EX-99.(H)(4) 3 d277031dex99h4.htm LS FEE WAIVER/EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT LS Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement

Exhibit (h)(4)

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January 31, 2012

Natixis Funds Trust I

Natixis Funds Trust II

Loomis Sayles Funds I

Loomis Sayles Funds II

399 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02116

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, bear other expenses of the Funds listed below through January 31, 2013 to the extent that the total annual fund operating expenses of each class of a Fund, exclusive of acquired fund fees and expenses, brokerage, interest, taxes, and organizational and extraordinary expenses, such as litigation and indemnification expenses, would exceed the following annual rates:

 

Name of Fund

  

Expense Cap

     

February 1, 2012 through January 31, 2013:

     
Loomis Sayles Bond Fund    0.70% for Institutional class shares   
   0.95% for Retail class shares   
   1.20% for Admin class shares   
Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond Fund1    0.90% for Class A shares   
   1.65% for Class B shares   
   1.65% for Class C shares   
   0.65% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles Fixed Income Fund    0.65% for Institutional class shares   
Loomis Sayles Global Bond Fund    0.75% for Institutional class shares   
   1.00% for Retail class shares   

 

 

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Name of Fund

  

Expense Cap

     

Loomis Sayles Global Equity and

   1.25% for Class A shares   

Income Fund2 (formerly Loomis

   2.00% for Class C shares   

Sayles Global Markets Fund)

   1.00% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles Growth Fund2    1.25% for Class A shares   
   2.00% for Class B shares   
   2.00% for Class C shares   
   1.00% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles High Income Fund2    1.15% for Class A shares   
   1.90% for Class B shares   
   1.90% for Class C shares   
   0.90% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles Inflation Protected    0.40% for Institutional class shares   

Securities Fund

   0.65% for Retail class shares   
Loomis Sayles Institutional High    0.75% for Institutional class shares   

Income Fund

     
Loomis Sayles Intermediate    0.40% for Institutional class shares   

Duration Bond Fund

   0.65% for Retail class shares   
Loomis Sayles International Bond Fund2    1.10% for Class A shares   
   1.85% for Class C shares   
   0.85% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles Investment Grade Bond Fund    0.95% for Class A shares   
   1.70% for Class B shares   
   1.70% for Class C shares   
   0.70% for Class Y shares   
   1.20% for Admin Class shares   
Loomis Sayles Investment Grade    0.55% for Institutional class shares   

Fixed Income Fund

     
Loomis Sayles Limited Term    0.85% for Class A shares   

Government and Agency2

   1.60% for Class B shares   
   1.60% for Class C shares   
   0.60% for Class Y shares   
Loomis Sayles Mid Cap Growth Fund    1.25% for Class A shares   
   2.00% for Class C shares   
   1.00% for Class Y shares   

 

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Name of Fund

  

Expense Cap

     
Loomis Sayles Small Cap Growth Fund    1.00% for Institutional class shares   
   1.25% for Retail class shares   
Loomis Sayles Small Cap Value Fund    0.90% for Institutional class shares   
   1.15% for Retail class shares   
   1.40% for Admin class shares   
Loomis Sayles Strategic Income Fund    1.25% for Class A shares   
   2.00% for Class B shares   
   2.00% for Class C shares   
   1.00% for Class Y shares   
   1.50% for Admin Class shares   

Loomis Sayles Value Fund

   1.10% for Class A shares   
   1.85% for Class B shares   
   1.85% for Class C shares   
   0.85% for Class Y shares   
   1.35% for Admin Class shares   

 

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The expense caps above account for advisory administration fees payable to Natixis Asset Management Advisors, L.P. Loomis Sayles and Natixis Asset Management Advisors, L.P. (“Natixis Advisors”) have agreed to equally bear the waiver.

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The expense caps account for advisory fees payable to Loomis Sayles. Loomis Sayles and Natixis Advisors have agreed to equally bear the waiver.

With respect to each Fund, Loomis Sayles shall be permitted to recover expenses it has borne subsequent to the effective date of this agreement (whether through reduction of its management fee or otherwise) in later periods to the extent that a Fund’s expenses fall below the annual rates set forth above. Provided, however, that a Fund is not obligated to pay any such deferred fees more than one year after the end of the fiscal year in which the fee was deferred.

During the period covered by this letter agreement, 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 of the class of the Funds 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 Fund 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 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.

 

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Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
By:  

/s/ Kevin Charleston

Name:   Kevin Charleston
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

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