E*TRADE Family of Funds
Electronic Delivery Consent
You must consent to electronic delivery of shareholder documents via posting on
E*TRADE's Web site with notice to an Internet e-mail address in order to invest
in any of the E*TRADE Funds. To receive documents electronically, you'll need a
computer with a processor equivalent to a Pentium 90 or above, an email
application and internet browser software. To download and print documents at
your leisure, you'll also need a printer with graphics capabilities.
Shareholder documents will be provided only by accessing the Fund's Web site.
Upon receiving Internet e-mail notification, you will be directed to any Fund
documents which have been updated or added to the Fund's Web site and may
directly access the documents on the Web site by hyperlink from the notification
message. If the hyperlink function does not work for any reason, you will need
to access the document by going to the Web site. It is your sole responsibility
to maintain an e-mail address, provide it to E*TRADE, and view your e-mail on a
regular basis to get time-sensitive information. E*TRADE Funds, E*TRADE
Securities, Inc. and all of their affiliates are not liable for undelivered
electronic communications.
You will be required to consent to this method of information delivery before
any shares of E*TRADE Funds may be purchased, or otherwise acquired, and if you
liquidate your holdings and subsequently reinvest in the Fund. You may revoke
your consent at any time, but revocation will result in compulsory redemption of
your shares of the Fund. Compulsory redemption will also occur if E*TRADE Funds
becomes aware that you can no longer receive the documents via electronic
delivery. You may inform us of your decision to revoke consent by sending notice
of your decision to revoke consent via first class U.S. mail to: E*TRADE
Securities, Inc., 4500 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, Attn: Mutual Fund
Brokerage Operations. Upon receipt of your letter, we will send notice to you
that we have received your revocation and that you must redeem all of your
shares of the Fund. In the case of any such redemption, you accept sole
liability for any redemption fees, investment loss, and tax consequences.
You will be able to print and download shareholder documents, which you may wish
to do in case the Web site may become temporarily unavailable to you for any
reason. This process for delivery of Fund documents is not infallible, and you
may be notified of alternative methods for delivery. You may obtain a printed
version of any shareholder document by contacting customer service or submitting
a request via e-mail.
The consent to receive shareholder documents electronically applies to all
E*TRADE Funds documents of all series, including but not limited to,
prospectuses, semi-annual and annual shareholder reports, transaction
confirmations, periodic statements, proxy solicitations, and notifications of
shareholder meetings and other corporate actions. However, we reserve the right
to send you paper documents. You may not limit the breadth of your consent to
electronic delivery to exclude certain documents or certain series of the
E*TRADE Funds. You may incur costs for on-line access and time in accessing
shareholder documents.
Information transmitted over the Internet, which may include personal
information sent by you or to you, may not be entirely secure, and E*TRADE
Funds, E*TRADE Securities, Inc. and all of their affiliates are not liable for
misused information.
You hereby consent to the conditions outlined above concerning delivery of
documents and redemption of shares with respect to all series of E*TRADE Fund in
which you may invest. In addition, you represent that you have and will maintain
Internet and e-mail access. You can update your email address information by
going to "Set Password & Features" from the main page, and selecting the "Change
E-mail Address" option.
