Close Window Mutual Fund Families: Revenue Sharing Summary Description American Funds4 Federated5 Franklin Templeton Investments Goldman Sachs Hartford Lord Abbett Oppenheimer-Funds Putnam6 Van Kampen Annual Asset Fees1 (Based on $10,000 of fund assets owned) $2.60 $10.00 $5.00 $13.00 $13.00 $10.00 $13.00 $ _ $13.00 Sales Fees2 (Per $10,000 of fund assets purchased) $0 $0 $8.00 $0 $0 $0 $0 $ _ $0 Total Earned during 20083 $45.0 million $0.7 million $10.57million $7.6 million $14.0 million $15.0 million $1.4 million $6.08 million $16.1 million Paid by American Funds Distributors, Inc. Federated Securities Corp. Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. Hartford Investment Financial Services, LLC Lord Abbett Distributor LLC Oppenheimer-Funds Distributor, Inc. Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership Van Kampen Funds, Inc. 1Edward Jones receives ongoing asset fees that fluctuate based on the value of your mutual fund investment. The numbers in the table above represent the maximum asset fees earned by Edward Jones per $10,000 of mutual funds owned by you. 2Sales fees are based on the dollar amount of each mutual fund you purchase. Sales fees, unlike annual asset fees, are not annual ongoing fees. The numbers in the above table represent the maximum sales fees earned by Edward Jones per $10,000 of mutual funds purchased by you. 3The total earned represents revenue sharing recognized as revenue by Edward Jones for the period January 2008 through December 2008. 4For the purposes of computing the annualized amount per $10,000 of assets, Edward Jones has categorized the entire revenue sharing arrangement with American Funds Distributors as an asset fee, since American Funds Distributors has not distinguished to Edward Jones the breakdown of the revenue arrangement between asset fees and sales fees. If the entire revenue sharing arrangement was categorized as sales fees, the amount would be $17.88 per $10,000 purchased. American Funds Distributors has not distinguished the portion of its annual revenue sharing payment that is attributable to Edward Jones' sales of interests in the 529 plan for which American is the program manager. 5Federated and Edward Jones jointly own the investment adviser to the taxable Edward Jones Money Market Fund and the Edward Jones Tax Free Money Market Fund, with Edward Jones holding a 49.5% limited partnership interest. The foregoing table does not include any amounts earned by or paid to Edward Jones related to its or Federated's ownership of the adviser. Please refer to the funds' prospectuses for further information. 6As of March 15, 2009, Edward Jones no longer receives revenue sharing payments from Putnam Investments. Through March 15, 2009, Edward Jones received an annual asset fee of $8.50 per $10,000 of assets and a sales fee of $12.50 per $10,000 of fund assets purchased from Putnam Investments ("Putnam"). 7A previous disclosure published in March 2009 incorrectly identified the total amount of revenue sharing paid to Edward Jones by Franklin Templeton Investments in 2008 as $6.7 million. The correct figure, as noted above, is $10.5 million. 8A previous disclosure published in March 2009 incorrectly identified the total amount of revenue sharing paid to Edward Jones by Putnam in 2008 as $5.4 million. The correct figure, as noted above, is $6.0 million.