Strategy Objective

To deliver absolute returns largely uncorrelated to equity and fixed income markets.

Key Differentiators

  • Calamos is a pioneer in convertible and options investing, where analysis of public acquisitions and opportunities to alter risk reward through structure is an ingrained part of the investment process
  • Our merger strategy is a natural extension of our experience managing hedged equity and convertible arbitrage strategies for more than 20 years on average as a team
  • Because of this, we believe one of our main edges resides in public acquisitions where there are convertible bonds, liquid options or other securities within a target company's capital structure that allow us to alter risk reward through trade structure

Strategy Details

As of 3/31/25
Inception Date: 12/01/19
Strategy Assets*: $599.6 M
Benchmark: ICE BofA US 3 Month Treasury Bill Index (G0O1)

*Strategy Assets reflect all assets that are currently being managed (collectively) under the strategy, which may contain multiple performance composites.

Portfolio

Representative Portfolio Ten Largest Holdings

As of 3/31/25
Target Company Sector Acquiring Company %
Juniper Networks, Inc. Information Technology Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 13.3
Hess Corp. Energy Chevron Corp. 13.3
Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. Communication Services Omnicom Group, Inc. 12.2
Amedisys, Inc. Health Care UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 12.0
ChampionX Corp. Energy Schlumberger, NV 11.8
ANSYS, Inc. Information Technology Synopsys, Inc. 10.5
Berry Global Group, Inc. Materials Amcor, PLC 10.2
Altair Engineering, Inc. Information Technology Siemens, AG 8.3
Five9, Inc. Information Technology 7.3
Redfin Corp. Real Estate Rocket Companies, Inc. 7.1

Characteristics

As of 3/31/25
Name Calamos Portfolio
Number of Holdings 30

Asset Allocation

As of 3/31/25
Asset Allocation %
Common Stock 35.9606
Convertibles 25.3966
Corporate Bonds 1.9699
Rights 0.0467
Sovereign Bonds 0
US Government Securities 0
Cash 36.6262

Sector Weightings

As of 3/31/25
Sector % of Assets
Information Technology 46.2%
Health Care 20.0%
Real Estate 8.7%
Industrials 6.6%
Energy 5.5%
Materials 5.1%
Financials 3.8%
Consumer Staples 2.9%
Communication Services 1.3%
Consumer Discretionary 0.0%
Utilities 0.0%
Other 0.0%

Market Capitalization

As of 3/31/25
Market CAP Range % of Assets
<=$0.10bil 0.0%
>$0.10bil<=$5bil 37.3%
>$5bil<=$30bil 72.6%
>$30bil<=$200bil 15.2%
>$200bil -25.1%

Performance

Annualized Total Returns

As of 3/31/25
Name 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year Since Inception (12/01/19)
Merger Arbitrage (Gross) 2.34% 3.75% 4.41% 3.64%
Merger Arbitrage (Net) 1.53% 2.92% 3.58% 2.82%
ICE BofA US 3 Month Treasury Bill Index (G0O1) 4.97% 4.23% 2.56% 2.53%

Calendar Year Returns

As of 3/31/25
Name Qtr ending Mar 25 YTD 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 12/1/19 - 12/31/19
Merger Arbitrage (Gross) 0.17% 0.17% -2.26% 10.08% 5.18% 2.04% 3.71% 0.92%
Merger Arbitrage (Net) -0.03% -0.03% -3.04% 9.21% 4.35% 1.22% 2.88% 0.85%
ICE BofA US 3 Month Treasury Bill Index (G0O1) 1.02% 1.02% 5.25% 5.01% 1.46% 0.05% 0.67% 0.14%

Past performance does not guarantee or indicate future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Portfolios are managed according to their respective strategies which may differ significantly in terms of security holdings, industry weightings, and asset allocation from those of the benchmark(s). Portfolio performance, characteristics and volatility may differ from the benchmark(s) shown.

Returns and Risk/Reward statistics presented reflect the Calamos Merger Arbitrage Composite, which is an actively managed composite that seeks capital appreciation by generating absolute, uncorrelated returns to equity and fixed income markets. The Composite was created December 1, 2019 calculated with an inception date of December 1, 2019. The Composite results include all fully discretionary accounts, including those no longer with the firm.

Unmanaged index returns, unlike fund returns, do not reflect fees, expenses or sales charges. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.

The ICE BofA 3-Month US Treasury Bill Index (G0O1) is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of a single US Treasury issue with approximately three months to final maturity. The issue is purchased at the beginning of each month and held for one full month. At the end of the month, that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue.

Fees include the investment advisory fee charge by Calamos Advisors LLC. Returns greater than 12 months are annualized. Chart Data Sources: Calamos Advisors LLC.

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.

Risk / Reward

Risk/Reward Since Inception

As of 3/31/25
Name Calamos Merger Arbitrage Composite ICE BofA US 3 Month Treasury Bill Index (G0O1)
Alpha 4.47% N/A
Beta -0.24 1.00
Annualized Standard Deviation 6.07% 0.66%
Sharpe Ratio 0.17 -0.13
Information Ratio 0.18 N/A

Vehicles & Minimums

Vehicles and Minimums

Vehicle Minimum Availability
Separately Managed Accounts $25 million Available to new investors

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Merger Arbitrage Strategy Fact Sheet

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