CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST AMENDMENT NO. 15 TO THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
Exhibit (a)(16)
CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 15
TO
THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 15
TO
THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 15 to the Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated
as of March 30, 2006, as amended (the “Declaration of Trust”) of Calamos Investment Trust (the
“Trust”), made as of the 25th day of March, 2010.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 7.3 of the Declaration of Trust provides that the Declaration of
Trust may be amended at any time, so long as such amendment does not adversely affect the rights
of any shareholder and so long as such amendment is not in contravention of applicable law,
including the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by an instrument in writing signed by an
officer of the Trust pursuant to a vote of a majority of the Trustees; and
WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 4.1 of the Declaration of Trust provides that the Trustees of the
Trust may establish and designate Sub-Trusts of the Trust and classes thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Trustees have previously established and designated thirteen Sub-Trusts of the
Trust (the “Series”), being Calamos Convertible Fund;
Calamos Growth and Income Fund; Calamos Global Growth and Income Fund; Calamos Growth Fund; Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund; Calamos High Yield
Fund; Calamos Value Fund; Calamos Blue Chip Fund; Calamos
International Growth Fund; Calamos Multi-Fund Blend; Calamos Global Equity Fund; Calamos Total Return Bond Fund; Calamos Evolving
World Growth Fund; and Calamos Discovery Growth Fund;
WHEREAS,
on March 25, 2010, the Trustees voted unanimously to (i) designate a new class, Class
B, for Calamos Discovery Growth Fund; and (iii) authorize the Secretary to execute and file this
Amendment No. 15 to the Declaration of Trust (the “Amendment”);
NOW, THEREFORE, effective March 31, 2010, the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as
follows:
1. The first paragraph of Article IV, Section 4.2 (other than subsections (a) through (m)
thereof) of the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended to read in pertinent part as follows:
“Section 4.2 Establishment and Designation of Sub-Trusts and Classes. Without limiting the
authority of the Trustees set forth in Section 4.1 to establish and designate any further
Sub-Trusts, the Trustees hereby establish and designate fourteen Sub-Trusts:
Calamos Blue Chip Fund
Calamos Convertible Fund
Calamos Growth and Income Fund
Calamos Convertible Fund
Calamos Growth and Income Fund
Calamos Global Growth and Income Fund
Calamos Growth Fund
Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund
Calamos High Yield Fund
Calamos Value Fund
Calamos International Growth Fund
Calamos Multi-Fund Blend
Calamos Global Equity Fund
Calamos Total Return Bond Fund
Calamos Evolving World Growth Fund
Calamos Discovery Growth Fund
Calamos Growth Fund
Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund
Calamos High Yield Fund
Calamos Value Fund
Calamos International Growth Fund
Calamos Multi-Fund Blend
Calamos Global Equity Fund
Calamos Total Return Bond Fund
Calamos Evolving World Growth Fund
Calamos Discovery Growth Fund
each
of which shall have five classes of Shares, designated Class A, Class B, Class C,
Class I and Class R, or such classes as may from time to time be established and
designated. The Shares of such Sub-Trusts and any Shares of any further Sub-Trust or class
that may from time to time be established and designated by the Trustees shall (unless the
Trustees otherwise determine with respect to some further Sub-Trust or class at the time of
establishing and designating the same) have the following relative rights and preferences;”
The undersigned hereby certifies that Amendment No. 15 to the Third Amended and Restated
Agreement and Declaration of Trust set forth above has been duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of the Declaration of Trust.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereto set his hand as of the day and year first above
written.
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||
Title: Secretary |
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