EX-99.D.1.A 3 t1401656_exd-1a.htm FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REGISTRANT AND VAIA

 

Exhibit D.1.A

 

FIRST AMENDMENT

TO INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT effective as of the 8th day of September, 2014 amends that certain Investment Advisory Agreement dated as of February 19, 2014 (the “Agreement”), by and between Virtus Alternative Solutions Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), and Virtus Alternative Investment Advisers, Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the “Adviser”), as follows:

 

1.Virtus Strategic Income Fund (the “Fund”) is hereby added as an additional Series to the Agreement.

 

2.The investment advisory fees for the Funds are hereby set forth on Schedule A to the Agreement, Schedule A is hereby deleted and Schedule A attached hereto is substituted in its place to reflect such addition.

 

3.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 the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement, as amended.

 

4.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 ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TRUST
       
  By: /s/ W. Patrick Bradley  
  Name:   W. Patrick Bradley
  Title:     Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
   
  VIRTUS ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT ADVISERS, INC.
   
  By: /s/ Francis G. Waltman  
  Name:  Francis G. Waltman
  Title:  Executive Vice President

  

 
 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

Series  Annual Investment Advisory Fee 
   1st $5 Billion   $5+ Billon 
Virtus Alternative Income Solution Fund   1.80%   1.75%
           
Virtus Alternative Inflation Solution Fund   1.75%   1.70%
           
Virtus Alternative Total Solution Fund   1.95%   1.90%
           
Virtus Strategic Income Fund   0.80%   0.75%