EX 99.28(g)(5)

Amendment to

Master Global Custody Agreement between

the Customer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

This Amendment to the Master Global Custody Agreement between the Customer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. dated March 24, 2011 (“Agreement”), is by and between Curian Series Trust and Curian Variable Series Trust (each individually “Trust”, collectively, the “Trusts”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“Custodian”).

Whereas, the parties have agreed to amend Schedule A of the Agreement to amend the following fund name (“Fund Name Change”):

Fund Name Change (effective March 1, 2012)

Curian/Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodities Fund to

Curian/Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodities Strategy Fund.

Now, Therefore, the parties hereto agree to amend the Agreement as follows:

1.   To delete Schedule A of the Agreement, and substitute it with Schedule A attached hereto.

2.   Except as specifically amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.

3.   The Trusts and the Custodian hereby each represent and warrant to the other that it has full authority to enter into this Amendment upon the terms and conditions hereof and that the individual executing this Amendment on its behalf has the requisite authority to bind the Trusts or Custodian to this Amendment.

In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed as of March 15, 2012, dated as of March 1, 2012.

Curian Series Trust Curian Variable Series Trust	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
By: /s/ Kelly L. Crosser	By:  /s/ Paul Larkin
Name:  Kelly L. Crosser	Name: Paul Larkin
Title:    Assistant Secretary	Title:   Executive Director

Schedule A

List of Funds as of March 1, 2012

Curian Series Trust Funds

Curian/PIMCO Income Fund

Curian/PIMCO Total Return Fund

Curian/WMC International Equity Fund

Curian Variable Series Trust Funds

Curian Guidance – Maximize Income Fund

Curian Guidance – Balanced Income Fund

Curian Guidance – Rising Income Fund

Curian Guidance – Moderate Growth Fund

Curian Guidance – Maximum Growth Fund

Curian Guidance – Tactical Moderate Growth Fund

Curian Guidance – Tactical Maximum Growth Fund

Curian Guidance – Institutional Alt 65 Fund

Curian Guidance – Institutional Alt 100 Fund

Curian Tactical Advantage 35 Fund

Curian Tactical Advantage 60 Fund

Curian Tactical Advantage 75 Fund

Curian Dynamic Risk Advantage – Diversified Fund

Curian Dynamic Risk Advantage – Aggressive Fund

Curian Dynamic Risk Advantage – Income Fund

Curian/American Funds® Growth Fund

Curian/AQR Risk Parity Fund

Curian/Epoch Global Shareholder Yield Fund

Curian/FAMCO Flex Core Covered Call Fund

Curian/Franklin Templeton Natural Resources Fund

Curian/Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodities Strategy Fund

Curian/Nicholas Convertible Arbitrage Fund

Curian/PIMCO Credit Income Fund

Curian/PineBridge Merger Arbitrage Fund

Curian/The Boston Company Equity Income Fund

Curian/The Boston Company Multi-Alpha Market Neutral Equity Fund

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