CFTC Staff Letters

DSIO provided a letter that exempts certain commodity trading advisors (CTAs) that are registered, but do not direct any client commodity interest accounts, from reporting on Form CTA-PR.

The CPO of two commodity pools, both exempt under Regulation 4.7, requested exemptive relief from the annual report requirement in Regulation 4.7(b)(3), to allow the filing of an annual report for the pools for the period from October 2, 2014, the date the pools began trading, to December 31, 2015; DSIO granted relief pursuant to Regulations 4.12(a) and 140.93 conditioned upon the future filing and distribution of a certified Annual Report for that time period.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to a pool’s participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool that had all of its participants redeem out in 2014 from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual report of the pool that is filed with NFA.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual report of the pool. The CPO has provided a waiver from the sole outside participant of the pool.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual report of the pool. The CPO has provided a waiver from the sole participant of the pool.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual report of the pool. The CPO has provided a waiver from the sole participant of the pool.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of several pools organized in a three-level master-feeder structure from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual reports of the pools.

Exemptive relief that was provided in CFTC Staff Letter 14-49 was granted with respect to: (1) additional proprietary commodity pools operated by a CPO referenced in that letter; and (2) a proprietary commodity pool operated by another CPO referenced in that letter. The CPOs provided the same representations provided in CFTC Staff Letter 14-49 and represented that they would comply with the conditions of the relief provided in that letter.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool from the audit requirements of Commission regulation 4.22(d) with respect to the financial statements in the 2014 annual report of the pool. The participants in the pool are the COO of the CPO and the COO’s self-directed IRA and the CPO has provided waivers from the participants.