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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:
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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.
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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.
(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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