EX-99.D(26) 8 dex99d26.htm EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT Eighth Amendment to Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement

EIGHTH AMENDMENT

TO AMENDED AND RESTATED

INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDMENT effective as of the 29th day of September, 2009 amends that certain Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement dated as of November 20, 2002, as Amended as of June 8, 2006, as of June 27, 2007, as of September 24, 2007, as of January 31, 2008, as of October 1, 2008, as of March 2, 2009 and as of May 29, 2009 (the “Agreement”) by and between Virtus Opportunities Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”) and Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Adviser”) as follows:

 

1. Schedule A is hereby deleted and Schedule A attached hereto is substituted in its place to reflect changes in Virtus AlphaSector Allocation Fund’s and Virtus AlphaSector Rotation Fund’s investment advisory fee.

 

2. 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 such meanings as ascribed thereto in the Agreement, as amended.

 

3. 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 OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
By:   /s/ George R. Aylward
Name:   George R. Aylward
Title:   President

 

VIRTUS INVESTMENT ADVISERS, INC.
By:   /s/ Francis G. Waltman
Name:   Francis G. Waltman
Title:   Senior Vice President

SCHEDULE A

 

Series

   

Investment Advisory Fee

Virtus Alternatives Diversifier Fund

       0.10%   

Virtus Bond Fund

       0.45%   

Virtus Market Neutral Fund

       1.50%   
     1st $1 Billion    $1+ Billion
through
$2 Billion		    $2+ Billion

Virtus CA Tax-Exempt Bond Fund

    0.45%    0.40%    0.35%

Virtus Global Infrastructure Fund

    0.65%    0.60%    0.55%

Virtus Global Opportunities Fund

    0.85%    0.80%    0.75%

Virtus Global Real Estate Securities Fund

    0.85%    0.80%    0.75%

Virtus High Yield Fund

    0.65%    0.60%    0.55%

Virtus International Real Estate Securities Fund

    1.00%    0.95%    0.90%

Virtus Multi-Sector Fixed Income Fund

    0.55%    0.50%    0.45%

Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund

    0.55%    0.50%    0.45%

Virtus Real Estate Securities Fund

    0.75%    0.70%    0.65%

Virtus Senior Floating Rate Fund

    0.60%    0.55%    0.50%
     1st $2 Billion    $2+ Billion
through
$4 Billion		    $4+ Billion

Virtus Foreign Opportunities Fund

    0.85%    0.80%    0.75%
     1st $1 Billion   

$1+ Billion

Virtus AlphaSector Allocation Fund

    0.45%    0.40%

Virtus AlphaSector Rotation Fund

    0.45%    0.40%

Virtus Greater Asia ex Japan Opportunities Fund

    1.00%    0.95%

Virtus Greater European Opportunities Fund

    0.85%    0.80%