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Organization
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION

NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION

 

Metaurus Equity Component Trust (the "Trust"), was formed in September 2016 and is authorized to have multiple series or portfolios. The Trust is a statutory trust formed under the laws of the state of Delaware. The Trust currently has two series or funds traded on the NYSE Arca, Inc. exchange ("NYSE Arca"), U.S. Equity Cumulative Dividends Fund─Series 2027 (the "Dividend Fund") and U.S. Equity Ex-Dividend Fund─Series 2027 (the "Ex-Dividend Fund", each a "Fund" or "ETF"), collectively the "Funds" or "ETFs"). Metaurus Advisors LLC (the "Sponsor" or "Advisor") serves as the sponsor, commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor of each Fund. Each of the Funds commenced operations on January 17, 2018 and commenced investment operations on February 5, 2018.

 

The Trust has had no investment operations prior to February 5, 2018 other than matters relating to its organization, the registration of each series/Fund under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and matters relating to their establishment and the capital contribution by the Sponsor of $1,000 to each Fund on December 22, 2017.

 

The investment objective of the ETFs is to employ a passive management, or indexing, investment approach designed to correspond to the performance of each underlying index, before fees and expenses.

 

Individual Shares of the ETFs may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange, an alternative trading system or in the over-the-counter market and not directly from the ETFs. Only broker-dealers who have entered into agreements with the Trust to act as authorized participants of the Trust ("Authorized Participants") may purchase or redeem shares directly with the ETFs. Shares of the ETFs are listed and traded on the NYSE Arca, Inc. exchange. The Fund will issue and redeem Shares on a continuous basis, through SEI Investments Distribution Co. (the "Distributor"), at net asset value ("NAV") per Share only in one or more large blocks of 50,000 Shares, called "Baskets". Baskets may be issued and redeemed for cash but are expected to be issued and redeemed principally through exchange for related positions ("EFRP") transactions for (i) futures contracts, Treasury securities and other financial instruments designed to track such Fund's underlying index ("Deposit Instruments") and (ii) a cash amount that includes a variable charge. Creation and redemption prices of Baskets are directly linked to a Fund's next computed NAV and will vary from NAV by a market-determined trading cost, which may be zero. Shares generally will trade in the secondary market in amounts less than a Basket at market prices that change throughout the day. Trading prices in the secondary market for the Shares may be different from the NAVs of the ETFs.

 

Undefined capitalized terms shall have the meaning as set forth in the registration statement.