DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
DAILY INCOME FUND
(the "Fund")
Money Market Portfolio
(the "Portfolio")
money market Xpress Fund Shares
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
July 20, 2006
Xxxxx & Xxxx Distributors, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We hereby confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. In consideration of the agreements on your part herein
contained and of the payment by us to you of a compensatory asset-based sales
charge in an amount not to exceed 0.75% per annum of the money market Xpress
Fund Shares' average daily net assets and on the terms and conditions set forth
herein, on behalf of our Portfolio, we have agreed that you shall be, for the
period of this Agreement, a distributor, as our agent, for the unsold portion of
the money market Xpress Fund Shares, $.001 par value per share, as may be
effectively registered from time to time under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"). This Agreement is being entered into pursuant to the
Distribution and Service Plan (the "Plan") adopted by us on behalf of the money
market Xpress Fund Shares in accordance with Rule 12b-1 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act").
2. You will make payments from time to time from your fees
payable hereunder and your own resources and past profits for the following
purposes:
(a) to compensate OptionsXpress, Inc., with whom
you have a written contract, for providing assistance in distributing the money
market Xpress Fund Shares;
(b) to pay the costs of printing and distributing
the Portfolio's money market Xpress Fund Shares' prospectus to prospective
investors; and
(c) to defray the cost of the preparation and
printing of brochures and other promotional materials, mailings to prospective
shareholders, advertising, and other promotional activities, including salaries
and/or commissions of sales personnel in connection with the distribution of the
money market Xpress Fund Shares.
The Distributor will in its sole discretion determine the
amount of any payments made by the Distributor pursuant to this Agreement,
provided, however, that no such payment will increase the amount which the
Portfolio, on behalf of the money market Xpress Fund Shares, are required to pay
either to the Distributor under this Agreement or the Shareholder Servicing
Agreement or to the Manager under the Investment Management Contract, the
Administrative Services Agreement, or otherwise.
3. We hereby agree that you will act as our agent, and
hereby appoint you our agent, to offer, and to solicit offers to subscribe to,
the unsold balance of the money market Xpress Fund Shares as shall then be
effectively registered under the 0000 Xxx. All subscriptions for the money
market Xpress Fund Shares obtained by you shall be directed to us for acceptance
and shall not be binding on us until accepted by us. You shall have no authority
to make binding subscriptions on our behalf. We reserve the right to sell money
market Xpress Fund Shares through other distributors or directly to investors
through subscriptions received by us at our principal office in New York, New
York. The right given to you under this Agreement shall not apply to money
market Xpress Fund Shares issued in connection with (a) the merger or
consolidation of any other investment company with us, (b) our acquisition by
purchase or otherwise of all or substantially all of the assets or stock of any
other investment company, or (c) the reinvestment in our common stock by our
stockholders of dividends or other distributions or any other offering by us of
securities to our stockholders.
4. You will use your best efforts to obtain subscriptions to
money market Xpress Fund Shares upon the terms and conditions contained herein
and in our Prospectus, as in effect from time to time. You will send to us
promptly all subscriptions placed with you. We shall furnish you from time to
time, for use in connection with the offering of money market Xpress Fund
Shares, such other information with respect to us and money market Xpress Fund
Shares as you may reasonably request. We shall supply you with such copies of
our Registration Statement and Prospectus, as in effect from time to time, as
you may request. Except as we may authorize in writing, you are not authorized
to give any information or to make any representation that is not contained in
the Registration Statement or Prospectus, as then in effect. You may use
employees, agents and other persons, at your cost and expense, to assist you in
carrying out your obligations hereunder, but no such employee, agent or other
person shall be deemed to be our agent or have any rights under this agreement.
You may sell money market Xpress Fund Shares to or through OptionsXpress, Inc.
under the Private Class Sub-Distribution and Service Agreement (the
"OptionsXpress,Inc. Agreement") provided that X Company shall not be appointed
or authorized to act as our agent without our written consent.
With respect to the money market Xpress Fund Shares of our
Portfolio, you have entered into the OptionsXpress, Inc. Agreement which has
been approved by our Board of Directors, pursuant to which OptionsXpress, Inc.
is authorized to provide distribution assistance to you and to provide certain
shareholder servicing activities for customers of OptionsXpress, Inc. in
connection with the money market Xpress Fund Shares and pursuant to which
OptionsXpress, Inc. will be compensated directly by you for providing such
assistance and services. Pursuant to our Shareholder Servicing Agreement with
you with respect to our money market Xpress Fund Shares, you may make payments
to OptionsXpress, Inc. for performing shareholder servicing and related
administrative functions with respect to money market Xpress Fund Shares. These
payments will be made pursuant to the OptionsXpress, Inc. Agreement. It is
recognized that we shall have no obligation or liability to you or to
OptionsXpress, Inc. for any such payments under the OptionsXpress, Inc.
Agreement. Our obligation is solely to make payments to you under this
Distribution Agreement and under the Shareholder Servicing Agreement (with
respect to the money market Xpress Fund Shares) and to the Manager under the
Investment Management Contract and the Administrative Services Contract. All
sales of our shares effected through you will be made in compliance with all
applicable federal securities laws and regulations and the Constitution, rules
and regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
("NASD").
5. We reserve the right to suspend the offering of the money
market Xpress Fund Shares at any time, in the absolute discretion of our Board
of Directors, and upon notice of such suspension you shall cease to offer shares
of the money market Xpress Fund Shares hereunder.
6. Both of us will cooperate with each other in taking such
action as may be necessary to qualify the money market Xpress Fund Shares for
sale under the securities laws of such states as we may designate, provided,
that you shall not be required to register as a broker-dealer or file a consent
to service of process in any such state where you are not now so registered.
Pursuant to the Investment Management Contract in effect between us and the
Manager, we will pay all fees and expenses of registering the money market
Xpress Fund Shares under the 1933 Act and of qualification of the money market
Xpress Fund Shares, and to the extent necessary, our qualification under
applicable state securities laws. You will pay all expenses relating to your
broker-dealer qualification.
7. We represent to you that our Registration Statement and
Prospectus have been carefully prepared to date in conformity with the
requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations of
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") thereunder. We represent and
warrant to you, as of the date hereof, that our Registration Statement and
Prospectus contain all statements required to be stated therein in accordance
with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and regulations
thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein are or will be true
and correct at the time indicated or the effective date as the case may be; and
that neither our Registration Statement nor our Prospectus, when they shall
become effective or be authorized for use, will include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading to a purchaser of the
money market Xpress Fund Shares. We will from time to time file such amendment
or amendments to our Registration Statement and Prospectus as, in the light of
future development, shall, in the opinion of our counsel, be necessary in order
to have our Registration Statement and Prospectus at all times contain all
material facts required to be stated therein or necessary to make any statements
therein not misleading to a purchaser of the money market Xpress Fund Shares. If
we shall not file such amendment or amendments within fifteen days after our
receipt of a written request from you to do so, you may, at your option,
terminate this agreement immediately. We will not file any amendment to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus without giving you reasonable notice
thereof in advance; provided, however, that nothing in this agreement shall in
any way limit our right to file such amendments to our Registration Statement or
Prospectus, of whatever character, as we may deem advisable, such right being in
all respects absolute and unconditional. We represent and warrant to you that
any amendment to our Registration Statement or Prospectus hereafter filed by us
will be carefully prepared in conformity within the requirements of the 1933 Act
and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and regulations thereunder and will, when
it becomes effective, contain all statements required to be stated therein in
accordance with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and
regulations thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein will, when
the same shall become effective, be true and correct; and that no such
amendment, when it becomes effective, will include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading to a purchaser of the
money market Xpress fund Shares.
8. We agree to indemnify, defend and hold you, and any
person who controls you within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act, free
and harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities and expenses
(including the cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or
liabilities and any counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which you or
any such controlling person may incur, under the 1933 Act or the 1940 Act, or
under common law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon any alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in our Registration Statement or
Prospectus in effect from time to time or arising out of or based upon any
alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in either of
them or necessary to make the statements in either of them not misleading;
provided, however, that in no event shall anything herein contained be so
construed as to protect you against any liability to us or our security holders
to which you would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith, or gross negligence in the performance of your duties, or by reason of
your reckless disregard of your obligations and duties under this agreement. Our
agreement to indemnify you and any such controlling person is expressly
conditioned upon our being notified of any action brought against you or any
such controlling person, such notification to be given by letter or by telegram
addressed to us at our principal office in New York, New York, and sent to us by
the person against whom such action is brought within ten days after the summons
or other first legal process shall have been served. The failure so to notify us
of any such action shall not relieve us from any liability which we may have to
the person against whom such action is brought other than on account of our
indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph 8. We will be entitled to assume
the defense of any suit brought to enforce any such claim, and to retain counsel
of good standing chosen by us and approved by you. In the event we do elect to
assume the defense of any such suit and retain counsel of good standing approved
by you, the defendant or defendants in such suit shall bear the fees and
expenses of any additional counsel retained by any of them; but in case we do
not elect to assume the defense of any such suit, or in case you, in good faith,
do not approve of counsel chosen by us, we will reimburse you or the controlling
person or persons named as defendant or defendants in such suit, for the fees
and expenses of any counsel retained by you or them. Our indemnification
agreement contained in this paragraph 8 and our representations and warranties
in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any
investigation made by or on behalf of you or any controlling person and shall
survive the sale of any money market Xpress Fund Shares made pursuant to
subscriptions obtained by you. This agreement of indemnity will inure
exclusively to your benefit, to the benefit of your successors and assigns,
and to the benefit of any of your controlling persons and their successors
and assigns. We agree promptly to notify you of the commencement of any
litigation or proceeding against us in connection with the issue and sale of
any money market Xpress Fund Shares.
9. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our several
officers and directors, and any person who controls us within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act, free and harmless from and against any and all
claims, demands, liabilities, and expenses (including the cost of investigating
or defending such claims, demands or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees
incurred in connection therewith) which we, our officers or directors, or any
such controlling person may incur under the 1933 Act or under common law or
otherwise, but only to the extent that such liability or expense incurred by us,
our officers or directors or such controlling person shall arise out of or be
based upon any alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in
information furnished in writing by you to us for use in our Registration
Statement or Prospectus as in effect from time to time, or shall arise out of or
be based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact in connection with
such information required to be stated in the Registration Statement or
Prospectus or necessary to make such information not misleading. Your agreement
to indemnify us, our officers and directors, and any such controlling person is
expressly conditioned upon your being notified of any action brought against us,
our officers or directors or any such controlling person, such notification to
be given by letter or telegram addressed to you at your principal office in New
York, New York, and sent to you by the person against whom such action is
brought, within ten days after the summons or other first legal process shall
have been served. You shall have a right to control the defense of such action,
with counsel of your own choosing, satisfactory to us, if such action is based
solely upon such alleged misstatement or omission on your part, and in any other
event you and we, our officers or directors or such controlling person shall
each have the right to participate in the defense or preparation of the defense
of any such action. The failure so to notify you of any such action shall not
relieve you from any liability which you may have to us, to our officers or
directors, or to such controlling person other than on account of your indemnity
agreement contained in this paragraph 9.
10. We agree to advise you immediately:
(a) of any request by the SEC for amendments to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information,
(b) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order
suspending the effectiveness of our Registration Statement or Prospectus or the
initiation of any proceedings for that purpose,
(c) of the happening of any material event which
makes untrue any statement made in our Registration Statement or Prospectus or
which requires the making of a change in either of them in order to make the
statements therein not misleading, and
(d) of all action of the SEC with respect to any
amendments to our Registration Statement or Prospectus.
11. This Agreement will become effective on the date hereof
and shall continue in effect until [July 20, 2007], and thereafter for
successive twelve-month periods , provided that such continuation is
specifically approved at least annually by vote of our Board of Directors and of
a majority of those of our directors who are not interested persons (as defined
in the 0000 Xxx) and have no direct or indirect financial interest in the
operation of the Plan or in any agreements related to the Plan, cast in person
at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on this agreement. This agreement
may be terminated at any time, without the payment of any penalty, (a) on sixty
days' written notice to you (i) by vote of a majority of our entire Board of
Directors, and by a vote of a majority of our Directors who are not interested
persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and who have no direct or indirect
financial interest in the operation of the Plan or in any agreement related to
the Plan, or (ii) by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of
the money market Xpress Fund Shares, as defined in the Act, or (b) by you on
sixty days' written notice to us.
12. This Agreement may not be transferred, assigned,
sold or in any manner hypothecated or pledged by you and this Agreement shall
terminate automatically in the event of any such transfer, assignment, sale,
hypothecation or pledge by you. The terms "transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as
used in this paragraph shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing law
and in applicable rules or regulations of the SEC thereunder.
13. Except to the extent necessary to perform your
obligations hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your
right, the right of any of your employees, officers or directors, who may also
be a director, officer or employee of ours, or of a person affiliated with us,
as defined in the 1940 Act, to engage in any other business or to devote time
and attention to the management or other aspects of any other business, whether
of a similar or dissimilar nature, or to render services of any kind to another
corporation, firm, individual or association.
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,
DAILY INCOME FUND
Money Market Portfolio
Class X Shares
By: /s/Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:Secretary
ACCEPTED: July 20, 2006
XXXXX & XXXX DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
By: /s/Xxxxxxx Xx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xx Xxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
