485BPOS 1 d485bpos.htm XBRL FILING XBRL FILING

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2011

Registration Nos. 333-89822; 811-21114

 

 

 

 

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Form N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

  THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933    x
  Pre-Effective Amendment No.   
  Post-Effective Amendment No. 33   

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

  THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940    x
  Amendment No. 40   

 

 

ProShares Trust

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Trust Instrument)

 

 

7501 Wisconsin Avenue,

Suite 1000 Bethesda, MD 20814

(Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)

(240) 497-6400

(Area Code and Telephone Number)

 

 

Michael L. Sapir, CEO

ProShare Advisors LLC

7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000

Bethesda, MD 20814

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

with copies to:

 

John Loder, Esq.

c/o Ropes & Gray LLP

One International Place

Boston, MA 02110

  

Amy R. Doberman

ProShare Advisors LLC

7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000

Bethesda, MD 20814

 

 

 

Approximate date of Proposed Public Offering:

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

  x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
  ¨ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
  ¨ on        pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
  ¨ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
  ¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following:

  ¨ This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This post-effective amendment relates only to the following series of ProShares Trust: ProShares Ultra TIPS and ProShares UltraShort TIPS. No information relating to any other series or class of series of ProShares Trust is amended or superseded hereby.

PART C. OTHER INFORMATION

ProShares Trust

 

Item 28. Exhibits

 

  (a) Articles of Incorporation

 

  (1)

Certificate of Trust of the Registrant.1

 

  (2)

Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust of the Registrant (changing the name from ProFunds ETF Trust to xtraShares Trust).2

 

  (3)

Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust of the Registrant (changing the name from xtraShares Trust to ProShares Trust.3

 

  (4)

Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Registrant. 9

 

  (b) By-Laws

 

  (1)

Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant. 9

 

  (c) Instruments Defining Rights of Security Holders

Not applicable.

 

  (d) Investment Advisory Contracts

 

  (1)

Investment Advisory Agreement between Registrant and ProShare Advisors LLC4 and Amendment No. 10 to Schedule A.8

 

  (e) Underwriting Contracts

 

  (1)

Distribution Agreement between Registrant and SEI Investments Distribution Co.5

 

  (f) Bonus or Profit Sharing Contracts

Not applicable.

 

  (g) Custodian Agreements

 

  (1)

Domestic Custody Agreement between Registrant and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A;5

 

  (a)

Cash Trade Execution Rider;8

 

  (b)

Amendment No.3to Cash Trade Execution Rider; 8

 

  (c)

Global Custody Rider; 8 and

 

  (d)

Amendment No. 16, dated April 19, 2010. 8

 

  (h) Other Material Contracts

 

  (1)

Management Services Agreement between Registrant and ProShare Advisors LLC4 and Amendment No. 10 to Schedule A, dated September 21, 2010. 8

 

  (2)

Expense Limitation Agreement between Registrant and ProShare Advisors LLC4 and Amended Schedule A for the period between October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011. 8

 

  (3)

Fund Services Agreement (Administration and Compliance Services, Regulatory Services, Accounting Services) between Registrant and J.P. Morgan Investor Services Co. 5 and Amendment Agreement No. 16, dated April 19, 2010. 8

 

  (4)

Agency Services Agreement between Registrant and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 5 and Amendments No. 17, dated November 23, 2010 and No. 18; to be provided.

 

  (5)

Form of Authorized Participant Agreement between Registrant and SEI Investments Distribution Co.3

 

  (6)

PFO/Treasurer Services Agreement between Registrant and Foreside Compliance Services, LLC5 and Amendment No. 1, dated January 17, 2007. 8

  (i)

Legal Opinions10

 

  (j) Other Opinions – Not applicable.

 

  (k) Omitted Financial Statements

Not applicable.

 

  (l) Initial Capital Agreements

 

  (1)

Investor Letter.6

 

  (m) Rule 12b-1 Plan

 

  (1)

Form of Distribution Plan.3

 

  (n) Rule 18f-3 Plan

Not applicable.

 

  (o) Reserved

Not applicable.

 

  (p) Codes of Ethics

 

  (1)

Amended and Restated Code of Ethics of the Registrant. 8

 

  (2)

Amended and Restated Code of Ethics of the Advisor. 8

 

  (3)

Amended and Restated Code of Ethics of the Distributor. 8

 

  (q) Powers of Attorney

 

  (1)

Powers of Attorney7

 

(1) Filed with Initial Registration Statement on June 5, 2002.
(2) Previously filed on July 17, 2003 as part of Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(3) Previously filed on May 22, 2006 as part of Pre-Effective Amendment No. 6 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(4) Previously filed on June 19, 2006 as part of Pre-Effective Amendment No. 7 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(5) Previously filed on August 30, 2006 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(6) Previously filed on December 29, 2006 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(7) Previously filed on September 24, 2010 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 25 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(8) Previously filed on September 28, 2010 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 27 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.
(9) Previously filed on December 30, 2010 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 30 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.(
(10) Previously filed on January 26, 2011 as part of Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 under the Securities Act of 1933 and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 29. Persons Controlled By or Under Common Control With Registrant

Provide a list or diagram of all persons directly or indirectly controlled by or under common control with the Registrant. For any person controlled by another person, disclose the percentage of voting securities owned by the immediately controlling person or other basis of that person’s control. For each company, also provide the state or other sovereign power under the laws of which the company is organized.

None.

Item 30. Indemnification

State the general effect of any contract, arrangements or statute under which any director, officer, underwriter or affiliated person of the registrant is insured or indemnified against any liability incurred in their official capacity, other than insurance provided by any director, officer, affiliated person, or underwriter for their own protection.

Reference is made to Article Eight of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust which is filed herewith:

The Registrant (also, the “Trust”) is organized as a Delaware business trust is operated pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated December 13, 2010 (the “Declaration of Trust”), that permits the Registrant to indemnify every person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, including persons who serve at the request of the Trust as directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents of another organization in which the Trust has an interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise (hereinafter referred to as a “Covered Person”), shall be indemnified by the Trust to the fullest extent permitted by law against liability and against all expenses reasonably incurred or paid by him in connection with any claim, action, suit or proceeding in which he becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of his being or having been such a Trustee, director, officer, employee or agent and against amounts paid or incurred by him in settlement thereof. This indemnification is subject to the following conditions:

No indemnification shall be provided hereunder to a Covered Person:

 

  (a) For any liability to the Trust or its Shareholders arising out of a final adjudication by the court of other body before which the proceeding was brought that the Covered Person engaged in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office;

 

  (b) With respect to any matter as to which the Covered Person shall have been finally adjudicated not to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his or her action was in the best interests of the Trust;

 

  (c) For any criminal proceeding finally adjudicated for which the Covered Person had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful; or

 

  (c) In the event of a settlement of other disposition not involving a final adjudication (as provided in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 8.5.2) and resulting in a payment by a Covered Person, unless there has been either a determination that such Covered Person did not engage in willful misfeasance, b ad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of this office by the court or other body approving the settlement or other disposition, or a reasonable determination, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that he or she did not engage in such conduct, such determination being made by : (i) a vote of a majority of the Disinterested Trustees (as such term is defined in Section 8.5.5) acting on the matter); or (ii) a writer opinion of independent legal counsel.

The rights of indemnification under the Declaration of Trust may be insured against by policies maintained by the Trust, and shall be severable, shall not affect any other rights to which any Covered Person may now or hereafter be entitled, shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a Covered Person, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. Nothing contained in the Declaration of Trust shall affect any rights to indemnification to which Trust personnel other than Covered Persons may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law.

Expenses of preparation and presentation of a defense to any claim, action, suit or proceeding subject to a claim for indemnification under Section 8.5 of the Declaration of Trust shall be advanced by the Trust prior to final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the recipient to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to indemnification under Section 8.5 of the Declaration of Trust, provided that either: Covered Person, unless there has been either a determination that such Covered Person did not engage in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of this office by the court or other body approving the settlement or other disposition, or a reasonable determination, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that he or she did not engage in such conduct, such determination being made by : (i) a vote of a majority of the Disinterested Trustees (as such term is defined in Section 8.5.5) acting on the matter (provided that a majority of Disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter); or (ii) a writer opinion of independent legal counsel.

 

  (a) Such undertaking is secured by a surety bond or some other appropriate security or the Trust shall be insured against losses arising out of any such advances; or

  (b) A majority of the Disinterested Trustees acting on the matter (provided that a majority of the Disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter) or independent legal counsel in a written opinion shall determine, based upon a review of the readily available facts (as opposed to the facts available upon a full trial), that there is reason to believe that the recipient ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification.

As used in Section 8.5 of the Declaration of Trust, the following words shall have the meanings set forth below:

 

  (c) A “Disinterested Trustee” is one (i) who is not an Interested Person of the Trust (including anyone, as such Disinterested Trustees, who has been exempted from being an Interested Person by any rule, regulation or order of the Commission), and (ii) against whom none of such actions, suits or other proceedings or another action, suit or other proceeding on the same or similar grounds is then or has been pending;

 

  (d) “Claim,” “action,” “suite” or “proceeding” shall apply to all claims, actions, suits, proceedings (civil, criminal, administrative or other, including appeals), actual or threatened; and

 

  (e) “Liability” and “expenses” shall include without limitation, attorneys’ and accountants’ fees, costs, judgments, amounts paid in settlement, fines, penalties and other liabilities.

 

Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser

Describe any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature in which the investment adviser and each director, officer or partner of the investment adviser, or has been, engaged within the last two fiscal years for his or her own account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee (disclose the name and principal business address of any company for which a person listed above serves in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee, and the nature of the relationship.)

Reference is made to the caption “Management” in the Prospectuses constituting Part A which is incorporated herein by reference and “Management of ProShares Trust” in the Statement of Additional Information constituting Part B which is incorporated herein by reference.

The information as to the directors and officers of ProShare Advisors LLC is set forth in ProShare Advisors LLC’s Form ADV filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2005 (Reference No. 5524427696B2B2) and amended through April 29, 2010 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 32. Principal Underwriters

 

  (a) State the name of each investment company (other than the registrant) for which each principal underwriter currently distributing securities of the registrant also acts as a principal underwriter, depositor or investment adviser.

Registrant’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co. (the “Distributor”), acts as distributor for:

SEI Daily Income Trust

SEI Liquid Asset Trust

SEI Tax Exempt Trust

SEI Institutional Managed Trust

SEI Institutional International Trust

The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund

The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II

Bishop Street Funds

SEI Asset Allocation Trust

SEI Institutional Investments Trust

CNI Charter Funds

iShares Inc.

iShares Trust

(Optique Funds, Inc. (f/k/a/ JohnsonFamily Funds, Inc.)

Causeway Capital Management Trust

BlackRock Funds III (f/k/a Barclays Global Investors Funds)

SEI Opportunity Fund, LP

The Arbitrage Funds

The Turner Funds

Community Reinvestment Act Qualified Investment Fund

SEI Alpha Strategy Portfolios, LP

TD Asset Management USA Funds

SEI Structured Credit Fund, LP

Wilshire Mutual Funds, Inc.

Wilshire Variable Insurance Trust

Global X Funds

ProShares Trust II

FaithShares Trust

Schwab Strategic Trust

The Distributor provides numerous financial services to investment managers, pension plan sponsors, and bank trust departments. These services include portfolio evaluation, performance measurement and consulting services (“Funds Evaluation”) and automated execution, clearing and settlement of securities transactions (“MarketLink”).

 

  (b) Provide the information required by the following table with respect to each director, officer or partner of each principal underwriter named in answer to Item 20. Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each director or officer is Oaks, PA 19456

 

Name

   

Position and Office with Underwriter

    Positions and Offices with
Registrant

William M. Doran

    Director    None

Edward D. Loughlin

    Director    None

Wayne M. Withrow

    Director    None

Kevin P. Barr

    President & Chief Executive Officer    None

Maxine J. Chou

    Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer & Treasurer    None

John C. Munch

    General Counsel & Secretary    None

Karen E. LaTourette

    Chief Compliance Officer, Anti-Money Laundering Officer and Assistant Secretary    None

Mark J. Held

    Senior Vice President    None

Lori L. White

    Vice President & Assistant Secretary    None

John P. Coary

    Vice President and Assistant Secretary    None

John J. Cronin

    Vice President    None

Robert M. Silvestri

    Vice President    None

 

Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records

State the names and address of each person maintaining principal possession of each account, book or other document required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the 1940 Act [15 u.s.c. 80a-30(a)] and the rules under that section.

The books, accounts and other documents required by Section 31(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules promulgated thereunder are maintained in the physical possession of:

JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Attn: General Counsel

4 MetroTech Center

Brooklyn, NY 11245

J.P. Morgan Investor Services Co.

70 Fargo Street – Suite 3 East

Boston, MA 02210-1950

Attention: Fund Regulatory Services Department

ProShare Advisors LLC

c/o ProFund Advisors LLC

Attn: General Counsel

7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000

Bethesda, MD 20814-6527

SEI Investments Distribution Co.

Attn: General Counsel

One Freedom Valley Drive

Oaks, Pennsylvania 19456-1100

 

Item 34. Management Services

Provide a summary of the substantive provisions of any management-related service contract not discussed in Part A or Part B, disclosing the parties to the contract and the total amount paid and by whom, for the fund’s last three fiscal years.

Not applicable.

 

Item 35. Undertakings

Not applicable.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this post-effective amendment (the “Amendment”) to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized, in the City of Bethesda and the State of Maryland on February 14, 2011.

 

ProShares Trust

By:

  

/s/ Louis M. Mayberg

  Louis M. Mayberg

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated.

 

Signature

   

Title

   

Date

/s/ Michael L. Sapir *

    Trustee, Chairman    February 14, 2011

Michael L. Sapir

      

/s/ Russell S. Reynolds, III *

    Trustee    February 14, 2011

Russell S. Reynolds, III

      

/s/ Michael Wachs *

    Trustee    February 14, 2011

Michael Wachs

      

/s/ Louis M. Mayberg *

    President    February 14, 2011

Louis M. Mayberg

      

/s/ Charles S. Todd            

      

Charles S. Todd

    Treasurer    February 14, 2011

 

* By:

  

/s/ Amy R. Doberman

  Amy R. Doberman
  As Attorney-in-fact

Date: February 14, 2011

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

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Description of Exhibit

        
EX-101.INS      XBRL Instance Document     
EX-101.SCH      XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document     
EX-101.CAL      XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase     
EX-101.DEF      XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase     
EX-101.LAB      XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase     
EX-101.PRE      XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase