EX-99.N 18F-3 PLAN 3 f18f-3.txt AMENDED 18F-3 PLAN AMENDED AND RESTATED MULTIPLE CLASS PLAN PURSUANT TO RULE 18F-3 USAA MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST S&P 500 INDEX FUND USAA Mutual Funds Trust ("Trust") hereby adopts this Amended and Restated Multiple Class Plan ("Plan") pursuant to Rule 18f-3 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended ("1940 Act"), on behalf of its S&P 500 Index Fund, a series of the Trust ("Fund"). A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF CLASSES THAT ARE OFFERED 1. MEMBER SHARES. Member shares of the Fund are offered and sold without imposition of an initial sales charge or a contingent deferred sales charge and are not subject to any distribution fee. Member shares of the Fund are available to all USAA members and to certain other investors, as described in the Trust's Registration Statement. Member shares are also available by exchange, as described below. Member shares require a minimum initial investment of $3,000 ($2,000 for Individual Retirement Accounts). 2. REWARD SHARES. Reward shares are offered and sold without imposition of an initial sales charge or a contingent deferred sales charge and are not subject to any distribution fee. Reward shares of the Fund are offered only to investors who meet the eligibility requirements specified below or invest in the Fund through a USAA discretionary management account such as USAA Strategic Fund Adviser program, USAA Global Opportunities Portfolio, USAA Private Investment Management, or the USAA Federal Savings Bank Trust Department. Reward shares of the Fund also are offered to the USAA Target Retirement Funds. Reward shares also are available by exchange, as described below. Except for shareholders who invest in the Fund through one of these discretionary management account programs and for the USAA Target Retirement Funds, Reward shares require a minimum investment of $100,000 for initial purchases or to be eligible to convert Member shares into Reward shares as provided in Section E.1. below and are not available to: (a) SIMPLE IRAs, SEP IRAs, KEOGHs, and custodial accounts established under Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; (b) Accounts held by corporations (excluding USAA companies) or in pension plans or profit sharing plans; (c) Accounts maintained by financial intermediaries (excluding USAA companies), except in limited circumstances; and (d) Other accounts receiving special services from IMCO. A Fund shareholder's account that held Reward shares as of April 30, 2006 and does not satisfy the above criteria may continue to hold such shares and is eligible to purchase additional Reward shares, provided that the shareholder continues to satisfy the eligibility criteria that were previously in effect and on which the purchases of such shares were based. B. EXPENSE ALLOCATIONS OF EACH CLASS Certain expenses may be attributable to a particular class of shares of the Fund ("Class Expenses"). Class Expenses are charged directly to the net assets of the particular class and, thus, are borne on a PRO RATA basis by the outstanding shares of that class. For example, each class may pay a different proportion of the following other expenses: 1. legal, printing and postage expenses related to preparing and distributing materials such as shareholder reports, prospectuses, and proxies to current shareholders of a specific class; 2. Blue Sky fees incurred by a specific class of shares; 3. transfer agency expenses relating to a specific class of shares; 4. expenses of administrative personnel and services required to support the shareholders of a specific class of shares; 5. litigation expenses or other legal expenses relating to a specific class of shares; 6. shareholder servicing expenses identified as being attributable to a specific class; and 7. such other expenses actually incurred in a different amount by a class or related to a class's receipt of services of a different kind or to a different degree than another class. C. VOTING RIGHTS Each class of shares shall have exclusive voting rights on any matter submitted to shareholders that relates solely to that class of shares. D. EXCHANGE PRIVILEGES Member shares of the Fund may be exchanged for or acquired through an exchange of shares of any other fund in the USAA family of mutual funds. Reward shares of the Fund may be exchanged for or acquired through an exchange of shares of any other fund in the USAA family of mutual funds. Exchanges of Member shares into Reward shares, and Reward shares into Member shares, is prohibited except as otherwise provided in the Plan. 2 These exchange privileges may be modified or terminated by the Fund to the extent permitted by SEC rules or policies, and exchanges may be made only into funds that are legally available for sale in the investor's state of residence. E. CONVERSION 1. VOLUNTARY CONVERSION. (a) A Fund shareholder's account will be converted from Member shares into Reward shares if the shareholder's account balance in the Fund is at least $100,000. (b) A Fund shareholder's account that holds Fund shares through a USAA discretionary management account program such as USAA Strategic Fund Adviser program, USAA Global Opportunities Portfolio, USAA Private Investment Management, or the USAA Federal Savings Bank Trust Account will be converted from Member shares into Reward shares. 2. MANDATORY CONVERSION. If a shareholder no longer meets the requirements for Reward shares, the Fund may reclassify the shareholder's Reward shares into Member shares. A decline in a shareholder's account balance due to exchanges or redemptions may result in a mandatory conversion of Reward shares into Member shares. Market movement alone, however, will not result in a conversion. The Fund will notify shareholders before any mandatory conversion into Member shares can occur. F. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This Plan is qualified by and subject to the terms of the then current Prospectus for the applicable classes; provided, however, that none of the terms set forth in any such Prospectus shall be inconsistent with the terms of the classes contained in this Plan. The Prospectus for the Fund contain additional information about the classes and the Fund's multiple class structure. G. AMENDMENTS All material amendments to the Plan must be approved by a majority of the Trust's Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust. H. DATE OF EFFECTIVENESS This Plan, as amended and restated, takes effect May 1, 2009, or such other date designated by Fund management, provided that this Plan shall not become effective with respect to the Fund unless such action has first been approved by the vote of a majority of the Trust's Board of Trustees and by vote of a majority of those trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act). DATED: May 1, 2006 AMENDED: November 13, 2007, February 27, 2008, and April 16, 2009 3