−Removed: Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: The Trust and the Fund maintain disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures that are designed to ensure that material information required to be disclosed in the Trust’s periodic reports filed
−Removed: or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period
−Removed: specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.
−Removed: The duly appointed officers of the Sponsor, including
−Removed: its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of the Trust’s and the Fund’s
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures and have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures of the Trust and the Fund have been
−Removed: effective as of the end of the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial
+Added: Controls and Procedures.
+Added: Controls and Procedures
+Added: Trust and the Fund maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that material information required to be disclosed
+Added: in the Trust’s periodic reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed,
+Added: summarized and reported within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.
+Added: duly appointed officers of the Sponsor, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, have evaluated the
+Added: effectiveness of the Trust’s and the Fund’s disclosure controls and procedures and have concluded that the disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures of the Trust and the Fund have been effective as of the end of the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K.
+Added: Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
This Report does not include a report of management’s
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firm due to a transition period established by rules of the SEC for newly public companies.
−Removed: Management of the Sponsor, on behalf of the Trust
−Removed: and the Fund are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: The Trust and each
−Removed: Fund’s internal control system is designed to provide reasonable assurance to the Sponsor regarding the preparation and fair presentation
−Removed: of published financial statements.
−Removed: All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations.
−Removed: Therefore, even
−Removed: those system determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.
−Removed: Management of the Sponsor, including Samuel Masucci
−Removed: III, Principal Executive Officer of the Sponsor, and John A.
−Removed: Flanagan, Principal Financial Officer of the Sponsor, who perform functions
−Removed: equivalent to those of a principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Trust if the Trust had any officers, assessed
−Removed: the effectiveness of the Trust’s and the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2021.
−Removed: this assessment, it used the criteria in the Internal Control – Integrated framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
−Removed: of the Treadway Commission in 2013.
−Removed: Based on the assessment, Management believes that, as of June 30, 2021, the internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting is effective for the Trust and the Fund.
−Removed: Change in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There were no changes in the Trust’s or
−Removed: the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting during the last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably
−Removed: likely to materially affect, the Trust’s or the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: of the Sponsor, on behalf of the Trust and the Fund are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial
+Added: The Trust and the Fund’s internal control system is designed to provide reasonable assurance to the Sponsor regarding
+Added: the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements.
+Added: All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have
+Added: inherent limitations.
+Added: Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to
+Added: financial statement preparation and presentation.
+Added: of the Sponsor, including Samuel Masucci III, Principal Executive Officer of the Sponsor, and John A.
+Added: Flanagan, Principal Financial
+Added: Officer of the Sponsor, who perform functions equivalent to those of a principal executive officer and principal financial officer of
+Added: the Trust if the Trust had any officers, assessed the effectiveness of the Trust’s and the Fund’s internal control over financial
+Added: reporting as of June 30, 2022.
+Added: In making this assessment, it used the criteria in the Internal Control – Integrated framework issued
+Added: by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013.
+Added: Based on the assessment, Management believes that, as
+Added: of June 30, 2022, the internal control over financial reporting is effective for the Trust and the Fund.
+Added: Change in Internal
+Added: Control Over Financial Reporting
+Added: were no changes in the Trust’s or the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting during the last fiscal quarter that
+Added: have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Trust’s or the Fund’s internal control over
+Added: financial reporting.
Other Information.
−Removed: Breakwave has agreed to waive its license and
−Removed: services fee and the Sponsor has agreed to correspondingly assume the remaining expenses of BDRY so that the Fund's total annual expenses
−Removed: (excluding brokerage commissions, interest expense, and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 3.50%
−Removed: per annum through September 30, 2022.
−Removed: The foregoing is a summary description of the
−Removed: Fee Waiver Agreement and the Expense Limitation Agreement, which are filed with this Annual Report on Form 10-K as Exhibits 10.16 and
−Removed: 10.17, respectively, and are incorporated by reference.
−Removed: Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions
−Removed: that Prevent Inspections.
−Removed: Not applicable.
−Removed: Directors, Executive Officers and
−Removed: Corporate Governance.
−Removed: The Sponsor and its Management
−Removed: Neither the Trust nor the Fund have executive
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreements for the Fund, the Fund’s affairs are managed by the Sponsor.
−Removed: and affairs of the Sponsor are managed by its chief executive officer, Samuel R.
+Added: has agreed to waive its license and services fee and the Sponsor has agreed to correspondingly assume the remaining expenses of BDRY
+Added: so that the Fund’s total annual expenses (excluding brokerage commissions, interest expense, and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed
+Added: 3.50% per annum through March 31, 2024.
+Added: foregoing is a summary description of the Fee Waiver Agreement and the Expense Limitation Agreement, which are filed with this Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K as Exhibits 10.16 and 10.17, respectively, and are incorporated by reference.
+Added: Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.
+Added: Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
+Added: and its Management
+Added: the Trust nor the Fund have executive officers.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreements for the Fund, the Fund’s affairs
+Added: are managed by the Sponsor.
+Added: The business and affairs of the Sponsor are managed by its chief executive officer, Samuel R.
Masucci, III.
−Removed: The following are individual Principals, as that
−Removed: term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, for the Sponsor:
+Added: following are individual Principals, as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, for the Sponsor:
Masucci, III, John A.
−Removed: Flanagan, Matthew J.
−Removed: Bromberg, Reshma A.
+Added: Bromberg and Reshma A.
These individuals are principals due to their positions;
−Removed: Masucci is also a principal due to his controlling
−Removed: stake in ETFMG.
+Added: is also a principal due to his controlling stake in ETFMG.
Masucci, III .
−Removed: is the founder of ETFMG and has been its Managing Owner since its formation in November 2013.
−Removed: Masucci was listed as a principal,
−Removed: as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on September 23, 2014.
−Removed: Masucci serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: of ETFMG with responsibilities for managing all ETF listed products and related service activities.
−Removed: Masucci became the Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of Factor Advisors, LLC, a financial services company, and as the Chairman since March 2013;
+Added: Masucci is the founder of ETFMG and has been its Managing Owner since its formation in November 2013.
+Added: Masucci was listed as a principal, as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on September 23, 2014.
+Added: Masucci serves
+Added: as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ETFMG with responsibilities for managing all ETF listed products and related service activities.
+Added: Masucci became the Chief Executive Officer of Factor Advisors, LLC, a financial services company, and as the Chairman since March
in this position Mr.
−Removed: the founder of ETFMG and has been its Managing Owner since its formation in November 2013.
−Removed: Masucci was listed as a principal, as
−Removed: that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on September 23, 2014.
−Removed: Masucci serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: of ETFMG with responsibilities for managing all ETF listed products and related service activities.
−Removed: Masucci became the Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of Factor Advisors, LLC (“Factor Advisors”) in June 2012, a financial services company, and became the Chairman in
+Added: Masucci is the founder of ETFMG and has been its Managing Owner since its formation in November 2013.
+Added: Masucci was listed as a principal, as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on September 23, 2014.
+Added: Masucci serves
+Added: as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ETFMG with responsibilities for managing all ETF listed products and related service activities.
+Added: Masucci became the Chief Executive Officer of Factor Advisors, LLC (“Factor Advisors”) in June 2012, a financial services
+Added: company, and became the Chairman in March 2013;
in this position Mr.
−Removed: Masucci was listed as a principal of Factor Capital Management LLC (“Factor Capital”) on
−Removed: June 20, 2012 and deregistered as a principal on September 23, 2014.
−Removed: Masucci became the Chief Executive Officer of GENCAP Ventures,
−Removed: LLC, a financial services company, in May 2012 and was responsible for managing all ETF issues and related service activities.
−Removed: was the parent of Factor Capital and Factor Advisors.
+Added: Masucci was listed as a principal of Factor Capital Management LLC
+Added: (“Factor Capital”) on June 20, 2012 and deregistered as a principal on September 23, 2014.
+Added: Masucci became the Chief Executive
+Added: Officer of GENCAP Ventures, LLC, a financial services company, in May 2012 and was responsible for managing all ETF issues and related
+Added: service activities.
+Added: Gencap was the parent of Factor Capital and Factor Advisors.
ETFMG acquired Gencap in November 2013.
−Removed: Masucci was out of the job market from
−Removed: January to May 2012.
−Removed: Masucci worked as Chief Executive Officer for MacroMarkets LLC, a financial services company, from April 2005
−Removed: to December 2011, with responsibility for running the day to day operations of an issuer of public securities and a registered broker-dealer.
+Added: was out of the job market from January to May 2012.
+Added: Masucci worked as Chief Executive Officer for MacroMarkets LLC, a financial services
+Added: company, from April 2005 to December 2011, with responsibility for running the day to day operations of an issuer of public securities
+Added: and a registered broker-dealer.
From April 2005 to December 2011, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci also worked as the Chief Executive Officer, managing partner and Chief Compliance Officer
−Removed: of Macro Financial LLC, which as its main business was a registered broker-dealer.
−Removed: From July 2001 to April 2005, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked as
−Removed: an owner and manager of The Cobblestone Group.
−Removed: The main business of The Cobblestone Group was fixed income consulting to the investment
−Removed: banking and commercial banking industries.
+Added: Masucci also worked as the Chief Executive Officer, managing partner
+Added: and Chief Compliance Officer of Macro Financial LLC, which as its main business was a registered broker-dealer.
+Added: From July 2001 to April
+Added: Masucci worked as an owner and manager of The Cobblestone Group.
+Added: The main business of The Cobblestone Group was fixed income
+Added: consulting to the investment banking and commercial banking industries.
From March 1999 to June 2001, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked in mortgage trading as a Managing Director
−Removed: for Bear Stearns Inc., a financial institution.
−Removed: Masucci was out of the job market from December 1998 to February 1999.
−Removed: 1996 to November 1998, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked at SBC Warburg/UBS, a financial institution, as an Executive Director managing an asset backed
−Removed: securities group.
+Added: Masucci worked in mortgage
+Added: trading as a Managing Director for Bear Stearns Inc., a financial institution.
+Added: Masucci was out of the job market from December 1998
+Added: to February 1999.
+Added: From June 1996 to November 1998, Mr.
+Added: Masucci worked at SBC Warburg/UBS, a financial institution, as an Executive Director
+Added: managing an asset backed securities group.
From January 1992 to June 1996, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked in structured products (specifically, structuring mortgage derivatives
−Removed: and hedge funds), at Merrill Lynch, a financial institution, as a Vice President.
−Removed: From January 1990 to January 1992, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked
−Removed: as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch, a financial institution, in the private client group in connection with retail investors.
+Added: Masucci worked in structured products (specifically, structuring
+Added: mortgage derivatives and hedge funds), at Merrill Lynch, a financial institution, as a Vice President.
+Added: From January 1990 to January 1992,
+Added: Masucci worked as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch, a financial institution, in the private client group in connection with
+Added: retail investors.
From November 1987 to January 1990, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked at MetLife Insurance Company, an insurance company, as a retail salesperson qualified
−Removed: to sell financial and insurance products to retail clients.
+Added: Masucci worked at MetLife Insurance Company, an insurance company, as a retail
+Added: salesperson qualified to sell financial and insurance products to retail clients.
From August 1984 to October 1987, Mr.
−Removed: Masucci worked as a manager of jobsites
−Removed: for Forestdale Inc., which is a residential property developer.
+Added: Masucci worked
+Added: as a manager of jobsites for Forestdale Inc., which is a residential property developer.
Masucci received his B.S.
−Removed: from Penn State University in Finance in
−Removed: serves as the Principal Financial Officer of the Sponsor and the Trust.
−Removed: Flanagan was listed as a principal, as that term is defined
−Removed: in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on January 8, 2015.
+Added: from Penn State
+Added: University in Finance in July 1984.
+Added: Flanagan serves as the Principal Financial Officer of the Sponsor and the Trust.
+Added: Flanagan was listed as
+Added: a principal, as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1, of the Sponsor on January 8, 2015.
Since June 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Flanagan has served as an Independent Trustee of Absolute Shares
−Removed: Trust, a multi-series exchange traded fund.
−Removed: Flanagan has been the President and sole owner of John A.
+Added: Flanagan has served as
+Added: an Independent Trustee of Absolute Shares Trust, a multi-series exchange traded fund.
+Added: Flanagan has been the President and sole owner
Flanagan CPA, LLC since December 2010.
−Removed: Flanagan was Chief Financial Officer of MacroMarkets LLC, an exchange traded fund issuer from January 2007 to December 2010.
−Removed: serves as the General Counsel of the Sponsor.
−Removed: Bromberg was listed as a principal of the Sponsor in September 2020.
−Removed: Prior to joining
−Removed: the Sponsor, from 2019 to 2020, Mr.
−Removed: Bromberg was an investment management partner at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney where
−Removed: he provided counsel to investment advisers relating to private investment funds, ETFs and mutual funds, as well as to separately managed
−Removed: account and wrap fee program sponsors.
+Added: Flanagan was Chief Financial Officer of MacroMarkets LLC, an exchange traded fund
+Added: issuer from January 2007 to December 2010.
+Added: Bromberg serves as the General Counsel of the Sponsor.
+Added: Bromberg was listed as a principal of the Sponsor
+Added: in September 2020.
+Added: Prior to joining the Sponsor, from 2019 to 2020, Mr.
+Added: Bromberg was an investment management partner at the law firm
+Added: Dorsey & Whitney where he provided counsel to investment advisers relating to private investment funds, ETFs and mutual
+Added: funds, as well as to separately managed account and wrap fee program sponsors.
From 2016 to 2019, Mr.
−Removed: Bromberg served as General Counsel of WBI Investments, Inc., a registered
−Removed: investment adviser and ETF sponsor.
+Added: Bromberg served as General Counsel
+Added: of WBI Investments, Inc., a registered investment adviser and ETF sponsor.
During the same period, Mr.
−Removed: Bromberg also served as General Counsel to Millington Securities, Inc.,
−Removed: a broker-dealer affiliate of WBI Investments, Inc.
+Added: Bromberg also served as General
+Added: Counsel to Millington Securities, Inc., a broker-dealer affiliate of WBI Investments, Inc.
From 2014 to 2015 Mr.
−Removed: Bromberg was an investment management partner at the law firm
−Removed: of Reed Smith.
+Added: Bromberg was an investment
+Added: management partner at the law firm of Reed Smith.
From 2014 to 2015 and 2006 to 2013, Mr.
−Removed: Bromberg served as Senior Managing Counsel to the Asset Servicing Division of
−Removed: Bromberg was in private practice, at the law firm of King & Spalding between 2013 and 2014, where he represented
−Removed: financial institutions in transactional and regulatory matters with a focus on investment advisers, registered public funds, private
−Removed: investment funds, banks, and broker-dealers.
+Added: Bromberg served as Senior Managing Counsel
+Added: to the Asset Servicing Division of BNY Mellon.
+Added: Bromberg was in private practice, at the law firm of King & Spalding
+Added: between 2013 and 2014, where he represented financial institutions in transactional and regulatory matters with a focus on investment
+Added: advisers, registered public funds, private investment funds, banks, and broker-dealers.
Bromberg received his B.A.
−Removed: in English Literature from The State University of New York
−Removed: at Albany and a J.D.
+Added: in English Literature
+Added: from The State University of New York at Albany and a J.D.
from Brooklyn Law School.
−Removed: serves as the Chief Compliance Officer of the Sponsor and the Trust.
−Removed: Tanczos was listed as a principal of the Sponsor on July 27,
+Added: Tanczos serves as the Chief Compliance Officer of the Sponsor and the Trust.
+Added: Tanczos was listed as a principal
+Added: of the Sponsor on July 27, 2016.
Prior to joining the Sponsor, from October 2007 to July 2016, Mrs.
−Removed: Tanczos was a Partner at the law firm Crow & Cushing where
−Removed: she counseled clients in the financial services and money management industry focusing on SEC, CFTC, NFA and FINRA regulatory compliance.
+Added: Tanczos was a Partner at the law
+Added: firm Crow & Cushing where she counseled clients in the financial services and money management industry focusing on SEC, CFTC, NFA
+Added: and FINRA regulatory compliance.
From September 2006 to September 2007, Mrs.
Tanczos clerked for the Honorable Philip L.
−Removed: Paley, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.
+Added: Paley, Superior
+Added: Court of New Jersey, Law Division.
Tanczos received her B.S.
−Removed: in Economics from The George Washington University in May 2000 and a J.D.
−Removed: from Case Western Reserve University
−Removed: School of Law in May 2006.
−Removed: Ryder has been
−Removed: a member of the portfolio management team of the Sponsor since January 2018.
−Removed: Ryder has been listed as a principal of the Sponsor
−Removed: since May 22, 2018, associated person, swap associated person and NFA associate member of the Sponsor since June 1, 2018.
−Removed: Ryder received
−Removed: in Mathematics of Finance and Risk Management from the University of Michigan in 2017.
−Removed: Commodity Trading Advisor
−Removed: The Sponsor has also entered into a Licensing
−Removed: and Services Agreement with Breakwave.
−Removed: Under this agreement, Breakwave has agreed to compose and maintain the BDRY Benchmark Portfolio
−Removed: and license to the Sponsor the use of the BDRY Benchmark Portfolio.
−Removed: Breakwave is a limited liability company.
−Removed: following individual is the President, sole investment professional and Principal, as that term is defined in CFTC Rule 3.1:
−Removed: John Kartsonas.
+Added: in Economics from The George Washington University in May 2000 and
+Added: from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in May 2006.
+Added: Commodity Trading
+Added: Sponsor has also entered into a Licensing and Services Agreement with Breakwave.
+Added: Under this agreement, Breakwave has agreed to compose
+Added: and maintain the BDRY Benchmark Portfolio and license to the Sponsor the use of the BDRY Benchmark Portfolio.
+Added: is a limited liability company.
+Added: The following individual is the President, sole investment professional and Principal, as that term is
+Added: defined in CFTC Rule 3.1:
John Kartsonas .
−Removed: is the Principal and Managing Partner of Breakwave Advisors LLC., a Commodity Trading Advisory firm based in New York.
−Removed: was listed as a principal of the Sponsor on May 17, 2017.
−Removed: He has been a registered associated person and an NFA associate member of Breakwave
−Removed: since May 17, 2017.
+Added: John Kartsonas is the
+Added: Principal and Managing Partner of Breakwave Advisors LLC., a Commodity Trading Advisory firm based in New York.
+Added: Kartsonas was listed
+Added: as a principal of the Sponsor on May 17, 2017.
+Added: He has been a registered associated person and an NFA associate member of Breakwave since
+Added: May 17, 2017.
From 2017 to the present Mr.
−Removed: Kartsonas has also served as a Director of Seanergy Maritime, an international shipping
−Removed: company listed in the Nasdaq Capital Market.
+Added: Kartsonas has also served as a Director of Seanergy Maritime, an international shipping company
+Added: listed in the Nasdaq Capital Market.
Prior to that, Mr.
−Removed: Kartsonas was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Carlyle Commodity Management
−Removed: from October 2012 to January 2017, a commodity-focused investment firm based in New York and part of the Carlyle Group.
+Added: Kartsonas was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Carlyle Commodity Management from
+Added: October 2012 to January 2017, a commodity-focused investment firm based in New York and part of the Carlyle Group.
He was responsible
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Code of Ethics
−Removed: The Sponsor has adopted a Code of Business Conduct
−Removed: and Ethics (the “Code of Ethics”) which applies to all of its officers (including senior financial officers) and employees;
−Removed: the Sponsor’s Code of Ethics covers all officers and employees that manage the Trust and the Fund.
−Removed: A printed copy of the Code of
−Removed: Ethics is available to any person free of charge, upon request, by contracting the Sponsor at:
−Removed: ETF Managers Group Commodity Trust I
−Removed: c/o ETF Managers Capital LLC
−Removed: 30 Maple Street
−Removed: Summit, NJ 07901
−Removed: Executive Compensation.
−Removed: The Fund has no employees, officers or directors
−Removed: and is managed by the Sponsor.
−Removed: None of the directors or officers of the Sponsor receive compensation from the Fund.
−Removed: The Sponsor receives a management fee from BDRY,
−Removed: monthly in arrears, in an amount equal to the greater of 0.15% per annum on the daily NAV of BDRY or $125,000.
−Removed: The Sponsor has contractually
−Removed: agreed to assume BDRY’s expenses (excluding brokerage fees, interest expense, and extraordinary
−Removed: expenses) in order to cap BDRY’s total annual expenses at 3.50% per annum through September 30, 2022.
−Removed: The management fees paid
−Removed: to the Sponsor by BDRY amounted to $130,137 and $124,997 for the years ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: The Sponsor received a management fee from RISE
−Removed: prior to its liquidation, monthly in arrears, in an amount equal to the greater of 0.15% per annum of the value of the Fund’s
−Removed: average daily net assets or $75,000.
−Removed: The Sponsor had contractually agreed to waive the Sponsor Fee and/or assume the Fund’s Other
−Removed: Expenses (which term excludes brokerage fees, interest expense, and extraordinary expenses) so that the Fund’s Total Annual Fund
−Removed: Expenses did not exceed 1.00% per annum through the liquidation date.
−Removed: The management fees paid to the Sponsor by RISE amounted to $25,068
−Removed: and $74,999 for the year ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: The Sponsor also provides Principal Financial
−Removed: Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Regulatory Reporting and Wholesale Support services to BDRY, and prior to its liquidation, RISE.
−Removed: fees for each service provided to the BDRY, and prior to its liquidation, RISE, for the year ended June 30, 2021, all of which had been
−Removed: paid, or accrued, at June 30, 2021, were as follows:
−Removed: Principal Financial
+Added: Sponsor has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code of Ethics”) which applies to all of its officers (including
+Added: senior financial officers) and employees;
+Added: the Sponsor’s Code of Ethics covers all officers and employees that manage the Trust
+Added: and the Fund.
+Added: A printed copy of the Code of Ethics is available to any person free of charge, upon request, by contracting the Sponsor
+Added: Managers Group Commodity Trust I
+Added: ETF Managers Capital LLC
+Added: Compensation.
+Added: Fund has no employees, officers or directors and is managed by the Sponsor.
+Added: None of the directors or officers of the Sponsor receive
+Added: compensation from the Fund.
+Added: Sponsor receives a management fee from BDRY, monthly in arrears, in an amount equal to the greater of 0.15% per annum on the daily NAV
+Added: of BDRY or $125,000.
+Added: The Sponsor has contractually agreed to assume BDRY’s expenses (excluding brokerage fees, interest expense,
+Added: and extraordinary expenses) in order to cap BDRY’s total annual expenses at 3.50% per annum through March 31, 2024.
+Added: The management
+Added: fees paid to the Sponsor by BDRY amounted to $131,335 and $130,137 for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: Sponsor received a management fee from RISE prior to its liquidation, monthly in arrears, in an amount equal to the greater of 0.15%
+Added: per annum of the value of the Fund’s average daily net assets or $75,000.
+Added: The Sponsor had contractually agreed to waive the Sponsor
+Added: Fee and/or assume the Fund’s Other Expenses (which term excludes brokerage fees, interest expense, and extraordinary expenses)
+Added: so that the Fund’s Total Annual Fund Expenses did not exceed 1.00% per annum through the liquidation date.
+Added: The management fees
+Added: paid to the Sponsor by RISE amounted to $25,068 for the year ended June 30, 2021.
+Added: Sponsor also provides Principal Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Regulatory Reporting and Wholesale Support services to BDRY.
+Added: The fees for each service provided to the BDRY for the year ended June 30, 2022, all of which had been paid, or accrued, at June 30,
+Added: 2022, were as follows:
+Added: Principal Financial Officer
Chief Compliance Officer
Regulatory Reporting
−Removed: In addition to the above, the Distributor provides
−Removed: Distribution services to the Fund and to RISE, prior to its liquidation.
−Removed: The fees for Distribution services paid to the Distributor were
−Removed: $15,707 and $5,116, for BDRY and RISE, respectively, for the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
−Removed: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners.
−Removed: The following table sets forth shares as of June 30, 2021, information with respect to each person known to own beneficially more than
−Removed: 5% of the outstanding shares of any series in the Trust:
−Removed: and Address of Beneficial Owner
−Removed: and nature of
−Removed: Beneficial Ownership
−Removed: Morgan Securities, LLC
−Removed: 270 Park Avenue
−Removed: New York, NY 10017
+Added: Wholesale Support
+Added: addition to the above, the Distributor provides Distribution services to the Fund.
+Added: The fees for Distribution services paid to the Distributor
+Added: were $15,707 for BDRY for the year ended June 30, 2022.
+Added: Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
+Added: Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners.
+Added: The following table sets forth shares as of June 30, 2022, information with respect to each person
+Added: known to own beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of any series in the Trust:
+Added: Series of the Trust
+Added: Name and Address of Beneficial
+Added: Amount and nature of
+Added: Saxo Bank AS Philip Heymans Alle 15 Hellerup, Denmark
337,014 Shares
−Removed: Security Ownership of Management.
−Removed: None of the directors or executive officers of
−Removed: the Sponsor owns any shares of the Fund.
−Removed: Change in Control.
−Removed: The Sponsor does not know of any arrangements
−Removed: which may subsequently result in a change in the control of the Trust.
−Removed: Certain Relationships and Related
−Removed: Transactions, and Director Independence.
−Removed: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
−Removed: See Items 11 and 12.
−Removed: Neither the Trust nor the Fund entered into any
−Removed: transaction in excess of $120,000 in which any related person had a direct or indirect material interest and the Trust and the Fund does
−Removed: not propose to enter into any such transaction.
−Removed: Director Independence
−Removed: As an unincorporated entity, the registrant does
−Removed: not have a Board of Directors.
+Added: Ownership of Management.
+Added: None of the directors
+Added: or executive officers of the Sponsor owns any shares of the Fund.
+Added: Sponsor does not know of any arrangements which may subsequently result in a change in the control of the Trust.
+Added: Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
+Added: Relationships and Related Transactions
+Added: Items 11 and 12.
+Added: the Trust nor the Fund entered into any transaction in excess of $120,000 in which any related person had a direct or indirect material
+Added: interest and the Trust and the Fund does not propose to enter into any such transaction.
+Added: an unincorporated entity, the registrant does not have a Board of Directors.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
−Removed: The fees for services accrued and/or billed to
−Removed: BDRY and to RISE prior to its liquidation by its independent auditors for the year ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 were as follows:
+Added: The fees for services accrued and/or billed to BDRY
+Added: and to RISE prior to its liquidation by its independent auditors for the year ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 were as follows:
Audit-Related Fees
All Other Fees
−Removed: Approval of Independent Registered Public
−Removed: Accounting Firm Services and Fees
−Removed: The Sponsor approved all of the services provided
−Removed: by WithumSmith+Brown, PC to the Funds described above.
−Removed: The Sponsor pre-approves all audit and allowed non-audit services of the Funds’
−Removed: independent registered public accounting firm, including all engagement fees and terms.
−Removed: Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
+Added: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Services and Fees
+Added: Sponsor approved all of the services provided by WithumSmith+Brown, PC to the Funds described above.
+Added: The Sponsor pre-approves all audit
+Added: and allowed non-audit services of the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, including all engagement fees and terms.
+Added: and Financial Statement Schedules.
See Index to Financial
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filed by Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: Listed below are the exhibits which are filed
−Removed: or furnished as part of this annual report on Form 10-K (according to the number assigned to them in Item 601 of Regulation S-K):
+Added: below are the exhibits which are filed or furnished as part of this annual report on Form 10-K (according to the number assigned to them
+Added: in Item 601 of Regulation S-K):
and Restated Declaration of Trust and Trust Agreement of the Registrant.
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333-218453, filed on October 6, 2017.)
−Removed: of Trust of the Registrant.
+Added: Certificate of Trust of the Registrant.
(Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No.
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333-218453, filed on March 6, 2018.)
−Removed: Waiver Agreement with respect to BDRY.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on September
+Added: Fee Waiver Agreement with respect to BDRY.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 6, 2022.)
Limitation Agreement with respect to BDRY.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on September
−Removed: Consent of Sullivan & Worcester LLP.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 6, 2022.)
+Added: of Sullivan & Worcester LLP.
(Incorporated by reference to Form S-1 Registration Statement No.
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Consent of WithumSmith & Brown, P.C.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.)
−Removed: Consent of Connolly & Company, P.C.
+Added: as to the Trust (Filed herewith.)
+Added: of WithumSmith & Brown, P.C.
as to the Sponsor.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 30, 2021.)
−Removed: Certification by the Principal Executive Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to the Trust’s Current Report on Form 8-K,
+Added: filed on April 28, 2022.)
+Added: Certification by the Principal
+Added: Executive Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act.
(Filed herewith.)
−Removed: Certification by the Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act.
+Added: Certification by the Principal
+Added: Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act.
(Filed herewith.)
−Removed: Certification by the Principal Executive Officer of the Registrant pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
−Removed: Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+Added: Certification by the Principal
+Added: Executive Officer of the Registrant pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
+Added: Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
(Filed herewith.)
−Removed: Certification by the Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
−Removed: Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+Added: Certification by the Principal
+Added: Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
+Added: Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
(Filed herewith.)
−Removed: XBRL Instance Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Calculation Linkbase.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Definition
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Label Linkbase.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Presentation Linkbase.
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
−Removed: 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
−Removed: thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Inline XBRL Instance Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
+Added: Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in
+Added: Exhibit 101).
+Added: to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
+Added: on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
ETF Managers Group Commodity Trust I
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Principal Financial Officer
−Removed: September 10, 2021
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