LAUDUS TRUST SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED EXPENSE LIMITATION AGREEMENT
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED EXPENSE LIMITATION AGREEMENT
This Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2019, is made and entered into by and between ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investment Management, Inc. (the “Adviser”) and Laudus Trust (the “Trust”) on behalf of each series of the Trust listed on Schedule A hereto, as may be amended from time to time (each a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”).
WHEREAS, the Trust is a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end management investment company of the series type, and each Fund is a series of the Trust;
WHEREAS, the Trust on behalf of each Fund and the Adviser have entered into Management Contracts dated, for each Fund, as set forth on Schedule A (each a “Management Agreement”), pursuant to which the Adviser provides investment management services to each Fund for compensation based on the value of the average daily net assets of each Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Trust and the Adviser have determined that it is appropriate and in the best interest of each Fund and its shareholders to maintain the expenses of each Fund at a level below the level to which each Fund may normally be subject.
NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. EXPENSE LIMITATION AND WAIVER. Until further notice from the Adviser to the Trust and in any event through July 30, 2021, the Adviser agrees that, to the extent that ordinary operating expenses incurred by a Fund in any fiscal year, including but not limited to investment advisory fees of the Adviser and including amounts payable pursuant to any plan adopted in accordance with Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act and sub-accounting fees (but excluding nonrecurring account fees, fees on securities transactions such as exchange fees, dividends and interest on securities sold short, service fees, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of such Fund’s business (the “Fund Operating Expenses”)), exceed the Expense Limit as set forth on SCHEDULE A, such excess amount will be the liability of the Adviser.
2. YEAR-END ADJUSTMENT. If necessary, on or before the last day of the first month of the Trust’s fiscal year, an adjustment payment shall be made by the appropriate party in order that the actual Fund Operating Expenses of each Fund for the prior fiscal year do not exceed the Expense Limit for each Fund as set forth on SCHEDULE A.
3. TERM AND TERMINATION. This Agreement shall continue in effect with respect to all Funds until July 30, 2021 and shall thereafter continue in effect with respect to each Fund for a period of two (2) years, and shall be subsequently renewed annually on a rolling basis in two (2) year increments, provided either party may elect not to renew the Agreement an additional two (2) years upon such sixty (60) days’ written prior notice. Nevertheless, this Agreement may be terminated by either party hereto, without payment of any penalty, upon sixty (60) days’ prior written notice to the other party at its principal place of business; provided that, in the case of termination by the Adviser, such action shall be authorized by the Trust’s Board of Trustees.
4. CAPTIONS. The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference and in no other way define or delineate any of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect.
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5. INTERPRETATION. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require the Trust or the Funds to take any action contrary to the Trust’s Declaration of Trust or Bylaws, each as in effect from time to time, or any applicable statutory or regulatory requirement, including without limitation any requirements under the 1940 Act, to which it is subject or by which it is bound, or to relieve or deprive the Trust’s Board of Trustees of its responsibility for or control of the conduct of the affairs of the Trust or the Funds.
6. DEFINITIONS. Any question of interpretation of any term or provision of this Agreement having a counterpart in or otherwise derived from the terms and provisions of a Management Agreement or the 1940 Act, shall have the same meaning as and be resolved by reference to such Management Agreement or the 1940 Act.
7. AMENDMENT. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument signed by each of the parties hereto.
A copy of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust, as amended, is on file with the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and notice is hereby given that this instrument is executed on behalf of the Trustees of the Trust as Trustees and not individually, and that the obligations of or arising out of this instrument are not binding upon any of the Trustees or shareholders individually but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be signed by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
| On behalf of the Fund |
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. | |||
| By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ | By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ | |||
| Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ | Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ | |||
| Title: SVP & CIO – Equities and Multi-Asset Strategies | Title: SVP, CFO & COO | |||
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Schedule A
| Fund |
Date of Management Contract |
Expense Limit | ||
| Laudus U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund (f/k/a Laudus Growth Investors U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund)
|
March 26, 2009 | Shares – 0.77% |
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