Exhibit 99.(q)
Lazard Active ETF Trust
The Lazard Funds, Inc.
Lazard Retirement Series, Inc.
Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc.
(each, the “Fund”)
Power of Attorney
Each person whose signature appears below and who is a Director/Trustee and/or Officer of each of the above-listed Funds hereby constitutes and appoints Mark R. Anderson and Robert A. Spiro, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities (until revoked in writing) to sign any and all Registration Statements of a Fund on Form N-1A or Form N-2, as applicable, (including post-effective amendments thereto), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
| Signature | Title | Date | |
| /s/ Jennifer A. Ryan | Chief
Executive Officer, President and Director/Trustee |
March 18, 2026 | |
| Jennifer A. Ryan | |||
| /s/ Christina Kennedy | Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer | March 18, 2026 | |
| Christina Kennedy | |||
| /s/ Franci J. Blassberg | Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 | |
| Franci J. Blassberg | |||
| /s/
Kenneth S. Davidson Kenneth S. Davidson |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 | |
| /s/
Nancy A. Eckl Nancy A. Eckl |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 | |
| /s/
Robert L. Forsyth Robert L. Forsyth |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 |
| /s/ Trevor W. Morrison Trevor W. Morrison |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 | |
| /s/ Richard Reiss, Jr Richard Reiss, Jr. |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 | |
| /s/ Robert M. Solmson Robert M. Solmson |
Director/Trustee | March 18, 2026 |
| STATE OF NEW YORK | ) | |
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| COUNTY OF NEW YORK | ) |
On March 18, 2026 before me, the undersigned, personally appeared the above-named individuals, each personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individuals whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same in their capacities, and that by their signatures on the instrument, the individuals, or the person upon behalf of which the individuals acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
/s/ Stephen G. Rutman
Notary Public