EX-99.(D)(2) 3 ex99-d2.htm FORM OF AMENDMENT TO SCHEDULE A TO THE ADVISORY AGREEMENT

  

 

Virtus ETF Trust II 485BPOS

Exhibit 99(d)(2)

 

 

VIRTUS ETF TRUST II

AMENDMENT TO SCHEDULE A TO THE

ADVISORY AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT (the “Amendment”) dated as of the [____] day of [_________], 2022, to Schedule A to the Advisory Agreement, dated as of January 4, 2016 (the “Advisory Agreement”), is entered into by and between VIRTUS ETF TRUST II (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and VIRTUS ETF ADVISERS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its principal place of business at 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 (the “Adviser”).

 

WHEREAS, each of the Trust and the Adviser is a party to the Advisory Agreement; and

 

WHEREAS, each of the Trust and the Adviser desires to amend the Advisory Agreement to replace Schedule A.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

 

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

 

2.       Except to the extent amended hereby, the Advisory Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by a duly authorized officer on one or more counterparts as of the date and year first written above.

 

VIRTUS ETF TRUST II   VIRTUS ETF ADVISERS LLC  
       
       
By:     By:    
  William J. Smalley, President     Brinton W. Frith, President  

 

   
 

 

SCHEDULE A

to the

ADVISORY AGREEMENT

between

VIRTUS ETF TRUST II

and

VIRTUS ETF ADVISERS LLC

 

(As of [________], 2022)

 

As compensation for the Adviser’s services rendered, the Adviser shall be entitled to a fee, computed daily at an annual rate based on the greater of (1) the minimum fee or (2) the average daily net assets of the respective Fund in accordance with the following fee schedule:

 

Fund  Effective Date  Minimum Fee  Rate
Virtus Duff & Phelps Clean Energy ETF  August 2, 2021  $0  0.66%*
          
Virtus Newfleet ABS/MBS ETF  February 9, 2021  $0  0.49%*
          
Virtus Newfleet High Yield Bond ETF  March 22, 2021  $0  0.39%
          
Virtus Seix Senior Loan ETF  April 22, 2019  $0  0.57%*
          
Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF  [__________],2022  $0  0.55%*
          
Virtus Terranova U.S. Quality Momentum ETF  November 17, 2020  $0  0.29%*

  

 

 

 

 

 

* The management fee for this Fund is structured as a “unified fee”, out of which the Adviser pays all of the ordinary operating expenses of the Fund, except for the fee payment under this Agreement; payments under any 12b-1 plan; taxes and other governmental fees; brokerage fees, commissions and other transaction expenses; interest and other costs of borrowing; litigation or arbitration expenses; acquired fund fees and expenses; and extraordinary or other non-routine expenses of the Fund; each of which is paid by the Fund.