EX-99.77C VOTES 4 ex77c.txt Item 77C - DWS S&P 500 Index Fund Registrant incorporates by reference to its Proxy Statement filed on April 18, 2006 (Accession No. 0001193125- 06-082517). A Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") of DWS S&P 500 Index Fund (the "Fund") was held on May 5, 2006, at the offices of Deutsche Asset Management, Inc., 345 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10154. At the Meeting, the following matters were voted upon by the shareholders (the resulting votes are presented below). I. Election of Trustees. ("Number of Votes" represents all funds that are series of DWS Investment Trust.) Number of Votes: For Withheld Henry P. Becton, Jr. 197,991,244.152 8,384,800.646 Dawn-Marie Driscoll 198,004,169.805 8,371,874.993 Keith R. Fox 197,921,453.939 8,454,590.859 Kenneth C. Froewiss 197,879,048.962 8,496,995.836 Martin J. Gruber 197,750,362.197 8,625,682.601 Richard J. Herring 197,887,720.225 8,488,324.573 Graham E. Jones 197,620,357.552 8,755,687.246 Rebecca W. Rimel 197,953,978.782 8,422,066.016 Philip Saunders, Jr. 197,686,623.053 8,689,421.745 William N. Searcy, Jr. 197,856,087.625 8,519,957.173 Jean Gleason Stromberg 197,864,804.673 8,511,240.125 Carl W. Vogt 197,724,433.872 8,651,610.926 Axel Schwarzer 197,827,524.607 8,548,520.191 IV-A. Approval of an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust. (Number of Votes" represents all funds that are series of DWS Investment Trust.) Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 182,220,628.110 7,305,857.658 8,890,637.030 7,958,922.000 The Meeting was reconvened on June 1, 2006, at which time the following matters were voted upon by the shareholders (the resulting votes are presented below). II-A. Approval of an Amended and Restated Investment Managemen t Agreement between the Fund and DeIM. Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,545,554.004 1,066,999.330 1,707,571.552 482,142.000 II-D. Approval of a Subadvisor Approval Policy. Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,273,543.168 1,275,262.429 1,771,319.289 482,142.000 III. Approval of Revised Fundamenta l Investment Restrictions on: III-A. Borrowing Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,178,972.332 1,271,353.312 1,869,799.242 482,142.000 III-B. Senior Securities Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,234,752.275 1,208,804.111 1,876,568.500 482,142.000 III-C. Concentra tion Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,224,651.975 1,216,063.080 1,879,409.831 482,142.000 III-D. Underwriting Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,242,228.130 1,200,382.494 1,877,514.262 482,142.000 III-E. Real Estate Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,235,350.021 1,209,647.460 1,875,127.405 482,142.000 III-F. Commoditi es Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,177,811.304 1,263,574.514 1,878,739.068 482,142.000 III-G. Oil, Gas and Mineral Interests Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,208,092.163 1,232,126.066 1,879,906.657 482,142.000 III-H. Lending Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,184,541.418 1,261,160.907 1,874,422.561 482,142.000 III-I. Diversifica tion Number of Votes: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes* 23,248,465.952 1,194,353.685 1,877,305.249 482,142.000 * Broker non-votes are proxies received by the fund from brokers or nominees when the broker or nominee neither has received instructions from the beneficial owner or other persons entitled to vote nor has discretionary power to vote on a particular matter.