EX-99.(H)(7) 4 nfii-html7735_ex99h7.htm LOOMIS SAYLES FEE WAIVER/EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT UNDERTAKINGS DATED APRIL 30, 2024, BETWEEN LOOMIS SAYLES AND THE REGISTRANT, ON BEHALF OF LOOMIS SAYLES STRATEGIC ALPHA FUND

Exhibit (h)(7)

 

April 30, 2024

 

Loomis Sayles Funds I

Loomis Sayles Funds II

Natixis Funds Trust II

(the “Trusts”)

888 Boylston Street, Suite 800

Boston, MA 02199-8197

 

Re: Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. (“Loomis Sayles”) notifies you that it will waive its management fee and to the extent necessary, reimburse certain expenses of the Funds listed below through April 30, 2025 in order to limit the Funds’ total annual fund operating expenses, exclusive of acquired fund fees and expenses, brokerage expenses, interest expense, taxes, and organizational and extraordinary expenses, such as litigation and indemnification expenses, to the following annual rates:

 

Name of Fund Expense Cap
   
July 1, 2023 through April 30, 2025:  
   
Loomis Sayles Bond Fund 0.66% for Institutional Class shares
  0.91% for Retail Class shares
  1.16% for Admin Class shares
  0.61% for Class N shares
   
Loomis Sayles High Income Fund1 0.95% for Class A shares
  1.70% for Class C shares
  0.65% for Class N shares
  0.95% for Class T Shares
  0.70% for Class Y shares
   
Loomis Sayles Investment Grade Fixed Income Fund 0.53% for Institutional Class shares
   
Loomis Sayles Strategic Income Fund1 0.93% for Class A shares
  1.68% for Class C shares
  0.63% for Class N shares
  0.93% for Class T shares
  0.68% for Class Y shares
  1.18% for Admin Class shares
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Name of Fund Expense Cap
   
May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025:  
   
Loomis Sayles Investment Grade Bond Fund1 0.74% for Class A shares
  1.49% for Class C shares
  0.44% for Class N shares
  0.74% for Class T shares
  0.49% for Class Y shares
  0.99% for Admin Class shares
   
Loomis Sayles International Growth Fund1 1.20% for Class A shares
  1.95% for Class C shares
  0.90% for Class N shares
  0.95% for Class Y shares
   
Loomis Sayles Strategic Alpha Fund1 1.00% for Class A shares
  1.75% for Class C shares
  0.70% for Class N shares
  1.00% for Class T shares
  0.75% for Class Y shares

 

1 Natixis Advisors, LLC (“Natixis Advisors”) will bear a portion of the waiver. The Natixis Advisors portion of the waiver will be equal to the ratio of the Natixis Advisors Support Services Fee divided by the management fee earned by Loomis Sayles.

 

With respect to each Fund, subject to applicable legal requirements, Loomis Sayles shall be permitted to recover, on a class-by-class basis, management fees waived and/or expenses reimbursed subsequent to the effective date of this undertaking in later periods to the extent that a class’ total annual fund operating expenses fall below both 1) the class’ applicable expense limitation at the time such amounts were waived/reimbursed and 2) the class’ current applicable expense limitation, provided, however, that the Fund is not obligated to pay any such waived/reimbursed fees and expenses more than one year after the end of the fiscal year in which the fee/expense was waived/reimbursed.

 

During the period covered by this undertaking, the expense cap arrangement set forth above for each of the Funds may only be modified by a majority vote of the “non-interested” Trustees of the Trusts affected.

 

For purposes of determining any such waiver or expense reimbursement, expenses shall not reflect the application of balance credits made available by the Funds’ custodian or arrangements under which broker-dealers that execute portfolio transactions for the Funds agree to bear some portion of the Funds’ expenses.

 

We understand and intend that you will rely on this undertaking in preparing and filing the Registration Statements on Form N-1A for the above referenced Funds with the Securities and

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Exchange Commission, in accruing each Fund’s expenses for purposes of calculating its net asset value per share and for other purposes permitted under Form N-1A and/or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and expressly permit you to do so.

 

 

  Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
     
  By: /s/ Gregory Woodgate
  Name: Gregory Woodgate
  Title: Chief Accounting Officer, Finance Director and Treasurer
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