CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 6
TO
THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 6 to the Second Amended and Restated Agreement and
Declaration of Trust dated as of October 3, 2001, as amended (the "Declaration
of Trust") of Calamos Investment Trust (the "Trust"), made as of the 27th day of
February, 2006.
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 nine
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; and Calamos International Growth Fund; and
WHEREAS, on February 27, 2006, the Trustees voted unanimously to (i)
designate a new Sub-Trust, the Calamos Multi-Fund Equity and (ii) authorize the
Secretary to execute and file this Amendment No. 6 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 ten 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 Fund
Calamos High Yield Fund
Calamos Value Fund
Calamos International Growth Fund
Calamos Multi-Fund Equity
each of which shall have four classes of Shares, Class
A, Class B, Class C, and Class I 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. 6 to the Second
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/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
Title: Secretary
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