EX-99.(H)(5) 3 a09-6289_1ex99dh5.htm EX-99.(H)(5)

Exhibit 99.(h)(5)

 

September 10, 2008

 

Mr. Richard C. Barrett, Chairman
Stonebridge Funds Trust
1801 Century Park East, Suite 1800
Los Angeles, California 90067

 

Re:    Stonebridge Funds Trust (The “Trust”)

 

Dear Mr. Barrett:

 

By our execution of this letter agreement (the “Agreement”), ALPS Fund Services, Inc. (“ALPS”), to improve the performance of the Trust’s portfolios, hereby agrees to temporarily reduce the minimum administration fees it is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 2 of the Administration Agreement dated as of November 2, 1998 between the Trust and ALPS, as follows for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2009:

 

Portfolio

 

Contractual Minimum
Administration Fee

 

Reduced Minimum
Administration Fee

 

Institutional Small-Cap Growth Fund

 

$6,250/month

 

$4,500/month

 

Small-Cap Growth Fund

 

$6,250/month

 

$4,500/month

 

 

ALPS acknowledges that it will not be entitled to collect on or make a claim for the administration fees it would have received but for this reduction at any time in the future. ALPS agrees to continue such waivers for the portfolios through the end of the fiscal year (October 31, 2009).

 

 

ALPS FUND SERVICES, INC.

 

By:

/s/  JEREMY O. MAY

 

Name: Jeremy O. May

Title: Managing Director of

Operations & Client Services

 

Your signature below acknowledges
Acceptance of this Agreement:

 

By:

/s/  RICHARD C. BARRETT

 

Name: Richard C. Barrett

Title: Chairman, Stonebridge Funds Trust