this Appendix A, on Behalf of
Each of Their Respective Portfolios (except
MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio)
Christopher R
Date: 2025.09.22 11:33:22
-04’00’
Exhibit 9(b)
As of September 30, 2025
APPENDIX A
TO
CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
EACH OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANIES
DATED DECEMBER 18, 2006 (the “Agreement”)
| Trust | Fund |
| Stand-Alone Trusts | Massachusetts Investors Trust |
| Closed End Funds | MFS Charter Income Trust |
| MFS Government Markets Income Trust | |
| MFS High Income Municipal Trust | |
| MFS High Yield Municipal Trust | |
| MFS Intermediate High Income Fund | |
| MFS Intermediate Income Trust | |
| MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust | |
| MFS Multimarket Income Trust | |
| MFS Municipal Income Trust | |
| MFS Series Trust I | MFS Core Equity Fund |
| MFS Low Volatility Equity Fund | |
| MFS Low Volatility Global Equity Fund | |
| MFS New Discovery Fund | |
| MFS Research International Fund | |
| MFS Technology Fund | |
| MFS U.S. Government Cash Reserve Fund | |
| MFS Value Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust IV | MFS Blended Research Emerging Markets Equity Fund |
| MFS Blended Research International Equity Fund | |
| MFS Global New Discovery Fund | |
| MFS U.S. Government Money Market Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust VII | MFS Equity Income Fund |
| MFS Series Trust IX | MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund |
| MFS Series Trust X | MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund |
| MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund | |
| MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund | |
| MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund | |
| MFS Conservative Allocation Fund | |
| MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund | |
| MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund | |
| MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund | |
| MFS Growth Allocation Fund | |
| MFS International Diversification Fund | |
| MFS International Growth Fund |
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| MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund | |
| MFS Managed Wealth Fund | |
| MFS Moderate Allocation Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust XI | MFS Blended Research Core Equity Fund |
| MFS Mid Cap Value Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust XII | MFS Lifetime Income Fund |
| MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund | |
| MFS Lifetime 2065 Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust XIII | MFS Global Real Estate Fund |
| MFS New Discovery Value Fund | |
| MFS Series Trust XV | MFS Commodity Strategy Fund |
| MFS Active Exchange Traded Funds Trust | MFS Active Core Plus Bond ETF* |
| MFS Active Growth ETF* | |
| MFS Active Intermediate Muni Bond ETF* | |
| MFS Active International ETF* | |
| MFS Active Mid Cap ETF* | |
| MFS Active Value ETF* | |
| MFS Blended Research Core Equity ETF* | |
| MFS Blended Research Emerging Markets Equity ETF* | |
| MFS Blended Research International Equity ETF* | |
| MFS Variable Insurance Trust | MFS Global Equity Series |
| MFS Growth Series | |
| MFS Investors Trust Series | |
| MFS Mid Cap Growth Series | |
| MFS New Discovery Series | |
| MFS Research Series | |
| MFS Total Return Bond Series | |
| MFS Total Return Series | |
| MFS Utilities Series | |
| MFS Value Series | |
| MFS Variable Insurance Trust II | MFS Blended Research Core Equity Portfolio |
| MFS Core Equity Portfolio | |
| MFS Corporate Bond Portfolio | |
| MFS Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio | |
| MFS Global Governments Portfolio | |
| MFS Global Growth Portfolio | |
| MFS Global Research Portfolio | |
| MFS Global Tactical Allocation Portfolio |
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| MFS Government Securities Portfolio | |
| MFS High Yield Portfolio | |
| MFS Income Portfolio | |
| MFS International Growth Portfolio | |
| MFS International Intrinsic Value Portfolio | |
| MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio | |
| MFS Research International Portfolio | |
| MFS Technology Portfolio | |
| MFS U.S. Government Money Market Portfolio | |
| MFS Variable Insurance Trust III | MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Portfolio |
| MFS Conservative Allocation Portfolio | |
| MFS Global Real Estate Portfolio | |
| MFS Growth Allocation Portfolio | |
| MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Portfolio | |
| MFS Limited Maturity Portfolio | |
| MFS Mid Cap Value Portfolio | |
| MFS Moderate Allocation Portfolio | |
| MFS New Discovery Value Portfolio | |
| Stand-Alone Corporation | MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio^ |
*ETF Client
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has caused this Appendix A to be executed in its name and behalf on the day and year first above written.
| Each of the Investment Companies listed on this Appendix A, on Behalf of Each of Their Respective Portfolios (except MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio) |
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| By: | |
Digitally signed by Bohane, Christopher R Date: 2025.09.22 11:33:22 -04’00’ |
|
| Name: Christopher R. Bohane | |||
| Title: Assistant Secretary | |||
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
| By: |  |
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| Name: Eruch A. Mody | ||
| Title: Senior Vice President | ||
^MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio is organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands and is wholly-owned by MFS Commodity Strategy Fund, a series of MFS Series Trust XV. State Street Bank and Trust Company and MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio acknowledge and agree that MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio is not registered as an open-end or a closed-end management company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), but nevertheless MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio has requested, and State Street Bank and Trust Company has agreed, to provide services pursuant to the Agreement as if MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio were registered under the 1940 Act. MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio and State Street Bank and Trust Company further agree that the principal client facing team responsible for approving and finalizing the corporate records and books of account for MFS Commodity Strategy Portfolio will be based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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