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1 ALTERNATIVE Calamos Market Neutral Income and Convertible Funds versus Strategic Income Funds Selection based on funds with Strategic Income/Risk Parity, Allocation or Unconstrained in the name and assets greater than $100,000,000. Source: Morningstar Direct. A rising rate environment is determined by a +100bps move in yields of the 10 year Treasury Note. 1/18/96‐6/ 12/ bps; 10/5/98‐1/ 20/ bps; 11/7/01‐4/ 1/ bps; 6/13/03‐6/ 14/ bps; 12/30/08‐6/ 10/ bps; 10/7/10‐2/ 8/ bps; 5/1/13-12/27/ bps. Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. The principal value and return of an investment will fluctuate so that your shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance reflected at NAV does not include the Fund’s maximum front-end sales load of 4.75% had it been included, the Fund’s return would have been lower. For the most recent fund performance information visit This Presentation is for Investment Professional Use Only and is not intended for Further Distribution or dissemination. This presentation is not for public use or viewing.

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ALTERNATIVE Important Disclosures AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (As of 6/30/14) 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund for A Shares at NAV 6.09% 4.59% 5.81% 3.66% 6.81% Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund for A Shares- Load Adjusted 1.02% 2.90% 4.87% 3.15% 6.59% Calamos Convertible Fund for A Shares at NAV 17.20% 7.58% 10.87% 6.10% 9.60% Calamos Convertible Fund for A Shares- Load Adjusted 11.61% 5.85% 9.80% 5.59% 9.42% Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. The principal value and return of an investment will fluctuate so that your shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance reflected at NAV does not include the Fund’s maximum front-end sales load of 4.75% had it been included, the Fund’s return would have been lower. For the most recent fund performance information visit Average annual total return measures net investment income and capital gain or loss from portfolio investments as an annualized average. All performance shown assumes reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. This material has been prepared for Investment Professional Use Only in one‐on‐one presentations and is not intended for further dissemination or distribution. This material is not for public use or viewing. Average credit quality gives a snapshot of the portfolio’s overall credit quality. It is an average of each bond’s credit rating, adjusted for its relative weighting in the portfolio. For corporate-bond and municipal bond funds, Morningstar also shows the percentage of fixed-income securities that fall within each credit-quality rating, as assigned by Standard & Poor's or Moody's. Because it's rare to find individual bonds in a portfolio with a rating below B, the average credit quality of bond funds in Morningstar's database ranges from AAA (highest) to B (lowest). Average Maturity- This figure is computed by weighting the maturity of each security in the portfolio by the market value of the security, then averaging these weighted figures. Average effective duration provides a measure of a fund’s interest-rate sensitivity. The longer a fund’s duration, the more sensitive the fund is to shifts in interest rates. The relationship among funds with different durations is straightforward: A fund with duration of 10 years is expected to be twice as volatile as a fund with a five-year duration. Standard Deviation- This statistical measurement of dispersion about an average, depicts how widely a mutual fund's returns varied over a certain period of time. Investors use the standard deviation of historical performance to try to predict the range of returns that are most likely for a given fund. When a fund has a high standard deviation, the predicted range of performance is wide, implying greater volatility. The Barclays US Capital Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index comprised of U.S. investment grade, fixed rate bond market securities, including government, government agency, corporate and mortgage‐backed securities between one and ten years. Formerly known as the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index. Unmanaged index returns assume reinvestment of any and all distributions and, unlike fund returns, do not reflect fees, expenses or sales charges. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. Multisector bond portfolios seek income by diversifying their assets among several fixed-income sectors, usually U.S. government obligations, U.S. corporate bonds, foreign bonds, and high-yield U.S. debt securities. These portfolios typically hold 35% to 65% of bond assets in securities that are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below. The Nontraditional Bond category contains funds that pursue strategies divergent in one or more ways from conventional practice in the broader bond-fund universe. Many funds in this group describe themselves as "absolute return" portfolios, which seek to avoid losses and produce returns uncorrelated with the overall bond market; they employ a variety of methods to achieve those aims. Another large subset are self-described "unconstrained" portfolios that have more flexibility to invest tactically across a wide swath of individual sectors, including high-yield and foreign debt, and typically with very large allocations. Funds in the latter group typically have broad freedom to manage interest-rate sensitivity, but attempt to tactically manage those exposures in order to minimize volatility. The category is also home to a subset of portfolios that attempt to minimize volatility by maintaining short or ultra-short duration portfolios, but explicitly court significant credit and foreign bond market risk in order to generate high returns. Funds within this category often will use credit default swaps and other fixed income derivatives to a significant level within their portfolios. Intermediate-term bond portfolios invest primarily in corporate and other investment-grade U.S. fixed-income issues and have durations of 3.5 to six years (or, if duration is unavailable, average effective maturities of four to 10 years). These portfolios are less sensitive to interest rates, and therefore less volatile, than portfolios that have longer durations. High-yield bond portfolios concentrate on lower-quality bonds, which are riskier than those of higher-quality companies. These portfolios generally offer higher yields than other types of portfolios, but they are also more vulnerable to economic and credit risk. These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high-income debt securities where at least 65% or more of bond assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below. The risk parity approach to portfolio asset allocation focuses on the amount of risk in each component rather than the specific dollar amounts invested in each component. In other words, risk parity focuses not on the allocation of capital (like traditional allocation models), but on the allocation of risk. Risk parity considers four different components: equities, credit, interest rates and commodities, and attempts to spread risk evenly across the asset classes. An investment in the Fund(s) is subject to risks, and you could lose money on your investment in the Fund(s). There can be no assurance that the Fund(s) will achieve its investment objective. Your investment in the Fund(s) is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency. The risks associated with an investment in the Fund(s) can increase during times of significant market volatility. The Fund(s) also has specific principal risks, which are described below. More detailed information regarding these risks can be found in the Fund’s prospectus. The principal risks of investing in the Market Neutral Income Fund include: convertible securities risk, synthetic convertible instruments risk, convertible hedging risk, covered call writing risk, options risk, short sale risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, high yield risk, liquidity risk and portfolio selection risk. Before investing carefully consider the fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Please see the prospectus and summary prospectus containing this and other information or call Read it carefully before investing. Calamos Financial Services LLC, Distributor |2020 Calamos Court | Naperville, IL 60563‐2787 | | calamos.com | © 2014 Calamos Investments LLC. All Rights Reserved. Calamos® and Calamos Investments® are registered trademarks of Calamos Investments LLC. 2153b_rev 0614O R


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