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Only 50 are included on the Ward’s 50 List for safety, consistency and performance.

Only 5 have been rated “A” or better by A.M. Best for over 100 years.

Only 2 are on both lists.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

FIDELITY CRIME DIVISION CLAIMS

Should this account have a potential claim situation, please contact:

Fidelity & Crime Claims Department

Great American Insurance Group

Five Waterside Crossing

Windsor, CT 06095

(860) 298-7330

(860) 688-8188 fax

CrimeClaims@gaig.com

 

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INVESTMENT COMPANY BOND

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY

(A Stock Insurance Company, Herein Called the Underwriter)

 

DECLARATIONS

 

  

                                         Bond No. FS 3147982 07 00

 

Item 1.   Name of Insured (herein called Insured):  

Voya Family of Funds

f/k/a ING Family of Funds

  Principal Address:   7337 E. Doubletree Ranch Rd,
    Suite 100
       

Scottsdale, AZ 85258

 

Item 2.  

Bond Period: from 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 to 03/31/2019 12:01 a.m. the effective date of the termination or cancellation of this Bond, standard time at the Principal Address as to each of said dates.

 

Item 3.   Limit of Liability - Subject to Sections 9, 10 and 12 hereof,

 

               Amount applicable to              
     Limit of Liability      Deductible  

               Insuring Agreement (A)-Fidelity

    $             40,000,000      $             25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (B)-On Premises

   $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (C)-In Transit

   $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (D)-Forgery or Alteration

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (E)-Securities

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (F)-Counterfeit Currency

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (G)-Stop Payment

    $ 250,000      $ 5,000  

               Insuring Agreement (H)-Uncollectible Items of Deposit

    $ 250,000      $ 5,000  

               Insuring Agreement (I)-Audit Expense

    $ 250,000      $ 5,000  

               Insuring Agreement (J)-Telefacsimile Transmissions

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (K)-Unauthorized Signatures

    $ 250,000      $ 5,000  

               Optional Insuring Agreements and Coverages

      

               Insuring Agreement (L)-Computer Systems

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (M)-Automated Phone Systems

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

               Insuring Agreement (N)-Fraudulent Transfer Instructions

    $ 40,000,000      $ 25,000  

 

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     If “Not Covered” is inserted above opposite any specified Insuring Agreement or Coverage, such Insuring Agreement or Coverage and any other reference thereto in this Bond shall be deemed to be deleted therefrom.

 

 

 

Item 4. Offices or Premises Covered-Offices acquired or established subsequent to the effective date of this Bond are covered according to the terms of General Agreement A. All the Insured’s offices or premises in existence at the time this Bond becomes effective are covered under this Bond except the offices or premises located as follows:

N/A

 

 

 

Item 5. The liability of the Underwriter is subject to the terms of the following Riders attached hereto:

See Form FI8801

 

 

Item 6. The Insured by the acceptance of this Bond gives to the Underwriter terminating or cancelling prior Bond(s) or Policy(ies) No.(s)

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such termination or cancellation to be effective as of the time this Bond becomes effective.

 

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INVESTMENT COMPANY BOND

The Underwriter, in consideration of an agreed premium, and subject to the Declarations made a part hereof, the General Agreements, Conditions and Limitations and other terms of this Bond, agrees with the Insured, in accordance with Insuring Agreements hereof to which an amount of insurance is applicable as set forth in Item 3 of the Declarations and with respect to loss sustained by the Insured at any time but discovered during the Bond period, to indemnify and hold harmless the Insured for:

INSURING AGREEMENTS

 

FIDELITY

 

(A)

Loss resulting from any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement committed by an Employee, committed anywhere and whether committed alone or in collusion with others, including loss of Property resulting from such acts of an Employee, which Property is held by the Insured for any purpose or in any capacity and whether so held gratuitously or not and whether or not the Insured is liable therefor.

 

    

Dishonest or fraudulent act(s) as used in this Insuring Agreement shall mean only dishonest or fraudulent act(s) committed by such Employee with the manifest intent:

 

  (a)

to cause the Insured to sustain such loss; and

 

  (b)

to obtain financial benefit for the Employee, or for any other person or organization intended by the Employee to receive such benefit, other than salaries, commissions, fees, bonuses, promotions, awards, profit sharing, pensions or other employee benefits earned in the normal course of employment.

ON PREMISES

 

(B)

Loss of Property (occurring with or without negligence or violence) through robbery, burglary, Larceny, theft, holdup, or other fraudulent means, misplacement, mysterious unexplainable disappearance, damage thereto or destruction thereof, abstraction or removal from the possession, custody or control of the Insured, and loss of subscription, conversion, redemption or deposit privileges through the misplacement or loss of Property, while the Property is (or is supposed or believed by

 

the Insured to be) lodged or deposited within any offices or premises located anywhere, except in an office listed in Item 4 of the Declarations or amendment thereof or in the mail or with a carrier for hire other than an armored motor vehicle company, for the purpose of transportation.

Offices and Equipment

 

  (1)

Loss of or damage to furnishings, fixtures, stationary, supplies or equipment, within any of the Insured’s offices covered under this Bond caused by Larceny or theft in, or by burglary, robbery or hold-up of such office, or attempt thereat, or by vandalism or malicious mischief; or

 

  (2)

loss through damage to any such office by Larceny or theft in, or by burglary, robbery or hold-up of such office or attempt thereat.

IN TRANSIT

 

(C)

Loss of Property (occurring with or without negligence or violence) through robbery, Larceny, theft, hold-up, misplacement, mysterious unexplainable disappearance, being lost or otherwise made away with, damage thereto or destruction thereof, and loss of subscription, conversion, redemption or deposit privileges through the misplacement or loss of Property, while the Property is in transit anywhere in the custody of any person or persons acting as messenger, except while in the mail or with a carrier for hire, other than an armored motor vehicle company, for the purpose of transportation, such transit to begin immediately upon receipt of such Property by the transporting person or persons, and to end immediately upon delivery thereof at destination.

 

 

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FORGERY OR ALTERATION

 

(D)

Loss through FORGERY or ALTERATION of, on or in any bills of exchange, checks, drafts, acceptances, certificates of deposit, promissory notes, or other written promises, orders or directions to pay sums certain in money due bills, money orders, warrants, orders upon public treasuries, letters of credit, written instructions, advices or applications directed to the Insured, authorizing or acknowledging the transfer, payment, delivery or receipt of funds or Property, which instructions or advices or applications purport to have been signed or endorsed by any customer of the Insured, shareholder or subscriber to shares, whether certificated or uncertificated, of any Investment Company or by any financial or banking institution or stock-broker but which instructions, advices or applications either bear the forged signature or Endorsement or have been altered without the knowledge and consent of such customer, shareholder or subscriber to shares, whether certificated or uncertificated, of an Investment Company, financial or banking institution or stockbroker, withdrawal orders or receipts for the withdrawal of funds or Property, or receipts or certificates of deposit for Property and bearing the name of the Insured as issuer, or of another Investment Company for which the Insured acts as agent, excluding, however, any loss covered under Insuring Agreement (F) hereof whether or not coverage for Insuring Agreement (F) is provided for in the Declarations of this Bond.

 

    

Any check or draft (a) made payable to a fictitious payee and endorsed in the name of such fictitious payee or (b) procured in a transaction with the maker or drawer thereof or with one acting as an agent of such maker or drawer or anyone impersonating another and made or drawn payable to the one so impersonated and endorsed by anyone other than the one impersonated, shall be deemed to be forged as to such Endorsement.

 

    

Mechanically reproduced facsimile signatures are treated the same as handwritten signatures.

SECURITIES

 

(E)

Loss sustained by the Insured, including loss sustained by reason of a violation of the constitution, by-laws, rules or regulations of any

 

Self Regulatory Organization of which the Insured is a member or which would have been imposed upon the Insured by the constitution, by-laws, rules or regulations of any Self Regulatory Organization if the Insured had been a member thereof,

 

  (1)

through the Insured’s having, in good faith and in the course of business, whether for its own account or for the account of others, in any representative, fiduciary, agency or any other capacity, either gratuitously or otherwise, purchased or otherwise acquired, accepted or received, or sold or delivered, or given any value, extended any credit or assumed any liability, on the faith of, or otherwise acted upon, any securities, documents or other written instruments which prove to have been

 

  (a)

counterfeited, or

 

  (b)

forged as to the signature of any maker, drawer, issuer, endorser, assignor, lessee, transfer agent or registrar, acceptor, surety or guarantor or as to the signature of any person signing in any other capacity, or

 

  (c)

raised or otherwise altered, or lost, or stolen, or

 

  (2)

through the Insured’s having, in good faith and in the course of business, guaranteed in writing or witnessed any signatures whether for valuable consideration or not and whether or not such guaranteeing or witnessing is ultra vires the Insured, upon any transfers, assignments, bills of sale, powers of attorney, guarantees, Endorsements or other obligations upon or in connection with any securities, documents or other written instruments and which pass or purport to pass title to such securities, documents or other written instruments; EXCLUDING, losses caused by FORGERY or ALTERATION of, on or in those instruments covered under Insuring Agreement (D) hereof.

Securities, documents or other written instruments shall be deemed to mean original (including original counterparts) negotiable or non-negotiable agreements which in and of themselves represent an equitable interest, ownership, or debt, including an assignment thereof which instruments are in the ordinary

 

 

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course of business, transferable by delivery of such agreements with any necessary Endorsement or assignment.

 

    

The word “counterfeited” as used in this Insuring Agreement shall be deemed to mean any security, document or other written instrument which is intended to deceive and to be taken for an original.

 

    

Mechanically reproduced facsimile signatures are treated the same as handwritten signatures.

COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY

 

(F)

Loss through the receipt by the Insured, in good faith, of any counterfeited money orders or altered paper currencies or coin of the United States of America or Canada issued or purporting to have been issued by the United States of America or Canada or issued pursuant to a United States of America or Canadian statute for use as currency.

STOP PAYMENT

 

(G)

Loss against any and all sums which the Insured shall become obligated to pay by reason of the Liability imposed upon the Insured by law for damages:

 

    

For having either complied with or failed to comply with any written notice of any customer, shareholder or subscriber of the Insured or any Authorized Representative of such customer, shareholder or subscriber to stop payment of any check or draft made or drawn by such customer, shareholder or subscriber or any Authorized Representative of such customer, shareholder or subscriber, or

 

    

For having refused to pay any check or draft made or drawn by any customer, shareholder or subscriber of the Insured, or any Authorized Representative of such customer, shareholder or Subscriber.

UNCOLLECTIBLE ITEMS OF DEPOSIT

 

(H)

Loss resulting from payments of dividends or fund shares, or withdrawals permitted from any customer’s, shareholder’s or subscriber’s account based upon Uncollectible items of Deposit of a customer, shareholder or subscriber credited by the Insured or the Insured’s agent to such customer’s, shareholder’s or subscriber’s Mutual Fund Account: or

    

loss resulting from any item of Deposit processed through an Automated Clearing House which is reversed by the customer, shareholder or subscriber and deemed uncollectible by the Insured.

 

    

Loss includes dividends and interest accrued not to exceed 15% of the Uncollectible items which are deposited.

 

    

This Insuring Agreement applies to all Mutual Funds with “exchange privileges” if all Fund(s) in the exchange program are insured by a Great American Insurance Company of Cin-cinnati, OH for Uncollectible Items of Deposit. Regardless of the number of transactions between Fund(s) the minimum number of days of deposit within the Fund(s) before withdrawal as declared in the Fund(s) prospectus shall begin from the date a deposit was first credited to any Insured Fund(s).

AUDIT EXPENSE

 

(I)

Expense incurred by the Insured for that part of the costs of audits or examinations required by any governmental regulatory authority to be conducted either by such authority or by an independent accountant by reason of the discovery of loss sustained by the Insured through any dishonest or fradulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement of any of the Employees. The total liability of the Underwriter for such expense by reason of such acts of any Employee or in which such Employee is concerned or implicated or with respect to any one audit or examination is limited to the amount stated opposite Audit Expense in Item 3 of the Declarations; it being understood, however, that such expense shall be deemed to be a loss sustained by the Insured through any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement of one or more of the Employees and the liability under this paragraph shall be in addition to the Limit of Liability stated in Insuring Agreement (A) in Item 3 of the Declarations.

TELEFACSIMILE TRANSMISSIONS

 

(J)

Loss resulting by reason of the Insured having transferred, paid or delivered any funds or Property, established any credit, debited any account, or given any value relying on any fraudulent instructions sent by a customer or financial institution by Telefacsimile Transmission directed to the Insured, authorizing or

 

 

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acknowledging the transfer, payment, or delivery of funds or property, the establishment of a credit, debiting of any account, or the giving of value by the Insured, but only if such telefacsimile instructions:

 

  (1)

bear a valid test key exchanged between the Insured and a customer or another financial institution with authority to use such test key for Telefacsimile instructions in the ordinary course of business, but which test key has been wrongfully obtained by a person who was not authorized to initiate, make, validate or authenticate a test key arrangement; and

 

  (2)

fraudulently purport to have been sent by such customer or financial institution, but which telefacsimile instructions are transmitted without the knowledge or consent of such customer or financial institution by a person other than such customer or financial institution and which bear a forged signature.

    

“Telefacsimile” means a system of transmitting written documents by electronic signals over telephone lines to equipment maintained by the Insured within its communication room for the purposes of reproducing a copy of said document. It does not mean electronic communication sent by Telex, TWC, or electronic mail, or Automated Clearing House.

UNAUTHORIZED SIGNATURES

 

(K)

Loss resulting directly from the Insured having accepted, paid or cashed any check or withdrawal order, draft, made or drawn on a customer’s account which bears the signature or Endorsement of one other than a person whose name and signature is on the application on file with the Insured as a signatory on such account.

 

    

It shall be a condition precedent to the Insured’s right to recovery under this Insuring Agreement that the Insured shall have on file signatures of all persons who are authorized signatories on such account.

 

 

GENERAL AGREEMENTS

 

(A)

ADDITIONAL OFFICES OR EMPLOYEES- CONSOLIDATION OR MERGER-NOTICE

 

  (1)

If the Insured shall, while this Bond is in force, establish any additional office or offices, such office or offices shall be automatically covered hereunder from the dates of their establishment, respectively. No notice to the Underwriter of an increase during any premium period in the number of offices or in the number of Employees at any of the offices covered hereunder need be given and no additional premium need be paid for the remainder of such premium period.

 

  (2)

If an Investment Company, named as Insured herein, shall, while this Bond is in force, merge or consolidate with, or purchase the assets of another institution, coverage for such acquisition shall apply automatically from the date of acquisition. The Insured shall notify the Underwriter of such acquisition within 60 days of said

 

date, and an additional premium shall be computed only if such acquisition involves additional offices or employees.

WARRANTY

 

(B)

No statement made by or on behalf of the Insured, whether contained in the application or otherwise, shall be deemed to be a warranty of anything except that it is true to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person making the statement.

COURT COSTS AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES

    

(Applicable to all Insuring Agreements or Coverages now or hereafter forming part of this Bond)

 

(C)

The Underwriter will indemnify the Insured against court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred and paid by the Insured in defense, whether or not successful, whether or not fully litigated on the merits and whether or not settled of any suit or legal proceeding brought against the Insured to enforce the lnsured’s liability or alleged liability on account

 

 

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of any loss, claim or damage which, if established against the Insured, would constitute a loss sustained by the Insured covered under the terms of this Bond provided, however, that with respect to Insuring Agreement (A) this indemnity shall apply only in the event that

 

  (1)

an Employee admits to being guilty of any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement; or

 

  (2)

an Employee is adjudicated to be guilty of any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement;

 

  (3)

in the absence of (1) or (2) above an arbitration panel agrees, after a review of an agreed statement of facts, that an Employee would be found guilty of dishonesty if such Employee were prosecuted.

 

    

The Insured shall promptly give notice to the Underwriter of any such suit or legal proceeding and at the request of the Underwriter shall furnish it with copies of all pleadings and other papers therein. At the Underwriter’s election the Insured shall permit the Underwriter to conduct the defense of such suit or legal proceeding, in the Insured’s name, through attorneys of the Underwriter’s selection.

 

In such event, the Insured shall give all reasonable information and assistance which the Underwriter shall deem necessary to the proper defense of such suit or legal proceeding.

 

    

If the Insured’s liability or alleged liability is greater than the amount recoverable under this Bond, or if a Deductible Amount is applicable, the liability of the Underwriter under this General Agreement is limited to that percentage of litigation expense determined by pro ration of the Bond limit of liability to the amount claimed, after the application of any deductible. This litigation expense will be in addition to the Limit of Liability for the applicable Insuring Agreement.

FORMER EMPLOYEE

 

(D)

Acts of Employee, as defined in this Bond, are covered under Insuring Agreement (A) only while the Employee is in the Insured’s employ. Should loss involving a former Employee of the Insured be discovered subsequent to the termination of employment, coverage would still apply under Insuring Agreement (A) if the direct proximate cause of the loss occurred while the former Employee performed duties within the scope of his/her employment.

 

 

THE FOREGOING INSURING AGREEMENTS AND

GENERAL AGREEMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO

THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS:

 

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS

The following terms, as used in this Bond, shall have the respective meanings stated in this Section:

 

(a)

Employee means:

 

  (1)

any of the Insured’s officers, partners, or employees, and

 

  (2)

any of the officers or employees of any predecessor of the Insured whose principal assets are acquired by the Insured by consolidation or merger with, or purchase of assets of capital stock of such predecessor, and

  (3)

attorneys retained by the Insured to perform legal services for the Insured and the employees of such attorneys while such attorneys or the employees of such attorneys are performing such services for the Insured, and

 

  (4)

guest students pursuing their studies or duties in any of the Insured’s offices, and

 

  (5)

directors or trustees of the Insured, the investment advisor, underwriter (distributor), transfer agent, or shareholder accounting record keeper, or administrator authorized by written agreement to keep financial and/or other required records, but only while performing acts coming within the scope of the usual duties of an officer or employee or while acting as a member of any committee duly elected or

 

 

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appointed to examine or audit or have custody of or access to the Property of the Insured, and

 

(6)

any individual or individuals assigned to perform the usual duties of an employee within the premises of the Insured by contract, or by any agency furnishing temporary personnel on a contingent or part-time basis, and

 

(7)

each natural person, partnership or corporation authorized by written agreement with the Insured to perform services as electronic data processor of checks or other accounting records of the Insured, but excluding any such processor who acts as transfer agent or in any other agency capacity in issuing checks, drafts or securities for the Insured, unless included under Sub-section (9) hereof, and

 

(8)

those persons so designated in section 15, Central Handling of Securities, and

 

(9)

any officer, partner or Employee of

 

  (a)

an investment advisor,

 

  (b)

an underwriter (distributor),

 

  (c)

a transfer agent or shareholder accounting record-keeper, or

 

  (d)

an administrator authorized by written agreement to keep financial and/or other required records, for an Investment Company, named as Insured while performing acts coming within the scope of the usual duties of an officer or Employee of any Investment Company named as Insured herein, or while acting as a member of any committee duly elected or appointed to examine or audit or have custody of or access to the Property of any such Investment Company provided that only Employees or partners of a transfer agent, shareholder accounting recordkeeper or administrator which is an affiliated person as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, of an Investment Company named as Insured, or is an affiliated person of the adviser, underwriter or administrator of such Investment Company, and which is not a bank, shall be included within the definition of Employee.

      

Each employer of temporary personnel or processors as set forth in Sub-Sections (6) and (7) of Section 1 (a) and their partners, officers and employees shall collectively be deemed to be one person for all the purposes of this Bond, excepting, however, the last paragraph of Section 13. Brokers, or other agents under contract or representatives of the same general character shall not be considered Employees.

 

(b)

Property means money (i.e. currency, coin, bank notes, Federal Reserve notes), postage and revenue stamps, U.S. Savings Stamps, bullion, precious metals of all kinds and in any form and articles made therefrom, jewelry, watches, necklaces, bracelets, gems, precious and semi-precious stones, Bonds, securities, evidences of debts, debentures, scrip, certificates, interim receipts, warrants, rights, puts, calls, straddles, spreads, transfers, coupons, drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances, notes, checks, withdrawal orders, money orders, warehouse receipts, bills of lading, conditional sales contracts, abstracts of title, insurance Policies, deeds, mortgages under real estate and/or chattels and upon interests therein, and assignments of such Policies, mortgages and instruments, and other valuable papers, including books of account and other records used by the Insured in the conduct of its business, and all other instruments similar to or in the nature of the foregoing including Electronic Representations of such Instruments enumerated above (but excluding all data processing records) in which the Insured has an interest or in which the Insured acquired or should have acquired an interest by reason of a predecessor’s declared financial condition at the time of the Insured’s consolidation or merge with, or purchase of the principal assets of, such predecessor or which are held by the Insured for any purpose or in any capacity and whether so held by the Insured for any purpose or in any capacity and whether so held gratuitously or not and whether or not the Insured is liable therefor.

 

(c)

Forgery means the signing of the name of another with the intent to deceive; it does not include the signing of one’s own name with or without authority, in any capacity, or for any purpose.

 

 

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(d)

Larceny and Embezzlement as it applies to any named Insured means those acts as set forth in Section 37 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

(e)

Items of Deposit means any one or more checks and drafts.

SECTION 2. EXCLUSIONS

THIS BOND DOES NOT COVER:

 

(a)

loss effected directly or indirectly by means of forgery or alteration of, on or in any instrument, except when covered by Insuring Agreement (A), (D), (E) or (F).

 

(b)

loss due to riot or civil commotion outside the United States of America and Canada; or loss due to military, naval or usurped power, war or insurrection unless such loss occurs in transit in the circumstances recited in Insuring Agreement (C) and unless, when such transit was initiated, there was no knowledge of such riot, civil commotion, military, naval or usurped power, war or insurrection on the part of any person acting for the Insured in initiating such transit.

 

(c)

loss, in time of peace or war, directly or indirectly caused by or resulting from the effects of nuclear fission or fusion or radioactivity; provided, however, that this paragraph shall not apply to loss resulting from industrial uses of nuclear energy.

 

(d)

loss resulting from any wrongful act or acts of any person who is a member of the Board of Directors of the Insured or a member of any equivalent body by whatsoever name known unless such person is also an Employee or an elected official, partial owner or partner of the Insured in some other capacity, nor, in any event, loss resulting from the act or acts of any person while acting in the capacity of a member of such Board or equivalent body.

 

(e)

loss resulting from the complete or partial nonpayment of, or default upon, any loan or transaction in the nature of, or amounting to, a loan made by or obtained from the Insured or any of its partners, directors or Employees, whether authorized or unauthorized and whether procured in good faith or through

 

trick, artifice, fraud or false pretenses, unless such loss is covered under Insuring Agreement (A), (E) or (F).

 

(f)

loss resulting from any violation by the Insured or by any Employee

 

  (1)

of law regulating (a) the issuance, purchase or sale of securities, (b) securities transactions upon Security Exchanges or over the counter market, (c) Investment Companies, or (d) Investment Advisors, or

 

  (2)

of any rule or regulation made pursuant to any such law.

 

    

unless such loss, in the absence of such laws, rules or regulations, would be covered under Insuring Agreements (A) or (E).

 

(g)

loss of Property or loss of privileges through the misplacement or loss of Property as set forth in Insuring Agreement (C) or (D) while the Property is in the custody of any armored motor vehicle company, unless such loss shall be in excess of the amount recovered or received by the Insured under (a) the Insured’s contract with said armored motor vehicle company, (b) insurance carried by said armored motor vehicle company for the benefit of users of its service, and (c) all other insurance and indemnity in force in whatsoever form carried by or for the benefit of users of said armored motor vehicle company’s service, and then this Bond shall cover only such excess.

 

(h)

potential income, including but not limited to interest and dividends, not realized by the Insured because of a loss covered under this Bond, except as included under Insuring Agreement (I).

 

(i)

all damages of any type for which the Insured is legally liable, except direct compensatory damages arising from a loss covered under this Bond.

 

(j)

loss through the surrender of Property away from an office of the Insured as a result of a threat

 

  (1)

to do bodily harm to any person, except loss of Property in transit in the custody of any person acting as messenger pro-

 

 

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vided that when such transit was initiated there was no knowledge by the Insured of any such threat, or

 

  (2)

to do damage to the premises or Property of the Insured, except when covered under Insuring Agreement (A).

 

(k)

all costs, fees and other expenses incurred by the Insured in establishing the existence of or amount of loss covered under this Bond unless such indemnity is provided for under Insuring Agreement (I).

 

(l)

loss resulting from payments made or withdrawals from the account of a customer of the Insured, shareholder or subscriber to shares involving funds erroneously credited to such account, unless such payments are made to or withdrawn by such depositor or representative of such person, who is within the premises of the drawee bank of the Insured or within the office of the Insured at the time of such payment or withdrawal or unless such payment is covered under Insuring Agreement (A).

 

(m)

any loss resulting from Uncollectible Items of Deposit which are drawn from a financial institution outside the fifty states of the United States of America, District of Columbia, and territories and possessions of the United States of America, and Canada.

SECTION 3. ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS

This Bond does not afford coverage in favor of any Employers of temporary personnel or of processors as set forth in sub-sections (6) and (7) of Section 1(a) of this Bond, as aforesaid, and upon payment to the insured by the Underwriter on account of any loss through dishonest or fraudulent act(s) including Larceny or Embezzlement committed by any of the partners, officers or employees of such Employers, whether acting alone or in collusion with others, an assignment of such of the Insured’s rights and causes of action as it may have against such Employers by reason of such acts so committed shall, to the extent of such payment, be given by the Insured to the Underwriter, and the Insured shall execute all papers necessary to secure to the Underwriter the rights herein provided for.

SECTION 4. LOSS-NOTICE-PROOF-LEGAL PROCEEDINGS    

This Bond is for the use and benefit only of the Insured named in the Declarations and the Underwriter shall not be liable hereunder for loss sustained by anyone other than the Insured unless the Insured, in its sole discretion and at its option, shall include such loss in the Insured’s proof of loss. At the earliest practicable moment after discovery of any loss hereunder the Insured shall give the Underwriter written notice thereof and shall also within six months after such discovery furnish to the Underwriter affirmative proof of loss with full particulars. If claim is made under this Bond for loss of securities or shares, the Underwriter shall not be liable unless each of such securities or shares is identified in such proof of loss by a certificate or Bond number or, where such securities or shares are uncertificated, by such identification means as agreed to by the Underwriter. The Underwriter shall have thirty days after notice and proof of loss within which to investigate the claim, and this shall apply notwithstanding the loss is made up wholly or in part of securities of which duplicates may be obtained. Legal proceedings for recovery of any loss hereunder shall not be brought prior to the expiration of sixty days after such proof of loss is filed with the Underwriter nor after the expiration of twenty-four months from the discovery of such loss, except that any action or proceeding to recover hereunder on account of any judgment against the Insured in any suit mentioned in General Agreement C or to recover attorneys’ fees paid in any such suit, shall be begun within twenty-four months from the date upon which the judgment in such suit shall become final. If any limitation embodied in this Bond is prohibited by any law controlling the construction hereof, such limitation shall be deemed to be amended so as to be equal to the minimum period of limitation permitted by such law.

Discovery occurs when the Insured

 

(a)

becomes aware of facts, or

 

(b)

receives written notice of an actual or potential claim by a third party which alleges that the Insured is liable under circumstance

which would cause a reasonable person to assume that a loss covered by the Bond has been or will be incurred even though the exact amount or details of loss may not be then known.

 

 

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SECTION 5. VALUATION OF PROPERTY

The value of any Property, except books of accounts or other records used by the Insured in the conduct of its business, for the loss of which a claim shall be made hereunder, shall be determined by the average market value of such Property on the business day next preceding the discovery of such loss; provided, however, that the value of any Property replaced by the Insured prior to the payment of claim therefor shall be the actual market value at the time of replacement; and further provided that in case of a loss or misplacement of interim certificates, warrants, rights, or other securities, the production which is necessary to the exercise of subscription, conversion, redemption or deposit privileges, the value thereof shall be the market value of such privileges immediately preceding the expiration thereof if said loss or misplacement is not discovered until after their expiration. If no market price is quoted for such Property or for such privileges, the value shall be fixed by agreement between the parties or by arbitration.

In case of any loss or damage to Property consisting of books of accounts or other records used by the Insured in the conduct of its business, the Underwriter shall be liable under this Bond only if such books or records are actually reproduced and then for not more than the cost of blank books, blank pages or other materials plus the cost of labor for the actual transcription or copying of data which shall have been furnished by the Insured in order to reproduce such books and other records.

SECTION 6. VALUATION OF PREMISES AND FURNISHINGS          

In case of damage to any office of the Insured, or loss of or damage to the furnishings, fixtures, stationary, supplies, equipment, safes or vaults therin, the Underwriter shall not be liable for more than the actual cash value thereof, or for more than the actual cost of their replacement or repair. The Underwriter may, at its election, pay such actual cash value or make such replacement or repair. If the Underwriter and the Insured cannot agree upon such cash value or such cost or replacement or repair, such shall be determined by arbitration.

SECTION 7. LOST SECURITIES

If the Insured shall sustain a loss of securities the total value of which is in excess of the limit stated in Item 3 of the Declarations of this Bond, the liability of the Underwriter shall be limited to payment for, or duplication of, securities having value equal to the limit stated in Item 3 of the Declarations of this Bond.

If the Underwriter shall make payment to the Insured for any loss of securities, the Insured shall thereupon assign to the Underwriter all of the Insured’s rights, title and interests in and to said securities.

With respect to securities the value of which do not exceed the Deductible Amount (at the time of the discovery of the loss) and for which the Underwriter may at its sole discretion and option and at the request of the Insured issue a Lost Instrument Bond or Bonds to effect replacement thereof, the Insured will pay the usual premium charged therefor and will indemnify the Underwriter against all loss or expense that the Underwriter may sustain because of the issuance of such Lost Instrument Bond or Bonds.

With respect to securities the value of which exceeds the Deductible Amount (at the time of discovery of the loss) and for which the Underwriter may issue or arrange for the issuance of a Lost Instrument Bond or Bonds to effect replacement thereof, the Insured agrees that it will pay as premium therefor a proportion of the usual premium charged therefor, said proportion being equal to the percentage that the Deductible Amount bears to the value of the securities upon discovery of the loss, and that it will indemnify the issuer of said Lost Instrument Bond or Bonds against all loss and expense that is not recoverable from the Underwriter under the terms and conditions of this INVESTMENT COMPANY BOND subject to the Limit of Liability hereunder.

SECTION 8. SALVAGE

In case of recovery, whether made by the Insured or by the Underwriter, on account of any loss in excess of the Limit of Liability hereunder plus the Deductible Amount applicable to such loss from any source other than suretyship, insurance, reinsurance, security or indemnity taken by or for the benefit of the Underwriter, the net amount of such recovery, less the actual costs and expenses of making same, shall be applied to reimburse the

 

 

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Insured in full for the excess portion of such loss, and the remainder, if any, shall be paid first in reimbursement of the Underwriter and thereafter in reimbursement of the Insured for that part of such loss within the Deductible Amount. The Insured shall execute all necessary papers to secure to the Underwriter the rights provided for herein.

 

  SECTION 9. NON-REDUCTION AND
                       NON-ACCUMULATION OF  LIABILITY
                       AND TOTAL LIABILITY

At all times prior to termination hereof this Bond shall continue in force for the limit stated in the applicable sections of Item 3 of the Declarations of this Bond notwithstanding any previous loss for which the Underwriter may have paid or be liable to pay hereunder; PROVIDED, however, that regardless of the number of years this Bond shall continue in force and the number of premiums which shall be payable or paid, the liability of the Underwriter under this Bond with respect to all loss resulting form

 

(a)

any one act of burglary, robbery or hold-up, or attempt thereat, in which no Partner or Employee is concerned or implicated shall be deemed to be one loss, or

 

(b)

any one unintentional or negligent act on the part of any one person resulting in damage to or destruction or misplacement of Property, shall be deemed to be one loss, or

 

(c)

all wrongful acts, other than those specified in (a) above, of any one person shall be deemed to be one loss, or

 

(d)

all wrongful acts, other than those specified in (a) above, of one or more persons (which dishonest act(s) or act(s) of Larceny or Embezzlement include, but are not limited to, the failure of an Employee to report such acts of others) whose dishonest act or acts intentionally or unintentionally, knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly, aid or aids in any way, or permits the continuation of, the dishonest act or acts of any other person or persons shall be deemed to be one loss with the act or acts of the persons aided, or

 

(e)

any one casualty or event other than those specified in (a), (b), (c) or (d) preceding, shall be deemed to be one loss, and shall be limited to the applicable Limit of Liability stated in Item 3

 

of the Declarations of this Bond irrespective of the total amount of such loss or losses and shall not be cumulative in amounts from year to year or from period to period.

Sub-section (c) is not applicable to any situation to which the language of sub-section (d) applies.

SECTION 10. LIMIT OF LIABILITY

With respect to any loss set forth in the PROVIDED clause of Section 9 of this Bond which is recoverable or recovered in whole or in part under any other Bonds or Policies issued by the Underwriter to the Insured or to any predecessor in interest of the Insured and terminated or cancelled or allowed to expire and in which the period for discovery has not expired at the time any such loss thereunder is discovered, the total liability of the Underwriter under this Bond and under other Bonds or Policies shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the amount carried hereunder on such loss or the amount available to the Insured under such other Bonds, or Policies, as limited by the terms and conditions thereof, for any such loss if the latter amount be the larger.

SECTION 11. OTHER INSURANCE

If the Insured shall hold, as indemnity against any loss covered hereunder, any valid and enforceable insurance or suretyship, the Underwriter shall be liable hereunder only for such amount of such loss which is in excess of the amount of such other insurance or suretyship, not exceeding, however, the Limit of Liability of this Bond applicable to such loss.

SECTION 12. DEDUCTIBLE

The Underwriter shall not be liable under any of the Insuring Agreements of this Bond on account of loss as specified, respectively, in sub-sections (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of Section 9, Non-Reduction And Nonaccumulation Of Liability And Total Liability, unless the amount of such loss, after deducting the net amount of all reimbursement and/or recovery obtained or made by the insured, other than from any Bond or Policy of insurance issued by an insurance company and covering such loss, or by the Underwriter on account thereof prior to payment by the Underwriter of such loss, shall exceed the Deductible Amount set forth in Item 3 of the Declarations hereof (herein called Deduct-

 

 

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ible Amount) and then for such excess only, but in no event for more than the applicable Limit of Liability stated in Item 3 of the Declarations.

The Insured will bear, in addition to the Deductible Amount, premiums on Lost Instrument Bonds as set forth in Section 7.

There shall be no deductible applicable to any loss under Insuring Agreement A sustained by any Investment Company named as Insured herein.

SECTION 13. TERMINATION

The Underwriter may terminate this Bond as an entirety by furnishing written notice specifying the termination date which cannot be prior to 90 days after the receipt of such written notice by each Investment Company named as Insured and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. The Insured may terminate this Bond as an entirety by furnishing written notice to the Underwriter. When the Insured cancels, the Insured shall furnish written notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. prior to 90 days before the effective date of the termination. The Underwriter shall notify all other Investment Companies named as Insured of the receipt of such termination notice and the termination cannot be effective prior to 90 days after receipt of written notice by all other Investment Companies. Premiums are earned until the termination date as set forth herein.

This Bond will terminate as to any one Insured, (other than a registered management investment company), immediately upon taking over of such Insured by a receiver or other liquidator or by State or Federal officials, or immediately upon the filing of a petition under any State or Federal statute relative to bankruptcy or reorganization of the Insured, or assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Insured, or immediately upon such Insured ceasing to exist, whether through merger into another entity, or by disposition of all of its assets.

This Bond will terminate as to any registered management investment company upon the expiration of 90 days after written notice has been given to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.

The Underwriter shall refund the unearned premium computed as short rates in accordance with the standard short rate cancellation tables if terminated

by the Insured or pro rata if terminated for any other reason.

This Bond shall terminate

 

(a)

as to any Employee as soon as any partner, officer or supervisory Employee of the Insured, who is not in collusion with such Employee, shall learn of any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement on the part of such Employee without prejudice to the loss of any Property then in transit in the custody of such Employee and upon the expiration of ninety (90) days after written notice has been given to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. (See Section 16(d)) and to the Insured Investment Company, or

 

(b)

as to any Employee 90 days after receipt by each Insured and by the Securities and Exchange Commission of a written notice from the Underwriter of its desire to terminate this Bond as to such Employee, or

 

(c)

as to any person, who is a partner, officer or employee of any Electronic Data Processor covered under this Bond, from and after the time that the Insured or any partner or officer thereof not in collusion with such person shall have knowledge of information that such person has committed any dishonest or fraudulent act(s), including Larceny or Embezzlement in the service of the Insured or otherwise, whether such act be committed before or after the time this Bond is effective.

SECTION 14. RIGHTS AFTER TERMINATION OR CANCELLATION        

At any time prior to the termination or cancellation of this Bond as an entirety, whether by the Insured or the Underwriter, the Insured may give to the Underwriter notice that it desires under this Bond an additional period of 12 months within which to discover loss sustained by the Insured prior to the effective date of such termination or cancellation and shall pay an additional premium therefor.

Upon receipt of such notice from the Insured, the Underwriter shall give its written consent thereto: provided, however, that such additional period of time shall terminate immediately;

 

 

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(a)

on the effective date of any other insurance obtained by the Insured, its successor in business or any other party, replacing in whole or in part the insurance afforded by this Bond, whether or not such other insurance provides coverage for loss sustained prior to its effective date, or

 

(b)

upon takeover of the Insured’s business by any State or Federal official or agency, or by any receiver or liquidator, acting or appointed for this purpose without the necessity of the Underwriter giving notice of such termination. In the event that such additional period of time is terminated, as provided above, the Underwriter shall refund any unearned premium.

The right to purchase such additional period for the discovery of loss may not be exercised by any State or Federal official or agency, or by any receiver or liquidator, acting or appointed to take over the Insured’s business for the operation or for the liquidation thereof or for any other purpose.

SECTION 15. CENTRAL HANDLING OF SECURITIES

Securities included in the systems for the central handling of securities established and maintained by Depository Trust Company, Midwest Depository Trust Company, Pacific Securities Depository Trust Company, and Philadelphia Depository Trust Company, hereinafter called Corporations, to the extent of the Insured’s interest therein as effective by the making of appropriate entries on the books and records of such Corporations shall be deemed to be Property.

The words “Employee” and “Employees” shall be deemed to include the officers, partners, clerks and other employees of the New York Stock Exchange, Boston Stock Exchange, Midwest Stock Exchange, Pacific Stock Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange, hereinafter called Exchanges, and of the above named Corporations, and of any nominee in whose name is registered any security included within the systems for the central handling of securities established and maintained by such Corporations, and any employee of any recognized service company, while such officers, partners, clerks and other employees and employees of service companies perform services for such Corporations in the operation of such systems. For the purpose of the above definition a recognized service company

shall be any company providing clerks or other personnel to said Exchanges or Corporation on a contract basis.

The Underwriter shall not be liable on account of any loss(es) in connection with the central handling of securities within the systems established and maintained by such Corporations, unless such loss(es) shall be in excess of the amount(s) recoverable or recovered under any Bond or Policy if insurance indemnifying such Corporations, against such loss(es), and then the Underwriter shall be liable hereunder only for the Insured’s share of such excess loss(es), but in no event for more than the Limit of Liability applicable hereunder.

For the purpose of determining the Insured’s share of excess loss(es) it shall be deemed that the Insured has an interest in any certificate representing any security included within such systems equivalent to the interest the Insured then has in all certificates representing the same security included within such systems and that such Corporation shall use their best judgment in apportioning the amount(s) recoverable or recovered under any Bond or Policy of insurance indemnifying such Corporations against such loss(es) in connection with the central handling of securities within such systems among all those having an interest as recorded by appropriate entries in the books and records of such Corporations in Property involved in such loss(es) on the basis that each such interest shall share in the amount(s) so recoverable or recovered in the ratio that the value of each such interest bears to the total value of all such interests and that the Insured’s share of such excess loss(es) shall be the amount of the Insured’s interest in such Property in excess of the amount(s) so apportioned to the Insured by such Corporations.

This Bond does not afford coverage in favor of such Corporations or Exchanges or any nominee in whose name is registered any security included within the systems for the central handling of securities established and maintained by such Corporations, and upon payment to the Insured by the Underwriter on account of any loss(es) within the systems, an assignment of such of the Insured’s rights and causes of action as it may have against such Corporations or Exchanges shall to the extent of such payment, be given by the Insured to the Underwriter, and the Insured shall execute all papers necessary to secure to the Underwriter the rights provided for herein.

 

 

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  SECTION 16. ADDITIONAL COMPANIES INCLUDED
                        AS INSURED

If more than one corporation, co-partnership or person or any combination of them be included as the Insured herein:

 

(a)

the total liability of the Underwriter hereunder for loss or losses sustained by any one or more or all of them shall not exceed the limit for which the Underwriter would be liable hereunder if all such loss were sustained by any one of them.

 

(b)

the one first named herein shall be deemed authorized to make, adjust and receive and enforce payment of all claims hereunder and shall be deemed to be the agent of the others for such purposes and for the giving or receiving of any notice required or permitted to be given by the terms hereof, provided that the Underwriter shall furnish each named Investment Company with a copy of the Bond and with any amendment thereto, together with a copy of each formal filing of the settlement of each such claim prior to the execution of such settlement,

 

(c)

the Underwriter shall not be responsible for the proper application of any payment made hereunder to said first named Insured,

 

(d)

knowledge possessed or discovery made by any partner, officer or supervisory Employee of any Insured shall for the purpose of Section 4 and Section 13 of this Bond constitute knowledge or discovery by all the Insured, and

 

(e)

if the first named Insured ceases for any reason to be covered under this Bond, then the Insured next named shall thereafter be considered as the first named Insured for the purposes of this Bond.

SECTION 17. NOTICE AND CHANGE OF CONTROL

Upon the Insured’s obtaining knowledge of a transfer of its outstanding voting securities which results in a change in control (as set forth in Section 2(a) (9) of the Investment Company Act of

1940) of the Insured, the Insured shall within thirty (30) days of such knowledge give written notice to the Underwriter setting forth:

 

(a)

the names of the transferors and transferees (or the names of the beneficial owners if the voting securities are requested in another name), and

 

(b)

the total number of voting securities owned by the transferors and the transferees (or the beneficial owners), both immediately before and after the transfer, and

 

(c)

the total number of outstanding voting securities.

As used in this section, control means the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or Policies of the Insured.

Failure to give the required notice shall result in termination of coverage of this Bond, effective upon the date of stock transfer for any loss in which any transferee is concerned or implicated.

Such notice is not required to be given in the case of an Insured which is an Investment Company.

SECTION 18. CHANGE OR MODIFICATION

This Bond or any instrument amending or effecting same may not be changed or modified orally. No changes in or modification thereof shall be effective unless made by written Endorsement issued to form a part hereof over the signature of the Underwriter’s Authorized Representative. When a Bond covers only one Investment Company no change or modification which would adversely affect the rights of the Investment Company shall be effective prior to 60 days after written notification has been furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. by the Insured or by the Underwriter. If more than one Investment Company is named as the Insured herein, the Underwriter shall give written notice to each Investment Company and to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. not less than 60 days prior to the effective date of any change or modification which would adversely affect the rights of such Investment Company.

 

 

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FORMS AND RIDERS SCHEDULE

It is hereby understood and agreed the following forms and riders are attached to and are a part of this bond:

 

         

Form No. / Edition  

 

           

Date Added *

or

Date Deleted

 

    

Form Description

 

   

Rider No.

(if applicable)

 

  
         

FI7012

      05-12        03/31/2018*     Bond Changes         
         

FI7510

      11-16              Investment Company Bond Dec Page         
         

FI7511

      08-15              Investment Company Bond Insuring Agreements         
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Joint Insured List      1  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Extended Computer Systems Rider      2  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Newly Created Investment Companies      3  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Loss Reporting Threshold      4  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Counterfeit Currency Revision      5  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Amended Definition of Employee      6  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Amended Section 13 - Termination      7  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Amended Fidelity      8  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Amended Section 4, Loss-Notice-Proof-Legal Proceedings      9  
         

SRF9808

      08-95              Rider - Automated Phone System - full limits      10  
         

FI7506

      08-15              Insuring Agreement (L) Computer Systems      11  
         

FI7516

      11-16              Insuring Agreement (N) Fraudulent Transfer Instructions      12  
         

FI7345

      08-15              Confidential Information And Data Breach Clarifying Rider      13  
         

FI7340

      08-15              Economic And Trade Sanctions Clause         
         

FI7341

      04-17              In-Witness Clause         
         

IL7381

 

     

 

 09-15

 

  

 

           

Agent Countersignature

 

         
 

* If not at inception

 

 

 

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RIDER NO. 1

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Joint Insured List

1. At the request of the Insured, the Underwriter adds to the list of Insured under the attached bond the following:

Voya Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund

Voya Balanced Portfolio, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Balanced Portfolio

Voya Corporate Leaders Trust Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Corporate Leaders Trust Fund Series B

Voya Emerging Voya Markets High Dividend Equity Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Emerging Markets High Dividend Equity Fund

Voya Funds Trust, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Large Cap Value Fund

Voya Large-Cap Growth Fund

Voya MidCap Opportunities Fund

Voya Multi-Manager Mid Cap Value Fund

Voya Real Estate Fund

Voya SmallCap Opportunities Fund

Voya SMID Cap Growth Fund

Voya U.S. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund

Voya GNMA Income Fund

Voya High Yield Bond Fund

Voya Intermediate Bond Fund

Voya Short Term Bond Fund

Voya Strategic Income Opportunities Fund

Voya Floating Rate Fund

Voya Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund

Voya Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity Fund

Voya Government Money Market Portfolio, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Government Money Market Portfolio

Voya Infrastructure, Industrials and Materials Fund, a series fund consisting of:

 

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Voya Infrastructure, Industrials and Materials Fund

Voya Intermediate Bond Portfolio, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Intermediate Bond Portfolio

Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund

Voya Investors Trust, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Global Perspectives Portfolio

Voya Government Liquid Assets Portfolio

Voya High Yield Portfolio

Voya Large Cap Growth Portfolio

Voya Large Cap Value Portfolio

Voya Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio

Voya Multi-Manager Large Cap Core Portfolio

Voya Retirement Conservative Portfolio

Voya Retirement Growth Portfolio

Voya Retirement Moderate Growth Portfolio

Voya Retirement Moderate Portfolio

Voya U.S. Stock Index Portfolio

VY BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond Portfolio

VY Clarion Global Real Estate Portfolio

VY Clarion Real Estate Portfolio

VY Franklin Income Portfolio

VY Invesco Growth and Income Portfolio

VY JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio

VY JPMorgan Small Cap Core Equity Portfolio

VY Morgan Stanley Global Franchise Portfolio

VY T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Portfolio

VY T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio

VY T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio

VY Templeton Global Growth Portfolio

Voya Mutual Funds, a series fund consisting of:

Voya CBRE Global Infrastructure Fund

Voya CBRE Long/Short Fund

Voya Diversified Emerging Markets Debt Fund

Voya Global Bond Fund

Voya Global Corporate Leaders 100 Fund

Voya Global Equity Dividend Fund

Voya Global Equity Fund

Voya Global High Dividend Low Volatility Fund

Voya Global Perspectives Fund

Voya Global Real Estate Fund

Voya International Real Estate Fund

Voya Multi-Manager Emerging Markets Equity Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Equity Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Factors Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Small Cap Fund

Voya Russia Fund

Voya Natural Resources Equity Income Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Natural Resources Equity Income Fund

 

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Voya Partners, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Global Bond Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2020 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2025 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2030 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2035 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2040 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2045 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2050 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2055 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2060 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution Income Portfolio

Voya Solution 2020 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2025 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2030 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2035 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2040 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2045 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2050 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2055 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2060 Portfolio

Voya Solution Aggressive Portfolio

Voya Solution Balanced Portfolio

Voya Solution Conservative Portfolio

Voya Solution Income Portfolio

Voya Solution Moderately Aggressive Portfolio

Voya Solution Moderately Conservative Portfolio

VY American Century Small-Mid Cap Value Portfolio

VY Baron Growth Portfolio

VY Columbia Contrarian Core Portfolio

VY Columbia Small Cap Value II Portfolio

VY Invesco Comstock Portfolio

VY Invesco Equity and Income Portfolio

VY JPMorgan Mid Cap Value Portfolio

VY Oppenheimer Global Portfolio

VY Pioneer High Yield Portfolio

VY T. Rowe Price Diversified Mid Cap Growth Portfolio

VY T. Rowe Price Growth Equity Portfolio

Voya Prime Rate Trust, a series fund consisting of:

VY Templeton Foreign Equity Portfolio

Voya Partners, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Prime Rate Trust

Voya Senior Income Fund, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Senior Income Fund

Voya Separate Portfolios Trust, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Fund

Voya Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt Fund

Voya Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fund

Voya Investment Grade Credit Fund

Voya Securitized Credit Fund

Voya Target In-Retirement Fund

 

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Voya Target Retirement 2020 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2025 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2030 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2035 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2040 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2045 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2050 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2055 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2060 Fund

Voya Series Fund, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Corporate Leaders 100 Fund

Voya Global Multi-Asset Fund

Voya Global Target Payment Fund

Voya Government Money Market Fund

Voya Mid Cap Research Enhanced Index Fund

Voya Small Company Fund

Voya Strategic Allocation Portfolios, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Strategic Allocation Conservative Portfolio

Voya Strategic Allocation Growth Portfolio

Voya Strategic Allocation Moderate Portfolio

Voya Variable Funds, a series fund consisting of:

Voya Growth and Income Portfolio

Voya Variable Insurance Trust

VY Goldman Sachs Bond Portfolio

Voya Variable Portfolios, Inc., a series fund consisting of:

Voya Australia Index Portfolio

Voya Emerging Markets Index Portfolio

Voya Euro STOXX 50 Index Portfolio

Voya FTSE 100 Index Portfolio

Voya Global Equity Portfolio

Voya Hang Seng Index Portfolio

Voya Index Plus LargeCap Portfolio

Voya Index Plus MidCap Portfolio

Voya Index Plus SmallCap Portfolio

Voya International Index Portfolio

Voya Japan TOPIX Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Large Cap Growth Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Large Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Large Cap Value Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Mid Cap Growth Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Mid Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Russell Small Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Small Company Portfolio

Voya U.S. Bond Index Portfolio

Voya Variable Products Trust, a series fund consisting of:

Voya MidCap Opportunities Portfolio

Voya SmallCap Opportunities Portfolio

 

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2. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive or extend any of the terms, conditions, provisions, agreements or limitations of this policy other than as above stated.

3.. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 2

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Extended Computer Systems Rider

1. Electronic Data, Electronic Media, Electronic Instruction

 

(1) Loss resulting directly from:

 

  (a) the fraudulent modification of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction being stored within or being run within any system covered under this rider,

 

  (b) robbery, burglary, larceny or theft of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic instructions,

 

  (c) the acts of a hacker causing damage or destruction of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction owned by the Insured or for which the Insured is legally liable, while stored within a Computer System covered under this rider, or

 

  (d) The damage or destruction of Electronic Data, electronic Media or Electronic Instruction owned by the Insured or for which the Insured is legally liable while stored within a Computer System covered under Computer Systems Fraud Insuring Agreement (G), provided such damage or destruction was caused by a computer program or similar instruction which was written or altered to intentionally incorporate a hidden instruction designed to damage or destroy Electronic Data, Electronic Media, or Electronic instruction in the Computer System in which the computer program or instruction so written or so altered is used.

2. Electronic Communication

Loss resulting directly from the Insured having transferred, paid or delivered any funds or property, established any credit, debited any account or given any value on the faith of any electronic communications directed to the Insured, which were transmitted or appear to have been transmitted through:

 

  (a) an Electronic Communication System,

 

  (b) an Automated clearing house or custodian, or

 

  (c) a Telex, TWX, or similar means of communication,

directly into the Insured’s Computer System or Communication Terminal, and fraudulently purport to have been sent by a customer, automated clearing house, custodian, or financial institution, but which communications were either not sent by said customer, automated clearing house, custodian, or financial institution, or were fraudulently modified during physical transit of Electronic Media to the Insured or during electronic transmission to the Insured’s Computer System or Communication Terminal.

3. Electronic Transmission

 

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Loss resulting directly from a customer of the Insured, any automated clearing house, custodian, or financial institution having transferred, paid or delivered any funds or property, established any credit, debited any account or given any value on the faith of any electronic communications, purporting to have been directed by the Insured to such customer, automated clearing house, custodian, or financial institution initiating, authorizing, or acknowledging, the transfer, payment, delivery or receipt of funds or property, which communications were transmitted through:

 

  (a) an Electronic Communication System,

 

  (b) an automated clearing house or custodian, or

 

  (c) a Telex, TWX, or similar means of communication,

directly into a Computer System or Communication Terminal of said customer, automated clearing house, custodian, or financial institution, and fraudulently purport to have been directed by the Insured, but which communications were either not sent by the Insured, or were fraudulently modified during physical transit of Electronic Media from the Insured or during electronic transmission from the Insured Computer System or Communication Terminal, and for which loss the Insured is held to be legally liable.

2. In addition to the Conditions and Limitations in the bond, the following, applicable to the Extended Computer Systems Rider, are added:

DEFINITIONS

A. Communication Terminal means a teletype, teleprinter or video display terminal, or similar device capable of sending or receiving information electronically. Communication Terminal does not mean a telephone.

B. Electronic Communication System means electronic communication operations by Fedwire, Clearing House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS), society of Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), similar automated interbank communication systems, and Internet access facilities.

C. Electronic Data means facts or information converted to a form usable in Computer Systems and which is stored on Electronic Media for use by computer programs.

D. Electronic Instruction means computer programs converted to a form usable in a Computer System to act upon Electronic Data.

E. Electronic Media means the magnetic tape, magnetic disk, optical disk, or any other bulk media on which data is recorded.

EXCLUSIONS

This bond does not cover:

A. loss resulting directly or indirectly from forged, altered or fraudulent negotiable instruments, securities, documents or written instruments used as source documentation in the preparation of Electronic Data:

B. loss of negotiable instruments, securities, documents or written instruments except as converted to Electronic Data and then only in that converted form;

C. loss resulting from mechanical failure, faulty construction, error in design, latent defect, wear or tear, gradual deterioration, electrical disturbance, Electronic Media failure or breakdown or any malfunction or error in programming or error or omission in processing;

 

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D. loss resulting directly or indirectly from the input of Electronic Data at an authorized electronic terminal of an Electronic Funds Transfer System or a Customer Communication System by a person who had authorized access from a customer to that customer’s authentication mechanism;

E.liability assumed by the Insured by agreement under any contract, unless such liability would have attached to the Insured even in the absence of such agreement; or

F. loss resulting directly or indirectly from:

 

1. written instruction unless covered under this rider; or
2. instruction by voice over the telephone, unless covered under this rider.

SERIES OF LOSSES

All losses or series of losses involving the fraudulent acts of one individual, or involving fraudulent acts in which one individual is implicated, whether or not that individual is specifically identified, shall be treated as a Single Loss and subject to the Single Loss Limit of Liability. A series of losses involving unidentified individuals but arising from the same method of operation shall be deemed to involve the same individual and in that event shall be treated as a Single Loss and subject to the Single Loss Limit of Liability.

VALUATION

Electronic Data, Electronic Media, or Electronic Instruction

In case of loss of, or damage to, Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction used by the Insured in its business, the Underwriter shall be liable under this bond only if such items are actually reproduced from other Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction of the same kind or quality and then for not more than the cost of the Blank media and/or the cost of labor for the actual transcription or copying of data which shall have been furnished by the insured in order to reproduce such Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction subject to the applicable Single Loss Limit of Liability.

However, if such Electronic Data cannot be reproduced and said Electronic Data represents Securities or financial instruments having a value, then the loss will be valued as indicated in the Property other than Money, Securities or Records paragraphs of Section 6.

The title and any headings in this rider are solely for convenience and form no part of the terms and conditions of coverage.

All other terms, conditions and limitations of this bond shall remain unchanged.

3. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 3

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Newly Created Investment Companies

1. Item 1. of the Declarations shall include any existing Investment Company or portfolios which are not listed under Rider No. 1 of the attached Bond. It shall also include any Newly Created Investment Company or portfolio provided that the Insured shall submit to the Underwriter following the end of the Bond Period, a list of all Newly Created portfolios and Copies of any prospectuses and statements of additional information relating to such Newly Created Investment Companies or portfolios unless said prospectus and statements of additional information have been previously submitted.

Following the end of the Bond Period, any Newly Created Investment Company or portfolio created during the Period, will continue to be an Insured only if the Underwriter notified as set forth in the paragraph and the information required herein is provided to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter acknowledges the addition of such Newly Created Investment Company or portfolio to the Bond by a Rider of this Bond.

2. It is further agreed that the following definition is added to Section 1. DEFINITIONS.

(g) Newly Created Investment Company or portfolio shall mean any Investment Company or portfolio for which registration with the SEC has been declared.

3. It is agreed that General Agreements A of the Investment

Company Blanket Bond Form - Additional Offices or Employees- Consolidation or Merger - Notice - is amended by adding the following subsection:

(3) Automatic Increase in Limits for Investment Companies

If an increase in bonding limits is required pursuant to Rule 17g-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“the Act”), due to:

 

(i) The creation of a new Investment Company, other than by consolidation or merger with, or purchase or acquisition of assets or liabilities of, another institution; or  

(ii) An increase in asset size of current Investment Companies covered under this Bond then the minimum required increase in limits shall take place automatically without payment of additional premium for the remainder of the Bond Period.

4. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 4

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Loss Reporting Threshold

The second paragraph of Section 12 - ‘DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT’ - is deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following:

1. “The Insured shall, in the time and in the manner prescribed in this Bond, give the Underwriter notice of any loss which is in excess of $12,500. Such loss shall be of the kind covered by the terms of this bond, whether or not the Underwriter is liable therefore. Upon the request of the Underwriter, the Insured shall file a brief statement with the Underwriter giving the particulars concerning such loss.”

2. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive or extend any of the terms, conditions, provisions, agreements or limitations of the above mentioned bond, other than as stated herein.

3. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 5

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Insuring Agreement (F), Counterfeit Currency is deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following:

COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY

(F) Loss resulting directly from the receipt by the Insured, in good faith of any counterfeit money.

2. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive or extend any of the terms, conditions, provisions, agreements or limitations of the above mentioned bond, other than as stated herein.

3. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 6

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Amended Definition of Employee

1. Section 1, Definitions, (a) Employee, is Amended by adding the following: after Item 9:

(10) Ex-Employees up to 60 days after termination, except if terminated for reasons of fraud or dishonesty

2. This Rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 7

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Amended Section 13 - Termination

1. Paragraph 1 of Section 13. Termination, is amended by adding the following after the words “D.C.” on Line 5 and on Line 9” “State of Arkansas, and Midwest Stock Exchange”

2. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 8

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Amended Fidelity

A) Delete Paragraph 2 of Insuring Agreement A, and replace with the following:

“Such dishonest or fraudulent acts must be committed by the Employee with the manifest intent:

(a) to cause the Insured to sustain such loss, or

(b) to obtain financial benefit for the Employee or another person or entity.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is agreed that with regard to Loans and/or Trading this bond covers only loss resulting directly from dishonest or fraudulent acts committed by an Employee with the manifest intent to cause the Insured to sustain such loss and which results in a financial benefit for the Employee. However, where the proceeds of a dishonest or fraudulent act committed by an Employee arising from Loans and/or Trading are actually received by persons with whom the Employee was acting in collusion, but said Employee fails to derive a financial benefit therefrom, such a loss will nevertheless be covered hereunder as if the Employee had obtained such benefit provided the Insured establishes that the Employee intended to participate therein.

The term “Trading” as used in this Insuring Agreement shall be deemed to mean buying or selling or other dealings in securities, commodities, futures, options, foreign or federal funds, currencies, foreign exchange and the like.

The term “Loan” as used in this Insuring Agreement shall be deemed to mean all extensions of credit by the Insured and all transactions creating a creditor relationship in favor of the Insured and all transactions by which the Insured assumes an existing creditor relationship.”

B) It is agreed that the following paragraph is added after the second paragraph of Insuring Agreement (A) Fidelity:

“Loss resulting directly from the malicious destruction of or the malicious damage of Property, Electronic Data or Electronic Data Processing Media committed by an Employee, whether committed alone or in collusion with others, which acts are committed with the manifest intent to cause the Insured to sustain a loss.”.

This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 9

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

Amended Section 4, Loss-Notice-Proof-Legal Proceedings

 

1. Section 4. Loss-Notice-Proof - Legal Proceedings, is amended by the following:

 

  (a) Paragraph 1, Sentence 2, Line 3, the word “Insured” is replaced by the words “by the Risk Management Department , Office of the General Counsel, or Senior Vice President or above of the Insured”.

 

  (b) Paragraph 2, Line 1, the word “Insured” is replaced by the words “by the Risk Management Department , Office of the General Counsel, or Senior Vice President or above of the Insured”.

 

2. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 10

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

The attached bond is amended by adding an additional Insuring Agreement as follows:

AUTOMATED PHONE SYSTEMS

1. Loss caused by an Automated Phone System (“APS”) Transaction, where the request for such APS Transaction is unauthorized or fraudulent and is made with the manifest intent to deceive; provided, that the entity which receives such request generally maintains and follows during the bond Period all APS Designated Procedures with respect to APS Transaction. The unintentional isolated failure of such entity to maintain and follow a particular APS Designated Procedure in a particular APS Designated Procedure in a particular instance shall not preclude coverage under this Insuring Agreement, subject to the exclusions herein and in the Bond.

 

  1. Definitions. The following terms used in this Insuring Agreement shall have the following meanings:

 

  a. “APS Transaction” means any APS Redemption, APS Exchange or APS Election.

 

  b. “APS Redemption” means any redemption of shares issued by an Investment Company which is requested over the telephone by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of a telephone keypad.

 

  c. “APS Election” means any election concerning dividend options available to Fund shareholders which is made over the telephone by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of a telephone keypad.

 

  d. “APS Exchange” means any exchange of shares in a registered account of one Fund into shares in an identically registered account of another Fund in the same complex pursuant to exchange privileges of the two Funds, which exchange is requested over the telephone by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of a telephone keypad.

 

  e. “APS Designated Procedures” means all of the following procedures:

 

  (1) Election in Application: No APS Redemption shall be executed unless the shareholder to whose account such an APS Redemption relates has previously elected by Official Designation to permit such APS Redemption.

 

  (2) Logging: All APS Transaction requests shall be logged or otherwise recorded, so as to preserve all of the information transmitted by an individual caller through use of telephone keypad in the course of such a request, and the records shall be retained for at least six months.

 

  (a) Information contained in the records shall be capable of being retrieved through the following methods:

 

    audio tape and or transactions stored on computer disks

 

  (b)

Information contained in the records shall be capable of being retrieved and produced

 

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within a reasonable time after retrieval of specific information is requested, at a success rate of no less than 85 percent.

 

  (3) Identity Test: The identity of the caller in any request for an APS Transaction shall be tested before executing that APS Transaction by requiring the entry by the caller of a confidential personal identification number (“PIN”)

 

  (a) Limited Attempts to Enter PIN: IF the caller fails to enter a correct PIN within three attempts, the caller must not be allowed additional attempts during the same (telephone call/twenty-four hour day) to enter the PIN. The caller may either be instructed to redial a customer service representative or may be immediately connected to such a representative.

 

  (4) Written Confirmation: A written confirmation of any APS Transaction shall be mailed to the shareholder(s) to whose account such APS Transaction relates, at the original record address, by the end of the Insured’s next regular processing cycle, but in no event later than five business days following such APS Transaction.

 

  (5) Access to APS Equipment: Access to the equipment which permits the entity receiving the APS Transaction request to process and effect the transaction shall be limited in the following manner:

All Associates designated by Voya within the BNY Mellon call center.

 

2. Exclusions: It is further understood and agreed that this extension shall not cover:

 

  a. Any loss covered under Insuring Agreement A. “Fidelity”, of this Bond;

 

  (1) The redemption of shares, where the proceeds of such redemption are made payable to other-than

 

  (i) the shareholder of record, or

 

  (ii) a person officially Designated to receive redemption proceeds, or

 

  (iii) a bank account officially Designated to receive redemption proceeds or

 

(2) The redemption of shares, where the proceeds of such redemption are paid by check mailed to any address, unless such address has either been

 

  (I) designated by voice over the telephone or in writing without a signature guarantee, in either case at least thirty(30) days prior to such redemption, or

 

  (ii) officially Designated, or

 

  (iii) verified by any other procedures which may be stated below in this Rider, or

 

  (3) The redemption of shares, where the proceeds of such redemption are paid by wire transfer to other than the shareholder’s officially Designated bank account, or

 

  (4) the Intentional failure to adhere to one or more APS Designated Procedures.

 

2. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive, or extend any of the terms, limitations, conditions, or provisions of the attached bond other than above stated.

 

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3. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 11

INSURING AGREEMENT (L) COMPUTER SYSTEMS

To be attached to and form part of INVESTMENT COMPANY BOND,

 

Bond No.    FS 3147982 07 00
In favor of    Voya Family of Funds
   f/k/a ING Family of Funds

It is agreed that:

 

1. The attached bond is hereby amended by adding to it an additional Insuring Agreement as follows:

INSURING AGREEMENT (L) - COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Loss resulting directly from a fraudulent

 

  (1) entry of data into, or

 

  (2) change of data elements or programs within a Computer System; provided that fraudulent entry or change causes

 

  (a) Property to be transferred paid or delivered,

 

  (b) an account of the Insured, or of its customer, to be added, deleted, debited or credited, or

 

  (c) an unauthorized account or a fictitious account to be debited or credited;

 

  (3) voice instructions or advices having been transmitted to the Insured or its agent(s) by telephone; and provided further, the fraudulent entry or change is made or caused by an individual acting with the manifest intent to:

 

  (a) cause the Insured or its agent(s) to sustain a loss, and

 

  (b) obtain financial benefit for that individual or for other persons intended by that individual to receive a financial benefit,

 

  (c) and further provided such voice instructions or advices:

 

  (i) were made by a person who purported to represent an individual authorized to make such voice instructions or advices; and

 

  (ii) were electronically recorded by the Insured or its agent(s).

 

  (4)

It shall be a condition to recovery under the Computer Systems Rider that the Insured or its agent(s) shall to the best of their ability electronically record all voice instructions or advices received over the telephone. The Insured or its agent(s) warrant that they shall make their best efforts to maintain the electronic recording system on a continuous basis. Nothing, however, in this Rider shall bar the Insured from recovery where no recording is

 

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available because of mechanical failure of the device used in making such recording, or because of failure of the media used to record a conversation from any cause, or error or omission of any Employee(s) or agent(s) of the Insured.

SCHEDULE OF SYSTEMS

Any System Utilized by the Insured

 

2. As used in this Rider, Computer System means:

 

  (a) computers with related peripheral components, including storage components, wherever located,

 

  (b) systems and applications software,

 

  (c) terminal devices,

 

  (d) related communication networks or customer communication systems, and

 

  (e) related Electronic Funds Transfer Systems,

by which data are electronically collected, transmitted, processed, stored, and retrieved.

 

3. In addition to the Exclusions in the attached bond, the following Exclusions are applicable to this Insuring Agreement:

 

  (a) loss resulting directly or indirectly from the theft of confidential information, material or data: and

 

  (b) loss resulting directly or indirectly from entries or changes made by an individual authorized to have access to a Computer System who acts in good faith on instructions, unless such instructions are given to that individual by a software contractor (or by a partner, officer or employee thereof) authorized by the Insured to design, develop, prepare, supply service, write or implement programs for the Insured’s Computer System.

 

4. The following portions of the attached bond are not applicable to this Rider:

 

  (a) the initial paragraph of the bond preceding the Insuring Agreements which reads “...at any time but discovered during the Bond Period.”

 

  (b) Conditions and Limitations - Section 9. Non-Reduction and Non-Accumulation of Liability and Total Liability

 

  (c) Conditions and Limitations - Section 10. Limit of Liability

 

5. The coverage afforded by this Rider applies only to loss discovered by the Insured during the period this Rider is in force.

 

6. All loss or series of losses involving the fraudulent activity of one individual, or involving fraudulent activity in which one individual is implicated, whether or not that individual is specifically identified, shall be treated as one loss. A series of losses involving unidentified individuals but arising from the same method of operation may be deemed by the Underwriter to involve the same individual and in that event shall be treated as one loss.

 

7. The Limit of Liability for the coverage provided by this Rider shall be $ 40,000,000.

 

8. The Underwriter shall be liable hereunder for the amount by which one loss shall be in excess of $ 25,000. (herein called the Deductible Amount) but not in excess of the Limit of Liability stated above.

 

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9. If any loss is covered under this Insuring Agreement and any other Insuring Agreement or Coverage, the maximum amount payable for such loss shall not exceed the largest amount available under any one Insuring Agreement or Coverage.

 

10. Coverage under this Rider shall terminate upon termination or cancellation of the bond to which this Rider is attached. Coverage under this Rider may also be terminated or cancelled without canceling the bond as an entirety:

 

  (a) 90 days after receipt by the Insured of written notice from the Underwriter of its desire to terminate or cancel coverage under this Rider, or

 

  (b) immediately upon receipt by the Underwriter of a written request from the Insured to terminate or cancel coverage under this Rider.

The Underwriter shall refund to the Insured the unearned premium for this coverage under this Rider. The refund shall be computed at short rates if this Rider is terminated or cancelled or reduces by notice from, or at the insistence of the Insured.

 

11. Conditions and Limitations - Section 4. Loss-Notice-Proof-Legal Proceedings is amended by adding the following sentence:

Proof of loss resulting from Voice Instructions or advices covered under this bond shall include Electronic Recording of such Voice Instructions of advices.

 

12. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, coverage afforded by this Rider is not designed to provide protection against loss covered under a separate Electronic and Computer Crime Policy by whatever title assigned or by whatever Underwriter written. Any loss which is covered under such separate policy is excluded from coverage under this bond; and the Insured agrees to make claim for such loss under its separate policy.

 

13. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive, or extend any of the terms, conditions, provisions, agreements, or limitations of the above mentioned bond other than as stated herein.

 

14. This Rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 12

INSURING AGREEMENT (N) FRAUDULENT TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS

To be attached to and form part of the INVESTMENT COMPANY BOND

 

Bond No.    FS 3147982 07 00
in favor of    Voya Family of Funds
   f/k/a ING Family of Funds

 

1. It is agreed that the following Insuring Agreement is added to the above Bond:

Loss resulting directly from the Insured having, in good faith, transferred Money on deposit in a Customer’s account, or a Customer’s Certificated Securities, in reliance upon a fraudulent Instruction transmitted to the Insured via electronic mail; provided, however that

 

  (1) The fraudulent instruction purports, and reasonably appears, to have originated from:

 

  (a) such Customer,

 

  (b) an Employee acting on instructions of such Customer; or

 

  (c) another financial institution acting on behalf of such Customer with authority to make such instructions; and

 

  (2) The sender of the fraudulent instruction verified the instruction with the password, PIN, or other security code of such Customer; and

 

  (3) The sender was not, in fact, such Customer, was not authorized to act on behalf of such Customer, and was not an Employee of the Insured; and

 

  (4) The instruction was received by an Employee of the Insured specifically authorized by the Insured to receive and act upon such instructions; and

 

  (5) For any transfer exceeding the amount set forth in item 7 of this Rider, the Insured verified the instruction via a call back to a predetermined telephone number set forth in the Insured’s written agreement with such Customer or other verification procedure approved in writing by the Underwriter; and

 

  (6) The Insured preserved a contemporaneous record of the call back, if any, and of the instruction which verifies use of the authorized password, PIN or other security code of the Customer.

 

2. As used in this Rider, Customer means a natural person or entity which has a written agreement with the Insured authorizing the Insured to transfer Money on deposit in an account or Certificated Securities in reliance upon instructions transmitted to the Insured via the means utilized to transmit the fraudulent instruction.

 

3. It shall be a condition precedent to coverage under this Insuring Agreement that the Insured assert any available claims, offsets or defenses against such Customer, any financial institution or any other party to the transaction.

 

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4. The following additional Exclusions are added to the Bond applicable only to this Insuring Agreement:

 

  (a) loss resulting directly or indirectly from the fraudulent instruction if the sender, or anyone acting in collusion with the sender, ever had authorized access to such Customer’s password, PIN or other security code; and

 

  (b) loss resulting directly or indirectly from the fraudulent alteration of an instruction to initiate an automated clearing house (ACH) entry, or group of ACH entries, transmitted as an electronic message, or as an attachment to an electronic message, sent via the Internet, unless:

 

  (1) each ACH entry was individually verified via the call back procedure without regard to the amount of the entry; or

 

  (2) the instruction was formatted, encoded or encrypted so that any alteration in the ACH entry or group of ACH entries would be apparent to the Insured.

 

5. For purposes of this Insuring Agreement, all loss or losses involving one natural person or entity, or one group of natural persons or entities acting together, shall be a Single Loss without regard to the number of transfers or the number of instructions involved. A series of losses involving unidentified natural persons or entities but arising from the same method of operation shall be deemed to involve the same natural person or entity and shall be treated as Single Loss.

 

6. The Limit of Liability and Deductible amount applicable to loss under this Insuring Agreement is as stated in the Declarations of the attached bond.

 

7. The amount of any single transfer for which verification via a call back will be required is : $ 5,000.

 

8. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive, or extend any of the terms, conditions, provisions, agreements, or limitations of the above mentioned bond other than as stated herein.

 

9. This rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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RIDER NO. 13

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND DATA BREACH CLARIFYING RIDER

To be attached to and form part of Investment Company Bond

Bond No. FS 3147982 07 00

In favor of Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds

It is agreed that:

 

1. CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS, Section 2. Exclusions is amended to include:

Confidential Information:

Loss resulting from:

 

  a) Theft, disappearance, destruction or disclosure of the confidential or personal information of the Insured or another person or entity for which the Insured is legally liable including, but not limited to patents, trade secrets, personal information, processing methods, customer lists, financial information, credit card information, intellectual property, health information, or any other type of non-public information.

 

       For purposes of coverage that may be attached to the Bond by Rider which pertains to Computer Systems, confidential information cannot be properly transferred. A loss otherwise covered under the Computer Systems Rider (if attached) shall not be excluded by the fact that confidential information was used to gain access to your computer system or to the computer system of your financial institution in order to cause the fraudulent transfer.

 

  b) The use of another person’s or entity’s confidential or personal information including but not limited to, financial information, credit card information, health information or any other type of non-public information.

Data Breach Costs:

Loss resulting from fees, costs, fines, penalties and other expenses which are related to the access or disclosure of another person’s or entity’s confidential information, and the obligations of the Insured to comply with federal and state privacy laws and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (if applicable) arising from a data security breach, including, but not limited to, expenses related to notifying affected individuals when the affected individuals’ financial information, credit card information, health information or other type of non-public information was stolen, accessed, downloaded or misappropriated while in the care, custody or control of the Insured.

 

2. Nothing herein contained shall be held to vary, alter, waive, or extend any of the terms, conditions and limitations, or provisions of the attached bond other than as above stated.

 

3. This Rider shall become effective as of 12:01 a.m. on 03/31/2018 standard time.

 

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THIS RIDER CHANGES YOUR BOND. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

ECONOMIC AND TRADE SANCTIONS CLAUSE

This insurance does not apply to the extent that trade or economic sanctions or other laws or regulations prohibit us from providing insurance.

 

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In Witness Clause

In Witness Whereof, we have caused this Financial Institution Bond to be executed and attested, and, if required by state law, this Financial Institution Bond shall not be valid unless countersigned by our authorized representative.

 

 

LOGO    LOGO
            PRESIDENT    SECRETARY                                         

 

 

Copyright Great American Insurance Co., 2009

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AGENT COUNTERSIGNATURE

The signature shown below complies with the countersignature laws and regulations of the State shown:

Policy Number:             FS 3147982 07 00

State:                              AZ

 

Named Insured:    Agent’s Name And Address:
Voya Family of Funds f/k/a ING Family of Funds   

Crystal IBC LLC

32 Old Slip Financial Square

18th floor

New York NY 10005

 

 

 

  

Date of Countersignature:

 

  

 

Countersigning Agent    

 

IL 73 81 (Ed. 09/15)    (Page 1 of 1)   

ALLOCATION AGREEMENT

Fidelity Bond

THIS AGREEMENT made as of this 24th day of May, 2002 by and among any of the Funds listed on Schedule A and any separate classes thereof and all future investment companies and any separate classes thereof (the “Funds”), which are named insureds under a joint liability policy as described below and for which ING Investments, LLC acts as investment manager are entered into under the following circumstances:

A.        Section 17(g) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“the 1940 Act”) provides that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is authorized to require that directors, officers and employees of registered investment companies be covered under a liability, errors and omissions insurance policy, and the SEC has promulgated rules and regulations dealing with this subject (“Rule 17g-1”);

B.        The Funds are named as joint insureds under the terms of a joint insurance policy (“Policy”) which insures against illegal profit or gain, intentional wrongful acts, libel, slander, defamation, ERISA claims, insider trading, as well as other coverage as outlined in the Policy, by the directors, officers and employees;

C.        A majority of those members of the Board of Directors/Trustees of each of the Funds, who are not “interested persons” as defined by Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act, have given due consideration to all factors relevant to the form, amount and apportionment of premiums and recoveries under such Policy and the Board of Directors/Trustees of each Fund has approved the term and amount of the Policy, the portion of the premium payable by that party, and the manner in which recovery on the Policy, if any, shall be shared by and among the parties thereto; and

D.        The Funds now desire to enter into the agreement required by Rule 17g-1 of the 1940 Act to establish the manner in which recovery under the Policy, if any, shall be shared.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED by and among the parties as follows:

1.        Payment of Premiums.

Each Fund shall pay a portion of the premium due under the Policy derived by multiplying the premium by a fraction, (i) the denominator of which is the total net assets of all the Funds combined and (ii) the numerator of which is the total net assets of each of the Funds individually. The net assets of the classes are deemed to be represented by the net assets of their respective funds. Each of the Funds agrees that the appropriateness of the allocation of said premium will be determined no less often than annually. No adjustment of the allocation of said premium will be implemented without approval of the Boards of each of the Funds.

2.         Allocation of Recoveries

(a)       If more than one of the parties hereto is damaged in a single loss for which recovery is received under the policy, each such party shall receive that portion of the recovery which represents the loss sustained by that party, unless the recovery is inadequate to fully indemnify such party sustaining loss.

(b)       If the recovery is inadequate to fully indemnify each such party sustaining a loss, the recovery shall be allocated among such parties as follows:

(i)        Each Party sustaining a loss shall be allocated an amount equal to the lesser of its actual loss or the minimum amount of policy which would be required to be maintained by such party under a single insured policy (determined as of the time of loss) in accordance with the provisions of Rule 17g-1.

(ii)       The remaining portion of the proceeds shall be allocated to each party sustaining a loss not fully covered by the allocation under subparagraph (i) in the proportion that each such party’s last payment of premium bears to the sum of the last such premium payments of all such parties. If such allocation would result in any party which had sustained a loss receiving a portion of the recovery in excess of the loss actually sustained, such excess portion shall be allocated among the other parties whose losses would not be fully indemnified. The allocation shall bear the same proportion as each such party’s last payment of premium bears to the sum of the last premium payments of all parties entitled to receive a share of the excess. Any allocation in excess of a loss actually sustained by any such party shall be reallocated in the same manner.

 

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3.        Obligation to Maintain Minimum Coverage.

Each of the Funds represents and warrants to each of the other parties hereto that the minimum amount of coverage required of it by Rule 17g-1 as of the date hereof is as reflected in the schedule attached hereto. Each of the Funds agrees that it will determine, no less than at the end of each calendar quarter, the minimum amount of coverage which would be required of it by Rule 17g-1 if a determination with respect to the adequacy of the coverage were currently being made. In the event that the total amount of the minimum coverage thus determined exceeds the amount of coverage of the then effective policy, the Boards of each of the Funds will be notified and will determine whether it is necessary or appropriate to increase the total amount of coverage of the policy to an amount not less than the total amount of such minimums, or to secure such excess coverage for one or more of the parties hereto, which, when added to the total coverage of the policy, will equal an amount of such minimums. Unless a Fund elects to terminate this Agreement (pursuant to Paragraph 4) and its participation in a joint-insured policy, each Fund agrees to pay its fair portion of the new or additional premium (taking into account all of the then existing circumstances).

4.        Continuation and Termination. This Agreement shall become effective on the date first written above, subject to the condition that the Fund’s Board of Directors/Trustees, including a majority of those Directors/Trustees who are not interested persons (as such term is defined in the 1940 Act) of the Manager, shall have approved this Agreement. This Agreement shall supersede all prior agreements relating to an allocation of premium on any joint insured policy and shall apply to the present liability policy coverage and any renewal or replacement thereof. It shall continue until terminated by any party hereto upon the giving of not less than sixty (60) days notice to the other parties hereto in writing.

5.        Amendments. No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought. A written amendment of this Agreement is effective upon the approval of the Board of Directors/Trustees and the Manager.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused these presents to be duly executed by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.

On Behalf of: All ING Funds Listed on Schedule A

 

By: /s/ Michael J. Roland                            
        Michael J. Roland
        Executive Vice President

 

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AMENDED SCHEDULE A

with respect to the

ALLOCATION AGREEMENT – FIDELITY BOND

 

VOYA ASIA PACIFIC HIGH DIVIDEND EQUITY INCOME FUND

VOYA BALANCED PORTFOLIO, INC.

Voya Balanced Portfolio

VOYA CORPORATE LEADERS® TRUST FUND

Voya Corporate Leaders® Trust Fund Series B

VOYA EMERGING MARKETS HIGH DIVIDEND EQUITY FUND

VOYA EQUITY TRUST

Voya Large-Cap Growth Fund

Voya Large Cap Value Fund

Voya MidCap Opportunities Fund

Voya Multi-Manager Mid Cap Value Fund

Voya Real Estate Fund

Voya SmallCap Opportunities Fund

Voya SMID Cap Growth Fund

Voya U.S. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund

VOYA FUNDS TRUST

Voya Floating Rate Fund

Voya GNMA Income Fund

Voya High Yield Bond Fund

Voya Intermediate Bond Fund

Voya Short Term Bond Fund

Voya Strategic Income Opportunities Fund

VOYA GLOBAL ADVANTAGE AND PREMIUM OPPORTUNITY FUND

VOYA GLOBAL EQUITY DIVIDEND AND PREMIUM OPPORTUNITY FUND

VOYA GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET PORTFOLIO

VOYA INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRIALS AND MATERIALS FUND

VOYA INTERMEDIATE BOND PORTFOLIO

VOYA INTERNATIONAL HIGH DIVIDEND EQUITY INCOME FUND

VOYA INVESTORS TRUST

Voya Global Perspectives® Portfolio

Voya Government Liquid Assets Portfolio1

Voya High Yield Portfolio1

Voya Large Cap Growth Portfolio

Voya Large Cap Value Portfolio

Voya Limited Maturity Bond Portfolio1

Voya Multi-Manager Large Cap Core Portfolio1

Voya Retirement Conservative Portfolio

Voya Retirement Growth Portfolio

Voya Retirement Moderate Growth Portfolio

Voya Retirement Moderate Portfolio

Voya U.S. Stock Index Portfolio1

VY® BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond Portfolio

VY® Clarion Global Real Estate Portfolio

VY® Clarion Real Estate Portfolio

 

 

 

1  Under the terms of the Management Agreement between Voya Investors Trust and Voya Investments, LLC, the Fund is subject to a unified fee arrangement. Accordingly, the portion of Fees allocated to the Fund under this Allocation Agreement will be borne directly by Voya Investments, LLC as provided in the Management Agreement.

 

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VOYA INVESTORS TRUST (continued)

VY® Franklin Income Portfolio

VY® Invesco Growth and Income Portfolio1

VY® JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio1

VY® JPMorgan Small Cap Core Equity Portfolio1

VY Morgan Stanley Global Franchise Portfolio1

VY® T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Portfolio1

VY® T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio1

VY® T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio

VY® Templeton Global Growth Portfolio1

VOYA MUTUAL FUNDS

Voya CBRE Global Infrastructure Fund

Voya CBRE Long/Short Fund

Voya Diversified Emerging Markets Debt Fund

Voya Global Bond Fund

Voya Global Corporate Leaders® 100 Fund

Voya Global Equity Dividend Fund

Voya Global Equity Fund

Voya Global High Dividend Low Volatility Fund

Voya Global Perspectives® Fund

Voya Global Real Estate Fund

Voya International Real Estate Fund

Voya Multi-Manager Emerging Markets Equity Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Equity Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Factors Fund

Voya Multi-Manager International Small Cap Fund

Voya Russia Fund

VOYA NATURAL RESOURCES EQUITY INCOME FUND

VOYA PARTNERS, INC.

Voya Global Bond Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2020 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2025 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2030 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2035 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2040 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2045 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2050 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2055 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution 2060 Portfolio

Voya Index Solution Income Portfolio

Voya Solution 2020 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2025 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2030 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2035 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2040 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2045 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2050 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2055 Portfolio

Voya Solution 2060 Portfolio

Voya Solution Aggressive Portfolio

Voya Solution Balanced Portfolio

Voya Solution Conservative Portfolio

Voya Solution Income Portfolio

Voya Solution Moderately Aggressive Portfolio

Voya Solution Moderately Conservative Portfolio

VY® American Century Small-Mid Cap Value Portfolio

VY® Baron Growth Portfolio

VY® Columbia Contrarian Core Portfolio

VY® Columbia Small Cap Value II Portfolio

VY® Invesco Comstock Portfolio

VY® Invesco Equity and Income Portfolio

VY® JPMorgan Mid Cap Value Portfolio

VY® Oppenheimer Global Portfolio

VY® Pioneer High Yield Portfolio

VY® T. Rowe Price Diversified Mid Cap Growth Portfolio

VY® T. Rowe Price Growth Equity Portfolio

VY® Templeton Foreign Equity Portfolio

 

 

 

1  Under the terms of the Management Agreement between Voya Investors Trust and Voya Investments, LLC, the Fund is subject to a unified fee arrangement. Accordingly, the portion of Fees allocated to the Fund under this Allocation Agreement will be borne directly by Voya Investments, LLC as provided in the Management Agreement.

 

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VOYA PRIME RATE TRUST

VOYA SENIOR INCOME FUND

VOYA SEPARATE PORTFOLIOS TRUST

Voya Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Fund

Voya Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt Fund

Voya Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fund

Voya Investment Grade Credit Fund

Voya Securitized Credit Fund

Voya Target In-Retirement Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2020 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2025 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2030 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2035 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2040 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2045 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2050 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2055 Fund

Voya Target Retirement 2060 Fund

VOYA SERIES FUND, INC

Voya Corporate Leaders® 100 Fund

Voya Global Multi-Asset Fund

Voya Global Target Payment Fund

Voya Government Money Market Fund

Voya Mid Cap Research Enhanced Index Fund

Voya Small Company Fund

VOYA STRATEGIC ALLOCATION PORTFOLIOS, INC.

Voya Strategic Allocation Conservative Portfolio

Voya Strategic Allocation Growth Portfolio

Voya Strategic Allocation Moderate Portfolio

VOYA VARIABLE FUNDS

Voya Growth and Income Portfolio

VOYA VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST

VY® Goldman Sachs Bond Portfolio

VOYA VARIABLE PORTFOLIOS, INC.

Voya Australia Index Portfolio

Voya Emerging Markets Index Portfolio

Voya Euro STOXX 50® Index Portfolio

Voya FTSE 100 Index® Portfolio

Voya Global Equity Portfolio

Voya Hang Seng Index Portfolio

Voya Index Plus LargeCap Portfolio

Voya Index Plus MidCap Portfolio

Voya Index Plus SmallCap Portfolio

Voya International Index Portfolio

Voya Japan TOPIX Index® Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Large Cap Growth Index Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Large Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Large Cap Value Index Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Mid Cap Growth Index Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Mid Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Russell™ Small Cap Index Portfolio

Voya Small Company Portfolio

Voya U.S. Bond Index Portfolio

VOYA VARIABLE PRODUCTS TRUST

Voya MidCap Opportunities Portfolio

Voya SmallCap Opportunities Portfolio

 

 

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APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT COMPANY BLANKET BOND

INSURANCE POLICY RENEWAL

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS

RESOLVED, that it is the determination of the Boards of Directors/Trustees (the “Board”), including a majority of those Directors/Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Voya funds (the “Funds”) as defined by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) (the “Non-Interested Directors/Trustees”), that the Investment Company Blanket Bond insurance (the “17g-1 Bond”) written by Great American Insurance Company (the “Insurance Company”) insuring each and all of the Voya funds (the “Funds”) for covered acts and omissions of their respective officers and Directors/Trustees and the officers and employees of Voya Investments, LLC and their affiliates (collectively, “Covered Persons”), in accordance with the requirements of Rule 17g-1 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 17(g) of the 1940 Act, is reasonable in form and amount;

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the 17g-1 Bond, the terms of which are as described in the memorandum contained in the Meeting materials, be, and hereby is, continued through March 31, 2019, for and on behalf of each of the Funds, with such changes as the officers may deem necessary as a result of negotiations with the Insurance Company, provided such changes are in accord with the requirements of Rule 17g-1;

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board, including a majority of the Non-Interested Directors/Trustees, hereby approves the continued payment by for the Funds of a pro-rata share of the premium for the 17g-1 Bond, as allocated among the Covered Persons in accordance with the Allocation Agreement and as further allocated among the Funds pro rata based on their assets;

FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to Rule 17g-1 under the 1940 Act, the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the Funds are hereby designated as agents for the Funds to make the filings and give the notices required by subparagraph (g) of said Rule;

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Directors/Trustees or the appropriate officers of the Funds are hereby authorized to take all such further action and execute and deliver all such further instruments and documents in the name of and

on behalf of the Funds as in their judgment shall be necessary or advisable to accomplish the purpose of these resolutions; and

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Funds be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to take whatever action is necessary to amend the Allocation Agreements among the Funds and the insured parties under the 17g-1 Bond pursuant to the terms and conditions included therein from time to time to provide coverage for additional entities that are authorized pursuant to these resolutions to be covered under the 17g-1 Bond.

LOGO

Gerard Mogan

Assistant Vice President

March 14, 2018

Ms. Victoria Chin

Associate Director    

Crystal & Company

Financial Square

32 Old Slip

New York, New York 10056

 

Re: Voya Family of Funds

Investment Company Bond 314-79-82

Renewal Term: March 31, 2018 – March 31, 2019

Limits: $40,000,000/$25,000 Deductible

Dear Victoria:

We are pleased to provide our Binder Letter for the above captioned account. This Binder is conditioned on receiving the following information within 30 days of binding coverage:

No further subjectivities

 

Carrier: Great American Insurance Company

 

AM Best’s Rating:        A+            S&P Rating:   

A+

 

Insured: Voya Family of Funds

 

Address: 7337 E. Doubletree Ranch Road., Suite 100

Scottsdale, AZ 85258

 

Term: March 31, 2018-March 31, 2019

 

Form: Investment Company Policy

COVERAGE: $40,000,000 Single Loss Limit – Each and Every Loss Basis

Insuring Agreement

    Single Loss Limit    Deductible

Basic Agreements (A) Fidelity, incl. Trading

    $40,000,000    NIL

(B) On Premises,

      

(C) Transit, & (F) Counterfeit Currency

    $40,000,000    $25,000

(D) Forgery of Alteration

    $40,000,000    $25,000

(E) Securities

    $40,000,000    $25,000

Computer Systems

    $40,000,000    $25,000

Voice Initiated Transfer Fraud – in Computer

    $40,000,000    $25,000

Telefacsimile Transfer Fraud – in form

    $40,000,000    $25,000

Audit Expense

    $250,000    $5,000

Unauthorized Signatures

    $250,000    $5,000

Uncollectible Items of Deposit

    $250,000    $5,000

Stop Payment Legal Liability

    $250,000    $5,000

Fraudulent Transfer Instructions

    $40,000,000    $25,000
Annual Premium -                    $80,922          

Additional Coverages: As expiring to include:

Amended and Updated Listing of Insureds, as provided

Addition of Voya Investments Distributor LLC, as Named Insured, on separate rider 90-Day Cancellation, except for non-payment of premium.

Automatic Coverage for Newly created Funds

Claim Reporting Threshold of 50% of Deductible

Computer Systems Fraud rider – All systems utilized by the Named Insureds

Voice Initiated Transfer Fraud – contained in the Computer Systems Fraud Rider – Par. 4

Telefacsimile Transfer Fraud – in Form

Extended Computer Coverages

Worldwide Counterfeit Currency

Amend the Definition of Employee to include ex-employees up to 60 days after termination, except if for reasons of Fraud or Dishonesty

Notice of Cancellation sent to - State of Arkansas, SEC, Midwest Stock Exchange

Amended Discovery – replace “by the Insured” to “by Risk Management Department, Office of the

            General Counsel, or Senior Vice President or above of the Insured”

Amended Fidelity Language to provide ‘or” wording, except for Loans or Trading.

Amended Fidelity Language to provide Malicious Destruction of Data

Confidential Information and Data Breach wording

Automated Phone Systems – Full Limits

Automatic increased Limits Rider

Agreement N – Fraudulent Transfer Instructions – fraudulent email coverage

Commission Payable:    16%

Victoria, please review and call me should you have any questions. Thank you for the order.

Sincerely,

LOGO

Gerard Mogan

Assistant Vice President

Great American Insurance Company

65 Broadway, 11th Floor

New York, NY 10006

Phone: 212-513-4013

FAX: 212-513-4015

LOGO      

CIBC Insurance Services LLC

License # OK19767

32 Old Slip

New York, NY 10005-3504

Phone 800 221-5830

FAX 800 383-1852

   I N V O I C E    Original

 

     INVOICE DATE        INVOICE NUMBER  
   03/15/18    578094

            Voya Investment Management

            7337 East Doubletree Ranch Road

      
            Scottsdale, AZ 85258    BILL-TO CODE        CLIENT CODE        
   VOYAIN2    VOYAIN2

 

         
NAMED INSURED             ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE     
Voya Family of Funds    Victoria Chin 646-810-3583
EFFECTIVE DATE EXPIRATION DATE POLICY NUMBER                                                                  INSURER
03/31/18   03/31/19      3147982    Great American Insurance
  EFFECTIVE DATE   COVERAGE DESCRIPTION (REFER TO POLICY/BINDER FOR DETAILS)    AMOUNT     
03/31/18     Renewal -    Investment Company Bond       $80,922.00
           

 

Amount Due:

    $80,922.00
 
If you do not want the insurance described above, then return the Binder and/or Policy to us at once. If you hold the contract in your possession, then you will be deemed to have accepted it.    520*927712    Page 1

 

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                   BILL-TO         INVOICE DATE          INVOICE NO.         
            Voya Investment Management       03/15/18      578094
            7337 East Doubletree Ranch Road       
            Scottsdale, AZ 85258         BILL-TO CODE               CLIENT CODE        
      VOYAIN2      VOYAIN2
      
        AMOUNT DUE      AMOUNT REMITTED

        Crystal & Company

        Wall Street Station

        P.O. Box 1405

        New York NY 10268

         $80,922.00     
   

 

PAYMENT TERMS: Amount due and payable

by the effective date shown above