EX-99.(A)1(O) 2 d151906dex99a1o.htm ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT OF NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL SERIES FUND, INC. Articles of Amendment of Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc.

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL SERIES FUND, INC.

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation having its principal office in Baltimore City, Maryland (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that:

FIRST: The Corporation is registered as an open-end company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and has been continuously so registered since its operations began.

SECOND: The Board of Directors of the Corporation, in accordance with the procedural requirements of the by-laws of the Corporation and the Maryland General Corporation Law, at a meeting duly convened and held on August 18, 2015, changed the name of the class of stock designated as the Money Market Portfolio to the Government Money Market Portfolio, effective as of May 1, 2016. The amendment was approved by a majority of the Corporation’s Board of Directors, and is limited to a change expressly authorized by Section 2.605 of the Maryland General Corporation Law to be made without action by the stockholders. The amendment did not change the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of any class or series of stock of the Corporation.

THIRD: (a) The total number of shares of all classes of stock of the Corporation, and the number and par value of the shares of each class, are as follows: sixty-five billion (65,000,000,000) shares of the par value of one cent ($0.01) a share and having an aggregate par value of Six Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($650,000,000).

(b) The shares shall be divided into the following classes of capital stock, each class comprising the number of shares and having the designations indicated, subject, however, to the authority to increase and decrease the number of shares of any class granted to the Board of Directors:

 

CLASS            NUMBER OF SHARES        

Index 500 Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Select Bond Portfolio Capital Stock

   6,000,000,000

Government Money Market Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Balanced Portfolio Capital Stock

   4,000,000,000

Mid Cap Growth Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

International Equity Portfolio Capital Stock

   3,000,000,000

High Yield Bond Portfolio Capital Stock

   3,000,000,000

Large Cap Core Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Growth Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Index 400 Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000


Small Cap Growth Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Small Cap Value Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

International Growth Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Domestic Equity Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Asset Allocation Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Mid Cap Value Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Focused Appreciation Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Equity Income Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Large Cap Blend Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Large Company Value Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Index 600 Stock Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Research International Core Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Inflation Protection Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Short-Term Bond Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Long-Term U.S. Government Bond Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Multi-Sector Bond Portfolio Capital Stock

   2,000,000,000

Unallocated

   3,000,000,000
  

 

TOTAL

   65,000,000,000

FOURTH: The effective date of these Articles of Amendment shall be May 1, 2016.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc. has caused these Articles of Amendment to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its President, and attested and its corporate seal to be hereunder affixed by its Secretary, effective as of the 20th day of February, 2016; and its President acknowledges, in the name and on behalf of said Corporation, that these Articles of Amendment are the corporate act of said Corporation and he further acknowledges that, to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, the matters and facts set forth herein which are required to be verified under oath, are true in all material respects, under the penalties of perjury.

 

Attest:

   NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL SERIES
FUND, INC.
  

/s/ Lesli H. McLinden

   By: /s/ Kate M. Fleming        

Lesli H. McLinden, Secretary

   Kate M. Fleming, President   

[Corporate Seal]

     

 

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