[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 96 (Thursday, May 17, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29429-29435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11928]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-66973; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2012-39]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing 
of Proposed Rule Change Relating To Listing and Trading the Global 
Alpha & Beta ETF Pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600

May 11, 2012.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act'' or ``Exchange Act'') \1\ and Rule 19b-4

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thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that, on April 30, 2012, NYSE 
Arca, Inc. (``Exchange'' or ``NYSE Arca'') filed with the Securities 
and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') the proposed rule change as 
described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared 
by the Exchange. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit 
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance 
of the Proposed Rule Change

    The Exchange proposes to list and trade the following under NYSE 
Arca Equities Rule 8.600 (``Managed Fund Shares''): Global Alpha & Beta 
ETF. The text of the proposed rule change is available at the Exchange, 
the Commission's Public Reference Room, and www.nyse.com.

II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

    In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization 
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the 
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the 
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at 
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared 
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most 
significant parts of such statements.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    The Exchange proposes to list and trade the following Managed Fund 
Shares \3\ (``Shares'') under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600: Global 
Alpha & Beta ETF (``Fund'').\4\ The Shares will be offered by 
AdvisorShares Trust (``Trust''), a statutory trust organized under the 
laws of the State of Delaware and registered with the Commission as an 
open-end management investment company.\5\ The investment adviser to 
the Fund is AdvisorShares Investments, LLC (``Adviser''). Your Source 
Financial, PLC (``Sub-Adviser'') is the Fund's sub-adviser and provides 
day-to-day portfolio management of the Fund. Foreside Fund Services, 
LLC (``Distributor'') is the principal underwriter and distributor of 
the Fund's Shares. The Bank of New York Mellon (``Administrator'') 
serves as the administrator, custodian, transfer agent, and fund 
accounting agent for the Fund.
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    \3\ A Managed Fund Share is a security that represents an 
interest in an investment company registered under the Investment 
Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1) (``1940 Act'') organized as an 
open-end investment company or similar entity that invests in a 
portfolio of securities selected by its investment adviser 
consistent with its investment objectives and policies. In contrast, 
an open-end investment company that issues Investment Company Units, 
listed and traded on the Exchange under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 
5.2(j)(3), seeks to provide investment results that correspond 
generally to the price and yield performance of a specific foreign 
or domestic stock index, fixed income securities index, or 
combination thereof.
    \4\ The Commission approved NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600 and 
the listing and trading of certain funds of the PowerShares Actively 
Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust on the Exchange pursuant to Rule 
8.600 in Securities Exchange Act Release No. 57619 (April 4, 2008), 
73 FR 19544 (April 10, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-2008-25). The Commission 
also has approved listing and trading on the Exchange of a number of 
actively managed funds under Rule 8.600. See, e.g., Securities 
Exchange Act Release Nos. 63076 (October 12, 2010), 75 FR 63874 
(October 18, 2010) (SR-NYSEArca-2010-79) (order approving Exchange 
listing and trading of Cambria Global Tactical ETF); 63802 (January 
31, 2011), 76 FR 6503 (February 4, 2011) (SR-NYSEArca-2010-118) 
(order approving Exchange listing and trading of the SiM Dynamic 
Allocation Diversified Income ETF and SiM Dynamic Allocation Growth 
Income ETF); and 65468 (October 3, 2011), 76 FR 62873 (October 11, 
2001) (SR-NYSEArca-2011-51) (order approving Exchange listing and 
trading of TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF).
    \5\ The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On January 30, 
2012, the Trust filed with the Commission Form N-1A under the 
Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a) and under the 1940 Act 
relating to the Fund (File Nos. 333-157876 and 811-22110) 
(``Registration Statement''). The description of the operation of 
the Trust and the Fund herein is based, in part, on the Registration 
Statement. In addition, the Commission has issued an order granting 
certain exemptive relief to the Trust under the 1940 Act. See 
Investment Company Act Release No. 29291 (May 28, 2010) (File No. 
812-13677) (``Exemptive Order'').
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    Commentary .06 to Rule 8.600 provides that, if the investment 
adviser to the investment company issuing Managed Fund Shares is 
affiliated with a broker-dealer, such investment adviser shall erect a 
``fire wall'' between the investment adviser and the broker-dealer with 
respect to access to information concerning the composition and/or 
changes to such investment company portfolio. In addition, Commentary 
.06 further requires that personnel who make decisions on the open-end 
fund's portfolio composition must be subject to procedures designed to 
prevent the use and dissemination of material nonpublic information 
regarding the open-end fund's portfolio.\6\ Commentary .06 to Rule 
8.600 is similar to Commentary .03(a)(i) and (iii) to NYSE Arca 
Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3); however, Commentary .06 in connection with the 
establishment of a ``fire wall'' between the investment adviser and the 
broker-dealer reflects the applicable open-end fund's portfolio, not an 
underlying benchmark index, as is the case with index-based funds. 
Neither the Adviser nor the Sub-Adviser is affiliated with a broker-
dealer. In the event (a) the Adviser or the Sub-Adviser becomes newly 
affiliated with a broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser or sub-adviser 
becomes affiliated with a broker-dealer, it will implement a fire wall 
with respect to such broker-dealer regarding access to information 
concerning the composition and/or changes to the portfolio, and will be 
subject to procedures designed to prevent the use and dissemination of 
material non-public information regarding such portfolio.
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    \6\ An investment adviser to an open-end fund is required to be 
registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (``Advisers 
Act''). As a result, the Adviser and Sub-Adviser and their related 
personnel are subject to the provisions of Rule 204A-1 under the 
Advisers Act relating to codes of ethics. This Rule requires 
investment advisers to adopt a code of ethics that reflects the 
fiduciary nature of the relationship to clients as well as 
compliance with other applicable securities laws. Accordingly, 
procedures designed to prevent the communication and misuse of non-
public information by an investment adviser must be consistent with 
Rule 204A-1 under the Advisers Act. In addition, Rule 206(4)-7 under 
the Advisers Act makes it unlawful for an investment adviser to 
provide investment advice to clients unless such investment adviser 
has (i) adopted and implemented written policies and procedures 
reasonably designed to prevent violation, by the investment adviser 
and its supervised persons, of the Advisers Act and the Commission 
rules adopted thereunder; (ii) implemented, at a minimum, an annual 
review regarding the adequacy of the policies and procedures 
established pursuant to subparagraph (i) above and the effectiveness 
of their implementation; and (iii) designated an individual (who is 
a supervised person) responsible for administering the policies and 
procedures adopted under subparagraph (i) above.
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Description of the Fund
    According to the Registration Statement, the Fund's investment 
objective is long-term capital growth. The Fund is an exchange-traded 
fund (``ETF'') that is actively managed and thus does not seek to 
replicate the performance of a specific index.
    The Fund is a ``fund of funds'' that seeks to achieve its 
investment objective by investing, under normal conditions,\7\ 80% or 
more in other U.S.-listed exchange-traded products (``Underlying

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ETPs''),\8\ U.S. exchange-listed common stock of issuers of any 
capitalization range, and U.S. exchange-listed sponsored American 
Depositary Receipts (``ADRs'') \9\ that provide investment exposure to 
global equity markets and that meet certain selection criteria 
established by the Sub-Adviser.
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    \7\ ``Normal conditions'' as used herein includes, but is not 
limited to, the absence of adverse market, economic, political or 
other conditions, including extreme volatility or trading halts in 
the fixed income markets or the financial markets generally; 
operational issues causing dissemination of inaccurate market 
information; or force majeure type events such as systems failure, 
natural or man-made disaster, act of God, armed conflict, act of 
terrorism, riot or labor disruption or any similar intervening 
circumstance.
    \8\ Underlying ETPs include Investment Company Units (as 
described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(3)); Portfolio 
Depositary Receipts (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.100); 
Trust Issued Receipts (as described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 
8.200); Commodity-Based Trust Shares (as described in NYSE Arca 
Equities Rule 8.201); Currency Trust Shares (as described in NYSE 
Arca Equities Rule 8.202); Commodity Index Trust Shares (as 
described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.203); Trust Units (as 
described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.500); Managed Fund Shares (as 
described in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600); and closed-end funds. 
The Underlying ETPs all will be listed and traded in the U.S. on 
registered exchanges. The Underlying ETPs in which the Fund may 
invest will primarily be index-based ETFs that hold substantially 
all of their assets in securities representing a specific index. The 
Fund intends to invest in ETFs consistent with the requirements of 
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act, or any rule, regulation, or order 
of the Commission or interpretation thereof. The Fund will only make 
such investments in conformity with the requirements of Subchapter M 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (``Code'').
    \9\ ADRs are U.S. dollar denominated receipts representing 
interests in the securities of a foreign issuer, which securities 
may not necessarily be denominated in the same currency as the 
securities into which they may be converted. ADRs are receipts 
typically issued by United States banks and trust companies which 
evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by a foreign 
corporation. Generally, ADRs in registered form are designed for use 
in domestic securities markets and are traded on exchanges or over-
the-counter in the United States. The Fund may invest up to 10% of 
total assets in ADRs traded over-the-counter.
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    The Sub-Adviser will seek to achieve the Fund's investment 
objective by implementing a ``top-down'' portfolio management style. 
This management style begins with a look at the overall economic 
picture and current market conditions and then narrows its focus down 
to sectors, industries, or countries and ultimately to individual 
companies. The final step is a fundamental analysis of each individual 
security and to a lesser extent technical analysis. A ``top-down'' 
portfolio management style utilizes a tactical and globally diversified 
allocation strategy in an attempt to reduce risk and increase overall 
performance.
    Prior to making an investment for the Fund, the Sub-Adviser will 
consider two indicators: (i) the 200-day moving average of the S&P 500 
Index (``Index''); and (ii) an inverted yield curve.\10\ If the Index 
is below its 200-day moving average or if the yield curve is inverted, 
the Sub-Adviser will maintain a defensive position in the Fund's 
portfolio.\11\
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    \10\ An inverted yield curve occurs when short-term interest 
rates exceed long term rates and historically has been viewed as an 
indicator of a pending economic recession.
    \11\ Such a defensive position would be a more conservative 
allocation involving any combination of (a) reducing equity 
exposures (i.e., U.S. exchange-listed common stock and U.S. 
exchange-listed ADRs), (b) investing in inverse ETFs (the Fund may 
invest up to 10% of its total assets in leveraged, inverse, or 
inverse leveraged Underlying ETPs), and (c) increasing investments 
in short-term, high-quality debt securities and money market 
instruments, cash, and cash equivalents, including through 
increasing investments in U.S. exchange-listed Underlying ETPs 
holding short-term debt or cash and cash equivalents.
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    The Fund's asset allocation and performance baseline benchmark is 
the Index. The Index consists of ten separate industry sectors--each of 
which has a weighting in the Index as a whole. In selecting investments 
for the Fund's portfolio, the Sub-Adviser will seek to add value by 
overweighting sectors that the Sub-Adviser expects to perform well and 
underweighting sectors that it expects to perform poorly.
    The Sub-Adviser seeks to maintain diversification among and across 
economic sectors, industries, and countries. The Sub-Adviser will 
consider the following factors when selling investments in the Fund's 
portfolio: (i) Whether an equity security has reached a price 
considered to be fully valued; (ii) business or sector risk exposure to 
a specific security or class of securities; (iii) overvaluation or 
overweighting of the position in the Fund's portfolio; (iv) change in 
risk tolerance; and (v) identification of a better opportunity.
Other Investments
    While the Fund will invest at least 80% in the Underlying ETPs, 
U.S. exchange-listed common stock of issuers of any capitalization 
range, and U.S. exchange-listed sponsored ADRs, on a day-to-day basis, 
the Fund may hold the remainder of its assets in, under normal 
conditions,\12\ money market instruments, cash, other cash equivalents, 
and other highly liquid instruments.
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    \12\ See note 8, supra.
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    The Fund may invest in other types of equity securities. Equity 
securities represent ownership interests in a company or partnership 
and consist not only of common stocks, which are one of the Fund's 
primary types of investments, but also preferred stocks, warrants to 
acquire common stock, securities convertible into common stock, and 
investments in master limited partnerships.
    The Fund may invest in exchange-traded notes (``ETNs'').\13\ The 
Fund may invest in U.S. government securities and U.S. Treasury zero-
coupon bonds.
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    \13\ ETNs, also called index-linked securities as would be 
listed, for example, under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 5.2(j)(6), are 
senior, unsecured unsubordinated debt securities issued by an 
underwriting bank that are designed to provide returns that are 
linked to a particular benchmark less investor fees.
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    In the absence of normal conditions,\14\ the Fund may invest 100% 
of its total assets, without limitation, in high-quality debt 
securities and money market instruments either directly or through its 
investments in ETFs. The Fund may be invested in these instruments for 
extended periods, depending on the Sub-Adviser's assessment of market 
conditions. These debt securities and money market instruments include 
shares of other mutual funds, commercial paper, certificates of 
deposit, bankers' acceptances, U.S. Government securities, repurchase 
agreements,\15\ and bonds that are rated BBB or higher.
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    \14\ See note 8, supra.
    \15\ The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with 
financial institutions, which may be deemed to be loans. The Fund 
follows certain procedures designed to minimize the risks inherent 
in such agreements. These procedures include effecting repurchase 
transactions only with large, well-capitalized, and well-established 
financial institutions whose condition will be continually monitored 
by the Sub-Adviser. In addition, the value of the collateral 
underlying the repurchase agreement will always be at least equal to 
the repurchase price, including any accrued interest earned on the 
repurchase agreement. In the event of a default or bankruptcy by a 
selling financial institution, the Fund will seek to liquidate such 
collateral. In addition, the Fund may enter into reverse repurchase 
agreements as part of the Fund's investment strategy. Reverse 
repurchase agreements involve sales by the Fund of portfolio assets 
concurrently with an agreement by the Fund to repurchase the same 
assets at a later date at a fixed price.
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    The Fund may not (i) with respect to 75% of its total assets, 
purchase securities of any issuer (except securities issued or 
guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, 
or shares of investment companies) if, as a result, more than 5% of its 
total assets would be invested in the securities of such issuer; or 
(ii) acquire more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any 
one issuer. For purposes of this policy, the issuer of an ADR will be 
deemed to be the issuer of the respective underlying security.\16\
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    \16\ The diversification standard is set forth in Section 
5(b)(1) of the 1940 Act.
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    The Fund may not invest 25% or more of its total assets in the 
securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business 
activities in the same industry or group of industries. The Fund will 
not invest 25% or more of its total assets in any investment company 
that so concentrates. This limitation does not apply to investments in 
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U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, or shares of 
investment companies. For purposes of this policy, the issuer of ADRs 
will be deemed to be the issuer of the respective underlying 
security.\17\
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    \17\ See Form N-1A, Item 9. The Commission has taken the 
position that a fund is concentrated if it invests more than 25% of 
the value of its total assets in any one industry. See, e.g., 
Investment Company Act Release No. 9011 (October 30, 1975), 40 FR 
54241 (November 21, 1975).
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    The Fund will not purchase illiquid securities, including Rule 144A 
securities and loan participations.\18\ While the Fund does not 
anticipate doing so, the Fund may hold securities that become illiquid, 
including securities that are not readily marketable and Rule 144A 
securities. The Fund will not hold more than 15% of the Fund's net 
assets in illiquid securities including Rule 144A securities and loan 
participations. If the percentage of the Fund's net assets invested in 
illiquid securities exceeds 15% due to market activity, the Fund will 
take appropriate measures to reduce its holdings of illiquid 
securities.
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    \18\ The Commission has stated that long-standing Commission 
guidelines have required open-end funds to hold no more than 15% of 
their net assets in illiquid securities and other illiquid assets. 
See Investment Company Act Release No. 28193 (March 11, 2008), 73 FR 
14617 (March 18, 2008), footnote 34. See also Investment Company Act 
Release No. 5847 (October 21, 1969), 35 FR 19989 (December 31, 1970) 
(Statement Regarding ``Restricted Securities''); and Investment 
Company Act Release No. 18612 (March 12, 1992), 57 FR 9828 (March 
20, 1992) (Revisions of Guidelines to Form N-1A). A fund's portfolio 
security is illiquid if it cannot be disposed of in the ordinary 
course of business within seven days at approximately the value 
ascribed to it by the ETF. See Investment Company Act Release No. 
14983 (March 12, 1986), 51 FR 9773 (March 21, 1986) (adopting 
amendments to Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act); and Investment Company 
Act Release No. 17452 (April 23, 1990), 55 FR 17933 (April 30, 1990) 
(adopting Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933).
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    While the Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in 
leveraged, inverse, or inverse leveraged Underlying ETPs, such 
investments will not be used to enhance the leverage of the Fund as a 
whole and will otherwise be consistent with the Fund's investment 
objective.
    Consistent with the Exemptive Order, the Fund will not invest in 
options contracts, futures contracts, or swap agreements. The Fund may 
invest up to 10% of total assets in ADRs traded over-the-counter.\19\
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    \19\ See note 10, supra.
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    The Fund will not invest in any non-U.S. registered equity 
security, including depositary receipts.
    According to the Registration Statement, the Fund will seek to 
qualify for treatment as a Regulated Investment Company (``RIC'') under 
the Code.\20\
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    \20\ 26 U.S.C. 851. One of several requirements for RIC 
qualification is that the Fund must receive at least 90% of the 
Fund's gross income each year from dividends, interest, payments 
with respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or other 
disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other 
income derived with respect to the Fund's investments in stock, 
securities, foreign currencies, and net income from an interest in a 
qualified publicly traded partnership (``90% Test''). A second 
requirement for qualification as a RIC is that the Fund must 
diversify its holdings so that, at the end of each fiscal quarter of 
the Fund's taxable year: (a) At least 50% of the market value of the 
Fund's total assets is represented by cash and cash items, U.S. 
Government securities, securities of other RICs, and other 
securities, with these other securities limited, in respect to any 
one issuer, to an amount not greater than 5% of the value of the 
Fund's total assets or 10% of the outstanding voting securities of 
such issuer; and (b) not more than 25% of the value of its total 
assets are invested in the securities (other than U.S. Government 
securities or securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or two or 
more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the 
same, similar, or related trades or businesses, or the securities of 
one or more qualified publicly traded partnership (``Asset Test'').
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Net Asset Value
    The Fund will calculate its Net Asset Value (``NAV'') by: (i) 
Taking the current market value of its total assets; (ii) subtracting 
any liabilities; and (iii) dividing that amount by the total number of 
Shares owned by shareholders. The Fund will calculate NAV once each 
business day as of the regularly scheduled close of trading on the New 
York Stock Exchange, LLC (``NYSE'') (normally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time 
(``E.T.'')). In calculating NAV, the Fund will generally value its 
investment portfolio at market price. If market prices are unavailable 
or the Fund thinks that they are unreliable or when the value of a 
security has been materially affected by events occurring after the 
relevant market closes, the Fund will price those securities at fair 
value as determined in good faith using methods approved by the Fund's 
Board of Trustees.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
    According to the Registration Statement, the Fund will issue and 
redeem Shares on a continuous basis at the NAV only in a large 
specified number of Shares called a ``Creation Unit.'' The Shares of 
the Fund that trade on the Exchange will be ``created'' at their NAV by 
market makers, large investors, and institutions only in block-size 
Creation Units of at least 25,000 Shares. A ``creator'' will enter into 
an authorized participant agreement (``Participant Agreement'') with 
the Distributor or use a Depository Trust Company participant who has 
executed a Participant Agreement (``Authorized Participant''), and will 
deposit into the Fund a portfolio of securities closely approximating 
the holdings of the Fund and a specified amount of cash, together 
totaling the NAV of the Creation Unit(s), in exchange for 25,000 Shares 
of the Fund (or multiples thereof).
    Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Units at their NAV next 
determined after receipt of a redemption request in proper form by the 
Fund through the Administrator and only on a business day. The Trust 
will not redeem Shares in amounts less than Creation Units. Beneficial 
owners must accumulate enough Shares in the secondary market to 
constitute a Creation Unit in order to have such Shares redeemed by the 
Trust. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for the Fund, 
the redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit generally consist of Fund 
securities--as announced by the Administrator on the business day of 
the request for redemption received in proper form--plus cash in an 
amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Shares being 
redeemed, as next determined after a receipt of a request in proper 
form, and the value of the Fund securities, less a redemption 
transaction fee.
    The Shares will conform to the initial and continued listing 
criteria under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600. Consistent with NYSE Arca 
Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(B)(ii), the Adviser will implement and 
maintain, or be subject to, procedures designed to prevent the use and 
dissemination of material non-public information regarding the actual 
components of the Fund's portfolio. The Exchange represents that, for 
initial and/or continued listing, the Fund will be in compliance with 
Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act,\21\ as provided by NYSE Arca 
Equities Rule 5.3. A minimum of 100,000 Shares will be outstanding at 
the commencement of trading on the Exchange. The Exchange will obtain a 
representation from the issuer of the Shares that the NAV per Share 
will be calculated daily and that the NAV and the Disclosed Portfolio, 
as defined in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(2), will be made 
available to all market participants at the same time.
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    \21\ 17 CFR 240.10A-3.
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Availability of Information
    The Fund's Web site (www.advisorshares.com), which will be publicly 
available prior to the public offering of Shares, will include a form 
of the prospectus for the Fund that may be downloaded. The Fund's Web 
site will include additional quantitative information updated on a 
daily basis, including, for the Fund, (1) daily trading volume, the 
prior business day's reported closing price, NAV and mid-

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point of the bid/ask spread at the time of calculation of such NAV 
(``Bid/Ask Price''),\22\ and a calculation of the premium and discount 
of the Bid/Ask Price against the NAV, and (2) data in chart format 
displaying the frequency distribution of discounts and premiums of the 
daily Bid/Ask Price against the NAV, within appropriate ranges, for 
each of the four previous calendar quarters. On each business day, 
before commencement of trading in Shares in the Core Trading Session on 
the Exchange, the Fund will disclose on its Web site the Disclosed 
Portfolio that will form the basis for the Fund's calculation of NAV at 
the end of the business day.\23\
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    \22\ The Bid/Ask Price of the Fund is determined using the 
midpoint of the highest bid and the lowest offer on the Exchange as 
of the time of calculation of the Fund's NAV. The records relating 
to Bid/Ask Prices will be retained by the Fund and its service 
providers.
    \23\ Under accounting procedures followed by the Fund, trades 
made on the prior business day (``T'') will be booked and reflected 
in NAV on the current business day (``T+1''). Accordingly, the Fund 
will be able to disclose at the beginning of the business day the 
portfolio that will form the basis for the NAV calculation at the 
end of the business day.
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    On a daily basis, the Adviser will disclose for each portfolio 
security and other financial instrument of the Fund the following 
information: Ticker symbol (if applicable), name of security and 
financial instrument, number of shares or dollar value of securities 
and financial instruments held in the portfolio, and percentage 
weighting of the security and financial instrument in the portfolio. 
The Web site information will be publicly available at no charge.
    In addition, a basket composition file, which includes the security 
names and share quantities required to be delivered in exchange for 
Fund Shares, together with estimates and actual cash components, will 
be publicly disseminated daily prior to the opening of the NYSE via the 
National Securities Clearing Corporation. The basket represents one 
Creation Unit of the Fund.
    Investors can also obtain the Trust's Statement of Additional 
Information (``SAI''), the Fund's Shareholder Reports, and its Form N-
CSR and Form N-SAR, filed twice a year. The Trust's SAI and Shareholder 
Reports are available free upon request from the Trust, and those 
documents and the Form N-CSR and Form N-SAR may be viewed on-screen or 
downloaded from the Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov. Information 
regarding market price and trading volume of the Shares will be 
continually available on a real-time basis throughout the day on 
brokers' computer screens and other electronic services. Information 
regarding the previous day's closing price and trading volume 
information for the Shares will be published daily in the financial 
section of newspapers. Quotation and last-sale information for the 
Shares will be available via the Consolidated Tape Association 
(``CTA'') high-speed line, and, for the underlying securities, will be 
available from the national securities exchange on which they are 
listed. In addition, the Portfolio Indicative Value, as defined in NYSE 
Arca Equities Rule 8.600(c)(3), will be widely disseminated at least 
every 15 seconds during the Core Trading Session by one or more major 
market data vendors.\24\ The dissemination of the Portfolio Indicative 
Value, together with the Disclosed Portfolio, will allow investors to 
determine the value of the underlying portfolio of the Fund on a daily 
basis and will provide a close estimate of that value throughout the 
trading day.
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    \24\ Currently, it is the Exchange's understanding that several 
major market data vendors display and/or make widely available 
Portfolio Indicative Values published on CTA or other data feeds.
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    Additional information regarding the Trust and the Shares, 
including investment strategies, risks, creation and redemption 
procedures, fees, portfolio holdings disclosure policies, 
distributions, and taxes is included in the Registration Statement. All 
terms relating to the Fund that are referred to, but not defined in, 
this proposed rule change are defined in the Registration Statement.
Trading Halts
    With respect to trading halts, the Exchange may consider all 
relevant factors in exercising its discretion to halt or suspend 
trading in the Shares of the Fund.\25\ Trading in Shares of the Fund 
will be halted if the circuit breaker parameters in NYSE Arca Equities 
Rule 7.12 have been reached. Trading also may be halted because of 
market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, 
make trading in the Shares inadvisable. These may include: (1) The 
extent to which trading is not occurring in the securities and/or the 
financial instruments comprising the Disclosed Portfolio of the Fund; 
or (2) whether other unusual conditions or circumstances detrimental to 
the maintenance of a fair and orderly market are present. Trading in 
the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), 
which sets forth circumstances under which Shares of the Fund may be 
halted.
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Trading Rules
    The Exchange deems the Shares to be equity securities, thus 
rendering trading in the Shares subject to the Exchange's existing 
rules governing the trading of equity securities. Shares will trade on 
the NYSE Arca Marketplace from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. E.T. in 
accordance with NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.34 (Opening, Core, and Late 
Trading Sessions). The Exchange has appropriate rules to facilitate 
transactions in the Shares during all trading sessions. As provided in 
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.6, Commentary .03, the minimum price 
variation (``MPV'') for quoting and entry of orders in equity 
securities traded on the NYSE Arca Marketplace is $0.01, with the 
exception of securities that are priced less than $1.00 for which the 
MPV for order entry is $0.0001.
Surveillance
    The Exchange intends to utilize its existing surveillance 
procedures applicable to derivative products (which include Managed 
Fund Shares) to monitor trading in the Shares. The Exchange represents 
that these procedures are adequate to properly monitor Exchange trading 
of the Shares in all trading sessions and to deter and detect 
violations of Exchange rules and applicable federal securities laws.
    The Exchange's current trading surveillance focuses on detecting 
securities trading outside their normal patterns. When such situations 
are detected, surveillance analysis follows and investigations are 
opened, where appropriate, to review the behavior of all relevant 
parties for all relevant trading violations.
    The Exchange may obtain information via the Intermarket 
Surveillance Group (``ISG'') from other exchanges that are members of 
ISG or with which the Exchange has entered into a comprehensive 
surveillance sharing agreement.\26\ In addition, the Exchange could 
obtain information from the U.S. exchanges on which the Underlying 
ETPs, common stock, exchange-listed ADRs, and other U.S. exchange-
listed securities are listed and traded.
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    \26\ For a list of the current members of ISG, see 
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all components of the 
Disclosed Portfolio for the Fund may trade on markets that are 
members of ISG or with which the Exchange has in place a 
comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement. All Underlying ETPs 
and securities in which the Fund may invest will be listed on 
securities exchanges, all of which are members of ISG or are parties 
to a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement with the Exchange, 
provided that the Fund may invest up to 10% of total assets in ADRs 
traded over-the-counter. See note 10, supra.

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    In addition, the Exchange also has a general policy prohibiting the 
distribution of material, non-public information by its employees.
Information Bulletin
    Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its 
Equity Trading Permit (``ETP'') Holders in an Information Bulletin 
(``Bulletin'') of the special characteristics and risks associated with 
trading the Shares. Specifically, the Bulletin will discuss the 
following: (1) The procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares 
in Creation Unit aggregations (and that Shares are not individually 
redeemable); (2) NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty 
of due diligence on its ETP Holders to learn the essential facts 
relating to every customer prior to trading the Shares; (3) the risks 
involved in trading the Shares during the Opening and Late Trading 
Sessions when an updated Portfolio Indicative Value will not be 
calculated or publicly disseminated; (4) how information regarding the 
Portfolio Indicative Value is disseminated; (5) the requirement that 
ETP Holders deliver a prospectus to investors purchasing newly issued 
Shares prior to or concurrently with the confirmation of a transaction; 
and (6) trading information.
    In addition, the Bulletin will reference that the Fund is subject 
to various fees and expenses described in the Registration Statement. 
The Bulletin will discuss any exemptive, no-action, and interpretive 
relief granted by the Commission from any rules under the Exchange Act. 
The Bulletin will also disclose that the NAV for the Shares will be 
calculated after 4:00 p.m. E.T. each trading day.
2. Statutory Basis
    The basis under the Exchange Act for this proposed rule change is 
the requirement under Section 6(b)(5) \27\ that an exchange have rules 
that are designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and 
practices, to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove 
impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market 
and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest.
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    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is designed to 
prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices in that the 
Shares will be listed and traded on the Exchange pursuant to the 
initial and continued listing criteria in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 
8.600. The Exchange has in place surveillance procedures that are 
adequate to properly monitor trading in the Shares in all trading 
sessions and to deter and detect violations of Exchange rules and 
applicable federal securities laws. The Exchange may obtain information 
via ISG from other exchanges that are members of ISG or with which the 
Exchange has entered into a comprehensive surveillance sharing 
agreement. All Underlying ETPs and securities in which the Fund may 
invest will be listed on securities exchanges, all of which are members 
of ISG or have entered into a comprehensive surveillance sharing 
agreement with the Exchange, provided that the Fund may invest up to 
10% of total assets in ADRs traded over-the-counter. While the Fund may 
invest up to 10% of its total assets in leveraged, inverse, or inverse 
leveraged Underlying ETPs, such investments will not be used to enhance 
the leverage of the Fund as a whole and will otherwise be consistent 
with the Fund's investment objective. The Fund will not hold more than 
15% of the Fund's net assets in illiquid securities, including Rule 
144A securities and loan participations. Consistent with the Exemptive 
Order, the Fund will not invest in options contracts, futures 
contracts, or swap agreements. The Fund will not invest in any non-U.S. 
registered equity security, including depositary receipts.
    The proposed rule change is designed to promote just and equitable 
principles of trade and to protect investors and the public interest in 
that the Exchange will obtain a representation from the issuer of the 
Shares that the NAV per Share will be calculated daily and that the NAV 
and the Disclosed Portfolio will be made available to all market 
participants at the same time. In addition, a large amount of 
information is publicly available regarding the Fund and the Shares, 
thereby promoting market transparency. Quotation and last-sale 
information for the Shares will be available via the CTA high-speed 
line. In addition, the Portfolio Indicative Value will be widely 
disseminated by the Exchange at least every 15 seconds during the Core 
Trading Session. The Fund's Web site will include a form of the 
prospectus for the Fund that may be downloaded, as well as additional 
quantitative information updated on a daily basis. On each business 
day, before commencement of trading in Shares in the Core Trading 
Session on the Exchange, the Fund will disclose on its Web site the 
Disclosed Portfolio that will form the basis for the Fund's calculation 
of NAV at the end of the business day. On a daily basis, the Adviser 
will disclose for each portfolio security or other financial instrument 
of the Fund the following information: Ticker symbol, name of security 
and/or financial instrument, number of shares or dollar value of 
securities and financial instruments held in the portfolio, and 
percentage weighting of the security and/or financial instrument in the 
portfolio. Moreover, prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange 
will inform its ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin of the special 
characteristics and risks associated with trading the Shares. Trading 
in Shares of the Fund will be halted if the circuit breaker parameters 
in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.12 have been reached or because of market 
conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make 
trading in the Shares inadvisable. Trading in the Shares will be 
subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.600(d)(2)(D), which sets forth 
circumstances under which Shares of the Fund may be halted. In 
addition, as noted above, investors will have ready access to 
information regarding the Fund's holdings, the Portfolio Indicative 
Value, the Disclosed Portfolio, and quotation and last-sale information 
for the Shares.
    The proposed rule change is designed to perfect the mechanism of a 
free and open market and, in general, to protect investors and the 
public interest in that it will facilitate the listing and trading of 
an additional type of actively-managed exchange-traded product that 
will enhance competition among market participants, to the benefit of 
investors and the marketplace. As noted above, the Exchange has in 
place surveillance procedures relating to trading in the Shares and may 
obtain information via ISG from other exchanges that are members of ISG 
or with which the Exchange has entered into a comprehensive 
surveillance sharing agreement. In addition, as noted above, investors 
will have ready access to information regarding the Fund's holdings, 
the Portfolio Indicative Value, the Disclosed Portfolio, and quotation 
and last-sale information for the Shares.

B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.

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C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed 
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

    No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the 
proposed rule change.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 
Commission Action

    Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may 
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to 
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to 
which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will:
    (A) By order approve or disapprove the proposed rule change, or
    (B) Institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule 
change should be disapproved.

IV. Solicitation of Comments

    Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and 
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule 
change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of 
the following methods:

Electronic Comments

     Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an email to [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-NYSEArca-2012-39 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Elizabeth M. Murphy, 
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEArca-2012-39. This 
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To 
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, 
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on 
the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all 
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are 
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to 
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other 
than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the 
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and 
printing in the Commission's Public Reference Section, 100 F Street 
NE., Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between 10:00 a.m. 
and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the filing will also be available for 
inspection and copying at the NYSE's principal office and on its 
Internet Web site at www.nyse.com. All comments received will be posted 
without change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying 
information from submissions. You should submit only information that 
you wish to make available publicly. All submissions should refer to 
File Number SR-NYSEArca-2012-39 and should be submitted on or before 
June 7, 2012.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\28\
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    \28\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-11928 Filed 5-16-12; 8:45 am]
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