81_FR_49485 81 FR 49341 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, to List and Trade Exchange-Traded Managed Funds

81 FR 49341 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto, to List and Trade Exchange-Traded Managed Funds

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 144 (July 27, 2016)

Page Range49341-49347
FR Document2016-17671

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 144 (Wednesday, July 27, 2016)
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49341-49347]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17671]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-78385; File No. SR-NASDAQ-2016-103]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC; 
Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No. 
1 Thereto, to List and Trade Exchange-Traded Managed Funds

July 21, 2016.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that 
on July 13, 2016, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (``Nasdaq'' or 
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 
(``SEC'' or ``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in 
Items I and II below, which Items have been prepared by the Exchange. 
On July 14, 2016, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 1 to the proposed 
rule change, which amended and replaced the original filing in its 
entirety. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments 
on the proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment No. 1 thereto, 
from interested persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance 
of the Proposed Rule Change

    The Exchange proposes to list and trade under Nasdaq Rule 5745 
(Exchange-Traded Managed Fund Shares (``NextShares'')) the common 
shares (``Shares'') of the exchange-traded managed funds described 
herein (each, a ``Fund,'' and collectively, the ``Funds'').

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

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

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

1. Purpose
    The Exchange proposes to list and trade the Shares of each Fund 
under Nasdaq Rule 5745, which governs the listing and trading of 
exchange-traded managed fund shares, as defined in Nasdaq Rule 
5745(c)(1), on the Exchange.\3\ Each Fund listed below will be advised 
by an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act 
of 1940 (``Adviser''), as described below. Each Fund will be actively 
managed and will pursue various principal investment strategies, as 
noted below.\4\
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    \3\ The Commission approved Nasdaq Rule 5745 in Securities 
Exchange Act Release No. 34-73562 (Nov. 7, 2014), 79 FR 68309 (Nov. 
14, 2014) (SR-NASDAQ-2014-020).
    \4\ Additional information regarding the Funds will be available 
on one of two free public Web sites (www.ivyinvestments.com or 
www.nextshares.com, as indicated more fully below), as well as in 
the Registration Statement for the Funds.
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Ivy NextSharesTM
    Ivy NextSharesTM (the ``Trust'') is registered with the 
Commission as an open-end investment company and has filed a 
registration statement on Form N-1A (``Registration Statement'') with 
the Commission.\5\ Each of the following Funds is a series of the 
Trust.\6\
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    \5\ See Registration Statement on Form N-1A for the Trust dated 
April 18, 2016 (File Nos. 333-210814 and 811-23155).
    \6\ The Commission has issued an order granting the Trust and 
certain affiliates exemptive relief under the Investment Company 
Act. See Investment Company Act Release No. 31816 (Sept. 9, 2015) 
(File No. 812-14526).
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    Ivy Investment Management Company (``IICO'' or the ``Adviser'') 
will be the adviser to the Funds. IICO is not a registered broker-
dealer, although it is affiliated with a broker-dealer. IICO has 
implemented a fire wall with respect to its affiliated broker-dealer 
regarding access to information concerning the composition and/or 
changes to each Fund's portfolio.\7\ In the future event

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that (a) IICO registers as a broker-dealer or becomes newly affiliated 
with a broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser or a sub-adviser to a Fund 
is a registered broker-dealer or becomes affiliated with a broker-
dealer, it will implement a fire wall with respect to its relevant 
personnel and/or such broker-dealer affiliate, if applicable, regarding 
access to information concerning the composition and/or changes to the 
relevant Fund's portfolio and will be subject to procedures designed to 
prevent the use and dissemination of material non-public information 
regarding such portfolio.
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    \7\ An investment adviser to an open-end fund is required to be 
registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the ``Advisers 
Act''). As a result, the Adviser and its related personnel are 
subject to the provisions of Rule 204A-1 under the Advisers Act 
relating to codes of ethics. This Rule requires investment advisers 
to adopt a code of ethics that reflects the fiduciary nature of the 
relationship to clients as well as compliance with other applicable 
securities laws. Accordingly, procedures designed to prevent the 
communication and misuse of non-public information by an investment 
adviser must be consistent with Rule 204A-1 under the Advisers Act. 
In addition, Rule 206(4)-7 under the Advisers Act makes it unlawful 
for an investment adviser to provide investment advice to clients 
unless such investment adviser has (i) adopted and implemented 
written policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent 
violation, by the investment adviser and its supervised persons, of 
the Advisers Act and the Commission rules adopted thereunder; (ii) 
implemented, at a minimum, an annual review regarding the adequacy 
of the policies and procedures established pursuant to subparagraph 
(i) above and the effectiveness of their implementation; and (iii) 
designated an individual (who is a supervised person) responsible 
for administering the policies and procedures adopted under 
subparagraph (i) above.
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    ALPS Distributors, Inc. will be the principal underwriter and 
distributor of each Fund's Shares. Waddell & Reed Services Company, 
doing business as WI Services Company (``WISC''), will act as the 
administrator and accounting agent to the Funds. State Street Bank and 
Trust Company (``State Street'') will act as the custodian and transfer 
agent to the Funds. In addition, it has entered into agreements with 
WISC pursuant to which State Street will serve as sub-administrator and 
sub-accounting agent to the Funds.
Ivy Focused Growth NextSharesTM
    The investment objective of this Fund is to provide growth of 
capital. The Fund normally will invest primarily in a portfolio of 
common stocks issued by large-capitalization, growth-oriented companies 
with above-average levels of profitability and that IICO believes have 
the ability to sustain growth over the long term. Although the Fund 
primarily will invest in securities issued by large-capitalization 
companies (defined as companies with market capitalizations of at least 
$10 billion at the time of acquisition), it may invest in securities 
issued by companies of any size.
Ivy Focused Value NextSharesTM
    The investment objective of this Fund is to provide capital 
appreciation, with a secondary objective of providing current income. 
The Fund normally will invest in the common stocks of companies that 
IICO believes are undervalued, trading at a significant discount 
relative to the intrinsic value of the company as estimated by IICO 
and/or are out of favor in the financial markets but have a favorable 
outlook for capital appreciation. Although the Fund will often invest 
in securities issued by large-capitalization companies (defined as 
companies with market capitalizations of at least $10 billion at the 
time of acquisition), it may invest in securities issued by companies 
of any size.
Ivy Energy NextSharesTM
    The investment objective of this Fund is to provide capital growth 
and appreciation. The Fund will invest, under normal circumstances, at 
least 80% of its net assets in the common stock of companies within the 
energy sector, which includes all aspects of the energy industry, such 
as exploration, discovery, production, distribution or infrastructure 
of energy and/or alternative energy sources.
Creations and Redemptions of Shares
    Shares will be issued and redeemed on a daily basis for each Fund 
at the Fund's next-determined net asset value (``NAV'') \8\ in 
specified blocks of Shares called ``Creation Units.'' A Creation Unit 
will consist of at least 25,000 Shares. Creation Units may be purchased 
and redeemed by or through ``Authorized Participants.'' \9\ Purchases 
and sales of Shares in amounts less than a Creation Unit may be 
effected only in the secondary market, as described below, and not 
directly with a Fund.
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    \8\ As with other registered open-end investment companies, NAV 
generally will be calculated daily Monday through Friday as of the 
close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, normally 
4:00 p.m. E.T. NAV will be calculated by dividing a Fund's net asset 
value by the number of Shares outstanding. Information regarding the 
valuation of investments in calculating a Fund's NAV will be 
contained in the Registration Statement for its Shares.
    \9\ ``Authorized Participants'' will be either: (1) 
``participating parties,'' i.e., brokers or other participants in 
the Continuous Net Settlement System (``CNS System'') of the 
National Securities Clearing Corporation (``NSCC''), a clearing 
agency registered with the Commission and affiliated with the 
Depository Trust Company (``DTC''), or (2) DTC participants, which 
in either case have executed participant agreements with the Funds' 
distributor and transfer agent regarding the creation and redemption 
of Creation Units. Investors will not have to be Authorized 
Participants in order to transact in Creation Units, but must place 
an order through and make appropriate arrangements with an 
Authorized Participant for such transactions.
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    The creation and redemption process for Funds may be effected ``in 
kind,'' in cash, or in a combination of securities and cash. Creation 
``in kind'' means that an Authorized Participant--usually a brokerage 
house or large institutional investor--purchases the Creation Unit with 
a basket of securities equal in value to the aggregate NAV of the 
Shares in the Creation Unit. When an Authorized Participant redeems a 
Creation Unit in kind, it receives a basket of securities equal in 
value to the aggregate NAV of the Shares in the Creation Unit.\10\
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    \10\ In compliance with Nasdaq Rule 5745(b)(5), which applies to 
Shares based on an international or global portfolio, the Trust's 
application for exemptive relief under the Investment Company Act 
states that each Fund will comply with the federal securities laws 
in accepting securities for deposits and satisfying redemptions with 
securities, including that the securities accepted for deposits and 
the securities used to satisfy redemption requests are sold in 
transactions that would be exempt from registration under the 
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (15 U.S.C. 77a) (``Securities 
Act'').
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Composition File
    As defined in Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(3), the Composition File is the 
specified portfolio of securities and/or cash that a Fund will accept 
as a deposit in issuing a Creation Unit of Shares, and the specified 
portfolio of securities and/or cash that a Fund will deliver in a 
redemption of a Creation Unit of Shares. The Composition File will be 
disseminated through the NSCC once each business day before the open of 
trading in Shares on such day and also will be made available to the 
public each day on a free Web site.\11\ Because the Funds seek to 
preserve the confidentiality of their current portfolio trading 
program, a Fund's Composition File generally will not be a pro rata 
reflection of the Fund's investment positions. Each security included 
in the Composition File will be a current holding of the Fund, but the 
Composition File generally will not include all of the securities in 
the Fund's portfolio or match the weightings of the included securities 
in the portfolio. Securities that the Adviser is in the process of 
acquiring for a Fund generally will not be represented in the Fund's 
Composition File until their purchase has been completed. Similarly, 
securities that are held in a Fund's portfolio but in the process of 
being sold may not be removed from its Composition File until the sale 
program is substantially completed. Funds creating and redeeming Shares 
in kind will use cash amounts to supplement the in-kind transactions to 
the extent necessary to ensure that Creation Units are purchased and 
redeemed at NAV. The Composition File also may consist entirely of 
cash, in which case it will

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not include any of the securities in the Fund's portfolio.\12\
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    \11\ The free Web site containing the Composition File will be 
www.nextshares.com.
    \12\ In determining whether a Fund will issue or redeem Creation 
Units entirely on a cash basis, the key consideration will be the 
benefit that would accrue to the Fund and its investors. For 
instance, in bond transactions, the Adviser may be able to obtain 
better execution for a Fund than Authorized Participants because of 
the Adviser's size, experience and potentially stronger 
relationships in the fixed-income markets.
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Transaction Fees
    All persons purchasing or redeeming Creation Units of a Fund are 
expected to incur a transaction fee to cover the estimated cost to that 
Fund of processing the transaction, including the costs of clearance 
and settlement charged to it by NSCC or DTC, and the estimated trading 
costs (i.e., brokerage commissions, bid-ask spread and market impact) 
to be incurred in converting the Composition File to or from the 
desired portfolio holdings. The transaction fee is determined daily and 
will be limited to amounts determined by the Adviser to be appropriate 
to defray the expenses that a Fund incurs in connection with the 
purchase or redemption of Creation Units. The purpose of transaction 
fees is to protect a Fund's existing shareholders from the dilutive 
costs associated with the purchase and redemption of Creation Units. 
Transaction fees will differ among Funds and may vary over time for a 
given Fund depending on the estimated trading costs for its portfolio 
positions and Composition File, processing costs and other 
considerations. Funds that specify greater amounts of cash in their 
Composition File may impose higher transaction fees. In addition, Funds 
that include in their Composition File instruments that clear through 
DTC may impose higher transaction fees than Funds whose Composition 
File consists solely of instruments that clear through NSCC, because 
DTC may charge more than NSCC in connection with Creation Unit 
transactions.\13\ The transaction fees applicable to each Fund's 
purchases and redemptions on a given business day will be disseminated 
through the NSCC prior to the open of market trading on that day and 
also will be made available to the public each day on a free Web 
site.\14\ In all cases, the transaction fees will be limited in 
accordance with the requirements of the Commission applicable to open-
end management investment companies offering redeemable securities.
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    \13\ Authorized Participants that participate in the CNS System 
of the NSCC are expected to be able to use the enhanced NSCC/CNS 
process for effecting in-kind purchases and redemptions of ETFs (the 
``NSCC Process'') to purchase and redeem Creation Units of Funds 
that limit the composition of their baskets to include only NSCC 
Process-eligible instruments (generally domestic equity securities 
and cash). Because the NSCC Process is generally more efficient than 
the DTC clearing process, NSCC is likely to charge a Fund less than 
DTC to settle purchases and redemptions of Creation Units.
    \14\ The free Web site will be www.nextshares.com.
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NAV-Based Trading
    Because Shares will be listed and traded on the Exchange, Shares 
will be available for purchase and sale on an intraday basis. Shares 
will be purchased and sold in the secondary market at prices directly 
linked to a Fund's next-determined NAV using a new trading protocol 
called ``NAV-Based Trading.'' \15\ All bids, offers and execution 
prices of Shares will be expressed as a premium/discount (which may be 
zero) to a Fund's next-determined NAV (e.g., NAV-$0.01, NAV+$0.01). A 
Fund's NAV will be determined each business day, normally as of 4:00 
p.m. E.T. Trade executions will be binding at the time orders are 
matched on Nasdaq's facilities, with the transaction prices contingent 
upon the determination of NAV.
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    \15\ Aspects of NAV-Based Trading are protected intellectual 
property subject to issued and pending U.S. patents held by 
NextShares Solutions LLC (``NextShares Solutions''), a wholly owned 
subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. Nasdaq has entered into a license 
agreement with NextShares Solutions to allow for NAV-Based Trading 
on the Exchange of exchange-traded managed funds that have 
themselves entered into license agreements with NextShares 
Solutions.
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Trading Premiums and Discounts
    Bid and offer prices for Shares will be quoted throughout the day 
relative to NAV. The premium or discount to NAV at which Share prices 
are quoted and transactions are executed will vary depending on market 
factors, including the balance of supply and demand for Shares among 
investors, transaction fees and other costs in connection with creating 
and redeeming Creation Units of Shares, the cost and availability of 
borrowing Shares, competition among market makers, the Share inventory 
positions and inventory strategies of market makers, the profitability 
requirements and business objectives of market makers, and the volume 
of Share trading. Reflecting such market factors, prices for Shares in 
the secondary market may be above, at or below NAV. Funds with higher 
transaction fees may trade at wider premiums or discounts to NAV than 
other Funds with lower transaction fees, reflecting the added costs to 
market makers of managing their Share inventory positions through 
purchases and redemptions of Creation Units.
    Because making markets in Shares will be simple to manage and low 
risk, competition among market makers seeking to earn reliable, low-
risk profits should enable the Shares to routinely trade at tight bid-
ask spreads and narrow premiums/discounts to NAV. As noted below, the 
Funds will maintain a public Web site that will be updated on a daily 
basis to show current and historical trading spreads and premiums/
discounts of Shares trading in the secondary market.\16\
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    \16\ The Web site containing this information will be 
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Transmitting and Processing Orders
    Member firms will utilize certain existing order types and 
interfaces to transmit Share bids and offers to Nasdaq, which will 
process Share trades like trades in shares of other listed 
securities.\17\ In the systems used to transmit and process 
transactions in Shares, a Fund's next-determined NAV will be 
represented by a proxy price (e.g., 100.00) and a premium/discount of a 
stated amount to the next-determined NAV to be represented by the same 
increment/decrement from the proxy price used to denote NAV (e.g., NAV-
$0.01 would be represented as 99.99; NAV+$0.01 as 100.01).
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    \17\ As noted below, all orders to buy or sell Shares that are 
not executed on the day the order is submitted will be automatically 
cancelled as of the close of trading on such day. Prior to the 
commencement of trading in a Fund, the Exchange will inform its 
members in an Information Circular of the effect of this 
characteristic on existing order types.
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    To avoid potential investor confusion, Nasdaq will work with member 
firms and providers of market data services to seek to ensure that 
representations of intraday bids, offers and execution prices of Shares 
that are made available to the investing public follow the ``NAV-$0.01/
NAV+$0.01'' (or similar) display format. All Shares listed on the 
Exchange will have a unique identifier associated with their ticker 
symbols, which would indicate that the Shares are traded using NAV-
Based Trading. Nasdaq makes available to member firms and market data 
services certain proprietary data feeds that are designed to supplement 
the market information disseminated through the consolidated tape 
(``Consolidated Tape''). Specifically, the Exchange will use the NASDAQ 
Basic and NASDAQ Last Sale data feeds to disseminate intraday price and 
quote data for Shares in real time in the ``NAV-$0.01/NAV+$0.01'' (or 
similar) display format. Member firms could use the NASDAQ Basic and 
NASDAQ Last Sale data feeds to source intraday Share prices for 
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NAV+$0.01'' (or similar) display format. Alternatively, member firms 
could source intraday Share prices in proxy price format from the 
Consolidated Tape and other Nasdaq data feeds (e.g., Nasdaq TotalView 
and Nasdaq Level 2) and use a simple algorithm to convert prices into 
the ``NAV-$0.01/NAV+$0.01'' (or similar) display format. As noted 
below, prior to the commencement of trading in a Fund, the Exchange 
will inform its members in an Information Circular of the identities of 
the specific Nasdaq data feeds from which intraday Share prices in 
proxy price format may be obtained.
Intraday Reporting of Quotes and Trades
    All bids and offers for Shares and all Share trade executions will 
be reported intraday in real time by the Exchange to the Consolidated 
Tape \18\ and separately disseminated to member firms and market data 
services through the Exchange data feeds listed above. The Exchange 
will also provide the member firms participating in each Share trade 
with a contemporaneous notice of trade execution, indicating the number 
of Shares bought or sold and the executed premium/discount to NAV.\19\
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    \18\ Due to systems limitations, the Consolidated Tape will 
report intraday execution prices and quotes for Shares using a proxy 
price format. As noted, Nasdaq will separately report real-time 
execution prices and quotes to member firms and providers of market 
data services in the ``NAV-$0.01/NAV+$0.01'' (or similar) display 
format, and otherwise seek to ensure that representations of 
intraday bids, offers and execution prices for Shares that are made 
available to the investing public follow the same display format.
    \19\ All orders to buy or sell Shares that are not executed on 
the day the order is submitted will be automatically cancelled as of 
the close of trading on such day.
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Final Trade Pricing, Reporting and Settlement
    All executed Share trades will be recorded and stored intraday by 
Nasdaq to await the calculation of such Fund's end-of-day NAV and the 
determination of final trade pricing. After a Fund's NAV is calculated 
and provided to the Exchange, Nasdaq will price each Share trade 
entered into during the day at the Fund's NAV plus/minus the trade's 
executed premium/discount. Using the final trade price, each executed 
Share trade will then be disseminated to member firms and market data 
services via an FTP file to be created for exchange-traded managed 
funds and confirmed to the member firms participating in the trade to 
supplement the previously provided information to include final 
pricing.\20\ After the pricing is finalized, Nasdaq will deliver the 
Share trading data to NSCC for clearance and settlement, following the 
same processes used for the clearance and settlement of trades in other 
exchange-traded securities.
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    \20\ File Transfer Protocol (``FTP'') is a standard network 
protocol used to transfer computer files on the Internet. Nasdaq 
will arrange for the daily dissemination of an FTP file with 
executed Share trades to member firms and market data services.
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Availability of Information
    Prior to the commencement of market trading in Shares, the Funds 
will be required to establish and maintain a public Web site through 
which the current prospectus for each Fund may be downloaded.\21\ In 
addition, a separate Web site (www.nextshares.com) will include 
additional Fund information updated on a daily basis, including the 
prior business day's NAV, and the following trading information for 
such business day expressed as premiums/discounts to NAV: (a) Intraday 
high, low, average and closing prices of Shares in Exchange trading; 
(b) the midpoint of the highest bid and lowest offer prices as of the 
close of Exchange trading, expressed as a premium/discount to NAV (the 
``Closing Bid/Ask Midpoint''); and (c) the spread between highest bid 
and lowest offer prices as of the close of Exchange trading (the 
``Closing Bid/Ask Spread.''). The Web site at www.nextshares.com will 
also contain charts showing the frequency distribution and range of 
values of trading prices, Closing Bid/Ask Midpoints and Closing Bid/Ask 
Spreads over time.
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    \21\ See footnote 16.
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    The Composition File will be disseminated through the NSCC before 
the open of trading in Shares on each business day and also will be 
made available to the public each day on a free Web site as noted 
above.\22\ Consistent with the disclosure requirements that apply to 
traditional open-end investment companies, a complete list of current 
Fund portfolio positions will be made available at least once each 
calendar quarter, with a reporting lag of not more than 60 days. Funds 
may provide more frequent disclosures of portfolio positions at their 
discretion.
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    Reports of Share transactions will be disseminated to the market 
and delivered to the member firms participating in the trade 
contemporaneous with execution. Once a Fund's daily NAV has been 
calculated and disseminated, Nasdaq will price each Share trade entered 
into during the day at the Fund's NAV plus/minus the trade's executed 
premium/discount. Using the final trade price, each executed Share 
trade will then be disseminated to member firms and market data 
services via an FTP file to be created for exchange-traded managed 
funds and confirmed to the member firms participating in the trade to 
supplement the previously provided information to include final 
pricing.
    Information regarding NAV-based trading prices, best bids and 
offers for Shares, and volume of Shares traded will be continuously 
available on a real-time basis throughout each trading day on brokers' 
computer screens and other electronic services.
Initial and Continued Listing
    Shares will conform to the initial and continued listing criteria 
as set forth under Nasdaq Rule 5745. A minimum of 50,000 Shares and no 
less than two Creation Units of each Fund will be outstanding at the 
commencement of trading on the Exchange. The Exchange will obtain a 
representation from the issuer of the Shares that the NAV per Share 
will be calculated daily (on each business day that the New York Stock 
Exchange is open for trading) and provided to Nasdaq via the Mutual 
Fund Quotation Service (``MFQS'') by the fund accounting agent. As soon 
as the NAV is entered into MFQS, Nasdaq will disseminate the value to 
market participants and market data vendors via the Mutual Fund 
Dissemination Service (``MFDS'') so all firms will receive the NAV per 
share at the same time. The Reporting Authority \23\ also will ensure 
that the Composition File will implement and maintain, or be subject 
to, procedures designed to prevent the use and dissemination of 
material non-public information regarding each Fund's portfolio 
positions and changes in the positions.
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    \23\ See Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(4).
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    For each Fund, an estimated value of an individual Share, defined 
in Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(2) as the ``Intraday Indicative Value,'' will be 
calculated and disseminated at intervals of not more than 15 minutes 
throughout the Regular Market Session \24\ when Shares trade on the 
Exchange. The Exchange will obtain a representation from the issuer of 
the Shares that the IIV will be calculated on an intraday basis and 
provided to Nasdaq for dissemination via the Nasdaq Global Index 
Service (``GIDS''). The IIV will be based on current information 
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of the securities and other assets held by a Fund.\25\ The purpose of 
the IIVs is to enable investors to estimate the next-determined NAV so 
they can determine the number of Shares to buy or sell if they want to 
transact in an approximate dollar amount (e.g., if an investor wants to 
acquire approximately $5,000 of a Fund, how many Shares should the 
investor buy?).\26\
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    \24\ See Nasdaq Rule 4120(b)(4) (describing the three trading 
sessions on the Exchange: (1) Pre-Market Session from 4 a.m. to 9:30 
a.m. E.T.; (2) Regular Market Session from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or 
4:15 p.m. E.T.; and (3) Post-Market Session from 4 p.m. or 4:15 p.m. 
to 8 p.m. E.T.).
    \25\ IIVs disseminated throughout each trading day would be 
based on the same portfolio as used to calculate that day's NAV. 
Funds will reflect purchases and sales of portfolio positions in 
their NAV the next business day after trades are executed.
    \26\ Because, in NAV-Based Trading, prices of executed trades 
are not determined until the reference NAV is calculated, buyers and 
sellers of Shares during the trading day will not know the final 
value of their purchases and sales until the end of the trading day. 
A Fund's Registration Statement, Web site and any advertising or 
marketing materials will include prominent disclosure of this fact. 
Although IIVs may provide useful estimates of the value of intraday 
trades, they cannot be used to calculate with precision the dollar 
value of the Shares to be bought or sold.
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    The Adviser is not a registered broker-dealer, although it is 
affiliated with a broker-dealer. The Adviser has implemented a fire 
wall with respect to its broker-dealer affiliate regarding access to 
information concerning the composition and/or changes to each Fund's 
portfolio. In the future event that (a) the Adviser registers as a 
broker-dealer or becomes newly affiliated with a broker-dealer, or (b) 
any new adviser or a sub-adviser to a Fund is a registered broker-
dealer or becomes affiliated with a broker-dealer, it will implement a 
fire wall with respect to its relevant personnel and/or such broker-
dealer affiliate, if applicable, regarding access to information 
concerning the composition and/or changes to the relevant Fund's 
portfolio and will be subject to procedures designed to prevent the use 
and dissemination of material non-public information regarding such 
portfolio.
Trading Halts
    The Exchange may consider all relevant factors in exercising its 
discretion to halt or suspend trading in Shares. Nasdaq will halt 
trading in Shares under the conditions specified in Nasdaq Rule 4120 
and in Nasdaq Rule 5745(d)(2)(C). Additionally, Nasdaq may cease 
trading Shares if other unusual conditions or circumstances exist 
which, in the opinion of Nasdaq, make further dealings on Nasdaq 
detrimental to the maintenance of a fair and orderly market. To manage 
the risk of a non-regulatory Share trading halt, Nasdaq has in place 
back-up processes and procedures to ensure orderly trading. Because, in 
NAV-Based Trading, all trade execution prices are linked to end-of-day 
NAV, buyers and sellers of Shares should be less exposed to risk of 
loss due to intraday trading halts than buyers and sellers of 
conventional exchange-traded funds (``ETFs'') and other exchange-traded 
securities.
Trading Rules
    Nasdaq deems Shares to be equity securities, thus rendering trading 
in Shares to be subject to Nasdaq's existing rules governing the 
trading of equity securities. Nasdaq will allow trading in Shares from 
9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. E.T.
    Every order to trade Shares of the Funds is subject to the proxy 
price protection threshold of plus/minus $1.00, which determines the 
lower and upper threshold for the life of the order and whereby the 
order will be cancelled at any point if it exceeds $101.00 or falls 
below $99.00, the established thresholds.\27\ With certain exceptions, 
each order also must contain the applicable order attributes, including 
routing instructions and time-in-force information, as described in 
Nasdaq Rule 4703.\28\
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    \27\ See Nasdaq Rule 5745(h).
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Surveillance
    The Exchange represents that trading in Shares will be subject to 
the existing trading surveillances, administered by both Nasdaq and the 
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (``FINRA'') on behalf of 
the Exchange, which are designed to detect violations of Exchange rules 
and applicable federal securities laws.\29\ The Exchange represents 
that these procedures are adequate to properly monitor trading of 
Shares on the Exchange and to deter and detect violations of Exchange 
rules and applicable federal securities laws.
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    \29\ FINRA provides surveillance of trading on the Exchange 
pursuant to a regulatory services agreement. The Exchange is 
responsible for FINRA's performance under this regulatory services 
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    The surveillances referred to above generally focus on detecting 
securities trading outside their normal patterns, which could be 
indicative of manipulative or other violative activity. When such 
situations are detected, surveillance analysis follows and 
investigations are opened, where appropriate, to review the behavior of 
all relevant parties for all relevant trading violations.
    FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange, will communicate as needed with 
other markets and other entities that are members of the Intermarket 
Surveillance Group (``ISG'') \30\ regarding trading in Shares, and in 
exchange-traded securities and instruments held by the Funds (to the 
extent such exchange-traded securities and instruments are known 
through the publication of the Composition File and periodic public 
disclosures of a Fund's portfolio holdings), and FINRA may obtain 
trading information regarding such trading from other markets and other 
entities. In addition, the Exchange may obtain information regarding 
trading in Shares, and in exchange-traded securities and instruments 
held by the Funds (to the extent such exchange-traded securities and 
instruments are known through the publication of the Composition File 
and periodic public disclosures of a Fund's portfolio holdings), from 
markets and other entities that are members of ISG, which includes 
securities and futures exchanges, or with which the Exchange has in 
place a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
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    \30\ For a list of the current members of ISG, see 
www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all components of a 
Fund's portfolio may trade on markets that are members of ISG or 
with which the Exchange has in place a comprehensive surveillance 
sharing agreement.
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    In addition, the Exchange also has a general policy prohibiting the 
distribution of material non-public information by its employees.
Information Circular
    Prior to the commencement of trading in a Fund, the Exchange will 
inform its members in an Information Circular of the special 
characteristics and risks associated with trading the Shares. 
Specifically, the Information Circular will discuss the following: (1) 
The procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares in Creation 
Units (and noting that Shares are not individually redeemable); (2) 
Nasdaq Rule 2111A, which imposes suitability obligations on Nasdaq 
members with respect to recommending transactions in Shares to 
customers; (3) how information regarding the IIV and Composition File 
is disseminated; (4) the requirement that members deliver a prospectus 
to investors purchasing Shares prior to or concurrently with the 
confirmation of a transaction; and (5) information regarding NAV-Based 
Trading protocols.
    As noted above, all orders to buy or sell Shares that are not 
executed on the day the order is submitted will be automatically 
cancelled as of the close of trading on such day. The Information 
Circular will discuss the effect of this characteristic on existing 
order types. The Information Circular also will

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identify the specific Nasdaq data feeds from which intraday Share 
prices in proxy price format may be obtained.
    In addition, the Information Circular will advise members, prior to 
the commencement of trading, of the prospectus delivery requirements 
applicable to the Funds. Members purchasing Shares from a Fund for 
resale to investors will deliver a summary prospectus to such 
investors. The Information Circular will also discuss any exemptive, 
no-action and interpretive relief granted by the Commission from any 
rules under the Act.
    The Information Circular also will reference that the Funds are 
subject to various fees and expenses described in the Registration 
Statements. The Information Circular will also disclose the trading 
hours of the Shares and the applicable NAV calculation time for the 
Shares. The Information Circular will disclose that information about 
the Shares will be publicly available at www.nextshares.com.
    Information regarding Fund trading protocols will be disseminated 
to Nasdaq members in accordance with current processes for newly listed 
products. Nasdaq intends to provide its members with a detailed 
explanation of NAV-Based Trading through a Trading Alert issued prior 
to the commencement of trading in Shares on the Exchange.
Continued Listing Representations
    All statements and representations made in this filing regarding 
(a) the description of the Funds' portfolios, (b) limitations on 
portfolio holdings or reference assets, or (c) the applicability of 
Exchange rules and surveillance procedures shall constitute continued 
listing requirements for listing the Shares of the Funds on the 
Exchange. The issuer has represented to the Exchange that it will 
advise the Exchange of any failure by any Fund to comply with the 
continued listing requirements, and, pursuant to its obligations under 
Section 19(g)(1) of the Act, the Exchange will monitor for compliance 
with the continued listing requirements. If a Fund is not in compliance 
with the applicable listing requirements, the Exchange will commence 
delisting procedures under Nasdaq Rule 5800, et. seq.
2. Statutory Basis
    Nasdaq believes that the proposal is consistent with Section 6(b) 
of the Act \31\ in general, and Section 6(b)(5) of the Act \32\ in 
particular, in that it is designed to prevent fraudulent and 
manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable 
principles of trade, to foster cooperation and coordination with 
persons engaged in facilitating transactions in securities, and to 
remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open 
market and a national market system.
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    \31\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \32\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is designed to 
prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices in that the 
Shares would be listed and traded on the Exchange pursuant to the 
initial and continued listing criteria in Nasdaq Rule 5745. The 
Exchange believes that its surveillance procedures are adequate to 
properly monitor the trading of Shares on Nasdaq and to deter and 
detect violations of Exchange rules and the applicable federal 
securities laws. The Adviser is not registered as a broker-dealer, but 
it is affiliated with a broker-dealer. The Adviser has implemented a 
``fire wall'' between the Adviser and its broker-dealer affiliate with 
respect to access to information concerning the composition and/or 
changes to the Funds' portfolio holdings. The Exchange may obtain 
information via ISG from other exchanges that are members of ISG or 
with which the Exchange has entered into a comprehensive surveillance 
sharing agreement, to the extent necessary.
    The proposed rule change is designed to promote just and equitable 
principles of trade and to protect investors and the public interest. 
The Exchange will obtain a representation from each issuer of Shares 
that the NAV per Share will be calculated on each business day that the 
New York Stock Exchange is open for trading and that the NAV will be 
made available to all market participants at the same time. In 
addition, a large amount of information would be publicly available 
regarding the Funds and the Shares, thereby promoting market 
transparency.
    Prior to the commencement of market trading in Shares, the Funds 
will be required to establish and maintain a public Web site through 
which the current prospectus for each Fund may be downloaded.\33\ In 
addition, a separate Web site (www.nextshares.com) will include 
additional Fund information updated on a daily basis, including the 
prior business day's NAV, and the following trading information for 
such business day expressed as premiums/discounts to NAV: (a) Intraday 
high, low, average and closing prices of Shares in Exchange trading; 
(b) the Closing Bid/Ask Midpoint; and (c) the Closing Bid/Ask Spread. 
The Web site at www.nextshares.com will also contain charts showing the 
frequency distribution and range of values of trading prices, Closing 
Bid/Ask Midpoints and Closing Bid/Ask Spreads over time.
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    The Composition File will be disseminated through the NSCC before 
the open of trading in Shares on each business day and also will be 
made available to the public each day on a free Web site.\34\ The 
Exchange will obtain a representation from the issuer of the Shares 
that the IIV will be calculated and disseminated on an intraday basis 
at intervals of not more than 15 minutes during trading on the Exchange 
and provided to Nasdaq for dissemination via GIDS. A complete list of 
current portfolio positions for the Funds will be made available at 
least once each calendar quarter, with a reporting lag of not more than 
60 days. Funds may provide more frequent disclosures of portfolio 
positions at their discretion.
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    Transactions in Shares will be reported to the Consolidated Tape at 
the time of execution in proxy price format and will be disseminated to 
member firms and market data services through Nasdaq's trading service 
and market data interfaces, as defined above. Once each Fund's daily 
NAV has been calculated and the final price of its intraday Share 
trades has been determined, Nasdaq will deliver a confirmation with 
final pricing to the transacting parties. At the end of the day, Nasdaq 
will also post a newly created FTP file with the final transaction data 
for the trading and market data services. The Exchange expects that 
information regarding NAV-based trading prices and volumes of Shares 
traded will be continuously available on a real-time basis throughout 
each trading day on brokers' computer screens and other electronic 
services. Because Shares will trade at prices based on the next-
determined NAV, investors will be able to buy and sell individual 
Shares at a known premium or discount to NAV that they can limit by 
transacting using limit orders at the time of order entry. Trading in 
Shares will be subject to Nasdaq Rules 5745(d)(2)(B) and (C), which 
provide for the suspension of trading or trading halts under certain 
circumstances, including if, in the view of the Exchange, trading in 
Shares becomes inadvisable.
    The proposed rule change is designed to perfect the mechanism of a 
free and open market and, in general, to protect

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investors and the public interest in that it will facilitate the 
listing and trading of the Funds, which seek to provide investors with 
access to a broad range of actively managed investment strategies in a 
structure that offers the cost and tax efficiencies and shareholder 
protections of ETFs, while removing the requirement for daily portfolio 
holdings disclosure to ensure a tight relationship between market 
trading prices and NAV.
    For the above reasons, Nasdaq believes the proposed rule change is 
consistent with the requirements of Section 6(b)(5) of the Act.

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

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
result in any burden on competition that is not necessary or 
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. In fact, the 
Exchange believes that the introduction of the Funds would promote 
competition by making available to investors a broad range of actively 
managed investment strategies in a structure that offers the cost and 
tax efficiencies and shareholder protections of ETFs, while removing 
the requirement for daily portfolio holdings disclosure to ensure a 
tight relationship between market trading prices and NAV. Moreover, the 
Exchange believes that the proposed method of Share trading would 
provide investors with transparency of trading costs, and the ability 
to control trading costs using limit orders, that is not available for 
conventionally traded ETFs.
    These developments could significantly enhance competition to the 
benefit of the markets and investors.

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

    No written comments were either solicited or received.

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

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

IV. Solicitation of Comments

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

Electronic Comments

     Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an email to [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-NASDAQ-2016-103 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

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

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NASDAQ-2016-103. This 
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To 
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, 
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on 
the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all 
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are 
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to 
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other 
than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the 
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and 
printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of 
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such filing will also be available 
for inspection and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. All 
comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does 
not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should 
submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. All 
submissions should refer to File Number SR-NASDAQ-2016-103 and should 
be submitted on or before August 17, 2016.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\35\
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    \35\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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                                                IV. Solicitation of Comments                                 For the Commission, by the Division of                   Exchange has prepared summaries, set
                                                                                                           Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated                 forth in sections A, B, and C below, of
                                                  Interested persons are invited to                        authority.18                                               the most significant aspects of such
                                                submit written data, views, and                            Robert W. Errett,                                          statements.
                                                arguments concerning the foregoing,                        Deputy Secretary.
                                                including whether the proposed rule                                                                                   A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                                                                           [FR Doc. 2016–17676 Filed 7–26–16; 8:45 am]
                                                change is consistent with the Act.                                                                                    Statement of the Purpose of, and the
                                                                                                           BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
                                                                                                                                                                      Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
                                                Comments may be submitted by any of
                                                                                                                                                                      Change
                                                the following methods:
                                                                                                           SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE                                    1. Purpose
                                                Electronic Comments                                        COMMISSION                                                    The Exchange proposes to list and
                                                  • Use the Commission’s Internet                          [Release No. 34–78385; File No. SR–                        trade the Shares of each Fund under
                                                comment form (http://www.sec.gov/                          NASDAQ–2016–103]                                           Nasdaq Rule 5745, which governs the
                                                rules/sro.shtml); or                                                                                                  listing and trading of exchange-traded
                                                                                                           Self-Regulatory Organizations; The                         managed fund shares, as defined in
                                                  • Send an email to rule-comments@                        Nasdaq Stock Market LLC; Notice of                         Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(1), on the
                                                sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–                    Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as                         Exchange.3 Each Fund listed below will
                                                BOX–2016–33 on the subject line.                           Modified by Amendment No. 1 Thereto,                       be advised by an investment adviser
                                                Paper Comments                                             to List and Trade Exchange-Traded                          registered under the Investment
                                                                                                           Managed Funds                                              Advisers Act of 1940 (‘‘Adviser’’), as
                                                  • Send paper comments in triplicate                                                                                 described below. Each Fund will be
                                                                                                           July 21, 2016.
                                                to Secretary, Securities and Exchange                                                                                 actively managed and will pursue
                                                Commission, 100 F Street NE.,                                 Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the                     various principal investment strategies,
                                                                                                           Securities Exchange Act of 1934                            as noted below.4
                                                Washington, DC 20549–1090.
                                                                                                           (‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
                                                All submissions should refer to File                       notice is hereby given that on July 13,                    Ivy NextSharesTM
                                                Number SR–BOX–2016–33. This file                           2016, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC                             Ivy NextSharesTM (the ‘‘Trust’’) is
                                                number should be included on the                           (‘‘Nasdaq’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the                registered with the Commission as an
                                                subject line if email is used. To help the                 Securities and Exchange Commission                         open-end investment company and has
                                                Commission process and review your                         (‘‘SEC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) the proposed                   filed a registration statement on Form
                                                comments more efficiently, please use                      rule change as described in Items I and                    N–1A (‘‘Registration Statement’’) with
                                                only one method. The Commission will                       II below, which Items have been                            the Commission.5 Each of the following
                                                post all comments on the Commission’s                      prepared by the Exchange. On July 14,                      Funds is a series of the Trust.6
                                                Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/                     2016, the Exchange filed Amendment                            Ivy Investment Management Company
                                                rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the                            No. 1 to the proposed rule change,                         (‘‘IICO’’ or the ‘‘Adviser’’) will be the
                                                submission, all subsequent                                 which amended and replaced the                             adviser to the Funds. IICO is not a
                                                amendments, all written statements                         original filing in its entirety. The                       registered broker-dealer, although it is
                                                                                                           Commission is publishing this notice to                    affiliated with a broker-dealer. IICO has
                                                with respect to the proposed rule
                                                                                                           solicit comments on the proposed rule                      implemented a fire wall with respect to
                                                change that are filed with the
                                                                                                           change, as modified by Amendment No.                       its affiliated broker-dealer regarding
                                                Commission, and all written                                1 thereto, from interested persons.                        access to information concerning the
                                                communications relating to the                                                                                        composition and/or changes to each
                                                proposed rule change between the                           I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                                                                                                                                      Fund’s portfolio.7 In the future event
                                                Commission and any person, other than                      Statement of the Terms of Substance of
                                                those that may be withheld from the                        the Proposed Rule Change                                     3 The Commission approved Nasdaq Rule 5745 in

                                                public in accordance with the                                 The Exchange proposes to list and                       Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34–73562
                                                provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be                        trade under Nasdaq Rule 5745                               (Nov. 7, 2014), 79 FR 68309 (Nov. 14, 2014) (SR–
                                                                                                                                                                      NASDAQ–2014–020).
                                                available for Web site viewing and                         (Exchange-Traded Managed Fund                                4 Additional information regarding the Funds will
                                                printing in the Commission’s Public                        Shares (‘‘NextShares’’)) the common                        be available on one of two free public Web sites
                                                Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,                          shares (‘‘Shares’’) of the exchange-                       (www.ivyinvestments.com or www.nextshares.com,
                                                                                                           traded managed funds described herein                      as indicated more fully below), as well as in the
                                                Washington, DC 20549 on official                                                                                      Registration Statement for the Funds.
                                                business days between the hours of                         (each, a ‘‘Fund,’’ and collectively, the                     5 See Registration Statement on Form N–1A for

                                                10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such                    ‘‘Funds’’).                                                the Trust dated April 18, 2016 (File Nos. 333–
                                                filing also will be available for                                                                                     210814 and 811–23155).
                                                                                                           II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s                           6 The Commission has issued an order granting
                                                inspection and copying at the principal                    Statement of the Purpose of, and                           the Trust and certain affiliates exemptive relief
                                                office of the Exchange. All comments                       Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule                     under the Investment Company Act. See Investment
                                                received will be posted without change;                    Change                                                     Company Act Release No. 31816 (Sept. 9, 2015)
                                                the Commission does not edit personal                                                                                 (File No. 812–14526).
                                                                                                              In its filing with the Commission, the                    7 An investment adviser to an open-end fund is
                                                identifying information from                               Exchange included statements                               required to be registered under the Investment
                                                submissions. You should submit only                        concerning the purpose of and basis for                    Advisers Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Advisers Act’’). As a
                                                information that you wish to make                                                                                     result, the Adviser and its related personnel are
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                                                                                                           the proposed rule change and discussed                     subject to the provisions of Rule 204A–1 under the
                                                available publicly. All submissions                        any comments it received on the                            Advisers Act relating to codes of ethics. This Rule
                                                should refer to File Number SR–BOX–                        proposed rule change. The text of these                    requires investment advisers to adopt a code of
                                                2016–33, and should be submitted on or                     statements may be examined at the                          ethics that reflects the fiduciary nature of the
                                                before August 17,2016.                                                                                                relationship to clients as well as compliance with
                                                                                                           places specified in Item IV below. The                     other applicable securities laws. Accordingly,
                                                                                                                                                                      procedures designed to prevent the communication
                                                                                                                1 15   U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).                              and misuse of non-public information by an
                                                  18 17   CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).                                  2 17   CFR 240.19b–4.                                                                           Continued




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                                                that (a) IICO registers as a broker-dealer               invest in the common stocks of                         brokerage house or large institutional
                                                or becomes newly affiliated with a                       companies that IICO believes are                       investor—purchases the Creation Unit
                                                broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser or                 undervalued, trading at a significant                  with a basket of securities equal in value
                                                a sub-adviser to a Fund is a registered                  discount relative to the intrinsic value               to the aggregate NAV of the Shares in
                                                broker-dealer or becomes affiliated with                 of the company as estimated by IICO                    the Creation Unit. When an Authorized
                                                a broker-dealer, it will implement a fire                and/or are out of favor in the financial               Participant redeems a Creation Unit in
                                                wall with respect to its relevant                        markets but have a favorable outlook for               kind, it receives a basket of securities
                                                personnel and/or such broker-dealer                      capital appreciation. Although the Fund                equal in value to the aggregate NAV of
                                                affiliate, if applicable, regarding access               will often invest in securities issued by              the Shares in the Creation Unit.10
                                                to information concerning the                            large-capitalization companies (defined
                                                composition and/or changes to the                        as companies with market                               Composition File
                                                relevant Fund’s portfolio and will be                    capitalizations of at least $10 billion at
                                                                                                                                                                   As defined in Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(3),
                                                subject to procedures designed to                        the time of acquisition), it may invest in
                                                                                                                                                                the Composition File is the specified
                                                prevent the use and dissemination of                     securities issued by companies of any
                                                                                                                                                                portfolio of securities and/or cash that a
                                                material non-public information                          size.
                                                                                                                                                                Fund will accept as a deposit in issuing
                                                regarding such portfolio.                                Ivy Energy NextSharesTM                                a Creation Unit of Shares, and the
                                                   ALPS Distributors, Inc. will be the
                                                                                                            The investment objective of this Fund               specified portfolio of securities and/or
                                                principal underwriter and distributor of
                                                                                                         is to provide capital growth and                       cash that a Fund will deliver in a
                                                each Fund’s Shares. Waddell & Reed
                                                                                                         appreciation. The Fund will invest,                    redemption of a Creation Unit of Shares.
                                                Services Company, doing business as
                                                                                                         under normal circumstances, at least                   The Composition File will be
                                                WI Services Company (‘‘WISC’’), will
                                                                                                         80% of its net assets in the common                    disseminated through the NSCC once
                                                act as the administrator and accounting
                                                                                                         stock of companies within the energy                   each business day before the open of
                                                agent to the Funds. State Street Bank
                                                                                                         sector, which includes all aspects of the              trading in Shares on such day and also
                                                and Trust Company (‘‘State Street’’) will
                                                                                                         energy industry, such as exploration,                  will be made available to the public
                                                act as the custodian and transfer agent
                                                to the Funds. In addition, it has entered                discovery, production, distribution or                 each day on a free Web site.11 Because
                                                into agreements with WISC pursuant to                    infrastructure of energy and/or                        the Funds seek to preserve the
                                                which State Street will serve as sub-                    alternative energy sources.                            confidentiality of their current portfolio
                                                administrator and sub-accounting agent                                                                          trading program, a Fund’s Composition
                                                                                                         Creations and Redemptions of Shares
                                                to the Funds.                                                                                                   File generally will not be a pro rata
                                                                                                            Shares will be issued and redeemed                  reflection of the Fund’s investment
                                                Ivy Focused Growth NextSharesTM                          on a daily basis for each Fund at the                  positions. Each security included in the
                                                                                                         Fund’s next-determined net asset value                 Composition File will be a current
                                                   The investment objective of this Fund
                                                                                                         (‘‘NAV’’) 8 in specified blocks of Shares              holding of the Fund, but the
                                                is to provide growth of capital. The
                                                                                                         called ‘‘Creation Units.’’ A Creation Unit             Composition File generally will not
                                                Fund normally will invest primarily in
                                                                                                         will consist of at least 25,000 Shares.                include all of the securities in the
                                                a portfolio of common stocks issued by
                                                                                                         Creation Units may be purchased and                    Fund’s portfolio or match the
                                                large-capitalization, growth-oriented
                                                                                                         redeemed by or through ‘‘Authorized                    weightings of the included securities in
                                                companies with above-average levels of
                                                                                                         Participants.’’ 9 Purchases and sales of               the portfolio. Securities that the Adviser
                                                profitability and that IICO believes have
                                                                                                         Shares in amounts less than a Creation                 is in the process of acquiring for a Fund
                                                the ability to sustain growth over the
                                                                                                         Unit may be effected only in the                       generally will not be represented in the
                                                long term. Although the Fund primarily
                                                                                                         secondary market, as described below,                  Fund’s Composition File until their
                                                will invest in securities issued by large-               and not directly with a Fund.
                                                capitalization companies (defined as                                                                            purchase has been completed. Similarly,
                                                                                                            The creation and redemption process
                                                companies with market capitalizations                                                                           securities that are held in a Fund’s
                                                                                                         for Funds may be effected ‘‘in kind,’’ in
                                                of at least $10 billion at the time of                   cash, or in a combination of securities                portfolio but in the process of being sold
                                                acquisition), it may invest in securities                and cash. Creation ‘‘in kind’’ means that              may not be removed from its
                                                issued by companies of any size.                         an Authorized Participant—usually a                    Composition File until the sale program
                                                                                                                                                                is substantially completed. Funds
                                                Ivy Focused Value NextSharesTM                                                                                  creating and redeeming Shares in kind
                                                                                                            8 As with other registered open-end investment
                                                   The investment objective of this Fund                 companies, NAV generally will be calculated daily      will use cash amounts to supplement
                                                is to provide capital appreciation, with                 Monday through Friday as of the close of regular       the in-kind transactions to the extent
                                                a secondary objective of providing                       trading on the New York Stock Exchange, normally       necessary to ensure that Creation Units
                                                                                                         4:00 p.m. E.T. NAV will be calculated by dividing
                                                current income. The Fund normally will                   a Fund’s net asset value by the number of Shares       are purchased and redeemed at NAV.
                                                                                                         outstanding. Information regarding the valuation of    The Composition File also may consist
                                                investment adviser must be consistent with Rule          investments in calculating a Fund’s NAV will be        entirely of cash, in which case it will
                                                204A–1 under the Advisers Act. In addition, Rule         contained in the Registration Statement for its
                                                206(4)–7 under the Advisers Act makes it unlawful        Shares.
                                                                                                                                                                  10 In compliance with Nasdaq Rule 5745(b)(5),
                                                for an investment adviser to provide investment             9 ‘‘Authorized Participants’’ will be either: (1)

                                                advice to clients unless such investment adviser has     ‘‘participating parties,’’ i.e., brokers or other      which applies to Shares based on an international
                                                (i) adopted and implemented written policies and         participants in the Continuous Net Settlement          or global portfolio, the Trust’s application for
                                                procedures reasonably designed to prevent                System (‘‘CNS System’’) of the National Securities     exemptive relief under the Investment Company
                                                violation, by the investment adviser and its             Clearing Corporation (‘‘NSCC’’), a clearing agency     Act states that each Fund will comply with the
                                                supervised persons, of the Advisers Act and the          registered with the Commission and affiliated with     federal securities laws in accepting securities for
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                                                Commission rules adopted thereunder; (ii)                the Depository Trust Company (‘‘DTC’’), or (2) DTC     deposits and satisfying redemptions with securities,
                                                implemented, at a minimum, an annual review              participants, which in either case have executed       including that the securities accepted for deposits
                                                regarding the adequacy of the policies and               participant agreements with the Funds’ distributor     and the securities used to satisfy redemption
                                                procedures established pursuant to subparagraph (i)      and transfer agent regarding the creation and          requests are sold in transactions that would be
                                                above and the effectiveness of their                     redemption of Creation Units. Investors will not       exempt from registration under the Securities Act
                                                implementation; and (iii) designated an individual       have to be Authorized Participants in order to         of 1933, as amended (15 U.S.C. 77a) (‘‘Securities
                                                (who is a supervised person) responsible for             transact in Creation Units, but must place an order    Act’’).
                                                administering the policies and procedures adopted        through and make appropriate arrangements with           11 The free Web site containing the Composition

                                                under subparagraph (i) above.                            an Authorized Participant for such transactions.       File will be www.nextshares.com.



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                                                not include any of the securities in the                 site.14 In all cases, the transaction fees                 Because making markets in Shares
                                                Fund’s portfolio.12                                      will be limited in accordance with the                  will be simple to manage and low risk,
                                                                                                         requirements of the Commission                          competition among market makers
                                                Transaction Fees
                                                                                                         applicable to open-end management                       seeking to earn reliable, low-risk profits
                                                   All persons purchasing or redeeming                   investment companies offering                           should enable the Shares to routinely
                                                Creation Units of a Fund are expected                    redeemable securities.                                  trade at tight bid-ask spreads and
                                                to incur a transaction fee to cover the                                                                          narrow premiums/discounts to NAV. As
                                                                                                         NAV-Based Trading                                       noted below, the Funds will maintain a
                                                estimated cost to that Fund of
                                                processing the transaction, including                       Because Shares will be listed and                    public Web site that will be updated on
                                                the costs of clearance and settlement                    traded on the Exchange, Shares will be                  a daily basis to show current and
                                                charged to it by NSCC or DTC, and the                    available for purchase and sale on an                   historical trading spreads and
                                                estimated trading costs (i.e., brokerage                 intraday basis. Shares will be purchased                premiums/discounts of Shares trading
                                                commissions, bid-ask spread and market                   and sold in the secondary market at                     in the secondary market.16
                                                impact) to be incurred in converting the                 prices directly linked to a Fund’s next-                Transmitting and Processing Orders
                                                Composition File to or from the desired                  determined NAV using a new trading
                                                                                                         protocol called ‘‘NAV-Based                                Member firms will utilize certain
                                                portfolio holdings. The transaction fee is
                                                                                                         Trading.’’ 15 All bids, offers and                      existing order types and interfaces to
                                                determined daily and will be limited to
                                                                                                         execution prices of Shares will be                      transmit Share bids and offers to
                                                amounts determined by the Adviser to
                                                                                                         expressed as a premium/discount                         Nasdaq, which will process Share trades
                                                be appropriate to defray the expenses                                                                            like trades in shares of other listed
                                                that a Fund incurs in connection with                    (which may be zero) to a Fund’s next-
                                                                                                         determined NAV (e.g., NAV-$0.01,                        securities.17 In the systems used to
                                                the purchase or redemption of Creation                                                                           transmit and process transactions in
                                                Units. The purpose of transaction fees is                NAV+$0.01). A Fund’s NAV will be
                                                                                                         determined each business day, normally                  Shares, a Fund’s next-determined NAV
                                                to protect a Fund’s existing shareholders                                                                        will be represented by a proxy price
                                                from the dilutive costs associated with                  as of 4:00 p.m. E.T. Trade executions
                                                                                                         will be binding at the time orders are                  (e.g., 100.00) and a premium/discount of
                                                the purchase and redemption of                                                                                   a stated amount to the next-determined
                                                Creation Units. Transaction fees will                    matched on Nasdaq’s facilities, with the
                                                                                                         transaction prices contingent upon the                  NAV to be represented by the same
                                                differ among Funds and may vary over                                                                             increment/decrement from the proxy
                                                time for a given Fund depending on the                   determination of NAV.
                                                                                                                                                                 price used to denote NAV (e.g., NAV-
                                                estimated trading costs for its portfolio                Trading Premiums and Discounts                          $0.01 would be represented as 99.99;
                                                positions and Composition File,                                                                                  NAV+$0.01 as 100.01).
                                                processing costs and other                                  Bid and offer prices for Shares will be
                                                                                                                                                                    To avoid potential investor confusion,
                                                considerations. Funds that specify                       quoted throughout the day relative to                   Nasdaq will work with member firms
                                                greater amounts of cash in their                         NAV. The premium or discount to NAV                     and providers of market data services to
                                                Composition File may impose higher                       at which Share prices are quoted and                    seek to ensure that representations of
                                                transaction fees. In addition, Funds that                transactions are executed will vary                     intraday bids, offers and execution
                                                include in their Composition File                        depending on market factors, including                  prices of Shares that are made available
                                                instruments that clear through DTC may                   the balance of supply and demand for                    to the investing public follow the
                                                impose higher transaction fees than                      Shares among investors, transaction fees                ‘‘NAV-$0.01/NAV+$0.01’’ (or similar)
                                                Funds whose Composition File consists                    and other costs in connection with                      display format. All Shares listed on the
                                                solely of instruments that clear through                 creating and redeeming Creation Units                   Exchange will have a unique identifier
                                                NSCC, because DTC may charge more                        of Shares, the cost and availability of                 associated with their ticker symbols,
                                                than NSCC in connection with Creation                    borrowing Shares, competition among                     which would indicate that the Shares
                                                Unit transactions.13 The transaction fees                market makers, the Share inventory                      are traded using NAV-Based Trading.
                                                applicable to each Fund’s purchases and                  positions and inventory strategies of                   Nasdaq makes available to member
                                                redemptions on a given business day                      market makers, the profitability                        firms and market data services certain
                                                will be disseminated through the NSCC                    requirements and business objectives of                 proprietary data feeds that are designed
                                                prior to the open of market trading on                   market makers, and the volume of Share                  to supplement the market information
                                                that day and also will be made available                 trading. Reflecting such market factors,                disseminated through the consolidated
                                                to the public each day on a free Web                     prices for Shares in the secondary                      tape (‘‘Consolidated Tape’’).
                                                                                                         market may be above, at or below NAV.                   Specifically, the Exchange will use the
                                                   12 In determining whether a Fund will issue or        Funds with higher transaction fees may                  NASDAQ Basic and NASDAQ Last Sale
                                                redeem Creation Units entirely on a cash basis, the      trade at wider premiums or discounts to                 data feeds to disseminate intraday price
                                                key consideration will be the benefit that would         NAV than other Funds with lower                         and quote data for Shares in real time
                                                accrue to the Fund and its investors. For instance,      transaction fees, reflecting the added
                                                in bond transactions, the Adviser may be able to                                                                 in the ‘‘NAV-$0.01/NAV+$0.01’’ (or
                                                obtain better execution for a Fund than Authorized       costs to market makers of managing                      similar) display format. Member firms
                                                Participants because of the Adviser’s size,              their Share inventory positions through                 could use the NASDAQ Basic and
                                                experience and potentially stronger relationships in     purchases and redemptions of Creation                   NASDAQ Last Sale data feeds to source
                                                the fixed-income markets.                                Units.
                                                   13 Authorized Participants that participate in the
                                                                                                                                                                 intraday Share prices for presentation to
                                                CNS System of the NSCC are expected to be able                                                                   the investing public in the ‘‘NAV-$0.01/
                                                                                                              14 The
                                                                                                                   free Web site will be www.nextshares.com.
                                                to use the enhanced NSCC/CNS process for
                                                effecting in-kind purchases and redemptions of                15 Aspects
                                                                                                                       of NAV-Based Trading are protected          16 The Web site containing this information will
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                                                ETFs (the ‘‘NSCC Process’’) to purchase and redeem       intellectual property subject to issued and pending     be www.ivyinvestments.com.
                                                Creation Units of Funds that limit the composition       U.S. patents held by NextShares Solutions LLC             17 As noted below, all orders to buy or sell Shares
                                                of their baskets to include only NSCC Process-           (‘‘NextShares Solutions’’), a wholly owned              that are not executed on the day the order is
                                                eligible instruments (generally domestic equity          subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. Nasdaq has entered      submitted will be automatically cancelled as of the
                                                securities and cash). Because the NSCC Process is        into a license agreement with NextShares Solutions      close of trading on such day. Prior to the
                                                generally more efficient than the DTC clearing           to allow for NAV-Based Trading on the Exchange          commencement of trading in a Fund, the Exchange
                                                process, NSCC is likely to charge a Fund less than       of exchange-traded managed funds that have              will inform its members in an Information Circular
                                                DTC to settle purchases and redemptions of               themselves entered into license agreements with         of the effect of this characteristic on existing order
                                                Creation Units.                                          NextShares Solutions.                                   types.



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                                                NAV+$0.01’’ (or similar) display format.                 is finalized, Nasdaq will deliver the       Using the final trade price, each
                                                Alternatively, member firms could                        Share trading data to NSCC for              executed Share trade will then be
                                                source intraday Share prices in proxy                    clearance and settlement, following the     disseminated to member firms and
                                                price format from the Consolidated Tape                  same processes used for the clearance       market data services via an FTP file to
                                                and other Nasdaq data feeds (e.g.,                       and settlement of trades in other           be created for exchange-traded managed
                                                Nasdaq TotalView and Nasdaq Level 2)                     exchange-traded securities.                 funds and confirmed to the member
                                                and use a simple algorithm to convert                                                                firms participating in the trade to
                                                prices into the ‘‘NAV-$0.01/                             Availability of Information                 supplement the previously provided
                                                NAV+$0.01’’ (or similar) display format.                    Prior to the commencement of market information to include final pricing.
                                                As noted below, prior to the                             trading in Shares, the Funds will be            Information regarding NAV-based
                                                commencement of trading in a Fund,                       required to establish and maintain a        trading prices, best bids and offers for
                                                the Exchange will inform its members in                  public Web site through which the           Shares, and volume of Shares traded
                                                an Information Circular of the identities                current prospectus for each Fund may        will be continuously available on a real-
                                                of the specific Nasdaq data feeds from                   be downloaded.21 In addition, a separate time basis throughout each trading day
                                                which intraday Share prices in proxy                     Web site (www.nextshares.com) will          on brokers’ computer screens and other
                                                price format may be obtained.                            include additional Fund information         electronic services.
                                                                                                         updated on a daily basis, including the     Initial and Continued Listing
                                                Intraday Reporting of Quotes and Trades
                                                                                                         prior business day’s NAV, and the
                                                   All bids and offers for Shares and all                following trading information for such          Shares will conform to the initial and
                                                Share trade executions will be reported                  business day expressed as premiums/         continued listing criteria as set forth
                                                intraday in real time by the Exchange to                 discounts to NAV: (a) Intraday high,        under Nasdaq Rule 5745. A minimum of
                                                the Consolidated Tape 18 and separately                  low, average and closing prices of          50,000 Shares and no less than two
                                                disseminated to member firms and                         Shares in Exchange trading; (b) the         Creation Units of each Fund will be
                                                market data services through the                         midpoint of the highest bid and lowest      outstanding at the commencement of
                                                Exchange data feeds listed above. The                    offer prices as of the close of Exchange    trading on the Exchange. The Exchange
                                                Exchange will also provide the member                    trading, expressed as a premium/            will obtain a representation from the
                                                firms participating in each Share trade                  discount to NAV (the ‘‘Closing Bid/Ask      issuer of the Shares that the NAV per
                                                with a contemporaneous notice of trade                   Midpoint’’); and (c) the spread between     Share will be calculated daily (on each
                                                execution, indicating the number of                      highest bid and lowest offer prices as of business day that the New York Stock
                                                Shares bought or sold and the executed                   the close of Exchange trading (the          Exchange is open for trading) and
                                                premium/discount to NAV.19                               ‘‘Closing Bid/Ask Spread.’’). The Web       provided to Nasdaq via the Mutual
                                                                                                                                                     Fund Quotation Service (‘‘MFQS’’) by
                                                Final Trade Pricing, Reporting and                       site at www.nextshares.com will also
                                                                                                                                                     the fund accounting agent. As soon as
                                                Settlement                                               contain charts showing the frequency
                                                                                                                                                     the NAV is entered into MFQS, Nasdaq
                                                                                                         distribution and range of values of
                                                   All executed Share trades will be                                                                 will disseminate the value to market
                                                                                                         trading prices, Closing Bid/Ask
                                                recorded and stored intraday by Nasdaq                                                               participants and market data vendors
                                                                                                         Midpoints and Closing Bid/Ask Spreads
                                                to await the calculation of such Fund’s                                                              via the Mutual Fund Dissemination
                                                                                                         over time.
                                                end-of-day NAV and the determination                                                                 Service (‘‘MFDS’’) so all firms will
                                                                                                            The Composition File will be
                                                of final trade pricing. After a Fund’s                                                               receive the NAV per share at the same
                                                                                                         disseminated through the NSCC before
                                                NAV is calculated and provided to the                                                                time. The Reporting Authority 23 also
                                                                                                         the open of trading in Shares on each
                                                Exchange, Nasdaq will price each Share                                                               will ensure that the Composition File
                                                                                                         business day and also will be made
                                                trade entered into during the day at the                                                             will implement and maintain, or be
                                                                                                         available to the public each day on a
                                                Fund’s NAV plus/minus the trade’s                                                                    subject to, procedures designed to
                                                                                                         free Web site as noted above.   22
                                                executed premium/discount. Using the                                                                 prevent the use and dissemination of
                                                                                                         Consistent with the disclosure
                                                final trade price, each executed Share                                                               material non-public information
                                                                                                         requirements that apply to traditional
                                                trade will then be disseminated to                                                                   regarding each Fund’s portfolio
                                                                                                         open-end investment companies, a
                                                member firms and market data services                                                                positions and changes in the positions.
                                                                                                         complete list of current Fund portfolio         For each Fund, an estimated value of
                                                via an FTP file to be created for                        positions will be made available at least an individual Share, defined in Nasdaq
                                                exchange-traded managed funds and                        once each calendar quarter, with a
                                                confirmed to the member firms                                                                        Rule 5745(c)(2) as the ‘‘Intraday
                                                                                                         reporting lag of not more than 60 days.     Indicative Value,’’ will be calculated
                                                participating in the trade to supplement                 Funds may provide more frequent
                                                the previously provided information to                                                               and disseminated at intervals of not
                                                                                                         disclosures of portfolio positions at their more than 15 minutes throughout the
                                                include final pricing.20 After the pricing               discretion.                                 Regular Market Session 24 when Shares
                                                                                                            Reports of Share transactions will be
                                                   18 Due to systems limitations, the Consolidated                                                   trade on the Exchange. The Exchange
                                                Tape will report intraday execution prices and           disseminated to the market and
                                                                                                                                                     will obtain a representation from the
                                                quotes for Shares using a proxy price format. As         delivered to the member firms
                                                                                                                                                     issuer of the Shares that the IIV will be
                                                noted, Nasdaq will separately report real-time           participating in the trade
                                                execution prices and quotes to member firms and                                                      calculated on an intraday basis and
                                                                                                         contemporaneous with execution. Once
                                                providers of market data services in the                                                             provided to Nasdaq for dissemination
                                                ‘‘NAV¥$0.01/NAV+$0.01’’ (or similar) display             a Fund’s daily NAV has been calculated
                                                                                                                                                     via the Nasdaq Global Index Service
                                                format, and otherwise seek to ensure that                and disseminated, Nasdaq will price
                                                                                                                                                     (‘‘GIDS’’). The IIV will be based on
                                                representations of intraday bids, offers and             each Share trade entered into during the
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                                                execution prices for Shares that are made available                                                  current information regarding the value
                                                                                                         day at the Fund’s NAV plus/minus the
                                                to the investing public follow the same display
                                                format.                                                  trade’s executed premium/discount.             23 See Nasdaq Rule 5745(c)(4).
                                                   19 All orders to buy or sell Shares that are not                                                              24 See Nasdaq Rule 4120(b)(4) (describing the
                                                executed on the day the order is submitted will be       the Internet. Nasdaq will arrange for the daily       three trading sessions on the Exchange: (1) Pre-
                                                automatically cancelled as of the close of trading on    dissemination of an FTP file with executed Share      Market Session from 4 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. E.T.; (2)
                                                such day.                                                trades to member firms and market data services.      Regular Market Session from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or
                                                   20 File Transfer Protocol (‘‘FTP’’) is a standard        21 See footnote 16.
                                                                                                                                                               4:15 p.m. E.T.; and (3) Post-Market Session from 4
                                                network protocol used to transfer computer files on         22 See footnote 11.                                p.m. or 4:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. E.T.).



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                                                of the securities and other assets held by               trade execution prices are linked to end-               Surveillance Group (‘‘ISG’’) 30 regarding
                                                a Fund.25 The purpose of the IIVs is to                  of-day NAV, buyers and sellers of                       trading in Shares, and in exchange-
                                                enable investors to estimate the next-                   Shares should be less exposed to risk of                traded securities and instruments held
                                                determined NAV so they can determine                     loss due to intraday trading halts than                 by the Funds (to the extent such
                                                the number of Shares to buy or sell if                   buyers and sellers of conventional                      exchange-traded securities and
                                                they want to transact in an approximate                  exchange-traded funds (‘‘ETFs’’) and                    instruments are known through the
                                                dollar amount (e.g., if an investor wants                other exchange-traded securities.                       publication of the Composition File and
                                                to acquire approximately $5,000 of a                                                                             periodic public disclosures of a Fund’s
                                                Fund, how many Shares should the                         Trading Rules                                           portfolio holdings), and FINRA may
                                                investor buy?).26                                           Nasdaq deems Shares to be equity                     obtain trading information regarding
                                                   The Adviser is not a registered broker-               securities, thus rendering trading in                   such trading from other markets and
                                                dealer, although it is affiliated with a                 Shares to be subject to Nasdaq’s existing               other entities. In addition, the Exchange
                                                broker-dealer. The Adviser has                           rules governing the trading of equity                   may obtain information regarding
                                                implemented a fire wall with respect to                  securities. Nasdaq will allow trading in                trading in Shares, and in exchange-
                                                its broker-dealer affiliate regarding                    Shares from 9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.                   traded securities and instruments held
                                                access to information concerning the                     E.T.                                                    by the Funds (to the extent such
                                                composition and/or changes to each                          Every order to trade Shares of the                   exchange-traded securities and
                                                Fund’s portfolio. In the future event that               Funds is subject to the proxy price                     instruments are known through the
                                                (a) the Adviser registers as a broker-                   protection threshold of plus/minus                      publication of the Composition File and
                                                dealer or becomes newly affiliated with                  $1.00, which determines the lower and                   periodic public disclosures of a Fund’s
                                                a broker-dealer, or (b) any new adviser                  upper threshold for the life of the order               portfolio holdings), from markets and
                                                or a sub-adviser to a Fund is a registered               and whereby the order will be cancelled                 other entities that are members of ISG,
                                                broker-dealer or becomes affiliated with                 at any point if it exceeds $101.00 or falls             which includes securities and futures
                                                a broker-dealer, it will implement a fire                below $99.00, the established                           exchanges, or with which the Exchange
                                                wall with respect to its relevant                        thresholds.27 With certain exceptions,                  has in place a comprehensive
                                                personnel and/or such broker-dealer                      each order also must contain the                        surveillance sharing agreement.
                                                affiliate, if applicable, regarding access               applicable order attributes, including                     In addition, the Exchange also has a
                                                to information concerning the                            routing instructions and time-in-force                  general policy prohibiting the
                                                composition and/or changes to the                        information, as described in Nasdaq                     distribution of material non-public
                                                relevant Fund’s portfolio and will be                    Rule 4703.28                                            information by its employees.
                                                subject to procedures designed to                                                                                Information Circular
                                                prevent the use and dissemination of                     Surveillance
                                                material non-public information                                                                                    Prior to the commencement of trading
                                                                                                            The Exchange represents that trading                 in a Fund, the Exchange will inform its
                                                regarding such portfolio.                                in Shares will be subject to the existing               members in an Information Circular of
                                                Trading Halts                                            trading surveillances, administered by                  the special characteristics and risks
                                                                                                         both Nasdaq and the Financial Industry                  associated with trading the Shares.
                                                  The Exchange may consider all                          Regulatory Authority, Inc. (‘‘FINRA’’) on
                                                relevant factors in exercising its                                                                               Specifically, the Information Circular
                                                                                                         behalf of the Exchange, which are                       will discuss the following: (1) The
                                                discretion to halt or suspend trading in                 designed to detect violations of
                                                Shares. Nasdaq will halt trading in                                                                              procedures for purchases and
                                                                                                         Exchange rules and applicable federal                   redemptions of Shares in Creation Units
                                                Shares under the conditions specified in                 securities laws.29 The Exchange
                                                Nasdaq Rule 4120 and in Nasdaq Rule                                                                              (and noting that Shares are not
                                                                                                         represents that these procedures are                    individually redeemable); (2) Nasdaq
                                                5745(d)(2)(C). Additionally, Nasdaq may                  adequate to properly monitor trading of
                                                cease trading Shares if other unusual                                                                            Rule 2111A, which imposes suitability
                                                                                                         Shares on the Exchange and to deter and                 obligations on Nasdaq members with
                                                conditions or circumstances exist                        detect violations of Exchange rules and
                                                which, in the opinion of Nasdaq, make                                                                            respect to recommending transactions in
                                                                                                         applicable federal securities laws.                     Shares to customers; (3) how
                                                further dealings on Nasdaq detrimental
                                                                                                            The surveillances referred to above                  information regarding the IIV and
                                                to the maintenance of a fair and orderly
                                                                                                         generally focus on detecting securities                 Composition File is disseminated; (4)
                                                market. To manage the risk of a non-
                                                                                                         trading outside their normal patterns,                  the requirement that members deliver a
                                                regulatory Share trading halt, Nasdaq
                                                                                                         which could be indicative of                            prospectus to investors purchasing
                                                has in place back-up processes and
                                                                                                         manipulative or other violative activity.               Shares prior to or concurrently with the
                                                procedures to ensure orderly trading.
                                                                                                         When such situations are detected,                      confirmation of a transaction; and (5)
                                                Because, in NAV-Based Trading, all
                                                                                                         surveillance analysis follows and                       information regarding NAV-Based
                                                   25 IIVs disseminated throughout each trading day
                                                                                                         investigations are opened, where                        Trading protocols.
                                                would be based on the same portfolio as used to          appropriate, to review the behavior of                    As noted above, all orders to buy or
                                                calculate that day’s NAV. Funds will reflect             all relevant parties for all relevant                   sell Shares that are not executed on the
                                                purchases and sales of portfolio positions in their      trading violations.
                                                NAV the next business day after trades are
                                                                                                                                                                 day the order is submitted will be
                                                executed.
                                                                                                            FINRA, on behalf of the Exchange,                    automatically cancelled as of the close
                                                   26 Because, in NAV-Based Trading, prices of           will communicate as needed with other                   of trading on such day. The Information
                                                executed trades are not determined until the             markets and other entities that are                     Circular will discuss the effect of this
                                                reference NAV is calculated, buyers and sellers of       members of the Intermarket
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                                                                                                                                                                 characteristic on existing order types.
                                                Shares during the trading day will not know the
                                                final value of their purchases and sales until the                                                               The Information Circular also will
                                                                                                              27 See
                                                                                                                 Nasdaq Rule 5745(h).
                                                end of the trading day. A Fund’s Registration
                                                                                                              28 See
                                                                                                                 Nasdaq Rule 5745(b)(6).
                                                Statement, Web site and any advertising or                                                                         30 For a list of the current members of ISG, see

                                                marketing materials will include prominent                 29 FINRA provides surveillance of trading on the      www.isgportal.org. The Exchange notes that not all
                                                disclosure of this fact. Although IIVs may provide       Exchange pursuant to a regulatory services              components of a Fund’s portfolio may trade on
                                                useful estimates of the value of intraday trades, they   agreement. The Exchange is responsible for              markets that are members of ISG or with which the
                                                cannot be used to calculate with precision the           FINRA’s performance under this regulatory services      Exchange has in place a comprehensive
                                                dollar value of the Shares to be bought or sold.         agreement.                                              surveillance sharing agreement.



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                                                identify the specific Nasdaq data feeds                     to prevent fraudulent and manipulative                    Closing Bid/Ask Spread. The Web site at
                                                from which intraday Share prices in                         acts and practices, to promote just and                   www.nextshares.com will also contain
                                                proxy price format may be obtained.                         equitable principles of trade, to foster                  charts showing the frequency
                                                   In addition, the Information Circular                    cooperation and coordination with                         distribution and range of values of
                                                will advise members, prior to the                           persons engaged in facilitating                           trading prices, Closing Bid/Ask
                                                commencement of trading, of the                             transactions in securities, and to remove                 Midpoints and Closing Bid/Ask Spreads
                                                prospectus delivery requirements                            impediments to and perfect the                            over time.
                                                applicable to the Funds. Members                            mechanism of a free and open market                          The Composition File will be
                                                purchasing Shares from a Fund for                           and a national market system.                             disseminated through the NSCC before
                                                resale to investors will deliver a                             The Exchange believes that the                         the open of trading in Shares on each
                                                summary prospectus to such investors.                       proposed rule change is designed to                       business day and also will be made
                                                The Information Circular will also                          prevent fraudulent and manipulative                       available to the public each day on a
                                                discuss any exemptive, no-action and                        acts and practices in that the Shares                     free Web site.34 The Exchange will
                                                interpretive relief granted by the                          would be listed and traded on the                         obtain a representation from the issuer
                                                Commission from any rules under the                         Exchange pursuant to the initial and                      of the Shares that the IIV will be
                                                Act.                                                        continued listing criteria in Nasdaq Rule                 calculated and disseminated on an
                                                   The Information Circular also will                       5745. The Exchange believes that its                      intraday basis at intervals of not more
                                                reference that the Funds are subject to                     surveillance procedures are adequate to                   than 15 minutes during trading on the
                                                various fees and expenses described in                      properly monitor the trading of Shares                    Exchange and provided to Nasdaq for
                                                the Registration Statements. The                            on Nasdaq and to deter and detect                         dissemination via GIDS. A complete list
                                                Information Circular will also disclose                     violations of Exchange rules and the                      of current portfolio positions for the
                                                the trading hours of the Shares and the                     applicable federal securities laws. The                   Funds will be made available at least
                                                applicable NAV calculation time for the                     Adviser is not registered as a broker-                    once each calendar quarter, with a
                                                Shares. The Information Circular will                       dealer, but it is affiliated with a broker-               reporting lag of not more than 60 days.
                                                disclose that information about the                         dealer. The Adviser has implemented a                     Funds may provide more frequent
                                                Shares will be publicly available at                        ‘‘fire wall’’ between the Adviser and its                 disclosures of portfolio positions at their
                                                www.nextshares.com.                                         broker-dealer affiliate with respect to                   discretion.
                                                   Information regarding Fund trading                       access to information concerning the                         Transactions in Shares will be
                                                protocols will be disseminated to                           composition and/or changes to the                         reported to the Consolidated Tape at the
                                                Nasdaq members in accordance with                           Funds’ portfolio holdings. The                            time of execution in proxy price format
                                                current processes for newly listed                          Exchange may obtain information via                       and will be disseminated to member
                                                products. Nasdaq intends to provide its                     ISG from other exchanges that are                         firms and market data services through
                                                members with a detailed explanation of                      members of ISG or with which the                          Nasdaq’s trading service and market
                                                NAV-Based Trading through a Trading                         Exchange has entered into a                               data interfaces, as defined above. Once
                                                Alert issued prior to the commencement                      comprehensive surveillance sharing                        each Fund’s daily NAV has been
                                                of trading in Shares on the Exchange.                       agreement, to the extent necessary.                       calculated and the final price of its
                                                                                                               The proposed rule change is designed                   intraday Share trades has been
                                                Continued Listing Representations                           to promote just and equitable principles                  determined, Nasdaq will deliver a
                                                   All statements and representations                       of trade and to protect investors and the                 confirmation with final pricing to the
                                                made in this filing regarding (a) the                       public interest. The Exchange will                        transacting parties. At the end of the
                                                description of the Funds’ portfolios, (b)                   obtain a representation from each issuer                  day, Nasdaq will also post a newly
                                                limitations on portfolio holdings or                        of Shares that the NAV per Share will                     created FTP file with the final
                                                reference assets, or (c) the applicability                  be calculated on each business day that                   transaction data for the trading and
                                                of Exchange rules and surveillance                          the New York Stock Exchange is open                       market data services. The Exchange
                                                procedures shall constitute continued                       for trading and that the NAV will be                      expects that information regarding
                                                listing requirements for listing the                        made available to all market                              NAV-based trading prices and volumes
                                                Shares of the Funds on the Exchange.                        participants at the same time. In                         of Shares traded will be continuously
                                                The issuer has represented to the                           addition, a large amount of information                   available on a real-time basis throughout
                                                Exchange that it will advise the                            would be publicly available regarding                     each trading day on brokers’ computer
                                                Exchange of any failure by any Fund to                      the Funds and the Shares, thereby                         screens and other electronic services.
                                                comply with the continued listing                           promoting market transparency.                            Because Shares will trade at prices
                                                requirements, and, pursuant to its                             Prior to the commencement of market                    based on the next-determined NAV,
                                                obligations under Section 19(g)(1) of the                   trading in Shares, the Funds will be                      investors will be able to buy and sell
                                                Act, the Exchange will monitor for                          required to establish and maintain a                      individual Shares at a known premium
                                                compliance with the continued listing                       public Web site through which the                         or discount to NAV that they can limit
                                                requirements. If a Fund is not in                           current prospectus for each Fund may                      by transacting using limit orders at the
                                                compliance with the applicable listing                      be downloaded.33 In addition, a separate                  time of order entry. Trading in Shares
                                                requirements, the Exchange will                             Web site (www.nextshares.com) will                        will be subject to Nasdaq Rules
                                                commence delisting procedures under                         include additional Fund information                       5745(d)(2)(B) and (C), which provide for
                                                Nasdaq Rule 5800, et. seq.                                  updated on a daily basis, including the                   the suspension of trading or trading
                                                                                                            prior business day’s NAV, and the                         halts under certain circumstances,
                                                2. Statutory Basis
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                                                                                                            following trading information for such                    including if, in the view of the
                                                   Nasdaq believes that the proposal is                     business day expressed as premiums/                       Exchange, trading in Shares becomes
                                                consistent with Section 6(b) of the Act 31                  discounts to NAV: (a) Intraday high,                      inadvisable.
                                                in general, and Section 6(b)(5) of the                      low, average and closing prices of                           The proposed rule change is designed
                                                Act 32 in particular, in that it is designed                Shares in Exchange trading; (b) the                       to perfect the mechanism of a free and
                                                                                                            Closing Bid/Ask Midpoint; and (c) the                     open market and, in general, to protect
                                                  31 15   U.S.C. 78f(b).
                                                  32 15   U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).                                      33 See   footnote 16.                                  34 See   footnote 11.



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                                                                             Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 144 / Wednesday, July 27, 2016 / Notices                                                  49347

                                                investors and the public interest in that                proposed rule change should be                          For the Commission, by the Division of
                                                it will facilitate the listing and trading               disapproved.                                          Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
                                                of the Funds, which seek to provide                                                                            authority.35
                                                investors with access to a broad range of                IV. Solicitation of Comments                          Robert W. Errett,
                                                actively managed investment strategies                                                                         Deputy Secretary.
                                                                                                           Interested persons are invited to
                                                in a structure that offers the cost and tax              submit written data, views, and
                                                                                                                                                               [FR Doc. 2016–17671 Filed 7–26–16; 8:45 am]
                                                efficiencies and shareholder protections                 arguments concerning the foregoing,                   BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
                                                of ETFs, while removing the
                                                                                                         including whether the proposed rule
                                                requirement for daily portfolio holdings
                                                                                                         change is consistent with the Act.                    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
                                                disclosure to ensure a tight relationship
                                                                                                         Comments may be submitted by any of                   COMMISSION
                                                between market trading prices and
                                                NAV.                                                     the following methods:
                                                                                                                                                               Submission for OMB Review;
                                                   For the above reasons, Nasdaq                         Electronic Comments                                   Comment Request
                                                believes the proposed rule change is
                                                consistent with the requirements of                        • Use the Commission’s Internet                     Upon Written Request, Copies Available
                                                Section 6(b)(5) of the Act.                              comment form (http://www.sec.gov/                      From: Securities and Exchange
                                                                                                         rules/sro.shtml); or                                   Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
                                                B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                Statement on Burden on Competition                         • Send an email to rule-comments@                    100 F Street NE., Washington, DC
                                                                                                         sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–                20549–2736.
                                                   The Exchange does not believe that                    NASDAQ–2016–103 on the subject line.                  Extension:
                                                the proposed rule change will result in                                                                          Rule 19b–5 and Form PILOT, SEC File No.
                                                any burden on competition that is not                    Paper Comments                                            270–448, OMB Control No. 3235–0507.
                                                necessary or appropriate in furtherance                                                                           Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
                                                of the purposes of the Act. In fact, the                   • Send paper comments in triplicate
                                                                                                         to Secretary, Securities and Exchange                 to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
                                                Exchange believes that the introduction                                                                        (‘‘PRA’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the
                                                of the Funds would promote                               Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
                                                                                                         Washington, DC 20549–1090.                            Securities and Exchange Commission
                                                competition by making available to                                                                             (‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
                                                investors a broad range of actively                      All submissions should refer to File                  Office of Management and Budget
                                                managed investment strategies in a                       Number SR–NASDAQ–2016–103. This                       (‘‘OMB’’) a request for approval of
                                                structure that offers the cost and tax                   file number should be included on the                 extension of the previously approved
                                                efficiencies and shareholder protections                 subject line if email is used. To help the            collection of information provided for in
                                                of ETFs, while removing the                                                                                    Rule 19b–5 (17 CFR 240.19b–5) and
                                                                                                         Commission process and review your
                                                requirement for daily portfolio holdings                                                                       Form PILOT (17 CFR 249.821) under the
                                                                                                         comments more efficiently, please use
                                                disclosure to ensure a tight relationship                                                                      Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’)
                                                                                                         only one method. The Commission will
                                                between market trading prices and                                                                              (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
                                                NAV. Moreover, the Exchange believes                     post all comments on the Commission’s
                                                                                                         Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/                   Rule 19b–5 provides a temporary
                                                that the proposed method of Share                                                                              exemption from the rule-filing
                                                trading would provide investors with                     rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
                                                                                                                                                               requirements of Section 19(b) of the Act
                                                transparency of trading costs, and the                   submission, all subsequent
                                                                                                                                                               (15 U.S.C. 78s(b)) to self-regulatory
                                                ability to control trading costs using                   amendments, all written statements
                                                                                                                                                               organizations (‘‘SROs’’) wishing to
                                                limit orders, that is not available for                  with respect to the proposed rule                     establish and operate pilot trading
                                                conventionally traded ETFs.                              change that are filed with the                        systems. Rule 19b–5 permits an SRO to
                                                   These developments could                              Commission, and all written                           develop a pilot trading system and to
                                                significantly enhance competition to the                 communications relating to the                        begin operation of such system shortly
                                                benefit of the markets and investors.                    proposed rule change between the                      after submitting an initial report on
                                                                                                         Commission and any person, other than                 Form PILOT to the Commission. During
                                                C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s                        those that may be withheld from the
                                                Statement on Comments on the                                                                                   operation of any such pilot trading
                                                                                                         public in accordance with the                         system, the SRO must submit quarterly
                                                Proposed Rule Change Received From
                                                                                                         provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be                   reports of the system’s operation to the
                                                Members, Participants, or Others
                                                                                                         available for Web site viewing and                    Commission, as well as timely
                                                  No written comments were either                        printing in the Commission’s Public                   amendments describing any material
                                                solicited or received.                                   Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,                     changes to the system. Within two years
                                                III. Date of Effectiveness of the                        Washington, DC 20549, on official                     of operating such pilot trading system
                                                Proposed Rule Change and Timing for                      business days between the hours of                    under the exemption afforded by Rule
                                                Commission Action                                        10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such               19b–5, the SRO must submit a rule
                                                                                                         filing will also be available for                     filing pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the
                                                  Within 45 days of the date of                          inspection and copying at the principal               Act (15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)) to obtain
                                                publication of this notice in the Federal                office of the Exchange. All comments                  permanent approval of the pilot trading
                                                Register or within such longer period                    received will be posted without change;               system from the Commission.
                                                up to 90 days (i) as the Commission may                                                                           The collection of information is
                                                                                                         the Commission does not edit personal
                                                designate if it finds such longer period
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                                                                                                         identifying information from                          designed to allow the Commission to
                                                to be appropriate and publishes its                                                                            maintain an accurate record of all new
                                                                                                         submissions. You should submit only
                                                reasons for so finding or (ii) as to which                                                                     pilot trading systems operated by SROs
                                                the self-regulatory organization                         information that you wish to make
                                                                                                                                                               and to determine whether an SRO has
                                                consents, the Commission will: (a) By                    available publicly. All submissions                   properly availed itself of the exemption
                                                order approve or disapprove such                         should refer to File Number SR–                       afforded by Rule 19b–5, is operating a
                                                proposed rule change; or (b) institute                   NASDAQ–2016–103 and should be
                                                proceedings to determine whether the                     submitted on or before August 17, 2016.                 35 17   CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).



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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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FR Citation81 FR 49341 

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