Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of the REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600, 81564-81573 [2015-32821]
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1. Purpose
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed
Rule Change To List and Trade Shares
of the REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF
and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE
Emerging Markets ETF Under NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.600
The Exchange proposes to list and
trade shares (the ‘‘Shares’’) of the
following under NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600, which governs the listing
and trading of Managed Fund Shares 4:
The REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF and
the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging
Markets ETF (each a ‘‘Fund’’ and,
collectively, the ‘‘Funds’’).5
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.16
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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December 23, 2015.
Pursuant to Section
of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3
notice is hereby given that, on December
10, 2015, 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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I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to list and
trade shares of the following under
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600
(‘‘Managed Fund Shares’’): The REX
Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF and the REX
Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets
ETF. The text of the proposed rule
16 17
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 15 U.S.C. 78a.
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
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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) (the ‘‘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 approved listing and
trading on the Exchange of a number of actively
managed funds under Rule 8.600. See, e.g.,
Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 63076
(October 12, 2010), 75 FR 63874 (October 18, 2010)
(SR–NYSEArca–2010–79) (order approving
Exchange listing and trading of Cambria Global
Tactical ETF); 70055 (July 29, 2013) (SR–
NYSEArca–2013–52) (order approving proposed
rule change relating to listing and trading of shares
of the First Trust Morningstar Managed Futures
Strategy Fund under NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600); and 71456 (January 31, 2014), 79 FR 7258
(February 6, 2014) (SR–NYSEArca–2013–116)
(order approving proposed rule change relating to
listing and trading of shares of the AdvisorShares
International Gold ETF, AdvisorShares Gartman
Gold/Yen ETF, AdvisorShares Gartman Gold/
British Pound ETF, and AdvisorShares Gartman
Gold/Euro ETF under NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600).
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The Shares will be offered by
Exchange Traded Concepts Trust (the
‘‘Trust’’), a Delaware statutory trust.
Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC will
serve as the investment adviser to the
Funds (‘‘Adviser’’). Vident Investment
Advisory, LLC (the ‘‘Sub-Adviser’’) will
serve as sub-adviser to the Funds.6
SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(‘‘SIDCO’’), (the ‘‘Distributor’’) will be
the principal underwriter and
distributor of the Funds’ Shares. SEI
Investments Global Funds Services (the
‘‘Administrator’’) will serve as the
administrator, custodian, transfer agent
and fund accounting agent for the
Funds.7
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. 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.8 Commentary .06 to Rule
6 The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On
October 9, 2015, 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
under the 1940 Act relating to the Funds (File Nos.
333–156529 and 811–22263) (‘‘Registration
Statement’’). The description of the operation of the
Trust and the Funds herein is based, in part, on the
Registration Statement. In addition, the
Commission has issued an order granting certain
exemptive relief to the Trust under the 1940 Act.
See Investment Company Act Release No. 30445,
April 2, 2013 (File No. 812–13969) (‘‘Exemptive
Order’’).
7 The Funds are subject to regulation under the
Commodity Exchange Act (‘‘CEA’’) and Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’) rules as
commodity pools. The Adviser is registered as a
commodity pool operator (‘‘CPO’’), and the Funds
will be operated in accordance with CFTC rules.
8 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 and Sub-Adviser and their
related personnel will be 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
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8.600 is similar to Commentary .03(a)(i)
and (iii) to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
5.2(j)(3); however, Commentary .06 in
connection with the establishment of a
‘‘fire wall’’ between the investment
adviser and the broker-dealer reflects
the applicable open-end fund’s
portfolio, not an underlying benchmark
index, as is the case with index-based
funds. Neither the Adviser nor the SubAdviser is a broker-dealer or affiliated
with a broker-dealer.
In the event (a) the Adviser or SubAdviser becomes a registered brokerdealer or becomes newly affiliated with
a broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser
or sub-adviser is a registered brokerdealer, 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 a portfolio, and will be
subject to procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of
material non-public information
regarding such portfolio.
The REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF—
Principal Investments
According to the Registration
Statement, the Fund will seek to
outperform the total return performance
of the S&P 500 Dynamic Gold Hedged
Index (the ‘‘S&P Benchmark’’) by
actively hedging the returns of the S&P
500® Index using gold futures.
The Fund will seek to achieve its
investment objective of outperforming
the S&P Benchmark by providing
exposure to a gold-hedged U.S. largecap portfolio using a quantitative, rulesbased strategy. The Fund will invest at
least 80% of its assets (plus the amount
of any borrowings for investment
purposes) in (i) U.S. exchange-listed
large-cap U.S. stocks; (ii) gold futures,
(iii) exchange-traded funds (‘‘ETFs’’) 9
and exchange-traded closed-end funds
implemented written policies and procedures
reasonably designed to prevent violations, 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.
9 For purposes of this filing, ETFs include
Investment Company Units (as described in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3)); Portfolio Depository
Receipts (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.100); and Managed Fund Shares (as described in
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600). The Underlying
Funds in which a Fund will invest all will be listed
and traded on national securities exchanges. While
the Funds may invest in inverse ETFs, the Funds
will not invest in leveraged (e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X or -3X)
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(together with ETFs, the ‘‘Underlying
Funds’’) that provide exposure to largecap U.S. stocks, (iv) ETFs or exchangetraded notes (‘‘ETNs’’) 10 that provide
exposure to gold, and (v) futures that
provide exposure to the S&P 500®
Index. The Fund will not invest in nonU.S. stocks.
The Fund will seek to achieve a
similar level of volatility as that of the
S&P Benchmark, although there is no
assurance it will do so.
According to the Registration
Statement, the S&P Benchmark seeks to
reflect the returns of a portfolio of S&P
500® stocks, hedged with a long gold
futures overlay. Specifically, the S&P
Benchmark measures the total return
performance of a hypothetical portfolio
consisting of securities that compose the
S&P 500® Index, which measures the
performance of the large-capitalization
sector of the U.S. equity market, and a
long position in gold futures contracts,
the notional value of which is
comparable to the value of the S&P
Benchmark’s equity component.
The Sub-Adviser will continuously
monitor the Fund’s holdings in order to
enhance performance while still
providing approximately equal notional
exposure to equity securities and gold
futures contracts.
According to the Registration
Statement, futures contracts, by their
terms, have stated expirations and, at a
specified point in time prior to
expiration, trading in a futures contract
for the current delivery month will
cease. Therefore, in order to maintain
exposure to gold futures contracts, the
S&P Benchmark must periodically
migrate out of gold futures contracts
nearing expiration and into gold futures
contracts that have longer remaining
until expiration, a process referred to as
‘‘rolling.’’ The impact from this
continuous process of selling expiring
contracts and buying longer-dated
contracts is called roll yield. The S&P
Benchmark rolls these futures contracts
according to a predefined schedule,
regardless of the liquidity or roll yield
of the futures contract selected.
The Fund will look to minimize the
impact of rolling futures contracts in a
number of ways. For example, the Fund
may roll positions in gold futures
contracts before or after the scheduled
roll dates for the S&P Benchmark, to the
extent of favorable market prices and
available liquidity. Additionally, the
Fund may attempt to minimize roll
10 ETNs, which will be listed on a national
securities exchange, are securities such as those
described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(6).
While the Funds may invest in inverse ETNs, the
Funds will not invest in leveraged (e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X
or -3X) ETNs.
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costs (and maximize yields) by rolling
into the gold futures contract with the
largest positive or smallest negative roll
yield. This strategy for taking long
positions in and unwinding exposure to
gold futures contracts may cause the
Fund to have more or less exposure to
gold futures contracts than the S&P
Benchmark. Additionally, the Fund is
not obligated to rebalance its exposures
at the same time that the S&P
Benchmark rebalances its exposures,
and the Fund may rebalance more or
less frequently than the S&P Benchmark
in order to ensure that the Fund’s
exposure to equities remains
comparable to the Fund’s exposure to
the price of gold.
The Fund will not directly hold gold
futures contracts or other commoditylinked instruments (namely,
commodity-related pooled vehicles (as
described below) and options on
commodity futures). Rather, the Fund
expects to gain exposure to these
instruments by investing up to 25% of
its total assets, as measured at the end
of every quarter of the Fund’s taxable
year, in a wholly-owned and controlled
Cayman Islands subsidiary (the
‘‘Subsidiary’’). The Subsidiary will be
advised by the Adviser and the Fund’s
investment in the Subsidiary will
primarily be intended to provide the
Fund primarily with exposure to the
price of gold. The Fund’s investment in
the Subsidiary is expected to provide
the Fund with an effective means of
obtaining exposure to the commodities
markets in a manner consistent with
U.S. federal tax law requirements
applicable to registered investment
companies.
The REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging
Markets ETF—Principal Investments
According to the Registration
Statement, the REX Gold Hedged FTSE
Emerging Markets ETF (the ‘‘Fund’’)
will seek to outperform the total return
performance of the FTSE Emerging Gold
Overlay Index (the ‘‘FTSE Benchmark’’)
by actively hedging a portfolio of
emerging markets securities using gold
futures.
The Fund will seek to achieve its
investment objective of outperforming
the FTSE Benchmark by providing
exposure to a gold-hedged emerging
markets portfolio using a quantitative,
rules-based strategy. The Fund will
invest at least 80% of its assets (plus the
amount of any borrowings for
investment purposes) in (i) equity
securities of emerging markets
companies, as such companies are
classified by the FTSE Benchmark
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(‘‘Emerging Markets Securities’’) 11, (ii)
gold futures, (iii) ETFs and exchangetraded closed-end funds (together with
ETFs, the ‘‘Underlying Funds’’),
American Depository Receipts
(‘‘ADRs’’) 12, Global Depository Receipts
(‘‘GDRs’’, American Depositary Shares
(‘‘ADS’’), European Depositary Receipts
(‘‘EDRs’’), International Depository
Receipts (‘‘IDRs’’, and together with
ADRs, GDRs and ADS, ‘‘Depositary
Receipts’’) that provide exposure to
Emerging Markets Securities, (iv)
ETFs 13 or ETNs 14 that provide
exposure to gold, and (v) futures that
provide exposure to Emerging Markets
Securities. The Fund will seek to
achieve a similar level of volatility as
that of the FTSE Benchmark, although
there is no assurance it will do so. The
FTSE Benchmark classifies a market as
an emerging market based on a number
of considerations related to the strength
of the economy and the strength of
11 The non-U.S. equity securities in the Fund’s
portfolio will meet the following criteria at time of
purchase: (1) Non-U.S. equity securities each shall
have a minimum market value of at least $100
million; (2) non-U.S. equity securities each shall
have a minimum global monthly trading volume of
250,000 shares, or minimum global notional volume
traded per month of $25,000,000, averaged over the
last six months; (3) the most heavily weighted nonU.S. equity security shall not exceed 25% of the
weight of the Fund’s entire portfolio, and, to the
extent applicable, the five most heavily weighted
non-U.S. equity securities shall not exceed 60% of
the weight of the Fund’s entire portfolio; and (4)
each non-U.S. equity security shall be listed and
traded on an exchange that has last-sale reporting.
For purposes of this filing, the term ‘‘non-U.S.
equity securities’’ includes the following (each as
referenced below): common stocks and preferred
securities of foreign corporations; warrants;
convertible securities; master limited partnerships
(‘‘MLPs’’); rights; and ‘‘Depositary Receipts’’ (as
defined below, excluding Depositary Receipts that
are registered under the Act).
12 According to the Registration Statement, ADRs
are receipts typically issued by United States banks
and trust companies which evidence ownership of
underlying securities issued by a foreign
corporation. Generally, ADRs in registered form are
designed for use in domestic securities markets and
are traded on exchanges or over-the-counter in the
United States. American Depositary Shares (ADSs)
are U.S. dollar-denominated equity shares of a
foreign-based company available for purchase on an
American stock exchange. ADSs are issued by
depository banks in the United States under an
agreement with the foreign issuer, and the entire
issuance is called an ADR and the individual shares
are referred to as ADSs. GDRs, EDRs, and IDRs are
similar to ADRs in that they are certificates
evidencing ownership of shares of a foreign issuer,
however, GDRs, EDRs, and IDRs may be issued in
bearer form and denominated in other currencies,
and are generally designed for use in specific or
multiple securities markets outside the U.S. EDRs,
for example, are designed for use in European
securities markets while GDRs are designed for use
throughout the world. ADRs, GDRs, EDRs, and IDRs
will not necessarily be denominated in the same
currency as their underlying securities. Nonexchange-listed ADRs will not exceed 10% of the
Fund’s net assets.
13 See note 9, supra.
14 See note 10, supra.
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capital market systems. The FTSE
Benchmark classifies a company as
being an emerging markets company
based on a number of factors related to
incorporation, listing, governance and
operations of the company.
The FTSE Benchmark seeks to reflect
the returns of a portfolio of Emerging
Markets Securities, hedged with a long
gold futures overlay. Specifically, the
FTSE Benchmark measures the total
return performance of a hypothetical
portfolio consisting of Emerging Markets
Securities and a long position in gold
futures, the notional value of which is
comparable to the value of the FTSE
Benchmark’s equity component.
The Sub-Adviser will continuously
monitor the Fund’s holdings in order to
enhance performance while still
providing approximately equal notional
exposure to equity securities and gold
futures contracts.
According to the Registration
Statement, futures contracts, by their
terms, have stated expirations and, at a
specified point in time prior to
expiration, trading in a futures contract
for the current delivery month will
cease. Therefore, in order to maintain
exposure to gold futures contracts, the
FTSE Benchmark must periodically
migrate out of gold futures contracts
nearing expiration and into gold futures
contracts that have longer remaining
until expiration, a process referred to as
‘‘rolling.’’ The impact from this
continuous process of selling expiring
contracts and buying longer-dated
contracts is called roll yield. The FTSE
Benchmark rolls these futures contracts
according to a predefined schedule,
regardless of the liquidity or roll yield
of the futures contract selected.
The Fund will look to minimize the
impact of rolling futures contracts in a
number of ways. For example, the Fund
may roll positions in gold futures
contracts before or after the scheduled
roll dates for the FTSE Benchmark, to
the extent of favorable market prices
and available liquidity. Additionally,
the Fund may attempt to minimize roll
costs (and maximize yields) by rolling
into the gold futures contract with the
largest positive or smallest negative roll
yield. This strategy for taking long
positions in and unwinding exposure to
gold futures contracts may cause the
Fund to have more or less exposure to
gold futures contracts than the FTSE
Benchmark. Additionally, the Fund is
not obligated to rebalance its exposures
at the same time that the FTSE
Benchmark rebalances its exposures,
and the Fund may rebalance more or
less frequently than the FTSE
Benchmark in order to ensure that the
Fund’s exposure to equities remains
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comparable to the Fund’s exposure to
the price of gold.
The Fund will not directly hold gold
futures contracts or other commoditylinked instruments (namely,
commodity-related pooled vehicles (as
described below) and options on
commodity futures). Rather, the Fund
expects to gain exposure to these
instruments by investing up to 25% of
its total assets, as measured at the end
of every quarter of the Fund’s taxable
year, in a wholly-owned and controlled
Cayman Islands subsidiary (the
‘‘Subsidiary’’). The Subsidiary will be
advised by the Adviser and the Fund’s
investment in the Subsidiary will
primarily be intended to provide the
Fund with exposure to the price of gold.
The Fund’s investment in the
Subsidiary is expected to provide the
Fund with an effective means of
obtaining exposure to the commodities
markets in a manner consistent with
U.S. federal tax law requirements
applicable to registered investment
companies.
Other Investments
While each Fund will invest at least
80% of its net assets in the securities
and financial instruments described
above, a Fund may invest its remaining
assets in the securities and financial
instruments described below.
In addition to the exchange-traded
equity securities described above for the
Funds, the Funds may invest in the
following exchange-traded equity
securities: exchange-traded common
stock (other than large-cap U.S. stocks
or Emerging Markets Securities,
respectively, for the respective Funds);
exchange-traded preferred stock (other
than preferred stock referred to above
with respect to the REX Gold Hedged
S&P 500 ETF), warrants, MLPs, rights,
and convertible securities.
The Funds may invest in restricted
(Rule 144A) securities.
In addition to the futures transactions
described above under ‘‘Principal
Investments’’ of a Fund, the Funds may
engage in other index, commodity and
currency futures transactions and may
engage in exchange-traded options
transactions on such futures. The Funds
may use futures contracts and related
options for bona fide hedging;
attempting to offset changes in the value
of securities held or expected to be
acquired or be disposed of; attempting
to gain exposure to a particular market,
index, or instrument; or other risk
management purposes.
The Funds may purchase and write
(sell) exchange-traded and OTC put and
call options on securities, securities
indices and currencies. A Fund may
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purchase put and call options on
securities to protect against a decline in
the market value of the securities in its
portfolio or to anticipate an increase in
the market value of securities that a
Fund may seek to purchase in the
future.
Each Fund will also invest in money
market mutual funds, cash and cash
equivalents 15 to collateralize its
exposure to futures contracts and for
investment purposes.
In addition to the securities and
financial instruments described under
‘‘Principal Investments’’ above for each
Fund, each Fund may invest in the
securities of pooled vehicles that are not
investment companies and, thus, not
required to comply with the provisions
of the 1940 Act. These pooled vehicles
typically hold currency or commodities,
such as gold or oil, or other property
that is itself not a security.16
Each Fund may enter into repurchase
agreements with financial institutions,
which may be deemed to be loans.
Each Fund may enter into reverse
repurchase agreements as part of a
Fund’s investment strategy.
In addition, the Funds may invest in
the following fixed income instruments
(‘‘Fixed Income Instruments’’): U.S.
government securities, namely, U.S.
Treasury obligations 17, U.S. government
agency securities and U.S. Treasury
zero-coupon bonds.
The Funds will invest in the
securities of other investment
companies, including the Underlying
Funds, to the extent that such an
investment would be consistent with
15 For purposes of this filing, cash equivalents
include short-term instruments (instruments with
maturities of less than 3 months) of the following
types: (i) U.S. Government securities, including
bills, notes and bonds differing as to maturity and
rates of interest, which are either issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury or by U.S.
Government agencies or instrumentalities; (ii)
certificates of deposit issued against funds
deposited in a bank or savings and loan association;
(iii) bankers’ acceptances, which are short-term
credit instruments used to finance commercial
transactions; (iv) repurchase agreements and reverse
repurchase agreements; (v) bank time deposits,
which are monies kept on deposit with banks or
savings and loan associations for a stated period of
time at a fixed rate of interest; (vi) commercial
paper, which are short-term unsecured promissory
notes; and (vii) money market funds.
16 For purposes of the filing, pooled vehicles will
mean: Trust Issued Receipts (as described in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.200); Commodity-Based Trust
Shares (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.201); Commodity Index Trust Shares (as described
in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.203); and Trust Units
(as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.500).
17 U.S. Treasury obligations consist of bills, notes
and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury and
separately traded interest and principal component
parts of such obligations that are transferable
through the federal book-entry system known as
Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal
Securities (‘‘STRIPS’’) and Treasury Receipts.
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the requirements of Section 12(d)(1) of
the 1940 Act, or any rule, regulation or
order of the Commission or
interpretation thereof.
Investment in the Subsidiaries
According to the Registration
Statement, each Fund will achieve
commodities exposure through
investment in a Subsidiary. Such
investment may not exceed 25% of a
Fund’s total assets, as measured at the
end of every quarter of a Fund’s taxable
year. Each Subsidiary will invest in
derivatives, including commodity and
equity futures contracts and commoditylinked instruments, and other
investments (cash, cash equivalents and
Fixed Income Instruments with less
than one year to maturity) intended to
serve as margin or collateral or
otherwise support the Subsidiary’s
derivatives positions. Unlike a Fund,
the Subsidiary may invest without
limitation in commodity futures and
may use leveraged investment
techniques. The Subsidiaries otherwise
are subject to the same general
investment policies and restrictions as
the Funds.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Subsidiaries are not
registered under the 1940 Act. As an
investor in its Subsidiary, each Fund, as
the Subsidiary’s sole shareholder,
would not have the protections offered
to investors in registered investment
companies. However, because a Fund
would wholly own and control the
Subsidiary, and a Fund and Subsidiary
would be managed by the Adviser, it is
unlikely that the Subsidiary would take
action contrary to the interests of a Fund
or a Fund’s shareholders. A Fund’s
Board of Trustees has oversight
responsibility for the investment
activities of the Funds, including their
investments in its respective Subsidiary,
and each Fund’s role as the sole
shareholder of its Subsidiary. Also, in
managing a Subsidiary’s portfolio, the
Adviser and Sub-Adviser would be
subject to the same investment
restrictions and operational guidelines
that apply to the management of a Fund.
Investment Restrictions
Each Fund will concentrate its
investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of
its total assets) in a particular industry
or group of industries to approximately
the same extent that the respective
benchmark concentrates in an industry
or group of industries.18
18 The Commission has taken the position that a
fund is concentrated if it invests more than 25% of
the value of its total assets in any one industry. See,
e.g., Investment Company Act Release No. 9011
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Each Fund will be classified as a nondiversified investment company under
the 1940 Act. A ‘‘non-diversified’’
classification means that a Fund is not
limited by the 1940 Act with regard to
the percentage of their assets that may
be invested in the securities of a single
issuer.19
The Adviser will not take defensive
positions in the Funds’ portfolios during
periods of adverse market, economic,
political, or other conditions as the
Adviser intends for each Fund to remain
fully invested consistent with its
investment strategy under all market
conditions.
Each Fund may invest up to an
aggregate amount of 15% of its net
assets in illiquid assets (calculated at
the time of investment), including Rule
144A securities deemed illiquid by the
Adviser,20 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 a Fund’s net assets are invested 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.21
(October 30, 1975), 40 FR 54241 (November 21,
1975.
19 The diversification standard is set forth in
Section 5(b)(1) of the 1940 Act.
20 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).
21 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 of 1933).
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According to the Registration
Statement, each Fund will seek to
qualify for treatment as a Regulated
Investment Company (‘‘RIC’’) under the
Internal Revenue Code.22
With respect to the REX Gold Hedged
FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, the nonU.S. equity securities in such Fund’s
portfolio will meet the following criteria
at time of purchase 23: (1) Non-U.S.
equity securities each shall have a
minimum market value of at least $100
million; (2) non-U.S. equity securities
each shall have a minimum global
monthly trading volume of 250,000
shares, or minimum global notional
volume traded per month of
$25,000,000, averaged over the last six
months; (3) the most heavily weighted
non-U.S. equity security shall not
exceed 25% of the weight of the Fund’s
entire portfolio, and, to the extent
applicable, the five most heavily
weighted non-U.S. equity securities
shall not exceed 60% of the weight of
the Fund’s entire portfolio; and (4) each
non-U.S. equity security shall be listed
and traded on an exchange that has lastsale reporting.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Funds are subject to
regulation under the Commodity
Exchange Act and CFTC rules as
commodity pools. The Adviser is
registered as a commodity pool
operator, and the Funds will be
operated in accordance with CFTC
rules.
Each Fund’s investments will be
consistent with its investment objective
and will not be used to enhance
leverage. While a Fund may invest in
inverse ETFs and ETNs, a Fund will not
invest in leveraged (e.g., 2X, ¥2X, 3X or
¥3X) ETFs and ETNs.
Creation of Shares
According to the Registration
Statement, the Trust will issue and sell
shares of each Fund only in Creation
Units of at least 50,000 Shares each on
a continuous basis through the
Distributor, at their NAV next
determined after receipt, on any
business day of an order received in
proper form.
The consideration for purchase of a
Creation Unit of a Fund generally will
consist of an in-kind deposit of a
designated portfolio of securities—the
‘‘Deposit Securities’’—per each Creation
22 26
U.S.C. 851.
criteria are similar to certain ‘‘generic’’
listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3),
Commentary .01(a)(B), which relate to criteria
applicable to an index or portfolio of U.S. and nonU.S. stocks underlying a series of Investment
Company Units to be listed and traded on the
Exchange pursuant to Rule 19b–4(e) under the Act.
23 These
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Unit constituting a substantial
replication, or a representation, of the
securities included in a Fund’s portfolio
and an amount of cash—the Cash
Component—computed as described
below. Together, the Deposit Securities
and the Cash Component constitute the
‘‘Fund Deposit,’’ which represents the
minimum initial and subsequent
investment amount for a Creation Unit
of the Fund. The Cash Component is an
amount equal to the difference between
the NAV of the Shares (per Creation
Unit) and the market value of the
Deposit Securities. If the Cash
Component is a positive number (i.e.,
the NAV per Creation Unit exceeds the
market value of the Deposit Securities),
the Cash Component shall be such
positive amount. If the Cash Component
is a negative number (i.e., the NAV per
Creation Unit is less than the market
value of the Deposit Securities), the
Cash Component shall be such negative
amount and the creator will be entitled
to receive cash from a Fund in an
amount equal to the Cash Component.
The Cash Component serves the
function of compensating for any
differences between the NAV per
Creation Unit and the market value of
the Deposit Securities.
The Administrator, through the
National Securities Clearing Corporation
(‘‘NSCC’’), will make available on each
business day, immediately prior to the
opening of business on the Exchange
(currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern Time), the
list of the names and the required
number of shares of each Deposit
Security to be included in the current
Fund Deposit (based on information at
the end of the previous business day) for
each Fund.
The Trust reserves the right to permit
or require the substitution of an amount
of cash—i.e., a ‘‘cash in lieu’’ amount—
to be added to the Cash Component to
replace any Deposit Security which may
not be available in sufficient quantity
for delivery or which may not be
eligible for transfer, or which may not
be eligible for trading by an Authorized
Participant (as defined below) or the
investor for which it is acting. The Trust
also reserves the right to offer an ‘‘all
cash’’ option for creations of Creation
Units for each Fund.24
In addition to the list of names and
numbers of securities constituting the
current Deposit Securities of a Fund
Deposit, the Administrator, through the
NSCC, also will make available on each
business day, the estimated Cash
24 The Adviser represents that, to the extent the
Trust effects the creation or redemption of Shares
in cash, such transactions will be effected in the
same manner for all Authorized Participants.
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Component, effective through and
including the previous business day, per
outstanding Creation Unit of each Fund.
To be eligible to place orders with the
Distributor to create a Creation Unit of
a Fund, an entity must be (i) a
‘‘Participating Party,’’ i.e., a brokerdealer or other participant in the
clearing process through the Continuous
Net Settlement System of the NSCC, a
clearing agency that is registered with
the Commission; or (ii) a Depository
Trust Company (‘‘DTC’’) Participant,
and, in each case, must have executed
an agreement with the Trust, the
Distributor and the Administrator with
respect to creations and redemptions of
Creation Units (‘‘Participant
Agreement’’). A Participating Party and
DTC Participant are collectively referred
to as an ‘‘Authorized Participant.’’
All orders to create or redeem
Creation Units must be placed for one
or more Creation Unit size aggregations
of at least 50,000 Shares and must be
received by the Distributor no later than
3:00 p.m., Eastern Time, an hour earlier
than the close of the regular trading
session on the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00
p.m., Eastern Time) (‘‘Closing Time’’), in
each case on the date such order is
placed in order for the creation of
Creation Units to be effected based on
the NAV of Shares of each Fund as next
determined on such date after receipt of
the order in proper form.
If permitted by the Adviser or SubAdviser in its sole discretion with
respect to a Fund, an Authorized
Participant may also agree to enter into
or arrange for an exchange of a futures
contract for a related position
(‘‘EFCRP’’) or block trade with the
relevant Fund or its Subsidiary whereby
the Authorized Participant would also
transfer to such Fund a number and
type of exchange-traded futures
contracts at or near the closing
settlement price for such contracts on
the purchase order date. Similarly, the
Sub-Adviser in its sole discretion may
agree with an Authorized Participant to
use an EFCRP or block trade to effect an
order to redeem Creation Units.25
25 According to the Registration Statement, an
EFCRP is a technique permitted by the rules of
certain futures exchanges that, as utilized by a Fund
in the Sub-Adviser’s discretion, would allow such
Fund or its Subsidiary to take a position in a futures
contract from an Authorized Participant, or give
futures contracts to an Authorized Participant, in
the case of a redemption, rather than to enter the
futures exchange markets to obtain such a position.
An EFCRP by itself will not change either party’s
net risk position materially. Because the futures
position that a Fund would otherwise need to take
in order to meet its investment objective can be
obtained without unnecessarily impacting the
financial or futures markets or their pricing,
EFCRPs can generally be viewed as transactions
beneficial to a Fund. A block trade is a technique
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Redemption of Shares
Shares may be redeemed only in
Creation Units at their NAV next
determined after receipt of a redemption
request in proper form by a Fund
through the Administrator and only on
a business day. The Trust will not
redeem Shares in amounts less than
Creation Units. Beneficial owners must
accumulate enough Shares in the
secondary market to constitute a
Creation Unit in order to have such
Shares redeemed by the Trust.
With respect to the Funds, the
Administrator, through the NSCC, will
make available immediately prior to the
opening of business on the Exchange
(currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern Time) on
each business day, the ‘‘Fund
Securities’’ that will be applicable
(subject to possible amendment or
correction) to redemption requests
received in proper form on that day.
Fund Securities received on redemption
may not be identical to Deposit
Securities which are applicable to
creations of Creation Units.
Unless cash redemptions are available
or specified for a Fund, the redemption
proceeds for a Creation Unit generally
will consist of Fund Securities, as
announced by the Administrator on the
business day of the request for
redemption received in proper form,
plus cash in an amount equal to the
difference between the NAV of the
Shares being redeemed, as next
determined after receipt of a request in
proper form, and the value of the Fund
Securities (the ‘‘Cash Redemption
Amount’’), less a redemption
transaction fee. In the event that the
Fund Securities have a value greater
than the NAV of the Shares, a
compensating cash payment equal to the
differential will be required to be made
by or through an Authorized Participant
by the redeeming shareholder.
If it is not possible to effect deliveries
of the Fund Securities, the Trust may in
its discretion exercise its option to
redeem such shares in cash, and the
redeeming ‘‘Beneficial Owner’’ will be
required to receive its redemption
proceeds in cash. In addition, an
investor may request a redemption in
cash which a Fund may, in its sole
discretion, permit. In either case, the
investor will receive a cash payment
equal to the NAV of its Shares based on
the NAV of Shares of a Fund next
determined after the redemption request
is received in proper form (minus a
redemption transaction fee and
that permits certain funds to obtain a futures
position without going through the market auction
system and can generally be viewed as a transaction
beneficial to such funds.
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additional charge for requested cash
redemptions, to offset the Trust’s
brokerage and other transaction costs
associated with the disposition of Fund
Securities). Each Fund may also, in its
sole discretion, upon request of a
shareholder, provide such redeemer a
portfolio of securities which differs from
the exact composition of the Fund
Securities but does not differ in NAV.
The right of redemption may be
suspended or the date of payment
postponed with respect to a Fund (1) for
any period during which the Exchange
is closed (other than customary
weekend and holiday closings); (2) for
any period during which trading on the
Exchange is suspended or restricted; (3)
for any period during which an
emergency exists as a result of which
disposal of the Shares of a Fund or
determination of the Shares’ NAV is not
reasonably practicable; or (4) in such
other circumstance as is permitted by
the Commission.
Net Asset Value
The NAV per Share of each Fund will
be computed by dividing the value of
the net assets of a Fund (i.e., the value
of its total assets less total liabilities) by
the total number of Shares of a Fund
outstanding, rounded to the nearest
cent. Expenses and fees, including
without limitation, the management,
administration and distribution fees,
will be accrued daily and taken into
account for purposes of determining
NAV per Share. The NAV per Share for
each Fund will be calculated by the
Administrator and determined as of the
close of the regular trading session on
the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time) on each day that such
exchange is open.
In computing a Fund’s NAV, a Fund’s
securities holdings will be valued based
on their last readily available market
price. Price information on exchangelisted securities, including common
stocks, preferred stocks, warrants,
convertible securities, MLPs, rights,
commodity-linked instruments (as
described above), Underlying Funds,
ETNs, Depositary Receipts and pooled
vehicles in which a Fund invests, will
be taken from the exchange where the
security is primarily traded. Other
portfolio securities and assets for which
market quotations are not readily
available or determined to not represent
the current fair value will be valued
based on fair value as determined in
good faith by the Sub-Adviser in
accordance with procedures adopted by
the Board.
Futures contracts and exchangetraded options on futures will be valued
at the settlement or closing price
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determined by the applicable exchange.
Exchange-traded options contracts will
be valued at their most recent sale price.
OTC options normally will be valued on
the basis of quotes obtained from a
third-party broker-dealer who makes
markets in such securities or on the
basis of quotes obtained from a thirdparty pricing service.
Cash and cash equivalents may be
valued at market values, as furnished by
recognized dealers in such securities or
assets. Cash equivalents also may be
valued on the basis of information
furnished by an independent pricing
service that uses a valuation matrix
which incorporates both dealersupplied valuations and electronic data
processing techniques.
Fixed Income Instruments, Rule 144A
securities, repurchase agreements and
reverse repurchase agreements will
generally be valued at bid prices
received from independent pricing
services as of the announced closing
time for trading in fixed-income
instruments in the respective market.
Shares of money market mutual funds
held by each Fund will be valued at
their respective NAVs.
Availability of Information
The Funds’ Web site, which will be
publicly available prior to the public
offering of Shares, will include a form
of the prospectus for the Funds that may
be downloaded. The Funds’ 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’’),26 and a calculation of the
premium or 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, the Funds’ Web site will
disclose the Disclosed Portfolio that will
form the basis for each Fund’s
calculation of NAV at the end of the
business day.27
26 The Bid/Ask Price of Shares of each 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 a
Fund and its service providers.
27 Under accounting procedures followed by the
Funds, trades made on the prior business day (‘‘T’’)
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On a daily basis, the Funds will
disclose on the Funds’ Web site the
following information regarding each
portfolio holding of a Fund and its
respective Subsidiary, as applicable to
the type of holding: Ticker symbol,
CUSIP number or other identifier, if
any; a description of the holding
(including the type of holding); the
identity of the security, commodity,
index or other asset or instrument
underlying the holding, if any; for
options, the option strike price; quantity
held (as measured by, for example, par
value, notional value or number of
shares, contracts or units); maturity
date, if any; coupon rate, if any;
effective date, if any; market value of the
holding; and the percentage weighting
of the holding in a Fund’s portfolio. The
Web site information will be publicly
available at no charge.
In addition, a basket composition file
(i.e., the Deposit Securities), which
includes the security names and share
quantities (as applicable) 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 New York Stock Exchange via the
NSCC. The basket will represent one
Creation Unit of a Fund.
Investors will also be able to obtain
the Trust’s Statement of Additional
Information (‘‘SAI’’), a Fund’s
Shareholder Reports, and its Form N–
CSR and Form N–SAR, filed twice a
year. The Trust’s SAI and Shareholder
Reports will be 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 for the Shares will be
published daily in the financial section
of newspapers. Quotation and last sale
information for the Shares, Underlying
Funds, ETNs and other U.S. exchangetraded equities, will be available via the
Consolidated Tape Association (‘‘CTA’’)
high-speed line, and, for equity
securities that are U.S. exchange-listed,
will be available from the national
securities exchange on which they are
listed. With respect to non-U.S.
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
the Funds.29 Trading in Shares of the
Funds 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 the Funds; or
will be booked and reflected in NAV on the current
business day (‘‘T+1’’). Accordingly, the Funds 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.
28 Currently, it is the Exchange’s understanding
that several major market data vendors display and/
or make widely available Portfolio Indicative
Values taken from CTA or other data feeds.
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exchange-listed equity securities, intraday, closing and settlement prices of
common stocks and other equity
securities (including shares of preferred
securities, and non-U.S. Depositary
Receipts), will be available from the
foreign exchanges on which such
securities trade as well as from major
market data vendors. Price information
for money market funds will be
available from the investment
company’s Web site and from market
data vendors. Price information relating
to money market mutual funds, cash,
cash equivalents, futures, options,
options on futures, Depositary Receipts,
Rule 144A securities, repurchase
agreements, reverse repurchase
agreements, the S&P Benchmark and the
FTSE Benchmark will be available from
major market data vendors. Information
relating to futures and exchange-traded
options on futures also will be available
from the exchange on which such
instruments are traded. Information
relating to U.S. exchange-traded options
will be available via the Options Price
Reporting Authority. Pricing
information regarding each asset class in
which a Fund will invest will generally
be available through nationally
recognized data service providers
through subscription agreements.
In addition, the Portfolio Indicative
Value, as defined in NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.600(c)(3), will be widely
disseminated at least every 15 seconds
during the Core Trading Session by one
or more major market data vendors.28
The dissemination of the Portfolio
Indicative Value, 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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(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 Funds 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 a.m.
to 8 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, 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 of each Fund will conform
to the initial and continued listing
criteria under NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600. Consistent with NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(B)(ii), the
Adviser, as the ‘‘Reporting Authority’’,
will implement and maintain, or be
subject to, procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of
material non-public information
regarding the actual components of a
Fund’s portfolio. The Exchange
represents that, for initial and/or
continued listing, each Fund will be in
compliance with Rule 10A–3 30 under
the Act, as provided by NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 5.3. A minimum of
100,000 Shares of each Fund will be
outstanding at the commencement of
trading on the Exchange. The Exchange
will obtain a representation from the
issuer of the Shares of each Fund that
the NAV per Share will be calculated
daily and that the NAV and the
Disclosed Portfolio as defined in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2) 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 regulatory staff of the
Exchange or the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority (‘‘FINRA’’) on
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behalf of the Exchange, which are
designed to detect violations of
Exchange rules and applicable federal
securities laws.31 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.
The regulatory staff of the Exchange
or FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange,
will communicate as needed regarding
trading in the Shares, certain exchangelisted equity securities, certain futures,
certain options on futures, and certain
exchange-traded options 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 regulatory
staff of the Exchange may obtain
information regarding trading in such
securities and financial instruments
from markets and other entities that are
members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive
surveillance sharing agreement.32
FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, is
able to access, as needed, trade
information for certain fixed income
securities held by a Fund reported to
FINRA’s Trade Reporting and
Compliance Engine (‘‘TRACE’’).
Not more than 10% of the net assets
of a Fund in the aggregate invested in
futures contracts or options contracts
shall consist of futures contracts or
options contracts whose principal
market is not a member of ISG or is a
market with which the Exchange does
not have a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement.
31 FINRA surveils certain trading activity on the
Exchange pursuant to a regulatory services
agreement. The Exchange is responsible for
FINRA’s performance under this regulatory services
agreement.
32 For a list of the current members of ISG, see
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all
components of the Disclosed Portfolio for a Fund
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 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 Unit aggregations (and that
Shares are not individually redeemable);
(2) NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a),
which imposes a duty of due diligence
on its Equity Trading Permit 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 Portfolio
Indicative Value will not be calculated
or publicly disseminated; (4) how
information regarding the Portfolio
Indicative Value and the Disclosed
Portfolio is disseminated; (5) the
requirement that Equity Trading Permit
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 the Funds will be subject
to various fees and expenses described
in the Registration Statement. The
Bulletin will discuss any exemptive, noaction, 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) 33 that an
exchange have rules that are designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices, to promote just and
equitable principles of trade, to remove
impediments to, and perfect the
mechanism of a free and open market
and, in general, to protect investors and
the public interest.
The Exchange believes that the
proposed rule change is designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices in that the Shares will
be listed and traded on the Exchange
pursuant to the initial and continued
listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities
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Rule 8.600. Trading in the Shares will
be subject to the existing trading
surveillances, administered by the
regulatory staff of the Exchange or
FINRA on behalf of the Exchange,
which are designed to detect violations
of Exchange rules and applicable federal
securities laws. The regulatory staff of
the Exchange or FINRA, on behalf of the
Exchange, will communicate as needed
regarding trading in the Shares, certain
exchange-listed equity securities,
certain futures, certain options on
futures, and certain exchange-traded
options 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 such securities and financial
instruments from markets and other
entities that are members of ISG or with
which the Exchange has in place a
comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement.
With respect to the Rex Gold Hedged
FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, the nonU.S. equity securities in the Fund’s
portfolio will meet the following criteria
at time of purchase: (1) Non-U.S. equity
securities each shall have a minimum
market value of at least $100 million; (2)
non-U.S. equity securities each shall
have a minimum global monthly trading
volume of 250,000 shares, or minimum
global notional volume traded per
month of $25,000,000, averaged over the
last six months; (3) the most heavily
weighted non-U.S. equity security shall
not exceed 25% of the weight of the
Fund’s entire portfolio, and, to the
extent applicable, the five most heavily
weighted non-U.S. equity securities
shall not exceed 60% of the weight of
the Fund’s entire portfolio; and (4) each
non-U.S. equity security shall be listed
and traded on an exchange that has lastsale reporting.
Not more than 10% of the net assets
of a Fund in the aggregate invested in
futures contracts or options contracts
shall consist of futures contracts or
options contracts whose principal
market is not a member of ISG or is a
market with which the Exchange does
not have a comprehensive surveillance
sharing agreement. Each Fund’s
investments will be consistent with its
investment objective and will not be
used to enhance leverage. While a Fund
may invest in inverse ETFs and ETNs,
a Fund will not invest in leveraged (e.g.,
2X, –2X, 3X or –3X) ETFs and ETNs.
The proposed rule change is designed
to promote just and equitable principles
of trade and to protect investors and the
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public interest in that the Exchange will
obtain a representation from the issuer
of the 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. In
addition, a large amount of information
will be publicly available regarding the
Funds and the Shares, thereby
promoting market transparency.
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 for the Shares will
be published daily in the financial
section of newspapers. Quotation and
last sale information for the Shares,
Underlying Funds and other U.S.
exchange-traded equities, will be
available via the CTA high-speed line,
and, for equity securities that are U.S.
exchange-listed, will be available from
the national securities exchange on
which they are listed. Price information
for money market funds will be
available from the investment
company’s Web site and from market
data vendors. Price information relating
to money market mutual funds, cash,
cash equivalents, futures, options,
options on futures, Depositary Receipts,
Rule 144A securities, repurchase
agreements, reverse repurchase
agreements, the S&P Benchmark and the
FTSE Benchmark will be available from
major market data vendors. Information
relating to futures and exchange-traded
options on futures also will be available
from the exchange on which such
instruments are traded. Information
relating to U.S. exchange-traded options
will be available via the Options Price
Reporting Authority. Pricing
information regarding each asset class in
which a Fund will invest will generally
be available through nationally
recognized data service providers
through subscription agreements.
In addition, the Portfolio Indicative
Value will be widely disseminated by
the Exchange at least every 15 seconds
during the Core Trading Session. The
Funds’ Web site will include a form of
the prospectus for the Funds that may
be downloaded, as well as additional
quantitative information updated on a
daily basis. On each business day,
before commencement of trading in
Shares in the Core Trading Session on
the Exchange, the Funds’ Web site will
disclose the Disclosed Portfolio that will
form the basis for each Fund’s
calculation of NAV at the end of the
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On a daily basis, the Funds will
disclose on the Funds’ Web site the
following information regarding each
portfolio holding, as applicable to the
type of holding: Ticker symbol, CUSIP
number or other identifier, if any; a
description of the holding (including
the type of holding); the identity of the
security, commodity, index or other
asset or instrument underlying the
holding, if any; for options, the option
strike price; quantity held (as measured
by, for example, par value, notional
value or number of shares, contracts or
units); maturity date, if any; coupon
rate, if any; effective date, if any; market
value of the holding; and the percentage
weighting of the holding in a Fund’s
portfolio. Moreover, prior to the
commencement of trading, the Exchange
will inform its Equity Trading Permit
Holders in an Information Bulletin of
the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares.
Trading in Shares of the Funds 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. 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 a Fund may be halted. In addition, as
noted above, investors will have ready
access to information regarding the
Funds’ holdings, the Portfolio Indicative
Value, 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. In addition, as
noted above, investors will have ready
access to information regarding the
Funds’ holdings, the Portfolio Indicative
Value, 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
additional types of actively-managed
exchange-traded products based on the
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price of gold and other financial
instruments 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 up to 90 days (i) as the
Commission may designate 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–2015–107 on the subject
line.
Paper Comments
• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Secretary, Securities and Exchange
Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
Number SR–NYSEArca–2015–107. 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
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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–2015–107 and should be
submitted on or before January 20, 2016.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.34
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
[Release No. 34–76731; File No. SR–
NASDAQ–2015–144]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; The
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC; Notice of
Filing of a Proposed Rule Change To
Amend Rules 5810(4), 5810(c), 5815(c)
and 5820(d) To Provide Staff With
Limited Discretion To Grant a Listed
Company That Failed To Hold Its
Annual Meeting of Shareholders an
Extension of Time To Comply With the
Requirement
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December 22, 2015.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
notice is hereby given that on December
9, 2015, The NASDAQ Stock Market
LLC (‘‘NASDAQ’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) 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 Exchange.
The Commission is publishing this
notice to solicit comments on the
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
NASDAQ proposes to amend Rule
5810(c) to provide NASDAQ staff with
limited discretion to grant a listed
company additional time to solicit
proxies and hold an annual meeting of
shareholders. The text of the proposed
rule change is available from NASDAQ’s
Web site at https://
nasdaq.cchwallstreet.com/Filings/, at
NASDAQ’s principal office, 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,
NASDAQ included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for
the proposed rule change and discussed
any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of these
statements may be examined at the
places specified in Item IV below.
NASDAQ has prepared summaries, set
forth in sections A, B, and C below, of
the most significant aspects of such
statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
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proposed rule change from interested
persons.
1. Purpose
Each company listing common stock
or voting preferred stock, and their
equivalents, must hold an annual
meeting of shareholders no later than
one year after the end of the company’s
fiscal year and solicit proxies for that
meeting.3 An annual meeting allows the
equity owners of the company the
opportunity to elect directors and meet
with management to discuss company
affairs. Currently, should a company fail
to hold its annual meeting as required
by Rule 5620, staff of the Listing
Qualifications Department (‘‘Staff’’) has
no discretion to allow additional time
3 See Rules 5620(a) and (b), respectively. Rule
5615(a)(4)(D) also requires a limited partnership to
hold an annual meeting of limited partners if
required by statute or regulation in the state in
which the limited partnership is formed or doing
business or by the terms of the partnership’s limited
partnership agreement. Rule 5615(a)(4)(F) requires
the limited partnership to distribute information
statements or proxies when a meeting of limited
partners is required. The proposed process
described herein would apply in the identical
manner to limited partnerships required to hold a
meeting as it does to other companies. See also
Rules 5615(a)(4)(E) and (F) (partner meetings and
proxy solicitation of limited partnerships).
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for the company to regain compliance.
Rather, Staff is required by Rule
5810(c)(1) to issue a delisting
determination, subjecting the company
to immediate suspension and delisting
unless the company appeals to a
Hearings Panel.4 NASDAQ proposes to
amend Rule 5810(4), 5810(c), 5815(c)
and 5820(d) to provide Staff with
limited discretion to grant a listed
company that failed to hold its annual
meeting of shareholders an extension of
time to comply with the requirement.5
NASDAQ notes that the only other
rule where a company is subject to
immediate suspension and delisting,
besides when it fails to solicit proxies
and hold an annual meeting, is when
Staff makes a determination pursuant to
the Rule 5100 Series that the company’s
continued listing raises a public interest
concern. This determination generally is
made only following discussion and
review of the facts and circumstances
with the company. For all other
deficiencies under the Rule 5000 Series,
a listed company is provided with either
a fixed compliance period within which
to regain compliance,6 or given the
opportunity to submit a plan to regain
compliance, which Staff reviews to
determine whether to grant the
company a limited time to implement.7
Generally, a company is allowed 45
days to submit the plan of compliance 8
and, upon review of the plan, Staff may
grant the company up to 180 days from
the date of Staff’s initial notification of
the company’s non-compliance to regain
compliance. If upon review of the
company’s plan Staff determines that an
extension is not warranted, Staff will
issue a Delisting Determination, which
triggers the company’s right to request
review by a Hearings Panel.
There are a variety of reasons a
company may fail to timely hold an
annual meeting. In many of these cases,
the circumstances that precipitated the
delay may arise just before a planned
meeting. For example, NASDAQ has
4 A listed company may request review of a Staff
Delisting Determination by a Hearings Panel. A
timely request for a hearing will stay the suspension
and delisting pending the issuance of a written
Panel Decision. See Rule 5815.
5 The Exchange notes that companies and certain
limited partnerships are also required to solicit
proxies and provide proxy statements for all
meetings of shareholders or partners. See Rules
5620(b) and 5615(a)(4)(F), respectively. A company
or limited partnership that has not timely held an
annual meeting has not violated the proxy
solicitation rule because no meeting has been held.
6 See Rule 5810(c)(3).
7 See Rule 5810(c)(2).
8 Companies deficient with the filing requirement
for periodic reports are provided up to 60 days to
submit a plan of compliance. See Rule
5810(c)(2)(F). Staff can shorten these deadlines
where deemed appropriate.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-76761; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2015-107]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing
of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of the REX Gold Hedged
S&P 500 ETF and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF Under
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600
December 23, 2015.
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 10, 2015, 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.
\3\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares of the following
under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600 (``Managed Fund Shares''): The REX
Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets
ETF. The text of the proposed rule change is available on the
Exchange's Web site at www.nyse.com, at the principal office of the
Exchange, and at the Commission's Public Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most
significant parts of such statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares (the ``Shares'') of
the following under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600, which governs the
listing and trading of Managed Fund Shares \4\: The REX Gold Hedged S&P
500 ETF and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (each a
``Fund'' and, collectively, the ``Funds'').\5\
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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) (the ``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 approved listing and trading on the
Exchange of a number of actively managed funds under Rule 8.600.
See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 63076 (October 12,
2010), 75 FR 63874 (October 18, 2010) (SR-NYSEArca-2010-79) (order
approving Exchange listing and trading of Cambria Global Tactical
ETF); 70055 (July 29, 2013) (SR-NYSEArca-2013-52) (order approving
proposed rule change relating to listing and trading of shares of
the First Trust Morningstar Managed Futures Strategy Fund under NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.600); and 71456 (January 31, 2014), 79 FR 7258
(February 6, 2014) (SR-NYSEArca-2013-116) (order approving proposed
rule change relating to listing and trading of shares of the
AdvisorShares International Gold ETF, AdvisorShares Gartman Gold/Yen
ETF, AdvisorShares Gartman Gold/British Pound ETF, and AdvisorShares
Gartman Gold/Euro ETF under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600).
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The Shares will be offered by Exchange Traded Concepts Trust (the
``Trust''), a Delaware statutory trust. Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC
will serve as the investment adviser to the Funds (``Adviser''). Vident
Investment Advisory, LLC (the ``Sub-Adviser'') will serve as sub-
adviser to the Funds.\6\
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\6\ The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On October 9,
2015, 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 under the 1940 Act
relating to the Funds (File Nos. 333-156529 and 811-22263)
(``Registration Statement''). The description of the operation of
the Trust and the Funds herein is based, in part, on the
Registration Statement. In addition, the Commission has issued an
order granting certain exemptive relief to the Trust under the 1940
Act. See Investment Company Act Release No. 30445, April 2, 2013
(File No. 812-13969) (``Exemptive Order'').
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SEI Investments Distribution Co. (``SIDCO''), (the ``Distributor'')
will be the principal underwriter and distributor of the Funds' Shares.
SEI Investments Global Funds Services (the ``Administrator'') will
serve as the administrator, custodian, transfer agent and fund
accounting agent for the Funds.\7\
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\7\ The Funds are subject to regulation under the Commodity
Exchange Act (``CEA'') and Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(``CFTC'') rules as commodity pools. The Adviser is registered as a
commodity pool operator (``CPO''), and the Funds will be operated in
accordance with CFTC rules.
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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. 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.\8\ Commentary .06 to Rule
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8.600 is similar to Commentary .03(a)(i) and (iii) to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3); however, Commentary .06 in connection with the
establishment of a ``fire wall'' between the investment adviser and the
broker-dealer reflects the applicable open-end fund's portfolio, not an
underlying benchmark index, as is the case with index-based funds.
Neither the Adviser nor the Sub-Adviser is a broker-dealer or
affiliated with a broker-dealer.
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\8\ 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 and Sub-Adviser and their related
personnel will be 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 violations, 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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In the event (a) the Adviser or Sub-Adviser becomes a registered
broker-dealer or becomes 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 a portfolio, and will be subject to procedures designed to
prevent the use and dissemination of material non-public information
regarding such portfolio.
The REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF--Principal Investments
According to the Registration Statement, the Fund will seek to
outperform the total return performance of the S&P 500 Dynamic Gold
Hedged Index (the ``S&P Benchmark'') by actively hedging the returns of
the S&P 500[supreg] Index using gold futures.
The Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective of
outperforming the S&P Benchmark by providing exposure to a gold-hedged
U.S. large-cap portfolio using a quantitative, rules-based strategy.
The Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets (plus the amount of any
borrowings for investment purposes) in (i) U.S. exchange-listed large-
cap U.S. stocks; (ii) gold futures, (iii) exchange-traded funds
(``ETFs'') \9\ and exchange-traded closed-end funds (together with
ETFs, the ``Underlying Funds'') that provide exposure to large-cap U.S.
stocks, (iv) ETFs or exchange-traded notes (``ETNs'') \10\ that provide
exposure to gold, and (v) futures that provide exposure to the S&P
500[supreg] Index. The Fund will not invest in non-U.S. stocks.
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\9\ For purposes of this filing, ETFs include Investment Company
Units (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3)); Portfolio
Depository Receipts (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.100);
and Managed Fund Shares (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600). The Underlying Funds in which a Fund will invest all will be
listed and traded on national securities exchanges. While the Funds
may invest in inverse ETFs, the Funds will not invest in leveraged
(e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X or -3X) ETFs.
\10\ ETNs, which will be listed on a national securities
exchange, are securities such as those described in NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 5.2(j)(6). While the Funds may invest in inverse ETNs,
the Funds will not invest in leveraged (e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X or -3X)
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The Fund will seek to achieve a similar level of volatility as that
of the S&P Benchmark, although there is no assurance it will do so.
According to the Registration Statement, the S&P Benchmark seeks to
reflect the returns of a portfolio of S&P 500[supreg] stocks, hedged
with a long gold futures overlay. Specifically, the S&P Benchmark
measures the total return performance of a hypothetical portfolio
consisting of securities that compose the S&P 500[supreg] Index, which
measures the performance of the large-capitalization sector of the U.S.
equity market, and a long position in gold futures contracts, the
notional value of which is comparable to the value of the S&P
Benchmark's equity component.
The Sub-Adviser will continuously monitor the Fund's holdings in
order to enhance performance while still providing approximately equal
notional exposure to equity securities and gold futures contracts.
According to the Registration Statement, futures contracts, by
their terms, have stated expirations and, at a specified point in time
prior to expiration, trading in a futures contract for the current
delivery month will cease. Therefore, in order to maintain exposure to
gold futures contracts, the S&P Benchmark must periodically migrate out
of gold futures contracts nearing expiration and into gold futures
contracts that have longer remaining until expiration, a process
referred to as ``rolling.'' The impact from this continuous process of
selling expiring contracts and buying longer-dated contracts is called
roll yield. The S&P Benchmark rolls these futures contracts according
to a predefined schedule, regardless of the liquidity or roll yield of
the futures contract selected.
The Fund will look to minimize the impact of rolling futures
contracts in a number of ways. For example, the Fund may roll positions
in gold futures contracts before or after the scheduled roll dates for
the S&P Benchmark, to the extent of favorable market prices and
available liquidity. Additionally, the Fund may attempt to minimize
roll costs (and maximize yields) by rolling into the gold futures
contract with the largest positive or smallest negative roll yield.
This strategy for taking long positions in and unwinding exposure to
gold futures contracts may cause the Fund to have more or less exposure
to gold futures contracts than the S&P Benchmark. Additionally, the
Fund is not obligated to rebalance its exposures at the same time that
the S&P Benchmark rebalances its exposures, and the Fund may rebalance
more or less frequently than the S&P Benchmark in order to ensure that
the Fund's exposure to equities remains comparable to the Fund's
exposure to the price of gold.
The Fund will not directly hold gold futures contracts or other
commodity-linked instruments (namely, commodity-related pooled vehicles
(as described below) and options on commodity futures). Rather, the
Fund expects to gain exposure to these instruments by investing up to
25% of its total assets, as measured at the end of every quarter of the
Fund's taxable year, in a wholly-owned and controlled Cayman Islands
subsidiary (the ``Subsidiary''). The Subsidiary will be advised by the
Adviser and the Fund's investment in the Subsidiary will primarily be
intended to provide the Fund primarily with exposure to the price of
gold. The Fund's investment in the Subsidiary is expected to provide
the Fund with an effective means of obtaining exposure to the
commodities markets in a manner consistent with U.S. federal tax law
requirements applicable to registered investment companies.
The REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF--Principal Investments
According to the Registration Statement, the REX Gold Hedged FTSE
Emerging Markets ETF (the ``Fund'') will seek to outperform the total
return performance of the FTSE Emerging Gold Overlay Index (the ``FTSE
Benchmark'') by actively hedging a portfolio of emerging markets
securities using gold futures.
The Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective of
outperforming the FTSE Benchmark by providing exposure to a gold-hedged
emerging markets portfolio using a quantitative, rules-based strategy.
The Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets (plus the amount of any
borrowings for investment purposes) in (i) equity securities of
emerging markets companies, as such companies are classified by the
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(``Emerging Markets Securities'') \11\, (ii) gold futures, (iii) ETFs
and exchange-traded closed-end funds (together with ETFs, the
``Underlying Funds''), American Depository Receipts (``ADRs'') \12\,
Global Depository Receipts (``GDRs'', American Depositary Shares
(``ADS''), European Depositary Receipts (``EDRs''), International
Depository Receipts (``IDRs'', and together with ADRs, GDRs and ADS,
``Depositary Receipts'') that provide exposure to Emerging Markets
Securities, (iv) ETFs \13\ or ETNs \14\ that provide exposure to gold,
and (v) futures that provide exposure to Emerging Markets Securities.
The Fund will seek to achieve a similar level of volatility as that of
the FTSE Benchmark, although there is no assurance it will do so. The
FTSE Benchmark classifies a market as an emerging market based on a
number of considerations related to the strength of the economy and the
strength of capital market systems. The FTSE Benchmark classifies a
company as being an emerging markets company based on a number of
factors related to incorporation, listing, governance and operations of
the company.
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\11\ The non-U.S. equity securities in the Fund's portfolio will
meet the following criteria at time of purchase: (1) Non-U.S. equity
securities each shall have a minimum market value of at least $100
million; (2) non-U.S. equity securities each shall have a minimum
global monthly trading volume of 250,000 shares, or minimum global
notional volume traded per month of $25,000,000, averaged over the
last six months; (3) the most heavily weighted non-U.S. equity
security shall not exceed 25% of the weight of the Fund's entire
portfolio, and, to the extent applicable, the five most heavily
weighted non-U.S. equity securities shall not exceed 60% of the
weight of the Fund's entire portfolio; and (4) each non-U.S. equity
security shall be listed and traded on an exchange that has last-
sale reporting. For purposes of this filing, the term ``non-U.S.
equity securities'' includes the following (each as referenced
below): common stocks and preferred securities of foreign
corporations; warrants; convertible securities; master limited
partnerships (``MLPs''); rights; and ``Depositary Receipts'' (as
defined below, excluding Depositary Receipts that are registered
under the Act).
\12\ According to the Registration Statement, ADRs are receipts
typically issued by United States banks and trust companies which
evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by a foreign
corporation. Generally, ADRs in registered form are designed for use
in domestic securities markets and are traded on exchanges or over-
the-counter in the United States. American Depositary Shares (ADSs)
are U.S. dollar-denominated equity shares of a foreign-based company
available for purchase on an American stock exchange. ADSs are
issued by depository banks in the United States under an agreement
with the foreign issuer, and the entire issuance is called an ADR
and the individual shares are referred to as ADSs. GDRs, EDRs, and
IDRs are similar to ADRs in that they are certificates evidencing
ownership of shares of a foreign issuer, however, GDRs, EDRs, and
IDRs may be issued in bearer form and denominated in other
currencies, and are generally designed for use in specific or
multiple securities markets outside the U.S. EDRs, for example, are
designed for use in European securities markets while GDRs are
designed for use throughout the world. ADRs, GDRs, EDRs, and IDRs
will not necessarily be denominated in the same currency as their
underlying securities. Non-exchange-listed ADRs will not exceed 10%
of the Fund's net assets.
\13\ See note 9, supra.
\14\ See note 10, supra.
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The FTSE Benchmark seeks to reflect the returns of a portfolio of
Emerging Markets Securities, hedged with a long gold futures overlay.
Specifically, the FTSE Benchmark measures the total return performance
of a hypothetical portfolio consisting of Emerging Markets Securities
and a long position in gold futures, the notional value of which is
comparable to the value of the FTSE Benchmark's equity component.
The Sub-Adviser will continuously monitor the Fund's holdings in
order to enhance performance while still providing approximately equal
notional exposure to equity securities and gold futures contracts.
According to the Registration Statement, futures contracts, by
their terms, have stated expirations and, at a specified point in time
prior to expiration, trading in a futures contract for the current
delivery month will cease. Therefore, in order to maintain exposure to
gold futures contracts, the FTSE Benchmark must periodically migrate
out of gold futures contracts nearing expiration and into gold futures
contracts that have longer remaining until expiration, a process
referred to as ``rolling.'' The impact from this continuous process of
selling expiring contracts and buying longer-dated contracts is called
roll yield. The FTSE Benchmark rolls these futures contracts according
to a predefined schedule, regardless of the liquidity or roll yield of
the futures contract selected.
The Fund will look to minimize the impact of rolling futures
contracts in a number of ways. For example, the Fund may roll positions
in gold futures contracts before or after the scheduled roll dates for
the FTSE Benchmark, to the extent of favorable market prices and
available liquidity. Additionally, the Fund may attempt to minimize
roll costs (and maximize yields) by rolling into the gold futures
contract with the largest positive or smallest negative roll yield.
This strategy for taking long positions in and unwinding exposure to
gold futures contracts may cause the Fund to have more or less exposure
to gold futures contracts than the FTSE Benchmark. Additionally, the
Fund is not obligated to rebalance its exposures at the same time that
the FTSE Benchmark rebalances its exposures, and the Fund may rebalance
more or less frequently than the FTSE Benchmark in order to ensure that
the Fund's exposure to equities remains comparable to the Fund's
exposure to the price of gold.
The Fund will not directly hold gold futures contracts or other
commodity-linked instruments (namely, commodity-related pooled vehicles
(as described below) and options on commodity futures). Rather, the
Fund expects to gain exposure to these instruments by investing up to
25% of its total assets, as measured at the end of every quarter of the
Fund's taxable year, in a wholly-owned and controlled Cayman Islands
subsidiary (the ``Subsidiary''). The Subsidiary will be advised by the
Adviser and the Fund's investment in the Subsidiary will primarily be
intended to provide the Fund with exposure to the price of gold. The
Fund's investment in the Subsidiary is expected to provide the Fund
with an effective means of obtaining exposure to the commodities
markets in a manner consistent with U.S. federal tax law requirements
applicable to registered investment companies.
Other Investments
While each Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in the
securities and financial instruments described above, a Fund may invest
its remaining assets in the securities and financial instruments
described below.
In addition to the exchange-traded equity securities described
above for the Funds, the Funds may invest in the following exchange-
traded equity securities: exchange-traded common stock (other than
large-cap U.S. stocks or Emerging Markets Securities, respectively, for
the respective Funds); exchange-traded preferred stock (other than
preferred stock referred to above with respect to the REX Gold Hedged
S&P 500 ETF), warrants, MLPs, rights, and convertible securities.
The Funds may invest in restricted (Rule 144A) securities.
In addition to the futures transactions described above under
``Principal Investments'' of a Fund, the Funds may engage in other
index, commodity and currency futures transactions and may engage in
exchange-traded options transactions on such futures. The Funds may use
futures contracts and related options for bona fide hedging; attempting
to offset changes in the value of securities held or expected to be
acquired or be disposed of; attempting to gain exposure to a particular
market, index, or instrument; or other risk management purposes.
The Funds may purchase and write (sell) exchange-traded and OTC put
and call options on securities, securities indices and currencies. A
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purchase put and call options on securities to protect against a
decline in the market value of the securities in its portfolio or to
anticipate an increase in the market value of securities that a Fund
may seek to purchase in the future.
Each Fund will also invest in money market mutual funds, cash and
cash equivalents \15\ to collateralize its exposure to futures
contracts and for investment purposes.
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\15\ For purposes of this filing, cash equivalents include
short-term instruments (instruments with maturities of less than 3
months) of the following types: (i) U.S. Government securities,
including bills, notes and bonds differing as to maturity and rates
of interest, which are either issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
Treasury or by U.S. Government agencies or instrumentalities; (ii)
certificates of deposit issued against funds deposited in a bank or
savings and loan association; (iii) bankers' acceptances, which are
short-term credit instruments used to finance commercial
transactions; (iv) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase
agreements; (v) bank time deposits, which are monies kept on deposit
with banks or savings and loan associations for a stated period of
time at a fixed rate of interest; (vi) commercial paper, which are
short-term unsecured promissory notes; and (vii) money market funds.
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In addition to the securities and financial instruments described
under ``Principal Investments'' above for each Fund, each Fund may
invest in the securities of pooled vehicles that are not investment
companies and, thus, not required to comply with the provisions of the
1940 Act. These pooled vehicles typically hold currency or commodities,
such as gold or oil, or other property that is itself not a
security.\16\
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\16\ For purposes of the filing, pooled vehicles will mean:
Trust Issued Receipts (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.200); Commodity-Based Trust Shares (as described in NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.201); Commodity Index Trust Shares (as described in
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.203); and Trust Units (as described in
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.500).
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Each Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with financial
institutions, which may be deemed to be loans.
Each Fund may enter into reverse repurchase agreements as part of a
Fund's investment strategy.
In addition, the Funds may invest in the following fixed income
instruments (``Fixed Income Instruments''): U.S. government securities,
namely, U.S. Treasury obligations \17\, U.S. government agency
securities and U.S. Treasury zero-coupon bonds.
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\17\ U.S. Treasury obligations consist of bills, notes and bonds
issued by the U.S. Treasury and separately traded interest and
principal component parts of such obligations that are transferable
through the federal book-entry system known as Separately Traded
Registered Interest and Principal Securities (``STRIPS'') and
Treasury Receipts.
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The Funds will invest in the securities of other investment
companies, including the Underlying Funds, to the extent that such an
investment would be consistent with the requirements of Section
12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act, or any rule, regulation or order of the
Commission or interpretation thereof.
Investment in the Subsidiaries
According to the Registration Statement, each Fund will achieve
commodities exposure through investment in a Subsidiary. Such
investment may not exceed 25% of a Fund's total assets, as measured at
the end of every quarter of a Fund's taxable year. Each Subsidiary will
invest in derivatives, including commodity and equity futures contracts
and commodity-linked instruments, and other investments (cash, cash
equivalents and Fixed Income Instruments with less than one year to
maturity) intended to serve as margin or collateral or otherwise
support the Subsidiary's derivatives positions. Unlike a Fund, the
Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity futures and may
use leveraged investment techniques. The Subsidiaries otherwise are
subject to the same general investment policies and restrictions as the
Funds.
According to the Registration Statement, the Subsidiaries are not
registered under the 1940 Act. As an investor in its Subsidiary, each
Fund, as the Subsidiary's sole shareholder, would not have the
protections offered to investors in registered investment companies.
However, because a Fund would wholly own and control the Subsidiary,
and a Fund and Subsidiary would be managed by the Adviser, it is
unlikely that the Subsidiary would take action contrary to the
interests of a Fund or a Fund's shareholders. A Fund's Board of
Trustees has oversight responsibility for the investment activities of
the Funds, including their investments in its respective Subsidiary,
and each Fund's role as the sole shareholder of its Subsidiary. Also,
in managing a Subsidiary's portfolio, the Adviser and Sub-Adviser would
be subject to the same investment restrictions and operational
guidelines that apply to the management of a Fund.
Investment Restrictions
Each Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more
of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to
approximately the same extent that the respective benchmark
concentrates in an industry or group of industries.\18\
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\18\ The Commission has taken the position that a fund is
concentrated if it invests more than 25% of the value of its total
assets in any one industry. See, e.g., Investment Company Act
Release No. 9011 (October 30, 1975), 40 FR 54241 (November 21, 1975.
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Each Fund will be classified as a non-diversified investment
company under the 1940 Act. A ``non-diversified'' classification means
that a Fund is not limited by the 1940 Act with regard to the
percentage of their assets that may be invested in the securities of a
single issuer.\19\
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\19\ The diversification standard is set forth in Section
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The Adviser will not take defensive positions in the Funds'
portfolios during periods of adverse market, economic, political, or
other conditions as the Adviser intends for each Fund to remain fully
invested consistent with its investment strategy under all market
conditions.
Each Fund may invest up to an aggregate amount of 15% of its net
assets in illiquid assets (calculated at the time of investment),
including Rule 144A securities deemed illiquid by the Adviser,\20\
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 a Fund's net assets are
invested 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.\21\
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\20\ 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).
\21\ 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 of 1933).
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According to the Registration Statement, each Fund will seek to
qualify for treatment as a Regulated Investment Company (``RIC'') under
the Internal Revenue Code.\22\
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\22\ 26 U.S.C. 851.
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With respect to the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, the
non-U.S. equity securities in such Fund's portfolio will meet the
following criteria at time of purchase \23\: (1) Non-U.S. equity
securities each shall have a minimum market value of at least $100
million; (2) non-U.S. equity securities each shall have a minimum
global monthly trading volume of 250,000 shares, or minimum global
notional volume traded per month of $25,000,000, averaged over the last
six months; (3) the most heavily weighted non-U.S. equity security
shall not exceed 25% of the weight of the Fund's entire portfolio, and,
to the extent applicable, the five most heavily weighted non-U.S.
equity securities shall not exceed 60% of the weight of the Fund's
entire portfolio; and (4) each non-U.S. equity security shall be listed
and traded on an exchange that has last-sale reporting.
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\23\ These criteria are similar to certain ``generic'' listing
criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3), Commentary .01(a)(B),
which relate to criteria applicable to an index or portfolio of U.S.
and non-U.S. stocks underlying a series of Investment Company Units
to be listed and traded on the Exchange pursuant to Rule 19b-4(e)
under the Act.
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According to the Registration Statement, the Funds are subject to
regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC rules as commodity
pools. The Adviser is registered as a commodity pool operator, and the
Funds will be operated in accordance with CFTC rules.
Each Fund's investments will be consistent with its investment
objective and will not be used to enhance leverage. While a Fund may
invest in inverse ETFs and ETNs, a Fund will not invest in leveraged
(e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X or -3X) ETFs and ETNs.
Creation of Shares
According to the Registration Statement, the Trust will issue and
sell shares of each Fund only in Creation Units of at least 50,000
Shares each on a continuous basis through the Distributor, at their NAV
next determined after receipt, on any business day of an order received
in proper form.
The consideration for purchase of a Creation Unit of a Fund
generally will consist of an in-kind deposit of a designated portfolio
of securities--the ``Deposit Securities''--per each Creation Unit
constituting a substantial replication, or a representation, of the
securities included in a Fund's portfolio and an amount of cash--the
Cash Component--computed as described below. Together, the Deposit
Securities and the Cash Component constitute the ``Fund Deposit,''
which represents the minimum initial and subsequent investment amount
for a Creation Unit of the Fund. The Cash Component is an amount equal
to the difference between the NAV of the Shares (per Creation Unit) and
the market value of the Deposit Securities. If the Cash Component is a
positive number (i.e., the NAV per Creation Unit exceeds the market
value of the Deposit Securities), the Cash Component shall be such
positive amount. If the Cash Component is a negative number (i.e., the
NAV per Creation Unit is less than the market value of the Deposit
Securities), the Cash Component shall be such negative amount and the
creator will be entitled to receive cash from a Fund in an amount equal
to the Cash Component. The Cash Component serves the function of
compensating for any differences between the NAV per Creation Unit and
the market value of the Deposit Securities.
The Administrator, through the National Securities Clearing
Corporation (``NSCC''), will make available on each business day,
immediately prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently
9:30 a.m., Eastern Time), the list of the names and the required number
of shares of each Deposit Security to be included in the current Fund
Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous business day)
for each Fund.
The Trust reserves the right to permit or require the substitution
of an amount of cash--i.e., a ``cash in lieu'' amount--to be added to
the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Security which may not be
available in sufficient quantity for delivery or which may not be
eligible for transfer, or which may not be eligible for trading by an
Authorized Participant (as defined below) or the investor for which it
is acting. The Trust also reserves the right to offer an ``all cash''
option for creations of Creation Units for each Fund.\24\
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\24\ The Adviser represents that, to the extent the Trust
effects the creation or redemption of Shares in cash, such
transactions will be effected in the same manner for all Authorized
Participants.
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In addition to the list of names and numbers of securities
constituting the current Deposit Securities of a Fund Deposit, the
Administrator, through the NSCC, also will make available on each
business day, the estimated Cash Component, effective through and
including the previous business day, per outstanding Creation Unit of
each Fund.
To be eligible to place orders with the Distributor to create a
Creation Unit of a Fund, an entity must be (i) a ``Participating
Party,'' i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the clearing
process through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC, a
clearing agency that is registered with the Commission; or (ii) a
Depository Trust Company (``DTC'') Participant, and, in each case, must
have executed an agreement with the Trust, the Distributor and the
Administrator with respect to creations and redemptions of Creation
Units (``Participant Agreement''). A Participating Party and DTC
Participant are collectively referred to as an ``Authorized
Participant.''
All orders to create or redeem Creation Units must be placed for
one or more Creation Unit size aggregations of at least 50,000 Shares
and must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time, an hour earlier than the close of the regular trading
session on the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time) (``Closing
Time''), in each case on the date such order is placed in order for the
creation of Creation Units to be effected based on the NAV of Shares of
each Fund as next determined on such date after receipt of the order in
proper form.
If permitted by the Adviser or Sub-Adviser in its sole discretion
with respect to a Fund, an Authorized Participant may also agree to
enter into or arrange for an exchange of a futures contract for a
related position (``EFCRP'') or block trade with the relevant Fund or
its Subsidiary whereby the Authorized Participant would also transfer
to such Fund a number and type of exchange-traded futures contracts at
or near the closing settlement price for such contracts on the purchase
order date. Similarly, the Sub-Adviser in its sole discretion may agree
with an Authorized Participant to use an EFCRP or block trade to effect
an order to redeem Creation Units.\25\
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\25\ According to the Registration Statement, an EFCRP is a
technique permitted by the rules of certain futures exchanges that,
as utilized by a Fund in the Sub-Adviser's discretion, would allow
such Fund or its Subsidiary to take a position in a futures contract
from an Authorized Participant, or give futures contracts to an
Authorized Participant, in the case of a redemption, rather than to
enter the futures exchange markets to obtain such a position. An
EFCRP by itself will not change either party's net risk position
materially. Because the futures position that a Fund would otherwise
need to take in order to meet its investment objective can be
obtained without unnecessarily impacting the financial or futures
markets or their pricing, EFCRPs can generally be viewed as
transactions beneficial to a Fund. A block trade is a technique that
permits certain funds to obtain a futures position without going
through the market auction system and can generally be viewed as a
transaction beneficial to such funds.
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Redemption of Shares
Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Units at their NAV next
determined after receipt of a redemption request in proper form by a
Fund through the Administrator and only on a business day. The Trust
will not redeem Shares in amounts less than Creation Units. Beneficial
owners must accumulate enough Shares in the secondary market to
constitute a Creation Unit in order to have such Shares redeemed by the
Trust.
With respect to the Funds, the Administrator, through the NSCC,
will make available immediately prior to the opening of business on the
Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern Time) on each business day, the
``Fund Securities'' that will be applicable (subject to possible
amendment or correction) to redemption requests received in proper form
on that day. Fund Securities received on redemption may not be
identical to Deposit Securities which are applicable to creations of
Creation Units.
Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a Fund, the
redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit generally will consist of Fund
Securities, as announced by the Administrator on the business day of
the request for redemption received in proper form, plus cash in an
amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Shares being
redeemed, as next determined after receipt of a request in proper form,
and the value of the Fund Securities (the ``Cash Redemption Amount''),
less a redemption transaction fee. In the event that the Fund
Securities have a value greater than the NAV of the Shares, a
compensating cash payment equal to the differential will be required to
be made by or through an Authorized Participant by the redeeming
shareholder.
If it is not possible to effect deliveries of the Fund Securities,
the Trust may in its discretion exercise its option to redeem such
shares in cash, and the redeeming ``Beneficial Owner'' will be required
to receive its redemption proceeds in cash. In addition, an investor
may request a redemption in cash which a Fund may, in its sole
discretion, permit. In either case, the investor will receive a cash
payment equal to the NAV of its Shares based on the NAV of Shares of a
Fund next determined after the redemption request is received in proper
form (minus a redemption transaction fee and additional charge for
requested cash redemptions, to offset the Trust's brokerage and other
transaction costs associated with the disposition of Fund Securities).
Each Fund may also, in its sole discretion, upon request of a
shareholder, provide such redeemer a portfolio of securities which
differs from the exact composition of the Fund Securities but does not
differ in NAV.
The right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment
postponed with respect to a Fund (1) for any period during which the
Exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings);
(2) for any period during which trading on the Exchange is suspended or
restricted; (3) for any period during which an emergency exists as a
result of which disposal of the Shares of a Fund or determination of
the Shares' NAV is not reasonably practicable; or (4) in such other
circumstance as is permitted by the Commission.
Net Asset Value
The NAV per Share of each Fund will be computed by dividing the
value of the net assets of a Fund (i.e., the value of its total assets
less total liabilities) by the total number of Shares of a Fund
outstanding, rounded to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees, including
without limitation, the management, administration and distribution
fees, will be accrued daily and taken into account for purposes of
determining NAV per Share. The NAV per Share for each Fund will be
calculated by the Administrator and determined as of the close of the
regular trading session on the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern
Time) on each day that such exchange is open.
In computing a Fund's NAV, a Fund's securities holdings will be
valued based on their last readily available market price. Price
information on exchange-listed securities, including common stocks,
preferred stocks, warrants, convertible securities, MLPs, rights,
commodity-linked instruments (as described above), Underlying Funds,
ETNs, Depositary Receipts and pooled vehicles in which a Fund invests,
will be taken from the exchange where the security is primarily traded.
Other portfolio securities and assets for which market quotations are
not readily available or determined to not represent the current fair
value will be valued based on fair value as determined in good faith by
the Sub-Adviser in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board.
Futures contracts and exchange-traded options on futures will be
valued at the settlement or closing price determined by the applicable
exchange. Exchange-traded options contracts will be valued at their
most recent sale price. OTC options normally will be valued on the
basis of quotes obtained from a third-party broker-dealer who makes
markets in such securities or on the basis of quotes obtained from a
third-party pricing service.
Cash and cash equivalents may be valued at market values, as
furnished by recognized dealers in such securities or assets. Cash
equivalents also may be valued on the basis of information furnished by
an independent pricing service that uses a valuation matrix which
incorporates both dealer-supplied valuations and electronic data
processing techniques.
Fixed Income Instruments, Rule 144A securities, repurchase
agreements and reverse repurchase agreements will generally be valued
at bid prices received from independent pricing services as of the
announced closing time for trading in fixed-income instruments in the
respective market. Shares of money market mutual funds held by each
Fund will be valued at their respective NAVs.
Availability of Information
The Funds' Web site, which will be publicly available prior to the
public offering of Shares, will include a form of the prospectus for
the Funds that may be downloaded. The Funds' 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''),\26\ and
a calculation of the premium or 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, the
Funds' Web site will disclose the Disclosed Portfolio that will form
the basis for each Fund's calculation of NAV at the end of the business
day.\27\
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\26\ The Bid/Ask Price of Shares of each 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 a Fund and its
service providers.
\27\ Under accounting procedures followed by the Funds, trades
made on the prior business day (``T'') will be booked and reflected
in NAV on the current business day (``T+1''). Accordingly, the Funds
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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On a daily basis, the Funds will disclose on the Funds' Web site
the following information regarding each portfolio holding of a Fund
and its respective Subsidiary, as applicable to the type of holding:
Ticker symbol, CUSIP number or other identifier, if any; a description
of the holding (including the type of holding); the identity of the
security, commodity, index or other asset or instrument underlying the
holding, if any; for options, the option strike price; quantity held
(as measured by, for example, par value, notional value or number of
shares, contracts or units); maturity date, if any; coupon rate, if
any; effective date, if any; market value of the holding; and the
percentage weighting of the holding in a Fund's portfolio. The Web site
information will be publicly available at no charge.
In addition, a basket composition file (i.e., the Deposit
Securities), which includes the security names and share quantities (as
applicable) 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 New York Stock Exchange
via the NSCC. The basket will represent one Creation Unit of a Fund.
Investors will also be able to obtain the Trust's Statement of
Additional Information (``SAI''), a Fund's Shareholder Reports, and its
Form N-CSR and Form N-SAR, filed twice a year. The Trust's SAI and
Shareholder Reports will be 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 for the Shares will be published daily in the financial
section of newspapers. Quotation and last sale information for the
Shares, Underlying Funds, ETNs and other U.S. exchange-traded equities,
will be available via the Consolidated Tape Association (``CTA'') high-
speed line, and, for equity securities that are U.S. exchange-listed,
will be available from the national securities exchange on which they
are listed. With respect to non-U.S. exchange-listed equity securities,
intra-day, closing and settlement prices of common stocks and other
equity securities (including shares of preferred securities, and non-
U.S. Depositary Receipts), will be available from the foreign exchanges
on which such securities trade as well as from major market data
vendors. Price information for money market funds will be available
from the investment company's Web site and from market data vendors.
Price information relating to money market mutual funds, cash, cash
equivalents, futures, options, options on futures, Depositary Receipts,
Rule 144A securities, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase
agreements, the S&P Benchmark and the FTSE Benchmark will be available
from major market data vendors. Information relating to futures and
exchange-traded options on futures also will be available from the
exchange on which such instruments are traded. Information relating to
U.S. exchange-traded options will be available via the Options Price
Reporting Authority. Pricing information regarding each asset class in
which a Fund will invest will generally be available through nationally
recognized data service providers through subscription agreements.
In addition, the Portfolio Indicative Value, as defined in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(3), will be widely disseminated at least
every 15 seconds during the Core Trading Session by one or more major
market data vendors.\28\ The dissemination of the Portfolio Indicative
Value, 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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\28\ Currently, it is the Exchange's understanding that several
major market data vendors display and/or make widely available
Portfolio Indicative Values taken from CTA or other data feeds.
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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 the Funds.\29\ Trading in Shares of the Funds
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 the Funds;
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 Funds 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 a.m. to 8 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, 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 of each Fund will conform to the initial and continued
listing criteria under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600. Consistent with
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(B)(ii), the Adviser, as the
``Reporting Authority'', will implement and maintain, or be subject to,
procedures designed to prevent the use and dissemination of material
non-public information regarding the actual components of a Fund's
portfolio. The Exchange represents that, for initial and/or continued
listing, each Fund will be in compliance with Rule 10A-3 \30\ under the
Act, as provided by NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.3. A minimum of 100,000
Shares of each Fund will be outstanding at the commencement of trading
on the Exchange. The Exchange will obtain a representation from the
issuer of the Shares of each Fund that the NAV per Share will be
calculated daily and that the NAV and the Disclosed Portfolio as
defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2) 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 regulatory staff
of the Exchange or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
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behalf of the Exchange, which are designed to detect violations of
Exchange rules and applicable federal securities laws.\31\ 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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\31\ FINRA surveils certain trading activity on the Exchange
pursuant to a regulatory services agreement. The Exchange is
responsible for FINRA's performance under this regulatory services
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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.
The regulatory staff of the Exchange or FINRA, on behalf of the
Exchange, will communicate as needed regarding trading in the Shares,
certain exchange-listed equity securities, certain futures, certain
options on futures, and certain exchange-traded options 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 regulatory staff of the Exchange may obtain information
regarding trading in such securities and financial instruments from
markets and other entities that are members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement.\32\ FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, is able to access, as
needed, trade information for certain fixed income securities held by a
Fund reported to FINRA's Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine
(``TRACE'').
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\32\ For a list of the current members of ISG, see
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all components of the
Disclosed Portfolio for a Fund 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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Not more than 10% of the net assets of a Fund in the aggregate
invested in futures contracts or options contracts shall consist of
futures contracts or options contracts whose principal market is not a
member of ISG or is a market with which the Exchange does not have a
comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
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 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 Unit
aggregations (and that Shares are not individually redeemable); (2)
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty of due diligence
on its Equity Trading Permit 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 Portfolio Indicative Value will not be
calculated or publicly disseminated; (4) how information regarding the
Portfolio Indicative Value and the Disclosed Portfolio is disseminated;
(5) the requirement that Equity Trading Permit 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 the Funds will be
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) \33\ that an exchange have rules that
are designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices,
to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove
impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market
and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest.
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The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices in that the
Shares will be listed and traded on the Exchange pursuant to the
initial and continued listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600. Trading in the Shares will be subject to the existing trading
surveillances, administered by the regulatory staff of the Exchange or
FINRA on behalf of the Exchange, which are designed to detect
violations of Exchange rules and applicable federal securities laws.
The regulatory staff of the Exchange or FINRA, on behalf of the
Exchange, will communicate as needed regarding trading in the Shares,
certain exchange-listed equity securities, certain futures, certain
options on futures, and certain exchange-traded options 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 such securities and financial instruments from
markets and other entities that are members of ISG or with which the
Exchange has in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
With respect to the Rex Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, the
non-U.S. equity securities in the Fund's portfolio will meet the
following criteria at time of purchase: (1) Non-U.S. equity securities
each shall have a minimum market value of at least $100 million; (2)
non-U.S. equity securities each shall have a minimum global monthly
trading volume of 250,000 shares, or minimum global notional volume
traded per month of $25,000,000, averaged over the last six months; (3)
the most heavily weighted non-U.S. equity security shall not exceed 25%
of the weight of the Fund's entire portfolio, and, to the extent
applicable, the five most heavily weighted non-U.S. equity securities
shall not exceed 60% of the weight of the Fund's entire portfolio; and
(4) each non-U.S. equity security shall be listed and traded on an
exchange that has last-sale reporting.
Not more than 10% of the net assets of a Fund in the aggregate
invested in futures contracts or options contracts shall consist of
futures contracts or options contracts whose principal market is not a
member of ISG or is a market with which the Exchange does not have a
comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement. Each Fund's investments
will be consistent with its investment objective and will not be used
to enhance leverage. While a Fund may invest in inverse ETFs and ETNs,
a Fund will not invest in leveraged (e.g., 2X, -2X, 3X or -3X) ETFs and
ETNs.
The proposed rule change is designed to promote just and equitable
principles of trade and to protect investors and the
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public interest in that the Exchange will obtain a representation from
the issuer of the 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. In addition, a
large amount of information will be publicly available regarding the
Funds and the Shares, thereby promoting market transparency.
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 for the Shares will be published daily in the financial
section of newspapers. Quotation and last sale information for the
Shares, Underlying Funds and other U.S. exchange-traded equities, will
be available via the CTA high-speed line, and, for equity securities
that are U.S. exchange-listed, will be available from the national
securities exchange on which they are listed. Price information for
money market funds will be available from the investment company's Web
site and from market data vendors. Price information relating to money
market mutual funds, cash, cash equivalents, futures, options, options
on futures, Depositary Receipts, Rule 144A securities, repurchase
agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, the S&P Benchmark and the
FTSE Benchmark will be available from major market data vendors.
Information relating to futures and exchange-traded options on futures
also will be available from the exchange on which such instruments are
traded. Information relating to U.S. exchange-traded options will be
available via the Options Price Reporting Authority. Pricing
information regarding each asset class in which a Fund will invest will
generally be available through nationally recognized data service
providers through subscription agreements.
In addition, the Portfolio Indicative Value will be widely
disseminated by the Exchange at least every 15 seconds during the Core
Trading Session. The Funds' Web site will include a form of the
prospectus for the Funds that may be downloaded, as well as additional
quantitative information updated on a daily basis. On each business
day, before commencement of trading in Shares in the Core Trading
Session on the Exchange, the Funds' Web site will disclose the
Disclosed Portfolio that will form the basis for each Fund's
calculation of NAV at the end of the business day.
On a daily basis, the Funds will disclose on the Funds' Web site
the following information regarding each portfolio holding, as
applicable to the type of holding: Ticker symbol, CUSIP number or other
identifier, if any; a description of the holding (including the type of
holding); the identity of the security, commodity, index or other asset
or instrument underlying the holding, if any; for options, the option
strike price; quantity held (as measured by, for example, par value,
notional value or number of shares, contracts or units); maturity date,
if any; coupon rate, if any; effective date, if any; market value of
the holding; and the percentage weighting of the holding in a Fund's
portfolio. Moreover, prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange
will inform its Equity Trading Permit Holders in an Information
Bulletin of the special characteristics and risks associated with
trading the Shares. Trading in Shares of the Funds 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.
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 a
Fund may be halted. In addition, as noted above, investors will have
ready access to information regarding the Funds' holdings, the
Portfolio Indicative Value, 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. In addition, as noted above, investors
will have ready access to information regarding the Funds' holdings,
the Portfolio Indicative Value, 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
additional types of actively-managed exchange-traded products based on
the price of gold and other financial instruments 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 up to 90 days (i) as the Commission may designate
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-2015-107 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEArca-2015-107. 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
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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-2015-107 and should
be submitted on or before January 20, 2016.
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\34\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\34\
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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