EX-99.H3 9 nb413557_exh3.htm EXPENSE LIMITATION AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO COMMODITY STRATEGY ETF

 

Exhibit (h)(3)

 

EXPENSE LIMITATION AGREEMENT

NEUBERGER BERMAN ETF TRUST

 

NEUBERGER BERMAN COMMODITY STRATEGY ETF

 

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10104

 

December 13, 2022

 

Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10104

 

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Neuberger Berman Commodity Strategy ETF (“Fund”) is a series of Neuberger Berman ETF Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“Trust”).

 

You hereby agree, from December 19, 2022 until the date noted on Schedule A (the “Limitation Period”), to waive fees and/or reimburse annual operating expenses (excluding interest, brokerage commissions, taxes including any expenses relating to tax reclaims, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) (“Operating Expenses”) of the Fund noted on Schedule A so that the Operating Expenses of the Fund are limited to the respective rate per annum, as noted on Schedule A, of the Fund’s average daily net assets (an “Expense Limitation”). Commitment fees relating to borrowings are treated as interest for purposes of this section. For all purposes hereof, the Operating Expenses of the Fund are deemed to include a proportionate part -- determined by dividing the Fund’s average daily net assets by the Fund’s aggregate average daily net assets -- of the Operating Expenses of Neuberger Berman Cayman Commodity Fund I Ltd., an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands that is wholly owned by the Fund, or any other wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC (collectively, “Subsidiary”). You further agree to pay any reimbursement made pursuant to the Expense Limitation to the Fund, on the Fund’s behalf, and the Subsidiary in proportion to their respective Operating Expenses that gave rise to the reimbursement.

 

The Fund and the Subsidiary agree to repay you out of assets attributable to the Fund noted on Schedule A for any fees waived by you under the Expense Limitation or any Operating Expenses you reimburse in excess of the Expense Limitation, provided that the repayment does not cause the Fund’s Operating Expenses to exceed the expense limitation in place at the time the fees were waived and/or the expenses were reimbursed, or the expense limitation in place at the time the Fund or the Subsidiary repays you, whichever is lower. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which you incurred the expense. The percentage of any such repayment to be made by the Subsidiary shall equal the percentage of the waiver/reimbursement from which the Subsidiary benefitted that is subject to repayment, beginning with the earliest year in the aforementioned three-year period in which it so benefitted and then the next year thereafter. In no event shall the Subsidiary be responsible for repaying more than the Subsidiary’s share of the waiver or reimbursement to which the total repayment relates.

 

 

 

 

You understand that you shall look only to the assets attributable to the Fund and to the Subsidiary for the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s respective performance of this Agreement and for payment of any claim you may have hereunder, and neither any other series of the Trust, nor any of the Trust’s trustees, officers, employees, agents, or shareholders, whether past, present or future, shall be personally liable therefor.

 

This Agreement is made and to be performed principally in the State of New York, and except insofar as the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or other federal laws and regulations may be controlling, this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York. Any amendment to this Agreement shall be in writing signed by the parties hereto and requires approval of the Board of Trustees of the Trust, including a majority of the Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940. This Agreement supersedes any prior agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof as of December 19, 2022.

 

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If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of acceptance on the enclosed counterpart hereof and return the same to us.

 

Very truly yours,  
   
NEUBERGER BERMAN ETF TRUST, on behalf of  
NEUBERGER BERMAN COMMODITY STRATEGY ETF  
     
By: /s/ Joseph V. Amato  
     
Name: Joseph V. Amato  
     
Title: Chief Executive Officer and President  

 

NEUBERGER BERMAN CAYMAN COMMODITY FUND I LTD.  
     
By: /s/ Joseph V. Amato  
     
Name: Joseph V. Amato  
     
Title: Director  

 

The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted as of December 13, 2022.  
     
NEUBERGER BERMAN INVESTMENT ADVISERS LLC  
     
By: /s/ Joseph V. Amato  
     
Name: Joseph V. Amato  
     
Title: President and Chief Investment Officer -- Equities  

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

Fund 

Limitation

Period

  

Expense

Limitation

 
Neuberger Berman Commodity Strategy ETF*   8/31/2026    0.64%

 

*For purposes of this limitation, the Fund’s Operating Expenses shall be deemed to include the Operating Expenses of Neuberger Berman Cayman Commodity Fund I Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund, and any other wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC.

 

Sch. A-1