EXHIBIT 10.16

Form of Agreement

 

Participation Agreement Addendum

as of [            ], 200  

by and among

Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust

Franklin Templeton Underwriters, Inc.

[name of insurance company]

[name of insurance company distributor]

Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”), Franklin
Templeton Distributors, Inc. (together with the Trust, “we” or “us”) and [name
of insurance company] and [name of insurance company distributor] (altogether,
“you”), on your behalf and on behalf of certain Accounts, have previously
entered into a Participation Agreement dated [date] (the “Agreement”). The
parties now desire to supplement the Agreement in this Addendum (the
“Addendum”). Except as modified hereby, all other terms and conditions of the
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. Unless otherwise indicated, the
terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meaning as in this Addendum.
Schedules to this Addendum supplement the Schedules in the Agreement that share
the same identifying letter.

WHEREAS, certain short-term trading practices may have a harmful or deleterious
effect on the series of the Trust listed on Schedule C of this Addendum (the
“Funds”), which serve as investment options through certain Accounts under the
Contracts; and

WHEREAS, you acknowledge that such short-term trading practices may have a
harmful or deleterious impact on the Funds; and

WHEREAS, the Trust has introduced a share class of the Funds with short-term
redemption fees (“Class 3 shares”); and

WHEREAS, you have implemented administrative systems that will permit you to, on
behalf of the Funds, assess and collect short-term redemption fees against
owners of variable insurance contracts that offer Class 3 shares of the Funds as
investment options of certain Accounts (“Class 3 Contracts”); and

WHEREAS, you and we agree that the imposition of short-term redemption fees on
certain redemptions of Class 3 shares of the Funds may help offset costs of the
Funds associated with short-term trading redemptions.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of our mutual promises, you and we agree as
follows:

1. Acceptance of Orders and Trust Policies. All orders submitted by you with
respect to each Fund shall be subject to the terms of the then current
prospectus of each Fund. You represent that Contracts are intended for long-term
investors. You have adopted policies and procedures designed to detect and deter
short-term trading and/or disruptive trading practices, including, but not
limited to, monitoring of contract owner trading activity and imposing trading
restrictions. These policies are disclosed in the Contract prospectuses.

 

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2. Your Systems and Records. You represent and warrant that you have, maintain
and periodically test, systems, processes and procedures to modify and track the
holding period of interests of Class 3 Contract owners in Accounts corresponding
to Class 3 shares of the Funds for sixty (60) days, and fulfill relevant
regulatory obligations. You shall be responsible for monitoring the holding
period of interests of Class 3 Contract owners and for tracking such holding
periods for purposes of assessing redemption fees in conjunction with those
transactions subject to such fees, subject to any reasonable exceptions as set
forth in prospectuses for the Class 3 Contracts. You shall maintain records
supporting your calculation of redemption fees payable to each Fund and shall
provide the Trust and/or its designated agents with access to, or copies of,
such records upon their reasonable request. You shall calculate the amount of
redemption fees payable to each Fund on a daily basis and such amount shall be
netted against the redemption proceeds payable by the Trust on behalf of the
Funds for Class 3 shares of the Funds.

3. Actions by You. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require
actions on your part that would, in your best judgment, constitute the violation
or breach of any duty you owe to purchasers of variable insurance contracts
established prior to the creation of the Class 3 shares.

4. Acknowledgement by the Trust. The Trust acknowledges that, with the addition
of Class 3 shares to the Funds and your offering of Class 3 shares of the Funds
as investment options under Class 3 Contracts, you may be subjected to
unfavorable comparisons with other insurance carriers that offer the Funds, but
not Class 3 shares of the Funds, as investment options under their variable
insurance products. Moreover, the Trust acknowledges that the ameliorative
benefits that may be realized by the Funds in connection with your offering
Class 3 shares of the Funds as investment options under the Class 3 Contracts
may benefit other Fund investors and other insurance company contract and policy
owners. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentences of this paragraph 4, you
acknowledge that the Trust cannot and will not compel insurance carriers
offering the Funds as investment options to offer Class 3 shares of the Funds as
investment options under their variable insurance contracts.

5. Termination. In addition to the provisions of Section 9 of the Agreement,
which shall remain in full force and effect, if the Trust’s Board of Trustees,
in the exercise of its fiduciary duties, determines to terminate this Addendum
with respect to any Fund or to eliminate the Class 3 shares of any or all of the
Funds, then the Trust may redeem, in accordance with its prospectus, the Class 3
shares of the affected Fund(s) held by the Accounts on the effective date of
such termination or such elimination, which shall be done in consultation with
you to provide an orderly transfer; provided further that any such liquidation
of a Fund will not occur prior to up to six (6) months following written notice
to you, and during this time, the Trust will cooperate reasonably in effecting a
transfer of assets to another investment vehicle pursuant to an exchange offer,
SEC substitution order, SEC no-action letter, or other legal and appropriate
means.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, you and we have caused our duly authorized officers to
execute this Addendum.

 

The Company:    [NAME OF INSURANCE COMPANY]       By:   

 

      Name:          Title:      

Distributor for the

Company

            [NAME OF INSURANCE COMPANY DISTRIBUTOR]       By:   

 

      Name:          Title:       The Trust:    FRANKLIN TEMPLETON VARIABLE
INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST   

Only on behalf of each Fund.

            By:   

 

      Name:    Karen L. Skidmore       Title:    Vice President    The
Underwriter:    FRANKLIN TEMPLETON UNDERWRITERS, INC.       By:   

 

      Name:          Title:      

 

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Schedule B

Separate Accounts of the Company

 

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Schedule C

Available Portfolios and Classes of Shares of the Trust; Investment Advisers

 

Franklin Templeton Variable

Insurance Products Trust

 

Investment Adviser

 

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Schedule D

Contracts of the Company

 

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