officers of the Trust with all statistical information and reports as the Board of Trustees or officers may reasonably request and shall furnish the Fund with office facilities, including space, furniture and equipment and all personnel reasonably necessary for the administration of the Fund, as set forth in this Agreement. Sub-Administrator shall authorize and permit any of its directors, officers and employees, who may be elected as trustees or officers of the Fund, to serve in the capacities in which they are elected. (b) Sub-Administrator shall oversee the maintenance of all books and records with respect to the Fund’s transactions in securities, commodity Interests and other investments. For purposes of this Agreement, commodity Interests include commodity futures (including futures on broad-based securities indexes or interest rate futures), forward contracts, foreign exchange transactions, options on commodity futures, swaps, swaptions and certain other instruments regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”). Sub-Administrator agrees that it will keep all of the Fund’s books of accounts in accordance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, as well as SEC orders, no-action letters and interpretive positions relied on by the Fund, except for those accounts, books and financial records (a) required to be maintained by the Fund’s custodian or transfer agent, (b) specifically maintained by the Manager, Subadviser, other subadvisers and/or trading advisors and/or (c) maintained by all other service providers necessary for the Fund to conduct its business as a registered open-end management investment company. In compliance with the requirements of Rule 31a-3 under the 1940 Act, Sub-Administrator hereby agrees that any records that it maintains for the Fund are the property of the Fund, and further agrees to surrender promptly to the Fund or its agents any of such records upon the Fund’s request. Sub-Administrator further agrees to arrange for the preservation of the records required to be maintained by Rule 31a-1 under the 1940 Act for the periods prescribed by Rule 31a-2 under the 1940 Act. Sub-Administrator further agrees to maintain books and records of the Fund in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) and the rules and regulations thereunder. (c) Subject to the direction and oversight of the Manager and the Board, the Sub-Administrator, at its expense, shall supervise and monitor certain non-investment advisory aspects of the operations of the Fund, including provision and coordination of transfer agency, custodial services, securities lending agent services, certain accounting services (including overseeing the calculation of the net asset value and verified intraday indicative value (“VIIV”) of the Fund’s shares), corporate secretarial services, fund legal services, fund compliance services and fund auditing services. (d) Sub-Administrator will supervise with respect to the Fund the preparation, filing, and dissemination of required tax returns, applications, disclosures, reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other relevant regulatory and self-regulatory organizationsauthorities, includingincluding the SEC, but not limited toCFTC, preliminary National Futures Association and definitive proxy listing exchanges. The Sub-Administrator will supervise the preparation of Board materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statementregistration statements, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records proxy statements and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices communications to shareholders, and providing . (e) Sub-Administrator shall perform the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request additional fund services described in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.Appendix A.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any sub-adviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense telephone, equipment and supplies appropriate for the use effective administration of the Fund such office space as contemplated in this Agreement; (b) providing trading desk facilities; (c) authorizing expenditures and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require approving bills for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services payment on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements withnotices of dividends, capital gains distributions and tax credits and attending to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers routine correspondence and other persons in any capacity deemed communications with individual Fund shareholders when asked to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies do so by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian ’s shareholder servicing agent or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing (e) coordinating and supervising the accounting policies daily pricing and valuation of the Fund’s investment portfolio , including collecting quotations from pricing services engaged by the Fund; assisting in (f) providing fund accounting services, including preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations, periodic earnings reports and other financial data, as appropriate; (g) monitoring and coordinating relationships with organizations serving the resolution Fund, including custodians, transfer agents, public accounting firms, law firms, printers and other third party service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities, state and foreign laws and regulations and maintaining books and records for the Fund other than those maintained by the custodian and transfer agent; (i) preparing and filing of accounting issues that may arise domestic and foreign tax reports and monitoring the Fund’s compliance with all subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and other applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, maintaining and monitoring the Fund’s compliance program with respect to the Fund's operations federal securities, state and consulting with foreign laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the Fund's independent accountants’s investment goals, legal counsel policies and restrictions; and the Fund's Code of Ethics or other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring policies adopted by the Investment Company’s Board of Trustees or by the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing ’s investment manager and sub-advisor and other policies applicable to the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person(k) preparing regulatory reports, including without limitations, NSARs, proxy statements, and U.S. and foreign ownership reports; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices to shareholdersregistration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and providing foreign or other regulatory authorities; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributionsapplicable; and otherwise assisting (n) providing executive, clerical and other personnel needed to carry out the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund Trust who are officers, directors, stockholders or any other person not a party to employees of the Manager or its affiliates. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's Fund s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's Fund s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, : preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and overseeing reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated employed to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager shall, at its expense, provide the following administrative services in connection with the operations of the Trust and the Funds: i) coordinate, supervise and make all payments to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2Funds’ transfer agent; ii) receive and tabulate shareholder votes; iii) furnish statistical and research data; iv) coordinate (or assist in) the preparation and filing with the Commission of registration statements, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needsnotices, shareholder reports, and you other material required to be filed under applicable laws; v) prepare and file with the states registration statements, notices, reports, and other material required to be filed under applicable laws; vi) prepare and file Form 24F-2s and N-CENs; vii) review bills submitted to the Funds and, upon determining that a bill is appropriate, allocate amounts to the appropriate Fund and instruct the Manager to pay such bills; viii) coordinate (or one or more assist in) the preparation of your affiliates designated by youreports and other information materials regarding the Funds, including prospectuses, proxies, and other shareholder communications; ix) shall render update and maintain the Funds’ website; x) prepare expense table and performance information for annual updates; xi) provide legal and regulatory advice to the Trust Funds in connection with its other administrative services functions, including assignment of matters to outside legal counsel on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company Trust and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to supervision of the work of such counsel; xii) provide office facilities and meeting materials clerical support for the Trust's Board Funds; xiii) develop and implement procedures for monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements and compliance with the Funds’ investment objectives, policies and restrictions; xiv) serve as liaison between the Funds and their independent auditors; xv) prepare and file tax returns; xvi) review payments of Trustees Fund expenses; xvii) prepare expense budgeting and reports accruals; xviii) provide communication, coordination, and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, supervision services with regard to the extent appropriateFunds’ transfer agent, custodian, fund accountant, any co-administrators, and monitoring the performance ofother service organizations that render recordkeeping or shareholder communication services; xix) provide communication and coordination services with regard to exchanges, accounting agentslead market makers, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"authorized participants; xx) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant subject to Rule 24f-2 6c-11 under the 1940 Act; overseeing Act and any compliance policies and procedures of the tabulation of proxies Trust related thereto, determine the securities to be accepted in a Fund’s creation basket, the securities that will be applicable that day to redemption requests received by the Fund's , and the securities to be included in any custom basket; xxi) provide information to the Funds’ distributor concerning fund performance and administration; xxii) provide reports to the Funds’ Board regarding its activities; xxiii) assist in the preparation, assembly and electronic delivery of meeting materials, including comparable fee information, as required, for the Funds’ Board; and xxiv) provide any other administrative services reasonably necessary for the operation of the Funds other than those services that are to be provided by the Trust’s transfer agent; assisting , custodian, and fund accountant. In performing all administrative services under this Section 2(b), the Manager shall: (a) act in conformity with the preparation Trust’s Amended and filing Restated Declaration of the Fund's federalTrust (and By-Laws, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all booksif any), records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, and any other applicable laws as may be amended from time to time, and all relevant rules thereunder, and with the Trust’s registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the 1940 Act, as may be amended from time to time; (b) consult and coordinate with legal counsel to the extent that such booksTrust as necessary and appropriate; and (c) advise and report to the Trust and its legal counsel, records as necessary and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise appropriate, with respect to any compliance or other matters that come to its attention. In connection with its duties under this Section 2(b), the Fund's operations and consulting Manager may, at its own expense, enter into sub-administration agreements with other service providers, provided that each such service provider agrees with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel Manager to comply with this Agreement and all relevant provisions of the Fund's 1940 Act and any other agents applicable laws as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available may be amended from time to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholderstime, and providing all relevant rules thereunder. The Manager will provide the transfer and dividend paying agentTrust with a copy of each sub-administration agreement it executes relating to the Trust. The Manager will be liable for acts or omissions of any such sub-administrators under the standards of care described herein under Section 11. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement Manager shall not be deemed to shift to you or to diminish have assumed any duties with respect to, and shall not be responsible for, the obligations distribution of any agent shares of the Fund Funds, nor shall the Manager be deemed to have assumed or have any other person not a party responsibility with respect to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to functions specifically assumed by any transfer agent, custodian or fund accountant of the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset valuesecurities; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Funds' custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's ' operations and consulting with the Fund's Funds' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "“SEC"”) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR CEN and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's ’s transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's ’s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's ’s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's ’s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's ’s operations and consulting with the Fund's ’s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's ’s other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's ’s operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's ’s bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's ’s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund. You are authorized to delegate to such agents as you may deem desirable to assist you in performing your duties under this section 4, provided that (i) the Trust’s Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust or any party to this Agreement, has given its prior approval to any such delegation, (ii) you are responsible for compensating any such agent, and (iii) you shall be fully responsible and liable to the Fund for the acts or omissions of any such agents as you are for your own acts and omissions under this Agreement.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset valuesecurities; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's operations and consulting with the each Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundFunds.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, : preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees and overseeing reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "“SEC"”) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's ’s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's ’s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's ’s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated employed to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open a closed-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Fund's Registration Statement, and semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 ActSAR; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Portfolios such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Portfolios may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Portfolios necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund Portfolio shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund Portfolio operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Portfolios' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's Portfolios' federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's Portfolios' federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Portfolio shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund Portfolios under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund Portfolios all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Portfolios' custodian or other agents of the FundPortfolios; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the FundPortfolios; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's Portfolios' operations and consulting with the Fund's Portfolios' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's Portfolios' other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's Portfolios' operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's Portfolios' bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund Portfolios in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund Portfolios to its their shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's Portfolios' business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund Portfolios or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the FundPortfolios.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its their reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company companies and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds' transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the each Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the each Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the each Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the each Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Funds' custodian or other agents of the FundFunds; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the each Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the each Fund's ' operations and consulting with the Fund's Funds' independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the each Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the each Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the each Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the each Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the each Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the a Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition (a) LASC will provide general administrative services as hereinafter set forth ("Administrative Services"), all subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use overall direction and control of the Fund such Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board"). (b) Such Administrative Services shall not include investment advisory, custodian, underwriting and distribution, transfer agency or pricing and bookkeeping services, but shall include: (i) provision of office space space, equipment and facilities necessary in connection with the United States as services to be performed hereunder and the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, maintenance of the headquarters of the Trust; (ii) maintenance of the corporate books and you (or one or more records of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf (other than those of its records maintained by the Sub-Advisor or the Portfolio Managers, the transfer agent, the custodian and the pricing and bookkeeping agent); (iii) administration of all dealings and relationships with the Trustees for meetings of the Fund necessary Board, the scheduling of such meetings and the conduct thereof; (iv) preparation and filing of proxy materials and administration of arrangements for operating as an open end investment company meetings of shareholders or beneficial owners of the Funds; (v) preparation and not provided by persons not parties filing of all required reports and all updating and other amendments to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervisingRegistration Statement under the Investment Company Act, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission Act of 1933, as amended (the "SECSecurities Act"), and the rules and regulations thereunder; (vi) calculation of distributions required or advisable under the Investment Company Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"); (vii) periodic computation and reporting to the Trustees of each Fund's compliance with diversification and other regulatory portfolio requirements of the Investment Company Act and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary the Code; (viii) development and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments implementation of general shareholder and beneficial owner correspondence and communications relating to the Registration StatementFunds, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in including the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state shareholder and local tax returnsbeneficial owner reports as are required or deemed advisable; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 (ix) general oversight of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of custodial, net asset value; monitoring value computation, portfolio accounting, financial statement preparation, legal, tax and accounting services performed for the registration of Shares of Trust or the Fund by others. It is understood that LASC may, in its discretion and at its expense, delegate some or all of its administrative duties and responsibilities under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing this subsection 2A to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundaffiliates.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open a closed-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Fund s Registration Statement, and semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 ActSAR; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's Fund s operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Fund s transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's Fund s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's Fund s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Fund s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.other

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel 4 and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund share holders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition (a) The Manager shall, at its own expense, provide, procure, or arrange for the provision of such additional administrative services related to its advisory functions or the functions listed below, as reasonably requested by the Board or the officers of the Trust, provided that such services are not (i) directly or indirectly provided to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use shareholders of the Fund Funds; (ii) related to the distribution of the Funds’ shares; (iii) rendered by agents engaged by the Trust or the Board or (iv) required to be rendered by any person pursuant to any other agreement or arrangement with the Trust or a Fund: (i) Provide such office space information as may be reasonably requested in connection with the preparation of all periodic reports by the Funds to their shareholders and facilities in all reports and filings required to maintain the United States as registration and qualification of the Fund may require for its reasonable needsFunds and shares of the Funds, or to meet other regulatory or tax requirements applicable to the Funds, under federal and state securities and tax laws, and you (or one or more review sections of your affiliates designated by you) shall render those reports and filings related to the Manager’s functions and designated responsibilities under this Agreement; (ii) Assist the Trust administrative services on behalf in selecting and coordinating the activities of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided other agents engaged by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's , including the Trust’s transfer agent, custodian, administrator, independent auditors and legal counsel; (iii) Provide assistance to the Board of Trustees in valuing the securities and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements withother assets held by each Fund, to the extent appropriatereasonably required by the Trust’s valuation policies and procedures; (iv) Provide assistance to the Board in reviewing the valuation policies and procedures adopted by the Funds and recommend changes to such policies and procedures as deemed necessary or appropriate by the Manager; (v) Maintain and preserve, or oversee the maintenance and preservation of, and monitoring make available to the performance ofTrust and Funds all records and ledgers required by the 1940 Act and the rules thereunder that reasonably relate to the services the Manager performs for the Trust and the Funds pursuant to this Agreement; and (vi) Periodically evaluate the quality of services provided by service providers to the Trust and the Funds, accounting agentsin addition to the sub-advisers. (b) The appointment of the Manager to provide the services set forth in this Section is non-exclusive. The Trust has engaged the services of an administrator, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and the Board may from time to time appoint other persons in any capacity entities to provide administrative services for such compensation as deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundappropriate.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any subadviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense telephone, office equipment and supplies for the use Fund necessary or appropriate for the effective administration of the Fund such office space as contemplated in this Agreement; (b) providing trading desk facilities for the Fund, unless these facilities are provided by any Subadviser; (c) authorizing expenditures and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require approving bills for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services payment on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of dividends, capital gains distributions and tax credits; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, and attending to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers routine correspondence and other persons in any capacity deemed communications with individual Fund shareholders when asked to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies do so by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian ’s shareholder servicing agent or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing ; (e) coordinating and supervising the accounting policies daily pricing and valuation of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to ’s investment portfolio, including collecting quotations from pricing services engaged by the Fund's operations and consulting , in accordance with the policies and procedures adopted from time to time by the Trust on behalf of the Fund's independent accountants; (f) providing fund accounting services, legal counsel including preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating, where appropriate, relationships with organizations serving the Fund, including custodians, public accounting firms, law firms, printers, pricing services and other unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities laws, including the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder, supervising compliance with recordkeeping requirements imposed by state or foreign laws or regulations, and maintaining books and records for the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing ; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports, including the Fund’s income tax returns, and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing ’s compliance with subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and all other applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, maintaining and monitoring the Fund's bills’s compliance program with respect to: the 1940 Act and other federal securities laws, and rules and regulations thereunder; processing state and foreign laws and regulations applicable to the payment operation of bills that have been approved by an authorized personinvestment companies; assisting the Fund in determining Fund’s investment goals, policies and restrictions; and the amount Code of dividends Ethics and distributions available to be paid other policies adopted by the Fund Trust’s Board of Trustees (“Board”), by the Manager or by any Subadviser and applicable to its shareholdersthe Fund; # 1362979 v. 3 (k) preparing regulatory reports, including without limitation, N-SARs, N-CSRs, N-PXs, N-Qs, proxy statements, information statements, and U.S. and foreign ownership reports; (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices such registration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and foreign or other regulatory authorities as may be required to shareholders(i) register or otherwise qualify the shares of the Fund for sale and maintain any such registration or qualification; (ii) amend or otherwise update the Fund’s disclosure as required by applicable Federal securities laws and rules and regulations of any applicable regulatory agency or stock exchange; (iii) qualify the Fund to do business; and (iv) maintain the Fund’s corporate existence, and providing as otherwise required by applicable law; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct relevant provisions of the Fund's businessSarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as applicable to registered investment companies; and (n) providing executive, subject clerical, secretarial and other personnel needed to carry out the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund or any other person not a party to Trust. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Fund administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustFund's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's its business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustFund's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.of

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's Fund s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's Fund s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's Fund s other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, : preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees and overseeing reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; administering the Fund’s liquidity risk management program; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "‘‘SEC"’’) and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR CSR and N-CEN and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's ’s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities investments and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's ’s custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's ’s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's ’s Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated employed to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition (a) The administrative services to be provided or arranged for by the Adviser for the trust include the following: (i) maintaining each Fund's books and records, such as journals, ledger accounts and other records in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2extent not maintained by each Fund's custodian, you shall furnish at your expense transfer agent and dividend disbursing agent, (ii) transmitting purchase and redemption orders for each Fund's shares to the extent not transmitted by each Fund's distributor or others who purchase and redeem shares, (iii) initiating all money transfers to each Fund's custodian and from each Fund's custodian for the use payment of each Fund's expenses, investments, dividends and share redemptions, (iv) reconciling account information and balances among each Fund's custodian, transfer agent, distributor, dividend disbursing agent and the Fund Adviser, (v) providing the Funds, upon request, with such office space and facilities in the United States facilities, utilities and office equipment as the Fund may require are adequate for its reasonable each Fund's needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated vi) preparing, but not paying for, all reports by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services Trust, on behalf of each Fund, to their shareholders and all reports and filings required to maintain the Fund necessary registration and qualification of each Fund's shares under federal and state law including periodic updating of the Trust's registration statement and Prospectus (including its Statement of Additional Information), (vii) supervising the calculation of the net asset value of each Fund's shares, (viii) preparing notices and agendas for operating meetings of each Fund's shareholders and the Trust's Board of Trustees as an open end investment company well as minutes of such meetings in all matters required by applicable law to be acted upon by the Board of Trustees and not provided (ix) other services generally performed by persons not parties administrators of funds. (b) In connection with such administrative services described in paragraph (a) of this Section and in addition to this Agreement the compensation described in Section 4 herein, the Adviser shall be reimbursed by the Trust for all costs and expenses (including out-of-pocket expenses) and the pro rata portion of the direct and indirect costs of personnel including, but not limited to, preparing reports to the salaries, bonuses, health insurance, retirement benefits and meeting materials all similar employment costs of such persons for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; time spent providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fundadministrative services.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, ' to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the FundTrust; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the FundTrust's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in In connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust and the Fund as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement to which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition The Manager agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide or procure, as applicable, at its own expense (unless otherwise agreed to by the parties), the following services to the portfolio management Fund to the extent that any such services specified above in section 2are not otherwise provided by any subadviser or other service provider to the Fund: (a) providing office space, you shall furnish at your expense telephone, office equipment and supplies for the use Fund necessary or appropriate for the effective administration of the Fund such office space as contemplated in this Agreement; (b) providing trading desk facilities for the Fund, unless these facilities are provided by any Subadviser; (c) authorizing expenditures and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require approving bills for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services payment on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing Fund; (d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders, notices of dividends, capital gains distributions and tax credits; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, and attending to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers routine correspondence and other persons in any capacity deemed communications with individual Fund shareholders when asked to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies do so by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian ’s shareholder servicing agent or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing ; (e) coordinating and supervising the accounting policies daily pricing and valuation of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to ’s investment portfolio, including collecting quotations from pricing services engaged by the Fund's operations and consulting , in accordance with the policies and procedures adopted from time to time by the Trust on behalf of the Fund's independent accountants; (f) providing fund accounting services, legal counsel including preparing and supervising publication of daily net asset value quotations and other financial data; (g) monitoring and coordinating, where appropriate, relationships with organizations serving the Fund, including custodians, public accounting firms, law firms, printers, pricing services and other unaffiliated service providers; (h) supervising the Fund’s compliance with recordkeeping requirements under the federal securities laws, including the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder, supervising compliance with recordkeeping requirements imposed by state or foreign laws or regulations, and maintaining books and records for the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing ; (i) preparing and filing of domestic and foreign tax reports, including the Fund’s income tax returns, and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing ’s compliance with subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and all other applicable tax laws and regulations; (j) establishing, maintaining and monitoring the Fund's bills’s compliance program with respect to: the 1940 Act and other federal securities laws, and rules and regulations thereunder; processing state and foreign laws and regulations applicable to the payment operation of bills that have been approved by an authorized personinvestment companies; assisting the Fund in determining Fund’s investment goals, policies and restrictions; and the amount Code of dividends Ethics and distributions available to be paid other policies adopted by the Fund Trust’s Board of Trustees (“Board”), by the Manager or by any Subadviser and applicable to its shareholdersthe Fund; 4 # 1362979 v. 4 (k) preparing regulatory reports, including without limitation, N-SARs, N-CSRs, N-PXs, N-Qs, proxy statements, information statements, and U.S. and foreign ownership reports; (l) preparing and arranging for the printing filing of dividend notices such registration statements and other documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal, state and foreign or other regulatory authorities as may be required to shareholders(i) register or otherwise qualify the shares of the Fund for sale and maintain any such registration or qualification; (ii) amend or otherwise update the Fund’s disclosure as required by applicable Federal securities laws and rules and regulations of any applicable regulatory agency or stock exchange; (iii) qualify the Fund to do business; and (iv) maintain the Fund’s corporate existence, and providing as otherwise required by applicable law; (m) maintaining a review and certification program and internal controls and procedures in accordance with the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct relevant provisions of the Fund's businessSarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 as applicable to registered investment companies; and (n) providing executive, subject clerical, secretarial and other personnel needed to carry out the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trusteesabove responsibilities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed obligate the Trust or the Fund to shift pay any compensation to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent officers of the Fund or any other person not a party to Trust. Nothing in this Agreement which is obligated shall obligate the Manager to provide pay for the services of third parties, including attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by the Trust to perform services on behalf of the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's Fund s independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.counsel

Administrative Services. In addition Subject to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use direction and control of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Trustees") and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring not otherwise the performance responsibility of, accounting agentsor provided by, custodiansthe Trust or other supply agents of the Trust, depositories▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square shall provide the following administrative services: a. Supply: (i) office facilities (which may be in ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square's or its affiliates' own offices); (ii) non-investment related statistical and research data; (iii) executive and administrative services; (iv) stationery and office supplies at Trust expense; and (v) corporate secretarial services, transfer agents such as the preparation and pricing agentsdistribution of materials at Trust expense for meetings of the Trustees or shareholders; b. Prepare and file, accountantsif necessary, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers reports to shareholders of the Trust and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations), including, but not limited to, state securities authorities including preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration StatementTrust's registration statement, semi-annual reports on Rule 24f-2 Notices, Form N-SAR filings and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 ActProspectus supplements; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the c. Monitor each Fund's transfer agent; assisting in compliance with the preparation investment restrictions and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under limitations imposed by the 1940 Act, and state securities laws and applicable regulations thereunder, the fundamental and non-fundamental investment policies and limitations set forth in the Prospectuses and SAI, and the investment restrictions and limitations necessary for each Fund to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the extent Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") or any successor statute; d. Monitor sales of each Fund's shares and ensure that such booksshares are properly registered, records and reports and other information are not maintained qualified or authorized for sale as required by the Fund's custodian or other agents of SEC and/or applicable state authorities; e. Prepare and distribute to appropriate parties notices announcing the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount declaration of dividends and other distributions available to shareholders; f. Prepare financial statements and footnotes and other financial information with such frequency and in such format as required to be paid included in reports to shareholders and the SEC; g. Review sales literature and file such with regulatory authorities, as necessary; h. Provide information regarding material developments in state securities regulation; and i. Provide personnel to serve as officers of the Trust if so elected by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust Corporation administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the TrustCorporation's Board of Trustees Directors and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of the Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust Corporation as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's its' business, subject to the direction and control of the TrustCorporation's Board of TrusteesDirectors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund Funds such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund Funds may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund Funds necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's Funds transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's each Fund s federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's each Fund s federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.net

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 2, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's Fund s business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information Information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 22 hereof, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.'s

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, federal state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; : establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.

Administrative Services. In addition to (a) WRIICO shall at its expense provide such of the portfolio management following administrative services specified above as are required by the Funds: (i) maintaining the registration or qualification of the Funds and their shares under state "Blue Sky" or securities laws and regulations, provided that the Funds shall pay all related filing fees and registration or qualification fees; (ii) assisting the Funds and third party solicitors (if any) in section 2connection with soliciting and gathering shareholder proxies; (iii) preparing the Funds' U.S. Federal, you state and local income tax returns, provided that the Funds shall furnish at your expense pay all charges for services and expenses of the Funds' independent accountants in reviewing such returns; (iv) preparing the financial information for the use Funds' prospectuses, statements of additional information and periodic reports to shareholders, provided that the Funds shall pay all charges for services and expenses of the Fund Funds' independent accountants; (v) preparing the semi-annual report on Form N-SAR or on such office space and facilities in the United States other substitute form as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizationsfrom time to time may prescribe under Section 30(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to as amended (the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the "1940 Act; overseeing "); (vi) assisting the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in Funds' legal counsel with the preparation and filing with the SEC of the Fund's federalFunds' registration statement (including prospectuses and statements of additional information), state and local tax returns; preparing any amendments or supplements that may be made from time to time, and with the preparation and filing with the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 SEC of the Code; providing assistance with investor notices and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation proxy materials for meetings of portfolio securities and the calculation of net asset value; monitoring the registration of Shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; shareholders; (vii) assisting in the resolution printing of accounting issues the Funds' prospectuses, periodic reports to shareholders and proxy materials; and (viii) providing executive, clerical and secretarial personnel competent to carry out the above responsibilities. (b) WRIICO shall provide such other services required by the Funds as the parties from time to time may agree in writing are appropriate to be provided under this Agreement. In the event that may arise with respect WRIICO provides any services to the Fund's operations and consulting with Funds or pays or assumes any expenses of the Fund's independent accountantsFunds, legal counsel and which WRIICO is not obligated to provide, pay or assume under this Agreement, WRIICO shall not be obligated hereby to provide the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring same or any similar service to the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing Funds or to pay or assume the Fund's bills; processing same or any similar expenses of the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, and the accounting agent with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request Funds in the conduct of the Fund's businessfuture; provided, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations relieve WRIICO of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services obligations to the FundFunds under any separate agreement or arrangement between the parties.

Administrative Services. In addition to the portfolio management services specified above in section 23, you shall furnish at your expense for the use of the Fund such office space and facilities in the United States as the Fund may require for its reasonable needs, and you (or one or more of your affiliates designated by you) shall render to the Trust administrative services on behalf of the Fund necessary for operating as an open open-end investment company and not provided by persons not parties to this Agreement including, but not limited to, preparing reports to and meeting materials for the Trust's Board of Trustees and reports and notices to Fund shareholders; supervising, negotiating contractual arrangements with, to the extent appropriate, and monitoring the performance of, accounting agents, custodians, depositories, . transfer agents and pricing agents, accountants, attorneys, printers, underwriters, brokers and dealers, insurers and other persons in any capacity deemed to be necessary or desirable to Fund operations; preparing and making filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and other regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, including, but not limited to, preliminary and definitive proxy materials, post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, semi-annual reports on Form N-SAR and notices pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under the 1940 Act; overseeing the tabulation of proxies by the Fund's transfer agent; assisting in the preparation and filing of the Fund's federal, state and local tax returns; preparing and filing the Fund's federal excise tax return pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code; providing assistance with investor and public relations matters; monitoring the valuation of portfolio securities and securities, the calculation of net asset valuevalue and the calculation and payment of distributions to Fund shareholders; monitoring the registration of Shares shares of the Fund under applicable federal and state securities laws; maintaining or causing to be maintained for the Fund all books, records and reports and any other information required under the 1940 Act, to the extent that such books, records and reports and other information are not maintained by the Fund's custodian or other agents of the Fund; assisting in establishing the accounting policies of the Fund; assisting in the resolution of accounting issues that may arise with respect to the Fund's operations and consulting with the Fund's independent accountants, legal counsel and the Fund's other agents as necessary in connection therewith; establishing and monitoring the Fund's operating expense budgets; reviewing the Fund's bills; processing the payment of bills that have been approved by an authorized person; assisting the Fund in determining the amount of dividends and distributions available to be paid by the Fund to its shareholders, preparing and arranging for the printing of dividend notices to shareholders, and providing the transfer and dividend paying agent, the custodian, agent and the accounting agent custodian with such information as is required for such parties to effect the payment of dividends and distributions; and otherwise assisting the Trust as it may reasonably request in the conduct of the Fund's business, subject to the direction and control of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to shift to you or to diminish the obligations of any agent of the Fund or any other person not a party to this Agreement which is obligated to provide services to the Fund.