Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust and its Trustees The terms “Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust” and the “Trustees of Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust” refer respectively to the Trust created and the Trustees, as trustees but not individually or personally, acting from time to time under the Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust made and dated as of October 28, 2004, as has been or may be amended and/or restated from time to time, and to which reference is hereby made.
Investment Management Trust Agreement The Company has entered into the Trust Agreement with respect to certain proceeds of the Offering and the Private Placement substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and Massachusetts Business Trust It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither the holders of shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder. With respect to any Fund which is a party to this Agreement and which is organized as a Massachusetts business trust (“Trust”), the term “Fund” means and refers to the trust established by its applicable trust agreement (Declaration of Trust) as the same may be amended from time to time. It is expressly agreed that the obligations of any such Trust hereunder shall not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers, agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property of the Trust, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution and delivery of this Agreement has been authorized by the trustees and signed by an authorized officer of the Trust, acting as such, and neither such authorization by such Trustees nor such execution and delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any of them, but shall bind only the trust property of the Trust as provided in its Declaration of Trust.
Sub-Advisor The U.K. Sub-Advisor shall pay the salaries and fees of all personnel of the U.K. Sub-Advisor performing services for the Portfolio relating to research, statistical and investment activities.
Investment Sub-Advisory Services Sub-Adviser shall serve as investment sub-adviser and shall supervise and direct the investments of each series of Penn Series listed on Exhibit A attached hereto (each, a “Fund”), as such Exhibit may be amended by mutual agreement of the parties hereto, and to exercise all rights incidental to ownership in accordance with the investment objectives, program and restrictions applicable to the Fund as provided in Penn Series’ Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), as amended from time to time, and such other limitations as may be imposed by law or as Penn Series or Adviser may impose with notice in writing to Sub-Adviser. To enable Sub-Adviser to fully exercise its discretion, Adviser hereby appoints Sub-Adviser as agent and attorney-in-fact for the Fund with full power and authority to buy, sell and otherwise deal in securities and contracts for the Fund. No investment will be made by Sub-Adviser for the Fund if the investment would violate the investment objectives, investment restrictions or limitations of the Fund set out in the Prospectus and the SAI delivered to the Sub-Adviser and as may be amended and delivered to Sub-Adviser in the future. Sub-Adviser shall not take custody of any assets of Penn Series, but shall issue settlement instructions to the custodian designated by Penn Series (the “Custodian”). Sub-Adviser shall, in its discretion, obtain and evaluate such information relating to the economy, industries, businesses, securities markets and securities as it may deem necessary or useful in the discharge of its obligations hereunder and shall formulate and implement a continuing program for the management of the assets and resources of the Fund in a manner consistent with the investment objectives of the Fund. In furtherance of this duty, Sub-Adviser, as agent and attorney-in-fact with respect to Adviser and Penn Series, is authorized, in its discretion and without prior consultation with Adviser or Penn Series, to:
Sub-Advisors The Advisor may from time to time, in its sole discretion to the extent permitted by applicable law, appoint one or more sub-advisors, including, without limitation, affiliates of the Advisor, to perform investment advisory services with respect to the Fund. The Advisor may terminate any or all sub-advisors in its sole discretion at any time to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Fund Administration Treasury Services a. Prepare for the review by designated officer(s) of the Trusts’ financial information that will be included in the Trusts’ semi-annual and annual shareholder reports (which shall also be subject to review by the Trusts’ legal counsel), and other quarterly reports (as mutually agreed upon), including tax footnote disclosures where applicable;
The Advisor Subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Agreement, the Advisor and each officer, director, shareholder and employee of the Advisor and each person who controls the Advisor, shall be indemnified, defended and held harmless by the Company and the Administrator, jointly and severally, from and against any and all claims, losses, judgments, liabilities, damages, costs, expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable investigatory and attorneys’ fees and reasonable expenses) and amounts paid in settlement of any claims in compliance with the conditions specified below (collectively, “Losses”) sustained by the Advisor (i) in connection with any acts or omissions of the Advisor or any of its officers, directors or employees relating to its management of the Allocated Assets, including in connection with this Agreement or otherwise as a result of the Advisor’s performance of services on behalf of the Company or its role as trading advisor in respect of the Allocated Assets and/or (ii) as a result of a material breach of this Agreement by the Company; provided, however, that (i) such Losses were not the result of the gross negligence, willful misconduct or material breach of this Agreement on the part of the Advisor, its officers, directors, shareholders and employees and each person controlling the Advisor, (ii) the Advisor and its officers, directors, shareholders and employees and each person controlling the Advisor, acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed by it and them to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and (iii) any such indemnification will only be recoverable from the Allocated Assets and the assets of the Administrator; and provided further that no indemnification shall be permitted under this Section 2 for amounts paid in settlement if either (A) the Advisor fails to notify the Company of the terms of any settlement proposed, at least fifteen (15) days before any amounts are paid or (B) the Company does not approve the amount of the settlement within fifteen (15) days of any such notice (such approval not to be withheld unreasonably). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall at all times have the right to offer to settle any matter with the approval of the Advisor (which approval shall not be withheld unreasonably), and if the Company successfully negotiates a settlement and tenders payment therefor to the party claiming indemnification (the “Indemnitee”), the Indemnitee must either use its best efforts to dispose of the matter in accordance with the terms and conditions of the proposed settlement or the Indemnitee may refuse to settle the matter and continue its defense in which latter event the maximum liability of the Company and the Administrator to the Indemnitee shall be the amount of said proposed settlement.
Asset Management Services (i) Real Estate and Related Services:
Investment Management Services (a) The Manager shall manage the Fund’s assets subject to and in accordance with the investment objectives and policies of the Fund and any directions which the Trust’s Board of Trustees may issue from time to time. In pursuance of the foregoing, the Manager shall make all determinations with respect to the investment of the Fund’s assets and the purchase and sale of its investment securities, and shall take such steps as may be necessary to implement the same. Such determinations and services shall include determining the manner in which any voting rights, rights to consent to corporate action and any other rights pertaining to the Fund’s investment securities shall be exercised. The Manager shall render or cause to be rendered regular reports to the Trust, at regular meetings of its Board of Trustees and at such other times as may be reasonably requested by the Trust’s Board of Trustees, of (i) the decisions made with respect to the investment of the Fund’s assets and the purchase and sale of its investment securities, (ii) the reasons for such decisions and (iii) the extent to which those decisions have been implemented.
