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Governance of the Trust
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Governance of the Trust

NOTE 3. GOVERNANCE OF THE TRUST

HSBC Bank, USA, N.A. is the Corporate Trustee of the Trust, and Lee Eastman and Michael E. Reiss are the Individual Trustees of the Trust. Pursuant to the Declaration of Trust, the Trustees serve until their removal, resignation, incapacity, or in the case of Individual Trustees, their death. The Trust does not have, nor does the Declaration of Trust provide for, officers or a board of directors.

The Trust has not adopted its own code of ethics (as defined in Item 406 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the “Exchange Act”) as the Trust is managed by the Corporate Trustee and thus relies on the Corporate Trustee to abide by its Statement of Business Principles and Code of Ethics, which is available on the Corporate Trustee’s website at http://www.us.hsbc.com.

The Trust is not a corporate entity and thus does not have an Audit Committee. The Trust has established a policy with regard to audit, audit-related and certain non-audit engagements of its independent auditors. Under this policy, the Trust annually approves certain limited, specified recurring services which may be provided by the Trust’s accountant or independent auditors. All other engagements for services to be performed by the Trust’s independent auditors must be separately pre-approved by the Trust. Joel Faden of Joel Faden CPA, P.C. acts as Chief Financial Individual providing accounting services for the Trust.