Common use of CORPORATE ACTIVITY Clause in Contracts

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company and the Company's transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company and the Custodian, to assist the Company in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the Company's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the Company, at such times as the Company may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors Trustees of the Company Fund to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Fund and the Company's Fund’s transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's Fund’s transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Fund and the Custodian, to assist the Company Fund in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyFund's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Fund’s Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyFund, at such times as the Company Fund may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Fund to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Company in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company and the Company's ’s transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's ’s transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company and the Custodian, to assist the Company in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the Company's ’s independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's ’s activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's ’s Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the Company, at such times as the Company may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Trust in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company Trust to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Trust and the CompanyTrust's transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the CompanyTrust's transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Trust and the Custodian, to assist the Company Trust in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyTrust's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the CompanyTrust's Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyTrust, at such times as the Company Trust may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Trust to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Trust in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors Trustees of the Company Trust to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Trust and the CompanyTrust's transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the CompanyTrust's transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Trust and the Custodian, to assist the Company Trust in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyTrust's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the CompanyTrust's Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyTrust, at such times as the Company Trust may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Trust to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Trust in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors Trustees of the Company Trust to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Trust and the Company's Trust’s transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's Trust’s transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Trust and the Custodian, to assist the Company Trust in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyTrust's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Trust’s Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyTrust, at such times as the Company Trust may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Trust to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Trust in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company Trust to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Trust and the Company's Trust’s transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's Trust’s transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Trust and the Custodian, to assist the Company Trust in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyTrust's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Trust’s Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyTrust, at such times as the Company Trust may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Trust to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to promptly forward to the Fund in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company and the Company's transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Instructions, shall advise the Company's transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company and the Custodian, to assist the Company in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the Company's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the Company, at such times as the Company may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY. The Custodian will exercise its best efforts to forward to the Fund Trust in a timely manner all notices of shareholder meetings, proxy statements, annual reports, conversion notices, call notices, information concerning redemption rights that are exercisable at the Trust’s option, tender or exchange offers, or other notices or written materials of any kind (excluding share certificates and dividend, principal and interest payments) sent to the Custodian as registered owner of Securities. Best efforts as used in this Agreement shall mean the efforts reasonably believed in good faith by the Custodian to be adequate in the circumstances. The foregoing notwithstanding, if the Custodian receives a class action litigation proof of claim in respect to any of the Securities, the Custodian shall file such claims on behalf of the Trust. Upon receipt of warrants or rights issued in connection with the assets of a Fund, the Custodian shall enter into its ledgers appropriate notations indicating such receipt and shall notify the Fund of such receipt. However, the Custodian shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to such warrants or rights, except as directed in Written or Oral Appropriate+ Instructions. The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary information to the entity or entities appointed by the Board of Directors Trustees of the Company Trust to keep the books of account of each Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the outstanding shares of each Fund or, upon Written Appropriate Instructions, shall itself keep such books of account and/or compute such net asset values per share. Upon Written Appropriate Instructions, the Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of each Fund as described in the Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus and shall advise the Company Trust and the Company's Trust’s transfer agent daily of the total amounts of such net income and, upon Written Appropriate Instructions, shall advise the Company's Trust’s transfer agent periodically of the division of such net income among its various components. The calculations of the net asset value per share and the daily income of each Fund shall be made at the time or times described from time to time in the applicable Fund's ’s currently effective prospectus. The Custodian shall take all reasonable actions, as agreed to by the Company Trust and the Custodian, to assist the Company Trust in obtaining from year to year favorable opinions from the CompanyTrust's independent auditors with respect to the Custodian's activities hereunder in connection with the preparation of the Company's Trust’s Forms N-1A, Forms N-SAR or other reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to any other requirements of such Commission. The Custodian shall provide the CompanyTrust, at such times as the Company Trust may reasonably require, with reports by independent accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting controls and procedures for safeguarding Securities, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, including Securities deposited and/or maintained in a Securities System, relating to the services provided by the Custodian hereunder; such reports shall be of sufficient scope, and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably be required by the Company Trust to provide reasonable assurance that any material inadequacies would be disclosed by such examination and, if there are no such inadequacies, the reports shall so state.