Monthly Redemptions
Class A Units may be surrendered at the option of Unitholders at any time for redemption on a Monthly Redemption Date, subject to certain conditions and, in order to effect such a redemption, the Class A Units must be surrendered for redemption no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the last business day of the month prior to the month of the applicable Monthly Redemption Date (the “Monthly Cut-Off Date”, and together with the Annual Cut-Off Date, the “Cut-Off Date”). Payment of the proceeds of redemption will be made in U.S. dollars on or before the 15th business day following the Monthly Redemption Date (“Redemption Payment Date”). See “Risk Factors – Liquidity Constraints on Bitcoin Markets may Impact the Fund’s Holdings” and “Financial Institutions may Refuse to Support Transactions Involving Bitcoins”.
Unitholders surrendering a Class A Unit for redemption will receive a redemption price (the “Class A Redemption Price”) equal to the lesser of: (i) 95% of the Closing Market Price of a Class A Unit; and (ii) the Net Asset Value per Class A Unit on the applicable Monthly Redemption Date less, in each case, any costs and expenses associated with the redemption, including commissions incurred by the Fund. In any event, the Class A Redemption Price will not be an amount that is more than the Net Asset Value per Class A Unit as of the Monthly Redemption Date. Redemption proceeds will be paid in U.S. dollars.
Exercise of Redemption Right
A Unitholder who desires to exercise redemption privileges must do so by causing the CDS Participant through which he or she holds his or her Units to deliver to CDS at its office in the City of Toronto on behalf of the Unitholder, a written notice of the Unitholder’s intention to redeem Units by no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the applicable Cut-Off Date described above. A Unitholder who desires to redeem Units should ensure that the CDS Participant is provided with notice of his or her intention to exercise his or her redemption right sufficiently in advance of the applicable Cut-Off Date so as to permit the CDS Participant to deliver a notice to CDS by 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the applicable Cut-Off Date.
By causing a CDS Participant to deliver to CDS a notice of the Unitholder’s intention to redeem Units, the Unitholder will be deemed to have irrevocably surrendered his or her Units for redemption and appointed such CDS Participant to act as his or her exclusive settlement agent with respect to the exercise of such redemption privilege and the receipt of payment in connection with the settlement of obligations arising from such exercise, provided that the Manager may from time to time prior to the Annual Redemption Date or Monthly Redemption Date permit the withdrawal of a redemption notice on such terms and conditions as the Manager may determine, in its sole discretion, provided that such withdrawal will not adversely affect the Fund. Any expense associated with the preparation and delivery of the redemption notice will be for the account of the Unitholder exercising the redemption privilege.
Any redemption notice that CDS determines to be incomplete, not in proper form or not duly executed will, for all purposes, be void and of no effect and the redemption privilege to which it relates will be considered, for all purposes, not to have been exercised thereby. A failure by a CDS Participant to exercise redemption privileges or to give effect to the settlement thereof in accordance with a Unitholder’s instructions will not give rise to any obligations or liability on the part of the Fund, the Fund or the Manager to the CDS Participant or the Unitholder.
Allocations of Capital Gains to Redeeming Unitholders
Pursuant to the Declaration of Trust, the Fund may allocate and designate as payable any capital gains realized by the Fund as a result of any disposition of property of the Fund undertaken to permit or facilitate the redemption of Units to a Unitholder whose Units are being redeemed. Any such allocations will reduce the redemption price otherwise payable to the redeeming Unitholder. Provided that certain Tax Proposals are enacted as proposed, an amount so allocated and designated to a redeeming Unitholder may only be deductible to the Fund to the extent of the gain that would otherwise be realized by the Unitholder on the redemption of Units. Assuming that such Tax Proposals are enacted in their current form, the taxable component of distributions by the Fund to non-redeeming Unitholders could be greater than it would be in the absence of such amendments.