CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 1 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 22nd day of
June, 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 ten
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; and Calamos
Multi-Fund Equity; and
WHEREAS, on June 22, 2006, the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees, pursuant to authority granted such Committee by the Trustees, voted
unanimously to change the name of the Sub-Trust designated Calamos Multi-Fund
Equity to Calamos Multi-Fund Blend and to authorize the Secretary to execute and
file this Amendment No. 1 to the Declaration of Trust (the "Amendment"); and
NOW, THEREFORE, effective June 22, 2006, 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 Income Fund
Calamos High Yield Fund
Calamos Value Fund
Calamos International Growth Fund
Calamos Multi-Fund Blend
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. 1 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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