EX-99.(D)(28)(B) 2 exhibitd28b_ex99zd28b.htm AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT BETWEEN EATON VANCE MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST, ON BEHALF OF EATON VANCE TAX-MANAGED EQUITY ASSET ALLOCATION FUND, AND EATON VANCE MANAGEMENT

EXHIBIT (d)(28)(b)

 

EATON VANCE MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

ON BEHALF OF

EATON VANCE TAX-MANAGED EQUITY ASSET ALLOCATION FUND

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 1 to the Investment Advisory Agreement (“Amendment”) made as of July 1, 2022, between Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Trust”), on behalf of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Equity Asset Allocation Fund (the “Fund”), and Eaton Vance Management, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Adviser”). 

WHEREAS, the Trust, on behalf of the Fund, entered into an Investment Advisory Agreement dated March 1, 2021 with the Adviser (the “Advisory Agreement”), which provides that the Adviser shall be entitled to receive compensation at a certain rate; and

WHEREAS, the Adviser has offered to reduce such advisory fee rate, and the Trust has accepted such fee reduction on behalf of the Fund, such fee reduction being effective as of July 1, 2022; and 

WHEREAS, the Adviser and the Trust wish to memorialize said fee reduction in writing; 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Trust and the Adviser hereby jointly and severally agree as follows: 

1.Appendix A of the Advisory Agreement is replaced in its entirety with the Appendix A attached hereto.   

2.Except as specifically set forth herein, all of the other terms of the Advisory Agreement shall remain in full force and effective. 

3.This Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. This Amendment may be executed in written form or using electronic or digital technology, whether it is a computer-generated signature, an electronic copy of the party’s true ink signature, DocuSign, facsimile or otherwise. Delivery of an executed counterpart of the Amendment by facsimile, e-mail transmission via portable document format (.pdf), DocuSign, or other electronic means will be equally as effective and binding as delivery of a manually executed counterpart. 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the day and year first above written. 

 

EATON VANCE MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST

on behalf of

EATON VANCE TAX-MANAGED EQUITY ASSET ALLOCATION FUND

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jill R. Damon  

 

Jill R. Damon

 

Secretary and not individually

 

 

 

 

EATON VANCE MANAGEMENT

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Deidre E. Walsh  

 

Deidre E. Walsh

 

Vice President and not individually



APPENDIX A

As amended July 1, 2022

 

For the services, payments and facilities furnished by the Adviser under this Agreement, the Adviser is entitled to receive from the Fund compensation as set forth below:

Average Daily Net Assets for the Month

Annual Fee Rate

Up to $500 million

0.700%

$500 million but less than $1 billion

0.600%

$1 billion but less than $1.5 billion

0.575%

$1.5 billion but less than $2.5 billion

0.550%

$2.5 billion and over

0.525%

 

Compensation is based on average daily net assets. The fee shall be reduced by the Fund’s allocable share of any fee paid pursuant to an investment advisory agreement by any investment company advised by the Adviser or its affiliates in which the Fund invests its assets.

In case of initiation or termination of the Agreement during any month with respect to the Fund, the fee for that month shall be reduced proportionately on the basis of the number of calendar days during which the Agreement is in effect.

The Fund’s daily net assets shall be computed in accordance with the Declaration of Trust of the Trust and any applicable votes and determinations of the Trustees of the Trust. Such compensation shall be paid monthly in arrears. The Adviser may, from time to time, waive all or a part of the above compensation.