CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST AMENDMENT NO. 11 TO THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 11 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 June, 2008.
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 fifteen 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 Government Money Market Fund, Calamos
Total Return Bond Fund, Calamos 130/30 Equity Fund and Calamos Emerging Economies Growth Fund;
WHEREAS, on June 25, 2008, the Trustees voted unanimously to change the name of the Sub-Trust
designated “Calamos Emerging Economies Growth Fund” to “Calamos Evolving World Growth Fund”; and
WHEREAS, the undersigned has been duly authorized by the Trustees to execute and file this
Amendment No. 11 to the Declaration of Trust (the “Amendment”);
NOW, THEREFORE, effective immediately, the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as
follows:
I. 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 fifteen Sub-Trusts:
| Calamos Blue Chip 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 Government Money Market Fund | ||
| Calamos Total Return Bond Fund | ||
| Calamos 130/30 Equity Fund | ||
| Calamos Evolving World Growth Fund |
each of which shall have four classes of Shares, designated Class A, Class B, Class
C and Class I, and each of which except Calamos Government Money Market Fund shall
have an additional class of Shares designated 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. 11 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
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| Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||
| Title: Secretary | ||||||
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