Investment Managers Series Trust (EPHCX) N-14 Registration statement for investment companies business combination

POWER OF ATTORNEY

FOR SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

AND RELATED FILINGS

Each of the undersigned Trustees of Investment Managers Series Trust (the "Trust") hereby appoints Joy Ausili and Rita Dam (with full power to each of them to act alone) as his or her attorney-in-fact and agent, in all capacities, to execute and to file a Registration Statement of the Trust on Form N-14 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, under the Securities Act of 1933, and under the laws of all states and other domestic and foreign jurisdictions, relating to the reorganizations listed below, and any and all amendments thereto, and any other documents relating thereto, including all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority.  Each of the undersigned grants to each of said attorneys full authority to do every act necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he or she could do if personally present, thereby ratifying all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.          

· Reorganization of Pioneer Oak Ridge Large Cap Growth Fund, a series of Pioneer Series Trust I, into Oak Ridge Large Cap Growth Fund, a series of the Trust

· Reorganization of Pioneer Oak Ridge Small Cap Growth Fund, a series of Pioneer Series Trust I, into Oak Ridge Small Cap Growth Fund, a series of the Trust

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but which taken together shall constitute one instrument.

Each undersigned Trustee hereby executes this Power of Attorney as of this 27th day of May, 2014.

/s/	Ashley Toomey Rabun	/s/	William H. Young
	Ashley Toomey Rabun		William H. Young
	Trustee		Trustee
/s/	Charles H. Miller
	Charles H. Miller
	Trustee
/s/	Eric M. Banhazl
	Eric M. Banhazl
	Trustee