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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

In the Matter of

Janus ETF Trust

Janus Capital Management LLC

File No. 812-_______

Application for an Order under Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“Act”), for an exemption from Sections 2(a)(32), 5(a)(1), 22(d) and 22(e) of the Act and Rule 22c-1 under the Act, under Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act, for an exemption from Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act, and under Sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2) of the Act.

All communications and orders to:

Heidi W. Hardin, Esq.
Richard C. Noyes, Esq.
Janus Capital Management LLC
151 Detroit Street
Denver, Colorado 80206

With a copy to:
Stuart M. Strauss, Esq.
Dechert LLP
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

Page 1 of 56 sequentially numbered pages (including any exhibits).
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 3, 2010

INTRODUCTION

Summary of Application

The undersigned applicants, Janus ETF Trust (the “Trust”) and Janus Capital Management LLC (together with all entities controlling, controlled by or under common control with Janus Capital Management LLC, the “Adviser,” and together with the Trust, “Applicants”), apply for and request an order under Section 6(c) of the Act for an exemption from Sections 2(a)(32), 5(a)(1), 22(d) and 22(e) of the Act and from Rule 22c-1 under the Act, under Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act for an exemption from Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act, and under Sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2) of the Act (“Order”). Applicants request that the order requested herein apply to the initial series of the Trust described in Appendix A (“Initial Fund”), as well as to additional series of the Trust, additional series of existing open-end management investment companies and other open-end management investment companies, or series thereof, that may be created in the future (“Future Funds”). Any Future Fund will (a) be advised by the Adviser or an entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Adviser and (b) comply with the terms and conditions of this Application.

The Future Funds may include one or more exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) which invest in other open- and/or closed-end investment companies and/or ETFs (“Fund of Fund ETFs”). The Initial Fund and the Future Funds together are referred to herein as the “Funds.” Each Fund relying on the exemptive relief will operate as an actively managed ETF.

The requested Order would permit, among other things:

	•		shares (“Shares”) of the Funds, which are actively managed open-end management investment companies, or series thereof, to trade on national securities exchanges at prices set by the market rather than at net asset value (“NAV”);

	•		Shares to be redeemable in large aggregations only;

	•		certain Funds that invest in foreign securities to pay redemption proceeds more than seven calendar days after Shares are tendered for redemption;

	•		certain affiliated persons of the Trust to buy securities from, and sell securities to, the Trust in connection with the “in-kind” purchase and redemption of the Shares;

	•		Funds of Funds (as defined below) to acquire Shares of the Funds beyond the limitations in Section 12(d)(1)(A);

	•		the Funds, any principal underwriter for a Fund and any Broker (as defined below) to sell Shares of the Funds to a Fund of Funds (as defined below) beyond the limitations in Section 12(d)(1)(B); and

	•		a Fund to sell its Shares to and redeem its Shares from a Fund of Funds (as defined below) of which the Fund is an affiliated person or an affiliated person of an affiliated person.

Applicants believe that (a) with respect to the relief requested pursuant to Section 6(c), the requested exemption for the proposed transactions is appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy and

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provisions of the Act, and (b) with respect to the relief requested pursuant to Section 17(b), the proposed transactions, including the consideration to be paid or received, are reasonable and fair and do not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned; the proposed transactions are consistent with the investment objective and policy of each Fund; and the proposed transactions are consistent with the general purposes of the Act.

With respect to Section 12(d)(1), Applicants are requesting relief (“Fund of Funds Relief”) to permit management investment companies and unit investment trusts (“UITs”) registered under the Act that are not part of the same “group of investment companies,” within the meaning of Section 12(d)(1)(G)(ii) of the Act, as the Funds (such registered management investment companies are referred to as “Investing Management Companies,” such UITs are referred to as “Investing Trusts,” and Investing Management Companies and Investing Trusts are collectively referred to as “Funds of Funds”), to acquire Shares beyond the limitations in Section 12(d)(1)(A) and to permit the Funds, and any principal underwriter for the Funds, and any broker or dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act” and such persons registered under the Exchange Act, “Brokers”), to sell Shares beyond the limitations in Section 12(d)(l)(B). Applicants request that any exemption under Section 12(d)(1)(J) from Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B) apply to: (1) each Fund that is currently or subsequently part of the same group of investment companies as the Funds, as well as any principal underwriter for the Funds and any Brokers selling Shares of a Fund to Funds of Funds; and (2) each Fund of Funds that enters into a participation agreement (“FOF Participation Agreement”) with a Fund.¹ The defined term “Fund of Funds” does not include the Funds.

Applicants believe that the exemptive relief requested under Section 12(d)(1)(J) is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors. Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act provides that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) may exempt any person, security or transaction, or any class or classes of persons, securities or transactions, from any provision of Section 12(d)(1) if the exemption is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors. The legislative history of Section 12(d)(1)(J) indicates that when granting relief under Section 12(d)(1)(J), the Commission should consider, among other things, “the extent to which a proposed arrangement is subject to conditions that are designed to address conflicts of interest and overreaching by a participant in the arrangement, so that the abuses that gave rise to the initial adoption of the Act’s restrictions against investment companies investing in other investment companies are not repeated.”² Applicants believe that the conditions for relief, described at length herein, adequately address the concerns underlying Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act and that a grant of relief would satisfy the standard set forth in Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act.

In connection with the Fund of Funds Relief sought, Applicants are further requesting relief under Sections 6(c) and 17(b) from Sections 17(a)(1) and (2) to permit a Fund to sell its Shares to and redeem its Shares from, and engage in the in-kind transactions that would


¹		In no case will a Future Fund that is a Fund of Funds ETF rely on the exemption from Section 12(d)(1) Fund of Funds Relief being requested in this Application.

²		H.R. Rep. No. 622, 104th Cong., 2d Sess., at 43-44 (1996).

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accompany such sales and redemptions with, certain Funds of Funds of which the Funds are or become affiliated persons, or affiliated persons of affiliated persons.

All entities that currently intend to rely on the Order are named as Applicants. Any other entity that relies on the Order in the future will comply with the terms and conditions of this Application.³ A Fund of Funds may rely on the Order only to invest in Funds and not in any other registered investment company.

Comparability of Relief Sought to Prior Relief Granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission

Applicants seek relief to permit an actively managed fund to issue exchange-traded shares, substantially similar to the relief granted by the Commission to applicants with respect to other open-end management investment companies currently operating as actively managed ETFs.⁴

II.

APPLICANTS AND OTHER PRINCIPAL PARTIES

The Trust

The Trust, which is organized as a Delaware statutory trust, will be an open-end management company. The Trust will initially be comprised of one Initial Fund. The Trust will be overseen by a Board of Trustees (“Board”).

Although the Trust will be classified and registered under the Act as an open-end management investment company, neither the Trust nor any individual Fund will be marketed or otherwise held out as an “open-end investment company” or a “mutual fund” in light of the features (described herein) that make the Trust or any Fund significantly different from what the investing public associates with a traditional mutual fund. Instead, the Trust and the Funds will be marketed as an “actively managed exchange-traded fund,” “actively managed ETF,” an “ETF,” an “investment company,” a “fund,” or a “Trust” offering Shares.


³		The Funds will comply with the disclosure requirements adopted by the Commission in IC Rel. No. 28584, Enhanced Disclosure and New Prospectus Delivery Option for Registered Open-End Management Investment Companies (January 13, 2009) (“Release No. 28584”).

⁴		See In the Matter of AdvisorShares Investments, LLC and AdvisorShares Trust, IC Rel. No. 29264 (May 6, 2010) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 29291 (May 28, 2010) (order); In the Matter of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 3, Claymore Securities, Inc. and Claymore Advisors, LLC, IC Rel. No. 29256 (April 23, 2010) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 29271 (May 18, 2010) (order); In the Matter of Pacific Investment Management Company LLC and PIMCO ETF Trust, IC Rel. No. 28949 (October 20, 2009) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28993 (November 10, 2009) (order); In the Matter of Grail Advisors, LLC and Grail Advisors ETF Trust (formerly known as Grail Advisors’ Alpha ETF Trust), IC Rel. No. 28571 (December 23, 2008) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28604 (January 16, 2009) (order); In the Matter of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. and WisdomTree Trust, IC Rel. No. 28419 (September 29, 2008) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28471 (October 27, 2008) (order); In the Matter of First Trust Advisors L.P., et al., IC Rel. No. 28421 (September 29, 2008) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28468 (October 27, 2008) (order); In the Matter of PowerShares Capital Management LLC, et al., IC Rel. No. 28411 (September 29, 2008) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28467 (October 27, 2008) (order) (“Active PowerShares Order”), amending In the Matter of PowerShares Capital Management LLC, et al., IC Rel. No. 28140 (February 1, 2008) (notice) and IC Rel. No. 28171 (February 27, 2008) (order); and In the Matter of Bear Stearns Active ETF Trust, et al., IC Rel. Nos. 28172 (February 27, 2008) (order) and 28143 (February 5, 2008) (notice).

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The Adviser and Sub-Advisers

The Adviser will be the investment adviser to each of the Funds within the meaning of Section 2(a)(20)(A) of the Act. The Adviser has its principal office located at 151 Detroit Street, Denver, Colorado 80206. The Adviser is registered with the Commission as an investment adviser under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”).

The Adviser may enter into sub-advisory agreements with one or more investment advisers, each of which will serve as sub-advisers to a Fund (each, a “Sub-Adviser”) within the meaning of Section 2(a)(20)(B) of the Act. Each Sub-Adviser will be registered with the Commission as an investment adviser under Section 203 of the Advisers Act.

Each Sub-Adviser may have a number of other clients, which may include open-end management investment companies that are registered under the Act, separately managed accounts for institutional investors, privately offered funds that are not deemed to be “investment companies” in reliance on Sections 3(c)(1), (3)(c)(7) or 3(c)(11) of the Act, closed-end funds and business development companies (collectively, “Client Accounts”).

The Distributor

The Trust will enter into a distribution agreement with one or more distributors. Each distributor will be a Broker and will act as distributor and principal underwriter (“Distributor”) of one or more of the Funds. Each Distributor will distribute Shares on an agency basis. No Distributor is or will be affiliated with any Exchange (as defined below). The Distributor for each Fund will be identified as such in the current prospectus (the “Prospectus”) and/or statement of additional information (“SAI”) for the Fund and will comply with the terms and conditions of this Application. The Distributor of any one Fund may be an “affiliated person” or an affiliated person of an affiliated person of that Fund’s Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers.

Administrator, Custodian, Fund Accountant, Transfer Agent, Dividend Disbursing Agent and Securities Lending Agent

Each Fund will have an administrator (“Administrator”), custodian (“Custodian”), fund accountant (“Fund Accountant”), transfer agent (“Transfer Agent”), dividend disbursing agent (“Dividend Disbursing Agent”) and may have a securities lending agent (“Securities Lending Agent”) of portfolio securities (“Portfolio Securities”). The identity of the Administrator, Custodian, Fund Accountant, Transfer Agent, Dividend Disbursing Agent and Securities Lending Agent will be disclosed in each Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI. The performance of the duties and obligations of each of these service providers will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the rules thereunder. The Trust and the Securities Lending Agent will comply with guidelines of the Commission staff regarding the lending of portfolio securities of an open-end investment company. As discussed below, subject to the approval of the Board, the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may provide administration, custody, fund accounting, transfer agency, dividend disbursement and securities lending services to the Funds.

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III.

APPLICANTS’ PROPOSAL

Description of the Funds

Each Fund will offer Shares that will be listed on one or more national securities exchanges as defined in Section 2(a)(26) of the Act (herein collectively referred to as an “Exchange”). The Fund’s listing Exchange will not be affiliated with the Distributor. The Shares will not be individually redeemable by the Fund, but will trade on the Exchange as individual Shares.

Applicants observe that the ETF structure and operation is no longer novel. For well over a decade, the Commission has had an opportunity to review the operation of ETFs to determine that they would not lead to abuses that the Act addresses. In addition, actively managed ETFs have been trading since April 2008, and are no longer novel.

Like other actively managed ETFs, the difference between Applicants’ proposal and Index-ETFs relates to each Fund’s investment objective and securities selection methodology. Unlike Index-ETF proposals approved by the Commission, Applicants’ proposal involves an actively managed ETF. Instead of seeking to track the performance of a particular index, each Fund will pursue its investment objective by investing in securities that each Fund’s Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers believes will enable the Fund to achieve its stated investment objective.

During the past decade, the degree of portfolio management used by ETFs has progressed from (a) the passive strict replication strategies followed by the early unit investment trust products such as the SPDR, DIAMONDS and QQQs, to (b) the sampled and/or optimized portfolio strategies used by the management company products such as CountryBaskets, WEBS, iShares, Select Sector SPDRs, VIPERS, and the enhanced strategies of the PowerShares products, to (c) the HealthShares, Inc. structure, which utilized a replication or representative sampling strategy to an index created according to a methodology designed by an affiliate of the adviser,⁵ to (d) the actively managed ETF products such as the actively managed strategies used by certain PowerShares products and other sponsors.

Applicants believe that the utilization of an active management investment strategy to seek to achieve each Fund’s investment objective is consistent with the last evolution noted above, and merely a small but reasonable step beyond the scope of the earlier precedents for Index-ETFs.⁶ Applicants submit that the transparency process of the Funds (as described herein) is substantially similar to the structure of Index-ETFs.⁷ Each Fund will provide full transparency of its Portfolio Securities. Applicants further submit that the operation of the Funds and the Funds’ arbitrage mechanism, for all practical purposes, will be identical to the operation and arbitrage mechanism of Index-ETFs now trading.


⁵		In the matter of HealthShares, Inc.; X-Shares Advisors, LLC; and Ferghana-Wellspring LLC, File No. 812-13264 (filed as amended Dec. 6, 2006).

⁶		See, for example, In the Matter of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. and WisdomTree Trust, supra n. 4.

⁷		Id.

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Applicants further believe that the full transparency of the Funds’ Portfolio Securities will mitigate the potential conflicts of interest that might arise as a result of the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers’ active investment management of its relevant Fund. In addition, the Adviser, the Sub-Advisers and the Funds each will have adopted policies and procedures to address any potential conflicts of interest, all as discussed herein.

Applicants submit that (a) the Funds will operate, function and trade in a manner very similar to the Index-ETFs that are currently in the marketplace, (b) the process for ensuring each Fund’s transparency adequately resolves the concerns that might arise from the active nature of the Funds and (c) the Funds merit the requested relief.

Investment Objectives and Strategy

The Adviser and/or a Sub-Adviser will seek to achieve each Fund’s investment objective by utilizing an active management investment strategy.

The Initial Fund and Future Funds may invest in equity securities (“Equity Funds”) or fixed income securities (“Fixed Income Funds”) traded in the U.S. or non-U.S. markets. Fixed Income Funds may also include Funds that invest in a combination of equity and fixed-income securities. Funds that invest in foreign equity and/or fixed income securities are “Foreign Funds.” Foreign Funds may also include Funds that invest in a combination of foreign and domestic equity and/or fixed income securities. The Equity Funds and Fixed Income Funds which invest in domestic and/or fixed income securities together are “Domestic Funds,” which term includes any portion of a Fund that invests in domestic equity and fixed income securities. The Funds may also invest in a broad variety of other instruments including, but not limited to, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, government securities, cash and cash equivalents, commodities, indexed and inverse floating rate securities, floating and variable rate instruments, convertible instruments, preferred stocks, rights, warrants, real estate investment trusts, shares of other ETFs, UITs and exchange-traded notes, shares of money market mutual funds or other investment companies or pooled investment vehicles, foreign currency, mortgage- and asset-backed securities (including to-be-announced transactions), municipal debt securities, when-issued securities and delayed delivery transactions, and may engage in short sales and/or forward commitment transactions, in accordance with their investment objectives. The Initial Funds and Future Funds will not invest in swaps, options and futures. The investment objective and strategies of the Initial Fund are described in Appendix A.

The Adviser may select Sub-Advisers for the Funds as it deems appropriate. To the extent applicable, the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers will adopt compliance policies and procedures that are designed to address any conflicts of interest raised by the side-by-side management of the Funds and the Client Accounts (“Conflicts Policies and Procedures”). In utilizing an active management investment style, the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may use internal and external research as well as proprietary fundamental analysis and consideration of economic trends to execute a Fund’s investment strategy.

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Implementation of Investment Strategy

In order to implement each Fund’s investment strategy, the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers of a Fund may review and change the Portfolio Securities held by the Fund daily. On each business day, which means any day the NYSE is open for business, including as required by Section 22(e) of the Act (“Business Day”), before the commencement of trading in Shares on the Fund’s listing Exchange, the Fund will disclose on the Trust’s website (“Website”) the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities and other assets held by the Fund that will form the basis of the Fund’s calculation of NAV at the end of the Business Day.

The Adviser and the Sub-Advisers will not disclose information concerning the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities before such information is publicly disclosed and is available to the entire investing public. Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to disclosure to the general public of the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities, the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may disclose such information as may be necessary to the management of the Funds.

Additional Policies

General

Each Fund will adopt certain fundamental policies consistent with the Act and will be classified as “diversified” or “non-diversified” under the Act. Additional investment policies and strategies will be described in the Prospectus for each Fund.

Depositary Receipts

The Funds may invest in “Depositary Receipts.” Depositary Receipts are typically issued by a financial institution (a “Depository”) and evidence ownership in a security or pool of securities that have been deposited with the Depository.⁸ A Fund will not invest in any Depositary Receipts that the Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser deems to be illiquid or for which pricing information is not readily available. No entity affiliated with the Adviser or a Fund’s Distributor will be a depository of Depositary Receipts held by a Fund.

Management of the Funds

While each Fund will be managed by the Adviser and, if applicable, Sub-Advisers, the Board will have overall responsibility for the Funds’ operations. The composition of the Board will be in compliance with the requirements of Section 10 of the Act.


⁸		Depositary Receipts include American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”). With respect to ADRs, the Depository is typically a U.S. financial institution and the underlying securities are issued by a foreign issuer. The ADR is registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on Form F-6. ADR trades occur either on an Exchange or off-exchange. FINRA Rule 6620 requires all off-exchange transactions in ADRs to be reported within 90 seconds and ADR trade reports to be disseminated on a real-time basis. With respect to GDRs, the Depository may be a foreign or a U.S. entity, and the underlying securities may have a foreign or a U.S. issuer. All GDRs are sponsored and trade on a foreign exchange.

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Regulatory Concerns

In the Concept Release, the Commission stated that, in evaluating any specific proposal for an actively managed ETF, it will consider whether the proposal presents any new regulatory concerns. Applicants have considered the regulatory concerns the Commission identified and address them below.

The Trust and the Funds

Applicants intend to make clear in this Application that the Trust and its Funds will be structured and operated almost identically to actively managed ETFs now trading on the NYSE Arca, Inc. (“Arca”) or other Exchange, including The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”). Applicants submit that the structure and operation of the Trust and its Funds should be very familiar to investors and market participants who currently use ETFs, and that the Funds’ arbitrage mechanism will function identically to the arbitrage mechanism in effect for ETFs currently trading. As discussed herein, the relief sought is no longer novel, even to the extent that it pertains to actively managed ETFs; and Applicants believe that the full transparency of the Portfolio Securities of each Fund and other features of the Fund, as described in this Application, are fully responsive to the Commission’s regulatory concerns over actively managed ETFs, thereby making the Trust and its Funds appropriate vehicles for the relief sought in this Application.

Subject to the approval of the Board, the Adviser, a Sub-Adviser or an affiliated person of the Adviser (“Adviser Affiliate”) or an affiliated person of a Sub-Adviser (“Sub-Adviser Affiliate”) may provide custody, fund accounting, administration, transfer agency, dividend disbursement and/or securities lending services to the Funds. To the extent any Fund uses the services of the Adviser, any Adviser Affiliate, Sub-Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser Affiliate for the purposes described above, such activities will comply with the Act, the rules thereunder and the terms and conditions of this Application.

Other Regulatory Concerns

Applicants are not aware of any other issues that could cause the Funds to operate differently from an Index-ETF or that could affect the willingness of investors to purchase Shares either on the secondary market or in Creation Units from the Fund.

Description of Purchase and Redemption Provisions

Shares will not be individually redeemable. Only Shares combined into one or more groups of a fixed number of Shares (each group of a specified number of individual Shares will be defined as a “Creation Unit”) to be specified in a Fund’s Prospectus will be redeemable. Creation Units will not be listed or traded. The Shares, however, will be listed on an Exchange and traded in the secondary market in the same manner as other equity securities. Applicants intend that the initial NAV of the Shares be established at a level convenient for trading purposes.

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The Funds will have Shares listed on an Exchange. The Funds will comply with the terms and conditions of any Order granted pursuant to this Application.

Finally, Applicants have determined that purchases and redemptions of Creation Units will be made by means of an “in-kind” tender of specified Portfolio Securities, in cash or a combination of Portfolio Securities and cash. The “in-kind” approach will minimize the need to liquidate a Fund’s Portfolio Securities to meet redemptions and to acquire Portfolio Securities in connection with purchases of Creation Units and should permit closer tracking of the market price and NAV. “In-kind” purchases and redemptions will be made only in Creation Units.

Fund Transparency

Applicants believe that investors will have a reasonable expectation that all ETFs (whether index-based or actively managed) will be designed to enable efficient arbitrage and, thereby, minimize the probability that Shares will trade at a significant premium or discount to the Fund’s NAV. Applicants have considered the level of transparency in Portfolio Securities necessary to allow for efficient arbitrage activity in the Shares.⁹

After considering a variety of alternatives, Applicants determined that the best approach to providing a level of transparency that permits efficient arbitrage without compromising the statutory and fiduciary responsibilities of the Adviser would be to provide full transparency of each Fund’s portfolio.

The NAV of each Fund will be calculated on each Business Day as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE or other Exchange on which it is listed, generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.¹⁰

Each Business Day, the Adviser will publish free of charge on the Website (or provide a link to another website that will publish free of charge) the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities for each Fund, each Fund’s per Share NAV and the market closing price or the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at the time of the calculation of such NAV (“Bid/Ask Price”), all as of the prior Business Day. The identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities for each Fund will also be fully available through unaffiliated third-party data vendors. The amount representing, on a per Share basis, the sum of the current value of the Deposit Securities and the estimated Balancing Amount (as defined below) will be disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association.

Applicants do not believe that the Shares will persistently trade in the secondary market at a significant premium or discount in relation to the Fund’s NAV or that premiums or discounts will be greater than or last any longer than the temporary deviations between market price and NAV.


⁹		See Concept Release, supra n. 5, at 10 (“[The] high degree of transparency in the investment operations of an ETF helps arbitrageurs determine whether to purchase or redeem Creation Units based on the relative values of the ETF shares in the secondary market and the securities contained in the ETF’s portfolio”).

¹⁰		Applicants note that each Fund will have in place procedures for the fair valuation of Portfolio Securities in calculating NAV.

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The Adviser and the Sub-Advisers will adopt policies prohibiting their employees from disclosing or using any non-public information acquired through his or her employment, except as appropriate in connection with the rendering of services to the Funds.

Capital Structure and Voting Rights; Book-Entry

Owners of beneficial interests in Shares of the Funds (“Beneficial Owners”) will have one vote per Share with respect to matters regarding the Trust or the respective Fund for which a shareholder vote is required consistent with the requirements of the Act and the rules promulgated thereunder and state law applicable to Delaware statutory trusts.

Shares will be registered in book-entry form only and the Funds will not issue individual Share certificates. The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, a limited purpose trust company organized under the laws of the State of New York (“DTC”) or its nominee will be the record or registered owner of all outstanding Shares. Beneficial ownership of Shares will be shown on the records of DTC or DTC participants (“DTC Participants”). Beneficial Owners will exercise their rights in such securities indirectly through DTC and the DTC Participants. All references herein to owners or holders of such Shares shall reflect the rights of persons holding an interest in such securities as they may indirectly exercise such rights through DTC and DTC Participants, except as otherwise specified. No Beneficial Owner shall have the right to receive a certificate representing such Shares. Delivery of all notices, statements, shareholder reports and other communications from any Fund to Beneficial Owners will be at such Fund’s expense through the customary practices and facilities of DTC and the DTC Participants.

Exchange Listing

The Trust will list Shares of the Funds on the NYSE Arca or other Exchange. The Distributor will serve as principal underwriter only of the Creation Units of Shares. The principal secondary market for Shares will be the primary listing Exchange. Shares of the Funds will be traded on the Exchange in a manner similar to ETFs that are currently being traded. When NYSE Arca is the primary listing Exchange, it is expected that one or more Exchange member firms will be designated by the Exchange to act as a specialist and maintain a market on the Exchange for the Shares trading on the Exchange (“Exchange Specialist”).¹¹

Applicants intend to satisfy all of the listing requirements necessary to maintain the Shares’ listing on the Exchange. This includes any minimum threshold requirements related to Beneficial Owners and any additional listing requirement the Exchange deems advisable. In addition, if a Fund ceases operation and terminates, the Exchange may remove the Shares of the


¹¹		If Shares are listed on Nasdaq or a similar electronic Exchange (including NYSE Arca), one or more member firms of that Exchange will act as market maker (“Market Maker”) and maintain a market for Shares trading on that Exchange. On Nasdaq, no particular Market Maker would be contractually obligated to make a market in Shares. However, the listing requirements on Nasdaq, for example, stipulate that at least two Market Makers must be registered in Shares to maintain a listing. In addition, on Nasdaq and NYSE Arca, registered Market Makers are required to make a continuous two-sided market or subject themselves to regulatory sanctions. No Market Maker or Exchange Specialist will be an affiliated person, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Funds, except within Section 2(a)(3)(A) or (C) of the Act due solely to ownership of Shares as discussed below.

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Fund from listing and trading.¹² As long as each Fund operates in reliance on the requested Order, Shares will be listed on an Exchange.

Sales of Shares

General

The Trust will offer, issue and sell Shares of each Fund to investors only in Creation Units through the Distributor on a continuous basis at the NAV per Share next determined after an order in proper form is received. The NAV of each Fund will be determined as of the close of the regular trading session on the NYSE on each Business Day. The Trust will sell and redeem Creation Units of each Fund only on a Business Day, which includes any day that a Fund is required to be open under Section 22(e) of the Act.

Shares of each Fund may be purchased in Creation Units in exchange for an “in-kind” deposit, by the purchaser, of a particular portfolio of securities (“Deposit Securities”), cash or an “in-kind” deposit of Deposit Securities together with the deposit of a specified cash payment in the manner more fully described below.¹³

Likewise, for such reasons and to minimize liquidity problems, it is presently expected that redemptions of Creation Units generally will be made by each Fund through delivery of a particular portfolio of securities (“Redemption Securities”) and a specified cash payment in the manner more fully described below. Such an “in-kind” policy will minimize portfolio turnover and brokerage expenses.¹⁴


¹²		In the event that any Fund is terminated, the composition and weighting of the Portfolio Securities to be made available to redeemers shall be established as of such termination date. Applicants do not currently contemplate that any Fund will have specific termination events, but any Fund may be terminated either by a majority vote of the Board or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of the Fund entitled to vote. Although Shares are not automatically redeemable upon the occurrence of any specific event, each Fund’s organizational documents provide that the Board will have the unrestricted power to alter the number of Shares constituting a Creation Unit. Therefore, in the event of a termination, the Board in its discretion could determine to permit the Shares to be individually redeemable. In such circumstances, the Fund might elect to pay cash redemptions to all shareholders, with an “in kind” election for shareholders owning in excess of a certain stated minimum amount.

¹³		In determining whether a particular Fund will be selling or redeeming Creation Units on a cash or in-kind basis, the key consideration will be the benefit that would accrue to Fund investors. In many cases, particularly to the extent the Deposit Securities are less liquid, investors may benefit by the use of all cash creations because the Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser would execute trades rather than Market Makers. Purchases of Creation Units either on an all cash basis or in-kind are expected to be neutral to the Funds from a tax perspective. With respect to redemptions, tax considerations may warrant in-kind redemptions which do not result in a taxable event for the Fund. In contrast, cash redemptions typically require selling Portfolio Securities which may result in adverse tax consequences for the remaining Fund shareholders and which would not have occurred if the redemption had been made on an in-kind basis.

¹⁴		As discussed above, each of the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser and each Distributor has adopted or will adopt a Code of Ethics (as required under Rule 17j-1 under the Act and Rule 204-2 under the Advisers Act) that will contain provisions reasonably necessary to prevent Access Persons (as defined in Rule 17j-l) from engaging in any conduct prohibited in Rule 17j-1. In addition, the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser has adopted or will adopt Policies and Procedures to Detect and Prevent Insider Trading as required under Section 204A of the Advisers Act that are reasonably designed, taking into account the nature of their business, to prevent the misuse of material non public information in violation of the Advisers Act or Exchange Act or the rules or regulations thereunder.

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The Fixed Income Funds may substitute a cash-in-lieu amount to replace any Deposit Security or Redemption Security of a Fund that is a “to-be-announced transaction” or “TBA Transaction.” A TBA Transaction is a method of trading mortgage-backed securities. In a TBA Transaction, the buyer and seller agree upon general trade parameters such as agency, settlement date, par amount and price. The actual pools delivered generally are determined two days prior to settlement date. The amount of substituted cash in the case of TBA Transactions will be equivalent to the value of the TBA Transaction listed as a Deposit Security or Redemption Security.¹⁵

The Trust may also permit, in its sole discretion, an “in-kind” purchaser to substitute cash in lieu of depositing some or all of the requisite Deposit Securities. In order to preserve maximum efficiency and flexibility, the Trust reserves the right to determine in the future that Shares of one or more Funds may be purchased in Creation Units on a cash basis. However, any decision to permit cash purchases of Creation Units, would be based on a determination by the Trust, the Adviser and/or the Sub-Advisers that such method would reduce the Trust’s transaction costs or would enhance the Trust’s operating efficiency.

Transaction expenses, including operational processing and brokerage costs, may be incurred by a Fund when investors purchase or redeem Creation Units “in-kind” and such costs have the potential to dilute the interests of the Fund’s existing Beneficial Owners. Hence, each Fund may impose purchase or redemption transaction fees (“Transaction Fees”) in connection with effecting such purchases or redemptions. Since the Transaction Fees are intended to defray the transaction expenses as well as to prevent possible shareholder dilution resulting from the purchase or redemption of Creation Units, the Transaction Fees will be borne only by such purchasers or redeemers. In those instances in which a Fund permits an “in-kind” purchaser to substitute cash in lieu of depositing one or more of the requisite Deposit Securities, the purchaser may be assessed a higher Transaction Fee on the “cash in lieu” portion of its investment to cover the cost of purchasing the necessary Deposit Securities, including operational processing and brokerage costs, and part or all of the spread between the expected bid and offer side of the market relating to such Deposit Securities. The exact amounts of such Transaction Fees will be determined separately for each Fund and may vary over time.

The amount of the maximum Transaction Fee for each Fund and the method of calculating such Transaction Fees will be set separately and disclosed in a Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI. Variations in the Transaction Fees may be imposed from time to time, as disclosed in the Prospectus and/or SAI, in accordance with Rule 22d-1 under the Act and the method of determining such variations will be disclosed in the SAI. From time to time and for such periods as the Adviser and/or any Sub-Adviser in its sole discretion may determine, the Transaction Fees for purchases or redemptions of Creation Units for any Fund may be increased, decreased or otherwise modified. Such changes and variations will be effected by an amendment or supplement to the then-current registration statement for the Fund. Such Transaction Fees will be limited to amounts that have been determined by the Fund to be appropriate and will take into account operational processing costs associated with the recent Deposit Securities and Redemption Securities of the Funds. In all cases, such Transaction Fees will be limited in


¹⁵		Applicants expect that a cash-in-lieu amount would replace any TBA transaction that is listed as a Deposit Security or Redemption Security of any Fund.

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accordance with requirements of the Commission applicable to management investment companies offering redeemable securities.

Each Fund will issue, on a continuous offering basis, its Shares in one or more groups of a fixed number of Shares (at least 25,000) and such fixed number will be set forth in the Prospectus for each such Fund.¹⁶ Applicants have not yet established the initial value per Share for the Initial Fund.

All orders to purchase Shares in Creation Units must be placed with the Distributor by or through an “Authorized Participant” which is either: (1) a “Participating Party,” i.e., a Broker or other participant in the Continuous Net Settlement (“CNS”) System of National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”), a clearing agency registered with the Commission or (2) a participant in DTC, which, in either case, has signed a “Participant Agreement” with the Distributor. An Authorized Participant is not required to be a member of an Exchange. As described below, the Distributor will be responsible for transmitting orders to the Funds and will furnish to those placing such orders confirmation that the orders have been accepted, but the Distributor may reject any order for any reason, including an order that is not submitted in proper form. Subsequent to the acceptance of an order to purchase Shares in Creation Units, upon delivery of the requisite Deposit Securities and Balancing Amount, the Distributor will instruct the Trust to initiate “delivery” of the appropriate number of Shares of the applicable Fund to the book-entry account specified by the entity placing the order in the manner described below. The Distributor also will be responsible for delivering a Fund’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus,¹⁷ if applicable, to those persons creating Shares in Creation Units and for maintaining records of both the orders placed with it and the confirmations of acceptance furnished by it. In addition, the Distributor will maintain a record of the instructions given to the Trust to implement the delivery of Shares. The Distributor may delegate certain administrative tasks to the Administrator.

Payment Requirements for Creation Units

Payment with respect to Creation Units placed through the Distributor will be made by the purchasers generally by an “in-kind” deposit with the Trust of the Deposit Securities together with an amount of cash, if necessary, specified by the Adviser and/or the Sub-Advisers in the manner described below (“Balancing Amount”). The Balancing Amount is an amount equal to the difference between (1) the NAV (per Creation Unit) of a Fund and (2) the total aggregate market value (per Creation Unit) of the Deposit Securities.

The deposit of the requisite Deposit Securities and any Balancing Amount are collectively referred to herein as a “Portfolio Deposit.” The Fund will make available on each Business Day, before the opening of trading on the listing Exchange, the list of the names and the required number of shares of each Deposit Security (and the Balancing Amount) included in


¹⁶		Applicants believe that a conventional trading range will be between $20-$100 per Fund Share and each Fund reserves the right to declare a stock split if the trading price over time exceeds such price, as will be disclosed in the Prospectus and/or the SAI for each such Fund.

¹⁷		As defined in Release No. 28584, supra note 3.

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the current Portfolio Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous Business Day) for the relevant Fund. Such Portfolio Deposit will be applicable, subject to any adjustments to the Balancing Amount, as described below, in order to effect purchases of Creation Units of a given Fund until such time as the next-announced Portfolio Deposit composition is made available.

In addition, the Trust reserves the right, with respect to each Fund, to permit or require the substitution of an amount of cash (i.e., a “cash in lieu” amount) to be added to the Balancing Amount to replace any Deposit Security that: (1) may be unavailable or not available in sufficient quantity for delivery to the Trust upon the purchase of Shares in Creation Units, (2) may not be eligible for transfer through the Shares Clearing Process (as defined below) or (3) may not be eligible for trading by an Authorized Participant or the investor on whose behalf the Authorized Participant is acting. When such cash purchases of Creation Units are made available for a Fund, they will be effected in essentially the same manner as “in-kind” purchases of Shares. In the case of a cash purchase of Creation Units, the investor must pay the cash equivalent of the Deposit Securities it would otherwise be required to provide through an “in-kind” purchase, plus the same Balancing Amount required to be paid by an “in-kind” purchaser. Trading costs, operational processing costs and brokerage commissions associated with using cash to purchase the requisite Deposit Securities would be incurred by such Fund and would affect the value of all Shares. To avoid such costs, the Trust, the Adviser and/or the Sub-Advisers are empowered to adjust the relevant Transaction Fee to (a) defray any trading costs, operational processing costs and brokerage commissions associated with a cash purchase of Creation Units and (b) prevent shareholder dilution.

Creation Units may be purchased only by or through an Authorized Participant that has entered into a Participant Agreement with the Distributor. An investor does not have to be an Authorized Participant, but must place an order through, and make appropriate arrangements with, an Authorized Participant. Authorized Participants making payment for an order placed through the Distributor of any Creation Unit(s) of Shares of any Domestic Equity Fund must either: (1) initiate instructions pertaining to Portfolio Deposits through the CNS System as such processes have been enhanced to effect purchases and redemptions of Creation Units of Shares (such process being referred to herein as the “Shares Clearing Process”) or (2) deposit Portfolio Deposits with the Trust “outside” the Shares Clearing Process through the facilities of DTC. This latter process, which is a DTC manual clearing process, is available to all DTC Participants; because it involves the manual line-by-line movement of (potentially) hundreds of securities positions, its usage generally costs a Fund more than the Shares Clearing Process to settle a purchase or redemption of a Creation Unit. With respect to any Fund that invests in a mix of domestic and foreign equity and debt securities, the clearance and settlement of its Creation Units will depend on the nature of each security, consistent with the processes discussed below.

The Shares Clearing Process is not currently available for purchases or redemptions of Foreign Funds. Accordingly, Authorized Participants making payment for orders of Creation Units of Shares of Foreign Funds must have international trading capabilities and must deposit the Portfolio Deposit with the Fund “outside” the Shares Clearing Process through the relevant Fund’s Custodian and sub-custodians. Specifically, the purchase of a Creation Unit of a Foreign Fund will operate as follows. Following the notice of intention, an irrevocable order to purchase Creation Units, in the form required by the Fund, must be received by the Distributor from the

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Authorized Participant on its own or another investor’s behalf by the Order Cut-Off Time on the Transmittal Date (both as defined below). Once a purchase order has been placed with the Distributor, the Distributor will inform the Adviser and Custodian. Once the Custodian has been notified of an order to purchase, it will provide necessary information to the sub-custodian(s) of the relevant Foreign Fund. The Authorized Participant will deliver to the appropriate sub-custodians, on behalf of itself or the Beneficial Owner on whose behalf it is acting, the relevant Deposit Securities (or the cash value of all or a part of such securities, in the case of a permitted or required cash purchase or “cash-in-lieu” amount), with any appropriate adjustments as determined by the Fund. Deposit Securities must be delivered to the accounts maintained at the applicable sub-custodians. All sub-custodians will comply with Rule 17f-5 under the Act. Once sub-custodians confirm to the Custodian that the required securities have been delivered, the Custodian will notify the Adviser and Distributor. The Distributor will then deliver a confirmation and Fund Prospectus or Summary Prospectus to the purchaser.

Except as described below, Shares and Deposit Securities of Fixed Income Funds will clear and settle in the same manner as the Shares and Deposit Securities of Equity Funds. The Shares and Deposit Securities of Fixed Income Funds will clear and settle in the same manner as the fixed income securities and shares of other ETFs that invest in fixed income securities.¹⁸ Deposit Securities that are U.S. government or U.S. agency securities and any cash will settle via free delivery through the Federal Reserve System, while Deposit Securities that are U.S. corporate and non-corporate (other than U.S. government) fixed income securities will settle through DTC. Non-U.S. fixed income securities will settle in accordance with the normal rules for settlement of such securities in the applicable non-U.S. market. The Shares will settle through DTC, however, settlement and clearing of foreign securities currently cannot be made through DTC. The Custodian will monitor the movement of the underlying Deposit Securities and will instruct the movement of Shares only upon validation that such securities have settled correctly. The settlement of Shares will be aligned with the settlement of the underlying Deposit Securities and will generally occur on a settlement cycle of T+3 Business Days or shorter, at the sole discretion of the Trust on behalf of each Fixed Income Fund.¹⁹ Applicants do not believe the issuance and settlement of Creation Units in the manner described above will have any negative impact on the arbitrage efficiency or the secondary market trading of Shares. Applicants do not believe that the clearing and settlement process will affect the arbitrage of Shares of the Fixed Income Funds.


¹⁸		See In the Matter of iShares Trust, et al., IC Rel. No. 25622 (June 25, 2002), as amended, except that the Funds will not track underlying indices.

¹⁹		Applicants note that Shares of the Fixed Income Funds typically will trade and settle on a trade date plus three business days (“T+3”) basis. When this occurs, Applicants believe that Shares of each Fixed Income Fund will trade in the secondary market at prices that reflect interest and coupon payments on Portfolio Securities through the Shares’ T+3 settlement date. As with other investment companies, the Act requires the Fixed Income Funds to calculate NAV based on the current market value of portfolio investments, and does not permit the Fixed Income Funds to reflect in NAV interest and coupon payments not due and payable. Therefore, to the extent that Shares of the Fixed Income Funds may trade in the secondary market at a price that reflects interest and coupon payments due on a T+3 settlement date, Applicants anticipate that such Shares may trade in the secondary market at a slight premium to NAV that reflects these interest and coupon payments. Applicants do not believe that this apparent premium will have any impact on arbitrage activity or the operations of the Fixed Income Funds. The Exchange Specialists and/or Market Makers (and other institutional investors) who would take advantage of arbitrage activity have full access to this information and regularly consider such information when buying an individual bond or baskets of fixed income securities.

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The securities and the number of shares of the Deposit Securities required for the Portfolio Deposit for each Fund will change as rebalancing adjustments and corporate action events are reflected from time to time by the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers in light of the investment objective of such Fund. Each Fund reserves the right to permit or require a purchasing investor to substitute an amount of cash or a different security to replace any prescribed Deposit Security.²⁰ Substitution might be permitted or required, for example, because one or more Deposit Securities: (1) may be unavailable, or may not be available in the quantity needed to make a Portfolio Deposit; (2) may not be eligible for transfer through the Shares Clearing Process; or (3) may not be eligible for trading by an Authorized Participant or the investor on whose behalf the Authorized Participant is acting. Brokerage commissions incurred by a Fund to acquire any Deposit Security not part of the Portfolio Deposit are expected to be immaterial, and in any event, the Adviser may adjust the relevant Transaction Fee to ensure that the Fund collects the extra expense from the purchaser.

All orders to create Creation Units, whether through or “outside,” the Shares Clearing Process, must be received by the Distributor no later than the order cut-off time designated as such in the Participant Agreement (“Order Cut-Off Time”), in each case on the date such order is placed (“Transmittal Date”) in order for creation of the Creation Units to be effected based on the NAV of the relevant Funds as determined on such date. Currently, in the case of custom orders²¹, the order must be received by the Distributor, no later than 3:00 p.m. ET. On days when an Exchange or the bond markets close earlier than normal, Fixed Income Funds may require custom orders for Creation Units to be placed earlier in the day. For example, on days when the generally accepted close of the bond market occurs earlier than normal (such as the day before a holiday), the Order Cut-Off Time for custom orders is expected to be no later than 11:00 a.m. ET. The procedures for making payment through, and “outside,” the Shares Clearing Process will be set forth in detail in the SAI and are discussed below.

Placement and Acceptance of Creation Unit Purchase Orders

To initiate an order for a Creation Unit of any particular Fund, an Authorized Participant must give notice to the Distributor of its intent to submit such an order to purchase not later than the Order Cut-Off Time on the relevant Business Day. The Order Cut-Off Time for purchases of Shares of each Fund will be the same time that the Fund calculates its NAV and is currently expected to be 4:00 p.m. ET. Once the Distributor receives a notice of an intent to submit an order, the Distributor shall cause the Adviser, and/or the Sub-Advisers and the Custodian to be informed of such notice.


²⁰		In certain circumstances, an investor that tenders a non-conforming basket of Deposit Securities may be required to purchase Creation Units outside the Shares Clearing Process because the Shares Clearing Process can only handle non-conforming deposits in specified situations.

²¹		A custom order may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Fund permits the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Balancing Amount to replace any Deposit Security that may not be (a) available in sufficient quantity for delivery or (b) be eligible for trading by such Authorized Participant or the investor for which it is acting.

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4. Purchases Through the Shares Clearing Process

An entity purchasing Creation Units of Shares may use the Shares Clearing Process that has been designed to provide trade instructions and the transfer of the requisite Portfolio Deposit to the Trust, along with the appropriate Transaction Fee. Upon the deposit of such Portfolio Deposit in payment for such Creation Units of Shares placed through the Distributor, such Shares will be delivered to the purchaser thereof.

5. Purchases “Outside” the Shares Clearing Process

An entity purchasing Creation Units of Shares “outside” the Shares Clearing Process will be using a manual line-by-line position movement of each Deposit Security and hence will be required to pay a higher Transaction Fee than would have been charged had the creation been effected through the Shares Clearing Process, calculated in the manner disclosed in the Prospectus and/or SAI. Upon the deposit of the requisite Portfolio Deposit in payment for Creation Units placed through the Distributor, such Shares in Creation Units will be delivered to the purchasers thereof.

An Authorized Participant must make available on or before the contractual settlement date, by means satisfactory to the Trust, immediately available or same-day funds estimated by the Trust to be sufficient to pay the Balancing Amount next-determined after acceptance of the purchase order together with the applicable purchase Transaction Fee. Any excess funds will be returned following settlement of the issue of the aggregation of a Creation Unit.

Subject to the conditions that (a) a properly completed irrevocable purchase order has been submitted by an Authorized Participant (either on its own or another investor’s behalf) not later than the Order Cut-Off Time on the Transmittal Date, and (b) arrangements satisfactory to the Trust are in place for payment of the Balancing Amount and any other cash amounts that may be due, the Trust will accept the order, subject to its right (and the right of the Distributor, the Adviser and/or the Sub-Advisers) to reject any order for any reason, including an order not submitted in proper form.

Once the Trust has accepted an order, upon the next determination of the NAV per Share of the relevant Fund, the Trust will confirm the issuance, against receipt of payment, of a Creation Unit of such Fund at such NAV per Share. The Distributor will then transmit a confirmation of acceptance to the Authorized Participant that placed the order.

A Creation Unit of a Fund will not be issued until the transfer of good title to the Trust of the Deposit Securities and the payment of the Balancing Amount have been completed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent contemplated by a Participant Agreement, Creation Units will be issued to an Authorized Participant despite the fact that the corresponding Portfolio Deposits have not been received in part or in whole, in reliance on the undertaking of such Authorized Participant to deliver the missing Deposit Securities as soon as possible, which undertaking shall be secured by such Authorized Participant’s delivery and maintenance of sufficient collateral. The Participant Agreement will permit the Fund to use such collateral to buy the missing Deposit Securities at any time and will subject the Authorized Participant to

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liability for any shortfall between the cost to the Trust of purchasing such securities and the value of the collateral. The SAI may contain further details relating to such collateral procedures.

6. Rejection of Creation Unit Purchase Orders

As noted above, the Distributor may reject any order to purchase Creation Units for any reason, including if an order to purchase Shares is not submitted in proper form. In addition, a Fund may reject a purchase order transmitted to it by the Distributor if:

	(i)		the purchaser or group of related purchasers, upon obtaining the Creation Units of Shares of a Fund order, would own eighty percent (80%) or more of the outstanding Shares of such Fund;

	(ii)		the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would have certain adverse tax consequences, such as causing the Fund no longer to qualify for “registered investment company” (“RIC”) status under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”) for federal tax purposes;

	(iii)		the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would, in the opinion of the Fund, be unlawful, as in the case of a purchaser who was banned from trading in securities;

	(iv)		the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Fund, the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers, have an adverse effect on the Fund or on the rights of the Fund’s Beneficial Owners; or

	(v)		there exist circumstances outside the control of the Fund that make it impossible to process purchases of Creation Units of Shares for all practical purposes. Examples of such circumstances include: acts of God or public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outage resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Funds, the Adviser, any Sub-Adviser, the Transfer Agent, the Custodian, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC or any other participant in the purchase process; and similar extraordinary events.

Pricing

The price of Shares trading on an Exchange will be based on a current bid/offer market. The price of Shares of any Fund, like the price of all traded securities, is subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well as the current value of the Portfolio Securities held by such Fund. In addition, Shares are available for purchase or sale on an intra-day basis on an Exchange and do not have a fixed relationship to the previous day’s NAV or the current day’s NAV. Prices on an Exchange, therefore, may be below, at, or above the most recently calculated NAV of such Shares. No secondary sales will be made to Brokers at a concession by the Distributor or by a Fund. Transactions involving the sale of Shares on an Exchange will be subject to customary brokerage commissions and charges.

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Applicants believe that the existence of a continuous trading market on an Exchange for Fund Shares, together with the publication by the Exchange of the current market value of the sum of the Deposit Securities and the estimated Balancing Amount, will be features of the Fund that will be particularly attractive to certain types of investors. Applicants intend to emphasize these features in the marketing of Shares.

Applicants note that the pricing of Shares by means of bids and offers on an Exchange in the secondary market is no longer novel. Applicants are aware of the marketing success of PowerShares, Rydex, SPDRs, MidCap SPDRs and Select Sector SPDRs, the individual securities of which have been traded on Exchanges, but which also permit on a continuous basis the redemption of specified aggregations of such individual securities. It is apparent to Applicants that an exchange-traded open-end investment company that provides a daily redemption feature affords significant possible benefits for many types of investors.

Redemption

Beneficial Owners of Shares may sell their Shares in the secondary market, but must accumulate enough Shares to constitute a Creation Unit in order to redeem through the Trust. Redemption orders must be placed by or through an Authorized Participant. Creation Units will be redeemable at NAV per Share next determined after receipt of a request for redemption by the Trust. The Trust will have, pursuant to its organizational documents, the right to make redemption payments with respect to a Fund in cash, “in-kind” or in any combination of both, provided the value of its redemption payments, on a Creation Unit basis, equals the NAV times the appropriate number of Shares of such Creation Unit.

Except with respect to certain Funds that invest in foreign securities (as discussed below), consistent with the provisions of Section 22(e) of the Act and Rule 22e-2 thereunder, the right to redeem will not be suspended, nor payment upon redemption delayed, except as provided by Section 22(e) of the Act. Subject to the foregoing, Creation Units of any Fund will generally be redeemable on any Business Day in exchange for the Redemption Securities and any Cash Redemption Payment (as defined below) in effect on the date a request for redemption is made.

The Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers will publish daily the list of Redemption Securities that a redeemer will receive from the Fund. Applicants expect that the Deposit Securities and Redemption Securities will generally consist of a pro rata basket of the Fund’s portfolio. In some instances, the Deposit Securities may differ slightly from the Redemption Securities. The Trust will also deliver to the redeeming shareholder in cash the “Cash Redemption Payment,” which on any given Business Day will be an amount calculated with respect to the Redemption Securities in the same manner as the Balancing Amount is calculated with respect to Deposit Securities, although the actual amount may differ if the Redemption Securities are not identical to the Deposit Securities applicable for Creation Units on the same day. To the extent that the Redemption Securities have a value greater than the NAV of the Shares being redeemed, a cash payment equal to the differential will be paid by the redeeming shareholder to the Trust. The Trust may also make redemptions in cash, in lieu of transferring one or more Redemption Securities to a redeemer, if the Trust determines that such method is warranted. This could occur, for example, when a redeeming shareholder is restrained by regulation or policy from

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transacting in certain Redemption Securities, such as the presence of such Redemption Securities on a redeeming investment banking firm’s restricted list.

Redemption of Shares in Creation Units may be subject to a cash Transaction Fee imposed in the same amount and manner as the Transaction Fee incurred in purchasing such Shares. Redemption of Shares may be made either through the Shares Clearing Process or “outside” the Shares Clearing Process through the facilities of DTC. As discussed with respect to purchases, a redeeming shareholder will pay a Transaction Fee to offset a Fund’s operational processing costs and other similar costs incurred in transferring the Redemption Securities from its account to the account of the redeeming investor. An entity redeeming Shares in Creation Unit aggregations “outside” the Shares Clearing Process may be required to pay a higher Transaction Fee than would have been charged had the redemption been effected through the Shares Clearing Process. In addition, an entity redeeming Shares that receives cash in lieu of one or more Redemption Securities may be assessed a higher Transaction Fee on the “cash in lieu” portion to cover the costs of selling such Redemption Securities, including trading costs, brokerage commissions, and all or part of the spread between the expected bid and offer side of the market relating to such Redemption Securities. This higher Transaction Fee will be assessed in the same manner as the Transaction Fee incurred in purchasing Creation Units using a “cash in lieu” portion, and will be calculated in the manner as disclosed in the Prospectus and/or SAI.

To the extent contemplated by a Participant Agreement, in the event an Authorized Participant has submitted a redemption request in proper form but is unable to transfer all or part of the Creation Unit to be redeemed to the Distributor on behalf of the Fund prior to the time that the Fund calculates its NAV on the date such redemption request is submitted, the Distributor will nonetheless accept the redemption request in reliance on an undertaking by the Authorized Participant to deliver the missing Shares as soon as possible, which undertaking shall be secured by the Authorized Participant’s delivery and maintenance of sufficient collateral. The Participant Agreement will permit the Trust, on behalf of the relevant Fund, to use such collateral to purchase the missing Shares or acquire the Redemption Securities and the Balancing Amount underlying such Shares, and will subject the Authorized Participant to liability for any shortfall between the cost of the Trust acquiring such Shares, Redemption Securities or Balancing Amount and the value of the collateral. The SAI may contain further details relating to such collateral procedures.

A redemption request outside the Shares Clearing Process will be considered to be in proper form if (a) a duly completed request form is received by the Distributor from the Authorized Participant on behalf of itself or another redeeming investor at a time specified by the Trust (currently expected to be 4:00 p.m. ET) and (b) arrangements satisfactory to the Trust are in place for the Authorized Participant to transfer or cause to be transferred to the Trust the Creation Unit of a Fund being redeemed through the book-entry system of DTC on or before contractual settlement of the redemption request. As discussed above, in certain circumstances, each Fund in its discretion may require or permit cash to be substituted for a Redemption Security.

When redeeming a Creation Unit of a Foreign Fund and taking delivery of Redemption Securities in connection with such redemption into a securities account of the Authorized

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Participant or investor on whose behalf the Authorized Participant is acting, the owner of the account must maintain appropriate security arrangements with a Broker, bank or other custody provider in each jurisdiction in which any of the Redemption Securities are customarily traded. If neither the Authorized Participant nor the redeeming investor has appropriate arrangements in place and is not able to make such arrangements, or if it is otherwise not possible to deliver Redemption Securities in certain jurisdictions the Fund may use its discretion to redeem Creation Units of Shares for cash; in such an instance, the redeeming shareholder will be required to accept a cash redemption in an amount equal to the aggregate NAV of the Creation Unit(s) redeemed minus the applicable Transaction Fee, which may be higher to cover costs incidental to converting Redemption Securities to cash.²²

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company

If each Fund qualifies for, and elects treatment as, a RIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes, then each Fund effectively will be treated as if it were a separate registered investment company and will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on its income to the extent it distributes substantially all of its investment company taxable income and net capital gains and satisfies other applicable requirements of the Code.

The Trust, on behalf of each Fund, will have the right to reject an order for purchase of Creation Units of Shares upon an “in-kind” deposit of Deposit Securities if the purchaser (or a group of related purchasers) would, upon obtaining the Shares so ordered, own 80 percent or more of the outstanding Shares of a given Fund and if, in consequence, pursuant to Section 351 of the Code, the respective Fund would have a basis in the Deposit Securities different from the market value of such Deposit Securities on the date of deposit. Each Fund will have the right to require and rely upon information necessary to determine beneficial ownership of Shares for purposes of the 80 percent determination or in lieu of this, accept a certification from a Broker that is a member of the Fund’s listing Exchange, that the cost basis of the Deposit Securities is essentially identical to their market value at the time of deposit.

Dividends, Distributions and Tax

Dividends from net investment income will be declared and paid at least annually by each Fund in the same manner as by other open-end investment companies. Certain of the Funds may pay dividends, if any, on a monthly or quarterly basis. Dividends will be paid to Beneficial Owners of record in the manner described below. Distributions of realized capital gains, if any, generally will be declared and paid once a year, but each Fund may make distributions on a more frequent basis to comply with the distribution requirements of the Code, in all events in a manner consistent with the provisions of the Act.

Dividends and other distributions on Shares of each Fund will be distributed on a pro rata basis to Beneficial Owners of Shares. Dividend payments will be made through DTC and the


²²		Applicants observe that certain Beneficial Owners may reside in a country that subjects them to unfavorable income tax treatment if they are entitled to receive in-kind redemption proceeds. In such instances, the Fund may adopt a policy that such resident Beneficial Owners must redeem Creation Units for cash.

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DTC Participants to Beneficial Owners on the record date with amounts received from each Fund.

Each Fund (a) will make additional distributions to the extent necessary to distribute the annual investment company taxable income of the Fund, plus any net capital gains and (b) may make additional distributions to avoid imposition of the excise tax imposed by Section 4982 of the Code. The Board of Trustees will reserve the right to declare special dividends if, in its reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable to preserve the status of each Fund as a RIC or to avoid imposition of income or excise taxes on undistributed income.

Dividend Reinvestment Service

The Trust will not make the DTC book-entry dividend reinvestment service available for use by Beneficial Owners for reinvestment of their cash proceeds, but certain individual Brokers may make a dividend reinvestment service available to their clients. A Fund’s SAI will inform potential investors of this fact and direct interested investors to contact their Brokers to ascertain the availability of such a service through their Brokers.

Shareholder Transaction and Distribution Expenses

No sales charges for purchases of Creation Units of Shares of any Fund are contemplated. As indicated above, each Fund will charge a Transaction Fee only to those investors purchasing and redeeming Creation Units of its Shares. However, investors purchasing and selling Shares in the secondary market may incur customary brokerage commissions, fees and expenses. The Trust will be authorized to implement a plan under Rule 12b-1 of the Act of up to 25 basis points for each of the Funds, calculated on the average daily NAV of each Fund. Such plan, if implemented, will be disclosed in the Prospectus.

Shareholder Reports

The Trust will furnish to the DTC Participants for distribution to Beneficial Owners of each Fund notifications with respect to each distribution, as well as an annual notification as to the tax status of such Funds’ distributions. The Trust will also furnish to the DTC Participants, for distribution to Beneficial Owners, the Trust’s annual report containing audited financial statements, as well as copies of its semi-annual shareholder report (together, “Shareholder Reports”).

Availability of Information

Applicants believe that a great deal of information will be available to prospective investors about the Funds. The Website, which will be publicly available prior to the public offering of Shares, will include the current Summary Prospectus (if any), Prospectus and SAI for each Fund that may be downloaded. The Website will include additional quantitative information updated on a daily basis, including, for each Fund, (1) daily trading volume, the prior Business Day’s reported NAV and the market closing price or the Bid/Ask Price, and a calculation of the premium and discount of the market closing price or Bid/Ask Price against the NAV, and (2) data in chart format displaying the frequency distribution of discounts and

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premiums of the daily closing price against the NAV, within appropriate ranges, for each of the four previous calendar quarters. On each Business Day, before commencement of trading in Shares on the Exchange, the Fund will disclose on the Website the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities and other assets held by the Fund that will form the basis for the Fund’s calculation of NAV at the end of the Business Day. The Website and information will be publicly available at no charge.²³ In addition, the NAV for each Fund will be calculated and disseminated daily.

Investors interested in a particular Fund can also obtain the Fund’s SAI, each Fund’s Shareholder Reports and its Form N-SAR, filed twice a year. The Fund’s SAI and Shareholder Reports are available free upon request from the Trust, and those documents and the Form N-CSR and Form N-SAR may be viewed on-screen or downloaded from the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

In addition, because the Shares are listed on an Exchange, prospective investors have access to information about the product over and above what is normally available about a security of an open-end investment company. Information regarding market price and volume is and will be continually available on a real-time basis throughout the day on Brokers’ computer screens and other electronic services. As previously stated, the Exchange will disseminate every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association an amount representing, on a per Share basis, the sum of the current value of the Deposit Securities and the estimated Balancing Amount, if any. The Funds are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of any such amount and make no warranty as to its accuracy.

Sales and Marketing Materials and Prospectus Disclosure

Applicants will take such steps as may be necessary to avoid confusion in the public’s mind between the Trust and the Funds on the one hand, and a traditional “open-end investment company” or “mutual fund,” on the other hand. For example, with respect to disclosure in a Fund’s Prospectus concerning the description of the Fund and the non-redeemability of Shares, the Trust and the Funds will observe the following policies: (1) the term “mutual fund” will not be used except to compare and contrast the Trust or a Fund with conventional mutual funds; (2) the term “open-end management investment company” will be used in a Fund’s Prospectus only to the extent required by Form N-1A or other securities law requirements and this phrase will not be included on the cover page of the Fund’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus, if any; (3) each Fund’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus, if any, will set forth the fact that Shares will be listed on an Exchange (which will be identified) and will be individually non-redeemable; (4) the Prospectus will disclose that the owners of Shares may acquire those Shares from the Fund, and tender those Shares for redemption to the Fund, in Creation Units only; and (5) the Prospectus will clearly disclose that individual Share prices may be below, above or at the most recently


²³		Under accounting procedures followed by the Funds, trades made on the prior Business Day (“T”) will be booked and reflected in NAV on the current Business Day (“T+1”). Accordingly, the Funds will be able to disclose at the beginning of the Business Day the portfolio that will form the basis for the NAV calculation at the end of the Business Day.

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calculated NAV. The detailed explanation of the issuance and redemption procedures for Creation Units will be provided in the SAI.

Although the Trust will be classified and registered under the Act as an open-end management investment company, neither the Trust nor any Fund will be advertised or marketed or otherwise “held out” as a traditional open-end investment company or a mutual fund. Instead, each Fund will be marketed as an “actively managed exchange-traded fund,” “actively managed ETF” or “ETF.” To that end, the designation of the Trust and the Funds in all marketing materials will be limited to the terms “exchange-traded fund,” “ETF,” “investment company,” “fund” and “trust” without reference to an “open-end fund” or a “mutual fund,” except to compare and contrast the Trust and the Funds with traditional open-end management investment companies (which may be referred to as “mutual funds”). In addition, each Fund’s Prospectus, Summary Prospectus (if any) and advertising material will prominently disclose that the Fund is an “actively managed exchange-traded fund” or “actively managed ETF.” All marketing materials that describe the features or method of obtaining, buying or selling Creation Units, or Shares traded on the Exchange, or refer to redeemability, will prominently disclose that Shares are not individually redeemable shares and will disclose that the owners of Shares may acquire those Shares from the Fund, or tender such Shares for redemption to the Fund in Creation Units only. The same approach will be followed in connection with the SAI, Shareholder Reports and investor educational materials issued or circulated in connection with the Shares.

Each Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI will also state that, while Creation Units of Shares may be redeemed, brokerage and other costs are expected to be associated with aggregating a sufficient number of Shares to redeem them in a Creation Unit. After a Fund’s Shares have traded for 12 months or more, the Fund’s Website will provide supplementary information on market premiums or discounts relative to the NAV to enable present Beneficial Owners and prospective investors to evaluate the relative desirability of the Shares’ intraday marketability versus a conventional mutual fund’s redeemability at every trading day’s closing NAV.

The primary disclosure document with respect to a Fund’s Shares is the Fund’s Prospectus or Summary Prospectus. As with all investment company securities, the purchase of Shares in Creation Units will be accompanied or preceded by a Prospectus or Summary Prospectus.²⁴ In addition, a Prospectus or Summary Prospectus will accompany each secondary market trade of the Shares.

A Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI will make clear that Shares may be bought from a Fund only in Creation Units and redeemed by Fund only if tendered in Creation Units, and will contain an explanation of the procedures for purchasing and redeeming Creation Units in appropriate detail. A Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI also will disclose certain legal risks that are unique to persons purchasing Creation Units from a Fund.

The Distributor, in its capacity as principal underwriter and distributor, will coordinate the production and distribution of the Prospectus or Summary Prospectus to Brokers. It will be the responsibility of the Brokers to ensure that a Prospectus or Summary Prospectus is provided


²⁴		Pursuant to Rule 498, to the extent that a Summary Prospectus is delivered, the statutory prospectus will be provided online, and will be sent upon request.

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to each secondary market purchaser of Shares. The Funds will provide copies of its Shareholder Reports to DTC Participants for distribution to Beneficial Owners. The above policies and format will also be followed in all reports to Beneficial Owners.

Finally, with respect to the proposed Funds of Funds Relief, the FOF Participation Agreement will further require each Fund of Funds that exceeds the 5% or 10% limitations in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act to disclose in its prospectus that it may invest in Funds and to disclose in “plain English” in its prospectus the unique characteristics of investing in the Funds, including but not limited to the expense structure and any additional expenses of investing in the Funds. A Fund may choose to reject a purchase order at the discretion of the Fund.

Procedure by Which Shares Will Reach Investors: Disclosure Documents

Based on the experience of existing ETFs, Applicants expect that there will be several categories of market participants who are likely to be interested in purchasing Creation Units of a Fund.

One category is the institutional investor that desires to invest a portion of its portfolio in the type of Portfolio Securities held by the relevant Fund and finds Shares a cost effective means to do so, with the added benefit of exchange-traded liquidity should the investor wish to sell some or all of its holding. Institutional investors may also wish to purchase or redeem Creation Units of a Fund to take advantage of the potential arbitrage opportunities in much the same manner as arbitrageurs (as discussed below).

The other likely institutional investor is the arbitrageur, who stands ready to take advantage of any slight premium or discount in the market price of Shares of a Fund on an Exchange versus the aggregate value of the Portfolio Securities held by such Fund.²⁵ Applicants do not expect that arbitrageurs will hold positions in Shares for any length of time unless the positions are appropriately hedged. Applicants expect that the price at which the Shares trade will be disciplined by arbitrage opportunities created by the ability to continually purchase or redeem Creation Units at their NAV, which should ensure that the Shares will not trade at a material discount or premium in relation to their NAV.

Lastly, Applicants observe that Exchange Specialists or Market Makers, acting in the role of providing a fair and orderly secondary market for the Shares, may from time to time find it appropriate to purchase or redeem Creation Units of Shares in connection with its (their) market-making activities on the floor of the Exchange.

In the above examples, those who purchase Shares in Creation Units of a Fund may hold such Shares or may, at the time of purchase or at a later time, sell such Shares into the secondary market. Applicants expect that secondary market purchasers of Shares of a Fund will include both institutional investors and “retail” investors for whom such Shares provide a useful, “retail-priced” exchange-traded mechanism for investing in securities.


²⁵		The aggregate value of the Portfolio Securities held by a Fund may differ from the NAV of Shares of a Fund in that the Fund’s NAV includes expenses.

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Each Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI will indicate that the proposed method by which Shares will be purchased and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Similar disclosure is made in the prospectuses and/or statements of additional information for currently traded ETFs. As described above, Shares in Creation Units will be offered continuously to the public. Because new Shares may be created and issued on an ongoing basis, at any point during the life of the relevant Fund, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the Securities Act, may be occurring. Brokers and other persons will be cautioned in the Prospectus that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner that could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. For example, a Broker and/or its customer may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Units after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into the constituent Shares, and sells such Shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the purchase of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for Shares. A Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI is expected to state that a determination of whether one is an underwriter must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the Broker or its client in the particular cases, and may provide examples of activities that could lead to categorization as an underwriter.

A Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI is expected to state that dealers who are not “underwriters,” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted to ordinary secondary market transactions), and thus dealing with Shares that are part of an “unsold allotment” within the meaning of Section 4(3)(C) of the Securities Act, would be unable to take advantage of the prospectus-delivery exemption provided by Section 4(3) of the Securities Act.²⁶

The Distributor will act as coordinator in connection with the production and distribution of such materials to Brokers and will generally make known among the Broker community that a current version of a Fund’s Prospectus, Summary Prospectus (if any) and SAI may be obtained through the Distributor. Brokerage firms will be able to order in advance their anticipated quantities of such materials from the Distributor.

Additionally, the Distributor will arrange to deliver a Fund’s Prospectus, Summary Prospectus (if any) and SAI to the Exchange, where they will be available for review by investors.


²⁶		Applicants note that prospectus delivery is not required in certain instances, including purchases of Shares by an investor who has previously been delivered a prospectus (until such prospectus is supplemented or otherwise updated) and unsolicited brokers’ transactions in Shares (pursuant to Section 4(4) of the Securities Act). Also firms that do incur a prospectus-delivery obligation with respect to Shares will be reminded that under Securities Act Rule 153, a prospectus-delivery obligation under Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to a member of the Exchange in connection with a sale on such Exchange is satisfied by the fact that the Prospectus, Summary Prospectus (if any) and SAI are available at such Exchange upon request. A Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI also is expected to note that the prospectus-delivery mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only available with respect to transactions on the listing Exchange.

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IV.

IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION

Summary of this Application

Applicants seek an order from the Commission (1) permitting the Funds to issue Shares that are redeemable in Creation Units only; (2) permitting secondary market transactions in Shares at negotiated prices rather than at the current offering price; (3) permitting affiliated persons of a Fund, or affiliated persons of such affiliated persons, to deposit securities into and receive securities from the Fund in connection with the purchase and redemption of Creation Units; (4) permitting Foreign Funds to pay redemption proceeds more than seven days after Shares are tendered for redemption; (5) permitting certain Funds of Funds to acquire Shares in excess of the limits in 12(d)(1)(A) , and the Funds, any principal underwriter for a Fund and any Broker to sell Shares to such companies and UITs in excess of the limits in 12(d)(1)(B); and (6) in connection with the transactions described in (5), permitting the Funds as well as the Funds of Funds to engage in certain affiliated transactions, all as more fully set forth below.

The exemptive relief specified below is requested pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Act, which provides that the Commission may exempt any person, security or transaction or any class of persons, securities or transactions from any provision of the Act:

if and to the extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of... [the Act].

Applicants believe that Shares of each Fund afford significant benefits in the public interest. Among other benefits, availability of Shares would provide: (a) increased investment opportunities that should encourage diversified investment; (b) in the case of individual tradable Shares, a potentially lower cost investment vehicle for small and middle-sized accounts of individuals and institutions that would be available at on demand intra-day prices rather than only closing prices; (c) a security that should be freely available in response to market demand; (d) competition for comparable products available in both foreign and U.S. markets; (e) the ability to facilitate the implementation of diversified investment management techniques; and (f) a more tax efficient investment vehicle than most traditional mutual funds or closed-end funds.

The Commission has indicated that Section 6(c) permits it to exempt “particular vehicles and particular interests” from provisions of the Act that would inhibit “competitive development of new products and new markets offered and sold in or from the United States.”²⁷ The Shares would provide to both retail and institutional investors new exchange-traded investment company products representing interests in the type of Portfolio Securities held by the Funds. As such, Applicants believe the Shares of the Funds are appropriate for exemptive relief under Section 6(c).


²⁷		“Request for Comments on Reform of the Regulation of Investment Companies,” IC Release No. 17534 (June 15, 1990), at 84.

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Applicants have made every effort to achieve their stated objectives in a manner consistent with existing statutory and regulatory constraints and within the substantive limits of exemptive relief previously granted to others.

With respect to the exemptive relief specified below regarding Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2) of the Act, relief is also requested pursuant to Section 17(b) of the Act, which provides that the Commission may approve the sale of securities to an investment company and the purchase of securities from an investment company, in both cases by an affiliated person of such company, if the Commission finds that:

the terms of the proposed transaction ... are reasonable and fair and do not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned, the proposed transaction is consistent with the policy of each registered investment company concerned ... and the proposed transaction is consistent with the general purposes of [the Act].

The sale and redemption of Creation Units of each Fund is on the same terms for all investors. Creation Units will be sold and redeemed at the Fund’s NAV per Share. Such transactions do not involve “overreaching” by an affiliated person. Accordingly, Applicants believe the proposed transactions described herein meet the standards for relief under Section 17(b) of the Act because the terms of such proposed transactions, including the consideration to be paid or received for the Creation Units: (a) are reasonable and fair and do not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned; (b) are consistent with the policies of the Funds; and (c) are consistent with the general purposes of the Act.

Applicants believe that the exemptions requested are necessary and appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the Act.

Benefits of the Proposal

The typical ETF allows investors to trade a standardized portfolio of securities in a size comparable to a share of common stock. Trading in market-basket products is an important investment strategy due to (a) the widely acknowledged benefits of diversification and (b) the attraction of baskets selected from a portion of the broader market that investors may want to incorporate into their portfolio. The popularity of QQQs, iShares, SPDRs, MidCap SPDRs, DIAMONDS, and Select Sector SPDRs, all of which are basket products, is ample evidence of the fact that a basket structure has proven attractive to investors.

1. Intra-Day Trading

Traditional open-end mutual funds do not provide investors the ability to trade throughout the day. Shares, which will be listed on the Exchange, will trade throughout the Exchange’s regular trading hours. The price at which Shares trade will be disciplined by arbitrage opportunities created by the option continually to purchase or redeem Shares in Creation Units, which should help ensure that Shares will not trade at a material discount or premium in relation to a Fund’s NAV, in marked contrast to closed-end investment companies. The continuous ability to purchase and redeem Shares in Creation Units also means that Share

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prices in secondary trading should not ordinarily be materially affected by limited or excess availability.

2. Maintaining a Competitive Position in the Global Securities Markets

To maintain a competitive position in global securities markets, U.S. participants must respond to new developments and encourage the development of new products. Innovative financial vehicles, such as those to be offered by the Trust, will provide global investors new opportunities for investment. Applicants believe that by providing a wide range of investors with actively managed ETFs, the proposed Funds will benefit the markets.

The Product Does Not Raise Concerns

1. Structure and Operation of the Trust and the Funds Compared to Index-ETFs

Applicants believe that the structure and operation of the Trust and the Funds will be very similar to that of the other ETFs currently traded. As discussed below, the full transparency of the Fund’s Portfolio Securities and the level and detail of information displayed on the Website for each Fund should ensure an effective arbitrage mechanism. Consequently, Applicants have every expectation that the Funds will operate very similarly to Index-ETFs and actively managed ETFs currently trading in the secondary market.

2. Proposed Rule Regarding Exchange-Traded Funds

In March 2008, the Commission proposed a new rule under the Act that would exempt ETFs from certain provisions of that Act and the rules thereunder (the “ETF Proposal”). The rule, if adopted, would permit certain ETFs to begin operating without the expense and delay of obtaining an exemptive order from the Commission. The ETF Proposal, if adopted, would provide substantially all of the relief Applicants are seeking.

Applicants note that the ETF Proposal would provide an exemption to permit acquiring funds to invest in ETFs in excess of the limits of Section 12(d)(1), but would limit an acquiring fund’s ability to redeem ETF shares.²⁸

REQUEST FOR ORDER

Exemption from the Provisions of Sections 2(a)(32) and 5(a)(1)

Section 5(a)(1) of the Act defines an “open-end company” as “a management company which is offering for sale or has outstanding any redeemable security of which it is the issuer.” The term “redeemable security” is defined in Section 2(a)(32) of the Act as:

any security, other than short-term paper, under the terms of which the holder, upon its presentation to the issuer or to a person designated by the issuer ... is entitled (whether absolutely or only


²⁸		The ETF Proposal would not provide an exemption permitting acquiring funds to redeem ETF shares acquired in excess of the three percent limit in Section 12(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act in reliance on the ETF Proposal.

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out of surplus) to receive approximately his proportionate share of the issuer’s current net assets, or the cash equivalent thereof.

Applicants believe that the Shares could be viewed as satisfying the Section 2(a)(32) definition of a redeemable security. Shares are securities “under the terms of which” an owner may receive his proportionate share of a Fund’s current net assets; the unusual aspect of such Shares is that the terms provide for such a right to redemption only when an individual Share is aggregated with a specified number of such other individual Shares that together constitute a redeemable Creation Unit. Because the redeemable Creation Units of a Fund can be unbundled into individual Shares that are not individually redeemable, a possible question arises as to whether the definitional requirements of a “redeemable security” or an “open-end company” under the Act would be met if such individual Shares are viewed as non-redeemable securities. In light of this possible analysis, Applicants request the Order to permit the Trust to register as an open-end management investment company and issue Shares that are redeemable in Creation Units only as described herein.

Although Shares will not be individually redeemable, because of the arbitrage possibilities created by the redeemability of Creation Units, Applicants expect that the market price of individual Shares will not vary much from NAV.

The Commission is authorized by Section 6(c) of the Act to exempt, conditionally or unconditionally, by order upon application, inter alia, any:

person, security, or transaction, or any class or classes of persons, securities, or transactions, from any provision or provisions of [the Act] or of any rule or regulation thereunder, if and to the extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of [the Act].

The relief requested and the structure described in this Application are the same as that granted by the Commission in the Active PowerShares Order and certain other orders (see note 4, supra), permitting the creation of Creation Units described in such orders to be separated into individual shares which were not redeemable. Similarly, in the SuperTrust Order, the Commission granted relief under Section 4(2) of the Act, permitting the SuperUnits, as described therein, issued by a UIT, to be separated into non-redeemable components, the “SuperShares.” Again, in the SPDR Order, the Commission granted relief under Section 4(2) of the Act to permit redeemable “Creation Unit” aggregations of SPDRs issued by a unit investment trust to be traded individually on an exchange without the benefit of redemption accorded such “Creation Unit” aggregations.²⁹ Applicants believe that the issues raised in this Application, with respect to Sections 2(a)(32) and 5(a)(1) of the Act, are the same issues raised in the applications for the above-mentioned orders and merit the same relief.

Creation Units will always be redeemable in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Owners of Shares may purchase the requisite number of Shares and tender the resulting Creation


²⁹		See also the MidCap Order, the Diamonds Order and the Nasdaq-100 Trust Order.

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Unit for redemption. Moreover, listing on an Exchange will afford all holders of Shares the benefit of intra-day liquidity and continuous disclosure. As noted above, on each Business Day, before commencement of trading in Shares on the Fund’s listing Exchange, the Fund will disclose on the Website the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities and other assets held by the Fund that will form the basis of the Fund’s calculation of NAV at the end of the Business Day. Since market participants will be aware, at all times, of each Fund’s Portfolio Securities and other assets that form the basis for its NAV calculation, the risk of significant deviations between NAV and market price is similar to that which exists in the case of Index-ETFs. Also, each investor is entitled to purchase or redeem Creation Units rather than trade the individual Shares in the secondary market, although in certain cases the transaction costs incurred to obtain the necessary number of individual Shares for accumulation into a Creation Unit will outweigh the benefits of redemption.

As Applicants have noted above, the Commission has considerable latitude to issue exemptive orders under Section 6(c) of the Act, which permits the Commission to deal with situations not foreseen when the Act came into effect in 1940. Applicants believe that the Shares of each Fund may be issued and sold on a basis consistent with the policies of the Act and without risk of the abuses against which the Act was designed to protect. Applicants further believe that providing exemptive relief to the Trust in order to permit the Trust to register as an open-end investment company and issue redeemable Creation Units of individual Shares, as described herein, is appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes of Section 1 of the Act, and, accordingly, Applicants hereby request that this Application for an Order of exemption be granted.

Exemption from the Provisions of Section 22(d) and Rule 22c-1

Section 22(d) of the Act provides in part, that:

[n]o registered investment company shall sell any redeemable security issued by it to any person except to or through a principal underwriter for distribution or at a current public offering price described in the prospectus....

Rule 22c-1 provides in part that:

[n]o registered investment company issuing any redeemable security, no person designated in such issuer’s prospectus as authorized to consummate transactions in any such security, and no principal underwriter of, or dealer in, any such security shall sell, redeem, or repurchase any such security except at a price based on the current net asset value of such security which is next computed after receipt of a tender of such security for redemption or of an order to purchase or sell such security.

Shares of each Fund will be listed on an Exchange and the Exchange Specialists will maintain a market for such Shares. Secondary market transactions in Shares occurring on an Exchange will be effected at negotiated prices, not on the basis of NAV next calculated after

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receipt of any sale order. The Shares will trade on and away from ³⁰ the primary listing Exchange at all times on the basis of the current bid/offer price. In addition, Applicants will maintain the Website that will include the Prospectus and SAI, the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities and other assets held by the Fund that will form the basis for the Fund’s calculation of NAV at the end of the Business Day. The purchase and sale of Shares of each Fund will not, therefore, be accomplished at an offering price described in the Prospectus, as required by Section 22(d), nor will sales and repurchases be made at a price based on the current NAV next computed after receipt of an order, as required by Rule 22c-1.

Based on the facts hereinafter set forth, Applicants respectfully request that the Commission enter an order under Section 6(c) of the Act exempting Applicants from the provisions of Section 22(d) and Rule 22c-1 to the extent necessary to permit the trading of Shares of each Fund on and away from the Exchange at prices based on bid/ask prices, rather than the NAV per Share of the relevant Fund.

While there is little legislative history regarding Section 22(d), its provisions, as well as those of Rule 22c-1, appear to have been intended (1) to prevent dilution caused by certain riskless-trading schemes by principal underwriters and contract dealers, (2) to prevent unjust discrimination or preferential treatment among buyers, and (3) to ensure an orderly distribution system of shares by contract dealers by eliminating price competition from non-contract dealers who could offer investors shares at less than the published sales price and who could pay investors a little more than the published redemption price.³¹ The proposing release to Rule 22c-2 (“Mutual Fund Redemption Fee Rule”) notes that Rule 22c-1 “requires that each redeeming shareholder receive his pro rata portion of the fund’s net assets.”³²

The first two purposes — preventing dilution caused by riskless-trading schemes and preventing unjust discrimination among buyers, would not seem to be relevant issues for secondary trading by dealers in Shares of a Fund. Secondary market transactions in Shares would not cause dilution for owners of such Shares because such transactions do not involve Fund assets. A dilutive effect could occur only where transactions directly involving Fund assets take place.³³ Similarly, secondary market trading in Shares should not create discrimination or preferential treatment among buyers. To the extent different prices exist during a given trading day, or from day to day, such variances occur as a result of third-party market forces but do not occur as a result of unjust or discriminatory manipulation. Outside market forces do not cause discrimination among buyers by the Funds or any dealers involved in the sale of Shares.


³⁰		Consistent with Rule 19c-3 under the Exchange Act, Exchange members are not required to effect transactions in Shares through the facilities of the Exchange.

³¹		See the Half Century Report at 299-303, IC Rel. No. 13183 (April 22, 1983).

³²		See Mandatory Redemption Fees for Redeemable Fund Securities (Proposing Release), IC Rel. No. 26375A (March 5, 2004).

³³		The purchase and redemption mechanisms which include (i) the Transaction Fees imposed only on creating and redeeming entities and (ii) “in-kind” deposits made by creating entities and “in-kind” distributions made to redeeming entities, are designed specifically to prevent changes in the Funds’ capitalizations from adversely affecting the interests of ongoing Beneficial Owners.

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With respect to the third possible purpose of Section 22(d), anyone may sell Shares of a Fund and anyone may acquire such Shares either by purchasing or selling them on an Exchange or by creating or selling an accumulated Creation Unit (subject to certain administrative conditions); therefore, no shareholder should have an advantage over any other shareholder in the purchase or sale of such Shares. Moreover, other clients of the Adviser and any Sub-Adviser will not have a trading advantage or other advantage over other investors because they will not receive any information on changes in a Fund’s Portfolio Securities prior to the public disclosure thereof. In addition, secondary market transactions in Shares of a Fund should generally occur at prices at or close to NAV. If the prices for Shares of a Fund on an Exchange should fall below the proportionate NAV of the underlying Fund assets, an investor need only accumulate enough individual Shares of such Fund to constitute a Creation Unit in order to redeem such Shares at NAV. Competitive forces in the marketplace should thus ensure that the margin between NAV and the price for the Shares in the secondary market remains narrow.

Applicants believe that the nature of the markets in the Funds’ Portfolio Securities will be the primary determinant of premiums or discounts. Prices in the secondary market for Shares would, of course, fluctuate based upon the market’s assessments of price changes in the Portfolio Securities held in a given Fund. Applicants believe that the ability to execute a transaction in Shares at an intra-day trading price has been, and will continue to be, a highly attractive feature to many investors and offers a key advantage to investors over the once-daily pricing mechanisms of traditional mutual funds. As has been previously discussed, this feature would be fully disclosed to investors, and the investors would purchase and sell Shares in reliance on the efficiency of the market.

On the basis of the foregoing, Applicants believe (1) that the protections intended to be afforded by Section 22(d) and Rule 22c-1 are adequately addressed by the proposed methods for creating, redeeming and pricing Creation Units and pricing and trading Shares, and (2) that the relief requested is appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes of Section 1 of the Act. Accordingly, Applicants hereby request that an Order of exemption be granted in respect of Section 22(d) and Rule 22c-1.

Exemption from the Provisions of Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2)

Applicants seek an exemption from Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2) of the Act pursuant to Sections 6(c) and 17(b) of such Act to allow certain affiliated persons, and affiliated persons of affiliated persons (“Second-Tier Affiliates”) to effectuate purchases and redemptions in-kind.³⁴ Section 17(a) of the Act, in general, makes it:


³⁴		Each Fund must comply with the federal securities laws in accepting Deposit Securities and satisfying redemptions with Redemption Securities, including any laws with respect to Deposit and Redemption Securities that are sold in transactions that would be exempt from registration under the Securities Act. In accepting Deposit Securities and satisfying redemptions with Redemption Securities that are restricted securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, the relevant Funds will comply with the conditions of Rule 144A, including in satisfying redemptions with such Rule 144A eligible restricted Redemption Securities. The Prospectus will also state that an Authorized Participant that is not a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act will not be able to receive, as part of a redemption, restricted securities eligible for resale under Rule 144A.

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			unlawful for any affiliated person or promoter of or principal underwriter for a registered investment company . . . or any affiliated person of such a person, promoter or principal underwriter, acting as principal (1) knowingly to sell any security or other property to such registered company . . . unless

			such sale involves solely (A) securities of which the buyer is the issuer, (B) securities of which the seller is the issuer and which are part of a general offering to the holders of a class of its securities, or (C) securities deposited with a trustee of a unit investment trust . . . by the depositor thereof, (2) knowingly to purchase from such registered company or from any company controlled by such registered company any security or other property (except securities of which the seller is the issuer). . . .

unless the Commission upon application pursuant to Section 17(b) of the Act grants an exemption from the provisions of Section 17(a). Therefore, Section 17(a) of the Act generally prohibits sales or purchases of securities between a registered investment company and any affiliated person of such company. Section 17(b) provides that the Commission will grant such an exemption if evidence establishes that the terms of the proposed transaction, including the consideration to be paid or received, are: (i) fair and reasonable, and do not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned; (ii) consistent with the policy of each registered investment company concerned; and (iii) consistent with the general purposes of the Act.

Applicants also are requesting an exemption from Section 17(a) under Section 6(c) because Section 17(b) could be interpreted to exempt only a single transaction from Section 17(a) and, as discussed below, there may be a number of transactions by persons who may be deemed to be affiliates. See, e.g., Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc., 21 S.E.C. 295 (1945), where the Commission, under Section 6(c) of the Act, exempted a series of transactions that otherwise would be prohibited by Section 17(a).

Section 2(a)(3) of the Act defines an affiliated person as:

[A]ny person directly or indirectly owning, controlling, or holding with power to vote, 5 per centum or more of the outstanding voting securities of such other person; (B) any person 5 per centum or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held with power to vote, by such other person; (C) any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such other person; (D) any officer, director, partner, copartner, or employee of such other person; (E) . . . any investment adviser [of an investment company] or any member of an advisory board thereof; and (F) . . . [the depositor of any] unincorporated investment company not having a board of directors . . . .

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Section 2(a)(9) of the Act defines “control” and includes the following language regarding a presumption of control:

Any person who owns beneficially, either directly or through one or more controlled companies, more than 25 per centum of the voting securities of a company shall be presumed to control such company . . . .

The Funds may be deemed to be controlled by the Adviser and hence affiliated persons of each other. In addition, the Funds may be deemed to be under common control with any other registered investment company (or series thereof) advised by the Adviser (an “Affiliated Fund”).

If Creation Units of all of the Funds or of one or more particular Funds are held by twenty or fewer investors, including an Exchange Specialist or Market Maker, some or all of such investors will be 5% owners of the Trust or such Funds, and one or more investors may hold in excess of 25% of the Trust or such Funds, as the case may be, and therefore would be deemed to be affiliates of the Trust or such Funds either under Section 2(a)(3)(A) or Section 2 (a)(3)(C) of the Act. Section 17(a)(1) could be read to prohibit these investors from depositing the Deposit Securities with a Fund in return for a Creation Unit (an in-kind purchase), and likewise Section 17(a)(2) could be read to prohibit such persons from receiving an in-kind redemption from a Fund. Furthermore, one or more investors, or the Exchange Specialist or a Market Maker in connection with such persons market-making activities, might each accumulate 5% or more of a Fund’s securities. Additionally, one or more holders of Shares, or an Exchange Specialist or Market Maker, might from time to time, accumulate in excess of 25% of Shares of one or more Funds, and such persons would therefore be deemed to be affiliates of the Trust and such Funds under Section 2(a)(3)(C) of the Act. In addition, there exists a possibility that a large institutional investor could own 5% or more, or in excess of 25%, of the outstanding shares of Affiliated Funds making that investor a Second-Tier Affiliate of a Fund. Applicants request an exemption to permit persons that are affiliated persons or Second-Tier Affiliates of the Funds solely by virtue of (1) holding 5% or more, or in excess of 25%, of the outstanding Shares of one or more Funds; (2) having an affiliation with a person with an ownership interest described in (1); or (3) holding 5% or more, or more than 25%, of the Shares of one or more Affiliated Funds, to effectuate purchases and redemptions “in-kind.”

Applicants also seek an exemption from Sections 17(a)(1) and (2) to permit sales of Shares by any Fund to a Fund of Funds and purchases of Shares by a Fund from a redeeming Fund of Funds, and the in-kind transactions that would accompany such sales and purchases.³⁵ In this regard, Applicants observe that a Fund of Funds that relies on the Section 12(d)(1) relief requested herein could potentially own 5% or more of the Shares of a Fund. Under such circumstances, the Fund could be deemed to be an affiliated person of the Fund of Funds, and the Fund of Funds could be deemed to be an affiliated person of the Funds. To the extent that a Fund and a Fund of Funds are so affiliated, sale of Shares by the Fund to the Fund of Funds and


³⁵		To the extent that purchases and sales of Shares of a Fund occur in the secondary market (and not through principal transactions directly between a Fund of Funds and a Fund), relief from Section 17(a) would not be necessary. The requested relief is intended to cover, however, in-kind transactions directly between Funds and Funds of Funds.

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purchase of Shares by the Fund from a redeeming Fund of Funds may be deemed to violate Section 17(a) of the Act.³⁶

Applicants assert that no useful purpose would be served by prohibiting the types of affiliated persons listed above from making in-kind purchases or in-kind redemptions of Shares of a Fund in Creation Units. The deposit procedures for both in-kind purchases and in-kind redemptions of Creation Units will be effected in exactly the same manner, regardless of the size or number of the purchases or redemptions of Creation Units. Deposit Securities and Redemption Securities will be valued in the same manner as Portfolio Securities currently held by the relevant Funds, and will be valued in this same manner, regardless of the identity of the purchaser or redeemer. Applicants submit that any consideration paid from the types of affiliated persons listed above for the purchase or redemption, including in-kind purchases and in-kind redemptions, of Shares directly from a Fund will be based on the NAV of such Fund in accordance with the policies and procedures set forth in the Fund’s registration statement.

Applicants do not believe that in-kind purchases and redemptions will result in abusive self-dealing or overreaching, but rather assert that such procedures will be implemented consistently with the Funds’ objectives and with the general purposes of the Act. Applicants believe that in-kind purchases and redemptions will be made on terms reasonable to Applicants and any affiliated persons because they will be valued pursuant to verifiable objective standards. The method of valuing Portfolio Securities held by a Fund is the same as that used for calculating in-kind purchase or redemption values and, therefore, creates no opportunity for affiliated persons or Second-Tier Affiliates of Applicants to effect a transaction detrimental to the other holders of Shares of that Fund. Similarly, Applicants believe that using the same standards for valuing Portfolio Securities held by a Fund as are used for calculating in-kind redemptions or purchases will ensure that the Fund’s NAV will not be adversely affected by such securities transactions.

Furthermore, Applicants submit that the terms of the sale of Creation Units by a Fund to a Fund of Funds and the purchase of Creation Units by a Fund from a redeeming Fund of Funds, including the consideration to be paid or received, are reasonable and fair and do not involve overreaching. Section 17(a) of the Act is intended to prohibit certain affiliated persons in a position of influence over an investment company from furthering their own interests by selling property that they own to an investment company at an inflated price, purchasing property from an investment company at less than its fair value, or selling or purchasing property on terms that involve overreaching by an affiliated person. Shares of Funds, however, including with respect to Funds of Funds, will be issued and redeemed by the Funds at their NAV. Any Fund of Funds that purchases (or redeems) Creation Units of a Fund, therefore, will do so at the Fund’s NAV, which is the same consideration paid (or received) by any other investor purchasing (or redeeming) Shares.


³⁶		Applicants acknowledge that receipt of any compensation by (a) an affiliated person of a Fund of Funds, or an affiliated person of such person, for the purchase by the Fund of Funds of Shares or (b) an affiliated person of a Fund, or an affiliated person of such person, for the sale by the Fund of its Shares to a Fund of Funds may be prohibited by Section 17(e) of the Act. The FOF Participation Agreement will include this acknowledgement.

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Further, no Fund of Funds will be compelled to invest in a Fund, and a Fund may choose to reject a direct purchase of Shares in Creation Units by a Fund of Funds. To the extent that a Fund of Funds purchases Shares in the secondary market, a Fund would still retain its ability to reject initial purchases of Shares made in reliance on the requested order by declining to enter into the FOF Participation Agreement prior to any investment by a Fund of Funds in excess of the limits of Section 12(d)(1)(A). Rather, the proposed arrangements will be consistent with the policies of each Fund and each Fund of Funds involved. Shares of the Funds will be sold to the Funds of Funds, and redeemed from the Funds of Funds by the Funds, on the same basis, and in accordance with the same policies, as apply to transactions by all other investors. Any investment by a Fund of Funds in Shares of Funds will be effected in accordance with the investment restrictions, and consistent with the investment objectives and policies, of the relevant Fund of Funds. Accordingly, Applicants respectfully request relief to permit the proposed purchases and redemptions of Creation Units of Shares by Funds of Funds.

For the reasons set forth above, Applicants believe that: (i) with respect to the relief requested pursuant to Section 17(b), the proposed transactions, including the consideration to be paid or received, are fair and reasonable, and do not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned, the proposed transactions are consistent with the policies of each Fund, and that the proposed transactions are consistent with the general purposes of the Act; and (ii) with respect to the relief requested pursuant to Section 6(c), the requested exemption for the proposed transactions is appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of the Act.

Exemption from the Provisions of Section 22(e)

Applicants seek an Order of the Commission under Section 6(c) of the Act granting an exemption from Section 22(e) of the Act. Applicants acknowledge that no relief obtained from the requirements of Section 22(e) will affect any obligations Applicants may otherwise have under Rule 15c6-1 under the Exchange Act requiring that most securities transactions be settled within three business days of the trade date.

Section 22(e) of the Act provides that:

			No registered company shall suspend the right of redemption, or postpone the date of payment or satisfaction upon redemption of any redeemable security in accordance with its terms for more than seven days after the tender of such security to the company or its agent designated for that purpose for redemption, except —

			(1) for any period (A) during which the New York Stock Exchange is closed other than customary weekend and holiday closings or (B) during which trading on the New York Stock Exchange is restricted;

			(2) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which (A) disposal by the company of securities owned by it is not reasonably practicable or (B) it is not reasonably practicable for such company fairly to determine the value of its net assets; or

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(3) for such other periods as the Commission may by order permit for the protection of security holders of the company.

Settlement of redemptions for Foreign Funds will be contingent not only on the securities settlement cycle of the U.S. market, but also on the delivery cycles in local markets for the underlying foreign securities held by the Foreign Funds. Applicants have been advised that the delivery cycles currently practicable for transferring Redemption Securities to redeeming investors, coupled with local market holiday schedules, will require a delivery process longer than seven (7) calendar days for Foreign Funds, in certain circumstances, during the calendar year. Accordingly, with respect to Foreign Funds that deliver Redemption Securities in-kind, Applicants hereby request relief from the requirement imposed by Section 22(e) to provide payment or satisfaction of redemptions within seven (7) calendar days following the tender of a Creation Unit of such Funds. Applicants request that relief be granted such that each of the Foreign Funds holding Redemption Securities which require a delivery process in excess of seven calendar days may provide payment or satisfaction of redemptions within not more than the number of calendar days known to Applicants as being the maximum number of calendar days required for such payment or satisfaction in the principal local foreign market(s) where transactions in the Portfolio Securities of each such Foreign Fund customarily clear and settle. With respect to Future Funds that will be Foreign Funds, Applicants seek the same relief from Section 22(e) only to the extent that circumstances exist similar to those described herein.

Based on information available to Applicants, although certain holidays may occur on different dates in subsequent years, the number of days required to deliver redemption proceeds in any given year is not expected to exceed fifteen (15) calendar days for any of the Funds requiring exemptive relief from the provisions of Section 22(e). Of course, it is possible that the proclamation of new or special holidays,³⁷ the treatment by market participants of certain days as “informal holidays” (e.g., days on which no or limited securities transactions occur, as a result of substantially shortened trading hours³⁸), the elimination of existing holidays or changes in local securities delivery practices,³⁹ could affect the information set forth herein at some time in the future. Each Fund’s Prospectus and/or SAI will identify those instances in a given year where, due to local holidays, more than seven calendar days will be needed to deliver redemption proceeds and will list such holidays.


³⁷		Applicants have been advised that previously unscheduled holidays are sometimes added to a country’s calendar, and existing holidays are sometimes moved, with little advance notice. Any such future changes could impact the analysis of the number of days necessary to satisfy a redemption request. See, e.g., the following recent examples of short-notice holiday announcements: (i) on December 17, 1997, South Korea announced a special holiday due to the presidential elections on December 18, 1997; (ii) on December 30, 1997, Thailand announced that the New Year’s Eve holiday on December 31, 1997 would be rescheduled to January 2, 1998; and (iii) on January 22, 1998, Indonesia announced that the religious holiday on January 29 and January 30, 1998, marking the start of Lebaran, would include January 28, 1998.

³⁸		A typical “informal holiday” includes a trading day in the relevant market that is immediately prior to a regularly scheduled holiday; early closures of the relevant market or of the offices of key market participants may occur with little advance notice. Any shortening of regular trading hours on such a day could impact the analysis of the number of days necessary to satisfy a redemption request.

³⁹		Applicants observe that the trend internationally in local securities delivery practices has been a reduction in each market’s standard settlement cycles (e.g., the U.S. markets change to T+3 in 1995). It remains possible, if unlikely, that a particular market’s settlement cycles for securities transfers could be lengthened in the future.

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The SAI will disclose those local holidays, if any, that are expected to prevent the delivery of redemption proceeds in seven calendar days and the maximum number of days needed to deliver the proceeds for each Foreign Fund. Except as set forth herein or as disclosed in the Prospectus and/or SAI for any Foreign Fund, deliveries of redemption proceeds by the Foreign Fund relating to those countries or regions are expected to be made within seven days.

Applicants believe that Congress adopted Section 22(e) to prevent unreasonable, undisclosed or unforeseen delays in the actual payment of redemption proceeds. Applicants propose that allowing redemption payments for Creation Units of a Foreign Fund to be made within the number of days indicated above would not be inconsistent with the spirit and intent of Section 22(e). Applicants suggest that a redemption payment occurring within such number of calendar days following a redemption request would adequately afford investor protection.

Applicants desire to incorporate the creation and redemption mechanism for Creation Units as much as possible into the processing cycles for securities deliveries currently practicable in the principal market(s) for the Portfolio Securities of a given Foreign Fund. Currently, it is believed that no significant additional system or operational procedures will be needed to purchase or redeem Creation Units beyond those already generally in place in the relevant jurisdiction. Applicants believe that this approach may make creations and redemptions of Creation Units less costly to administer, enhance the appeal of the product to investors, and thereby promote the liquidity of the Shares in the secondary market with benefits to all holders thereof. As noted above, Applicants intend to utilize in-kind redemptions to the maximum extent possible principally as a method of assuring the fullest investment of Fund assets in Portfolio Securities (although cash redemptions, subject to a somewhat higher redemption Transaction Fee, are expected to be available or required in respect of certain Funds). Applicants are not seeking relief from Section 22(e) with respect to Foreign Funds that do not effect creations and redemptions of Creation Units in-kind.

If the requested relief is granted, Applicants intend to disclose in each Foreign Fund’s SAI that redemption payments will be effected within the specified number of calendar days following the date on which a request for redemption in proper form is made. Given the rationale for what amounts to a delay typically of a few days in the redemption process on certain occasions and given the facts as recited above, Applicants believe that the redemption mechanism described above will not lead to unreasonable, undisclosed or unforeseen delays in the redemption process. Applicants assert that the request for relief from the strict seven-day rule imposed by Section 22(e) is not inconsistent with the standards articulated in Section 6(c). Given the facts as recited above, Applicants believe that the granting of the requested relief is consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policies and provisions of the Act. Applicants note that exemptive relief from Section 22(e) similar to the relief sought here was obtained by many of the ETFs listed in note 4 in orders relating to each of those funds.

On the basis of the foregoing, Applicants believe (i) that the protections intended to be afforded by Section 22(e) are adequately addressed by the proposed method and securities delivery cycles for redeeming Creation Units and (ii) that the relief requested is appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended

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by the policy and provisions of the Act. Accordingly, Applicants hereby respectfully request that an order of exemption be granted under Section 6(c) in respect of Section 22(e).

Exemptions from the Provisions of Section 12(d)(1)

Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act prohibits a registered investment company from acquiring securities of an investment company if such securities represent more than 3% of the total outstanding voting stock of the acquired company, more than 5% of the total assets of the acquiring company, or, together with the securities of any other investment companies, more than 10% of the total assets of the acquiring company. Section 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act prohibits a registered open-end investment company, its principal underwriter and any Broker from selling the investment company’s shares to another investment company if the sale would cause the acquiring company to own more than 3% of the acquired company’s voting stock, or if the sale would cause more than 10% of the acquired company’s voting stock to be owned by investment companies generally. Applicants request relief to permit Funds of Funds to acquire Shares of the Funds in excess of the limits in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act and to permit the Funds and their principal underwriters and Brokers to sell Shares of the Funds to Funds of Funds in excess of the limits in Section 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act.

Concerns Underlying Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B)

Congress enacted Section 12(d)(1) of the Act to prevent one investment company from buying control of another investment company.⁴⁰ In enacting Section 12(d)(1), Congress sought to ensure that the acquiring investment company had no “effective voice” in the other investment company.⁴¹ As originally proposed, Section 12(d)(1) would have prohibited any investment by an investment company in another investment company. Congress relaxed the prohibition in the Section’s final version, presumably because there was some concern that an investment company should not be prohibited from taking advantage of a good investment just because the investment was another investment company.

“[Y]ou may get situations where one investment company may think that the securities of another investment company are a good buy and it was not thought advisable to freeze that type of purchase”⁴²

Congress tightened Section 12(d)(1)’s restrictions in 1970 to address certain abuses perceived to be associated with the development of fund holding companies (i.e., funds that primarily invest in other investment companies).⁴³ These abuses included: (1) undue influence such as through the threat of large-scale redemptions of the acquired fund’s shares; (2) layering of fees and expenses (such as sales loads, advisory fees and administrative costs); and (3)


⁴⁰		Hearing on H.R. 10065 Before the Subcomm. of the Comm. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 76^th Cong., 3d Sess., at 113 (1940).

⁴¹		Hearing on S. 3580 Before the Subcomm. of the Comm. On Banking and Currency, 76th Cong., 3d Sess., at 1114 (1940).

⁴²		House Hearing, 76th Cong., 3d Sess., at 112 (1940) (testimony of David Schenker).

⁴³		See H.R Rep. No 91-1382, 91st Cong , 2d Sess., at 11 (1970).

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unnecessary complexity. The Commission identified these abuses in its 1966 report to Congress, titled Public Policy Implications Investment Company Growth (“PPI Report”).⁴⁴

Applicants submit that the concerns underlying Section 12(d)(1) of the Act and the potential and actual abuses identified in the PPI Report are not present in the proposed transactions and that, in any event, Applicants have proposed a number of conditions designed to address those concerns.

Undue Influence

Applicants’ proposed conditions address the concerns about large-scale redemptions identified in the PPI Report, particularly those regarding the potential for undue influence. Condition B.1 limits the ability of a Fund of Funds’ Advisory Group⁴⁵, and Fund of Funds’ Sub-Advisory Group⁴⁶ to control a Fund within the meaning of Section 2(a)(9) of the Act. For purposes of this Application, a “Fund of Funds Affiliate” is defined as any Fund of Funds Adviser, Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, Sponsor, promoter, or principal underwriter of the Fund of Funds, and any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with any of those entities.

Condition B.2 prohibits Funds of Funds and Fund of Funds Affiliates from causing an investment by a Fund of Funds in a Fund to influence the terms of services or transactions between the Fund of Funds or a Fund of Funds Affiliate and the Fund or a Fund Affiliate⁴⁷.

Conditions B.3, B.4, B.6, B.7 and B.8 are also designed to address the potential for a Fund of Funds and certain affiliates of a Fund of Funds to exercise undue influence over a Fund and certain of its affiliates. For purposes of this Application, an “Underwriting Affiliate” is a principal underwriter in any underwriting or selling syndicate that is an officer, director, member of an advisory board, Fund of Funds Adviser, Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, Sponsor or employee of the Fund of Funds, or a person of which any such officer, director, member of an advisory board, Fund of Funds Adviser, Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, Sponsor or employee is an affiliated person, except any person whose relationship to the Fund is covered by Section 10(f) of the Act


⁴⁴		Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission on the Public Policy Implications of Investment Company Growth, H.R. Rep. No. 2337, 89th Cong., 2d Sess., 311-324 (1966).

⁴⁵		For purposes of this Application, the “Fund of Funds’ Advisory Group” is defined as the Fund of Funds Adviser, Sponsor, any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Fund of Funds Adviser or Sponsor, and any investment company and any issuer that would be an investment company but for Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act that is advised or sponsored by the Fund of Funds Adviser, the Sponsor, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Fund of Funds Adviser or Sponsor. In this regard, each Investment Management Company’s investment adviser within the meaning of Section 2(a)(20)(A) of the Act is the “Fund of Funds Adviser.” Similarly, each Investing Trust’s sponsor is the “Sponsor.”

⁴⁶		A “Fund of Funds’ Sub-Advisory Group” is defined as the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, and any investment company or issuer that would be an investment company but for Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act (or portion of such investment company or issuer) advised or sponsored by the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser or any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser. In this regard, each Investing Management Company’s investment adviser within the meaning of Section 2(a)(20)(B) of the Act is the “Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser.”

⁴⁷		A “Fund Affiliate” is defined as the Adviser, Sub-Adviser, promoter or principal underwriter of a Fund, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with any of those entities.

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is not an Underwriting Affiliate. Also, an offering of securities during the existence of an underwriting or selling syndicate of which a principal underwriter is an Underwriting Affiliate is an “Affiliated Underwriting.”

Condition B.9 is intended to insure that the Fund’s Board and the Adviser, as well as the Fund of Funds’ board of directors and investment adviser, or trustee and Sponsor, as applicable, understand the terms and conditions of the exemptive order and agree to fulfill their responsibilities under the Order. A representation to this effect is required to be included in the FOF Participation Agreement which must be in effect between the Fund and a Fund of Funds before an investment is made in excess of Section 12(d)(1)(A).

A Fund would retain its right to reject any initial investment by a Fund of Funds in excess of the limits in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act by declining to execute the FOF Participation Agreement with the Fund of Funds.

Layering of Fees and Expenses

With respect to concerns regarding layering of fees and expenses, Applicants propose several conditions. Under condition B.10, before approving any advisory contract under Section 15 of the Act, the board of directors or trustees of any Investing Management Company, including a majority of the non-interested directors or trustees, will be required to find that the advisory fees charged under the contract(s) are based on services provided that will be in addition to, rather than duplicative of, services provided under the advisory contract of any Fund in which the Investing Management Company may invest. These findings and their basis will be recorded fully in the minute books of the Fund of Funds.

As mentioned above, Shares are sold without sales charges though customary brokerage commissions may be charged for secondary market transactions in Shares.

In addition to condition B.10 discussed above, conditions B.5 and B.11 of the requested order are designed to prevent unnecessary duplication or layering of sales charges and other costs. Under condition B.5, a Fund of Funds Adviser or a Fund of Funds’ trustee or Sponsor, as applicable, will waive fees otherwise payable to it by the Fund of Funds in an amount at least equal to any non-advisory fee compensation received by the Fund of Funds Adviser, trustee or Sponsor, or an affiliated person of the Fund of Funds Adviser, trustee or Sponsor, from a Fund in connection with the investment by the Fund of Funds in the Fund. In addition, the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser will waive fees otherwise payable to it by the Fund of Funds in an amount at least equal to any non-advisory fee compensation received by the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser or an affiliated person of the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, from a Fund in connection with the investment by the Fund of Funds in the Fund made at the direction of the Fund of Funds’ Sub-Adviser. Condition B.11 prevents any sales charges or service fees on shares of a Fund of Funds from exceeding the limits applicable to a fund of funds as set forth in NASD Conduct Rule 2830.⁴⁸ The FOF Participation Agreement will also include an acknowledgement from the Fund


⁴⁸		Any references to NASD Conduct Rule 2830 include any successor or replacement rule to NASD Conduct Rule 2830 that may be adopted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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of Funds that it may rely on the requested order only to invest in the Funds and not in any other investment company.

Complex Structures

Applicants submit that Condition B.12 addresses concerns over meaninglessly complex arrangements. Under Condition B.12, no Fund may acquire securities of any investment company or company relying on Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act in excess of the limits contained in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act.

VI.

EXPRESS CONDITIONS TO THIS APPLICATION

Applicants agree that any order of the Commission granting the requested relief will be subject to the following conditions:

Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Relief

	1.		As long as a Fund operates in reliance on the requested order, the Shares of such Fund will be listed on an Exchange.

	2.		Neither the Trust nor any Fund will be advertised or marketed as an open-end investment company or a mutual fund. The Website for the Trust, as well as each Fund’s Prospectus, Summary Prospectus (if any) and advertising material, will prominently disclose that the Fund is an “actively managed exchange-traded fund.” Each Prospectus and Summary Prospectus (if any) also will prominently disclose that the Shares are not individually redeemable shares and will disclose that the owners of the Shares may acquire those Shares from the Fund and tender those Shares for redemption to the Fund in Creation Units only. Any advertising material that describes the purchase or sale of the Creation Units or refers to redeemability will prominently disclose that the Shares are not individually redeemable and that owners of Shares may acquire those Shares from the Fund and tender those Shares for redemption to a Fund in Creation Units only.

	3.		Each Fund’s Prospectus will clearly disclose that, for purposes of the Act, Shares are issued by a registered investment company, and that the acquisition of Shares by investment companies is subject to the restrictions of Section 12(d)(1) of the Act, except as permitted by an exemptive order that permits registered investment companies to invest in a Fund beyond the limits of Section 12(d)(1), subject to certain terms and conditions, including that the registered investment company enter into a FOF Participation Agreement with the Fund regarding the terms of the investment.

	4.		The Website for the Trust, which is and will be publicly accessible at no charge, will contain the following information, on a per Share basis, for

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each Fund the prior Business Day’s NAV and the market closing price or Bid/Ask Price of the Shares, and a calculation of the premium or discount of the market closing price or Bid/Ask Price against such NAV.

	5.		On each Business Day, before the commencement of trading in Shares on the Fund’s Listing Exchange, the Fund will disclose on its Website the identities and quantities of the Portfolio Securities and other assets held by the Fund that will form the basis of the Fund’s calculation of NAV at the end of the Business Day.

	6.		No Adviser or Sub-Adviser, directly or indirectly, will cause any Authorized Participant (or any investor on whose behalf an Authorized Participant may transact with the Fund) to acquire any Deposit Security for the Fund through a transaction in which the Fund could not engage directly.

	7.		The requested order will expire on the effective date of any Commission rule under the Act that provides relief permitting the operation of actively managed ETFs.

Section 12(d)(1) Relief

	1.		The members of the Fund of Funds Advisory Group will not control (individually or in the aggregate) a Fund within the meaning of Section 2(a)(9) of the Act. The members of the Fund of Funds Sub-Advisory Group will not control (individually or in the aggregate) a Fund within the meaning of Section 2(a)(9) of the Act. If, as a result of a decrease in the outstanding voting securities of a Fund, the Fund of Funds Advisory Group or the Fund of Funds Sub-Advisory Group, each in the aggregate, becomes a holder of more than 25 percent of the outstanding voting securities of a Fund, it will vote its Shares of the Fund in the same proportion as the vote of all other holders of the Fund’s Shares. This condition does not apply to the Fund of Funds Sub-Advisory Group with respect to a Fund for which the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser or a person controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser acts as the investment adviser within the meaning of Section 2(a)(20)(A) of the Act.

	2.		No Fund of Funds or Fund of Funds Affiliate will cause any existing or potential investment by the Fund of Funds in a Fund to influence the terms of any services or transactions between the Fund of Funds or a Fund of Funds Affiliate and the Fund or a Fund Affiliate.

	3.		The board of directors or trustees of an Investing Management Company, including a majority of the non-interested directors or trustees, will adopt procedures reasonably designed to assure that the Fund of Funds Adviser and any Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser are conducting the investment

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program of the Investing Management Company without taking into account any consideration received by the Investing Management Company or a Fund of Funds Affiliate from a Fund or a Fund Affiliate in connection with any services or transactions.

	4.		Once an investment by a Fund of Funds in the securities of a Fund exceeds the limit in Section 12(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, the Board of the Fund, including a majority of the non-interested Board members, will determine that any consideration paid by the Fund to the Fund of Funds or a Fund of Funds Affiliate in connection with any services or transactions: (i) is fair and reasonable in relation to the nature and quality of the services and benefits received by the Fund; (ii) is within the range of consideration that the Fund would be required to pay to another unaffiliated entity in connection with the same services or transactions; and (iii) does not involve overreaching on the part of any person concerned. This condition does not apply with respect to any services or transactions between a Fund and its investment adviser(s), or any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such investment adviser(s).

	5.		The Fund of Funds Adviser, or trustee or Sponsor of an Investing Trust, as applicable, will waive fees otherwise payable to it by the Fund of Funds in an amount at least equal to any compensation (including fees received pursuant to any plan adopted by a Fund under Rule 12b-l under the Act) received from a Fund by the Fund of Funds Adviser, or trustee or Sponsor of the Investing Trust, or an affiliated person of the Fund of Funds Adviser, or trustee or Sponsor of the Investing Trust, other than any advisory fees paid to the Fund of Funds Adviser, or trustee or Sponsor of an Investing Trust, or its affiliated person by the Fund, in connection with the investment by the Fund of Funds in the Fund. Any Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser will waive fees otherwise payable to the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, directly or indirectly, by the Investing Management Company in an amount at least equal to any compensation received from a Fund by the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, or an affiliated person of the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser, other than any advisory fees paid to the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser or its affiliated person by the Fund, in connection with the investment by the Investing Management Company in the Fund made at the direction of the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser. In the event that the Fund of Funds Sub-Adviser waives fees, the benefit of the waiver will be passed through to the Investing Management Company.

	6.		No Fund of Funds or Fund of Funds Affiliate (except to the extent it is acting in its capacity as an investment adviser to a Fund) will cause a Fund to purchase a security in an Affiliated Underwriting.

	7.		The Board of the Fund, including a majority of the non-interested Board members, will adopt procedures reasonably designed to monitor any purchases of securities by the Fund in an Affiliated Underwriting, once an

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investment by a Fund of Funds in the securities of the Fund exceeds the limit of Section 12(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, including any purchases made directly from an Underwriting Affiliate. The Board will review these purchases periodically, but no less frequently than annually, to determine whether the purchases were influenced by the investment by the Fund of Funds in the Fund. The Board will consider, among other things: (i) whether the purchases were consistent with the investment objectives and policies of the Fund; (ii) how the performance of securities purchased in an Affiliated Underwriting compares to the performance of comparable securities purchased during a comparable period of time in underwritings other than Affiliated Underwritings or to a benchmark such as a comparable market index; and (iii) whether the amount of securities purchased by the Fund in Affiliated Underwritings and the amount purchased directly from an Underwriting Affiliate have changed significantly from prior years. The Board will take any appropriate actions based on its review, including, if appropriate, the institution of procedures designed to assure that purchases of securities in Affiliated Underwritings are in the best interest of Beneficial Owners.

	8.		Each Fund will maintain and preserve permanently in an easily accessible place a written copy of the procedures described in the preceding condition, and any modifications to such procedures, and will maintain and preserve for a period of not less than six years from the end of the fiscal year in which any purchase in an Affiliated Underwriting occurred, the first two years in an easily accessible place, a written record of each purchase of securities in Affiliated Underwritings once an investment by a Fund of Funds in the securities of the Fund exceeds the limit of Section 12(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, setting forth from whom the securities were acquired, the identity of the underwriting syndicate’s members, the terms of the purchase, and the information or materials upon which the Board’s determinations were made.

	9.		Before investing in the Shares of a Fund in excess of the limit in Section 12(d)(1)(A), a Fund of Funds will execute a FOF Participation Agreement with the Fund stating that their respective boards of directors or trustees and their investment advisers, or trustee and Sponsor, as applicable, understand the terms and conditions of the order, and agree to fulfill their responsibilities under the order. At the time of its investment in Shares of a Fund in excess of the limit in Section 12(d)(1)(A)(i), a Fund of Funds will notify the Fund of the investment. At such time, the Fund of Funds will also transmit to the Fund a list of the names of each Fund of Funds Affiliate and Underwriting Affiliate. The Fund of Funds will notify the Fund of any changes to the list of the names as soon as reasonably practicable after a change occurs. The Fund and the Fund of Funds will maintain and preserve a copy of the order, the FOF Participation Agreement, and the list with any updated information for the duration of

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the investment and for a period of not less than six years thereafter, the first two years in an accessible place.

	10.		Before approving an advisory contract under Section 15 of the Act, the board of directors or trustees of each Investing Management Company including a majority of the non-interested directors or trustees, will find that the advisory fees charged under such contract are based on services provided that will be in addition to, rather than duplicative of, the services provided under the advisory contract(s) of any Fund in which the Investing Management Company may invest. These findings and their basis will be recorded in the minute books of the appropriate Investing Management Company.

	11.		Any sales charges and/or service fees with respect to Shares of a Fund of Funds will not exceed the limits applicable to a fund of funds as set forth in NASD Conduct Rule 2830.

	12.		No Fund will acquire securities of an investment company or company relying on Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act in excess of the limits contained in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act.

VII.

NAMES AND ADDRESSES

The following are the names and addresses of Applicants:

Janus ETF Trust
Janus Capital Management LLC
151 Detroit Street
Denver, Colorado 80206

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AUTHORIZATION

JANUS ETF TRUST

In accordance with Rule 0-2(c) under the Act, Stephanie Grauerholz-Lofton, in her capacity as Initial Trustee of the Janus ETF Trust (“Trust”), states that all actions necessary to authorize the execution and filing of this Application have been taken, and the person signing and filing this document is authorized to do so on behalf of the Trust pursuant to her general authority as Initial Trustee of the Trust and pursuant to the following resolution adopted by the Initial Trustee of the Trust on September 3, 2010:

RESOLVED, that the Initial Trustee of the Trust be, and she hereby is, authorized to prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission an application for an exemptive order, and any and all amendments thereto, pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), granting an exemption from Sections 2(a)(32), 5(a)(1), 22(d) and 22(e) of the Act and Rule 22c-1 under the Act, pursuant to Sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act granting an exemption from Section 17(a) of the Act, and pursuant to Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act granting an exemption from Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and 12(d)(1)(B) of the Act.



/s/ Stephanie Grauerholz-Lofton
Stephanie Grauerholz-Lofton			September 3, 2010
Initial Trustee

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APPENDIX A

Investment Objective and Strategies of the Initial Fund

It is currently anticipated that the Initial Fund’s investment objective will be to seek long-term growth of capital and current income. The Initial Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective by allocating assets to equity and fixed-income investments based on economic and market conditions. Fundamental research and credit analysis will be utilized to select investments.

The Initial Fund’s investments may include companies of any size. The Initial Fund may invest in government and corporate debt securities. Debt securities may be of all types and maturities. The Initial Fund may have exposure to U.S. and foreign markets, which may include investments in emerging markets.

The Initial Fund’s investment objectives, policies, and investment strategies will be fully disclosed in its Prospectus and SAI.

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I.	INTRODUCTION					1
	A.	Summary of Application				1
	B.	Comparability of Relief Sought to Prior Relief Granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission				3

II.	APPLICANTS AND OTHER PRINCIPAL PARTIES					3
	A.	The Trust				3
	B.	The Adviser and Sub-Advisers				4
	C.	The Distributor				4
	D.	Administrator, Custodian, Fund Accountant, Transfer Agent, Dividend Disbursing Agent and Securities Lending Agent				4

III.	APPLICANTS’ PROPOSAL					5
	A.	Description of the Funds				5
		1.	Investment Objectives and Strategy			6
		2.	Implementation of Investment Strategy			7
		3.	Additional Policies			7
			a.	General		7
			b.	Depositary Receipts		7
		4.	Management of the Funds			7
	B.	Regulatory Concerns				8
		1.	The Trust and its Funds			8
		2.	Other Regulatory Concerns			8
	C.	Description of Purchase and Redemption Provisions				8
		1.	Fund Transparency			9
	D.	Capital Structure and Voting Rights; Book-Entry				10
	E.	Exchange Listing				10
	F.	Sales of Shares				11
		1.	General			11
		2.	Payment Requirements for Creation Units			13
		3.	Placement and Acceptance of Creation Unit Purchase Orders			16
		4.	Purchases Through the Shares Clearing Process			17
		5.	Purchases “Outside” the Shares Clearing Process			17
		6.	Rejection of Creation Unit Purchase Orders			18


By: Janus ETF Trust
/s/ Stephanie Grauerholz-Lofton
Stephanie Grauerholz-Lofton
Initial Trustee


Janus Capital Management LLC
/s/ Heidi W. Hardin
Heidi W. Hardin
Senior Vice President and General Counsel