The Fund Sample Clauses

The Fund. SERV Eligible Unit Servicing Agent shall distribute to redeeming Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holders of record on its books redemption proceeds it receives pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust from the Trustee as the sole record owner of Fund/SERV Eligible Units on the Trustee's books.

The Fund. SERV Eligible Unit Servicing Agent shall transmit to each Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holder of record any notice or other communication received from the Trustee and shall be solely responsible for soliciting and transmitting to the Trustee any notice required from Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holders.

The Fund. SERV Eligible Unit Servicing Agent shall keep proper books of record and account of all of the transactions in the Fund/SERV Eligible Units of each Trust under this Indenture at its corporate office, including a record of the name and address of, and the Fund/SERV Eligible Units issued by each Trust and held by, every Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holder, and such books and records of each Trust shall be made available to the Trustee and the Depositor promptly upon request and open to inspection by any Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holder of such Trust, with respect to such Fund/SERV Eligible Unit holders transactions, at all reasonable times during usual business hours. Without limiting the foregoing, the Fund/SERV Eligible Unit Servicing Agent shall make any records or documents described in Reg. 270.31(a)-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 available promptly to the Trustee and the Depositor upon request during usual business hours and will preserve such records and documents for the periods prescribed in Reg. 270.31 (a) 2 thereunder.

The Fund. The Fund assumes and shall pay (or cause to be paid) all other Fund expenses, including but not limited to the following expenses: the fee referred to in Article 3 below; interest and any other costs related to borrowings by the Fund attributable to the Portfolio; taxes payable by the Fund and attributable to the Portfolio; brokerage costs and other direct costs of effecting portfolio transactions (including any costs directly related to the acquisition, disposition, lending or borrowing of portfolio investments) on behalf of the Portfolio; the compensation of the directors and officers of the Fund who are not actively employed by the Investment Manager; custodian, registration and transfer agent fees; fees of outside counsel to and of independent auditors of the Fund selected by the Board of Directors; expenses of printing and mailing to existing shareholders of registration statements, prospectuses, reports, notices and proxy solicitation materials of the Fund; all other expenses incidental to holding meetings of the Fund's shareholders; insurance premiums for fidelity coverage and errors and omissions insurance; and extraordinary or non-recurring expenses (such as legal claims and liabilities and litigation costs and any indemnification related thereto) attributable to the Portfolio. The Fund shall allocate the appropriate portion of the foregoing expenses to the Portfolio. All expenses of any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of the Fund's shares, and certain other expenses as detailed in the Fund's Distribution Agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, are assumed by the distributor of the Fund's shares.

The Fund. The Fund is a Maryland Corporation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”) as an open-end diversified management investment company. The Fund serves as a funding vehicle for variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance contracts and, as such, sells its shares to insurance companies and their separate accounts. With respect to various provisions of the Act, the SEC requires that owners of variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance contracts be provided with materials and rights afforded to shareholders of a publicly-available SEC-registered mutual fund.

The Fund. The Fund assumes, and shall pay or cause to be paid, all -------- other expenses of the Fund including, without limitation: taxes, expenses for legal and auditing services, costs of printing proxies, stock certificates, shareholder reports and prospectuses, charges of the custodian, any sub- custodian and transfer agent, charges of any auction agent and broker dealers in connection with preferred stock of the Fund, expenses of portfolio transactions, Securities and Exchange Commission fees, expenses of registering the shares of common stock and preferred stock under Federal, state and foreign laws, fees and actual out-of-pocket expenses of Directors who are not affiliated persons of the Investment Adviser, accounting and pricing costs (including the daily calculation of the net asset value), insurance, interest, brokerage costs, litigation and other extraordinary or non-recurring expenses, and other expenses properly payable by the Fund. It also is understood that the Fund will reimburse the Investment Adviser for its costs incurred in providing accounting services to the Fund.

The Fund. The Fund assumes and shall pay or cause to be paid all other expenses of the Fund not otherwise allocated herein, including, without limitation, organizational costs, taxes, expenses for outside Fund counsel (including, if applicable, counsel to the Fund's independent directors) and independent auditing services, the expenses of preparing (including typesetting), printing and mailing reports, prospectuses, statements of additional information, proxy solicitation material and notices to existing shareholders, all expenses incurred in connection with issuing and redeeming shares, the costs of custodial services, the cost of initial and ongoing registration of the shares under Federal and state securities laws, fees and out-of-pocket expenses of Directors who are not affiliated officers or employees of the Administrator or any affiliated corporation of the Administrator, insurance, interest, brokerage costs, dues and other expenses incident to the Fund's membership in the Investment Company Institute and other like associations, shareholder meetings, corporate reports and reports and notices to shareholders, litigation and other extraordinary or nonrecurring expenses, all fees and charges of investment advisers to the Fund, Rule 12b-1 fees and reasonable reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses including, without limitation, postage and telephone communications expense. The Administrator shall provide such information to the Board at such times as the Board may reasonably request to enable the Board to monitor such Fund expenses.

The Fund. For purposes of this Section 1.1, the Company shall be the designee of the Fund for receipt of such orders from each Account and receipt by such designee shall constitute receipt by the Fund; provided that the Fund receives notice of such order by 10:00 a.m. Boston time on the next following Business Day. "Business Day" shall mean any day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading and on which the Fund calculates its net asset value pursuant to the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Fund. The Fund will bear all other expenses to be incurred in its operation (including to the extent such operations are performed by the Sub-Adviser or its affiliates), including, but not limited to, (i) interest and taxes; (ii) brokerage commissions and other costs in connection with the purchase or sale of securities and other investment instruments (including, without limitation, security settlement costs); (iii) calculating the Fund’s net asset value (including the cost and expenses of any independent valuation firm, or agent or service provider of the Fund (including, without limitation, Fund administrators, custodians and pricing services)); (iv) interest payable on debt and dividends and distributions on preferred stock, as applicable, if any, incurred to finance the Fund’s investments; (v) custodian, registrar and transfer agent fees and fee and expenses of other service providers; (vi) all costs of registration and, if applicable, listing the Fund’s shares on any securities exchange; (vii) direct costs and expenses of administration, including printing, mailing, long distance telephone, copying, secretarial and other staff, independent auditors and outside legal costs; fees and expenses of the Fund’s directors who are not “interested persons” of the Fund; (viii) the cost of office facilities, equipment and certain systems (including, but not limited to application licensing, development and maintenance, data licensing and reporting); (ix) the cost incurred to implement and monitor ISDA, Prime Brokerage and other agreements governing the Fund’s financing or borrowing facilities; (x) legal and audit expenses; (xi) fees and expenses related to the registration and qualification of the Fund and the Fund’s shares for distribution under state and federal securities laws; (xii) expenses of printing and mailing prospectuses, reports and notices and proxy material to shareholders of the Fund; (xiii) all other expenses incidental to holding meetings of the Fund’s shareholders, including proxy solicitations therefor; (xiv) insurance premiums for fidelity bond and other insurance coverage; (xv) investment management fees; (xvi) expenses of typesetting for printing prospectuses and statements of additional information and supplements to these documents; (xvii) expenses of printing and mailing prospectuses and supplements thereto; (xviii) expenses related to the engagement of any third-party professionals, consultants, experts or specialists hired to perform work in...