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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED): June 3, 2014

Calamos Asset Management, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

REGISTRANT’S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (630) 245-7200

Not Applicable

(Former Name and Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On June 3, 2014, the stockholders of Calamos Asset Management, Inc. (“Corporation”) approved an amendment to the Corporation’s Incentive Compensation Plan (“Plan”) primarily to extend the period during which awards may be made under the Plan and to update the performance criteria set forth in the Plan. A summary of the terms and conditions of the amended Plan are provided in the Corporation’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 14, 2014 in connection with the Corporation’s Annual Stockholders Meeting (“Proxy Statement”). The foregoing description of the amended Plan contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the description contained in the Proxy Statement and to the Plan which is attached as Exhibit 10.1.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Corporation held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 3, 2014. The stockholders: (i) elected the Corporation’s nominees as Directors; (ii) approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Corporation’s Named Executive Officers; (iii) amended the Plan; and (iv) ratified the appointment of McGladrey LLP as the Corporation’s independent auditors. Each elected Director shall serve until the 2015 Annual Stockholders Meeting or until a successor is elected and qualified or until that person’s earlier resignation, retirement, death, disqualification or removal. McGladrey LLP shall serve for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014.

The table below shows the voting results:

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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