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        <h1 class="article-title">Differential Advisory Fee Waivers</h1>
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            <div class="article-body"><p>February 2, 2023</p>

<p>The staff of the Division of Investment Management (“Staff”) wishes to remind mutual funds, their boards of directors/trustees (“Boards”) and their legal counsel about the implications under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“Act”) of fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements that result in different advisory fees being charged to different share classes of the same fund (“differential advisory fee waivers”).<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[1]</a> In particular, the Staff is highlighting section 18 of the Act and Rule 18f-3 thereunder.</p>

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<p>Background:</p>

<p>Many mutual funds operate as multi-class funds in reliance on Rule 18f-3 under the Act. Rule 18f-3 provides a limited exemption from sections 18(f)(1) and 18(i) of the Act to permit an open-end fund to issue multiple classes of voting stock representing interests in the same portfolio, provided certain conditions are met.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[2]</a> Among other things, the rule requires certain differences in the expenses, rights, and obligations of different classes; permits certain other differences among classes; specifies the matters on which class voting is required; and prescribes how income and expenses must be allocated across classes.<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[3]</a> The rule also requires a fund’s Board to approve a written plan setting forth the separate arrangement and expense allocation of each class and any related conversion features or exchange privileges based on a finding that the plan is in the best interests of each class individually and of the fund as a whole.<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[4]</a></p>

<p>Rule 18f-3(b) expressly allows expenses to be waived or reimbursed by the fund’s adviser, underwriter or any other provider of services to the fund.<a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[5]</a> The Commission, in adopting the rule, was explicit that, although permitted under the rule, waivers and reimbursements were not intended to become “<i>de facto</i> modifications of the fees provided for in advisory or other contracts so as to provide a means for cross-subsidization between classes.”<a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[6]</a> The Commission also stated that fund Boards “must monitor the use of waivers or reimbursements to guard against cross-subsidization between classes” consistent with its “oversight of the class system and its independent fiduciary obligations to each class.”<a href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[7]</a></p>

<p>The provisions in section 18 of the Act effectuate the Congressional policy stated in section 1(b)(3) of the Act that the national public interest and the interest of investors are adversely affected “when investment companies issue securities containing inequitable or discriminatory provisions.”<a href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[8]</a></p>

<p>Differential Advisory Fee Waivers</p>

<p>One of the principles underlying Rule 18f-3 is that the advisory fees charged to shareholders of all classes of a mutual fund should generally be the same percentage amount.<a href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[9]</a> As shareholders of the same mutual fund, investors receive the same advisory services, no matter in which class they are invested. Differential advisory fee waivers that are long-term or permanent, or effectively long-term or permanent, and are not substantiated with a clearly defined temporal purpose, could, in the staff’s view, present a means for cross-subsidization between classes in contravention of Rule 18f-3.</p>

<p>In the staff’s view, whether a differential advisory fee waiver presents a prohibited means of cross-subsidization between classes is a facts-and-circumstances determination that the mutual fund’s Board in consultation with the investment adviser and legal counsel should consider making and documenting after considering all relevant factors.<a href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[10]</a> For example, a fund’s Board may be able to conclude that a long-term waiver of an advisory fee for one class of shares, but not other classes of shares, does not provide a means for cross subsidization in contravention of Rule 18f-3 if the Board finds that (1) shareholders in the waived class pay fees to the adviser at the investing fund level in a funds-of-funds structure for advisory services, and (2) that such fees, when added to the advisory fees that are paid by the waived class, after giving effect to the waiver, are at least equal to the amount of advisory fees paid by the other classes, such that the waiver for the waived class is demonstrably not being subsidized by other classes.</p>

<p>For a fund that already has such differential advisory fee waivers in place, its Board may wish to consider, specifically within the context of Rule 18f-3, whether such waivers present a means for cross-subsidization, whether the steps they are taking to monitor such waivers to guard against cross-subsidization are (and continue to be) effective, and/or whether alternative fee arrangements may be appropriate. Relatedly, the fund should consider the extent to which the Board’s consideration of these issues under Rule 18f-3 should be disclosed to the fund’s shareholders.<a href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[11]</a></p>

<p>If you have any questions about this bulletin, please contact:</p>

<p>SEC Division of Investment Management<br />
Chief Counsel’s Office<br />
Phone: 202.551.6825<br />
Email:<a href="mailto:IMOCC@sec.gov" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">IMOCC@sec.gov</a></p>

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<p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[1]</a> This bulletin represents the views of the staff of the Division of Investment Management. It is not a rule, regulation, or bulletin of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”). The Commission has neither approved nor disapproved its content. This bulletin, like all staff bulletins, has no legal force or effect: it does not alter or amend applicable law, and it creates no new or additional obligations for any person.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[2]</a> Section 18(f)(1) of the Act generally makes it “unlawful for any registered open-end company to issue any class of senior security ...”. Section 18(g) of the Act defines senior security to include any stock of a class having a priority over any other class as to distribution of assets or payment of dividends. Section 18(i) of the Act generally requires that every share of stock issued by a registered investment company be voting stock, with the same voting rights as every other outstanding voting stock.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[3]</a> For example, the rule permits share classes to pay “a different share of other expenses, not including advisory or custodial fees or other expenses related to the management of the company’s assets, if these expenses are actually incurred in a different amount by that class, or if the class received services of a different kind or to a different degree than other classes...”.<i> See</i> Rule 18f-3(a)(1)(ii).</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[4]</a> <i>See</i> Rule 18f-3(d).</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[5]</a> Note that 18f-3 as initially proposed would have disallowed such waivers, but expressly permitted them in the adopting release on the premise that “fund sponsors could have achieved the same result indirectly by waiving or reimbursing class expenses.” <i>Exemption for Open-End Management Investment Companies Issuing Multiple Classes of Shares; Disclosure by Multiple Class and Master-Feeder Funds; Class Voting on Distribution Plans</i>, Investment Company Act Release No. 20915 at 11879 (Feb. 23, 1995) [60 FR 11876 (Mar. 2, 1995)].</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[6]</a> <i>Id</i> at 11879. In this regard, the Commission stated the rule is only a limited exemption from the literal application of the prohibitions of section 18 and may not be used to undermine that section's role in effecting the statutory purpose of preventing the issuance of "securities containing inequitable or discriminatory provisions." <i>Id</i> at footnote 30.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[7]</a> <i>Id</i> at 11879.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[8]</a> <i>Id </i>at footnote 30.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[9]</a> <i>Id</i> at footnote 12.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[10]</a> One fact that should not be used to justify a differential advisory fee waiver is the existence of any Staff No-Action Letter that does not explicitly address any such waiver under section 18 of the Act and Rule 18f-3. <i>See, e.g.</i>, American Century Investment Management, Inc., SEC No-Action Letter (Dec. 20, 2016) (stating that the staff would not recommend enforcement action under section 15(a) of the Act (and not addressing section 18 and Rule 18f-3) if ACI reallocates consistent with the circumstances addressed in the letter).</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" title="">[11]</a> <i>See, e.g.</i>, Item 27(d)(6)(i) of Form N-1A.</p>
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