Small-Company Stock Fund; and 0.75% of average daily net assets up to $300 million, 0.65% of average daily net assets up to the next $100 million, 0.55% of average daily net assets up to the next $100 million, and 0.50% of average daily net assets in excess of $500 million for International Equity Fund.
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe”) is the subadvisor for the Growth Fund and Harding Loevner LP (“Harding”) is the subadvisor for the International Equity Fund. The subadvisors select, buy, and sell securities under the supervision and oversight of RE Advisers and the Board of Directors. RE Advisers pays the subadvisors from the fees it receives from the Funds. SSGA Funds Management, Inc. ("SSGA FM") served as interim subadvisor to the International Equity Fund from September 7, 2015 until January 8th, 2016. Harding Loevner LP began as subadvisor on January 15, 2016 after a transition period.
RE Advisers serves as the administrator for the Stock Index Fund pursuant to an Administrative Services Agreement with the fund, under which RE Advisers provides certain administrative services to the Fund. Pursuant to this agreement, RE Advisers receives a fee of 0.25% of the Fund's average daily net assets. In addition, the Stock Index Fund is allocated a management fee from the Master Portfolio, calculated daily at an annual rate of 0.01% of its average daily net assets. This fee includes advisory, custody, and administrative fees provided by the Master Portfolio on behalf of its investors. The financial information for the Master Portfolio is included in the Appendix.
RE Advisers has agreed, as part of the Expense Limitation Agreement entered into with Homestead Funds, with respect to each Fund, to waive its management fee and/or reimburse all Fund operating expenses, excluding certain non-recurring expenses, such as interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, other expenditures that are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business, or, in the case of each Fund other than the Stock Index Fund, fees and expenses associated with an investment in another investment company or any company that would be an investment company under Section 3(a) of the Act, but for the exceptions to that definition provided for in Sections 3(c)(1) and 3(c)(7) of the Act, which in any year exceed 0.80% of the average daily net assets of the Daily Income, Short-Term Bond, and Intermediate Bond Funds, 0.75% of the average daily net assets of the Short-Term Government Securities and Stock Index Funds, 1.25% of the average daily net assets of Value Fund, 0.95% of the average daily net assets of Growth Fund, 1.50% of the average daily net assets of Small-Company Stock Fund and 0.99% of the average daily net assets of the International Equity Fund.
Pursuant to the Expense Limitation Agreement, management fees waived for the period ended June 30, 2020 amounted to $21,802 for Short-Term Government Securities Fund, $101,874 for Intermediate Bond Fund and $104,701 for International Equity Fund.
On August 14, 2009, RE Advisers voluntarily agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses, to the extent necessary to assist the Daily Income Fund in attempting to maintain a positive yield (the "temporary waiver"). The temporary waiver continued from 2009 through May 11, 2017. RE Advisers began voluntarily waiving fees for this Fund again on April 20, 2020. Per the temporary waiver, RE Advisers waived $149,529 of management fees for the Daily Income Fund during the period.
For the period beginning September 7, 2015 through January 14, 2016, RE Advisers, pursuant to a contractual waiver with the International Equity Fund, waived from the management fee due to it from International Equity Fund the amount equal to the subadvisory fees it would have paid to Mercator Asset Management L.P., the Fund's subadvisor prior to September 7, 2015, less the amount it paid to SSGA FM for subadvisory services during such period.
Under a Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Plan”), Independent Directors or Trustees of the Funds may elect to defer receipt of all or a specified portion of their compensation. Deferred amounts are credited with the earnings and losses equal to those made as if the deferred amounts were invested in one or more of the Funds, as designated by each participating Independent Director / Trustee. Deferred amounts remain in the Fund until distributed in accordance with the Plan. The liability is reflected as Independent Director / Trustee's deferred compensation on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities and the expense is included in Director, Trustee and Board meeting expenses on the Statement of Operations.
As of June 30, 2020, one shareholder of record, an omnibus account, held greater than 13% of the net assets of the Small-Company Stock Fund. No other shareholders, including omnibus accounts, held more than 10% of the outstanding shares of any of the Funds.