January 5, 2010
Mail Stop 3010
VIA EDGAR AND FEDEX
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington D.C. 20549
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Attn: |
Ms. Cicely LaMothe |
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Branch Chief |
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AAA Capital Energy Fund L.P. |
(f/k/a Smith Barney AAA Energy Fund L.P.) (the “Partnership”)
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008
Forms 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2009, June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2009
File No. 000-25921
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of this firm’s client, Ceres Managed Futures LLC (f/k/a Citigroup Managed Futures LLC), the general partner of the Partnership (the “General Partner”), I am submitting this letter to provide the General Partner’s response to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) staff’s (the “Staff”) comment letter dated December 23, 2009 (the “Letter”) to Mr. Jerry Pascucci, President and Director of the General Partner, to the Partnership’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 that was filed with the Commission on March 31, 2009 (the “2008 Form 10-K”) and the Partnership’s Forms 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2009, June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2009 that were filed with the Commission on May 15, 2009, August 14, 2009 and November 16, 2009, respectively.
Form 10-K
Statements of Income and Expenses, page F-8
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Please refer to note 3.b. on page F-14. Please tell us how you determined that your allocation to your Special Limited Partner was a capital transaction rather than an expense paid to the advisor. Explain to us why you have presented this item separately from management fees. |
Ms. Cicely LaMothe
January 5, 2010
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Further, explain to us how you determined that it is appropriate to present net income before and after allocation to Special Limited Partner. Please tell us the authoritative accounting literature that you relied upon for this presentation.
The Statements of Income and Expenses present the profit share allocation to the Special Limited Partner as a capital transaction, rather than an expense, and as a separate line item in accordance with CFTC Rule 4.22(e), as interpreted in CFTC Interpretative Letter No. 94-3. Pursuant to recent CFTC rule amendments1, effective December 9, 2009, the substantive provisions of that interpretive letter are now included in CFTC Rule 4.22(e). Further, net income was presented in the Statements of Income and Expenses both before and after the profit share allocation to the Special Limited Partner in accordance with the guidance provided in CFTC Interpretative Letter No. 94-3.
CFTC Rule 4.22(e) states that the Statements of Income and Loss “must itemize... management fees, advisory fees, incentive fees ... during the pool’s fiscal year.” CFTC Interpretative Letter No. 94-3 states that special allocations of investment partnership equity must be “1) recognized in the financial statements in the same period as the net income, interest income or other basis of computation; 2) classified in the financial statements as either: a) an expense in the partnership’s statement of income; or, b) a special allocation of net income, which is deducted in [the statement of income] in arriving at [net income available for pro-rata distribution]; 3) separately reported in the statement of partnership equity, in addition to the pro-rata allocations of net income, as to each class of partnership interest; and, 4) deducted in the computation of net performance and related rate-of-return information, i.e., the past performance of the partnership and its [general partner] must be based upon net income available for pro-rata distribution.”
Pursuant to the limited partnership agreement of the Partnership, the Special Limited Partner receives a quarterly profit share allocation to its capital account in the form of additional units of limited partnership interest (i.e., a distribution of Partnership capital). The allocation to the Special Limited Partner is therefore appropriately characterized as a capital transaction rather than an expense, as permitted by CFTC Interpretive Letter No. 94-3.
In addition, the General Partner, in accordance with CFTC Rule 4.22(e) and CFTC Interpretative Letter No 94-3, has presented the profit share allocation of the Special Limited Partner as a separate line item from management fees, and has presented net income both before and after the profit share allocation to the Special Limited Partner.
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Commodity Pool Operator Periodic Account Statements and Annual Financial reports, 74 Fed. Reg. 57585-57593 (November 9, 2009). |
Ms. Cicely LaMothe
January 5, 2010
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A copy of the Partnership’s “Tandy” letter is included with the filing. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at (212) 728-8727 or Penn Stabler of this office at (212) 728-8670.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Rita M. Molesworth
Rita M. Molesworth
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Jennifer Magro |
Gabriel Acri
Lisa Eskenazi
J. Penn Stabler
Ceres Managed Futures LLC
55 East 59th Street - 10th Floor
New York, New York 10022
January 5, 2010
Mail Stop 3010
VIA EDGAR AND FEDEX
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington D.C. 20549
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Attn: |
Ms. Cicely LaMothe |
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Branch Chief |
Re: |
AAA Capital Energy Fund L.P. |
(f/k/a Smith Barney AAA Energy Fund L.P.) (the “Partnership”)
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008
Forms 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2009, June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2009
File No. 000-25921
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to your comment letter dated December 23, 2009, the Partnership acknowledges that:
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the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in its 2008 Form 10-K and 2009 Forms 10-Q are the responsibility of the Partnership; |
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Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Partnership’s 2008 Form 10-K or 2009 Forms 10-Q; and |
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the Partnership represents that it will not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
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Please feel free to call the undersigned at (212) 559-5046 with any questions.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Jennifer Magro
Jennifer Magro
Chief Financial Officer
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Rita M. Molesworth |
Gabriel Acri
Lisa Eskenazi
J. Penn Stabler