MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT BNY MELLON MUNICIPAL BOND INFRASTRUCTURE FUND, INC. 240 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10286
BNY MELLON
MUNICIPAL BOND INFRASTRUCTURE FUND, INC.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
March 7, 2013
Amended as of June 3, 2019
BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The above-named investment company (the "Fund") herewith confirms its agreement with you as follows:
The Fund desires to employ its capital by investing and reinvesting the same in investments of the type and in accordance with the limitations specified in the Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information as from time to time in effect, copies of which have been or will be submitted to you, and in such manner and to such extent as from time to time may be approved by the Fund's Board. The Fund desires to employ you to act as its investment adviser.
In connection with your serving as investment adviser to the Fund, it is understood that from time to time you will employ or associate with yourself such person or persons as you may believe to be particularly fitted to assist you in the performance of this Agreement. Such person or persons may be officers or employees of both you and the Fund. The compensation of such person or persons shall be paid by you and no obligation may be incurred on the Fund's behalf in any such respect. We have discussed and concur in your employing on this basis, for as long as you deem it appropriate, the indicated sub-investment adviser (the "Sub-Investment Adviser") named on Schedule 1 hereto to act as the Fund's sub-investment adviser and provide day-to-day management of the Fund's investments.
Subject to the supervision and approval of the Fund's Board, you will provide investment management of the Fund's portfolio in accordance with the Fund's investment objective, policies and limitations as stated in the Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information as from time to time in effect. In connection therewith, you will supervise the Fund's investments and conduct, or if you engage the Sub-Investment Adviser, supervise, a continuous program of investment, evaluation and, if appropriate, sale and reinvestment of the Fund's assets. You will furnish to the Fund such statistical information, with respect to the investments which the Fund may hold or contemplate purchasing, as the Fund may reasonably request. The Fund wishes to be informed of important developments materially affecting its portfolio and shall expect you, on your own initiative, to furnish to the Fund from time to time such information as you may believe appropriate for this purpose.
In addition, you will supply office facilities (which may be in your own offices), data processing services, clerical, accounting and bookkeeping services, internal auditing and legal services, internal executive and administrative services, and stationery and office supplies; prepare reports to the Fund's shareholders, tax returns, reports to and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and state Blue Sky authorities; calculate the net asset value of the Fund's shares; and generally assist in all aspects of the Fund's operations. You shall have the right, at your expense, to engage other entities to assist you in performing some or all of the obligations set forth in this paragraph, provided each such entity enters
into an agreement with you in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Fund. You agree to be liable for the acts or omissions of each such entity to the same extent as if you had acted or failed to act under the circumstances.
You shall exercise your best judgment in rendering the services to be provided to the Fund hereunder and the Fund agrees as an inducement to your undertaking the same that neither you nor the Sub-Investment Adviser shall be liable hereunder for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to protect or purport to protect you or the Sub-Investment Adviser against any liability to the Fund or to its shareholders to which you would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of your duties hereunder, or by reason of your reckless disregard of your obligations and duties hereunder, or to which the Sub-Investment Adviser would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties under its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under said agreement.
In consideration of services rendered pursuant to this Agreement, the Fund will pay you on the first business day of each month, a fee at the annual rate of 0.65% of the average daily value of the Fund's Managed Assets. "Managed Assets" are the total assets of the Fund, including any assets attributable to effective leverage (i.e., any structural leverage and portfolio leverage used by the Fund), minus the Fund's accrued liabilities, other than any liabilities or obligations attributable to effective leverage obtained through (i) indebtedness of any type (including, without limitation, borrowings from banks or other financial institutions or the issuance of debt securities or through the purchase of residual interest bonds), (ii) the issuance of preferred stock or other similar preference securities, (iii) the reinvestment of collateral received for securities loaned in accordance with the Fund's investment objective and policies and/or (iv) any other means, all as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The fee for the period from the date of the commencement of the initial public sale of the Fund's shares to the end of the month during which such sale shall have been commenced shall be pro-rated according to the proportion which such period bears to the full monthly period, and upon any termination of this Agreement before the end of any month, the fee for such part of a month shall be pro-rated according to the proportion which such period bears to the full monthly period and shall be payable upon the date of termination of this Agreement.
For the purpose of calculating the fee payable to you, the value of the Fund's total assets shall be computed in the manner and on such days and at such time or times as described in the section entitled "Determination of Net Asset Value" in the Fund's then-current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.
You will bear all expenses in connection with the performance of your services under this Agreement and will pay all fees of the Sub-Investment Adviser in connection with its duties in respect of the Fund. All other expenses to be incurred in the operation of the Fund (other than those borne by the Sub-Investment Adviser) will be borne by the Fund, except to the extent specifically assumed by you. The expenses to be borne by the Fund include, without limitation, the following: (i) organizational and offering expenses; (ii) taxes and interest; (iii) brokerage fees and commissions, if any, and other costs in connection with the purchase or sale of securities and other investment instruments (including, without limitation, security settlement costs); (iv) loan commitment fees; (v) interest and distributions paid on securities sold short; (vi) fees of Board members who are not your or the Sub-Investment Adviser's officers, directors or employees or holders of 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities of you or the Sub-Investment Adviser or any affiliate of you or the Sub-Investment Adviser; (vii) fees and expenses related to the registration and qualification of the Fund and the Fund's shares for distribution under state and federal securities laws; (viii) fees and expenses related to the registration and listing the Fund's shares
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on any securities exchange; (ix) expenses related to the Fund's use of leverage, if any; (x) rating agency fees; (xi) advisory fees; (xii) charges of custodians; (xiii) charges of transfer, dividend disbursing and dividend reinvestment plan agents; (xiv) certain insurance premiums; (xv) industry association fees; (xvi) outside auditing and legal expenses; (xvii) costs of independent pricing services; (xviii) costs of maintaining the Fund's existence; (xix) expenses of repurchasing shares; (xx) the Fund's allocable portion of the costs of the Fund's chief compliance officer and staff; (xxi) costs of preparing, printing and distributing shareholders reports, notices, proxy statements and reports to governmental agencies; (xxii) costs of shareholders' meetings; and (xxiii) any extraordinary expenses.
The Fund understands that you and the Sub-Investment Adviser now act, and that from time to time hereafter you or the Sub-Investment Adviser may act, as investment adviser or sub-investment adviser to one or more other investment companies and fiduciary or other managed accounts (collectively, the "accounts"), and the Fund has no objection to your and the Sub-Investment Adviser's so acting, provided that when the purchase or sale of securities of the same issuer is suitable for the investment objectives of two or more accounts managed by you and which have available funds for investment in the case of a purchase, the available securities will be allocated in a manner believed by you to be equitable to each account. It is recognized that in some cases this procedure may adversely affect the price paid or received by the Fund or the size of the position obtainable for or disposed of by the Fund.
In addition, it is understood that the persons employed by you to assist in the performance of your duties hereunder will not devote their full time to such services and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your right or the right of any of your affiliates to engage in and devote time and attention to other businesses or to render services of whatever kind or nature.
Neither you nor the Sub-Investment Adviser shall be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except, in your case, for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the performance of your duties or from reckless disregard by you of your obligations and duties under this Agreement and, in the case of the Sub-Investment Adviser, for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by the Sub-Investment Adviser of its obligations and duties under its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you. Any person, even though also your officer, director, partner, employee or agent, who may be or become an officer, Board member, employee or agent of the Fund, shall be deemed, when rendering services to the Fund or acting on any business of the Fund, to be rendering such services to or acting solely for the Fund and not as your officer, director, partner, employee or agent or one under your control or direction even though paid by you.
This Agreement shall continue automatically for successive annual periods ending on August 31st of each year, provided such continuance is specifically approved at least annually by (i) the Fund's Board or (ii) vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) of the Fund's outstanding voting securities, provided that in either event its continuance also is approved by a majority of the Fund's Board members who are not "interested persons" (as defined in said Act) of any party to this Agreement, by vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. This Agreement is terminable without penalty, on 60 days' notice, by the Fund's Board or by vote of holders of a majority of the Fund's outstanding voting securities or, upon not less than 90 days' notice, by you. This Agreement also will terminate automatically in the event of its assignment (as defined in said Act).
The Fund recognizes that from time to time your directors, officers and employees may serve as directors, trustees, partners, officers and employees of other corporations, business trusts, partnerships or other entities (including other investment companies) and that such other entities may include the name "BNY Xxxxxx" as part of their name, and that your corporation or its affiliates may enter into investment
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advisory or other agreements with such other entities. If you cease to act as the Fund's investment adviser, the Fund agrees that, at your request, the Fund will take all necessary action to change the name of the Fund to a name not including "BNY Mellon" in any form or combination of words.
The Fund is agreeing to the provisions of this Agreement that limit the Sub-Investment Adviser's liability and other provisions relating to the Sub-Investment Adviser so as to induce the Sub-Investment Adviser to enter into its Sub-Investment Advisory Agreement with you and to perform its obligations thereunder. The Sub-Investment Adviser is expressly made a third party beneficiary of this Agreement with rights as respects the Fund to the same extent as if it had been a party hereto.
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived or discharged unless signed in writing by the parties hereto. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of law principles thereof, provided that nothing herein shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original for all purposes, including judicial proof of the terms hereof, and all of which together shall constitute and be deemed one and the same agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed a limitation or waiver of any obligation or duty that may not by law be limited or waived. If any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be held contrary to express law or against public policy, or shall for any reason whatsoever be held invalid, then such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remainder of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement.
Unless otherwise provided herein or agreed to in writing by the parties, all notices, instructions or advice permitted or required under this Agreement shall be deemed to have been properly given if sent by regular first-class mail, registered mail, private courier or facsimile and addressed to (or delivered to) the respective party at the address set forth above or at such other address or addresses as shall be specified, in each case, in a notice similarly given. Each party may rely upon any notice from the other party or other communication reasonably believed by the receiving party to be genuine.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, will you kindly so indicate by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy hereof.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| BNY MELLON MUNICIPAL BOND INFRASTRUCTURE FUND, INC. | ||
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By: /s/ Xxxxx XxXxxxx-Xxxxxx Name: Xxxxx XxXxxxx-Xxxxxx | ||
| Accepted: | ||
| BNY MELLON INVESTMENT ADVISER, INC. | ||
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By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Title: Secretary |
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SCHEDULE 1
BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. has engaged Insight North America LLC to act as sub-investment adviser to the Fund.
Amended as of: September 1, 2021
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