EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1209709
Filing Year: 2022
Filename: 1209709_10-K_2022_0001193125-22-083512.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
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(a) General Development of Business
. Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P. (formerly, Tactical Diversified Futures Fund L.P.) (the “Partnership”) is a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of New York on December 3, 2002 to engage, directly or indirectly, in the speculative trading of a diversified portfolio of commodity interests including futures, option, swap and forward contracts. The sectors traded include currencies, energy, grains, indices, U.S. and non-U.S.
interest rates, livestock, metals and softs. The commodity interests that are traded by the Partnership directly or indirectly through its investment in the Funds (as defined below) are volatile and involve a high degree of market risk. The General Partner (as defined below) may also determine to invest up to all of the Partnership’s assets (directly or indirectly through its investment in the Funds) in United States (“U.S.”) Treasury bills and/or money market mutual funds, including money market mutual funds managed by Morgan Stanley or its affiliates.
A Registration Statement on Form S-1 relating to the public offering of 300,000 redeemable units of limited partnership interest (“Redeemable Units”) became effective March 27, 2003. Between March 27, 2003 (commencement of the offering period) and April 30, 2003, 36,616 Redeemable Units were publicly offered at $1,000 per Redeemable Unit. The proceeds of the initial public offering were held in an escrow account until April 30, 2003, at which time they were turned over to the Partnership for trading.
A second Registration Statement on Form S-1
relating to the public offering of 1,000,000 Redeemable Units (including the 300,000 Redeemable Units that had been previously registered) became effective on December 4, 2003. As of that date, 260,732.3028 Redeemable Units had been sold.
A third Registration Statement on Form S-1
relating to the public offering of 2,000,000 Redeemable Units (including the 1,000,000 Redeemable Units that had been previously registered) became effective on October 7, 2004. As of that date, 807,449.3782 Redeemable Units had been sold.
A fourth Registration Statement on Form S-1
relating to the public offering of 2,000,000 Redeemable Units previously registered became effective on June 30, 2005. As of that date, 1,027,701.7549 Redeemable Units had been sold. The public offering of Redeemable Units terminated on November 30, 2008. The Partnership currently privately and continuously offers Redeemable Units to qualified investors. There is no maximum number of Redeemable Units that may be sold by the Partnership.
Subscriptions of additional Redeemable Units and additional General Partner contributions and redemptions of Redeemable Units for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 are reported in the Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital under “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary
Data
.”
Ceres Managed Futures LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, acts as the general partner (the “General Partner”) and commodity pool operator of the Partnership. During the periods covered by this report and prior to the Partnership’s redemption from the Funds (as defined below), the General Partner also acted as the trading manager (the “Trading Manager”) and/or general partner, as applicable, of ADG Master (as defined below), AE Capital Master (as defined below), Aquantum Master (as defined below), Aspect Master (as defined below), Boronia I, LLC (as defined below), Cambridge Master (as defined below), FORT Contrarian Master (as defined below), Graham Master (as defined below), SECOR Master (as defined below), and Willowbridge Master (as defined below). The General Partner is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc. (“MSD Holdings”). MSD Holdings is ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is a publicly held company whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Morgan Stanley is engaged in various financial services and other businesses.
During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Partnership’s/Funds’ commodity broker was Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS&Co.”), a registered futures commission merchant. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“JPMorgan”) was also a foreign exchange forward counterparty for certain Funds. During certain periods included in this report, the Partnership/Funds deposited a portion of their cash in non-trading
bank accounts at JPMorgan.
Effective September 13, 2017, the Partnership changed its name from Tactical Diversified Futures Fund L.P. to Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
As of December 31, 2021, all trading decisions were made for the Partnership by DCM Systematic Advisors SA (“DCM”), Episteme Capital Partners (UK) LLP, Episteme Capital Partners (US) LLC, and Episteme Capital Partners (Cayman) LTD (collectively, “Episteme”), ISAM Systematic Management (“ISAM SM”) and Millburn Ridgefield Corporation (“Millburn”) (each an “Advisor” and, collectively, the “Advisors”), each of which is a registered commodity trading advisor. Effective October 31, 2021, the General Partner terminated FORT, L.P. (“FORT”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. Effective December 31, 2020, the General Partner terminated ADG Capital Management LLP (“ADG”) and Aquantum GmbH (Aquantum”) as Advisors to the Partnership. Effective June 30, 2019, the General Partner terminated SECOR Capital Advisors, LP (“SECOR”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. Effective April 3, 2019, the General Partner terminated AE Capital Pty Limited (“AE Capital”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. Effective October 1, 2018, the Partnership, the General Partner, The Cambridge Strategy (Asset Management) Limited (“Cambridge”) and Mesirow Financial International UK Limited (“Mesirow”) entered into a novation, assignment and assumption agreement, dated September 28, 2018, pursuant to which Cambridge transferred all of its future rights, obligations, and liabilities under that certain amended and restated management agreement, by and among the General Partner, the Partnership and Cambridge, dated as of December 1, 2015, as amended January 1, 2018 (collectively, the “Cambridge Initial Advisory Agreement”), to Mesirow. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow had undertaken to perform the Cambridge Initial Advisory Agreement and be bound by its terms in every way as if it were the original party to it in place of Cambridge. Effective November 1, 2018, the Partnership, the General Partner, ISAM (USA) LLC, ISAM Funds (UK) Limited, International Standard Asset Management (“ISAM”) and ISAM SM entered into a novation agreement, dated October 25, 2018, pursuant to which ISAM transferred all of its future rights, obligations, and liabilities under that certain amended and restated management agreement, by and among the General Partner, the Partnership, ISAM, ISAM (USA) LLC and ISAM Funds (UK) Limited, dated as of November 1, 2017 (the “ISAM Initial Advisory Agreement”), to ISAM SM. As of November 1, 2018, ISAM SM has undertaken to perform the ISAM Initial Advisory Agreement and be bound by its terms in every way as if it were the original party in place of ISAM. Effective the close of business on December 31, 2017, Willowbridge Associates Inc. (“Willowbridge”), Aspect Capital Limited (“Aspect”), Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”) and Boronia Capital Pty. Ltd. (“Boronia”) ceased to act as commodity trading advisors to the Partnership. Reference herein to “Advisors” may include, as relevant, ADG, Aquantum, AE Capital, Aspect, Boronia, Cambridge, Graham, ISAM, Mesirow, SECOR and Willowbridge. Each Advisor is allocated a portion of the Partnership’s assets to manage. The Partnership invests or invested the portion of its assets allocated to each of the Advisors either directly, through individually managed accounts, or indirectly, through its investment in the Funds.
ISAM SM directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to ISAM SM’s Systematic Trend Programme. Effective January 1, 2020, Millburn directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to Millburn’s Multi-Markets Program. The General Partner and Millburn have agreed that Millburn will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to Millburn at a level that is up to 1.0 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage may be increased or decreased in the future, but it may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated. Effective November 1, 2020, Episteme directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to them through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to Episteme’s Systematic Quest Program. The General Partner and Episteme have agreed that Episteme will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to Episteme at a level that is up to 2 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage may be increased or decreased in the future, but it may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated. Effective January 1, 2021, DCM directly trades a portion of the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to DCM’s Diversified Alpha Program. The General Partner and DCM have agreed that DCM will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to DCM at a level that is 1.0 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage maybe increased or decreased in the future but may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated.
The Partnership, and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective June 30, 2019, SECOR Master Fund L.P. (“SECOR Master”), and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective April 30, 2019, CMF AE Capital Master Fund LLC (“AE Capital Master”), and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective March 31, 2019, Cambridge Master Fund L.P. (“Cambridge Master”), and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective December 31, 2017, CMF Aspect Master Fund L.P. (“Aspect Master”), CMF Graham Capital Master Fund L.P. (“Graham Master”), CMF Willowbridge Master Fund L.P. (“Willowbridge Master”) and CMF Boronia I, LLC (formerly, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Boronia I, LLC) (“Boronia I, LLC”), entered into futures brokerage account agreements and foreign exchange brokerage account agreements with MS&Co. Prior to the Partnership’s respective full redemptions effective December 31, 2020, CMF ADG Master Fund LLC (“ADG Master”), CMF Aquantum Master Fund LLC (“Aquantum Master”) and CMF FORT Contrarian Master Fund LLC (“FORT Contrarian Master”) had each entered into futures brokerage account agreements with MS&Co. Reference herein to the “Funds” may include, as relevant, ADG Master, Aquantum Master, FORT Contrarian Master, AE Capital Master, Aspect Master, Boronia I, LLC, Cambridge Master, Graham Master, SECOR Master and Willowbridge Master.
Effective July 12, 2017, and prior to their respective terminations, Aspect Master, Cambridge Master, Graham Master, SECOR Master and Willowbridge Master each entered into certain agreements with JPMorgan in connection with trading in forward foreign currency contracts on behalf of the referenced Funds and, indirectly, the Partnership. These agreements included a foreign exchange and bullion authorization agreement (“FX Agreement”), an International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. master agreement (“Master Agreement”), a schedule to the Master Agreement, a 2016 credit support annex for variation margin to the schedule and an institutional account agreement. On October 10, 2018, Cambridge, Mesirow, Cambridge Master and JPMorgan entered into an amendment and assignment agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”), effective as of October 1, 2018, to the FX Agreement, pursuant to which Cambridge assigned to Mesirow all of its rights, liabilities, duties and obligations under and in respect of the FX Agreement, Mesirow accepted such assignment and assumed all rights, liabilities, duties and obligations under and in respect of the FX Agreement, and JPMorgan consented to such assignment and assumption. Pursuant to the Assignment Agreement, all references to Cambridge were replaced by references to Mesirow, and all references to “Investment Manager” were deemed to refer to Mesirow. On October 10, 2018, Cambridge Master and JPMorgan entered into an amendment (the “ISDA Amendment”), effective as of October 1, 2018, to the schedule to the Master Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2017, between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan. Pursuant to the ISDA Amendment, all references to Cambridge were replaced by references to Mesirow. In addition to Cambridge Master, SECOR Master and Willowbridge Master, Mesirow/Cambridge, SECOR and Willowbridge were all parties to the FX Agreements for the Funds to which each acted as an Advisor. Under each FX Agreement, JPMorgan charged a fee on the aggregate foreign currency transactions entered into on behalf of the respective Fund during a month.
The Partnership, directly and indirectly through its investment in the Funds, pays (or paid with respect to the Funds) MS&Co. trading fees for clearing and, where applicable, execution of transactions.
The Partnership will be liquidated upon the first to occur of the following: (1) December 31, 2022; (2) the net asset value per Redeemable Unit decreases to less than $400 per Redeemable Unit as of the close of any business day; or (3) the occurrence of certain other circumstances as set forth in the limited partnership agreement of the Partnership (the “Limited Partnership Agreement”).
On January 12, 2018, a portion of the assets allocated to FORT for trading were invested in FORT Contrarian Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. FORT Contrarian Master permitted accounts managed by FORT using its Global Contrarian Trading Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in FORT Contrarian Master on December 31, 2020.
On February 1, 2019, the assets allocated to ADG for trading were invested in ADG Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. ADG Master permitted accounts managed by ADG using its Systematic Macro Strategy, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in ADG Master on December 31, 2020.
On June 1, 2019, the assets allocated to Aquantum for trading were invested in Aquantum Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. Aquantum Master permitted accounts managed by Aquantum using its Aquantum Commodity Spread (ACS) Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Aquantum Master on December 31, 2020.
On January 1, 2018, the assets allocated to SECOR for trading were invested in SECOR Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of Delaware. SECOR Master permitted accounts managed by SECOR using a variation of the program traded by SECOR Alpha Master Fund L.P., a proprietary, systematic trading program, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in SECOR Master on June 30, 2019.
On February 1, 2018, the assets allocated to AE Capital for trading were invested in AE Capital Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. AE Capital Master permitted accounts managed by AE Capital using its AE Systematic FX Fund Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. Effective April 3, 2019, the General Partner terminated AE Capital as an Advisor to the Partnership. For the interim period from April 4, 2019 through April 30, 2019, the Partnership’s assets previously allocated to AE Capital were not charged a management fee and were credited with interest income at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in AE Capital Master on April 30, 2019.
On December 1, 2015, the assets allocated to Cambridge for trading were invested in Cambridge Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of Delaware. Effective October 1, 2018 until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow had undertaken to perform the Cambridge Initial Advisory Agreement and be bound by its terms in every way as if it were the original party to it in place of Cambridge. Cambridge Master permitted accounts managed by Mesirow/Cambridge using the Asian Markets Alpha Programme and the Emerging Markets Alpha Programme, each a proprietary, systematic trading program, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Cambridge Master on March 31, 2019.
On March 1, 2005, the assets allocated to Aspect for trading were invested in Aspect Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of New York. Aspect Master permitted accounts managed by Aspect using the Diversified Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Aspect Master on December 31, 2017.
On January 1, 2013, the assets allocated to Boronia for trading were invested in Boronia I, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. Boronia I, LLC permitted accounts managed by Boronia using the Boronia Diversified Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Boronia I, LLC on December 31, 2017.
On June 1, 2006, the assets allocated to Graham for trading were invested in Graham Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of New York. Graham Master permitted accounts managed by Graham using the K4D-15V
Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Graham Master on December 31, 2017.
On July 1, 2005, the assets allocated to Willowbridge for trading were invested in Willowbridge Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of New York. Willowbridge Master permitted accounts managed by Willowbridge using its wPraxis Futures Trading Approach, a proprietary, discretionary trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Willowbridge Master on December 31, 2017.
The General Partner is not aware of any material changes to the trading programs discussed above during the year ended December 31, 2021.
As of January 1, 2018, the Partnership began offering three classes of limited partnership interests, Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units. All Redeemable Units issued prior to January 1, 2018 were deemed Class A Redeemable Units. The rights, liabilities, risks, and fees associated with investment in Class A Redeemable Units were not changed. Class A Redeemable Units are available to taxable U.S. individuals and institutions, U.S. tax exempt individuals and institutions, and non-U.S.
investors. Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units were first issued on January 1, 2018. Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units will each be referred to as a “Class” and collectively referred to as the “Classes.” The Class of Redeemable Units that a limited partner receives upon a subscription will generally depend upon the amount invested in the Partnership or the status of the limited partner, although the General Partner may determine to offer any Class of Redeemable Units to investors at its discretion. Class D Redeemable Units are available to taxable U.S. individuals and institutions, U.S. tax exempt individuals and institutions, and non-U.S.
investors. Class Z Redeemable Units are offered to certain employees of Morgan Stanley and its subsidiaries (and their family members). In the future, Class Z Redeemable Units may also be offered to certain limited partners who receive advisory services from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, doing business as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (“Morgan Stanley Wealth Management”). Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units are identical, except that they are subject to different monthly ongoing selling agent fees. Effective January 1, 2021, Class A Redeemable Units are subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, Class A Redeemable Units were subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 1.00% (a 1.00% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. Prior to July 1, 2020, Class A Redeemable Units were subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 2.00% (a 2.00% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. Class D Redeemable Units are subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the net assets of Class D Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. Class Z Redeemable Units are not subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee.
The Partnership’s trading of futures, forward and option contracts, as applicable, on commodities is done primarily on U.S. and foreign commodity exchanges. The Funds’ trading of futures, forward and option contracts, as applicable, on commodities was also done primarily on U.S. and foreign commodity exchanges. The Partnership engages, and the Funds engaged, in such trading through commodity brokerage accounts maintained with MS&Co.
Generally, a limited partner/member in the Funds withdrew all or part of its capital contribution and undistributed profits, if any, from the Funds as of the end of any month (the “Redemption Date”) after a request had been made to the General Partner/Trading Manager at least three days in advance of the Redemption Date. Such withdrawals were classified as a liability when the limited partner/member elected to redeem and informed the Funds. However, a limited partner/member had the right to request a withdrawal as of the end of any day if such request was received by the General Partner/Trading Manager at least three days in advance of the proposed withdrawal day.
Management fees, General Partner fees, ongoing selling agent fees and incentive fees are charged at the Partnership level, except for management and incentive fees payable to Boronia (prior to its termination on December 31, 2017), which were charged at the Boronia I, LLC level. Clearing fees were borne by the Funds and allocated to the Funds’ limited partners/non-managing
members, including the Partnership. Clearing fees are also borne by the Partnership directly. Professional fees were borne by the Funds and allocated to the Partnership, and are also charged directly at the Partnership level.
For the period January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, the approximate average market sector distribution for the Partnership was as follows:
There were no investments in the Funds as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
The General Partner administers the business and affairs of the Partnership, including selecting one or more advisors to make trading decisions for the Partnership. The General Partner has agreed to make capital contributions, if necessary, so that its general partnership interest will be equal to the greater of (i) 1% of the partners’ contributions to the Partnership or (ii) $25,000. Effective July 1, 2020, the Partnership pays the General Partner a monthly fee equal to 1/12 of 0.875% (0.875% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership. Prior to July 1, 2020, the Partnership paid the General Partner a monthly fee equal to 1/12 of 1% (1% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership. Month-end
net assets, for purposes of calculating the General Partner fee, are net assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s management fees, incentive fee accruals, the General Partner fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. The General Partner fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, has entered into management agreements (each a “Management Agreement”) with the Advisors. The Advisors are not affiliated with one another, are not affiliated with the General Partner or MS&Co., and are not responsible for the organization or operation of the Partnership. Each Management Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.
Effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays to DCM a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (0.75% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to DCM. Effective November 1, 2020, the Partnership pays to Episteme a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to Episteme. Effective November 1, 2017, ISAM SM receives, and ISAM received, a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to ISAM SM/ ISAM. Prior to November 1, 2017, ISAM received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.5% (1.5% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to ISAM. Effective January 1, 2020, the Partnership pays to Millburn a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.25%, 0.375% or 0.50% (0.25%, 0.375% or 0.5% per year), depending on account leverage, of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to Millburn. Month-end
net assets, for purposes of calculating management fees, are net assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s incentive fee accruals, the monthly management fees, the General Partner fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. An Advisor’s management fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
Prior to FORT’s termination on October 31, 2021, the Partnership paid to FORT a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (0.75% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to FORT’s Global Trend Trading Program, and until December 31, 2020, paid to FORT a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.15% (1.15% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to FORT Contrarian Master. Prior to ADG’s termination on December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid to ADG a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.00% (1.00% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to ADG. Prior to Aquantum’s termination on December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid to Aquantum a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.25% (1.25% per year) of month-end
net assets of the Partnership allocated to Aquantum. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to Mesirow. From January 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018, the monthly management fee paid by the Partnership to Cambridge was equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to Cambridge. Prior to January 1, 2018, Cambridge received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.5% (1.5% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to Cambridge. Prior to its termination effective June 30, 2019, SECOR received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.15% (1.15% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to SECOR. Prior to its termination effective April 3, 2019, AE Capital received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.50% (1.50% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to AE Capital. Prior to their respective terminations on December 31, 2017, Aspect and Willowbridge each received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.5% (1.5% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to Aspect and Willowbridge, respectively. Prior to its termination on December 31, 2017, Boronia I, LLC paid Boronia a monthly management fee of 1.5% per year of the aggregate net assets of Boronia I, LLC as of the first day of each month. The Partnership paid Boronia indirectly, through the Partnership’s pro-rata
allocation of the management fee of Boronia I, LLC. Prior to its termination on December 31, 2017, Graham received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.75% (1.75% per year) of month-end
net assets allocated to Graham.
In addition, effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership is obligated to pay DCM an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 15% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by DCM. Effective November 1, 2020, the Partnership is obligated to pay Episteme an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 22.5% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Episteme. Effective November 1, 2017, the Partnership is obligated to pay ISAM SM, and was obligated to pay ISAM, an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 25% of the New Trading Profits earned by ISAM SM/ISAM. Prior to November 1, 2017, the Partnership was obligated to pay ISAM an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits earned by ISAM. Effective January 1, 2020, the Partnership is obligated to pay Millburn an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 28% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Millburn. To the extent an Advisor incurs a loss for the Partnership, the Advisor will not be paid incentive fees until the Advisor recovers the net loss incurred and earns additional new trading profits for the Partnership. An Advisor’s incentive fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
Prior to the Partnership’s full redemption out of FORT Contrarian Master effective December 31, 2020, FORT was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by FORT for the Partnership’s assets allocated to FORT Contrarian Master during each calendar year. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, ADG was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable semi-annually, equal to 25% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by ADG for the Partnership during each calendar half-year. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, Aquantum was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable semi-annually, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Aquantum for the Partnership during each calendar half-year. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 15% of New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Mesirow for the Partnership during each calendar year. From January 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018, Cambridge was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 15% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Cambridge for the Partnership during each calendar year. Prior to January 1, 2018, Cambridge was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 15% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Cambridge for the Partnership during each calendar quarter. Prior to its termination effective June 30, 2019, SECOR was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 25% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by SECOR for the Partnership during each calendar year. Prior to its termination effective April 3, 2019, AE Capital was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by AE Capital for the Partnership during each calendar quarter. Prior to their respective terminations on December 31, 2017, Aspect, Graham and Willowbridge were each eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in each Management Agreement, earned by each such Advisor for the Partnership during each calendar quarter. Prior to its termination on December 31, 2017, Boronia received an incentive fee equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits earned by Boronia I, LLC. Only the incentive fees paid by Boronia I, LLC to Boronia for New Trading Profits earned for the Partnership were allocated to the Partnership.
The Partnership has entered into a customer agreement with MS&Co. (the “Partnership Customer Agreement”). Under the Partnership Customer Agreement and the foreign exchange brokerage account agreement, the Partnership pays (or paid with respect to the Funds) trading fees for the clearing and, where applicable, execution of transactions, as well as exchange, user, give-up,
floor brokerage and National Futures Association (“NFA”) fees (collectively, the “clearing fees”), directly and indirectly through its investment in the Funds. Clearing fees were allocated to the Partnership based on its proportionate share of each Fund. Clearing fees are also borne directly by the Partnership for its direct trading. Clearing fees will be paid for the life of the Partnership, although the rate at which such fees are paid may be changed. All of the Partnership’s assets available for trading in commodity interests previously not held in the Funds’ accounts at MS&Co. or JPMorgan were deposited in the Partnership’s accounts at MS&Co. The Partnership’s cash deposited with MS&Co. were held in segregated bank accounts to the extent required by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) regulations. The Partnership’s restricted cash is equal to the cash portion of assets on deposit to meet margin requirements, as determined by the exchange or counterparty, and required by MS&Co. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the amount of cash held by the Partnership for margin requirements was $11,511,892 and $13,791,629, respectively. Cash that is not classified as restricted cash is therefore classified as unrestricted cash. The Partnership receives monthly interest on 100% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s (or the Partnership’s allocable portion of a Fund’s) brokerage account at MS&Co. during each month at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. During prior periods included in this report, the Partnership received interest on 80% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s (or the Partnership’s allocable portion of a Fund’s, except for Boronia I, LLC) brokerage account at the rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. MS&Co. had agreed to pay Boronia I, LLC interest on 100% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in Boronia I, LLC’s brokerage account at the rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week U.S. Treasury bill discount rate less 0.15% during such month but in no event less than zero. When the effective rate was less than zero, no interest was earned. For purposes of these interest credits, daily funds did not include monies due to Boronia I, LLC on or with respect to futures, forward, or option contracts that had not been received. The Partnership Customer Agreement may generally be terminated upon notice by either party.
The Partnership has entered into a selling agreement with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (the “Selling Agreement”). Under the Selling Agreement and effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 0.75% per year of adjusted month-end
net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1.00% per year of adjusted month-end
net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. Effective January 1, 2018 and until June 30, 2020, the Partnership paid Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 2.00% per year of adjusted month-end
net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. Effective January 1, 2018, the Partnership pays Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 0.75% per year of the adjusted month-end
net assets for Class D Redeemable Units. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management pays a portion of its ongoing selling agent fees to properly registered or exempted financial advisors who have sold Class A and Class D Redeemable Units. Class Z Redeemable Units are not subject to an ongoing selling agent fee. Month-end
net assets, for the purpose of calculating ongoing selling agent fees are Net Assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, for the Class, prior to the reduction of the current month’s ongoing selling agent fee, incentive fee accrual, management fee, General Partner fee and other expenses and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. Prior to January 1, 2018, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management received a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 2.0% per year of the Partnership’s adjusted month-end
net assets.
As of November 1, 2018, the Partnership entered into an alternative investment placement agent agreement (the “Harbor Selling Agreement”), by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Distribution Inc. (“MSDI”) and Harbor Investment Advisory, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company (“Harbor”), which supersedes and replaces the alternative investment selling agent agreement, dated January 19, 2018, between the Partnership, the General Partner and Harbor. Pursuant to the Harbor Selling Agreement, MSDI and Harbor have been appointed as a non-exclusive
selling agent and sub-selling
agent, respectively, of the Partnership for the purpose of finding eligible investors for Redeemable Units through offerings that are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder and for Harbor to serve as an investment advisor to its customers investing in one or more of the partnerships party to the Harbor Selling Agreement; provided, that, included within such appointment, Harbor will provide certain services to certain holders of Redeemable Units of the Partnership, who had acquired such Redeemable Units prior to such holders becoming clients of Harbor. The Harbor Selling Agreement continues in effect until September 30, 2022 unless terminated in certain circumstances as set forth in the Harbor Selling Agreement, including by any party on thirty days’ prior written notice, after which the General Partner or the Partnership may, in its sole discretion, renew the Harbor Selling Agreement for additional one year periods. Pursuant to the Harbor Selling Agreement and effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (a 1.0% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. Prior to July 1, 2020, the Partnership paid Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 2.0% (a 2.0% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. The Partnership pays Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class D Redeemable Units in the Partnership.
The General Partner has delegated certain administrative functions to SS&C Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, currently doing business as SS&C GlobeOp (the “Administrator”). Pursuant to a master services agreement, the Administrator furnishes certain administrative, accounting, regulatory reporting, tax and other services as agreed from time to time. In addition, the Administrator maintains certain books and records of the Partnership. The cost of retaining the Administrator is allocated among the pools operated by the General Partner, including the Partnership.
(b) Financial Information about Segments
. The Partnership’s business consists of only one segment, speculative trading of commodity interests. The Partnership does not engage in sales of goods or services. The Partnership’s net income (loss) from operations for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 is set forth under “Item 6. Selected Financial Data
.” The Partnership’s capital as of December 31, 2021 was $64,243,621.
(c) Narrative Description of Business
.
See Paragraphs (a) and (b) above.
(i) through (xii) - Not applicable.
(xiii) - The Partnership has no employees.
(d) Financial Information About Geographic Areas
. The Partnership does not engage in the sale of goods or services or own any long lived assets, and therefore this item is not applicable.
(e) Available Information
. The Partnership does not have an Internet address. The Partnership will provide paper copies of its Annual Report on Form 10-K,
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q,
Current Reports on Form 8-K
and any amendments to these reports free of charge upon request.
(f) Reports to Security Holders
. Not applicable.
(g) Enforceability of Civil Liabilities Against Foreign Persons
. Not applicable.
(h) Smaller Reporting Companies
. Not applicable.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors
.
As a result of leverage, small changes in the price of the Partnership’s positions may result in major losses.
The trading of commodity interests is speculative, volatile and involves a high degree of leverage. A small change in the market price of a commodity interest contract can produce major losses for the Partnership. Market prices can be influenced by, among other things, changing supply and demand relationships, governmental, agricultural, commercial and trade programs and policies, national and international political and economic events, weather and climate conditions, insects and plant disease, purchases and sales by foreign countries, changing interest rates, pandemics, epidemics and other public health crises.
An investor may lose all of their investment.
Due to the speculative nature of trading commodity interests, an investor could lose all of their investment in the Partnership.
The Partnership will pay substantial fees and expenses regardless of profitability.
Regardless of its trading performance, the Partnership will incur fees and expenses, including but not limited to clearing fees, the General Partner fee, ongoing selling agent fees and management fees. Substantial incentive fees may be paid to one or more of the Advisors even if the Partnership experiences a net loss for the full year.
An investor’s ability to redeem or transfer Redeemable Units is limited.
An investor’s ability to redeem or transfer Redeemable Units is limited and no market exists for the Redeemable Units.
Conflicts of interest exist.
The Partnership is subject to numerous conflicts of interest including those that arise from the fact that:
1. The General Partner and the Partnership’s commodity brokers are affiliates;
2. Each of the Advisors, the Partnership’s commodity brokers, the General Partner and their respective principals and affiliates may trade in commodity interests for their own accounts;
3. An investor’s financial advisor will receive ongoing compensation for providing services to the investor’s account; and
4. The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, may purchase shares from money market mutual funds affiliated and/or unaffiliated with the General Partner.
Investing in Redeemable Units may not provide the desired diversification of an investor’s overall portfolio.
One of the Partnership’s objectives is to add an element of diversification to a traditional stock and bond portfolio, but any benefit of portfolio diversification is dependent upon the Partnership achieving positive returns and such returns being independent of stock and bond market returns.
Past performance is no assurance of future results.
The Advisors’ trading strategies may not perform as they have performed in the past and past performance does not necessarily predict future returns. The Advisors have from time to time incurred substantial losses in trading on behalf of clients.
An investor’s tax liability may exceed cash distributions.
Investors are taxed on their share of the Partnership’s income, even though the Partnership does not intend to make any distributions.
The General Partner may allocate the Partnership’s assets to undisclosed advisors.
The General Partner at any time may select and allocate the Partnership’s assets to undisclosed advisors. Investors may not be advised of such changes in advance or at all. Investors must rely on the ability of the General Partner to select commodity trading advisors and allocate assets among them.
Regulatory changes could restrict the Partnership’s operations and increase its operational costs.
Regulatory costs or changes could adversely affect the Partnership by restricting its markets or activities, limiting its trading and/or increasing the costs or taxes to which investors are subject. Pursuant to the mandate of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law on July 21, 2010, the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) have promulgated rules to regulate trading in swaps and swap dealers and to mandate additional reporting and disclosure requirements and continue to promulgate rules regarding capital and margin requirements, to require that certain swaps be traded on an exchange or a swap execution facility, to mandate additional reporting and disclosure requirements and to require that derivatives (such as those traded by the Partnership) be moved into central clearinghouses. The CFTC and the prudential regulators that oversee swap dealers have adopted rules regarding margin requirements for certain derivatives. In addition, the CFTC and such prudential regulators have adopted rules regarding capital requirements for swap dealers. These rules may negatively impact the manner in which swap contracts are traded and/or settled, increase the costs of such trades, and limit trading by speculators (such as the Partnership) in futures and over-the-counter
(“OTC”) markets.
Speculative position and trading limits may reduce profitability.
The CFTC and U.S. exchanges have established speculative position limits on the maximum net long or net short positions which any person or a group of persons may hold or control in particular futures and options on futures. In January 2021, the CFTC finalized new rules that impose position limits on certain futures and option contracts and physical commodity swaps that are “economically equivalent” to such contracts. In addition to speculative position limits, most commodity exchanges also limit fluctuations in futures contract prices during a single day by regulations referred to as “daily price fluctuation limits” or “daily limits.” Such regulations could have an adverse effect on an Advisor’s trading for the Partnership. The trading instructions of an Advisor may have to be modified, and positions held by the Partnership may have to be liquidated, in order to avoid exceeding these limits. Such modification or liquidation could adversely affect the operations and profitability of the Partnership by increasing transaction costs to liquidate positions and limiting potential profits on liquidated positions.
The General Partner, the Partnership and their respective service providers (including the Advisors) and operations are potentially vulnerable to cyber-security attacks or incidents.
Like other business enterprises, the use of the internet and other electronic media and technology exposes the General Partner, the Partnership and their respective service providers and operations, to potential risks from cyber-security attacks or incidents (collectively, “cyber events”). Cyber events may include, for example, unauthorized access to systems, networks or devices, infection from computer viruses or other malicious software code, mishandling or misuse of information and attacks which shut down, disable, slow or otherwise disrupt operations, business processes or website access or functionality. In addition to intentional cyber events, unintentional cyber events can occur. Unintentional cyber events may include, for example, the inadvertent release of confidential information, the mishandling or misuse of information and/or technological limitations or hardware failures (in the markets or otherwise) that constrain the Partnership’s ability to gather, process and communicate information efficiently and securely, without interruption.
Any cyber event could adversely affect the Partnership’s business, financial condition or results of operations and cause the Partnership to incur financial loss and expense, as well as face exposure to regulatory penalties or legal claims, reputational damage and additional costs associated with corrective measures. A cyber-security breach could also jeopardize a limited partner’s personal, confidential, proprietary or other information processed and stored in, and transmitted through, the General Partner’s or a service provider’s computer systems. A cyber event may cause the Partnership or its service providers to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption, lose operational capacity (such as, for example, the loss of the ability to process transactions, calculate the Partnership’s net asset value, or allow investors to transact business) and/or fail to comply with applicable privacy and other laws. Among other potentially harmful effects, cyber events also may result in theft, unauthorized monitoring and failures in the physical infrastructure or operating systems that support the Partnership or its service providers.
The nature of malicious cyber-attacks is becoming increasingly sophisticated and neither the General Partner nor the Partnership can control whether a cyber event will adversely affect the cyber systems of the Advisors or other third-party service providers.
Tax laws are subject to change at any time
.
Tax laws and court and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) interpretations thereof are subject to change at any time, possibly with retroactive effect.
Prospective investors are urged to consult with their tax advisors with respect to regulatory or administrative developments and proposals, and their potential effects on them based on their unique circumstances.
The continuing spread of a new strain of coronavirus, which causes the viral disease known as COVID-19,
may adversely affect our investments and operations.
Since its discovery in December 2019, a new strain of coronavirus, which causes the viral disease known as COVID-19,
has spread from China to many other countries, including the United States. The outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary has declared a public health emergency in the United States in response to the outbreak.
The COVID-19
pandemic and related voluntary and government-imposed social and business restrictions has impacted global economic conditions and adversely affected various industries (including, but not limited to, transportation, hospitality and entertainment), resulting in volatility in the global financial markets, disruption in global supply chains, increased unemployment, and operational challenges such as the temporary and permanent closures of businesses, sheltering-in-place
directives and increased remote work protocols. If the pandemic continues to be prolonged or the actions of governments and central banks are unsuccessful, including actions to facilitate the comprehensive distribution of effective vaccines, the adverse impact on the global economy will deepen.
Given the continuing development of this situation, it is not possible to accurately predict how the market disruptions caused by COVID-19
will further impact the U.S and other world economies or the value of the Partnership’s investments, or for how long the effects of such events will continue. Nevertheless, the novel coronavirus continues to present material uncertainty and risk with respect to the Partnership’s investments and operations.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
.
The Partnership does not own or lease any properties. The General Partner operates out of facilities provided by Morgan Stanley and/or one of its subsidiaries.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
.
This section describes the major pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which MS&Co. or its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their property is subject. There are no material legal proceedings pending against the Partnership or the General Partner.
On June 1, 2011, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated converted from a Delaware corporation to a Delaware limited liability company. As a result of that conversion, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated is now named Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS&Co.”).
MS&Co. is a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, a Delaware holding company. Morgan Stanley files periodic reports with the SEC as required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) which include current descriptions of material litigation and material proceedings and investigations, if any, by governmental and/or regulatory agencies or self-regulatory organizations concerning Morgan Stanley and its subsidiaries, including MS&Co. As a consolidated subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, MS&Co. does not file its own periodic reports with the SEC that contain descriptions of material litigation, proceedings and investigations. As a result, we refer you to the “Legal Proceedings” section of Morgan Stanley’s SEC 10-K
filings for 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. In addition, MS&Co. annually prepares an Audited, Consolidated Statement of Financial Condition (“Audited Financial Statement”) that is publicly available on Morgan Stanley’s website at www.morganstanley.com
. We refer you to the Commitments, Guarantees and Contingencies - Legal section of MS&Co.’s 2020 Audited Financial Statement.
In addition to the matters described in those filings, in the normal course of business, each of Morgan Stanley and MS&Co. has been named, from time to time, as a defendant in various legal actions, including arbitrations, class actions, and other litigation, arising in connection with its activities as a global diversified financial services institution. Certain of the legal actions include claims for substantial compensatory and/or punitive damages or claims for indeterminate amounts of damages. Each of Morgan Stanley and MS&Co. is also involved, from time to time, in investigations and proceedings by governmental and/or regulatory agencies or self-regulatory organizations, certain of which may result in adverse judgments, fines or penalties. The number of these investigations and proceedings has increased in recent years with regard to many financial services institutions, including Morgan Stanley and MS&Co.
MS&Co. is a Delaware limited liability company with its main business office located at 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036. Among other registrations and memberships, MS&Co. is registered as a futures commission merchant and is a member of the National Futures Association.
During the preceding five years, the following administrative, civil, or criminal actions pending, on appeal or concluded against MS&Co. or any of its principals are material within the meaning of CFTC Rule 4.24(l)(2) or 4.34(k)(2):
Regulatory and Governmental Matters.
On September 28, 2017, the CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against MS&Co. regarding violations of CFTC Rule 166.3 by failing to diligently supervise the reconciliation of exchange and clearing fees with the amounts it ultimately charged customers for certain transactions on multiple exchanges. The order and settlement required MS&Co. to pay a $500,000 penalty and cease and desist from violating CFTC Rule 166.3.
On November 2, 2017, the CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against MS&Co. for non-compliance
with applicable rules governing Part 17 Large Trader reports to the CFTC. The order requires MS&Co. to pay a $350,000 penalty and cease and desist from further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.
On September 30, 2020, the SEC entered into a settlement order with MS&Co. settling an administrative action which relates to MS&Co.’s violations of the order marking requirements of Regulation SHO of the Exchange Act resulting from its improper use of aggregation units in structuring the Firm’s equity swaps business. The order found that MS&Co. improperly operated its equity swaps business without netting certain “long” and “short” positions as required by Rule 200(c) of Regulation SHO. The order found that the long exposure to an equity security (the “Long Unit”) and the short exposure to an equity security (the “Short Unit”) were not independent from one another and did not have separate trading strategies or objectives without regard to each other, and that the Long and Short Units were not eligible for the exception in Rule 200(f) of Regulation SHO. The order found that MS&Co. willfully violated Section 200(g) of Regulation SHO. MS&Co. consented, without admitting or denying the findings and without adjudication of any issue of law or fact, to a censure; to cease and desist from committing or causing future violations; to pay a civil penalty of $5 million; and to comply with the undertaking enumerated in the order.
Civil Litigation
On May 17, 2013, plaintiff in IKB International S.A. in Liquidation, et al. v. Morgan Stanley, et al.
filed a complaint against MS&Co. and certain affiliates in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County (“Supreme Court of NY”). The complaint alleges that defendants made material misrepresentations and omissions in the sale to plaintiff of certain mortgage pass-through certificates backed by securitization trusts containing residential mortgage loans. The total amount of certificates allegedly sponsored, underwritten and/or sold by MS&Co. to plaintiff was approximately $133 million. The complaint alleges causes of action against MS&Co. for common law fraud, fraudulent concealment, aiding and abetting fraud, and negligent misrepresentation, and seeks, among other things, compensatory and punitive damages. On October 29, 2014, the court granted in part and denied in part MS&Co.’s motion to dismiss. All claims regarding four certificates were dismissed. After these dismissals, the remaining amount of certificates allegedly issued by MS&Co. or sold to plaintiff by MS&Co. was approximately $116 million. On August 11, 2016, the Appellate Division, First Department (“First Department”) affirmed the trial court’s decision denying in part MS&Co.’s motion to dismiss the complaint. At December 25, 2019, the current unpaid balance of the mortgage pass-through certificates at issue in this action was approximately $22 million, and the certificates had incurred actual losses of $58 million. Based on currently available information, MS&Co. believes it could incur a loss in this action up to the difference between the $22 million unpaid balance of these certificates (plus any losses incurred) and their fair market value at the time of a judgment against MS&Co., or upon sale, plus pre-
and post-judgment interest, fees and costs. MS&Co. may be entitled to be indemnified for some of these losses and to an offset for interest received by the plaintiff prior to a judgment.
In August of 2017, MS&Co. was named as a defendant in a purported antitrust class action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) styled Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System et al. v. Bank of America Corporation et al.
Plaintiffs allege, inter alia, that MS&Co., together with a number of other financial institution defendants, violated U.S. antitrust laws and New York state law in connection with their alleged efforts to prevent the development of electronic exchange-based platforms for securities lending. The class action complaint was filed on behalf of a purported class of borrowers and lenders who entered into stock loan transactions with the defendants. The class action complaint seeks, among other relief, certification of the class of plaintiffs and treble damages. On September 27, 2018, the court denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the class action complaint. A decision on plaintiffs’ motion for class certification is pending.
Settled Civil Litigation
On July 15, 2010, China Development Industrial Bank (“CDIB”) filed a complaint against MS&Co., styled China
Development Industrial Bank v. Morgan Stanley
& Co. Incorporated et al.
, in the Supreme Court of NY. The complaint related to a $275 million credit default swap (“CDS”) referencing the super senior portion of the STACK 2006-1
CDO. The complaint asserted claims for common law fraud, fraudulent inducement and fraudulent concealment and alleges that MS&Co. misrepresented the risks of the STACK 2006-1
CDO to CDIB, and that MS&Co knew that the assets backing the CDO were of poor quality when it entered into the CDS with CDIB. On March 22, 2021, the parties entered into a settlement agreement. On April 16, 2021, the court entered a stipulation of voluntary discontinuance, with prejudice.
On October 15, 2010, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago filed a complaint against MS&Co. and other defendants in the Circuit Court of the State of Illinois, styled Federal Home Loan Bank of
Chicago
v.
Bank of America Funding Corporation
et al.
A corrected amended complaint was filed on April 8, 2011, which alleges that defendants made untrue statements and material omissions in the sale to plaintiff of a number of mortgage pass-through certificates backed by securitization trusts containing residential mortgage loans and asserts claims under Illinois law. The total amount of certificates allegedly sold to plaintiff by MS&Co. at issue in the action was approximately $203 million. The complaint seeks, among other things, to rescind the plaintiff’s purchase of such certificates. On November 4, 2021, the Firm entered into an agreement to settle the litigation.
On April 20, 2011, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston filed a complaint against MS&Co. and other defendants in the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts styled Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston v. Ally Financial, Inc. F/K/A GMAC LLC et al.
An amended complaint was filed on June 29, 2012 and alleged that defendants made untrue statements and material omissions in the sale to plaintiff of certain mortgage pass-through certificates backed by securitization trusts containing residential mortgage loans. The total amount of certificates allegedly issued by MS&Co. or sold to plaintiff by MS&Co. was approximately $385 million. The amended complaint raised claims under the Massachusetts Uniform Securities Act, the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act and common law and sought, among other things, to rescind the plaintiff’s purchase of such certificates. On November 25, 2013, July 16, 2014, and May 19, 2015, respectively, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its claims against MS&Co. with respect to three of the securitizations at issue. After these voluntary dismissals, the remaining amount of certificates allegedly issued by MS&Co. or sold to plaintiff by MS&Co. was approximately $332 million. On July 13, 2018, the parties reached an agreement in principle to settle the litigation.
On May 3, 2013, plaintiffs in Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank AG et al. v. Morgan Stanley et al.
filed a complaint against MS&Co., certain affiliates, and other defendants in the Supreme Court of NY. The complaint alleged that defendants made material misrepresentations and omissions in the sale to plaintiffs of certain mortgage pass-through certificates backed by securitization trusts containing residential mortgage loans. The total amount of certificates allegedly sponsored, underwritten and/or sold by MS&Co. to plaintiff was approximately $634 million. The complaint alleged causes of action against MS&Co. for common law fraud, fraudulent concealment, aiding and abetting fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and rescission and sought, among other things, compensatory and punitive damages. On June 26, 2018, the parties entered into an agreement to settle the litigation.
On April 1, 2016, the California Attorney General’s Office filed an action against MS&Co. in California state court styled California v. Morgan Stanley, et al.
, on behalf of California investors, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California Teachers’ Retirement System. The complaint alleged that MS&Co. made misrepresentations and omissions regarding residential mortgage-backed securities and notes issued by the Cheyne SIV, and asserted violations of the California False Claims Act and other state laws and sought treble damages, civil penalties, disgorgement, and injunctive relief. On April 24, 2019, the parties reached an agreement to settle the litigation.
Beginning on March 25, 2019, MS&Co. was named as a defendant in a series of putative class action complaints filed in the United States District Court for the SDNY, the first of which is styled Alaska Electrical Pension Fund v. BofA Secs., Inc., et al
. Each complaint alleged a conspiracy to fix prices and restrain competition in the market for unsecured bonds issued by the following Government-Sponsored Enterprises: the Federal National Mortgage Association; the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation; and the Federal Home Loan Banks. The purported class period for each suit is from January 1, 2012 to June 1, 2018. Each complaint raised a claim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act and sought, among other things, injunctive relief and treble compensatory damages. On May 23, 2019, plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended class action complaint styled In re GSE Bonds Antitrust Litigation
, with a purported class period from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2016. On June 13, 2019, the defendants filed a joint motion to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint. On August 29, 2019, the court denied MS&Co.’s motion to dismiss. On December 15, 2019, MS&Co. and certain other defendants entered into a stipulation of settlement to resolve the action as against each of them in its entirety. On June 16, 2020, the court granted final approval of the settlement.
Additional lawsuits containing claims similar to those described above may be filed in the future. In the course of its business, MS&Co., as a major futures commission merchant, is party to various civil actions, claims and routine regulatory investigations and proceedings that the General Partner believes do not have a material effect on the business of MS&Co. MS&Co. may establish reserves from time to time in connections with such actions.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
.
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Security Holder Matters and Issuer Purchase of Equity Securities
.
(a) Market Information
. The Partnership has issued no stock. There is no public market for the Redeemable Units.
(b) Holders
. The number of holders of Redeemable Units as of February 28, 2022 was 3,596 for Class A Redeemable Units, 13 for Class D Redeemable Units and 7 for Class Z Redeemable Units.
(c) Dividends
. The Partnership did not declare any distributions in 2021 or 2020. The Partnership does not intend to declare distributions in the foreseeable future.
(d) Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
. None.
(e) Performance Graph
. Not applicable.
(f) Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities-Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities
. The public offering of Redeemable Units terminated on November 30, 2008. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2021, there were no subscriptions. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2020, there were no subscriptions. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, there were subscriptions of 119.1810 Class A limited partner Redeemable Units totaling $92,700 and subscriptions of 29.4650 Class Z limited partner Redeemable Units totaling $27,904.
Redeemable Units are issued in reliance upon applicable exemptions from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Section 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. Redeemable Units are purchased by accredited investors, as described in Regulation D. In determining the applicability of the private offering exemption, the General Partner relies on the fact that Redeemable Units are purchased by accredited investors in a private offering.
Proceeds of the net offering are used for the trading of commodity interests including futures, option and forward contracts.
(g) Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
.
The following chart sets forth the purchases of limited partner Redeemable Units for each Class by the Partnership.
(d) Maximum
(c) Total
Number (or
Number of
Approximate
Redeemable
Dollar Value)
Units
of Redeemable
Class A
Class A
Class D
Class D
Purchased
Units that
(a) Total
(b) Average
(a) Total
(b) Average
as Part of
May Yet Be
Number of
Price Paid
Number of
Price Paid
Publicly
Purchased
Redeemable
per
Redeemable
per
Announced
Under the
Units
Redeemable
Units
Redeemable
Plans or
Plans or
Period
Purchased*
Unit**
Purchased*
Unit**
Programs
Programs
October 1, 2021 - October 31, 2021
1,005.4990
$ 824.32
908.7190
$ 1,031.64
N/A
N/A
November 1, 2021 - November 30, 2021
470.7370
$ 786.10
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
December 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
979.8280
$ 792.73
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
2,456.0640
$ 804.39
908.7190
$ 1,031.64
* Generally, limited partners are permitted to redeem their Redeemable Units as of the end of each month on three business days’ notice to the General Partner. Under certain circumstances, the General Partner can compel redemption, although to date the General Partner has not exercised this right. Purchases of Redeemable Units by the Partnership reflected in the chart above were made in the ordinary course of the Partnership’s business in connection with effecting redemptions for limited partners.
** Redemptions of Redeemable Units are effected as of the end of each month at the net asset value per Redeemable Unit as of that day. No fee will be charged for redemptions.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. Reserved
.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
.
Overview
The Partnership aims to achieve substantial capital appreciation and permit investors to diversify a traditionally structured stock and bond portfolio. The Partnership attempts to accomplish its objectives through speculative trading in U.S. and international markets for currencies, interest rates, stock indices, agricultural and energy products and precious and base metals. The Partnership engages in such trading directly, and previously also engaged indirectly in such trading through investment in the Funds. The Funds could have employed futures, options on futures, forward, spot and swaps contracts in those markets.
The General Partner/Trading Manager manages all business of the Partnership, as well as all business of the Funds prior to the Partnership’s respective full redemptions. The General Partner has delegated its responsibility for the investment of the Partnership’s assets to the Advisors. The General Partner/Trading Manager engages a team of approximately 20 professionals whose primary emphasis is on attempting to maintain quality control among the Advisors to the funds operated or managed by the General Partner/Trading Manager. A full-time staff of due diligence professionals uses state-of-the-art
technology and on-site
evaluations to monitor new and existing futures money managers. The accounting and operations staff provides processing of subscriptions and redemptions and reporting to limited partners and regulatory authorities. The General Partner also engages staff involved in marketing and sales support.
Responsibilities of the General Partner/Trading Manager include:
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due diligence examinations of the Advisors;
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selection, appointment and termination of the Advisors;
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negotiation of the management agreements; and
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monitoring the activity of the Advisors.
In addition, the General Partner/Trading Manager prepares, or assists the Administrator in preparing, the books and records and provides, or assists the Administrator in providing, the administrative and compliance services that are required by law or regulation from time to time in connection with the operation of the Partnership, as well as the operation of the Funds prior to the Partnership’s respective full redemptions.
While the Partnership has, and the Funds had, the right to seek lower commission rates from other commodity brokers at any time, the General Partner/Trading Manager believes that the customer agreements and other arrangements with the commodity broker are fair, reasonable and competitive.
The programs traded by each Advisor on behalf of the Partnership as of December 31, 2021 were: DCM - DCM’s Diversified Alpha Program, Episteme - Systematic Quest Program, ISAM SM - Systematic Trend Programme and Millburn - Multi-Markets Program. The programs traded by each Advisor on behalf of the Partnership as of December 31, 2020 were: Episteme - Systematic Quest Program, FORT - Global Trend Trading Program, ISAM SM - Systematic Trend Programme and Millburn - Multi-Markets Program.
As of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2021, the Partnership’s assets were allocated among the Advisors in the following approximate percentages:
December 31, 2021
September 30, 2021
(percentage of
(percentage of
Advisor
December 31, 2021
Partners’ Capital)
September 30, 2021
Partners’ Capital)
DCM
$ 15,785,144
25%
$ 16,379,434
23%
Episteme
$ 15,109,850
24%
$ 20,835,032
30%
FORT
$ -
0%
$ 9,765,593
14%
ISAM SM
$ 13,823,594
21%
$ 14,159,142
20%
Millburn
$ 14,163,267
22%
$ 8,899,801
13%
Unallocated
$ 5,361,766
8%
$ -
0%
DCM Systematic Advisors SA
DCM directly trades a portion of the Partnership’s assets in accordance with its Diversified Alpha Strategy (the “Strategy”) utilizes a multi-model approach allowing the program to capture trading opportunities across three different model styles and further diversified through a wide spectrum of different time horizons. The average holding period for positions typically ranges from one week to a couple of months, depending on the sub-strategy.
With this diversified return profile, the Strategy enjoys the flexibility that allows it to aim for positive returns as the market environment shifts and evolves. The majority of the Strategy’s exposure over the long-term is allocated to non-trend
models that have historically proven to be uncorrelated to traditional asset classes, and is meant to provide an alternative to the trend-dominated CTA space. The Strategy is comprised of some forty products, future contract spanning across equities, volatility, bonds, interest rates, currencies, energy, metal, and agricultural markets.
Diversified Alpha Program is comprised of only quantitative models, which are categorized as behavioral, relative value, and macro models. The behavioral models anticipate the flows of large market participants to take advantage of their market impact. The relative value premia models focus on capturing relative-value opportunities derived from selected risk premia with a strong emphasis on tail-risk protection. The macro strategies use a broad range of statistical models derived from economic and technical principles.
Episteme Capital Partners (UK) LLP, Episteme Capital Partners (US) LLC, and Episteme Capital Partners (Cayman) LTD
Episteme trades a portion of the Partnership’s assets in accordance with their Systematic Quest Program. The Systematic Quest Program is a diversified systematic global macro program that seeks to maximize returns by pursuing a diversified portfolio of systematic strategies subject to the constraints of its risk management framework. The trading strategies are generally medium-term and aim to exploit a number of sources of alpha based upon fundamental, technical, and liquidity effects. This managed futures strategy consists of seven different model styles, which include carry, cross-market, idiosyncratic, liquidity, mean reversion, momentum, and value models. By applying each of these trading styles, across multiple time horizons, the strategy blends multiple alpha drivers seeking consistent returns, uncorrelated to traditional asset classes and the managed futures asset class.
ISAM Systematic Management/International Standard Asset Management
ISAM SM directly trades, and ISAM directly traded, a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to ISAM SM’s/ISAM’s Systematic Trend Programme. The Systematic Trend Programme’s investment objective is to achieve growth in the value of its assets, providing absolute returns with low correlations to the stock and bond markets through the implementation of systematic trading models. The system trades in the global futures markets covering stock indices, interest rates, currency, energy commodities, precious and base metals and agricultural products and may also trade in OTC foreign exchange contracts (including currency spot contracts) and exchange-cleared swap and forward contracts.
The Advisor relies on the comprehensive quantitative analysis of historical data to develop trading strategies. These proprietary trading strategies are then implemented subject to strict risk management and controls. The Advisor’s guiding principle is that a disciplined trading approach combined with a broad diversification over a large number of markets, instruments and investment strategies is likely to lead to superior investment results, while maintaining risk at a level comparable to that associated with traditional asset classes. The target volatility of the portfolio is 15-20%
annualized.
The Systematic Trend Programme’s investment strategy is to harness the performance of several systematic investment programs in a balanced portfolio, each program selected primarily for its methods of generating returns from global investments that are not highly correlated to the performance of traditional investment strategies such as the stock and bond markets. The goal remains to maximize diversification across various trading strategies and markets with the purpose of achieving capital appreciation objectives for investors while reducing overall portfolio volatility.
Millburn Ridgefield Corporation
Millburn trades a portion of the Partnership’s assets in accordance with its Multi-Markets Program. The Multi-Markets Program implements a group of quantitative models that collectively trade futures, forward and spot contracts on currencies, interest rate instruments, stock indices, metals, energy and agricultural commodities. The aim of the Multi-Markets Program is to target opportunities in a wide range of global markets under a variety of conditions. The Multi-Markets Program’s trading strategies are based on the implementation of a multi-data input, statistical/machine learning framework, and are 100% systematic and quantitative in nature. This framework utilizes price, price-derivative, and non-price
data sources or “features,” in an attempt to provide an informed, context-specific and continuous view of portfolio positioning (long or short, and to what extent) in a particular market. Millburn’s investment approach centers on the development of process-driven, measurable and risk-controlled methods to trade a universe of approximately 105 (which number may change from time to time) global currency spot and forward markets, and exchange-traded equity, fixed income and commodity futures markets.
ADG Capital Management LLP
The portion of the Partnership’s assets that was allocated to ADG for trading were not invested in commodity interests directly. ADG’s allocation of the Partnership’s assets was invested in ADG Master. ADG traded the Partnership’s assets allocated to it pursuant to its Systematic Macro Strategy. The Systematic Macro Strategy sought to provide investors with positive absolute returns through taking long and short positions on a global basis in a broad range of financial instruments. The Systematic Macro Strategy would take directional and relative value positions based on systematically applied fundamental global macro analysis and ADG’s assessment of prevailing economic conditions and other relevant factors. The Systematic Macro Strategy aimed for the generation of excess returns by means of tactical reallocation of the risk budget between asset classes, within asset classes and between various risk factors.
The Systematic Macro Strategy was based on a proprietary software tool which analyzed macroeconomic and market information and produced recommended portfolios and trades for assessment by ADG. The methodology coded into the software made use of theory based analysis of markets and advanced risk management techniques.
The Systematic Macro Strategy was composed of four independent models, consisting of one directional trading model and three relative value models. The Systematic Macro Strategy would take directional and relative value positions based on systematic analysis of global macro and economic data. Each of these models was built from 7-11
factors which were uncorrelated and fundamental drivers of markets. The Systematic Macro Strategy utilized a total of 38 factors, which ranged from GDP measurements to curve analysis.
Aquantum GmbH
The portion of the Partnership’s assets that was allocated to Aquantum for trading were not invested in commodity interests directly. Aquantum’s allocation of the Partnership’s assets was invested in Aquantum Master. Aquantum traded the Partnership’s assets allocated to it pursuant to its Aquantum Commodity Spread Program. The Aquantum Commodity Spread Program was a systematic commodity market-neutral trading program. It was designed to benefit from seasonal price dislocations in the forward structure of numerous commodity futures markets across all sectors (energy, softs, grains, livestock, and metals) which are the result of changing market participants’ expectations and fundamental factors like weather, climate, trends in consumption, harvest cycles, feed and storage costs, which typically trigger supply and demand dislocations.
While the Aquantum Commodity Spread Program may have combined multiple spread positions per market, each individual trade was implemented as an intra-market calendar spread and was placed according to a 100% systematic methodology. Due to the seasonal character of the patterns traded, the Aquantum Commodity Spread Program was a “time” based strategy.
FORT, L.P. (Global Trend Trading Program)
FORT traded a portion of the Partnership’s assets in accordance with its Global Trend Trading Program.
FORT’s Global Trend Trading Program was a systematic, technical trend-following futures trading strategy that attempted to capture large moves in futures contracts identified by the particular strategy. The Global Trend Trading Program generally took a momentum-based approach, which bought when prices rise and sold when prices decline. The Global Trend Trading Program did not attempt to forecast trends, but rather, attempted to capitalize on existing trends identified by the trading program. A certain amount of time must elapse for this strategy to infer and confirm a trend, as well as determine that a trend had ceased. Therefore, the Global Trend Trading Program generally entered and exited a trend late. Trend-following strategies had the potential to perform well during long-term, high-volatility markets or during periods of market stress; however, they might experience flat or negative performance during periods in which no major prices trends developed or when markets exhibited short-term volatility.
Total risk was measured primarily by using the margin-to-equity
ratio, which was targeted not to exceed 14% for a fully funded account. The margin-to-equity
ratio was monitored systematically as well as by FORT’s trading principals.
FORT, L.P. (Global Contrarian Trading Program)
FORT also previously traded a portion of the Partnership’s assets through FORT Contrarian Master in accordance with its Global Contrarian Trading Program.
FORT’s Global Contrarian Trading Program was a systematic, technical, trend-anticipating futures trading strategy that attempted to profit from emerging trends by identifying price behaviors that signaled possible turning points. Rather than attempting to identify existing trends, the Global Contrarian Trading Program attempted to anticipate trends before they occurred. Trading decisions were based primarily on an analysis of market prices, volume and volatility; factors external to the trading markets were incorporated only in rare cases. The Global Contrarian Trading Program generally operated on the theory that market prices reflect all known factors affecting supply and demand of a particular financial instrument.
The Global Contrarian Trading Program was designed to incorporate concepts akin to “channels,” which FORT defined using systematic, mathematical tools. The Global Contrarian Trading Program estimated a large number of channels and identified a confluence of channels to find resistance and support points. FORT believed that this style is markedly different from most trend-following strategies, which are generally late to enter and exit a trend. In contrast, the Global Contrarian Trading Program was designed to enter and exit a trend early. The Global Contrarian Trading Program generally sought to anticipate and capitalize on short to intermediate-term trends. Because the Global Contrarian Trading Program sought to anticipate trends in market prices, it had the potential to perform well even in what standard trend-following systems perceived as directionless periods.
The Global Contrarian Trading Program took positions while a market was moving against one of its signals. As a result, its performance could have been much more volatile than traditional trend-following models, but the potential for diversification was much greater. In an attempt to reduce the volatility of returns, the allocation of the Global Contrarian Trading Program’s capital was geographically diversified across Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. This diversification also provided the Global Contrarian Trading Program with opportunities to seek profits in a variety of market environments.
Total risk was measured primarily by using the margin-to-equity
ratio, which was targeted not to exceed 14% for a fully funded account. The margin-to-equity
ratio was monitored systematically as well as by FORT’s trading principals.
AE Capital Pty Limited
AE Capital’s philosophy was that markets are driven by fundamental themes and that those fundamental themes inherently change over time. AE Capital developed a proprietary systematic strategy that dynamically adapted to the fundamental themes quantified to be driving markets. New themes were identified by AE Capital’s trading principals primarily through fundamental research. Once a new theme was scientifically tested and deemed eligible it was incorporated into the theme adapting system framework. Capital was only allocated to a theme if the theme adapting system determined that the theme carried statistically significant information and improved the overall portfolio. Risk was minimized through a proprietary portfolio construction technique that diversified the portfolio in terms of the underlying currency exposures, trade time horizons and fundamental views.
Aspect Capital Limited
Aspect traded its Diversified Program on behalf of Aspect Master. The Diversified Program was a proprietary, systematic global futures trading program. Its goal was the generation of significant medium-term capital growth independent of stock and bond market returns within a rigorous risk management framework.
The Diversified Program applied a systematic and broadly diversified global investment system, which deployed multiple investment strategies that, primarily through the use of listed futures and OTC foreign exchange contracts, sought to identify and exploit directional moves in the market behavior of a broad range of financial instruments and other assets including (but not limited to) currencies, interest rates, indices, debt securities (including bonds) and commodities (including energy, metal and agricultural commodities). By maintaining comparatively small exposure to any individual market and maintaining positions in a variety of contracts, Aspect aimed to achieve long-term diversification. Generally, the Diversified Program maintained positions in the majority of markets that had been identified as being available for investment by the program. Market concentration varied according to the strength of signals, volatility and liquidity, amongst other factors. The emphasis was upon structuring a genuinely diversified set of market risk allocations that was designed to maximize the probability of returns wherever profit opportunities appeared. Market exposures were monitored daily and the level of exposure of the Diversified Program in each market was quantifiable at all times and changed in accordance with market volatility and liquidity.
The Diversified Program employed an automated system that collected, processed and analyzed market data (including current and historical price data) and identified and exploited directional moves in market behavior. The Diversified Program traded across a variety of frequencies to exploit trends over a range of timescales. Positions were taken according to the aggregate signal and were adjusted to attempt to control risk.
Boronia Capital Pty. Ltd.
Boronia traded its Boronia Diversified Program, a systematic trading program, on behalf of Boronia I, LLC. The trading systems used by Boronia were proprietary and confidential. The trading systems utilized quantitative techniques to generate returns in the financial markets. A diversified portfolio of over 60 liquid markets was traded across 4 asset classes and multiple time frames using futures on equity, bond, currency and commodity markets plus spot foreign exchange. Markets could have been added or removed from the portfolio over time.
Trades were entered into markets on a fully automated basis directly by computer to the relevant exchange with no human intervention. The trading decisions were based on a number of robust and well researched proprietary algorithms developed by Boronia.
Since the inception of the trading program, Boronia continued to research new insights and other ways to improve its risk adjusted returns.
Graham Capital Management, L.P.
Graham traded its K4D - 15V Program, a systematic, proprietary trading program on behalf of Graham Master.
Graham traded actively in both U.S. and foreign markets, primarily in futures contracts, forward contracts, spot contracts and associated derivative instruments such as options and swaps. Graham engaged in exchange for physical transactions, which involved the exchange of a futures position for the underlying physical commodity without making an open competitive trade on an exchange. Instruments and contracts not traded on an organized exchange may have been entered with banks, brokerage firms or other financial counterparties.
The K4D - 15V Program utilized multiple computerized trading models and offered broad diversification in both financial and non-financial
markets, trading in approximately 65-80
global markets. It was intended to generate significant returns over time with an acceptable degree of risk and volatility. The computer models on a daily basis analyzed the recent price action, the relative strength and the risk characteristics of each market and compared statistically the quantitative results of this data to years of historical data on each market.
Graham believed strongly in the importance of research and development activity and particularly in the development of new trading strategies and portfolio management techniques. Trading strategies developed by Graham research and added to Graham investment programs included not only trend systems but also other styles of systems, with varying time horizons. Such systems generally were based on computerized mathematical models and relied both on technical and fundamental information as the basis for their trading decisions. Graham intended to add new trading strategies to its investment programs as well as to modify the existing systems in place in such programs in its ongoing efforts to keep pace with changing market conditions, and it anticipated that the constellation of trading strategies comprising each investment program would continue to grow and evolve over time. The decision to add or subtract systems or strategies from any investment program was at the sole discretion of Graham.
Mesirow Financial International UK Limited/The Cambridge Strategy (Asset Management) Limited
Mesirow/Cambridge traded its Asian Markets Alpha Programme and Emerging Markets Alpha Programme, each a proprietary, systematic trading program, on behalf of Cambridge Master.
The Asian Markets Alpha Programme aimed to profit from short and medium term moves in the Asian markets’ currency pairs. To achieve this, a largely systematic approach was employed, designed to perform across diverse market environments. The process combined three decision making tools: a Systematic Technical Strategy, a Systematic Fundamental Strategy and a Market Information Strategy. During periods of higher volatility, the Systematic Technical Strategy used a series of proprietary trading algorithms operating over multiple timeframes. The algorithms combined trend continuation and trend reversal signals. During periods of lower volatility, the Systematic Fundamental Strategy reflected a predetermined set of positions designed to reflect ‘market’ views on the relative attractiveness of currencies versus the U.S. dollar, thereby realizing the inherent benefits of the carry trade. The Market Information Strategy leveraged the experience and global network of the Advisor’s portfolio managers to understand and exploit the behavior of other market participants and to participate in hedging and investment flows. It had characteristics often associated with discretionary managers. The Advisor’s proprietary Global Volatility Indicator was employed as the Advisor’s regime shifting mechanism within the systematic strategies. The Advisor believed that long run success was achieved through successful mitigation of downside returns with risk controlled at the portfolio, strategy and individual trade levels.
The Emerging Markets Alpha Programme aimed to profit from short and medium term moves in the developing markets’ currency pairs. To achieve this, a largely systematic approach was employed, designed to perform across diverse market environments. The process combined three decision making tools: a Systematic Technical Strategy, a Systematic Fundamental Strategy and a Market Information Strategy. During periods of higher volatility, the Systematic Technical Strategy used a series of proprietary trading algorithms operating over multiple timeframes. The algorithms combined trend continuation and trend reversal signals. During periods of lower volatility, the Systematic Fundamental Strategy reflected a predetermined set of positions designed to reflect ‘market’ views on the relative attractiveness of currencies versus the U.S. dollar, thereby realizing the inherent benefits of the carry trade. The Market Information Strategy leveraged the experience and global network of the Advisor’s portfolio managers to understand and exploit the behavior of other market participants and to participate in hedging and investment flows. It had characteristics often associated with discretionary managers. The Advisor’s proprietary Global Volatility Indicator was employed as the Advisor’s regime shifting mechanism within the systematic strategies. The Advisor believed that long run success was achieved through successful mitigation of downside returns with risk controlled at the portfolio, strategy and individual trade levels.
SECOR Capital Advisors, LP
SECOR’s investment objectives were to generate high risk-adjusted returns by: (i) investing across a diverse set of asset classes, geographies, factors, themes and time horizons, (ii) identifying and exploiting temporarily pronounced market inefficiencies or risk premia, (iii) employing dynamic risk-budgeting to minimize tail risk and potentially enable alpha to be generated through timing of exposures and (iv) utilizing sophisticated modeling techniques supported by straight-forward economic intuition and sound fundamentals. SECOR sought to target long-term annualized volatility of 15% and low long-term correlation to other hedge fund strategies and broader markets.
SECOR had a healthy respect for the general information efficiency of markets but believed that certain inefficiencies (or outsized risk premia) could exist in certain markets, and these or other inefficiencies (or risk premia) may periodically become more pronounced in particular market conditions. SECOR believed that it was feasible to construct an investment strategy that sought to capture such inefficiencies (premia) in pursuit of high risk-adjusted returns (or excess returns for benchmarked mandates) that were lowly correlated with broad stock and bond market returns (alpha).
SECOR employed statistical techniques and empirical analysis to help determine whether they believed that observed or conjectured alpha opportunities were real and, more importantly, likely to be sustained in the future. If properly employed, these techniques could have had certain advantages versus a purely judgmental approach including the potential ability to: control for the impact of particular factors, evaluate phenomena over a longer history, systematically assess confidence levels based on availability of data, evaluate performance over certain sub-periods
and market cycles, identify certain possible causation and lead/lag effects, reduce certain common behavioral biases in human judgment and evaluate a range of factors in a systematic way.
When determining whether a factor should be used in driving SECOR’s models and strategies, conclusions derived from the statistical techniques were generally not sufficient. SECOR also sought to reconcile whether the findings were consistent with some economic, theoretical or behavioral intuition, including why a factor may lead to alpha and what conditions could cause a factor to cease to work at some point in the future. Although the statistical techniques that SECOR used to conduct its empirical evaluations may have been sophisticated, SECOR strove to keep the models that drove the investment process as simple as practicable.
SECOR used its proprietary models to systematically allocate and manage risk across a wide breadth of quantitative investment strategies, geographies and asset classes - a process known as risk budgeting. SECOR employed these models to construct a portfolio and manage risk. These strategies could have included currencies, commodities, equity indices, fixed income, cross-asset class trades and opportunistic strategies.
SECOR strongly believed in the benefits of diversification and that diversification should be sought across many aspects of the investment process. Under most circumstances, SECOR attempted to take positions in a large number of positions across a wide range of asset classes to enhance diversification.
SECOR also sought diversification across strategies, factors, themes and time horizons. Diversification of risk across strategies may have helped to produce a more consistent stream of returns by reducing the impact of poor performance in any one strategy. Recognizing that none of SECOR’s strategies would work at all times and, in fact, most strategies experienced periods of significant negative performance, SECOR sought to develop strategies in many asset classes and markets in which SECOR identified potential value. Within each strategy, it was also important to ensure that there was appropriate diversification across factors and themes and that the weightings of these themes could be controlled and easily changed dynamically as market conditions warranted, while taking into account factors such as liquidity, volatility, correlations, market impact and transaction costs. In portfolio construction, SECOR’s initial task was to identify, among other things, tilts, premia, signals, relative value pairs, anomalies, liquidity events and temporary price pressure that SECOR believed may provide attractive risk/return contributions on a stand-alone basis and in the context of a broader portfolio. SECOR then combined data and general conviction levels (in the form of priors) regarding the potential contributions and correlations of these exposures to help determine their allocations within the portfolio, utilizing a thoughtful, systematic risk-budgeting approach that sought to enable these exposures to be dynamic, rather than static. In doing so, part of SECOR’s alpha proposition could have resided in timing exposures, or identifying the appropriate times to: increase or decrease exposures and/or include or exclude exposures from the portfolio altogether.
The foregoing is not a comprehensive list of the methods of analysis and/or investment strategies that may have been employed by SECOR. SECOR intended to continue to review and refine its strategies and to examine new ideas and opportunities. Additional strategies may have been added from time to time.
Willowbridge Associates Inc.
Willowbridge traded its wPraxis Futures Trading Approach on behalf of Willowbridge Master. wPraxis Futures Trading Approach was a proprietary, discretionary trading system.
wPraxis Futures Trading Approach utilized a fully discretionary trading strategy to build a portfolio consisting of futures on currency, fixed income, stock indices and commodities pursuant to wPraxis Futures Trading Approach. The approach traded commodities, futures, forwards, options, swaps and spot contracts in commodities, currencies and fixed income markets. All positions were closely monitored to evaluate risk parameter status. As markets moved, positions were refined and expectations updated in response to existing market conditions.
The trading rules were systematically tested over a comprehensive database using the system’s research environment. The criteria that determined whether a trading rule was to be accepted into the system included: profitability, robustness, consistency and diversification. Once a trading rule was accepted into the system, it was integrated using the same money management and risk analytic principles and software that had been applied to the preceding trading rules.
Risk measurement was accomplished by calculating pertinent risk measures such as correlation between markets and volatility of markets. These risk measures were then used to automatically scale trading positions or eliminate other positions.
Money management principles and tools were applied in a similar fashion to each rule. Entry levels, stop-loss and stop-gain positions were calculated daily. These were checked and sent to market.
No assurance can be given that the Advisors’ strategies will be successful or that they will generate profits for the Partnership.
Specific Fund level performance information is included in Note 6 to the financial statements included in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.”
(a) Liquidity.
The Partnership does not engage in sales of goods or services. Its assets are its (i) investment in the Funds, (ii) redemptions receivable from the Funds, (iii) equity in trading account, consisting of unrestricted and restricted cash, net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts, net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts and investment in U.S. Treasury bills at fair value, as applicable, and (iv) interest receivable. Because of the low margin deposits normally required in commodity futures trading, relatively small price movements may result in substantial losses to the Partnership, through its direct investments and also previously through its investment in the Funds. While substantial losses could lead to a material decrease in liquidity, no such illiquidity occurred during the year ended December 31, 2021.
To minimize the risk relating to low margin deposits, the Partnership follows certain trading policies, including:
(i) The Partnership invests its assets only in commodity interests that an Advisor believes are traded in sufficient volume to permit ease of taking and liquidating positions. Sufficient volume, in this context, refers to a level of liquidity that an Advisor believes will permit it to enter and exit trades without noticeably moving the market.
(ii) An Advisor will not initiate additional positions in any commodity if these positions would result in aggregate positions requiring a margin of more than 66 2/3% of the Partnership’s net assets allocated to that Advisor.
(iii) The Partnership may occasionally accept physical delivery of a commodity. Unless such delivery is disposed of promptly by retendering the warehouse receipt representing the delivery to the appropriate clearinghouse, the physical commodity position will be fully hedged.
(iv) The Partnership does not employ the trading technique commonly known as “pyramiding,” in which the speculator uses unrealized profits on existing positions as margin for the purchase or sale of additional positions in the same or related commodities.
(v) The Partnership does not utilize borrowings except if the Partnership purchases or takes delivery of commodities.
(vi) The Advisors may, from time to time, employ trading strategies such as spreads or straddles on behalf of the Partnership. “Spreads” and “straddles” describe commodity futures trading strategies involving the simultaneous buying and selling of futures contracts on the same commodity but involving different delivery dates or markets.
(vii) The Partnership will not permit the churning of its commodity trading account. The term “churning” refers to the practice of entering and exiting trades with a frequency unwarranted by legitimate efforts to profit from the trades, indicating the desire to generate commission income.
(viii) The Partnership will not purchase, sell, or trade securities (except securities approved by the CFTC for investment of customer funds).
(ix) The Advisors will trade only in those futures interests that have been approved by the General Partner.
(x) The Partnership will, except under extraordinary circumstances, maintain positions in futures interests in at least two market segments (i.e., agricultural items, industrial items (including energies), metals, currencies, and financial instruments (including stock, financial and economic indexes)) at any one time.
(xi) The Advisors will not generally take a position after the first notice day in any futures interest during the delivery month of the futures interest, except to match.
The Funds previously followed the same trading polices above prior to the Partnership’s respective full redemptions.
From January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, the Partnership’s average margin to equity ratio (i.e., the percentage of assets on deposit required for margin) was approximately 22.0%. The foregoing margin to equity ratio took into account cash held in the Partnership’s name, as well as the allocable value of the positions and cash held on behalf of the Partnership in the name of the Funds.
In the normal course of business, the Partnership are, and the Funds were, parties to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet
risk, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments. These financial instruments may include forwards, futures, options, and swaps, whose values are based upon an underlying asset, index, or reference rate, and generally represent future commitments to exchange currencies or cash balances, or to purchase or sell other financial instruments at specific terms at specified future dates, or, in the case of derivative commodity instruments, to have a reasonable possibility to be settled in cash, through physical delivery or with another financial instrument. These instruments may be traded on an exchange, a swap execution facility or OTC. Exchange-traded instruments include futures and certain standardized forward, option and swap contracts. Certain swap contracts may also be traded on a swap execution facility or OTC. OTC contracts are negotiated between contracting parties and also include certain forward and option contracts. Specific market movements of commodities or futures contracts underlying an option cannot accurately be predicted. The purchaser of an option may lose the entire premium paid for the option. The writer or seller of an option has unlimited risk. Each of these instruments is subject to various risks similar to those relating to the underlying financial instruments, including market and credit risk. In general, the risks associated with OTC contracts are greater than those associated with exchange-traded instruments because of the greater risk of default by the counterparty to an OTC contract. The General Partner estimates that at any given time approximately 10.0% to 37.5% of the Partnership’s/Funds’ contracts are traded OTC.
Market risk is the potential for changes in the value of the financial instruments traded by the Partnership/Funds due to market changes, including interest and foreign exchange rate movements and fluctuations in commodity or security prices. Market risk is directly impacted by the volatility and liquidity in the markets in which the related underlying assets are traded. The Partnership is, and the Funds were, exposed to market risk equal to the value of the futures and forward contracts held and unlimited liability on such contracts sold short.
Credit risk is the possibility that a loss may occur due to the failure of a counterparty to perform according to the terms of a contract. The Partnership’s/Funds’ risk of loss in the event of counterparty default is (or was with respect to the Funds) typically limited to the amounts recognized in the Statements of Financial Condition and is (was) not represented by the contract or notional amounts of the instruments. The Partnership’s/Funds’ risk of loss is (or was with respect to the Funds) reduced through the use of legally enforceable master netting agreements with counterparties that permit the Partnership, and permitted the Funds, to offset unrealized gains and losses and other assets and liabilities with such counterparties upon the occurrence of certain events. The Partnership has, and the Funds had, credit risk and concentration risk, as MS&Co. or an MS&Co. affiliate are (or were with respect to the Funds) counterparties or brokers with respect to the Partnership’s/Funds’ assets. For certain OTC contracts traded by Aspect Master, Cambridge Master, Graham Master, SECOR Master and Willowbridge Master prior to their respective full redemptions, JPMorgan was the counterparty with respect to those assets. Credit risk with respect to exchange-traded instruments is (or was with respect to the Funds) reduced to the extent that, through MS&Co. or an MS&Co. affiliate, the Partnership’s/Funds’ counterparty is or was an exchange or clearing organization.
The risk to the limited partners that have purchased Redeemable Units is limited to the amount of their share of the Partnership’s net assets and undistributed profits. This limited liability is a result of the organization of the Partnership as a limited partnership under New York law.
The General Partner/Trading Manager monitors and attempts (or with respect to the Funds, monitored and attempted) to mitigate the Partnership’s/Funds’ risk exposure on a daily basis through financial, credit and risk management monitoring systems, and accordingly, believes (or with respect to the Funds, believed) that it has or had effective procedures for evaluating and limiting the credit and market risks to which the Partnership/Funds may or may have been be subject. These monitoring systems generally allow the General Partner/Trading Manager to statistically analyze actual trading results with risk-adjusted performance indicators and correlation statistics. In addition, online monitoring systems provide account analysis of futures, exchange-cleared swaps, forward and option contracts by sector, margin requirements, gain and loss transactions and collateral positions. (See also “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.” for further information on financial instrument risk included in the notes to financial statements.)
The majority of these financial instruments mature within one year of the inception date. However, due to the nature of the Partnership’s/Funds’ business, these instruments may not be or have been held to maturity.
Other than the risks inherent in U.S. Treasury bills, money market mutual fund securities, commodity futures, forward, option and swap contracts, the Partnership knows of no trends, demands, commitments, events or uncertainties which will result in or which are reasonably likely to result in the Partnership’s liquidity increasing or decreasing in any material way. The Limited Partnership Agreement provides that the Partnership shall cease trading operations and liquidate all open positions under certain circumstances including a decrease in net asset value per Redeemable Unit to less than $400 as of the close of business on any trading day.
(b)
Capital Resources.
(i)
The Partnership has made no material commitments for capital expenditures.
(ii)
The Partnership’s capital consists of the capital contributions of the partners as increased or decreased by gains or losses on trading and by expenses, interest income, redemptions of Redeemable Units and distributions of profits, if any. Gains or losses on trading cannot be predicted. Market movements in commodities are dependent upon fundamental and technical factors which the Advisors may or may not be able to identify, such as changing supply and demand relationships, pandemics, epidemics and other public health crises, weather, governmental, agricultural, commercial and trade programs and policies, national and international political and economic events and changes in interest rates. Partnership expenses consist of, among other things, clearing, ongoing selling agent, management and General Partner fees. The level of these expenses is dependent upon trading performance and the level of net assets maintained. In addition, the amount of interest income earned by the Partnership/Funds was dependent upon (1) the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s and/or applicable Fund’s accounts, (2) the amount of U.S. Treasury bills and/or money market mutual fund securities held by the Partnership and/or the Funds and (3) interest rates over which none of the Partnership, the Funds, JPMorgan or MS&Co. had control.
No forecast can be made as to the level of redemptions in any given period. A limited partner may require the Partnership to redeem its Redeemable Units at the net asset value per Redeemable Unit as of the end of any month on three business days’ notice to the General Partner. There is no fee charged to limited partners in connection with redemptions. Redemptions are generally funded out of the Partnership’s cash holdings and may have also previously been funded out of redemptions from the Funds. For the year ended December 31, 2021, 18,194.9190 Class A limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $14,065,961, 2,179.8600 Class D limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $2,217,552 and 278.9350 Class Z General Partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $275,000. For the year ended December 31, 2020, 37,473.6290 Class A limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $26,476,389, 829.6260 Class D limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $741,074, 83.3770 Class Z limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $75,779 and 325.3940 Class Z General Partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $300,000. For the year ended December 31, 2019, 31,771.0660 Class A limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $24,543,188, 1,184.8320 Class D limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $1,109,847, 39.0870 Class Z limited partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $37,056 and 535.5720 Class Z General Partner Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $525,000.
For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no subscriptions. For the year ended December 31, 2019, there were subscriptions of 119.1810 Class A limited partner Redeemable Units totaling $92,700 and subscriptions of 29.4650 Class Z limited partner Redeemable Units totaling $27,904.
(c) Results of Operations.
For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class A Redeemable Unit increased 10.1% from $720.19 to $792.73, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class D Redeemable Unit increased 10.1% from $901.32 to $992.10, and the Partnership’s net asset value per Class Z Redeemable Unit increased 10.9% from $921.96 to $1,022.54. For the year ended December 31, 2020, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class A Redeemable Unit decreased 4.2% from $751.88 to $720.19, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class D Redeemable Unit decreased 3.5% from $933.92 to $901.32, and the Partnership’s net asset value per Class Z Redeemable Unit decreased 2.8% from $948.13 to $921.96. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class A Redeemable Unit decreased 1.9% from $766.28 to $751.88, the Partnership’s net asset value per Class D Redeemable Unit decreased 0.6% from $939.90 to $933.92, and the Partnership’s net asset value per Class Z Redeemable Unit increased 0.1% from $947.03 to $948.13.
The Partnership experienced a net trading gain of $11,625,977 before fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2021. Gains were primarily attributable to the Partnership’s trading in energy, grains, indices, and softs and were partially offset by losses in currencies, U.S. and non-U.S.
interest rates, livestock and metals. The net trading gain (or loss) realized from the Partnership’s investment in the Funds is disclosed under “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
”
During the first quarter, the most significant gains were achieved within the energy markets during February and March from long positions in Brent crude oil futures as prices rallied amid an outlook for growing global energy demand. Within the global stock index sector, gains were recorded during February and March from long positions in U.S., Asian and European equity index futures as continued investor appetites for risk assets boosted global stock prices. Further gains were achieved within the agricultural complex during January and February from long positions in grain futures as prices advanced higher. Within the currencies, gains were experienced primarily during March from short positions in the euro as the value of the European currency declined amid growing COVID-19
cases in the region. A portion of the Partnership’s gains for the first quarter was offset by losses incurred within the global fixed income sector during February and March from long positions in U.S. and Canadian fixed income futures as a growing expectation of inflationary pressures pushed bond yields higher. Losses were also recorded during January and March in the metals markets primarily due to long positions in gold futures as a strengthening U.S. dollar diminished demand for precious metals.
During the second quarter, the most significant gains were achieved within the global fixed income markets during May from short positions in U.S. fixed income futures as prices fell amid speculation the Federal Reserve would increase interest rates sooner than expected. Within the energy complex, gains were experienced during April, May, and June from long positions in crude oil futures as signs of tightening global oil supplies and increasing energy demand boosted prices. Gains within the global stock index sector were experienced during April and May from long positions in U.S. and European equity index futures as investor momentum buying pushed stock prices higher. Within the metals markets, gains were recorded during April and May from long positions in gold and copper futures as a weakening U.S. dollar buoyed metals prices. A portion of the Partnership’s gains for the second quarter was offset by losses incurred within the currency sector during April from short positions in the euro and Swiss franc versus the U.S. dollar as the relative value of the dollar fell on signs the Federal Reserve would continue its dovish monetary policies.
During the third quarter, the most significant gains were achieved within the energy markets during September from long positions in natural gas and crude oil futures as constrictions in the global supply chain boosted prices. Inflationary pressures within the commodity markets also helped to spur gains within the agricultural complex during July from long positions in coffee futures, during August from long positions in sugar futures, and during September from long positions in cotton futures. A portion of the Partnership’s gains for the third quarter was offset by losses incurred within the global fixed income sector during September from long positions in U.S., Australian, and Canadian bond futures as central banks indicated curtailing of monetary easing measures could occur sooner than expected. Additional losses were recorded within the currencies during July from short positions in the Japanese yen as the value of the Pacific nation’s currency advanced. Within the metals markets, losses were experienced during August from long positions in gold futures as a strengthening U.S. dollar diminished investor demand for precious metals.
During the fourth quarter, the most significant losses were incurred within the global fixed income sector during October from long positions in Australian, British, Canadian and U.S. fixed income futures as prices fell amid speculation central banks would soon hike interest rates. Within the metals, losses were experienced during October from long positions in silver and copper futures as metals prices reversed lower. Additional losses were recorded within the agricultural markets during November from positions in soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal futures amid increased price volatility in the soybean complex. Losses were also incurred during November from long positions in U.S. and European equity index futures. The Partnership’s losses for the fourth quarter were partially offset by gains achieved within the currency sector during October from short positions in the Japanese yen versus the U.S. dollar as the relative value of the dollar strengthened during the month. Further gains were recorded within the energy complex during October from long futures positions in Brent crude oil and natural gas as tightening global energy supplies boosted prices.
The Partnership experienced a net trading loss of $1,210,796 before fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2020. Losses were primarily attributable to the Partnership’s/Funds’ trading in currencies, indices, non-U.S.
interest rates and softs and were partially offset by gains in energy, grains, U.S. interest rates, livestock and metals.
During the first quarter of 2020, the most significant losses were incurred within the global stock index sector during February and March from long positions in European, U.S., and Asian equity index futures as global stock prices plunged as the fight against the spread of the COVID-19
coronavirus shuttered businesses and industries across the globe. Overall, the global interest rate sector experienced small net trading losses during the quarter from long positions in European fixed income futures during March as the spread of the coronavirus roiled bond markets. A portion of the Partnership’s losses for the first quarter was offset by gains achieved within the energy sector from short positions in crude oil, gasoil and heating oil futures during March as the global quarantine to fight the spread of the coronavirus decimated energy demand. Within the metals markets, gains were experienced during January and February from long positions in gold and palladium futures as prices surged on safe-haven demand. Additional gains were recorded within the agricultural complex during March from short positions in live cattle and lean hog futures as prices fell. In currencies, gains during the quarter from positions in the New Zealand dollar and Brazilian real more than offset losses in the Australian dollar and Japanese yen.
During the second quarter of 2020, the most significant losses were incurred within the energy sector during April from long positions in crude oil and its refined products as prices plunged amid a dismal outlook for COVID-related demand. Within the currencies, losses were experienced during April, May, and June primarily from positions in the New Zealand dollar and Canadian dollar. Further losses were incurred within the agricultural sector during May and June from short positions in sugar futures after prices strengthened as demand remained stronger-than-expected through the global quarantine. Within the metals markets, gains from long positions in gold futures during April and June were more than offset by losses experienced from short positions in industrial metals during May and June. A portion of the Partnership’s losses for the second quarter was offset by gains achieved within the global interest rate sector during April and June from long positions in European fixed income futures as bond prices advanced as the European Central Bank pledged massive stimulus measures. Additional gains were recorded within the global stock index markets during May and June primarily from long positions in U.S. and European equity index futures as investor demand for risk assets buoyed global stock prices.
During the third quarter of 2020, the most significant gains were achieved during July and August from long positions in U.S. and Asian equity index futures as stock prices bucked COVID-related concerns and rallied higher. Within the metals sector, gains were recorded during July and August from long positions in gold, silver, and iron futures as prices advanced. Additional gains were achieved within the currency sector during July and August from positions in the British pound and euro. A portion of the Partnership’s gains for the third quarter was offset by losses incurred within the agricultural markets during July from short positions in coffee and cocoa futures as prices advanced on an outlook for increased consumer demand. Further losses were experienced within the grains markets during August from short positions in corn and wheat futures as prices moved higher amid concerns adverse weather in the U.S. Midwest would threaten crops. Within the energy sector, losses were recorded during July and August from short positions in natural gas futures as prices surged on increased power production demand. Additional losses were incurred within the global interest rate markets primarily during August from long positions in European, U.S., and Japanese fixed income futures as bond prices faltered.
During the fourth quarter of 2020, the most significant gains were achieved from long positions in U.S., European, and Asian equity index futures during November and December as the emergence of a potential COVID-19
vaccine spurred stock prices higher. Gains were also recorded within the agricultural sector during November and December from long positions in soybean futures as prices rallied on increased buying demand from China. Within the metal markets, gains were also recorded during November and December from long positions in copper and iron futures. Smaller gains were achieved from within the energy sector during December. The Partnership’s gains for the fourth quarter were partially offset by losses incurred within the currencies during November and December from positions in the euro and Canadian dollar. Additional losses were experienced during November and December from long positions in European fixed income futures as interest rates in the Eurozone ticked higher.
The results of operations for the twelve months ended 2019 is discussed under “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
.” in the Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Partnership received monthly interest on 100% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s (or the Partnership’s allocable portion of a Fund’s) brokerage account at MS&Co. during each month at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. During prior periods included in this report, the Partnership received monthly interest on 80% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s (or the Partnership’s allocable portion of a Fund’s, other than Boronia I, LLC) brokerage account during each month at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. MS&Co. credited Boronia I, LLC on 100% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the account of Boronia I, LLC during each month at the rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate less 0.15% during such month but in no event less than zero. When the effective rate was less than zero, no interest was earned. For the avoidance of doubt, the Partnership/Funds did not receive interest on amounts in the futures brokerage account that were committed to margin. Any interest earned on the Partnership’s and/or each Fund’s cash account in excess of the amounts described above, if any, was retained by MS&Co. and/or shared with the General Partner. All interest earned on U.S. Treasury bills and money market mutual fund securities was retained by the Partnership and/or the Funds, as applicable. Any interest income earned on collateral or excess cash deposited by certain of the Funds and held by JPMorgan in its capacity as such Funds’ forward foreign currency counterparty was retained by such Funds, and the Partnership received its allocable portion of such interest from the applicable Fund. Interest income for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 decreased by $5,886 and $302,811, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. The decrease in interest income was primarily due to lower interest rates and lower average daily equity during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. Interest earned by the Partnership will increase the net asset value of the Partnership. The amount of interest income earned by the Partnership and the Funds depended on (1) the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s and/or applicable Fund’s accounts, (2) the amount of U.S. Treasury bills and/or money market mutual fund securities held by the Partnership and/or the Funds and (3) interest rates over which none of the Partnership, the Funds, MS&Co. or JPMorgan had control.
Certain clearing fees are based on the number of trades executed by the Advisors for the Partnership/Funds. Accordingly, they must be compared in relation to the number of trades executed during the period. Clearing fees related to direct investments for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 increased by $13,906 and $124,040, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. The increase in these clearing fees was due to an increase in the number of direct trades made by the Partnership during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020.
Ongoing selling agent fees are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net asset value of Class A and Class D Redeemable Units on the last day of each month and are affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Accordingly, they must be compared in relation to the fluctuations in the monthly net asset values. Ongoing selling agent fees for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 decreased by $65,070 and $781,480, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in average net assets attributable to Class A and Class D Redeemable Units during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020, as well as a reduction in the ongoing selling agent fee rate for Class A Redeemable Units from 1/12 of 2.00% to 1/12 of 1.00% effective July 1, 2020 and from 1/12 of 1.00% to 1/12 of 0.75% effective January 1, 2021.
General Partner fees are paid to the General Partner for administering the business and affairs of the Partnership. General Partner fees are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net assets as of the end of each month and are affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Accordingly, they must be compared in relation to the fluctuations in the monthly net asset values. General Partner fees for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 decreased by $24,284 and $211,070, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in average net assets during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020, as well as a reduction in the General Partner fee rate from 1/12 of 1.00% to 1/12 of 0.875% effective July 1, 2020.
Management fees, except fees that were payable to Boronia (prior to its termination on December 31, 2017), are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net assets as of the end of each month and are affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Accordingly, they must be compared in relation to the fluctuations in the monthly net asset values. Management fees that were payable to Boronia were charged at the Boronia I, LLC level and were affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Management fees for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 decreased by $56,010 and $229,554, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in average net assets during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the corresponding periods in 2020.
Incentive fees are based on the New Trading Profits generated by each Advisor at the end of the quarter, half-year or year, as applicable, as defined in the respective Management Agreements between the Partnership, the General Partner and each Advisor. Trading performance for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021 resulted in incentive fees of $0 and $2,147,999, respectively. Trading performance for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2020 resulted in incentive fees of $99,425. To the extent an Advisor incurs a loss for the Partnership, the Advisor will not be paid incentive fees until such Advisor recovers any net loss incurred by the Advisor and earns additional New Trading Profits for the Partnership.
The Partnership pays professional fees, which generally include certain offering costs and legal, accounting, administrative, filing, reporting and data processing fees. Professional fees for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $308,588 and $415,288, respectively.
In the General Partner’s opinion, the Partnership’s Advisors continue to employ trading methods consistent with the objectives of the Partnership. The General Partner monitors the Advisors’ performance on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis to assure these objectives are met.
Commodity futures markets are highly volatile. Broad price fluctuations and rapid inflation increase not only the risks involved in commodity trading, but also the possibility of profit. The profitability of the Partnership/Funds depends on the existence of major price trends and the ability of the Advisors to correctly identify those price trends. Price trends are influenced by, among other things, changing supply and demand relationships, weather, governmental, agricultural, commercial and trade programs and policies, national and international political and economic events, changes in interest rates, pandemics, epidemics and other public health crises. To the extent that market trends exist and the Advisors are able to identify them, the Partnership expects to increase capital through operations.
In allocating the assets of the Partnership among the Advisors, the General Partner considers, among other factors, each Advisor’s past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets among the Advisors and may allocate assets to additional advisors at any time. Each Advisor’s percentage allocation and trading program is described in the “Overview” section of this Item 7.
(d) Off-Balance
Sheet Arrangements
. None.
(e) Contractual Obligations
. None.
(f) Operational Risk
.
The Partnership is exposed to market risk and credit risk, which arise in the normal course of its business activities. Slightly less direct, but of critical importance, are risks pertaining to operational and back office support. This is particularly the case in a rapidly changing and increasingly global environment with increasing transaction volumes and an expansion in the number and complexity of products in the marketplace.
Such risks include:
Operational/Settlement Risk
- the risk of financial and opportunity loss and legal liability attributable to operational problems, such as inaccurate pricing of transactions, untimely trade execution, clearance and/or settlement, or the inability to process large volumes of transactions. The Partnership is subject to increased risks with respect to its trading activities in emerging market instruments, where clearance, settlement, and/or custodial risks are often greater than in more established markets.
Technological Risk
- the risk of loss attributable to technological limitations or hardware failure that constrain the Partnership’s ability to gather, process, and communicate information efficiently and securely, without interruption, to customers and in the markets where the Partnership participates. Additionally, the General Partner’s computer systems may be vulnerable to unauthorized access, mishandling or misuse, computer viruses or malware, cyber attacks and other events that could have a security impact on such systems. If one or more of such events occur, this potentially could jeopardize a limited partner’s personal, confidential, proprietary or other information processed and stored in, and transmitted through, the General Partner’s computer systems, and adversely affect the Partnership’s business, financial condition or results of operations.
Legal/Documentation Risk -
the risk of loss attributable to deficiencies in the documentation of transactions (such as trade confirmations) and customer relationships (such as master netting agreements) or errors that result in non-compliance
with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Financial Control Risk
- the risk of loss attributable to limitations in financial systems and controls. Strong financial systems and controls ensure that assets are safeguarded, that transactions are executed in accordance with management’s authorization, and that financial information utilized by management
and communicated to external parties, including the Partnership’s unit holders, creditors, and regulators, is free of material errors.
(g) Critical Accounting Policies
.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires the General Partner to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. As a result, actual results could differ from these estimates. A summary of the Partnership’s significant accounting policies is described in Note 2 to the Partnership’s financial statements included in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.”
The Partnership’s most significant accounting policy is the valuation of its investment in futures, option and forward contracts and U.S. Treasury bills, as applicable. Prior to the Funds’ respective full redemptions, the Partnership’s most significant accounting policy also included the valuation of its investment in the Funds. The Partnership previously carried (i) its investments in ADG Master, Aquantum Master, FORT Contrarian Master, AE Capital Master, Boronia I, LLC, Cambridge Master and SECOR Master based on the Partnership’ s (1) net contribution to the applicable Fund and (2) its allocated share of the undistributed profits and losses, including realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses), of the applicable Fund and (ii) its investments in Aspect Master, Graham Master and Willowbridge Master based on each Fund’ s net asset value per redeemable unit as calculated by the applicable Fund. The fair value of exchange-traded futures, option and forward contracts is determined by the various exchanges, and reflects the settlement price for each contract as of the close of business on the last business day of the reporting period. The fair value of foreign currency forward contracts is extrapolated on a forward basis from the spot prices quoted as of approximately 3:00 P.M. (E.T.) on the last business day of the reporting period from various exchanges. The fair value of non-exchange-traded
foreign currency option contracts is calculated by applying an industry standard model application for options valuation of foreign currency options, using as inputs the spot prices, interest rates, and option implied volatilities quoted as of approximately 3:00 P.M. (E.T.) on the last business day of the reporting period. U.S. Treasury bills are valued at the last available bid price received from independent pricing services as of the close of the last business day of the reporting period.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
.
Introduction
The Partnership/Funds are speculative commodity pools. The market sensitive instruments held by them are acquired for speculative trading purposes, and all or substantially all of the Partnership’s/Funds’ assets are subject to the risk of trading loss. Unlike an operating company, the risk of market sensitive instruments is integral, not incidental, to the Partnership’s/Funds’ main line of business.
The limited partners will not be liable for losses exceeding the current net asset value of their investment. This limited liability is a result of the organization of the Partnership as a limited partnership under New York law.
Market movements result in frequent changes in the fair value of the Partnership’s/Funds’ open positions and, consequently, in their earnings and cash balances. The Partnership’s/Funds’ market risk is influenced by a wide variety of factors, including the level and volatility of interest rates, exchange rates, equity price levels, the market value of financial instruments and contracts, the diversification effects among the Partnership’s/Funds’ open positions and the liquidity of the markets in which they trade.
The Partnership/Funds rapidly acquire and liquidate both long and short positions in a wide range of different markets. Consequently, it is not possible to predict how a particular future market scenario will affect performance, and the Partnership’s/Funds’ past performance is not necessarily indicative of their future results.
“Value at Risk” is a measure of the maximum amount which the Partnership/Funds could reasonably be expected to lose in a given market sector. However, the inherent uncertainty of the Partnership’s/Funds’ speculative trading and the recurrence in the markets traded by the Partnership/Funds of market movements far exceeding expectations could result in actual trading or non-trading
losses far beyond the indicated Value at Risk or the Partnership’s/Funds’ experience to date (i.e., “risk of ruin”). In light of the foregoing as well as the risks and uncertainties intrinsic to all future projections, the inclusion of the quantification in this section should not be considered to constitute any assurance or representation that the Partnership’s/Funds’ losses in any market sector will be limited to Value at Risk or by the Partnership’s/Funds’ attempts to manage their market risk.
Materiality as used in this section is based on an assessment of reasonably possible market movements and the potential losses caused by such movements, taking into account the leverage, optionality and multiplier features of the Partnership’s/Funds’ market sensitive instruments.
Quantifying the Partnership’s and the Funds’ Trading Value at Risk
The following quantitative disclosures regarding the Partnership’s/Funds’ market risk exposures contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor from civil liability provided for such statements by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (set forth in Section 27A of the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)). All quantitative disclosures in this section are deemed to be forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor, except for statements of historical fact.
The Partnership/Funds account for open positions on the basis of fair value accounting principles. Any loss in the market value of the Partnership’s and each Fund’s open positions is directly reflected in the Partnership’s and each Fund’s earnings and cash flow.
The Partnership’s/Funds’ risk exposure in the market sectors traded by the Advisors is estimated below in terms of Value at Risk. Please note that the Value at Risk model is used to numerically quantify market risk for historic reporting purposes only and is not utilized by either the General Partner or the Advisors in their daily risk management activities.
Exchange margin requirements have been used by the Partnership/Funds as the measure of their Value at Risk. Margin requirements are set by exchanges to equal or exceed the maximum losses reasonably expected to be incurred in the fair value of any given contract in 95%-99% of any one-day interval. The margin levels are established by dealers and exchanges using historical price studies as well as an assessment of current market volatility (including the implied volatility of the options on a given futures contract) and economic fundamentals to provide a probabilistic estimate of the maximum expected near-term
one-day
price fluctuation.
In the case of market sensitive instruments which are not exchange-traded (almost exclusively currencies in the case of the Partnership/Funds), the margin requirements for the equivalent futures positions have been used as Value at Risk. In those rare cases in which a futures-equivalent margin is not available, dealers’ margins have been used.
The fair value of the Partnership’s/Funds’ futures and forward positions does not have any optionality component. However, the Advisors may trade commodity options. The Value at Risk associated with options is reflected in the following tables as the margin requirement attributable to the instrument underlying each option. Where this instrument is a futures contract, the futures margin, and where this instrument is a physical commodity, the futures- equivalent margin has been used. This calculation is conservative in that it assumes that the fair value of an option will decline by the same amount as the fair value of the underlying instrument, whereas, in fact, the fair values of the options traded by the Partnership/Funds in almost all cases fluctuate to a lesser extent than those of the underlying instruments.
In quantifying the Partnership’s/Funds’ Value at Risk, a 100% positive correlation in the different positions held in each market risk category has been assumed. Consequently, the margin requirements applicable to the open contracts have simply been added to determine each trading category’s aggregate Value at Risk. The diversification effects resulting from the fact that the Partnership’s/Funds’ positions are rarely, if ever, 100% positively correlated have not been reflected.
The Partnership’s and the Funds’ Trading Value at Risk in Different Market Sectors
DCM, Episteme, ISAM SM and Millburn each directly trade managed accounts in the name of the Partnership. Prior to its termination effective October 31, 2021, FORT directly traded managed accounts in the name of the Partnership. Prior to their respective terminations on December 31, 2020, ADG and Aquantum each traded the Partnership’ s assets indirectly in master fund managed accounts established in the name of the master funds over which they had been granted limited authority to make trading decisions. Also prior to December 31, 2020, FORT had also traded a portion of the Partnership’s assets allocated to it indirectly in a master fund managed account established in the name of the master fund over which it had been granted limited authority to make trading decisions. The trading Value at Risk tables reflect the market sensitive instruments held by the Partnership directly (i.e., in the managed accounts in the Partnership’s name traded by DCM. Episteme, ISAM SM, Millburn and FORT, respectively) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
The following tables indicate the trading Value at Risk associated with the Partnership’s direct investments by market category as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the highest, lowest and average values during the applicable years. All open position trading risk exposures have been included in calculating the figures set forth below.
As of December 31, 2021, the Partnership’s total capitalization was $64,243,621.
As of December 31, 2021, the Partnership’s Value at Risk for the portion of its assets that are traded directly was as follows:
December 31, 2021
Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2021
% of Total
High
Low
Average
Market Sector
Value at Risk
Capitalization
Value at Risk
Value at Risk
Value at Risk*
Currencies
$
3,820,937
5.95
%
$
5,682,259
$
2,869,950
$
4,543,583
Energy
1,061,964
1.65
3,477,833
460,362
2,243,824
Grains
683,308
1.06
959,613
212,085
553,742
Indices
2,228,067
3.47
6,329,410
1,408,841
2,914,081
Interest Rates U.S.
649,202
1.01
1,574,351
233,358
902,416
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
1,508,717
2.35
3,865,774
896,905
2,709,654
Livestock
33,935
0.05
103,180
6,710
55,202
Metals
971,091
1.51
2,479,421
507,856
1,444,822
Softs
393,462
0.61
986,138
234,408
536,427
Total
$
11,350,683
17.66
%
*
Annual average of daily Values at Risk.
As of December 31, 2020, the Partnership’s total capitalization was $73,685,134.
As of December 31, 2020, the Partnership’s Value at Risk for the portion of its assets that are traded directly was as follows:
December 31, 2020
Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2020
% of Total
High
Low
Average
Market Sector
Value at Risk
Capitalization
Value at Risk
Value at Risk
Value at Risk*
Currencies
$
3,041,939
4.13
%
$
9,404,341
$
853,157
$
3,095,632
Energy
1,835,859
2.49
2,011,876
285,278
835,218
Grains
495,617
0.67
679,437
155,660
340,335
Indices
2,735,563
3.71
3,255,908
387,162
1,574,058
Interest Rates U.S.
655,356
0.89
995,963
47,630
451,257
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
2,568,180
3.49
2,731,962
486,831
1,445,262
Livestock
13,365
0.02
183,425
13,365
116,623
Metals
1,674,575
2.27
1,674,575
479,059
921,183
Softs
509,656
0.69
584,300
136,136
322,885
Total
$
13,530,110
18.36
%
*
Annual average of daily Values at Risk.
Material Limitations on Value at Risk as an Assessment of Market Risk
The face value of the market sector instruments held by the Partnership/Funds is typically many times the applicable margin requirement (margin requirements generally range between 1% and 15% of contract face value, although an exchange may increase margin requirement on short notice) as well as many times the capitalization of the Partnership/Funds. The magnitude of the Partnership’s/Funds’ open positions creates a “risk of ruin” not typically found in most other investment vehicles. Because of the size of the Partnership’s/Funds’ positions, certain market conditions - unusual, but historically recurring from time to time - could cause the Partnership/Funds to incur severe losses over a short period of time. The foregoing Value at Risk tables - as well as the past performance of the Partnership/Funds - give no indication of this “risk of ruin.”
Non-Trading
Risk
The Partnership has non-trading
market risk on its foreign cash balances not needed for margin. However, these balances (as well as any market risk they represent) are immaterial.
Materiality as used in this section is based on an assessment of reasonably possible market movements and the potential losses caused by such movements, taking into account the leverage, optionality and multiplier features of the Partnership’s market sensitive instruments.
Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Primary Trading Risk Exposures
The following qualitative disclosures regarding the Partnership’s market risk exposures - except for (i) those disclosures that are statements of historical fact and (ii) the descriptions of how the Partnership manages its primary market risk exposures - constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. The Partnership’s primary market risk exposures as well as the strategies used and to be used by the General Partner and the Advisors for managing such exposures are subject to numerous uncertainties, contingencies and risks, any one of which could cause the actual results of the Partnership’s risk controls to differ materially from the objectives of such strategies. Government interventions, pandemics, epidemics, and other public health crises, defaults and expropriations, illiquid markets, the emergence of dominant fundamental factors, political upheavals, changes in historical price relationships, an influx of new market participants, increased regulation and many other factors could result in material losses as well as in material changes to the risk exposures and the management strategies of the Partnership. There can be no assurance that the Partnership’s current market exposure and/or risk management strategies will not change materially or that any such strategies will be effective in either the short- or long- term. Investors must be prepared to lose all or substantially all of their investment in the Partnership.
The following were the primary trading risk exposures of the Partnership at December 31, 2021 by market sector. It may be anticipated, however, that these market exposures will vary materially over time.
Currencies.
The Partnership’s currency exposure is to exchange rate fluctuations, primarily fluctuations that disrupt the historical pricing relationships between different currencies and currency pairs. These fluctuations are influenced by interest rate changes as well as political and general economic conditions. The General Partner does not anticipate that the risk profile of the Partnership’s currency sector will change significantly in the future.
Equities
. The Partnership’s primary equity exposure is to equity price risk in the G20 countries. The stock index futures traded by the Partnership are limited to futures on broadly based indices. As of December 31, 2021, the Partnership’s primary exposures were in the S&P 500 (U.S.), CBOE VIX Volatility Index (U.S.), DAX (Germany), SPI 200 (Australia), MIB (Italy), Hang Seng (Hong Kong), S&P/TSX 60 (Canada), Dow Jones 30 Industrial (U.S.), Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 (European Union), and FTSE 100 (United Kingdom) stock indices. The Partnership is primarily exposed to the risk of adverse price trends or static markets in the major North American, European, and Pacific Rim indices, as well as emerging markets. (Static markets would not cause major market changes but would make it difficult for the Partnership to avoid being “whipsawed” into numerous small losses.)
Interest Rates
. Interest rate movements directly affect the price of the futures positions held by the Partnership and indirectly the value of its stock index and currency positions. Interest rate movements in one country as well as relative interest rate movements between countries materially affect the Partnership’s profitability. The Partnership’s primary interest rate exposure is to interest rate fluctuations in the United States and the other G8 countries. However, the Partnership may also take futures positions on the government debt of smaller economies - e.g., Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland.
Commodities
:
Energy
. The Partnership’s primary energy market exposure is to oil and natural gas price movements, often resulting from political developments in the Middle East, weather conditions, and other factors contributing to supply and demand. Further energy market exposure is to the carbon emission allowances market which are subject to price movements driven by geopolitical events, climate related regulation, and supply and demand related factors. Energy prices can be volatile and substantial profits and losses, which have been experienced in the past, are expected to continue to be experienced in these markets in the future.
Metals
. The Partnership’s primary metal market exposure as of December 31, 2021 was to fluctuations in the prices of gold, zinc, silver, nickel, palladium, platinum, and copper.
Grains
. The Partnership’s trading risk exposure in the grains is primarily to agricultural price movements, which are often directly affected by severe or unexpected weather conditions. The soybean complex, wheat, corn, and canola accounted for the majority of the Partnership’s grain exposure as of December 31, 2021.
Softs
. The Partnership’s trading risk exposure in the soft commodities is to agricultural-related price movements, which are often directly affected by severe or unexpected weather conditions. Coffee, cotton, sugar, and cocoa for the majority of the Partnership’s soft commodities exposure as of December 31, 2021.
Livestock
. The Partnership’s primary risk exposure in livestock is to fluctuations in cattle and hog prices.
Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Non-Trading Risk Exposure
The following was the only non-trading
risk exposure of the Partnership as of December 31, 2021.
Foreign Currency Balances
. The Partnership may hold various foreign balances. The Advisors regularly convert foreign currency balances to U.S. dollars
in an attempt to manage the Partnership’s non-trading risk.
Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Means of Managing Risk Exposure
The General Partner monitors and attempts to mitigate the Partnership’s risk exposure on a daily basis through financial, credit and risk management monitoring systems and, accordingly, believes that it has effective procedures for evaluating and limiting the credit and market risks to which the Partnership may be subject. These monitoring systems generally allow the General Partner to statistically analyze actual trading results with risk-adjusted performance indicators and correlation statistics. In addition, online monitoring systems provide account analysis of futures, forward and option contracts by sector, margin requirements, gain and loss transactions and collateral positions.
The General Partner monitors the Partnership’s performance and the concentration of its open positions, and consults with the Advisors concerning the Partnership’s overall risk profile. If the General Partner felt it necessary to do so, the General Partner could require the Advisors to close out positions as well as enter positions traded on behalf of the Partnership. However, any such intervention would be a highly unusual event. The General Partner primarily relies on the Advisors’ own risk control policies while maintaining a general supervisory overview of the Partnership’s market risk exposures.
The Advisors apply their own risk management policies to their trading. The Advisors often follow diversification guidelines, margin limits and stop loss points to exit a position. The Advisors’ research of risk management often suggests ongoing modifications to their trading programs.
As part of the General Partner’s risk management, the General Partner periodically meets with each Advisor to discuss their risk management and to look for any material changes to the Advisors’ portfolio balance and trading techniques. The Advisors are required to notify the General Partner of any material changes to their programs.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.
CERES TACTICAL SYSTEMATIC L.P.
The following financial statements and related items of the Partnership are filed under this Item 8: Oath or Affirmation, Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:42), for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019; Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2021 and 2020; Condensed Schedules of Investments at December 31, 2021 and 2020; Statements of Income and Expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019; Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019; and Notes to Financial Statements. Additional financial information has been filed as Exhibits to this Form 10-K.
To the Limited Partners of
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the information contained herein is accurate and complete.
By:
Patrick T. Egan
President and Director
Ceres Managed Futures LLC General Partner,
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Ceres Managed Futures LLC
522 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10036
(855) 672-4468
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over
Financial Reporting
The management of Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P. (the “Partnership”), Ceres Managed Futures LLC, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a - 15(f) and 15d - 15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and for our assessment of internal control over financial reporting. The Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:
(i)
pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Partnership;
(ii)
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and that receipts and expenditures of the Partnership are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Partnership; and
(iii)
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection and correction of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Partnership’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
The management of Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P. has assessed the effectiveness of the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth in the Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our assessment, management concluded that the Partnership maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021 based on the criteria referred to above.
Patrick T. Egan
President and Director
Ceres Managed Futures LLC
General Partner,
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Steven Ross
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Ceres Managed Futures LLC
General Partner,
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Partners of Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.,
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statements of financial condition of Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P. (the “Partnership”), including the condensed schedules of investments, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related statements of income and expenses, and changes in partners’ capital for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021, 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 Partnership at December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and changes in its partners’ capital for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Partnership’s 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 Partnership 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Partnership is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its 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 Partnership’s 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 procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. 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.
Critical Audit Matters
Critical audit matters are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to those charged with governance and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the auditor of the Partnership since 2017.
Boston, MA
March 18, 2022
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Statements of Financial Condition
December 31, 2021 and 2020
December 31,
December 31,
Assets:
Redemptions receivable from the Funds (1)
$ -
$ 16,694,562
Equity in trading account:
Unrestricted cash (Note 3c)
52,983,597
44,736,879
Restricted cash (Note 3c)
11,511,892
13,791,629
Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
858,348
2,318,834
Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
54,739
308,695
Total equity in trading account
65,408,576
61,156,037
Interest receivable (Note 3c)
1,852
3,963
Total assets
$ 65,410,428
$ 77,854,562
Liabilities and Partners’ Capital:
Liabilities:
Accrued expenses:
Ongoing selling agent fees (Notes 3d and 3e)
$ 40,278
$ 62,628
Management fees (Note 3b)
36,981
58,925
Incentive fees (Note 3b)
-
99,425
General Partner fees (Note 3a)
47,545
56,549
Professional fees
165,264
238,652
Redemptions payable to General Partner (Note 7)
100,000
300,000
Redemptions payable to Limited Partners (Note 7)
776,739
3,353,249
Total liabilities
1,166,807
4,169,428
Partners’ Capital (Notes 1 and 7):
General Partner, Class Z, 704.5560 and 983.4910 Redeemable Units outstanding at December 31,
2021 and 2020, respectively
720,433
906,740
Limited Partners, Class A, 75,391.9488 and 93,586.8678 Redeemable Units outstanding at
December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively
59,765,213
67,400,489
Limited Partners, Class D, 3,645.0220 and 5,824.8820 Redeemable Units outstanding at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively
3,616,215
5,250,088
Limited Partners, Class Z, 138.6360 Redeemable Units outstanding at December 31, 2021 and 2020
141,760
127,817
Total partners’ capital (net asset value)
64,243,621
73,685,134
Total liabilities and partners’ capital
$ 65,410,428
$ 77,854,562
Net asset value per Redeemable Unit:
Class A
$ 792.73
$ 720.19
Class D
$ 992.10
$ 901.32
Class Z
$ 1,022.54
$ 921.96
(1)
Defined in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Condensed Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2021
Notional ($)/
Number of
Contracts
Fair Value
% of Partners’
Capital
Futures Contracts Purchased
Currencies
$ (39,892)
(0.06) %
Energy
374,101
0.58
Grains
24,995
0.04
Indices
206,969
0.32
Interest Rates U.S.
(47,109)
(0.07)
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
(148,277)
(0.23)
Livestock
(725)
(0.00) *
Metals
183,889
0.29
Softs
67,838
0.11
Total futures contracts purchased
621,789
0.98
Futures Contracts Sold
Currencies
(155,673)
(0.24)
Energy
(125,010)
(0.20)
Grains
(29,167)
(0.05)
Indices
19,629
0.03
Interest Rates U.S.
5,054
0.01
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
599,106
0.93
Livestock
0.00 *
Metals
(90,039)
(0.14)
Softs
12,099
0.02
Total futures contracts sold
236,559
0.36
Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
$ 858,348
1.34 %
Unrealized Appreciation on Open Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 81,157,828
$ 900,388
1.40 %
Metals
241,320
0.38
Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
1,141,708
1.78
Unrealized Depreciation on Open Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 72,375,905
(822,999)
(1.28)
Metals
(263,970)
(0.41)
Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts
(1,086,969)
(1.69)
Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
$ 54,739
0.09 %
* Due to rounding.
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Condensed Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2020
Notional ($)/
Number of
Contracts
Fair Value
% of Partners’
Capital
Futures Contracts Purchased
Currencies
$ 31,953
0.04 %
Energy
942,748
1.28
Grains
963,921
1.31
Indices
285,626
0.39
Interest Rates U.S.
52,992
0.07
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
2,462
132,274
0.18
Livestock
(100)
(0.00) *
Metals
427,621
0.58
Softs
349,722
0.47
Total futures contracts purchased
3,186,757
4.32
Futures Contracts Sold
Currencies
(195,645)
(0.27)
Energy
(222,699)
(0.30)
Grains
(16,375)
(0.02)
Indices
(56,841)
(0.08)
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
(276,043)
(0.36)
Livestock
(4,860)
(0.01)
Metals
(88,545)
(0.12)
Softs
(6,915)
(0.01)
Total futures contracts sold
(867,923)
(1.17)
Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
$ 2,318,834
3.15 %
Unrealized Appreciation on Open Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 71,155,471
$ 774,221
1.05 %
Metals
400,403
0.54
Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
1,174,624
1.59
Unrealized Depreciation on Open Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 61,053,423
(727,131)
(0.98)
Metals
(138,798)
(0.19)
Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts
(865,929)
(1.17)
Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
$ 308,695
0.42 %
* Due to rounding.
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Statements of Income and Expenses
For the Years Ended
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019
Investment Income:
Interest income
$ 21,739
$ 192,095
$ 849,504
Interest income allocated from the Funds
-
132,455
1,459,938
Total investment income
21,739
324,550
2,309,442
Expenses:
Expenses allocated from the Funds
-
357,071
816,989
Clearing fees related to direct investments (Note 3c)
349,808
225,768
140,756
Ongoing selling agent fees (Notes 3d and 3e)
529,908
1,311,388
2,352,906
General Partner fees (Note 3a)
624,830
835,900
1,237,018
Management fees (Note 3b)
569,583
799,137
1,279,970
Incentive fees (Note 3b)
2,147,999
99,425
451,171
Professional fees
308,588
415,288
487,422
Total expenses
4,530,716
4,043,977
6,766,232
Net investment loss
(4,508,977)
(3,719,427)
(4,456,790)
Trading Results:
Net gains (losses) on trading of commodity interests and investment in the Funds:
Net realized gains (losses) on closed contracts
13,340,586
(1,749,965)
2,352,160
Net realized gains (losses) on closed contracts allocated from the Funds
-
(1,713,607)
1,853,103
Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on open contracts
(1,714,609)
2,213,664
(1,762,618)
Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on open contracts allocated from the Funds
-
39,112
299,011
Total trading results
11,625,977
(1,210,796)
2,741,656
Net income (loss)
$ 7,117,000
$ (4,930,223)
$ (1,715,134)
Net income (loss) per Redeemable Unit (Note 8)*:
Class A
$ 72.54
$ (31.69)
$ (14.40)
Class D
$ 90.78
$ (32.60)
$ (5.98)
Class Z
$ 100.58
$ (26.17)
$ 1.10
Weighted average Redeemable Units outstanding:
Class A
83,038.9042
115,008.3148
147,125.3669
Class D
4,921.9299
6,165.8878
7,695.7575
Class Z
986.2728
1,502.3373
1,834.5138
* Represents the change in net asset value per Redeemable Unit.
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital
For the Years Ended
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Total
Amount
Redeemable
Units
Amount
Redeemable
Units
Amount
Redeemable
Units
Amount
Redeemable
Units
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2018
$ 124,683,920
162,712.3818
$ 7,368,184
7,839.3400
$ 1,966,116
2,076.0920
134,018,220
172,627.8138
Subscriptions - Limited Partners
92,700
119.1810
-
-
27,904
29.4650
120,604
148.6460
Redemptions - General Partner
-
-
-
-
(525,000)
(535.5720)
(525,000)
(535.5720)
Redemptions - Limited Partners
(24,543,188)
(31,771.0660)
(1,109,847)
(1,184.8320)
(37,056)
(39.0870)
(25,690,091)
(32,994.9850)
Net income (loss)
(1,691,092)
-
(43,573)
-
19,531
-
(1,715,134)
-
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2019
98,542,340
131,060.4968
6,214,764
6,654.5080
1,451,495
1,530.8980
106,208,599
139,245.9028
Redemptions - General Partner
-
-
-
-
(300,000)
(325.3940)
(300,000)
(325.3940)
Redemptions - Limited Partners
(26,476,389)
(37,473.6290)
(741,074)
(829.6260)
(75,779)
(83.3770)
(27,293,242)
(38,386.6320)
Net income (loss)
(4,665,462)
-
(223,602)
-
(41,159)
-
(4,930,223)
-
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2020
67,400,489
93,586.8678
5,250,088
5,824.8820
1,034,557
1,122.1270
73,685,134
100,533.8768
Redemptions - General Partner
-
-
-
-
(275,000)
(278.9350)
(275,000)
(278.9350)
Redemptions - Limited Partners
(14,065,961)
(18,194.9190)
(2,217,552)
(2,179.8600)
-
-
(16,283,513)
(20,374.7790)
Net income (loss)
6,430,685
-
583,679
-
102,636
-
7,117,000
-
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2021
$ 59,765,213
75,391.9488
$ 3,616,215
3,645.0220
$ 862,193
843.1920
$
64,243,621
79,880.1628
Net asset value per Redeemable Unit
:
Class A
Class D
Class Z
2019:
$
751.88
$
933.92
$
948.13
2020:
$
720.19
$
901.32
$
921.96
2021:
$
792.73
$
992.10
$
1,022.54
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P.
Notes to Financial Statements
1.
Organization:
Ceres Tactical Systematic L.P. (the “Partnership”) is a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of New York on December 3, 2002 to engage, directly or indirectly, in the speculative trading of a diversified portfolio of commodity interests including futures, option, swap and forward contracts. The sectors traded include currencies, energy, grains, indices, U.S. and non-U.S. interest rates, livestock, metals and softs. The commodity interests that are traded by the Partnership directly or indirectly through its investment in the Funds (as defined below) are volatile and involve a high degree of market risk. The General Partner (as defined below) may also determine to invest up to all of the Partnership’s assets (directly or indirectly through its investment in the Funds) in United States (“U.S.”) Treasury bills and/or money market mutual funds, including money market mutual funds managed by Morgan Stanley or its affiliates.
Between March 27, 2003 (commencement of the public offering period) and April 30, 2003, 36,616 redeemable units of limited partnership interest in the Partnership (“Redeemable Units”) were sold at $1,000 per Redeemable Unit. The proceeds of the initial public offering were held in an escrow account until April 30, 2003, at which time they were turned over to the Partnership for trading. The Partnership was authorized to publicly offer 300,000 Redeemable Units during the initial public offering period. As of December 4, 2003, the Partnership was authorized to publicly offer an additional 700,000 Redeemable Units. As of October 7, 2004, the Partnership was authorized to publicly offer an additional 1,000,000 Redeemable Units. As of June 30, 2005, the Partnership was authorized to publicly offer Redeemable Units previously registered. The public offering of Redeemable Units terminated on November 30, 2008. The Partnership currently privately and continuously offers Redeemable Units to qualified investors. There is no maximum number of Redeemable Units that may be sold by the Partnership.
Ceres Managed Futures LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, acts as the general partner (the “General Partner”) and commodity pool operator of the Partnership. During the periods covered by this report and prior to the Partnership’s redemption from the Funds (as defined below), the General Partner also acted as the trading manager (the “Trading Manager”) of ADG Master (as defined below), Aquantum Master (as defined below), FORT Contrarian Master (as defined below) and AE Capital Master (as defined below). The General Partner is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc. (“MSD Holdings”). MSD Holdings is ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is a publicly held company whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Morgan Stanley is engaged in various financial services and other businesses.
During the periods covered by this report, the Partnership’s/Funds’ commodity broker was Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS&Co.”), a registered futures commission merchant. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“JPMorgan”) was also a foreign exchange forward contract counterparty for certain Funds. During prior periods included in this report, the Partnership/Funds deposited a portion of their cash in non-trading bank accounts at JPMorgan.
As of January 1, 2018, the Partnership began offering three classes of limited partnership interests, Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units. All Redeemable Units issued prior to January 1, 2018 were deemed Class A Redeemable Units. The rights, liabilities, risks, and fees associated with investment in Class A Redeemable Units were not changed. Class A Redeemable Units are available to taxable U.S. individuals and institutions, U.S. tax exempt individuals and institutions, and non-U.S. investors. Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units were first issued on January 1, 2018. Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units will each be referred to as a “Class” and collectively referred to as the “Classes.” The Class of Redeemable Units that a limited partner receives upon a subscription will generally depend upon the amount invested in the Partnership or the status of the limited partner, although the General Partner may determine to offer any Class of Redeemable Units to investors at its discretion. Class D Redeemable Units are available to taxable U.S. individuals and institutions, U.S. tax exempt individuals and institutions, and non-U.S. investors. Class Z Redeemable Units are offered to certain employees of Morgan Stanley and its subsidiaries (and their family members). In the future, Class Z Redeemable Units may also be offered to certain limited partners who receive advisory services from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, doing business as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (“Morgan Stanley Wealth Management”). Class A Redeemable Units, Class D Redeemable Units and Class Z Redeemable Units are identical, except that they are subject to different monthly ongoing selling agent fees. Effective January 1, 2021, Class A Redeemable Units are subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, Class A Redeemable Units were subject to a
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monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 1.00% (a 1.00% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. Prior to July 1, 2020, Class A Redeemable Units were subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 2.00% (a 2.00% annual rate) of the net assets of Class A Redeemable Units as of the end of each month.
Class D Redeemable Units are subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the net assets of Class D Redeemable Units as of the end of each month. Class Z Redeemable Units are not subject to a monthly ongoing selling agent fee.
As of December 31, 2021, all trading decisions were made for the Partnership by DCM Systematic Advisors SA (“DCM”), Episteme Capital Partners (UK) LLP, Episteme Capital Partners (US) LLC, and Episteme Capital Partners (Cayman) LTD (collectively, “Episteme”), ISAM Systematic Management (“ISAM SM”) and Millburn Ridgefield Corporation (“Millburn”) (each an “Advisor” and, collectively, the “Advisors”), each of which is a registered commodity trading advisor. Effective October 31, 2021, the General Partner terminated FORT, L.P. (“FORT”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. Effective December 31, 2020, the General Partner terminated ADG Capital Management LLP (“ADG”) and Aquantum GmbH (“Aquantum”) as Advisors to the Partnership. Effective June 30, 2019, the General Partner terminated SECOR Capital Advisors, LP (“SECOR”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. Effective April 3, 2019, the General Partner terminated AE Capital Pty Limited (“AE Capital”) as an Advisor to the Partnership. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow Financial International UK Limited (“Mesirow”) had undertaken to perform the Cambridge Initial Advisory Agreement and be bound by its terms in every way as if it were the original party to it in place of Cambridge. Reference herein to “Advisors” may include, as relevant, ADG, Aquantum, AE Capital, FORT, Mesirow and SECOR. Each Advisor is allocated a portion of the Partnership’s assets to manage. The Partnership invests the portion of its assets allocated to each of the Advisors either directly, through individually managed accounts, or indirectly, through its investment in the Funds.
ISAM SM directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to ISAM SM’s Systematic Trend Programme. Effective January 1, 2020, Millburn directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to Millburn’s Multi-Markets Program. The General Partner and Millburn have agreed that Millburn will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to Millburn at a level that is up to 1.0 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage may be increased or decreased in the future, but it may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated. Effective November 1, 2020, Episteme directly trades the Partnership’s assets allocated to them through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to Episteme’s Systematic Quest Program. The General Partner and Episteme have agreed that Episteme will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to Episteme at a level that is up to 2 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage may be increased or decreased in the future, but it may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated. Effective January 1, 2021, DCM directly trades a portion of the Partnership’s assets allocated to it through a managed account in the name of the Partnership pursuant to DCM’s Diversified Alpha Program. The General Partner and DCM have agreed that DCM will trade the Partnership’s assets allocated to DCM at a level that is 1.0 times the amount of assets allocated. The amount of leverage maybe increased or decreased in the future but may not exceed 2 times the amount of assets allocated.
The Partnership, and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective June 30, 2019, SECOR Master Fund L.P. (“SECOR Master”), and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective April 30, 2019, CMF AE Capital Master Fund LLC (“AE Capital Master”), and prior to the Partnership’s full redemption effective March 31, 2019, Cambridge Master Fund L.P. (“Cambridge Master”), entered into futures brokerage account agreements and foreign exchange prime brokerage account agreements with MS&Co. Prior to the Partnership’s respective full redemptions effective December 31, 2020, CMF ADG Master Fund LLC (“ADG Master”), CMF Aquantum Master Fund LLC (“Aquantum Master”) and CMF FORT Contrarian Master Fund LLC (“FORT Contrarian Master”) had each entered into futures brokerage account agreements with MS&Co. Reference herein to the “Funds” may include, as relevant, ADG Master, Aquantum Master, FORT Contrarian Master, AE Capital Master, Cambridge Master and SECOR Master.
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Prior to their respective terminations, Cambridge Master and SECOR Master had each entered into certain agreements with JPMorgan in connection with trading in forward foreign currency contracts on behalf of the referenced Funds and, indirectly, the Partnership. These agreements included a foreign exchange and bullion authorization agreement (“FX Agreement”), an International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. master agreement (“Master Agreement”), a schedule to the Master Agreement, a 2016 credit support annex for variation margin to the schedule and an institutional account agreement. In addition to Cambridge Master and SECOR Master, Mesirow and SECOR were all parties to the FX Agreements for the Funds to which each acted as an Advisor. Under each FX Agreement, JPMorgan charged a fee on the aggregate foreign currency transactions entered into on behalf of the respective Fund during a month.
The Partnership will be liquidated upon the first to occur of the following: (1) December 31, 2022; (2) the net asset value per Redeemable Unit decreases to less than $400 per Redeemable Unit as of the close of any business day; or (3) the occurrence of certain other circumstances as set forth in the limited partnership agreement of the Partnership, as amended and restated from time to time (the “Limited Partnership Agreement”).
The General Partner has delegated certain administrative functions to SS&C Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, currently doing business as SS&C GlobeOp (the “Administrator”). Pursuant to a master services agreement, the Administrator furnishes certain administrative, accounting, regulatory reporting, tax and other services as agreed from time to time. In addition, the Administrator maintains certain books and records of the Partnership. The cost of retaining the Administrator is allocated among the pools operated by the General Partner, including the Partnership.
2.
Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:
a. Use of Estimates.
The preparation of financial statements and accompanying notes in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires the General Partner to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, income and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities in the financial statements and accompanying notes. As a result, actual results could differ from these estimates, and those differences could be material.
b. Profit Allocation.
The General Partner and each limited partner of the Partnership share in the profits and losses of the Partnership in proportion to the amount of Partnership interest owned by each, except that no limited partner is liable for obligations of the Partnership in excess of its capital contribution and profits, if any, net of distributions, redemptions and losses, if any.
c. Statement of Cash Flows.
The Partnership has not provided a Statement of Cash Flows, as permitted by Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 230, “Statement of Cash Flows.”
The Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital is included herein, and as of and for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Partnership carried no debt and all of the Partnership’s and the Funds’ investments were carried at fair value and classified as Level 1 or Level 2 measurements.
d. Partnership’s Investment in the Funds
. Prior to the Partnership’s full redemptions from the Funds, the Partnership carried its investment in the Funds at fair value based on the Partnership’s (1) net contribution to the Funds and (2) its allocated share of the undistributed profits and losses, including realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses), of the Funds.
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e. Partnership’s/Funds’ Derivative Investments.
All commodity interests held by the Partnership/Funds, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments, are (or in the case of the Funds, were) held for trading purposes. The commodity interests are recorded on the trade date and open contracts are recorded at fair value (as described in Note 5, “Fair Value Measurements”) at the measurement date. Investments in commodity interests denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates prevailing at the measurement date. Gains or losses are realized when contracts are liquidated and are determined using the first-in, first-out method. Unrealized gains or losses on open contracts are (or in the case of the Funds, were) included as a component of equity in trading account in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Financial Condition. Net realized gains or losses and net change in unrealized gains or losses are (or in the case of the Funds, were) reported in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Income and Expenses.
The Partnership does not, and the Funds did not, isolate the portion of the results of operations arising from the effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from fluctuations from changes in market prices of investments held. Such fluctuations are (or in the case of the Funds, were) included in total trading results in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Income and Expenses.
f. Partnership’s Cash.
The Partnership’s restricted and unrestricted cash includes cash denominated in foreign currencies of $720,689 (cost of $718,056) and $975,389 (cost of $972,589) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
g. Income Taxes
. Income taxes have not been recorded as each partner is individually liable for the taxes, if any, on its share of the Partnership’s income and expenses. The Partnership follows the guidance of ASC 740, “Income Taxes,”
which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Partnership’s tax returns to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained “when challenged” or “when examined” by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions determined not to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or liability in the Partnership’s Statements of Financial Condition for the current year. If a tax position does not meet the minimum statutory threshold to avoid the incurring of penalties, an expense for the amount of the statutory penalty and interest, if applicable, shall be recognized in the Partnership’s Statements of Income and Expenses in the years in which the position is claimed or expected to be claimed. The General Partner has concluded that there are no significant uncertain tax positions that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Partnership files U.S. federal and various state and local tax returns. No income tax returns are currently under examination. The 2018 through 2021 tax years remain subject to examination by U.S. federal and most state tax authorities.
h. Investment Company Status
. The Partnership has been deemed to be an investment company since inception. Accordingly, the Partnership follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of Accounting Standards Update 2013-08 “Financial Services-Investment Companies (Topic
946): Amendments to the Scope, Measurement and Disclosure Requirements”
and reflects its investments at fair value with unrealized gains and losses resulting from changes in fair value reflected in the Statements of Income and Expenses.
i. Net Income (Loss) per Redeemable Unit.
Net income (loss) per Redeemable Unit is calculated in accordance with ASC 946, “Financial Services - Investment Companies.”
See Note 8, “Financial Highlights.”
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3.
Agreements:
a. Limited Partnership Agreement:
The General Partner administers the business and affairs of the Partnership, including selecting one or more advisors to make trading decisions for the Partnership.
The General Partner has agreed to make capital contributions, if necessary, so that its general partnership interest will be equal to the greater of (i) 1% of the partners’ contributions to the Partnership or (ii) $25,000. Effective July 1, 2020, the Partnership pays the General Partner a monthly fee equal to 1/12 of 0.875% (0.875% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership. Prior to July 1, 2020, the Partnership paid the General Partner a monthly fee equal to 1/12 of 1% (1% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership. Month-end net assets, for purposes of calculating the General Partner fee, are net assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s management fees, incentive fee accruals, the General Partner fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. The General Partner fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
b. Management Agreement:
The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, has entered into management agreements (each a “Management Agreement”) with the Advisors. The Advisors are not affiliated with one another, are not affiliated with the General Partner or MS&Co. and are not responsible for the organization or operation of the Partnership. Each Management Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.
Effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays to DCM a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75
% (0.75% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to DCM. Effective November 1, 2020, the Partnership pays to Episteme a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to Episteme.
ISAM SM receives a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end net assets allocated to ISAM SM. Effective January 1, 2020, the Partnership pays to Millburn a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.25%, 0.375% or 0.50% (0.25%, 0.375% or 0.5% per year), depending on the account leverage, of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to Millburn. Month-end net assets, for purposes of calculating management fees, are net assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s incentive fee accruals, the monthly management fees, the General Partner fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. An Advisor’s management fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
Prior to its termination effective October 31, 2021, the Partnership paid to FORT a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75
% (0.75% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to FORT’s Global Trend Trading Program, and until December 31, 2020, paid to FORT a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.15% (1.15% per year) of month-end net assets allocated to FORT Contrarian Master. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, ADG received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.00% (1.00% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to ADG. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, Aquantum received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.25% (1.25% per year) of month-end net assets of the Partnership allocated to Aquantum. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (1.0% per year) of month-end net assets allocated to Mesirow. Prior to its termination effective June 30, 2019, SECOR received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.15% (1.15% per year) of month-end net assets allocated to SECOR. Prior to its termination effective April 3, 2019, AE Capital received a monthly management fee equal to 1/12 of 1.50% (1.50% per year) of month-end net assets allocated to AE Capital.
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In addition, effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership is obligated to pay DCM an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 15% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by DCM. Effective November 1, 2020, the Partnership is obligated to pay Episteme an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 22.5% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Episteme. The Partnership is obligated to pay ISAM SM an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to
25% of the New Trading Profits earned by ISAM SM. Effective January 1, 2020, the Partnership is obligated to pay Millburn an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 28% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Millburn. To the extent an Advisor incurs a loss for the Partnership, the Advisor will not be paid incentive fees until the Advisor recovers the net loss incurred and earns additional new trading profits for the Partnership. An Advisor’s incentive fee is allocated proportionately to each Class based on the net asset value of the respective Class.
Prior to the Partnership’s full redemption out of FORT Contrarian Master effective December 31, 2020, FORT was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by FORT for the Partnership’s assets allocated to FORT Contrarian Master during each calendar year. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, ADG was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable semi-annually, equal to 25% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by ADG for the Partnership during each calendar half-year. Prior to its termination effective December 31, 2020, Aquantum was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable semi-annually, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Aquantum for the Partnership during each calendar half-year. As of October 1, 2018 and until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 15% of New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by Mesirow for the Partnership during each calendar year. Prior to its termination effective June 30, 2019, SECOR was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable annually, equal to 25% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by SECOR for the Partnership during each calendar year. Prior to its termination effective April 3, 2019, AE Capital was eligible to receive an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by AE Capital for the Partnership during each calendar quarter.
In allocating the assets of the Partnership among the Advisors, the General Partner considers, among other factors, past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets among the Advisors and may allocate assets to additional trading advisors at any time.
c. Customer Agreement:
The Partnership has entered into a customer agreement with MS&Co. (the “Partnership Customer Agreement”). Under the Partnership Customer Agreement and the foreign exchange brokerage account agreement (described in Note 1, “Organization”), the Partnership pays (or paid with respect to the Funds) trading fees for the clearing and, where applicable, execution of transactions, as well as exchange, user, give-up,
floor brokerage and National Futures Association fees (collectively, the “clearing fees”), directly and indirectly through its investment in the Funds. Clearing fees were allocated to the Partnership based on its proportionate share of each Fund. Clearing fees are also borne directly by the Partnership for its direct trading. Clearing fees will be paid for the life of the Partnership, although the rate at which such fees are paid may be changed. All of the Partnership’s assets previously not held in the Funds’ accounts at MS&Co. and JPMorgan were deposited in the Partnership’s accounts at MS&Co. The Partnership’s cash is deposited by MS&Co. in segregated bank accounts to the extent required by Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations. The Partnership’s restricted cash is equal to the cash portion of assets on deposit to meet margin requirements, as determined by the exchange or counterparty, and required by MS&Co. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the amount of cash held by the Partnership for margin requirements was $11,511,892 and $13,791,629, respectively. Cash that is not classified as restricted cash is therefore classified as unrestricted cash. MS&Co. paid monthly interest on 100% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s (or the Partnership’s allocable portion of a Fund’s) brokerage account at MS&Co. during each month at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4
-week
U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. The Partnership Customer Agreement may generally be terminated upon notice by either party.
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d. Selling Agreement:
The Partnership has entered into a selling agreement with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (the “Selling Agreement”). Under the Selling Agreement and effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to
0.75% per year of adjusted month-end net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1.00% per year of adjusted month-end net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. Prior to July 1, 2020, the Partnership paid Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 2.00% per year of adjusted month-end net assets for Class A Redeemable Units. The Partnership pays Morgan Stanley Wealth Management a monthly ongoing selling agent fee equal to 0.75% per year of the adjusted month-end net assets for Class D Redeemable Units. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management pays a portion of its ongoing selling agent fees to properly registered or exempted financial advisors who have sold Class A and Class D Redeemable Units. Class Z Redeemable Units are not subject to an ongoing selling agent fee. Month-end net assets, for the purpose of calculating ongoing selling agent fees are Net Assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, for the Class, prior to the reduction of the current month’s ongoing selling agent fee, incentive fee accrual, management fee, General Partner fee and other expenses and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month.
e. Harbor Selling Agreement:
The Partnership has entered into an alternative investment placement agent agreement (the “Harbor Selling Agreement”), by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Distribution Inc. (“MSDI”) and Harbor Investment Advisory, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company (“Harbor”), which supersedes and replaces the alternative investment selling agent agreement, dated January 19, 2018, between the Partnership, the General Partner and Harbor. Pursuant to the Harbor Selling Agreement, MSDI and Harbor have been appointed as a non-exclusive
selling agent and sub-selling
agent, respectively, of the Partnership for the purpose of finding eligible investors for Redeemable Units through offerings that are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder and for Harbor to serve as an investment advisor to its customers investing in one or more of the partnerships party to the Harbor Selling Agreement; provided, that, included within such appointment, Harbor will provide certain services to certain holders of Redeemable Units of the Partnership who had acquired such Redeemable Units prior to such holders becoming clients of Harbor. The Harbor Selling Agreement continues in effect until September 30, 2022 unless terminated in certain circumstances as set forth in the Harbor Selling Agreement, including by any party on thirty days’ prior written notice, after which the General Partner or the Partnership may, in its sole discretion, renew the Harbor Selling Agreement for additional one-year
periods. Pursuant to the Harbor Selling Agreement and effective January 1, 2021, the Partnership pays Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. From July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the Partnership paid Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 1.0% (a 1.0% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. Prior to July 1, 2020, the Partnership paid Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 2.0% (a 2.0% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class A Redeemable Units in the Partnership. The Partnership pays Harbor an ongoing selling agent fee equal to 1/12 of 0.75% (a 0.75% annual rate) of the adjusted month-end
net asset value per Redeemable Unit for certain holders of Class D Redeemable Units in the Partnership.
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4.
Trading Activities:
The Partnership was formed for the purpose of trading contracts in a variety of commodity interests, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments. The results of the Partnership’s trading activities are shown in the Statements of Income and Expenses. The Partnership had also invested certain of its assets through a “master/feeder” structure. The Partnership’s pro-rata
share of the results of the Funds’ trading activities are shown in the Partnership’s Statements of Income and Expenses.
The Partnership Customer Agreement and the Funds’ futures brokerage account agreements with MS&Co. (the “Master Customer Agreements” and, together with the Partnership Customer Agreement, the “Customer Agreements”) and foreign exchange brokerage account agreements give the Partnership, and gave the Funds, respectively, the legal right to net unrealized gains and losses on open futures contracts and open forward contracts in their respective Statements of Financial Condition. The Partnership nets, and the Funds netted, for financial reporting purposes, the unrealized gains and losses on open futures contracts and open forward contracts in their respective Statements of Financial Condition as the criteria under ASC 210-20,
“Balance Sheet
,” have been met.
All of the commodity interests owned directly by the Partnership are held for trading purposes. All of the commodity interests owned by the Funds were held for trading purposes. The monthly average number of futures contracts traded directly by the Partnership during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were 5,398 and 4,379, respectively. The monthly average number of metals forward contracts traded directly by the Partnership during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were 276 and 326, respectively. The monthly average notional value of currency forward contracts traded directly by the Partnership during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $270,167,253 and $196,255,522, respectively.
Trading and transaction fees are based on the number of trades executed by the Advisors and were also based on the Partnership’s respective percentage ownership of each Fund.
All clearing fees paid to MS&Co. for the Partnership’s direct trading are borne directly by the Partnership. In addition, clearing fees were borne by the Funds and allocated to the Funds’ limited partners/non-managing members, including the Partnership.
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The following tables summarize the gross and net amounts recognized relating to assets and liabilities of the Partnership’s derivatives and their offsetting subject to master netting arrangements or similar agreements as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Gross
Amounts
Recognized
Gross Amounts
Offset in the
Statements of
Financial
Condition
Net Amounts
Presented in the
Statements of
Financial
Condition
Gross Amounts Not Offset in the
Statements of Financial Condition
Net
Amount
December 31, 2021
Financial
Instruments
Cash Collateral
Received/
Pledged*
Assets
Futures
$ 2,170,180
$ (1,311,832)
$ 858,348
$ -
$ -
$ 858,348
Forwards
1,141,708
(1,086,969)
54,739
-
-
54,739
Total assets
$ 3,311,888
$ (2,398,801)
$ 913,087
$ -
$ -
$ 913,087
Liabilities
Futures
$ (1,311,832)
$ 1,311,832
$ -
$ -
$ -
$ -
Forwards
(1,086,969)
1,086,969
-
-
-
-
Total liabilities
$ (2,398,801)
$ 2,398,801
$ -
$ -
$ -
$ -
Net fair value
$
913,087 *
Gross
Amounts
Recognized
Gross Amounts
Offset in the
Statements of
Financial
Condition
Net Amounts
Presented in the
Statements of
Financial
Condition
Gross Amounts Not Offset in the
Statements of Financial Condition
Net
Amount
December 31, 2020
Financial
Instruments
Cash Collateral
Received/
Pledged*
Assets
Futures
$ 3,551,366
$ (1,232,532)
$ 2,318,834
$ -
$ -
$ 2,318,834
Forwards
1,174,624
(865,929)
308,695
-
-
308,695
Total assets
$ 4,725,990
$ (2,098,461)
$ 2,627,529
$ -
$ -
$ 2,627,529
Liabilities
Futures
$ (1,232,532)
$ 1,232,532
$ -
$ -
$ -
$ -
Forwards
(865,929)
865,929
-
-
-
-
Total liabilities
$ (2,098,461)
$ 2,098,461
$ -
$ -
$ -
$ -
Net fair value
$ 2,627,529 *
*
In the event of default by the Partnership, MS&Co., the Partnership’s commodity futures broker and the sole counterparty to the Partnership’s non-exchange-traded
contracts, as applicable, has the right to offset the Partnership’s obligation with the Partnership’s cash and/or U.S. Treasury bills held by MS&Co., thereby minimizing MS&Co.’s risk of loss. In certain instances, MS&Co. may not post collateral and as such, in the event of default by MS&Co., the Partnership is exposed to the amount shown in the Statements of Financial Condition. In the case of exchange-traded contracts, the Partnership’s exposure to counterparty risk may be reduced since the exchange’s clearinghouse interposes its credit between buyer and seller and the clearinghouse’s guarantee funds may be available in the event of a default. In some instances, the actual collateral received and/or pledged may be more than the amount shown due to overcollateralization.
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Notes to Financial Statements
The following tables indicate the gross fair values of derivative instruments of futures and forward contracts held directly by the Partnership as separate assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
December 31,
Assets
Futures Contracts
Currencies
$ 17,382
Energy
525,149
Grains
221,747
Indices
405,197
Interest Rates U.S.
39,562
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
643,854
Livestock
3,075
Metals
194,765
Softs
119,449
Total unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
2,170,180
Liabilities
Futures Contracts
Currencies
(212,947)
Energy
(276,058)
Grains
(225,919)
Indices
(178,599)
Interest Rates U.S.
(81,617)
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
(193,025)
Livestock
(3,240)
Metals
(100,915)
Softs
(39,512)
Total unrealized depreciation on open futures contracts
(1,311,832)
Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
$ 858,348 *
Assets
Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 900,388
Metals
241,320
Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
1,141,708
Liabilities
Forward Contracts
Currencies
(822,999)
Metals
(263,970)
Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts
(1,086,969)
Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
$ 54,739 **
*
This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts” in the Statements of Financial Condition.
**
This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts” in the Statements of Financial Condition.
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Notes to Financial Statements
December 31,
Assets
Futures Contracts
Currencies
$ 41,593
Energy
1,055,787
Grains
967,653
Indices
371,999
Interest Rates U.S.
59,289
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
234,407
Metals
446,812
Softs
373,826
Total unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
3,551,366
Liabilities
Futures Contracts
Currencies
(205,285)
Energy
(335,738)
Grains
(20,107)
Indices
(143,214)
Interest Rates U.S.
(6,297)
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
(378,176)
Livestock
(4,960)
Metals
(107,736)
Softs
(31,019)
Total unrealized depreciation on open futures contracts
(1,232,532)
Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts
$ 2,318,834 *
Assets
Forward Contracts
Currencies
$ 774,221
Metals
400,403
Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
1,174,624
Liabilities
Forward Contracts
Currencies
(727,131)
Metals
(138,798)
Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts
(865,929)
Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts
$ 308,695 **
* This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts” in the Statements of Financial Condition.
** This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts” in the Statements of Financial Condition.
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Notes to Financial Statements
The following table indicates the trading gains and losses, by market sector, on derivative instruments traded directly by the Partnership for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Sector
Currencies
$ (610,839)
$ (882,066)
$ (1,031,337)
Energy
11,006,591
1,918,213
(1,726,062)
Grains
2,268,001
2,475,299
(459,979)
Indices
3,540,100
(6,408,863)
(122,163)
Interest Rates U.S.
(807,159)
821,085
651,819
Interest Rates Non-U.S.
(3,572,828)
1,546,319
4,768,246
Livestock
(301,560)
63,833
(622,434)
Metals
(923,008)
1,946,232
(164,506)
Softs
1,026,679
(1,016,353)
(704,042)
Total
$ 11,625,977 ***
$ 463,699 ***
$ 589,542 ***
***
This amount is included in “Total trading results” in the Statements of Income and Expenses.
5.
Fair Value Measurements:
Partnership’s and the Funds’ Fair Value Measurements
. Fair value is defined as the value that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date under current market conditions. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to fair values derived from unobservable inputs (Level 3). The level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement in its entirety falls shall be determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.
The fair value of exchange-traded futures, option and forward contracts is determined by the various exchanges, and reflects the settlement price for each contract as of the close of business on the last business day of the reporting period. The fair value of foreign currency forward contracts is extrapolated on a forward basis from the spot prices quoted as of approximately 3:00 P.M. (E.T.) on the last business day of the reporting period from various exchanges. The fair value of non-exchange-traded foreign currency option contracts is calculated by applying an industry standard model application for options valuation of foreign currency options, using as inputs the spot prices, interest rates, and option implied volatilities quoted as of approximately 3:00 P.M. (E.T.) on the last business day of the reporting period. U.S. Treasury bills are valued at the last available bid price received from independent pricing services as of the close of the last business day of the reporting period.
The Partnership considers, and the Funds considered, prices for commodity futures, swap and option contracts to be based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities (Level 1). The values of U.S. Treasury bills, non-exchange-traded forward, swap and certain option contracts for which market quotations are not readily available are priced by pricing services that derive fair values for those assets and liabilities from observable inputs (Level 2). As of and for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Partnership and the Funds did not hold any derivative instruments that were priced at fair value using unobservable inputs through the application of the General Partner’s assumptions and internal valuation pricing models (Level 3).
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Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2021
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Assets
Futures
$ 2,170,180
$ 2,170,180
$ -
$ -
Forwards
1,141,708
-
1,141,708
-
Total Assets
$ 3,311,888
$ 2,170,180
$ 1,141,708
$ -
Liabilities
Futures
$ 1,311,832
$ 1,311,832
$ -
$ -
Forwards
1,086,969
-
1,086,969
-
Total Liabilities
$ 2,398,801
$ 1,311,832
$ 1,086,969
$ -
December 31, 2020
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Assets
Futures
$ 3,551,366
$ 3,551,366
$ -
$ -
Forwards
1,174,624
-
1,174,624
-
Total Assets
$ 4,725,990
$ 3,551,366
$ 1,174,624
$ -
Liabilities
Futures
$ 1,232,532
$ 1,232,532
$ -
$ -
Forwards
865,929
-
865,929
-
Total Liabilities
$ 2,098,461
$ 1,232,532
$ 865,929
$ -
6.
Investment in the Funds:
On January 12, 2018, a portion of the assets allocated to FORT for trading were invested in FORT Contrarian Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. FORT Contrarian Master permitted accounts managed by FORT using its Global Contrarian Trading Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in FORT Contrarian Master on December 31, 2020.
On February 1, 2019, the assets allocated to ADG for trading were invested in ADG Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. ADG Master permitted accounts managed by ADG using its Systematic Macro Strategy, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in ADG Master on December 31, 2020.
On June 1, 2019, the assets allocated to Aquantum for trading were invested in Aquantum Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. Aquantum Master permitted accounts managed by Aquantum using its Aquantum Commodity Spread (ACS) Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Aquantum Master on December 31, 2020.
On January 1, 2018, the assets allocated to SECOR for trading were invested in SECOR Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of Delaware. SECOR Master permitted accounts managed by SECOR using a variation of the program traded by SECOR Alpha Master Fund L.P., a proprietary, systematic trading program, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in SECOR Master on June 30, 2019.
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On February 1, 2018, the assets allocated to AE Capital for trading were invested in AE Capital Master, a limited liability company organized under the limited liability company laws of the State of Delaware. AE Capital Master permitted accounts managed by AE Capital using its AE Systematic FX Fund Program, a proprietary, systematic trading system, to invest together in one trading vehicle. Effective April 3, 2019, the General Partner terminated AE Capital as an Advisor to the Partnership. For the interim period from April 4, 2019 through April 30, 2019, the Partnership’s assets previously allocated to AE Capital were not charged a management fee and were credited with interest income at a rate equal to the monthly average of the 4-week U.S. Treasury bill discount rate. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in AE Capital Master on April 30, 2019.
On December 1, 2015, the assets allocated to Cambridge for trading were invested in Cambridge Master, a limited partnership organized under the partnership laws of the State of Delaware. Effective October 1, 2018 until its termination effective March 31, 2019, Mesirow had undertaken to perform the Cambridge Initial Advisory Agreement and be bound by its terms in every way as if it were the original party to it in place of Cambridge. Cambridge Master permitted accounts managed by Mesirow/Cambridge using the Asian Markets Alpha Programme and the Emerging Markets Alpha Programme, each a proprietary, systematic trading program, to invest together in one trading vehicle. The Partnership fully redeemed its investment in Cambridge Master on March 31, 2019.
The General Partner is not aware of any material changes to the trading programs discussed above or in Note 1, “Organization” during the year ended December 31, 2021.
The Partnership’s trading of futures, forward and option contracts, as applicable, on commodities is done primarily on U.S. and foreign commodity exchanges. The Funds’ trading of futures, forward and option contracts, as applicable, on commodities was also done primarily on U.S. and foreign commodity exchanges. The Partnership engages, and the Funds engaged, in such trading through commodity brokerage accounts maintained with MS&Co.
Generally, a limited partner/member in the Funds withdrew all or part of its capital contribution and undistributed profits, if any, from the Funds as of the end of any month (the “Redemption Date”) after a request had been made to the General Partner/Trading Manager at least three days in advance of the Redemption Date. Such withdrawals were classified as a liability when the limited partner/member elected to redeem and informed the Funds. However, a limited partner/member had the right to request a withdrawal as of the end of any day if such request was received by the General Partner/Trading Manager at least three days in advance of the proposed withdrawal day.
Management fees, General Partner fees, ongoing selling agent fees and incentive fees are charged at the Partnership level. Clearing fees were borne by the Funds and allocated to the Funds’ limited partners/non-managing members, including the Partnership. Clearing fees are also borne by the Partnership directly. Professional fees were borne by the Funds and allocated to the Partnership, and are also charged directly at the Partnership level.
There were no investments in the Funds as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Summarized information reflecting the net investment income (loss), total trading results and net income (loss) of the Funds is shown in the following table:
For the year ended December 31, 2020
Net Investment
Income (Loss)
Total Trading
Results
Net Income (Loss)
ADG Master
$ (25,378)
$ (3,901,352)
$ (3,926,730)
Aquantum Master
(404,975)
1,636,543
1,231,568
FORT Contrarian Master
49,319
(1,394,605)
(1,345,286)
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Notes to Financial Statements
Summarized information reflecting the Partnership’s investment in and the Partnership’s pro-rata share of the results of operations of the Funds is shown in the following tables:
December 31, 2020
For the year ended December 31, 2020
% of
Expenses
Net
Partners’
Fair
Income
Clearing
Professional
Income
Investment
Redemptions
Funds
Capital
Value
(Loss)
Fees
Fees
(Loss)
Objective
Permitted
ADG Master
0.00%
$ -
$ (2,394,371)
$ 30,433
$ 38,290
$
(2,463,094)
Commodity Portfolio
Monthly
Aquantum Master
0.00%
-
935,609
230,114
36,116
669,379
Commodity Portfolio
Monthly
FORT Contrarian Master
0.00%
-
(83,278)
17,713
4,405
(105,396)
Commodity Portfolio
Monthly
Total
$ -
$ (1,542,040)
$ 278,260
$ 78,811
$ (1,899,111)
7.
Subscriptions, Distributions and Redemptions:
Subscriptions are accepted monthly from investors who become limited partners on the first day of the month after their subscriptions are processed. Distributions are made on a pro-rata basis at the sole discretion of the General Partner. No distributions have been made to date. The General Partner does not intend to make any distributions of the Partnership’s profits. A limited partner may require the Partnership to redeem its Redeemable Units at their net asset value as of the end of each month on three business days’ notice to the General Partner. There is no fee charged to limited partners in connection with redemptions.
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Notes to Financial Statements
8.
Financial Highlights:
Financial highlights for the limited partner Classes as a whole for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 were as follows:
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Per Redeemable Unit Performance
(for a unit outstanding throughout the year):*
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)
$ 122.31
$ 156.08
$ 156.23
$ (1.33)
$ (1.70)
$ (1.38)
$ 14.46
$ 17.41
$ 17.50
Net investment loss
(49.77)
(65.30)
(55.65)
(30.36)
(30.90)
(24.79)
(28.86)
(23.39)
(16.40)
Increase (decrease) for the year
72.54
90.78
100.58
(31.69)
(32.60)
(26.17)
(14.40)
(5.98)
1.10
Net asset value per Redeemable Unit, beginning of year
720.19
901.32
921.96
751.88
933.92
948.13
766.28
939.90
947.03
Net asset value per Redeemable Unit, end of year
$ 792.73
$ 992.10
$ 1,022.54
$ 720.19
$ 901.32
$ 921.96
$ 751.88
$ 933.92
$ 948.13
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Class A
Class D
Class Z
Ratios to Average Limited Partners’ Capital:
Net investment loss**
(6.4) %
(6.9) %
(5.5) %
(4.3) %
(3.5) %
(2.8) %
(3.8) %
(2.5) %
(1.7) %
Operating expenses
3.4 %
3.5 %
2.6 %
4.6 %
3.7 %
3.0 %
5.3 %
4.0 %
3.3 %
Incentive fees
3.0 %
3.4 %
2.9 %
0.1 %
0.1 %
0.1 %
0.4 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
Total expenses
6.4
%
6.9 %
5.5 %
4.7 %
3.8 %
3.1 %
5.7
%
4.3 %
3.6 %
Total return:
Total return before incentive fees
13.3 %
13.7 %
14.1 %
(4.1) %
(3.4) %
(2.6) %
(1.5) %
(0.3) %
0.5 %
Incentive fees
(3.2) %
(3.6) %
(3.2) %
(0.1) %
(0.1) %
(0.2) %
(0.4) %
(0.3) %
(0.4) %
Total return after incentive fees
10.1 %
10.1 %
10.9 %
(4.2) %
(3.5) %
(2.8) %
(1.9) %
(0.6) %
0.1 %
*
Net investment loss per Redeemable Unit is calculated by dividing the interest income less total expenses by the average number of Redeemable Units outstanding during the year. The net realized and unrealized gains (losses) per Redeemable Unit is a balancing amount necessary to reconcile the change in net asset value per Redeemable Unit with the other per unit information.
**
Interest income less total expenses.
The above ratios and total return may vary for individual investors based on the timing of capital transactions during the year. Additionally, these ratios are calculated for the limited partner class using the limited partners’ share of income, expenses and average net assets of the Partnership and include the income and expenses allocated from the Funds.
9.
Financial Instrument Risks:
In the normal course of business, the Partnership is, and the Funds were, parties to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments. These financial instruments may include forwards, futures, options, and swaps, whose values are based upon an underlying asset, index, or reference rate, and generally represent future commitments to exchange currencies or cash balances, or to purchase or sell other financial instruments at specific terms at specified future dates, or, in the case of derivative commodity instruments, to have a reasonable possibility to be settled in cash, through physical delivery or with another financial instrument. These instruments may be traded on an exchange, a swap execution facility or over-the-counter (“OTC”). Exchange-traded instruments include futures and certain standardized forward, option and swap contracts. Certain swap contracts may also be traded on a swap execution facility or OTC. OTC contracts are negotiated between contracting parties and also include certain forward and option contracts. Specific market movements of commodities or futures contracts underlying an option cannot accurately be predicted. The purchaser of an option may lose the entire premium paid for the option. The writer or seller of an option has unlimited risk. Each of these instruments is subject to various risks similar to those relating to the underlying financial instruments, including market and credit risk. In general, the risks associated with OTC contracts are greater than those associated with exchange-traded instruments because of the greater risk of default by the counterparty to an OTC contract. The General Partner estimates that at any given time approximately 10.0% to 37.5% of the Partnership’s contracts are traded OTC.
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Notes to Financial Statements
Futures Contracts
. The Partnership trades, and the Funds traded, futures contracts. A futures contract is a firm commitment to buy or sell a specified quantity of investments, currency or a standardized amount of a deliverable grade commodity, at a specified price on a specified future date, unless the contract is closed before the delivery date or if the delivery quantity is something where physical delivery cannot occur (such as the S&P 500 Index), whereby such contract is settled in cash. Payments (“variation margin”) may be made or received by the Partnership and (prior to the Partnership’s redemptions from the Funds) the Funds each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying contracts, and are (or were with respect to the Funds) recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership and the Funds. When the contract is closed, the Partnership records, and the Funds recorded, a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed. Transactions in futures contracts require participants to make both initial margin deposits of cash or other assets and variation margin deposits, through the futures broker, directly with the exchange on which the contracts are traded. Net realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses) on futures contracts are (or were with respect to the Funds) included in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Income and Expenses.
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts.
Forward foreign currency contracts are those contracts where the Partnership agrees, and the Funds agreed to receive or deliver a fixed quantity of foreign currency for an agreed-upon price on an agreed-upon future date. Forward foreign currency contracts are valued daily, and the Partnership’s and previously the Funds’ net equity therein, representing unrealized gain or loss on the contracts as measured by the difference between the forward foreign exchange rates at the dates of entry into the contracts and the forward foreign exchange rates at the reporting date, is (or were with respect to the Funds) included in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Financial Condition. Net realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses) on forward foreign currency contracts are recognized in the period in which the contract is closed or the changes occur, respectively, and are (or were with respect to the Funds) included in the Partnership’s/Funds’
Statements of Income and Expenses.
London Metal Exchange Forward Contracts.
Metal contracts traded on the London Metal Exchange (“LME”) represent a firm commitment to buy or sell a specified quantity of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin, zinc and other metals. LME contracts traded by the Partnership and the Funds are (or were with respect to the Funds) cash-settled based on prompt dates published by the LME. Variation margin may be made or received by the Partnership (and may have been made or received by the Funds) each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying contracts, and are (or were with respect to the Funds) recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership and the Funds. A contract is considered offset when all long positions have been matched with a like number of short positions settling on the same prompt date. When the contract is closed at the prompt date, the Partnership records, and the Funds recorded, a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed. Transactions in LME contracts require participants to make both initial margin deposits of cash or other assets and variation margin deposits, through the broker, directly with the LME. Net realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses) on metal contracts are (or were with respect to the Funds) included in the Partnership’s/Funds’ Statements of Income and Expenses.
Market risk is the potential for changes in the value of the financial instruments traded by the Partnership/Funds due to market changes, including interest and foreign exchange rate movements and fluctuations in commodity or security prices. Market risk is directly impacted by the volatility and liquidity in the markets in which the related underlying assets are traded. The Partnership is, and the Funds were, exposed to market risk equal to the value of the futures and forward contracts held and unlimited liability on such contracts sold short.
Credit risk is the possibility that a loss may occur due to the failure of a counterparty to perform according to the terms of a contract. The Partnership’s/Funds’ risk of loss in the event of counterparty default is (or was with respect to the Funds) typically limited to the amounts recognized in the Statements of Financial Condition and is (was) not represented by the contract or notional amounts of the instruments. The Partnership’s/Funds’ risk of loss is (or was with respect to the Funds) reduced through the use of legally enforceable master netting agreements with counterparties that permit the Partnership, and permitted the Funds, to offset unrealized gains and losses and other assets and liabilities with such counterparties upon the occurrence of certain events. The Partnership has, and the Funds had, credit risk and concentration risk, as MS&Co. or an MS&Co. affiliate are (or were with respect to the Funds) counterparties or brokers with respect to the Partnership’s/Funds’ assets. For certain OTC contracts traded by Cambridge Master and SECOR Master prior to their respective full redemptions, JPMorgan was the counterparty with respect to those assets. Credit risk with respect to exchange-traded instruments is (or was with respect to the Funds) reduced to the extent that, through MS&Co. or an MS&Co. affiliate, the Partnership’s/Funds’ counterparty is
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or was an exchange or clearing organization.
The General Partner/Trading Manager monitors and attempts (or with respect to the Funds, monitored and attempted) to mitigate the Partnership’s/Funds’ risk exposure on a daily basis through financial, credit and risk management monitoring systems, and accordingly, believes (or with respect to the Funds, believed) that it has or had effective procedures for evaluating and limiting the credit and market risks to which the Partnership/Funds may or may have been subject. These monitoring systems generally allow the General Partner/Trading Manager to statistically analyze actual trading results with risk-adjusted performance indicators and correlation statistics. In addition, online monitoring systems provide account analysis of futures, exchange-cleared swaps, forward and option contracts by sector, margin requirements, gain and loss transactions and collateral positions.
The majority of these financial instruments mature within one year of the inception date. However, due to the nature of the Partnership’s/Funds’ business, these instruments may not be or have not been held to maturity.
The risk to the limited partners that have purchased Redeemable Units is limited to the amount of their share of the Partnership’s net assets and undistributed profits. This limited liability is a result of the organization of the Partnership as a limited partnership under New York law.
In the ordinary course of business, the Partnership/Funds enter (or with respect to the Funds, entered) into contracts and agreements that contain various representations and warranties and which provide or provided general indemnifications. The Partnership’s/Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements cannot be determined, as this could include future claims that have not yet been made against the Partnership/Funds. The General Partner/Trading Manager consider the risk of any future obligation relating to these indemnifications to be remote.
Since its discovery in December 2019, a new strain of coronavirus, which causes the viral disease known as COVID-19, has spread from China to many other countries, including the United States. The outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary has declared a public health emergency in the United States in response to the outbreak.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related voluntary and government-imposed social and business restrictions has impacted global economic conditions and adversely affected various industries (including, but not limited to, transportation, hospitality and entertainment), resulting in volatility in the global financial markets, disruption in global supply chains, increased unemployment, and operational challenges such as the temporary and permanent closures of businesses, sheltering-in-place directives and increased remote work protocols. If the pandemic continues to be prolonged or the actions of governments and central banks are unsuccessful, including actions to facilitate the comprehensive distribution of effective vaccines, the adverse impact on the global economy will deepen.
Given the continuing development of this situation, it is not possible to accurately predict how the market disruptions caused by COVID-19 will further impact the U.S and other world economies or the value of the Partnership’s investments, or for how long the effects of such events will continue. Nevertheless, the novel coronavirus continues to present material uncertainty and risk with respect to the Partnership’s investments and operations.
10.
Subsequent Events:
The General Partner evaluates events that occur after the balance sheet date but before and up until financial statements are available to be issued. The General Partner has assessed the subsequent events through the date the financial statements were issued and has determined that, other than disclosed below, there were no subsequent events requiring adjustment to or disclosure in the financial statements.
Effective February 25, 2022, Etsuko Jennings resigned as a director of the General Partner
.
Selected unaudited quarterly financial data for the Partnership for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 are summarized below:
For the period from
October 1, 2021 to
December 31, 2021
For the period from
July 1, 2021 to
September 30, 2021
For the period from
April 1, 2021 to
June 30, 2021
For the period from
January 1, 2021 to
March 31, 2021
Total investment income
$
7,244
$
6,284
$
1,882
$
6,329
Total expenses
(525,406 )
(1,323,129 )
(1,461,726 )
(1,220,455 )
Total trading results
(2,264,109 )
3,138,442
6,318,701
4,432,943
Net income (loss)
$
(2,782,271 )
$
1,821,597
$
4,858,857
$
3,218,817
Increase (decrease) in Net Asset Value per Redeemable Unit:
Class A
$
(33.61 )
$
21.23
$
51.85
$
33.07
Class D
$
(42.06 )
$
26.57
$
64.89
$
41.38
Class Z
$
(41.34 )
$
29.29
$
68.48
$
44.15
For the period from
October 1, 2020 to
December 31, 2020
For the period from
July 1, 2020 to
September 30, 2020
For the period from
April 1, 2020 to
June 30, 2020
For the period from
January 1, 2020 to
March 31, 2020
Total investment income
$
13,130
$
17,374
$
21,756
$
272,290
Total expenses
(832,556 )
(801,091 )
(1,091,261 )
(1,319,069 )
Total trading results
4,045,661
1,121,762
(3,470,258 )
(2,907,961 )
Net income (loss)
$
3,226,235
$
338,045
$
(4,539,763 )
$
(3,954,740 )
Increase (decrease) in Net Asset Value per Redeemable Unit:
Class A
$
29.87
$
2.25
$
(34.96 )
$
(28.85 )
Class D
$
37.92
$
3.36
$
(40.86 )
$
(33.02 )
Class Z
$
40.46
$
5.08
$
(39.92 )
$
(31.79 )

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
.
Not applicable.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
.
The Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Partnership on the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods expected in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Partnership in the reports it files is accumulated and communicated to management, including the President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the General Partner, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure and appropriate SEC filings.
The General Partner is responsible for ensuring that there is an adequate and effective process for establishing, maintaining and evaluating disclosure controls and procedures for the Partnership’s external disclosures.
The General Partner’s President and CFO have evaluated the effectiveness of the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules13a-15(e)
and 15d-15(e)
under the Exchange Act) as of December 31, 2021 and, based on that evaluation, the General Partner’s President and CFO have concluded that, at that date, the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
The Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting
is a process under the supervision of the General Partner’s President and CFO to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP. These controls include policies and procedures that:
• pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Partnership;
• provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) the Partnership’s receipts are handled and expenditures are made only pursuant to authorizations of the General Partner; and
• provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection and correction of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Partnership’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
The report included in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.” includes the General Partner’s report on internal control over financial reporting (“Management’s Report”).
There were no changes in the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2021 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information
.
Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus (COVID-19)
outbreak that occurred subsequent to year end could impact the operations and financial performance of the Partnership’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Partnership’s investments will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. If the financial performance of the Partnership’s investments is impacted because of these factors for an extended period, the Partnership’s performance may be adversely affected.
Effective February 25, 2022, Etsuko Jennings resigned as a director of the General Partner.
PART III

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
.
The Partnership has no directors or executive officers and its affairs are managed by its General Partner. Investment decisions are made by the Advisors.
The directors and executive officers of the General Partner are Patrick T. Egan (President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Partner), Steven Ross (Chief Financial Officer and Director) and Matthew R. Graver (Director). Each director holds office until the earlier of his or her death, resignation or removal. Vacancies on the board of directors may be filled by either (i) the majority vote of the remaining directors or (ii) MSD Holdings, as the sole member of the General Partner. The officers of the General Partner are designated by the General Partner’s board of directors. Each officer will hold office until his or her successor is designated and qualified or until his or her death, resignation or removal.
Directors of the General Partner are responsible for overall corporate governance of the General Partner and meet periodically to consider strategic decisions regarding the General Partner’s activities. Under CFTC rules, each Director of the General Partner is deemed to be a principal of the General Partner and, as a result, is listed as such with the NFA. Patrick T. Egan and Steven Ross serve on the General Partner’s Investment Committee and are the trading principals responsible for allocation decisions.
Patrick T. Egan
, age 53, has been a Director of the General Partner since December 2010. Since December 2010, Mr. Egan has been a principal and registered as an associated person of the General Partner, and is an associate member of NFA. Since October 2014, Mr. Egan has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Partner. Since August 2013, Mr. Egan has been registered as a swap associated person of the General Partner. From September 2013 to May 2014, Mr. Egan served as a Vice President of Morgan Stanley Strategies LLC, (formerly, Morgan Stanley GWM Feeder Strategies LLC), which acts as a general partner to multiple alternative investment entities, and Morgan Stanley AI GP LLC, (formerly, Morgan Stanley HedgePremier GP LLC), which acts as a general partner and administrative agent to numerous hedge fund feeder funds. From September 2013 to May 2014, Mr. Egan was registered as an associated person and listed as a principal of each such entity. Since January 2013, each such entity has been registered as a commodity pool operator with the CFTC. Mr. Egan was responsible for overseeing the implementation of certain CFTC and NFA regulatory requirements applicable to such entities. From June 2009 to December 2014, Mr. Egan was employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as Executive Director and as Co-Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley Managed Futures from June 2009 through June 2011 and as Chief Risk Officer for Morgan Stanley Managed Futures from June 2011 through October 2014. Since October 2014, Mr. Egan has been responsible for management of the day-to-day
operations of Morgan Stanley Managed Futures. Since January 2015, Mr. Egan has been employed by the General Partner. From November 2010 to October 2014, Mr. Egan was registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. From April 2007 through June 2009, Mr. Egan was employed by MS & Co., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as Head of Due Diligence and Manager Research for Morgan Stanley’s Managed Futures Department. From April 2007 through June 2009, Mr. Egan was registered as an associated person of MS & Co. From March 1993 through April 2007, Mr. Egan was employed by Morgan Stanley DW Inc., a financial services firm, where his initial responsibilities included serving as an analyst and manager within the Managed Futures Department (with primary responsibilities for product development, due diligence, investment analysis and risk management of the firm’s commodity pools) and later included serving as Head of Due Diligence and Manager Research for Morgan Stanley’s Managed Futures Department. From February 1998 through April 2007, Mr. Egan was registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley DW Inc. From August 1991 through March 1993, Mr. Egan was employed by Dean Witter Intercapital, the asset management arm of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., where his responsibilities included serving as a mutual fund administration associate. Mr. Egan also served as a Director from November 2004 through October 2006, and from November 2006 through October 2008 of the Managed Funds Association’s Board of Directors, a position he was elected to by industry peers for two consecutive two-year terms. Mr. Egan earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance in May 1991 from the University of Notre Dame.
Steven Ross
, age 50, has been Chief Financial Officer and a principal of the General Partner since July 2014 and a Director of the General Partner since February 2016. Mr. Ross has been employed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a financial services firm, since September 2005, where his responsibilities include serving as an Assistant Treasurer of Morgan Stanley with respect to certain investment vehicles publicly offered by Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ross is also an Executive Director of the Morgan Stanley Fund Administration Group where he is responsible for finance and accounting matters for certain private funds offered by Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Mr. Ross was employed by JPMorgan Investor Services Co., a financial services firm, from December 1997 through September 2005, where his responsibilities included serving as a Vice President responsible for the accounting of certain funds sponsored by JP Morgan Chase & Co. and other large fund families serviced by JPMorgan Investor Services Co. From April 1997 to December 1997, Mr. Ross was employed by Investors Bank & Trust, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included performing mutual fund accounting for financial services firms. Mr. Ross began his career at Putnam Investments LLC, a financial services firm, where he was responsible for providing broker services for certain funds sponsored by Putnam Investments LLC from August 1996 to April 1997. Mr. Ross received a B.S. in Accounting from Rhode Island College in May 1995.
Matthew R. Graver,
age 54, has been a Director of the General Partner and listed as a principal since November 2016. Since January 2008, Mr. Graver has served as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a financial services firm, and Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley AIP Fund of Hedge Funds, a business unit offering managed portfolios of hedge funds. Since November 2015, Mr. Graver has been listed as a principal and director of Morgan Stanley AIP Cayman GP Ltd., a commodity pool operator. From January 2005 to January 2008, Mr. Graver served as Executive Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management and from August 2003 to January 2005, Mr. Graver served as Vice President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. From August 2003 to January 2008, Mr. Graver’s primary responsibilities included serving as Head of Operational Due Diligence for Morgan Stanley AIP Fund of Hedge Funds in which role he oversaw due diligence into operational factors of alternative investment entities. From July 1997 to July 2003, Mr. Graver was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an international auditing and professional services firm, where he served as a senior audit manager and was responsible for managing independent audits of financial services firms. From June 1993 to June 1997, Mr. Graver was employed by PNC Bank, a bank offering consumer and corporate services, where he served as a mutual fund accounting manager and was responsible for managing an accounting team that performed daily accounting functions and valuation calculations for a group of mutual funds. From July 1989 through June 1993, Mr. Graver was employed by Coopers & Lybrand LLP, a predecessor accounting firm to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he was a senior audit associate and was responsible for performing audits of financial services firms. Mr. Graver earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in May 1989 from Pennsylvania State University and Masters of Business Administration from Villanova University in May 2002.
The Partnership has not adopted a code of ethics that applies to officers because it has no officers. In addition, the Partnership has not adopted any procedures by which investors may recommend nominees to the Partnership’s board of directors and has not established an audit committee because it has no board of directors.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation
.
The Partnership has no directors or executive officers. As a limited partnership, the business of the Partnership is managed by the General Partner, which is responsible for the administration of the business affairs of the Partnership. Effective July 1, 2020, the General Partner fees paid by the Partnership to the General Partner was reduced for all limited partners from a monthly rate of 1/12 of 1.00% of the adjusted month-end
net assets to a monthly rate of 1/12 of 0.875% of the adjusted month-end
net assets.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
.
(a) Security ownership of certain beneficial owners
. As of February 28, 2022, the Partnership knows of no person who beneficially owns more than 5% of the Redeemable Units outstanding.
(b) Security ownership of management
. Under the terms of the Limited Partnership Agreement, the Partnership’s affairs are managed by the General Partner.
The following table indicates securities owned by management as of December 31, 2021:
(1) Title of Class
(2) Name of
Beneficial Owner
(3) Amount and Nature
of Beneficial Ownership
(4) Percent of
Class
Class Z Redeemable Units
General Partner
704.5560
83.56%
Principals of the General Partner who own Redeemable Units:*
* Patrick T. Egan
8.3490
Redeemable Units
* No one principal owns more than 1% of the Redeemable Units.
(c) Changes in control
. None.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
.
(a) Transactions with related persons.
None.
(b) Review, approval or ratification of transactions with related persons.
Not applicable.
(c) Promoters and certain control persons
. MS&Co., Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and the General Partner could be considered promoters for purposes of Item 404(c) of Regulation S-K.
The nature and the amounts of compensation each promoter received or will receive, if any, from the Partnership are set forth under “Item 1. Business,
” “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
.” and “Item 11. Executive Compensation
.”

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
.
(1) Audit Fees
. The aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 for professional services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) for the audit of the Partnership’s annual financial statements, review of financial statements included in the Partnership’s Forms 10-Q and 10-K and other services normally provided in connection with regulatory filings or engagements were:
2021 $81,583
2020 $158,739
(2) Audit-Related Fees
. None.
(3) Tax Fees. The Partnership did not pay EY any amounts in 2021 and 2020 for professional services in connection with tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning.
(4) All Other Fees
. None.
(5) Not Applicable.
(6) Not Applicable.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
.
(1) Financial Statements:
Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Condensed Schedules of Investments at December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Statements of Income and Expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Notes to Financial Statements.
(2) Exhibits:
3.1 Certificate of Limited Partnership of the Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on December 20, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated May 21, 2003 (filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 3, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated September 21, 2005 (filed as Exhibit 99.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 3, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(c) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated September 19, 2008 (filed as Exhibit 99.4 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 3, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(d) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated September 28, 2009 (filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 30, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(e) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated June 29, 2010 (filed as Exhibit 3.1(e) to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 2, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference).
(f) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated September 2, 2011 (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 7, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference).
(g) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated August 7, 2013 (filed as Exhibit 3.1(g) to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
(h) Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated September 13, 2017 (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 18, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.2 Limited Partnership Agreement (filed as Exhibit A to the Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on April 22, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment No. 1 to the Limited Partnership Agreement, dated May 31, 2009 (filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 3, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Amendment No. 2 to the Limited Partnership Agreement dated as of August 8, 2014 and effective October 1, 2014 (filed as Exhibit 3.2(b) to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed August 13, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference).
(c) Amendment No. 3 to the Limited Partnership Agreement dated as of December 30, 2015 and effective January 1, 2016 (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.3 Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement dated November 22, 2017 (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 22, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
4.1 Description of Securities (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 25, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.1 Amended & Restated Commodity Futures Customer Agreement between the Partnership and MS&Co., effective September 24, 2013 (filed as Exhibit 10.1(b) to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) U.S. Treasury Securities Purchase Authorization Agreement between the Partnership and MS&Co., effective June 1, 2015 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 4, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Supplement to the Amended & Restated Commodity Futures Customer Agreement among the Partnership, Aspect Master, Cambridge Master, Willowbridge Master, Boronia I, LLC, Graham Master and MS&Co., dated July 25, 2017 (filed as Exhibit 10.1(b) to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 28, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.2 Subscription Escrow Agreement among the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC and The Bank of New York (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 27, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment No. 5 to the Escrow Agreement among The Bank of New York, the General Partner and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (filed as Exhibit 10.2(a) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 27, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.3 Escrow Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, UMB Fund Services, Inc. and UMB Bank, N.A. (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 11, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.4 Transfer Agency Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and UMB Fund Services, Inc. (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 11, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.5 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Graham (filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on December 20, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment No. 1 to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Graham, effective April 1, 2014 (filed as Exhibit 10.3(b) to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 14, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.6 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Willowbridge (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on December 20, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Willowbridge, effective January 1, 2013 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.7 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Aspect (filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 16, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.8 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Altis (filed as Exhibit 10.13 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 3, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Altis, effective August 1, 2015 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 6, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.9 Amended and Restated Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement between the Partnership, the General Partner and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, dated March 3, 2016 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 8, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Amended and Restated Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 8, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Amendment to the Amended and Restated Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.10 Form of Subscription Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.12 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2012 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.11 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and JE Moody (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 1, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and JE Moody, effective January 1, 2016 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.12 Amended & Restated Master Services Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner and SS&C Technologies, Inc. (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 6, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.13 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Cambridge (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 3, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment No. 1 to Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Cambridge (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Novation Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, Cambridge and Mesirow (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 4, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.14 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and ISAM (filed as Exhibit 10.12 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 12, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Novation Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, ISAM, ISAM (USA) LLC, ISAM Europe LLP and ISAM Funds (UK) Limited (filed as Exhibit 10.12 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 5, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Amended and Restated Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and ISAM (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 6, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
(c) Novation Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, ISAM (USA) LLC, ISAM Funds (UK) Limited, ISAM SM and ISAM (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 31, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
(d) Amendment to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, ISAM (USA) LLC, ISAM Funds (UK) Limited and ISAM SM (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 30, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.15 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and SECOR (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.16 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and FORT (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.17 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and AE Capital (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 25, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.18 Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Distribution Inc., and Harbor Investment Advisory LLC (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 8, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Distribution Inc. and Harbor Investment Advisory LLC (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 8, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b) Amendment to the Alternative Investment Selling Agent Agreement by and among the Partnership, the General Partner, Morgan Stanley Distribution Inc. and Harbor Investment Advisory LLC (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.19 Foreign Exchange and Bullion Authorization Agreement between Aspect Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.20 International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Aspect Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.2 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.21 Schedule to International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Aspect Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.3 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.22 2016 Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin to the Schedule to the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Aspect Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.4 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.23 Institutional Account Agreement between Aspect Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.5 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.24 Foreign Exchange and Bullion Authorization Agreement among Cambridge, Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.6 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment and Assignment of Foreign Exchange and Bullion Authorization Agreement by and among Cambridge, Mesirow, Cambridge Master Fund and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 16, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.25 International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.7 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 16, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.26 Schedule to International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.8 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.27 2016 Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin to the Schedule to the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.9 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.28 Institutional Account Agreement between Cambridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.10 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.29 Foreign Exchange and Bullion Authorization Agreement between Graham Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.11 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.30 International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Graham Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.12 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.31 Schedule to International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Graham Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.13 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.32 2016 Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin to the Schedule to the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Graham Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.14 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.33 Institutional Account Agreement between Graham Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.15 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.34 Foreign Exchange and Bullion Authorization Agreement among Willowbridge, Willowbridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.16 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.35 International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Willowbridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.17 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.36 Schedule to International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Willowbridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.18 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.37 2016 Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin to the Schedule to the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement between Willowbridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.19 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.38 Institutional Account Agreement between Willowbridge Master and JPMorgan (filed as Exhibit 11.20 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.39 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and ADG (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8- K filed on February 6, 2019 and incorporated herein by reference).
(a) Amendment to the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and ADG, effective January 1, 2020 (filed as Exhibit 10.39(a) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 26, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.40 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Aquantum (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 5, 2019 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.41 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Millburn (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 3, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.42 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Episteme (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 5, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.43 Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner, and DCM (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
The exhibits required to be filed by Item 601 of regulation S-K
are incorporated herein by reference:
31.1 - Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification (Certification of President and Director) (filed herewith).
31.2 - Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification (Certification of Chief Financial Officer and Director) (filed herewith).
32.1 - Section 1350 Certification (Certification of President and Director) (filed herewith).
32.2 - Section 1350 Certification (Certification of Chief Financial Officer and Director) (filed herewith).
101.INS Inline XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.LAB Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
104. Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).