Section # No Guarantees. No employer guarantees that any Reference Investment Fund will not result in a reduction of, or loss to, any Deferred Amount or Deferred Compensation or any Account. Neither the Company, nor any Participating Employer nor the Trustee guarantees the amount or payment of any Deferred Compensation or other amount payable to any Participant under the Plan.

Section # No Responsibility for Results of Reference Investment Funds. The Company shall not, and the Participating Employers, the Board of Directors, the Compensation Committee and the Committee shall not, have any responsibility or liability in the event any Reference Investment Fund selected by any Participant shall result in any reduction in any Deferred Amount or reduce from one Valuation Date to the next Valuation Date the amount of such Participant’s Deferred Compensation or fail to result in any increase of Deferred Compensation.