EX-99.(E)(3) 3 amend-dist_agmnt.htm SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT amend-dist_agmnt.htm

 
THE AEGIS FUNDS
SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

THIS SECOND AMENDMENT, dated as of the 13th  day of January, 2014, to the Distribution Agreement dated as of November 10, 2011, as amended August 21, 2012 (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between THE AEGIS FUNDS, a Delaware trust (the “Trust”), and QUASAR DISTRIBUTORS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Distributor.”)

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the parties to the Agreement desire to amend the Agreement in the manner set forth herein; and

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the term of the Agreement;

WHEREAS, the parties intend to add Aegis Value Fund, a new series of the Trust, to the Agreement; and

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to section 11 of the Agreement, the parties hereby amend the Agreement as follows:

Section 1.  Exhibit A shall be superseded and replaced with Amended Exhibit A attached hereto.
 
Section 2.  “Section 11. Sub Section A: Term of Agreement; Amendment” is hereby superseded and replaced with the following:
 
            11.                   Term of Agreement: Amendment; Assignment
 
A.              This Agreement shall become effective with respect to each Fund listed on Amended Exhibit A hereof as of January 13, 2014 and, with respect to each Fund not in existence on that date, on the date an amendment to Amended Exhibit A to this Agreement relating to that Fund is executed.  Unless sooner terminated as provided herein, this Agreement shall continue in effect until March 31, 2016.  Thereafter, if not terminated, this Agreement shall continue in effect automatically as to each Fund for successive one-year periods, provided such continuance is specifically approved at least annually by: (i) the Fund’s Board, or (ii) the vote of a “majority of the outstanding voting securities” of a Fund, and provided that in either event, the continuance is also approved by a majority of the Fund’s Board who are not “interested persons” of any party to this Agreement, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval.
 
Section 3.  Except to the extent amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Amendment to be executed by a duly authorized officer on one or more counterparts as of the date first above written.


THE AEGIS FUNDS
QUASAR DISTRIBUTORS, LLC
   
By:  /s/ Scott L. Barbee               
By:  /s/ James R. Schoenike             
Name:  Scott L. Barbee
Name:  James R. Schoenike
Title:   President
Title:   President


 
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Amended Exhibit A
to the
Distribution Agreement

Fund Names

Separate Series of The Aegis Funds


Name of Series

Aegis High Yield Fund
Aegis Value Fund

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