Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund and db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600, 2725-2732 [2014-00579]
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Exchange in a manner that makes the
most economic sense for them.
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 purposes of the Act. The
Exchange believes that the proposed
change will encourage Firms to send
higher volumes of order flow to the
Exchange to qualify for the lower
transaction fees. The Exchange notes
that it operates in a highly competitive
market in which market participants can
readily favor competing venues if they
deem fee levels at a particular venue to
be excessive. In such an environment,
the Exchange must continually review,
and consider adjusting, its fees and
credits to remain competitive with other
exchanges. For the reasons described
above, the Exchange believes that the
proposed rule change reflects this
competitive environment.
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.
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III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
The foregoing rule change is effective
upon filing pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A) 13 of the Act and
subparagraph (f)(2) of Rule 19b–4 14
thereunder, because it establishes a due,
fee, or other charge imposed by the
Exchange.
At any time within 60 days of the
filing of such proposed rule change, the
Commission summarily may
temporarily suspend such rule change if
it appears to the Commission that such
action is necessary or appropriate in the
public interest, for the protection of
investors, or otherwise in furtherance of
the purposes of the Act. If the
Commission takes such action, the
Commission shall institute proceedings
under Section 19(b)(2)(B) 15 of the Act to
determine whether the proposed rule
change should be approved or
disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
14 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(2).
15 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).
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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–
NYSEMKT–2014–04 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–NYSEMKT–2014–04. 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 at 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549–1090 on official
business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such
filing also will 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 Number SR–
NYSEMKT–2014–04, and should be
submitted on or before February 5, 2014.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.16
Kevin M. O’Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
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[Release No. 34–71269; File No. SR–
NYSEArca–2013–135]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed
Rule Change To List and Trade Shares
of db–X Ultra-Short Duration Fund and
db–X Managed Municipal Bond Fund
Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600
January 9, 2014.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3
notice is hereby given that, on December
27, 2013, NYSE Arca, Inc. (‘‘Exchange’’
or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
change as described in Items I, II, and
III below, which Items have been
prepared by the self-regulatory
organization. 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 proposes to
[sic] list and trade shares of the
following under NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600 (‘‘Managed Fund Shares’’):
db–X Ultra-Short Duration Fund and
db–X Managed Municipal Bond Fund.
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.
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arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
U.S.C. 78a.
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
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A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
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1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to list and
trade shares (‘‘Shares’’) of the following
under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600,
which governs the listing and trading of
Managed Fund Shares 4 on the
Exchange 5: db–X Ultra-Short Duration
Fund and db–X Managed Municipal
Bond Fund (each a ‘‘Fund’’ and,
collectively, the ‘‘Funds’’). The Funds
will be actively-managed exchangetraded funds (‘‘ETFs’’). Each Fund is a
series of the DBX ETF Trust (‘‘Trust’’),
a statutory trust organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware and
registered with the Commission as an
open-end management investment
company.6 The Funds will be managed
by DBX Advisors LLC (the ‘‘Adviser’’).
4 A Managed Fund Share is a security that
represents an interest in an investment company
registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1) (‘‘1940 Act’’) organized as
an open-end investment company or similar entity
that invests in a portfolio of securities selected by
its investment adviser consistent with its
investment objectives and policies. In contrast, an
open-end investment company that issues
Investment Company Units, listed and traded on
the Exchange under NYSE Arca Equities Rule
5.2(j)(3), seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield
performance of a specific foreign or domestic stock
index, fixed income securities index or combination
thereof.
5 The Commission has previously approved
listing and trading on the Exchange of actively
managed funds under Rule 8.600. See, e.g.,
Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 57801 (May
8, 2008), 73 FR 27878 (May 14, 2008) (SR–
NYSEArca–2008–31) (order approving Exchange
listing and trading of twelve actively-managed
funds of the WisdomTree Trust); 66321 (February
3, 2012), 77 FR 6850 (February 9, 2012) (SR–
NYSEArca–2011–95) (order approving listing and
trading of PIMCO Total Return Exchange Traded
Fund); 66670 (March 28, 2012), 77 FR 20087 (April
3, 2012) (SR–NYSEArca–2012–09) (order approving
listing and trading of PIMCO Global Advantage
Inflation-Linked Bond Strategy Fund).
6 The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On
December 19, 2012, the Trust filed with the
Commission an amendment to its registration
statement on Form N–1A under the Securities Act
of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a) (‘‘Securities Act’’) and the
1940 Act relating to the Fund [sic] (File Nos. 333–
170122 and 811–22487) (the ‘‘Registration
Statement’’). The description of the operation of the
Trust and the Funds herein is based, in part, on the
Registration Statement. As of the date of this filing,
the Trust has also filed an Amended and Restated
Application for an Order under Section 6(c) of the
1940 Act for exemptions from various provisions of
the 1940 Act and rules thereunder (File No. 812–
14004), dated October 29, 2013 (‘‘Exemptive
Application’’). See Investment Company Act
Release No. 30770 (October 29, 2013), 78 FR 66086
(November 4, 2013). The Shares will not be listed
on the Exchange until an order (‘‘Exemptive
Order’’) under the 1940 Act has been issued by the
Commission with respect to the Exemptive
Application. Investments made by the Funds will
comply with the conditions set forth in the
Exemptive Order.
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Deutsche Investment Management
Americas Inc. will be the investment
sub-adviser for the Funds (the ‘‘SubAdviser’’). ALPS Distributors, Inc. will
be the Funds’ distributor
(‘‘Distributor’’). The Bank of New York
Mellon will be the administrator,
custodian and fund accounting and
transfer agent for each Fund.
Commentary .06 to Rule 8.600
provides that, if the investment adviser
to the investment company issuing
Managed Fund Shares is affiliated with
a broker-dealer, such investment adviser
shall erect a ‘‘fire wall’’ between the
investment adviser and the brokerdealer with respect to access to
information concerning the composition
and/or changes to such investment
company portfolio.7 In addition,
Commentary .06 further requires that
personnel who make decisions on the
open-end fund’s portfolio composition
must be subject to procedures designed
to prevent the use and dissemination of
material nonpublic information
regarding the open-end fund’s portfolio.
The Adviser and Sub-Adviser are not
broker-dealers, but both the Adviser and
Sub-Adviser are affiliated with a brokerdealer, and each has implemented and
will maintain a fire wall with respect to
such broker-dealer affiliate regarding
access to information concerning the
composition and/or changes to the
respective Fund’s portfolio. In the event
(a) the Adviser or Sub-Adviser becomes
a registered broker-dealer or newly
affiliated with a broker-dealer, or (b) any
new adviser or sub-adviser is a
registered broker-dealer or becomes
affiliated with a broker-dealer, it will
implement a fire wall with respect to its
relevant personnel or its broker-dealer
7 An investment adviser to an open-end fund is
required to be registered under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Advisers Act’’). As a
result, the Adviser, Sub-Adviser and their related
personnel are subject to the provisions of Rule
204A–1 under the Advisers Act relating to codes of
ethics. This Rule requires investment advisers to
adopt a code of ethics that reflects the fiduciary
nature of the relationship to clients as well as
compliance with other applicable securities laws.
Accordingly, procedures designed to prevent the
communication and misuse of non-public
information by an investment adviser must be
consistent with Rule 204A–1 under the Advisers
Act. In addition, Rule 206(4)–7 under the Advisers
Act makes it unlawful for an investment adviser to
provide investment advice to clients unless such
investment adviser has (i) adopted and
implemented written policies and procedures
reasonably designed to prevent violation, by the
investment adviser and its supervised persons, of
the Advisers Act and the Commission rules adopted
thereunder; (ii) implemented, at a minimum, an
annual review regarding the adequacy of the
policies and procedures established pursuant to
subparagraph (i) above and the effectiveness of their
implementation; and (iii) designated an individual
(who is a supervised person) responsible for
administering the policies and procedures adopted
under subparagraph (i) above.
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affiliate regarding access to information
concerning the composition and/or
changes to the portfolio, and will be
subject to procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of
material non-public information
regarding such portfolio.
db–X Ultra-Short Duration Fund—
Principal Investments
According to the Registration
Statement, the investment objective of
the db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund will
be to seek to provide current income
consistent with total return.
Under normal market conditions,8 the
Fund will seek to achieve its investment
objective by investing at least 65% of its
net assets in debt securities, as
described below. According to the
Registration Statement, debt securities
will include (1) debt securities of U.S.
and foreign government agencies and
instrumentalities, and U.S. Government
obligations (including U.S. agency
mortgage pass-through securities, as
described below); (2) U.S. and foreign
corporate debt securities, mortgagebacked and asset backed securities,
adjustable rate loans that have a senior
right to payment (‘‘senior loans’’),
money market instruments, and fixed
and other floating-rate debt securities;
and (3) taxable municipal and taxexempt municipal bonds.9 Under
normal market conditions, the Fund
currently does not intend to hold more
than 10% of its total assets in non-U.S.
dollar denominated debt securities.
The Fund may invest in investmentgrade (rated BBB- or higher by Standard
& Poor’s Ratings Services, Inc. (‘‘S&P’’)
and Fitch, Inc. (‘‘Fitch’’) or Baa3 or
higher by Moody’s Investors Service,
Inc. (‘‘Moody’s’’) or, if unrated,
determined by the Fund’s Adviser and/
or Sub-Adviser to be of comparable
quality 10) and non-investment grade
8 The term ‘‘under normal market conditions’’
includes, but is not limited to, the absence of
extreme volatility or trading halts in the fixed
income markets or the financial markets generally;
operational issues causing dissemination of
inaccurate market information; or force majeure
type events such as systems failure, natural or manmade disaster, act of God, armed conflict, act of
terrorism, riot or labor disruption or any similar
intervening circumstance.
9 The Fund normally will target an average
portfolio duration (a measure of sensitivity to
interest rate changes) of no longer than one year.
10 In determining whether a security is of
‘‘comparable quality,’’ the Adviser or Sub-Adviser
will consider, for example, whether the issuer of the
security has issued other rated securities; whether
the obligations under the security are guaranteed by
another entity and the rating of such guarantor (if
any); whether and (if applicable) how the security
is collateralized; other forms of credit enhancement
(if any); the security’s maturity date; liquidity
features (if any); relevant cash flow(s); valuation
features; other structural analysis; macroeconomic
analysis; and sector or industry analysis.
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(rated BB+ or lower by S&P and Fitch
or Ba1 or lower by Moody’s or, if
unrated, determined by the Fund’s
Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser to be of
comparable quality) debt securities of
U.S. and foreign issuers, including
issuers located in countries with new or
emerging securities markets.11 The
Fund’s investments in non-investment
grade debt securities, including noninvestment grade senior loans and other
non-investment grade floating-rate debt
securities, will be limited to 50% of its
total assets.
The senior loans in which the Fund
will invest generally will be loans rated
by a Nationally Recognized Statistical
Rating Organization (‘‘NRSRO’’)
registered with the Commission.
However, the Fund also may invest in
senior loans that (i) may not be rated by
a NRSRO, or listed on any national
exchange; or (ii) are not secured by
collateral.
The Fund may invest in mortgagebacked and asset-backed securities.
Mortgage-backed securities are
mortgage-related securities issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its
agencies and instrumentalities, or
issued by non-government entities.
Mortgage-related securities represent
pools of mortgage loans assembled for
sale to investors by various government
agencies such as Government National
Mortgage Association (‘‘GNMA’’) and
government-related organizations such
as Federal National Mortgage
Association (‘‘FNMA’’) and Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
(‘‘FHLMC’’), as well as by nongovernment issuers such as commercial
banks, savings and loan institutions,
mortgage bankers and private mortgage
insurance companies. Other assetbacked securities are structured like
mortgage-backed securities, but instead
of mortgage loans or interests in
mortgage loans, the underlying assets
may include items such as motor
vehicle installment sales or installment
loan contracts, leases of various types of
real and personal property, and
receivables from credit card agreements
and from sales of personal property.
Asset-backed securities typically have
no U.S. Government backing. The Fund
will limit investments in mortgagebacked and asset-backed securities
issued or guaranteed by non11 Generally, with respect to at least 75% of the
Fund’s portfolio, a corporate bond of a developed
market issuer must have $100 million or more par
amount outstanding to be considered as an eligible
investment and a corporate bond of an emerging
market issuer must have $200 million or more par
amount outstanding to be considered as an eligible
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government entities to 15% of the
Fund’s net assets.
The Fund may invest a portion of its
assets in U.S. agency mortgage passthrough securities. The term ‘‘U.S.
agency mortgage pass-through security’’
refers to a category of pass-through
securities backed by pools of mortgages
and issued by one of several U.S.
government-sponsored enterprises:
GNMA, FNMA, or FHLMC.
The Fund may invest a portion of its
assets in various types of U.S.
Government obligations. U.S.
Government obligations are a type of
bond. U.S. Government obligations
include securities issued or guaranteed
as to principal and interest by the U.S.
Government, its agencies or
instrumentalities.12 Payment of
principal and interest on U.S.
Government obligations (i) may be
backed by the full faith and credit of the
United States (as with U.S. Treasury
obligations and GNMA certificates) or
(ii) may be backed solely by the issuing
or guaranteeing agency or
instrumentality itself (as with FNMA,
FHLMC and Federal Home Loan Bank).
db–X Managed Municipal Bond Fund—
Principal Investments
According to the Registration
Statement, the investment objective of
the db-X Managed Municipal Bond
Fund will be to seek to provide current
income consistent with total return.
Under normal market conditions,13
the Fund will invest at least 80% of net
assets, plus the amount of any
borrowings for investment purposes, in
securities issued by municipalities
across the United States (and including
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and
U.S. territories such as the U.S. Virgin
Islands and Guam) whose income is free
from regular federal income tax.
Although the Fund may adjust
duration of its holdings over a wider
range, it generally intends to keep it
between five and nine years.
The Fund may buy municipal
securities of all maturities. These may
include revenue bonds (which are
backed by revenues from a particular
source) and general obligation bonds
(which are typically backed by the
issuer’s ability to levy taxes). They may
also include municipal lease obligations
and investments representing an interest
therein.
The Fund will normally invest at least
65% of total assets in municipal
12 U.S. Government obligations include, but are
not limited to, mortgage-backed and asset-backed
securities that are issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
government, as well as U.S. agency mortgage passthrough securities, as described above.
13 See note 8, supra.
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securities of top credit quality (rated
AAA+ through A- by S&P and Fitch or
Aaa1 through A3 by Moody’s or, if
unrated, determined by the Fund’s
Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser to be of
comparable quality). The Fund may
invest up to 10% of total assets in high
yield debt securities (commonly referred
to as ‘‘junk’’ bonds) rated BB+ or lower
by S&P and Fitch or Ba1 or lower by
Moody’s or, if unrated, determined by
the Fund’s Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser
to be of comparable quality.14
Other Investments
While each Fund, under normal
market conditions, will invest primarily
in debt securities, as described above,
each Fund may invest its remaining
assets in other securities and financial
instruments, as described below.
The db–X Managed Municipal Bond
Fund may invest a portion of its assets
in various types of U.S. Government
obligations. U.S. Government
obligations are a type of bond. U.S.
Government obligations include
securities issued or guaranteed as to
principal and interest by the U.S.
Government, its agencies or
instrumentalities. Payment of principal
and interest on U.S. Government
obligations (i) may be backed by the full
faith and credit of the United States (as
with U.S. Treasury obligations and
GNMA certificates) or (ii) may be
backed solely by the issuing or
guaranteeing agency or instrumentality
itself (as with FNMA, FHLMC and
Federal Home Loan Bank).
The db–X Ultra-Short Duration Fund
generally intends to use interest rate
swaps, and/or small amounts of
currency forwards, which are types of
derivatives (a contract whose value is
based on, for example, indices,
currencies or securities) for duration
management (e.g., reducing the
sensitivity of a Fund’s portfolio to
interest rate changes). In addition, the
Fund generally may use (i) credit
default swaps based on one or more
issues of debt securities or on an index
or indexes of debt securities to increase
the Fund’s income, to gain exposure to
a bond issuer’s credit quality
characteristics without directly
investing in the bond, or to hedge the
risk of default on bonds held in the
Fund’s portfolio; and (ii) total return
swaps based on one or more issues of
debt securities or on an index or indexes
of debt securities, or interest rate swaps,
to seek to enhance potential gains.
The db–X Managed Municipal Bond
Fund generally may use interest rate
swaps or U.S. Treasury futures.
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Investments in derivative instruments
by the Funds will be made in
accordance with the 1940 Act and
consistent with each Fund’s investment
objective and policies. To limit the
potential risk associated with
transactions in derivatives, the Funds
will segregate or ‘‘earmark’’ assets
determined to be liquid by the Adviser
in accordance with procedures
established by the Trust’s Board of
Directors (‘‘Board’’) and in accordance
with the 1940 Act (or, as permitted by
applicable regulation, enter into certain
offsetting positions) to cover its
obligations under derivative
instruments. These procedures have
been adopted consistent with Section 18
of the 1940 Act and related Commission
guidance. In addition, the Funds will
include appropriate risk disclosure in
their offering documents, including
leveraging risk. Leveraging risk is the
risk that certain transactions of the
Funds, including the Funds’ use of
derivatives, may give rise to leverage,
causing the Funds’ Shares to be more
volatile than if they had not been
leveraged.
The db–X Ultra Short-Duration Fund
may invest in convertible securities
traded on an exchange or over-thecounter (‘‘OTC’’). Convertible securities
include bonds, debentures, notes,
preferred stocks and other securities
that may be converted into a prescribed
amount of common stock or other equity
securities at a specified price and time.
The holder of convertible securities is
entitled to receive interest paid or
accrued on debt, or dividends paid or
accrued on preferred stock, until the
security matures or is converted.
Each Fund may invest in the
securities of other investment
companies (including money market
funds and exchange-listed ETFs) to the
extent permitted under the 1940 Act.
The Funds will not invest in
leveraged or leveraged inverse ETFs.
Investment Restrictions
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Each Fund will be classified as ‘‘nondiversified’’ under the 1940 Act.15
Each Fund may hold up to an
aggregate amount of 15% of its net
assets in illiquid assets (calculated at
the time of investment), including Rule
144A securities 16 deemed illiquid by
15 The diversification standard is set forth in
Section 5(b)(1) of the 1940 Act.
16 Rule 144A securities are securities which,
while privately placed, are eligible for purchase and
resale pursuant to Rule 144A. According to the
Registration Statement, Rule 144A permits certain
qualified institutional buyers, such as the Funds, to
trade in privately placed securities even though
such securities are not registered under the
Securities Act.
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the Adviser,17 consistent with
Commission guidance. Each Fund will
monitor its portfolio liquidity on an
ongoing basis to determine whether, in
light of current circumstances, an
adequate level of liquidity is being
maintained, and will consider taking
appropriate steps in order to maintain
adequate liquidity if, through a change
in values, net assets, or other
circumstances, more than 15% of such
Fund’s net assets are held in illiquid
assets. Illiquid assets include securities
subject to contractual or other
restrictions on resale and other
instruments that lack readily available
markets as determined in accordance
with Commission staff guidance.18
While each of the Funds will be
actively-managed and not tied to an
index, under normal market conditions,
each Fund’s respective portfolio will
meet certain criteria for index-based,
fixed income ETFs contained in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3),
Commentary .02.19
17 In reaching liquidity decisions, the Adviser
may consider the following factors: the frequency
of trades and quotes for the security; the number of
dealers wishing to purchase or sell the security and
the number of other potential purchasers; dealer
undertakings to make a market in the security; and
the nature of the security and the nature of the
marketplace in which it trades (e.g., the time
needed to dispose of the security, the method of
soliciting offers and the mechanics of transfer).
18 The Commission has stated that long-standing
Commission guidelines have required open-end
funds to hold no more than 15% of their net assets
in illiquid securities and other illiquid assets. See
Investment Company Act Release No. 28193 (March
11, 2008), 73 FR 14618 (March 18, 2008), footnote
34. See also, Investment Company Act Release No.
5847 (October 21, 1969), 35 FR 19989 (December
31, 1970) (Statement Regarding ‘‘Restricted
Securities’’); Investment Company Act Release No.
18612 (March 12, 1992), 57 FR 9828 (March 20,
1992) (Revisions of Guidelines to Form N–1A). A
fund’s portfolio security is illiquid if it cannot be
disposed of in the ordinary course of business
within seven days at approximately the value
ascribed to it by the fund. See Investment Company
Act Release No. 14983 (March 12, 1986), 51 FR
9773 (March 21, 1986) (adopting amendments to
Rule 2a–7 under the 1940 Act); Investment
Company Act Release No. 17452 (April 23, 1990),
55 FR 17933 (April 30, 1990) (adopting Rule 144A
under the Securities Act).
19 See NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3),
Commentary .02 governing fixed income based
Investment Company Units. The requirements of
Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a) include the
following: (i) Components that in the aggregate
account for at least 75% of the weight of the index
or portfolio must have a minimum original
principal amount outstanding of $100 million or
more (Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a)(2)); (ii) no
component fixed-income security (excluding
Treasury Securities and government-sponsored
entity securities) will represent more than 30% of
the weight of the index or portfolio, and the five
highest weighted component fixed-income
securities will not in the aggregate account for more
than 65% of the weight of the index or portfolio
(Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary.02(a)(4)); and (iii) an
underlying index or portfolio (excluding one
consisting entirely of exempted securities) must
include securities from a minimum of 13 non-
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With respect to qualification as a
regulated investment company (‘‘RIC’’),
each Fund intends to maintain the
required level of diversification and
otherwise conduct its operations so as to
qualify as a RIC for purposes of
Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended.20
With respect to each of the Funds,
such Fund’s investments will be
consistent with the Fund’s investment
objective.
The Funds will not invest in equity
securities other than convertible
securities and securities issued by other
investment companies, including
money market funds and ETFs. The
Funds will not invest in non-U.S. equity
securities.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
According to the Registration
Statement, prior to trading in the
secondary market, Shares of each of the
respective Funds will be ‘‘created’’ at
net asset value (‘‘NAV’’) by market
makers, large investors and institutions
only in block-size creation units of
50,000 Shares or multiples thereof
(‘‘Creation Units’’). The size of a
Creation Unit will be subject to change.
Each ‘‘creator’’ or ‘‘Authorized
Participant’’ will enter into an
Authorized Participant agreement with
the Distributor. Only an Authorized
Participant may create or redeem
Creation Units directly with the
respective Fund. Creation Units
generally will be issued and redeemed
in exchange for a specific basket of
securities approximating the holdings of
the applicable Fund and a designated
amount of cash. To the extent the db–
X Ultra-Short Duration Fund invests in
foreign currency forward contracts, such
Fund will be able to pay out a portion
of its redemption proceeds in cash
rather than through the in-kind delivery
of portfolio securities. Except when
aggregated in Creation Units, Shares
will not be redeemable by a Fund. The
prices at which creations and
redemptions occur will be based on the
next calculation of NAV after an order
is received in a form described in an
Authorized Participant agreement.
Orders for creations and redemptions
of Shares must be made by an
Authorized Participant that is either a
member of the Continuous Net
Settlement System of the National
Securities Clearing Corporation or a
Depository Trust Company participant.
affiliated issuers (Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary
.02(a)(5)). The db–X Managed Municipal Bond
Fund will meet the criteria in Rule 5.2(j)(3) as
referenced above except for the criteria in Rule
5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a)(2).
20 26 U.S.C. 851.
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Net Asset Value
According to the Registration
Statement, NAV will be calculated by
deducting all of the respective Fund’s
liabilities from the total value of its
assets and dividing the result by the
number of Shares outstanding, rounding
to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees,
including without limitation, the
management and administration fees,
will be accrued daily and taken into
account for purposes of determining
NAV. The NAV per Share will be
calculated as of the close of the regular
trading session on the New York Stock
Exchange (‘‘NYSE’’) (ordinarily 4:00
p.m., Eastern time) on each day that
such exchange is open.
In computing each Fund’s NAV, such
Fund’s debt securities, including debt
securities of U.S. and foreign
government agencies and
instrumentalities, U.S. Government
obligations (including U.S. agency
mortgage pass-through securities), U.S.
and foreign corporate debt securities,
mortgage-backed and asset backed
securities, senior loans, fixed and other
floating-rate debt securities; money
market instruments, taxable municipal
bonds, and tax-exempt municipal
bonds, will be valued based on price
quotations or other equivalent
indications of value provided by a thirdparty pricing service. Any such thirdparty pricing service may use a variety
of methodologies to value some or all of
a Fund’s debt securities to determine
the market price. For example, the
prices of securities with characteristics
similar to those held by each Fund may
be used to assist with the pricing
process. In addition, the pricing service
may use proprietary pricing models. In
certain cases, some of a Fund’s debt
securities may be valued at the mean
between the last available bid and ask
prices for such securities or, if such
prices are not available, at prices for
securities of comparable maturity,
quality, and type. Short-term securities
for which market quotations are not
readily available will be valued at
amortized cost, which approximates
market value. ETFs and exchange-traded
convertible securities, will be valued at
market value, which will generally be
determined using the last reported
official closing or last trading price on
the exchange or market on which the
security is primarily traded at the time
of valuation. Convertible securities
traded OTC will be valued at market
value using third-party pricing services
as a primary information source and
quotes obtained from brokers and
dealers as a secondary information
source. Investment company securities
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(other than ETFs), including money
market funds, will be valued at NAV.
Currency forwards, credit default swaps,
total return swaps, and interest rate
swaps will normally be valued on the
basis of quotes obtained from brokers
and dealers or third-party pricing
services. U.S. Treasury futures will be
valued at the settlement price
determined by the applicable exchange.
If a security’s market price (or other
indicator of market value such as that
obtained from a pricing service) is not
readily available or does not otherwise
accurately reflect the fair value of the
security, the security will be valued by
another method that the Adviser or SubAdviser believes will better reflect fair
value in accordance with the Trust’s
valuation policies and procedures
approved by the Trust’s Board.21 Each
Fund may use fair value pricing in a
variety of circumstances, including but
not limited to, situations when the value
of a security in a respective Fund’s
portfolio has been materially affected by
events occurring after the close of the
market on which the security is
principally traded (such as a corporate
action or other news that may materially
affect the price of a security) or trading
in a security has been suspended or
halted.
Portfolio Indicative Value
The Portfolio Indicative Value (‘‘PIV’’)
as defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(3) of Shares of each of the
Funds will be widely disseminated by
one or more major market data vendors
at least every fifteen seconds during the
Exchange’s Core Trading Session. The
PIV of Shares of each Fund will be
based on current information regarding
the value of securities and other assets
in each Fund’s Disclosed Portfolio, as
defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(2). To the extent the Funds
hold securities and instruments that are
traded in foreign markets, the PIV
calculations will be based on such
foreign market prices and may not
reflect events that occur subsequent to
the foreign market’s close.22 As a result,
premiums and discounts between the
approximate value and the market price
21 If market conditions make it difficult to value
some investments, a Fund may value these
investments using more subjective methods, such as
fair value pricing. In such cases, the value
determined for an investment could be different
than the value realized upon such investment’s
sale. The Adviser and Sub-Adviser manage each
Fund’s investments and its business operations
subject to the oversight of the Trust’s Board.
22 As the respective international local markets
close, the market value of the deposit securities will
continue to be updated for foreign exchange rates
for the remainder of the U.S. trading day at the
prescribed 15 second intervals.
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could be affected. This approximate
value should not be viewed as a ‘‘realtime’’ update of the NAV per Share of
the applicable Fund because the
approximate value may not be
calculated in the same manner as the
NAV, which is computed once a day,
generally at the end of the business day.
Availability of Information
Information respecting each Fund will
be available at the following url:
www.dbxus.com (‘‘Web site’’). The Web
site will be publicly available prior to
the public offering of Shares, and will
include a form of each prospectus for
each respective Fund, which will be
downloadable. Each Fund’s Web site
will include additional quantitative
information updated on a daily basis,
including, for each Fund, (1) daily
trading volume, the prior business day’s
reported closing price, NAV and midpoint of the bid/ask spread at the time
of calculation of such NAV (the ‘‘Bid/
Ask Price’’),23 and a calculation of the
premium and discount of the Bid/Ask
Price against the NAV, and (2) data in
chart format displaying the frequency
distribution of discounts and premiums
of the daily Bid/Ask Price against the
NAV, within appropriate ranges, for
each of the four previous calendar
quarters. On each business day, before
commencement of trading in Shares in
the Core Trading Session on the
Exchange, each Fund will disclose on
the Web site the Disclosed Portfolio as
defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(2) that will form the basis for
such Fund’s calculation of NAV at the
end of the business day.24
Each Fund’s portfolio holdings will be
disclosed on the Web site daily after the
close of trading on the Exchange and
prior to the opening of trading on the
Exchange the following day.
On a daily basis, the Adviser or SubAdviser will disclose on the Funds’ Web
site for each portfolio security and
financial instrument of each Fund the
following information: ticker symbol (if
applicable), name of security and
financial instrument, number of shares,
if applicable, and dollar value of
securities and financial instruments
held in the portfolio, and percentage
23 The Bid/Ask Price of a Fund 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 a Fund’s NAV. The records relating
to Bid/Ask Prices will be retained by the Funds and
their service providers.
24 Under accounting procedures followed by each
Fund, trades made on the prior business day (‘‘T’’)
will be booked and reflected in NAV on the current
business day (‘‘T+1’’). Accordingly, a Fund will be
able to disclose at the beginning of the business day
the portfolio that will form the basis for the NAV
calculation at the end of the business day.
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weighting of the security and financial
instrument in the portfolio. The Web
site information will be publicly
available at no charge. In addition, intraday and end-of-day prices for all debt
securities and financial instruments
held by each Fund will be available
through major market data vendors and
broker-dealers.
In addition, a basket composition file
disclosing each Fund’s securities, which
will include the security names and
share quantities required to be delivered
in exchange for Fund Shares, together
with estimates and actual cash
components, will be publicly
disseminated daily prior to the opening
of the NYSE via the National Securities
Clearing Corporation. The basket will
represent one Creation Unit of the Fund.
Investors can also obtain the Trust’s
Statement of Additional Information
(‘‘SAI’’), each Fund’s Shareholder
Reports, and the Trust’s Form N–CSR
and Form N–SAR, filed twice a year.
The Trust’s SAI and Shareholder
Reports are available free upon request
from the Trust, and those documents
and the Form N–CSR and Form N–SAR
may be viewed on-screen or
downloaded from the Commission’s
Web site at www.sec.gov. Information
regarding market price and trading
volume of the Shares will be continually
available on a real-time basis throughout
the day on brokers’ computer screens
and other electronic services.
Information regarding the previous
day’s closing price and trading volume
information will be published daily in
the financial section of newspapers.
Quotation and last sale information for
the Shares will be available via the
Consolidated Tape Association (‘‘CTA’’)
high-speed line. Intra-day and closing
price information regarding debt
securities, including debt securities of
U.S. and foreign government agencies
and instrumentalities, U.S. Government
obligations (including U.S. agency
mortgage pass-through securities), U.S.
and foreign corporate debt securities,
mortgage-backed and asset backed
securities, senior loans, fixed and other
floating-rate debt securities, money
market instruments, taxable municipal
bonds, and tax-exempt municipal bonds
will be available from major market data
vendors. Price information regarding
U.S. Treasury futures will be available
from the applicable exchange and from
major market data vendors. Price
information regarding currency
forwards will be available from major
market data vendors. Major market data
vendors provide intra-day and end-ofday prices for credit default swaps,
interest rate swaps and total return
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swaps. Price information for exchangetraded equity investments, including
ETFs and exchange-traded convertible
securities, will be available from the
applicable exchange or major market
data vendors. Price information for
convertible securities traded OTC and
other investment company securities,
including money market funds, also will
be available from major market data
vendors.
In addition, as noted above, the PIV
will be widely disseminated by one or
more major market data vendors at least
every 15 seconds during the Core
Trading Session.25 The dissemination of
the PIV, together with the Disclosed
Portfolio, will allow investors to
determine the value of the underlying
portfolio of each Fund on a daily basis
and will provide a close estimate of that
value throughout the trading day.
Additional information regarding the
Trust and the Shares, including
investment strategies, risks, creation and
redemption procedures, fees, portfolio
holdings disclosure policies,
distributions and taxes is included in
the Registration Statement.
Trading Halts
With respect to trading halts, the
Exchange may consider all relevant
factors in exercising its discretion to
halt or suspend trading in the Shares of
each Fund.26 Trading in Shares of either
Fund will be halted if the circuit breaker
parameters in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
7.12 have been reached. Trading also
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 securities and/or
the financial instruments comprising
the Disclosed Portfolio of a Fund; or (2)
whether other unusual conditions or
circumstances detrimental to the
maintenance of a fair and orderly
market are present. Trading in the
Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets
forth circumstances under which Shares
of the applicable Fund may be halted.
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. Eastern Time in
25 Currently, it is the Exchange’s understanding
that several major market data vendors widely
disseminate PIVs taken from CTA or other data
feeds.
26 See NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.12.
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accordance with NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 7.34 (Opening, Core, and Late
Trading Sessions). 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 Shares issued in connection with
each respective Fund will conform to
the initial and continued listing criteria
under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600.
The Exchange represents that, for initial
and/or continued listing, each Fund will
be in compliance with Rule 10A–3 27
under the Act, as provided by NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 5.3. A minimum of
100,000 Shares for each Fund will be
outstanding at the commencement of
trading on the Exchange. With respect to
each Fund, the Exchange will obtain a
representation from the issuer of the
respective Shares that the NAV per
Share will be calculated daily and that
the NAV and the Disclosed Portfolio
will be made available to all market
participants at the same time.
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.28 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, exchange-traded
27 17
CFR 240.10A–3.
surveils trading on the Exchange
pursuant to a regulatory services agreement. The
Exchange is responsible for FINRA’s performance
under this regulatory services agreement.
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investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures with other
markets and other entities that are
members of the Intermarket
Surveillance Group (‘‘ISG’’), and FINRA,
on behalf of the Exchange, may obtain
trading information regarding trading
such securities and financial
instruments from such markets and
other entities. In addition, the Exchange
may obtain information regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures from
markets and other entities that are
members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement.29
FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, is
able to access, as needed, trade
information for certain fixed income
securities held by the Funds reported to
FINRA’s Trade Reporting and
Compliance Engine (‘‘TRACE’’).
In addition, 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
Equity Trading Permit (‘‘ETP’’) Holders
in an Information Bulletin (‘‘Bulletin’’)
of the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares.
Specifically, the Bulletin will discuss
the following: (1) The procedures for
purchases and redemptions of Shares in
Creation Units (and that Shares are not
individually redeemable); (2) 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; (3) the risks involved
in trading the Shares during the
Opening and Late Trading Sessions
when an updated PIV will not be
calculated or publicly disseminated; (4)
how information regarding the PIV is
disseminated; (5) 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 (6)
trading information.
In addition, the Bulletin will
reference that each Fund is subject to
various fees and expenses described in
the Registration Statement. The Bulletin
29 For a list of the current members of ISG, see
https://www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that
not all components of a Fund’s portfolio 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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will discuss any exemptive, no-action,
and interpretive relief granted by the
Commission from any rules under the
Act. The Bulletin will also disclose that
the NAV for the Shares will be
calculated after 4:00 p.m. Eastern time
each trading day.
2. Statutory Basis
The basis under the Act for this
proposed rule change is the requirement
under Section 6(b)(5) 30 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 8.600. The Adviser and SubAdviser are not registered as brokerdealers but each is affiliated with a
broker-dealer and has implemented and
will maintain a fire wall with respect to
such broker-dealer affiliate regarding
access to information concerning the
composition and/or changes to a
portfolio. The Shares of each Fund will
be listed and traded on the Exchange
pursuant to the initial and continued
listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600. The Funds will not invest in
non-U.S. equity securities. The Funds
will not invest in leveraged or leveraged
inverse ETFs. The db-X Ultra-Short
Duration Fund will limit investments in
mortgage-backed and asset-backed
securities issued or guaranteed by nongovernment entities to 15% of the
Fund’s net assets. Each Fund’s
respective portfolio will meet certain
criteria for index-based, fixed income
ETFs contained in NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02, as
described above. Each Fund’s
investments will be consistent with
such Fund’s investment objective. To
limit the potential risk associated with
transactions in derivatives, the Funds
will segregate or ‘‘earmark’’ assets
determined to be liquid by the Adviser
in accordance with procedures
established by the Trust’s Board and in
accordance with the 1940 Act (or, as
permitted by applicable regulation,
enter into certain offsetting positions) to
cover its obligations under derivative
instruments. Quotation and last sale
information for the Shares will be
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available via the CTA high-speed line.
In addition, the PIV, as defined in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(3), will be
widely disseminated by one or more
major market data vendors at least every
15 seconds during the Core Trading
Session. Each Fund will disclose on its
Web site the Disclosed Portfolio as
defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(2) that will form the basis for
each Fund’s calculation of NAV at the
end of the business day. Trading in the
Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets
forth circumstances under which Shares
of the Funds may be halted. FINRA, on
behalf of the Exchange, will
communicate as needed regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures with other
markets and other entities that are
members of the ISG, and FINRA, on
behalf of the Exchange, may obtain
trading information regarding trading
such securities and financial
instruments from such markets and
other entities. In addition, the Exchange
may obtain information regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures from
markets and other entities that are
members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement. FINRA,
on behalf of the Exchange, is able to
access, as needed, trade information for
certain fixed income securities held by
the Funds reported to FINRA’s TRACE.
The proposed rule change is designed
to promote just and equitable principles
of trade and to protect investors and the
public interest in that the Adviser and
Sub-Adviser are affiliated with a brokerdealer and have represented that they
have implemented a fire wall with
respect to their respective broker-dealer
affiliate regarding access to information
concerning the composition and/or
changes to the portfolio. The Exchange
will obtain a representation from the
issuer of the Shares of each Fund that
the NAV per Share of each Fund will be
calculated daily and that the NAV and
the Disclosed Portfolio will be made
available to all market participants at
the same time. In addition, a large
amount of information is publicly
available regarding the Fund [sic] and
the Shares, thereby promoting market
transparency. Each Fund’s portfolio
holdings will be disclosed on the Web
site daily after the close of trading on
the Exchange and prior to the opening
of trading on the Exchange the following
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day. Moreover, the PIV will be widely
disseminated by one or more major
market data vendors at least every 15
seconds during the Exchange’s Core
Trading Session. On each business day,
before commencement of trading in
Shares in the Core Trading Session on
the Exchange, each Fund will disclose
on its Web site the Disclosed Portfolio
that will form the basis for the Fund’s
calculation of NAV at the end of the
business day. Information regarding
market price and trading volume of the
Shares will be continually available on
a real-time basis throughout the day on
brokers’ computer screens and other
electronic services, and quotation and
last sale information will be available
via the CTA high-speed line. The Web
site for each Fund will include a form
of the prospectus for each Fund and
additional data relating to NAV and
other applicable quantitative
information. 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. Trading in Shares of
each Fund 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, and trading in the Shares
will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets forth
circumstances under which Shares of
each Fund may be halted. In addition,
as noted above, investors will have
ready access to information regarding
each Fund’s holdings, the PIV, the
Disclosed Portfolio, and quotation and
last sale information for the Shares.
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 additional types of actively-managed
exchange-traded products that will
enhance competition among market
participants, to the benefit of investors
and the marketplace. As noted above,
FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, will
communicate as needed regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures with other
markets and other entities that are
members of the ISG, and FINRA, on
behalf of the Exchange, may obtain
trading information regarding trading
such securities and financial
instruments from such markets and
other entities. In addition, the Exchange
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may obtain information regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures from
markets and other entities that are
members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement. In
addition, as noted above, investors will
have ready access to information
regarding a Fund’s holdings, the PIV,
the Disclosed Portfolio, 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 other
actively-managed exchange-traded
products investing principally in debt
securities and 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.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
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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–2013–135 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–2013–135. 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 also will 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 Number SR–
NYSEArca–2013–135 and should be
submitted on or before February 5, 2014.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.31
Kevin M. O’Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-71269; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2013-135]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing
of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of db-X Ultra-Short
Duration Fund and db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund Under NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600
January 9, 2014.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (``Act'') \2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby given
that, on December 27, 2013, NYSE Arca, Inc. (``Exchange'' or ``NYSE
Arca'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II,
and III below, which Items have been prepared by the self-regulatory
organization. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 15 U.S.C. 78a.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to proposes to [sic] list and trade shares of
the following under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600 (``Managed Fund
Shares''): db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund and db-X Managed Municipal
Bond Fund. 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.
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A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares (``Shares'') of the
following under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600, which governs the
listing and trading of Managed Fund Shares \4\ on the Exchange \5\: db-
X Ultra-Short Duration Fund and db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund (each
a ``Fund'' and, collectively, the ``Funds''). The Funds will be
actively-managed exchange-traded funds (``ETFs''). Each Fund is a
series of the DBX ETF Trust (``Trust''), a statutory trust organized
under the laws of the State of Delaware and registered with the
Commission as an open-end management investment company.\6\ The Funds
will be managed by DBX Advisors LLC (the ``Adviser''). Deutsche
Investment Management Americas Inc. will be the investment sub-adviser
for the Funds (the ``Sub-Adviser''). ALPS Distributors, Inc. will be
the Funds' distributor (``Distributor''). The Bank of New York Mellon
will be the administrator, custodian and fund accounting and transfer
agent for each Fund.
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\4\ A Managed Fund Share is a security that represents an
interest in an investment company registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1) (``1940 Act'') organized as an
open-end investment company or similar entity that invests in a
portfolio of securities selected by its investment adviser
consistent with its investment objectives and policies. In contrast,
an open-end investment company that issues Investment Company Units,
listed and traded on the Exchange under NYSE Arca Equities Rule
5.2(j)(3), seeks to provide investment results that correspond
generally to the price and yield performance of a specific foreign
or domestic stock index, fixed income securities index or
combination thereof.
\5\ The Commission has previously approved listing and trading
on the Exchange of actively managed funds under Rule 8.600. See,
e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 57801 (May 8, 2008), 73
FR 27878 (May 14, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-2008-31) (order approving
Exchange listing and trading of twelve actively-managed funds of the
WisdomTree Trust); 66321 (February 3, 2012), 77 FR 6850 (February 9,
2012) (SR-NYSEArca-2011-95) (order approving listing and trading of
PIMCO Total Return Exchange Traded Fund); 66670 (March 28, 2012), 77
FR 20087 (April 3, 2012) (SR-NYSEArca-2012-09) (order approving
listing and trading of PIMCO Global Advantage Inflation-Linked Bond
Strategy Fund).
\6\ The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On December 19,
2012, the Trust filed with the Commission an amendment to its
registration statement on Form N-1A under the Securities Act of 1933
(15 U.S.C. 77a) (``Securities Act'') and the 1940 Act relating to
the Fund [sic] (File Nos. 333-170122 and 811-22487) (the
``Registration Statement''). The description of the operation of the
Trust and the Funds herein is based, in part, on the Registration
Statement. As of the date of this filing, the Trust has also filed
an Amended and Restated Application for an Order under Section 6(c)
of the 1940 Act for exemptions from various provisions of the 1940
Act and rules thereunder (File No. 812-14004), dated October 29,
2013 (``Exemptive Application''). See Investment Company Act Release
No. 30770 (October 29, 2013), 78 FR 66086 (November 4, 2013). The
Shares will not be listed on the Exchange until an order
(``Exemptive Order'') under the 1940 Act has been issued by the
Commission with respect to the Exemptive Application. Investments
made by the Funds will comply with the conditions set forth in the
Exemptive Order.
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Commentary .06 to Rule 8.600 provides that, if the investment
adviser to the investment company issuing Managed Fund Shares is
affiliated with a broker-dealer, such investment adviser shall erect a
``fire wall'' between the investment adviser and the broker-dealer with
respect to access to information concerning the composition and/or
changes to such investment company portfolio.\7\ In addition,
Commentary .06 further requires that personnel who make decisions on
the open-end fund's portfolio composition must be subject to procedures
designed to prevent the use and dissemination of material nonpublic
information regarding the open-end fund's portfolio. The Adviser and
Sub-Adviser are not broker-dealers, but both the Adviser and Sub-
Adviser are affiliated with a broker-dealer, and each has implemented
and will maintain a fire wall with respect to such broker-dealer
affiliate regarding access to information concerning the composition
and/or changes to the respective Fund's portfolio. In the event (a) the
Adviser or Sub-Adviser becomes a registered broker-dealer or newly
affiliated with a broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser or sub-adviser
is a registered broker-dealer or becomes affiliated with a broker-
dealer, it will implement a fire wall with respect to its relevant
personnel or its broker-dealer affiliate regarding access to
information concerning the composition and/or changes to the portfolio,
and will be subject to procedures designed to prevent the use and
dissemination of material non-public information regarding such
portfolio.
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\7\ An investment adviser to an open-end fund is required to be
registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the ``Advisers
Act''). As a result, the Adviser, Sub-Adviser and their related
personnel are subject to the provisions of Rule 204A-1 under the
Advisers Act relating to codes of ethics. This Rule requires
investment advisers to adopt a code of ethics that reflects the
fiduciary nature of the relationship to clients as well as
compliance with other applicable securities laws. Accordingly,
procedures designed to prevent the communication and misuse of non-
public information by an investment adviser must be consistent with
Rule 204A-1 under the Advisers Act. In addition, Rule 206(4)-7 under
the Advisers Act makes it unlawful for an investment adviser to
provide investment advice to clients unless such investment adviser
has (i) adopted and implemented written policies and procedures
reasonably designed to prevent violation, by the investment adviser
and its supervised persons, of the Advisers Act and the Commission
rules adopted thereunder; (ii) implemented, at a minimum, an annual
review regarding the adequacy of the policies and procedures
established pursuant to subparagraph (i) above and the effectiveness
of their implementation; and (iii) designated an individual (who is
a supervised person) responsible for administering the policies and
procedures adopted under subparagraph (i) above.
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db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund--Principal Investments
According to the Registration Statement, the investment objective
of the db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund will be to seek to provide
current income consistent with total return.
Under normal market conditions,\8\ the Fund will seek to achieve
its investment objective by investing at least 65% of its net assets in
debt securities, as described below. According to the Registration
Statement, debt securities will include (1) debt securities of U.S. and
foreign government agencies and instrumentalities, and U.S. Government
obligations (including U.S. agency mortgage pass-through securities, as
described below); (2) U.S. and foreign corporate debt securities,
mortgage-backed and asset backed securities, adjustable rate loans that
have a senior right to payment (``senior loans''), money market
instruments, and fixed and other floating-rate debt securities; and (3)
taxable municipal and tax-exempt municipal bonds.\9\ Under normal
market conditions, the Fund currently does not intend to hold more than
10% of its total assets in non-U.S. dollar denominated debt securities.
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\8\ The term ``under normal market conditions'' includes, but is
not limited to, the absence of extreme volatility or trading halts
in the fixed income markets or the financial markets generally;
operational issues causing dissemination of inaccurate market
information; or force majeure type events such as systems failure,
natural or man-made disaster, act of God, armed conflict, act of
terrorism, riot or labor disruption or any similar intervening
circumstance.
\9\ The Fund normally will target an average portfolio duration
(a measure of sensitivity to interest rate changes) of no longer
than one year.
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The Fund may invest in investment-grade (rated BBB- or higher by
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, Inc. (``S&P'') and Fitch, Inc.
(``Fitch'') or Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
(``Moody's'') or, if unrated, determined by the Fund's Adviser and/or
Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality \10\) and non-investment grade
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(rated BB+ or lower by S&P and Fitch or Ba1 or lower by Moody's or, if
unrated, determined by the Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser to be of
comparable quality) debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers,
including issuers located in countries with new or emerging securities
markets.\11\ The Fund's investments in non-investment grade debt
securities, including non-investment grade senior loans and other non-
investment grade floating-rate debt securities, will be limited to 50%
of its total assets.
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\10\ In determining whether a security is of ``comparable
quality,'' the Adviser or Sub-Adviser will consider, for example,
whether the issuer of the security has issued other rated
securities; whether the obligations under the security are
guaranteed by another entity and the rating of such guarantor (if
any); whether and (if applicable) how the security is
collateralized; other forms of credit enhancement (if any); the
security's maturity date; liquidity features (if any); relevant cash
flow(s); valuation features; other structural analysis;
macroeconomic analysis; and sector or industry analysis.
\11\ Generally, with respect to at least 75% of the Fund's
portfolio, a corporate bond of a developed market issuer must have
$100 million or more par amount outstanding to be considered as an
eligible investment and a corporate bond of an emerging market
issuer must have $200 million or more par amount outstanding to be
considered as an eligible investment.
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The senior loans in which the Fund will invest generally will be
loans rated by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization
(``NRSRO'') registered with the Commission. However, the Fund also may
invest in senior loans that (i) may not be rated by a NRSRO, or listed
on any national exchange; or (ii) are not secured by collateral.
The Fund may invest in mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.
Mortgage-backed securities are mortgage-related securities issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities,
or issued by non-government entities. Mortgage-related securities
represent pools of mortgage loans assembled for sale to investors by
various government agencies such as Government National Mortgage
Association (``GNMA'') and government-related organizations such as
Federal National Mortgage Association (``FNMA'') and Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation (``FHLMC''), as well as by non-government issuers
such as commercial banks, savings and loan institutions, mortgage
bankers and private mortgage insurance companies. Other asset-backed
securities are structured like mortgage-backed securities, but instead
of mortgage loans or interests in mortgage loans, the underlying assets
may include items such as motor vehicle installment sales or
installment loan contracts, leases of various types of real and
personal property, and receivables from credit card agreements and from
sales of personal property. Asset-backed securities typically have no
U.S. Government backing. The Fund will limit investments in mortgage-
backed and asset-backed securities issued or guaranteed by non-
government entities to 15% of the Fund's net assets.
The Fund may invest a portion of its assets in U.S. agency mortgage
pass-through securities. The term ``U.S. agency mortgage pass-through
security'' refers to a category of pass-through securities backed by
pools of mortgages and issued by one of several U.S. government-
sponsored enterprises: GNMA, FNMA, or FHLMC.
The Fund may invest a portion of its assets in various types of
U.S. Government obligations. U.S. Government obligations are a type of
bond. U.S. Government obligations include securities issued or
guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, its
agencies or instrumentalities.\12\ Payment of principal and interest on
U.S. Government obligations (i) may be backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States (as with U.S. Treasury obligations and GNMA
certificates) or (ii) may be backed solely by the issuing or
guaranteeing agency or instrumentality itself (as with FNMA, FHLMC and
Federal Home Loan Bank).
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\12\ U.S. Government obligations include, but are not limited
to, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities that are issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. government, as well as U.S. agency mortgage
pass-through securities, as described above.
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db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund--Principal Investments
According to the Registration Statement, the investment objective
of the db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund will be to seek to provide
current income consistent with total return.
Under normal market conditions,\13\ the Fund will invest at least
80% of net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment
purposes, in securities issued by municipalities across the United
States (and including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and U.S.
territories such as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam) whose income is
free from regular federal income tax.
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Although the Fund may adjust duration of its holdings over a wider
range, it generally intends to keep it between five and nine years.
The Fund may buy municipal securities of all maturities. These may
include revenue bonds (which are backed by revenues from a particular
source) and general obligation bonds (which are typically backed by the
issuer's ability to levy taxes). They may also include municipal lease
obligations and investments representing an interest therein.
The Fund will normally invest at least 65% of total assets in
municipal securities of top credit quality (rated AAA+ through A- by
S&P and Fitch or Aaa1 through A3 by Moody's or, if unrated, determined
by the Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality).
The Fund may invest up to 10% of total assets in high yield debt
securities (commonly referred to as ``junk'' bonds) rated BB+ or lower
by S&P and Fitch or Ba1 or lower by Moody's or, if unrated, determined
by the Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser to be of comparable
quality.\14\
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Other Investments
While each Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest
primarily in debt securities, as described above, each Fund may invest
its remaining assets in other securities and financial instruments, as
described below.
The db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund may invest a portion of its
assets in various types of U.S. Government obligations. U.S. Government
obligations are a type of bond. U.S. Government obligations include
securities issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the
U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities. Payment of
principal and interest on U.S. Government obligations (i) may be backed
by the full faith and credit of the United States (as with U.S.
Treasury obligations and GNMA certificates) or (ii) may be backed
solely by the issuing or guaranteeing agency or instrumentality itself
(as with FNMA, FHLMC and Federal Home Loan Bank).
The db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund generally intends to use
interest rate swaps, and/or small amounts of currency forwards, which
are types of derivatives (a contract whose value is based on, for
example, indices, currencies or securities) for duration management
(e.g., reducing the sensitivity of a Fund's portfolio to interest rate
changes). In addition, the Fund generally may use (i) credit default
swaps based on one or more issues of debt securities or on an index or
indexes of debt securities to increase the Fund's income, to gain
exposure to a bond issuer's credit quality characteristics without
directly investing in the bond, or to hedge the risk of default on
bonds held in the Fund's portfolio; and (ii) total return swaps based
on one or more issues of debt securities or on an index or indexes of
debt securities, or interest rate swaps, to seek to enhance potential
gains.
The db-X Managed Municipal Bond Fund generally may use interest
rate swaps or U.S. Treasury futures.
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Investments in derivative instruments by the Funds will be made in
accordance with the 1940 Act and consistent with each Fund's investment
objective and policies. To limit the potential risk associated with
transactions in derivatives, the Funds will segregate or ``earmark''
assets determined to be liquid by the Adviser in accordance with
procedures established by the Trust's Board of Directors (``Board'')
and in accordance with the 1940 Act (or, as permitted by applicable
regulation, enter into certain offsetting positions) to cover its
obligations under derivative instruments. These procedures have been
adopted consistent with Section 18 of the 1940 Act and related
Commission guidance. In addition, the Funds will include appropriate
risk disclosure in their offering documents, including leveraging risk.
Leveraging risk is the risk that certain transactions of the Funds,
including the Funds' use of derivatives, may give rise to leverage,
causing the Funds' Shares to be more volatile than if they had not been
leveraged.
The db-X Ultra Short-Duration Fund may invest in convertible
securities traded on an exchange or over-the-counter (``OTC'').
Convertible securities include bonds, debentures, notes, preferred
stocks and other securities that may be converted into a prescribed
amount of common stock or other equity securities at a specified price
and time. The holder of convertible securities is entitled to receive
interest paid or accrued on debt, or dividends paid or accrued on
preferred stock, until the security matures or is converted.
Each Fund may invest in the securities of other investment
companies (including money market funds and exchange-listed ETFs) to
the extent permitted under the 1940 Act.
The Funds will not invest in leveraged or leveraged inverse ETFs.
Investment Restrictions
Each Fund will be classified as ``non-diversified'' under the 1940
Act.\15\
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\15\ The diversification standard is set forth in Section
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Each Fund may hold up to an aggregate amount of 15% of its net
assets in illiquid assets (calculated at the time of investment),
including Rule 144A securities \16\ deemed illiquid by the Adviser,\17\
consistent with Commission guidance. Each Fund will monitor its
portfolio liquidity on an ongoing basis to determine whether, in light
of current circumstances, an adequate level of liquidity is being
maintained, and will consider taking appropriate steps in order to
maintain adequate liquidity if, through a change in values, net assets,
or other circumstances, more than 15% of such Fund's net assets are
held in illiquid assets. Illiquid assets include securities subject to
contractual or other restrictions on resale and other instruments that
lack readily available markets as determined in accordance with
Commission staff guidance.\18\
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\16\ Rule 144A securities are securities which, while privately
placed, are eligible for purchase and resale pursuant to Rule 144A.
According to the Registration Statement, Rule 144A permits certain
qualified institutional buyers, such as the Funds, to trade in
privately placed securities even though such securities are not
registered under the Securities Act.
\17\ In reaching liquidity decisions, the Adviser may consider
the following factors: the frequency of trades and quotes for the
security; the number of dealers wishing to purchase or sell the
security and the number of other potential purchasers; dealer
undertakings to make a market in the security; and the nature of the
security and the nature of the marketplace in which it trades (e.g.,
the time needed to dispose of the security, the method of soliciting
offers and the mechanics of transfer).
\18\ The Commission has stated that long-standing Commission
guidelines have required open-end funds to hold no more than 15% of
their net assets in illiquid securities and other illiquid assets.
See Investment Company Act Release No. 28193 (March 11, 2008), 73 FR
14618 (March 18, 2008), footnote 34. See also, Investment Company
Act Release No. 5847 (October 21, 1969), 35 FR 19989 (December 31,
1970) (Statement Regarding ``Restricted Securities''); Investment
Company Act Release No. 18612 (March 12, 1992), 57 FR 9828 (March
20, 1992) (Revisions of Guidelines to Form N-1A). A fund's portfolio
security is illiquid if it cannot be disposed of in the ordinary
course of business within seven days at approximately the value
ascribed to it by the fund. See Investment Company Act Release No.
14983 (March 12, 1986), 51 FR 9773 (March 21, 1986) (adopting
amendments to Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act); Investment Company Act
Release No. 17452 (April 23, 1990), 55 FR 17933 (April 30, 1990)
(adopting Rule 144A under the Securities Act).
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While each of the Funds will be actively-managed and not tied to an
index, under normal market conditions, each Fund's respective portfolio
will meet certain criteria for index-based, fixed income ETFs contained
in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02.\19\
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\19\ See NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02
governing fixed income based Investment Company Units. The
requirements of Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a) include the
following: (i) Components that in the aggregate account for at least
75% of the weight of the index or portfolio must have a minimum
original principal amount outstanding of $100 million or more (Rule
5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a)(2)); (ii) no component fixed-income
security (excluding Treasury Securities and government-sponsored
entity securities) will represent more than 30% of the weight of the
index or portfolio, and the five highest weighted component fixed-
income securities will not in the aggregate account for more than
65% of the weight of the index or portfolio (Rule 5.2(j)(3),
Commentary.02(a)(4)); and (iii) an underlying index or portfolio
(excluding one consisting entirely of exempted securities) must
include securities from a minimum of 13 non-affiliated issuers (Rule
5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a)(5)). The db-X Managed Municipal Bond
Fund will meet the criteria in Rule 5.2(j)(3) as referenced above
except for the criteria in Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02(a)(2).
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With respect to qualification as a regulated investment company
(``RIC''), each Fund intends to maintain the required level of
diversification and otherwise conduct its operations so as to qualify
as a RIC for purposes of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.\20\
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With respect to each of the Funds, such Fund's investments will be
consistent with the Fund's investment objective.
The Funds will not invest in equity securities other than
convertible securities and securities issued by other investment
companies, including money market funds and ETFs. The Funds will not
invest in non-U.S. equity securities.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
According to the Registration Statement, prior to trading in the
secondary market, Shares of each of the respective Funds will be
``created'' at net asset value (``NAV'') by market makers, large
investors and institutions only in block-size creation units of 50,000
Shares or multiples thereof (``Creation Units''). The size of a
Creation Unit will be subject to change. Each ``creator'' or
``Authorized Participant'' will enter into an Authorized Participant
agreement with the Distributor. Only an Authorized Participant may
create or redeem Creation Units directly with the respective Fund.
Creation Units generally will be issued and redeemed in exchange for a
specific basket of securities approximating the holdings of the
applicable Fund and a designated amount of cash. To the extent the db-X
Ultra-Short Duration Fund invests in foreign currency forward
contracts, such Fund will be able to pay out a portion of its
redemption proceeds in cash rather than through the in-kind delivery of
portfolio securities. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, Shares
will not be redeemable by a Fund. The prices at which creations and
redemptions occur will be based on the next calculation of NAV after an
order is received in a form described in an Authorized Participant
agreement.
Orders for creations and redemptions of Shares must be made by an
Authorized Participant that is either a member of the Continuous Net
Settlement System of the National Securities Clearing Corporation or a
Depository Trust Company participant.
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Net Asset Value
According to the Registration Statement, NAV will be calculated by
deducting all of the respective Fund's liabilities from the total value
of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares
outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees, including
without limitation, the management and administration fees, will be
accrued daily and taken into account for purposes of determining NAV.
The NAV per Share will be calculated as of the close of the regular
trading session on the New York Stock Exchange (``NYSE'') (ordinarily
4:00 p.m., Eastern time) on each day that such exchange is open.
In computing each Fund's NAV, such Fund's debt securities,
including debt securities of U.S. and foreign government agencies and
instrumentalities, U.S. Government obligations (including U.S. agency
mortgage pass-through securities), U.S. and foreign corporate debt
securities, mortgage-backed and asset backed securities, senior loans,
fixed and other floating-rate debt securities; money market
instruments, taxable municipal bonds, and tax-exempt municipal bonds,
will be valued based on price quotations or other equivalent
indications of value provided by a third-party pricing service. Any
such third-party pricing service may use a variety of methodologies to
value some or all of a Fund's debt securities to determine the market
price. For example, the prices of securities with characteristics
similar to those held by each Fund may be used to assist with the
pricing process. In addition, the pricing service may use proprietary
pricing models. In certain cases, some of a Fund's debt securities may
be valued at the mean between the last available bid and ask prices for
such securities or, if such prices are not available, at prices for
securities of comparable maturity, quality, and type. Short-term
securities for which market quotations are not readily available will
be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. ETFs and
exchange-traded convertible securities, will be valued at market value,
which will generally be determined using the last reported official
closing or last trading price on the exchange or market on which the
security is primarily traded at the time of valuation. Convertible
securities traded OTC will be valued at market value using third-party
pricing services as a primary information source and quotes obtained
from brokers and dealers as a secondary information source. Investment
company securities (other than ETFs), including money market funds,
will be valued at NAV. Currency forwards, credit default swaps, total
return swaps, and interest rate swaps will normally be valued on the
basis of quotes obtained from brokers and dealers or third-party
pricing services. U.S. Treasury futures will be valued at the
settlement price determined by the applicable exchange.
If a security's market price (or other indicator of market value
such as that obtained from a pricing service) is not readily available
or does not otherwise accurately reflect the fair value of the
security, the security will be valued by another method that the
Adviser or Sub-Adviser believes will better reflect fair value in
accordance with the Trust's valuation policies and procedures approved
by the Trust's Board.\21\ Each Fund may use fair value pricing in a
variety of circumstances, including but not limited to, situations when
the value of a security in a respective Fund's portfolio has been
materially affected by events occurring after the close of the market
on which the security is principally traded (such as a corporate action
or other news that may materially affect the price of a security) or
trading in a security has been suspended or halted.
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\21\ If market conditions make it difficult to value some
investments, a Fund may value these investments using more
subjective methods, such as fair value pricing. In such cases, the
value determined for an investment could be different than the value
realized upon such investment's sale. The Adviser and Sub-Adviser
manage each Fund's investments and its business operations subject
to the oversight of the Trust's Board.
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Portfolio Indicative Value
The Portfolio Indicative Value (``PIV'') as defined in NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(c)(3) of Shares of each of the Funds will be widely
disseminated by one or more major market data vendors at least every
fifteen seconds during the Exchange's Core Trading Session. The PIV of
Shares of each Fund will be based on current information regarding the
value of securities and other assets in each Fund's Disclosed
Portfolio, as defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2). To the
extent the Funds hold securities and instruments that are traded in
foreign markets, the PIV calculations will be based on such foreign
market prices and may not reflect events that occur subsequent to the
foreign market's close.\22\ As a result, premiums and discounts between
the approximate value and the market price could be affected. This
approximate value should not be viewed as a ``real-time'' update of the
NAV per Share of the applicable Fund because the approximate value may
not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once
a day, generally at the end of the business day.
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\22\ As the respective international local markets close, the
market value of the deposit securities will continue to be updated
for foreign exchange rates for the remainder of the U.S. trading day
at the prescribed 15 second intervals.
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Availability of Information
Information respecting each Fund will be available at the following
url: www.dbxus.com (``Web site''). The Web site will be publicly
available prior to the public offering of Shares, and will include a
form of each prospectus for each respective Fund, which will be
downloadable. Each Fund's Web site will include additional quantitative
information updated on a daily basis, including, for each Fund, (1)
daily trading volume, the prior business day's reported closing price,
NAV and mid-point of the bid/ask spread at the time of calculation of
such NAV (the ``Bid/Ask Price''),\23\ and a calculation of the premium
and discount of the Bid/Ask Price against the NAV, and (2) data in
chart format displaying the frequency distribution of discounts and
premiums of the daily Bid/Ask Price against the NAV, within appropriate
ranges, for each of the four previous calendar quarters. On each
business day, before commencement of trading in Shares in the Core
Trading Session on the Exchange, each Fund will disclose on the Web
site the Disclosed Portfolio as defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(2) that will form the basis for such Fund's calculation of NAV
at the end of the business day.\24\
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\23\ The Bid/Ask Price of a Fund 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 a Fund's NAV. The records relating to
Bid/Ask Prices will be retained by the Funds and their service
providers.
\24\ Under accounting procedures followed by each Fund, trades
made on the prior business day (``T'') will be booked and reflected
in NAV on the current business day (``T+1''). Accordingly, a Fund
will be able to disclose at the beginning of the business day the
portfolio that will form the basis for the NAV calculation at the
end of the business day.
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Each Fund's portfolio holdings will be disclosed on the Web site
daily after the close of trading on the Exchange and prior to the
opening of trading on the Exchange the following day.
On a daily basis, the Adviser or Sub-Adviser will disclose on the
Funds' Web site for each portfolio security and financial instrument of
each Fund the following information: ticker symbol (if applicable),
name of security and financial instrument, number of shares, if
applicable, and dollar value of securities and financial instruments
held in the portfolio, and percentage
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weighting of the security and financial instrument in the portfolio.
The Web site information will be publicly available at no charge. In
addition, intra-day and end-of-day prices for all debt securities and
financial instruments held by each Fund will be available through major
market data vendors and broker-dealers.
In addition, a basket composition file disclosing each Fund's
securities, which will include the security names and share quantities
required to be delivered in exchange for Fund Shares, together with
estimates and actual cash components, will be publicly disseminated
daily prior to the opening of the NYSE via the National Securities
Clearing Corporation. The basket will represent one Creation Unit of
the Fund. Investors can also obtain the Trust's Statement of Additional
Information (``SAI''), each Fund's Shareholder Reports, and the Trust's
Form N-CSR and Form N-SAR, filed twice a year. The Trust's SAI and
Shareholder Reports are available free upon request from the Trust, and
those documents and the Form N-CSR and Form N-SAR may be viewed on-
screen or downloaded from the Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding market price and trading volume of the Shares
will be continually available on a real-time basis throughout the day
on brokers' computer screens and other electronic services. Information
regarding the previous day's closing price and trading volume
information will be published daily in the financial section of
newspapers. Quotation and last sale information for the Shares will be
available via the Consolidated Tape Association (``CTA'') high-speed
line. Intra-day and closing price information regarding debt
securities, including debt securities of U.S. and foreign government
agencies and instrumentalities, U.S. Government obligations (including
U.S. agency mortgage pass-through securities), U.S. and foreign
corporate debt securities, mortgage-backed and asset backed securities,
senior loans, fixed and other floating-rate debt securities, money
market instruments, taxable municipal bonds, and tax-exempt municipal
bonds will be available from major market data vendors. Price
information regarding U.S. Treasury futures will be available from the
applicable exchange and from major market data vendors. Price
information regarding currency forwards will be available from major
market data vendors. Major market data vendors provide intra-day and
end-of-day prices for credit default swaps, interest rate swaps and
total return swaps. Price information for exchange-traded equity
investments, including ETFs and exchange-traded convertible securities,
will be available from the applicable exchange or major market data
vendors. Price information for convertible securities traded OTC and
other investment company securities, including money market funds, also
will be available from major market data vendors.
In addition, as noted above, the PIV will be widely disseminated by
one or more major market data vendors at least every 15 seconds during
the Core Trading Session.\25\ The dissemination of the PIV, together
with the Disclosed Portfolio, will allow investors to determine the
value of the underlying portfolio of each Fund on a daily basis and
will provide a close estimate of that value throughout the trading day.
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\25\ Currently, it is the Exchange's understanding that several
major market data vendors widely disseminate PIVs taken from CTA or
other data feeds.
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Additional information regarding the Trust and the Shares,
including investment strategies, risks, creation and redemption
procedures, fees, portfolio holdings disclosure policies, distributions
and taxes is included in the Registration Statement.
Trading Halts
With respect to trading halts, the Exchange may consider all
relevant factors in exercising its discretion to halt or suspend
trading in the Shares of each Fund.\26\ Trading in Shares of either
Fund will be halted if the circuit breaker parameters in NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 7.12 have been reached. Trading also 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 securities and/
or the financial instruments comprising the Disclosed Portfolio of a
Fund; or (2) whether other unusual conditions or circumstances
detrimental to the maintenance of a fair and orderly market are
present. Trading in the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets forth circumstances under which Shares
of the applicable Fund may be halted.
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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. Eastern Time in
accordance with NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.34 (Opening, Core, and Late
Trading Sessions). 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 Shares issued in connection with each respective Fund will
conform to the initial and continued listing criteria under NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600. The Exchange represents that, for initial and/or
continued listing, each Fund will be in compliance with Rule 10A-3 \27\
under the Act, as provided by NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.3. A minimum of
100,000 Shares for each Fund will be outstanding at the commencement of
trading on the Exchange. With respect to each Fund, the Exchange will
obtain a representation from the issuer of the respective Shares that
the NAV per Share will be calculated daily and that the NAV and the
Disclosed Portfolio will be made available to all market participants
at the same time.
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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.\28\ 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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\28\ 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.
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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, exchange-traded
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investment company securities, exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures with other markets and other entities that
are members of the Intermarket Surveillance Group (``ISG''), and FINRA,
on behalf of the Exchange, may obtain trading information regarding
trading such securities and financial instruments from such markets and
other entities. In addition, the Exchange may obtain information
regarding trading in the Shares, exchange-traded investment company
securities, exchange-traded convertible securities and exchange-traded
futures from markets and other entities that are members of ISG or with
which the Exchange has in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement.\29\ FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, is able to access, as
needed, trade information for certain fixed income securities held by
the Funds reported to FINRA's Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine
(``TRACE'').
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\29\ For a list of the current members of ISG, see https://www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all components of a
Fund's portfolio 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, 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
Equity Trading Permit (``ETP'') Holders in an Information Bulletin
(``Bulletin'') of the special characteristics and risks associated with
trading the Shares. Specifically, the Bulletin will discuss the
following: (1) The procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares
in Creation Units (and that Shares are not individually redeemable);
(2) 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; (3) the risks involved in
trading the Shares during the Opening and Late Trading Sessions when an
updated PIV will not be calculated or publicly disseminated; (4) how
information regarding the PIV is disseminated; (5) 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 (6) trading information.
In addition, the Bulletin will reference that each Fund is subject
to various fees and expenses described in the Registration Statement.
The Bulletin will discuss any exemptive, no-action, and interpretive
relief granted by the Commission from any rules under the Act. The
Bulletin will also disclose that the NAV for the Shares will be
calculated after 4:00 p.m. Eastern time each trading day.
2. Statutory Basis
The basis under the Act for this proposed rule change is the
requirement under Section 6(b)(5) \30\ 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
8.600. The Adviser and Sub-Adviser are not registered as broker-dealers
but each is affiliated with a broker-dealer and has implemented and
will maintain a fire wall with respect to such broker-dealer affiliate
regarding access to information concerning the composition and/or
changes to a portfolio. The Shares of each Fund will be listed and
traded on the Exchange pursuant to the initial and continued listing
criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600. The Funds will not invest in
non-U.S. equity securities. The Funds will not invest in leveraged or
leveraged inverse ETFs. The db-X Ultra-Short Duration Fund will limit
investments in mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities issued or
guaranteed by non-government entities to 15% of the Fund's net assets.
Each Fund's respective portfolio will meet certain criteria for index-
based, fixed income ETFs contained in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
5.2(j)(3), Commentary .02, as described above. Each Fund's investments
will be consistent with such Fund's investment objective. To limit the
potential risk associated with transactions in derivatives, the Funds
will segregate or ``earmark'' assets determined to be liquid by the
Adviser in accordance with procedures established by the Trust's Board
and in accordance with the 1940 Act (or, as permitted by applicable
regulation, enter into certain offsetting positions) to cover its
obligations under derivative instruments. Quotation and last sale
information for the Shares will be available via the CTA high-speed
line. In addition, the PIV, as defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(c)(3), will be widely disseminated by one or more major market
data vendors at least every 15 seconds during the Core Trading Session.
Each Fund will disclose on its Web site the Disclosed Portfolio as
defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2) that will form the basis
for each Fund's calculation of NAV at the end of the business day.
Trading in the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets forth circumstances under which Shares of
the Funds may be halted. FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, will
communicate as needed regarding trading in the Shares, exchange-traded
investment company securities, exchange-traded convertible securities
and exchange-traded futures with other markets and other entities that
are members of the ISG, and FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, may
obtain trading information regarding trading such securities and
financial instruments from such markets and other entities. In
addition, the Exchange may obtain information regarding trading in the
Shares, exchange-traded investment company securities, exchange-traded
convertible securities and exchange-traded futures from markets and
other entities that are members of ISG or with which the Exchange has
in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement. FINRA, on
behalf of the Exchange, is able to access, as needed, trade information
for certain fixed income securities held by the Funds reported to
FINRA's TRACE.
The proposed rule change is designed to promote just and equitable
principles of trade and to protect investors and the public interest in
that the Adviser and Sub-Adviser are affiliated with a broker-dealer
and have represented that they have implemented a fire wall with
respect to their respective broker-dealer affiliate regarding access to
information concerning the composition and/or changes to the portfolio.
The Exchange will obtain a representation from the issuer of the Shares
of each Fund that the NAV per Share of each Fund will be calculated
daily and that the NAV and the Disclosed Portfolio will be made
available to all market participants at the same time. In addition, a
large amount of information is publicly available regarding the Fund
[sic] and the Shares, thereby promoting market transparency. Each
Fund's portfolio holdings will be disclosed on the Web site daily after
the close of trading on the Exchange and prior to the opening of
trading on the Exchange the following
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day. Moreover, the PIV will be widely disseminated by one or more major
market data vendors at least every 15 seconds during the Exchange's
Core Trading Session. On each business day, before commencement of
trading in Shares in the Core Trading Session on the Exchange, each
Fund will disclose on its Web site the Disclosed Portfolio that will
form the basis for the Fund's calculation of NAV at the end of the
business day. Information regarding market price and trading volume of
the Shares will be continually available on a real-time basis
throughout the day on brokers' computer screens and other electronic
services, and quotation and last sale information will be available via
the CTA high-speed line. The Web site for each Fund will include a form
of the prospectus for each Fund and additional data relating to NAV and
other applicable quantitative information. 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. Trading in Shares of each Fund 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, and trading in the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets forth circumstances under
which Shares of each Fund may be halted. In addition, as noted above,
investors will have ready access to information regarding each Fund's
holdings, the PIV, the Disclosed Portfolio, and quotation and last sale
information for the Shares.
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
additional types of actively-managed exchange-traded products that will
enhance competition among market participants, to the benefit of
investors and the marketplace. As noted above, FINRA, on behalf of the
Exchange, will communicate as needed regarding trading in the Shares,
exchange-traded investment company securities, exchange-traded
convertible securities and exchange-traded futures with other markets
and other entities that are members of the ISG, and FINRA, on behalf of
the Exchange, may obtain trading information regarding trading such
securities and financial instruments from such markets and other
entities. In addition, the Exchange may obtain information regarding
trading in the Shares, exchange-traded investment company securities,
exchange-traded convertible securities and exchange-traded futures from
markets and other entities that are members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
In addition, as noted above, investors will have ready access to
information regarding a Fund's holdings, the PIV, the Disclosed
Portfolio, 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 other
actively-managed exchange-traded products investing principally in debt
securities and 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.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change 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-2013-135 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-2013-135. 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 also will 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 Number SR-NYSEArca-2013-135 and should
be submitted on or before February 5, 2014.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\31\
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\31\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
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