Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Order Instituting Proceedings To Determine Whether To Approve or Disapprove a Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To Adopt NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900 To Permit Listing and Trading of Managed Portfolio Shares and To Permit Listing and Trading of Shares of Fifteen Issues of the Precidian ETFs Trust, 32376-32381 [2016-12028]
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For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.18
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
institutes proceedings under Section
19(b)(2)(B) of the Act 6 to determine
whether to approve or disapprove the
proposed rule change, as modified by
Amendment No. 1 thereto.
[FR Doc. 2016–12016 Filed 5–20–16; 8:45 am]
I. Summary of the Exchange’s
Description of the Proposed Rule
Change
The Exchange proposes to adopt new
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900, which
would govern the listing and trading of
‘‘Managed Portfolio Shares.’’ 7 The
Exchange also proposes to list and trade
the Shares of the following funds under
proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.900: (1) Precidian U.S. Managed
Volatility Fund; (2) Precidian Strategic
Value; (3) Precidian Large Cap Value; (4)
Precidian Focused Dividend Strategy;
(5) Precidian U.S. Large Cap Growth; (6)
Precidian U.S. Core Equity; (7)
Precidian U.S. Mid Cap Growth; (8)
Precidian Total Return; (9) Precidian
High Dividend Yield; (10) Precidian
Small Cap Dividend Value; (11)
Precidian Multi-factor Small Cap Core;
(12) Precidian Multi-factor Small Cap
Growth; (13) Precidian Large Cap Core
Plus 130/30; (14) Precidian Mid Cap
Core Plus 130/30; and (15) Precidian
Small Cap Core Plus 130/30 (each a
‘‘Fund,’’ and collectively the ‘‘Funds’’).
In addition, the Exchange proposes to
amend NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.34
(Trading Sessions), which relates to
securities traded on the Exchange
during the Core Trading Session, to add
a reference to proposed NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.900.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca, Inc.; Order Instituting
Proceedings To Determine Whether To
Approve or Disapprove a Proposed
Rule Change, as Modified by
Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To Adopt
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900 To
Permit Listing and Trading of Managed
Portfolio Shares and To Permit Listing
and Trading of Shares of Fifteen
Issues of the Precidian ETFs Trust
May 17, 2016.
On January 27, 2016, NYSE Arca, Inc.
(‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (‘‘Commission’’), pursuant
to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule
19b–4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule
change to: (1) Adopt NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.900; and (2) approve the
listing and trading of shares (‘‘Shares’’)
of fifteen issues of the Precidian ETFs
Trust (‘‘Trust’’). The proposed rule
change was published for comment in
the Federal Register on February 18,
2016.3 On March 9, 2016, the Exchange
filed Amendment No. 1 to the proposed
rule change.4 The Commission has
received four comments on the
proposed rule change.5 This order
18 17
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
3 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76944
(Feb. 11, 2016), 81 FR 8269 (‘‘Notice’’).
4 In Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule
change, the Exchange corrected the citations to the
Trust’s Form N–1A and Exemptive Application,
which were misstated in the proposal. Because
Amendment No. 1 is technical in nature and does
not materially alter the substance of the proposed
rule change or raise any novel regulatory issues, it
is not subject to notice and comment. Amendment
No. 1 to the proposed rule change is available on
the Commission’s Web site at: https://www.sec.gov/
comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/nysearca2016081.pdf.
5 See Letter from Gary L. Gastineau, President,
ETF Consultants.com, Inc., to Brent J. Fields,
Secretary, Commission, dated Mar. 10, 2016
(‘‘Gastineau Letter’’); Letter from David Nadig (Mar.
31, 2016) (‘‘Nadig Letter’’); Letter from Andrew M.
Gross, Jr. (Apr. 5, 2016) (‘‘Gross Letter’’); Letter from
Andrew M. Gross, Jr. (Apr. 5, 2016) (‘‘Gross
Letter’’); Letter from Joseph A. Sullivan, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Legg Mason Global
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A. Key Features of Managed Portfolio
Shares
While Investment Companies issuing
Managed Portfolio Shares would be
actively-managed, and in that respect
would be similar to those issuing
Asset Management, to Mary Jo White, Chair,
Commission (Apr. 15, 2016) (‘‘Sullivan Letter’’).
The comment letters are available on the
Commission’s Web site at: https://www.sec.gov/
comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/
nysearca201608.shtml.
6 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).
7 Proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900(c)(1)
defines the term ‘‘Managed Portfolio Share’’ as a
security that (a) is issued by a registered investment
company organized as an open-end management
investment company (‘‘Investment Company’’) or
similar entity, that invests in a portfolio of
securities selected by the Investment Company’s
investment adviser consistent with the Investment
Company’s investment objectives and policies; and
(b) when aggregated in a number of shares equal to
a Redemption Unit (as defined herein) or multiples
thereof, may be redeemed at the request of an
authorized participant (as defined in the Investment
Company’s Form N–1A filed with the Commission),
which authorized participant will be paid though
a confidential account established for its benefit a
portfolio of securities and/or cash with a value
equal to the next determined net asset value
(‘‘NAV’’).
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Managed Fund Shares,8 Managed
Portfolio Shares would differ from
Managed Fund Shares in the following
respects.
• First, issues of Managed Fund
Shares are required to disseminate their
‘‘Disclosed Portfolio’’ at least once
daily.9 By contrast, the portfolio for an
issue of Managed Portfolio Shares
would be disclosed only quarterly.
• Second, in connection with the
redemption of shares in ‘‘Redemption
Unit’’ size (as described below), the
delivery of any portfolio securities in
kind would only be effected through a
‘‘Confidential Account’’ (as described
below) for the benefit of the redeeming
authorized participant without
disclosing the identity of the securities
to the authorized participant.
• Third, for each series of Managed
Portfolio Shares, a Verified Intraday
Indicative Value (‘‘VIIV’’) would be
disseminated by one or more major
market-data vendors every second
during the Exchange’s Core Trading
Session (normally, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00
p.m., Eastern Time (‘‘E.T.’’)).10 The
Exchange states that dissemination of
the VIIV will allow investors to
determine the estimated intra-day value
of the underlying portfolio of a series of
Managed Portfolio Shares and will
provide a close estimate of that value
throughout the trading day.11
B. Arbitrage of Managed Portfolio
Shares
The Exchange asserts that market
makers will be able to make efficient
and liquid markets priced near the VIIV
even without daily disclosure of a
8 Managed Fund Shares are shares of activelymanaged Investment Companies listed and traded
under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600.
9 NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2) defines the
term ‘‘Disclosed Portfolio’’ as the identities and
quantities of the securities and other assets held by
the Investment Company that will form the basis for
the Investment Company’s calculation of net asset
value at the end of the business day. NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(B)(i) requires that, for
Managed Fund Shares, the Disclosed Portfolio will
be disseminated at least once daily and will be
made available to all market participants at the
same time.
10 Proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900(c)(2)
defines the VIIV as the estimated indicative value
of a Managed Portfolio Share based on all of the
issuer’s holdings as of the close of business on the
prior business day, priced and disseminated in one
second intervals, and subject to validation by a
pricing verification agent of the Investment
Company that is responsible for comparing multiple
independent pricing sources to establish the
accuracy of the VIIV. The specific methodology for
calculating the VIIV will be disclosed on each
Fund’s Web site.
11 According to the Exchange, the VIIV should not
be viewed as a ‘‘real-time’’ update of the NAV per
Share of each Fund, because the VIIV may not be
calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which
will be computed once a day, generally at the end
of the business day.
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Fund’s underlying portfolio, as long as
a VIIV is disseminated every second and
market makers have knowledge of a
Fund’s means of achieving its
investment objective. According to the
Exchange, market makers would have
knowledge of a Fund’s means of
achieving its investment objective by
employing risk-management techniques
such as ‘‘statistical arbitrage.’’ 12 The
Exchange also states that market makers
will make efficient markets in Managed
Portfolio Shares by establishing a
Confidential Account (as defined
herein), monitoring the VIIV for
arbitrage opportunities, and effecting
transactions in the Shares and the
Fund’s (unknown) portfolio securities,
as described below.
According to the Exchange, if an
authorized participant believes that
Shares of a Fund are trading at a price
that is higher than the value of the
underlying portfolio—for example, if
the market price for the Shares is higher
than the VIIV—then the authorized
participant may sell Shares of the Fund
short and instruct its ‘‘Trusted Agent’’ 13
to buy portfolio securities for its
Confidential Account. When the market
price of the Shares falls in line with the
value of the portfolio, the authorized
participant can then close out its
positions in both the Shares and the
portfolio securities. According to the
Exchange, the authorized participant’s
purchase of the portfolio securities into
its Confidential Account, combined
with the sale of Shares, may also create
downward pressure on the price of
Shares and/or upward pressure on the
12 According to the Exchange, statistical arbitrage
enables a trader to construct an accurate proxy for
another instrument, allowing the trader to hedge the
other instrument or buy or sell the instrument when
it is cheap or expensive in relation to the proxy.
Statistical analysis permits traders to discover
correlations based purely on trading data without
regard to other fundamental drivers. These
correlations are a function of differentials, over
time, between one instrument or group of
instruments and one or more other instruments.
Once the nature of these price deviations has been
quantified, a universe of securities is searched in an
effort to, in the case of a hedging strategy, minimize
the differential. Once a suitable hedging proxy has
been identified, a trader can minimize portfolio risk
by executing the hedging basket. The trader then
can monitor the performance of this hedge
throughout the trade period making correction
where warranted.
13 Proposed Commentary .04 to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.900 requires that authorized
participants and non-authorized participant market
makers redeeming Managed Portfolio Shares sign an
agreement with an agent (‘‘Trusted Agent’’) to
establish a confidential account (‘‘Confidential
Account’’), for the benefit of such authorized
participant or non-authorized participant market
maker, that will receive all consideration from the
issuer in a redemption. A Trusted Agent may not
disclose the consideration received in a redemption
except as required by law or as provided in the
Investment Company’s Form N–1A, as applicable.
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price of the portfolio securities, bringing
the market price of Shares and the value
of a Fund’s portfolio securities closer
together.
Similarly, according to the Exchange,
an authorized participant could buy
Shares and instruct the Trusted Agent to
sell the underlying portfolio securities
from its Confidential Account in an
attempt to profit when a Fund’s Shares
are trading at a discount to its portfolio.
According to the Exchange, the
authorized participant’s purchase of a
Fund’s Shares in the secondary market,
combined with the sale of the portfolio
securities from its Confidential Account,
may also create upward pressure on the
price of Shares and/or downward
pressure on the price of portfolio
securities, driving the market price of
Shares and the value of a Fund’s
portfolio securities closer together. The
Exchange states that, Precidian Funds
LLC (‘‘Adviser’’), the investment adviser
to the Trust, avers that this process is
identical to how many authorized
participants currently arbitrage existing
traditional ETFs, except for the use of
the Confidential Account.
According to the Exchange, a market
maker that is not an authorized
participant would also be able to
establish a Confidential Account and
could engage in arbitrage activity
without using the creation or
redemption processes described above.
If such a market maker believes that a
Fund is overvalued relative to its
underlying assets, the Exchange states,
that market maker could sell Shares
short and instruct its Trusted Agent to
buy portfolio securities in its
Confidential Account and then wait for
the trading prices to move toward parity
and close out the positions in both the
Shares and the portfolio securities to
realize a profit from the relative
movement of their trading prices.
Similarly, according to the Exchange,
this market maker could buy Shares and
instruct the Trusted Agent to sell the
underlying portfolio securities in an
attempt to profit when a Fund’s Shares
are trading at a discount to a Fund’s
underlying or reference assets.
C. The Creation and Redemption
Procedures
The Exchange states that, generally,
Shares will be purchased and redeemed
on an in-kind basis, so that, except
where the purchase or redemption will
include cash under the limited
circumstances described in the
Registration Statement, purchasers will
be required to purchase Creation Units
by making an in-kind deposit of
specified instruments (‘‘Deposit
Instruments’’), and shareholders
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redeeming their Shares will receive an
in-kind transfer of specified instruments
(‘‘Redemption Instruments’’). On any
given Business Day, the names and
quantities of the instruments that
constitute the Deposit Instruments and
the names and quantities of the
instruments that constitute the
Redemption Instruments will be
identical, and these instruments may be
referred to, in the case of either a
purchase or a redemption, as the
‘‘Creation Basket.’’
In the case of a redemption, a Fund’s
custodian (‘‘Custodian’’) will typically
deliver securities to the Confidential
Account on a pro rata basis with a value
approximately equal to the value of the
Shares tendered for redemption at the
Cut-Off time. The Custodian will make
delivery of the securities by appropriate
entries on its books and records
transferring ownership of the securities
to the authorized participant’s
Confidential Account, subject to
delivery of the Shares redeemed. The
Trusted Agent of the Confidential
Account will in turn liquidate, hedge, or
otherwise manage the securities based
on instructions from the authorized
participant.14
If the Trusted Agent is instructed to
sell all securities received at the close
on the redemption date, the Trusted
Agent will pay the liquidation proceeds
net of expenses, plus or minus any cash
balancing amount, to the authorized
participant through DTC.15 The
redemption securities that the
Confidential Account receives is
expected to mirror the portfolio
holdings of a Fund pro rata.
F. Availability of Information
Each Fund will be required to file
with the Commission its complete
portfolio schedules for the second and
fourth fiscal quarters on Form N–SAR
under the 1940 Act, and to file its
complete portfolio schedules for the
first and third fiscal quarters on Form
14 An authorized participant will issue execution
instructions to the Trusted Agent and be
responsible for all associated profit or losses. Like
a traditional ETF, the authorized participant has the
ability to sell the basket securities at any point
during normal trading hours.
15 According to the Exchange, under applicable
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the
authorized participant is expected to be deemed a
‘‘substantial owner’’ of the Confidential Account
because it receives distributions from the
Confidential Account. As a result, the Exchange
states, all income, gain, or loss realized by the
Confidential Account will be directly attributed to
the authorized participant. The Exchange also states
that, in a redemption, the authorized participant
will have a basis in the distributed securities equal
to the fair market value at the time of the
distribution, and any gain or loss realized on the
sale of those Shares will be taxable income to the
authorized participant.
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N–Q under the 1940 Act, within 60 days
of the end of the quarter. Form N–Q
requires funds to file the same
schedules of investments that are
required in annual and semi-annual
reports to shareholders. The Trust’s SAI
and each Fund’s shareholder reports
will be available free upon request from
the Trust. These documents and forms
may be viewed on-screen or
downloaded from the Commission’s
Web site at www.sec.gov.
In addition, the VIIV, as defined in
proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.900(c)(3), will be widely disseminated
by one or more major market-data
vendors at least every second during the
Exchange’s Core Trading Session. The
VIIV, which is approximate value of
each Fund’s investments on a per Share
basis, will be disseminated every second
during the Exchange’s Core Trading
Session through the facilities of the
CTA. According to the Exchange, the
VIIV will include all accrued income
and expenses of a Fund and will assure
that any extraordinary expenses, booked
during the day, that would be taken into
account in calculating a Fund’s NAV for
that day are also taken into account in
calculating the VIIV. For purposes of the
VIIV, securities held by a Fund will be
valued throughout the day based on the
mid-point between the disseminated
current national best bid and offer.
According to the Exchange, by utilizing
the mid-point pricing for purposes of
VIIV calculation, stale prices are
eliminated and more accurate
representation of the real-time value of
the underlying securities is provided to
the market. Specifically, according to
the Exchange, quotations based on the
mid-point of bid/ask spreads more
accurately reflect current market
sentiment by providing real time
information on where market
participants are willing to buy or sell
securities at that point in time. Using
quotations rather than last-sale
information addresses concerns
regarding the staleness of pricing
information of less actively traded
securities. The Exchange represents
that, because quotations are updated
more frequently than last-sale
information especially for inactive
securities, the VIIV will be based on
more current and accurate information.
The Exchange also represents that the
use of quotations will also dampen the
impact of any momentary spikes in the
price of a portfolio security.
Each Fund will utilize two
independent pricing sources to provide
two independent sources of pricing
information. Each Fund will also utilize
a ‘‘Pricing Verification Agent’’ and
establish a computer-based protocol that
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will permit the Pricing Verification
Agent to continuously compare the two
data streams from the independent
pricing agents sources on a real time
basis.16 A single VIIV will be
disseminated publicly for each Fund;
however, the Pricing Verification Agent
will continuously compare the public
VIIV against a non-public alternative
intra-day indicative value to which the
Pricing Verification Agent has access. If
it becomes apparent that there is a
material discrepancy between the two
data streams, the Exchange will be
notified and have the ability to halt
trading in a Fund until the discrepancy
is resolved.17 Each Fund’s Board will
review the procedures used to calculate
the VIIV and maintain its accuracy as
appropriate, but not less than annually.
The specific methodology for
calculating the VIIV will be disclosed on
each Fund’s Web site.
III. Summary of Comment Letters
The Commission has received four
comment letters on the proposed rule
change.18
A. Gastineau Letter.19 The commenter
opposes approval of the proposed rule
change and recommends imposition of
a number of requirements in the event
the proposed rule change and the
Exemptive Application are approved.
Preliminarily, the commenter offers an
opinion regarding the standard of
review that should be applied, stating
that, because this would be a new and
potentially ground breaking lesstransparent ETF structure, the
Commission should apply a
meaningfully higher standard until the
16 A Fund’s Custodian will provide, on a daily
basis, the constituent basket file comprised of all
securities plus any cash to the independent pricing
agent(s) for purposes of pricing.
17 Proposed Rule 8.900(d)(2)(C) provides that,
upon notification to the Corporation by the
Investment Company or its agent that (i) the prices
from the multiple independent pricing sources to be
validated by the Investment Company’s pricing
verification agent differ by more than 25 basis
points for 60 seconds in connection with pricing of
the VIIV, or (ii) that the VIIV of a series of Managed
Portfolio Shares is not being priced and
disseminated in one-second intervals, as required,
the Corporation will halt trading in the Managed
Portfolio Shares as soon as practicable. The halt in
trading would continue until the Investment
Company or its agent notifies the Corporation that
the prices from the independent pricing sources no
longer differ by more than 25 basis points for 60
seconds or that the VIIV is being priced and
disseminated as required. The Investment Company
or its agent would be responsible for monitoring
that the VIIV is being priced and disseminated as
required and whether the prices to be validated
from multiple independent pricing sources differ by
more than 25 basis points for 60 seconds.
18 See supra note 5.
19 The Gastineau Letter is available at: https://
www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/
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Commission is completely comfortable
with the state of the ETF market.
Generally, the commenter asserts that
market makers will face significant
impediments to successfully arbitraging
the Shares, and he predicts that this will
lead to the Shares trading at wider bidask spreads and more variable
premiums/discounts than activelymanaged ETFs available today.
In evaluating the Exchange’s
statements regarding VIIVs, the
commenter asserts that their utility
should be compared not to the IIVs of
existing ETFs but rather to the
independently derived, real-time
estimates of underlying fund value that
ETF market makers use to identify
arbitrage opportunities and manage the
risk of holding ETF positions today
(‘‘MM IIVs’’). The commenter asserts
that, because existing actively managed
ETFs (and most index ETFs) provide
full daily disclosure of their current
portfolio, their market makers have
access to far better information about
the current value of Fund holdings than
the proposed VIIVs would provide and,
correspondingly, VIIVs will be
significantly less precise than MM IIVs.
The commenter also asserts that MM
IIVs include significant information that
would not be reflected in VIIVs, noting:
• In calculating VIIVs, Fund
securities would be valued based on the
midpoint between the current national
best bid and offer quotations. The
commenter characterizes the bid-ask
midpoint as a ‘‘fairly crude valuation
metric’’ that does not capture important
trading information incorporated into
MM IIVs, such as the current bid-ask
spread, the depth of the current order
book on the bid and offer side of the
market, and the predominance of
current trading between bid-side and
offer-side transactions.
• VIIVs would be calculated and
disseminated every second and, while
this interval may seem sufficient, MM
IIVs are updated in fractions of a second
(milliseconds or microseconds).
• The VIIV verification process would
leave significant room for dissemination
of erroneous values. For example, a
Fund’s Pricing Verification Agent would
take no action to address observed
discrepancies in VIIV input prices until
the calculated Fund values differ by at
least 25 bps for 60 seconds. The
commenter characterizes that disparity
as ‘‘huge,’’ asserting that it would be
wider than the customary bid-ask
spread of most domestic equity ETFs.
• The VIIV process would not address
all potential intraday valuation errors.
The commenter describes that corporate
actions must be accurately reflected in
the VIIV, which can be challenging, and
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market makers would not be able to
verify that corporate actions are
appropriately reflected in a Fund’s
VIIVs because of the non-transparent
portfolio.
• The process for adjusting VIIVs in
the event of trading halts in portfolio
securities is cumbersome and likely to
result in errors in disseminated VIIVs.
Throughout a halt, which may be
protracted, the Fund would continue to
disseminate VIIVs that do not reflect fair
values of the halted security, and
therefore may vary significantly from
the Fund’s true underlying value at that
time. The commenter asserts that MM
IIVs would almost certainly arrive at a
fair estimate of a Fund’s current
underlying value far faster than the VIIV
specified process.
The commenter asserts that reliance
on faulty VIIVs may expose market
makers to unrecoverable losses, noting
that: (1) Neither the Exchange nor its
agents nor the Reporting Authority
would be liable for disseminating
erroneous VIIVs; and (2) the
circumstances under which the
Independent Pricing Agents and the
Pricing Verification Agent are legally
liable for such errors are limited.
According to the commenter, market
makers’ forced reliance on VIIVs to
determine intraday Fund valuations is a
source of significant incremental risk for
them versus making markets in existing
ETFs, and he predicts that this will
result in the Shares trading at wider bidask spreads and more variable
premiums and discounts to NAV than
similar existing ETFs.
The commenter also criticizes the
Confidential Accounts structure. He
asserts that, compared to the usual
manner in which market makers in
existing ETFs engage in arbitrage and
buy and sell Creation Basket
instruments, the Confidential Accounts
arrangement exposes market makers to
significant additional costs, risks and
lost opportunities, including:
• Less control over trade execution
and trade order management when
implementing portfolio hedging and
Creation Unit transactions, which will
result in more cost and risk, and less
profit opportunity.
• No ability for market makers to use
their market knowledge and market
positions to enhance arbitrage profits
and minimize costs.
• Reduced incentive for third-party
service providers to trade expeditiously
and with low market impact.
• Little or no ability for market
makers to monitor trading in
Confidential Accounts to ensure best
execution or to evaluate trading
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• Forced pro rata hedging, which, the
commenter states, is very often not the
best hedge. Sub-optimal hedging results
in less efficient arbitrage.
• Given the more-involved routing of
trade instructions and trade orders that
the Confidential Account structure
would necessitate, the commenter states
that hedging and Creation Unit
instrument transactions through
Confident Accounts will almost
certainly take longer, on average, for a
market maker to execute than similar
transactions that the market maker
executes internally. According to the
commenter, slower executions may
translate into less efficient arbitrage.
• Potentially significant explicit costs
to establish and maintain Confidential
Accounts.
Additionally, the commenter
discusses the efficiency of statistical
arbitrage. While market makers may be
able to gain some useful information
about a Fund’s current composition by
knowing the Fund’s investment
objective and tracking performance
correlations over time versus a known
index, the commenter states that the
amount of portfolio information that can
be gleaned using this approach is
limited. As a result, any portfolio hedge
constructed using this information
would be subject to meaningful basis
risk.
The commenter also expresses
concern regarding portfolio information
security in light of the dissemination of
this data across a network of Trusted
Agents, affiliated broker-dealers and
other Confidential Account service
providers, and their use of the provided
information to implement trades on
behalf of Confidential Account holders.
The commenter also raises concerns
with the possibility that market
participants could use the VIIV to
reverse-engineer the Funds’ portfolio
holdings, subjecting the Funds to the
dilutive effects of front-running. The
commenter asserts that ‘‘it is far from a
settled question that the Funds would
not ever be susceptible to reverse
engineering.’’
B. Nadig Letter.20 This commenter
states his support of the proposal,
noting that, after having been through
multiple variations, the proposal now
has the correct VIIV structure.
C. Gross Letter.21 This commenter first
notes the advantages that ETFs offer to
retail investors, and supports the idea of
investing in actively managed funds,
20 The Nadig Letter is available at: https://
www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/
nysearca201608-3.htm.
21 The Gross Letter is available at: https://
www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/
nysearca201608-4.htm.
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stating that live, intra-day pricing of the
underlying portfolio enables the
commenter to see how the portfolio
value is performing at all times (as
opposed to mutual funds), enables
market participants to provide liquidity
for the product (with the ability to
arbitrage price discrepancies by creating
and redeeming shares in the portfolio,
as with existing ETFs), and allows for
purchases and sales of shares at any
time. With wider intra-day trading
ranges recently, the ability to put in
limit buy orders below the market (or
limit sell orders above the market) is
critical to the commenter.
In addition, the commenter notes that
actively managed ETFs provide benefits
to the fund manager and to fund
performance. The commenter states that
actively managed ETFs allow fund
managers to make investment decisions
they believe in, without being distorted
by tax consequences. In addition, the
commenter believes that the proposed
Funds have come up with a way to
provide retail and professional investors
with a level playing field in terms of
intra-day price feeds on the value of the
underlying portfolio, and through a
trusted agent to allow market makers to
create and redeem (and hold) the
portfolio of the actively managed fund
without being able to see the individual
share holdings. The commenter finds
this proposal to be an ‘‘elegant solution’’
and to be an effective way to both use
the well-understood arbitrage
mechanism that has made ETFs liquid
and reliable products and allow market
makers to control execution of their
fund portfolios while protecting the
confidentiality of the fund manager.
D. Sullivan Letter.22 The commenter
expresses support for the proposed rule
change. He states that the Precidian
structure would permit his firm’s
portfolio managers to manage active
ETFs using their proprietary strategies
without being susceptible to front
running by other managers or investors
and while still offering the following
benefits of active ETFs to clients, which
would positively impact yields and net
investor returns: (1) The ability to trade
shares throughout the day at known
prices; (2) lower fund operating
expenses, primarily in the form of lower
transfer agency costs and overall
portfolio transaction costs; and (3)
improved tax efficiency. According to
the commenter, his firm’s clients realize
only a modest benefit from daily
transparency. The commenter also
22 The Sullivan Letter is available at: https://
www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/
nysearca201608-5.pdf.
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mentioned that his firm is a shareholder
in Precidian.
IV. Proceedings To Determine Whether
To Approve or Disapprove SR–
NYSEArca–2016–08 and Grounds for
Disapproval Under Consideration
The Commission is instituting
proceedings pursuant to Section
19(b)(2)(B) of the Act 23 to determine
whether the proposed rule change, as
modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto,
should be approved or disapproved.
Institution of such proceedings is
appropriate at this time in view of the
legal and policy issues raised by the
proposed rule change. Institution of
proceedings does not indicate that the
Commission has reached any
conclusions with respect to any of the
issues involved. Rather, as described
below, the Commission seeks and
encourages interested persons to
provide comments on the proposed rule
change.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(2)(B) of the
Act,24 the Commission is providing
notice of the grounds for disapproval
under consideration. The Commission is
instituting proceedings to allow for
additional analysis of the proposed rule
change’s consistency with Section
6(b)(5) of the Act, which requires,
among other things, that the rules of a
national securities exchange be
‘‘designed to prevent fraudulent and
manipulative acts and practices, to
promote just and equitable principles of
trade,’’ and ‘‘to protect investors and the
public interest.’’ 25
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V. Procedure: Request for Written
Comments
The Commission requests that
interested persons provide written
submissions of their views, data, and
arguments with respect to the issues
identified above, as well as any other
concerns they may have with the
proposal. In particular, the Commission
invites the written views of interested
persons concerning whether the
proposal is consistent with Section
6(b)(5) or any other provision of the Act,
or the rules and regulations thereunder.
Although there do not appear to be any
issues relevant to approval or
disapproval that would be facilitated by
an oral presentation of views, data, and
arguments, the Commission will
consider, pursuant to Rule 19b–4, any
request for an opportunity to make an
oral presentation.26
23 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).
24 Id.
25 15
U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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Securities Act Amendments of 1975, Pub. L. 94–29
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Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments regarding whether the
proposal should be approved or
disapproved by June 13, 2016. Any
person who wishes to file a rebuttal to
any other person’s submission must file
that rebuttal by June 27, 2016. The
Commission asks that commenters
address the sufficiency of the
Exchange’s statements in support of the
proposal, which are set forth in the
Notice 27 and in Amendment No. 1 to
the proposed rule change,28 in addition
to any other comments they may wish
to submit about the proposed rule
change. Specifically, the Commission
seeks comment on the statements of the
Exchange contained in the Notice, as
modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto,
and any other issues raised by the
proposed rule change. In particular, the
Commission seeks comment on the
following:
1. Do commenters believe that market
makers will be able to engage in
effective and efficient arbitrage in the
Shares without knowledge of the
contents of the Funds’ portfolios? Do
commenters believe that market makers
will be able to engage in effective and
efficient arbitrage in the Shares while
delegating trading in the portfolio
securities to an intermediary, rather
than trading in those securities directly?
Do commenters believe that the Shares
of a Fund will trade at secondary market
prices that are closely aligned with the
value of the Fund’s portfolio?
2. Do commenters believe that the
trading characteristics—such as bid/ask
spread and premium or discount to
NAV—of a Fund will be comparable to
the trading characteristics of a fully
transparent ETF with similar assets and
a similar strategy?
3. What are commenters’ views
concerning the proposed use of a VIIV
as opposed to the IIV commonly used by
other ETFs? Do commenters believe that
the VIIV will provide sufficient
information to market participants to
ensure that the Funds are appropriately
priced in secondary trading? Do
commenters believe that the VIIV will
provide sufficient information to market
participants in periods of market
volatility, including periods in which
securities underlying a Fund’s portfolio
(June 4, 1975), grants the Commission flexibility to
determine what type of proceeding—either oral or
notice and opportunity for written comments—is
appropriate for consideration of a particular
proposal by a self-regulatory organization. See
Securities Act Amendments of 1975, Senate Comm.
on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, S. Rep. No.
75, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. 30 (1975).
27 See supra note 3.
28 See supra note 4.
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commenters believe that the proposed
parameters that apply to the accuracy of
the VIIV—i.e., the requirement that the
two independent calculations not
disagree by more than 25 basis points
for 60 seconds or more—are
appropriate?
4. What are commenters views
regarding whether market participants
will be able to use the VIIV—by itself or
in conjunction with other public data—
to reverse engineer a Fund’s portfolio
holdings? What factors might affect the
susceptibility of a Fund to such reverse
engineering? If such reverse engineering
were possible, what effect would it have
on the Fund? What effect would reverse
engineering have on shareholders in the
Fund?
5. What are commenters views about
the selective disclosure of portfolio
holdings to the Trusted Agents, as
described above?
6. In light of the non-transparency of
the basket of securities underlying the
proposed Funds, the Commission seeks
comment on how a broker-dealer
authorized participant engaging in
creation and redemption activity might
fulfill its obligation to maintain a
minimum level of net capital in
compliance with Rule 15c3–1 under the
Act and how such an authorized
participant would comply with the
books and records requirements of Rules
17a–3 and 17a–4 under the Act. For
example, how would an authorized
participant that is a broker-dealer apply
an appropriate haircut to positions
included in the Creation Basket when
the authorized participant is unaware of
the securities included in the basket? In
addition, how would the authorized
participant determine an appropriate
price for such securities? Moreover, how
would such an authorized participant
make and keep current the records
required under Rule 17a–3, including
the daily blotter and daily stock record
required under paragraphs (a)(1) and
(a)(5), respectively, of that rule?
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–2016–08 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.
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All submissions should refer to File
Numbers SR–NYSEArca–2016–08. This
file number should be included on the
subject line if email is used. To help the
Commission process and review your
comments more efficiently, please use
only one method. The Commission will
post all comments on the Commission’s
Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
submission, all subsequent
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
change that are filed with the
Commission, and all written
communications relating to the
proposed rule change between the
Commission and any person, other than
those that may be withheld from the
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for Web site viewing and
printing in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549, on official
business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of these
filings 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–2016–08 and should be
submitted on or before June 13, 2016.
Rebuttal comments should be submitted
by June 27, 2016.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.29
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 9562]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection; Reporting Requirements on
Responsible Investment in Burma;
Correction
Department of State.
Notice of request for public
comment and submission to OMB of
proposed collection of information;
correction.
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ACTION:
The Department of State
published a Federal Register Notice on
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Direct requests for additional
information regarding the collection
listed in this notice, including requests
for copies of the proposed collection
instrument and supporting documents,
to Jennifer Stein, U.S. Department of
State, DRL/MLGA Suite L–430, 2400
Virginia Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20037, who may be reached on 202–
663–3299 or at steinjl@state.gov.
Correction
In the Federal Register of May 17,
2016, in FR Doc 2016–3668, on page
30597, in the third column, correct the
‘‘Respondents’’ and ‘‘Frequency’’
bulleted entrys to read:
• Respondents: U.S. persons and
entities engaged in new investment in
Burma in an amount over $5,000,000 in
aggregate, per OFAC General License 17,
which authorizes new investments in
Burma.
• Frequency: Within 180 days of new
investment in Burma over $5,000,000,
annually thereafter.
Dated: May 11, 2016.
Scott Busby,
Deputy Assistant Secretary. Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 2016–12055 Filed 5–20–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4710–18–P
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. AB 6 (Sub-No. 493X)]
BNSF Railway Company—
Abandonment Exemption—in Cook
County, Ill
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
SUMMARY:
May 17, 2016, notifying the public of
the new reporting requirement on
responsible investment in Burma. The
notice contained an incorrect
investment amount. This document
corrects the investment amount to
$5,000,000.
On May 3, 2016, BNSF Railway
Company (BNSF) filed with the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) a petition
under 49 U.S.C. 10502 for exemption
from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10903
to abandon an approximately 0.89-mile
rail line on BNSF’s Lumber District
Lead beginning just west of Laflin Street
at Engineering Station 118+00 and
proceeding east along West Cermak
Road to the most easterly point at
Engineering Station 157+65 and heading
north along the Sangamon Street Lead at
Engineering Station 163+50, including
both legs of the wye, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. (the Line). The Line
traverses United States Postal Zip Code
60608.
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BNSF states that the Line does not
contain federally granted rights-of-way.
Any documentation in BNSF’s
possession will be made available
promptly to those requesting it.
The interest of railroad employees
will be protected by the conditions set
forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad—
Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch
Between Firth & Ammon, In Bingham &
Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C.
91 (1979).
By issuing this notice, the Board is
instituting an exemption proceeding
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(b). A final
decision will be issued by August 19,
2016.
Any offer of financial assistance
(OFA) under 49 CFR 1152.27(b)(2) will
be due no later than 10 days after
service of a decision granting the
petition for exemption. Each OFA must
be accompanied by a $1,600 filing fee.
See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).
All interested persons should be
aware that, following abandonment, the
Line may be suitable for other public
use, including interim trail use. Any
request for a public use condition under
49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail
banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be
due no later than June 10, 2016. Each
trail request must be accompanied by a
$300 filing fee. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(27).
All filings in response to this notice
must refer to Docket No. AB 6 (Sub-No.
493X) and must be sent to: (1) Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001; and (2)
Karl Morell, Karl Morell & Associates,
Suite 225, 655 Fifteenth Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20005. Replies to the
petition are due on or before June 10,
2016.
Persons seeking further information
concerning abandonment procedures
may contact the Board’s Office of Public
Assistance, Governmental Affairs and
Compliance at (202) 245–0238 or refer
to the full abandonment regulations at
49 CFR part 1152. Questions concerning
environmental issues may be directed to
the Board’s Office of Environmental
Analysis (OEA) at (202) 245–0305.
Assistance for the hearing impaired is
available through the Federal
Information Relay Service at 1–800–
877–8339.
An environmental assessment (EA) (or
environmental impact statement (EIS), if
necessary) prepared by OEA will be
served upon all parties of record and
upon any other agencies or persons who
comment during its preparation. Other
interested persons may contact OEA to
obtain a copy of the EA (or EIS). EAs in
abandonment proceedings normally will
be made available within 60 days of the
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-77845; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2016-08]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Order Instituting
Proceedings To Determine Whether To Approve or Disapprove a Proposed
Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, To Adopt NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.900 To Permit Listing and Trading of Managed Portfolio
Shares and To Permit Listing and Trading of Shares of Fifteen Issues of
the Precidian ETFs Trust
May 17, 2016.
On January 27, 2016, NYSE Arca, Inc. (``Exchange'' or ``NYSE
Arca'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission''), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act'') \1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a
proposed rule change to: (1) Adopt NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900; and
(2) approve the listing and trading of shares (``Shares'') of fifteen
issues of the Precidian ETFs Trust (``Trust''). The proposed rule
change was published for comment in the Federal Register on February
18, 2016.\3\ On March 9, 2016, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 1 to
the proposed rule change.\4\ The Commission has received four comments
on the proposed rule change.\5\ This order institutes proceedings under
Section 19(b)(2)(B) of the Act \6\ to determine whether to approve or
disapprove the proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment No. 1
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
\3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76944 (Feb. 11,
2016), 81 FR 8269 (``Notice'').
\4\ In Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule change, the Exchange
corrected the citations to the Trust's Form N-1A and Exemptive
Application, which were misstated in the proposal. Because Amendment
No. 1 is technical in nature and does not materially alter the
substance of the proposed rule change or raise any novel regulatory
issues, it is not subject to notice and comment. Amendment No. 1 to
the proposed rule change is available on the Commission's Web site
at: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/nysearca201608-1.pdf.
\5\ See Letter from Gary L. Gastineau, President, ETF
Consultants.com, Inc., to Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Commission,
dated Mar. 10, 2016 (``Gastineau Letter''); Letter from David Nadig
(Mar. 31, 2016) (``Nadig Letter''); Letter from Andrew M. Gross, Jr.
(Apr. 5, 2016) (``Gross Letter''); Letter from Andrew M. Gross, Jr.
(Apr. 5, 2016) (``Gross Letter''); Letter from Joseph A. Sullivan,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Legg Mason Global Asset
Management, to Mary Jo White, Chair, Commission (Apr. 15, 2016)
(``Sullivan Letter''). The comment letters are available on the
Commission's Web site at: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2016-08/nysearca201608.shtml.
\6\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).
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I. Summary of the Exchange's Description of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to adopt new NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900,
which would govern the listing and trading of ``Managed Portfolio
Shares.'' \7\ The Exchange also proposes to list and trade the Shares
of the following funds under proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900:
(1) Precidian U.S. Managed Volatility Fund; (2) Precidian Strategic
Value; (3) Precidian Large Cap Value; (4) Precidian Focused Dividend
Strategy; (5) Precidian U.S. Large Cap Growth; (6) Precidian U.S. Core
Equity; (7) Precidian U.S. Mid Cap Growth; (8) Precidian Total Return;
(9) Precidian High Dividend Yield; (10) Precidian Small Cap Dividend
Value; (11) Precidian Multi-factor Small Cap Core; (12) Precidian
Multi-factor Small Cap Growth; (13) Precidian Large Cap Core Plus 130/
30; (14) Precidian Mid Cap Core Plus 130/30; and (15) Precidian Small
Cap Core Plus 130/30 (each a ``Fund,'' and collectively the ``Funds'').
In addition, the Exchange proposes to amend NYSE Arca Equities Rule
7.34 (Trading Sessions), which relates to securities traded on the
Exchange during the Core Trading Session, to add a reference to
proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900.
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\7\ Proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900(c)(1) defines the
term ``Managed Portfolio Share'' as a security that (a) is issued by
a registered investment company organized as an open-end management
investment company (``Investment Company'') or similar entity, that
invests in a portfolio of securities selected by the Investment
Company's investment adviser consistent with the Investment
Company's investment objectives and policies; and (b) when
aggregated in a number of shares equal to a Redemption Unit (as
defined herein) or multiples thereof, may be redeemed at the request
of an authorized participant (as defined in the Investment Company's
Form N-1A filed with the Commission), which authorized participant
will be paid though a confidential account established for its
benefit a portfolio of securities and/or cash with a value equal to
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A. Key Features of Managed Portfolio Shares
While Investment Companies issuing Managed Portfolio Shares would
be actively-managed, and in that respect would be similar to those
issuing Managed Fund Shares,\8\ Managed Portfolio Shares would differ
from Managed Fund Shares in the following respects.
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\8\ Managed Fund Shares are shares of actively-managed
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First, issues of Managed Fund Shares are required to
disseminate their ``Disclosed Portfolio'' at least once daily.\9\ By
contrast, the portfolio for an issue of Managed Portfolio Shares would
be disclosed only quarterly.
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\9\ NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2) defines the term
``Disclosed Portfolio'' as the identities and quantities of the
securities and other assets held by the Investment Company that will
form the basis for the Investment Company's calculation of net asset
value at the end of the business day. NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.600(d)(2)(B)(i) requires that, for Managed Fund Shares, the
Disclosed Portfolio will be disseminated at least once daily and
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Second, in connection with the redemption of shares in
``Redemption Unit'' size (as described below), the delivery of any
portfolio securities in kind would only be effected through a
``Confidential Account'' (as described below) for the benefit of the
redeeming authorized participant without disclosing the identity of the
securities to the authorized participant.
Third, for each series of Managed Portfolio Shares, a
Verified Intraday Indicative Value (``VIIV'') would be disseminated by
one or more major market-data vendors every second during the
Exchange's Core Trading Session (normally, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time (``E.T.'')).\10\ The Exchange states that dissemination of
the VIIV will allow investors to determine the estimated intra-day
value of the underlying portfolio of a series of Managed Portfolio
Shares and will provide a close estimate of that value throughout the
trading day.\11\
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\10\ Proposed NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900(c)(2) defines the
VIIV as the estimated indicative value of a Managed Portfolio Share
based on all of the issuer's holdings as of the close of business on
the prior business day, priced and disseminated in one second
intervals, and subject to validation by a pricing verification agent
of the Investment Company that is responsible for comparing multiple
independent pricing sources to establish the accuracy of the VIIV.
The specific methodology for calculating the VIIV will be disclosed
on each Fund's Web site.
\11\ According to the Exchange, the VIIV should not be viewed as
a ``real-time'' update of the NAV per Share of each Fund, because
the VIIV may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which
will be computed once a day, generally at the end of the business
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B. Arbitrage of Managed Portfolio Shares
The Exchange asserts that market makers will be able to make
efficient and liquid markets priced near the VIIV even without daily
disclosure of a
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Fund's underlying portfolio, as long as a VIIV is disseminated every
second and market makers have knowledge of a Fund's means of achieving
its investment objective. According to the Exchange, market makers
would have knowledge of a Fund's means of achieving its investment
objective by employing risk-management techniques such as ``statistical
arbitrage.'' \12\ The Exchange also states that market makers will make
efficient markets in Managed Portfolio Shares by establishing a
Confidential Account (as defined herein), monitoring the VIIV for
arbitrage opportunities, and effecting transactions in the Shares and
the Fund's (unknown) portfolio securities, as described below.
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\12\ According to the Exchange, statistical arbitrage enables a
trader to construct an accurate proxy for another instrument,
allowing the trader to hedge the other instrument or buy or sell the
instrument when it is cheap or expensive in relation to the proxy.
Statistical analysis permits traders to discover correlations based
purely on trading data without regard to other fundamental drivers.
These correlations are a function of differentials, over time,
between one instrument or group of instruments and one or more other
instruments. Once the nature of these price deviations has been
quantified, a universe of securities is searched in an effort to, in
the case of a hedging strategy, minimize the differential. Once a
suitable hedging proxy has been identified, a trader can minimize
portfolio risk by executing the hedging basket. The trader then can
monitor the performance of this hedge throughout the trade period
making correction where warranted.
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According to the Exchange, if an authorized participant believes
that Shares of a Fund are trading at a price that is higher than the
value of the underlying portfolio--for example, if the market price for
the Shares is higher than the VIIV--then the authorized participant may
sell Shares of the Fund short and instruct its ``Trusted Agent'' \13\
to buy portfolio securities for its Confidential Account. When the
market price of the Shares falls in line with the value of the
portfolio, the authorized participant can then close out its positions
in both the Shares and the portfolio securities. According to the
Exchange, the authorized participant's purchase of the portfolio
securities into its Confidential Account, combined with the sale of
Shares, may also create downward pressure on the price of Shares and/or
upward pressure on the price of the portfolio securities, bringing the
market price of Shares and the value of a Fund's portfolio securities
closer together.
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\13\ Proposed Commentary .04 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.900
requires that authorized participants and non-authorized participant
market makers redeeming Managed Portfolio Shares sign an agreement
with an agent (``Trusted Agent'') to establish a confidential
account (``Confidential Account''), for the benefit of such
authorized participant or non-authorized participant market maker,
that will receive all consideration from the issuer in a redemption.
A Trusted Agent may not disclose the consideration received in a
redemption except as required by law or as provided in the
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Similarly, according to the Exchange, an authorized participant
could buy Shares and instruct the Trusted Agent to sell the underlying
portfolio securities from its Confidential Account in an attempt to
profit when a Fund's Shares are trading at a discount to its portfolio.
According to the Exchange, the authorized participant's purchase of a
Fund's Shares in the secondary market, combined with the sale of the
portfolio securities from its Confidential Account, may also create
upward pressure on the price of Shares and/or downward pressure on the
price of portfolio securities, driving the market price of Shares and
the value of a Fund's portfolio securities closer together. The
Exchange states that, Precidian Funds LLC (``Adviser''), the investment
adviser to the Trust, avers that this process is identical to how many
authorized participants currently arbitrage existing traditional ETFs,
except for the use of the Confidential Account.
According to the Exchange, a market maker that is not an authorized
participant would also be able to establish a Confidential Account and
could engage in arbitrage activity without using the creation or
redemption processes described above. If such a market maker believes
that a Fund is overvalued relative to its underlying assets, the
Exchange states, that market maker could sell Shares short and instruct
its Trusted Agent to buy portfolio securities in its Confidential
Account and then wait for the trading prices to move toward parity and
close out the positions in both the Shares and the portfolio securities
to realize a profit from the relative movement of their trading prices.
Similarly, according to the Exchange, this market maker could buy
Shares and instruct the Trusted Agent to sell the underlying portfolio
securities in an attempt to profit when a Fund's Shares are trading at
a discount to a Fund's underlying or reference assets.
C. The Creation and Redemption Procedures
The Exchange states that, generally, Shares will be purchased and
redeemed on an in-kind basis, so that, except where the purchase or
redemption will include cash under the limited circumstances described
in the Registration Statement, purchasers will be required to purchase
Creation Units by making an in-kind deposit of specified instruments
(``Deposit Instruments''), and shareholders redeeming their Shares will
receive an in-kind transfer of specified instruments (``Redemption
Instruments''). On any given Business Day, the names and quantities of
the instruments that constitute the Deposit Instruments and the names
and quantities of the instruments that constitute the Redemption
Instruments will be identical, and these instruments may be referred
to, in the case of either a purchase or a redemption, as the ``Creation
Basket.''
In the case of a redemption, a Fund's custodian (``Custodian'')
will typically deliver securities to the Confidential Account on a pro
rata basis with a value approximately equal to the value of the Shares
tendered for redemption at the Cut-Off time. The Custodian will make
delivery of the securities by appropriate entries on its books and
records transferring ownership of the securities to the authorized
participant's Confidential Account, subject to delivery of the Shares
redeemed. The Trusted Agent of the Confidential Account will in turn
liquidate, hedge, or otherwise manage the securities based on
instructions from the authorized participant.\14\
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\14\ An authorized participant will issue execution instructions
to the Trusted Agent and be responsible for all associated profit or
losses. Like a traditional ETF, the authorized participant has the
ability to sell the basket securities at any point during normal
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If the Trusted Agent is instructed to sell all securities received
at the close on the redemption date, the Trusted Agent will pay the
liquidation proceeds net of expenses, plus or minus any cash balancing
amount, to the authorized participant through DTC.\15\ The redemption
securities that the Confidential Account receives is expected to mirror
the portfolio holdings of a Fund pro rata.
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\15\ According to the Exchange, under applicable provisions of
the Internal Revenue Code, the authorized participant is expected to
be deemed a ``substantial owner'' of the Confidential Account
because it receives distributions from the Confidential Account. As
a result, the Exchange states, all income, gain, or loss realized by
the Confidential Account will be directly attributed to the
authorized participant. The Exchange also states that, in a
redemption, the authorized participant will have a basis in the
distributed securities equal to the fair market value at the time of
the distribution, and any gain or loss realized on the sale of those
Shares will be taxable income to the authorized participant.
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F. Availability of Information
Each Fund will be required to file with the Commission its complete
portfolio schedules for the second and fourth fiscal quarters on Form
N-SAR under the 1940 Act, and to file its complete portfolio schedules
for the first and third fiscal quarters on Form
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N-Q under the 1940 Act, within 60 days of the end of the quarter. Form
N-Q requires funds to file the same schedules of investments that are
required in annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. The Trust's
SAI and each Fund's shareholder reports will be available free upon
request from the Trust. These documents and forms may be viewed on-
screen or downloaded from the Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov.
In addition, the VIIV, as defined in proposed NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.900(c)(3), will be widely disseminated by one or more major
market-data vendors at least every second during the Exchange's Core
Trading Session. The VIIV, which is approximate value of each Fund's
investments on a per Share basis, will be disseminated every second
during the Exchange's Core Trading Session through the facilities of
the CTA. According to the Exchange, the VIIV will include all accrued
income and expenses of a Fund and will assure that any extraordinary
expenses, booked during the day, that would be taken into account in
calculating a Fund's NAV for that day are also taken into account in
calculating the VIIV. For purposes of the VIIV, securities held by a
Fund will be valued throughout the day based on the mid-point between
the disseminated current national best bid and offer. According to the
Exchange, by utilizing the mid-point pricing for purposes of VIIV
calculation, stale prices are eliminated and more accurate
representation of the real-time value of the underlying securities is
provided to the market. Specifically, according to the Exchange,
quotations based on the mid-point of bid/ask spreads more accurately
reflect current market sentiment by providing real time information on
where market participants are willing to buy or sell securities at that
point in time. Using quotations rather than last-sale information
addresses concerns regarding the staleness of pricing information of
less actively traded securities. The Exchange represents that, because
quotations are updated more frequently than last-sale information
especially for inactive securities, the VIIV will be based on more
current and accurate information. The Exchange also represents that the
use of quotations will also dampen the impact of any momentary spikes
in the price of a portfolio security.
Each Fund will utilize two independent pricing sources to provide
two independent sources of pricing information. Each Fund will also
utilize a ``Pricing Verification Agent'' and establish a computer-based
protocol that will permit the Pricing Verification Agent to
continuously compare the two data streams from the independent pricing
agents sources on a real time basis.\16\ A single VIIV will be
disseminated publicly for each Fund; however, the Pricing Verification
Agent will continuously compare the public VIIV against a non-public
alternative intra-day indicative value to which the Pricing
Verification Agent has access. If it becomes apparent that there is a
material discrepancy between the two data streams, the Exchange will be
notified and have the ability to halt trading in a Fund until the
discrepancy is resolved.\17\ Each Fund's Board will review the
procedures used to calculate the VIIV and maintain its accuracy as
appropriate, but not less than annually. The specific methodology for
calculating the VIIV will be disclosed on each Fund's Web site.
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\16\ A Fund's Custodian will provide, on a daily basis, the
constituent basket file comprised of all securities plus any cash to
the independent pricing agent(s) for purposes of pricing.
\17\ Proposed Rule 8.900(d)(2)(C) provides that, upon
notification to the Corporation by the Investment Company or its
agent that (i) the prices from the multiple independent pricing
sources to be validated by the Investment Company's pricing
verification agent differ by more than 25 basis points for 60
seconds in connection with pricing of the VIIV, or (ii) that the
VIIV of a series of Managed Portfolio Shares is not being priced and
disseminated in one-second intervals, as required, the Corporation
will halt trading in the Managed Portfolio Shares as soon as
practicable. The halt in trading would continue until the Investment
Company or its agent notifies the Corporation that the prices from
the independent pricing sources no longer differ by more than 25
basis points for 60 seconds or that the VIIV is being priced and
disseminated as required. The Investment Company or its agent would
be responsible for monitoring that the VIIV is being priced and
disseminated as required and whether the prices to be validated from
multiple independent pricing sources differ by more than 25 basis
points for 60 seconds.
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III. Summary of Comment Letters
The Commission has received four comment letters on the proposed
rule change.\18\
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A. Gastineau Letter.\19\ The commenter opposes approval of the
proposed rule change and recommends imposition of a number of
requirements in the event the proposed rule change and the Exemptive
Application are approved. Preliminarily, the commenter offers an
opinion regarding the standard of review that should be applied,
stating that, because this would be a new and potentially ground
breaking less-transparent ETF structure, the Commission should apply a
meaningfully higher standard until the Commission is completely
comfortable with the state of the ETF market.
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Generally, the commenter asserts that market makers will face
significant impediments to successfully arbitraging the Shares, and he
predicts that this will lead to the Shares trading at wider bid-ask
spreads and more variable premiums/discounts than actively-managed ETFs
available today.
In evaluating the Exchange's statements regarding VIIVs, the
commenter asserts that their utility should be compared not to the IIVs
of existing ETFs but rather to the independently derived, real-time
estimates of underlying fund value that ETF market makers use to
identify arbitrage opportunities and manage the risk of holding ETF
positions today (``MM IIVs''). The commenter asserts that, because
existing actively managed ETFs (and most index ETFs) provide full daily
disclosure of their current portfolio, their market makers have access
to far better information about the current value of Fund holdings than
the proposed VIIVs would provide and, correspondingly, VIIVs will be
significantly less precise than MM IIVs. The commenter also asserts
that MM IIVs include significant information that would not be
reflected in VIIVs, noting:
In calculating VIIVs, Fund securities would be valued
based on the midpoint between the current national best bid and offer
quotations. The commenter characterizes the bid-ask midpoint as a
``fairly crude valuation metric'' that does not capture important
trading information incorporated into MM IIVs, such as the current bid-
ask spread, the depth of the current order book on the bid and offer
side of the market, and the predominance of current trading between
bid-side and offer-side transactions.
VIIVs would be calculated and disseminated every second
and, while this interval may seem sufficient, MM IIVs are updated in
fractions of a second (milliseconds or microseconds).
The VIIV verification process would leave significant room
for dissemination of erroneous values. For example, a Fund's Pricing
Verification Agent would take no action to address observed
discrepancies in VIIV input prices until the calculated Fund values
differ by at least 25 bps for 60 seconds. The commenter characterizes
that disparity as ``huge,'' asserting that it would be wider than the
customary bid-ask spread of most domestic equity ETFs.
The VIIV process would not address all potential intraday
valuation errors. The commenter describes that corporate actions must
be accurately reflected in the VIIV, which can be challenging, and
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market makers would not be able to verify that corporate actions are
appropriately reflected in a Fund's VIIVs because of the non-
transparent portfolio.
The process for adjusting VIIVs in the event of trading
halts in portfolio securities is cumbersome and likely to result in
errors in disseminated VIIVs. Throughout a halt, which may be
protracted, the Fund would continue to disseminate VIIVs that do not
reflect fair values of the halted security, and therefore may vary
significantly from the Fund's true underlying value at that time. The
commenter asserts that MM IIVs would almost certainly arrive at a fair
estimate of a Fund's current underlying value far faster than the VIIV
specified process.
The commenter asserts that reliance on faulty VIIVs may expose
market makers to unrecoverable losses, noting that: (1) Neither the
Exchange nor its agents nor the Reporting Authority would be liable for
disseminating erroneous VIIVs; and (2) the circumstances under which
the Independent Pricing Agents and the Pricing Verification Agent are
legally liable for such errors are limited.
According to the commenter, market makers' forced reliance on VIIVs
to determine intraday Fund valuations is a source of significant
incremental risk for them versus making markets in existing ETFs, and
he predicts that this will result in the Shares trading at wider bid-
ask spreads and more variable premiums and discounts to NAV than
similar existing ETFs.
The commenter also criticizes the Confidential Accounts structure.
He asserts that, compared to the usual manner in which market makers in
existing ETFs engage in arbitrage and buy and sell Creation Basket
instruments, the Confidential Accounts arrangement exposes market
makers to significant additional costs, risks and lost opportunities,
including:
Less control over trade execution and trade order
management when implementing portfolio hedging and Creation Unit
transactions, which will result in more cost and risk, and less profit
opportunity.
No ability for market makers to use their market knowledge
and market positions to enhance arbitrage profits and minimize costs.
Reduced incentive for third-party service providers to
trade expeditiously and with low market impact.
Little or no ability for market makers to monitor trading
in Confidential Accounts to ensure best execution or to evaluate
trading performance.
Forced pro rata hedging, which, the commenter states, is
very often not the best hedge. Sub-optimal hedging results in less
efficient arbitrage.
Given the more-involved routing of trade instructions and
trade orders that the Confidential Account structure would necessitate,
the commenter states that hedging and Creation Unit instrument
transactions through Confident Accounts will almost certainly take
longer, on average, for a market maker to execute than similar
transactions that the market maker executes internally. According to
the commenter, slower executions may translate into less efficient
arbitrage.
Potentially significant explicit costs to establish and
maintain Confidential Accounts.
Additionally, the commenter discusses the efficiency of statistical
arbitrage. While market makers may be able to gain some useful
information about a Fund's current composition by knowing the Fund's
investment objective and tracking performance correlations over time
versus a known index, the commenter states that the amount of portfolio
information that can be gleaned using this approach is limited. As a
result, any portfolio hedge constructed using this information would be
subject to meaningful basis risk.
The commenter also expresses concern regarding portfolio
information security in light of the dissemination of this data across
a network of Trusted Agents, affiliated broker-dealers and other
Confidential Account service providers, and their use of the provided
information to implement trades on behalf of Confidential Account
holders.
The commenter also raises concerns with the possibility that market
participants could use the VIIV to reverse-engineer the Funds'
portfolio holdings, subjecting the Funds to the dilutive effects of
front-running. The commenter asserts that ``it is far from a settled
question that the Funds would not ever be susceptible to reverse
engineering.''
B. Nadig Letter.\20\ This commenter states his support of the
proposal, noting that, after having been through multiple variations,
the proposal now has the correct VIIV structure.
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C. Gross Letter.\21\ This commenter first notes the advantages that
ETFs offer to retail investors, and supports the idea of investing in
actively managed funds, stating that live, intra-day pricing of the
underlying portfolio enables the commenter to see how the portfolio
value is performing at all times (as opposed to mutual funds), enables
market participants to provide liquidity for the product (with the
ability to arbitrage price discrepancies by creating and redeeming
shares in the portfolio, as with existing ETFs), and allows for
purchases and sales of shares at any time. With wider intra-day trading
ranges recently, the ability to put in limit buy orders below the
market (or limit sell orders above the market) is critical to the
commenter.
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In addition, the commenter notes that actively managed ETFs provide
benefits to the fund manager and to fund performance. The commenter
states that actively managed ETFs allow fund managers to make
investment decisions they believe in, without being distorted by tax
consequences. In addition, the commenter believes that the proposed
Funds have come up with a way to provide retail and professional
investors with a level playing field in terms of intra-day price feeds
on the value of the underlying portfolio, and through a trusted agent
to allow market makers to create and redeem (and hold) the portfolio of
the actively managed fund without being able to see the individual
share holdings. The commenter finds this proposal to be an ``elegant
solution'' and to be an effective way to both use the well-understood
arbitrage mechanism that has made ETFs liquid and reliable products and
allow market makers to control execution of their fund portfolios while
protecting the confidentiality of the fund manager.
D. Sullivan Letter.\22\ The commenter expresses support for the
proposed rule change. He states that the Precidian structure would
permit his firm's portfolio managers to manage active ETFs using their
proprietary strategies without being susceptible to front running by
other managers or investors and while still offering the following
benefits of active ETFs to clients, which would positively impact
yields and net investor returns: (1) The ability to trade shares
throughout the day at known prices; (2) lower fund operating expenses,
primarily in the form of lower transfer agency costs and overall
portfolio transaction costs; and (3) improved tax efficiency. According
to the commenter, his firm's clients realize only a modest benefit from
daily transparency. The commenter also
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IV. Proceedings To Determine Whether To Approve or Disapprove SR-
NYSEArca-2016-08 and Grounds for Disapproval Under Consideration
The Commission is instituting proceedings pursuant to Section
19(b)(2)(B) of the Act \23\ to determine whether the proposed rule
change, as modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto, should be approved or
disapproved. Institution of such proceedings is appropriate at this
time in view of the legal and policy issues raised by the proposed rule
change. Institution of proceedings does not indicate that the
Commission has reached any conclusions with respect to any of the
issues involved. Rather, as described below, the Commission seeks and
encourages interested persons to provide comments on the proposed rule
change.
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Pursuant to Section 19(b)(2)(B) of the Act,\24\ the Commission is
providing notice of the grounds for disapproval under consideration.
The Commission is instituting proceedings to allow for additional
analysis of the proposed rule change's consistency with Section 6(b)(5)
of the Act, which requires, among other things, that the rules of a
national securities exchange be ``designed to prevent fraudulent and
manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable
principles of trade,'' and ``to protect investors and the public
interest.'' \25\
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\25\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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V. Procedure: Request for Written Comments
The Commission requests that interested persons provide written
submissions of their views, data, and arguments with respect to the
issues identified above, as well as any other concerns they may have
with the proposal. In particular, the Commission invites the written
views of interested persons concerning whether the proposal is
consistent with Section 6(b)(5) or any other provision of the Act, or
the rules and regulations thereunder. Although there do not appear to
be any issues relevant to approval or disapproval that would be
facilitated by an oral presentation of views, data, and arguments, the
Commission will consider, pursuant to Rule 19b-4, any request for an
opportunity to make an oral presentation.\26\
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\26\ Section 19(b)(2) of the Act, as amended by the Securities
Act Amendments of 1975, Pub. L. 94-29 (June 4, 1975), grants the
Commission flexibility to determine what type of proceeding--either
oral or notice and opportunity for written comments--is appropriate
for consideration of a particular proposal by a self-regulatory
organization. See Securities Act Amendments of 1975, Senate Comm. on
Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, S. Rep. No. 75, 94th Cong., 1st
Sess. 30 (1975).
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Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments regarding whether the proposal should be approved or
disapproved by June 13, 2016. Any person who wishes to file a rebuttal
to any other person's submission must file that rebuttal by June 27,
2016. The Commission asks that commenters address the sufficiency of
the Exchange's statements in support of the proposal, which are set
forth in the Notice \27\ and in Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule
change,\28\ in addition to any other comments they may wish to submit
about the proposed rule change. Specifically, the Commission seeks
comment on the statements of the Exchange contained in the Notice, as
modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto, and any other issues raised by the
proposed rule change. In particular, the Commission seeks comment on
the following:
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1. Do commenters believe that market makers will be able to engage
in effective and efficient arbitrage in the Shares without knowledge of
the contents of the Funds' portfolios? Do commenters believe that
market makers will be able to engage in effective and efficient
arbitrage in the Shares while delegating trading in the portfolio
securities to an intermediary, rather than trading in those securities
directly? Do commenters believe that the Shares of a Fund will trade at
secondary market prices that are closely aligned with the value of the
Fund's portfolio?
2. Do commenters believe that the trading characteristics--such as
bid/ask spread and premium or discount to NAV--of a Fund will be
comparable to the trading characteristics of a fully transparent ETF
with similar assets and a similar strategy?
3. What are commenters' views concerning the proposed use of a VIIV
as opposed to the IIV commonly used by other ETFs? Do commenters
believe that the VIIV will provide sufficient information to market
participants to ensure that the Funds are appropriately priced in
secondary trading? Do commenters believe that the VIIV will provide
sufficient information to market participants in periods of market
volatility, including periods in which securities underlying a Fund's
portfolio encounter trading halts or pauses? Do commenters believe that
the proposed parameters that apply to the accuracy of the VIIV--i.e.,
the requirement that the two independent calculations not disagree by
more than 25 basis points for 60 seconds or more--are appropriate?
4. What are commenters views regarding whether market participants
will be able to use the VIIV--by itself or in conjunction with other
public data--to reverse engineer a Fund's portfolio holdings? What
factors might affect the susceptibility of a Fund to such reverse
engineering? If such reverse engineering were possible, what effect
would it have on the Fund? What effect would reverse engineering have
on shareholders in the Fund?
5. What are commenters views about the selective disclosure of
portfolio holdings to the Trusted Agents, as described above?
6. In light of the non-transparency of the basket of securities
underlying the proposed Funds, the Commission seeks comment on how a
broker-dealer authorized participant engaging in creation and
redemption activity might fulfill its obligation to maintain a minimum
level of net capital in compliance with Rule 15c3-1 under the Act and
how such an authorized participant would comply with the books and
records requirements of Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4 under the Act. For
example, how would an authorized participant that is a broker-dealer
apply an appropriate haircut to positions included in the Creation
Basket when the authorized participant is unaware of the securities
included in the basket? In addition, how would the authorized
participant determine an appropriate price for such securities?
Moreover, how would such an authorized participant make and keep
current the records required under Rule 17a-3, including the daily
blotter and daily stock record required under paragraphs (a)(1) and
(a)(5), respectively, of that rule?
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-2016-08 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.
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All submissions should refer to File Numbers SR-NYSEArca-2016-08. This
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently,
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on
the Commission's Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other
than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and
printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of these filings 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-2016-08 and should
be submitted on or before June 13, 2016. Rebuttal comments should be
submitted by June 27, 2016.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\29\
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\29\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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