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EXHIBIT 10.3
THE FRONTIER FUND
ADVISORY AGREEMENT
[ ] SERIES
This advisory agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of the ___ day of _____________, 200_, by and among The Frontier Fund, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), [Name of Trading Company], a Delaware limited liability company (the “Trading Company”), Equinox Fund Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Managing Owner”) and [Name of Trading Advisor], a [ ] (the “Trading Advisor”). Capitalized and other defined terms used and not expressly defined herein shall have the same respective meanings as set forth in the Prospectus (as hereinafter defined) of the Trust.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Trading Company has been organized primarily for the purpose of trading, buying, selling, spreading or otherwise acquiring, holding or disposing of futures, forward and options contracts and other derivative instruments, not held as inventory, on behalf of the proceeds allocable to the sale of one or more Series of Units of the Trust. The foregoing commodities and other transactions are collectively referred to as “Commodities”; and
WHEREAS, the Managing Owner is authorized to utilize the services of one or more commodity trading advisors in connection with the Commodities trading activities of the various Series of Units of the Trust; and
WHEREAS, the Trust proposes to make an initial public offering (the “Offering”) of the Units in different Series through the Selling Agents, and in connection therewith, the Trust intends to file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), pursuant to the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), a registration statement on Form S-1 to register the Units, and as part thereof a prospectus (which registration statement, together with all amendments thereto, shall be referred to herein as the “Registration Statement” and which prospectus, in final form, shall be referred to herein as the “Prospectus”); and
WHEREAS, the Trust will prepare and file applications for registration of the Units under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Managing Owner deems appropriate; and
WHEREAS, the Trading Advisor’s present business includes the management of Commodities accounts for its clients; and
WHEREAS, the Trading Advisor is registered as a commodity trading advisor under the United States Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (the “CE Act”), and is a member of the National Futures Association (the “NFA”) in such capacity and will maintain such registration and membership for the term of this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Trust, the Trading Company and the Trading Advisor desire to enter into this Agreement in order to set forth the terms and conditions upon which the Trading Advisor will render and implement commodity advisory services on behalf of the Trust during the term of this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
| 1. | Duties of the Trading Advisor. |
(a) Appointment. The Trading Company and the Managing Owner hereby appoint the Trading Advisor, and the Trading Advisor hereby accepts appointment, as the Trading Company’s limited attorney-in-fact to exercise discretion to invest and reinvest in Commodities during the term of this Agreement the amount of assets allocated to the Trading Advisor by the Managing Owner as set forth on Exhibit A hereto, as such Exhibit A may be amended from time to time (the “Allocated Assets”) on the terms and conditions and for the purposes set forth herein. The
Managing Owner may adjust the amount of Allocated Assets once a week during each calendar month. In addition, the Managing Owner also may adjust the Allocated Assets on any Business Day in the event that the Trust receives cumulative subscriptions, exchanges or redemptions of Units during any month in an amount equal to 20% or greater of the Net Asset Value of the Series of which the proceeds are being invested in the Trading Company as of the most recent calendar month end. This limited power-of attorney is a continuing power and shall continue in effect with respect to the Trading Advisor until terminated hereunder. The Trading Advisor shall have sole authority and responsibility for independently directing the investment and reinvestment in Commodities of the Allocated Assets for the term of this Agreement pursuant to the trading programs, methods, systems, strategies which the Trust and the Managing Owner have selected to be utilized by the Trading Advisor in trading the Allocated Assets as set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto (the “Trading Approach”), subject to the trading policies and limitations as set forth in the Prospectus and attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Trading Policies and Limitations”), as the same may be modified from time to time and provided in writing to the Trading Advisor. The portion of the Allocated Assets to be allocated by the Trading Advisor at any point in time to one or more of the various trading strategies comprising the Trading Approach will be determined as set forth in the Prospectus or as otherwise agreed to with the Managing Owner, it being understood that trading gains and losses automatically will alter the agreed upon allocations. Upon receipt of a new allocation, the Trading Advisor will determine and, if required, adjust its trading in light of the new allocation.-
(b) Allocation of Responsibilities. The Managing Owner will have the responsibility for the management of any portion of the Allocated Assets that are not invested in Commodities. The Trading Advisor will use its good faith best efforts in determining the investment and reinvestment in Commodities of the Allocated Assets in compliance with the Trading Policies and Limitations, and in accordance with the Trading Approach. In the event that the Managing Owner shall, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine in good faith following consultation appropriate under the circumstances with the Trading Advisor that any trading instruction issued by the Trading Advisor violates the Trust’s Trading Policies and Limitations, then the Managing Owner, following reasonable notice to the Trading Advisor appropriate under the circumstances, may override such trading instruction. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the Managing Owner from imposing any limitation(s) on the trading activities of the Trading Company beyond those enumerated in the Prospectus if the Managing Owner determines that such limitation(s) are necessary or in the best interests of the Trust or the Trading Company, in which case the Trading Advisor will adhere to such limitations following written notification thereof.
(c) Certain Agreements of the Trading Advisor. The Trading Advisor agrees that at least 90% of the annual gross income and gain, if any, generated by its Trading Approach for the Allocated Assets will result from buying and selling Commodities.
(d) Modification of Trading Approach. In the event the Trading Advisor requests to use, or the Managing Owner requests the Trading Advisor to use, a trading program, system, method or strategy other than or in addition to the trading programs, systems, methods or strategies comprising the Trading Approach in connection with trading for the Trading Company (including, without limitation, the deletion or addition of an agreed upon trading program, system, method or strategy to the then agreed upon Trading Approach), either in whole or in part, the Trading Advisor may not do so and/or shall not be required to do so, as appropriate, unless both the Managing Owner and the Trading Advisor consent thereto in writing.
(e)(1) Notification of Material Changes. The Trading Advisor also agrees to give the Managing Owner prior written notice of any proposed material change in its Trading Approach, and agrees not to make any material change in such Trading Approach (as applied to the Trading Company) over the objection of the Managing Owner, it being understood that the Trading Advisor shall be free to institute non-material changes in its Trading Approach (as applied to the Trading Company) without prior written notification. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, refinements to the Trading Approach, the deletion of Commodities, and the addition of Commodities then being traded (i) on organized domestic commodities exchanges, (ii) on foreign commodities exchanges recognized by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) as providing customer protections comparable to those provided on domestic exchanges, or (iii) in the interbank foreign currency market to or from the Trading Approach shall not be deemed a material change in the Trading Approach, and prior approval of the Managing Owner shall not be required therefor. The only forward markets that will be permitted to be utilized are the interbank foreign currency markets and the London Metal Exchange.
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(2) Subject to adequate assurances of confidentiality, the Trading Advisor agrees that it will discuss with the Managing Owner upon request any trading methods, programs, systems or strategies used by it for trading customer accounts which differ from the Trading Approach used for the Trading Company, provided, that nothing contained in this Agreement shall require the Trading Advisor to disclose what it deems to be proprietary or confidential information.
(f) Request for Information. The Trading Advisor agrees to provide the Managing Owner with any reasonable information concerning the Trading Advisor that the Trust or the Trading Company may reasonably request (other than the identity of its customers or proprietary or confidential information concerning the Trading Approach), subject to receipt of adequate assurances of confidentiality by the Managing Owner, including, but not limited to, information regarding any change in control, key personnel, Trading Approach and financial condition which the Trust or the Trading Company reasonably deems to be material to the Trust or the Trading Company. The Trading Advisor also shall notify the Managing Owner of any such matters the Trading Advisor, in its reasonable judgment, believes may be material to the Trust or the Trading Company relating to the Trading Advisor and the Trading Approach. During the term of this Agreement, the Trading Advisor agrees to provide the Managing Owner with updated monthly information related to the Trading Advisor’s performance results within a reasonable period of time after the end of the month to which it relates.
(g) Notice of Errors. The Trading Advisor is responsible for promptly reviewing all oral and written confirmations it receives to determine that the Commodities trades were made in accordance with the Trading Advisor’s instructions. If the Trading Advisor determines that an error was made in connection with a trade or that a trade was made other than in accordance with the Trading Advisor’s instructions, the Trading Advisor shall promptly notify the Managing Owner of this fact, and shall utilize its reasonable best efforts to cause the error or discrepancy to be corrected.
| 2. | Standard of Liability; Indemnification. |
(a)(i) The Trading Advisor shall not be liable to the Managing Owner, the Trust, the Trustee, the Trading Company or the owners of Units (the “Limited Owners”), or any of their respective successors or assigns under this Agreement for any act or failure to act taken or omitted in good faith in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust and the Trading Company if such act or failure to act did not constitute a breach of this Agreement, misconduct or negligence on the part of the Trading Advisor. In any threatened, pending or completed action, arbitration, claim, demand, dispute, lawsuit or other proceeding (each a, “Proceeding”) to which the Trading Advisor was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the management of the Trust’s or Trading Company’s assets by the Trading Advisor or the offering and sale of Units, the Managing Owner and the Trading Company shall, subject to subsection (a)(iii) of this Section 2, indemnify and hold harmless the Trading Advisor and its principals, officers, directors, members, managers, shareholders, partners, employees and affiliates (“Principals and Affiliates”) against any loss, liability, damage, cost, expense (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ and accountants’ fees), judgments and amounts paid in settlement (“Losses”) actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with such Proceeding if the Trading Advisor acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust and the Trading Company and provided that its conduct did not constitute negligence, misconduct, or a breach of this Agreement; provided , however , that no indemnification shall be available from the Managing Owner if such indemnification is prohibited by Section 4.6(b) of the Trust Agreement. The termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order or settlement shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the Trading Advisor did not act in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust.
(ii) Without limiting sub-section (i) above, to the extent that the Trading Advisor has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any Proceeding referred to in subsection (i) above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, the Managing Owner shall indemnify the Trading Advisor and its Principals and Affiliates against the expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ and accountants’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection therewith.
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(iii) Any indemnification under subsection (i) above, unless ordered by a court or administrative forum, shall be made by the Managing Owner only as authorized in the specific case and only upon a determination by independent legal counsel in a written opinion that such indemnification is proper in the circumstances because the Trading Advisor has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsection (i) above; provided however, that no opinion shall be required to the extent that the Trading Advisor incurs any Losses arising directly out of (A) an untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact required to be stated in the Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances in which they were made not misleading, except for such statements or omissions based upon information furnished by the Trading Advisor for inclusion in the Prospectus or(B) any Selling Agent’s selling activities. Such independent legal counsel shall be selected jointly by the Managing Owner and the Trading Advisor in a timely manner. The Trading Advisor will be deemed to have approved the Managing Owner’s selection unless the Trading Advisor notifies the Managing Owner in writing, received by Managing Owner within five days of Managing Owner’s telecopying to the Trading Advisor of the notice of Managing Owner’s selection, that the Trading Advisor does not approve the selection.
(iv) In the event the Trading Advisor is made a party to any Proceeding or otherwise incurs any Losses as a result of, or in connection with the activities or claimed activities of the Trust, the Trading Company or the Managing Owner or its principals, officers, directors, members, managers, shareholders, partners or employees unrelated to the Trading Advisor, the Managing Owner shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Trading Advisor and its Principals and Affiliates against any Losses incurred in connection therewith.
(b)(i) The Trading Advisor shall indemnify and hold harmless the Managing Owner, the Trust, the Trustee, the Trading Company and each of their respective Principals and Affiliates against any Losses actually and reasonably incurred by them (A) as a result of a breach of any representation, warranty or agreement of the Trading Advisor made in this Agreement or (B) as a result of act or omission of the Trading Advisor relating to the Trust or the Trading Company if there has been a final judicial or regulatory determination that such act or failure to act constituted a breach of this Agreement, misconduct or negligence on the part of the Trading Advisor; provided, however that such final judicial or regulatory determination shall not be required in the event of a settlement of any Proceeding with the prior written consent of the Trading Advisor.
(ii) In the event the Managing Owner, the Trust, the Trustee or the Trading Company is made a party to any Proceeding or otherwise incurs any Losses as a result of, or in connection with, the activities or claimed activities of the Trading Advisor or its Principals or Affiliates unrelated to the Managing Owner or the Trading Company’s business, the Trading Advisor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Managing Owner, the Trust, the Trading Company and their respective Principals and Affiliates against any Losses incurred in connection therewith.
(c) Promptly after receipt by any of the indemnified parties under this Agreement of notice of any Proceeding, the party seeking indemnification (the “Indemnitee”) shall notify the party from which indemnification is sought (the “Indemnitor”) in writing of the commencement thereof if a claim with respect thereof is to be made under this Agreement. To the extent that the Indemnitor has actual knowledge of the commencement of such Proceeding, the failure to notify the Indemnitor shall not relieve such Indemnitor from any indemnification liability which it may have to such Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 2, and the omission to notify the Indemnitor shall not relieve the Indemnitor from any obligation or liability which it may have to any such Indemnitee otherwise than under this Section 2. The Indemnitor shall be entitled to participate in the defense of any such Proceeding and to assume the defense thereof with the assistance of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee. In any such Proceeding, the Indemnitee shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the Indemnitee’s own expense unless (i) otherwise agreed by the Indemnitor and Indemnitee or (ii) the named parties to any such Proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnitor and the Indemnitee, and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them or the existence of different or additional defenses (it being understood, however, that the Indemnitor shall not be liable for legal fees or other expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys for all such Indemnitees, which firm shall be designated in writing by such Indemnitees and be reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitor). The Indemnitee shall cooperate with the Indemnitor in connection with any such Proceeding and shall make all personnel, books and records relevant to the Proceeding available to the Indemnitor and grant such authorizations or powers of attorney to the agents, representatives and counsel of the Indemnitor as the Indemnitor may reasonably consider desirable in connection with the defense of any such Proceeding.
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(d) In the event that a person entitled to indemnification under this Section 2 is made a party to any Proceeding alleging both matters for which indemnification can be made hereunder and matters for which indemnification may not be made hereunder, such person shall be indemnified only for that portion of the loss, liability, damage, cost or expense incurred in such Proceeding which relates to the matters for which indemnification can be made.
(e) None of the indemnifications contained in this Section 2 shall be applicable with respect to default judgments, confessions of judgment or settlements entered into by the party claiming indemnification without the prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, or the party obligated to indemnify such party.
(f) The provisions of this Section 2 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
| 3. | Limits on Claims. |
(a) Prohibited Acts. The Trading Advisor agrees that it will not take any of the following actions against the Trust: (i) seek a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises (A) for relief in respect of the Trust in an involuntary case or proceeding under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any other federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, rehabilitation, liquidation or similar law or (B) adjudging the Trust a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, rehabilitation, liquidation, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Trust under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Trust or of any substantial part of any of its properties, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of any of its affairs, or (ii) seek a petition for relief, reorganization or to take advantage of any law referred to in the preceding clause or (iii) file an involuntary petition for bankruptcy (collectively, “Bankruptcy or Insolvency Action”).
(b) Limited Assets Available. In addition, the Trading Advisor agrees that for any obligations due and owing to it by the Trust, the Trading Advisor will look solely and exclusively to the assets of the Trading Company or to the assets of the Managing Owner, if it has liability in its capacity as Managing Owner, to satisfy its claims and will not seek to attach or otherwise assert a claim against the other assets of the Trust, whether there is a Bankruptcy or Insolvency Action taken or otherwise. The parties agree that this provision will survive the termination of this Agreement, whether terminated in a Bankruptcy or Insolvency Action or otherwise.
(c) No Limited Owner Liability. This Agreement has been made and executed by and on behalf of the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner for the benefit of the Units of the applicable Series of the Trust and the obligations of the Trust, the Trading Company and/or the Managing Owner set forth herein are not binding upon any of the Limited Owners individually but are binding only upon the assets and property identified above and no resort shall be had to the assets of other Series issued by the Trust or the Limited Owners’ personal property for the satisfaction of any obligation or claim hereunder.
(d) Subordination Agreement. The Trading Advisor agrees and consents (the “Consent”) to look solely to the Managing Owner and each Series for which trading advisory services are being performed by the Trading Advisor (the “Contracting Series”) and assets (the “Contracting Series Assets”) of the Contracting Series and the Managing Owner for payment of any advisory fees. The Contracting Series Assets include only those funds and other assets that are paid, held or distributed to the Trust on account of and for the benefit of the Contracting Series, including, without limitation, funds delivered to the Trust for the purchase of Units in a Series. In furtherance of the Consent, the Trading Advisor agrees that any debts, liabilities, obligations, indebtedness, expenses and claims of any nature and of all kinds and descriptions (collectively, “Claims”) incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing arising from, related to or in connection with the Trust and its assets and the Contracting Series and the Contracting Series Assets, shall be subject to the following limitations:
(1) Subordination of certain claims and rights.
(i) except as set forth below, the Claims, if any, of the Trading Advisor (the “Subordinated Claims”) shall be expressly subordinate and junior in right of payment to any and all other Claims against the Trust and any Series thereof, and any of their respective assets, which may arise as a matter of law or pursuant to any contract; provided, however, that the Trading Advisor’s Claims (if any) against the Contracting Series shall not be considered Subordinated Claims with respect to enforcement against and distribution and repayment from the Contracting
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Series, the Contracting Series Assets and the Managing Owner and its assets; and provided further that the Trading Advisor’s valid Claims, if any, against the Contracting Series shall be pari passu and equal in right of repayment and distribution with all other valid Claims against the Contracting Series and (ii) the Trading Advisor will not take, demand or receive from any Series or the Trust or any of their respective assets (other than the Contracting Series, the Contracting Series Assets and the Managing Owner and its assets) any payment for the Subordinated Claims;
(2) the Claims of the Trading Advisor with respect to the Contracting Series shall only be asserted and enforceable against the Contracting Series, the Contracting Series Assets and the Managing Owner and its assets; and such Claims shall not be asserted or enforceable for any reason whatsoever against any other Series, the Trust generally or any of their respective assets;
(3) if the Claims of the Trading Advisor against the Contracting Series or the Trust are secured in whole or in part, the Trading Advisor hereby waives (under section 1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. S 1111(b)) any right to have any deficiency Claims (which deficiency Claims may arise in the event such security is inadequate to satisfy such Claims) treated as unsecured Claims against the Trust or any Series (other than the Contracting Series), as the case may be;
(4) in furtherance of the foregoing, if and to the extent that the Trading Advisor receives monies in connection with the Subordinated Claims from a Series or the Trust (or their respective assets), other than the Contracting Series, the Contracting Series Assets and the Managing Owner and its assets, the Trading Advisor shall be deemed to hold such monies in trust and shall promptly remit such monies to the Series or the Trust that paid such amounts for distribution by the Series or the Trust in accordance with the terms hereof; and
(5) the foregoing Consent shall apply at all times notwithstanding that the Claims are satisfied, and notwithstanding that the agreements in respect of such Claims are terminated, rescinded or canceled.
| 4. | Obligations of the Trust, the Managing Owner, the Trading Company and the Trading Advisor. |
(a) The Registration Statement and Prospectus. Each of the Trust and the Managing Owner agrees to cooperate and use its good faith best efforts in connection with (i) the preparation by the Trust of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendments or supplements thereto); (ii) the filing of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendments or supplements thereto) with such governmental and self-regulatory authorities as the Managing Owner deems appropriate for the registration and sale of the Units and the taking of such other actions not inconsistent with this Agreement as the Managing Owner may determine to be necessary or advisable in order to make the proposed offer and sale of Units lawful in any jurisdiction; and (iii) causing the Registration Statement (and any amendment thereto) to become effective under the 1933 Act and the Blue Sky securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Managing Owner may deem appropriate. The Trading Advisor agrees to make all necessary disclosures regarding itself, its principals, trading performance, Trading Approach, customer accounts (other than the names of customers, unless such disclosure is required by law or regulation) and otherwise as may be required, in the reasonable judgment of the Managing Owner, to be made in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and in applications to any such jurisdictions. No description of, or other information relating to, the Trading Advisor may be distributed by the Managing Owner without the prior written consent of the Trading Advisor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If any event or circumstance occurs as a result of which it becomes necessary, in the judgment of the Managing Owner to amend the Registration Statement in order to make the Registration Statement not materially misleading or to amend or to supplement the Prospectus in order to make the Prospectus not materially misleading in light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a subscriber, or if it is otherwise necessary in order to permit the Trust to continue to offer its Units subsequent to the Initial Offering Period subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, the Trading Advisor will furnish such information with respect to itself and its principals, as well as its Trading Approach and Past Performance History as the Managing Owner may reasonably request, and will cooperate to the extent reasonably necessary in the preparation of any required amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus.
(b) Trading Advisor Not A Promoter. The parties acknowledge that the Trading Advisor has not been, either alone or in conjunction with the Selling Agents or their affiliates, an organizer or promoter of the Trust.
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(c) Filings. The Trust may at any time determine not to file the Registration Statement with the SEC or withdraw the Registration Statement from the SEC or any other governmental or self-regulatory authority with which it is filed or otherwise terminate the Registration Statement or the offering of Units. Upon any such withdrawal or termination, or if the “minimum” Units of the applicable Series required to be sold pursuant to the Prospectus is not sold, this Agreement shall terminate and, except for the obligations set forth in Section 2, neither the Trust, the Trading Company nor the Managing Owner shall have any obligations to the Trading Advisor with respect to this Agreement; nor shall the Trading Advisor have any obligations to the Trust, the Trading Company or the Managing Owner with respect to this Agreement.
| 5. | Trading Advisor’s Closing Obligations. |
On or prior to the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) with respect to the initial offering of the Trust with respect to the applicable Series of Units (the “Initial Closing Date”), and thereafter, only if requested by the Managing Owner, on or prior to each closing date during the continuous offering of the applicable Series of Units (each a “Subsequent Closing Date”), the Trading Advisor shall deliver or cause to be delivered, at the expense of the Trading Advisor, to the Selling Agents, the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner, the reports, certificates and documents described below addressed to them and, except as may be set forth below, dated the Initial Closing Date or the Subsequent Closing Date, as appropriate. Unless the context otherwise requires, the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date shall each be referred to as a “Closing Date:”
(a) a report from the Trading Advisor which shall present, for the period from the date after the last day covered by the Trading Advisor’s Past Performance History as set forth under “Past Performance Information” in the Prospectus to the latest practicable month–end before the Closing Date, figures which shall show the actual past performance of the Trading Advisor (or, if such actual past performance information is unavailable, then the estimated past performance) for such period, and which shall certify that, to the best of its knowledge, such figures are complete and accurate in all material respects;
(b) a certificate of the Trading Advisor in the form proposed prior to the Closing Date by counsel to the Trust and the Managing Owner, with such changes in such form as are proposed by the Trading Advisor or its counsel and are acceptable to the Trust and the Managing Owner and their counsel so as to make such form mutually acceptable to the Trust, the Managing Owner, the Trading Advisor, and their respective counsel, to the effect that:
(1) the representations and warranties of the Trading Advisor contained in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on the date of the certificate as though made on such date;
(2) nothing has come to the Trading Advisor’s attention which would cause the Trading Advisor to believe that, at any time from the time the Registration Statement initially became effective to the Closing Date, the Registration Statement, as amended from time to time, or the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented from time to time, with respect to the Trading Advisor, or the affiliates, controlling persons, shareholders, directors, officers or employees of any of the foregoing, or with respect to the Trading Approach or Past Performance History, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (with respect to the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances in which they were made) not misleading; and
(3) the Trading Advisor has performed all covenants and agreements herein contained to be performed on its part at or prior to the Closing Date;
(c) a certificate of the Trading Advisor signed by any relevant officer of the Trading Advisor (together with such supporting documents as are set forth in the certificate), in the form proposed prior to the Closing Date by counsel to the Trust and the Managing Owner, with such changes in such form as are proposed by the Trading Advisor or its counsel and are acceptable to the Trust and the Managing Owner and their counsel so as to make such form mutually acceptable to the Trust, the Managing Owner, the Trading Advisor, and their respective counsel, with respect to, (1) the continued effectiveness of the organizational documents of the Trading Advisor, (2) the continued effectiveness of the Trading Advisor’s registration as a commodity trading advisor under the CE Act and membership as a commodity trading advisor with the NFA and (3) the incumbency and genuine signature of the President and Secretary of the Trading Advisor;
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(d) a certificate from the state of formation of the Trading Advisor, to be dated at, on or around the Closing Date, as to its formation and good standing, provided that no certificate of formation shall be required at any Subsequent Closing Date.
| 6. | Trust’s, Trading Company’s and Managing Owner’s Closing Obligations. |
On or prior to the Initial Closing Date, and thereafter on or prior to each Subsequent Closing Date, if the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner have requested that the Trading Advisor provide certificates and documents, the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trading Advisor, the certificates and documents to the Trading Advisor and, except as may be set forth below, dated each such Closing Date:
(a) certificates of the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner, addressed to the Trading Advisor, in the form proposed prior to the Closing Date by counsel to the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner with such changes in such form as are proposed by the Trading Advisor or its counsel and are acceptable to the Trust, the Trading Company, the Managing Owner and their counsel so as to make such form mutually acceptable to the Trust, the Trading Company, the Managing Owner, the Trading Advisor, and their respective counsel, with respect to, as applicable, (1) the continued effectiveness of the Trust Agreement and the Certificate of Trust of the Trust, the limited liability company agreement of the Trading Company and the limited liability company agreement of the Managing Owner, (2) the continued effectiveness of the registration of the Managing Owner as a commodity pool operator under the CE Act and membership with the NFA in such capacity and (3) the incumbency and genuine signature of the managing member of the Managing Owner; and
(b) certificates from the State of Delaware with respect to each of the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner to be dated at, on or around the Closing Date as to the formation and good standing of the Trust, the Trading Company and the Managing Owner.
| 7. | Trading Advisor Independence. |
(a) Independent Contractor. The Trading Advisor shall for all purposes herein be deemed to be an independent contractor with respect to the Trust, the Managing Owner, the Trading Company and each other commodity trading advisor that may in the future provide commodity trading advisory services to the Trust, other trading companies and the Selling Agents, and shall, unless otherwise expressly authorized, have no authority to act for or to represent the Trust, the Trading Company, the Managing Owner, any other commodity trading advisor or the Selling Agents in any way or otherwise be deemed to be a general agent, joint venturer or partner of the Trust, the Trading Company, the Ma






