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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(X) ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011

OR ( ) TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     .

Commission File Number 000-52604

TIDEWATER FUTURES FUND L.P.

 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

New York  

13-3811113

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

c/o Ceres Managed Futures LLC

522 Fifth Avenue - 14th Floor

New York, New York 10036

 

(Address and Zip Code of principal executive offices)

(212) 296-1999

 

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Redeemable Units of Limited Partnership Interest

 

        (Title of Class)

  

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Yes                 No   X  

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

Yes                 No   X  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes  X             No      

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

Yes  X             No    

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this form 10-K [X].

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer       Accelerated filer       Non-accelerated filer X    Smaller reporting company   
      (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)   

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes                  No  X  

Limited Partnership Redeemable Units with an aggregate value of $27,886,038 were outstanding and held by non-affiliates as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter.

As of February 29, 2012, 15,679.9738 Limited Partnership Redeemable Units were outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PART I

     2   

Item 1. Business

     2   

Item 1A. Risk Factors

     5   

Item 2. Properties

     6   

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

     6   

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

     8   

PART II

     9   

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

     9   

Item 6. Selected Financial Data

     10   

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     10   

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

     18   

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

     24   

To the Limited Partners of Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

     25   

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

     26   

Statements of Financial Condition

     28   

Condensed Schedule of Investments

     29   

Condensed Schedule of Investments

     30   

Statements of Income and Expenses

     31   

Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital

     32   

Notes to Financial Statements December 31, 2010

     33   

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

     45   

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

     45   

Item 9B. Other Information

     45   

PART III

     46   

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

     46   

Item 11. Executive Compensation

     48   

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Security Holder Matters

     48   

Item 13. Certain Relationship and Related Transactions

     49   

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

     49   

PART IV

     50   

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

     50   

SIGNATURES

     52   

EX-10.1.A

  

EX-31.1

  

EX-31.2

  

EX-32.1

  

EX-32.2

  


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PART I

Item 1. Business.

(a) General Development of Business. Tidewater Futures Fund L.P. (the “Partnership”) is a limited partnership organized on February 23, 1995 under the partnership laws of the State of New York to engage in the speculative trading of a diversified portfolio of commodity interests including futures contracts, options, swaps 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 are volatile and involve a high degree of market risk.

During the initial offering period (April 17, 1995 to July 1, 1995), the Partnership sold 5,111 redeemable units of limited partnership interest (“Redeemable Units”) at $1,000 per Redeemable Unit. The Partnership privately and continuously offers Redeemable Units in the Partnership to qualified investors. There is no maximum number of Redeemable Units that may be sold by the Partnership. Subscriptions and redemptions of Redeemable Units and General Partner contributions and redemptions for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 are reported in the Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital on page 24 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. The General Partner is wholly owned by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC (“MSSB Holdings”). Morgan Stanley, indirectly through various subsidiaries, owns a majority equity interest in MSSB Holdings. Citigroup Inc. (“Citigroup”) indirectly owns a minority equity interest in MSSB Holdings. Citigroup also indirectly owns Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“CGM”), the commodity broker and selling agent for the Partnership. Prior to July 31, 2009, the date as of which MSSB Holdings became its owner, the General Partner was wholly owned by Citigroup Financial Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc., the sole owner of which is Citigroup. As of December 31, 2011, all trading decisions for the Partnership are made by the Advisor (defined below).

For the period from July 12, 2010 through September 14, 2010 and an order to reduce the Partnership’s exposure to volatile market conditions, Chesapeake Capital Corporation (“Chesapeake” or the “Advisor”), in consultation with the General Partner, reduced temporarily the overall leverage of the Partnership’s assets traded pursuant to the Advisor’s Diversified 2XL Program (the “Program”) from 75% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program, to 50% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. As the market appeared to stabilize in the latter part of 2010, the Advisor in consultation with the General Partner began to increase the leverage employed on behalf of the Partnership. Effective September 15, 2010, the Advisor, in consultation with the General Partner, increased the overall leverage of the Partnership’s assets traded pursuant to the Program from 50% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program to 62.5% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. Effective October 12, 2010, the Advisor, in consultation with the General Partner, increased the overall leverage of the Partnership assets traded pursuant to the Program to 75% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. The Advisor, in further consultation with the General Partner, will determine if, and at what time, the leverage may be further readjusted. Such adjustments to the leverage employed will not exceed 100% of the customary leverage utilized by the Advisor in the Program.

As used herein, the term “customary leverage” refers to the typical trading level used by the Advisor to determine the number of futures contracts to be entered into on behalf of the Partnership at any given account size pursuant to the Diversified 2XL Program. “Customary leverage” for the Diversified 2XL Program is two times the leverage employed on behalf of a similarly sized account that is traded pursuant to the Advisor’s Diversified Program (i.e., the Advisor will typically establish twice as many futures contracts for a Diversified 2XL account as for a similarly sized account traded pursuant to the Diversified Program).

The General Partner is not aware of any material changes to the trading program discussed above during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.

The Partnership’s trading of futures, forward and options contracts, if applicable, on commodities is done primarily on U.S. commodity exchanges and foreign commodity exchanges. It engages in such trading through a commodity brokerage account maintained with CGM.

The Partnership will be liquidated upon the first of the following to occur: December 31, 2015; when the net asset value per Redeemable Unit decreases to less than $400 per Redeemable Unit as of the close of business on any business day, or under certain circumstances as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Partnership (the “Limited Partnership Agreement”).

 

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For the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, the approximate average market sector distribution for the Partnership was as follows:

 

LOGO

The General Partner has entered into a management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) with the Advisor, a registered commodity trading advisor, who will make all commodity trading decisions for the Partnership. A description of the trading activities and focus of the Advisor is included on page 10, under “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” The Advisor is not affiliated with the General Partner or CGM. The Advisor is not responsible for the organization or operation of the Partnership.

In allocating the assets of the Partnership to the Advisor, the General Partner considers past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets to the Advisor and may allocation assets to additional advisors at any time.

Pursuant to the terms of the Management Agreement, the Partnership is obligated to pay the Advisor a monthly management fee equal to 1/6 of 1% (2% per year) of month-end Net Assets managed by the Advisor. Month-end Net Assets, for the purpose 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 accrual, the monthly management fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. For the period from August 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010, the Advisor reduced the management fee it receives from the Partnership from an annual rate of 2% of adjusted net assets to an annual rate of 1% of adjusted net assets. For the period from October 1, 2010 through October 31, 2010, the Advisor reduced the management fee it receives from the Partnership from an annual rate of 2% of adjusted net assets to an annual rate of 1.5% of adjusted net assets. The Management Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.

 

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In addition, the Partnership is obligated to pay the Advisor an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by the Advisor for the Partnership during each calendar quarter. 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.

The Partnership has entered into a customer agreement (the “Customer Agreement”) with CGM which provides that the Partnership will pay CGM a monthly brokerage fee equal to 6.5% per year of month-end Net Assets, in lieu of brokerage fees on a per trade basis. Effective February 1, 2011, the Partnership reduced the monthly brokerage fee paid to CGM to 5.0% per year of month-end Net Assets. Month-end Net Assets, for the purpose of calculating brokerage fees are Net Assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s brokerage fees, incentive fee accrual, the monthly management fee and other expenses and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. CGM will pay a portion of its brokerage fees to other properly registered selling agents and to financial advisors who have sold Redeemable Units. Brokerage fees will be paid for the life of the Partnership, although the rate at which such fees are paid may be changed. This fee may be increased or decreased at any time at CGM’s discretion upon written notice to the Partnership. The Partnership will pay for National Futures Association (“NFA”) fees, exchange fees, clearing fees, give-up fees, user fees and floor brokerage fees (collectively, the “clearing fees”). All of the Partnership’s assets are deposited in the Partnership’s account at CGM. The Partnership’s cash is deposited by CGM in segregated bank accounts to the extent required by Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations. CGM will pay the Partnership interest on 80% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s brokerage account during each month at a 30-day U.S. Treasury bill rate determined weekly by CGM based on the average non-competitive yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills maturing in 30 days from the date on which such weekly rate is determined. The Customer Agreement between the Partnership and CGM gives the Partnership the legal right to net unrealized gains and losses an open futures and forward contracts. The Customer Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.

(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, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 is set forth under “Item 6. Selected Financial Data.” The Partnership’s Capital as of December 31, 2011 was $23,517,223.

(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 sales of goods or services or own any long-lived assets, and therefore this item is not applicable.

 

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(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.

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 and changing interest rates.

An investor may lose all of its investment.

Due to the speculative nature of trading commodity interests, an investor could lose all of its 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 brokerage and management fees. Fees will be paid to the Advisor even if the Partnership experiences a net loss for the full year.

An investor’s ability to redeem or transfer units is limited.

An investor’s ability to redeem units is limited and no market exists for the units.

Conflicts of interest exist.

The Partnership is subject to numerous conflicts of interest including those that arise from the facts that:

1. The General Partner and the Partnership’s commodity broker are affiliates;

2. The Advisor, the Partnership’s commodity broker and their principals and affiliates may trade in commodity interests for their own accounts; and

3. An investor’s financial advisor will receive ongoing compensation for providing services to the investor’s account.

Investing in units might not provide the desired diversification of an investor’s overall portfolio.

The Partnership will not provide any benefit of diversification of an investor’s overall portfolio unless it is profitable and produces returns that are independent from stock and bond market returns.

Past performance is no assurance of future results.

The Advisor’s trading strategies may not perform as they have performed in the past. The Advisor has from time to time incurred substantial losses in trading on behalf of clients.

 

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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.

Regulatory changes could restrict the Partnership’s operations.

Regulatory changes could adversely affect the Partnership by restricting its markets or activities, limiting its trading and/or increasing the 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 Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) are in the process of promulgating rules to regulate swaps dealers, to require that swaps be traded on an exchange or swap execution facilities, to mandate additional reporting and disclosure requirements and to require that derivatives (such as those traded by the Partnership) be moved into central clearinghouses. These rules may negatively impact the manner in which swap contracts are traded and/or settled and limit trading by speculators (such as the Partnership) in futures and over-the-counter 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 may hold or control in particular futures and options on futures. In addition the CFTC has adopted new speculative position limits on economically equivalent futures, options and swaps. The trading instructions of the 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 foregoing potential profits.

Item 2. Properties.

The Partnership does not own or lease any properties. The General Partner operates out of facilities provided by MSSB Holdings.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

This section describes the major pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which CGM 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.

CGM is a New York corporation with its principal place of business at 388 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10013. CGM is registered as a broker-dealer and futures commission merchant (“FCM”), and provides futures brokerage and clearing services for institutional and retail participants in the futures markets. CGM and its affiliates also provide investment banking and other financial services for clients worldwide.

There have been no material administrative, civil or criminal actions within the past five years against CGM (formerly known as Salomon Smith Barney) or any of its individual principals and no such actions are currently pending, except as follows.

Mutual Funds

Several issues in the mutual fund industry have come under the scrutiny of federal and state regulators. Citigroup has received subpoenas and other requests for information from various government regulators regarding market timing, financing, fees, sales practices and other mutual fund issues in connection with various investigations. Citigroup is cooperating with all such reviews. Additionally, CGM has entered into a settlement agreement with the SEC with respect to revenue sharing and sales of classes of funds.

In May 2007, CGM finalized settlements agreement with the NYSE and the New Jersey Bureau of Securities relating to alleged improper market-timing of mutual funds by certain of its brokers prior to September 2003. The allegations included failure to supervise trading of mutual fund shares and variable annuity mutual fund sub-accounts, failure to prevent market-timing by its brokers and failure to comply with applicable recordkeeping requirements. CGM neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing or liability, and paid $50 million in disgorgement and penalties.

FINRA Settlement

On October 12, 2009, FINRA announced its acceptance of an Award Waiver and Consent (“AWC”) in which CGM, without admitting or denying the findings, consented to the entry of the AWC and a fine and censure of $600,000. The AWC includes findings that CGM failed to adequately supervise the activities of its equities trading desk in connection with swap and related hedge trades in U.S. and Italian equities that were designed to provide certain perceived tax advantages. CGM was charged with failing to provide for effective written procedures with respect to the implementation of the trades, failing to monitor Bloomberg messages and failing to properly report certain of the trades to the NASDAQ.

 

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Auction Rate Securities

On May 31, 2006, the SEC instituted and simultaneously settled proceedings against CGM and 14 other broker-dealers regarding practices in the auction rate securities market. The SEC alleged that the broker-dealers violated Section 17(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The broker-dealers, without admitting or denying liability, consented to the entry of an SEC cease-and-desist order providing for censures, undertakings and penalties. CGM paid a penalty of $1.5 million.

On August 7, 2008, Citigroup reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General, the SEC, and other state regulatory agencies, pursuant to which Citigroup agreed to offer to purchase at par auction rate securities from all Citigroup individual investors, small institutions (as defined by the terms of the settlement), and charities that purchased auction rate securities from Citigroup prior to February 11, 2008. In addition, Citigroup agreed to pay a $50 million fine to the State of New York and a $50 million fine to the other state regulatory agencies.

Beginning in March 2008, Citigroup and certain of its affiliates, including CGM, have been named as defendants in numerous actions and proceedings brought by Citigroup shareholders and customers concerning auction-rate securities (“ARS”), many of which have been resolved. These have included, among others: (i) numerous lawsuits and arbitrations filed by customers of Citigroup and its affiliates seeking damages in connection with investments in ARS; (ii) a consolidated putative class action asserting claims for federal securities violations, which has been dismissed and is now pending on appeal; (iii) two putative class actions asserting violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, which have been dismissed and are now pending on appeal; and (iv) a derivative action filed against certain Citigroup officers and directors, which has been dismissed. In addition, based on an investigation, report and recommendation from a committee of Citigroup’s Board of Directors, the Board refused a shareholder demand that was made after dismissal of the derivative action. Additional information relating to certain of these actions is publicly available in court filings under the docket numbers 08 Civ. 3095 (S.D.N.Y.) (Swain, J.), 10-722 (2d Cir.); 10-867 (2d Cir.); 11-1270 (2d Cir.).

Subprime Mortgage-Related Litigation and Other Matters

The SEC, among other regulators, is investigating Citigroup’s subprime and other mortgage-related conduct and business activities, as well as other business activities affected by the credit crisis, including an ongoing inquiry into Citigroup’s structuring and sale of CDOs. Citigroup is cooperating fully with the SEC’s inquiries.

On July 29, 2010, the SEC announced the settlement of an investigation into certain of Citigroup’s 2007 disclosures concerning its subprime-related business activities. The SEC alleged misleading statements about the extent of its holdings of assets backed by subprime mortgages. On October 19, 2010, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a Final Judgment approving the settlement, pursuant to which Citigroup agreed to pay a $75 million civil penalty and to maintain certain disclosure policies, practices and procedures for a three-year period. Additional information relating to this action is publicly available in court filings under the docket number 10 Civ. 1277 (D.D.C.) (Huvelle, J.).

On October 19, 2011, the SEC and Citigroup announced a settlement, subject to judicial approval, in connection with the SEC’s investigation into the structuring and sale of CDOs. Pursuant to the proposed settlement, CGM agreed to pay $160 million in disgorgement, $30 million in prejudgment interest, and a civil penalty of $95 million relating to CGM’s role in the structuring and sale of the Class V Funding III CDO transaction. On November 28, 2011, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York declined to approve the settlement on the grounds that the court was not presented with enough facts to approve the settlement. A trial date was set for July 16, 2012. On December 15 and 19, 2011, respectively, the SEC and s filed notices of appeal. On December 27, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted an emergency stay of further proceedings in the district court, pending the Second Circuit’s ruling on the SEC’s motion to stay the district court proceedings during the pendency of the appeals. Additional information relating to this matter is publicly available in court filings under the docket number 11 Civ. 7387 (S.D.N.Y.) (Rakoff, J.).

Citigroup and certain of its affiliates have also been named as defendants in actions brought by counterparties and investors that have suffered losses as a result of the credit crisis. Those actions include claims asserted by investors in CDO-related transactions, including Moneygram Payment Systems, Inc., which filed a lawsuit in Minnesota state court on October 26, 2011, alleging misstatements in connection with the sale of CDO securities. Additional information relating to this action is publicly available in court filings under docket number 102611H-10 (Minn. 4th Judicial District, Hennepin Cnty.). Additional actions asserting claims related to investments or participation in CDO-related transactions may be filed in the future.

On February 9, 2012, Citigroup announced that CitiMortgage, along with other mortgage servicers, had reached an agreement in principle with the United States and with the Attorneys General for 49 states (Oklahoma did not participate) and the District of Columbia to settle a number of related investigations into residential loan servicing and origination practices. In conjunction with this settlement, Citigroup and certain of its affiliates, including CGM, also entered into a settlement with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York of a “qui tam” action. This action alleged that, as a participant in the Direct Endorsement Lender program, CitiMortgage had certified to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) that certain loans were eligible for FHA insurance when in fact they were not. The settlement releases Citigroup from claims arising out of its acts or omissions relating to the origination, underwriting, or endorsement of all FHA-insured loans prior to the effective date of the settlement. Under the settlement, Citigroup will pay the United States $158.3 million, for which Citigroup had fully provided as of December 31, 2011. CitiMortgage will continue to participate in the Direct Endorsement Lender program. Additional information relating to this action is publicly available in court filings under the docket number 11 Civ. 5423 (S.D.N.Y.) (Marrero, J.).

 

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The Federal Reserve Bank, the OCC and the FDIC, among other federal and state authorities, are investigating issues related to the conduct of certain mortgage servicing companies, including Citigroup affiliates, in connection with mortgage foreclosures. Citigroup is cooperating fully with these inquiries.

Credit Crisis Related Matters

Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007, certain of Citigroup’s, and CGM’s regulators and other state and federal government agencies commenced formal and informal investigations and inquiries, and issued subpoenas and requested information, concerning Citigroup’s subprime mortgage-related conduct and business activities. Citigroup and certain of its affiliates, including CGM, are involved in discussions with certain of its regulators to resolve certain of these matters.

Certain of these regulatory matters assert claims for substantial or indeterminate damages. Some of these matters already have been resolved, either through settlements or court proceedings, including the complete dismissal of certain complaints or the rejection of certain claims following hearings.

In the course of its business, CGM, as a major futures commission merchant and broker-dealer, is a 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 CGM. GCM may establish reserves from time to time in connections with such actions.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures. Not applicable.

 

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases 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 December 31, 2011 was 418.

(c) Distribution. The Partnership did not declare a distribution in 2011 or 2010. The Partnership does not intend to declare distributions in the forseeable 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. For the year ended December 31, 2011, there were additional subscriptions of 1,382.0230 Redeemable Units totaling $2,225,336. For the year ended December 31, 2010, there were additional subscriptions of 1,353.3838 Redeemable Units totaling $2,106,000. For the year ended December 31, 2009, there were additional subscriptions of 1,526.6293 Redeemable Units totaling $2,841,000.

The Redeemable Units were issued in reliance upon applicable exemptions from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The Redeemable Units were purchased by accredited investors, as described in Regulation D. In determining the applicability of the exception, the General Partner relied on the fact that the Redeemable Units were purchased by accredited investors in a private offering.

Proceeds from the additional subscriptions of Redeemable Units are used in the trading of commodity interests including futures contracts, options, and forward and swap contracts.

(g) Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers.

The following chart sets forth the purchases of Redeemable Units by the Partnership.

 

Period

  (a) Total Number
of  Redeemable
    Units Purchased*    
    (b) Average
Price Paid per
    Redeemable Unit**    
    (c) Total Number
    of Redeemable Units    
Purchased as Part

of Publicly
Announced
Plans or Programs
      (d) Maximum Number    
(or Approximate

Dollar Value) of
Redeemable

Units that
May Yet Be
Purchased Under the
Plans or Programs

October 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011

       57.0506        $1,341.87      N/A   N/A

November 1, 2011 - November 30, 2011

       276.8254        $1,472.50      N/A   N/A

December 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011

       306.0812        $1,478.65      N/A   N/A
 

 

 

   

 

 

     
    639.9572        $1,463.80       
 

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

* 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 last day of each month at the net asset value per Redeemable Unit as of that day.

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

Net realized and unrealized trading gains (losses), interest income, net income (loss), increase (decrease) in net asset value per unit and net asset value per unit for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007, and total assets at December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 were as follows:

 

     2011     2010     2009     2008      2007  

Net realized and unrealized trading gains (losses), net of brokerage fees (including clearing fees) of $1,711,163, $2,687,495, $3,565,935, $4,769,347, and $5,850,002, respectively

   $ (6,598,754   $ (1,353,930   $ 1,032,616      $ 13,935,204       $ (33,426,318

Interest income

   $ 9,928      $ 33,924      $ 38,284      $ 758,022       $ 3,077,631   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ (6,588,826   $ (1,320,006   $ 1,070,900      $ 14,693,226       $ (30,348,687
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ (7,399,527   $ (2,299,264   $ (192,757   $ 13,050,579       $ (35,224,227
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Increase (decrease) in net asset value per unit

   $ (503.78   $ (53.40   $ 53.37      $ 330.33       $ (817.81
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net asset value per unit

   $ 1,478.65      $ 1,982.43      $ 2,035.83      $ 1,982.46       $ 1,652.13   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 24,187,388      $ 42,918,567      $ 51,030,910      $ 67,349,349       $ 68,715,245   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

  Overview

The Partnership aims to achieve substantial capital appreciation 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 may employ futures, options on futures, forwards and swap contracts in those markets.

The General Partner manages all business of the Partnership. The General Partner has delegated its responsibility for the investment of the Partnership’s assets to Chesapeake. The General Partner employs a team of approximately 47 professionals whose primary emphasis is on attempting to maintain quality control among the advisors to the partnerships operated or managed by the General Partner. A full-time staff of due diligence professionals use proprietary technology and on-site evaluations to monitor new and existing futures money managers. The accounting and operations staff provide processing of subscriptions and redemptions and reporting to limited partners and regulatory authorities. The General Partners also includes staff involved in marketing and sales support. In selecting the Advisor for the Partnership, the General Partner considered past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets to the Advisor at any time.

Responsibilities of the General Partner include:

 

   

due diligence examinations of the Advisor;

 

   

selection, appointment and termination of the Advisor;

 

   

negotiation of the management agreement; and

 

   

monitoring the activity of the Advisor.

In addition, the General Partner prepares the books and records and provides the administrative and compliance services that are required by law or regulation, from time to time, in connection with the operation of the Partnership. These services include the preparation of required books and records and reports to limited partners, government agencies and regulators; computation of net asset value; calculation of fees; assistance in connection with subscriptions; redemptions and limited partner communications; and preparation of offering documents and sales literature.

The General Partner seeks the best prices and services available in its commodity futures brokerage transactions.

 

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The programs offered generally by the Advisor to its clients to trade commodity interests for their accounts are the Diversified Program and the Diversified 2XL Program, both systematic trading programs. Chesapeake initially traded its Diversified Program on behalf of the Partnership, however, since August 1, 1997, Chesapeake has traded the Partnership’s account pursuant to its Diversified 2XL Program. The Diversified Program emphasizes a wide range of diversification by utilizing a global portfolio of commodity interests, including, but not limited to, agricultural products, precious and industrial metals, currencies, financial instruments, and stock, financial and economic indices. These contracts are traded on a highly leveraged basis.

The Diversified 2XL Program employs the same trading system as the Diversified Program, except that the Diversified 2XL Program is generally traded on an increased exposure basis equal to approximately two times the exposure or trading level typically applied to a fully-funded Diversified Program account. Ultimately, the appropriate exposure or trading level to be employed as determined at the sole discretion of the Advisor will be determined by the performance factors associated with the relevant account only, regardless of the intended performance relationship of such account to other accounts trading in other programs that may utilize more or less exposure.

In general, the Advisor analyzes markets, including price action, market volatility, open interest and volume (“technical analysis”) as a means of predicting market opportunity and discovering any repeating patterns in past historical prices. The Advisor’s trading decisions are based on a combination of its systems, market timing techniques, trading discretion, judgment and experience, as well as market opportunities. The Advisor’s trading methodology is both systematic and strategic. Trading decisions require the exercise of strategic judgment by the Advisor in evaluating its technical trading methods, in their possible modification from time to time, and in their implementation.

Exchanges on which transactions for the Partnership may take place include all futures exchanges in the U.S. and certain non-U.S. futures exchanges. The Advisor continually monitors numerous markets, both non-U.S. and U.S., and may initiate trades at any point the system determines that the market is sufficiently liquid and suitable for trading using the methods employed by the Advisor.

 

(a)   Liquidity.

The Partnership does not engage in sales of goods or services. The Partnership’s assets are its equity in its trading account, consisting of cash and cash equivalents, net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts and net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts. Because of the low margin deposits normally required in commodity futures trading, relatively small price movements may result in substantial losses to the Partnership. While substantial losses could lead to a material decrease in liquidity, no such illiquidity occurred during the year ended December 31, 2011.

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 the 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 the Advisor believes will permit it to enter and exit trades without noticeably moving the market.
(ii)   The 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 the Advisor.
(iii)   The Partnership may occasionally accept 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 is 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 purchases or sale of additional positions in the same or related commodities.
(v)   The Partnership does not utilize borrowings other than short-term borrowings if the Partnership takes delivery of any cash commodities.
(vi)   The Advisor 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, driven by the desire to generate commission income.

 

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From January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, the Partnership’s average margin to equity ratio (i.e., the percentage of assets on deposit required for margin) was approximately 24.4%.

In the normal course of business, the Partnership is party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments. These financial instruments 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 specified 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 or over-the-counter (“OTC”). Exchange-traded instruments are standardized and include futures and certain forwards and option contracts. OTC contracts are negotiated between contracting parties and include certain forward, swaps and option contracts. 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 0.0% to 2.5% of its contracts are traded OTC.

The risk to the limited partners that have purchased Redeemable Units is limited to the amount of their capital contributions to the Partnership and their share of the Partnership’s assets and undistributed profits. This limited liability is a result of the organization of the Partnership as a limited partnership under New York law.

Market risk is the potential for changes in the value of the financial instruments traded by the Partnership 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 exposed to a market risk equal to the value of futures and forward contracts purchased 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 risk of loss in the event of a counterparty default is typically limited to the amounts recognized in the Statements of Financial Condition and not represented by the contract or notional amounts of the instruments. The Partnership’s risk of loss is reduced through the use of legally enforceable master netting agreements with counterparties that permit the Partnership to offset unrealized gains and losses and other assets and liabilities with such counterparties upon the occurrence of certain events. The Partnership has credit risk and concentration risk as CGM or a CGM affiliate is the sole counterparty or broker with respect to the Partnership’s assets. Credit risk with respect to exchange-traded instruments is reduced to the extent that through CGM, the Partnership’s counterparty is an exchange or clearing organization.

The General Partner monitors and attempts to control 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, on-line monitoring systems provide account analysis of futures, forwards and options positions 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 risks included in the notes to the financial statements.)

Other than the risks inherent in commodity futures and other derivatives trading, 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 General Partner may, in its discretion, cause the Partnership to 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 business day.

 

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(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, weather, government 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, brokerage fees and advisory 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 payable by CGM is dependent upon interest rates over which the Partnership has no 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 their Redeemable Units at the net asset value per Redeemable Unit as of the last day 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 generally are funded out of the Partnership’s cash holdings. For the year ended December 31, 2011, 6,401.8229 Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $12,780,630 and 96.2853 General Partner unit equivalents were redeemed totaling $200,000. For the year ended December 31, 2010, 4,641.7005 Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $7,613,343 and 117.7745 General Partner unit equivalents were redeemed totaling $250,000. For the year ended December 31, 2009, 9,474.3926 Redeemable Units were redeemed totaling $17,224,525 and 812.0052 General Partner unit equivalents were redeemed totaling $1,486,124.

For the year ended December 31, 2011, there were additional subscriptions of 1,382.0230 Redeemable Units totaling $2,225,336. For the year ended December 31, 2010, there were additional subscriptions of 1,353.3838 Redeemable Units totaling $2,106,000. For the year ended December 31, 2009, there were additional subscriptions of 1,526.6293 Redeemable Units totaling $2,841,000.

(c) Results of Operations.

For the year ended December 31, 2011, the net asset value per unit decreased 25.4% from $1,982.43 to $1,478.65. For the year ended December 31, 2010, the net asset value per unit decreased 2.6% from $2,035.83 to $1,982.43. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the net asset value per unit increased 2.7% from $1,982.46 to $2,035.83.

The Partnership experienced a net trading loss of $4,887,591 before brokerage fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2011. Losses were primarily attributable to the trading of commodity futures in currencies, grains, livestock, metals, softs and indices and were partially offset by gains in energy and U.S. and non-U.S. interest rates. The net trading gain (or loss) realized from the Partnership is disclosed on page 24 under “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

The most significant losses during the year were incurred within the agricultural complex during June from long positions in wheat futures as prices fell on speculation that warm weather would aid U.S. crops. Additional losses were recorded during September due to long futures positions in corn and soybeans as prices declined on speculation that Europe’s sovereign debt crisis may hinder the global economy, reducing demand for the grains. During December, losses were experienced from long positions in coffee futures as prices declined amid slowing demand. Within the global stock index sector, losses were incurred in June from long positions in Pacific Rim and U.S. equity index futures as prices moved lower on concern about the overall pace of the global economic recovery. During July and August, long positions in European and U.S. equity index futures resulted in additional losses as prices dropped amid Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States’ sovereign credit rating and concern about the European sovereign debt crisis. Losses were also incurred within the currency sector due to long positions in the euro and British pound versus the U.S. dollar as the value of these currencies moved lower against the U.S. dollar during May after Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s credit rating. In August, long positions in the Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, and Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar resulted in losses as the value of the U.S. dollar was boosted higher against these currencies by increased “safe haven” demand following central bank intervention in the Japanese yen. During September, additional losses were incurred in this sector due to long positions in the Singapore dollar, Norwegian krone, and New Zealand dollar versus the U.S. dollar after the value of these currencies declined against the U.S. dollar as a deepening debt crisis in Europe diminished demand for higher-yielding currencies. Further losses

 

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were incurred in currencies during October from short positions in the Turkish lira, Canadian dollar, and Russian ruble versus the U.S. dollar as the value of the U.S. dollar declined after European leaders’ efforts to resolve the sovereign debt crisis reduced demand for the U.S. currency as a “safe haven.” Within the metals markets, losses were experienced during May from long positions in silver futures as prices fell sharply from a 31-year high. In September, long futures positions in gold and silver resulted in losses after prices moved lower amid a rise in the value of the U.S. dollar, which reduced demand for the precious metals. A portion of the Partnership’s losses during the year was offset by gains recorded within the global interest rate sector throughout the third quarter from long positions in European, U.S., and Australian fixed income futures as prices advanced higher due to concern about the European sovereign debt crisis and a faltering global economy. Further gains were achieved within this sector during November and December from long positions in Australian and U.S. fixed income futures as prices rose on increased “safe-haven” demand while European leaders struggled to find funding for the euro-zone rescue plan. Within the energy markets, gains were experienced during the first four months of the year from long futures positions in crude oil and its related products as prices rose amid an escalation in political instability in the Middle East and North Africa.

The Partnership experienced a net trading gain of $1,333,565 before brokerage fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2010. Gains were primarily attributable to the trading of commodity futures in grains, U.S. and non-U.S. interest rates and metals and were partially offset by losses in currencies, energy, indices, livestock and softs.

Most of the financial risk assets recovered well in 2010 due to expansionary monetary and fiscal policies adopted by most central banks. However, this recovery came amidst global unrest due to geographically localized crises such as European sovereign debt crisis and inflationary headwinds in emerging markets. Global weather conditions also played a significant role in 2010 in affecting commodity prices. Many agricultural products remained at record level prices as extreme weather conditions such as drought, floods and winter storms affected production.

The Partnership was profitable in the agricultural sector, interest rates and metals; while registering losses in currencies, the energy sector and equity indices.

In the agricultural sector, products such as corn, cotton and coffee reached record price levels. In the case of cotton, prices reached 140-year highs. Extreme weather conditions in some of the biggest exporters of these products significantly disrupted the global supply. Several exporting countries even imposed an export ban to meet the internal demand. The Partnership capitalized on the strong trends in such agricultural products and remained profitable in this sector.

In metals, the Partnership was profitable in precious metals as they reached record price levels. Precious metals such as gold and silver appealed to many investors as both inflation hedges and a flight to quality.

In interest rates, the Partnership recorded gains in both U.S. and non-U.S. interest rates. The Federal Reserve kept U.S. interest rates at historically low levels amid a consistently high unemployment rate at above 9%. Also, as the European debt crisis seemed to engulf several countries, most notably Greece and Ireland, investors flocked to U.S. and German bonds as a flight to quality. Thus the yields remained at historically low levels reaffirming the trend from earlier year.

In currencies, the Partnership registered modest losses, mostly from European currencies such as the euro, British pound and other emerging countries in the region. As the European debt crisis loomed, the euro dropped to some of the lowest levels against the U.S. dollar. Concerns over economic growth in U.K. led to weakening of the British pound.

In equity indices, the Partnership recorded losses earlier in the year as global equities sharply corrected. The European debt crisis and “Flash crash” of equities on May 6th came around the time that many economists were actively discussing the possibility of a double dip recession. Equity indices recovered from the lowest levels following the announcement of a European Union bailout of troubled nations within the European Union. Also, later in the year, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced a second round of quantitative easing which seemed to increase the appetite for risk assets.

The Partnership registered losses in the energy sector, primarily from crude oil and other derivatives as oil remained range bound on concerns over global economic growth. The oil market remained very volatile through most of the year and reacted sharply to global events and economic factors.

 

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Interest income on 80% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s brokerage account was earned at a 30-day U.S. Treasury bill rate determined weekly by CGM based on the average non-competitive yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills maturing in 30 days. Interest income for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 decreased by $8,967 and $23,996, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010. The decrease in interest income is primarily due to lower U.S. Treasury bill rates and a lower average daily equity maintained in cash for the Partnership, during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010. Interest earned by the Partnership will increase the net asset value of the Partnership. The amount of interest income earned by the Partnership depends on the average daily equity in the Partnership’s accounts and upon interest rates over which neither the Partnership nor CGM has control.

Brokerage fees are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net asset value 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. Brokerage fees for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 decreased by $361,624 and $976,332, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010. The decrease in brokerage fees is due to lower average adjusted net assets during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010.

Management fees are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net asset value as of the end of each month and are affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Management fees for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 decreased by $60,725 and $77,154, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010. The decrease in management fees is due to lower average adjusted net assets for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2010.

Incentive fees are based on the new trading profits generated by the Advisor at the end of the quarter, as defined in the Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and the Advisor. There were no incentive fees earned for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 or 2010. 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.

The Partnership pays professional fees, which generally include legal and accounting expenses. Professional fees for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were $140,911 and $252,552, respectively.

The Partnership pays other expenses, which generally include filing, reporting and data processing fees. Other expenses for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were $39,113 and $18,875, respectively.

The Partnership experienced a net trading gain of $4,598,551 before brokerage fees and expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009. Gains were primarily attributable to the trading of commodity futures in indices, livestock, metals and softs and were partially offset by losses in currencies, energy, grains and U.S. and non-U.S. interest rates.

2009 was a volatile year for the financial markets. The U.S. stock market entered 2009 reeling from the financial turmoil of 2008. The results of the sub-prime fallout, bank bailouts, auto industry bankruptcies, and capitulating economic data overwhelmed not just stock prices, but fueled extraordinarily high levels of risk aversion. The market’s recovery was driven by stability in the banking sector and a rapid recovery in global markets. By mid-year 2009, the market had hit bottom in March, banks were seeking to return TARP bailout money and other leading indicators were recovering.

In currencies, the Partnership registered losses as the U.S. dollar reversed the strong trend earlier in the year and started weakening against the other major currencies. Trading in Japanese yen and cross rates contributed to these losses following speculation that the Japanese government may interfere in the markets to reverse a strong Japanese yen. In the energy sector, most of the products did not exhibit any strong trends and mostly remained range bound after the reversals earlier in the year. This pattern of sharp reversal followed by non-directional volatility attributed to the losses in this sector. Losses were also seen in the fixed-income sector. With the economic backdrop of 2008, yields started to exhibit asymmetric volatility due to extreme uncertainty prevailing in the longer time horizon. Encouraged by the continuing fiscal and monetary efforts of the U.S. government to stabilize the economy, the markets finally began to recover. In agricultural commodities, losses were realized primarily in wheat. The price of wheat unexpectedly rallied in October, as cold and wet weather conditions threatened to delay harvest.

 

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In livestock, the Partnership was profitable in hogs and cattle futures trading. The Partnership recorded gains in the metals sector primarily from zinc, copper and gold. Investors across the world chose to buy gold through ETFs and bullion as a hedge against inflation, driven by the massive monetary influx of the central banks. In softs, modest gains were recorded as the strong gains in sugar offset the losses in coffee. In stock indices, strong trends emerged in the second quarter after the lows of March 2009. The Partnership was favorably positioned to capitalize on these trends and recover the losses from the sharp reversals

In the General Partner’s opinion, the Advisor continues to employ trading methods and produce results consistent with its expected performance given market conditions and the objectives of the Partnership. The General Partner continues to monitor the Advisor’s performance on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis to assure these objectives are met.

Commodity markets are highly volatile. Broad price fluctuations and rapid inflation increase the risks involved in commodity trading, but also increase the possibility of profit. The profitability of the Partnership depends on the existence of major price trends and the ability of the Advisor 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 and changes in interest rates. To the extent that market trends exist and the Advisor is able to identify them, the Partnership expects to increase capital through operations.

In allocating the assets of the Partnership to the Advisor, the General Partner considered past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets to the Advisor at any time.

(d) Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements. None.

(e) Contractual Obligations. None.

(f) Operational Risk

The Partnership is directly 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 securities, where clearance, settlement, and custodial risks are often greater than in more established markets. 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.

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.

 

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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 noncompliance 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 Redeemable Unit holders, creditors, and regulators, is free of material errors.

(g) Critical Accounting Policies.

Partnership’s Investments. All commodity interests (including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments) are held for trading purposes. The commodity interests are recorded on trade date and open contracts are recorded at fair value (as described below) 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. Unrealized gains or losses on open contracts are included as a component of equity in trading account on the Statements of Financial Condition. Net realized gains or losses and any change in net unrealized gains or losses from the preceding period are reported in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

Partnership’s Fair Value Measurements. Fair value is defined as the price 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. Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) also requires the use of judgment in determining if a formerly active market has become inactive and in determining fair values when the market has become inactive. Management has concluded that based on available information in the marketplace, the Partnership’s Level 1 assets and liabilities are actively traded.

The Partnership will separately present purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in their reconciliation of Level 3 fair value measurements (i.e., to present such items on a gross basis rather than on a net basis), and makes disclosures regarding the level of disaggregation and the inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value for measurements that fall within either Level 2 or Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy as required under GAAP.

The Partnership considers prices for exchange-traded commodity futures, forwards and options contracts to be based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1). The values of non-exchange-traded forwards, swaps and certain options contracts for which market quotations are not readily available are priced by broker-dealers that derive fair values for those assets and liabilities from observable inputs (Level 2). As of and for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, the Partnership did not hold any derivative instruments that were priced at fair value using unobservable inputs through the application of management’s assumptions and internal valuation pricing models (Level 3).

 

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Futures Contracts. The Partnership trades 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 each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying instruments, and are recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership. When the contract is closed, the Partnership records 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 changes in net unrealized gains (losses) on futures contracts are included in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

London Metals Exchange Forward Contracts. Metal contracts traded on the London Metals Exchange (“LME”) represent a firm commitment to buy or sell a specified quantity of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin or zinc. LME contracts traded by the Partnership are cash settled based on prompt dates published by the LME. Payments (“variation margin”) may be made or received by the Partnership each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying contracts, and are recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership. 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 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 changes in net unrealized gains (losses) on metal contracts are included in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

  Introduction

The Partnership is a speculative commodity pool. The market sensitive instruments held by it are acquired for speculative trading purposes, and all or substantially all of the Partnership’s 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 main line of business.

The risk to the limited partners that have purchased Redeemable Units is limited to the amount of their capital contributions to the Partnership and their share of the Partnership’s assets and undistributed profits. 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 market value of the Partnership’s open positions and, consequently, in its earnings and cash balances. The Partnership’s 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 of the Partnership’s open positions and the liquidity of the markets in which it trades.

The Partnership rapidly acquires and liquidates 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 past performance is not necessarily indicative of its future results.

“Value at Risk” is a measure of the maximum amount which the Partnership could reasonably be expected to lose in a given market sector. However, the inherent uncertainty of the Partnership’s speculative trading and the recurrence in the markets traded by the Partnership 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 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 losses in any market sector will be limited to Value at Risk or by the Partnership’s attempts to manage its market risk.

 

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Materiality as used in this section, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk,” 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’ market sensitive instruments.

Quantifying the Partnership’s Trading Value at Risk

The following quantitative disclosures regarding the Partnership’s 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 of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). 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 (such as the terms of particular contracts and the number of market risk sensitive instruments held during or at the end of the reporting period).

The Partnership’s risk exposure in the various market sectors traded by the Advisor is quantified below in terms of Value at Risk. Due to the Partnership’s mark-to-market accounting, any loss in the fair value of the Partnership’s open positions is directly reflected in the Partnership’s earnings (realized or unrealized). Exchange maintenance margin requirements have been used by the Partnership as the measure of its Value at Risk. Maintenance 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 maintenance 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. Maintenance margin has been used rather than the more generally available initial margin, because initial margin includes a credit risk component which is not relevant to Value at Risk.

In the case of market sensitive instruments which are not exchange traded (almost exclusively currencies in the case of the Partnership), 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 futures and forward positions does not have any optionality component. However, the Advisor may trade commodity options. The Value at Risk associated with options is reflected in the following table as the margin requirement attributable to the instrument underlying each option. Where this instrument is a futures contract, the futures margin have been used, and where this instrument is a physical commodity, the futures-equivalent maintenance 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 in almost all cases fluctuate to a lesser extent than those of the underlying instruments.

In quantifying the Partnership’s Value at Risk, 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 positions are rarely, if ever, 100% positively correlated have not been reflected.

 

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The Partnership’s Trading Value at Risk in Different Market Sectors

Value at risk tables represent a probabilistic assessment of the risk of loss in market risk sensitive instruments. The following tables indicate the trading Value at Risk associated with the Partnership’s open positions by market category as of December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, and the highest, lowest and average values during the years. All open position trading risk exposures of the Partnership have been included in calculating the figures set forth below. As of December 31, 2011, the Partnership’s total capitalization was $23,517,223.

December 31, 2011

 

Market Sector

   Value at Risk      % of Total
Capitalization
    High
Value at  Risk
     Low
Value at  Risk
     Average
Value at Risk*
 

Currencies

   $ 1,081,085         4.60   $ 1,379,867       $ 832,855       $ 1,097,042   

Energy

     455,800         1.94     863,083         450,550         622,684   

Grains

     351,542         1.50     1,141,450         185,150         622,608   

Indices

     492,553         2.09     2,710,265         295,731         1,524,778   

Interest Rates U.S.

     175,100         0.74     179,800         29,500         109,475   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     1,031,701         4.39     1,076,331         358,383         784,532   

Livestock

     41,700         0.18     265,450         39,970         124,117   

Metals

     362,324         1.54     1,316,070         354,331         791,992   

Softs

     555,733         2.36     1,581,019         390,793         790,732   
  

 

 

    

 

 

         

Total

   $ 4,547,538         19.34        
  

 

 

    

 

 

         

 

 

* Annual average of month-end Value at Risk

As of December 31, 2010, the Partnership’s total capitalization was $41,672,044.

December 31, 2010

 

Market Sector

   Value at Risk      % of Total
Capitalization
    High
Value at Risk
     Low
Value at  Risk
     Average
Value at Risk*
 

Currencies

   $ 1,249,666         3.00   $ 2,057,069       $ 867,991       $ 1,472,045   

Energy

     661,702         1.59     1,012,471         173,691         554,668   

Grains

     1,104,950         2.65     1,637,000         163,960         815,322   

Indices

     2,432,046         5.84     14,744,438         1,055,959         3,158,056   

Interest Rates U.S.

     108,900         0.26     196,300         58,400         123,815   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     697,780         1.67     1,302,981         634,429         888,963   

Livestock

     208,500         0.50     495,950         23,373         257,388   

Metals

     1,124,452         2.70     2,458,619         601,999         1,466,625   

Softs

     1,513,817         3.63     2,103,301         309,772         1,229,004   
  

 

 

    

 

 

         

Total

   $ 9,101,813         21.84        
  

 

 

    

 

 

         

 

 

* Annual average of month-end Value at Risk

 

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  Material Limitations on Value at Risk as an Assessment of Market Risk

The face value of the market sector instruments held by the Partnership is typically many times the applicable maintenance margin requirement (margin requirements generally range between 2% and 15% of contract face value) as well as many times the capitalization of the Partnership. The magnitude of the Partnership’s open positions creates a “risk of ruin” not typically found in most other investment vehicles. Because of the size of its positions, certain market conditions — unusual, but historically recurring from time to time — could cause the Partnership to incur severe losses over a short period of time. The foregoing Value at Risk table — as well as the past performance of the Partnership — 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.

  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 Securities 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 Advisor 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, defaults and expropriations, illiquid markets, the emergence of dominant fundamental factors, political upheavals, changes in historical price

 

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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 as of December 31, 2011, by market sector.

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 impact the Partnership’s profitability. The Partnership’s primary interest rate exposure is to interest rate fluctuations in the United States and the other G-8 countries. However, the Partnership also takes futures positions on the government debt of smaller nations — e.g., Australia.

Currencies. The Partnership’s currency exposure is to exchange rate fluctuations, primarily fluctuations which 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. The currency trading Value at Risk figure includes foreign margin amounts converted into U.S. dollars with an incremental adjustment to reflect the exchange rate risk inherent to the U.S. dollar-based Partnership in expressing Value at Risk in a functional currency other than U.S. dollars.

Stock Indices. The Partnership’s primary equity exposure is to equity price risk in the G-8 countries. The stock index futures traded by the Partnership are limited to futures on broadly based indices. As of December 31, 2011, the Partnership’s primary exposures were in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stock indices. The General Partner anticipates little, if any, trading in non-G-8 stock indices. The Partnership is primarily exposed to the risk of adverse price trends or static markets in the major U.S., European and Japanese indices. (Static markets would not cause major market changes but would make it difficult for the Partnership to avoid being “whipsawed” into numerous small losses.)

Metals. The Partnership’s primary metal market exposure is to fluctuations in the price of gold, silver, zinc, copper and aluminum.

Softs. The Partnership’s primary commodities exposure is to agricultural price movements which are often directly affected by severe or unexpected weather conditions. Sugar, coffee and cotton accounted for the substantial bulk of the Partnership’s commodity exposure as of December 31, 2011.

  Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Non-Trading Risk Exposure

The following were the only non-trading risk exposures of the Partnership as of December 31, 2011.

Foreign Currency Balances. The Partnership’s primary foreign currency balances are in British pounds, euro and Swiss francs. The Advisor regularly converts foreign currency balances to U.S. dollars in an attempt to control the Partnership’s non-trading risk.

  Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Means of Managing Risk Exposure

The General Partner monitors and attempts to control 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.

The General Partner monitors the Partnership’s performance and the concentration of its open positions, and consults with the Advisor concerning the Partnership’s overall risk profile. If the General Partner felt it necessary to do so, the General Partner could require the Advisor 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 Advisor’s own risk control policies while maintaining a general supervisory overview of the Partnership’s market risk exposures.

 

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The Advisor applies its own risk management policies to its trading. The Advisor often follows diversification guidelines, margin limits and stop loss points to exit a position. The Advisor’s research of risk management often suggests ongoing modifications to its trading programs.

As part of the General Partner’s risk management, the General Partner periodically meets with the Advisor to discuss its risk management and to look for any material changes to the Advisor’s portfolio balance and trading techniques. The Advisor is required to notify the General Partner of any material changes to its programs.

 

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

TIDEWATER FUTURES FUND 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, for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009; Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2011 and 2010; Condensed Schedules of Investments at December 31, 2011 and 2010; Statements of Income and Expenses for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009; Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009; and Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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To the Limited Partners of

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the information contained herein is accurate and complete.

 

LOGO

 

By:   Walter Davis
 

President and Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

General Partner,

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

 

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

522 Fifth Avenue

14th Floor

New York, NY 10036

212-296-1999

 

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Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The management of Tidewater Futures Fund 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 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 Tidewater Futures Fund L.P. has assessed the effectiveness of the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth in the Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on our assessment, management concluded that the Partnership maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011 based on the criteria referred to above.

 

LOGO

   

LOGO

Walter Davis

President and Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

General Partner,

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

   

Brian Centner

Chief Financial Officer

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

General Partner,

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Partners of

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.:

We have audited the accompanying statements of financial condition of Tidewater Futures Fund L.P. (the “Partnership”), including the condensed schedules of investments, as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the related statements of income and expenses and changes in partners’ capital for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Partnership is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, 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. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Tidewater Futures Fund L.P. as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the results of its operations and its changes in partners’ capital for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
New York, New York
March 23, 2012

 

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Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

Statements of Financial Condition

December 31, 2011 and 2010

 

      2011      2010  

Assets:

     

Equity in trading account:

     

Cash (Note 3c)

   $ 18,186,510       $ 25,519,706   

Cash margin (Note 3c)

     5,223,123         10,943,883   

Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts

     478,555         6,452,412   

Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

     299,200           
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total trading equity

     24,187,388         42,916,001   

Interest receivable (Note 3c)

             2,566   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 24,187,388       $ 42,918,567   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities and Partners’ Capital:

     

Liabilities:

     

Net unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

   $       $ 56,461   

Accrued expenses:

     

Brokerage fees (Note 3c)

     100,781         232,170   

Management fees (Note 3b)

     40,016         70,888   

Professional fees

     66,468         82,874   

Other

     10,313         14,326   

Redemptions payable (Note 5)

     452,587         789,804   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     670,165         1,246,523   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Partners’ Capital (Notes 1 and 5):

     

General Partner, 184.9703 and 281.2556 unit equivalents outstanding at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively

     273,506         557,570   

Limited Partners, 15,719.5935 and 20,739.3934 Redeemable Units outstanding at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively

     23,243,717         41,114,474   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total partners’ capital

     23,517,223         41,672,044   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities and partners’ capital

   $ 24,187,388       $ 42,918,567   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net asset value per unit

   $ 1,478.65       $ 1,982.43   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

Condensed Schedule of Investments

December 31, 2011

 

     Number of
Contracts
     Fair Value     % of Partners’
Capital
 

Futures Contracts Purchased

       

Currencies

     151       $ 45,655        0.19

Energy

     84         240,346        1.02   

Grains

     21         3,162        0.01   

Indices

     2         (1,728     (0.00 )* 

Interest Rates U.S.

     86         25,133        0.11   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     638         225,959        0.96   

Livestock

     30         27,565        0.12   

Metals

     18         (219,420     (0.93

Softs

     81         (371,619     (1.58
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total futures contracts purchased

        (24,947     (0.10
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Futures Contracts Sold

       

Currencies

     201         319,035        1.36   

Grains

     222         (317,073     (1.35

Indices

     249         125,758        0.53   

Softs

     250         375,782        1.60   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total futures contracts sold

        503,502        2.14   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Unrealized Appreciation on Open Forward Contracts

       

Metals

     54         301,950        1.28   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

        301,950        1.28   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Unrealized Depreciation on Open Forward Contracts

       

Metals

     1         (2,750     (0.01
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

        (2,750     (0.01
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net fair value

      $ 777,755        3.31
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Due to rounding.

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

Condensed Schedule of Investments

December 31, 2010

 

     Number
of
Contracts
     Fair Value     % of
Partners’
Capital
 

Futures Contracts Purchased

       

Currencies

     251       $ 672,219        1.61

Energy

     239         200,124        0.48   

Grains

     562         2,286,361        5.49   

Indices

     782         392,394        0.94   

Interest Rates U.S.

     58         (227,140     (0.54

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     700         (2,789     (0.01

Livestock

     201         421,367        1.01   

Metals

     57         749,650        1.80   

Softs

     353         1,766,647        4.24   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total futures contracts purchased

        6,258,833        15.02   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Futures Contracts Sold

       

Currencies

     238         718,098        1.72   

Indices

     2         6,214        0.02   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     92         (14,145     (0.03

Softs

     259         (516,588     (1.24
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total futures contracts sold

        193,579        0.47   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Unrealized Appreciation on Open Forward Contracts

       

Metals

     133         1,063,713        2.55   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

        1,063,713        2.55   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Unrealized Depreciation on Open Forward Contracts

       

Metals

     121         (1,120,174     (2.69
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

        (1,120,174     (2.69
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net fair value

      $ 6,395,951        15.35
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

Statements of Income and Expenses

for the years ended

December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009

 

      2011     2010     2009  

Investment Income:

      

Interest income (Note 3c)

   $ 9,928      $ 33,924      $ 38,284   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Expenses:

      

Brokerage fees including clearing fees (Note 3c)

     1,711,163        2,687,495        3,565,935   

Management fees (Note 3b)

     630,677        778,084        1,074,282   

Professional fees

     140,911        252,552        145,186   

Other

     39,113        18,875        44,189   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total expenses

     2,521,864        3,737,006        4,829,592   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Management fee waived (Note 3b)

            (70,253       
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net expenses

     2,521,864        3,666,753        4,829,592   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

     (2,511,936     (3,632,829     (4,791,308
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Trading Results:

      

Net gains (losses) on trading of commodity interests:

      

Net realized gains (losses) on closed contracts

     730,605        (162,637     2,601,999   

Change in net unrealized gains (losses) on open contracts

     (5,618,196     1,496,202        1,996,552   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total trading results

     (4,887,591     1,333,565        4,598,551   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ (7,399,527   $ (2,299,264   $ (192,757
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per unit (Note 6)*

   $ (503.78   $ (53.40   $ 53.37   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted average units outstanding

     16,862.9736        23,013.2035        28,947.5633   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Based on change in net asset value per unit.

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital

for the years ended

December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009

 

      Limited
Partners
    General
Partner
    Total  

Partners’ Capital at December 31, 2008

   $ 63,390,228      $ 2,400,829      $ 65,791,057   

Net income (loss)

     (90,409     (102,348     (192,757

Subscriptions of 1,526.6293 Redeemable Units

     2,841,000               2,841,000   

Redemptions of 9,474.3926 Redeemable Units and 812.0052 General Partner unit equivalents

     (17,224,525     (1,486,124     (18,710,649
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Partners’ Capital at December 31, 2009

     48,916,294        812,357        49,728,651   

Net income (loss)

     (2,294,477     (4,787     (2,299,264

Subscriptions of 1,353.3838 Redeemable Units

     2,106,000               2,106,000   

Redemptions of 4,641.7005 Redeemable Units and 117.7745 General Partner unit equivalents

     (7,613,343     (250,000     (7,863,343
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Partners’ Capital at December 31, 2010

     41,114,474        557,570        41,672,044   

Net income (loss)

     (7,315,463     (84,064     (7,399,527

Subscriptions of 1,382.0230 Redeemable Units

     2,225,336               2,225,336   

Redemptions of 6,401.8229 Redeemable Units and 96.2853 General Partner unit equivalents

     (12,780,630     (200,000     (12,980,630
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Partners’ Capital at December 31, 2011

   $ 23,243,717      $ 273,506      $ 23,517,223   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net asset value per unit:

      

 

2009:

   $ 2,035.83   
  

 

 

 

2010:

   $ 1,982.43   
  

 

 

 

2011:

   $ 1,478.65   
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2011

1.    Partnership Organization:

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P. (the “Partnership”) is a limited partnership organized on February 23, 1995 under the partnership laws of the State of New York to engage in the speculative trading of a diversified portfolio of commodity interests including futures contracts, options, swaps 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 are volatile and involve a high degree of market risk. The Partnership privately and continuously offers redeemable units of limited partnership interest (“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. The General Partner is wholly owned by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC (“MSSB Holdings”). Morgan Stanley, indirectly through various subsidiaries, owns a majority equity interest in MSSB Holdings. Citigroup Inc. (“Citigroup”) indirectly owns a minority equity interest in MSSB Holdings. Citigroup also indirectly owns Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“CGM”), the commodity broker for the Partnership. Prior to July 31, 2009, the date as of which MSSB Holdings became its owner, the General Partner was wholly owned by Citigroup Financial Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc., the sole owner of which is Citigroup. As of December 31, 2011, all trading decisions for the Partnership are made by the Advisor (defined below).

For the period from July 12, 2010 through September 14, 2010 and in order to reduce the Partnership’s exposure to volatile market conditions, Chesapeake Capital Corporation (the “Advisor”), in consultation with the General Partner, reduced temporarily the overall leverage of the Partnership’s assets traded pursuant to the Advisor’s Diversified 2XL Program (the “Program”) from 75% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program, to 50% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. As the market appeared to stabilize in the letter part of 2010, the Advisor, in consultation with the General Partner began to increase the leverage employed on behalf of the Partnership. Effective September 15, 2010, the Advisor, in consultation with the General Partner, increased the overall leverage of the Partnership’s assets traded pursuant to the Program from 50% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program to 62.5% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. Effective October 12, 2010, the Advisor, in consultation with the General Partner, increased the overall leverage of the Partnership assets traded pursuant to the Program to 75% of the customary leverage utilized by the Program. The Advisor, in further consultation with the General Partner, will determine if, and at what time, the leverage may be further readjusted. Such adjustments to the leverage employed will not exceed 100% of the customary leverage utilized by the Advisor in the Program.

As used herein, the term “customary leverage” refers to the typical trading level used by the Advisor to determine the number of futures contracts to be entered into on behalf of the Partnership at any given account size pursuant to the Diversified 2XL Program. “Customary leverage” for the Diversified 2XL Program is two times the leverage employed on behalf of a similarly sized account that is traded pursuant to the Advisor’s Diversified Program (i.e., the Advisor will typically establish twice as many futures contracts for a Diversified 2XL account as for a similarly sized account traded pursuant to the Diversified Program).

The General Partner and each limited partner 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 shall be liable for obligations of the Partnership in excess of its initial capital contribution and profits, if any, net of distributions.

The Partnership will be liquidated upon the first to occur of the following: December 31, 2015; when the net asset value of a Redeemable Unit decreases to less than $400 per Redeemable Unit as of the close of business on any business day; or under certain circumstances as defined in the limited partnership agreement of the Partnership (the “Limited Partnership Agreement”).

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2011

 

2.    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 management 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.

 

  b. Statement of Cash Flows.    The Partnership is not required to provide a Statement of Cash Flows.

 

  c. Partnership’s Investments.    All commodity interests (including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments) are held for trading purposes. The commodity interests are recorded on trade date and open contracts are recorded at fair value (as described below) 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. Unrealized gains or losses on open contracts are included as a component of equity in trading account on the Statements of Financial Condition. Net realized gains or losses and any change in net unrealized gains or losses from the preceding period are reported in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

Partnership’s Fair Value Measurements. Fair value is defined as the price 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. GAAP also requires the use of judgment in determining if a formerly active market has become inactive and in determining fair values when the market has become inactive. Management has concluded that based on available information in the marketplace, the Partnership’s Level 1 assets and liabilities are actively traded.

The Partnership will separately present purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in its reconciliation of Level 3 fair value measurements (i.e., to present such items on a gross basis rather than on a net basis), and makes disclosures regarding the level of disaggregation and the inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value for measurements that fall within either Level 2 or Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy as required under GAAP.

 

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December 31, 2011

 

The Partnership considers prices for exchange-traded commodity futures, forwards and options contracts to be based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1). The values of non exchange-traded forwards, swaps and certain options contracts for which market quotations are not readily available are priced by broker-dealers who derive fair values for those assets and liabilities from observable inputs (Level 2). As of and for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, the Partnership did not hold any derivative instruments for which market quotations were not readily available and that are priced by broker-dealers who derive fair values for those assets and liabilities from observable inputs (Level 2) or that were priced at fair value using unobservable inputs through the application of management’s assumptions and internal valuation pricing models (Level 3).

 

      December 31,
2011
     Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
     Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
 

Assets

           

Futures

   $ 1,870,210       $ 1,870,210       $         —       $         —   

Forwards

     301,950         301,950                   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 2,172,160       $ 2,172,160       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

           

Futures

   $ 1,391,655       $ 1,391,655       $       $   

Forwards

     2,750         2,750                   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     1,394,405         1,394,405                   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net fair value

   $ 777,755       $ 777,755       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

      December 31,
2010*
     Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
     Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
 

Assets

           

Futures

   $ 7,718,729       $ 7,718,729       $         —       $         —   

Forwards

    
1,063,713
  
    
1,063,713
  
               
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 8,782,442       $ 8,782,442       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

           

Futures

   $
1,266,317
  
   $
1,266,317
  
   $       $   

Forwards

     1,120,174         1,120,174                   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     2,386,491         2,386,491                   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net fair value

   $ 6,395,951       $ 6,395,951       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

  * The amounts have been reclassified from the December 31, 2010 prior year financial statements to conform to current year presentation.

 

  d.

Futures Contracts.    The Partnership trades 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 each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying instruments, and are recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership. When the contract is closed, the Partnership

 

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  records 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 changes in net unrealized gains (losses) on futures contracts are included in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

 

  e. London Metals Exchange Forward Contracts.    Metal contracts traded on the London Metals Exchange (“LME”) represent a firm commitment to buy or sell a specified quantity of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin or zinc. LME contracts traded by the Partnership are cash settled based on prompt dates published by the LME. Payments (“variation margin”) may be made or received by the Partnership each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying contracts, and are recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Partnership. 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 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 changes in net unrealized gains (losses) on metal contracts are included in the Statements of Income and Expenses.

 

  f. Income Taxes.    Income taxes have not been provided as each partner is individually liable for the taxes, if any, on its share of the Partnership’s income and expenses.

GAAP provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements and requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Partnership’s financial statements to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions with respect to tax at the Partnership level not deemed to meet the “more-likely-than-not” threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. The General Partner concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the Partnership’s financial statements.

The Partnership files U.S. federal and various state and local tax returns. No income tax returns are currently under examination. The 2008 through 2011 tax years remain subject to examination by U.S. federal and most state tax authorities. The General Partner does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability.

 

  g. Subsequent Events. The General Partner evaluates events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are filed. The General Partner has assessed the subsequent events through the date of filing and determined that there were no subsequent events requiring adjustment of or disclosure in the financial statements.

 

  h.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements.    In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-04, “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards” (“IFRS”). The amendments within this ASU change the wording used to describe many of the requirements in GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements to eliminate unnecessary wording differences between GAAP and IFRS. However, some of the amendments clarify FASB’s intent about the application of existing fair value measurement requirements, and other amendments change a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or for disclosing information about fair value measurements. ASU 2011-04 is effective for annual

 

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  and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2011 for public entities. This new guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the Partnership’s financial statements.

 

       In October 2011, FASB issued a proposed ASU intended to improve and converge financial reporting by setting forth consistent criteria for determining whether an entity is an investment company. Under longstanding GAAP, investment companies carry all of their investments at fair value, even if they hold a controlling interest in another company. The primary changes being proposed by FASB relate to which entities would be considered investment companies as well as certain disclosure and presentation requirements. In addition to the changes to the criteria for determining whether an entity is an investment company, FASB also proposes that an investment company consolidate another investment company if it holds a controlling financial interest in the entity. The Partnership will evaluate the impact that this proposed update would have on the financial statements once the pronouncement is issued.

 

       In December 2011, FASB issued ASU 2011-11, “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” which creates a new disclosure requirement about the nature of an entity’s rights of setoff and the related arrangement associated with its financial instruments and derivative instruments. Entities are required to disclose both gross information and net information about both instruments and transactions eligible for offset in the statement of financial position and instruments and transactions subject to an agreement similar to a master netting arrangement. The objective of this disclosure is to facilitate comparison between those entities that prepare their financial statements on the basis of GAAP and those entities that prepare their financial statements on the basis of IFRS. The disclosure requirements are effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Partnership should also provide the disclosures retrospectively for all comparative periods presented. The Partnership is currently evaluating the impact that the pronouncement would have on the financial statements.

 

  i. Net Income (Loss) per Unit. Net income (loss) per unit is calculated in accordance with investment company guidance. See Note 6, “Financial Highlights”.

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.

 

  b. Management Agreement:

The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, has entered into a management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) with the Advisor, a registered commodity trading advisor. The Advisor is not affiliated with the General Partner or CGM and is not responsible for the organization or operation of the Partnership. As compensation for services, the Partnership is obligated to pay the Advisor a monthly management fee of  1/6 of 1% (2% per year) of month-end Net Assets managed by the Advisor. Month-end Net Assets, for the purpose 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 accrual, the monthly management fee and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. For the period from August 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010, the Advisor reduced the management fee it receives from the Partnership from an annual rate of 2% of adjusted net assets to an annual rate of 1% of adjusted net assets. For the period from October 1, 2010 through October 31, 2010, the Advisor reduced the management fee it receives from the Partnership from an annual rate of 2% of adjusted net assets to an annual rate of 1.5% of adjusted net assets. The Management Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.

 

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In addition, the Partnership is obligated to pay the Advisor an incentive fee, payable quarterly, equal to 20% of the New Trading Profits, as defined in the Management Agreement, earned by the Advisor for the Partnership during each calendar quarter. 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.

In allocating the assets of the Partnership to the Advisor, the General Partner considers past performance, trading style, volatility of markets traded and fee requirements. The General Partner may modify or terminate the allocation of assets to the Advisor and may allocate the assets to additional advisors at any time.

 

  c. Customer Agreement:

The Partnership has entered into a customer agreement (the “Customer Agreement”) with CGM whereby CGM provides services which include, among other things, the execution of transactions for the Partnership’s account in accordance with orders placed by the Advisor. The Partnership is obligated to pay a monthly brokerage fee to CGM equal to 6.5% per year of month-end Net Assets, in lieu of brokerage fees on a per trade basis. Effective February 1, 2011, the Partnership reduced the monthly brokerage fee paid to CGM to 5.0% per year of month-end Net Assets. Month-end Net Assets, for the purpose of calculating brokerage fees are Net Assets, as defined in the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to the reduction of the current month’s brokerage fees, management fee, incentive fee accrual and other expenses and any redemptions or distributions as of the end of such month. CGM will pay a portion of its brokerage fees to other properly registered selling agents and to financial advisors who have sold Redeemable Units. Brokerage fees will be paid for the life of the Partnership, although the rate at which such fees are paid may be changed. This fee may be increased or decreased at any time at CGM’s discretion upon written notice to the Partnership. The Partnership will pay for National Futures Association fees, exchange, clearing, user, give-up and floor brokerage fees (collectively the “clearing fees”). All of the Partnership’s assets are deposited in the Partnership’s account at CGM. The Partnership’s cash is deposited by CGM in segregated bank accounts to the extent required by Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, the amount of cash held for margin requirements was $5,223,123 and $10,943,883, respectively. CGM will pay the Partnership interest on 80% of the average daily equity maintained in cash in the Partnership’s brokerage account during each month at a 30-day U.S. Treasury bill rate determined weekly by CGM based on the average non-competitive yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills maturing in 30 days from the date on which such weekly rate is determined. The Customer Agreement may be terminated upon notice by either party.

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 Customer Agreement between the Partnership and CGM gives the Partnership the legal right to net unrealized gains and losses on open futures and forward contracts. The Partnership nets, for financial reporting purposes, the unrealized gains and losses on open futures and forward contracts on the Statements of Financial Condition as the criteria under ASC 210-20, Balance Sheet, have been met.

All of the commodity interests owned by the Partnership are held for trading purposes. The monthly average number of futures contracts traded by the Partnership during the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were 2,554 and 4,217, respectively. The monthly average number of metals forward contracts traded by the Partnership during the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were 122 and 282, respectively.

 

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December 31, 2011

 

Brokerage fees are calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net asset value on the last day of each month and are affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions.

The following tables indicate the gross fair values of derivative instruments of futures and forward contracts as separate assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2011 and 2010.

 

Assets    December 31, 2011  

Futures Contracts

  

Currencies

   $ 518,318   

Energy

     255,066   

Grains

     42,625   

Indices

     200,253   

Interest Rates U.S.

     34,313   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     360,868   

Livestock

     38,625   

Softs

     420,142   
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts

   $ 1,870,210   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities

  

Futures Contracts

  

Currencies

   $ (153,628

Energy

     (14,720

Grains

     (356,536

Indices

     (76,223

Interest Rates U.S.

     (9,180

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     (134,909

Livestock

     (11,060

Metals

     (219,420

Softs

     (415,979
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open futures contracts

   $ (1,391,655
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts

   $ 478,555
  

 

 

 

 

Assets    December 31, 2011  

Forward Contracts

  

Metals

   $     301,950   
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

   $ 301,950   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities

  

Forward Contracts

  

Metals

   $ (2,750
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

   $ (2,750
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

   $ 299,200 ** 
  

 

 

 

 

* This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts” on the Statements of Financial Condition.

 

** This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts” on the Statements of Financial Condition.

 

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Assets

   December 31, 2010  

Futures Contracts

  

Currencies

   $ 1,561,451   

Energy

     296,607   

Grains

     2,286,361   

Indices

     538,181   

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     77,000   

Livestock

     421,367   

Metals

     749,650   

Softs

     1,788,112   
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts

   $ 7,718,729   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities

  

Futures Contracts

  

Currencies

   $ (171,134

Energy

     (96,483

Indices

     (139,573

Interest Rates U.S.

     (227,140

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     (93,934

Softs

     (538,053
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open futures contracts

   $ (1,266,317
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts

   $ 6,452,412
  

 

 

 

Assets

  

Forward Contracts

  

Metals

   $ 1,063,713   
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized appreciation on open forward contracts

   $ 1,063,713   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities

  

Forward Contracts

  

Metals

   $ (1,120,174
  

 

 

 

Total unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

   $ (1,120,174
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts

   $ (56,461 )** 
  

 

 

 

 

* This amount is in “Net unrealized appreciation on open futures contracts” on the Statements of Financial Condition.

 

** This amount is in “Net unrealized depreciation on open forward contracts” on the Statements of Financial Condition.

 

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The following tables indicate the trading gains (losses), by market sector, on derivative instruments for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009.

 

Sector

   December 31,
2011
Gain (Loss)
from Trading
    December 31,
2010
Gain (Loss)
from Trading
    December 31,
2009
Gain (Loss)
from Trading
 

Currencies

   $ (536,679   $ (296,465   $ (3,328,709

Energy

     1,317,126        (2,214,938     (466,919

Grains

     (2,382,724     2,585,561        (1,553,269

Indices

     (3,266,759     (540,389     4,538,302   

Interest Rates U.S.

     1,003,023        564,696        (859,153

Interest Rates Non-U.S.

     2,062,960        1,787,049        (1,883,874

Livestock

     (1,299,537     (1,003,769     996,379   

Metals

     (376,428     1,608,449        2,647,029   

Softs

     (1,408,573     (1,156,629     4,508,765   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ (4,887,591 )***    $ 1,333,565 ***    $ 4,598,551 *** 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

*** This amount is in “Total trading results” on the Statements of Income and Expenses.

5.    Subscriptions, Distributions and Redemptions:

Subscriptions are accepted monthly from investors and they become limited partners on the first day of the month after their subscription is processed. Distributions of profits, if any, will be made at the sole discretion of the General Partner and at such times as the General Partner may decide. A limited partner may require the Partnership to redeem their Redeemable Units at their net asset value per Redeemable Unit as of the last day of any month on three business days’ notice to the General Partner. There is no fee charged to limited partners in connection with redemptions.

6.    Financial Highlights:

Changes in the net asset value per unit for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:

 

      2011     2010      2009  

Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)*

   $ (456.29   $ (12.29    $ 95.04   

Interest income

     0.54        1.48         1.28   

Expenses**

     (48.03     (42.59      (42.95
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Increase (decrease) for the year

     (503.78     (53.40      53.37 *** 

Net asset value per unit, beginning of year

     1,982.43        2,035.83         1,982.46   
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net asset value per unit, end of year

   $ 1,478.65      $ 1,982.43       $ 2,035.83   
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Includes brokerage fees.

 

** Excludes brokerage fees.

 

*** The increase in the net asset value per unit while the Partnership incurred a net loss for the year ended December 31, 2009 is due to the timing of subscriptions and redemptions of units throughout the year.

 

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Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.

Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2011

 

        2011        2010****     2009****  

Ratios to average net assets:

           

Net investment income (loss)

       (8.1 )%         (9.3 )%      (9.1 )% 

Incentive fees

                 
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) before incentive fees*****

       (8.1 )%         (9.3 )%      (9.1 )% 
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating expenses

       8.1        9.4 %******      9.2

Incentive fees

                 
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total expenses

       8.1        9.4     9.2
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total return:

           

Total return before incentive fees

       (25.4 )%         (2.6 )%      2.7

Incentive fees

                 
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total return after incentive fees

       (25.4 )%         (2.6 )%      2.7
    

 

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

**** The ratios are shown net and gross of incentive fees to conform to current year presentation.

 

***** Interest income less total expenses.

 

****** Percentages are after management fee waivers. The Advisor voluntarily waived a portion of the management fee (equal to 0.2% per year of adjusted net assets).

The above ratios 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 limited partners’ share of income, expenses and average net assets.

7.    Financial Instrument Risks:

In the normal course of business, the Partnership is party 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, 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 or over-the-counter (“OTC”). Exchange-traded instruments are standardized and include futures and certain forward contracts. OTC contracts are negotiated between contracting parties and include certain forward swaps and options contracts. Each of these instruments is subject to various risks similar to those related 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 risk to the limited partners that have purchased Redeemable Units is limited to the amount of their capital contributions to the Partnership and their share of the Partnership’s assets and undistributed profits. This limited liability is a result of the organization of the Partnership as a limited partnership under New York law.

Market risk is the potential for changes in the value of the financial instruments traded by the Partnership 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 exposed to a market risk equal to the value of futures and forward contracts purchased and unlimited liability on such contracts sold short.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2011

 

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 risk of loss in the event of a counterparty default is typically limited to the amounts recognized in the Statements of Financial Condition and not represented by the contract or notional amounts of the instruments. The Partnership’s risk of loss is reduced through the use of legally enforceable master netting agreements with counterparties that permit the Partnership to offset unrealized gains and losses and other assets and liabilities with such counterparties upon the occurrence of certain events. The Partnership has credit risk and concentration risk, as CGM or a CGM affiliate is the sole counterparty or broker with respect to the Partnership’s assets. Credit risk with respect to exchange-traded instruments is reduced to the extent that through CGM, the Partnership’s counterparty is an exchange or clearing organization.

The General Partner monitors and attempts to control 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, forwards and options positions by sector, margin requirements, gain and loss transactions and collateral positions.

The majority of these instruments mature within one year of the inception date. However, due to the nature of the Partnership’s business, these instruments may not be held to maturity.

 

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Selected unaudited quarterly financial data for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 are summarized below:

 

    For the period from
October 1, 2011 to
December 31, 2011
  For the period from
July 1, 2011 to
September 30, 2011
  For the period from
April 1, 2011 to

June 30, 2011
  For the period from
January 1, 2011 to
March 31, 2011

Net realized and unrealized trading gains (losses) net of brokerage fees and clearing fees including interest income

  $1,387,399   $(5,827,602)   $(7,376,998)   $5,228,375

Net income (loss)

  $1,206,760   $(6,001,231)   $(7,598,024)   $4,992,968

Increase (decrease) in net asset value per unit

  $       70.77   $     (380.86)   $     (464.26)   $     270.57
        For the period from    
October 1, 2010 to
December 31, 2010
      For the period from    
July 1, 2010 to
September 30, 2010
      For the period from    
April 1, 2010 to

June 30, 2010
      For the period from    
January 1, 2010 to
March 31, 2010

Net realized and unrealized trading gains (losses) net of brokerage fees and clearing fees including interest income

  $10,316,597   $1,934,499   $(13,432,393)   $(138,709)

Net income (loss)

  $10,048,309   $1,725,293   $(13,671,008)   $(401,858)

Increase (decrease) in net asset value per unit

  $       465.67   $       80.67   $       (587.85)   $    (11.89)

 

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

Not Applicable.

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 Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the General Partner, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure and appropriate SEC filings.

Management 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 CEO and CFO have evaluated the effectiveness of the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of December 31, 2011 and, based on that evaluation, the General Partner’s CEO 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 CEO 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 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 management’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, 2011 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B. Other Information

None.

 

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PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

The Partnership has no officers, directors or employees and its affairs are managed by its General Partner. Investment decisions are made by the Advisors.

The officers and directors of the General Partner are Walter Davis (President and Chairman of the Board of Directors), Brian Centner (Chief Financial Officer), Colbert Narcisse (Director), Douglas J. Ketterer (Director), Ian Bernstein (Director), Harry Handler (Director), Patrick T. Egan (Director) and Alper Daglioglu (Director). Each director of the General Partner 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) Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC, 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.

Walter Davis, age 47, has been President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Partner since June 2010, where his responsibilities include oversight of the General Partner’s funds and accounts. Since June 2010, Mr. Davis has been a principal and registered as an associated person of the General Partner, and is an associate member of the NFA. Since June 2009, Mr. Davis has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley Smith Barney”), a financial services firm, where his responsibilities include serving as Managing Director and the Director of the Managed Futures Department. Since June 2009, Mr. Davis has been registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. From May 2006 through June 2010, Mr. Davis served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Demeter Management LLC (“Demeter”), a registered commodity pool operator, where his responsibilities included oversight of Demeter’s funds and accounts. From May 2006 through December 2010, Mr. Davis was listed as a principal of Demeter, and from July 2006 through December 2010, Mr. Davis was registered as an associated person of Demeter. From April 2007 through June 2009, Mr. Davis was employed by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS & Co.”), a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as the Managing Director and the Director of the Managed Futures Department. From April 2007 through June 2009, Mr. Davis was registered as an associated person of MS & Co. From August 2006 through April 2007, Mr. Davis was employed by Morgan Stanley DW Inc., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as Managing Director and the Director of the Managed Futures Department. From August 2006 through April 2007, Mr. Davis was registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley DW Inc. From September 1999 through August 2006, Mr. Davis was employed by MS & Co., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included oversight of the sales and marketing of MS & Co.’s managed futures funds to high net worth and institutional investors on a global basis. From January 1992 through September 1999, Mr. Davis was employed by Chase Manhattan Bank’s Alternative Investment Group, an alternative investment group, where his responsibilities included marketing managed futures funds to high net worth investors, as well as developing and structuring managed futures funds. Mr. Davis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in May 1987 from the University of the South and his Master of Business Administration in Finance and International Business in May 1992 from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Brian Centner, age 34, has been the Chief Financial Officer and a principal of the General Partner since September 2011. Since July 2009, Mr. Centner has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities include oversight of accounting and financial and regulatory reporting of the General Partner’s managed futures funds. From February 2003 through July 2009, Mr. Centner was employed by Citi Alternative Investments (“CAI”), a division of Citigroup, a financial services firm, which administered Citigroup’s hedge fund and fund of funds business, where he served as Senior Vice President responsible for the accounting and financial and regulatory reporting of CAI’s managed futures funds. From June 2002 through February 2003, Mr. Centner was employed by KPMG LLP, a U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm, as a Senior Associate within the Investment Management division, where his responsibilities included performing audits and attestation services for financial services firms. From September 2000 through June 2002, Mr. Centner was employed by Arthur Andersen LLP, a U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm, where he served in the Financial Services division and his responsibilities included performing audits and attestation services for financial services firms. Mr. Centner earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in May 2000 from Binghamton University and his Master of Business Administration degree in May 2011 from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Mr. Centner is a Certified Public Accountant.

Colbert Narcisse, age 45, has been a Director and a principal of the General Partner since December 2011. Since February 2011, Mr. Narcisse has been a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities have included serving as Head of the Alternative Investment Group, Head of the Corporate Equity Solutions Group, and Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Strategy and Client Solutions Division. From July 2009 until February 2011, Mr. Narcisse served as Chief Executive Officer of Gold Bullion International, a business services company that enables retail investors to acquire, manage and store physical precious metals through their financial advisor. From March 2009 until July 2009, Mr. Narcisse took personal leave. From August 1990 until March 2009, Mr. Narcisse was employed by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as Chief Operating Officer of Americas Investment Banking, Chief Operating Officer of the Global Wealth Management Division, and as an investment banker in both the Financial Institutions and Public Finance Groups. From July 1987 until August 1990, Mr. Narcisse was employed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where his responsibilities included serving as a Bank Examiner. Additionally, Mr. Narcisse serves on the Board of Harlem RBI, as the Vice Chair of Finance for the Montclair Cooperative School Board of Trustees, as an Audit Committee Member of the New York City Housing Authority, and as a Member of the Executive Leadership Council. Mr. Narcisse received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in June 1987 from New York University. He received his Master of Business Administration degree in July 1992 from Harvard Business School.

 

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Douglas J. Ketterer, age 46, has been a Director and a principal of the General Partner since December 2010. From October 2003 through December 2010, Mr. Ketterer was listed as a principal of Demeter, a commodity pool operator, until Demeter’s combination with the General Partner. From July 2010 through the present, Mr. Ketterer has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, as Managing Director and Head of the U.S. Private Wealth Management Group, where his responsibilities include overseeing the U.S. Private Wealth Management Group. From March 1990 through July 2010, Mr. Ketterer was employed by MS & Co., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Wealth Management Group and Head of the Products Group. During Mr. Ketterer’s employment at MS & Co. his responsibilities included oversight over a number of departments including the Alternative Investments Group, the Consulting Services Group, the Annuities & Insurance Department, and the Retirement & Equity Solutions Group, which offered products and services through MS & Co.’s Global Wealth Management Group. Mr. Ketterer received his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business in January 1994 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University at Albany’s School of Business in May 1987.

Ian Bernstein, age 49, has been a Director of the General Partner and listed as a principal of the General Partner since December 2010. From June 2009 through the present, Mr. Bernstein has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, as Managing Director of Capital Markets, with oversight of risk and infrastructure, joint venture negotiations and integration. From April 2007 through the present, Mr. Bernstein has been employed by MS & Co., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities include serving as Managing Director of the Capital Markets group, the head of the Global Wealth Management group, and serving as market risk manager. From October 1984 through April 2007, Mr. Bernstein was employed by Morgan Stanley DW Inc., a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as a Repo trader, manager of the Repo trading desk, and Chief Operating Officer for fixed income. Mr. Bernstein also served as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley DW Inc. from March 2004 through April 2007. Mr. Bernstein earned his Bachelor of Arts in May 1980 from the University of Buckingham and his Master of Business Administration in May 1988 from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Harry Handler, age 52, has been a Director of the General Partner since December 2010. Since December 2010, Mr. Handler has been registered as an associated person and listed as a principal of the General Partner, and is an associate member of the NFA. Mr. Handler was listed as a principal of Demeter from May 2005, and was registered as an associated person of Demeter from April 2006, until Demeter’s combination with the General Partner in December 2010. Mr. Handler was registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley DW Inc., a financial services firm, from February 1984 until on or about April 2007, when, because of the merger of Morgan Stanley DW Inc. into MS & Co., he became registered as an associated person of MS & Co. due to the transfer of his original registration as an associated person of Morgan Stanley DW Inc. Mr. Handler withdrew as an associated person of MS & Co. in June 2009. Mr. Handler has been registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since June 2009. Mr. Handler serves as an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in the Global Wealth Management Group. Mr. Handler works in the Capital Markets Division and is responsible for Electronic Equity and Securities Lending. Additionally, Mr. Handler serves as Chairman of the Global Wealth Management Group’s Best Execution Committee. In his prior position, Mr. Handler was a Systems Director in Information Technology, in charge of Equity and Fixed Income Trading Systems along with the Special Products, such as Unit Trusts, Managed Futures, and Annuities. Prior to his transfer to the Information Technology Area, Mr. Handler managed the Foreign Currency and Precious Metals Trading Desk of Dean Witter, a financial services firm and predecessor company to Morgan Stanley, from July 1982 until January 1984. He also held various positions in the Futures Division where he helped to build the Precious Metals Trading Operation at Dean Witter. Before joining Dean Witter, Mr. Handler worked at Mocatta Metals, a precious metals trading firm and futures broker that was sold to Standard Charted Bank in the 1980’s, as an Assistant to the Chairman from March 1980 until June 1982. His roles at Mocatta Metals included positions on the Futures Order Entry Desk and the Commodities Exchange Trading Floor. Additional work included building a computerized Futures Trading System and writing a history of the company. Mr. Handler graduated on the Dean’s List from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.

 

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Patrick T. Egan, age 42, 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 the NFA. Since June 2011, Mr. Egan has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities include serving as Executive Director and as Chief Risk Officer for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Managed Futures. From June 2009 through June 2011, Mr. Egan was employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, where his responsibilities included serving as Co-Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Managed Futures. Since November 2010, Mr. Egan has been registered as an associated person of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. 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 November 2010, 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.

Alper Daglioglu, age 34, has been a Director and listed as a principal of the General Partner since December 2010. Since December 2010, Mr. Daglioglu has been employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities include serving as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Managed Futures and serving on the Alternative Investments Product Review Committee of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s Alternative Investments Group. From June 2009 through December 2010, Mr. Daglioglu was employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as a Senior Analyst in the Product Origination Group. From December 2003 through June 2009, Mr. Daglioglu was employed by Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm, where his responsibilities included serving as a Senior Analyst in the Product Origination Group, and serving as the lead investment analyst for Global Macro and Managed Futures strategies within Morgan Stanley Graystone Research Group from February 2007 through June 2009. Mr. Daglioglu earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering in June 2000 from Galatasaray University and his Master of Business Administration degree in Finance in May 2003 from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management. Mr. Daglioglu was awarded a full merit scholarship and research assistantship at the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets during his graduate studies. In this capacity, he worked with various major financial institutions in performance monitoring, asset allocation and statistical analysis projects and specialized on alternative approaches to risk assessment for hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Daglioglu wrote and published numerous research papers on alternative investments. Mr. Daglioglu is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charterholder.

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.

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

The Partnership has no directors or officers. Its affairs are managed by Ceres Managed Futures LLC, its General Partner. CGM, an affiliate of the General Partner, is the commodity broker for the Partnership and receives brokerage fees for such services, as described under “Item 1. Business.” Brokerage fees and clearing fees of $1,711,163 were earned by CGM for the year ended December 31, 2011. Management fees of $630,677 were earned by the Advisor for the year ended December 31, 2011. There were no incentive fees earned by the Advisor for the year ended December 31, 2011. 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.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

(a) Security ownership of certain beneficial owners. As of February 29, 2012, the Partnership knows no person who beneficially owns more than five percent (5%) of the Redeemable Units outstanding.

 

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(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, 2011:

 

(1) Title of Class   

(2) Name of
Beneficial

Owner

   (3) Amount and
Nature of Beneficial
Ownership
   (4) Percent of
Class

General Partner unit equivalents

   General Partner    184.9703    1.2%

(c) Changes in control. None.

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. CGM and the General Partner would be considered promoters for purposes of item 404(d) of Regulation S-K. The nature and the amounts of compensation each promoter will receive, if any, from the Partnership are set forth under “Item 1. Business” and “Item 11. Executive Compensation.”

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

(1) Audit Fees. The aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services rendered by Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) in the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 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:

 

        

2011

   $ 49,000   

2010

   $ 45,000   

(2) Audit-Related Fees. None.

(3) Tax Fees. In the last two fiscal years, Deloitte did not provide any professional services for tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning. The aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for tax compliance and tax advice given in the preparation of the Partnership’s Schedule K1s, the preparation of the Partnership’s Form 1065 and preparation of all State Tax Returns were:

 

2011

   $ 25,850   

2010

   $ 21,000   

(4) All Other Fees. None.

(5) Not Applicable.

(6) Not Applicable.

 

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PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.

(a) (1) Financial Statements:

  Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2011 and 2010.

  Condensed Schedules of Investments at December 31, 2011 and 2010.

  Statements of Income and Expenses for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009.

  Statements of Changes in Partners’ Capital for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009.

  Notes to Financial Statements.

(2) Exhibits:

 

3.1   Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.2   Certificate of Limited Partnership of the Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of the State of New York (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 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 February 26, 1999 (filed as Exhibit 3.1(a) to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
(b)   Certificate of Change of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated January 31, 2000 (filed as Exhibit 3.2(g) to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 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 April 1, 2001 (filed as Exhibit 3.1(b) to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 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 May 21, 2003 (filed as Exhibit 3.2(c) to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 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 September 21, 2005 (filed as Exhibit 3.1(c) to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 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 19, 2008 (filed as Exhibit 3.2(e) to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 2009 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 September 30, 2009 (filed as Exhibit 99.1(a) to current report on Form 8-K filed on September 30, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
(h)   Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Limited Partnership dated June 30, 2010 (filed as Exhibit 3.2(h) to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 2, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference).
(i)   Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Limited Partnership 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)
10.1   Amended and Restated Management Agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and Chesapeake Capital Corporation (filed as Exhibit 10.1 on Form 8-K filed on September 16, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.1(a)   Letter extending the Management Agreement between the General Partner and Chesapeake Capital Corporation for 2011 (filed herein).

 

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10.2   Second Amended and Restated Customer Agreement between the Partnership and Salomon Smith Barney Inc. (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.3   Amended and Restated Agency Agreement between the Partnership, Smith Barney Futures Management LLC and Salomon Smith Barney Inc. (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the general form for registration of securities on Form 10 filed on April 30, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.4   Form of Subscription Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.5   Joinder Agreement among Citigroup Managed Futures LLC (the former name of the General Partner), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (filed as Exhibit 10 to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2009).

The exhibits required to be filed by Item 601 of regulation S-K are incorporated herein by reference.

Exhibit 31.1 — Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification (Certification of President and Director).

Exhibit 31.2 — Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification (Certification of Chief Financial Officer).

Exhibit 32.1 — Section 1350 Certification (Certification of President and Director).

Exhibit 32.2 — Section 1350 Certification (Certification of Chief Financial Officer).

 

101.INS    XBRL    Instance Document.
101.SCH    XBRL    Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL    XBRL    Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.LAB    XBRL    Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE    XBRL    Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant 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 on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Tidewater Futures Fund L.P.
By:  

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

  (General Partner)
By:  

/s/ Walter Davis

 

Walter Davis

President & Director

  Date: March 30, 2012

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

/s/ Walter Davis

  

/s/ Colbert Narcisse

 

/s/ Patrick T. Egan

Walter Davis

President and Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

  

Colbert Narcisse

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

 

Patrick T. Egan

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

/s/ Brian Centner

  

/s/ Douglas J. Ketterer

 

/s/ Alper Daglioglu

Brian Centner    Douglas J. Ketterer   Alper Daglioglu

Chief Financial Officer and Director (Principal Accounting Officer)

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

  

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

 

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

/s/ Ian Bernstein

  

/s/ Harry Handler

 
Ian Bernstein    Harry Handler  

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

  

Director

Ceres Managed Futures LLC

Date: March 30, 2012

 

 

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Supplemental Information to be Furnished With Reports Filed Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act by Registrants Which Have Not Registered Securities Pursuant to Section 12 of the Act.

Annual Report to Limited Partners

No proxy material has been sent to Limited Partners.

 

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