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Exhibit
4.12
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION
PLANS
MASTER TRUST
AGREEMENT
Between
PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS,
INC.
and
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TRUST FUND |
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Trust
Name |
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Receipt
of Assets |
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Employers |
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Plans |
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Accounting for a Plan’s Undivided Interest in the Trust
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Appointment of Recordkeeper |
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No
Trustee Duty Regarding Contributions |
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Withholding |
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DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE TRUST FUND |
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CLIENT SELECTED INVESTMENT FUNDS |
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3.1 |
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In
General |
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3.2 |
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Client
Managed Stock Investment Accounts |
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Client
Managed Investment Accounts |
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Trustee
Managed Investment Accounts |
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Investment Manager Accounts |
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POWERS OF THE TRUSTEE |
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Investment Powers of the Trustee |
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4.2 |
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Investment Powers of the Stock Fund Trustee |
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Administrative Powers of the Trustee |
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INDEMNIFICATION |
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SECURITIES OR OTHER PROPERTY |
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SECURITY CODES |
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TAXES AND TRUSTEE COMPENSATION |
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ACCOUNTS OF THE TRUSTEE |
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RELIANCE ON COMMUNICATIONS |
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RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE |
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AMENDMENT |
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TERMINATION |
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PARTICIPATION OF OTHER EMPLOYERS |
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14.1 |
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Adoption
by Other Employers; Withdrawals |
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14.2 |
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Powers
and Authorities of Other Employers to be Exercised Exclusively by
Client |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Governing
Law |
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No
Reversion to Employer |
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Non-Alienation of Benefits |
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15.4 |
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Duration
of Trust |
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15.5 |
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No
Guarantees |
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Duty to
Furnish Information |
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Parties
Bound |
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Necessary
Parties to Disputes |
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Unclaimed
Benefit Payments |
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Severability |
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References |
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15.12 |
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Headings |
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15.13 |
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No
Liability for Acts of Predecessor and Successor
Trustees |
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15.14 |
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Counterparts |
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DEFINED CONTRIBUTION
PLANS
MASTER TRUST
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT (hereinafter
referred to as the “Trust Agreement”) effective as of
July 3, 2001, by and between PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC., a
corporation organized under the laws of Florida (hereinafter
referred to as the “Client”) and STATE STREET BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY, a trust company organized under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (hereinafter referred to as
“State Street” or the
“Trustee”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Client has
agreed to enter into a relationship with the Trustee and CitiStreet
LLC as provided for in the Employee Benefit Bundled Services
Agreement (the “Bundled Services Agreement”) between
the Client, State Street and CitiStreet LLC under which each will
provide certain services to participants in the Plan or Plans
described on Exhibit A of the Bundled Service Agreement;
WHEREAS, Client has appointed
State Street as Trustee for all assets of the Plan except for
assets held in the Publix Stock Fund;
WHEREAS, the Client has
appointed Tina Johnson as trustee of the Publix Stock Fund (the
“Stock Fund Trustee”), who shall have the authorities
and shall be subject to the duties with respect to the Publix Stock
Fund as specified in the Plan and in a separate trust
agreement;
WHEREAS, the Client maintains
certain tax-qualified plan or plans identified on Exhibit A of the
Bundled Services Agreement (hereinafter collectively referred to as
the “Plan”) for the exclusive benefit of certain of its
employees and the employees of certain of its affiliates,
subsidiaries, and limited liability companies;
WHEREAS, the Client has by
agreement dated January 1, 1995 with the United States Trust
Company of New York established a trust to serve as the funding
vehicle for the Plan (hereinafter referred to as the
“Agreement”);
WHEREAS, certain affiliates,
subsidiaries, and limited liability companies of the Client may in
the future maintain separate tax-qualified employee benefit plans
for certain of their employees and may adopt the trust and Trust
Agreement to serve as the funding vehicle for such plans
(hereinafter together with the Plan referred to collectively as the
“Plans”);
WHEREAS, the authority to
conduct the general operation and administration of the Plans is
vested in the Client, acting through its officers and employees and
its Board, Board Committee, Committee or Plan Administrator, each
as defined and as provided in the Plan, as
“Administrator” of the Plans, who shall have the
authorities and shall be subject to the duties with respect to the
trust specified in the Plans and in this Trust
Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Client has
appointed State Street Bank and Trust Company as successor trustee
to Chase Manhattan Bank (successor trustee of United States Trust
Company of New York), effective July 3, 2001; and
WHEREAS, the Client has
appointed CitiStreet LLC to provide recordkeeping and other
administrative services, other than those the Administrator
continues to perform for the Plan in such capacity, and any other
person or entity hereafter engaged by the Client to provide such
services, being hereinafter referred to as the
“Recordkeeper”;
WHEREAS, the Client and the
Trustee desire to amend and restate the Agreement in its
entirety.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Client
and the Trustee do hereby amend and restate the Agreement and
continue the trust as the funding vehicle for the Plan, upon the
terms and conditions hereinafter set forth in this Trust
Agreement.
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1.1 Trust Name . This
trust shall be known as the Publix Super Markets, Inc. 401(k) SMART
Trust Number 1.
1.2 Receipt of Assets
. The Trustee shall receive and accept for the purposes hereof all
sums of money and other property paid to it by or at the direction
of the Client or any Employer or the Recordkeeper, and shall hold,
invest, reinvest, manage, administer and distribute such monies and
other property and the increments, proceeds, earnings and income
thereof pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and for the
exclusive benefit of participants in the Plans and their
beneficiaries. The Trustee need not inquire into the source of any
money or property transferred to it nor into the authority or right
of the transferor of such money or property to transfer such money
or property to the Trustee. All Plan assets held by the Trustee in
the trust pursuant to the provisions of this Trust Agreement at the
time of reference are referred to herein as the “Trust
Fund”.
1.3 Employers . For
purposes of this Trust Agreement the term “Employer”
means the Client, any corporation (or other trade or business)
which is a member of a controlled group of corporations of which
the Client is a member as determined under Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(hereinafter referred to as the “Code”), or any limited
liability company in which the Client or a subsidiary is the single
member and which corporation or limited liability company has
adopted the Plans in accordance with the provisions of
Section 14.1.
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1.4 Plans . References
in this Trust Agreement to the “Plan” or the
“Plans” shall mean the tax-qualified employee benefit
plan or plans of the Client or the tax-qualified employee benefit
Plan or Plans of any Employer that has adopted the trust as the
funding vehicle for such plan or plans as the case may be. The
Client shall represent that while any assets of the Plan are held
in the Trust Fund, the Plan (i) is intended to be and the
Client knows of no reason why it would not be
“qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a)
of the Code and, as a defined contribution plan, the Plan is
intended to be qualified as an “ERISA Section 404(c)
Plan” described in 29 C.F.R. 2550.404c under which each
participant is authorized to provide investment direction to the
Client, acting as agent for such Participant, for conveyance to the
Trustee; (ii) is permitted by existing or future ruling of the
United States Treasury Department to pool its funds in a group
trust; (iii) permits its assets to be commingled for
investment purposes with the assets of other such plans by
investing such assets in this Trust Fund whether or not its assets
will in fact be held in a separate investment fund; and
(iv) does not prohibit the Client from appointing the
Recordkeeper to perform daily recordkeeping services as described
herein, and provides that the Client or the Recordkeeper as its
agent is the fiduciary responsible for carrying out participant
investment directions.
1.5 Accounting for a
Plan’s Undivided Interest in the Trust Fund . All
transfers to, withdrawals from, and other transactions regarding
the Trust Fund shall be conducted in such a way that the
proportionate interest in the Trust Fund of each Plan and the fair
market value of that interest may be determined at any time.
Whenever the assets of more than one Plan are commingled in the
Trust Fund or in any investment fund, the undivided interest
therein of that Plan shall be debited or credited (as the case may
be) (i) for the entire amount of every
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contribution received on behalf of that
Plan, every benefit payment, or other expense attributable solely
to that Plan, and every other transaction relating only to that
Plan; and (ii) for its proportionate share of every item of
collected or accrued income, gain or loss, and general expense; and
other transactions attributable to the Trust Fund or that
investment fund as a whole. As of each date when the fair market
value of the investments held in the Trust Fund or an investment
fund are determined as provided for in Section 9, the Trustee
shall adjust the value of each Plan’s interest therein to
reflect the net increase or decrease in such values since the last
such date. For all of the foregoing purposes, fractions of a cent
may be disregarded.
1.6 Appointment of
Recordkeeper . Under the Plan, the Client is the fiduciary
responsible for carrying out participant investment directions and
in order to effect this, the Client has appointed CitiStreet LLC to
perform certain services including but not limited to maintaining
participant accounts for all contributions, loans and loan
repayments, and other deposits made for the purpose of determining
how such deposits are to be allocated to the investment funds of
the Plan, for determining requirements for disbursements from or
transfers among investment funds in accordance with the terms of
the Plan, for maintaining participant records for the purpose of
voting or tendering shares in an investment fund as described in
Section 4.1 herein, for distributing information about the
investment funds provided for under the Plan, and for distributing
participant statements at periodic intervals.
1.7 No Trustee Duty
Regarding Contributions . The Trustee shall not be under any
duty to require payment of any contributions to the Trust Fund or
determine that a contribution is in compliance with a participant
investment direction, or to see that any payment made to it is
computed in accordance with the provisions of the Plans, or
otherwise be responsible for the
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adequacy of the Trust Fund to meet and
discharge any liabilities under the Plans. The “named
fiduciary” responsible for ensuring timely payment of
contributions to the Trust Fund is Publix Super Markets,
Inc.
1.8 Withholding . The
Administrator or the Recordkeeper shall withhold any tax which by
any present or future law is required to be withheld from any
payment under the Plans.
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DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE TRUST FUND . |
The Trustee shall from time
to time on the directions of the Administrator or Recordkeeper make
payments out of the Trust Fund to such persons, including the
Administrator or Recordkeeper, in such manner, in such amounts and
for such purposes as may be specified in the directions of the
Recordkeeper or Administrator.
The Recordkeeper or
Administrator shall be responsible for insuring that any payment
directed under this Article conforms to the provisions of the
Plans, this Trust Agreement, and the provisions of ERISA. Each
direction of the Recordkeeper or Administrator shall be in writing
and shall be deemed to include a certification that any payment or
other distribution directed thereby is one which the Recordkeeper
or Administrator is authorized to direct, and the Trustee may
conclusively rely on such deemed certification without further
investigation. Payments by the Trustee may be made by its check to
the order of the payee. Payments or other distributions hereunder
may be mailed to the payee at the address last furnished to the
Trustee by the Recordkeeper or if no such address has been so
furnished, to the payee in care of the Recordkeeper. The Trustee
shall not incur any liability or other damage on account of any
payments or other distributions made by it in accordance with the
written directions of the Recordkeeper or Administrator.
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CLIENT SELECTED INVESTMENT FUNDS . |
3.1 In General . The
Client from time to time and in accordance with provisions of the
Plans, may direct the Trustee to establish one or more separate
investment accounts within the Trust Fund, each separate account
being hereinafter referred to as an “Investment Fund”
which may be invested in (i) shares of investment companies
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
(ii) collective funds maintained by a bank or trust company,
(iii) various classes of common stock of the Client,
(iv) pools of insurance contracts, (v) funds managed by a
registered investment manager, bank or insurance company,
(vi) accounts managed by named fiduciaries for the Plan, and
vii) other investment options available from time to time under the
Plan (specifically the Investment Funds described on the Notice of
Appointment of Investment Managers attached to this Trust
Agreement, as amended from time to time by the Client and with
notice to the Trustee). The Trustee shall have no liability for any
loss of any kind which may result by reason of the manner of
division of the Trust Fund into Investment Funds, or for the
investment management of these accounts, except as provided for in
Section 3.4 regarding a Trustee managed investment account, if
any. The Trustee shall transfer to each such Investment Fund such
portion of the assets of the Trust Fund as the Client or the
Recordkeeper directs. The Trustee shall not incur any liability on
account of following any direction of the Client or the
Recordkeeper and the Trustee shall be under no duty to review the
investment guidelines, objectives and restrictions so established.
To the extent that directions from the Client or Recordkeeper to
the Trustee represent investment instructions of the Plans’
participants, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for such
investment elections and shall incur no liability on account of the
direct and necessary results of investing the assets of the Trust
Fund in accordance with such participant investment
instructions.
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All interest, dividends and
other income received with respect to, and any proceeds received
from the sale or other disposition of, securities or other property
held in an Investment Fund shall be credited to and reinvested in
such Investment Fund. All expenses of the Trust Fund which are
allocable to a particular Investment Fund shall be so allocated and
charged. Subject to the provisions of the Plans, the Client may
direct the Trustee to eliminate an Investment Fund or Funds, and
the Trustee shall thereupon dispose of the assets of such
Investment Fund and reinvest the proceeds thereof in accordance
with the directions of the Administrator.
3.2 Client Managed Stock
Investment Accounts . If, and to the extent specifically
authorized by the Plans, the Client may direct the Stock Fund
Trustee to establish one or more Investment Funds, substantially
all of the assets of which shall be invested in securities which
constitute “qualifying employer securities” or
“qualifying employer real property” within the meaning
of Section 407 of ERISA. It shall be the duty of the Client to
determine that such investment is not prohibited by Sections 406 or
407 of ERISA.
3.3 Client Managed
Investment Accounts . The Trustee shall, if so directed in
writing by the Client, segregate all or a portion of the Trust Fund
held by it into one or more separate investment accounts to be
known as Client Managed Investment Accounts. The Client, by written
notice to the Trustee, may at any time relinquish its powers under
this Section 3.3 and direct that a Client Managed Investment
Account shall no longer be maintained. Whenever the Administrator
or named fiduciary is directing the investment and reinvestment of
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Managed Investment Account, the
Administrator or named fiduciary shall have the powers and duties
which an Investment Manager would have under this Trust Agreement
if an Investment Manager were then serving and the Trustee shall be
protected to the same extent as it would be protected under this
Trust Agreement as to directions or the absence of directions of an
Investment Manager.
3.4 Trustee Managed
Investment Accounts . The Trustee shall have no duty or
responsibility to direct the investment and reinvestment of the
Trust Fund, any Investment Fund or any investment account unless
expressly agreed to in writing between the Trustee and the Client.
In the event that the Trustee enters into such an agreement, it
shall have the powers and duties of an Investment Manager under
this Trust Agreement with regard to such investment
account.
3.5 Investment Manager
Accounts . The Client or named fiduciary, from time to time and
in accordance with the provisions of the Plans, may appoint one or
more independent Investment Managers, pursuant to a written
investment management agreement describing the powers and duties of
the Investment Manager, to direct the investment and reinvestment
of all or a portion of the Trust Fund or an Investment Fund
(hereinafter referred to as an “Investment
Account”).
The Client or named fiduciary
shall be responsible for ascertaining that while each Investment
Manager is acting in that capacity hereunder, the following
requirements are satisfied:
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The Investment Manager is either (i) registered as an
investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;
(ii) is not registered as an investment adviser under such Act
by reason of paragraph (1) of Section 203A(a) of such
Act, is registered as an investment adviser under the laws of the
State (referred to in such paragraph (1)) in which it
maintains its principal office and place of business, and, at the
time the fiduciary last filed the registration form with such State
in order to maintain the fiduciary’s registration under the
laws of such State, also filed a copy of such form with the
Secretary, (iii) a bank as defined in that Act or (iv) an
insurance Client qualified to perform the services described in
(b) below under the laws of more than one state. |
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The Investment Manager has the power to manage, acquire or
dispose of any assets of the Plans for which it is responsible
hereunder; |
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The Investment Manager has acknowledged in writing to the
Administrator and the Trustee that he or it is a fiduciary with
respect to the Plans within the meaning of Section 3(21)(A) of
ERISA. |
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The Plans provide for the appointment of the Investment Manager
in accordance with Section 402(c)(3) of ERISA, and the
Investment Manager is appointed as so provided. |
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Any Investment Manager with authority to invest in assets which
will be held outside the jurisdiction of the district courts of the
United States is an entity described in ERISA regulations at 29
C.F.R. 2550.404b-1(a)(2)(i). |
The Client or named fiduciary
shall furnish the Trustee with written notice of the appointment of
each Investment Manager hereunder, and of the termination of any
such appointment. Such notice shall specify the assets which shall
constitute the Investment Account of such Investment Manager. The
Trustee shall be fully protected in relying upon the effectiveness
of such appointment and the Investment Manager’s continuing
satisfaction of the requirements set forth above until it receives
written notice from the Client or named fiduciary to the
contrary.
The Trustee shall
conclusively presume that each Investment Manager, under its
investment management agreement, is entitled to act, in directing
the investment and reinvestment of the Investment Account for which
it is responsible, in its sole and independent discretion and
without limitation, except for any limitations which from time to
time the Client or named fiduciary and the Investment Manager agree
(in writing) shall modify the scope of such authority and notify
the Trustee.
The Trustee shall have no
liability (i) for the acts or omissions of any Investment
Manager (except to the extent the Trustee itself is serving as
Investment Manager); (ii) to the
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extent the Trustee follows directions,
including investment directions of an Investment Manager (other
than the Trustee) or the Client or named fiduciary, which are given
in accordance with this Trust Agreement; (iii) for failing to
act in the absence of Investment Manager direction; or
(iv) for any loss of any kind which may result by reason of
the manner of division of the Trust Fund or Investment Fund into
Investment Accounts.
An Investment Manager shall
certify, at the request of the Trustee, the value of any securities
or other property held in any Investment Account managed by such
Investment Manager, and such certification shall be regarded as a
direction with regard to such valuation. The Trustee shall be
entitled to conclusively rely upon such valuation for all purposes
under this Trust Agreement.
Except as otherwise provided
in this Trust Agreement, the Investment Manager of an Investment
Account shall have the power and authority, to be exercised in its
sole discretion at any time and from time to time, to issue orders
for the purchase or sale of securities directly to a broker.
Written notification of the issuance of each such order shall be
given promptly to the Trustee by the Investment Manager and the
confirmation of each such order shall be confirmed to the Trustee
by the broker. The Trustee shall promptly provide confirmation of
each such order to the Recordkeeper, which shall maintain all
participant level accounts.
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POWERS OF THE TRUSTEE . |
4.1 Investment Powers of
the Trustee . The Trustee shall have and exercise the following
powers and authority (i) over Investment Accounts for which it
has express investment management discretion as provided in
Section 3.4 or (ii) upon direction of the Investment
Manager of an Investment Account or (iii) upon direction of
the Administrator: (x) for a Client Managed Account; or
(y) for lending to participants in the Plans:
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To purchase, receive, or subscribe for any securities or other
property and to retain in trust such securities or other
property. |
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To sell for cash or on credit, to grant options, convert,
redeem, exchange for other securities or other property, to enter
into standby agreements for future |
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