First Eagle Senior Loan Fund
Notes to Financial Statements (unaudited) (continued) June 30, 2021
5. MANAGEMENT FEES, ADMINISTRATIVE FEES AND OTHER AGREEMENTS (continued)
so associated. Additionally, under the Amended Expense Limitation Agreement, the Expense Cap will be measured based on the Fund’s average daily Managed Assets for the relevant period. For the period from January 1, 2021 through the Expense Limitation Termination Date, the Expense Cap will be pro-rated (the “Pro-Rated Expense Cap”) (e.g., if the Expense Limitation Termination Date is August 31, 2021, the Pro-Rated Expense Cap will be 0.1667%), and, to the extent Specified Expenses incurred during the period exceed the Pro-Rated Expense Cap, the Adviser will promptly pay or reimburse the Fund for expenses necessary to eliminate such excess. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the estimated expenses exceeding the Expense Cap to be reimbursed by the Adviser amounted to $203,689 and are disclosed in the Statement of Operations.
As of June 30, 2021, the Fund has a receivable from the Adviser of $144,321 on its Statement of Assets and Liabilities for estimated expenses in excess of the Expense Cap.
The Bank of New York Mellon, the Fund’s administrator, accounting agent and custodian, holds the Fund’s assets, settles all portfolio trades and is responsible for calculating the Fund’s net asset value and maintaining the accounting records of the Fund.
American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, LLC is the Fund’s transfer agent, registrar, dividend disbursing agent and shareholder servicing agent, as well as the agent for the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan.
The Fund pays each Independent Trustee a fee of $17,000 per annum, plus $3,000 per in person meeting and $500 per substantive conference call for serving as a trustee of the Fund. During 2021, the Board approved in-person meeting fee payments for meetings not conducted in person due to COVID. In addition, the Fund pays members of the Audit Committee a fee of $2,000 per annum and members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee a fee of $1,000 per annum. Interested trustees and officers of the Fund do not receive any remuneration from the Fund.
6. PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS
For the six months ended June 30, 2021, purchases and sales of investments, other than purchases and sales of money market investments, were $106,949,225 and $266,393,012 respectively.
7. CAPITAL
The following is a summary of share transactions for the period ended June 30, 2021:
| Shares of common stock, beginning of period | | | | | 7,418,990 | | |
| Change in shares of common stock outstanding | | | | | — | | |
| Shares of common stock, end of period | | | | | 7,418,990 | | |
8. INCOME TAX INFORMATION
The Fund is required to evaluate tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Fund’s tax returns to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Income tax and related interest and penalties would be recognized by the Fund as tax expense in the Statement of Operations if the tax positions were deemed to not meet the more-likely-than-not threshold. For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Fund did not incur any income tax, interest, or penalties. As of June 30, 2021, the Adviser has reviewed all open tax years and concluded that there was no other impact to the Fund’s net assets or results of operations. Tax years ended December 31, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. On an ongoing basis, the Adviser will monitor its tax positions to determine if adjustments to this conclusion are necessary.