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CPO and CTA Filing
Requirements
October 22, 2014
Tracey Hunt, Associate Director, Compliance
Mary McHenry, Associate Director, Compliance
Henry Parkin, AQR Capital Management LLC
Pool Quarterly Reports and Form PR
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 Form and Process
 CFTC Form
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Process for making changes
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How Help Text is developed
Pool Quarterly Reports and Form PR
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 NFA’s review and use of PQRs and PRs
 Compliance Department Structure
 Risk Analysis
 Relationship Data
 ROR vs. Net Income
 Conversations between CPO and NFA Staff
CPO’s Approach to Filings
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Managing a firm’s regulatory filings
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Role of Compliance and other groups/areas
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Process
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Reconciliations
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Documenting assumptions
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Responding to NFA Staff inquiries
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th PQR Filings
 Additional help text in Steps 2a and 2b
 Only include pools for which the CPO is required to be registered
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th PQR Filings
 New question: Box 30
 Include all commodity pools, even those exempt under 4.13 or excluded
under 4.5
Recent Changes to Forms
•New Questions - Boxes 25-28 - breakdown the total in Box 30
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th PQR Filings
 Expanded help text in Step 5
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th Form PR Filings
 Additional help text in Step 1d
 Include only trading programs for which the CTA is required to be registered
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th Form PR Filings
 Additional help text in Steps 2a and 2b
Exclude any assets that are attributable to pools for which the CPO is not required to be
registered
Exclude any assets that are attributable to pools that you operate as a CPO
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th PR Filings
 Additional help text in Step 3
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for June 30th PR Filings
 New question - Step 8 (Box 30)
 Include all managed accounts, even those for commodity pools that are
exempt or excluded pursuant to 4.13 or 4.5
 Boxes 25-28 breakdown the total in Box 30
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for September 30th PQR Filings
 Added boxes 8501 and 8502 to Fixed Income section of the Schedule of
Investments
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for September 30th PQR Filings
 Additional help text was added to Step 10, Statement of AUM regarding the
use of base currencies and conversion factors
Recent Changes to Forms
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 Effective for September 30th PQR Filings
 Additional relationship information for certain steps will persist from quarter to
quarter
Common Filing Deficiencies
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 Relationship start and end dates
 Relationships across firms and/or forms
 Pools appear on a PQR that should not be filing
 Discrepancies between current and prior filings (e.g. NAV or
investments)
 Responding to NFA Staff inquiries
Liquidation Statements
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 Update the Annual Questionnaire to delete or cease a pool, and provide
specifics
Liquidation Statements
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 “Ceased Trading” date
Liquidation Statements
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 Impact on PQRs
 Disclosure to pool participants
 Audited by CPA unless waivers are obtained
 Required components of a liquidation statement
 Circumstances that do not represent a “liquidated pool”
 Switching from 4.7 to 4.13 exempt pool
 Ceased trading commodity interests
 Temporary cessation of trading
 Other regulatory requirements other than CFTC
Resources
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 NFA’s website, www.nfa.futures.org
 Form PQR and Form PR templates updated quarterly
 2014 Tutorial, “Common PQR Filing Deficiencies”
 2013 Webinar, “Quarterly Reporting Requirements for CTAs”
 Technical Support
 [email protected]
 [email protected]
 NFA’s Information Center
 (800) 621-3570, or
 (312) 781-1410
CPO and CTA Hot Topics
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 CPO delegation
 Third-party recordkeeping rules
 Fund-of-Fund guidance
 Consolidation of statements
 Exemption/exclusion annual affirmation process
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Possible CPO and CTA customer protection measures
Thank you.