EXHIBIT (a)(6)
CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO
THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 5 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 31st day of
December, 2005.
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 I, Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust shall be
amended to update the Trust's address; 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 Fund; Calamos High Yield Fund; Calamos Value Fund,
Calamos Blue Chip Fund; and Calamos International Growth Fund; and
WHEREAS, on December 16, 2005, the Trustees voted unanimously to change
the name of the Sub-Trust designated Calamos Market Neutral Fund to Calamos
Market Neutral Income Fund and to authorize the Secretary to execute and file
this Amendment No. 5 to the Declaration of Trust (the "Amendment"); and
NOW, THEREFORE, effective December 31, 2005, the Declaration of Trust
is hereby amended as follows:
I. The second sentence of Article I, Section 1.1 of the Declaration of
Trust is hereby amended to read in pertinent part as follows:
"The principal office of the Trust shall be located at 0000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 or at such other
location as the Trustees may from time to time determine."
II. 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 nine
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
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. 5 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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