AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED DELEGATION AGREEMENT

Exhibit (g)(2)(x)

 

AMENDMENT TO

AMENDED AND RESTATED DELEGATION AGREEMENT

 

This Amendment to the Amended and Restated Delegation Agreement (the “Amendment”) is made as of October 12, 2017 by and between STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts trust company (“State Street” or “Delegate”) and GMO TRUST, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Trust”), on behalf of each series of the Trust set forth on Exhibit 1 hereto (each a “Fund”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement (as defined below).

 

WHEREAS, GMO Trust and Investors Bank & Trust Company (“IBT”) entered into an Amended and Restated Delegation Agreement dated as of June 29, 2001 (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, IBT merged with and into State Street, effective July 2, 2007, with the result that State Street now serves as Delegate under the Agreement and all references in the Agreement to “IBT” shall now be references to State Street; and

 

WHEREAS, GMO Trust and State Street desire to amend the Agreement as more particularly set forth below.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.

Amendment.

 

(a)

Exhibit 1 to the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with Exhibit 1 attached hereto.

 

2.

Miscellaneous.

 

(a)

Except as expressly amended hereby, all provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

(b)

This Amendment may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be executed in either original or electronically transmitted form (e.g., faxes or emailed portable document format (PDF) form), and the parties hereby adopt as original any signatures received via electronically transmitted form.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their duly authorized representatives as of the date first written above.

 

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
By:	/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name:	▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title:	Executive Vice President
GMO Trust, on behalf of each series of
the Trust set forth on Exhibit 1 hereto
By:	/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name:	▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title:	Vice President

 

 

EXHIBIT 1

 

(Effective as of October 12, 2017)

 

List of GMO Trust Funds

 

 

GMO SGM Major Markets Fund	GMO Asset Allocation Bond Fund
GMO Benchmark-Free Allocation Fund	GMO Benchmark-Free Fund
GMO Climate Change Fund	GMO Core Plus Bond Fund
GMO Emerging Country Debt Fund	GMO Global Asset Allocation Fund
GMO Global Equity Allocation Fund
GMO International Developed Equity Allocation Fund	GMO Implementation Fund
GMO Opportunistic Income Fund	GMO International Equity Allocation Fund
GMO Special Opportunities Fund	GMO Quality Fund
GMO Strategic Opportunities Allocation Fund	GMO Risk Premium Fund
GMO U.S. Treasury Fund	GMO U. S. Equity Allocation Fund
GMO Alpha Only Fund*	GMO Global Developed Equity Allocation Fund
GMO Emerging Domestic Opportunities Fund*	GMO Emerging Markets Fund
GMO International Large/Mid Cap Equity Fund*	GMO Foreign Small Companies Fund*
GMO International Small Companies Fund*	GMO International Equity Fund*
GMO Taiwan Fund*	GMO Resources Fund*
GMO Tax-Managed International Equities Fund*

 

*This Amendment will be effective as to the Fund upon conversion of such Fund to State Street, anticipated to be on or about November 6, 2017.

 

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