Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To List and Trade Shares of iShares Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Trust Pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, 29411-29420 [2013-11897]
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The Exchange has prepared summaries,
set forth in sections A, B, and C below,
of the most significant parts of such
statements.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Release No. 34–69573; File No. SR–
NYSEArca–2013–48]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed
Rule Change, as Modified by
Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To List and
Trade Shares of iShares Dow JonesUBS Roll Select Commodity Index
Trust Pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.200
May 14, 2013.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3
notice is hereby given that, on May 1,
2013, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the ‘‘Exchange’’
or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(the ‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
change as described in Items I, II, and
III below, which Items have been
prepared by the Exchange. On May 3,
2013, the Exchange filed Amendment
No. 1 to the proposed rule change.4 The
Commission is publishing this notice to
solicit comments on the proposed rule
change, as modified by Amendment No.
1 thereto, from interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to list and
trade shares of iShares Dow Jones-UBS
Roll Select Commodity Index Trust (the
‘‘Trust’’) under NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.200. The text of the proposed
rule change is available on the
Exchange’s Web site at www.nyse.com,
at the principal office of the Exchange,
and at the Commission’s Public
Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
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In its filing with the Commission, the
self-regulatory organization included
statements concerning the purpose of,
and basis for, the proposed rule change
and discussed any comments it received
on the proposed rule change. The text
of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below.
1 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
U.S.C. 78a.
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
4 In Amendment No. 1, the Exchange made a
technical correction and clarified that UBS
Securities has implemented a fire wall with respect
to its personnel regarding access to information
concerning, among other things, the calculation of
the values of the Index, DJ–UBS CI, and DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI (as such terms are defined below).
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A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
1. Purpose
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200,
Commentary .02 permits the trading of
Trust Issued Receipts (‘‘TIRs’’) either by
listing or pursuant to unlisted trading
privileges (‘‘UTP’’).5 The Exchange
proposes to list and trade the shares (the
‘‘Shares’’) of the Trust pursuant to NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.200.
The Exchange notes that the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has previously
approved the listing and trading of other
issues of TIRs on the American Stock
Exchange LLC 6 and listing on NYSE
Arca.7 In addition, the Commission has
approved other exchange-traded fundlike products linked to the performance
of underlying commodities.8
The Shares represent units of
beneficial interests in the Trust, as
described in the Registration
Statement.9 The Trust is a Delaware
statutory trust. The sponsor of the Trust
is iShares © Delaware Trust Sponsor
LLC (the ‘‘Sponsor’’), a Delaware limited
liability company. The Trust is operated
by the Sponsor, an indirect subsidiary of
BlackRock, Inc. The Sponsor is a
commodity pool operator registered
with the Commodity Futures Trading
5 Commentary .02 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.200 applies to TIRs that invest in ‘‘Financial
Instruments.’’ The term ‘‘Financial Instruments,’’ as
defined in Commentary .02(b)(4) to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200, means any combination of
investments, including cash; securities; options on
securities and indices; futures contracts; options on
futures contracts; forward contracts; equity caps,
collars and floors; and swap agreements.
6 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
58161 (July 15, 2008), 73 FR 42380 (July 21, 2008)
(SR–Amex–2008–39) (order approving amendments
to Amex Rule 1202, Commentary .07 and listing on
Amex of 14 funds of the Commodities and Currency
Trust).
7 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
58457 (September 3, 2008), 73 FR 52711 (September
10, 2008) (SR–NYSEArca–2008–91) (order
approving listing on NYSE Arca of 14 funds of the
Commodities and Currency Trust).
8 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
56932 (December 7, 2007), 72 FR 71178 (December
14, 2007) (SR–NYSEArca–2007–112) (order granting
accelerated approval to list iShares S&P GSCI
Commodity-Indexed Trust).
9 See the pre-effective amendment to the
registration statement on Form S–1 for the Trust,
dated February 8, 2013 (File No. 333–178376)
relating to the Shares (the ‘‘Registration
Statement’’). The discussion herein relating to the
Trust and the Shares is based, in part, on the
Registration Statement. Terms used but not defined
herein are used as defined in the Registration
Statement.
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Commission (‘‘CFTC’’) and a member of
the National Futures Association
(‘‘NFA’’). BlackRock Asset Management
International Inc., a Delaware
corporation and an indirect subsidiary
of BlackRock, Inc., is the sole member
and manager of the Sponsor. BlackRock
Institutional Trust Company, N.A., a
national banking association, an indirect
subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., and an
affiliate of the Sponsor, is the trustee of
the Trust (the ‘‘Trustee’’). BlackRock
Fund Advisors (the ‘‘Adviser’’),10 a
California corporation, an indirect
subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., and an
affiliate of the Sponsor, serves as the
commodity trading adviser of the Trust,
is registered as a commodity trading
adviser with the CFTC and is a member
of the NFA.11 State Street Bank and
Trust Company, a trust company
organized under the laws of
Massachusetts, is the administrator
(‘‘Administrator’’) of the Trust.
According to the Registration
Statement, the investment objective of
the Trust will be to seek investment
results that correspond generally, but
are not necessarily identical, to the
performance of the Dow Jones-UBS Roll
Select Commodity Index Total Return
(the ‘‘Index’’), which reflects the returns
on a fully collateralized investment in
the Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select
Commodity Index (‘‘DJ–UBS Roll Select
CI’’), before the payment of expenses
and liabilities of the Trust. The DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI is calculated based on the
same commodities, though not always
the same futures contracts, that are
included in the Dow Jones-UBS
Commodity Index (the ‘‘DJ–UBS CI’’).
The DJ–UBS CI is a liquidity- and
production-weighted index of the prices
of a diversified group of futures
contracts on physical commodities. The
DJ–UBS CI forms the base commodities
index from which the DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI and the Index are derived.
According to the Registration
Statement, the assets of the Trust will
10 The Adviser is not a broker-dealer but is
affiliated with a broker-dealer and has implemented
a firewall with respect to such broker-dealer
affiliate as well as procedures designed to prevent
the use and dissemination of material non-public
information regarding the assets of the Trust.
11 According to the Sponsor, the Sponsor will be
responsible for the overall management of the Trust
and the Trustee will be responsible for the day-today administration of the Trust. The Adviser will
act as the commodity trading advisor for the Trust
with discretionary authority to make
determinations with respect to the Trust’s assets,
but will not engage in any activities designed to
obtain a profit from, or ameliorate losses caused by,
changes to the level of the underlying index. The
Sponsor represents that it will implement and
maintain procedures designed to prevent the use
and dissemination of material non-public
information regarding the assets of the Trust.
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consist of long positions in Futures
Exchange 12-traded index futures
contracts of various expirations (‘‘Index
Futures’’) 13 on the DJ–UBS Roll Select
CI, together with cash, U.S. Treasury
securities or other short-term securities
and similar securities that are eligible as
margin deposits for those Index Futures
positions (‘‘Collateral Assets’’).14 The
Trust is expected to roll out of existing
positions and establish new positions in
Index Futures on an ongoing basis.15
According to the Registration
Statement, in order to collateralize its
Index Futures positions and to reflect
the U.S. Treasury component of the
Index, the Trust will hold Collateral
Assets, from which it will post margin
to its clearing futures commission
merchant (the ‘‘Clearing FCM’’), in an
amount equal to the margin required by
the relevant Futures Exchange, and
transfer to its Clearing FCM any
additional amounts that may be
separately required by the Clearing
FCM.16 Any Collateral Assets not
required to be posted as margin with the
Clearing FCM will be held in the Trust’s
accounts established at its
Administrator.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trust will be a passive
investor in Index Futures and the
Collateral Assets held to satisfy
applicable margin requirements on
those Index Futures positions. At any
time when Index Futures of more than
one expiration date are listed on the
12 As used herein, ‘‘Futures Exchange’’ means the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (‘‘CME’’) or one of the
CME Group Inc.’s other designated contract
markets, or any additional or successor designated
contract markets through which the Trust trades
Index Futures (as defined herein). The designated
contract markets of the CME Group Inc. are the
CME, Chicago Board of Trade (‘‘CBOT’’), New York
Mercantile Exchange Inc. (‘‘NYMEX’’) and
Commodity Exchange, Inc. (‘‘COMEX’’).
13 The Trust’s Index Futures will be subject to the
rules of the relevant Futures Exchange, which will
initially be CME. The Index Futures will initially
trade on GLOBEX, the CME’s electronic trading
system, and are not expected to trade through open
outcry on the floor of the CME.
14 The Sponsor represents that the Trust will
invest in Index Futures and Collateral Assets, in a
manner consistent with the Trust’s investment
objective and not to achieve additional leverage.
15 The Index Futures initially held by the Trust
will have quarterly expirations and be listed for
trading by the CME. Subsequent Index Futures held
by the Trust may have longer or shorter expirations,
different terms, and may be listed on other Futures
Exchanges.
16 When establishing positions in Index Futures,
the Trust will be required to deposit initial margin
with a value of approximately 3% to 10% of the
value of each Index Futures position at the time it
is established. These margin requirements are
subject to change from time to time by the Exchange
or the Clearing FCM. On a daily basis, the Trust will
be obligated to pay, or entitled to receive, variation
margin in an amount equal to the change in the
daily settlement level of its Index Futures positions.
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Futures Exchange, the Sponsor will
determine, pursuant to the terms of the
trust agreement, which Index Futures of
a given expiration will be transferred in
connection with either the creation or
redemption of Shares. The Adviser will
not engage in any activities designed to
obtain a profit from, or to ameliorate
losses caused by, changes in the level of
the Index or the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
or the value of the Collateral Assets.
According to the Registration
Statement, the profit or loss on the
Trust’s Index Futures positions should
correlate with increases and decreases
in the value of the DJ–UBS Roll Select
CI, although this correlation is not
expected to be exact. The return on the
Index Futures, together with interest on
the Collateral Assets, is expected to
result in a total return that corresponds
generally, but is not identical, to the
Index.
The Index, DJ–UBS CI and DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI
According to the Registration
Statement, the Index reflects the value
of the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI together
with the returns on specified U.S.
Treasury securities that are deemed to
have been held to collateralize a
hypothetical long position in the futures
contracts comprising the DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI.
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI is
calculated based on the same
commodities, though not always the
same futures contracts, that are included
in the DJ–UBS CI, which is a liquidityand production-weighted index of the
prices of a diversified group of futures
contracts on physical commodities. The
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI seeks to
minimize the effect of contango and
maximize the effect of backwardation by
selecting replacement futures contracts
that exhibit the most backwardation or
least contango among those eligible
futures contracts with delivery months
of up to 273 calendar days until
expiration.17
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
incorporates the economic effect of
‘‘rolling’’ the futures contracts included
in the applicable index and the DJ–UBS
CI reflects the economic effect of
‘‘rolling’’ futures contracts into frontmonth futures contracts. ‘‘Rolling’’ a
futures contract means closing out a
17 Markets for futures contracts can exhibit
‘‘backwardation,’’ which means that futures
contracts with distant delivery months are priced
lower than those with nearer delivery months, or
can exhibit ‘‘contango,’’ which means that futures
contracts with distant delivery months are priced
higher than those with nearer delivery months.
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position in an expiring futures contract
and establishing an equivalent position
in a new futures contract on the same
commodity.
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
differs from the DJ–UBS CI in that it
does not roll into the futures contract
with the nearest designated delivery
month. Rather, the DJ–UBS Roll Select
CI rolls into those eligible futures
contracts with delivery months of up to
273 calendar days until expiration that
exhibit the most backwardation or that
exhibit the least contango.
The DJ–UBS Roll Select CI, the DJ–
UBS CI and the Index are administered,
calculated and published by UBS
Securities LLC (‘‘UBS Securities’’) and
DJI Opco, LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices
LLC (‘‘S&P Dow Jones Indices’’ and,
together with UBS Securities, the
‘‘Index Co-Sponsors’’).18
The DJ–UBS CI
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS CI, from which
the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI is based, was
created by AIG International Inc. in
1998 and acquired by UBS Securities in
May 2009, at which time UBS Securities
and Dow Jones entered into a joint
marketing agreement to market the DJ–
UBS CI and related indices. Dow Jones
subsequently assigned its interest in the
joint marketing agreement to CME
Indexes. The Index Co-Sponsors are
together responsible for calculating the
DJ–UBS CI and related indices and subindices, including the Index and the DJ–
UBS Roll Select CI.
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS CI is a
benchmark index composed of futures
contracts on the underlying physical
commodities, the selection and
weighting of which are currently
determined based on the five-year
average of the trading volume, adjusted
by the historic U.S. dollar value of the
futures contract designated for inclusion
in the DJ–UBS CI, and the five-year
average of production figures, adjusted
18 According to the Sponsor, S&P Dow Jones
Indices and its subsidiary DJI Opco, LLC are not
broker-dealers and UBS Securities is a brokerdealer. UBS Securities has implemented a fire wall
with respect to its personnel regarding access to
information concerning the composition and/or
changes to the Index, DJ–UBS CI and DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI and the calculation of the values of the
foregoing indexes, and will be subject to procedures
designed to prevent the use and dissemination of
material non-public information regarding the
Index, DJ–UBS CI and DJ–UBS Roll Select CI. The
Index Co-Sponsors have implemented and maintain
procedures designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public information
regarding the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI, the DJ–UBS CI
and the Index.
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by the historic U.S. dollar value of the
futures contract designated for inclusion
in the DJ–UBS CI. For each of the
included commodities, specified futures
contracts with specified delivery dates
are designated for inclusion in the DJ–
UBS CI. The DJ–UBS CI is reweighted
and rebalanced annually, on a pricepercentage basis, to reflect changes in
trading volume and production figures.
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS CI reflects the
increased or decreased return associated
with ‘‘rolling’’ futures contracts. The
DJ–UBS CI reflects the economic impact
of the roll process by reducing the
weights applied to expiring futures
contracts while correspondingly
increasing the weights applied to the
futures contracts that are replacing such
expiring futures contracts. This roll
simulation is generally conducted at the
beginning of each month over the course
of five business days, lasting from the
sixth business day until the tenth
business day of each month. The DJ–
UBS CI conducts its roll simulations
each month by rolling out of the
designated futures contracts expiring in
that month and rolling into those
designated futures contracts with the
next closest designated delivery month.
The DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
implements its rolling methodology by
selecting from the eligible contracts for
each commodity on its applicable
‘‘contract selection date,’’ the contract
that exhibits the greatest amount of
backwardation or least amount of
contango, on an annualized basis,
relative to the contract with the
immediately preceding delivery date on
the same commodity. This is
accomplished by first dividing the price
of each eligible contract from the price
of the contract immediately preceding
such eligible contract, to determine the
percentage difference between the two
prices. Because this price difference
may be affected by the relative time
between the eligible contract and its
Commodity
immediately preceding contract, this
price difference is multiplied by 365
and divided by the number of actual
days between the delivery dates of the
two contracts, to arrive at a measure of
the relative annualized contango/
backwardation, referred to as the
‘‘annualized spread,’’ exhibited between
the eligible contract and the contract
immediately preceding it. Based on a
comparison of these annualized spreads,
the eligible contract that has the highest
annualized spread relative to its
immediately preceding contract is the
one selected as the contract for the DJ–
UBS Roll Select CI to establish new
positions in. This roll selection process
generally occurs every month on the
fourth business day of the month,
subject to changes or adjustments to this
process implemented by the Index CoSponsors.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Index Futures in which
the Trust will invest will be based on
the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI. The DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI is a version of the DJ–UBS
CI that tries to mitigate the effects of
contango arising from the rolling
process. Rather than incorporating the
economic effect of rolling into futures
contracts with the next closest
designated delivery month, the DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI incorporates the economic
effect of rolling into applicable futures
contracts that exhibit the least contango
or, if applicable, the most
backwardation, in each case relative to
the contracts of the immediately
preceding delivery month.
Because the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
utilizes a different designated contract
selection process than the DJ–UBS CI,
the futures contracts comprising the DJ–
UBS Roll Select CI at any particular
time may have different delivery
months than those comprising the DJ–
UBS CI, and the levels of the DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI and the DJ–UBS CI may
correspondingly differ. In addition, as a
result of this difference in rolling
processes, both the performance of the
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and the DJ–UBS
Designated contract
Exchange*
Units
CI and the dollar-value weights of their
respective underlying futures contracts
are expected to differ over time.
Determination of DJ–UBS CI Index
Constituents
According to the Registration
Statement, the Index Co-Sponsors have
established a two-tier oversight
structure for the DJ–UBS CI, the DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI and the Index comprised
of the ‘‘Supervisory Committee’’ and the
‘‘Advisory Committee.’’ 19 The
composition of the DJ–UBS CI is
determined by UBS Securities each year
under the supervision of, and in
accordance with the procedures adopted
by, the Supervisory Committee. The
final composition of the DJ–UBS CI for
each calendar year is subject to the
approval of the Supervisory Committee
in consultation with the Advisory
Committee, and once this approval has
been obtained, the new composition of
the DJ–UBS CI is publicly announced,
and takes effect in the month of January
of the relevant calendar year.
The relative weight of a commodity
eligible for inclusion in the DJ–UBS CI,
or its commodity index percentage
(‘‘CIP’’), is initially determined based on
(i) the relative production percentages of
the commodities eligible for inclusion
in the DJ–UBS CI and (ii) the relative
liquidity of the futures contracts that
have been designated as the eligible
reference contracts for those
commodities. This initial CIP
calculation is then adjusted to give
effect to caps and floors on such CIPs
and to adjust the weights for gold and
silver, the relative production numbers
of which, according to the Dow JonesUBS Commodity IndexSM Handbook,
last published by the Index Co-Sponsors
as of May 2012, understate their
economic significance.
According to the Registration
Statement, the commodities and related
designated futures contracts currently
included in the DJ–UBS CI and their
respective final CIPs for 2013 are as
follows:
CIP**
(percent)
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Aluminum ...................
High Grade Primary
Aluminum.
LME ...........................
25 metric tons ...........
4.913
Coffee .........................
Copper .......................
Corn ...........................
Coffee ‘‘C’’ .................
Copper .......................
Corn ...........................
ICE Futures U.S. .......
COMEX .....................
CBOT ........................
37,500 lbs ..................
25,000 lbs ..................
5,000 bushels ............
2.442
7.277
7.053
19 The Supervisory Committee and the Advisory
Committee are subject to procedures designed to
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Trading hours (E.T.)***
First session: 6:55AM to 7:00AM,
7:55AM to 8:00AM; second
session: 10:15AM to 10:20AM,
10:55AM to 11:00AM.
3:30AM to 2:00PM.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
material, non-public information regarding the
Index, DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and DJ–UBS CI.
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CIP**
(percent)
Commodity
Designated contract
Exchange*
Units
Cotton .........................
Crude Oil ....................
ICE Futures U.S. .......
NYMEX ......................
50,000 lbs ..................
1,000 barrels .............
1.766
9.206
Gold ............................
Heating Oil .................
Live Cattle ..................
Cotton ........................
Light, Sweet Crude
Oil.
Brent Crude Oil .........
Gold ...........................
Heating Oil ................
Live Cattle .................
ICE Futures U.S. .......
COMEX .....................
NYMEX ......................
CME ..........................
1,000 barrels .............
100 troy oz. ...............
42,000 gallons ...........
40,000 lbs ..................
5.794
10.819
3.519
3.283
Lean Hogs ..................
Lean Hogs .................
CME ..........................
40,000 lbs ..................
1.900
Natural Gas ................
NYMEX ......................
10,000 mmbtu ...........
10.424
Nickel .........................
Henry Hub Natural
Gas.
Primary Nickel ...........
LME ...........................
6 metric tons .............
2.244
Silver ..........................
Soybeans ...................
Silver .........................
Soybeans ..................
COMEX .....................
CBOT ........................
5000 troy oz. .............
5,000 bushels ............
3.898
5.495
Soybean Meal ............
Soybean Meal ...........
CBOT ........................
100 short tons ...........
2.607
Soybean Oil ...............
Soybean Oil ...............
CBOT ........................
60,000 lbs ..................
2.743
Sugar ..........................
Unleaded Gasoline ....
World Sugar No. 11 ..
Reformulated
Blendstock for Oxygen Blending.
Soft Wheat ................
ICE Futures U.S. .......
NYMEX ......................
112,000 lbs ................
42,000 gallons ...........
3.884
3.461
CBOT ........................
5,000 bushels ............
3.433
Wheat (Kansas) .........
Hard Red Winter
Wheat.
KCBOT ......................
5,000 bushels ............
1.321
Zinc ............................
Special High Grade
Zinc.
LME ...........................
25 metric tons ...........
2.519
Wheat (Chicago) ........
Trading hours (E.T.)***
9:00PM to 2:30PM Next Day.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
8:00PM to 6:00PM Next Day.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
Mon: 10:05AM to 5:00PM; Tue–
Thurs: 6:00PM to 5:00PM Next
Day; Fri: 6:00PM to 2:55PM
Next Day.
Mon: 10:05AM to 5:00PM; Tue–
Thurs: 6:00PM to 5:00PM Next
Day; Fri: 6:00PM to 2:55PM
Next Day.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
First session: 6:15AM to 6:20AM,
8:00AM to 8:05AM; second
session: 10:25AM to 10:30AM,
11:05AM to 11:10AM.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
2:30AM to 2:00PM.
6:00PM to 5:15PM Next Day.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Sun–Fri: 8:00PM to 8:45 AM
Next Day; Mon–Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
First session: 7:10AM to 7:15AM,
7:50AM to 7:55AM; second
session: 10:05AM to 10:10AM,
10:45AM to 10:50AM.
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* ‘‘LME’’ refers to the London Metal Exchange, and ‘‘ICE Futures U.S.’’ refers to ICE Futures U.S., Inc.
** Rounded to the nearest thousandth of a percentage. May not total to 100% due to rounding.
*** Trading hours for the CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX represent weekday electronic trading hours through CME Globex (electronic platform). Trading hours for LME represent ring trading times during each of first and second sessions; excludes kerb trading times.
Calculation of the Index, DJ–UBS CI and
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
According to the Registration
Statement, the level of the DJ–UBS CI
was set to be equal to 100 as of
December 31, 1990. Subsequent levels
of the DJ–UBS CI are determined by
multiplying the level of the DJ–UBS CI
as of the previous day by a fraction
equal to (i) the weighted average value
(‘‘WAV’’) of the DJ–UBS CI as of the
current day divided by (ii) the WAV of
the DJ–UBS CI as of the previous day,
subject to adjustment for roll periods as
described below. The WAV of the
DJ–UBS CI on any given day is
calculated by summing the products of
the settlement prices of the designated
futures contracts for each commodity
multiplied by the commodity index
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multiplier (‘‘CIM’’) of such designated
contract.
According to the Registration
Statement, the CIMs of the designated
contracts in the DJ–UBS CI are
determined annually, generally on the
fourth business day of each year (the
date of such determination, the ‘‘CIM
Determination Date’’). On the CIM
Determination Date, initial CIMs
(‘‘ICIMs’’) are calculated for each
designated contract by multiplying such
designated contract’s CIP by 1,000, then
dividing such product by the designated
contract’s settlement price as of the CIM
Determination Date. To determine the
final CIM for each designated contract
for the new year, each ICIM is
multiplied by an adjustment factor,
which is a fraction equal to (i) the WAV
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of the DJ–UBS CI as of the CIM
Determination Date, as calculated using
the CIMs from the prior year, divided by
(ii) 1,000. This adjustment factor is
intended to preserve WAV continuity
from one year to the next.
According to the Registration
Statement, during roll periods, which
generally occur during the sixth through
tenth business days of each month, the
level of the DJ–UBS CI is calculated
using a blended WAV formula that
reflects the fact that the DJ–UBS CI is
rolling out of expiring contracts and into
replacement contracts. The WAV
associated with the existing index
components (‘‘Old WAV’’) begins
weighted at 100% as of the business day
preceding the roll period and decreases
by 20% on each subsequent business
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day until reduced to zero; it has no
further effect on the level of the DJ–UBS
CI by the fifth business day of such roll
period. The WAV associated with the
new index components (‘‘New WAV’’)
begins weighted at 0% as of the
business day preceding the roll period
and increases by 20% on each
subsequent business day such that by
the fifth business day of such roll
period, the level of the DJ–UBS CI is
determined based entirely on the New
WAV.
Accordingly, during a roll period, the
level of the DJ–UBS CI on any given day
can be calculated as the product of the
level of the DJ–UBS CI as of the
previous day, multiplied by a fraction
equal to: (i) Old WAV × (1¥0.2n) + New
WAV × (0.2n), using the Old WAV and
New WAV values as of such day,
divided by (ii) Old WAV × (1 ¥0.2n) +
New WAV × (0.2n), using the Old WAV
and New WAV values as of the previous
day. The variable ‘‘n’’ in this equation
represents the number of business days
that have elapsed for such roll period
through and including the relevant date
of determination. According to the
Registration Statement, the DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI will be calculated using the
same general methodology as the
DJ–UBS CI and using the same CIPs and
CIMs used in connection with
calculating the DJ–UBS CI. However,
because the roll process for the DJ–UBS
Roll Select CI is different from that of
the DJ–UBS CI, its constituent futures
contracts may differ from those
included in the DJ–UBS CI. This
difference is expected to cause the
dollar-value weights and the weighted
average value of the futures contracts
included in each index to differ over
time, and, as a result, cause the
performance of the two indices to
diverge.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Index combines the
returns of the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
with the returns of the most recent
weekly auction high rate for threemonth U.S. Treasury bills, as reported
on the Web site https://
publicdebt.treas.gov/AI/OFBills under
the column headed ‘‘Discount Rate %’’
published by the Bureau of the Public
Debt of the U.S. Treasury, or any
successor source. The level of the Index,
which was set at a hypothetical level of
100 as of December 31, 1990, can be
calculated on any given day as the
product of the level of the Index as of
the previous day, multiplied by the sum
of (i) 1.00 plus (ii) the positive or
negative percentage return on the
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI on such day plus
(iii) the daily return based on the
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auction high rate for three-month U.S.
Treasury bills described above.
The Supervisory Committee and the
Advisory Committee
According to the Registration
Statement, the Supervisory Committee
is comprised of three members, two of
whom are appointed by UBS Securities
and one of whom is appointed by S&P
Dow Jones Indices, and makes all final
decisions relating to the DJ–UBS CI,
taking into consideration any advice
and recommendations of the Advisory
Committee. The Advisory Committee
consists of six to twelve members drawn
from the financial and academic
communities. Both the Supervisory and
Advisory Committees meet annually to
consider any changes to be made to the
DJ–UBS CI for the coming year. These
committees may also meet at such other
times as may be necessary for the
purposes of their respective
responsibilities in connection with the
oversight of the DJ–UBS CI.
The Supervisory Committee has a
significant degree of discretion in
exercising its supervisory duties with
respect to the DJ–UBS CI and related
indices and sub-indices, including the
Index and the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI.
Additional information regarding the
composition of the Index, DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI, DJ–UBS CI and their index
methodologies is included in the
Registration Statement and at the Index
Co-Sponsors’ Web site,
www.djindexes.com.
Net Asset Value
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trustee will determine
the net asset value of the Trust and the
net asset value per Share (‘‘NAV’’) as of
4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time (‘‘E.T.’’)) on
each Business Day 20 on which the
Exchange is open for regular trading, as
soon as practicable after that time.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trustee will value the
Trust’s long positions in Index Futures
on the basis of that day’s settlement
prices for the Index Futures held by the
Trust, as announced by the applicable
Futures Exchange. The value of the
Trust’s positions in any particular Index
Future will equal the product of (a) The
number of such Index Futures of such
expiration owned by the Trust, (b) the
settlement price of such Index Futures
on the date of calculation and (c) the
20 A
‘‘Business Day’’ is defined as a day (1) on
which none of the following occurs: (a) the
Exchange is closed for regular trading, (b) a Futures
Exchange is closed for regular trading or (c) the
Federal Reserve wire transfer system is closed for
cash wire transfers, or (2) that the Trustee
determines that it is able to conduct business.
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multiplier of such Index Futures.21 If
there is no announced settlement price
for a particular Index Future contract on
a Business Day, the Trustee will use the
most recently announced settlement
price unless the Trustee, in consultation
with the Sponsor, determines that such
price is inappropriate as a basis for
valuation. The daily settlement prices
for the Index Futures initially held by
the Trust will be established by the CME
shortly after the close of trading for such
Index Futures, which is generally 2:40
p.m. E.T.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trustee will value all
other holdings of the Trust at (a) current
market value, if quotations for such
property are readily available, or (b) fair
value, as reasonably determined by the
Trustee, if the current market value
cannot be determined.
According to the Registration
Statement, once the value of the Index
Futures and interest earned on the
Trust’s Collateral Assets has been
determined, the Trustee will subtract all
accrued expenses and liabilities of the
Trust as of the time of calculation in
order to calculate the net asset value of
the Trust.
According to the Registration
Statement, once the net asset value of
the Trust has been calculated, the
Trustee will determine the NAV by
dividing the net asset value of the Trust
by the number of Shares outstanding at
the time the calculation is made. Any
changes to NAV that may result from
creation and redemption activity
occurring on any Business Day will not
be reflected in NAV until the following
Business Day.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trust will create and
redeem Shares from time to time in one
or more ‘‘Baskets’’ of 50,000 Shares
each. Baskets may be created or
redeemed only by authorized
participants.
According to the Registration
Statement, Baskets will be typically
issued or redeemed only in exchange for
an amount of Index Futures and cash
(or, in the discretion of the Sponsor,
other Collateral Assets) equal to the
‘‘Basket Amount’’ for the Business Day
on which the creation or redemption
order is received by the Trustee.22 The
21 According to the Adviser, the multiplier
reflects the contract size for a futures contract. The
multiplier for the Index Futures is expected to be
$100.
22 The ‘‘Basket Amount’’ is the amount of Index
Futures and cash (or, in the discretion of the
Sponsor, other Collateral Assets), that an authorized
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Basket Amount for a Business Day will
have a per Share value equal to the NAV
as of such day, and the assets included
in the Basket Amount will be valued in
the same manner and on the same basis
as the Trust’s NAV calculations for its
assets generally. Creation orders or
redemption requests received after 2:40
E.T. will not be deemed received until
the following Business Day. In limited
circumstances and subject to the
approval of the Trustee, Baskets may be
created for cash equal to the NAV of the
Shares constituting a Basket as
determined on the date the related
creation order was received, plus the
costs incurred by the Trust in
establishing the corresponding Index
Futures positions and acquiring the
related Collateral Assets. Creation
orders for Baskets paid for solely in cash
that are received after 10:00 a.m. E.T.
will be deemed received as of the
following Business Day. The Trustee
will notify the authorized participants
of the Basket Amount on each Business
Day.
According to the Registration
Statement, creation and redemption of
interests in the Trust generally will be
effected through an ‘‘EFRP,’’ which is an
exchange for related positions that
involve contemporaneous transactions
in futures contracts and the underlying
cash commodity or a closely related
commodity. In a typical EFRP, the buyer
of the futures contract sells the
underlying commodity to the seller of
the futures contract. The CME permits
the execution of EFRPs consisting of
simultaneous purchases (sales) of Index
Futures and sales (purchases) of Shares.
This mechanism generally is expected
to be used by the Trust in connection
with the creation and redemption of
Baskets.
Specifically, according to the
Registration Statement, it is anticipated
that an authorized participant
requesting the creation of additional
Baskets typically will transfer Index
Futures and cash (or, in the discretion
of the Sponsor, other Collateral Assets)
to the Trust in return for Shares. If an
EFRP is executed in connection with the
redemption of one or more Baskets, an
authorized participant will transfer to
the Trust the interests being redeemed
and the Trust will transfer to the
authorized participant Index Futures
and cash or other Collateral Assets. The
Trust may include Index Futures with
different terms and expirations in the
creation and redemption of Baskets, and
participant must deliver in exchange for one Basket,
or that an authorized participant is entitled to
receive in exchange for each Basket surrendered for
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the Index Futures included in creation
Baskets may differ from those included
in redemption Baskets.
It is expected that delivery of the
Shares or, in the case of a redemption,
the Index Futures and cash or other
Collateral Assets, will be made against
transfer of consideration or Baskets, as
the case may be, on the next Business
Day following the Business Day on
which the creation order or redemption
request is received by the Trustee,
which is referred to as a T+1 settlement
cycle.
When a Basket is created, upon the
transfer of (1) the required consideration
of Index Futures in the amounts and of
the type specified by the Trustee, cash
(or, in the discretion of the Sponsor,
other Collateral Assets) in the amounts
specified to the Trustee, in each case to
the accounts specified by the Trustee,
and (2) any and all transaction fees
associated with creations per Basket, the
Trustee will deliver the appropriate
number of Baskets to the Depository
Trust Company (‘‘DTC’’) account of the
authorized participant.
According to the Registration
Statement, when a Basket is redeemed,
after the delivery by the authorized
participant to the Trustee’s DTC account
of the total number of Shares to be
redeemed by an authorized participant,
the Trustee will deliver to the order of
the redeeming authorized participant
redemption proceeds consisting of
Index Futures and cash (or, in the
discretion of the Sponsor, other
Collateral Assets). The assets included
in the redemption proceeds will be
valued in the same manner and on the
same basis as the Trust’s NAV
calculations for its assets generally. In
connection with a redemption order, the
redeeming authorized participant
authorizes the Trustee to deduct from
the proceeds of redemption any and all
transaction fees associated with
redemptions. Shares can be surrendered
for redemption only in Baskets.
The Trust will meet the initial and
continued listing requirements
applicable to TIRs in NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200 and Commentary
.02 thereto. With respect to application
of Rule 10A–3 23 under the Act, the
Trust relies on the exception contained
in Rule 10A–3(c)(7).24 A minimum of
100,000 Shares of the Trust will be
outstanding as of the start of trading on
the Exchange.
A more detailed description of the
Shares, the Trust, the Index and the
Index Futures, as well as investment
risks, creation and redemption
23 17
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procedures and fees is set forth in the
Registration Statement.
Availability of Information Regarding
the Shares
The NAV for the Shares will be
disseminated to all market participants
at the same time. The Exchange will
also make available on its Web site daily
trading volume of the Shares and the
closing prices of such Shares.
The intraday, closing prices and
settlement prices of the Index Futures
and the futures contracts included in
the Index, DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and
DJ–UBS CI are or will be readily
available from the Web sites of the
relevant futures exchanges, automated
quotation systems, published or other
public sources, or on-line information
services such as Bloomberg or Reuters.
The relevant futures exchanges also
provide delayed futures information on
current and past trading sessions and
market news free of charge on their
respective Web sites. The specific
contract specifications for the Index
Futures and for the underlying futures
contracts in the Index, DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI and DJ–UBS CI are also
available on such Web sites, as well as
other financial informational sources.
Information regarding the Collateral
Assets will be available from applicable
exchanges and market data vendors.
Quotation and last sale information for
the Shares will be available via the
Consolidated Tape Association (‘‘CTA’’)
high-speed line.
The Sponsor’s Web site, https://
www.ishares.com, and/or the
Exchange’s Web site, which are publicly
accessible at no charge, will contain the
following information: (a) The current
NAV per Share daily and the prior
business day’s NAV and the reported
closing price; (b) the midpoint of the
bid-ask price in relation to the NAV as
of the time the NAV is calculated (the
‘‘Bid-Ask Price’’) 25; and (c) the
prospectus. The Trust will also
disseminate Trust holdings on a daily
basis on the Trust’s Web site.
The Trust will provide Web site
disclosure of portfolio holdings daily
and will include, as applicable, (i) the
composite value of the total portfolio,
(ii) the name, quantity, price and market
value of each Index Future and
Collateral Asset, and the characteristics
of such Index Futures and Collateral
Assets, and (iii) the amount of cash held
in the portfolio of the Trust.
25 The Bid/Ask Price will be determined using the
mid-point of the highest bid and the lowest offer on
the Exchange as of the time of calculation of the
NAV. The records relating to Bid/Ask Prices will be
retained by the Trust and its service providers.
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This Web site disclosure of the
portfolio composition of the Trust will
occur at the same time as the disclosure
by the Sponsor of the portfolio
composition to authorized participants
so that all market participants are
provided portfolio composition
information at the same time. Therefore,
the same portfolio information will be
provided on the public Web site as well
as in electronic files provided to
authorized participants. Accordingly,
each investor will have access to the
current portfolio composition of the
Trust through the Trust’s Web site.
The Index Co-Sponsors will calculate
and publish the value of the Index, the
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and DJ–UBS CI
continuously on each business day,
with such values updated at least every
15 seconds during the Core Trading
Session (from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
E.T.) and disseminated by S&P Dow
Jones Indices to market data vendors.
The contents and percentage weighting
of the Index, the DJ–UBS Roll Select CI
and DJ–UBS CI, will be available at the
Index Co-Sponsors’ Web site,
www.djindexes.com, and distributed to
third-party data providers.
The intra-day indicative value (‘‘IIV’’)
per Share of the Trust will be based on
the prior day’s final NAV per Share,
adjusted every 15 seconds during the
Core Trading Session to reflect the
continuous price changes of the Trust’s
Index Futures and other holdings. The
IIV per Share will be widely
disseminated by one or more major
market data vendors at least every 15
seconds during the Core Trading
Session.26
The Trustee will determine the net
asset value of the Trust and the NAV as
of 4:00 p.m. E.T., on each Business
Day 27 on which the Exchange is open
26 Currently, it is the Exchange’s understanding
that several major market data vendors display and/
or make widely available IIVs published on CTA or
other data feeds. In addition, although not likely,
circumstances may arise in which the NYSE Arca
Core Trading Session is in progress, but trading in
Index Futures is not occurring. Such circumstances
may result from reasons including, but not limited
to, the applicable Futures Exchange having a
separate holiday schedule than the NYSE Arca or
closing prior to the close of the NYSE Arca, price
fluctuation limits being reached in an Index Future,
or the applicable Futures Exchange imposing any
other suspension or limitation on trading in an
Index Future. In such instances, the value of the
applicable Index Futures held by the Fund would
be static or priced by the Fund at the applicable
early cut-off time of the Futures Exchange trading
the applicable Index Future. Moreover, any cash
held by the Fund for collateralization purposes will
be invested in Collateral Assets that do not have
market exposure, such that their value would not
change throughout the trading day. As such, during
such periods, the disseminated IIV for the Fund
will be static.
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for regular trading, or as soon as
practicable after that time.
Suitability
Currently, NYSE Arca Equities Rule
9.2(a) (Diligence as to Accounts)
provides that an Equity Trading Permit
(‘‘ETP’’) Holder, before recommending a
transaction in any security, must have
reasonable grounds to believe that the
recommendation is suitable for the
customer based on any facts disclosed
by the customer as to its other security
holdings and as to its financial situation
and needs. Further, the rule provides,
with a limited exception, that prior to
the execution of a transaction
recommended to a non-institutional
customer, the ETP Holder must make
reasonable efforts to obtain information
concerning the customer’s financial
status, tax status, investment objectives,
and any other information that such
ETP Holder believes would be useful to
make a recommendation.
Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders of the suitability
requirements of NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 9.2(a) in an Information Bulletin
(‘‘Bulletin’’). Specifically, ETP Holders
will be reminded in the Bulletin that, in
recommending transactions in these
securities, they must have a reasonable
basis to believe that (1) The
recommendation is suitable for a
customer given reasonable inquiry
concerning the customer’s investment
objectives, financial situation, needs,
and any other information known by
such member, and (2) the customer can
evaluate the special characteristics, and
is able to bear the financial risks, of an
investment in the Shares. In connection
with the suitability obligation, the
Bulletin will also provide that members
must make reasonable efforts to obtain
the following information: (1) The
customer’s financial status; (2) the
customer’s tax status; (3) the customer’s
investment objectives; and (4) such
other information used or considered to
be reasonable by such member or
registered representative in making
recommendations to the customer.
FINRA has issued a regulatory notice
providing guidance to firms about the
supervision of complex products, as
described in FINRA Regulatory Notice
12–03 (January 2012) (‘‘FINRA
Regulatory Notice’’). While the FINRA
Regulatory Notice does not provide a
definition of what constitutes a
‘‘complex product,’’ it does identify
characteristics that may make a product
‘‘complex’’ for purposes of determining
whether the product should be subject
to heightened supervisory and
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compliance procedures.28 The Fund’s
characteristics may raise issues similar
to those raised in the FINRA Regulatory
Notice. Therefore, the Bulletin will state
that ETP Holders that carry customer
accounts should follow the FINRA
Regulatory Notice with respect to
suitability.
Trading Rules
The Exchange deems the Shares to be
equity securities, thus rendering trading
in the Shares subject to the Exchange’s
existing rules governing the trading of
equity securities. Shares will trade on
the NYSE Arca Marketplace from 4:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m. E.T. The Exchange has
appropriate rules to facilitate
transactions in the Shares during all
trading sessions. As provided in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 7.6, Commentary .03,
the minimum price variation (‘‘MPV’’)
for quoting and entry of orders in equity
securities traded on the NYSE Arca
Marketplace is $0.01, with the exception
of securities that are priced less than
$1.00, for which the MPV for order
entry is $0.0001.
The trading of the Shares will be
subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.200, Commentary .02(e), which sets
forth certain restrictions on ETP Holders
acting as registered Market Makers in
TIRs to facilitate surveillance. See
‘‘Surveillance’’ below for more
information.
With respect to trading halts, the
Exchange may consider all relevant
factors in exercising its discretion to
halt or suspend trading in the Shares.
Trading may be halted because of
market conditions or for reasons that, in
the view of the Exchange, make trading
in the Shares inadvisable. These may
include: (1) The extent to which trading
is not occurring in the Index Futures, or
(2) whether other unusual conditions or
circumstances detrimental to the
maintenance of a fair and orderly
market are present. In addition, trading
in Shares will be subject to trading halts
caused by extraordinary market
volatility pursuant to the Exchange’s
‘‘circuit breaker’’ rule 29 or by the halt or
suspension of trading of the underlying
futures contracts.
The Exchange may halt trading during
the day in which an interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index
value or the value of the Index Futures
occurs. If the interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index
value or the value of the Index Futures
persists past the trading day in which it
occurred, the Exchange will halt trading
no later than the beginning of the
28 See
29 See
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trading day following an interruption. In
addition, if the Exchange becomes
aware that the NAV with respect to the
Shares is not disseminated to all market
participants at the same time, it will halt
trading in the Shares until such time as
the NAV is available to all market
participants.
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Surveillance
The Exchange represents that trading
in the Shares will be subject to the
existing trading surveillances,
administered by the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority (‘‘FINRA’’) on
behalf of the Exchange, which are
designed to detect violations of
Exchange rules and applicable federal
securities laws.30 The Exchange
represents that these procedures are
adequate to properly monitor Exchange
trading of the Shares in all trading
sessions and to deter and detect
violations of Exchange rules and
applicable federal securities laws.
The surveillances referred to above
generally focus on detecting securities
trading outside their normal patterns,
which could be indicative of
manipulative or other violative activity.
When such situations are detected,
surveillance analysis follows and
investigations are opened, where
appropriate, to review the behavior of
all relevant parties for all relevant
trading violations. FINRA, on behalf of
the Exchange, will communicate as
needed regarding trading in the Shares
with other markets that are members of
the Intermarket Surveillance Group
(‘‘ISG’’) or with which the Exchange has
in place a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement.31 The CME, CBOT,
NYMEX and ICE Futures U.S. are
members of ISG, and the Exchange may
obtain market surveillance information
with respect to transactions occurring
on the COMEX pursuant to the ISG
memberships of CME and NYMEX. In
addition, the Exchange has entered into
a comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement with the LME that applies
with respect to trading in futures
contracts currently included in the DJ–
UBS CI and DJ–UBS Roll Select CI.
In addition, with respect to Index
Futures traded on exchanges, not more
than 10% of the weight of such Index
Futures in the aggregate shall consist of
futures contracts whose principal
30 FINRA surveils trading on the Exchange
pursuant to a regulatory services agreement. The
Exchange is responsible for FINRA’s performance
under this regulatory services agreement.
31 For a list of the current members of ISG, see
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all
components of the portfolio for the Shares may
trade on markets that are members of ISG or with
which the Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement.
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trading market (a) is not a member of
ISG or (b) is a market with which the
Exchange does not have a
comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement, provided that, so long as the
Exchange may obtain market
surveillance information with respect to
transactions occurring on the COMEX
pursuant to the ISG memberships of
CME and NYMEX, futures contracts
whose principal trading market is
COMEX shall not be subject to the
prohibition in (a), above.
The Exchange also has a general
policy prohibiting the distribution of
material, non-public information by its
employees.
Information Bulletin
Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin
of the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares.
Specifically, the Information Bulletin
will discuss the following: (1) The risks
involved in trading the Shares during
the Opening and Late Trading Sessions
when an updated IIV will not be
calculated or publicly disseminated; (2)
the procedures for purchases and
redemptions of Shares in Baskets (and
that Shares are not individually
redeemable); (3) NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty of
due diligence on its ETP Holders to
learn the essential facts relating to every
customer prior to trading the Shares; (4)
how information regarding the IIV is
disseminated; (5) that a static IIV may be
disseminated, between the close of
trading on the applicable futures
exchange and the close of the NYSE
Arca Core Trading Session; 32 (6) the
requirement that ETP Holders deliver a
prospectus to investors purchasing
newly issued Shares prior to or
concurrently with the confirmation of a
transaction; and (7) trading information.
In addition, the Information Bulletin
will advise ETP Holders, prior to the
commencement of trading, of the
prospectus delivery requirements
applicable to the Trust. The Exchange
notes that investors purchasing Shares
directly from the Trust will receive a
prospectus. ETP Holders purchasing
Shares from the Trust for resale to
investors will deliver a prospectus to
such investors. The Information Bulletin
will also discuss any exemptive, noaction and interpretive relief granted by
the Commission from any rules under
the Act.
In addition, the Information Bulletin
will reference that the Trust is subject
to various fees and expenses described
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in the Registration Statement. The
Information Bulletin will also reference
that the CFTC has regulatory
jurisdiction over Index Futures traded
on U.S. markets.
The Information Bulletin will also
disclose the trading hours of the Shares
of the Trust and that the NAV for the
Shares will be calculated after 4:00 p.m.
E.T. each trading day. The Bulletin will
disclose that information about the
Shares of the Funds is publicly available
on the Trust’s Web site.
2. Statutory Basis
The basis under the Act for this
proposed rule change is the requirement
under Section 6(b)(5) 33 that an
exchange have rules that are designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices, to promote just and
equitable principles of trade, to remove
impediments to, and perfect the
mechanism of a free and open market
and, in general, to protect investors and
the public interest.
The Exchange believes that the
proposed rule change is designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices in that the Shares will
be listed and traded on the Exchange
pursuant to the initial and continued
listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.200 and Commentary .02 thereto.
The Trust seeks to achieve its
investment objective by investing in
Index Futures and Collateral Assets
posted as margin and held to
collateralize the Trust’s Index Futures
positions. The Sponsor represents that
the Trust will invest in Index Futures
and Collateral Assets, in a manner
consistent with the Trust’s investment
objective and not to achieve additional
leverage. With respect to Index Futures
traded on exchanges, not more than
10% of the weight of such Index Futures
in the aggregate shall consist of futures
contracts whose principal trading
market (a) is not a member of ISG or (b)
is a market with which the Exchange
does not have a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement,
provided that, so long as the Exchange
may obtain market surveillance
information with respect to transactions
occurring on the COMEX pursuant to
the ISG memberships of CME and
NYMEX, futures contracts whose
principal trading market is COMEX
shall not be subject to the prohibition in
(a), above. The Exchange has in place
surveillance procedures that are
adequate to properly monitor trading in
the Shares in all trading sessions and to
deter and detect violations of Exchange
rules and applicable federal securities
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laws. Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders of the suitability
requirements of NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 9.2(a) in a Bulletin. The Bulletin
will state that ETP Holders that carry
customer accounts should follow the
FINRA Regulatory Notice with respect
to suitability. The Exchange may obtain
information via ISG from other
exchanges that are members of ISG or
with which the Exchange has entered
into a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement. The Adviser is not a
broker-dealer but is affiliated with a
broker-dealer and has implemented a
firewall with respect to such brokerdealer affiliate as well as procedures
designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public
information regarding the assets of the
Trust. UBS Securities has implemented
a fire wall with respect to its personnel
regarding access to information
concerning the composition and/or
changes to the Index, DJ–UBS CI and
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and the
calculation of the values of the foregoing
indexes, and will be subject to
procedures designed to prevent the use
and dissemination of material nonpublic information regarding the Index,
DJ–UBS CI and DJ–UBS Roll Select CI.
The Index Co-Sponsors have
implemented and maintain procedures
designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public
information regarding the DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI, the DJ–UBS CI and the Index.
The Supervisory Committee and the
Advisory Committee are subject to
procedures designed to prevent the use
and dissemination of material, nonpublic information regarding the Index,
DJ–UBS Roll Select CI and DJ–UBS CI.
Trading may be halted because of
market conditions or for reasons that, in
the view of the Exchange, make trading
in the Shares inadvisable. These may
include: (1) The extent to which trading
is not occurring in the Index Futures, or
(2) whether other unusual conditions or
circumstances detrimental to the
maintenance of a fair and orderly
market are present. Trading in Shares
will be subject to trading halts caused
by extraordinary market volatility
pursuant to the Exchange’s ‘‘circuit
breaker’’ rule or by the halt or
suspension of trading of the Designated
Contracts. The Exchange represents that
the Exchange may halt trading during
the day in which the interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index
value or the value of the Index Futures
occurs. If the interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index
value or the value of the Index Futures
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persists past the trading day in which it
occurred, the Exchange will halt trading
no later than the beginning of the
trading day following an interruption. In
addition, if the Exchange becomes
aware that the NAV with respect to the
Shares is not disseminated to all market
participants at the same time, it will halt
trading in the Shares until such time as
the NAV is available to all market
participants.
The proposed rule change is designed
to promote just and equitable principles
of trade and to protect investors and the
public interest in that a large amount of
information is publicly available
regarding the Trust and the Shares,
thereby promoting market transparency.
The NAV for the Shares will be
disseminated to all market participants
at the same time. The IIV per Share will
be widely disseminated by one or more
major market data vendors at least every
15 seconds during the Core Trading
Session. Trading in Shares of the Trust
will be halted if the circuit breaker
parameters in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
7.12 have been reached or because of
market conditions or for reasons that, in
the view of the Exchange, make trading
in the Shares inadvisable. Moreover,
prior to the commencement of trading,
the Exchange will inform its ETP
Holders in an Information Bulletin of
the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares. The
Trust will provide Web site disclosure
of portfolio holdings daily and will
include, as applicable, (i) the composite
value of the total portfolio, (ii) the name,
quantity, price and market value of each
Index Future and Collateral Asset, and
the characteristics of such Index Futures
and Collateral Assets, and (iii) the
amount of cash held in the portfolio of
the Trust. The value of the Index, DJ–
UBS Roll Select CI and DJ–UBS CI will
be widely disseminated by one or more
major market data vendors at least every
15 seconds during the Core Trading
Session. The intraday, closing prices
and settlement prices of the Index
Futures and the futures contracts
included in the Index, DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI and DJ–UBS CI are or will be
readily available from the Web sites of
the relevant futures exchanges,
automated quotation systems, published
or other public sources, or on-line
information services such as Bloomberg
or Reuters. The contents and percentage
weighting of the Index, the DJ–UBS Roll
Select CI and DJ–UBS CI, will be
available at the Index Co-Sponsors’ Web
site, www.djindexes.com, and
distributed to third-party data providers.
The Exchange will also make available
on its Web site daily trading volume of
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each of the Shares and the closing prices
of such Shares. The prices of the Index
Futures and Collateral Assets will be
available from the applicable exchanges
and market data vendors.
The proposed rule change is designed
to perfect the mechanism of a free and
open market and, in general, to protect
investors and the public interest in that
it will facilitate the listing and trading
of an additional type of exchange-traded
product that will enhance competition
among market participants, to the
benefit of investors and the marketplace.
As noted above, the Exchange has in
place surveillance procedures relating to
trading in the Shares and may obtain
information via ISG from other
exchanges that are members of ISG or
with which the Exchange has entered
into a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement. In addition, as noted
above, investors will have ready access
to information regarding the Trust’s
holdings, IIV, and quotation and last
sale information for the Shares.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that
the proposed rule change will impose
any burden on competition that is not
necessary or appropriate in furtherance
of the purpose of the Act. The Exchange
notes that the proposed rule change will
facilitate the listing and trading of an
additional type of exchange-traded
product that will enhance competition
among market participants, to the
benefit of investors and the marketplace.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Comments on the
Proposed Rule Change Received from
Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited
or received with respect to the proposed
rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 45 days of the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register or within such longer period (i)
as the Commission may designate up to
90 days of such date if it finds such
longer period to be appropriate and
publishes its reasons for so finding or
(ii) as to which the self-regulatory
organization consents, the Commission
will:
(A) By order approve or disapprove
the proposed rule change, or
(B) institute proceedings to determine
whether the proposed rule change
should be disapproved.
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IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change, as modified by Amendment No.
1 thereto, is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
Electronic Comments
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an email to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File
Number SR–NYSEArca–2013–48 on the
subject line.
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• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
100 F Street NE., Washington, DC
20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
Number SR–NYSEArca–2013–48. This
file number should be included on the
subject line if email is used. To help the
Commission process and review your
comments more efficiently, please use
only one method. The Commission will
post all comments on the Commission’s
Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
submission, all subsequent
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
change that are filed with the
Commission, and all written
communications relating to the
proposed rule change between the
Commission and any person, other than
those that may be withheld from the
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for Web site viewing and
printing in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549, on official
business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the
filing will also be available for
inspection and copying at the principal
office of the Exchange. All comments
received will be posted without change;
the Commission does not edit personal
identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. All submissions
should refer to File No. SR–NYSEArca–
2013–48 and should be submitted on or
before June 10, 2013.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Release No. 34–69570; File No. SR–C2–
2013–020]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; C2
Options Exchange, Incorporated;
Notice of Filing and Immediate
Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule
Change To Amend the Fees Schedule
May 14, 2013.
Paper Comments
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For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
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Kevin M. O’Neill,
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Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
notice is hereby given that on May 01,
2013, C2 Options Exchange,
Incorporated (the ‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘C2’’)
filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) the
proposed rule change as described in
Items I, II, and III below, which Items
have been prepared by the Exchange.
The Commission is publishing this
notice to solicit comments on the
proposed rule change from interested
persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to amend its
Fees Schedule. The text of the proposed
rule change is available on the
Exchange’s Web site (https://
www.c2exchange.com/Legal/), at the
Exchange’s Office of the Secretary, and
at the Commission’s Public Reference
Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
In its filing with the Commission, the
Exchange included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for
the proposed rule change and discussed
any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of these
statements may be examined at the
places specified in Item IV below. The
Exchange has prepared summaries, set
forth in sections A, B, and C below, of
the most significant aspects of such
statements.
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to amend its
Fees Schedule. First, the Exchange
proposes to make changes to its fees for
orders in all multiply-listed index and
ETF options classes. Currently, the
Exchange offers a rebate for Public
Customer complex orders, including
those that trade against simple (noncomplex) orders (excluding trades on
the open, for which no fees are assessed
or rebates given). However, the
Exchange also offers a rebate for all
Maker simple orders (excluding trades
on the open, for which no fees are
assessed or rebates given). Therefore, in
circumstances when a Public Customer
complex order trades against a simple
Maker order, the Exchange pays a rebate
to both market participants and takes in
no fees. The Exchange has determined
that this is not economically viable.
Therefore, the Exchange proposes to add
a note that applies to the listing of all
Maker rebates in Section 1A of the Fees
Schedule (which discusses fees for
simple, non-complex orders in all
multiply-listed index and ETF options
classes) that states ‘‘Rebates do not
apply to orders that trade with Public
Customer complex orders. In such a
circumstance, there will be no fee or
rebate.’’ The Exchange also proposes to
amend the note that already applies to
the listing of all Public Customer rebates
in Section 1D [sic] 3 of the Fees
Schedule (which discusses fees for
complex orders in all multiply-listed
index and ETF options classes). This
note currently states that the rebate for
Public Customer complex orders does
not apply to Public Customer orders that
trade with other Public Customer
orders. In such a circumstance, there
will be no Maker or Taker fee or rebate.
The Exchange proposes to amend this
note to state that the rebate (for Public
Customer complex orders) will only
apply to Public Customer complex
orders that trade with non-Public
Customer complex orders. In other
circumstances, there will be no Maker
or Taker fee or rebate. This simple
language achieves the goal of excepting
out Public Customer complex orders
that trade with simple orders from
receiving the rebate (as well as
excepting out Public Customer complex
orders that trade with other Public
Customer complex orders, which were
already excepted out of receiving the
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-69573; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2013-48]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing
of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To
List and Trade Shares of iShares Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity
Index Trust Pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200
May 14, 2013.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (the ``Act'') \2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby
given that, on May 1, 2013, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or ``NYSE
Arca'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II,
and III below, which Items have been prepared by the Exchange. On May
3, 2013, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule
change.\4\ The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments
on the proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto,
from interested persons.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 15 U.S.C. 78a.
\3\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
\4\ In Amendment No. 1, the Exchange made a technical correction
and clarified that UBS Securities has implemented a fire wall with
respect to its personnel regarding access to information concerning,
among other things, the calculation of the values of the Index, DJ-
UBS CI, and DJ-UBS Roll Select CI (as such terms are defined below).
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares of iShares Dow
Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Trust (the ``Trust'') under NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.200. The text of the proposed rule change is
available on the Exchange's Web site at www.nyse.com, at the principal
office of the Exchange, and at the Commission's Public Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most
significant parts of such statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
1. Purpose
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, Commentary .02 permits the trading
of Trust Issued Receipts (``TIRs'') either by listing or pursuant to
unlisted trading privileges (``UTP'').\5\ The Exchange proposes to list
and trade the shares (the ``Shares'') of the Trust pursuant to NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.200.
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\5\ Commentary .02 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 applies to
TIRs that invest in ``Financial Instruments.'' The term ``Financial
Instruments,'' as defined in Commentary .02(b)(4) to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200, means any combination of investments, including
cash; securities; options on securities and indices; futures
contracts; options on futures contracts; forward contracts; equity
caps, collars and floors; and swap agreements.
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The Exchange notes that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission'') has previously approved the listing and trading of
other issues of TIRs on the American Stock Exchange LLC \6\ and listing
on NYSE Arca.\7\ In addition, the Commission has approved other
exchange-traded fund-like products linked to the performance of
underlying commodities.\8\
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\6\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58161 (July
15, 2008), 73 FR 42380 (July 21, 2008) (SR-Amex-2008-39) (order
approving amendments to Amex Rule 1202, Commentary .07 and listing
on Amex of 14 funds of the Commodities and Currency Trust).
\7\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58457
(September 3, 2008), 73 FR 52711 (September 10, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-
2008-91) (order approving listing on NYSE Arca of 14 funds of the
Commodities and Currency Trust).
\8\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 56932
(December 7, 2007), 72 FR 71178 (December 14, 2007) (SR-NYSEArca-
2007-112) (order granting accelerated approval to list iShares S&P
GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust).
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The Shares represent units of beneficial interests in the Trust, as
described in the Registration Statement.\9\ The Trust is a Delaware
statutory trust. The sponsor of the Trust is iShares (copyright)
Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC (the ``Sponsor''), a Delaware limited
liability company. The Trust is operated by the Sponsor, an indirect
subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. The Sponsor is a commodity pool operator
registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'') and
a member of the National Futures Association (``NFA''). BlackRock Asset
Management International Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect
subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., is the sole member and manager of the
Sponsor. BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A., a national
banking association, an indirect subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., and an
affiliate of the Sponsor, is the trustee of the Trust (the
``Trustee''). BlackRock Fund Advisors (the ``Adviser''),\10\ a
California corporation, an indirect subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., and
an affiliate of the Sponsor, serves as the commodity trading adviser of
the Trust, is registered as a commodity trading adviser with the CFTC
and is a member of the NFA.\11\ State Street Bank and Trust Company, a
trust company organized under the laws of Massachusetts, is the
administrator (``Administrator'') of the Trust.
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\9\ See the pre-effective amendment to the registration
statement on Form S-1 for the Trust, dated February 8, 2013 (File
No. 333-178376) relating to the Shares (the ``Registration
Statement''). The discussion herein relating to the Trust and the
Shares is based, in part, on the Registration Statement. Terms used
but not defined herein are used as defined in the Registration
Statement.
\10\ The Adviser is not a broker-dealer but is affiliated with a
broker-dealer and has implemented a firewall with respect to such
broker-dealer affiliate as well as procedures designed to prevent
the use and dissemination of material non-public information
regarding the assets of the Trust.
\11\ According to the Sponsor, the Sponsor will be responsible
for the overall management of the Trust and the Trustee will be
responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Trust. The
Adviser will act as the commodity trading advisor for the Trust with
discretionary authority to make determinations with respect to the
Trust's assets, but will not engage in any activities designed to
obtain a profit from, or ameliorate losses caused by, changes to the
level of the underlying index. The Sponsor represents that it will
implement and maintain procedures designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public information regarding the
assets of the Trust.
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According to the Registration Statement, the investment objective
of the Trust will be to seek investment results that correspond
generally, but are not necessarily identical, to the performance of the
Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Total Return (the ``Index''),
which reflects the returns on a fully collateralized investment in the
Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index (``DJ-UBS Roll Select CI''),
before the payment of expenses and liabilities of the Trust. The DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI is calculated based on the same commodities, though not
always the same futures contracts, that are included in the Dow Jones-
UBS Commodity Index (the ``DJ-UBS CI''). The DJ-UBS CI is a liquidity-
and production-weighted index of the prices of a diversified group of
futures contracts on physical commodities. The DJ-UBS CI forms the base
commodities index from which the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and the Index
are derived.
According to the Registration Statement, the assets of the Trust
will
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consist of long positions in Futures Exchange \12\-traded index futures
contracts of various expirations (``Index Futures'') \13\ on the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI, together with cash, U.S. Treasury securities or other
short-term securities and similar securities that are eligible as
margin deposits for those Index Futures positions (``Collateral
Assets'').\14\ The Trust is expected to roll out of existing positions
and establish new positions in Index Futures on an ongoing basis.\15\
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\12\ As used herein, ``Futures Exchange'' means the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange (``CME'') or one of the CME Group Inc.'s other
designated contract markets, or any additional or successor
designated contract markets through which the Trust trades Index
Futures (as defined herein). The designated contract markets of the
CME Group Inc. are the CME, Chicago Board of Trade (``CBOT''), New
York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (``NYMEX'') and Commodity Exchange,
Inc. (``COMEX'').
\13\ The Trust's Index Futures will be subject to the rules of
the relevant Futures Exchange, which will initially be CME. The
Index Futures will initially trade on GLOBEX, the CME's electronic
trading system, and are not expected to trade through open outcry on
the floor of the CME.
\14\ The Sponsor represents that the Trust will invest in Index
Futures and Collateral Assets, in a manner consistent with the
Trust's investment objective and not to achieve additional leverage.
\15\ The Index Futures initially held by the Trust will have
quarterly expirations and be listed for trading by the CME.
Subsequent Index Futures held by the Trust may have longer or
shorter expirations, different terms, and may be listed on other
Futures Exchanges.
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According to the Registration Statement, in order to collateralize
its Index Futures positions and to reflect the U.S. Treasury component
of the Index, the Trust will hold Collateral Assets, from which it will
post margin to its clearing futures commission merchant (the ``Clearing
FCM''), in an amount equal to the margin required by the relevant
Futures Exchange, and transfer to its Clearing FCM any additional
amounts that may be separately required by the Clearing FCM.\16\ Any
Collateral Assets not required to be posted as margin with the Clearing
FCM will be held in the Trust's accounts established at its
Administrator.
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\16\ When establishing positions in Index Futures, the Trust
will be required to deposit initial margin with a value of
approximately 3% to 10% of the value of each Index Futures position
at the time it is established. These margin requirements are subject
to change from time to time by the Exchange or the Clearing FCM. On
a daily basis, the Trust will be obligated to pay, or entitled to
receive, variation margin in an amount equal to the change in the
daily settlement level of its Index Futures positions.
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According to the Registration Statement, the Trust will be a
passive investor in Index Futures and the Collateral Assets held to
satisfy applicable margin requirements on those Index Futures
positions. At any time when Index Futures of more than one expiration
date are listed on the Futures Exchange, the Sponsor will determine,
pursuant to the terms of the trust agreement, which Index Futures of a
given expiration will be transferred in connection with either the
creation or redemption of Shares. The Adviser will not engage in any
activities designed to obtain a profit from, or to ameliorate losses
caused by, changes in the level of the Index or the DJ-UBS Roll Select
CI or the value of the Collateral Assets.
According to the Registration Statement, the profit or loss on the
Trust's Index Futures positions should correlate with increases and
decreases in the value of the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI, although this
correlation is not expected to be exact. The return on the Index
Futures, together with interest on the Collateral Assets, is expected
to result in a total return that corresponds generally, but is not
identical, to the Index.
The Index, DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
According to the Registration Statement, the Index reflects the
value of the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI together with the returns on
specified U.S. Treasury securities that are deemed to have been held to
collateralize a hypothetical long position in the futures contracts
comprising the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI.
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
is calculated based on the same commodities, though not always the same
futures contracts, that are included in the DJ-UBS CI, which is a
liquidity- and production-weighted index of the prices of a diversified
group of futures contracts on physical commodities. The DJ-UBS Roll
Select CI seeks to minimize the effect of contango and maximize the
effect of backwardation by selecting replacement futures contracts that
exhibit the most backwardation or least contango among those eligible
futures contracts with delivery months of up to 273 calendar days until
expiration.\17\
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\17\ Markets for futures contracts can exhibit
``backwardation,'' which means that futures contracts with distant
delivery months are priced lower than those with nearer delivery
months, or can exhibit ``contango,'' which means that futures
contracts with distant delivery months are priced higher than those
with nearer delivery months.
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According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
incorporates the economic effect of ``rolling'' the futures contracts
included in the applicable index and the DJ-UBS CI reflects the
economic effect of ``rolling'' futures contracts into front-month
futures contracts. ``Rolling'' a futures contract means closing out a
position in an expiring futures contract and establishing an equivalent
position in a new futures contract on the same commodity.
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
differs from the DJ-UBS CI in that it does not roll into the futures
contract with the nearest designated delivery month. Rather, the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI rolls into those eligible futures contracts with
delivery months of up to 273 calendar days until expiration that
exhibit the most backwardation or that exhibit the least contango.
The DJ-UBS Roll Select CI, the DJ-UBS CI and the Index are
administered, calculated and published by UBS Securities LLC (``UBS
Securities'') and DJI Opco, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S&P Dow
Jones Indices LLC (``S&P Dow Jones Indices'' and, together with UBS
Securities, the ``Index Co-Sponsors'').\18\
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\18\ According to the Sponsor, S&P Dow Jones Indices and its
subsidiary DJI Opco, LLC are not broker-dealers and UBS Securities
is a broker-dealer. UBS Securities has implemented a fire wall with
respect to its personnel regarding access to information concerning
the composition and/or changes to the Index, DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI and the calculation of the values of the foregoing
indexes, and will be subject to procedures designed to prevent the
use and dissemination of material non-public information regarding
the Index, DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll Select CI. The Index Co-
Sponsors have implemented and maintain procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of material non-public information
regarding the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI, the DJ-UBS CI and the Index.
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The DJ-UBS CI
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS CI, from which
the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI is based, was created by AIG International
Inc. in 1998 and acquired by UBS Securities in May 2009, at which time
UBS Securities and Dow Jones entered into a joint marketing agreement
to market the DJ-UBS CI and related indices. Dow Jones subsequently
assigned its interest in the joint marketing agreement to CME Indexes.
The Index Co-Sponsors are together responsible for calculating the DJ-
UBS CI and related indices and sub-indices, including the Index and the
DJ-UBS Roll Select CI.
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS CI is a
benchmark index composed of futures contracts on the underlying
physical commodities, the selection and weighting of which are
currently determined based on the five-year average of the trading
volume, adjusted by the historic U.S. dollar value of the futures
contract designated for inclusion in the DJ-UBS CI, and the five-year
average of production figures, adjusted
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by the historic U.S. dollar value of the futures contract designated
for inclusion in the DJ-UBS CI. For each of the included commodities,
specified futures contracts with specified delivery dates are
designated for inclusion in the DJ-UBS CI. The DJ-UBS CI is reweighted
and rebalanced annually, on a price-percentage basis, to reflect
changes in trading volume and production figures.
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS CI reflects the
increased or decreased return associated with ``rolling'' futures
contracts. The DJ-UBS CI reflects the economic impact of the roll
process by reducing the weights applied to expiring futures contracts
while correspondingly increasing the weights applied to the futures
contracts that are replacing such expiring futures contracts. This roll
simulation is generally conducted at the beginning of each month over
the course of five business days, lasting from the sixth business day
until the tenth business day of each month. The DJ-UBS CI conducts its
roll simulations each month by rolling out of the designated futures
contracts expiring in that month and rolling into those designated
futures contracts with the next closest designated delivery month.
The DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
According to the Registration Statement, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
implements its rolling methodology by selecting from the eligible
contracts for each commodity on its applicable ``contract selection
date,'' the contract that exhibits the greatest amount of backwardation
or least amount of contango, on an annualized basis, relative to the
contract with the immediately preceding delivery date on the same
commodity. This is accomplished by first dividing the price of each
eligible contract from the price of the contract immediately preceding
such eligible contract, to determine the percentage difference between
the two prices. Because this price difference may be affected by the
relative time between the eligible contract and its immediately
preceding contract, this price difference is multiplied by 365 and
divided by the number of actual days between the delivery dates of the
two contracts, to arrive at a measure of the relative annualized
contango/backwardation, referred to as the ``annualized spread,''
exhibited between the eligible contract and the contract immediately
preceding it. Based on a comparison of these annualized spreads, the
eligible contract that has the highest annualized spread relative to
its immediately preceding contract is the one selected as the contract
for the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI to establish new positions in. This roll
selection process generally occurs every month on the fourth business
day of the month, subject to changes or adjustments to this process
implemented by the Index Co-Sponsors.
According to the Registration Statement, the Index Futures in which
the Trust will invest will be based on the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI. The
DJ-UBS Roll Select CI is a version of the DJ-UBS CI that tries to
mitigate the effects of contango arising from the rolling process.
Rather than incorporating the economic effect of rolling into futures
contracts with the next closest designated delivery month, the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI incorporates the economic effect of rolling into
applicable futures contracts that exhibit the least contango or, if
applicable, the most backwardation, in each case relative to the
contracts of the immediately preceding delivery month.
Because the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI utilizes a different designated
contract selection process than the DJ-UBS CI, the futures contracts
comprising the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI at any particular time may have
different delivery months than those comprising the DJ-UBS CI, and the
levels of the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and the DJ-UBS CI may
correspondingly differ. In addition, as a result of this difference in
rolling processes, both the performance of the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
and the DJ-UBS CI and the dollar-value weights of their respective
underlying futures contracts are expected to differ over time.
Determination of DJ-UBS CI Index Constituents
According to the Registration Statement, the Index Co-Sponsors have
established a two-tier oversight structure for the DJ-UBS CI, the DJ-
UBS Roll Select CI and the Index comprised of the ``Supervisory
Committee'' and the ``Advisory Committee.'' \19\ The composition of the
DJ-UBS CI is determined by UBS Securities each year under the
supervision of, and in accordance with the procedures adopted by, the
Supervisory Committee. The final composition of the DJ-UBS CI for each
calendar year is subject to the approval of the Supervisory Committee
in consultation with the Advisory Committee, and once this approval has
been obtained, the new composition of the DJ-UBS CI is publicly
announced, and takes effect in the month of January of the relevant
calendar year.
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\19\ The Supervisory Committee and the Advisory Committee are
subject to procedures designed to prevent the improper use and
dissemination of material, non-public information regarding the
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The relative weight of a commodity eligible for inclusion in the
DJ-UBS CI, or its commodity index percentage (``CIP''), is initially
determined based on (i) the relative production percentages of the
commodities eligible for inclusion in the DJ-UBS CI and (ii) the
relative liquidity of the futures contracts that have been designated
as the eligible reference contracts for those commodities. This initial
CIP calculation is then adjusted to give effect to caps and floors on
such CIPs and to adjust the weights for gold and silver, the relative
production numbers of which, according to the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity
Index\SM\ Handbook, last published by the Index Co-Sponsors as of May
2012, understate their economic significance.
According to the Registration Statement, the commodities and
related designated futures contracts currently included in the DJ-UBS
CI and their respective final CIPs for 2013 are as follows:
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CIP** Trading hours
Commodity Designated contract Exchange* Units (percent) (E.T.)***
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Aluminum....................... High Grade Primary LME............................ 25 metric tons................. 4.913 First session:
Aluminum. 6:55AM to 7:00AM,
7:55AM to 8:00AM;
second session:
10:15AM to 10:20AM,
10:55AM to 11:00AM.
Coffee......................... Coffee ``C''........ ICE Futures U.S................ 37,500 lbs..................... 2.442 3:30AM to 2:00PM.
Copper......................... Copper.............. COMEX.......................... 25,000 lbs..................... 7.277 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Next Day.
Corn........................... Corn................ CBOT........................... 5,000 bushels.................. 7.053 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
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Cotton......................... Cotton.............. ICE Futures U.S................ 50,000 lbs..................... 1.766 9:00PM to 2:30PM
Next Day.
Crude Oil...................... Light, Sweet Crude NYMEX.......................... 1,000 barrels.................. 9.206 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Oil. Next Day.
Brent Crude Oil..... ICE Futures U.S................ 1,000 barrels.................. 5.794 8:00PM to 6:00PM
Next Day.
Gold........................... Gold................ COMEX.......................... 100 troy oz.................... 10.819 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Next Day.
Heating Oil.................... Heating Oil......... NYMEX.......................... 42,000 gallons................. 3.519 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Next Day.
Live Cattle.................... Live Cattle......... CME............................ 40,000 lbs..................... 3.283 Mon: 10:05AM to
5:00PM; Tue-Thurs:
6:00PM to 5:00PM
Next Day; Fri:
6:00PM to 2:55PM
Next Day.
Lean Hogs...................... Lean Hogs........... CME............................ 40,000 lbs..................... 1.900 Mon: 10:05AM to
5:00PM; Tue-Thurs:
6:00PM to 5:00PM
Next Day; Fri:
6:00PM to 2:55PM
Next Day.
Natural Gas.................... Henry Hub Natural NYMEX.......................... 10,000 mmbtu................... 10.424 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Gas. Next Day.
Nickel......................... Primary Nickel...... LME............................ 6 metric tons.................. 2.244 First session:
6:15AM to 6:20AM,
8:00AM to 8:05AM;
second session:
10:25AM to 10:30AM,
11:05AM to 11:10AM.
Silver......................... Silver.............. COMEX.......................... 5000 troy oz................... 3.898 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Next Day.
Soybeans....................... Soybeans............ CBOT........................... 5,000 bushels.................. 5.495 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Soybean Meal................... Soybean Meal........ CBOT........................... 100 short tons................. 2.607 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Soybean Oil.................... Soybean Oil......... CBOT........................... 60,000 lbs..................... 2.743 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Sugar.......................... World Sugar No. 11.. ICE Futures U.S................ 112,000 lbs.................... 3.884 2:30AM to 2:00PM.
Unleaded Gasoline.............. Reformulated NYMEX.......................... 42,000 gallons................. 3.461 6:00PM to 5:15PM
Blendstock for Next Day.
Oxygen Blending.
Wheat (Chicago)................ Soft Wheat.......... CBOT........................... 5,000 bushels.................. 3.433 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Wheat (Kansas)................. Hard Red Winter KCBOT.......................... 5,000 bushels.................. 1.321 Sun-Fri: 8:00PM to
Wheat. 8:45 AM Next Day;
Mon-Fri: 9:30AM to
2:15PM.
Zinc........................... Special High Grade LME............................ 25 metric tons................. 2.519 First session:
Zinc. 7:10AM to 7:15AM,
7:50AM to 7:55AM;
second session:
10:05AM to 10:10AM,
10:45AM to 10:50AM.
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* ``LME'' refers to the London Metal Exchange, and ``ICE Futures U.S.'' refers to ICE Futures U.S., Inc.
** Rounded to the nearest thousandth of a percentage. May not total to 100% due to rounding.
*** Trading hours for the CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX represent weekday electronic trading hours through CME Globex (electronic platform). Trading hours
for LME represent ring trading times during each of first and second sessions; excludes kerb trading times.
Calculation of the Index, DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll Select CI
According to the Registration Statement, the level of the DJ-UBS CI
was set to be equal to 100 as of December 31, 1990. Subsequent levels
of the DJ-UBS CI are determined by multiplying the level of the DJ-UBS
CI as of the previous day by a fraction equal to (i) the weighted
average value (``WAV'') of the DJ-UBS CI as of the current day divided
by (ii) the WAV of the DJ-UBS CI as of the previous day, subject to
adjustment for roll periods as described below. The WAV of the DJ-UBS
CI on any given day is calculated by summing the products of the
settlement prices of the designated futures contracts for each
commodity multiplied by the commodity index multiplier (``CIM'') of
such designated contract.
According to the Registration Statement, the CIMs of the designated
contracts in the DJ-UBS CI are determined annually, generally on the
fourth business day of each year (the date of such determination, the
``CIM Determination Date''). On the CIM Determination Date, initial
CIMs (``ICIMs'') are calculated for each designated contract by
multiplying such designated contract's CIP by 1,000, then dividing such
product by the designated contract's settlement price as of the CIM
Determination Date. To determine the final CIM for each designated
contract for the new year, each ICIM is multiplied by an adjustment
factor, which is a fraction equal to (i) the WAV of the DJ-UBS CI as of
the CIM Determination Date, as calculated using the CIMs from the prior
year, divided by (ii) 1,000. This adjustment factor is intended to
preserve WAV continuity from one year to the next.
According to the Registration Statement, during roll periods, which
generally occur during the sixth through tenth business days of each
month, the level of the DJ-UBS CI is calculated using a blended WAV
formula that reflects the fact that the DJ-UBS CI is rolling out of
expiring contracts and into replacement contracts. The WAV associated
with the existing index components (``Old WAV'') begins weighted at
100% as of the business day preceding the roll period and decreases by
20% on each subsequent business
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day until reduced to zero; it has no further effect on the level of the
DJ-UBS CI by the fifth business day of such roll period. The WAV
associated with the new index components (``New WAV'') begins weighted
at 0% as of the business day preceding the roll period and increases by
20% on each subsequent business day such that by the fifth business day
of such roll period, the level of the DJ-UBS CI is determined based
entirely on the New WAV.
Accordingly, during a roll period, the level of the DJ-UBS CI on
any given day can be calculated as the product of the level of the DJ-
UBS CI as of the previous day, multiplied by a fraction equal to: (i)
Old WAV x (1-0.2n) + New WAV x (0.2n), using the Old WAV and New WAV
values as of such day, divided by (ii) Old WAV x (1 -0.2n) + New WAV x
(0.2n), using the Old WAV and New WAV values as of the previous day.
The variable ``n'' in this equation represents the number of business
days that have elapsed for such roll period through and including the
relevant date of determination. According to the Registration
Statement, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI will be calculated using the same
general methodology as the DJ-UBS CI and using the same CIPs and CIMs
used in connection with calculating the DJ-UBS CI. However, because the
roll process for the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI is different from that of
the DJ-UBS CI, its constituent futures contracts may differ from those
included in the DJ-UBS CI. This difference is expected to cause the
dollar-value weights and the weighted average value of the futures
contracts included in each index to differ over time, and, as a result,
cause the performance of the two indices to diverge.
According to the Registration Statement, the Index combines the
returns of the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI with the returns of the most
recent weekly auction high rate for three-month U.S. Treasury bills, as
reported on the Web site https://publicdebt.treas.gov/AI/OFBills under
the column headed ``Discount Rate %'' published by the Bureau of the
Public Debt of the U.S. Treasury, or any successor source. The level of
the Index, which was set at a hypothetical level of 100 as of December
31, 1990, can be calculated on any given day as the product of the
level of the Index as of the previous day, multiplied by the sum of (i)
1.00 plus (ii) the positive or negative percentage return on the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI on such day plus (iii) the daily return based on the
auction high rate for three-month U.S. Treasury bills described above.
The Supervisory Committee and the Advisory Committee
According to the Registration Statement, the Supervisory Committee
is comprised of three members, two of whom are appointed by UBS
Securities and one of whom is appointed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, and
makes all final decisions relating to the DJ-UBS CI, taking into
consideration any advice and recommendations of the Advisory Committee.
The Advisory Committee consists of six to twelve members drawn from the
financial and academic communities. Both the Supervisory and Advisory
Committees meet annually to consider any changes to be made to the DJ-
UBS CI for the coming year. These committees may also meet at such
other times as may be necessary for the purposes of their respective
responsibilities in connection with the oversight of the DJ-UBS CI.
The Supervisory Committee has a significant degree of discretion in
exercising its supervisory duties with respect to the DJ-UBS CI and
related indices and sub-indices, including the Index and the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI.
Additional information regarding the composition of the Index, DJ-
UBS Roll Select CI, DJ-UBS CI and their index methodologies is included
in the Registration Statement and at the Index Co-Sponsors' Web site,
www.djindexes.com.
Net Asset Value
According to the Registration Statement, the Trustee will determine
the net asset value of the Trust and the net asset value per Share
(``NAV'') as of 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time (``E.T.'')) on each Business
Day \20\ on which the Exchange is open for regular trading, as soon as
practicable after that time.
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\20\ A ``Business Day'' is defined as a day (1) on which none of
the following occurs: (a) the Exchange is closed for regular
trading, (b) a Futures Exchange is closed for regular trading or (c)
the Federal Reserve wire transfer system is closed for cash wire
transfers, or (2) that the Trustee determines that it is able to
conduct business.
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According to the Registration Statement, the Trustee will value the
Trust's long positions in Index Futures on the basis of that day's
settlement prices for the Index Futures held by the Trust, as announced
by the applicable Futures Exchange. The value of the Trust's positions
in any particular Index Future will equal the product of (a) The number
of such Index Futures of such expiration owned by the Trust, (b) the
settlement price of such Index Futures on the date of calculation and
(c) the multiplier of such Index Futures.\21\ If there is no announced
settlement price for a particular Index Future contract on a Business
Day, the Trustee will use the most recently announced settlement price
unless the Trustee, in consultation with the Sponsor, determines that
such price is inappropriate as a basis for valuation. The daily
settlement prices for the Index Futures initially held by the Trust
will be established by the CME shortly after the close of trading for
such Index Futures, which is generally 2:40 p.m. E.T.
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\21\ According to the Adviser, the multiplier reflects the
contract size for a futures contract. The multiplier for the Index
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According to the Registration Statement, the Trustee will value all
other holdings of the Trust at (a) current market value, if quotations
for such property are readily available, or (b) fair value, as
reasonably determined by the Trustee, if the current market value
cannot be determined.
According to the Registration Statement, once the value of the
Index Futures and interest earned on the Trust's Collateral Assets has
been determined, the Trustee will subtract all accrued expenses and
liabilities of the Trust as of the time of calculation in order to
calculate the net asset value of the Trust.
According to the Registration Statement, once the net asset value
of the Trust has been calculated, the Trustee will determine the NAV by
dividing the net asset value of the Trust by the number of Shares
outstanding at the time the calculation is made. Any changes to NAV
that may result from creation and redemption activity occurring on any
Business Day will not be reflected in NAV until the following Business
Day.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
According to the Registration Statement, the Trust will create and
redeem Shares from time to time in one or more ``Baskets'' of 50,000
Shares each. Baskets may be created or redeemed only by authorized
participants.
According to the Registration Statement, Baskets will be typically
issued or redeemed only in exchange for an amount of Index Futures and
cash (or, in the discretion of the Sponsor, other Collateral Assets)
equal to the ``Basket Amount'' for the Business Day on which the
creation or redemption order is received by the Trustee.\22\ The
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Basket Amount for a Business Day will have a per Share value equal to
the NAV as of such day, and the assets included in the Basket Amount
will be valued in the same manner and on the same basis as the Trust's
NAV calculations for its assets generally. Creation orders or
redemption requests received after 2:40 E.T. will not be deemed
received until the following Business Day. In limited circumstances and
subject to the approval of the Trustee, Baskets may be created for cash
equal to the NAV of the Shares constituting a Basket as determined on
the date the related creation order was received, plus the costs
incurred by the Trust in establishing the corresponding Index Futures
positions and acquiring the related Collateral Assets. Creation orders
for Baskets paid for solely in cash that are received after 10:00 a.m.
E.T. will be deemed received as of the following Business Day. The
Trustee will notify the authorized participants of the Basket Amount on
each Business Day.
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\22\ The ``Basket Amount'' is the amount of Index Futures and
cash (or, in the discretion of the Sponsor, other Collateral
Assets), that an authorized participant must deliver in exchange for
one Basket, or that an authorized participant is entitled to receive
in exchange for each Basket surrendered for redemption.
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According to the Registration Statement, creation and redemption of
interests in the Trust generally will be effected through an ``EFRP,''
which is an exchange for related positions that involve contemporaneous
transactions in futures contracts and the underlying cash commodity or
a closely related commodity. In a typical EFRP, the buyer of the
futures contract sells the underlying commodity to the seller of the
futures contract. The CME permits the execution of EFRPs consisting of
simultaneous purchases (sales) of Index Futures and sales (purchases)
of Shares. This mechanism generally is expected to be used by the Trust
in connection with the creation and redemption of Baskets.
Specifically, according to the Registration Statement, it is
anticipated that an authorized participant requesting the creation of
additional Baskets typically will transfer Index Futures and cash (or,
in the discretion of the Sponsor, other Collateral Assets) to the Trust
in return for Shares. If an EFRP is executed in connection with the
redemption of one or more Baskets, an authorized participant will
transfer to the Trust the interests being redeemed and the Trust will
transfer to the authorized participant Index Futures and cash or other
Collateral Assets. The Trust may include Index Futures with different
terms and expirations in the creation and redemption of Baskets, and
the Index Futures included in creation Baskets may differ from those
included in redemption Baskets.
It is expected that delivery of the Shares or, in the case of a
redemption, the Index Futures and cash or other Collateral Assets, will
be made against transfer of consideration or Baskets, as the case may
be, on the next Business Day following the Business Day on which the
creation order or redemption request is received by the Trustee, which
is referred to as a T+1 settlement cycle.
When a Basket is created, upon the transfer of (1) the required
consideration of Index Futures in the amounts and of the type specified
by the Trustee, cash (or, in the discretion of the Sponsor, other
Collateral Assets) in the amounts specified to the Trustee, in each
case to the accounts specified by the Trustee, and (2) any and all
transaction fees associated with creations per Basket, the Trustee will
deliver the appropriate number of Baskets to the Depository Trust
Company (``DTC'') account of the authorized participant.
According to the Registration Statement, when a Basket is redeemed,
after the delivery by the authorized participant to the Trustee's DTC
account of the total number of Shares to be redeemed by an authorized
participant, the Trustee will deliver to the order of the redeeming
authorized participant redemption proceeds consisting of Index Futures
and cash (or, in the discretion of the Sponsor, other Collateral
Assets). The assets included in the redemption proceeds will be valued
in the same manner and on the same basis as the Trust's NAV
calculations for its assets generally. In connection with a redemption
order, the redeeming authorized participant authorizes the Trustee to
deduct from the proceeds of redemption any and all transaction fees
associated with redemptions. Shares can be surrendered for redemption
only in Baskets.
The Trust will meet the initial and continued listing requirements
applicable to TIRs in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 and Commentary .02
thereto. With respect to application of Rule 10A-3 \23\ under the Act,
the Trust relies on the exception contained in Rule 10A-3(c)(7).\24\ A
minimum of 100,000 Shares of the Trust will be outstanding as of the
start of trading on the Exchange.
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\23\ 17 CFR 240.10A-3.
\24\ 17 CFR 240.10A-3(c)(7).
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A more detailed description of the Shares, the Trust, the Index and
the Index Futures, as well as investment risks, creation and redemption
procedures and fees is set forth in the Registration Statement.
Availability of Information Regarding the Shares
The NAV for the Shares will be disseminated to all market
participants at the same time. The Exchange will also make available on
its Web site daily trading volume of the Shares and the closing prices
of such Shares.
The intraday, closing prices and settlement prices of the Index
Futures and the futures contracts included in the Index, DJ-UBS Roll
Select CI and DJ-UBS CI are or will be readily available from the Web
sites of the relevant futures exchanges, automated quotation systems,
published or other public sources, or on-line information services such
as Bloomberg or Reuters. The relevant futures exchanges also provide
delayed futures information on current and past trading sessions and
market news free of charge on their respective Web sites. The specific
contract specifications for the Index Futures and for the underlying
futures contracts in the Index, DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and DJ-UBS CI are
also available on such Web sites, as well as other financial
informational sources. Information regarding the Collateral Assets will
be available from applicable exchanges and market data vendors.
Quotation and last sale information for the Shares will be available
via the Consolidated Tape Association (``CTA'') high-speed line.
The Sponsor's Web site, https://www.ishares.com, and/or the
Exchange's Web site, which are publicly accessible at no charge, will
contain the following information: (a) The current NAV per Share daily
and the prior business day's NAV and the reported closing price; (b)
the midpoint of the bid-ask price in relation to the NAV as of the time
the NAV is calculated (the ``Bid-Ask Price'') \25\; and (c) the
prospectus. The Trust will also disseminate Trust holdings on a daily
basis on the Trust's Web site.
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\25\ The Bid/Ask Price will be determined using the mid-point of
the highest bid and the lowest offer on the Exchange as of the time
of calculation of the NAV. The records relating to Bid/Ask Prices
will be retained by the Trust and its service providers.
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The Trust will provide Web site disclosure of portfolio holdings
daily and will include, as applicable, (i) the composite value of the
total portfolio, (ii) the name, quantity, price and market value of
each Index Future and Collateral Asset, and the characteristics of such
Index Futures and Collateral Assets, and (iii) the amount of cash held
in the portfolio of the Trust.
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This Web site disclosure of the portfolio composition of the Trust
will occur at the same time as the disclosure by the Sponsor of the
portfolio composition to authorized participants so that all market
participants are provided portfolio composition information at the same
time. Therefore, the same portfolio information will be provided on the
public Web site as well as in electronic files provided to authorized
participants. Accordingly, each investor will have access to the
current portfolio composition of the Trust through the Trust's Web
site.
The Index Co-Sponsors will calculate and publish the value of the
Index, the DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and DJ-UBS CI continuously on each
business day, with such values updated at least every 15 seconds during
the Core Trading Session (from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. E.T.) and
disseminated by S&P Dow Jones Indices to market data vendors. The
contents and percentage weighting of the Index, the DJ-UBS Roll Select
CI and DJ-UBS CI, will be available at the Index Co-Sponsors' Web site,
www.djindexes.com, and distributed to third-party data providers.
The intra-day indicative value (``IIV'') per Share of the Trust
will be based on the prior day's final NAV per Share, adjusted every 15
seconds during the Core Trading Session to reflect the continuous price
changes of the Trust's Index Futures and other holdings. The IIV per
Share will be widely disseminated by one or more major market data
vendors at least every 15 seconds during the Core Trading Session.\26\
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\26\ Currently, it is the Exchange's understanding that several
major market data vendors display and/or make widely available IIVs
published on CTA or other data feeds. In addition, although not
likely, circumstances may arise in which the NYSE Arca Core Trading
Session is in progress, but trading in Index Futures is not
occurring. Such circumstances may result from reasons including, but
not limited to, the applicable Futures Exchange having a separate
holiday schedule than the NYSE Arca or closing prior to the close of
the NYSE Arca, price fluctuation limits being reached in an Index
Future, or the applicable Futures Exchange imposing any other
suspension or limitation on trading in an Index Future. In such
instances, the value of the applicable Index Futures held by the
Fund would be static or priced by the Fund at the applicable early
cut-off time of the Futures Exchange trading the applicable Index
Future. Moreover, any cash held by the Fund for collateralization
purposes will be invested in Collateral Assets that do not have
market exposure, such that their value would not change throughout
the trading day. As such, during such periods, the disseminated IIV
for the Fund will be static.
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The Trustee will determine the net asset value of the Trust and the
NAV as of 4:00 p.m. E.T., on each Business Day \27\ on which the
Exchange is open for regular trading, or as soon as practicable after
that time.
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Suitability
Currently, NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a) (Diligence as to
Accounts) provides that an Equity Trading Permit (``ETP'') Holder,
before recommending a transaction in any security, must have reasonable
grounds to believe that the recommendation is suitable for the customer
based on any facts disclosed by the customer as to its other security
holdings and as to its financial situation and needs. Further, the rule
provides, with a limited exception, that prior to the execution of a
transaction recommended to a non-institutional customer, the ETP Holder
must make reasonable efforts to obtain information concerning the
customer's financial status, tax status, investment objectives, and any
other information that such ETP Holder believes would be useful to make
a recommendation.
Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders of the suitability requirements of NYSE Arca Equities Rule
9.2(a) in an Information Bulletin (``Bulletin''). Specifically, ETP
Holders will be reminded in the Bulletin that, in recommending
transactions in these securities, they must have a reasonable basis to
believe that (1) The recommendation is suitable for a customer given
reasonable inquiry concerning the customer's investment objectives,
financial situation, needs, and any other information known by such
member, and (2) the customer can evaluate the special characteristics,
and is able to bear the financial risks, of an investment in the
Shares. In connection with the suitability obligation, the Bulletin
will also provide that members must make reasonable efforts to obtain
the following information: (1) The customer's financial status; (2) the
customer's tax status; (3) the customer's investment objectives; and
(4) such other information used or considered to be reasonable by such
member or registered representative in making recommendations to the
customer.
FINRA has issued a regulatory notice providing guidance to firms
about the supervision of complex products, as described in FINRA
Regulatory Notice 12-03 (January 2012) (``FINRA Regulatory Notice'').
While the FINRA Regulatory Notice does not provide a definition of what
constitutes a ``complex product,'' it does identify characteristics
that may make a product ``complex'' for purposes of determining whether
the product should be subject to heightened supervisory and compliance
procedures.\28\ The Fund's characteristics may raise issues similar to
those raised in the FINRA Regulatory Notice. Therefore, the Bulletin
will state that ETP Holders that carry customer accounts should follow
the FINRA Regulatory Notice with respect to suitability.
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Trading Rules
The Exchange deems the Shares to be equity securities, thus
rendering trading in the Shares subject to the Exchange's existing
rules governing the trading of equity securities. Shares will trade on
the NYSE Arca Marketplace from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. E.T. The Exchange
has appropriate rules to facilitate transactions in the Shares during
all trading sessions. As provided in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.6,
Commentary .03, the minimum price variation (``MPV'') for quoting and
entry of orders in equity securities traded on the NYSE Arca
Marketplace is $0.01, with the exception of securities that are priced
less than $1.00, for which the MPV for order entry is $0.0001.
The trading of the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.200, Commentary .02(e), which sets forth certain restrictions on
ETP Holders acting as registered Market Makers in TIRs to facilitate
surveillance. See ``Surveillance'' below for more information.
With respect to trading halts, the Exchange may consider all
relevant factors in exercising its discretion to halt or suspend
trading in the Shares. Trading may be halted because of market
conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make
trading in the Shares inadvisable. These may include: (1) The extent to
which trading is not occurring in the Index Futures, or (2) whether
other unusual conditions or circumstances detrimental to the
maintenance of a fair and orderly market are present. In addition,
trading in Shares will be subject to trading halts caused by
extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange's ``circuit
breaker'' rule \29\ or by the halt or suspension of trading of the
underlying futures contracts.
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The Exchange may halt trading during the day in which an
interruption to the dissemination of the IIV, the Index value or the
value of the Index Futures occurs. If the interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index value or the value of the Index
Futures persists past the trading day in which it occurred, the
Exchange will halt trading no later than the beginning of the
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trading day following an interruption. In addition, if the Exchange
becomes aware that the NAV with respect to the Shares is not
disseminated to all market participants at the same time, it will halt
trading in the Shares until such time as the NAV is available to all
market participants.
Surveillance
The Exchange represents that trading in the Shares will be subject
to the existing trading surveillances, administered by the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority (``FINRA'') on behalf of the Exchange,
which are designed to detect violations of Exchange rules and
applicable federal securities laws.\30\ The Exchange represents that
these procedures are adequate to properly monitor Exchange trading of
the Shares in all trading sessions and to deter and detect violations
of Exchange rules and applicable federal securities laws.
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\30\ FINRA surveils trading on the Exchange pursuant to a
regulatory services agreement. The Exchange is responsible for
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The surveillances referred to above generally focus on detecting
securities trading outside their normal patterns, which could be
indicative of manipulative or other violative activity. When such
situations are detected, surveillance analysis follows and
investigations are opened, where appropriate, to review the behavior of
all relevant parties for all relevant trading violations. FINRA, on
behalf of the Exchange, will communicate as needed regarding trading in
the Shares with other markets that are members of the Intermarket
Surveillance Group (``ISG'') or with which the Exchange has in place a
comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.\31\ The CME, CBOT, NYMEX
and ICE Futures U.S. are members of ISG, and the Exchange may obtain
market surveillance information with respect to transactions occurring
on the COMEX pursuant to the ISG memberships of CME and NYMEX. In
addition, the Exchange has entered into a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement with the LME that applies with respect to trading in
futures contracts currently included in the DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll
Select CI.
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\31\ For a list of the current members of ISG, see
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all components of the
portfolio for the Shares may trade on markets that are members of
ISG or with which the Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement.
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In addition, with respect to Index Futures traded on exchanges, not
more than 10% of the weight of such Index Futures in the aggregate
shall consist of futures contracts whose principal trading market (a)
is not a member of ISG or (b) is a market with which the Exchange does
not have a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement, provided that,
so long as the Exchange may obtain market surveillance information with
respect to transactions occurring on the COMEX pursuant to the ISG
memberships of CME and NYMEX, futures contracts whose principal trading
market is COMEX shall not be subject to the prohibition in (a), above.
The Exchange also has a general policy prohibiting the distribution
of material, non-public information by its employees.
Information Bulletin
Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin of the special characteristics
and risks associated with trading the Shares. Specifically, the
Information Bulletin will discuss the following: (1) The risks involved
in trading the Shares during the Opening and Late Trading Sessions when
an updated IIV will not be calculated or publicly disseminated; (2) the
procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares in Baskets (and that
Shares are not individually redeemable); (3) NYSE Arca Equities Rule
9.2(a), which imposes a duty of due diligence on its ETP Holders to
learn the essential facts relating to every customer prior to trading
the Shares; (4) how information regarding the IIV is disseminated; (5)
that a static IIV may be disseminated, between the close of trading on
the applicable futures exchange and the close of the NYSE Arca Core
Trading Session; \32\ (6) the requirement that ETP Holders deliver a
prospectus to investors purchasing newly issued Shares prior to or
concurrently with the confirmation of a transaction; and (7) trading
information.
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In addition, the Information Bulletin will advise ETP Holders,
prior to the commencement of trading, of the prospectus delivery
requirements applicable to the Trust. The Exchange notes that investors
purchasing Shares directly from the Trust will receive a prospectus.
ETP Holders purchasing Shares from the Trust for resale to investors
will deliver a prospectus to such investors. The Information Bulletin
will also discuss any exemptive, no-action and interpretive relief
granted by the Commission from any rules under the Act.
In addition, the Information Bulletin will reference that the Trust
is subject to various fees and expenses described in the Registration
Statement. The Information Bulletin will also reference that the CFTC
has regulatory jurisdiction over Index Futures traded on U.S. markets.
The Information Bulletin will also disclose the trading hours of
the Shares of the Trust and that the NAV for the Shares will be
calculated after 4:00 p.m. E.T. each trading day. The Bulletin will
disclose that information about the Shares of the Funds is publicly
available on the Trust's Web site.
2. Statutory Basis
The basis under the Act for this proposed rule change is the
requirement under Section 6(b)(5) \33\ that an exchange have rules that
are designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices,
to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove
impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market
and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest.
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The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices in that the
Shares will be listed and traded on the Exchange pursuant to the
initial and continued listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200
and Commentary .02 thereto. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment
objective by investing in Index Futures and Collateral Assets posted as
margin and held to collateralize the Trust's Index Futures positions.
The Sponsor represents that the Trust will invest in Index Futures and
Collateral Assets, in a manner consistent with the Trust's investment
objective and not to achieve additional leverage. With respect to Index
Futures traded on exchanges, not more than 10% of the weight of such
Index Futures in the aggregate shall consist of futures contracts whose
principal trading market (a) is not a member of ISG or (b) is a market
with which the Exchange does not have a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement, provided that, so long as the Exchange may obtain
market surveillance information with respect to transactions occurring
on the COMEX pursuant to the ISG memberships of CME and NYMEX, futures
contracts whose principal trading market is COMEX shall not be subject
to the prohibition in (a), above. The Exchange has in place
surveillance procedures that are adequate to properly monitor trading
in the Shares in all trading sessions and to deter and detect
violations of Exchange rules and applicable federal securities
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laws. Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform
its ETP Holders of the suitability requirements of NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 9.2(a) in a Bulletin. The Bulletin will state that ETP Holders
that carry customer accounts should follow the FINRA Regulatory Notice
with respect to suitability. The Exchange may obtain information via
ISG from other exchanges that are members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has entered into a comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement. The Adviser is not a broker-dealer but is affiliated with a
broker-dealer and has implemented a firewall with respect to such
broker-dealer affiliate as well as procedures designed to prevent the
use and dissemination of material non-public information regarding the
assets of the Trust. UBS Securities has implemented a fire wall with
respect to its personnel regarding access to information concerning the
composition and/or changes to the Index, DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll
Select CI and the calculation of the values of the foregoing indexes,
and will be subject to procedures designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public information regarding the Index,
DJ-UBS CI and DJ-UBS Roll Select CI. The Index Co-Sponsors have
implemented and maintain procedures designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public information regarding the DJ-UBS
Roll Select CI, the DJ-UBS CI and the Index. The Supervisory Committee
and the Advisory Committee are subject to procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of material, non-public information
regarding the Index, DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and DJ-UBS CI.
Trading may be halted because of market conditions or for reasons
that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in the Shares
inadvisable. These may include: (1) The extent to which trading is not
occurring in the Index Futures, or (2) whether other unusual conditions
or circumstances detrimental to the maintenance of a fair and orderly
market are present. Trading in Shares will be subject to trading halts
caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange's
``circuit breaker'' rule or by the halt or suspension of trading of the
Designated Contracts. The Exchange represents that the Exchange may
halt trading during the day in which the interruption to the
dissemination of the IIV, the Index value or the value of the Index
Futures occurs. If the interruption to the dissemination of the IIV,
the Index value or the value of the Index Futures persists past the
trading day in which it occurred, the Exchange will halt trading no
later than the beginning of the trading day following an interruption.
In addition, if the Exchange becomes aware that the NAV with respect to
the Shares is not disseminated to all market participants at the same
time, it will halt trading in the Shares until such time as the NAV is
available to all market participants.
The proposed rule change is designed to promote just and equitable
principles of trade and to protect investors and the public interest in
that a large amount of information is publicly available regarding the
Trust and the Shares, thereby promoting market transparency. The NAV
for the Shares will be disseminated to all market participants at the
same time. The IIV per Share will be widely disseminated by one or more
major market data vendors at least every 15 seconds during the Core
Trading Session. Trading in Shares of the Trust will be halted if the
circuit breaker parameters in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.12 have been
reached or because of market conditions or for reasons that, in the
view of the Exchange, make trading in the Shares inadvisable. Moreover,
prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its ETP
Holders in an Information Bulletin of the special characteristics and
risks associated with trading the Shares. The Trust will provide Web
site disclosure of portfolio holdings daily and will include, as
applicable, (i) the composite value of the total portfolio, (ii) the
name, quantity, price and market value of each Index Future and
Collateral Asset, and the characteristics of such Index Futures and
Collateral Assets, and (iii) the amount of cash held in the portfolio
of the Trust. The value of the Index, DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and DJ-UBS
CI will be widely disseminated by one or more major market data vendors
at least every 15 seconds during the Core Trading Session. The
intraday, closing prices and settlement prices of the Index Futures and
the futures contracts included in the Index, DJ-UBS Roll Select CI and
DJ-UBS CI are or will be readily available from the Web sites of the
relevant futures exchanges, automated quotation systems, published or
other public sources, or on-line information services such as Bloomberg
or Reuters. The contents and percentage weighting of the Index, the DJ-
UBS Roll Select CI and DJ-UBS CI, will be available at the Index Co-
Sponsors' Web site, www.djindexes.com, and distributed to third-party
data providers. The Exchange will also make available on its Web site
daily trading volume of each of the Shares and the closing prices of
such Shares. The prices of the Index Futures and Collateral Assets will
be available from the applicable exchanges and market data vendors.
The proposed rule change is designed to perfect the mechanism of a
free and open market and, in general, to protect investors and the
public interest in that it will facilitate the listing and trading of
an additional type of exchange-traded product that will enhance
competition among market participants, to the benefit of investors and
the marketplace. As noted above, the Exchange has in place surveillance
procedures relating to trading in the Shares and may obtain information
via ISG from other exchanges that are members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has entered into a comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement. In addition, as noted above, investors will have ready
access to information regarding the Trust's holdings, IIV, and
quotation and last sale information for the Shares.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate
in furtherance of the purpose of the Act. The Exchange notes that the
proposed rule change will facilitate the listing and trading of an
additional type of exchange-traded product that will enhance
competition among market participants, to the benefit of investors and
the marketplace.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received from Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the
proposed rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to
which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will:
(A) By order approve or disapprove the proposed rule change, or
(B) institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule
change should be disapproved.
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IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change, as modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto, is consistent with the
Act. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Electronic Comments
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an email to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-NYSEArca-2013-48 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
Send paper comments in triplicate to Elizabeth M. Murphy,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEArca-2013-48. This
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently,
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on
the Commission's Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other
than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and
printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the filing will also be available
for inspection and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. All
comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does
not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should
submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. All
submissions should refer to File No. SR-NYSEArca-2013-48 and should be
submitted on or before June 10, 2013.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\34\
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\34\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
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