EX-99.A.18 2 dex99a18.htm ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT DATED DECEMBER 1, 2010 Articles of Amendment dated December 1, 2010

Exhibit (a)(18)

AMENDMENT OF AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

ARTISAN FUNDS, INC.

The undersigned Secretary of Artisan Funds, Inc. (the “Corporation”) hereby certifies that in accordance with Section 180.1002 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law and Article IV of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the “Restated Articles”), the following Amendment was duly adopted to redesignate the existing class of shares of the “Artisan Opportunistic Value Fund” as the “Artisan Value Fund”:

“Article IV is hereby amended by deleting Section A of Article IV in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

“A. The Corporation is authorized to issue an indefinite number of shares of common stock, $.01 par value per share. Subject to the following paragraph, the authorized shares are classified as follows:

 

Class

  

Series

  

Authorized

Number of Shares

Artisan Small Cap Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan International Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan International Fund    Institutional Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Mid Cap Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Mid Cap Fund    Institutional Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Small Cap Value Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Mid Cap Value Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan International Small Cap Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan International Value Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan International Value Fund    Institutional Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Value Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Emerging Markets Fund    Advisor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Emerging Markets Fund    Institutional Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Global Value Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Opportunistic Growth Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite
Artisan Global Equity Fund    Investor Shares    Indefinite

The remaining shares shall remain unclassified until action is taken by the Board of Directors pursuant to the following paragraph:’”

This Amendment to the Restated Articles was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation on November 9, 2010 without shareholder approval in accordance with Sections 180.1002(8) and 180.0602(1)(c).


Executed in duplicate this 1st day of December, 2010.

 

ARTISAN FUNDS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Janet D. Olsen

  Janet D. Olsen
  Secretary

This instrument was drafted by:

Christopher M. Cahlamer

Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.

780 North Water Street

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

 

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