Exhibit g.4

NUVEEN INSURED TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND

RENEWAL OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT

This Agreement made this 26th day of May 2010 by and between Nuveen Insured Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund 3, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Fund”), and Nuveen Asset Management, a Delaware corporation (the “Adviser”);

WHEREAS, the parties hereto are the contracting parties under that certain Investment Management Agreement (the “Agreement”) pursuant to which the Adviser furnishes investment management and other services to the Fund; and

WHEREAS, the Agreement terminates August 1, 2010 unless continued in the manner required by the Investment Company Act of 1940; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees, at a meeting called for the purpose of reviewing the Agreement, have approved the Agreement and its continuance until August 1, 2011 in the manner required by the Investment Company Act of 1940.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained in the Agreement the parties hereto do hereby continue the Agreement in effect until August 1, 2011 and ratify and confirm the Agreement in all respects.

NUVEEN INSURED TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND 3
By:	/s/ Mark L. Winget
	Vice President

ATTEST:

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

Assistant Secretary

NUVEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT
By:	/s/ William T. Huffman
	Managing Director

ATTEST:

/s/ Christopher Rohrbacher

Assistant Secretary