Company: MMT
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000930413-25-003631
Chunk: 70

Company: MFS MULTIMARKET INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 70
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 New Management Agreements in accordance with the stated investment policies and restrictions of the Trusts as set forth in each Trust’s registration statement, as supplemented or amended from time to time and subject to the directions of each Trust’s Board.

Both the MFS Management Agreements and New Management Agreements for the Trusts provide that (i) the services of the investment adviser are not exclusive to the Trusts, and the investment adviser may render services to others and (ii) the investment adviser may from time to time enter into sub-advisory agreements with respect to each Trust with one or more investment advisers with such terms and conditions as the investment adviser may determine, provided that such sub-advisory agreements have been approved in accordance with applicable provisions of the 1940 Act and any rules, regulations or orders of the SEC thereunder.

The New Management Agreements expressly provide that the investment adviser may use the resources of investment adviser subsidiaries of Aberdeen Group plc, parent company of Aberdeen.

Payment of Expenses

The provisions contained in each Trust’s New Management Agreement addressing allocation of expenses are substantially identical to those contained in each Trust’s MFS Management Agreement. Both the MFS Management Agreements and the New Management Agreements provide that each Trust will pay all of its own expenses in the operations and offering of its shares unless specifically provided otherwise in the management agreement or except to the extent that the adviser agrees in a written instrument executed by the adviser to assume or otherwise pay for specified expenses of the Trust. The New Management Agreements, in line with the MFS Management Agreements, generally provide that Trust expenses shall include, without limitation (1) all charges and expenses of any custodian or depository appointed by the Trust for the safekeeping of its cash, securities and other assets; (2) all charges and expenses paid to any administrator appointed by the Trust to provide administrative or compliance services; (3) the charges and expenses of any transfer agents and registrars appointed by the Trust; (4) the charges and expenses of repurchasing and redeeming shares and servicing shareholder accounts, including investor relations services; (5) the charges and expenses of independent certified public accountants and of general ledger accounting and internal reporting services for the Trust; (6) the charges and expenses of dividend and capital gain distributions; (7) interest charges; (8) the compensation and expenses of Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the adviser; (9) brokerage commissions and issue and transfer taxes chargeable to the Trust in connection with securities transactions to which the Trust is