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September 19, 2005
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Investment Management Contract
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Capital Series (the "Trust"), of which ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Allocation
Core Portfolio (the "Fund") is a series, has been organized as a business trust
under the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to engage in the business of
an investment company. The Trust's shares of beneficial interest, no par value,
may be divided into series, each series representing the entire undivided
interest in a separate portfolio of assets. This Agreement relates solely to the
Fund.
The Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Trustees") has selected ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Advisers, LLC (the "Adviser") to provide overall investment advice and
management for the Fund, and to provide certain other services, as more fully
set forth below, and the Adviser is willing to provide such advice, management
and services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Adviser and the Trust, on behalf of the Fund, agree as
follows:
1. INVESTMENT AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES. The Adviser will use its best efforts
to provide to the Fund continuing and suitable investment programs with respect
to investments, consistent with the investment objectives, policies and
restrictions of the Fund. In the performance of the Adviser's duties hereunder,
subject to the Fund's organizational documents and the limitations set forth in
the Fund's then-current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
included in the registration statement of the Trust as in effect from time to
time under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), the Adviser will, at its own expense:
(a) furnish the Fund with advice and recommendations, consistent with
the investment objectives, policies and restrictions of the Fund,
with respect to the purchase, holding and disposition of portfolio
securities, alone or in consultation with any subadviser or
subadvisers appointed pursuant to this Agreement and subject to the
provisions of any sub-investment management contract respecting the
responsibilities of such subadviser or subadvisers; it being
understood that initially all of the Fund's assets will be invested
in the assets of three underlying funds, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Classic Value
▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ U.S. Global Leaders Growth Fund, and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Strategic Income Fund, and the principal responsibility of the
Adviser shall be to cause the Fund to purchase and redeem shares of
the underlying funds and to periodically rebalance the allocation of
the Fund's assets among the underlying funds; and provided further
that the Adviser is authorized to substitute a new investment
company for one or more of the underlying funds, such substitution
to be effective upon notice of such change to the Trustees;
(b) advise the Fund in connection with policy decisions to be made by
the Trustees or any committee thereof with respect to the Fund's
investments and, as requested, furnish the Fund with research,
economic and statistical data in connection with the Fund's
investments and investment policies;
(c) provide administration of the day-to-day investment operations of
the Fund;
(d) submit such reports relating to the valuation of the Fund's
securities as the Trustees may reasonably request;
(e) assist the Fund in any negotiations relating to the Fund's
investments with issuers, investment banking firms, securities
brokers or dealers and other institutions or investors;
(f) consistent with the provisions of Section 6 of this Agreement, place
orders for the purchase, sale or exchange of portfolio securities
with brokers or dealers selected by the Adviser, PROVIDED that in
connection with the placing of such orders and the selection of such
brokers or dealers the Adviser shall seek to obtain execution and
pricing within the policy guidelines determined by the Trustees and
set forth in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
of the Fund as in effect from time to time;
(g) provide office space and office equipment and supplies, the use of
accounting equipment when required, and necessary executive,
clerical and secretarial personnel for the administration of the
affairs of the Fund;
(h) from time to time or at any time requested by the Trustees, make
reports to the Fund of the Adviser's performance of the foregoing
services and furnish advice and recommendations with respect to
other aspects of the business and affairs of the Fund;
(i) maintain all books and records with respect to the Fund's securities
transactions required by the 1940 Act, including subparagraphs
(b)(5), (6), (9) and (10) and paragraph (f) of Rule 31a-1 thereunder
(other than those records being maintained by the Fund's custodian
or transfer agent) and preserve such records for the periods
prescribed therefor by Rule 31a-2 of the 1940 Act (the Adviser
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agrees that such records are the property of the Fund and will be
surrendered to the Fund promptly upon request therefor);
(j) obtain and evaluate such information relating to economies,
industries, businesses, securities markets and securities as the
Adviser may deem necessary or useful in the discharge of the
Adviser's duties hereunder;
(k) oversee, and use the Adviser's best efforts to assure the
performance of the activities and services of the custodian,
transfer agent or other similar agents retained by the Fund;
(l) give instructions to the Fund's custodian as to deliveries of
securities to and from such custodian and transfer of payment of
cash for the account of the Fund; and
(m) appoint and employ one or more sub-advisors satisfactory to the Fund
under sub-investment management agreements.
2. EXPENSES PAID BY THE ADVISER. The Adviser will pay:
(a) the compensation and expenses of all officers and employees of the
Trust, except that the Fund will pay a pro rata share of the
compensation of its Chief Compliance Officer;
(b) the expenses of office rent, telephone and other utilities, office
furniture, equipment, supplies and other expenses of the Fund; and
(c) any other expenses incurred by the Adviser in connection with the
performance of its duties hereunder.
3. EXPENSES OF THE FUND NOT PAID BY THE ADVISER. The Adviser will not be
required to pay any expenses which this Agreement does not expressly make
payable by it. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the
foregoing but subject to the provisions of Section 2, the Adviser will not be
required to pay under this Agreement:
(a) any and all expenses, taxes and governmental fees incurred by the
Trust or the Fund prior to the effective date of this Agreement;
(b) without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (a), the
expenses of organizing the Trust and the Fund (including without
limitation, legal, accounting and auditing fees and expenses
incurred in connection with the matters referred to in this clause
(b)), of initially registering shares of the Trust under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and of qualifying the shares for
sale under state securities laws for the initial offering and sale
of shares;
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(c) the compensation and expenses of Trustees who are not interested
persons (as used in this Agreement, such term shall have the meaning
specified in the 1940 Act) of the Adviser and of independent
advisers, independent contractors, consultants, managers and other
unaffiliated agents employed by the Fund other than through the
Adviser;
(d) legal, accounting, financial management, tax and auditing fees and
expenses of the Fund (including an allocable portion of the cost of
its employees rendering such services to the Fund);
(e) the fees and disbursements of custodians and depositories of the
Fund's assets, transfer agents, disbursing agents, plan agents and
registrars;
(f) taxes and governmental fees assessed against the Fund's assets and
payable by the Fund;
(g) the cost of preparing and mailing dividends, distributions, reports,
notices and proxy materials to shareholders of the Fund;
(h) brokers' commissions and underwriting fees;
(i) the expense of periodic calculations of the net asset value of the
shares of the Fund; and
(j) insurance premiums on fidelity, errors and omissions and other
coverages.
4. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER. The Adviser shall receive no fee for any
services under this Agreement. The Fund acknowledges that the Adviser will
indirectly receive compensation through its management of the underlying funds.
5. OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE ADVISER AND ITS AFFILIATES. Nothing herein
contained shall prevent the Adviser or any affiliate or associate of the Adviser
from engaging in any other business or from acting as investment adviser or
investment manager for any other person or entity, whether or not having
investment policies or portfolios similar to the Fund's; and it is specifically
understood that officers, directors and employees of the Adviser and those of
its affiliates may continue to engage in providing portfolio management services
and advice to other investment companies, whether or not registered, to other
investment advisory clients of the Adviser or of its affiliates and to said
affiliates themselves.
The Adviser shall have no obligation to acquire with respect to the Fund a
position in any investment which the Adviser, its officers, affiliates or
employees may acquire for its or their own accounts or for the account of
another client, if, in the sole discretion of the Adviser, it is not feasible or
desirable to acquire a position in such investment on behalf of the Fund.
Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Adviser from purchasing or
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recommending the purchase of a particular security for one or more funds or
clients while other funds or clients may be selling the same security.
6. AVOIDANCE OF INCONSISTENT POSITION. In connection with purchases or sales
of portfolio securities for the account of the Fund, neither the Adviser nor any
of its investment management subsidiaries, nor any of the Adviser's or such
investment management subsidiaries' directors, officers or employees will act as
principal or agent or receive any commission, except as may be permitted by the
1940 Act and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. If any occasions
shall arise in which the Adviser advises persons concerning the shares of the
Fund, the Adviser will act solely on its own behalf and not in any way on behalf
of the Fund. Nothing herein contained shall limit or restrict the Adviser or any
of its officers, affiliates or employees from buying, selling or trading in any
securities for its or their own account or accounts.
7. NO PARTNERSHIP OR JOINT VENTURE. Neither the Trust, the Fund nor the
Adviser are partners of or joint venturers with each other and nothing herein
shall be construed so as to make them such partners or joint venturers or impose
any liability as such on any of them.
8. NAME OF THE TRUST AND THE FUND. The Trust and the Fund may use the name
"▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇" or any name or names derived from or similar to the names "▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Advisers, LLC", "▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Life Insurance Company", or "▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Financial Services, Inc." only for so long as this Agreement remains in effect.
At such time as this Agreement shall no longer be in effect, the Trust and the
Fund will (to the extent that they lawfully can) cease to use such a name or any
other name indicating that the Fund is advised by or otherwise connected with
the Adviser. The Fund acknowledges that it has adopted the name ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Allocation Core Portfolio through permission of ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Life Insurance
Company, a Massachusetts insurance company, and agrees that ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Life
Insurance Company reserves to itself and any successor to its business the right
to grant the nonexclusive right to use the name "▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇" or any similar
name or names to any other corporation or entity, including but not limited to
any investment company of which ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Life Insurance Company or any
subsidiary or affiliate thereof shall be the investment adviser.
9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF THE ADVISER. The Adviser shall not be liable
for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the
Trust in connection with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a
loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on the
part of the Adviser in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard
by it of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. Any person, even
though also employed by the Adviser, who may be or become an employee of and
paid by the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope of his
employment by the Fund, to be acting in such employment solely for the Trust and
not as the Adviser's employee or agent.
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10. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall remain
in force until June 30, 2007, and from year to year thereafter, but only so long
as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually by (a) a majority
of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Adviser or (other than as
Board members) of the Fund, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose
of voting on such approval, and (b) either (i) the Trustees or (ii) a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. This Agreement may, on 60
days' written notice, be terminated at any time without the payment of any
penalty by the vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the
Fund, by the Trustees or by the Adviser. Termination of this Agreement shall not
be deemed to terminate or otherwise invalidate any provisions of any contract
between the Adviser and any other series of the Trust. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment. In interpreting the
provisions of this Section 10, the definitions contained in Section 2(a) of the
1940 Act (particularly the definitions of "assignment," "interested person" and
"voting security") shall be applied.
11. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT. No provision of this Agreement may be
changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in
writing signed by the party against which enforcement of the change, waiver,
discharge or termination is sought, and no amendment, transfer, assignment,
sale, hypothecation or pledge of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by (a) the Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not
interested persons of the Adviser or (other than as Trustees) of the Fund, cast
in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval, and
(b) a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, as defined in
the 1940 Act.
12. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in
accordance with the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
13. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and
separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered
invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any other or
others of them may be deemed invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.
14. MISCELLANEOUS. The captions in this Agreement are included for
convenience of reference only and in no way define or limit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect. This
Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
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one and the same instrument. The name ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Allocation Core Portfolio is
a series designation of the Trustees under the Trust's Declaration of Trust. The
Declaration of Trust has been filed with the Secretary of State of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The obligations of the Fund are not personally
binding upon, nor shall resort be had to the private property of, any of the
Trustees, shareholders, officers, employees or agents of the Trust, but only
upon the Fund and its property. The Fund shall not be liable for the obligations
of any other series of the Trust and no other series shall be liable for the
Fund's obligations hereunder.
Yours very truly,
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ CAPITAL SERIES
On behalf of
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Allocation Core Portfolio
By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
President and Chief Executive Officer
The foregoing contract is hereby agreed
to as of the date hereof.
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ADVISERS, LLC
By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Assistant Secretary
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