EXHIBIT (a)(7)
CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 6
TO
THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 6 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 30th day of March, 2007.
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 eleven
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; and Calamos Government Money
Market Fund; and
WHEREAS, on March 30, 2007, the Trustees voted unanimously to (i) designate
a new Sub-Trust, Calamos Total Return Bond Fund 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 thirteen 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
each of which, other than Calamos Government Money Market Fund, shall
have five classes of Shares, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class I and
Class R or such classes as may from time to time be established and
designated. Calamos Government Money Market Fund shall have one class
of Shares, 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 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/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
Title: Secretary
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