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Organization
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Organization [Abstract]  
Organization
1.  Organization
 
The Partnership was formed on February 22, 2007, under the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as a multi-advisor commodity pool created to profit from the speculative trading of  domestic commodities and foreign commodity futures contracts, forward contracts, foreign exchange commitments, options on physical commodities and futures contracts, spot (cash) commodities and currencies, exchange of futures contracts for physicals transactions, exchange of physicals for futures contracts transactions, and any rights pertaining thereto (collectively, “Futures Interests”) (refer to Note 4. Financial Instruments of the Trading Companies) through the Partnership’s investments in its affiliated trading companies (each, a “Trading Company”, or collectively, the “Trading Companies”).  LV is one of the partnerships in the Managed Futures Multi-Strategy Profile Series, comprised of LV and Meritage Futures Fund L.P. (collectively, the “Profile Series”).

The Partnership invests substantially all of its assets to multiple affiliated Trading Companies, each of which allocates substantially all of its assets to the trading program of an unaffiliated commodity trading advisor (each, a “Trading Advisor” or collectively, the “Trading Advisors”) which makes investment decisions for each respective Trading Company.

The Partnership commenced trading operations on August 1, 2007, in accordance with the terms of its Limited Partnership Agreement (the “Limited Partnership Agreement”).  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is doing business as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (“Morgan Stanley Wealth Management”) and   serves as placement agent to the Partnership.  Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS&Co.”) acts as each Trading Company’s clearing commodity broker.  Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc previously acted as each Trading Company’s commodity broker to the extent it traded on the London Metal Exchange.  Each Trading Company’s over-the-counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange spot, options, and forward contract counterparty is either MS&Co. and/or Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. (“MSCG”) to the extent a Trading Company trades options on OTC foreign currency forward contracts.

The financial statements of the Partnership have been prepared using the “Fund of Funds” approach and accordingly all revenue and expense information from the Trading Companies is reflected as a total net realized/change in unrealized appreciation on investments on the Statements of Income and Expenses.
 
The Partnership maintains sufficient cash balances on hand to satisfy ongoing operating expenses for the Partnership.  As of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, the Partnership’s cash balances were zero.

The Trading Companies and their Trading Advisors for the Partnership at March 31, 2014, are as follows:

Trading Company
Trading Advisor
 
 
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Augustus I, LLC
 
(“Augustus I, LLC”)
GAM International Management Limited
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Kaiser I, LLC
 
(“Kaiser I, LLC”)
Kaiser Trading Group Pty. Ltd.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Rotella I, LLC
 
(“Rotella I, LLC”)
Rotella Capital Management, Inc.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney TT II, LLC
 
(“TT II, LLC”)
Transtrend B.V.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Boronia I, LLC
 
(“Boronia I, LLC”)
Boronia Capital Pty. Ltd.

The trading system style of each Trading Advisor is as follows:
 
Commodity Trading Advisor
Trading System Style
 
 
GAM International Management Limited
Discretionary
Kaiser Trading Group Pty. Ltd.
Systematic
Rotella Capital Management, Inc.
Systematic
Transtrend B.V.
Systematic
Boronia Capital Pty. Ltd.
Systematic
 
Ceres Managed Futures LLC (“Ceres” or the “General Partner”), the general partner and commodity pool operator of the Partnership and the trading manager of each Trading Company, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC (“MSSBH”).  MSSBH is wholly-owned indirectly by Morgan Stanley.  Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is a principal subsidiary of MSSBH.  MS&Co. and MSCG are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Morgan Stanley.

Ceres may reallocate the Partnership’s assets to the different Trading Companies at its sole discretion.

Units of limited partnership interest (“Units”) of the Partnership are offered in two classes in a private placement pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).  Depending on the aggregate amount invested in the Partnership, limited partners receive class A or D Units in the Partnership  (each, a “Class” and collectively, the “Classes”).   Certain limited partners who are not subject to the ongoing placement agent fee are deemed to hold Class Z Units.  Ceres received Class Z Units with respect to its investment in the Partnership.  Class B and Class C Units are no longer being offered to new investors but continue to be offered to existing Class B and Class C investors.

As of March 31, 2014, there were no Class D Units outstanding.

Ceres is not required to maintain any investment in the Partnership, and may withdraw any portion of its interest in the Partnership at any time, as permitted by the Limited Partnership Agreement.  In addition, Class Z Units are only being offered to certain individuals affiliated with Morgan Stanley at Ceres’ sole discretion.  Class Z Unit holders are not subject to paying the ongoing placement agent fee.

Effective March 31, 2014, Ceres terminated the advisory agreement among the General Partner, Winton Capital Management Limited and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney WNT I, LLC (“WNT I, LLC”) pursuant to which WNT I, LLC traded a portion of the Trading Company’s (and, indirectly, the Partnership’s) assets in Futures Interests.  Consequently, WNT I, LLC ceased all Futures Interests trading on behalf of the Trading Company (and, indirectly, the Partnership).