Harvest Fund Advisors LLC

Form ADV Part 2A Harvest Fund Advisors LLC 100 West Lancaster Avenue, Second Floor, Wayne, PA 19087 (610) 293-7800 info@blackstone.com http://www.blackstone.com March 30, 2026 This brochure (“Brochure”) provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Harvest Fund Advisors LLC (“Harvest,” “Adviser,” “Advisor,” or the “Registrant”). If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us at (610) 293-7800 and/or info@blackstone.com. The information in this Brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority. Additional information about Harvest Fund Advisors LLC also is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. Harvest’s registration as an investment adviser does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The oral and written communications Harvest provides to you, including this Brochure, serve as information for you to use to evaluate Harvest and should be considered in your decision whether to invest in an account or investment vehicle advised by Harvest. 100 West Lancaster Avenue ▪ Second Floor ▪ Wayne PA 19087 ▪ T: 610.293.7800 ▪ F: 610.423.5600  Material Changes This Brochure contains important information about the Registrant. This Brochure is intended to provide potential and existing clients with an overview of Harvest Fund Advisors LLC (together with its affiliated advisory entities that operate as part of the business of Blackstone Inc.). It also contains important disclosures such as certain practices of the Registrant, potential material conflicts that could arise and key potential investment risks. The Registrant can, at any time, update this Brochure and either send or offer to send a copy to you (either by electronic means (email) or in hard copy form). There has not been a material change to this Brochure since the March 28, 2025, annual updating amendment. As part of this annual updating amendment, Harvest has made material edits to: A) Update the amount of assets under management and add clarifying edits to wrap fee contracting as noted within [Item 4]; B) Add Investment Companies to the listed types of clients in [Item 7]; C) Add new and/or updated risk disclosure to [Item 8] regarding Banking Risk, Cybersecurity and Data Protection Risk, Sustainability Risk, Geopolitical Conflicts Risk, Regulation with Respect to Private Funds and Advisers Risk, Inflation Risk, Trade Policy Risk, Social Media and Publicity Risk, and Artificial Intelligence Developments Risk; D) Add new or updated Affiliates to [Item 10]; E) Add new and/or updated firmwide Conflicts disclosures relating to Outsourcing, Data Services, Data, Secondary Transfers, Secondments and Internships, and Valuation Matters to [Item 10]. F) Add clarifying edits to trade allocation and rotation practices in Brokerage Practices [Item 12]. If you would like another copy of this Brochure, please download it from the SEC’s website as indicated on the cover of this Brochure, or you can contact Harvest’s Chief Compliance Officer, Anthony Merhige, at (610) 293-7800. This summary is qualified in its entirety by the further discussion of the matters discussed in the remaining Items of this Brochure. Clients are encouraged to read this Brochure in detail and to contact Harvest with any questions.  Table of Contents Page Advisory Business ……………………………………………………………………………………………..... Fees and Compensation …………………………………………………………………………………...... Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ……………………………………. Types of Clients ………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ………………………………. Disciplinary Information ………………………………………………………………………………………. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations …………………………………………………. Code of Ethics, Participation of Interest in Client Transaction & Personal Trading Brokerage Practices …………………………………………………………………………………………………. Review of Accounts …………………………………………………………………………………………….. Client Referrals and Other Compensation …………………………………………………………… Custody ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Investment Discretion …………………………………………………………………………………………. Voting Client Securities ……………………………………………………………………………………………. Financial Information ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 4 6 7 8 27 28 60 62 64 65 66 67 68 69  ADVISORY BUSINESS [Item 4] Principal Owners [Item 4.A.] Harvest Fund Advisors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Harvest,” “Adviser,” “Advisor,” or the “Registrant”), was founded in 2005 and offers investment management services to various categories of institutions and sophisticated high net worth investors with respect to alternative asset investments. Our services are offered on a discretionary basis directly to separate account clients (each an “SMA Client,” or, collectively, “SMA Clients”) and privately offered pooled investment vehicles (each a “Fund,” or, collectively, “Funds”, and, together with SMA Clients and other clients of Harvest, as further described in Types of Clients [Item 7] below, “Clients” or “Investors”). Blackstone Inc. (together, with its affiliates, “Blackstone”) is the ultimate parent of Harvest and is a publicly traded corporation that has common shares which trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BX”. Blackstone Intermediary Holdco LLC is the general partner of Harvest Fund Holdco LLC, the sole member of the Registrant. Blackstone Securities Partners LP is the sole member of Blackstone Intermediary Holdco LLC. Blackstone Advisory Services LLC is the general partner of Blackstone Securities Partners LP. Blackstone Holdings I LP is the sole member of Blackstone Advisory Services LLC. Blackstone Holdings I/II GP LLC is the general partner of Blackstone Holdings I LP. Blackstone Inc. is the controlling shareholder of Blackstone Holdings I/II GP LLC. Please see the chart below.1 Blackstone is a leading global alternative investment manager with investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, insurance solutions and life sciences. Blackstone acquired the Registrant on October 16, 2017. Please see Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations [Item 10] below for more information. 1 The chart above is a simplified version and does not include a depiction of certain Blackstone intermediary entities. -1-  Types of Advisory Services [Item 4.B.] Harvest advises SMA Clients and Funds with a focus on energy, infrastructure, renewables, and energy infrastructure assets including U.S. master limited partnerships (“MLPs”). Funds are typically organized in the United States or in certain circumstances in a foreign jurisdiction as limited liability companies, limited partnerships, trusts, corporations, offshore corporations, partnerships, trusts, or any other legal entity. In addition, as described in Wrap Fee Programs [Item 4.D] below, Harvest provides portfolio management services in a number of wrap fee programs. Tailoring of Advisory Services [Item 4.C.] The Registrant’s principal investment area is energy and energy infrastructure securities including U.S. MLPs, listed infrastructure and renewables securities (sometimes collectively referred to as “our Investable Universe” or “the Investable Universe”). The investment objectives and the investment strategies of each SMA and Fund managed by Harvest are described in detail in the Fund’s offering and subscription documents and/or investment management agreement and other relevant formation agreements and disclosures (such materials will be referred to herein as “Governing Documents”). Separate account management is guided by the stated objectives of the SMA Client (i.e., capital preservation, income, growth, etc.) and the investment management agreement between Harvest and the SMA Client. SMA Client investment objectives are identified by assessing the SMA Client’s risk tolerance based upon various criteria like need for cash flow, investment goals and the like. These objectives are then typically documented via the investment guidelines contained within an investment management agreement, together with any restrictions imposed by the SMA Client which Harvest deems reasonable. When a Client grants Harvest investment discretion, Harvest is authorized to invest, sell, and reinvest proceeds in the Client’s account without obtaining the Client’s prior confirmation of any proposed action. Harvest will manage the account in accordance with the investment guidelines and/or restrictions that have been provided by the Client and accepted by Harvest. Please see Wrap Fee Programs [Item 4.D] below for information regarding how Harvest tailors its portfolio management services to the individual needs of Program Clients (as defined below). Wrap Fee Programs [Item 4.D.] The Registrant currently provides portfolio management services through the following wrap fee programs: the Global Manager Strategies Separate Account Program wrap fee program sponsored by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC; the Private Advisor Network wrap fee program sponsored by Wells Fargo Advisors LLC; the Managed Accounts Consulting wrap fee program sponsored by UBS Financial Services, Inc.; the Managed Account Services wrap fee program sponsored by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; the Managed Account Services wrap fee program sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.; a n d , the Investment Management Services wrap fee program sponsored by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (each a “Program” and, collectively, the “Programs”). Harvest provides services through each Program by creating portfolios to be offered in each sponsor’s Program. In each case, Harvest creates a portfolio or portfolios specifically for the Program in question, and, as such, Program portfolios are different from portfolios managed for other Clients, and returns are likely to differ. For example, the portfolio created for a particular Program could be more concentrated than other portfolios created and/or managed by Harvest and could have lower turnover given the taxable nature of the Program’s investors. Harvest provides portfolio management services through the Programs -2-  pursuant to an advisory agreement with each Program sponsor and/or Program’s end clients (“Program Clients”). Harvest manages a Program Client’s accounts in accordance with the portfolio selected and any restrictions imposed by such Program Client relating to wash sale or similar rules regarding holding duration, regulatory requirements regarding the Program Client’s employment with the issuer of a security, or any other investment restrictions which Harvest deems reasonable. In managing Program Client accounts, Harvest submits trade orders to the Program’s trading desk, and is not responsible for trade execution or broker-dealer selection. Harvest receives a portion of the wrap fee, which the Program sponsor withdraws from Program Client accounts, in return for its portfolio management services. Assets Under Management [Item 4.E.] The Registrant has approximately $8.1 billion in discretionary assets under management as of December 31, 2025. -3-  FEES AND COMPENSATION [Item 5] Fee Schedules [Item 5.A.] SMA Clients pay a management fee based upon the percentage of assets under management at fixed annual rates, generally 0.75% and subject to negotiation. Discounted fee tiers are utilized for SMA Clients with accounts of more than $100 million managed by Harvest. The compensation method is explained and agreed with the SMA Client in each SMA Client’s investment management agreement. Management fees could be billed monthly or quarterly in arrears, pursuant to the written investment management agreement. Fees charged to each Fund depend upon the particular vehicle and strategy (long-only, long- short, etc.). Funds typically pay a management fee based upon the percentage of assets under management at fixed annual rates, generally in a range from 0.75% to 1.50%, subject to negotiation, and depending upon the strategy of the privately offered vehicle. The fees applicable to a Fund are disclosed in the particular Fund’s Governing Documents. Performance fees, if any, applicable to SMA Clients or Funds generally will consist of an annual percentage rate of the net realized and unrealized earnings and profits for each year (the “Performance Fee”). In certain cases, the Performance Fee could be charged only after restoration of any losses carried forward from prior years and, in certain cases, after achieving a threshold annual return on invested capital at varying rates. Generally, the annual percentage rate of a Performance Fee will approximate 20% of the net realized and unrealized earnings and profits, subject to negotiations. Performance Fees generally will be billed after the close of each calendar year. Deduction of Fees [Item 5.B.] SMA Clients typically are billed quarterly in arrears for fees incurred, unless otherwise agreed in the SMA Client’s investment management agreement. Fees applicable to the Funds are typically deducted monthly in arrears from each Fund’s account, unless otherwise provided in the Fund’s Governing Documents. Other Fees and Expenses [Item 5.C.] The Registrant does not charge additional types of fees or expenses to SMA Clients. Each Fund pays its own fund-level expenses (e.g., fund administration, audit, tax, legal, etc.) in connection with operating the Fund. All SMA Clients and Funds incur brokerage and other transaction costs which are in addition to the management and performance fees discussed above. Please see Brokerage Practices [Item 12] below for additional information. SMA Clients generally also incur custodial fees, subject to the agreement between such SMA Client and its custodian. Prepaid Fees [Item 5.D.] None of our Clients prepay fees. -4-  Compensation for the Sale of Securities [Item 5.E.] Neither Harvest nor any of its supervised persons accepts compensation for the sale of securities or other investment products. -5-  PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT [Item 6] The Registrant can manage SMA Client accounts and Funds that charge performance-based fees in addition to asset-based management fees, as well as SMA Client accounts and Funds that charge management fees only. Note that the existence of performance-based compensation with respect to certain accounts that pay such performance-based compensation could create an incentive for Harvest to make more speculative investments on behalf of such accounts than it would otherwise make in the absence of such performance-based compensation or to time the sale of investments in a manner motivated by the personal interests of Harvest. Further, the existence of differing performance-based fees for Clients of Harvest trading side-by-side and, similarly, the management of the accounts of Clients that pay an asset- based management fee alongside accounts of Clients that pay a performance-based fee, each creates a conflict of interest for Harvest with respect to the allocation of investment opportunities and other ways of generally favoring those Clients with a higher performance-based fee, or with a performance-based fee as opposed to a management fee. Harvest has adopted Trading and Trade Allocation policies that govern the treatment of Clients with different fee structures and the potential conflicts of interest that these fee structures might present. As a general rule, trades from the same strategy are allocated to our various Clients pro rata based on assets under management. The intent of this policy is that, for similar strategies, assets should not be allocated on a preferential basis to any one Client account. The allocation policy permits Harvest to deviate from a pro-rata allocation in instances including, but not limited to, strategy differences, funding, or flows. As examples, a Fund with a low net exposure and/or hedged strategy would have different risk parameters, trading, including intraday trading, and holdings as compared to a long-only Client seeking long-term exposure to our Investment Universe and, as a result, would trade differently and receive differing allocations. Additionally, allocations can differ even within the same strategy where one Client has a higher cash position as compared to other Clients using a similar strategy due to, among other reasons, account funding, or if a Client has requested that Harvest raise funds as part of any redemption activity. -6-  TYPES OF CLIENTS [Item 7] Harvest provides investment advice to: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Privately offered funds; Pension and profit sharing plans; Trusts, estates, or charitable organizations; Insurance dedicated funds; Corporations or other business entities; State and municipal government entities; Sovereign wealth funds; Family Offices; Registered Investment Advisers; High net worth individuals; Investment companies; and, Business entities other than those listed above. Harvest (a) must have a reasonable belief that potential investors invited to participate in a Fund or other products meet certain eligibility requirements and (b) in each case must satisfy certain compliance procedures (including anti-money laundering procedures) prior to accepting any subscription or investment amount. In addition, any separate maintenance or other investment-related provisions (e.g., minimum account sizes, minimum fee amounts, etc.) will be provided in the Governing Documents of each Fund. Generally, the minimum dollar value of assets required to invest in a Fund ranges from $500,000 to $1 million. The minimum dollar value of assets required to establish a separately managed account is generally $10 million. The minimum dollar value of assets required by Harvest to establish a Program account is generally $250,000. Please refer to the wrap fee program brochure for each Program for information regarding any minimum account sizes imposed by the sponsor of such Program. However, Harvest reserves the authority to waive the subscription and account minimums it imposes, as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion. Details concerning applicable suitability criteria for investment in the Funds are set forth in each respective Fund’s Governing Documents. Harvest only charges performance fees in instances where the Client is a “qualified client” as defined under Rule 205-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”). -7-  METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS [Item 8] General Description [Item 8.A.] We use our fundamental, value-oriented, bottom-up research, analysis, and industry knowledge to attempt to generate returns in investments within the securities from our Investable Universe. As part of our fundamental bottom-up research process we have developed a risk score for every company within our investment universe. The eight factors which comprise the risk score are asset quality, management quality, commodity exposure, leverage, liquidity, size, capital need, and Sustainability. Please note that Blackstone has adopted a firm-wide Sustainability policy, which outlines its approach to integrating Sustainability in its business and investment activities (the “Sustainability Policy”). The Registrant can, for certain of its Clients or Funds, purchase or sell, among other things, derivatives instruments or swaps, provided that all eligibility criteria for acquisition of such instruments are satisfied. Material Risks for Significant Investment Strategies and Securities [Items 8.A., 8.B. and 8.C.] Investment in any securities, including an investment in our Funds or SMA Clients, involves significant risk. Each prospective Client and Fund investor should carefully consider the risk factors inherent in investing. Investors must be able to bear the economic risk of loss of value or loss of their investment. Please refer to the Governing Documents of each Fund for a comprehensive list of the risks associated with investing in a particular Fund, as well as disclosures relating to various risks related to securities within our Investable Universe, MLP risks, energy sector risks, and business trading risks. Clients and Fund investors should be aware that the value of investments can fall as well as rise and it is possible that a Client or Fund investor could lose a substantial proportion or all of its investment. A Client’s or Fund investor’s investment at any point in time could be worth less than their original investment, even after taking into account the value of distributions that the Client or Fund investor received. Supply and Demand Risk. The financial performance of securities within our Investable Universe can be adversely affected by a decrease in the production of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil or other such commodities or a decrease in the volume of such commodities that are available for transportation, processing, or distribution. Such production declines and volume decreases could be caused by various factors, including catastrophic events affecting production, depletion of resources, labor difficulties, environmental proceedings, increased regulations, equipment failures and unexpected maintenance problems, import supply disruption, increased competition from alternative energy sources or commodity prices. Alternatively, a sustained decline in demand for such commodities could also adversely affect the financial performance of securities within our Investable Universe. Factors that could lead to a decline in demand include economic recession or other adverse economic conditions, higher fuel taxes or commodity prices, increases in fuel and energy efficiency, development of alternative fuel sources, or weather. MLP Risk Generally. Investments in MLPs involve some risks that differ from an investment in the common stock of a corporation. The value of the securities issued by MLPs can move up or down and could do so rapidly or unpredictably. Holders of MLPs have limited control and voting rights on matters affecting the partnership. In addition, there are certain tax risks associated with an investment in MLP interests and conflicts of interest exist between common unit holders and the general partner, including those arising -8-  from incentive distribution payments. MLPs that provide crude oil, refined product, and natural gas services are subject to supply and demand fluctuations in the markets they serve that will be affected by a wide range of factors, including fluctuating commodity prices, weather, increased conservation or use of alternative fuel sources, increased governmental or environmental regulation, depletion, rising interest rates, declines in domestic or foreign production, accidents or catastrophic events and economic conditions, among others. These supply and demand fluctuations can cause the value of MLP interests to be more volatile than interests in companies in other types of industries. Cash Flow and Tax Risk. The amount of cash that securities within our Investable Universe have available for distributions and the tax character of such distributions are dependent upon the amount of cash generated by company operations. Cash available for distribution will vary from quarter to quarter and is largely dependent on factors affecting company operations and factors affecting the energy industry in general. In addition to the risk factors described above, other factors which can reduce the amount of cash a company has available for distribution include increased operating costs, maintenance capital expenditures, acquisition costs, expansion, construction, or exploration costs and borrowing costs. If an MLP were classified as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, the amount of cash available for distribution would be reduced and distributions received by the Client would be taxed entirely as dividend income. Therefore, treatment of an MLP in which the Client invests as a corporation for federal income tax purposes would result in a reduction in the after-tax return to the Client. Additionally, the tax issues connected with partnerships are complex and Form K-1s and schedules for investors could be delayed. Commodity Pricing Risk. The operations and financial performance of energy, energy infrastructure companies, names within our Investable Universe, and/or MLPs can be directly affected by energy commodity prices, especially those entities that own the underlying energy commodity. Commodity prices fluctuate for several reasons, including changes in market and economic conditions, the impact of weather on demand, levels of domestic production and imported commodities, energy conservation, domestic and foreign governmental regulation and taxation and the availability of local, intrastate and interstate transportation systems. Volatility of commodity prices, which could lead to a reduction in production or supply, can also negatively affect the performance of energy infrastructure securities and MLPs that are solely involved in the transportation, processing, storing, distribution, or marketing of commodities. Volatility of commodity prices could also make it more difficult for these securities to raise capital to the extent the market perceives that their performance can be directly or indirectly tied to commodity prices. Depletion and Exploration Risk. Many energy, energy infrastructure companies, and/or MLPs are either engaged in the production of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined petroleum products or coal or are engaged in transporting, storing, distributing and processing these items on behalf of shippers. To maintain or grow their revenues, these companies or their customers need to maintain or expand their reserves through exploration of new sources of supply, through the development of existing sources, through acquisitions or through long-term contracts to acquire reserves. The financial performance of these securities could be adversely affected if they, or the companies to whom they provide the service, are unable to cost-effectively acquire additional reserves sufficient to replace the natural decline. Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk is the risk that securities will decline in value because of changes in market interest rates. The yields of equity and debt securities of certain names within our Investable Universe are susceptible in the short-term to fluctuations in interest rates and the prices of these securities typically decline when interest rates rise. In addition, rising interest rates could adversely impact the financial performance of certain names within our Investable Universe and related businesses by increasing the costs of obtaining capital, which reduce the cost-effectiveness of acquisitions or expansion projects. -9-  Liquidity Risk. Although publicly traded, units of certain MLPs and names within our Investable Universe can trade less frequently, especially those with smaller capitalizations. Securities with limited trading volumes are expected to display volatile or erratic price movements. Larger purchases or sales of these securities on behalf of a Client in a short period of time could cause abnormal movements in the market price of these securities. As a result, these securities could be difficult to dispose of at a fair price at the times when Harvest believes it is desirable to do so. These securities are also more difficult to value, and Harvest’s judgment as to the value of such securities will often be given greater weight than market quotations, if any exist. Regulatory Risk. Energy, energy infrastructure companies, names within our Investable Universe, and/or MLPs are subject to significant federal, state, and local government regulation in virtually every aspect of their operations, including how facilities are constructed, maintained, and operated, environmental and safety controls and the prices they can charge for the products and services they provide. Various governmental authorities have the power to enforce compliance with these regulations and the permits issued under them, and violators are subject to administrative, civil, and criminal penalties, including civil fines, injunctions, or both. Stricter laws, regulations or enforcement policies could be enacted in the future which would likely increase compliance costs and could adversely affect the financial performance of these securities. Terrorism/Market Disruption Risk. Events in the Middle East and elsewhere could have significant adverse effects on the U.S. economy and the stock market. Uncertainty surrounding retaliatory military strikes or a sustained military campaign could affect the names within our Investable Universe, including energy infrastructure company and MLP operations in unpredictable ways, including disruptions of fuel supplies and markets, and transmission and distribution facilities could be direct targets, or indirect casualties, of an act of terror. The U.S. government has issued warnings that energy assets, specifically the United States’ pipeline infrastructure, could be the future target of terrorist organizations. In addition, changes in the insurance markets have made certain types of insurance more difficult, if not impossible, to obtain and have generally resulted in increased premium costs. Valuation Risk. Market prices might not be readily available for subordinated units, direct ownership of general partner interests, restricted or unregistered securities of certain MLPs and of certain names within our Investable Universe, or interests in private companies, and the value of such investments will ordinarily be determined based on fair valuations determined by Harvest. Restrictions on resale or the absence of a liquid secondary market could adversely affect the ability to determine the value of the Client’s account. The sale price of securities that are not readily marketable might be lower or higher than the most recent determination of their fair value. Additionally, the value of these securities typically requires more reliance on the judgment of Harvest than that required for securities for which there is an active trading market. Due to the difficulty in valuing these securities and the absence of an active trading market for these investments, Clients might not be able to realize these securities’ true value or could have to delay their sale in order to do so. In addition, Harvest will rely to some extent on information provided by the names in our Investable Universe, which might not necessarily be timely, in determining the value of the Client’s account. Acquisition Risk. The abilities of names within our Investable Universe to grow can be highly dependent on their ability to make acquisitions that result in an increase in adjusted operating surplus per share/unit. In the event that names within our Investable Universe are unable to make such accretive acquisitions because they are unable to identify attractive acquisition candidates or negotiate acceptable purchase contracts, because they are unable to raise financing for such acquisitions on economically acceptable -10-  terms or because they are outbid by competitors, their future growth and ability to raise distributions will be limited. Furthermore, even if names within our Investable Universe do consummate acquisitions that they believe will be accretive, the acquisitions could instead result in a decrease in adjusted operating surplus per share/unit. Any acquisition involves risks, including, among other things: mistaken assumptions about revenues and costs, including synergies; the assumption of unknown liabilities; limitations on rights to indemnity from the seller; the diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns; unforeseen difficulties operating in new product or geographic areas; and customer or key employee losses at the acquired businesses. Affiliated Party Risk. Certain names within our Investable Universe and/or MLPs are dependent on their parents or sponsors for a majority of their revenues. Any failure by a parent or sponsor to satisfy their payments or obligations would adversely affect revenues and cash flows and ability to make distributions. Catastrophe Risk. The operations of certain names within our Investable Universe, MLPs, and other midstream energy companies are subject to many hazards inherent in the transporting, processing, storing, distributing, mining or marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, coal, refined petroleum products or other hydrocarbons or in the exploring, managing or producing of such commodities, including: damage to pipelines, storage tanks or related equipment and surrounding properties caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires and other natural disasters or by acts of terrorism; inadvertent damage from construction and farm equipment; leaks of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined petroleum products or other hydrocarbons; and fires and explosions. These risks could result in substantial losses due to personal injury or loss of life, severe damage to and destruction of property and equipment and pollution or other environmental damage and can result in the curtailment or suspension of their related operations. Not all energy infrastructure companies, names within our Investable Universe, or MLPs are fully insured against all risks inherent to their businesses. If a significant accident or event occurs that is not fully insured, it could adversely affect their operations and financial condition. Custody and Banking Risks. The Clients will maintain funds with one or more banks or other depository institutions (“Banking Institutions”), which include U.S. and non-U.S. Banking Institutions, and the Clients will enter into credit facilities or have other financial relationships with Banking Institutions. The distress, impairment or failure of one or more Banking Institutions with whom the Clients, their Portfolio Entities and/or the Adviser transact could inhibit the ability of the Clients or their Portfolio Entities to access depository accounts or lines of credit at all or in a timely manner. Also, there can be no assurance that such Banking Institutions will honor their obligations or that the Clients or such Portfolio Entities will be able to secure replacement financing or capabilities at all or on similar terms. In such cases, it is possible that the Clients would be forced to delay or forgo investments or to call capital when it is not desirable to do so, resulting in lower performance for the Clients. In the event of such a failure of a Banking Institution where the Clients or one or more of their Portfolio Entities holds depository accounts (including accounts used for depositing principal and interest payments from borrowers on loans owned by the Clients), access to such accounts could be restricted and U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) protection will generally not be available for balances in excess of amounts insured by the FDIC (and similar considerations could apply to Banking Institutions in other jurisdictions not subject to FDIC protection). In such instances, it is possible that the Clients and their affected Portfolio Entities would not recover such excess, uninsured amounts and instead, would only have an unsecured claim against the Banking Institution and participate pro rata with other unsecured creditors in the residual value of the Banking Institution’s assets. The loss of amounts maintained with a Banking Institution or the inability to access such amounts for a period of time, even if ultimately recovered, could be materially adverse to the Clients or their Portfolio Entities. One or more investors or the Adviser could also be similarly affected and unable -11-  to fund capital calls, further delaying or deferring new investments. In addition, the Adviser will not always be able to identify all potential solvency or stress concerns with respect to a Banking Institution or to transfer assets from one bank to another in a timely manner in the event a Banking Institution comes under stress or fails. Additionally, there can be no assurances that a Client or its Portfolio Entities will establish banking relationships with multiple financial institutions. The Clients and their Portfolio Entities are expected to be subject to contractual obligations to maintain all or a portion of their respective assets (including deposits) with a particular Banking Institution (including, without limitation, in connection with a credit facility or other financing transaction). Moreover, the Advisers Act custody rule generally prohibits the Adviser from transferring Client funds to an account of the Adviser or its related persons. Circumstances could arise where such a bank shows signs of distress or impairment and Blackstone and Portfolio Entities would need to decide between (1) moving assets to another bank in breach of such contractual obligations or to an account of the Adviser or its related persons in potential violation of the Advisers Act custody rule (thereby exposing the Clients or Portfolio Entities to breach of contract liability and/or regulatory risk), on the one hand, and (2) honoring the contractual obligations and adhering to the Advisers Act custody rule but running the risk of losing the assets, on the other hand. Either decision could have a material adverse effect on the Clients or Portfolio Entities. Cybersecurity and Data Protection Risk. Blackstone’s operations are highly dependent on its technology platforms, and Blackstone relies heavily on its analytical, financial, accounting, communications and other data processing systems. Blackstone’s systems face ongoing cybersecurity threats and attacks, which could result in the loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of such systems and the data held by such systems. Attacks on Blackstone’s systems could involve, and in some instances have in the past involved, attempts intended to obtain unauthorized access to Blackstone’s, the Clients’ or Other Blackstone Clients’ and their underlying investors’ proprietary information, destroy data or disable, degrade or sabotage Blackstone’s systems, or divert or otherwise steal funds, including through the introduction of computer viruses, “phishing” attempts and other forms of social engineering. Attacks on Blackstone’s systems could also involve ransomware or other forms of cyber extortion. Cyberattacks and other data security threats could originate from a wide variety of external sources, including cyber criminals, nation state hackers, hacktivists and other outside parties. Cyberattacks and other security threats could also originate from the malicious or accidental acts of insiders, such as employees, consultants, independent contractors or other service providers. Cyberattacks could also be employed against the Adviser’s and/or Blackstone’s various stakeholders or other third parties, including by impersonating the Adviser, Blackstone, or their employees, which could cause similar security impacts to the Adviser’s and/or Blackstone’s stakeholders and other third parties and materially and adversely impact the Adviser, Blackstone, the Clients, or Other Blackstone Clients. There has been an increase in the frequency and sophistication of the cyber and data security threats Blackstone faces, with attacks ranging from those common to businesses generally to those that are more advanced and persistent. In addition, risk from cyber and data security threats is exacerbated with the advancement of artificial intelligence, which malicious third parties are using to create new, more sophisticated, and more persistent types of attacks. Perpetrators of cyberattacks could target Blackstone because, as an alternative asset management firm, Blackstone holds a significant amount of confidential and sensitive information about the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their respective Portfolio Entities, potential investments and investors. As a result, Blackstone could face a heightened risk of a security breach or disruption with respect to this information. There can be no assurance that measures Blackstone takes to ensure the integrity of its systems will provide adequate protection, especially because cyberattack techniques are continually evolving and it is possible cyberattacks will persist -12-  undetected over extended periods of time and/or will not be mitigated in a timely manner to prevent or minimize the impact of an attack on Blackstone, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their respective Portfolio Entities, potential investments or investors. If Blackstone’s systems or those of third-party service providers are compromised either as a result of malicious activity or through inadvertent transmittal or other loss of data, do not operate properly or are disabled, or Blackstone fails to provide the appropriate regulatory or other notifications in a timely manner, Blackstone could suffer financial loss, increased costs, a disruption of Blackstone’s businesses, liability to Blackstone’s counterparties, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their respective investors, regulatory intervention or reputational damage. The costs related to cyber or other data security threats or disruptions may not be fully insured or indemnified by other means. In addition, Blackstone could also suffer losses in connection with updates to, or the failure to timely update, the technology platforms on which it relies. Blackstone is reliant on third-party service providers for certain aspects of its business, including for the administration of certain Clients and Other Blackstone Clients, as well as for certain technology platforms, including cloud-based services. These third-party service providers could also face ongoing cybersecurity threats and compromises of their systems and as a result, unauthorized individuals could gain, and in some past instances have gained, access to certain confidential data through third-party service providers. Cybersecurity and data protection have become top priorities for regulators around the world, and rapidly developing and changing privacy, data protection and cybersecurity laws and regulations could further increase compliance costs and subject the Adviser, Blackstone, the Clients, and/or their Portfolio Entities to enforcement risk and reputational damage. Many jurisdictions in which Blackstone and the Portfolio Entities operate have laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection and cybersecurity, including, as examples, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”) in the European Union, the U.K. Data Protection Act, and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). As an example, the U.S. Department of Justice’s final rule on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern took effect in April 2025. This rule prohibits or restricts U.S. persons from knowingly directing or engaging in defined classes of transactions that allow persons in countries of concern or those otherwise deemed a “covered person” access to enumerated categories of sensitive data, specifically bulk U.S. sensitive personal data and U.S. government-related data. Some jurisdictions have also enacted or proposed laws requiring companies to notify individuals and government agencies of data security breaches involving certain types of personal data. Breaches in Blackstone’s security or in the security of third-party service providers, whether malicious in nature or through inadvertent transmittal or other loss of data, could potentially jeopardize Blackstone’s, its employees’, the Clients’, Portfolio Entities’ or their respective investors’ or counterparties’ confidential, proprietary and other information processed and stored in, and transmitted through, Blackstone’s computer systems and networks or those of Blackstone’s, the Adviser’s, the Clients’, or Portfolio Entities’ third-party service providers. Breaches could also cause interruptions or malfunctions in Blackstone’s, its employees’, the Clients’, Portfolio Entities’, their respective investors’ or counterparties’ or third parties’ business and operations. Any such breaches could therefore result in significant financial losses, increased costs, liability to the Clients’ investors and other counterparties, regulatory intervention and reputational damage. Furthermore, if Blackstone fails to comply with the relevant laws and regulations or fails to provide the appropriate regulatory or other notifications of breach in a timely matter, it could result in regulatory investigations and penalties, which could lead to negative publicity and reputational harm and could cause the Clients’ investors and clients to lose confidence in the effectiveness of Blackstone’s security measures and Blackstone more generally. -13-  The Clients’ and Other Blackstone Clients’ Portfolio Entities also rely on data processing systems and the secure processing, storage and transmission of information, including payment and health information, which in some instances are provided by third parties. A disruption or compromise of these systems could have a material adverse effect on the value of these businesses. Certain Clients and Other Blackstone Clients could invest in strategic assets having a national or regional profile or in infrastructure, the nature of which could expose them to a greater risk of being subject to a terrorist attack or a security breach than other assets or businesses. Such an event could have material adverse consequences on Blackstone’s investment or assets of the same type or could require Portfolio Entities to increase preventative security measures or expand insurance coverage. Finally, the Clients’ Portfolio Entities’ technology platforms, data and intellectual property are also subject to a heightened risk of theft or compromise to the extent Blackstone or the Clients’ Portfolio Entities engage in operations outside the United States, in particular in those jurisdictions that do not have comparable levels of protection of proprietary information and assets such as intellectual property, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how and customer information and records. In addition, Blackstone and the Clients’ Portfolio Entities could be required to compromise protections or forego rights to technology, data and intellectual property in order to operate in or access markets in a foreign jurisdiction. Any such direct or indirect compromise of these assets could have a material adverse impact on Blackstone and the Clients’ Portfolio Entities Rapidly developing and changing global data security and privacy laws and regulations could increase compliance costs and subject Blackstone to enforcement risks and reputational damage. Blackstone, the Clients, and their respective Portfolio Entities are subject to various risks and costs associated with the collection, storage, transmission and other processing of personally identifiable information and other sensitive or confidential information. This data is wide ranging and relates to Blackstone’s investors, employees, contractors and other counterparties and third parties. Blackstone’s data security and privacy compliance obligations impose significant compliance costs on Blackstone, which could increase significantly as laws and regulations evolve globally. Blackstone’s compliance obligations include those relating to U.S. laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the applicable regulations thereunder (including, Regulation S-P), as well as state regulations such as the CPRA, which provides for enhanced consumer protections for California residents, a private right of action for data breaches and statutory fines and damages for data breaches or other California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) violations, as well as a requirement of “reasonable” cybersecurity. At the U.S. federal level, the SEC adopted changes to Regulation S-P, which took effect on December 3, 2025. The amendments to Regulation S-P require SEC-registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, and investment companies to adopt an incident response program that governs their response to any unauthorized access of customer information and which must include certain breach notification procedures with respect to affected individuals. The amendments impose vendor oversight requirements and operationally challenging notification requirements and deadlines, leading to a likely increase in associated compliance costs, some or all of which could be allocated to the Clients. Blackstone’s compliance obligations also include those relating to foreign data collection and privacy laws and information and communication technology risk management, including, for example, the GDPR, the U.K. Data Protection Act, and DORA, as well as laws in many other jurisdictions globally, including Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, China, Australia, Canada and Brazil. Global laws in this area are rapidly increasing in the scale and depth of their requirements, and are also often extra-territorial -14-  in nature. In addition, a wide range of regulators and private actors are seeking to enforce these laws across regions and borders. Furthermore, Blackstone frequently has privacy compliance requirements as a result of Blackstone’s contractual obligations with counterparties. These legal, regulatory and contractual obligations heighten Blackstone’s data protection and privacy obligations in the ordinary course of conducting Blackstone’s business in the U.S. and internationally. Any inability, or perceived inability, by Blackstone, the Clients, Portfolio Entities or their respective service providers to adequately address data protection or privacy concerns, or comply with applicable laws, regulations, policies, industry standards and guidance, contractual obligations, or other legal obligations, even if unfounded, could result in significant legal, regulatory and third party liability, increased costs, disruption of Blackstone’s, the Clients’, Portfolio Entities’ or their respective service providers’ business and operations, and a loss of Client (including investor) confidence and other reputational damage. In addition, any such inability or perceived inability of Portfolio Entities or service providers, even if unfounded, could result in reputational damage to Blackstone. Many regulators have indicated an intention to take more aggressive enforcement actions regarding data privacy matters, and private litigation resulting from such matters is increasing and resulting in progressively larger judgments and settlements. For example, the stated 2026 examination priorities of the SEC Division of Examinations include a focus on investment advisers’ policies, procedures, and practices relating to the prevention of interruptions to mission-critical services and protection of investor information records and assets. Furthermore, as new data protection and privacy-related laws and regulations are implemented, the time and resources needed for Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients, and their respective Portfolio Entities to comply with such laws and regulations continues to increase and become a significant compliance workstream. Discretionary Management Risk. Pursuant to the investment management agreement between Harvest and a Client, Harvest has sole discretion over the day-to-day management of the Client’s account, including determining the types of investments that will be made and the securities transactions in which the account will engage. Clients will not have advance knowledge of or the opportunity to evaluate the securities which will be purchase or sold for their account. Epidemics/Pandemics Risk. Certain countries have been susceptible to epidemics, including those that can be designated as pandemics by world health authorities. The outbreak of such epidemics or pandemics, together with any resulting restrictions on travel or quarantines imposed, has had and could continue to have a negative impact on the economy and business activity globally (including in the countries in which the Clients invest and in which Portfolio Entities operate), and therefore can be expected to adversely affect the performance of the Clients’ investments. Furthermore, the rapid development of epidemics or pandemics could preclude prediction as to their ultimate adverse impact on economic and market conditions, and, as a result, presents material uncertainty and risk with respect to the Clients, the performance of their investments, Portfolio Entity operations, and the ability of the Clients to achieve their investment objectives. Sustainability Framework Risk. Blackstone has established a firm-wide sustainability policy and related programs and procedures, including the Adviser’s Sustainability Standards (collectively, the “Sustainability Framework”), which outlines its approach to integrating sustainability in its business and investment activities. The Adviser intends to apply the Sustainability Framework, as applicable, across investments consistent with and subject to its fiduciary duties and applicable legal, regulatory or contractual requirements. Depending on the investment, the impact of developments connected with sustainability factors could have a material effect on the return and risk profile of the investment. Any reference herein -15-  to sustainability considerations is not intended to qualify a Client’s investment objective to seek to maximize risk-adjusted returns on investments. The Adviser will endeavor to consider material 2 sustainability factors where applicable in connection with a Client’s investment activities in order to protect and maximize investment performance; however, the Sustainability Framework does not serve to modify the Clients’ investment objectives. The act of selecting and evaluating material sustainability factors is subjective by nature, and there is no guarantee that the criteria utilized or judgment exercised by the Adviser or a third-party sustainability advisor (if any) will reflect or align with the views, internal policies or preferred practices of any particular investor or other asset managers or will align with market trends. Blackstone and the Adviser can also be subject to competing demands from different investors and other stakeholder groups with divergent views on sustainability matters, including the role of sustainability factors in the investment process. Additionally, sustainability factors are only some of the many factors that the Adviser will consider in making an investment and, depending on the nature of the investment, except to the extent required by law, sustainability factors will not be considered for certain investments or assets. Although the Adviser considers application of the Sustainability Framework to be an opportunity to enhance or protect the performance of investments over the long-term, the Adviser cannot guarantee that the application of its Sustainability Framework, which depends in part on skills and qualitative judgments, will positively impact the performance of any individual Portfolio Entity or Client. Similarly, to the extent the Adviser or a third-party sustainability specialist engages with Portfolio Entities on sustainability related practices and potential enhancements thereto, there is no guarantee that such engagements will improve the performance of the investment. Successful engagement efforts on the part of the Client will depend on the Adviser’s ability to properly identify and analyze material sustainability considerations and other factors and their value, and there can be no assurance that the strategy or techniques employed will be successful. The materiality of sustainability risks and impacts on an individual asset or issuer and on a portfolio as a whole depends on many factors, including the relevant industry, country, asset class and investment style. In evaluating a prospective investment or providing reporting regarding such investment, the Adviser often depends upon (and will not independently verify) information and data provided by the entity or obtained via third-party reporting or advisors, which will, in certain circumstances, be incomplete or inaccurate and could cause the Adviser to incorrectly identify, prioritize, assess or analyze the entity’s sustainability practices and/or related risks and opportunities. The Adviser can be expected to decide in its discretion not to utilize certain information or data. While the Adviser believes such sources to be reliable, it will neither update any such information or data nor undertake an independent review of any such information or data provided by third parties. Subject to any applicable legal or regulatory requirements, any sustainability reporting will be provided in the Adviser’s sole discretion. To the extent that the Adviser reports to investors on material sustainability issues, such reports will be based on the Adviser’s or applicable Portfolio Entity management team’s sole and subjective determination of whether a material sustainability issue has occurred in respect of an investment. In addition, the Adviser’s Sustainability Framework is expected to change over time. The Adviser could determine, in its discretion, to revisit the implementation of certain of its sustainability initiatives (including due to cost, timing, or other considerations). It is also possible that market dynamics or other factors will make it impractical, inadvisable or impossible for the Adviser to adhere to all sustainability- related elements of a particular Client’s investment strategy, including with respect to sustainability risk and opportunity management, whether with respect to one or more individual investments or to the 2 As used in this instance, “material” sustainability factors are defined as those sustainability factors that the Adviser determines have – or have the potential to have – a material impact on an investment’s going-forward ability to create, preserve, or erode economic value for that organization and its stakeholders. The word “material” as used herein should not necessarily be equated to or taken as a representation about the “materiality” of such sustainability factors under the U.S. federal securities laws or any similar legal or regulatory regime globally. -16-  Client’s portfolio generally. Sustainability-related statements, initiatives and goals with respect to a Client’s investment strategy, investments, and Portfolio Entities are aspirational and not guarantees or promises that all or any such initiatives and goals will be achieved. Further, sustainability integration and responsible investing practices as a whole are evolving rapidly and there are different frameworks and methodologies being implemented by other asset managers. For example, the Sustainability Framework does not represent a universally recognized standard for assessing sustainability considerations and the Adviser’s sustainability-related initiatives might not align with the approach used by other asset managers or preferred by existing or prospective investors or with future market trends. While Blackstone Inc. is currently a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, there is no guarantee that the Adviser will remain a signatory, supporter or member of this initiative or other similar industry initiatives or frameworks. There is also growing regulatory and investor interest, particularly in the U.S., UK, and EU (which will be looked to as models in growth markets), in improving transparency around the role of sustainability in asset managers’ investment processes, in order to allow investors to scrutinize, validate and better understand sustainability claims. The Adviser can be expected to be subject to scrutiny from regulators, elected officials, and investors with respect to sustainability matters. In recent years, certain investors, including public pension funds, have placed heightened importance on the impacts of investments made by the private funds to which they commit capital, including with respect to climate change, among other aspects of sustainability. Conversely, certain investors have raised concerns as to whether the incorporation of sustainability factors in the investment and portfolio management process is inconsistent with the fiduciary duty to maximize returns for investors. The Adviser can expect to be subject to competing demands from different investors and other groups with divergent views on sustainability matters, including the role of sustainability in the investment process. Investors, including public pension funds, which represent a significant portion of the Clients’ investor bases, could decide to withdraw previously committed capital (where such withdrawal is permitted under the terms of the Clients’ organizational documents) or not commit capital to future fundraises based on their assessment of how Blackstone approaches and considers the sustainability cost of investments and whether the return- driven objectives of Blackstone's funds align with their sustainability priorities. This divergence increases the risk that any action or lack thereof with respect to sustainability matters will be perceived negatively by at least some investors and/or interested parties and adversely impact the Adviser’s reputation and business. Certain regulatory initiatives require private fund limited partners to make disclosures to their underlying investors regarding sustainability matters, which has resulted in an increase in the number and types of investors who place importance on these issues and who demand certain types of reporting from Blackstone or the Adviser. The Sustainability Framework, the Adviser, and the Clients are also subject to evolving regulations and could become subject to additional regulations in the future. For example, in Europe, the European Commission has recently consulted on making changes to the SFDR and related regulations, and, as part of a separate exercise, the SFDR delegated regulations (which, among other things, provide technical details on how to comply with the requirements under SFDR) is likely to be amended in the near future, and further guidance could be issued by the European Supervisory Authorities and/or the European Commission. In addition, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has said that it will consult on extending its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels regime to non-UK funds marketed in the UK. In addition, government authorities of certain U.S. states have requested information from and scrutinized certain asset managers with respect to whether such managers have adopted sustainability policies that could restrict such asset managers from investing in certain industries or sectors, such as conventional energy. These authorities have indicated that such asset managers could lose opportunities to manage money belonging to these states and their pension funds -17-  to the extent the asset managers are determined to be engaging in a boycott of certain industries. “Anti- ESG” sentiment has gained momentum across the U.S., with several states and Congress having proposed or enacted “anti-ESG” policies, legislation or initiatives or issued related legal opinions. Additionally, asset managers have been subject to recent scrutiny related to sustainability-focused industry working groups, initiatives, and associations, including organizations advancing action to address climate change or climate-related risk. Further, in April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the Attorney General to stop the enforcement of state and local laws, regulations, policies and practices directed at climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and other sustainability-related matters to the extent those laws or activities are unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable. While there is still uncertainty as to the potential effects of such order, if the SEC or any other governmental authority, regulatory agency or similar body, as applicable, were to take issue with Blackstone’s, the Adviser’s, or the Clients’ past or future practices, Blackstone, the Adviser, and/or the Clients may be at risk for regulatory investigation and/or sanctions, and any such investigations or sanctions could be costly, distracting and/or time consuming. In addition, the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down race-based affirmative action in publicly funded higher education admissions has increased scrutiny of corporate diversity and inclusion (“Diversity and Inclusion”) practices. Some conservative groups and Republican state attorneys general have begun to extend the outcome of that case to private employment matters and private contract matters based on the theory that certain corporate Diversity and Inclusion practices are racially discriminatory and unlawful. Several media campaigns and cases alleging discrimination based on such arguments have been initiated since the decision, and in January 2025, the Trump administration signed a number of Executive Orders focused on diversity and inclusion, which caution the private sector to end “illegal DEI discrimination and preferences,” and the Department of Justice has commenced related compliance investigations of private entities. These developments could result in Blackstone facing additional compliance obligations or expose Blackstone and/or the Adviser to the risk of investigations or challenges and enforcement by state or federal authorities, result in penalties and reputational harm and require certain investors to divest or discourage certain investors from investing in the Clients. Blackstone’s Sustainability Framework, Blackstone, and the Adviser could become subject to additional regulations, penalties and/or risks of regulatory scrutiny and enforcement in the future. investments will meet future regulatory requirements (or The Adviser cannot guarantee that its current approach (including its Sustainability Framework) or the interpretations of existing Clients’ requirements, some of which are unclear), reporting frameworks or best practices, increasing the risk of related enforcement activity. Compliance with new requirements could lead to increased management burdens and costs, which has the potential to adversely affect the Clients. If the SEC or any other governmental authority, regulatory agency or similar body were to take issue with past or future practices of Blackstone or the Adviser, then the Adviser will be at risk for regulatory sanction, and any such investigations could be costly, distracting and/or time consuming for Blackstone, the Adviser, and its Clients. There is also a risk of regulatory mismatch between U.S., EU, and UK initiatives (and potential initiatives in other jurisdictions). Additionally, Blackstone has established certain firmwide and business group-specific sustainability- related initiatives. Although the aim of these initiatives is to create strong returns for investors, the pursuit of these initiatives (which could include data collection, analysis and reporting, among other activities) will involve the dedication of time and resources. Further, except as required under applicable law, any sustainability-related statements and these sustainability-related initiatives are aspirational and not -18-  guarantees or promises that all or any such initiatives will be achieved. Geopolitical Conflicts and Risk. Geopolitical concerns and other global events outside of Blackstone’s or the Adviser’s control have contributed and may continue to contribute to volatile equity and debt markets. These concerns and events include, without limitation, trade conflict, civil unrest, threats to national security, and national and international security events (including armed conflicts, terrorist attacks, or other hostilities). Geopolitical instability has been prevalent in recent years, including due to, among other things, trade tensions resulting from U.S. tariff implementation and retaliatory tariffs by other countries and ongoing armed conflicts, including in Ukraine and the Middle East. See also “—Changes in U.S. Trade Policy and Other Government Policies” herein. With respect to geopolitical conflicts, as economies and financial markets worldwide vacillate between interconnectedness and a focus on protecting respective national interests, the likelihood increases that geopolitical conflicts in one country or region will adversely impact markets or issuers in other countries or regions, including in ways that are difficult to predict or foresee. The impacts of these conflicts or related events can be exacerbated by failures of governments and societies to respond adequately to a geopolitical conflict and subsequent emerging events or threats. For example, local or regional armed conflicts have led to significant sanctions by the United States, the UK, the EU, and other countries and international bodies against certain countries and persons and companies connected with certain countries. Such armed conflicts and sanctions and other local or regional developments can exacerbate global supply and pricing issues, particularly those related to oil and gas, and result in other adverse developments and circumstances, as well as increased general uncertainty, for markets, economies, issuers, businesses, and societies both globally and in specific jurisdictions. Although these types of conflicts have occurred in the past and could also occur in the future, it is difficult to predict when similar conflicts affecting the U.S. or global financial markets and economies will occur, the effects of such events or conditions, potential retaliations in response to sanctions or similar actions, and the duration or ultimate impact of any such conflicts. Any such conflicts, including but not limited to those identified below, could have a significant adverse impact on the operations, risk profile, and value of the Clients and their Portfolio Entities, with or without direct exposure to the specific geographies, markets, countries or persons involved in an armed conflict or that are or become subject to sanctions. Russian Invasion of Ukraine/Sanctions Risk. On February 24, 2022, Russian troops began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and, as of the date of this Brochure, the countries remain in active armed conflict. Since the invasion, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and several other nations have, from time to time, announced a broad array of new or expanded sanctions, export controls, and other measures against Russia, Russia-backed separatist regions in Ukraine, and certain banks, companies, government officials, oligarchs, and other individuals in Russia and Belarus. Middle East Conflict. There has been an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East involving Israel, Iran, Hamas, and the United States and which has, at one point or another, involved Lebanon (and/or Hezbollah), Syria, and/or other countries or terrorist organizations. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas (an organization which has governed Gaza, and which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, the UK, the EU, Australia and other nations), committed a terrorist attack within Israel (the “October 7th Attacks”). Israel responded by initiating a full-scale invasion of Gaza, and the United States increased sanctions and other restrictive measures against Hamas-related persons and organizations. While Israel and Hamas agreed to a United States-led peace plan on October 9, 2025, there is no guarantee that the peace plan will be maintained or implemented or that hostilities will not resume. More recently, Israel, together with the United States, conducted a major joint military campaign targeting Iran, which triggered a broad Iranian response that has impacted various countries in the region and has contributed -19-  to significant regional instability. The situation in Iran remains dynamic and highly unpredictable in terms of its duration, scope, and intensity, and it has adversely affected, and may continue to adversely affect, global economic and market conditions. The continued conflict in Iran, and more broadly in the Middle East, as well as any further expansion thereof could exacerbate the risks described above. United States-Venezuela Relations. In January 2026, the United States undertook military actions in Venezuela against senior Venezuelan officials and publicly indicated its intent to support a political transition and reclamation of natural resources. The aforementioned ongoing conflicts and the measures taken in response (which continue to evolve) have had and could be expected to continue having a negative impact on the economy and business activity globally (including in the countries in which the Clients invest and/or in which a Portfolio Entity operates), and therefore could adversely affect the performance of the Clients’ investments. The severity and duration of the conflicts and their future impact on global economic and market conditions (including, for example, oil prices) are impossible to predict, and as a result, present material uncertainty and risk with respect to the Clients, the performance of their investments, Portfolio Entity operations, and the ability of the Clients to achieve their investment objectives. Similar risks exist to the extent that any Portfolio Entities, service providers, and vendors of Blackstone, the Clients and/or any Portfolio Entities, or certain other parties have material operations or assets in the countries where such conflicts are taking place or in the surrounding areas. Other geopolitical conflicts could arise in the future and such conflicts could have material adverse consequences on Blackstone, the Clients and their Portfolio Entities. Furthermore, if, after becoming a Client or subscribing to a Client, any investor or any beneficial owner thereof is included on a list of prohibited entities and individuals maintained by a relevant regulatory and/or government entity, including OFAC, or under similar EU, UK, Luxemburg, or Cayman Islands regulations, or under other applicable law, or are operationally based or domiciled in a country or territory in relation to which current sanctions have been issued by the United States, the United Nations, the EU, the UK, Luxembourg, and/or the Cayman Islands and/or other applicable jurisdictions, the Client would likely be required to cease any further dealings with such investor or freeze any dealings with the interests or accounts of the investor (e.g., by prohibiting payments by or to the investor or restricting or suspending dealings with the interests or accounts) or freeze the assets of the Client or the assets held by the investor in the Client until such sanctions are lifted or a license is sought under applicable law to continue dealings. Clients could further have to report to the relevant competent authorities the implementation of any restrictive measures carried out pursuant to international financial sanctions. Accordingly, these types of sanctions laws may prohibit or limit the Clients’ investment activities. For the avoidance of doubt, Blackstone has the sole discretion to determine the remedy if an investor is included on a sanctions list or becomes subject to sanctions and is under no obligation to seek a license or any other relief to continue dealing with such investor. Although Blackstone expends significant effort and resources to comply with the sanctions regimes in the countries where it operates, the violation of any such rules by Blackstone’s or the Clients’ activities, investors, or Portfolio Entities could adversely affect such Client or investors therein. Inflation Risk. Inflation in the U.S. remains above targeted levels and, despite recent interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve, interest rates remain high generally. Other developed economies are similarly experiencing higher-than-normal inflation rates. It remains uncertain whether the substantial inflation in the U.S. and other developed economies will be sustained over an extended period of time and how significantly it will impact the U.S. or other economies. Inflation and rapid fluctuations in inflation rates -20-  have had in the past, and could in the future have, negative effects on economies and financial markets, particularly in emerging economies. For example, if a Portfolio Entity is unable to increase its revenue in times of higher inflation, its profitability will likely be adversely affected, including, without limitation, as a result of increased operating costs. Portfolio Entities could have revenues linked to some extent to inflation, including, without limitation, by government regulations and contractual arrangements. Nevertheless, as inflation rises, even if a Portfolio Entity earns more revenue, it will typically also incur higher expenses. Furthermore, as inflation declines, it is possible that a Portfolio Entity will not be able to reduce expenses commensurate with any resulting reduction in revenue. Additionally, wages and prices of inputs increase during periods of inflation, which can negatively impact returns on investments. In an attempt to stabilize inflation, certain countries have imposed and could continue to impose wage and price controls or otherwise intervene in the economy, and certain central banks have raised and could continue to raise interest rates. Past governmental efforts to curb inflation have also involved more drastic economic measures that have had a materially adverse effect on the level of economic activity in the countries where such measures were employed, and similar governmental efforts could be taken in the future to curb inflation and could have similar effects. There can be no assurance that inflation will not become a more serious problem in the future and have a material adverse impact on Clients’ returns. Changes in U.S. Trade Policy and Other Government Policies Risk. Some political leaders around the world (including in the U.S. and certain European nations) have been elected on protectionist platforms, fueling doubts about the future of global free trade. The U.S. government, in recent years, has altered its approach to international trade policy, including, in some cases by renegotiating, or terminating, certain existing bilateral or multi-lateral trade agreements and treaties with foreign countries, and has made proposals and taken actions related thereto. For example, the U.S. government recently enacted and proposed to enact significant new tariffs. Additionally, President Trump has directed various federal agencies to further evaluate key aspects of U.S. trade policy, and there has been ongoing discussion and commentary regarding potential significant changes to U.S. trade policies, treaties and tariffs, and the administration’s statements and actions with respect to tariff-related policies indicate that the situation is dynamic in nature and may shift rapidly over time. Tariffs on goods imported from China took effect in February 2025 and tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico took effect in March 2025. While the Supreme Court recently issued a decision invalidating certain broad tariffs previously imposed by the Trump administration under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, it is not yet fully known what the exact impact of this development will be, including what tariffs the Trump administration may impose in the future and its effect on non-U.S. tariff regimes. Some foreign governments, including China, have, in the past, instituted retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. goods and have indicated a willingness to impose additional tariffs on U.S. products, in the future. Other countries, including Mexico, have imposed or threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. products. Trade disputes could likewise develop between other countries. Global trade disruption, significant introductions of trade barriers and bilateral trade frictions, including as a result of future trade disputes between countries, together with any future downturns in the global economy resulting therefrom, could adversely affect the financial performance of the Clients and their investments. These developments, or the perception that any of them could occur, may have a material adverse effect on global economic conditions and the stability of global financial markets, and may significantly reduce global trade and, in particular, trade between the impacted nations and the U.S. There remains uncertainty as to the actions that will be taken under the Trump administration with respect to U.S. trade policy, including with Canada, Mexico, Russia, Europe, and China, and while the Adviser and the Clients intend to comply with applicable laws, rapid changes in laws and/or uncertain interpretation -21-  and implementation thereof, could affect the Adviser’s and Clients' capacity to comply. New trade policy could also create a legal burden for, and negatively impact, the Clients and their investments, including by increasing costs and requiring Clients to exit certain investments. Further governmental actions related to the imposition and enforcement of tariffs or other trade barriers or changes to international trade agreements or policies could further increase costs, decrease margins, reduce the competitiveness of products and services offered by current and future Portfolio Entities, reduce the value of the Clients’ investments, and materially adversely affect the revenues and profitability of companies whose businesses rely on the importing of goods into, and the exporting of goods out of, the United States. While certain countries could agree to trade deals to address disputes with other countries, certain trade disputes could remain unresolved, and those that seem to have already been resolved could possibly be re-opened in the future. Trade disputes between countries and the uncertainty associated with them can be an ongoing source of instability and can potentially result in significant currency fluctuations and/or have other adverse effects on international markets, international trade agreements and/or other existing cross-border cooperation arrangements (whether economic, tax, fiscal, legal, regulatory or otherwise). Certain disputes have had negative economic consequences on U.S. markets, and if trade-related issues persist between the U.S. and China, including as a result of geo-political tensions, and if the trade dispute escalates into a “trade war” between the two countries, there could be additional significant impacts on the industries in which the Clients participate and the jurisdiction of their investments, as well as other adverse impacts on their investments. The Trump administration has further implemented, and signaled its intention to continue to implement, significant changes to the size of the federal government and to various other government policies. The ongoing downsizing of the federal government workforce and shutting down or defunding of certain government agencies (or offices thereof), including of federal agencies tasked with protecting investors, along with the changes in U.S. trade policy discussed above, could introduce market instability, reduce investor confidence, and weaken investor protection. For example, substantial reductions in government spending and personnel could negatively affect certain of the Clients’ Portfolio Entities that rely on or benefit from government subsidies or contracts, destabilize the U.S. government contracting market, impede Portfolio Entities’ ability to implement their business plans, and impede the Adviser’s and the Clients’ ability to achieve expected returns. Moreover, the Trump administration’s signaled changes, as well as those already implemented, to government policy with respect to tax, immigration, labor, infrastructure, energy, education, business regulations (including U.S. anti-corruption policies), international relations, and international economic development could create uncertainty and volatility for the Clients and their Portfolio Entities. In light of these developments, there can be no assurances that political and regulatory conditions will not worsen and/or adversely affect the Clients, their Portfolio Entities, or their respective financial performance. Management Fee to Harvest Risk. There is a potential conflict of interest between the responsibility of Harvest to maximize profits from investment and trading and the possible desire of Harvest to avoid taking risks which might reduce the value of a Client’s account and, consequently, reduce the management fee payable to Harvest. Non-Diversification Risk. Harvest primarily selects Clients’ investments in publicly traded securities within our Investable Universe which includes energy and energy infrastructure securities, including MLPs. As a result of selecting Clients’ investments from this relatively small pool of publicly traded securities, a change in the value of the securities of any one of these publicly traded entities could have a significant impact on the Client’s account. In addition, there can be a correlation in the valuation of the securities of one name within our Investable Universe, whereby a change in value of the securities of one could negatively -22-  influence the valuations of the securities of other publicly traded securities in our Investable Universe that the Client holds in its account. Other Potential Conflicts of Interest Risk. Harvest and/or its affiliates manage or advise multiple Clients that invest in names within our Investable Universe, including energy infrastructure securities or MLPs. Because of different objectives or other factors, an asset can be purchased for one or more accounts managed by Harvest or one of its affiliates at the same time that the asset could be sold for another account managed by Harvest or one of its affiliates. If Harvest decides that one or more of such Client accounts would be best served by selling a certain type of asset at the same time that one or more of such Client accounts would be best served by purchasing the same type of asset, transactions in such assets will be made for the respective Client accounts in a manner determined by Harvest to be equitable to all. Circumstances can exist in which the purchase or sale of assets for one or more accounts advised by Harvest or its affiliates will have an adverse effect on other Client accounts. Please see Other Material Relationships [Item 10.C.] below. Outsourcing Risk. The Registrant can outsource to third parties many of the services performed for the Client and/or their Portfolio Entities, including services (such as administrative, legal, accounting, tax or other related services) that can be and/or historically have been performed in-house by the Registrant and its personnel, and the fees, costs and expenses of such third- party service providers will be borne by the Clients as expenses. Outsourced services include certain services that often would be provided at the Registrant’s expense if such services had been performed in-house by the Registrant’s personnel. In such cases, the fees, costs and expenses associated with the provision of such services will be borne by the Clients instead of the Registrant, thereby increasing the expenses borne by the members. Outsourced services also include certain services (such as fund administration, transactional legal advice, tax planning and other related services) that can also be provided by the Registrant in-house at the Clients’ expense (as further described in the Constituent Documents). From time to time, the Registrant can provide such services alongside (and/or supplement or monitor) a third-party service provider on the same matter or engagement and, in such cases, to the extent the Registrant’s services are reimbursable under the Constituent Documents, the overall amount of partnership expenses borne by the limited partners will be greater than would the case if only the Registrant or such third-party provided such services. Determining whether to engage a third-party service provider and the terms (including economic terms) of any such engagement will be determined by the Registrant in its discretion, taking into account such factors as it deems relevant under the circumstances. The Registrant will have an incentive to outsource services to third parties due to a number of factors, including because the fees, costs and expenses of such service providers will be borne by the Clients as partnership expenses (with no reduction or offset to management fees) and retaining third parties will reduce the Registrant’s internal overhead and compensation costs for employees who would otherwise perform such services in-house. Such incentives likely exist even with respect to services where internal overhead and compensation are chargeable to the Clients. Moreover, the involvement of third-party service providers c a n present a number of risks due to, among other factors, the Registrant’s reduced control over the functions that are outsourced. There can be no assurances that the Registrant will be able to identify, prevent or mitigate the risks of engaging third-party service providers. The Clients might suffer adverse consequences from actions, errors or failures to act by such third parties, and will have obligations, including indemnity obligations, and limited recourse against them. Outsourcing might not occur uniformly for all Blackstone managed vehicles and accounts and the expenses that can be borne by such vehicles and accounts vary. Accordingly, certain costs could be incurred by (or allocated to) a Client through the use of third-party (or internal) service providers that are not incurred by -23-  (or allocated to) certain other Funds or Other Blackstone Accounts for similar services. Regulation with Respect to Private Funds and Advisers Risk. The Adviser is subject to regulation by the SEC. In recent years, the SEC Staff’s stated examination priorities and published observations from examinations have included, among other things, private equity firms’ collection of fees and allocation of expenses, their marketing and valuation practices, custody practices, allocation of investment opportunities (including between private funds and registered funds, and between private funds and separately managed accounts), terms agreed to in side letters and similar arrangements with investors, consistency of firms’ practices with their disclosures, handling of material non-public information and insider trading, use of affiliated service providers, adviser-led restructurings, sustainability investing, cybersecurity, anti-money laundering, artificial intelligence technologies, purported waivers or limitations of fiduciary duties and the existence of, and adherence to, policies and procedures with respect to conflicts of interest. There can be no assurance that any new SEC or other regulatory rules or amendments to existing regulatory rules or any other new regulatory actions or developments, will not have a material adverse effect on Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients, their investments and/or investors, including with respect to increased risk of exposure of such Clients and the Adviser to additional regulatory scrutiny, litigation, censure and penalties and other sanctions for non-compliance or perceived non-compliance, or that such rules or amendments will not give rise to material compliance burdens or challenges, materially increase costs and expenses charged to the Clients, or adversely (potentially materially) affect the Adviser’s, Blackstone’s, or a Client’s reputation, any of which could reduce returns to investors. Social Media and Publicity Risk. The use of social networks, message boards, internet channels and other platforms has become widespread in the United States and globally. As a result, individuals now have the ability to rapidly and broadly disseminate information or misinformation without independent or authoritative verification. Any such information or misinformation regarding Blackstone, the Clients or one or more Portfolio Entities could have adverse effects to investors. Artificial Intelligence Developments Risk. Ongoing technological developments in artificial intelligence, including machine learning technology and generative artificial intelligence based on large language models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek (collectively, “AI Technologies”), pose risks to the Adviser, the Clients, and the Portfolio Entities (including Portfolio Entities of the Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients expected to provide services to Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, and/or the Adviser). Any of these technological innovations could result in harm to the Adviser, the Clients, or the Portfolio Entities, significantly disrupt the business models, investment strategies, operational processes, revenue streams and markets in which they operate and subject them to increased competition, which could materially and adversely affect their business, financial condition and operations, and have an adverse impact on Clients. The legal and regulatory frameworks within which AI Technologies operate continue to rapidly evolve, and it is not possible to predict the full extent of current or future risks related thereto. In addition, there can be no assurance that competitors will not be more successful than Blackstone, the Adviser, and/or the Clients in the development and implementation of new technologies, including services and platforms based on AI Technologies, to address investor demands, and/or improve operations or financial conditions. If Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients, and/or their Portfolio Entities are unable to adequately advance their capabilities in these areas, or do so at a slower pace than others in their industries, Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities could be at a competitive disadvantage. Through the use of AI technologies, the Adviser, the Clients, and certain of the Portfolio Entities expect to avail themselves of the benefits, insights and efficiencies resulting from the technology, including writing -24-  code, data summarization and valuation support. However, while the Adviser has implemented, and Portfolio Entities may implement, certain policies and procedures designed to ensure that their use of AI Technologies is lawful and appropriate, the use of AI Technologies presents a number of risks that cannot be fully mitigated. For example, AI Technologies are highly reliant on the collection and analysis of large amounts of data and complex algorithms, but it is not possible or practicable to incorporate all relevant data into models that AI Technologies utilize to operate. Moreover, with the use of AI Technologies, there exist, in some cases, a lack of transparency of how inputs are converted to outputs and neither the Adviser nor any Portfolio Entity can necessarily fully validate this process and its accuracy. The accuracy of such inputs and the resulting impact on the results of AI Technologies cannot always be verified and could result in a diminished quality of work product that includes or is derived from inaccurate or erroneous information. Further, undetected and unmitigated inherent bias in the construction of AI Technologies can lead to a wide array of risks, including but not limited to accuracy, efficacy, regulatory risk and reputational harm. It is also expected that data used in such models will contain a degree of inaccuracy and error, potentially to a material extent, and that such data, as well as algorithms in use, could otherwise be inadequate or flawed, which would be likely to degrade the effectiveness of AI Technologies and could adversely impact the Adviser, the Clients, or Portfolio Entities and investments to the extent they rely on the work product of such AI Technologies. At the same time, to the extent AI Technologies are utilized by the Adviser, any interruption of access to or use of AI Technologies could impede the ability of the Adviser, the Clients, and Portfolio Entities to generate information and analysis that could be beneficial to them and their business, financial condition and results of operations. AI Technologies will likely also be competitive with certain business activities or increase the obsolescence of certain organizations’ products or services (including other AI Technologies), particularly as AI Technologies improve. This could also have an adverse impact on Portfolio Entities, the Adviser, and the Clients. AI Technologies can also be misused or misappropriated by third parties and/or employees of the Adviser or Portfolio Entities. For example, there is a risk that a user will input confidential information, including material non-public information, or personal information into AI Technologies applications, resulting in such information becoming part of a dataset that is accessible by other third-party AI Technologies applications and users, including competitors of the Adviser, the Clients, and their Portfolio Entities. Moreover, the Adviser, the Clients, and Portfolio Entities will not necessarily be in a position to control the manner in which third-party AI Technologies are developed or maintained or the manner in which third parties use AI Technologies to provide services, even where they have sought contractual protections. The use of AI Technologies, including potential inadvertent disclosure of confidential information or personal information of the Adviser, Clients, or Portfolio Entities, could also lead to legal and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Further, the use of AI Technologies could result in claims by third parties of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of intellectual property, including based on the use of large datasets to train AI Technologies, or the use of output generated by AI Technologies, either of which could contain or be substantially similar to third-party material protected by intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights or trademarks. Relatedly, the Adviser, the Clients and Portfolio Entities could be exposed to risks to the extent third-party service providers or any counterparties use AI Technologies in their business activities. The Adviser expects to be involved in the collection of data and/or development of proprietary AI Technologies for Blackstone, the Adviser, Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities in the ordinary course, including, without limitation, as part of operational services provided to the Clients and Portfolio Entities or their affiliates. To this end and subject to any legal requirements, where Client agreements with Harvest permit, the Clients can be expected to pay and bear certain expenses and fees associated with developing and maintaining such technology, including the costs of any professional service providers, subscriptions and related software and hardware, server infrastructure and hosting, -25-  internal Blackstone expenses, fees, charges and/or related costs incurred, charged or specifically attributed or allocated (based on methodologies determined by Blackstone) to the Clients, the Adviser or their affiliates in connection with such AI Technologies, and none of the fees, costs, or expenses described above will reduce or offset management fees payable to the Adviser. There is a risk that, in connection with the use and development of AI Technologies, Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, and their respective Portfolio Entities could be subject to regulatory scrutiny, inquiries, or legal proceedings, including those involving alleged anticompetitive practices and the use and sharing of competitively sensitive data and information. Such regulatory actions may result in, among other things, business restrictions (including on the future use of certain AI Technologies and for certain specific purposes), increased compliance costs, reputational harm, and other adverse effects on the value and performance of Portfolio Entities. Regulations related to AI Technologies could also impose certain obligations on organizations, and the costs of monitoring and responding to such regulations, as well as the consequences of non-compliance, could have an adverse effect on Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients, and Portfolio Entities. Regulators are increasing scrutiny and considering, and in some cases enacting, regulation of the use of AI Technologies, including the use of “big data,” diligence of data sets, and oversight of data vendors. The use of AI Technologies by Blackstone and others may require compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks that are not fully developed or tested, and Blackstone, the Adviser, the Clients and Portfolio Entities may face litigation and regulatory actions related to their use of AI Technologies. For example, the EU has introduced a regulation applicable to certain AI Technologies and the data used to train, test and deploy them (the “EU AI Act”). The EU AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024, and its requirements became effective on a staggered basis, beginning February 2, 2025. The EU AI Act imposes material requirements on both the providers and deployers of AI Technologies, with infringement punishable by sanctions of up to 7% of annual worldwide turnover or EUR 35 million (whichever is higher) for the most serious breaches. In parallel, the EU has introduced revisions to the EU Product Liability Directive, which entered into force on December 9, 2024, and intends to facilitate claims for damages brought by EU users of AI Technologies. Preparing for and complying with the EU AI Act and other regulations related to AI Technologies, could involve material compliance costs and/or adversely affect the operations or results of Blackstone, the Adviser, and Portfolio Entities, and have an adverse impact on the Clients. AI Technologies and their current and potential future applications, including in the private investment and financial sectors, as well as the legal and regulatory frameworks within which they operate, continue to rapidly evolve, and it is not possible to predict the full extent of current or future risks related thereto. For more information on risks relating to information security, see “—Cybersecurity and Data Protection” herein. -26-  DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION [Item 9] Harvest has not been the subject of any legal or disciplinary event or action required to be disclosed in this Item 9. Certain regulatory, litigation and other similar matters regarding Blackstone are disclosed in (i) Blackstone’s public filings (including, without limitation, its current, periodic, and annual reports on Forms 8-K, 10-Q, and 10-K), which can be accessed through the web site of the SEC (www.sec.gov) or Blackstone (http://ir.blackstone.com/investors/annual-reports-and-sec- filings/default.aspx) and (ii) materials made available through Blackstone’s online portal related to the Funds and/or certain of its affiliates. -27-  OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS [Item 10] Broker-Dealer Registration [Item 10.A.] Neither Harvest nor any management persons are registered, or have an application pending to register, as a broker-dealer or a registered representative of a broker-dealer. Commodity Pool Operator, Commodity Trading Adviser, Futures Commission Merchant Registration [Item 10.B.] Neither Harvest nor any management persons are registered, or have an application pending to register, as a futures commission merchant, commodity pool operator, a commodity trading advisor, or an associated person of the foregoing entities. Other Material Relationships [Item 10.C.] As disclosed in Advisory Business [Item 4] above, Harvest was acquired by Blackstone. Accordingly, certain actual and potential conflicts of interest resulting from Blackstone’s affiliations and relationships are now applicable to Harvest. Below is a listing of Harvest’s related persons who are broker-dealers, bank entities, investment advisers, registered commodity trading advisor and/or registered commodity pool operator entities, accounting entities, or insurance entities, followed by a description of the potential and actual conflicts of interest that result from Harvest’s relationships or arrangements with such related persons: Bank Entity Luminor Bank AS* A Baltic bank purchased by Blackstone Capital Partners Broker-Dealer Entities Blackstone Securities Partners L.P. Provides a variety of limited investment banking services Redpin Holdings Ltd.** Provides money transfer services to individuals and businesses on a global basis Everlake Distributors, L.L.C.* Provides underwriting and distribution of variable life insurance or annuities to other broker-dealers and registered investment advisers Investment Advisor Entities -28-  ASK Investment Managers Ltd.* Provides investment advisory services to funds and high net worth individuals in India Blackstone Alternative Asset Management L.P. Manages a series of private funds predominantly engaged in multi- manager investment programs (i.e., fund of hedge funds) Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP Provides investment advisory services to a number of debt-focused private investment funds and closed-end funds Provides investment advisory services to an open-end mutual fund Blackstone Alternative Investment Advisors LLC Blackstone Alternative Solutions L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to private investment funds which predominantly participate in a multi-strategy investment program Blackstone Asset Based Finance Advisors LP Provides investment advisory services to a number of separately managed accounts and vehicles that primarily engage in asset backed securities and whole loan investments Provides investment advisory services to U.S. CLOs Blackstone CLO Management LLC (Management Series) Blackstone Communications Advisors I L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to a private investment fund specializing in communications-related private equity investments Blackstone Core Equity Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to various private equity funds Blackstone Credit BDC Advisors LLC Provides investment advisory services to debt-focused investment companies electing to do business as business development companies Blackstone Credit Systematic Strategies LLC Provides investment advisory services to debt-focused separately managed accounts, private investment funds, closed-end funds and UCITS funds Blackstone Europe Fund Management S.a.r.l. Provides services to various alternative investment funds with branch offices in other locations Blackstone Growth Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to private growth investment funds investment advisory services to one or more Blackstone Infrastructure Advisors L.L.C. Provides infrastructure-focused investment funds Blackstone Ireland Fund Management Limited Provides investment advisory services (management/distribution) to debt-focused private funds and alternative investment investment funds Blackstone Ireland Limited Provides investment advisory services to debt-focused private investment funds, separately managed accounts and acts as an investment fund manager -29-  Blackstone ISG-I Advisors L.L.C. Blackstone ISG-II Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to one or more private investment funds and managed accounts focusing on fixed income investments and investments across Blackstone’s private equity, real asset, credit, hedge fund and opportunistic asset management strategies Provides investment advisory services to various private investment funds focusing on investments across Blackstone’s private equity, real asset, credit, hedge fund and opportunistic asset management strategies Blackstone Life Sciences Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to various private investment funds specializing in the life sciences industry Blackstone Liquid Credit Advisors I LLC Provides investment advisory services to a number of debt-focused private investment funds and separately managed accounts Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC Provides investment advisory services to a number of debt-focused investment funds, closed-end funds and separately private managed accounts Blackstone Management Partners L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to various private equity funds Blackstone Management Partners IV L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to various private equity funds Blackstone Multi-Asset Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to various private investment funds focusing on investments across Blackstone’s private equity, real asset, credit, hedge fund and opportunistic alternative asset management strategies Blackstone Private Credit Strategies LLC Provides investment advisory services to a number of debt-focused private investment funds Blackstone Private Investments Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to multi-strategy private equity funds and debt-focused investment companies electing to do business as business development companies Blackstone Property Advisors L.P. Provides investment advisory services to various private real estate investment funds and pooled investment vehicles Blackstone Real Estate Advisors Europe L.P. Provides investment advisory services to various private real estate investment funds Blackstone Real Estate Advisors L.P. Provides investment advisory services to various private real estate investment funds Blackstone Real Estate Advisors V L.P. Provides investment advisory services to various private real estate investment funds Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to private investment funds and accounts which invest primarily in public and private real estate and real estate-related debt investments -30-  Blackstone Strategic Alliance Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to private investment funds primarily engaged in a hedge fund “seeding” program Blackstone Strategic Capital Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to private funds engaged primarily in acquisitions of minority interests in alternative asset managers Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to multi-discipline, multi- asset class private funds and separately managed accounts BSCA Advisors L.L.C. (Relying Adviser) Provides investment advisory services to certain co-investment vehicles relating to funds managed by Blackstone Strategic Capital Advisors L.L.C. BXMT Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to a publicly traded REIT and its related entities BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. Provides investment advisory services to a non-traded REIT and its operating subsidiary Citrin Cooperman Wealth Management, LLC Provides investment management and financial planning services for individuals and financial institutions Clarus Ventures, LLC Provides investment advisory services to various private investment funds specializing in the life sciences industry Clover Credit Management, LLC Provides investment advisory services to CLOs Provides investment advisory services to CLOs Clover CLO Advisors, LLC (Relying Adviser) CT High Grade Partners II Manager, LLC (Relying Adviser) Provides investment advisory services to a private real estate debt fund CT Investment Management Co., LLC Provides investment advisory services to publicly traded CDOs and private fund and account clients that predominantly engage in investments in the commercial real estate debt sector Strategic Partners Fund Solutions Advisors L.P. Provides investment advisory services to a number of pooled investment and custom vehicles operating as private investment funds NIBC Bank N.V.*** Advisory/banking affiliate of NIBC, a PE and BTO portfolio company NIBC Credit Management, Inc.*** Advisory affiliate of NIBC, a PE and BTO portfolio company -31-  ASK Investment Managers Ltd.* Provides investment advisory services to funds and high net worth individuals in India Blackstone Europe Fund Management S.a.r.l. Provides services to various alternative investment funds with branch offices in other locations Blackstone Ireland Fund Management Limited Provides investment advisory services (management/distribution) to debt-focused private funds and alternative investment investment funds Blackstone Ireland Limited Provides investment advisory services to debt-focused private investment funds, separately managed accounts and acts as an investment fund manager Blackstone Administrative Services Canada ULC Canadian exempt investment adviser, which serves as a sub-advisor to the registrant and/or its affiliates Blackstone Advisors India Private Limited India investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant Blackstone Advisors Korea Limited Korean investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub-advisor to affiliates of the registrant Blackstone Capital Israel Ltd. Israel investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub-advisor to affiliates of the registrant Blackstone Real Estate Australia Pty Limited Australian investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant and provides investment management services to trustees and in respect of trusts indirectly controlled by the registrant Blackstone (Shanghai) Equity Investment Management Co. Ltd. Chinese investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub-advisor to affiliates of the registrant Blackstone Singapore Pte Ltd Singapore investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant and provides investment advisory services to funds controlled by the registrant The Blackstone Group (Australia) Pty Limited Australian investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant The Blackstone Group Germany GmbH German investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant and acts as an investment fund manager The Blackstone Group (HK) Limited Hong Kong investment advisory firm holding licenses of dealing in securities and advising on securities, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant Blackstone Europe LLP U.K. investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant, with branch offices in other locations -32-  The Blackstone Group Japan K.K. Japanese investment advisory firm, which serves as a sub‐advisor to affiliates of the registrant and has a broker-dealer license for fund marketing Registered Commodity Trading Advisor and/or Registered Commodity Pool Operator Entities Manages a series of private funds predominantly engaged in multi- manager investment programs (i.e., fund of hedge funds) Blackstone Alternative Asset Management L.P. (CTA/CPO) Provides investment advisory services to an open-end mutual fund Blackstone Alternative Investment Advisors LLC (CTA/CPO) Blackstone Alternative Solutions L.L.C. (CTA/CPO) Provides investment advisory services to private investment funds which predominantly participate in a multi-strategy investment program Manages a series of private funds engaged in a hedge fund “seeding” program Blackstone Strategic Alliance Advisors L.L.C. (CTA/CPO) Accounting Entities Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC Provides tax, advisory, and attest services to companies and ultra- high net worth individuals Insurance Entities Ace Insurance Brokers Private Limited* An insurance and reinsurance broker in India CM 2478 Ltd. A property and casualty insurance broker ELIC Reinsurance Company* A captive insurance company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Everlake Life Insurance Company Everlake Assurance Company* A life insurance company domiciled in the State of Illinois insurance company domiciled in the State of Illinois Everlake Life Insurance Company* A life specializing in life insurance and annuities Everlake Reinsurance Limited* An exempted reinsurance company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands A captive property insurance company Gryphon Mutual Insurance Company**** Herald Reinsurance Limited* A reinsurance company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands -33-  Ki Financial Limited** A digitally driven Lloyd’s of London syndicate insurance company Lexington National Land Services A wholly owned title and escrow agent Prospect Reinsurance Ltd.** A property and casualty insurance broker  Westland Insurance Group Ltd. ***** A property and casualty insurance broker *Portfolio company of affiliated private equity fund **Portfolio company of affiliated Tactical Opportunities funds ***Portfolio company of affiliated private equity and tactical opportunities funds ****Captive property insurance company owned by its participants (which are Blackstone Real Estate fund investments) and managed by an affiliate of Blackstone *****Portfolio company of Blackstone Credit funds Various potential and actual conflicts of interest arise from the overall advisory, investment and other activities of Harvest, its affiliates and personnel. As a consequence of Blackstone’s acquisition of Harvest and Blackstone’s status as a public company, the officers, directors, members, managers and employees of Harvest take into account certain additional considerations and other factors in connection with the management of Client assets that would not necessarily be taken into account if Blackstone were not a public company with wide ranging activities. The following briefly summarizes some of the conflicts that prospective Clients and investors should carefully evaluate, but is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all such conflicts. Harvest, its affiliates, and its personnel can in the future engage in further activities that could result in additional conflicts of interest not addressed herein. Investors are advised to review the applicable Client’s Governing Documents for a more extensive description of the potential conflicts of interest applicable to each Client. Any references to Blackstone, Harvest, or the Registrant in this section will be deemed to include their respective affiliates, partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors and employees, where applicable. Please note that certain conflicts of interest described below which potentially arise with respect to Blackstone’s other business units and wide ranging activities might not directly affect Harvest’s operations, investment decisions, Clients and investors, but are detailed here, nonetheless. If any matter arises that Harvest determines in its good faith judgment constitutes an actual conflict of interest, Harvest can take such actions as it determines in good faith to be necessary or appropriate to ameliorate the conflict (and upon taking such actions Harvest will be relieved of any liability for such conflict to the fullest extent permitted by law and shall be deemed to have satisfied applicable fiduciary duties related thereto to the fullest extent permitted by law). These actions include, by way of example and without limitation, (i) disclosing such conflict of interest to the relevant Client; (ii) disposing of the investment giving rise to the conflict of interest; (iii) appointing an independent representative to act with respect to the matter giving rise to the conflict of interest; or (iv) implementing certain policies and procedures reasonably designed to ameliorate such conflict of interest. There can be no assurance that Harvest will identify or resolve all conflicts of interest in a manner that is favorable to each of its Clients or investors. By holding an interest in a Fund or receiving Harvest’s services with respect to a managed account, each Fund investor and SMA Client will be deemed to have acknowledged and consented to the existence or resolution of any such actual, apparent, or potential conflicts of interest and to have waived any claim with respect to any liability arising from the existence of any such conflict of interest. -34-  There can be no assurance that Harvest will identify, mitigate or resolve all conflicts of interest or to do so in a manner that is favorable to Harvest Clients. Broad and Wide-Ranging Activities. Harvest’s parent entity, Blackstone, engages in a broad spectrum of activities. In the ordinary course of its business activities, Blackstone will engage in activities where the interests of certain divisions of Blackstone or the interests of its clients will conflict with the interests of Harvest’s Clients. Other present and future activities of Blackstone will give rise to additional conflicts of interest. In the event that a conflict of interest arises, Harvest will attempt to resolve such conflict in a fair and equitable manner. To the extent provided in the relevant governing documents, Harvest will have the power to resolve, or consent to the resolution of, conflicts of interest on behalf of, and such resolution will be binding on, the Client. Clients and Fund investors should be aware that conflicts will not necessarily be resolved in favor of the Client’s interests. In addition, consistent with the provisions of the relevant governing documents, Harvest will in certain situations choose whether to consult with or obtain the consent of Fund investors with respect to any specific conflict of interest, including with respect to the approvals required under the Advisers Act, including Sections 205(a) and 206(3) thereof. To the extent that any transaction is approved by Fund investors, then Harvest and its affiliates will not have any liability to the Client or the Fund investors for such actions taken in good faith by them, including actions in pursuit of their own interests. Policies and Procedures. Certain policies and procedures implemented by Harvest and its parent entity, Blackstone, to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and address certain regulatory requirements and contractual restrictions will from time to time reduce the synergies across Blackstone’s various businesses (including Harvest) that the Clients can expect Harvest to draw on for purposes of pursuing attractive investment opportunities. Because Harvest’s parent entity, Blackstone, has many different businesses, Blackstone and its affiliates (including Harvest) are subject to a number of actual and potential conflicts of interest, greater regulatory oversight, and more legal and contractual restrictions than that to which it would be subject if it had just one line of business. In addressing these conflicts and regulatory, legal, and contractual requirements across its various businesses, Blackstone has implemented certain policies and procedures (e.g., information walls) that can reduce the positive firm-wide synergies that Clients and investors could otherwise expect Harvest to utilize for purposes of identifying and managing attractive investments. For example, Blackstone will come into possession of material non-public information with respect to companies, including companies in which a Client has investments or is considering making an investment. The information, which could be of benefit to the Clients, could result in the companies’ securities being placed on a restricted list, as required by applicable law, and thus becoming unavailable to the Clients. This could reduce the investment opportunities available to the Clients, prevent the Clients from acquiring and exiting an investment, or otherwise limit their investment flexibility. In addition, Blackstone has, in certain cases, adopted written policies and procedures to prevent the communication of voting and investment information between one business unit and another business unit of Blackstone and employs separate teams to manage them. There are restrictions on cross-wall communications between Harvest personnel and personnel of any other Blackstone business units. Harvest will generally not have access to information and personnel relating to investments in other areas of Blackstone or the benefit of such information held by these other areas of Blackstone when managing for its Clients. Blackstone’s other businesses, due to their access to and knowledge of funds, markets, and securities, can also make decisions on behalf of Other Blackstone Clients (as defined below), take (or refrain from taking) actions with respect to, or have information regarding interests in, investments of the kind held (directly or indirectly) by the Clients, which investment decisions, actions (or inactions), or information could be adverse to the Clients. Blackstone will have no obligation or duty to share such information with Harvest and in fact will generally be prohibited from doing so. Additionally, Harvest can restrict or otherwise limit one Client and/or its portfolio companies from entering into agreements with, or related to, companies -35-  in which any client of Blackstone has invested or has considered making an investment. Harvest will from time to time restrict or otherwise limit the ability of a Client and/or its portfolio companies to make investments in or otherwise engage in businesses or activities competitive with companies of other advisory clients of Harvest or its affiliates, either as a result of contractual restrictions or otherwise. Finally, Harvest will from time to time enter into one or more strategic relationships in certain regions or with respect to certain types of investments that, although possibly intended to provide greater opportunities for the Clients, can require the Clients to share such opportunities or otherwise limit the amount of an opportunity the Clients can otherwise take. Performance-Based Compensation. Performance-based compensation, where applicable, could create a greater incentive for Harvest to make more speculative Investments on behalf of a Client or Fund or time the purchase or sale of investments in a manner motivated by the personal interest of Blackstone personnel than if such performance-based compensation did not exist, as the Adviser receives a disproportionate share of profits above the preferred return hurdle. In addition, recently enacted tax reform legislation provides for a lower capital gains tax rate on performance-based compensation from Investments held for at least three years, which can be expected to incentivize Harvest to hold Investments longer to ensure long-term capital gains treatment or dispose of Investments prior to any change in law that would result in a higher effective income tax rate on performance-based compensation if any such is permitted. Senior or Executive Advisors, Industry Experts and Operating Partners. Harvest can engage and retain strategic advisors, consultants, senior advisors, executive advisors, industry experts, operating partners, consultants, and other similar professionals (which could include former employees of Blackstone and/or Harvest, as well as current employees of Blackstone’s and/or Harvest’s portfolio companies) (“Senior and Other Advisors”) who are not employees or affiliates of Harvest and who, from time to time, receive payments from Harvest or its Client). In such circumstances, such payments from a Fund could be treated as Fund expenses and will not, even if they have the effect of reducing any retainers or minimum amounts otherwise payable by Harvest, be deemed paid to or received by Harvest. The nature of the relationship with each of the Senior and Other Advisors and the amount of time devoted or required to be devoted by them varies considerably. In certain cases, they can provide Harvest with industry-specific insights and feedback on investment themes, assist in transaction due diligence, and/or make introductions to and provide reference checks on management teams. In other cases, they take on more extensive roles (and can be exclusive service providers to Harvest) and serve as executives or directors on the boards of portfolio companies or contribute to the origination of new investment opportunities. In certain instances, Harvest has formal arrangements with these Senior and Other Advisors (which can be terminated upon notice by either party), and in other cases the relationships are informal. They are either compensated (including pursuant to retainers and expense more reimbursement, and, in any event, pursuant to negotiated arrangements that will not be confirmed as being comparable to the market rates for such services) by Harvest and/or its Clients. In certain cases, they have certain attributes of Harvest’s “employees” (e.g., they could have dedicated offices at Harvest, participate in general meetings and events for Harvest’s personnel, work on Harvest’s matters as their primary or sole business activity, service Harvest exclusively, etc.) even though they are not considered Harvest’s employees, affiliates, or personnel for purposes of certain Client Governing Documents, including the investment management agreement. There can be no assurance that any of the Senior and Other Advisors will continue to serve in such roles and/or continue their arrangements with Harvest, any Client, and/or any portfolio companies throughout the term of any Client’s relationship with Harvest. Other Firm Businesses, Activities and Relationships. As part of its regular business, Harvest’s parent entity, -36-  Blackstone, and its affiliates provide a broad range of investment banking, advisory and other services. In addition, Blackstone and its affiliates could provide services in the future beyond those currently provided and receive fees or other compensation therefor. Harvest’s Clients and investors in Harvest Funds will not receive any benefit from any fees or compensation related to such services earned by Blackstone and/or its affiliates. In addition, as a result of the establishment and maintenance of information walls between Harvest and other Blackstone business units as described above, Harvest will generally not be able to use, act on, benefit from or otherwise be aware of certain information known by or in the possession of other Blackstone business units (and vice versa), and collaboration between Harvest personnel, on the one hand, and personnel of other Blackstone business units, on the other hand, will be limited. As such, certain conflicts of interest described below which potentially arise with respect to Blackstone’s other business units might not directly affect Harvest’s operations and investment decisions. In the regular course of its capital markets, investment banking, real estate, advisory and other businesses, Blackstone represents potential purchasers, sellers and other involved parties, including corporations, financial buyers, management, shareholders and institutions, with respect to transactions that could give rise to investments that are suitable for a Client. In such a case, a Blackstone client would typically require Blackstone to act exclusively on its behalf. This advisory client request could preclude all Blackstone- affiliated clients from participating in related transactions that would otherwise be suitable. Blackstone will be under no obligation to decline any such engagements in order to make an investment opportunity available to any client of a Blackstone affiliate. In connection with its capital markets, investment banking, real estate, advisory and other businesses, Blackstone will from time to time determine that there are conflicts of interest or come into possession of information that limits its and its affiliates’ ability to engage in potential transactions. The activities of the clients of Blackstone’s affiliates are expected to be constrained as a result of such conflicts of interest and the inability of Blackstone affiliates’ personnel to use such information. For example, employees of Blackstone from time to time are prohibited by law or contract from sharing information with its affiliates. Additionally, there are expected to be circumstances in which one or more individuals associated with Blackstone and/or its affiliates will be precluded from providing services to Harvest’s Clients because of certain confidential information available to those individuals or to other parts of Blackstone. Blackstone and its affiliates have long-term relationships with a significant number of corporations and their senior management. Harvest will consider those relationships when evaluating an investment or divestment opportunity, which could result in Harvest choosing not to make such an investment or divestment due to such relationships (e.g., investments in a competitor of a client). Neither Blackstone nor its affiliates are under any obligation to decline any engagements or investments in order to make an investment opportunity available to Harvest Clients. The Clients could be forced to sell or hold existing investments as a result of investment banking relationships or other relationships that Blackstone can have or transactions or investments that Blackstone and its affiliates could make or have made. The Clients can also co-invest with clients of Blackstone in particular investment opportunities, and the relationship with such clients could influence the decisions made by Harvest with respect to such investments. Therefore, there can be no assurance that all potentially suitable investment opportunities that come to the attention of Blackstone will be made available to the Clients. In addition, the Clients can invest in securities of the same issuers as other clients, other investment funds, client accounts and proprietary accounts that Harvest and/or Blackstone can establish, advise or sub-advise from time to time and to which Harvest and/or Blackstone provide investment management or sub-advisory services (such other clients, funds and accounts, collectively the “Other Clients”)) or other investment vehicles, accounts and clients of Blackstone. When such investments are made, the Clients are expected to have conflicting -37-  interests, and it is possible that a Client’s interest could be subordinated or otherwise adversely affected by virtue of an Other Client’s involvement and actions relating to its investment. Blackstone will from time to time participate in underwriting or lending syndicates with respect to actual or potential portfolio companies in which a Client invests, or otherwise be involved in the public offering and/or private placement of debt or equity securities issued by, or loan proceeds borrowed by, such portfolio companies, or otherwise in arranging financing (including loans) for such portfolio companies or advise on such transactions. Such underwritings or engagements can be on a firm commitment basis or on an uncommitted “best efforts” basis. There can also be circumstances in which a Client commits to purchase any portion of such issuance from a portfolio company, some or all of which portion a Blackstone broker-dealer intends to syndicate to third parties. In connection with such activities Blackstone and/or its affiliates could receive commissions or other compensation. In certain cases, a Blackstone broker- dealer will from time to time act as the managing underwriter or a member of the underwriting syndicate and purchase securities from a Client or such portfolio companies or advise on such transactions. Blackstone will also from time to time, on behalf of Clients or other parties to a transaction involving Clients, effect transactions, including transactions in the secondary markets where it will from time to time nonetheless have a potential conflict of interest regarding Clients and the other parties to those transactions to the extent it receives commissions or other compensation from Clients and such other parties. Subject to applicable law, Blackstone will from time to time receive underwriting fees, discounts, placement commissions, lending arrangement and syndication fees (or, in each case, rebates of any such fees, whether in the form of purchase price discounts or otherwise, even in cases where Blackstone or an Other Client is purchasing debt) or other compensation with respect to the foregoing activities, none of which are required to be shared with Clients, Fund investors or Harvest. In addition, the management fee with respect to Clients or Fund investors generally will not be reduced by such amounts. Therefore, Blackstone will from time to time have a potential conflict of interest regarding Clients and the other parties to those transactions to the extent it receives commissions, discounts or such other compensation from such other parties. Harvest will approve any transactions in which a Blackstone broker-dealer acts as an underwriter, as broker for a Client, or as dealer, broker or advisor, on the other side of a transaction with a Client only where Harvest believes in good faith that such transactions are appropriate for such Client. Where Blackstone serves as underwriter with respect to a portfolio company’s securities, the Clients will from time to time be subject to a “lock-up” period following the offering under applicable regulations during which time their ability to sell any securities that they continue to hold is restricted. This can prejudice the ability of the Clients to dispose of such securities at an opportune time. (See also “Other Trading and Investing Activities” below.) In addition, the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”) can limit a Client’s ability to undertake certain transactions with its affiliates that are registered under the 1940 Act. As a result of these restrictions, the Client could be prohibited from executing “joint” transactions with such affiliates, which could include investments in the same portfolio company (whether at the same or different times). These limitations can limit the scope of investment opportunities that would otherwise be available to the Client. Blackstone employees, including employees working on matters related to Harvest, are generally permitted to invest in alternative investment funds, real estate funds, hedge funds or other investment vehicles, including potential competitors of the Clients. Fund Investors will not receive any benefit from any such investments. -38-  Additionally, it can be expected that Harvest and/or Blackstone will, from time to time, enter into arrangements or strategic relationships with third parties, including other asset managers, financial firms or other businesses or companies, which, among other things, provide for referral or sharing of investment opportunities. It is possible that Clients will, along with Harvest and/or Blackstone itself, benefit from the existence of those arrangements and/or relationships. It is also possible that investment opportunities that otherwise would be presented to or made by a Client would instead be referred (in whole or in part) to such third party. For example, a firm with which Harvest and/or Blackstone has entered into a strategic relationship could be afforded with “first-call” rights on a particular category of investment opportunities. In addition, other present and future activities of Harvest and other Blackstone affiliates will from time to time give rise to additional conflicts of interest relating to the Clients and their investment activities. In the event that any such conflict of interest arises, the general partner or managing member, as applicable, and/or Harvest, as applicable, will attempt to resolve such conflict in a fair and equitable manner. Investors should be aware that conflicts will not necessarily be resolved in favor of the applicable Client’s interests. Secondments and Internships. Certain personnel of Blackstone and its affiliates, and the Consultants (as defined herein), will, in certain circumstances, be seconded to, serve internships at, receive trainings from or otherwise provide consulting services to one or more Portfolio Entities, vendors and service providers of, or investors in the Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients to provide finance, accounting, operational support, legal, technology, data management (including artificial intelligence) and other similar services, including the sourcing of investments for the Clients or other parties. The salaries, benefits, overhead and other expenses for such personnel or otherwise related to such arrangements are expected to be borne by Blackstone and its affiliates or such Portfolio Entities, vendors and service providers or investors in the Clients and Other Blackstone Clients, or in certain circumstances, both (in each case depending upon the facts and circumstances associated with such arrangements). In addition, personnel of Portfolio Entities, vendors, service providers (including law firms and accounting firms) and investors in the Clients and Other Blackstone Clients will, in certain circumstances, be seconded to, serve internships at, receive trainings from or otherwise provide consulting services to the Adviser, Blackstone, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, or their respective Portfolio Entities. While often the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, and their respective Portfolio Entities are the beneficiaries of these types of arrangements, the Adviser or Blackstone are from time to time beneficiaries of these arrangements as well, including in circumstances where the vendor, Portfolio Entity or service provider also provides services to the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, the Adviser, their respective Portfolio Entities, or Blackstone in the ordinary course. Knowledge and skills gained by personnel during secondment and internship arrangements, including where the costs of such arrangements are borne by Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities, are expected to benefit Other Blackstone Clients, their Portfolio Entities, Blackstone and/or the Adviser upon the secondee’s or intern’s return to their employer. The Clients or their Portfolio Entities can be expected to pay compensation or cover fees or expenses associated with such secondees and interns. If Blackstone or the Adviser pays compensation or covers expenses associated with such secondees and interns, they can, in certain circumstances, be expected to seek reimbursement from the Clients or their Portfolio Entities for such amounts. If a Portfolio Entity of a Client pays compensation or covers fees or expenses associated with such secondees or interns (including by means of reimbursing Blackstone or the Adviser for such fees or expenses), such compensation, fees, and/or expenses will be borne indirectly by the Client. Additionally, the Adviser, Blackstone, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients or their respective Portfolio Entities could receive benefits from arrangements, including arrangements at no or reduced cost, that they have with secondees or interns employed by service providers or vendors (or affiliates thereof) that provide services to, or whose employees serve as secondees or interns to, a Client (or its Portfolio Entities) -39-  that bears the compensation, fees or expenses associated with such services, secondees or interns. Furthermore, such arrangements, including those at no or reduced cost, could include secondees or interns who perform services for the benefit of the Adviser, Blackstone, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients or their respective Portfolio Entities that do not benefit such Client or its Portfolio Entities. Such arrangements could give Blackstone or the Adviser an incentive to favor the company that employs the secondees or interns, including in connection with determining whether a Client should engage, or continue to engage, such company for services. To the extent secondee or intern compensation, fees or other expenses are borne by a Client, including indirectly through its Portfolio Entities or reimbursement to Blackstone for such costs, the management fee will not be offset or reduced as a result of these arrangements or any fees, expense reimbursements or other costs related thereto. The personnel described above can be expected to provide services in respect of multiple matters, including in respect of matters related to the Adviser, Blackstone, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities, each of their respective affiliates and related parties, and any costs of such personnel can be expected to be allocated accordingly. The Adviser and Blackstone will endeavor in good faith to allocate the costs of these arrangements, if any, to the Adviser, Blackstone, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities, and other parties based on time spent by the personnel or another methodology the Adviser or Blackstone deems appropriate in a particular circumstance. In addition, there could be instances where current and former employees of Other Blackstone Clients’ Portfolio Entities are seconded to, or temporarily hired by, the Clients’ Portfolio Entities or, at times, the Clients’ investments directly. Such secondments or temporary hiring of current and former employees of Other Blackstone Clients’ Portfolio Entities by the Clients’ Portfolio Entities (or their investments) will result in a potential conflict of interest between the Clients’ Portfolio Entities and those of such Other Blackstone Clients. The costs of such employees are expected to be borne by the Clients or their relevant Portfolio Entities, as applicable, and the fees paid by the Clients or such Portfolio Entities to other Portfolio Entity service providers or vendors do not offset or reduce the management fee. See also “—Portfolio Entity Service Providers and Vendors” herein. Consultants. Strategic advisors, consultants, senior advisors, operating advisors, industry experts, investment banks, financial intermediaries, service providers, joint venture and other partners and professionals, and market participants any of whom might be current or former executives or other personnel of Blackstone, Clients, Other Blackstone Vehicles or Portfolio Entities of the foregoing. For example, in the same way that executives from portfolio companies of Other Blackstone Vehicles could provide insight and/or deal origination for the benefit of Clients, the executives of a Client’s Portfolio Entities could benefit Consultants and/or Other Blackstone Vehicles. Consultants can be expected to attend events and/or meetings sponsored by a Client’s Portfolio Entities and/or Other Blackstone Vehicles or other members of a Client or other Investors and could be involved in fundraising activities on behalf of Blackstone. Moreover, in negotiating and structuring transactions with Consultants or counterparties of a Client or Portfolio Entities, the Adviser will generally not seek to maximize terms as if such transaction was taking place in isolation – it will be free to consider relationship, reputational and market considerations, which can in some circumstances result in a cost to a Client or otherwise make the terms of the transaction less favorable for the Client. In addition, the Adviser could engage third parties as Consultants (or another similar capacity) in order to advise it with respect to existing investments, specific investment opportunities, and economic and industry trends. Such Consultants could receive reimbursement of reasonable related expenses by Portfolio Entities or the Client and could have the opportunity to invest in a portion of the assets available to the Client for investment which could be taken by the Adviser and its affiliates. If such Consultants generate investment opportunities on the Client’s behalf, such Consultants could receive special additional fees or allocations comparable to those received by a third party in an arm’s length transaction and such additional fees or allocations would be borne fully -40-  by the Client and/or Portfolio Entities (with no reduction or offset to Management Fees) and not the Adviser. Blackstone has developed a strong network of relationships with investment owners, leading financial institutions, operating partners, senior business executives and government officials. These relationships provide market knowledge and form the backbone of its investment-sourcing network. Blackstone has, and expects to continue to have, a significant volume of deal flow. Primary sources of Blackstone transactions include: • • • • • Relationships of individual Blackstone Senior Managing Directors and professionals; Major corporations, investment owners and operators with which Blackstone has worked in the past and that wish to divest assets or partner with Blackstone; Investment/commercial banks; Brokers/dealers; and Borrowers. Other Benefits. Harvest, its affiliates and their personnel and related parties will receive intangible and other benefits, discounts and perquisites arising or resulting from their activities on behalf of Clients, the value of which will not offset or reduce Management Fees or otherwise be shared with Clients, their Portfolio Entities or Harvest investors. For example, airline travel or hotel stays will result in “miles” or “points” or credit in loyalty or status programs, and certain purchases made by credit card will result in “credit card points”, “cash back” or rebates in addition to such loyalty or status program miles or points. Such benefits will, whether or not de minimis or difficult to value, inure exclusively to the benefit of Harvest, its affiliates or their personnel or related parties receiving them, even though the cost of the underlying service could be borne by Harvest Clients as reimbursable expenses or by its Portfolio Entities. Similarly, Harvest, its affiliates and their personnel and related parties, and third parties designated by the foregoing, also receive discounts on products and services provided by Portfolio Entities and customers or suppliers of such Portfolio Entities. Portfolio Entity Relationships Generally. Blackstone, Portfolio Entities of Clients and Other Blackstone Vehicles are and will be counterparties or participants in agreements, transactions and other arrangements with Clients, Other Blackstone Vehicles, and/or Portfolio Entities of Clients and Other Blackstone Vehicles or other Blackstone affiliates and/or any Portfolio Entities of the foregoing for the provision of goods and services, purchase and sale of assets and other matters (including information- sharing and/or consulting and employment relationships). In addition, certain Portfolio Entities will in certain cases be counterparties or participants in agreements, transactions and other arrangements with Other Blackstone Vehicles and/or Portfolio Entities or portfolio entities of Other Blackstone Vehicles for the provision of goods and services, purchase and sale of assets and other matters. For example, from time to time, certain Portfolio Entities of Clients or Other Blackstone Vehicles will provide or recommend goods and services to Blackstone, Clients, Other Blackstone Vehicles, or Portfolio Entities of Clients and Other Blackstone Vehicles or other Blackstone affiliates (or vice versa). As another example, it can also be expected that the Client or management of one or more Portfolio Entities will consult with one another (or with one or more portfolio entities of an Other Blackstone Vehicle) in respect of seeking its industry expertise, market view, or otherwise on a particular topic including but not limited to assets and/or the purchase and /or sale thereof (and vice versa). Moreover, a Client and/or an Other Blackstone Vehicle could consult with a Portfolio Entity or a portfolio entity of an Other Blackstone Vehicle as part of the investment diligence for a potential investment by such Client or such Other Blackstone Vehicle (and vice versa). -41-  As a result of or as a part of such interactions or otherwise, personnel at one Portfolio Entity will in certain cases transfer to or become employed by another Portfolio Entity (including, for purposes of this disclosure, a portfolio entity of an Other Blackstone Vehicle), or Blackstone, the Adviser or their respective Affiliates. Further, personnel of the Adviser, Blackstone or their respective Affiliates will transfer to or become employed by a Portfolio Entity (together with personnel departing a Portfolio Company for employment at Blackstone, the Adviser, their Affiliates or another Portfolio Company, “Transferring Personnel”). Transferring Personnel agreements, transactions and other arrangements present a conflict of interest in that they will involve the payment of fees and other amounts, none of which will result in any offset to the Management Fees, notwithstanding that some of the services provided by a Portfolio Entity are similar in nature to the services provided by the Adviser and its Affiliates. Such agreements, transactions and other arrangements will generally be entered into without the consent of the L.P. Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors or Investors of the Client (including, without limitation, in the case of minority investments by a Client in such Portfolio Entities or the sale of assets from one Portfolio Entity to another). There can be no assurance that the terms of any such agreement, transaction or other arrangement will be as favorable to a Portfolio Entity or Client as otherwise would be the case if the counterparty for the transfer were not related to Blackstone. As Transferring Personnel are expected to comprise individuals who are currently compensated by Blackstone and whose associated costs (e.g., overhead) are not directly or indirectly borne by Clients or Other Blackstone Vehicles, Blackstone has a conflict of interest in determining to arrange a transfer or employment arrangement for such Transferring Personnel such that their compensation and associated costs will be borne by Portfolio Entities of Clients or Other Blackstone Vehicles instead of by the Adviser, Blackstone or their respective Affiliates, and to facilitate the transfer of such Transferring Personnel rather than engage in the retention or full-time hiring of third-party candidates for such roles at Portfolio Entities, Blackstone, the Adviser or their Affiliates. These conflicts of interest will not necessarily be resolved in favor of any particular Client and Investors of such Clients will not in all circumstances receive notice or disclosure of the occurrence of such transfers and their associated conflicts. Furthermore, any such transfer or change in employment by Transferring Personnel will involve employees of different levels of experience, functional expertise and seniority (including, for avoidance of doubt, senior managing directors at Blackstone and members of the management team at the Portfolio Entity), and in certain instances is expected to be conducted on a programmatic basis involving a designated number of Transferring Personnel across one or a range of identified Portfolio Entities. Where Transferring Personnel are departing from a Portfolio Entity, Blackstone, the Adviser or their Affiliates, it is not expected in all instances that such entity will hire new personnel, or transfer existing personnel, to fill such Transferring Personnel’s prior role, and in certain cases the roles intended to be occupied by Transferring Personnel will be roles newly created for such Transferring Personnel. Moreover, the respective roles of the Transferring Personnel at the entities involved in such transfer could be substantially similar and involve functional responsibilities and activities (including as between Blackstone, the Adviser or their Affiliates on the one hand, and Portfolio Entities of a Client or an Other Blackstone Vehicle on the other hand) that do not materially differ. While in certain cases a dedicated search could be conducted by Blackstone or a Portfolio Entity for the employment position that the Transferring Personnel will fill, a search is not required or expected to be performed in most instances. Any such transfer will result in costs being transferred from the entity where such Transferring Personnel originated to the entity where such Transferring Personnel is going. The compensation earned and subsequently paid to such Transferring Personnel will in certain cases include arrangements designed to address Transferring Personnel’s pre-existing compensation interests, including unvested equity or -42-  carried interest attributable to such Transferring Personnel’s entity of origin (including but not limited to Blackstone or its respective Affiliates) that was forfeited in connection with their departure therefrom, which is expected for certain Transferring Personnel to be material. For example, if a Blackstone employee transfers to or becomes employed by a Portfolio Entity, such Portfolio Entity could provide the Transferring Personnel equity of the Portfolio Entity or other similar incentive or cash compensation to the Transferring Personnel to compensate them for the unvested equity or carried interest they are forfeiting as a result of the transfer. This will result in additional costs to the Portfolio Entity that otherwise would have been borne by Blackstone or the Adviser. While in some cases benchmarking, verification or other analysis could be conducted in respect of the compensation package being offered to the Transferring Personnel (including any unvested equity or carried interest compensation), there is no requirement that benchmarking, verification or other analysis be conducted, and in some instances the compensation package could be above market rate and/or not verifiable. Other Affiliate Transactions and Investments in Different Levels of Capital Structure. From time to time, a Harvest Client and Other Clients of Blackstone who are not clients of Harvest (“Other Blackstone Clients”) can make investments at different levels of an issuer’s capital structure or otherwise in different classes of an issuer’s loans or securities, subject to the limitations of the 1940 Act. Such investments could inherently give rise to conflicts of interest or perceived conflicts of interest between or among the various classes of loans or securities held by such entities. To the extent a Harvest Client holds loans or securities that are different (including with respect to their relative seniority) than those held by an Other Blackstone Client, Harvest and its affiliates could be presented with decisions when the interests of a Harvest Client is in conflict with the interests of such Other Blackstone Clients. For example, conflicts could arise where an Other Blackstone Client lends funds to a portfolio company while the Harvest Client invests in equity securities of such portfolio company. In this circumstance, for example, if such portfolio company were to go into bankruptcy, become insolvent or otherwise be unable to meet its payment obligations or comply with its debt covenants, conflicts of interest could arise between the holders of different types of loans or securities as to what actions the portfolio company should take. It is frequently not possible to receive the same price or execution on the entire volume of securities sold, and the various prices can be averaged, which might be disadvantageous to Clients. Further conflicts could arise after the Harvest Client has made its initial investments. For example, if additional financing or capital is necessary as a result of financial or other difficulties, it could not be in the best interests of the Harvest Client to provide such additional financing or for Other Blackstone Clients to provide such financing. If the Other Blackstone Clients were to lose their respective investments as a result of such difficulties, the ability of Harvest to recommend actions in the best interests of its Clients might be impaired. Harvest can in its discretion take steps to reduce the potential for adversity between its Clients and Other Blackstone Clients, including causing its Clients and/or such Other Blackstone Clients to take certain actions that, in the absence of such conflict, it would not take. In addition, there might be circumstances where Harvest agrees to implement certain procedures to ameliorate conflicts of interest that can involve a forbearance of rights relating to Harvest Clients or Other Blackstone Clients, such as where Harvest could cause Other Blackstone Clients to decline to exercise certain control- and/or foreclosure-related rights with respect to a portfolio investment. There can be no assurance that any conflict will be resolved in favor of any given Client and each Client and Fund investor acknowledges and agrees that in some cases, a decision by Harvest to take any particular action could have the effect of benefiting an Other Client (and, incidentally, could also have the effect of benefiting Harvest) and therefore might not have been in the best interests of, and can be adverse to, a given Client. There can be no assurance that the return on a Client’s investment will be equivalent to or better than the returns obtained by the Other Clients participating in the transaction. Clients and Fund investors will not receive any benefit from fees paid to any affiliate of Harvest from a -43-  portfolio company in which an Other Client also has an interest. Please refer to Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management [Item 6] above for a description of Harvest’s trading and trade allocation policies. Outsourcing. The Adviser is expected to outsource to third parties several but not all of the services performed for the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities, including services (such as administrative, legal, accounting, tax, investment diligence (including sourcing), modeling and ongoing monitoring, preparing internal templates, memos, and similar materials in connection with the Adviser’s analysis of investment opportunities, or other related services) that can be and/or historically have been performed in-house by the Adviser and its personnel. The fees, costs and expenses of such third-party service providers will, when consistent with the Clients’ organizational documents, be borne by the Clients as Client expenses, even if the Adviser would have borne such amounts if such services had been performed in-house (which, for the avoidance of doubt, would be in addition to any fees borne by the Clients as Client expenses for similar services performed by the Adviser in-house in lieu of or alongside (and/or to supplement or monitor) such third parties, subject to the terms of the Clients’ organizational documents). Outsourced services also include certain services (such as fund administration, transactional legal advice, tax advice, tax planning and other related services) that will, in the case of some services, or could, in the case of other services, subject to the terms of the Clients’ organizational documents, also be provided by the Adviser in-house at the Clients’ expense. The Adviser reserves the right to, and will, from time to time, provide such services alongside (and/or supplement or monitor) a third-party service provider on the same matter or engagement and, in such cases, to the extent the Adviser’s services are reimbursable under the Clients’ organizational documents, the overall amount of Client expenses borne directly or indirectly by the Clients’ investors will be greater than would be the case if only the Adviser or such third-party provided such services. The decision to engage a third-party service provider, including the timing of such engagement, which, for the avoidance of doubt, could be at any time, and the terms (including economic terms) of such engagement will be made by the Adviser in its discretion, taking into account such factors as it deems relevant under the circumstances. Certain third-party service providers and/or their employees (and/or teams thereof) will dedicate substantially all of their business time to one or more Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, and/or their respective portfolio entities, while others will have other clients. In certain cases, third-party service providers and/or their employees (including part- or full-time secondees to Blackstone) will spend some or all of their time at Blackstone offices, have dedicated office space at Blackstone, have Blackstone-related e-mail addresses, receive administrative support from Blackstone personnel or participate in meetings and events for Blackstone personnel, even though they are not Blackstone employees or affiliates. Blackstone could also lease, sublet, or otherwise share its premises with third-party service providers and receive overhead, rent, or other fees, costs, and expenses in return. Any of these arrangements create conflicts of interest, as Blackstone will have incentives to engage, or cause or encourage Clients and/or Portfolio Entities to engage, third-party service providers due to a number of factors, including the expectation that the fees, costs and expenses of such service providers will be borne by the Clients as Client expenses (with no reduction or offset to management fees), the fact that retaining certain third parties will reduce the Adviser’s internal overhead, compensation, benefits and costs for employees who would otherwise perform such services in-house, and where applicable, the potential for Blackstone to receive additional compensation or cost recovery through leasing or subleasing of office space or similar arrangements with these service providers. Such incentives likely exist even with respect to services where internal overhead, compensation, and benefits are chargeable to the Clients. In general, the involvement of third-party service providers presents a number of risks due to, among -44-  other factors, the Adviser’s reduced control over the functions that are outsourced. In some cases, and subject to applicable law and contractual restrictions, third-party service providers are permitted to delegate all or a portion of their responsibilities relating to the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities to other third parties (including to their affiliates). Any such delegation could further reduce the Adviser’s control over the outsourced functions, and the Adviser would lack direct oversight over the party to whom the responsibilities are delegated. A third-party service provider could face conflicts of interest in carrying out its responsibilities relating to the Adviser, the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities, including (without limitation) in relation to the delegation of such responsibilities to other parties and the allocation of time, attention and resources to the Adviser, the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities, as compared to the service provider’s other clients. Third-party service providers could have incentives to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that does not advance the interests of the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities and generally have no fiduciary obligation to act in the best interest of the Adviser, the Clients and/or their Portfolio Entities. The Adviser has limited visibility into what conflicts of interest a third-party service provider might face and the extent to which any such conflicts impact the service provider’s decision-making. There can be no assurances that the Adviser will be able to identify, prevent or mitigate the risks of engaging third-party service providers (including the risk that such third-party service provider or its delegatees will not perform the outsourced function with the same degree of skill, competence and efficiency as the Adviser would in the absence of an outsourcing arrangement). The Clients could suffer adverse consequences from actions, errors or failures to act by such third parties or their delegatees, and will have obligations, including indemnity obligations, to such third parties or their delegatees and limited recourse against them. Outsourcing and the use of internal service providers will not occur uniformly for all Blackstone managed vehicles and accounts and the expenses borne by such vehicles and accounts will vary. Accordingly, certain costs could be incurred by (or allocated to) a Client through the use of third-party (or internal) service providers that are not incurred by (or allocated to) certain other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients for similar services. The Adviser could similarly determine, subject to applicable law, to outsource certain services to other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities of the Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients, investors of Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients, and affiliates of Blackstone, or to any of their respective related parties. The risks and conflicts described above would similarly apply in such circumstances, and such circumstances would raise additional conflicts. See also “—Blackstone Affiliated Service Providers” and “—Portfolio Entity Service Providers and Vendors” herein. Cross Transactions. Situations could arise where certain assets held by a Client could be transferred to Other Clients and vice versa in a transaction that is commonly known as a “cross trade.” Such transactions, if permitted and undertaken, will be conducted in accordance with, and subject to, Harvest’s obligations to each Client under applicable law. Investments in Portfolio Companies Alongside Other Clients. From time to time, a Client consider co- investing with Other Clients (including co-investment or other vehicles in which Blackstone and its affiliates (including Harvest) or their personnel invest and that co-invest with such Other Clients) in investments that are suitable for one or more of such Client and such Other Clients. Even if the Client and any such Other Clients and/or co-investment or other vehicles invest in the same securities, conflicts of interest could still arise. For example, it is possible that as a result of legal, tax, regulatory, accounting or -45-  other considerations, the terms of such investment (and divestment thereof) (including with respect to price and timing) for a Client and such Other Clients might not be the same. Additionally, the Client and such Other Clients and/or vehicles will generally have different investment periods and/or investment objectives (including return profiles) and Harvest, as a result, can have conflicting goals with respect to the price and timing of disposition opportunities. Activities of Principals and Employees. Certain of the principals and employees of Harvest can be subject to a variety of conflicts of interest relating to their responsibilities to Clients and the management of Clients’ investment portfolios. Such individuals serve in an advisory capacity to multiple Clients. Such positions can create a conflict between the services and advice provided and the responsibilities owed to each Client, some of whom might have investment objectives that overlap with each other. Furthermore, certain principals and employees of Harvest might have a greater financial interest in the performance of certain Clients. Such involvement can create conflicts of interest in making investments on behalf of the various Clients. Such principals and employees will seek to limit any such conflicts in a manner that is in accordance with their fiduciary duties to Clients. investors in a Fund, sources of Service Providers and Counterparties. Certain advisors and other service providers, or their affiliates (including accountants, administrators, lenders, bankers, brokers, attorneys, consultants, and investment or commercial banking firms) to Harvest, its affiliates, its Clients, and/or portfolio companies also provide goods or services to, or have business, personal, financial or other relationships with, Harvest, its affiliates (including Blackstone), and portfolio companies. Such advisors and service providers (or their affiliates) could be investment opportunities, co-investors, commercial counterparties and/or portfolio companies in which Clients, Harvest, and/or its affiliates have an investment. Accordingly, payments by a Client to such advisors, service providers, and/or or their affiliates could indirectly benefit Harvest and/or Harvest affiliates. Additionally, certain employees of Harvest or its affiliates can have family members or relatives employed by such advisors and service providers (or their affiliates). These relationships could influence Harvest in deciding whether to select or recommend such service providers to perform services for a Client (the cost of which will generally be borne directly or indirectly by the Client). Notwithstanding the foregoing, investment transactions for a Client that require the use of a service provider will generally be allocated to service providers on the basis of best execution, the evaluation of which includes, among other considerations, such service provider’s provision of certain investment-related services and research that Harvest believes to be of benefit to its Clients. Because Blackstone has many different businesses, including the Blackstone Capital Markets Group, which Blackstone investment teams and portfolio companies can engage to provide underwriting and capital market advisory services, it is subject to a number of actual and potential conflicts of interest, greater regulatory oversight and more legal and contractual restrictions than that to which it would be subject if it had just one line of business. Service providers affiliated with Blackstone, which are generally expected to receive competitive market rate fees (as determined by a general partner or managing member, or Harvest, as applicable) with respect to certain Investments. Advisors and service providers, or their affiliates, often charge different rates (including below-market or no fee) or have different arrangements for different types of services. With respect to service providers, for example, the fee for a given type of work can vary depending on the complexity of the matter as well as the expertise required and demands placed on the service provider. Therefore, to the extent the types of services used by any given Client are different from those used by any other Harvest Client, Other Blackstone Client, Harvest, and/or its affiliates (including Blackstone, and their respective personnel), such Client could pay different amounts -46-  or rates than those paid by such other entities or individuals. However, Harvest and its affiliates have a practice of not entering into any arrangements with advisors or service providers that could provide for lower rates or discounts than those available to Clients for the same services. Furthermore, advisors and service providers could provide services exclusively to Blackstone and its affiliates, including Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their portfolio companies, although such advisors and service providers would not be considered employees of Blackstone or Harvest. In addition, certain advisors and service providers (including law firms) can temporarily provide their personnel to Harvest and/or Blackstone, Clients or their portfolio companies pursuant to various arrangements including at cost or at no cost. While often Clients and their portfolio companies would be the beneficiaries of these types of arrangements, Harvest and/or Blackstone would from time to time be the beneficiaries of these arrangements as well, including in circumstances where the advisor or service provider also provides services to the Client in the ordinary course. Such personnel can provide services in respect of multiple matters, including in respect of matters related to Harvest and/or Blackstone, their affiliates and/or portfolio companies and any costs of such personnel could be allocated accordingly. Furthermore, Blackstone and its affiliates, including without limitation, Harvest and its Clients, can enter into agreements or other arrangements with vendors and other similar counterparties (whether such counterparties are affiliated or unaffiliated with Blackstone) from time to time whereby such counterparty co u ld charge lower rates (or no fee) and/or provide discounts or rebates for such counterparty’s products and/or services depending on certain factors, including without limitation, volume of transactions entered into with such counterparty by Blackstone, its affiliates, Clients and Other Blackstone Clients in the aggregate. Harvest and its personnel can also be expected to receive certain intangible and/or other benefits and/or discounts and/or perquisites arising or resulting from their activities on behalf of a Client, which will not be subject to management fee offset provisions or otherwise shared with Clients and/or Fund investors. For example, airline travel or hotel stays incurred as Client expenses could result in “miles” or “points” or credit in loyalty/status programs, and such benefits and/or amounts will, whether or not de minimis or difficult to value, inure exclusively to Harvest and/or such personnel (and not any Client or Fund investor) even though the cost of the underlying service can be borne by the Client. From time to time, Harvest will be required to decide whether costs and expenses are to be borne by a Client, on the one hand, or Harvest or a Harvest affiliates, on the other, and/or whether certain costs and expenses should be allocated between or among Clients and Other Blackstone Clients. Certain expenses could be suitable for only particular Clients participating in specific investments and can be allocated to and borne only by such Clients. Harvest will make such judgments in good faith, notwithstanding its interest in the outcome and can make corrective allocations should, based on periodic reviews, it determine that such corrections are necessary or advisable. Harvest could withhold on a pro rata basis from any distributions amounts necessary to create, in its discretion, appropriate reserves for expenses, obligations and liabilities, contingent or otherwise, including, without limitation, partnership expenses and organizational expenses. Expenses in connection with a trip taken by employees of Harvest for purposes of multiple matters will generally be allocated to each such matter in a manner determined by Harvest to be fair and reasonable and then the resulting expenses will be allocated to Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or Harvest as otherwise set forth herein. Allocation of Personnel. Harvest and its members, partners, officers and employees will devote as much of their time to the activities of each Client as they deem necessary and appropriate. By the terms of the relevant Governing Documents, Harvest, Blackstone and their respective affiliates are not restricted from forming additional investment funds, from entering into other investment advisory relationships or from engaging in other business activities, even though such activities can be in competition with a particular -47-  Client and/or could involve substantial time and resources of Harvest. These activities could be viewed as creating a conflict of interest in that the time and effort of Harvest personnel, and their officers and employees will not be devoted exclusively to the business of any particular Client, but will be allocated between the business of such Client and the management of the monies of such Other Clients. Outside Activities of Principals and Other Personnel and their Related Parties. Certain personnel of Blackstone will, in certain circumstances, be subject to a variety of conflicts of interest relating to their responsibilities to Clients, Other Blackstone Vehicles and their respective portfolio entities, and their outside business activities as members of investment or advisory committees or boards of directors of or advisors to investment funds, corporations, foundations or other organizations. Such positions create a conflict if such other entities have interests that are adverse to those of Clients, including if such other entities compete with Clients for investment opportunities or other resources. The Blackstone personnel in question could have a greater financial interest in the performance of the other entities than the performance of a Client. This involvement can create conflicts of interest in making Investments on behalf of a Client or Fund and such other funds, accounts and other entities. Although Harvest will generally seek to minimize the impact of any such conflicts, there can be no assurance they will be resolved favorably for a Client or Fund. Data Services. Blackstone or an affiliate of Blackstone formed in the future will provide data services to Portfolio Entities, to certain investors in the Clients and in Other Blackstone Clients, and to the Clients and Other Blackstone Clients and other Blackstone affiliates and associated entities (including funds in which Blackstone, Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients make investments, and portfolio entities thereof) (collectively, “Data Holders”) in relation to data they hold, possess, acquire, generate, distribute, or sell. Such services can be expected to include assistance with obtaining, generating, analyzing, curating, processing, packaging, distributing, organizing, mapping, holding, transforming, enhancing, marketing and selling such data (among other related data management and consulting, including artificial intelligence, services) for monetization through licensing or sale arrangements with third parties and, subject to the limitations in the Clients’ organizational documents and any other applicable contractual, legal, or regulatory restrictions or limitations, with the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities, investors in the Clients and in Other Blackstone Clients, and other Blackstone affiliates and associated entities (including funds in which Blackstone and Other Blackstone Clients make investments, and portfolio entities thereof). Where Blackstone believes appropriate, data from one Data Holder will be aggregated or pooled with data from other Data Holders. Any revenues arising from such aggregated or pooled data sets would be allocated between applicable Data Holders on a fair and reasonable basis as determined by Blackstone in its sole discretion, with Blackstone being able to make corrective allocations should it determine subsequently that such corrections were necessary or advisable. To the extent Blackstone receives compensation for such data services (including data management and consulting, including artificial intelligence services), such compensation can be expected to include a percentage of the revenues generated through any licensing or sale arrangements with respect to the relevant data, as well as fees, royalties and cost and expense reimbursement (including start-up costs and allocable overhead associated with personnel working on relevant matters (including salaries, benefits and other similar expenses)). Such compensation will not offset or reduce management fees or any other fees or expenses borne by the Clients, and will not otherwise be shared with the Clients or Clients’ investors. Additionally, Blackstone is also expected to share and distribute the products from such data services within Blackstone or its affiliates (including Other Blackstone Clients or their Portfolio Entities) at no charge and, in such cases, the Data Holders will not receive any financial or other benefit from having provided such data to Blackstone. The potential receipt of such compensation by Blackstone creates incentives for Blackstone to cause the Clients to invest in Portfolio Entities with a significant amount of data that it might not otherwise have invested in or on terms less favorable than it otherwise would have -48-  sought to obtain on behalf of such Clients. See also “—Data” herein. Data. Blackstone receives, generates and/or obtains various kinds of data and information from the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, their respective Portfolio Entities and, subject to Blackstone’s privacy notice and applicable law, investors in the Clients and investors in Other Blackstone Clients, as well as related parties, service providers and other sources in connection with the Clients’ or any Other Blackstone Clients’ activities, including but not limited to data and information relating to or created in connection with investment due diligence, business operations, financial results, trends, budgets, plans, suppliers, customers, employees, contractors, sustainability, energy usage, carbon emissions and related metrics, financial information, commercial and transactional information, customer and user data, employee and contractor data, supplier and cost data, and other related data and information (which could include, for the avoidance of doubt, any such data or information relating to or created in connection with, prospective Client investments that were not ultimately consummated), some of which is sometimes referred to as alternative data or “big data.” Subject to applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements, Blackstone can be expected to be better able to anticipate macroeconomic and other trends, and otherwise develop investment themes or identify specific investment, trading, business or exit opportunities, as a result of its access to (and rights regarding, including use, ownership, distribution, and derived works rights over) this data and information from the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, their Portfolio Entities, and investors in the Clients and investors in Other Blackstone Clients, as well as related parties, service providers and other sources in connection with the Clients’ or any Other Blackstone Clients’ activities. Blackstone has entered and will continue to enter into information sharing and use, measurement, and other arrangements with the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, their Portfolio Entities, and investors in the Clients and investors in Other Blackstone Clients, as well as with related parties and service providers and other sources in connection with the Clients’ or any Other Blackstone Clients’ activities, which will give Blackstone access to (and rights regarding, including use, ownership, distribution, and derived works rights over) data that it would not otherwise obtain in the ordinary course. Further, this alternative data is expected to be aggregated across the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their respective Portfolio Entities. Such sharing or use of this data and information by Blackstone, including pursuant to the arrangements described above, could be expected to involve conflicts of interest between two different Clients and/or between one or more Clients and Blackstone or one or more Other Blackstone Clients. Although Blackstone believes that these activities improve Blackstone’s investment management and other business activities on behalf of the Clients and Other Blackstone Clients, information obtained from a Client, its Portfolio Entities and investors in the Client, as well as related parties, service providers and other sources in connection with the Client’s and its Portfolio Entities’ activities, also provides material benefits to Blackstone, its personnel or affiliates, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients or their respective Portfolio Entities, as well as related parties, service providers and other parties in connection with Blackstone’s, other Client’s, Other Blackstone Clients’ and their respective Portfolio Entities’ activities. For example, information obtained from a Portfolio Entity owned by a Client can be expected to enable Blackstone to make more well- informed investment acquisition and disposition decisions (both on its own behalf or on behalf of the Clients or Other Blackstone Clients), make other business decisions (including those not directly related to Client activities) on a more well-informed basis, further advance its artificial intelligence systems and capabilities, better understand a particular industry, enhance Blackstone’s ability to provide advice or direction on strategy or operations to, or inform business decisions being made by, the management team of one or more Portfolio Entities owned by Clients or Other Blackstone Clients, and execute trading and investment strategies in reliance on that better understanding of an industry or advanced AI systems and capabilities, for Blackstone, other Clients and Other Blackstone Clients that do not own an interest in such -49-  Portfolio Entity. Blackstone is expected to serve as the repository for data described in this paragraph, including with ownership, use and distribution rights therein. The benefits that Blackstone, any of its personnel or affiliates, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients or their respective Portfolio Entities (or any related parties or service providers of the foregoing) receive from such sharing or use of data or information from a Client or its Portfolio Entity or investor, or from related parties, service providers or other sources in connection with the Client’s and its Portfolio Entities’ activities (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any of the specific benefits discussed above) will not be subject to management fee offset or otherwise shared with such Client or Portfolio Entity or the Client investors, and no compensation will typically be provided to such parties in exchange for such benefits. In addition, Clients’ Portfolio Entities could incur incremental expenses in collecting and organizing data and information requested or required to be furnished to Blackstone and in connection with the aforementioned arrangements (e.g., legal expenses associated with negotiating such arrangements), which expenses are indirectly borne by the Clients, with no share of such expenses being borne by Other Blackstone Clients that benefit from such data and information. Furthermore, except for contractual obligations to third parties to maintain confidentiality of certain information or otherwise limit the scope and purpose of its use or distribution, and regulatory limitations on the use of material non-public information, Blackstone is generally free to use and distribute data and information from a Client’s and its Portfolio Entities’ activities to assist in the pursuit of Blackstone’s various other activities, including but not limited to trading activities or other uses for the benefit of Blackstone, another Client or an Other Blackstone Client. Any confidentiality obligations in the Clients’ organizational documents do not limit Blackstone’s ability to do so. For example, Blackstone’s ability to trade in securities of an issuer relating to a specific industry would be expected to, subject to applicable law, be enhanced by information of a Portfolio Entity in the same or related industry. Such trading or other business activities are expected to provide a material benefit to Blackstone without compensation or other benefit to the Clients or their investors. See “—Blackstone Affiliated Service Providers” and “—Data Services” herein. Circumstances will arise where Blackstone is determining whether to cause a Client to pursue, continue holding or realize an investment in a Portfolio Entity, or to direct or encourage a Client’s Portfolio Entity to merge with, make a strategic acquisition of, or enter into another type of business arrangement with, another company, and where such Portfolio Entity or other company (as applicable) is expected to generate or provide data and information that could be used or shared in a manner that benefits Blackstone, such Client, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or their respective Portfolio Entities. Blackstone faces a conflict of interest in making such determinations. Moreover, there can be no assurance that the degree to which a particular Client benefits from an information sharing arrangement will be proportionate to the value or import of the data and information received from or generated by such Client’s Portfolio Entities or to the relative share of expenses associated with such arrangement being borne by the Client (either directly or indirectly through its Portfolio Entities). Material, Non-Public Information. Harvest could come into possession of material non-public information with respect to an issuer. Should this occur, Harvest would be restricted from buying, originating or selling securities, derivatives or loans of the issuer on behalf of Clients and Funds until such time as the information becomes public or is no longer deemed material such that it would preclude Clients and Funds from participating in an investment. Disclosure of such information to Harvest personnel responsible for Client affairs will be on a need-to-know basis only, and Clients are expected not be free to act upon any -50-  such information. Therefore, SMA Clients should not have access to material non-public information in the possession of Harvest that might be relevant to an investment decision. In addition, Harvest, in an effort to avoid buying or selling restrictions on behalf of SMA Clients or Funds, can choose to forego an opportunity to receive (or elect not to receive) information that other market participants or counterparties, including those with the same positions in the issuer as a Client or Funds, are eligible to receive or have received, even if possession of such information would otherwise be advantageous to Clients or Funds. In addition, affiliates of Harvest within Blackstone can come into possession of material non-public information with respect to an issuer. Should this occur, Harvest could be restricted from buying, originating or selling securities, loans of, or derivatives with respect to, the issuer on behalf of a Client or Funds if Harvest and Blackstone deemed such restriction appropriate. Disclosure of such information to Harvest’s personnel responsible for Client affairs will be on a need-to-know basis only, and Clients are expected not to be free to act upon any such information. Therefore, SMA Clients and Funds should not have access to material non-public information in the possession of Harvest and its affiliates that might be relevant to an investment decision as such information could require the SMA Client or Funds to not be able to initiate a transaction that it otherwise might have initiated or sell an investment that it otherwise might have sold. Other Trading and Investing Activities. Certain Clients and Other Blackstone Clients can invest in securities of publicly traded companies that are actual or potential portfolio companies. The trading activities of those vehicles could differ from or be inconsistent with activities that are undertaken for the account of a particular Client in such securities or related securities. In addition, a Client might not pursue an investment in a portfolio company as a result of such trading activities by Other Clients. Possible Future Activities. Harvest and its affiliates, including Blackstone, could expand the range of services that they provide over time. Except as provided herein, Harvest will generally not be restricted in the scope of its business or in the performance of any such services (whether now offered or undertaken in the future) even if such activities could give rise to conflicts of interest, and whether or not such conflicts are described herein. Harvest and its affiliates have, and will continue to develop, relationships with a significant number of companies, financial sponsors and their senior managers, including relationships with Other Blackstone Clients who can hold or can have held investments similar to those intended to be made by any particular Client. These Other Blackstone Clients could themselves represent appropriate investment opportunities for Clients or can compete with Clients for investment opportunities. Buying and Selling Investments or Assets from Certain Related Parties. A Client and its Portfolio Entities can be expected to purchase investments or assets from or sell investments or assets of such Client to the Client’s investors, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities of other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients or their respective related parties, including parties which such Client investors, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients or Portfolio Entities own or have invested in. In certain circumstances, it can be expected that the proceeds received by a counterparty from a Client or its Portfolio Entities in respect of an investment or asset will be distributed, in whole or in part, to a related party of the Client or the Adviser (i.e., a Client investor, Other Blackstone Clients and/or Portfolio Entities thereof) when such related party indirectly holds interests in such underlying investment or asset through the counterparty (including, for example, in such related party’s capacity as an investor in such counterparty). Blackstone will generally rely upon internal analysis consistent with its valuation policies and procedures to determine the ultimate value of the applicable investment or asset, though it could also obtain third-party valuation reports in respect thereof. In other circumstances, where a Client or a related party of the Client (i.e., a Client Investor, a Portfolio Entity of another Client or an Other Blackstone Client, another Client or an -51-  Other Blackstone Client) holds publicly traded securities in a Portfolio Entity and the Client or such related party has entered into a privately negotiated transaction with such Portfolio Entity, the Client or such related party can be expected to receive (directly or indirectly) proceeds from such related party or the Client, as applicable, upon the consummation of such privately negotiated transaction. In each such circumstance, Client investors, other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities of other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients or their respective related parties could also have limited governance rights in respect of such counterparty or such investment or asset. Purchases and sales of investments or assets of the Clients between the Clients or their Portfolio Entities, on the one hand, and investors and/or Portfolio Entities of other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients or their respective related parties, on the other hand, are not subject to the approval of any advisory committee of a Client or Client investor (or independent client representative (if any)), or any board of directors, as applicable, except as expressly required under the Clients’ organizational documents or unless otherwise required under the Advisers Act or other applicable laws or regulations. A Client could originate or initially acquire an investment (or portfolio of related investments) in circumstances where it expects that certain portions or tranches thereof (which could be of different levels of seniority or credit quality) will be syndicated to one or more other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients or where such other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients provide equity or debt financing to the Clients or third-party purchasers in connection with the disposition of such assets (in which case Blackstone will have conflicting duties in determining the tranching thereof). See also “— Syndication; Warehousing” herein. Blackstone will have conflicting duties to a Client and Other Blackstone Clients when a Client (or its Portfolio Entity) buys or sells assets from or to other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients (and, potentially, when the Client buys, sells, or redeems interests in other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients) or when such other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients provide equity or debt financing to a Client or third-party purchasers in connection with the disposition of such assets, including as a result of different financial incentives Blackstone could have with respect to the Client and such Other Blackstone Clients. These conflicts will not necessarily be resolved in favor of a Client, and the Client’s investors will not necessarily receive notice or disclosure of the occurrence of these conflicts. In addition, certain financings between a Client and Blackstone affiliates could involve structuring that in form is a transaction between the Clients and an affiliate, but will not be treated as the sale of an investment to the Clients from a Blackstone affiliate (or vice versa) for purposes of the Clients’ organizational documents, as determined by the Adviser in good faith. For example, where a Client in anticipation of a take-private transaction purchases publicly traded securities of an issuer in which an Other Blackstone Client holds a de minimis interest, such take-private transaction, if structured as a merger between the issuer and one or more subsidiaries of the Client, would generally not be treated as the sale of an investment in such issuer from such Other Blackstone Client to the Client for purposes of the Client’s organizational documents, including in a situation where holders of the securities of the issuer (including the Other Blackstone Client) automatically receive cash consideration in exchange for their interest when the merger becomes effective. Further, a Portfolio Entity could sell its data to Clients’ investors, Portfolio Entities of other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients or their respective related parties (see also “Data” and “Data Services” herein). These transactions involve conflicts of interest, as Blackstone can, directly or indirectly, receive fees and other benefits from or otherwise have interests in both parties to the transaction, including Blackstone having different financial incentives with respect to the parties to the transaction. There can be no assurance that any investment or asset sold by a Client to its investor, other Clients, or Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities thereof, or any of their respective related parties (or where any such related parties are providing financing to the Clients or a third-party purchaser or where any interests in other Clients or Other Blackstone Client are being sold or redeemed by the Clients) will not be valued at or allocated a sale price that is lower than might otherwise have been the case if such asset were sold to a third-party rather than to the Client’s investor, other Clients, or Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities thereof, or any of their respective related parties (or were sold in a transaction where -52-  the Client or the third-party purchaser is not receiving financing from a related party, or in the case of interests in an Other Blackstone Client sold or redeemed by the Clients, if the issuer of the interests were a third-party rather than another Client or an Other Blackstone Client). Blackstone can, but will not be required to solicit third-party bids or obtain a third-party valuation prior to causing a Client or any of its Portfolio Entities to purchase or sell any asset or investment from or to a Client’s investor, other Clients, or Other Blackstone Clients, Portfolio Entities thereof, or any of their respective related parties as provided above (or to purchase, sell, or redeem any interests in another Client or an Other Blackstone Client). In the event Blackstone does solicit third-party bids in a sale process of any such assets, the participation of another Client or an Other Blackstone Client (or a related party thereof) through the financing of a third party purchase could potentially have a negative impact on the overall process. For example, a bidder that is not working with, or has otherwise chosen not to work with, another Client or an Other Blackstone Client for such financing could perceive the process as favoring parties that are doing so. While Blackstone will seek to develop sale procedures that mitigate conflicts for a Client, there can be no assurance that any bidding process will not be negatively impacted by the involvement of any other Clients or Other Blackstone Clients in the relevant transaction. All the foregoing transactions involve conflicts of interest, as Blackstone will receive fees and other benefits, directly or indirectly, from or otherwise have interests in both parties to the transaction, including different financial incentives Blackstone will have with respect to the parties to the transaction. These conflicts will not necessarily be resolved in favor of a Client, and Client investors will not necessarily receive notice or disclosure of the occurrence of these conflicts. Short Sales. Blackstone overall and Harvest itself run strategies that include long and short positions, and certain of these strategies permit short sales. A conflict of interest could arise if a security is sold short in one Harvest strategy at the same time as a position is held long in a separate Harvest strategy, as continuously short selling in a security could adversely affect the stock price of the same security held long in separate strategies, Funds, or Client accounts. Harvest has adopted various policies to mitigate these conflicts, including policies that require the presentation of clearly demonstrable facts supporting the rationale for any short sale where the same security is held long in separate strategies, Funds, or Client accounts, as well as policies that require Harvest to avoid favoring any specific account. Secondary Transfers. To the extent the Adviser has discretion over approving a secondary transfer of interests in a Client pursuant to such Client’s organizational documents, or is asked by a potential transferring investor to identify potential purchasers in a secondary transfer (including pursuant to a side letter or other agreement), the Adviser will do so in its sole discretion, taking into account certain factors that include, without limitation, some or all of the following: • • the Adviser’s evaluation of the financial resources of the potential purchaser, including its ability to meet capital contribution obligations; the Adviser’s perception of its past experiences and relationships with the potential purchaser, including its belief that the potential purchaser would help establish, recognize, strengthen and/or cultivate relationships that could provide benefits to current or future Clients, the Adviser and/or Blackstone and the expected amount of negotiations required in connection with a potential purchaser’s investment; • whether the potential purchaser would subject the Adviser, the applicable Client, or their affiliates to legal, regulatory, reporting, public relations, media or other burdens; • • a potential purchaser’s investment into another Client (including any commitment, or agreement to make a commitment, into an existing or a future Other Blackstone Client and/or other Client); requirements and/or acknowledgements in such Client’s organizational documents; and -53-  • such other factors as the Adviser deems appropriate under the circumstances in exercising such discretion. Additionally, from time to time the Adviser becomes aware of existing investors in a Client (including existing investors that are affiliates of the Adviser), investors of Other Blackstone Clients and/or other affiliated or third-party investors (including, without limitation, any such party that is sourced by a broker and/or other agent of the Adviser) that are interested in acquiring or selling interests in a Client through a secondary transfer. In such instances the Adviser could, in its sole discretion and without providing notice to all investors in the Client or those investors in the Client that have indicated an interest in selling or acquiring interests through a secondary purchase specifically, introduce such parties to potential counterparties, brokers and/or other agents, which from time to time will include one or more existing investors in the Clients, including, without limitation, certain Clients’ investors that have indicated an interest in selling or acquiring interests through a secondary transfer. For the avoidance of doubt, the Adviser will not be obligated to make any such introductions. It is possible that any such introduction will ultimately result in an investor in a Client being able to transfer its interests prior to other investors in the Client that are also seeking to transfer their interests and obtain liquidity. It is also possible that existing investors in a Client, investors in Other Blackstone Clients, and/or other third-party investors that acquire interests in a Client through a secondary transfer will do so on different terms and conditions than existing investors in the Client, including but not limited to with respect to management fees, performance-based compensation, or other fees payable by the Clients’ investors. The Adviser will be under no obligation to prioritize any specific Client investor seeking liquidity or treat Client investors equally in regard to liquidity or to prioritize any specific investor that has indicated an interest in acquiring interests through a secondary purchase. Restrictions Arising under the Securities Laws. Blackstone’s and its affiliates’ activities (including, without limitation, the holding of securities positions or having one of its employees on the board of directors of a portfolio company) could result in securities law restrictions on transactions in securities held by a Client, affect the prices of such securities or the ability of such entities to purchase, retain or dispose of such investments, or otherwise create conflicts of interest, any of which could have an adverse impact on the performance of a Client account and thus the return to the Client and to Fund investors. Additional Potential Conflicts. The officers, directors, members, managers, and employees of Harvest can trade in securities for their own accounts, subject to restrictions and reporting requirements as required by law or Harvest’s or Blackstone’s policies, or otherwise determined from time to time by Harvest, as applicable. In addition, certain Other Clients could be subject to the 1940 Act or other regulations that, due to the role of Blackstone and its affiliates, could restrict the ability of a Client to buy investments from, to sell investments to, or to invest in the same securities as such Other Clients. Such regulations can have the effect of limiting the investment opportunities available to a Client. Multi-Strategy Investors. Blackstone has entered, and it can be expected that Harvest and Blackstone in the future could enter, into agreements with investors involving an investor’s overall relationship with Blackstone or (going forward) Harvest, including one or more strategies in addition to the Clients’ strategies with terms and conditions applicable solely to such investor and its investment in multiple Blackstone, or Harvest, strategies that would not apply to other investors’ investments in any of the Funds. Such an agreement would typically involve an investor agreeing to make a capital commitment to multiple Harvest or Blackstone funds, one of which would include one or more of the Funds. Investors will not receive a copy of the agreement memorializing such a multi-strategy investment program (even if in the form of a side letter) and will be unable to elect any rights or benefits granted to such a multi-strategy investor. Specific examples of such additional rights and benefits include, among others, (i) specialized -54-  reporting, (ii) discounts on and/or reimbursement of management fees and/or performance-based compensation applied to some or all of the relevant investment program and/or investment vehicles (including, as applicable, the Funds), secondment of personnel from the investor to Harvest or Blackstone (or vice versa), and (iii) targeted amounts for co- investments alongside Harvest or Blackstone funds, including preferential allocation thereof and preferential terms and conditions related to such participation (including in respect of any performance-based compensation and/or management fees to be charged with respect thereto), which can include investments made by the Funds. The existence of any such arrangements could result in fewer co-investment opportunities (or reduced allocations) being made available to other investors. Blackstone Affiliated Service Providers. Harvest Clients and their Portfolio Entities will engage in transactions with one or more businesses that are owned or controlled by Blackstone directly, not through one of its funds, including the businesses described below. These businesses will, in certain circumstances, also enter into transactions with other counterparties of Harvest Clients and their Portfolio Entities, as well as service providers, vendors and Harvest Client investors. Blackstone could benefit from these transactions and activities through current income and creation of enterprise value in these businesses. No fees charged by these service providers and vendors will offset or reduce Management Fees, unless otherwise required by the Constituent Documents. Furthermore, Blackstone, Other Blackstone Clients and their Portfolio Entities and their affiliates and related parties will use the services of these Blackstone affiliates, including at different rates. Although Blackstone believes the services provided by its affiliates are equal or better than those of third parties, Blackstone directly benefits from the engagement of these affiliates, and there is therefore an inherent conflict of interest. Blackstone affiliated service providers and vendors, include, without limitation: Blackstone Capital Markets. Blackstone Capital Markets (“BXCM”) is a business unit of Blackstone that provides capital markets and investment banking services through an affiliated registered broker-dealer or another Blackstone affiliate. Blackstone, the Clients and their Portfolio Entities, Other Blackstone Clients and their portfolio entities, and third parties will, in certain circumstances, engage BXCM for debt and equity financings, including syndicated and non- syndicated offerings and sales, placements and dispositions (including structuring) of equity and debt securities or instruments in private and public transactions, and to provide other investment banking, underwriting, brokerage, capital markets or investment advisory or other services. References herein to Blackstone Capital Markets and BXCM (or equivalent) also include employees within other Blackstone business units that perform related or similar services, unless the context suggests otherwise. Aquicore. Aquicore is a cloud-based platform that tracks, analyzes and predicts key metrics in real estate with a focus on the reduction of energy consumption. Blackstone holds a minority investment in Aquicore. Banner. Bitfight, Inc. (d/b/a Banner Technologies) (“Banner”) is a Blackstone affiliate that can be expected to provide certain real estate management solution services, including capital expenditure management services and other project management services to, as applicable, Clients, Other Blackstone Clients, their respective Portfolio Entities, affiliates and related parties, and third parties. Equity Healthcare. Equity Healthcare LLC (“Equity Healthcare”) is a Blackstone affiliate that negotiates with providers of standard administrative services and insurance carriers for health -55-  benefit plans and other related services for cost discounts, quality of service monitoring, data services and clinical consulting. For reasons including the combined purchasing power of its client participants, which include unaffiliated third parties, Equity Healthcare is able to negotiate pricing terms that are believed to be more favorable than those that the portfolio entities could obtain for themselves on an individualized basis. LNLS. Lexington National Land Services (“LNLS”) is a Blackstone affiliate that (i) acts as a title agent in facilitating and issuing title insurance, (ii) provides title support services for title insurance underwriters, (iii) in certain circumstances, provides courtesy title settlement services and (iv) acts as escrow agent in connection with certain investments by the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and their Portfolio Entities, affiliates and related parties, and third parties, including, in certain cases, Blackstone’s borrowers. In exchange for such services, LNLS earns fees which would have otherwise been paid to third parties. Blackstone generally will periodically benchmark the relevant costs to the extent that market data is available, except when such data is impractical or unduly burdensome to obtain, or when LNLS is providing such services in a state where the insurance premium or escrow fee, as applicable, is regulated by the state or when LNLS is part of a syndicate of title insurance companies where the insurance premium is negotiated by other title insurance underwriters or their agents on an arm’s-length basis. Such benchmarking, where conducted, will assess whether LNLS rates are within a range that Blackstone has determined is reflective of title agency rates in the applicable and comparable markets. LNLS rates will not necessarily be equal to or lower than the median within such range. Norm Ai. Norm Ai, is a regulatory compliance and artificial intelligence software company that integrates compliance checks into business activities, and is a Portfolio Entity of certain Other Blackstone Clients. Blackstone also holds an ownership interest in Norm Ai. Blackstone, the Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or their respective Portfolio Entities can be expected to use investor including to support their production of marketing materials and Norm Ai, communications. Moreover, Norm Ai provides certain operational services to a law firm that it launched, Norm Law LLP. Norm Law LLP is powered by Norm Ai’s platform. Accordingly, Norm Ai may benefit economically from its relationship with Norm Law LLP. Neither Blackstone nor the Clients nor Other Blackstone Clients have any ownership or other interest in Norm Law LLP, but to the extent Blackstone, the Clients or Other Blackstone Clients in the future engage Norm Law LLP for legal services, Norm Ai may indirectly benefit from such engagement. 73 Strings. 73 Strings is an integrated platform that provides data extraction for analysis in portfolio monitoring and valuation purposes. Blackstone holds a minority investment in 73 Strings. Blackstone, the Clients and Other Blackstone Clients will engage 73 Strings to collect data from portfolio entities and store critical valuation inputs. Valuation Matters. Harvest’s investments are typically publicly traded with publicly available valuations. If not publicly traded, the fair value of all investments or of any assets received in exchange for any investments or interests in a Client will ultimately be determined by the Adviser in accordance with the Clients’ organizational documents. It will, in certain circumstances, be the case that the carrying value of an investment does not reflect the price at which the investment is ultimately sold in the market, and the difference between carrying value from time to time and the ultimate sales price could be material. The Adviser reserves the right to rely on the analysis of third parties to determine such valuations either on a case-by-case basis or universally in the Adviser’s discretion. The valuation of such investments will be determined by the Adviser in accordance with procedures set forth in the Clients’ organizational documents and the Adviser’s valuation policy for the applicable Client. The Adviser will select a valuation -56-  methodology for each investment in its sole discretion. Such determinations involve conflicts of interest in that the valuation methodology the Advisor selects for certain investments could result in higher valuations than would be the case had the Adviser selected an alternative valuation methodology, which would in turn affect under certain circumstances following the Client’s investment period, the amount of management fees payable to the Adviser. Valuation methodologies can also be expected to change from time to time as the Adviser deems appropriate. The valuation methodologies used to value any investment (including determining whether to write off an investment or whether an investment has become worthless under the Internal Revenue Code) could vary over time, will involve subjective judgments and projections and will, in certain circumstances, not be accurate or adequately reflect all material events applicable to a particular investment, the impact of which might not be foreseeable at the time of such valuation. In making its determination in respect of an investment’s valuation, the Adviser is entitled to take into account all facts and circumstances it deems relevant, subject to the provisions of the Clients’ organizational documents, and there can be no assurance that a third party or investor would agree with one or more of the factors, assumptions or inputs used by the Adviser in making any such determination. Valuation methodologies will also involve assumptions and opinions about future events, which could turn out to be incorrect. For example, the Adviser could believe that capitalization rates will be lower upon a sale of an investment than they ultimately are, or that interest rates will decline during the hold period of an investment thereby creating attractive value even though rates do not ultimately decline. Valuation methodologies could also permit reliance on a prior period valuation of particular investments. Ultimate realization of the value of an investment depends to a great extent on economic, market and other conditions beyond the Adviser’s control. There will be no retroactive adjustment in the valuation of any investment, the offering price at which interests in a Client were purchased by investors or repurchased by such Client, as applicable, or the management fees and/or performance-based compensation paid to the Adviser to the extent (a) the Adviser becomes aware of any different third-party valuation (including by a valuation expert, underwriter, bank and/or borrower) with respect to the same investment, or (b) any valuation proves to not accurately reflect the realizable value of an investment (subject to any clawback mechanism described in the Client’s organizational documents) even if that retroactive adjustment would benefit the Client and/or its investors. For purposes of the Clients’ organizational documents, a disposition will only be deemed to have occurred as a result of a reduction in the fair value of an investment if the Adviser determines that the investment has been written off completely (i.e., the adjusted cost of the investment has been reduced to zero by the Adviser in accordance with the terms of the Clients’ organizational documents or the Adviser determines that the investment has otherwise become worthless within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code). For the avoidance of doubt, the invested capital with respect to an investment (or its adjusted cost) will not be written off (or reduced to zero) merely because the balance of probabilities indicates that such investment, more likely than not, has a fair market value of zero; rather, a write off will only occur for purposes of the Clients’ organizational documents where the Adviser determines that the fair market value of such investment has been reduced to zero or that the investment has become worthless within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code. The valuation of the Clients’ investments, as well as the determination of whether and when an investment has been disposed of or written off (which determination remains in the sole discretion of Blackstone), will affect the amount and timing of the Adviser’s performance-based compensation and, under certain circumstances following the Client’s investment period, the amount of management fees payable to the Adviser. In addition, the valuation of partially realized or unrealized investments where a Client has a residual interest in such investment will, in certain circumstances, be close to zero, and to the extent such investments are unrealized, the management fees payable to the Adviser will be based on the -57-  invested capital relative to such investment. The valuation of investments of other Clients and Other Blackstone Clients will, in certain circumstances, affect the decision of potential investors to subscribe for interests in a Client. Similarly, the valuation of investments of a Client will, in certain circumstances, affect the ability of Blackstone to form and attract capital to other Clients and/or Other Blackstone Clients or to raise a successor fund to the Clients. As a result, the valuation of investments of a Client, other Clients and Other Blackstone Clients, which generally remains in the sole discretion of Blackstone, involves conflicts in which the Adviser is incentivized to defer realization of investments or hold them longer, make more speculative investments, seek to deploy the Clients’ capital in investments at an accelerated pace, determine valuations that are higher (or lower) than the actual fair value of investments, and/or mark down rather than write off, or otherwise avoid and/or delay writing off, an investment. Furthermore, the Adviser will in certain years be incentivized to obtain third-party appraisals more frequently than annually for certain of the Clients’ investments. Although the Adviser and its affiliates intend to operate in accordance with the Clients’ organizational documents, as well as valuation and other policies, practices and procedures, in order to mitigate the potential for subjectivity in making valuation determinations, there can be no assurance that such policies, practices and procedures will address all of the necessary factors to do so, or completely eliminate all potential conflicts of interest in such determinations, or that any such conflicts will be resolved in favor of a Client or its investors. In addition, in the event that the Clients make any distribution in-kind to their investors, the fair market value of such securities distributed in-kind is expected to be determined by the Adviser (who at times could, but is not required to, receive input from a third-party valuation expert), subject to the terms and conditions of the Clients’ organizational documents. As there is no guarantee that such valuations will reflect the value for such assets that would be achieved if such assets were sold to a third party rather than distributed in-kind, it is possible that investors in the Clients will receive such assets at a valuation that does not reflect the price for such assets that they would otherwise have received if such assets were sold in a third-party sale. If the valuations made by the Adviser in connection with the distribution-in-kind and used to calculate performance and carried interest distributions are higher than what could have been received if such investments were instead disposed of to third parties, held to maturity, or otherwise disposed of in another manner, the amount of performance-based compensation received by the Adviser, or the timing of receipt of such compensation, could be higher and earlier in time than it would have been if such assets were sold in a third-party sale, held to maturity or otherwise disposed of in another manner. Additionally, under certain circumstances, because the amount of proceeds Clients’ investors are deemed to receive in connection with distributions in-kind of marketable securities (including for purposes of calculating the Adviser’s performance-based compensation) is based on an average of the trading prices both prior to and after the date of distribution (as more fully described in the Clients’ organizational documents), the Adviser’s performance-based compensation could be based on a valuation that is higher than the price of the securities at the time they are actually distributed to Clients’ investors or that the Adviser would have received had such securities been sold for cash at such time. Furthermore, the Adviser and/or Blackstone could determine to undertake a distribution in-kind of securities to investors in some but not all of the Clients or Other Blackstone Clients that are invested in the same securities or instruments, with the result that the investors in such Clients or Other Blackstone Clients that invested in the same securities will have a different return on their investment, which could include a Client, other Blackstone Clients and/or individual investors therein receiving a distribution through a distribution in-kind of securities at a different time than a disposal for cash or distribution in- kind of the same class of securities by other Clients, other Blackstone Clients and/or individual investors -58-  therein, or receiving a distribution in kind where other Clients, other Blackstone Clients and/or individual investors therein are offered and/or distributed cash. In such an instance, one Client could receive a lower price for the same securities than the price received by such other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or individual investors, notwithstanding that the Client and such other Clients, Other Blackstone Clients and/or individual investors might have been invested in the same securities and exited the investment at the same time. Receipt of Compensation from Investment Advisers [Item 10.D.] Harvest does not recommend or select other investment advisers for its Clients. -59-  CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS, AND PERSONAL TRADING [Item 11] Harvest recognizes and believes that: (i) high ethical standards are essential for its success and to maintain the confidence of its investors; (ii) its long-term business interests are best served by adherence to the principle that the interests of investors come first; and, (iii) it has a fiduciary duty to its investors to act in the best interests of the Funds. All Advisor personnel are required to act in accordance with the implied contractual covenants of good faith and fair dealing in respect of their dealings with investors and are required to comply with applicable law. Blackstone and Harvest have adopted a Code of Ethics (the “Code”) that governs a number of potential conflicts of interest that exist in connection with the Clients under management. The Code is reasonably designed to ensure that the Advisor meets its fiduciary obligation to the Advisor’s clients (or prospective clients) and to instill a culture of compliance within the Advisor. An additional benefit of the Code is to detect and prevent violations of securities laws. The Code is distributed to each employee at the time of hire and annually thereafter, and it is available on Blackstone’s intranet website. The Advisor also supplements the Code with ongoing monitoring of employee activity. The Code addresses, among other things, the following: • • • • • • Requirements related to confidentiality; Limitations on, and reporting of, gifts and entertainment; Pre‐clearance of political contributions; Pre‐clearance and reporting of employee personal securities transactions; Pre‐clearance of outside business activities; and, Protection of persons who engage in “whistle blowing” activities from retaliation. On an annual basis, Harvest requires all employees to certify that they are in compliance with the Code. Blackstone offers many different products and services across its many businesses, and there are several potential conflicts of interest which will from time to time arise. Please see Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations [Item 10] for a list of certain relevant investment related potential conflicts. The Advisor has adopted policies and procedures reasonably designed to address such potential conflicts of interest. The Adviser and its related personnel are subject to guidelines governing the ability to trade in personal accounts. The guidelines generally require that such trading be conducted for investment rather than speculative purposes (including by having minimum holding periods) and that all such personal securities transactions receive pre-clearance from the Blackstone Legal and Compliance Department. As a policy matter, Blackstone personnel are generally prohibited from purchasing single-name public securities in their self-directed personal securities brokerage accounts. These guidelines are reasonably designed to comply with SEC requirements that registered investment advisors have a Code of Ethics, and are intended to assist Blackstone with identifying and mitigating actual or potential conflicts of interest with Blackstone’s clients that may arise as a result of such transactions. In addition, Blackstone has implemented certain policies and procedures (e.g., information walls) to restrict access to material non- public information. The Blackstone Legal and Compliance Department is responsible for overseeing -60-  compliance with the requirements of the Code, which requirements include, but are not limited to, reporting of personal investment activities, accounts, preclearance of personal securities transactions, reporting of certain investment transactions and periodic compliance certifications. The Code is available for review upon request. To request a copy of the Code, please contact Harvest’s Chief Compliance Offer, Anthony Merhige, at (610) 293-7800 or anthony.merhige@blackstone.com. Principals, officers, and employees of Harvest and its related persons and affiliates are investors in our Funds. As such, it is possible that Harvest could cause an investor or Client to buy or sell securities in which Harvest or one of its related persons has a financial interest. For example, Harvest could recommend that a client or investor invest in a Fund for which Harvest or an affiliate serves as investment manager, general partner, managing member or manager. Harvest also could recommend that a Fund invest in company in which another Fund previously has invested. Because Harvest could have a nominal ownership interest in both Funds, Harvest could have a potential conflict of interest in making such a recommendation, which Harvest addresses through disclosure to Clients and Fund investors. The Advisor addresses attendant conflicts as described in the applicable Organizational Documents. -61-  BROKERAGE PRACTICES [Item 12] Broker-Dealer Selection [Item 12.A.] In the course of providing our services, Harvest will execute trades for our clients through broker-dealers. When a client has given us broker discretion, there is no restriction on the brokers we select to execute client transactions. Our general guiding principle is to trade through broker-dealers who offer the best overall execution under the particular circumstances we establish. With respect to execution, we consider a number of factors, including if the broker has custody of client assets, the actual handling of the order, the ability of the broker-dealer to settle the trade promptly and accurately, the financial standing of the broker-dealer, the ability of the broker-dealer to position stock to facilitate execution, our past experience with similar trades, and other factors which can be unique to a particular order. Based on our judgment with respect to these factors, we could trade through broker-dealers that charge fees that are higher than the lowest available fees. Harvest has established a Brokerage Committee that meets bi-annually to review a schedule of the executing brokers and dealers utilized by Harvest during the preceding six months and the commissions paid to, and services received from, such brokers and dealers, to evaluate reasonableness in light of services received and consistency with Harvest’s policies and procedures. Trade errors are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If Harvest determines that gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud was the direct cause of a trade error, Harvest generally will compensate a Client or Fund for any losses resulting from such trade error. Broker-dealers cannot be compensated via commissions or Client or Fund transactions for absorbing a trading error for which Harvest is required to compensate a Client or Fund under its policy. Where a third party’s negligence or wrongdoing causes a trading error that results in a material loss to a Client, Harvest will attempt to recover the amount of the loss from the third party for the Client or Fund, but Harvest does not assume responsibility for compensating the Client or Fund, or making the third party compensate the Client or Fund, in such cases. Harvest does not enter into “soft dollar” arrangements (as that term is used under Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) with a broker-dealer or any third party. Brokerage for Client Referrals [Item 12.A.2.] Neither Harvest nor any of its Clients can select or recommend a broker-dealer based on whether Harvest or a related person receives client referrals from a broker-dealer or third party. Directed Brokerage [Item 12.A.3.] Harvest does not recommend, request, or require a Client to execute transactions through a specified broker-dealer. At times, a Client could direct Harvest to use certain brokerage firms as part of a commission recapture or minority brokerage program. As a result of directed brokerage, the Client could pay higher brokerage commissions because Harvest likely cannot aggregate orders to reduce transaction costs or the client could receive less favorable prices because Harvest cannot use a broker-dealer offering a better price. -62-  Aggregation of Trades [Item 12.B.] Harvest will typically aggregate numerous Clients’ purchases or sales as a single transaction. Transactions are usually aggregated to seek a lower commission, lower costs, or a more advantageous net price. The benefits, if any, obtained as a result of such aggregation are generally allocated pro-rata among the accounts of the Clients that participated in the aggregated transaction by charging all clients the same price per unit of the security acquired. Our trade desk shall determine how to source appropriate volumes to complete a trade or a trade rotation, as necessary. Any rotation implemented shall seek to provide fair access to investment opportunities for all Funds and Clients over time. Pro-rata allocations and/or trade rotations are typically not designed or implemented for among, but not limited to, trade execution relating to the investment of new Client accounts, Client-directed contributions or withdrawals of assets, or trades, including any intraday trades, made for vehicles running different strategies. Harvest is not obligated to acquire for all Clients any security that it could acquire for the account of a particular Client or Fund, if in Harvest’s absolute discretion it is not practical or desirable to acquire a position in such security. -63-  REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS [Item 13] General Description [Items 13.A. and 13.B] Harvest’s investment team monitors capital market conditions and client circumstances and makes portfolio adjustments as appropriate. Client accounts are formally reviewed at least quarterly for compliance with investment guidelines. At a minimum, the Chief Compliance Officer participates in the review. Harvest typically determines guideline compliance as of the time of purchase of a security, notwithstanding subsequent market movement. This is likely reflected in the operative contract document despite the inclusion of guideline provisions tied to various percentages, as the intent of Harvest’s guidelines is not to dictate portfolio management and /or potentially unwanted tax outcomes solely based upon security price movement, but rather to act as broad guideposts, while allowing the investment team flexibility in the pursuit of risk- adjusted total returns. Client Reports [Item 13.C.] Investors in the Funds receive monthly performance reports and written quarterly reports which will include capital balance and Fund performance statistics. Investors also will receive written annual audited financial statements for the Fund in which they are invested. These reports are delivered via the Fund Administrator’s portal. SMA Clients receive performance reports monthly from Harvest and written quarterly reports which will include capital balance and Fund performance statistics, as well as account statements from their custodian. The Advisor makes use of a website, BX Access, available at www.bxaccess.com for the distribution of Harvest reports and other information to SMA Clients. Custodian reports are distributed by the Custodian. Certain investors in the Funds could request information relating to a Fund and, to the extent such information is readily available or can be obtained without unreasonable effort or expense, the Registrant will provide such investors with the information requested. Investors that request and receive such information will consequently possess information regarding the business and affairs of a Fund that is likely not be known to other investors. As a result, certain investors could take actions on the basis of such information that other investors, lacking such information, do not take. -64-  CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION [Item 14] Other Compensation [Item 14.A.] Harvest does not receive any benefits, economic or otherwise, from non-clients for providing investment advice or other advisory services. As mentioned in Wrap Fee Programs [Item 4.D] above, Harvest receives a portion of the wrap fee, which the Program sponsor withdraws from Program Client accounts, in return for its portfolio management services to Program Client accounts. Compensation for Client Referrals [Item 14.B.] Blackstone Securities Partners L.P., an affiliate of Blackstone, serves as a placement agent to the Funds in the U.S. but is not compensated for such services. Please see Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations [Item 10] for more information. -65-  CUSTODY [Item 15] Harvest is deemed to have custody of the funds or securities of its Funds. Rule 206(4)-2 (the “Custody Rule”) of the Advisers Act defines custody as holding client securities or funds or having any authority to obtain possession of them, including the authority to withdraw funds or securities from a client’s accounts or ownership of or access to client funds or securities (for example, where the related person of the investment adviser serves as the general partner of a limited partnership, the managing member of a limited liability company, or in comparable position for another type of pooled investment vehicle). Harvest maintains Fund assets with qualified custodians, such as U.S. banks, registered broker- dealers, futures commission merchants, and certain foreign financial institutions. The Advisor generally complies with the Advisers Act custody rule by, among other things, providing all investors in the Funds with audited financial statements. Investors in our Funds receive account statements monthly directly from the Fund Administrator. Investors should carefully review the account statements received. Our Clients receive monthly account statements directly from their custodian, as well as monthly performance reports from Harvest. Clients should carefully review the account statements received from both the custodian and Harvest to make certain that the information in each is consistent. -66-  INVESTMENT DISCRETION [Item 16] Harvest routinely accepts discretionary authority to manage securities on behalf of its SMA Clients in the investment management agreement with the SMA Client. When an SMA Client grants Harvest investment discretion, Harvest is authorized to invest, sell, and reinvest proceeds in the SMA Client’s account without obtaining the SMA Client’s prior confirmation of any proposed action. Harvest does, however, manage the account in accordance with the investment guidelines and/or restrictions that have been provided by the SMA Client in its investment management agreement. Harvest has discretion over the assets of the Funds and of Program Clients. Information about a Fund’s investment objective and strategies, investment guidelines and restrictions, fees and expenses, and other material information can be found in the Fund’s private placement memorandum. Please refer to Wrap Fee Programs [Item 4.D] above for a discussion of the limitations that Program Clients could place on Harvest’s discretionary authority. -67-  VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES [Item 17] Proxy Voting Policies – Authority to Vote [Item 17.A.] Unless directed otherwise by contract, Harvest generally assumes the responsibility for voting proxies with respect to securities held in our Funds and Client accounts, including Clients that are pension plans (“plans”) subject to ERISA. Rule 206(4)-6 under the Advisers Act (the “Proxy Voting Rule”) places specific requirements on registered investment advisers with proxy voting authority. As part of our Compliance Policy we have implemented a Proxy Voting Policy which is reasonably designed and implemented in a manner reasonably expected to ensure that we vote proxies in the best interest of our Clients and Funds and to address how we will resolve any conflict of interest that could arise when voting proxies. Notwithstanding the foregoing, because proxy proposals and individual company facts and circumstances may vary, the Advisor may not always vote proxies in accordance with the Policy. In addition, many possible proxy matters are not covered in the Policy. Generally, the Advisor will vote proxies in favor of management’s recommendations, including, but not limited to, the following matters: (i) the election of the board of directors; (ii) the approval of financial statements as presented by management; and, (iii) will generally vote in favor of the selection of independent auditors even if the proposed auditor is currently the auditor of Blackstone. From time to time, conflicts can be expected to arise between the interests of the investor, on the one hand, and the interests of the Advisor or its affiliates, on the other hand. If the Advisor determines that it has, or may be perceived to have, a conflict of interest when voting a proxy, the Advisor will address matters involving such conflicts of interest on a case-by-case basis by consulting with the Chief Compliance Officer, subject to legal, regulatory, contractual or other applicable considerations potentially including third party recommendations. The Advisor, in its sole discretion, may elect not to vote certain routine proxies if unduly burdensome. Investors may request a copy of the Proxy Voting Policy and the voting records relating to proxies by contacting Harvest’s Chief Compliance Offer, Anthony Merhige, at (610) 293-7800 or anthony.merhige@blackstone.com. Proxy Voting Policies - No Authority [Item 17.B.] Some of our Clients maintain the authority to vote their own proxies. In these circumstances, the Client receives proxies directly from the custodian. We will sometimes forward our view and recommendation on a particular proxy or solicitation to a Client for their consideration, but the Client is under no obligation to consider our views. We also respond to proxy questions from Clients as proffered and or needed. -68-  FINANCIAL INFORMATION [Item 18] Balance Sheet [Item 18.A.], Financial Conditions [Item 18.B.], Bankruptcy Petition [Item 18.C.] Harvest does not require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per Client six months or more in advance and thus has not included a balance sheet of its most recent fiscal year. The Registrant is not aware of any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability meet its contractual commitments to Clients, nor has Harvest at any time been the subject of a bankruptcy petition. -69-