WisdomTree Continuous Commodity Index Fund
WisdomTree Continuous Commodity Index Master Fund
Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements
September 30, 2019
(1) Organization
The WisdomTree Continuous Commodity Index Fund (the “Fund”) and the WisdomTree Continuous Commodity Index Master Fund (the “Master Fund” and together with the Fund, the “Funds”) are commodity pools that were organized as Delaware statutory trusts on October 27, 2006. For each of the Funds, WisdomTree Commodity Services, LLC serves as the commodity pool operator and managing owner (the “Managing Owner”), and GreenHaven Advisors LLC serves as the commodity trading advisor (the“Sub-Adviser”).
Shares representing units of fractional undivided beneficial interest in and ownership of the Fund (“Limited Units” or “Shares”) are listed on the NYSE Arca under the symbol “GCC.” Upon inception of the Fund, 50 general units of the Fund (“General Units” or “General Shares”) were issued to the Managing Owner in exchange for a capital contribution of $1,500. We refer to the General Shares and Shares collectively as “Total Shares,” and the holders of the Shares as the “Shareholders.”
The Master Fund is wholly-owned by the Fund and the Managing Owner. The Fund holds no investment assets other than the Master Fund’s common units of beneficial interest (“Master Fund Units”). Each Share issued by the Fund correlates to a Master Fund Unit held by the Fund.
The Fund and Master Fund commenced investment operations on January 23, 2008, with the offering of 350,000 Shares in exchange for $10,500,000. The Fund commenced trading on the American Stock Exchange (now known as the NYSE Arca) on January 24, 2008 under the symbol “GCC.” The term of the Fund is perpetual, unless terminated earlier in certain circumstances as defined in the Trust Agreements (as defined inNote 2—Service Providers and Related Party Agreements).
The Funds’ collective investment objective is to provide investors with exposure to the daily change in the price of a portfolio of commodities (the “Index Commodities”) comprising the Thomson Reuters Continuous Commodity Index, also known as the Continuous Commodity Total Return Index or Equal Weight Continuous Commodity Total Return Index (the “Index”), before the Funds’ expenses. The Index Commodities consist of corn, soybean, wheat, live cattle, lean hogs, gold, silver, copper, cocoa, coffee, sugar, cotton, soybean oil, platinum, crude oil, NY Harbor ULSD (formerly known as heating oil) and natural gas. Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC, formerly Thomson Reuters America LLC (the “Index Sponsor”), is the owner, publisher and calculation agent of the Index. The Index Sponsor is not an affiliate of the Funds or the Managing Owner.
The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing substantially all of its assets in the Master Fund. The Master Fund pursues its investment objective by actively trading exchange traded futures (“Commodity Futures”) on the Index Commodities, with a view to tracking the performance of the Index over time, regardless of whether the Index is rising, falling or flat over any particular period.
The Master Fund’s portfolio (its “Portfolio”) also includes cash, U.S. Treasury obligations and other high credit-quality, short-term fixed income securities (collectively, “U.S. Treasuries”) for deposit with the Commodity Broker (as defined below) as margin or otherwise held to cover the Master Fund’s notional exposure to Commodity Futures.
The Fund continuously offers and redeems baskets of 50,000 Shares (“Baskets”) to authorized participants (“Authorized Participants”) at a price based on the Master Fund’s Net Asset Value (as defined inNote 7—Share Creations and Redemptions)per Share. Authorized Participants, in turn, may offer such Shares to the public at a per Share offering price that varies, depending on, among other factors, the trading price of the Shares, the Master Fund’s Net Asset Value, and the supply of and demand for the Shares at the time of the offer.
The Managing Owner and the Shareholders share in any profits and losses attributable to the Fund in proportion to the percentage interest owned by each.
The Managing Owner and the Funds retain the services of third party service providers for the ongoing operations of the Funds.See Note 2—Service Providers and Related Party Agreements.
(2) Service Providers and Related Party Agreements
(a)Trustee.Delaware Trust Company, a Delaware corporation, is the sole trustee of each of the Funds (the “Trustee”). The Trustee is unaffiliated with the Managing Owner. Under the Fund’s Declaration of Trust and Trust Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2006 and as amended January 4, 2016 (as amended, the “Fund Trust Agreement”), and the Master Fund’s Declaration of Trust and Trust Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2006 and as amended July 29, 2007 and January 4, 2016 (as amended, the “Master Fund Trust Agreement” and collectively with the Fund Trust Agreement, the “Trust Agreements”), the Trustee has delegated to the Managing Owner the exclusive management and control of all aspects of the business of each of the Funds. The Trustee will accept service of legal process on the Funds in the State of Delaware and will make certain filings under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. The Trustee does not owe any other duties to the Funds, the Managing Owner or the Shareholders. The Trustee’s principal offices are located in Wilmington, Delaware.
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