Elevation Series Trust 485BPOS

 

Exhibit 99(d)(13)

 

THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE ELEVATION SERIES TRUST

INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

with

TRUEMARK INVESTMENTS, LLC

 

THIS THIRD AMENDMENT dated as of July 23, 2025, to the Investment Advisory Agreement dated as of July 1, 2024 (the “Agreement”), entered into by and between ELEVATION SERIES TRUST (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust, and TRUEMARK INVESTMENTS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its principal place of business at 433 W. Van Buren Street, 1100-D, Chicago, IL 60607 (the “Adviser”).

 

WITNESSETH

 

WHEREAS, the parties have entered into the Agreement, pursuant to which the Adviser renders investment advisory services to certain series of the Trust;

 

WHEREAS, the Trust and the Adviser desire to amend Schedule A to the Agreement to add RiverNorth Active Income ETF as a series of the Trust covered under the Agreement, so that the Adviser may render investment advisory services to the new series pursuant to the Agreement; and

 

WHEREAS, the Agreement allows for the amendment of the Agreement subject to certain conditions which have been met.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.Schedule A of the Agreement is superseded and replaced with the Amended Schedule A attached hereto, for the purpose of adding add RiverNorth Active Income ETF, to be effective with respect to such Fund in accordance with Section 11 of the Agreement.

 

2.Except to the extent amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Third Amendment to be executed by a duly authorized officer on one or more counterparts as of the date and year first written above

 

  ELEVATION SERIES TRUST
  on behalf of the series listed on Schedule A
         
  By: /s/ Bradley Swenson  
  Name: Bradley Swenson  
  Title: President  
     
  TRUEMARK INVESTMENTS, LLC
     
  By: /s/ Michael Loukas  
  Name: Michael N. Loukas  
  Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

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AMENDED SCHEDULE A
to the
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

ELEVATION SERIES TRUST
and
TRUEMARK INVESTMENTS, LLC

 

The Trust will pay to the Adviser as compensation for the Adviser’s services rendered, a fee, computed daily at an annual rate based on the average daily net assets of the respective Fund in accordance with the following fee schedule:

 

Fund   Rate   Effective Date
TrueShares Quarterly Bull Hedge ETF   0.79%   July 1, 2024
TrueShares Quarterly Bear Hedge ETF   0.79%   July 1, 2024
The Opal International Dividend Income ETF   0.75%   December 26, 2024
TrueShares Seasonality Laddered Buffered ETF   0.19%   January 20, 2025
TrueShares ConVex Protect ETF   0.79%   June 30, 2025
RiverNorth Active Income ETF   0.89%   August 4, 2025

 

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