EX-99.M8 38 h39621exv99wm8.txt FORM OF MASTER RELATED AGREEMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED MASTER DISTRIBUTION PLAN (AIM INVESTMENTS --REGISTERED TRADEMARK-- LOGO) MASTER RELATED AGREEMENT TO FIRST RESTATED MASTER DISTRIBUTION PLAN (CLASS R SHARES) This Master Related Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered into in accordance with Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act") by each registered investment company, listed in Schedule A to this Agreement (each individually referred to as a "Fund", or collectively, "Funds"), severally, on behalf of each of the series of common stock or beneficial interest, as the case may be, set forth in Schedule A to this Agreement (each, a "Portfolio" ), with respect to the Class R Shares of each such Portfolio listed on Schedule A. This Agreement, being made between A I M Distributors, Inc. ("Distributors") and each Fund, on behalf of each applicable Portfolio, defines the services to be provided by Distributors, or its designees, for which it is to receive payments pursuant to the First Restated Master Distribution Plan (Class R Shares) (the "Plan") adopted by each of the Funds. The Plan has been approved by a majority of the directors/trustees ("Trustees") of each of the Funds, including a majority of the Trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or this Agreement (the "Dis-Interested Trustees"), by votes cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Plan. 1. a. Distributors may use payments received pursuant to Paragraph 2 of this Agreement to provide continuing personal shareholder services to customers who may, from time to time, directly or beneficially own shares of the Funds. Continuing personal shareholder services may include but are not limited to, distributing sales literature to customers, answering routine customer inquiries regarding the Funds, assisting customers in changing dividend options, account designations and addresses, and in enrolling in any of several special investment plans offered in connection with the purchase of the Funds' shares, assisting customers in the establishment and maintenance of customer accounts and records and in the placement of purchase and redemption transactions, assisting customers in investing dividends and capital gains distributions automatically in shares, and providing such other services as the Funds or the customer may reasonably request and Distributors agrees to provide. Distributors will not be obligated to provide services which are provided by a transfer agent for a Fund with respect to a Portfolio. b. Distributors may also use the payments received pursuant to Paragraph 2 of this Agreement for distribution-related services. As used in this Agreement, "distribution-related services" shall mean any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of the Shares, including, but not limited to, organizing and conducting sales seminars, implementing advertising programs, engaging finders and paying finders fees, printing prospectuses and statements of additional information (and supplements thereto) and annual and semi-annual reports for other than existing shareholders, preparing and 09/20/06 1 distributing advertising material and sales literature, making supplemental payments to dealers and other institutions as asset-based sales charges, and administering the Plan. c. Distributors may provide the services described in paragraphs a. and b. above either directly or through third parties (its "designees"). 2. For the services provided by Distributors or its designees pursuant to this Agreement, each Fund shall pay Distributors a fee, calculated at the end of each month at the annual rate set forth in Schedule A, or such lesser rate as shall be agreed to by Distributors, as applied to the average net asset value of the shares of such Fund purchased or acquired through exchange on or after the Plan Calculation Date shown for such Fund on Schedule A. 3. The total of the fees calculated for all of the Funds listed on Schedule A for any period with respect to which calculations are made shall be paid to Distributors within10 days after the close of each month. 4. Distributors shall furnish the Funds with such information as shall reasonably be requested by the Trustees of the Funds with respect to the fees paid to Distributors pursuant to this Agreement. 5. Distributors shall furnish the Trustees of the Funds, for their review on a quarterly basis, a written report of the amounts expended under the Plan and the purposes for which such expenditures were made. 6. Distributors may enter into other similar Master Related Agreements with any other investment company without a Fund's consent. 7. This Agreement shall become effective immediately upon its approval by a majority of the Trustees of each of the Funds, including a majority of the Dis-InterestedTrustees, by votes cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Plan and this Agreement. 8. This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as long as the continuance of the Plan and this Agreement are approved at least annually by a vote of the Trustees, including a majority of the Dis-Interested Trustees, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting thereon. 9. This Agreement may be terminated with respect to any Fund at any time without payment of any penalty by the vote of a majority of the Trustees of such Fund who are Dis-interested Trustees or by a vote of a majority of the Fund's outstanding shares, on sixty (60) days' written notice. It will be terminated by any act which terminates the Fund's Plan, and in any event, it shall terminate automatically in the event of its assignment as that term is defined in the 1940 Act. 10. This Agreement may be amended by mutual written agreement of the parties. 11. All communications should be sent to the address of each signor as shown at the bottom of this Agreement. 09/20/06 2 12. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas. A I M DISTRIBUTORS, INC. By: --------------------------------- Name: Gene L. Needles Title: President 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 100 Houston, Texas 77046-1173 Attn: President EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 FUND (LISTED IN SCHEDULE A) on behalf of the Class R Shares of each Portfolio listed on Schedule A By: --------------------------------- Name: Philip A. Taylor Title: President 09/20/06 3 SCHEDULE "A" TO RELATED AGREEMENT
Maximum Aggregate Fund Fee Rate* Plan Calculation Date ---- ----------------- --------------------- AIM COUNSELOR SERIES TRUST AIM Floating Rate Fund R Shares 0.50 April 14, 2006 AIM Structured Core Fund R Shares 0.50 March 31, 2006 AIM Structured Growth Fund R Shares 0.50 March 31, 2006 AIM Structured Value Fund R Shares 0.50 March 31, 2006 AIM EQUITY FUNDS AIM Capital Development Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Charter Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Constellation Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Diversified Dividend Fund R Shares 0.50 October 25, 2005 AIM Large Cap Basic Value Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Large Cap Growth Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM FUNDS GROUP AIM Basic Balanced Fund 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Mid Cap Basic Value Fund 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Small Cap Equity Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM GROWTH SERIES AIM Basic Value Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Conservative Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Global Equity Fund R Shares 0.50 October 28, 2005 AIM Growth Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Income Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 October 31, 2005 AIM International Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 October 31, 2005 AIM Mid Cap Core Equity Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Moderate Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Moderate Growth Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 April 29, 2005 AIM Moderately Conservative Allocation Fund R Shares 0.50 April 29, 2005 AIM Small Cap Growth Fund R Shares(1) 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM INTERNATIONAL MUTUAL FUNDS AIM European Growth Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM International Core Equity Fund R Shares 0.50 November 24, 2003 AIM International Growth Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM INVESTMENT FUNDS AIM Enhanced Short Bond Fund R Shares 0.50 March 31, 2006 AIM Trimark Endeavor Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Trimark Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Trimark Small Companies Fund R Shares 0.50 April 30, 2004
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Maximum Aggregate Fund Fee Rate* Plan Calculation Date ---- ----------------- --------------------- AIM INVESTMENT SECURITIES FUNDS AIM Global Real Estate Fund R Shares 0.50 April 29, 2005 AIM Income Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Intermediate Government Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Money Market Fund R Shares 0.50 June 3, 2002 AIM Real Estate Fund(1) 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Short Term Bond Fund 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM Total Return Bond Fund 0.50 April 30, 2004 AIM SECTOR FUNDS AIM Leisure Fund R Shares 0.50 October 25, 2005 AIM STOCK FUNDS AIM Dynamics Fund R Shares 0.50 October 25, 2005
* The Distribution Fee is paid apart from the sales charge, if any, as stated in the current prospectus for the applicable Portfolio (or Class thereof). 09/20/06 5