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This Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering is _______. |
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Registered Closed-End Fund (closed-end company that is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“Investment Company Act”)). |
Business Development Company (closed-end company that intends or has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act). |
Interval Fund (Registered Closed-End Fund or a Business Development Company that makes periodic repurchase offers under Rule 23c-3 under the Investment Company Act). |
A.2 Qualified (qualified to register securities pursuant to General Instruction A.2 of this Form). |
Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (as defined by Rule 405 under the Securities Act). |
Emerging Growth Company (as defined by Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. |
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New Registrant (registered or regulated under the Investment Company Act for less than 12 calendar months preceding this filing). |
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Prospectus Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F |
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Distributions provided by the Fund are not guaranteed or otherwise backed by an insurance company or by any third party. |
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Therefore, if the Fund is wrong in its assumptions or actuarial estimates or the Fund’s investments lose money, then at any time, you may not receive monthly distributions as described below, and you may lose any or all of your investment that has not already been distributed to you. |
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The Adviser’s investment techniques may fail to produce the desired results and cause the Fund to incur significant losses. |
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Shareholders who die will not be entitled to transfer their shares or to receive the NAV of their shares. |
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Shareholders who die prior to the Fund Liquidation Date will have their shares redeemed at a price that may be substantially less than NAV per share or cancelled for no value depending on when they die. |
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People with serious or life-threatening health problems should not invest in the Fund. |
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Shareholders who submit early repurchase requests will receive a repurchase price that is less than the NAV per share and less than, and potentially substantially less than, the redemption price that would be payable upon a shareholder’s death. |
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The Fund is not an insurance company. The Fund’s shares are not insurance contracts or annuity contracts. Shareholders will not have the protections of the state insurance laws, including the protection afforded by state guaranty funds. |
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The Fund may fail to make distributions through the Fund Liquidation Date. If the actual mortality rates experienced by shareholders are materially lower than the actuarial estimates, the Fund may run out of assets prior to the Fund Liquidation Date. If, on any scheduled distribution date, the Fund has insufficient assets to make the planned distribution, the Fund will liquidate and distribute proceeds to its shareholders at the time of the liquidation. |
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If the Fund is unsuccessful in implementing its investment strategy, the Fund will liquidate early and there will be no further distributions. |
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The Fund is subject to the risk that the value of the securities in which it invests will decline due to general market or economic conditions. |
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Shares are not permitted to be transferred to any person or entity other than the Fund, nor are they permitted to be held jointly. Shareholders should consider shares of the Fund to be an illiquid investment. For purposes of this prospectus and the operations of the Fund, including determining whether shares are redeemable or cancellable, the holder of any share of the Fund will be the natural person who subscribed for that share of the Fund when the share was originally purchased. |
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A significant portion of each distribution is expected and intended to constitute either a return of capital or capital gains, which will reduce the amount of capital available for investment and may reduce a shareholder ’ s tax basis in his or her shares . See “Distributions and Federal Income Tax Matters” for a discussion of the federal income tax treatment of a return of capital. |
Per Share |
Total Maximum* | |||||||||
| Price to Public | ** | $ | 121,200,000 | |||||||
| Sales Load | 1.00 | %*** | $ | 1,200,000 | ||||||
| Proceeds to the Fund | $ | 120,000,000 | ||||||||
| * | Expenses of issuance and distribution will be borne by the Adviser pursuant to the Unified Management Fee. See “Fund Expenses” below. |
| ** | The Price to Public will be equal to the Initial Purchase Price per Share for the Fund, plus any applicable sales load. |
| *** | The Distributor acts as the distributor of the shares on a best efforts basis, subject to various conditions. The shares may be offered through other brokers or dealers (each, a “Selling Agent” and together, the “Selling Agents”) that have entered into selling agreements with the Distributor. Selling Agents typically receive the sales load with respect to the shares sold through them. The Distributor does not retain any portion of the sales load. The Selling Agents may, in their sole discretion, reduce or waive the sales load. Investors should direct any questions regarding any reductions or waivers of the sales loads to the relevant Selling Agent. |
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| (1) | The Distributor will act as the distributor of the shares on a best efforts basis, subject to various conditions. The Fund may be offered through Selling Agents that have entered into selling agreements with the Distributor . Selling Agents typically receive the sales load with respect to the shares sold by them. The Distributor will not retain any portion of the sales load. The shares are sold subject to a maximum sales load of up to 1.00%. The Selling Agents may, in their sole discretion, reduce or waive the sales load. Investors should direct any questions regarding any reductions or waivers of the sales loads to the relevant Selling Agent. |
| (2) | Amount assumes that the Fund sells $120,000,000 worth of shares in this offering and that the Fund’s net offering proceeds from those sales equal $120,000,000. Expenses are estimated. Actual expenses will depend on the Fund’s net assets, which will be affected by the number of shares the Fund sells in this offering. For example, if the Fund were to raise proceeds significantly less than this amount, average net assets would be significantly lower and some expenses as a percentage of net assets would be significantly higher. There can be no assurance that the Fund will sell $120,000,000 worth of shares. |
| (3) | all-in fee structure (the “Unified Management Fee”). Pursuant to the Investment Management Agreement with the Feeder Funds (the “Management Agreement”), the Adviser is paid a Unified Management Fee at the annual rate of 0.60% of the Master Fund’s average daily total assets less total liabilities, other than any liability represented by outstanding preferred shares. The Unified Management Fee is allocated each day between the Feeder Funds based on the percentage of the total number of shares (adding together common and preferred shares) of the Master Fund held by the applicable Feeder Fund. The Fund (and not the Adviser) will be responsible for certain other fees and expenses that are not covered by the Unified Management Fee under the Management Agreement. Please see “Management of the Fund — The Adviser” for an explanation of the Unified Management Fee. Only the Management Fee of the Fund is shown. Under the Master Fund’s management agreement, the Adviser is entitled to receive a management fee at the annual rate of 0.60% of the Master Fund’s average daily total assets less total liabilities, other than any liability represented by outstanding preferred shares, as payment for its advisory, supervisory and administrative services to the Master Fund; however, the Adviser has contractually agreed to waive each month the portion of the Master Fund’s management fee attributable to the assets of the Fund invested in the Master Fund to an annualized rate of 0.00% for so long as the Fund invests substantially all of its assets in the Master Fund. This fee waiver may only be modified by the mutual consent of the Adviser and the Master Fund, including a majority of the trustees of the Master Fund who are not “interested persons” of the Master Fund (as defined in the 1940 Act). The Management Fee relating to the Fund shown above is estimated for the Fund’s current fiscal year. |
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Amount Authorized |
Amount Held by the Fund for its Account |
Amount of Outstanding Exclusive of Amount Shown Under (3) | |||
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F |
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Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC |
3. |
U.S. Bank NA |
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U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC |
5. |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
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Initial Purchase Price | ||||
1938, Male |
$ |
12.81 |
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1938, Female |
$ |
13.90 |
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1939, Male |
$ |
13.24 |
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1939, Female |
$ |
14.35 |
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1940, Male |
$ |
13.67 |
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1940, Female |
$ |
14.80 |
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1941, Male |
$ |
14.10 |
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1941, Female |
$ |
15.25 |
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1942, Male |
$ |
14.52 |
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1942, Female |
$ |
15.69 |
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1943, Male |
$ |
14.95 |
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1943, Female |
$ |
16.12 |
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1944, Male |
$ |
15.42 |
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1944, Female |
$ |
16.59 |
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1945, Male |
$ |
15.89 |
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1945, Female |
$ |
17.04 |
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1946, Male |
$ |
16.34 |
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1946, Female |
$ |
17.48 |
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1947, Male |
$ |
16.78 |
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1947, Female |
$ |
17.89 |
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1948, Male |
$ |
17.20 |
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1948, Female |
$ |
18.27 |
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1949, Male |
$ |
17.65 |
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1949, Female |
$ |
18.67 |
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1950, Male |
$ |
18.07 |
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1950, Female |
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19.03 |
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1951, Male |
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18.46 |
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1951, Female |
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19.37 |
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1952, Male |
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18.83 |
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1952, Female |
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19.68 |
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1953, Male |
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19.16 |
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1953, Female |
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19.96 |
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1954, Male |
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19.48 |
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1954, Female |
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20.21 |
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1955, Male |
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19.77 |
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1955, Female |
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20.43 |
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1956, Male |
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20.03 |
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1956, Female |
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20.64 |
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1957, Male |
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20.26 |
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1957, Female |
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20.82 |
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1958, Male |
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20.47 |
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1958, Female |
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20.98 |
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| • | Account Applications and Other Forms |
| • | Account History |
| • | Correspondence |
| • | In order to complete certain transactions or account changes that a customer directs, it may be necessary to provide certain non-public personal information about that customer to companies, individuals, or groups that are not affiliated with Stone Ridge. For example, if a customer asks Stone Ridge to transfer assets from another financial institution, Stone Ridge will need to provide certain non-public personal information about that customer to the company to complete the transaction. |
| • | In order to alert a customer to other financial products and services that a Stone Ridge affiliated company offers, Stone Ridge may share non-public personal information it has about that customer with a Stone Ridge affiliated company. |
| • | In certain instances, Stone Ridge may contract with non-affiliated companies to perform services for or on behalf of Stone Ridge. Where necessary, Stone Ridge will disclose non-public personal information it has about its customers to these third parties. In all such cases, Stone Ridge will provide the third party with only the information necessary to carry out its assigned responsibilities and only for that purpose. In addition, Stone Ridge requires these third parties to treat Stone Ridge customers’ non-public information with the same high degree of confidentiality that Stone Ridge does. |
| • | Finally, Stone Ridge will release non-public information about customers if directed by that customer to do so or if Stone Ridge is authorized by law to do so. |
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For purposes of this notice, the term “customer” or “customers” includes both individuals who have investments with a Stone Ridge-affiliated company and individuals who have provided non-public personal information to a Stone Ridge affiliated company, but did not invest with a Stone Ridge affiliated company. |
By telephone: |
(855) 609-3680 | |
By mail: |
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services 615 East Michigan Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 | |
On the Internet: |
SEC EDGAR database — www.sec.gov | |
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
STONE RIDGE LONGEVITY RISK PREMIUM FIXED INCOME TRUST 71F
STONE RIDGE LONGEVITY RISK PREMIUM FIXED INCOME FUND 71F
May 1, 2023
One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor
New York, NY 10017
(855) 609-3680
This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) describes Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F (the “Fund”). This SAI is not a prospectus and is only authorized for distribution when preceded or accompanied by the Fund’s current prospectus dated May 1, 2023, as supplemented from time to time (the “Prospectus”). This SAI supplements and should be read in conjunction with the Prospectus. A copy of the Prospectus may be obtained without charge by writing the Fund at the address, or by calling the toll-free telephone number, listed above.
STONE RIDGE LONGEVITY RISK PREMIUM FIXED INCOME TRUST 71F
STONE RIDGE LONGEVITY RISK PREMIUM FIXED INCOME FUND 71F
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT INFORMATION, RISKS AND RESTRICTIONS
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F (the “Fund”) is a series of a closed-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). The Fund is an investment portfolio of Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust organized on February 10, 2020. The Fund will pursue its investment objective by investing substantially all of its assets in Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Master Fund (the “Master Fund”), a series of a closed-end management investment company registered under the 1940 Act (the “Master Fund Trust”). The Master Fund will only offer its securities to other registered closed-end funds that invest substantially all of their assets in the Master Fund (collectively, the “other Feeder Funds” and, together with the Fund, the “Feeder Funds”), each of which is an investment portfolio of a Delaware statutory trust (collectively, the “Feeder Fund Trusts”)1. Stone Ridge Asset Management, LLC (the “Adviser”) serves as the investment adviser to the Fund, the Master Fund and each other Feeder Fund.
The Prospectus discusses the investment objective of the Fund, as well as the principal investment strategies it employs to achieve its objective and the principal investment risks associated with those strategies. Additional information about the strategies and other investment practices the Fund may employ and certain related risks of the Fund are described below. Capitalized terms used in this SAI and not otherwise defined have the meanings given to them in the Prospectus. When used in this SAI, descriptions of actions taken or investments made by the Fund include actions taken or investments made by the Master Fund.
Additional Investment Information and Risks
U.S. Treasury Obligations. These include Treasury bills (which have maturities of one year or less when issued), Treasury notes (which have maturities of one to ten years when issued) and Treasury bonds (which have maturities of more than ten years when issued). Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States as to timely payments of interest and repayments of principal. Similar to other issuers, changes to the financial condition or credit rating of the United States government may cause the value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investment in Treasury obligations to decline.
| 1 | The Feeder Fund Trusts are: Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85F and Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85M. |
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Portfolio Turnover. Purchases and sales of portfolio investments may be made as considered advisable by the Adviser in the best interests of the shareholders. The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may vary from year-to-year, as well as within a year. Higher portfolio turnover rates can result in corresponding increases in portfolio transaction costs for the Fund and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.
For reporting purposes, the Master Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated by dividing the lesser of purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the fiscal year by the monthly average of the value of the portfolio securities owned by the Master Fund during the fiscal year. In determining such portfolio turnover, all securities whose maturities at the time of acquisition were one year or less are excluded. A 100% portfolio turnover rate would occur, for example, if all of the securities in the Master Fund’s investment portfolio (other than short-term money market securities) were replaced once during the fiscal year. Based on the Master Fund’s anticipated portfolio of investments, the Master Fund does not anticipate having a material portfolio turnover rate. Portfolio turnover will not be a limiting factor should the Adviser deem it advisable to purchase or sell securities.
Investment Restrictions
Fundamental Investment Restrictions of the Fund
The following investment restrictions of the Fund (which are identical to the investment restrictions of the Master Fund and each other Feeder Fund) are designated as fundamental policies and as such cannot be changed without the approval of the holders of a majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting securities. Under the 1940 Act, a “majority” vote is defined as the vote of the holders of the lesser of: (a) 67% or more of the shares of the Fund present at a meeting if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy at the meeting; or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.
Under these restrictions, the Fund:
(1) may issue senior securities to the extent permitted by applicable law;
(2) may borrow money to the extent permitted by applicable law;
(3) may not underwrite securities;
(4) may not purchase, sell or hold real estate;
(5) may not make loans;
(6) may not purchase and sell commodities; and
(7) may not invest 25% or more of its total assets in a particular industry or group of industries (other than securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities).
Where applicable, the foregoing investment restrictions shall be interpreted based on the applicable rules, regulations and pronouncements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and its staff.
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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS
Board of Trustees
The business and affairs of the Fund are managed under the oversight of the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board,” and each of the trustees on the board, a “Trustee”) subject to the laws of the State of Delaware and the Trust’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”). The composition of the boards of trustees responsible for overseeing the Master Fund and each other Feeder Fund are currently the same as the composition of the Board of the Fund. The Trustees are responsible for oversight of the practices and processes of the Fund and its service providers, rather than active management of the Fund, including in matters relating to risk management. The Trustees seek to understand the key risks facing the Fund, including those involving conflicts of interest; how Fund management identifies and monitors those risks on an ongoing basis; how Fund management develops and implements controls to mitigate those risks; and how Fund management tests the effectiveness of those controls. The Board cannot foresee, know or guard against all risks, nor are the Trustees guarantors against risk. The officers of the Fund conduct and supervise the Fund’s daily business operations. Trustees who are not deemed to be “interested persons” of the Fund as defined in the 1940 Act are referred to as “Independent Trustees.” Trustees who are deemed to be “interested persons” of the Fund are referred to as “Interested Trustees.”
The Board meets as often as necessary to discharge its responsibilities. Currently, the Board conducts regular quarterly meetings, including in-person or telephonic meetings, and holds special in-person or telephonic meetings as necessary to address specific issues that require attention prior to the next regularly scheduled meeting. At these meetings, officers of the Trust provide the Board (or one of its committees) with written and oral reports on regulatory and compliance matters, operational and service provider matters, organizational developments, product proposals, audit results, and insurance and fidelity bond coverage. In addition, it is expected that the Independent Trustees meet at least annually to review, among other things, investment management agreements and certain other plans and agreements, and to consider such other matters as they deem appropriate.
The Board has established two standing committees – an Audit Committee and a Valuation Committee – to assist the Board in its oversight of risk as part of its broader oversight of the Fund’s affairs. The Committees, both of which are comprised solely of the Board’s Independent Trustees, are described below. The Board may establish other committees, or nominate one or more Trustees to examine particular issues related to the Board’s oversight responsibilities, from time to time. Each Committee meets periodically to perform its delegated oversight functions and reports its findings and recommendations to the Board.
The Board does not have a lead Independent Trustee. The Board, taking into consideration its oversight responsibility of the Fund, believes that its leadership structure is appropriate. In addition, the Board’s use of Committees (each of which is chaired by an Independent Trustee with substantial industry experience) and the chair’s role as chief executive officer of the Adviser, serve to enhance the Board’s understanding of the operations of the Fund, the Master Fund and the Adviser.
Board members of the Trust, together with information as to their positions with the Trust, principal occupations and other board memberships, are shown below. Unless otherwise noted, each Trustee has held each principal occupation and board membership indicated for at least the past five years. Each Trustee’s mailing address is c/o Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor, New York, NY 10017.
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Independent Trustees
| Name (Year of Birth) |
Position(s) Held with the Trust |
Term of Office and Length of Time Served(1) |
Principal Occupation(s) |
Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee(2) |
Other Directorships / | |||||
| Jeffery Ekberg (1965) |
Trustee | since 2020 | Self-employed (personal investing), since 2011; Principal, TPG Capital, L.P. (private equity firm) until 2011; Chief Financial Officer, Newbridge Capital, LLC (subsidiary of TPG Capital, L.P.) until 2011 | 51 | None. | |||||
| Daniel Charney (1970) |
Trustee | since 2020 | Co-President, Cowen and Company, Cowen Inc. (financial services firm) since 2012 | 51 | None. | |||||
Interested Trustee
| Name (Year of Birth) |
Position(s) Held with the Trust |
Term of Office and Length of Time Served(1) |
Principal Occupation(s) |
Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee(2) |
Other Directorships / | |||||
| Ross Stevens(3) (1969) |
Trustee | since 2020 | Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stone Ridge since 2012 | 51 | None. |
| (1) | Each Trustee serves until resignation or removal from the Board. |
| (2) | The Fund Complex includes the Feeder Fund Trusts, the Master Fund Trust, Stone Ridge Trust, Stone Ridge Trust II, Stone Ridge Trust IV, Stone Ridge Trust V, Stone Ridge Trust VIII and Stone Ridge Residential Real Estate Income Fund I, Inc., other investment companies managed by the Adviser. |
| (3) | Mr. Stevens is an “interested person” of the Trust, as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act, due to his affiliation with the Adviser. |
Additional Information about the Trustees.
Jeffery Ekberg – Through his experience as a senior officer, director and accountant of financial and other organizations, Mr. Ekberg contributes experience overseeing financial and investment organizations to the Board. The Board also benefits from his previous experience as a member of the board of other funds.
Daniel Charney – Through his experience as a senior officer of financial and other organizations, Mr. Charney contributes his experience in the investment management industry to the Board.
Ross Stevens – Through his experience as a senior executive of financial organizations, Mr. Stevens contributes his experience in the investment management industry to the Board.
Additional Information about the Board’s Committees.
The Trust has an Audit Committee and a Valuation Committee. The members of both the Audit Committee and the Valuation Committee consist of all the Independent Trustees, namely Messrs. Ekberg and Charney. Mr. Ekberg is the Audit Committee Chair and has been designated as the Audit Committee financial expert. Mr. Charney is the Valuation Committee Chair.
In accordance with its written charter, the Audit Committee’s primary purposes are: (1) to oversee the Trust’s accounting and financial reporting policies and practices, and its internal controls and procedures; (2) to oversee the
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quality and objectivity of the Trust’s and the Fund’s financial statements and the independent audit thereof; (3) to oversee the activities of the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO”); (4) to oversee the Trust’s compliance program adopted pursuant to Rule 38a-1 under the 1940 Act, and the Trust’s implementation and enforcement of its compliance policies and procedures thereunder; (5) to oversee the Trust’s compliance with applicable laws in foreign jurisdictions, if any; and (6) to oversee compliance with the Code of Ethics by the Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor.
The Audit Committee reviews the scope of the Fund’s audits, the Fund’s accounting and financial reporting policies and practices and its internal controls. The Audit Committee approves, and recommends to the Independent Trustees for their ratification, the selection, appointment, retention or termination of the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm and approves the compensation of the independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee also approves all audit and permissible non-audit services provided to the Fund by the independent registered public accounting firm and all permissible non-audit services provided by the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm to the Adviser and any affiliated service providers if the engagement relates directly to the Fund’s operations and financial reporting. The Audit Committee met four times during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
The Valuation Committee also operates pursuant to a written charter. The duties and powers, to be exercised at such times and in such manner as the Valuation Committee shall deem necessary or appropriate, are as follows: (1) reviewing, from time to time, the Trust’s valuation policy and procedures (the “Valuation Policy”), which Valuation Policy serves to establish policies and procedures for the valuation of the Fund’s assets; (2) making any recommendations to the Trust’s audit committee and/or the Board regarding (i) the functioning of the Valuation Policy or (ii) the valuation(s) of individual assets; (3) consulting with the Adviser regarding the valuation of the Fund’s assets, including fair valuation determinations of any such assets; (4) periodically reviewing information regarding fair value and other determinations made pursuant to the Trust’s valuation procedures; (5) reporting to the Board on a regular basis regarding the Valuation Committee’s duties; (6) making recommendations in conjunction with the Board’s annual (or other periodical) review of the Trust’s Valuation Policy; (7) periodically reviewing information regarding industry developments in connection with valuation of assets; and (8) performing such other duties as may be assigned to it, from time to time, by the Board. The Valuation Committee met four times during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
Trustee Ownership of the Fund. The following table shows the dollar range of equity securities owned by the Trustees in the Fund and in other investment companies overseen by the Trustee within the same family of investment companies as of December 31, 2022. Investment companies are considered to be in the same family if they share the same investment adviser or principal underwriter and hold themselves out to investors as related companies for purposes of investment and investor services. The information as to ownership of securities which appears below is based on statements furnished to the Fund by its Trustees and executive officers.
| Dollar Range of |
Aggregate Dollar | |||||||||||||
| Independent Trustees | ||||||||||||||
| Jeffery Ekberg | None | Over $100,000 | ||||||||||||
| Daniel Charney | None | Over $100,000 | ||||||||||||
| Interested Trustee | ||||||||||||||
| Ross Stevens(3) | Over $100,000 | Over $100,000 | ||||||||||||
| (1) | As of the date of this SAI, none of the Trustees owned shares of the Fund because the Fund had not yet begun investment operations. |
| (2) | Family of Investment Companies includes the Feeder Fund Trusts, the Master Fund Trust, Stone Ridge Trust, Stone Ridge Trust II, Stone Ridge Trust IV, Stone Ridge Trust V, Stone Ridge Trust VIII and Stone Ridge Residential Real Estate Income Fund I, Inc., other investment companies managed by the Adviser. |
| (3) | Beneficial ownership through the Adviser’s or its affiliates’ investments in the Fund. |
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Other than as disclosed in the following table, none of the Independent Trustees or their family members beneficially owned any class of securities of the Adviser or principal underwriter of the Fund, or a person (other than a registered investment company) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Adviser or the principal underwriter of the Fund, as of December 31, 2022.
| Name of Director |
Name of Owners and Relationships to Director |
Company |
Title of Class |
Value of Securities |
Percent of Class | ||||||||||||||
| Daniel Charney | Self | New York Digital Investment Group LLC(1) | Class B2 | $ | 1,142,592 | 0.13 | % | ||||||||||||
| Jeffery Ekberg | |
Self |
New York Digital Investment Group LLC | Class B2 |
$ |
571,296 |
|
0.06 |
% | ||||||||||
| (1) | New York Digital Investment Group LLC is under common control with the Adviser. |
Compensation of Trustees. Each Trustee who is not an employee of the Adviser is compensated by an annual retainer. Each such Trustee’s compensation is invested in Stone Ridge funds. The Trust does not pay retirement benefits to its Trustees and officers. The Fund pays a portion of the compensation of the CCO. Other officers and Interested Trustees of the Trust are not compensated by the Fund. The following table sets forth compensation received by the Independent Trustees for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022:
| Independent Trustees |
Aggregate Compensation From the Feeder Funds and the Master Fund(1) |
Total Compensation From the Complex(2) Paid to Trustee | ||||||||
| Jeffery Ekberg | $ | 0 | $ | 350,000 | ||||||
| Daniel Charney | $ | 0 | $ | 350,000 | ||||||
| (1) | As of the date of this SAI, the Independent Trustees had not received compensation from the Fund because the Fund had not yet commenced investment operations. |
| (2) | Reflects actual direct compensation received during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 from other series of the Complex. The Complex includes the Feeder Fund Trusts, the Master Fund Trust, Stone Ridge Trust, Stone Ridge Trust II, Stone Ridge Trust IV, Stone Ridge Trust V, Stone Ridge Trust VIII and Stone Ridge Residential Real Estate Income Fund I, Inc., other investment companies managed by the Adviser. |
Officers of the Trust
| Name and Address(1) (2) |
Position(s) Held with the Trust |
Term of Office and |
Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | |||
| Ross Stevens (1969) |
President, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Executive Officer | since 2019 | Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Adviser, since 2012. | |||
| Lauren D. Macioce (1978) |
Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary, Chief Legal Officer and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer | since 2019 | General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the Adviser, since 2016. | |||
| Anthony Zuco (1975) |
Treasurer, Principal Financial Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer | since 2019 | Supervising Fund Controller at the Adviser, since 2015. | |||
| Alexander Nyren (1980) |
Assistant Secretary | since 2019 | Head of Reinsurance of the Adviser, since 2018; member of Reinsurance portfolio management team at the Adviser, since 2013. | |||
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| Name and Address(1) (2) |
Position(s) Held with the Trust |
Term of Office and |
Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | |||
| Leson Lee (1975) |
Assistant Treasurer | since 2019 | Member of Operations at the Adviser, since 2018. | |||
| Domingo Encarnacion (1983) |
Assistant Treasurer | since 2020 | Tax Manager at the Adviser, since 2016. | |||
| Stanley Weinberg (1989) |
Assistant Treasurer | since April 2023 | Member of Operations at the Adviser, since 2019; prior to that, Senior Associate at M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB. | |||
| (1) | Each officer’s mailing address is c/o Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor, New York, NY 10017. |
| (2) | Each of the officers is an affiliated person of the Adviser as a result of his or her position with the Adviser. |
| (3) | The term of office of each officer is indefinite. |
Code of Ethics. The Trust and the Adviser have adopted a code of ethics in accordance with Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act. This code of ethics permits the personnel of these entities to make personal investments under some circumstances, including assets or instruments that the Fund or the Master Fund may purchase or hold. The code of ethics is available on the EDGAR database of the Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, copies of each code of ethics may be obtained, after mailing the appropriate duplicating fee, by e-mail request to publicinfo@sec.gov.
CONTROL PERSONS AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
A principal shareholder is any person who owns of record or is known by the Fund to own of record or beneficially 5% or more of any class of the Fund’s outstanding equity securities. A control person is one who owns beneficially, either directly or through controlled companies, more than 25% of the voting securities of the Fund or acknowledges the existence of control. A controlling person possesses the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted for shareholder vote by the Fund.
As of the date of this SAI, Stone Ridge Holdings Group LP owned of record and beneficially 100% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.
As of March 31, 2023, the Trustees and officers of the Fund as a group owned, directly or indirectly, 100% of the outstanding shares of the Fund, as a result of Ross Stevens’ beneficial ownership through the Adviser’s or its affiliates’ investments in the Fund.
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND OTHER SERVICES
The Adviser
Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC is the Adviser of the Fund. The Adviser also acts as the investment adviser to the Master Fund and to each other Feeder Fund. The Adviser was organized as a Delaware limited liability company in 2012. The manager of the general partner of the managing member of the Adviser is Ross Stevens.
Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC serves as the Adviser of the Fund under an Investment Management Agreement (the “Management Agreement”). Pursuant to the Management Agreement with the Feeder Funds, the Adviser is paid a Unified Management Fee equal to 0.60% of the Master Fund’s average daily total assets less total liabilities, other than any liability represented by outstanding preferred shares. The Unified Management Fee is allocated each day between the Feeder Funds based on the percentage of the total number of shares (adding together common and preferred shares) of the Master Fund held by the applicable Feeder Fund. The
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Management Agreement has an initial term of two years from its effective date and continues in effect with respect to the Fund (unless terminated sooner) if its continuance is specifically approved at least annually by the affirmative vote of: (i) a majority of the Independent Trustees, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval; and (ii) a majority of the Board or the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. The Management Agreement may nevertheless be terminated at any time without penalty, on 60 days’ written notice, by the Board, by vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, or by the Adviser. The Management Agreement terminates automatically in the event of its assignment (as defined in the 1940 Act).
Under the terms of the Management Agreement, neither the Adviser nor its affiliates shall be liable for losses or damages incurred by the Fund, unless such losses or damages are attributable to willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of either the Adviser or its affiliates or from reckless disregard by it of its obligations and duties under the management contract (“disabling conduct”). In addition, the Fund will indemnify the Adviser and its affiliates and hold each of them harmless against any losses or damages not resulting from disabling conduct. The terms of the investment management agreements between the Adviser and the Master Fund and each other Feeder Fund are identical to the terms of the Management Agreement.
Portfolio Managers
Paul Germain, Li Song and Ross Stevens are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Master Fund and each Feeder Fund. The following tables set forth certain additional information with respect to the Portfolio Managers. The information is as of April 1, 2023.
Other Accounts Managed by the Portfolio Managers
The table below identifies the number of accounts for which the Portfolio Managers have day-to-day management responsibilities and the total assets in such accounts, within each of the following categories: registered investment companies, other pooled investment vehicles and other accounts.
| Registered Investment Companies |
Other Pooled Investment Vehicles |
Other Accounts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portfolio Manager |
Number of Accounts(1) |
Total Assets (in millions) |
Number of Accounts |
Total Assets (in millions) |
Number of Accounts |
Total Assets (in millions) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paul Germain | 5 | $6,083 | 11 | $5,286 | 5 | $8,180 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Li Song | 2 | $625 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Stevens | 4 | $5,782 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1) | Does not include the Fund, the Feeder Funds or the Master Fund, which will be included in this table upon commencement of operations. |
The table below identifies the number of accounts for which the Portfolio Managers have day-to-day management responsibilities and the total assets in such accounts with respect to which the advisory fee is based on the performance of the account, within each of the following categories: registered investment companies, other pooled investment vehicles, and other accounts.
| Registered Investment Companies for which the Adviser receives a performance-based fee |
Other Pooled Investment Vehicles managed for which the Adviser receives a performance-based fee |
Other Accounts managed for which the Adviser receives a performance-based fee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portfolio Manager |
Number of Accounts |
Total Assets (in millions) |
Number of Accounts |
Total Assets (in millions) |
Number of Accounts |
Total Assets (in millions) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paul Germain | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Li Song | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Stevens | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Potential Conflicts of Interest
Each of the Portfolio Managers is also responsible for managing other accounts in addition to the Master Fund and the Feeder Funds, including other accounts of the Adviser or its affiliates. Other accounts may include, without limitation, other investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, unregistered investment companies that rely on Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act, separately managed accounts, foreign investment companies and accounts or investments owned by the Adviser or its affiliates or the Portfolio Managers. Management of other accounts in addition to the Master Fund and the Feeder Funds can present certain conflicts of interest, as described below.
From time to time, conflicts of interest arise between a Portfolio Manager’s management of the investments of the Master Fund, on the one hand, and the management of other accounts, on the other. The other accounts might have similar or different investment objectives or strategies as the Master Fund, or otherwise hold, purchase or sell securities or other assets or instruments that are eligible to be held, purchased or sold by the Master Fund, or may take positions that are opposite in direction from those taken by the Master Fund. In addition, investors in, or the owners of, certain accounts managed by the Adviser are also investors in the Adviser or its affiliates and/or have indicated an intention to invest additional assets in accounts managed by the Adviser and for which the Adviser will receive a management fee, performance allocation or performance fee.
As a fiduciary, the Adviser owes a duty of loyalty to its clients and must treat each client fairly. The Adviser, the Fund and the Master Fund have adopted compliance policies and procedures that are designed to avoid, mitigate, monitor and oversee areas that could present potential conflicts of interest.
Allocation of Master Fund Investments. The Feeder Funds, as a result of their particular Initial Purchase Price and expected Redemption Prices, will need to purchase a particular combination of Master Fund common shares and preferred shares. The purpose of having different Initial Purchase Prices for the Feeder Funds is to establish a fair purchase price for all investors, by charging a higher purchase price from investors in Feeder Funds that are statistically more likely to benefit from the stream of distributions provided by that Feeder Fund (because, based on the Adviser’s calculations using actuarial information provided by New York Life, they face a lower risk of mortality through the Fund Liquidation Date) and, conversely, by charging a lower purchase price from investors in Feeder Funds that are statistically less likely to so benefit (because, based on the Adviser’s calculations using actuarial information provided by New York Life, they face a higher risk of mortality through the Fund Liquidation Date).
Feeder Funds with higher Initial Purchase Prices will generally purchase more Master Fund preferred shares and fewer Master Fund common shares than Feeder Funds with lower Initial Purchase Prices. The precise combination of Master Fund common shares and preferred shares purchased by a Feeder Fund will be the combination that enables that Feeder Fund to make its planned distributions while also having aggregate redemption prices payable by the Master Fund to that Feeder Fund upon the death of an investor equal to the redemption prices payable by that Feeder Fund to such investor.
Allocation of Limited Time and Attention. A Portfolio Manager who is responsible for managing multiple accounts may devote unequal time and attention to the management of those accounts. As a result, the Portfolio Manager may not be able to formulate as complete a strategy or identify equally attractive investment opportunities for each of the accounts as might be the case if he or she were to devote substantially more attention to the management of a single account. The effects of this potential conflict may be more pronounced where accounts overseen by a particular Portfolio Manager have different investment strategies.
Allocation of Investment Opportunities. Conflicts of interest arise as a result of the Adviser’s or its affiliates’ management of a number of accounts with similar or different investment strategies. When the Adviser or its affiliates purchase or sell securities or other assets or instruments for more than one account, the trades must be allocated in a manner consistent with their fiduciary duties. The Adviser and its affiliates attempt to allocate investments in a fair and equitable manner over time among client accounts, with no account receiving
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preferential treatment over time. To this end, the Adviser and its affiliates have adopted policies and procedures that are intended to provide the Adviser and its affiliates with flexibility to allocate investments in a manner that is consistent with their fiduciary duties. There is no guarantee, however, that the policies and procedures adopted by the Adviser and its affiliates will be able to detect and/or prevent every situation in which an actual or potential conflict may appear.
An investment opportunity may be suitable for both the Master Fund and other accounts, but may not be available in sufficient quantities for both the Master Fund and the other accounts to participate fully. If a Portfolio Manager identifies a limited investment opportunity that may be suitable for multiple accounts, the opportunity may be allocated among these several accounts; as a result of these allocations, there may be instances in which the Master Fund will not participate in a transaction that is allocated among other accounts or the Master Fund may not be allocated the full amount of an investment opportunity. Similarly, there may be limited opportunity to sell an investment held by the Master Fund and another account. In addition, different account guidelines and/or differences within particular investment strategies may lead to the use of different investment practices for accounts with a similar investment strategy. Whenever decisions are made to buy or sell securities or other assets or instruments by the Master Fund and one or more of the other accounts simultaneously, the Adviser and its affiliates may aggregate the purchases and sales of the securities or other assets or instruments. The Adviser and its affiliates will not necessarily purchase or sell the same securities or other assets or instruments at the same time, in the same direction or in the same proportionate amounts for all eligible accounts, particularly if different accounts have different amounts of capital under management by the Adviser or its affiliates, different amounts of investable cash available, different strategies or different risk tolerances. As a result, although the Adviser and its affiliates may manage different accounts with similar or identical investment objectives, or may manage accounts with different objectives that trade in the same securities or other assets or instruments, the portfolio decisions relating to these accounts, and the performance resulting from such decisions, may differ from account to account, and the trade allocation and aggregation and other policies and procedures of the Master Fund or the Adviser and its affiliates could have a detrimental effect on the price or amount of the securities or other assets or instruments available to the Master Fund from time to time. Because the aforementioned considerations may differ between the Fund and other accounts, the investment activities of the Fund and other accounts may differ considerably from time to time. In addition, the Master Fund could be disadvantaged because of activities conducted by the Adviser or its affiliates for their other accounts, or by the Adviser or its affiliates for their own accounts, as a result of, among other things, the difficulty of liquidating an investment for more than one account where the market cannot absorb the sale of the combined positions.
As a result of regulations governing the ability of certain clients of the Adviser and its affiliates to invest side-by-side, it is possible that the Master Fund may not be permitted to participate in an investment opportunity at the same time as another fund or another account managed by the Adviser or its affiliates. These limitations may limit the scope of investment opportunities that would otherwise be available to the Master Fund. The decision as to which accounts may participate in any particular investment opportunity will take into account applicable law and the suitability of the investment opportunity for, and the strategy of, the applicable accounts. It is possible that the Master Fund may be prevented from participating due to such investment opportunity being more appropriate, in the discretion of the Adviser and its affiliates, for another account.
Conflicts of Interest Among Strategies. At times, a Portfolio Manager may determine that an investment opportunity may be appropriate for only some of the accounts for which he or she exercises investment responsibility, or may decide that certain of the accounts should take differing positions with respect to a particular security or other asset or instrument. In these cases, the Portfolio Manager may place separate transactions for one or more accounts, which may affect the market price of the security or other asset or instrument or the execution of the transaction, or both, to the detriment or benefit of one or more other accounts. Similarly, the Adviser or its affiliates may take positions in accounts or investments owned by them or on behalf of clients that are similar to or different from those taken by one or more client accounts.
Conflicts may also arise in cases when accounts invest in different parts of an issuer’s capital structure, including circumstances in which one or more accounts own private securities or obligations of an issuer and other accounts may own public securities of the same issuer. Actions by investors in one part of the capital structure could disadvantage investors in another part of the capital structure. In addition, purchases or sales of the same
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investment may be made for two or more accounts on the same date. There can be no assurance that an account will not receive less (or more) of a certain investment than it would otherwise receive if this conflict of interest among accounts did not exist. In effecting transactions, it may not be possible, or consistent with the investment objectives of accounts, to purchase or sell securities or other assets or instruments at the same time or at the same prices.
Selection of Service Providers. The Adviser or its affiliates may be able to select or influence the selection of service providers to clients, including the brokers and dealers that are used to execute securities or other transactions for the accounts that they supervise. In addition to executing trades, some brokers and dealers may provide the Adviser or its affiliates with brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which may result in the payment of higher brokerage fees than might have otherwise been available. These services may be more beneficial to certain accounts than to others. In addition, the Adviser or its affiliates have received and may receive loans or other services from service providers to clients. Although such services are negotiated at arm’s length, they pose conflicts of interest to the Adviser or its affiliates in selecting such service providers.
Related Business Opportunities. The Adviser or its affiliates may provide more services (such as distribution or recordkeeping) for some types of accounts than for others. In such cases, a Portfolio Manager may benefit, either directly or indirectly, by devoting disproportionate attention to the management of accounts that provide greater overall returns to the Adviser and its affiliates.
Broad and Wide-Ranging Activities. The Adviser and its related parties engage in a broad spectrum of activities and may expand the range of services that they provide over time. The Adviser and its related parties will generally not be restricted in the scope of their business or in the performance of any such services (whether now offered or undertaken in the future), even if such activities could give rise to conflicts of interest, and whether or not such conflicts are described herein. In the ordinary course of their business activities, including activities with third-party service providers, lenders and/or counterparties, the Adviser and its related parties engage in activities where the interests of the Adviser and its related parties or the interests of their clients conflict with the interests of the shareholders of the Fund. Certain employees of the Adviser, including certain Portfolio Managers, also have responsibilities relating to the business of one or more related parties. These employees are not restricted in the amount of time that may be allocated to the business activities of the Adviser’s related parties, and the allocation of such employees’ time between the Adviser and its related parties may change over time.
Valuation Process. In addition, the participation of the Adviser’s personnel in the Master Fund’s valuation process could result in a conflict of interest, as the management fee paid to the Adviser is based on the value of the Master Fund’s assets.
Variation in Compensation. A conflict of interest arises where the financial or other benefits available to the Adviser differ among the accounts that it manages. The structure of the Adviser’s management fee differs among accounts (such as where certain accounts pay higher management fees or a performance or incentive fee), which means the Adviser might be motivated to help certain accounts over others. In addition, a Portfolio Manager or the Adviser might be motivated to favor accounts in which such Portfolio Manager has an interest or in which the Adviser and/or its affiliates have interests. Similarly, the desire to maintain or raise assets under management or to enhance the Adviser’s performance record or to derive other rewards, financial or otherwise, could influence the Adviser to lend preferential treatment to those accounts that could most significantly benefit the Adviser.
Investments by Adviser or Related Entities. The Adviser or a related entity may invest in entities that may provide financial or other services for the Fund.
Certain Potential Conflicts Relating to Expenses. The allocation of fees and expenses among the Fund and other funds or accounts advised by the Adviser will often require the Adviser to exercise its discretion to select an allocation method it determines to be appropriate in light of the particular facts and circumstances. The Adviser will be subject to conflicts of interest in making such determinations, and there can be no assurance that
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any allocations (i) will reflect an entity’s pro rata share of such expenses based on the amounts invested (or anticipated to be invested) and/or the market value of the investment held (or anticipated to be held) by each fund advised by the Adviser, or (ii) will be in proportion to the number of participating funds advised by the Adviser or the proportion of time spent on each such fund. Similarly, the determination of whether an expense (for instance, the fees and expenses of service providers who work on Fund-related matters) is appropriately borne by the Fund (or a specific class of shares) or the Adviser often cannot be resolved by reference to a pre-existing formula and will require the exercise of discretion, and the Adviser will be subject to conflicts of interest in making such determinations.
Portfolio Manager Compensation
Portfolio Managers receive a base salary and may also receive a bonus. Compensation of a Portfolio Manager is determined at the discretion of the Adviser and may be deferred. It may be based on a number of factors including the Portfolio Manager’s experience, responsibilities, the perception of the quality of his or her work efforts and the consistency with which he or she demonstrates kindness to other employees, trading counterparties, vendors and clients. As a firm focused on beta, the compensation of Portfolio Managers is not based upon the performance of client accounts that the Portfolio Managers manage. The Adviser reviews the compensation of each Portfolio Manager at least annually.
Portfolio Manager Securities Ownership
None of the Portfolio Managers will ever beneficially own any shares of the Fund or of any other Feeder Fund because each is only sold to persons who were born on or between January 1, 1938 and December 31, 1958.
Principal Underwriter
The Distributor will act as the distributor of shares for the Fund on a best efforts basis, subject to various conditions, pursuant to the terms of the Distributor’s contract with the Fund. The Distributor will not be obligated to sell any specific amount of shares of the Fund. The Distributor will also act as agent for the Fund in connection with redemptions or repurchases of shares.
Other Service Providers
Administrator. The Trust has entered into an administration agreement with U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services (the “Administrator”), pursuant to which the Administrator provides administrative services to the Fund. The Administrator is responsible for (i) the general administrative duties associated with the day-to-day operations of the Fund; (ii) conducting relations with the custodian, independent registered public accounting firm, legal counsel and other service providers; (iii) providing regulatory reporting; and (iv) providing necessary office space, equipment, personnel, compensation and facilities for handling the affairs of the Fund. In performing its duties and obligations under the administration agreement, the Administrator shall not be held liable except for a loss arising out of the Administrator’s refusal or failure to comply with the terms of the administration agreement or from its bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of its duties under the administration agreement.
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, also serves as fund accountant to the Fund under a separate agreement with the Trust and is responsible for calculating the Fund’s total net asset value (“NAV”), total net income and NAV per share of the Fund on a daily basis. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, also serves as administrator and fund accountant to the Master Fund.
Transfer Agent/Dividend Disbursing Agent. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services (the “Transfer Agent”), is the transfer agent for the Fund’s shares and the dividend disbursing agent for payment of dividends and distributions on Fund shares. The principal business address of the
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Transfer Agent is 615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, also serves as transfer agent and dividend disbursing agent for the Master Fund.
Custodian. U.S. Bank, NA (the “Custodian”), located at 1555 N. River Center Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212, serves as the custodian for the Fund. As such, the Custodian holds in safekeeping certificated securities and cash belonging to the Fund and, in such capacity, is the registered owner of securities in book-entry form belonging to the Fund. Upon instruction, the Custodian receives and delivers cash and securities of the Fund in connection with Fund transactions and collects all dividends and other distributions made with respect to portfolio securities of the Fund. The Custodian also maintains certain accounts and records of the Fund. The Custodian also serves as custodian for the Master Fund.
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Ernst & Young LLP serves as independent registered public accountant to the Fund and the Master Fund. Ernst & Young LLP provides audit services and assistance and consultation in connection with the review of Commission filings and certain tax compliance services. Ernst & Young LLP is located at 700 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402.
Counsel. Ropes & Gray LLP serves as counsel to the Fund and the Master Fund, and is located at 800 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02199.
PURCHASE, REDEMPTION AND REPURCHASE OF SHARES
The Fund currently offers one class of shares. The Declaration of Trust authorizes the issuance of an unlimited number of shares. The Trustees of the Fund have authority under the Declaration of Trust to create and classify shares into separate series and to classify and reclassify any series of shares into one or more classes without further action by shareholders. The Trustees of the Fund may designate additional series and classes in the future from time to time.
The shares will be issued with a par value of $0.01 per share. All shares of the Fund outstanding on the Fund’s liquidation date have equal rights as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon liquidation of the Fund. The shares will, when issued, be fully paid and non-assessable by the Fund and will have no preemptive or conversion rights to cumulative voting.
The shares are designed primarily for long-term investors, and investors in the shares should not view the Fund as a vehicle for short-term trading purposes.
The Fund reserves the right to reject any purchase order application that conflicts with the Fund’s internal policies or the policies of any regulatory authority. All checks must be in U.S. Dollars drawn on a domestic bank. The Fund will not accept payment in cash or money orders. The Fund does not accept postdated checks or any conditional order or payment. To prevent check fraud, the Fund will not accept third party checks, Treasury checks, credit card checks, traveler’s checks or starter checks for the purchase of shares.
Information provided on the account application may be used by the Fund to verify the accuracy of the information or for background or financial history purposes. Shares are not permitted to be transferred to any person or entity other than the Fund, nor are they permitted to be held jointly. For purposes of this SAI and the operations of the Fund, including determining whether shares are redeemable or cancellable, the holder of any share of the Fund will be the natural person who subscribed for that share of the Fund when the share was originally purchased, regardless of how the shares are held for state law purposes. A shareholder’s account is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.
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PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE
Investment Decisions and Portfolio Transactions
Investment decisions for the Master Fund are made with a view to achieving its investment objective. Investment decisions are the product of many factors in addition to basic suitability for the particular client involved (including the Master Fund). Some securities or other assets considered for investment by the Master Fund also may be appropriate for other accounts managed by the Adviser or its affiliates. Thus, a particular security or other asset may be bought or sold for certain accounts even though it could have been bought or sold for other accounts at the same time. If a purchase or sale of securities or other assets consistent with the investment policies of the Master Fund and one or more of these other accounts is considered at or about the same time, transactions in such securities or other assets will generally be allocated among the Master Fund and other accounts in the manner described above under “Potential Conflicts of Interest – Allocation of Investment Opportunities” and “– Conflicts of Interest Among Strategies” above. When the Adviser or its affiliates determine that an investment opportunity is appropriate for the Master Fund and one or more other accounts, the Adviser or its affiliates will generally execute transactions for the Master Fund on an aggregated basis with the other accounts when the Adviser or its affiliates believes that to do so will allow it to obtain best execution and to negotiate more favorable transaction costs than might have otherwise been paid had such orders been placed independently. Aggregation, or “bunching,” describes a procedure whereby an investment adviser combines the orders of two or more clients into a single order for the purpose of obtaining better prices and lower execution costs.
Brokerage and Research Services
There is no stated commission in the case of U.S. Treasury obligations the Master Fund intends to hold, however the price paid by the Master Fund will be negatively impacted by the bid-offer spread, market impact, and general dealer activity.
The Adviser places orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities or other assets and buys and sells such securities or other assets for the Master Fund through multiple brokers and dealers. The Adviser will place trades for execution only with approved brokers or dealers. In effecting such purchases and sales, the Adviser seeks the most favorable price and execution of the Master Fund’s orders.
It has for many years been a common practice in the investment advisory business for advisers of investment companies and other institutional investors to receive research and brokerage products and services (together, “research and brokerage services”) from broker-dealers which execute portfolio transactions for the clients of such advisers. Consistent with this practice, the Adviser or its affiliates may receive research and brokerage services from broker-dealers with which the Adviser places the Master Fund’s portfolio transactions. These research and brokerage services, which in some cases also may be purchased for cash, may include, among other things, such items as general economic and security market reviews, industry and company reviews, evaluations of securities or other asset or instrument, recommendations as to the purchase and sale of securities or other assets or instruments and services related to the execution of securities or other transactions. The advisory fees paid by the Fund or the Master Fund are not reduced because the Adviser or its affiliates receive such research and brokerage services even though the receipt of such research and brokerage services relieves the Adviser or its affiliates from expenses they might otherwise bear. Research and brokerage services provided by broker-dealers chosen by the Adviser to place the Master Fund’s transactions may be useful to the Adviser or its affiliates in providing services to the Adviser’s or its affiliates’ other clients, although not all of these research and brokerage services may be necessarily useful and of value to the Adviser in managing the Master Fund. Conversely, research and brokerage services provided to the Adviser or its affiliates by broker-dealers in connection with trades executed on behalf of other clients of the Adviser or its affiliates may be useful to the Adviser in managing the Master Fund, although not all of these research and brokerage services may be necessarily useful and of value to the Adviser or its affiliates in managing such other clients. To the extent the Adviser or its affiliates use such research and brokerage services, they will use them for the benefit of all clients, to the extent reasonably
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practicable. Currently, the Adviser does not direct portfolio transactions for the Master Fund to a particular broker-dealer because the broker-dealer provides soft dollar benefits to the Adviser.
Regular Broker Dealers. The Fund is required to identify the securities of its regular brokers or dealers (as defined in Rule 10b-1 under the 1940 Act) or their parent companies held by the Fund as of the close of its most recent fiscal year and state the value of such holdings.
As of the date of this SAI, neither the Fund nor the Master Fund held any securities of its regular brokers or dealers or their parent companies because the Fund had not yet begun investment operations.
TAX STATUS
The following discussion of U.S. federal income tax consequences of investment in the Fund is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), U.S. Treasury regulations, and other applicable authority, as of the date of the preparation of this SAI. These authorities are subject to change by legislative or administrative action, possibly with retroactive effect. The following discussion is only a summary of some of the important U.S. federal income tax considerations generally applicable to investments in the Fund. There may be other tax considerations applicable to particular shareholders. Shareholders should consult their own tax advisers regarding their particular situation and the possible application of federal, state, local or non-U.S. tax laws.
Taxation of the Fund
The Fund intends to elect to be treated as and intends to qualify and be treated each year as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Code (a “RIC”). In order to qualify for the special tax treatment accorded to RICs and their shareholders, the Fund generally must, among other things:
| (a) | derive at least 90% of its gross income for each taxable year from (i) dividends, interest, payments with respect to certain securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income (including gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies and (ii) net income derived from interests in “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (a partnership (x) the interests in which are traded on an established securities market or are readily tradable on a secondary market or the substantial equivalent thereof and (y) that derives less than 90% of its income from the qualifying income described in (a)(i) above); |
| (b) | diversify its holdings so that, at the end of each quarter of the Fund’s taxable year, (i) at least 50% of the value of the Fund’s total assets is represented by cash and cash items, U.S. government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and other securities limited in respect of any one issuer to a value not greater than 5% of the value of the Fund’s total assets and not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer, and (ii) not more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets is invested, including through corporations in which the Fund owns a 20% or more voting stock interest, (x) in the securities (other than those of the U.S. government or other regulated investment companies) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers that the Fund controls and that are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses, or (y) in the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships; and |
| (c) | distribute with respect to each taxable year at least 90% of the sum of its investment company taxable income (as that term is defined in the Code without regard to the deduction for dividends paid — generally taxable ordinary income and the excess, if any, of net short-term capital gains over net long-term capital losses) and any net tax-exempt interest income for such year. |
If the Fund qualifies as a RIC that is accorded special tax treatment, the Fund generally will not be subject to federal income tax on income distributed in a timely manner to its shareholders in the form
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of dividends (including Capital Gain Dividends, as defined below). If the Fund were to fail to meet the income, diversification or distribution tests described above, the Fund could in some cases cure such failure, including by paying the Fund-level tax, paying interest, making additional distributions or disposing of certain assets. If the Fund were ineligible to or otherwise did not cure such failure for any year, or if the Fund were otherwise to fail to qualify as a RIC accorded special tax treatment for such year, the Fund would be subject to tax on its taxable income at corporate rates, and all distributions from earnings and profits, including any distributions of net tax-exempt income and net long-term capital gains, would be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income. Some portions of such distributions could be eligible for the dividends-received deduction in the case of corporate shareholders and may be eligible to be treated as “qualified dividend income” in the case of shareholders taxed as individuals, provided, in both cases, that the shareholder meets certain holding period and other requirements in respect of the Fund’s shares (as described below). In addition, the Fund could be required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest and make substantial distributions before re-qualifying as a RIC that is accorded special tax treatment.
The Fund intends to distribute to its shareholders, at least annually, substantially all of its investment company taxable income (computed without regard to the dividends-paid deduction), its net tax-exempt income, if any, and any net capital gain. Investment company taxable income and net capital gain that is retained by the Fund will be subject to tax at regular corporate rates.
In determining its net capital gain, including in connection with determining the amount available to support a capital gain dividend, its taxable income and its earnings and profits, a RIC generally may elect to treat part of all of any post-October capital loss (defined as any net capital loss attributable to the portion, if any, of the taxable year after October 31, or, if there is no such loss, the net long-term capital loss or net short-term capital loss attributable to any such portion of the taxable year), or late-year ordinary loss (generally, the sum of (i) net ordinary loss from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property attributable to the portion, if any, of the taxable year after October 31, and its (ii) other net ordinary loss attributable to the portion, if any, of the taxable year after December 31) as if incurred in the succeeding taxable year.
If the Fund fails to distribute in a calendar year at least an amount equal to the sum of 98% of its ordinary income for such year and 98.2% of its capital gain net income for the one-year period ending on October 31 of such year, plus any retained amount from the prior year, the Fund will be subject to a nondeductible 4% excise tax on the undistributed amounts. For these purposes, ordinary gains and losses from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property that would be properly taken into account after October 31 are treated as arising on January 1 of the following calendar year. For purposes of the excise tax, the Fund will be treated as having distributed any amount on which it has been subject to corporate income tax in the taxable year ending within the calendar year. A dividend paid to shareholders in January of a year generally is deemed to have been paid on December 31 of the preceding year, if the dividend is declared and payable to shareholders of record on a date in October, November or December of that preceding year. The Fund intends generally to make distributions sufficient to avoid imposition of the 4% excise tax, although there can be no assurance that they will be able to do so.
The Fund expects to invest substantially all of its investable assets in the Master Fund, which intends to be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As a result, the character of the Fund’s income, gains, losses and deductions will generally be determined at the Master Fund level and the Fund will be allocated its share of Master Fund income and gains. As applicable, references to income, gains, losses and deductions of the Fund will be to income, gains and losses recognized and deductions accruing at the Master Fund level and allocated to or otherwise taken into account by the Fund, and references to assets of the Fund will be to the Fund’s allocable share of the assets of the Master Fund.
Fund Distributions
Shareholders subject to U.S. federal income tax will be subject to tax on dividends received from the Fund in the calendar year in which the distributions are received, except that a dividend declared and payable to shareholders
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of record in October, November or December and paid to shareholders the following January generally is deemed to have been paid by the Fund on the preceding December 31.
For U.S. federal income tax purposes, distributions of investment income generally are taxable to shareholders as ordinary income. Taxes to shareholders on distributions of capital gains are determined by how long the Fund owned (and is treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as having owned) the investments that generated them, rather than how long a shareholder has owned his or her shares. In general, the Fund will recognize long-term capital gain or loss on investments it has owned (or is deemed to have owned) for more than one year, and short-term capital gain or loss on investments it has owned (or is deemed to have owned) for one year or less. Tax rules can alter the Fund’s holding period in investments and thereby affect the tax treatment of gain or loss on such investments. Distributions of net capital gain (that is, the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss, in each case determined with reference to any loss carryforwards) that are properly reported by the Fund as capital gain dividends (“Capital Gain Dividends”) generally will be taxable to shareholders as long-term capital gains includible in net capital gain and taxed to individuals at reduced rates relative to ordinary income. Distributions of net short-term capital gain (as reduced by any long-term capital loss for the taxable year) will be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income, and shareholders will not be able to offset distributions of the Fund’s net short-term capital gains with capital losses that they recognize with respect to their other investments. As required by federal law, detailed federal tax information with respect to each calendar year will be furnished to each shareholder early in the succeeding year. In general, the Fund does not expect a significant portion of its distributions to be attributable to capital gains from the Fund’s investment activities.
The ultimate tax characterization of the Fund’s distributions made in a taxable year cannot finally be determined until after the end of that taxable year. The Fund may make total distributions during a taxable year in an amount that exceeds the Fund’s “current and accumulated earnings and profits” (generally, the net investment income and net capital gains of the Fund with respect to that year), in which case the excess generally will be treated as a return of capital, which will be tax-free to the holders of the shares, up to the amount of the shareholder’s tax basis in the applicable shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis treated as gain from the sale of such shares. A portion of each distribution is expected to constitute a return of capital (or, to the extent that such portion exceeds such shareholder’s tax basis in such shares, capital gains).
Capital losses in excess of capital gains (“net capital losses”) are not permitted to be deducted against the Fund’s net investment income. Instead, potentially subject to certain limitations, the Fund may carry net capital losses from any taxable year forward to subsequent taxable years without expiration to offset capital gains, if any, realized during such subsequent taxable years. The Fund’s capital loss carryforwards are reduced to the extent they offset the Fund’s current-year net realized capital gains, whether the Fund retains or distributes such gains. The Fund must apply such carryforwards first against gains of the same character. The Fund’s available capital loss carryforwards, if any, will be set forth in its annual shareholder report for each fiscal year.
The Code generally imposes a 3.8% Medicare contribution tax on the net investment income of certain individuals, trusts and estates to the extent their income exceeds certain threshold amounts. For these purposes, “net investment income” generally includes, among other things, (i) distributions paid by the Fund of net investment income and capital gains as described above and (ii) any net gain from the sale, repurchase or exchange of Fund shares. Shareholders are advised to consult their tax advisers regarding the possible implications of this additional tax on their investment in the Fund.
Dividends and distributions on shares of the Fund are generally subject to U.S. federal income tax as described herein to the extent they do not exceed the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits, even though such dividends and distributions may economically represent a return of a particular shareholder’s investment. Such distributions are likely to occur in respect of shares purchased at a time when the NAV of the Fund reflects either unrealized gains, or realized undistributed income or gains, which were therefore included in the price the shareholder paid. The Fund may be required to distribute realized income or gains regardless of whether its NAV also reflects unrealized losses. Such distributions may reduce the fair market value of the Fund’s shares below the shareholder’s cost basis in those shares.
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Although the shares are redeemable upon a shareholder’s death, the redemption will not occur until the Fund’s next quarterly redemption for all shareholders who died prior to the start of the calendar quarter in which the redemption occurs. As a result of this process, a person may acquire shares of the Fund from or through a deceased shareholder as a matter of state law upon the shareholder’s death. If the recipient of the shares receives a distribution on those shares after that acquisition but prior to the redemption of the shares by the Fund, the recipient is generally subject to U.S. federal income tax on the amount of the inadvertent distribution. Further, any loss the recipient realizes on the redemption of such shares will be a capital loss without regard to whether the distribution was capital or ordinary.
Repurchase of Shares
The Fund’s repurchase of shares tendered by shareholders (an “Early Repurchase”) will generally give rise to a gain or loss. In general, any gain or loss realized upon a taxable disposition of Fund shares will be treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the shareholder has held the shares for more than 12 months. Otherwise, the gain or loss on a taxable disposition of Fund shares will generally be treated as short-term capital gain or loss. However, any loss realized upon a taxable disposition of shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term, rather than short-term, to the extent of any Capital Gain Dividends received (or deemed received) by the shareholder with respect to the shares. The amount of gain or loss recognized in an Early Repurchase depends upon the difference between the price received for shares repurchased on an Early Repurchase (the “Early Repurchase Price”) and the tax basis of the shares. It is expected that a person who has shares repurchased pursuant to an Early Repurchase will realize a capital loss for federal income tax purposes.
Shareholders who tender all of the Fund shares they hold or are deemed to hold in response to an Early Repurchase generally will be treated as having sold their shares and generally will recognize a capital gain or loss, as described in the preceding paragraph. However, if a shareholder tenders fewer than all of the shares it holds or is deemed to hold pursuant to an Early Repurchase, such shareholder may be treated as having received a distribution under Section 301 of the Code (“Section 301 distribution”) unless the repurchase is treated as being either (i) “substantially disproportionate” with respect to such shareholder or (ii) otherwise “not essentially equivalent to a dividend” under the relevant rules of the Code. A Section 301 distribution is not treated as a sale or exchange giving rise to capital gain or loss, but rather is treated as a dividend to the extent supported by the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits, with the excess treated as a return of capital reducing the shareholder’s tax basis in its Fund shares, and thereafter as capital gain. Where a shareholder whose shares are repurchased is treated as receiving a dividend, there is a risk that other shareholders of the Fund whose percentage interests in the Fund increase as a result of such repurchase will be treated as having received a taxable distribution from the Fund.
The Fund’s use of cash to repurchase shares in an Early Repurchase could adversely affect its ability to satisfy the distribution requirements for treatment as a RIC. The Fund could also recognize income in connection with its liquidation of portfolio securities to fund share repurchases. Any such income would be taken into account in determining whether the distribution requirements are satisfied.
Upon the repurchase of Fund shares, the Fund or, in the case of shares purchased through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary, may be required to provide you and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) with cost basis and certain other related tax information about the shares that were repurchased. See “Tax Basis Information” below for more information.
Redemption or Cancellation of Shares
The redemption or cancellation of shares of the Fund upon a mandatory redemption or an automatic cancellation will not be considered a taxable disposition by the deceased shareholder. Instead, such a redemption will be treated as a taxable disposition of the shares by the person that acquired the shares from or through the deceased shareholder by reason of the shareholder’s death. The amount of gain or loss recognized on such a taxable disposition depends upon the difference between the Redemption Price of the shares repurchased and the tax
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basis of the shares. The basis of the shares in the hands of the person acquiring the shares from or through the deceased shareholder will equal the fair market value of the shares at the date of the shareholder’s death. Because the fair market value of such shares at the time of the shareholder’s death will generally equal the Redemption Price paid by the Fund for such shares pursuant to a mandatory redemption, it is expected that a person that acquires shares from or through a deceased shareholder upon the shareholder’s death will not recognize a gain or loss as a result of a mandatory redemption of the shares upon the shareholder’s death. Such person is not expected to recognize a loss despite the fact that the shares may be repurchased by the Fund for an amount (the Redemption Price) that is less than the Initial Purchase Price the deceased shareholder paid for such shares.
If, within one year following a redemption or cancellation of a shareholder’s shares, the former shareholder notifies the Adviser that the shareholder has not died, the Adviser will direct the Transfer Agent to reverse the inadvertent redemption or cancellation, subject, in the case of a redemption, to the receipt from the former shareholder of the Redemption Price previously paid to the former shareholder (if any), and deliver to the former shareholder any distributions paid on the shares prior to such reversal and not received by such former shareholder as a result of the redemption or cancellation. The shareholder will generally realize a loss on the inadvertent redemption or cancellation, provided that the shareholder would not be permitted to recognize such loss if the Fund reversed the inadvertent redemption within 30 days under the wash-sale rules. In general, if the Adviser were to reverse a prior redemption or cancellation as described in this paragraph, the shareholder would (i) likely recognize income, which might be treated as ordinary income, on the receipt of the shares at least to the extent of the loss that such shareholder previously recognized, (ii) have a basis in the reacquired shares equal to the amount delivered by the shareholder for such shares plus the amount recognized as income under clause (i), and (iii) the distributions delivered to the shareholder would be included in the shareholder’s income, generally as ordinary income.
The Fund’s use of cash to redeem shares in a mandatory redemption could adversely affect its ability to satisfy the distribution requirements for treatment as a RIC. The Fund could also recognize income in connection with its liquidation of portfolio securities to fund redemptions. Any such income would be taken into account in determining whether the distribution requirements are satisfied.
Upon the redemption or cancellation of Fund shares, the Fund or, in the case of shares purchased through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary, may be required to provide you and the IRS with cost basis and certain other related tax information about the shares that were redeemed or cancelled. See “Tax Basis Information” below for more information.
Original Issue Discount, Market Discount
Some debt obligations with a fixed maturity date of more than one year from the date of issuance (and all zero-coupon debt obligations, including Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal Securities, commonly known as “STRIPS,” with a fixed maturity date of more than one year from the date of issuance) will be treated as debt obligations that are issued originally at a discount. Generally, the amount of the original issue discount (“OID”) is treated as interest income and is included in the Fund’s taxable income (and required to be distributed by the Fund) over the term of the debt obligation, even though payment of that amount is not received until a later time (i.e., upon partial or full repayment or disposition of the debt security) or is received in kind rather than in cash. Increases in the principal amount of an inflation-indexed bond will be treated as OID.
Some debt obligations with a fixed maturity date of more than one year from the date of issuance that are acquired by the Fund in the secondary market are treated as having “market discount.” Very generally, market discount is the excess of the stated redemption price of a debt obligation (or in the case of an obligation issued with OID, its “revised issue price”) over the purchase price of such obligation. Generally any gain recognized on the disposition of, and any partial payment of principal on, a debt obligation having market discount is treated as ordinary income to the extent the gain, or principal payment, does not exceed the “accrued market discount” on such debt obligation. Alternatively, the Fund may elect to accrue market discount currently, in which case the Fund will be required to include the accrued market discount in the Fund’s income (as ordinary income) and thus distribute it over the term of the debt security, even though payment of that amount is not received until a later
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time, upon partial or full repayment or disposition of the debt security. The rate at which the market discount accrues, and thus is included in the Fund’s income, will depend upon which of the permitted accrual methods the Fund elects.
Some debt obligations with a fixed maturity date of one year or less from the date of issuance may be treated as having “acquisition discount” (very generally, the excess of the stated redemption price over the purchase price), or OID in the case of certain types of debt obligations. Generally, the Fund will be required to include the acquisition discount, or OID, in income (as ordinary income) over the term of the debt obligation, even though payment of that amount is not received until a later time, upon partial or full repayment or disposition of the debt security. The Fund may make one or more of the elections applicable to debt obligations having acquisition discount, or OID, which could affect the character and timing of recognition of income.
The Fund’s investments in zero-coupon debt obligations cause the Fund to accrue interest income at a fixed rate based on initial purchase price and length to maturity, but the securities do not pay interest in cash on a current basis. To qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company for federal income tax purposes and avoid federal income tax at the fund level, the Fund must distribute the accrued income to shareholders, even though the Fund is not receiving the income in cash on a current basis. If, in addition to zero-coupon debt obligations, the Fund holds any of the other securities described above, it may further accrue income in excess of the amount of cash interest the Fund actually receives. Thus, the Fund will be required to pay out as an income distribution each year an amount that is greater than the total amount of cash interest the Fund actually received. Such distributions may be made from the cash assets of the Fund or by liquidation of portfolio securities, if necessary (including when it is not advantageous to do so). The Fund may realize gains or losses from such liquidations. In the event the Fund realizes net capital gains from such transactions, its shareholders may receive a larger capital gain distribution than they would in the absence of such transactions.
Securities Purchased at a Premium
Very generally, where the Fund purchases a bond at a price that exceeds the redemption price at maturity – that is, at a premium – the premium is amortizable over the remaining term of the bond. In the case of a taxable bond, if the Fund makes an election applicable to all such bonds it purchases, which election is irrevocable without consent of the IRS, the Fund reduces the current taxable income from the bond by the amortized premium and reduces its tax basis in the bond by the amount of such offset; upon the disposition or maturity of such bonds, the Fund is permitted to deduct any remaining premium allocable to a prior period.
Backup Withholding
The Fund is required to withhold and remit to the U.S. Treasury a percentage of the taxable distributions and proceeds from a repurchase paid to any individual shareholder who is subject to such withholding.
Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld may be credited against the shareholder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the appropriate information is furnished to the IRS.
Tax Basis Information
The Fund (or its administrative agent) must report to the IRS and furnish to Fund shareholders the cost basis information and holding period for Fund shares.
Other Reporting and Withholding Requirements
Each prospective investor is urged to consult its tax adviser regarding the applicability of Sections 1471-1474 of the Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations and IRS guidance issued thereunder (collectively, “FATCA”) and any other reporting requirements with respect to the prospective investor’s own situation, including investments through an intermediary. In addition, some foreign countries have implemented and others are considering, and may implement, laws similar in purpose and scope to FATCA.
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Expenses Subject to Special Pass-Through Rules
The Fund will not be considered to be a “publicly offered” RIC if it does not have at least 500 investors at all times during a taxable year, is not regularly traded on an established securities market, and its shares are not treated as continuously offered pursuant to a public offering. The Fund expects to be a “publicly offered” RIC initially, although it is possible that the Fund subsequently will not be treated as a “publicly offered” RIC for one or more of its taxable years (for example, if the Fund were to have less than 500 investors in a future taxable year). If the Fund became a non-publicly offered RIC, expenses of the Fund, except those specific to its status as a RIC or separate entity (e.g., registration fees or transfer agency fees), are subject to special “pass through” rules. Individual shareholders would be treated as receiving an additional dividend equal to the amount of such expenses that the Fund must pass through, and such shareholders would not be permitted to deduct such expenses under current law. As a result, if the Fund were not treated as “publicly offered” in any taxable year, individual shareholders would likely recognize more income than if the Fund were treated as “publicly offered.” Based on the Fund’s planned distributions and anticipated expenses, the Fund does not expect the impact of such treatment, if it were to apply, to have a significant impact on the after-tax distributions an investor will receive from the Fund.
State and Local Taxes
The states generally permit investment companies, such as the Fund, to “pass through” to their shareholders the state tax exemption on income earned from investments in the types of U.S. Treasury obligations the Fund expects to hold, so long as a fund meets all applicable state requirements. California, Connecticut and New York exempt such income when a fund has invested at least 50% of its assets in U.S. government securities. The Fund intends to take the position that, for purposes of these requirements, it owns an allocable share of the assets held by the Master Fund and that, therefore, the Fund will satisfy the foregoing requirement; an applicable state might disagree with this position. The Fund therefore expects that shareholders will be allowed to exclude from state taxable income distributions made to the shareholder by the Fund that are attributable to interest the Fund directly or indirectly earned on such investments. Investors should consult their tax advisers regarding the applicability of any such exemption to their situation.
Shareholders should consult their own tax advisers as to the state or local tax consequences of investing in the Fund.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST
The Trustees are responsible for the management and supervision of the Trust. The Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest of the Fund or other series of the Trust with or without par value. Under the Declaration of Trust, the Trustees have the authority to create and classify shares of beneficial interest in separate series and classes without further action by shareholders. As of the date of this SAI, the Fund is the only series of the Trust. To the extent permissible by law, additional series may be added in the future.
The shares of the Fund represent an equal proportionate interest in the net assets attributable to such shares of the Fund. Shareholders have certain exclusive voting rights on matters relating to their respective distribution plan, if any. Different classes of the Fund, if any, may bear different expenses relating to the cost of holding shareholder meetings necessitated by the exclusive voting rights of any class of shares.
Unless otherwise required by the 1940 Act or the Declaration of Trust, the Trust has no intention of holding annual meetings of shareholders. Trust shareholders may remove a Trustee by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the Trust’s outstanding shares and the Trustees shall promptly call a meeting for such purpose when requested to do so in writing by the record holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Trust. Shareholders may, under certain circumstances, communicate with other shareholders in connection with requesting a special meeting of shareholders. However, at any time that less than a majority of the Trustees holding office were elected by the shareholders, the Trustees will call a special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing Trustees.
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On the Fund’s liquidation date, surviving shareholders are entitled to share pro rata by shares owned in the remaining assets of the Fund, if any. Shares entitle their holders to one vote per share (and fractional votes for fractional shares) and have no preemptive, subscription or conversion rights. When issued, shares are fully paid and non-assessable.
The Declaration of Trust disclaims shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Trust. The Declaration of Trust further provides for indemnification out of the Fund’s property for all loss and expense of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Fund by reason of owning shares of the Fund. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is considered remote since it is limited to circumstances in which the disclaimer is inoperative and the Fund itself would be unable to meet its obligations.
The Declaration of Trust further provides that the Board will not be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law. However, nothing in the Declaration of Trust protects a Trustee against any liability to which the Trustee would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office. The Declaration of Trust of the Trust provides for indemnification by the Trust of Trustees and officers of the Trust, however, such persons may not be indemnified against any liability to the Trust or the Trust’s shareholders to whom he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.
OTHER INFORMATION
Miscellaneous
The Prospectus and this SAI do not contain all the information included in the Registration Statement filed with the Commission under the 1933 Act with respect to the securities offered by the Prospectus. Certain portions of the Registration Statement have been omitted from the Prospectus and this SAI pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Commission. The Registration Statement including the exhibits filed therewith may be examined at the office of the Commission in Washington, D.C.
Statements contained in the Prospectus or in this SAI as to the contents of any contract or other document referred to are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance, reference is made to the copy of such contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which the Prospectus and this SAI form a part, each such statement being qualified in all respects by such reference.
In the interest of economy and convenience, the Fund does not issue certificates representing the Fund’s shares. Instead, the Transfer Agent maintains a record of each shareholder’s ownership. Each shareholder receives confirmation of purchase and repurchase orders from the Transfer Agent. Fund shares and any dividends and distributions paid by the Fund are reflected in account statements from the Transfer Agent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts1
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Financial Statements
As of December 31, 2022
1 “Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts” and “Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds” refer to the trusts and funds listed in Appendix A.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84F, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84M, Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85F, and Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85M
Opinion on the Financial Statement
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of
| Trust Name | Fund Name | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 65F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 65M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 66F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 66M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 67F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 67M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 68F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 68M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 69F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 69M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 70F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 70M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 72F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 72M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 73F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 73M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 74F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 74M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 75F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 75M | |
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| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 76F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 76M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 77F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 77M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 78F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 78M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 79F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 79M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 80F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 80M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 81F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 81M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 82F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 82M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 83F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 83M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 84F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 84M | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85F | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 85F | |
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85M | Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 85M | |
(collectively, the “Funds”), as of December 31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Funds at December 31, 2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
The financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Funds are not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Funds’ internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Funds’ internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
We have served as the auditor of one or more of the Stone Ridge investment companies since 2013.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 28, 2023
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
65F |
65M |
66F |
66M |
67F | |||||
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| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
67M |
68F |
68M |
69F |
69M | |||||
| Assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
70F |
70M |
71F |
71M |
72F | |||||
| Assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
72M |
73F |
73M |
74F |
74M | |||||
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| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
75F |
75M |
76F |
76M |
77F | |||||
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| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
77M |
78F |
78M |
79F |
79M | |||||
| Assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
80F |
80M |
81F |
81M |
82F | |||||
| Assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
82M |
83F |
83M |
84F |
84M | |||||
| Assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||||||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As of December 31, 2022
| Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds |
85F |
85M | ||
| Assets: | ||||
| Cash | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
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| Total Assets | 100,000 | 100,000 | ||
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| Total Liabilities | - | - | ||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
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| Net Assets Consist of: | ||||
| Capital Stock | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
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| Total Net Assets: | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
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| Capital shares outstanding, $0.001 par value per share, unlimited shares authorized | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share | $10.00 | $10.00 | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
For the Period from the Organization of Each Trust2 to December 31, 2022
| 1. | Organization |
The Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts as outlined in Appendix A (the “Trusts”) were organized as Delaware statutory trusts on June 18, 2019 (in the case of the Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F) and on February 10, 2020 (in the case of all other Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts) and are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as closed-end management investment companies issuing shares. Each Trust’s sole series is the corresponding Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund as outlined in Appendix A (collectively the “Feeder Funds”). Each Feeder Fund will offer its shares during an initial offering period and for a limited time thereafter to certain investors who are either women or men, as applicable, born between January 1st and December 31st of the year specified in the prospectus of the applicable Feeder Fund. Each Feeder Fund will be non- diversified for the purposes of the 1940 Act. Each Feeder Fund’s investment objective is to achieve, during the lifetime of the Feeder Fund’s shareholders until the Fund Liquidation Date (as defined below), a high level of monthly distributions while maintaining the safety of the principal amount of each Feeder Fund’s investments.
Unlike a traditional investment company with a perpetual existence, each Feeder Fund is designed to have distributed substantially all of its assets by September 2047 (the “Fund Liquidation Date”). If there are remaining assets, each Feeder Fund will liquidate and distribute all proceeds from the liquidation to surviving shareholders on the Fund Liquidation Date. If any Feeder Fund has insufficient assets to make its monthly distributions before the Fund Liquidation Date, however, the Feeder Fund will liquidate early.
Each Feeder Fund will pursue its investment objective by investing substantially all of its assets in Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Master Fund (the “Master Fund”), a series of Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Master Trust, a closed-end management investment company registered under the 1940 Act. The Master Fund’s investment objective is to enable each Feeder Fund to achieve, during the lifetimes of its respective shareholders until September 2047, a high level of monthly distributions while maintaining the safety of the principal amount of the Master Fund’s investments. The Master Fund pursues its investment objective by investing in debt securities issued by the U.S. Treasury, primarily securities that are commonly known as STRIPS (Separately Traded
2 Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F was organized on June 18, 2019. All other Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts were organized on February 10, 2020.
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Registered Interest and Principal Securities), or other securities that are also backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. STRIPS resemble zero coupon bonds, where the investor receives a single payment at maturity. The payments made on the STRIPS held by the Master Fund represent the specific interest or principal components of the U.S. Treasury notes or bonds to which the STRIPS are related. The Master Fund will seek to purchase STRIPS that will mature at the appropriate times and in the appropriate amounts to fund its anticipated monthly distributions and share redemptions. The Master Fund will issue common and preferred shares, which are intended to make distributions and be subject to redemptions, cancellations and repurchase offers at times and in amounts as required to fund the distributions, redemptions and repurchases to be made by each Feeder Fund.
The Master Fund will only offer its securities to the Feeder Funds, which are managed by the same investment adviser as the Master Fund. Each Feeder Fund will offer its shares to investors of a single gender who were born in a specific calendar year, with ages ranging from 65 to 85 at inception. Each Feeder Fund will be offered at a price specific to that Feeder Fund as described below. Other than these differences in investor eligibility and offering prices, each other Feeder Fund will be offered on substantially identical terms.
As of December 31, 2022, the Trusts have had no operations other than those actions relating to organizational and registration matters, including the sale and issuance to Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC (“Stone Ridge” or the “Adviser”) of 10,000 shares of each Feeder Fund at an aggregate purchase amount of $100,000. The proceeds of the 10,000 shares were held in cash for each Feeder Fund. There are an unlimited number of authorized shares.
| 2. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by each Feeder Fund in the preparation of its financial statements. The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Each Feeder Fund will be an investment company and applies specific accounting and financial reporting requirements under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Topic 946, Financial Services-Investment Companies.
(a) Use of Estimates
The preparation of the financial statement in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statement. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
(b) Indemnifications
In the normal course of business, each Feeder Fund enters into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide general indemnifications. Each Feeder Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements cannot be known; however, the Feeder Funds expect any risk of loss to be remote.
(c) Federal Income Taxes
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Each Feeder Fund intends to qualify as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. If so qualified, each Feeder Fund will not be subject to federal income tax to the extent it distributes substantially all of its net investment income and capital gains to shareholders. Therefore, no federal income tax provision is required.
(d) Investments in the Master Fund
Each Feeder Fund’s investments in the Master Fund will be valued at each Feeder Fund’s current expectation of the present value of (i) the distributions to be made by the Master Fund with respect to those investments during the life of such Feeder Fund multiplied by the probability that the Feeder Fund will receive those future distributions (i.e., for each expected distribution, the probability that those investments will not be subject to redemption or cancellation prior to such distribution) plus (ii) any payments expected to be received from the Master Fund in connection with any redemptions, in each case, discounted at the risk-free rate and based on the Adviser’s calculations using actuarial information provided by New York Life.
Each Feeder Fund records its proportionate share of the Master Fund’s income, expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and losses based on its investments in the Master Fund.
| 3. | Agreements |
(a) Investment Management Agreement
At commencement of each Feeder Fund’s investment operations, Stone Ridge will be the investment adviser of such Feeder Fund. The Adviser was organized as a Delaware limited liability company in 2012. Its primary place of business is at One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor, New York, NY 10017. The Adviser’s primary business is to provide a variety of investment management services, including an investment program for each of the Feeder Funds. The Adviser is responsible for all business activities and oversight of the investment decisions made for the Funds.
Each Feeder Fund pays for the advisory, supervisory and administrative services it requires under what is essentially an all-in fee structure (the “Unified Management Fee”), in which the Adviser is paid the Unified Management Fee for providing investment advisory services to each Feeder Fund and for providing or causing to be provided all supervisory, administrative, custodial and other services reasonably necessary for the operation of each Feeder Fund. Pursuant to the investment management agreement with the Master Fund, the Adviser is also paid a Unified Management Fee equal to 0.60% of the Master Fund’s average daily total assets less total liabilities, other than any liability represented by outstanding preferred shares, except the Adviser has contractually agreed to waive each month the portion of the Master Fund’s Unified Management Fee attributable to the assets of each Feeder Fund invested in the Master Fund to an annualized rate of 0.00% for so long as such Feeder Fund invests substantially all of its assets in the Master Fund. The Unified Management Fee is allocated each day between the Feeder Funds based on the percentage of
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the total number of shares (adding together common and preferred shares) of the Master Fund held by the applicable Feeder Fund.
In addition to bearing the Unified Management Fee, each Feeder Fund (and not the Adviser) bears the following expenses: each Feeder Fund’s, and each Feeder Fund’s pro rata share of the Master Fund’s, ordinary and recurring investment expenses, including all fees and expenses directly related to portfolio transactions and positions for each Feeder Fund’s account (including brokerage, clearing, and settlement costs), interest charges, custody or other expenses attributable to negative interest rates on investments or cash, borrowing and other investment-related costs and fees including interest and commitment fees, short dividend expense, acquired fund fees and expenses, and taxes; expenses in connection with the filing of Form PQR; litigation and indemnification expenses, judgments and extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of each Feeder Fund’s or the Master Fund’s business. All organizational and offering expenses of each Feeder Fund will be borne by the Adviser and are not subject to future recoupment.
For the period of inception through December 31, 2022, the Advisor has borne all expense on behalf of the Trusts of which none are subject to future recoupment, therefore the Trusts have not incurred any expenses to date. The Trusts will begin accruing expenses when the Trusts commence investment operations.
(b) Administrator, Custodian and Transfer Agent
At commencement of each Feeder Fund’s investment operations, the custodian to the Trusts will be U.S. Bank NA, located at 1555 N River Center Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, WI 53212. At commencement of each Feeder Fund’s investment operations, the administrator and transfer agent to the Trusts will be U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC (doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services), an affiliate of US. Bank NA, located at 615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202.
| 4. | Capital Shares |
The shares of each Feeder Fund will initially be offered during the period (the “initial offering period”) from the date of the prospectus through the date all investors that have subscribed for shares are notified that the initial offering period will be closed (the “Final Opt-out Date”), a period expected to last approximately six (6) months. Six (6) calendar days prior to the Final Opt-out Date (the “Pricing Date”), a new prospectus will be distributed with updated estimates for the initial purchase price for each Feeder Fund. Investors who have subscribed for shares prior to that date will be provided an updated prospectus and will be given until 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Final Opt-out Date to cancel or edit their subscription and, in cases where the revised subscription is less than the original subscription, receive their subscription amount back.
Immediately following the Final Opt-out Date, the Adviser will calculate the initial purchase prices, as described in each Feeder Fund’s prospectus. If the initial purchase prices for each Feeder Fund falls within 95% - 105% of the estimated initial purchase price for that Feeder Fund in the prospectus most recently distributed, the sale of the Feeder Fund’s shares will
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occur. If one or more of the initial purchase prices falls outside 95% - 105% of the estimate in the prospectus, the Adviser will distribute an updated prospectus with revised estimates and investors will be given an additional 6 calendar days to cancel or edit their subscription.
During the initial offering period, prospective investors will generally be required to subscribe for the shares online through a website maintained by the Feeder Funds’ distributor and may be required to open a brokerage account with such distributor if they do not already have a brokerage account with such distributor, as broker-dealer, unless the shares are to be purchased through other brokers or dealers (each, a “Selling Agent” and together, the “Selling Agents”) that have entered into selling agreements with the Feeder Funds’ distributor, in which case the prospective investor will be required to follow the procedures put in place by the Selling Agent. As part of the subscription process, prospective investors will be required to provide certain demographic information, including date of birth, gender and social security number or taxpayer identification number, to enable each Feeder Fund to price the shares and to enable the Adviser to monitor for shares that may be redeemable by each Feeder Fund. Prior to the end of the initial offering period, investors wishing to subscribe for shares of each Feeder Fund will be required to have available funds in escrow with the Feeder Funds’ distributor, where the funds will be held in a brokerage account where they will earn interest for the benefit of the investors. Investors purchasing shares through a Selling Agent will be required to follow the escrow procedures put in place by the Selling Agent.
Shares of each Feeder Fund will only be offered to either women or men born on or between January 1st and December 31st of the year designated for the applicable Feeder Fund.
In order for an investor to invest in the Feeder Fund for which the investor is eligible during the initial offering period, the investor will be required to pay the initial purchase price per share for that Feeder Fund, which will be calculated by the Adviser as of the end of the initial offering period as described in the Feeder Fund’s prospectus under “Shareholder Guide— How to Buy Shares,” plus any applicable sales load. The estimated initial purchase prices will be set forth in each Feeder Fund’s prospectus in Appendix A.
There is no minimum investment requirement for an investment in each Feeder Fund’s shares. The Adviser will impose a maximum investment amount so that as of the closing, no investor in a Feeder Fund will initially own, indirectly through such Feeder Fund, more than 1% of the Master Fund. In addition, the sale of each Feeder Fund’s shares will only occur if at least 250 investors have subscribed for shares in total across all of the Feeder Funds.
Following the initial offering period and until September 1, 2023, each Feeder Fund may, at the discretion of the Adviser, offer its shares at the net asset value (“NAV”) per share, determined as described in each Feeder Fund’s prospectus under “Determination of Net Asset Value.”
| 5. | Distributions |
Until the earlier of the Fund Liquidation Date or the last scheduled distribution date on which each Feeder Fund has assets to distribute, each Feeder Fund intends to make a distribution each month equal to $0.0833 per outstanding share of each Feeder Fund, for a total of $1.00
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per share per year. Each Feeder Fund intends to make these distributions on or about the third (3rd) business day of each calendar month.
Because each Feeder Fund expects its monthly distributions to exceed each Feeder Fund’s net investment income and net realized capital gains, each Feeder Fund expects a portion of each distribution to be a return of capital or capital gains, depending on the shareholder’s tax basis in the shares.
| 6. | Mandatory Share Redemptions |
All shares held by a shareholder will be redeemed or cancelled by each Feeder Fund upon the shareholder’s death. Except as disclosed in the next paragraph below, shareholders who die will have their shares redeemed for a redemption price equal to the Initial Purchase Price for each Feeder Fund (as provided on Schedule A to each Feeder Fund’s prospectus) minus the total amount of distributions per share since each Feeder Fund’s commencement of investment operations. Since subsequent purchasers of shares will have their redemption price calculated using the Initial Purchase Price for each Feeder Fund even though they purchased their shares at a different price, their redemption price will be reduced by distributions they did not receive. The initial purchase price excludes any sales load paid by a shareholder. Each Feeder Fund will redeem shares quarterly (on or about the last business day of each February, May, August and November) for all shareholders who died before the start of the then current calendar quarter. Shareholders who have had their shares redeemed will not be entitled to any distributions made by a Feeder Fund on any distribution date following the redemption. The Master Fund will redeem a portion of its securities held by a Feeder Fund upon the death of an investor in such Feeder Fund, at redemption prices that will enable the applicable Feeder Fund to pay the redemption price the Feeder Fund owes to its investor.
If upon a shareholder’s death, the amount of distributions paid per share since the commencement of investment operations of the applicable Feeder Fund is greater than the Initial Purchase Price for such Feeder Fund, the redemption price will be zero. In this case, the shares will be cancelled for no value. The Feeder Funds expect this to occur in September, 2041. Upon the occurrence of an automatic cancellation of a Feeder Fund’s shares, a corresponding portion of the Master Fund securities held by such Feeder Fund will be cancelled for no value.
| 7. | Automatic Share Cancellations |
To provide liquidity to its shareholders, each Feeder Fund will offer, on a quarterly basis, to repurchase up to 100% of such Feeder Fund’s shares (each, an “Early Repurchase”). Each Feeder Fund currently anticipates that the repurchase offers will commence on the date that is 20 business days prior to the end of each February, May, August and November and will end on the last business day of that month, with payment being made on the third (3rd) business day of the following month (each, an “Early Repurchase Date”). Shareholders may submit repurchase requests for their shares at any time during this 20 business day period, but the Early Repurchase Price (as defined below) will not be determined until the last business day of the period. The Early Repurchase Price may decline between when a shareholder submits a repurchase request for his or her shares and the date the repurchase price is determined. The
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repurchase price on an Early Repurchase Date will equal the applicable “Early Repurchase Price.” It is anticipated that a website will be maintained where shareholders can submit their Early Repurchase requests. Shareholders who submit Early Repurchase Requests will be entitled to receive any distribution paid on the shares on the Early Repurchase Date for that Early Repurchase. The Early Repurchase Price is determined by a formula described below, but will be less than NAV, and potentially substantially less than NAV, and will be less than the redemption price that would be payable upon a shareholder’s death.
The Early Repurchase Price for each Feeder Fund on any Early Repurchase Date will equal the product of (i) the Redemption Price for such Feeder Fund (i.e., the price a shareholder in the applicable Feeder Fund would currently receive if the shares were subject to a mandatory share redemption upon the shareholder’s death) as of that Early Repurchase Date, after taking into account any distribution paid on that Early Repurchase Date, multiplied by (ii) the Market Value Adjustment. The Market Value Adjustment on any Early Repurchase Date will be equal to the lesser of (a) 98% and (b) a percentage determined according to the following formula:
Market Value Adjustment = 98% – [(10yrCMTt – 10yrCMTlaunch) x Duration], where
10yrCMTt = the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate published each business day by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or, if such rate ceases to be published, a successor rate reasonably determined by the Adviser (the “10-Year CMT”), on such Early Repurchase Date;
10yrCMTlaunch = the 10-Year CMT as of the end of the initial offering period; and
Duration = an estimate of the duration of the periodic interest payments of a hypothetical coupon-paying U.S. Government Security with a 25-year maturity, calculated as of the end of the initial offering period.
If the Early Repurchase Price determined by the formula above is negative, then the Early Repurchase Price will be $0.
Because each Feeder Fund will invest all or substantially all of its assets in the Master Fund, the Master Fund will conduct quarterly repurchase offers for up to 100% of its securities to enable each Feeder Fund to make the Early Repurchases.
| 8. | Related Parties |
At December 31, 2022, the officers of the Trusts were also employees of the Adviser.
| 9. | Subsequent Events |
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The Adviser has performed an evaluation of subsequent events through February 28, 2023. No events or transactions were deemed to have a significant effect on any of the Feeder Funds’ operations or financial position during the above-mentioned period.
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Appendix A
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trusts:
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 65M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 66M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 67M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 68M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 69M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 70M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 72M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 73M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 74M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 75M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 76M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 77M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 78M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 79M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 80M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 81M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 82M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 83M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 84M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 85M
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Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Funds:
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 65F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 65M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 66F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 66M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 67F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 67M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 68F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 68M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 69F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 69M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 70F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 70M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 72F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 72M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 73F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 73M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 74F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 74M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 75F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 75M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 76F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 76M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 77F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 77M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 78F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 78M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 79F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 79M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 80F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 80M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 81F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 81M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 82F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 82M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 83F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 83M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 84F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 84M
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 85F
Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 85M
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PART C: OTHER INFORMATION
Item 25. Financial Statements and Exhibits
| (1) | Financial Statements: |
Included in Part A:
Not applicable.
Included in Part B:
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities.
Notes to Financial Statements.
| (2) | Exhibits: |
| (a) |
(1) |
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| (2) |
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| (b) |
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| (c) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (d) |
(1) |
See portions of Agreement and Declaration of Trust relating to shareholders’ rights. | ||
| (2) |
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| (e) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (f) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (g) |
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| (h) |
(1) |
Distribution Agreement between the Registrant and the Distributor, to be filed by amendment. | ||
| (2) |
Selling and Shareholder Servicing Agreement between the Distributor, Stone Ridge and the Registrant, on behalf of the Fund, to be filed by amendment. | |||
| (i) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (j) |
(1) |
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| (k) |
(1) |
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| (2) |
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| (3) |
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| (l) |
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| (m) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (n) |
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, filed herewith. | |||
| (o) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (p) |
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| (q) |
Not applicable. | |||
| (r) |
Code of Ethics of Stone Ridge and the Registrant, filed herewith. | |||
| (s) |
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Item 26. Marketing Arrangements
See Distribution Agreement, to be filed by amendment.
Item 27. Other Expenses of Issuance or Distribution
Not applicable.
Item 28. Persons Controlled by or under Common Control with Registrant
None.
Item 29. Number of Holders of Securities
Set forth below is the number of record holders as of March 31, 2023 of each class of securities of the Registrant.
| Title of Class |
Number of Record Holders | |
| Shares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 par value per share |
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Item 30. Indemnification
The Registrant’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, incorporated herein by reference, contains provisions limiting the liability, and providing for indemnification, of the Trustees, officers, employees and other “Covered Persons” (including their respective heirs, assigns, successors or other legal representatives) to the fullest extent permitted by law, including advancement of payments of all expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and presentation of any defense (subject to repayment obligations in certain circumstances).
The Registrant’s Distribution Agreement, to be filed by amendment, will contain provisions limiting the liability, and providing for indemnification, of the Trustees and officers under certain circumstances.
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Further, the Investment Management Agreement with Stone Ridge, incorporated by reference herein, contains provisions limiting the liability, and providing for indemnification, of Stone Ridge and its personnel under certain circumstances.
The Registrant’s Trustees and officers are expected to be insured under a standard investment company errors and omissions insurance policy covering loss incurred by reason of negligent errors and omissions committed in their official capacities as such.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described in this Item 30, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser
Stone Ridge is a Delaware limited liability company that offers investment management services and is a registered investment adviser. Stone Ridge’s offices are located One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor, New York, NY 10017. Information as to the officers and directors of Stone Ridge is included in its current Form ADV (File No. 801-77228) filed with the SEC, and the text of Schedule A of Stone Ridge’s current Form ADV is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records
All accounts, books and other documents required by Rule 31(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are maintained at the offices, as applicable of:
| 1. Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor New York, NY 10017 | ||
| 2. Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC One Vanderbilt Avenue, 65th Floor New York, NY 10017 | ||
| 3. U.S. Bank NA 1555 N. River Center Drive, Suite 302 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 | ||
| 4. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC 615 East Michigan Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 | ||
| 5. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 900 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 | ||
Item 33. Management Services
Not applicable.
Item 34. Undertakings
1. Not applicable.
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2. Not applicable.
3. The Registrant undertakes:
a. to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to the registration statement:
(1) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act;
(2) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and
(3) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.
b. That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of those securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and
c. To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
d. Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497(b), (c), (d) or (e) under the 1933 Act as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A under the 1933 Act, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
e. That for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the 1933 Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of securities:
The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to the purchaser:
(1) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the 1933 Act;
(2) the portion of any advertisement pursuant to Rule 482 under the 1933 Act relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and
(3) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.
4. Not applicable.
5. Not applicable.
6. Not applicable.
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7. The Registrant undertakes to send by first class mail or other means designed to ensure equally prompt delivery, within two business days of receipt of a written or oral request, its Statement of Additional Information.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that this Registration Statement meets all of the requirements for effectiveness under Rule 486(b) and it has duly caused this Registration Statement of Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Trust 71F (related to Stone Ridge Longevity Risk Premium Fixed Income Fund 71F) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, and the State of New York, on the 27th day of April, 2023.
| STONE RIDGE LONGEVITY RISK PREMIUM FIXED INCOME TRUST 71F | ||
| By: |
/s/ Anthony Zuco | |
| Anthony Zuco, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Signature |
Title | Date | ||
| * |
Trustee, President (Principal Executive Officer) |
April 27, 2023 | ||
| Ross Stevens |
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| /s/ Anthony Zuco |
Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer) |
April 27, 2023 | ||
| Anthony Zuco |
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| * |
Trustee | April 27, 2023 | ||
| Daniel Charney |
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| * |
Trustee | April 27, 2023 | ||
| Jeffery Ekberg |
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*Power of Attorney
| *By: |
/s/ Anthony Zuco | |
| Anthony Zuco Attorney in Fact |
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
| (n) |
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. | |
| (r) |
Code of Ethics of Stone Ridge and the Registrant. |
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