EX-99.28(D)(1)(V) 6 tv522849_ex28d1v.htm ITEM 28(D)(1)(V)

 

Exhibit 28 (d)(1)(v)

 

PEAR TREE FUNDS

 

EXPENSE LIMITATION AGREEMENT

 

 

Pear Tree Advisors, Inc. (the “Manager”) serves as the investment manager to those separate series of Pear Tree Funds (the “Trust”), pursuant to the Amended and Restated Management Contract dated May 1, 2008, as amended (the “Management Contract”), between the Manager and the Trust.

 

With respect to those separate series of the Trust identified on Schedule A (each, a “Fund”), for the period August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020 (the “Reimbursement Period”), the Manager shall reimburse a Fund its expenses to the extent necessary for the Fund to maintain the total net annual operating expenses specified for the class of shares of the Fund listed on Schedule A.

 

Any amounts reimbursed a Fund by the Manager, as required under the terms of this Agreement, are not subject to recoupment by the Manager.

 

This Agreement only may be rescinded, amended or modified, and the Reimbursement Period terminated, in whole or in part, without further obligation by the Manager at such time and on such terms as may be determined by the Trustees, including a majority of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as such term is defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement shall terminate immediately with respect to any Fund if the Management Contract is terminated with respect to such Fund.

 

Pear Tree Advisors, Inc.  
     
By: /s/ Willard L. Umphrey  
  Willard L. Umphrey, President  
     
Date: May 16, 2019  
     
     
Agreed and Accepted:  
     
Pear Tree Funds  
     
By: /s/ Willard L. Umphrey  
  Willard L. Umphrey, President  
     
Date: May 16, 2019  

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

Fund Name Ordinary Shares
(% of net assets)
Institutional Shares
(% of net assets) 
R6 Shares
(% of net assets)
Pear Tree Polaris Foreign Value Fund N/A N/A 0.94
Pear Tree Axiom Emerging Markets World Equity Fund N/A N/A 0.99