EXHIBIT 5(n)
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ EQUITY PORTFOLIOS, INC.
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▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
October 10, 1994
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sachs Asset Management
a separate operating division of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.
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▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SACHS BALANCED FUND
Dear Sirs:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Equity Portfolios, Inc. (the "Company") has been organized as a
corporation under the laws of Maryland to engage in the business of an
investment company. The shares of common stock of the Company ("Shares") may be
divided into multiple series ("Series"), including the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sachs Balanced
Fund (the "Fund"). Each Series will represent the interests in a separate
portfolio of securities and other assets. Each Series may be terminated, and
additional Series established, from time to time by action of the Board of
Directors. The Company on behalf of the Fund has selected you to act as the
investment adviser of the Fund and to provide certain services, as more fully
set forth below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and to
perform such services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Company agrees with you as follows:
1. Name of Company. The Company may use any name including or
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derived from the name "▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇" in connection with the Fund only for so
long as this Agreement or any extension, renewal or amendment hereof remains in
effect, including any similar agreement with any organization which shall have
succeeded to your business as investment adviser. Upon the termination of this
Agreement, the Company (to the extent that it lawfully can) will cause the Fund
to cease to use such a name or any other name indicating that it is advised by
or otherwise connected with you or any organization which shall have so
succeeded to your business.
2. Sub-Advisers. You may engage one or more investment advisers
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which are either registered as such or specifically exempt from registration
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, to act as sub-advisers
to provide with respect to the Fund certain services set forth in Paragraphs 3
and 6 hereof, all as shall be set forth in a written contract to which the
Company, on behalf of the Fund, and you shall be parties, which contract shall
be subject to approval by the vote of a majority of the Directors who are not
interested persons of you, the sub-adviser, or of the Company, cast in person
at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval and by the vote
of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund and otherwise
consistent with the terms of the Investment Company Act of 1940 Act, as
amended, (the "1940 Act").
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3. Advisory Services.
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(a) You will regularly provide the Fund with investment research,
advice and supervision and will furnish continuously an
investment program for the Fund consistent with the
investment objectives and policies of the Fund. You will
determine from time to time what securities shall be
purchased for the Fund, what securities shall be held or sold
by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's assets shall be
held uninvested as cash, subject always to the provisions of
the Company's Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws and of
the 1940 Act, and to the investment objectives, policies and
restrictions of the Fund, as each of the same shall be from
time to time in effect, and subject, further, to such
policies and instructions as the Board of Directors of the
Company may from time to time establish.
(b) You will maintain all books and records with respect to the
Fund's securities transactions required by sub-paragraphs
(b)(5),(6),(9) and (10) and paragraph (f) of Rule 31a-1 under
the 1940 Act (other than those records being maintained by
the Fund's custodian or transfer agent) and preserve such
records for the periods prescribed therefor by Rule 31a-2 of
the 1940 Act. You will also provide to the Company's Board of
Directors such periodic and special reports as the Board may
reasonably request. You shall for all purposes herein be
deemed to be an independent contractor and shall, except as
otherwise expressly provide or authorized, have no authority
to act for or represent the Company in any way or otherwise
be deemed an agent of the Company.
(c) You will notify the Company of any change in your membership
within a reasonable time after such change.
(d) Your services hereunder are not deemed exclusive and you
shall be free to render similar services to others.
4. Allocation of Charges and Expenses. You will pay all costs
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incurred by you in connection with the performance of your duties under
paragraph 3. You will pay the compensation and expenses of all personnel of
yours and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the services of
such of your partners, officers and employees as may duly be elected officers
or Directors of the Company, subject to their individual consent to serve and
to any limitations imposed by law. You will not be required to pay any expenses
of the Fund other than those specifically allocated to you in this paragraph 4.
In particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you will
not be required to pay: (i) fees and expenses of any administrator of the Fund;
(ii) organization expenses of the Fund; (iii) fees and expenses incurred by the
Fund in connection with membership in investment company organizations; (iv)
brokers' commissions; (v) payment for portfolio pricing services to a pricing
agent, if any; (vi) legal, auditing or accounting expenses (including an
allocable portion of the cost of your employees rendering legal and accounting
services to the Fund); (vii) taxes or governmental fees; (viii) the fees and
expenses of the transfer agent of the Company; (ix) the cost of preparing stock
certificates or any other expenses, including clerical expenses of issue,
redemption or repurchase of Shares of the Fund; (x) the expenses of and fees
for registering or qualifying Shares for sale and of maintaining the
registration of the Fund and registering the Company as a broker or a dealer;
(xi) the fees and expenses of Directors of the Company who are not affiliated
with you; (xii) the cost of preparing and distributing reports and notices to
shareholders, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory
authorities; (xiii) the fees or disbursements of custodians of the Fund's
assets, including expenses incurred in the performance of any obligations
enumerated by the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of the Company insofar
as they govern agreements with any such
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custodian; or (xiv) litigation and indemnification expenses and other
extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund's
business. You shall not be required to pay expenses of activities which are
primarily intended to result in sales of Shares of the Fund.
5. Compensation of the Adviser.
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(a) For all services to be rendered and payments made as provided
in paragraphs 3 and 4 hereof, the Company on behalf of the
Fund will pay you each month a fee at an annual rate equal to
0.50% per annum of the average daily net assets of the
Fund. The "average daily net assets" of the Fund shall be
determined on the basis set forth in the Fund's prospectus or
otherwise consistent with the 1940 Act and the regulations
promulgated thereunder.
(b) If, in any fiscal year, the sum of the Fund's expenses
(including the fee payable pursuant to this paragraph 5, but
excluding taxes, interest, brokerage commissions relating to
the purchase or sale of portfolio securities, distribution
expenses and extraordinary expenses such as for litigation)
exceeds the expense limitations, if any, applicable to the
Fund imposed by state securities administrators, as such
limitations may be modified from time to time, you shall
reimburse the Fund in the amount of 55/70th of such excess to
the extent required by such expense limitations, provided
that the amount of such reimbursement shall not exceed the
amount of your fee during such fiscal year.
(c) In addition to the foregoing, you may from time to time agree
not to impose all or a portion of your fee otherwise payable
hereunder (in advance of the time such fee or portion thereof
would otherwise accrue) and/or undertake to pay or reimburse
the Fund for all or a portion of its expenses not otherwise
required to be borne or reimbursed by you. Any such fee
reduction or undertaking may be discontinued or modified by
you at any time.
6. Avoidance of Inconsistent Position. In connection with
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purchases or sales or portfolio securities for the account of the Fund, neither
you nor any of your partners, officers or employees will act as a principal,
except as otherwise permitted by the 1940 Act. You or your agent shall arrange
for the placing of all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities
for the Fund's account with brokers or dealers (including ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Sachs & Co.)
selected by you. In the selection of such brokers or dealers (including
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.) and the placing of such orders, you are directed at all
times to seek for the Fund the most favorable execution and net price
available. It is also understood that it is desirable for the Fund that you
have access to supplemental investment and market research and security and
economic analyses provided by brokers who may execute brokerage transactions at
a higher cost to the Fund than may result when allocating brokerage to other
brokers on the basis of seeking the most favorable price and efficient
execution.
Therefore, you are authorized to place orders for the purchase and sale
of securities for the Fund with such brokers, subject to review by the
Company's Board of Directors from time to time with respect to the extent and
continuation of this practice. It is understood that the services provided by
such brokers may be useful to you in connection with your services to other
clients. If any other occasion should arise in which you give any advice to
your clients concerning the Shares of the Fund, you will act solely as
investment counsel for such clients and not in any way on behalf of the Fund.
You may, on occasions when you deem the purchase or sale of a security to be in
the best interests of the Fund as well as your other customers (including any
other Series or any other investment company or advisory account for which you
or any of your affiliates acts as an investment adviser), aggregate, to the
extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations, the securities to be sold
or purchased in order
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to obtain the best net price and the most favorable execution. In such event,
allocation of the securities so purchased or sold, as well as the expenses
incurred in the transaction, will be made by you in the manner you consider to
be the most equitable and consistent with your fiduciary obligations to the
Fund and to such other customers.
7. Limitation of Liability of Adviser and Fund. You shall not be
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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
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. Any person, even though
also employed by you, who may be or become an employee of and paid by the
Company or the Fund shall be deemed, when acting within the scope of his
employment by the Fund, to be acting in such employment solely for the Fund and
not as your employee or agent. The Fund shall not be liable for any claims
against any other Series of the Company.
8. Duration and Termination of this Agreement. This Agreement
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shall remain in force June 30, 1996 and shall continue for periods of one year
thereafter but only so long as such continuance is specifically approved at
least annually (a) by the vote of a majority of the Directors who are not
interested persons (as defined in the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇) of the Company and have no
financial interest in this Agreement, cast in person at a meeting called for
the purpose of voting on such approval and (b) by a vote of a majority of the
Board of Directors of the Company or of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the Fund. The aforesaid requirement that continuance of this
Agreement be "specifically approved at lease annually" shall be construed in a
manner consistent with the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.
This Agreement may, on 60 days' written notice to the other party, be
terminated at any time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board of
Directors of the Company, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the Fund, or by you. This Agreement shall automatically terminate
in the event of its assignment. In interpreting the provisions of this
Agreement, the definitions contained in Section 2(a) of the 1940 Act
(particularly the definitions of "interested person," "assignment" and
"majority of the outstanding voting securities"), as from time to time amended,
shall be applied, subject, however, to such exemptions as may be granted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission by an rule, regulation or order.
9. Amendment of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement
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may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an
instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of the
change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought. No amendment of this
Agreement shall be effective until approved by vote of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund and by a majority of
the Board of Directors of the Company, including a majority of the Directors
who are not interest persons (as defined in the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇) of the Company and
have no financial interest in this Agreement, cast in person at a meeting
called for the purpose of voting on such amendment.
10. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
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CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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11. Miscellaneous. The captions in this Agreement are included
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for convenience of reference only and in no way defined or delimit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect. This
Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of acceptance
on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such counterpart to
the Company, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract.
Yours very truly,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ EQUITY PORTFOLIOS, INC.
(ON BEHALF OF THE ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SACHS BALANCED FUND)
Attest: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ By: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
Secretary of the Company President of the Company
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted as of the date thereof.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ASSET MANAGEMENT
A SEPARATE OPERATING DIVISION OF ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, SACHS & CO.
Attest: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ By: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Counsel to the Funds Group Partner
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