NICK P. CALAMOS is the Head of Investments and Chief Investment Officer overseeing research and portfolio management for Calamos Asset Management, Inc., one of the largest and most well-known convertible investment firms in the country. He oversees the #1 Convertible Fund and the #1 Growth Fund as rated by Lipper and Morningstar for the ten-year period ended 12/31/02. With the firm since 1983, Mr. Calamos has been instrumental in developing the Calamos Convertible Research System (CCRS), a sophisticated, proprietary research system that monitors and scans the entire market for the best availab...