Amendment to Amended and Restated Principal Financial Officer Services Agreement

Exhibit (h)(78)

Amendment to

Amended and Restated Principal Financial Officer Services Agreement

This Amendment, dated as of December 16, 2016 (this “Amendment”), is to the Amended and Restated Principal Financial Officer Services Agreement dated December 13, 2011 (the “Agreement”), by and between Financial Investors Trust (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust with its principal place of business at 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, 00000, on behalf of its series listed in Appendix A hereto (each, a “Fund” and together, the “Funds”), as such exhibit may be modified from time to time by written agreement of the parties hereto, and ALPS Fund Services, Inc. (“ALPS”), a Colorado corporation with its principal place of business at 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, 00000. 

WHEREAS, the Trust and ALPS wish to amend the Agreement in certain respects as more fully set forth below.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants hereinafter contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1.        Effective as of the date of this Amendment, APPENDIX A of the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the APPENDIX A (LIST OF FUNDS) attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.

2.        Except as specifically set forth herein, all other provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.  Any items not herein defined shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written.

	FINANCIAL INVESTORS TRUST,
	on behalf of the Funds
	By:	/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
	Name:	Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
	Title:	President
	ALPS FUND SERVICES, INC.
	By:	/s/ Xxxxxx X. May
	Name:	Xxxxxx X. May
	Title:	President

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APPENDIX A

LIST OF FUNDS

Aspen Managed Futures Strategy Fund

Aspen Portfolio Strategy Fund

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