FIRST AMENDMENT TO INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

Exhibit D.1.A

FIRST AMENDMENT

TO INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDMENT effective as of the 8^th day of September, 2014 amends that certain Investment Advisory Agreement dated as of February 19, 2014 (the “Agreement”), by and between Virtus Alternative Solutions Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), and Virtus Alternative Investment Advisers, Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the “Adviser”), as follows:

1. Virtus Strategic Income Fund (the “Fund”) is hereby added as an additional Series to the Agreement.

2. The investment advisory fees for the Funds are hereby set forth on Schedule A to the Agreement, Schedule A is hereby deleted and Schedule A attached hereto is substituted in its place to reflect such addition.

3. Except as expressly amended hereby, all provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and are unchanged in all other respects. All initial capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement, as amended.

4. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including executed counterparts delivered and exchanged by facsimile transmission) with the same effect as if all signing parties had originally signed the same document, and all counterparts shall be construed together and shall constitute the same instrument. For all purposes, signatures delivered and exchanged by facsimile transmission shall be binding and effective to the same extent as original signatures.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto intending to be legally bound have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized officers of other representatives.

	VIRTUS ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TRUST
	By:	/s/ W. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
	Name:   W. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
	Title:     Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
	VIRTUS ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT ADVISERS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	Name:  Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	Title:  Executive Vice President

SCHEDULE A

Series		Annual Investment Advisory Fee
		1st $5 Billion				$5+ Billon
Virtus Alternative Income Solution Fund			1.80	%			1.75	%
Virtus Alternative Inflation Solution Fund			1.75	%			1.70	%
Virtus Alternative Total Solution Fund			1.95	%			1.90	%
Virtus Strategic Income Fund			0.80	%			0.75	%