UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 14, 2020 (
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File No.) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Michael L. Sapir
(
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael M. Philipp
c/o Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
77 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
and
Richard F. Morris
c/o ProShare Capital Management LLC
7501 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1000E
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
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| Item 8.01. | Other Events |
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a listing rule change that allows each of ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil and ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil (the “Oil Funds”) to change its benchmark from the Bloomberg WTI Crude Oil SubindexSM to the Bloomberg Commodity Balanced WTI Crude Oil IndexSM (the “New Crude Oil Benchmark”). The Oil Funds intend to change to the New Crude Oil Benchmark in September 2020. Following this change, the investment objective of each Oil Fund will be to seek daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to two times (2x) or two times the inverse (-2x), as applicable, of the daily performance of the New Crude Oil Benchmark. The Oil Funds expect to transition their portfolios over a one or two day period in September and to have exposure to the WTI crude oil futures contracts comprising the New Crude Oil Benchmark at the end of such transition period. The daily performance of the New Crude Oil Benchmark is published by Bloomberg Finance L.P. and is available under the Bloomberg ticker symbol: BCBCLI Index. Additional details concerning the transition will be made available through another Form 8-K filing prior to the actual transition dates.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: August 14, 2020
| ProShares Trust II |
| /s/ Todd B. Johnson |
| Todd B. Johnson |
| Principal Executive Officer |
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