Crossmark ETF Trust Sample Contracts
ETF DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTEtf Distribution Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • Delaware
This ETF Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”) is effective this 1st day of July 2025, and made by and between Crossmark ETF Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Client”) having its principal place of business at 15375 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77079, and PINE Distributors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Distributor”).
CUSTODIAN AGREEMENTCustodian Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • New York
THIS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of July 1, 2025, between CROSSMARK ETF TRUST, a management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust and registered with the Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) (the “Fund” on behalf of itself and each of its series listed on Appendix A attached hereto, each a “Portfolio”), and BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO., a limited partnership formed under the laws of the State of New York (“BBH&Co.” or the “Custodian”). References herein to the Fund shall be read to mean the Fund on behalf of itself and/or the respective Portfolio(s), severally and not jointly, as the context requires.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY AGREEMENTAdministrative Agency Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • New York
THIS AGREEMENT is made as of July 1, 2025, by and between BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the State of New York (the “Administrator”), and CROSSMARK ETF TRUST a management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust (the “Fund” on behalf of each series listed on Appendix A to this Agreement each a “Portfolio” and collectively, the “Portfolios”) and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“the 1940 Act”).
FUND PFO/TREASURER AGREEMENTFund Pfo/Treasurer Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust
AGREEMENT made as of June 25, 2025, by and between Steward Funds, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“SFI”), Crossmark ETF Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “ETF Trust”), each having its principal office and place of business at 15375 Memorial Drive, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77079, and Cottonwood Falls, LLC, a Texas Limited Liability Company having its principal office and place of business at 23015 Heathercroft Dr., Katy, Texas 77450 (the “PFO/Treasurer”).
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENTAdministration Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • Texas
THIS ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated July 15, 2025, is made and entered into by and between CROSSMARK GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, INC. (the “Administrator”), a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business in Houston, Texas, and CROSSMARK ETF TRUST (the “Company”), on its own behalf and on behalf of its series listed on Appendix A hereto, as may be amended from time to time (the “Funds”), a Delaware statutory trust having its principal place of business in Houston, Texas.
FORM OF AUTHORIZED PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT CROSSMARK ETF TRUSTAuthorized Participant Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • New York
This Authorized Participant Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between PINE Distributors LLC (the “Distributor”) and __________ (the “Participant”) and is subject to acceptance by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (the “Transfer Agent”), and is further subject to acknowledgement and agreement by Crossmark ETF Trust (the “Trust”), a series trust offering a number of portfolios of securities (each a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”), solely with respect to Sections 4(c), 12(a), 12(c), 13 and 19 herein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in the current prospectus for each Fund as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time, and included in the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as it may be amended from time to time, or otherwise filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) (together with such Fund’s Statement of Additional Information incorporated therein, the “Prospectus”).
CROSSMARK LARGE CAP VALUE ETF SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENTSubscription Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust
This Agreement is made as of the 17th day of July, 2025 between Crossmark Global Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Purchaser”), and Crossmark ETF Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”). A copy of the Trust’s Certificate of Trust is on file with Secretary of the State of Delaware and notice is hereby given that the obligations of this Agreement are not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers or shareholders of the Trust individually, but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust.
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENTSubscription Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust
This Agreement is made as of the 21st day of May, 2025 between Crossmark Global Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Purchaser”), and Crossmark ETF Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”). A copy of the Certificate of Trust is on file with the Secretary of the State of Delaware and notice is hereby given that the obligations of this Agreement are not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers or shareholders of the Trust individually, but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust.
AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST OF CROSSMARK ETF TRUST A Delaware Statutory Trust March 27, 2025, as amended July 17, 2025Agreement and Declaration of Trust • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • Delaware
WHEREAS this Trust is being formed to carry on the business of an open-end management investment company as defined in the 1940 Act; and
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENTInvestment Advisory Agreement • July 18th, 2025 • Crossmark ETF Trust • Texas
THIS INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), effective commencing on July 15, 2025, is made and entered into by and between CROSSMARK GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, INC. (the “Adviser”) and CROSSMARK ETF TRUST (the “Company”), on its own behalf and on behalf of its series listed on Appendix A hereto, as may be amended from time to time (the “Funds”).