-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, DVNAiy69MMeseM9BSwvXWRY04MnNnqEkXqksN66dUT5NC36dSsxgC6kCo2xynpEp Jyzn/CwqJ/NOXu11gHOdoA== 0000865549-98-000007.txt : 19980813 0000865549-98-000007.hdr.sgml : 19980813 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000865549-98-000007 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-1 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 22 FILED AS OF DATE: 19980811 SROS: NONE FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ATLAS FUTURES FUND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000865549 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: [6221] IRS NUMBER: 510380494 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-1 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-61217 FILM NUMBER: 98682751 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5916 N 300 WEST CITY: FREEMONT STATE: IN ZIP: 46737 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5916 N 300 WEST CITY: FREEMONT STATE: IN ZIP: 46737 S-1 1 As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 1998 Registration No. ________ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D. C. 20549 FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE [State of organization] 6289 51-0380494 (Primary SIC Number) (I.R.S. EIN) 5916 N. 300 West Fremont, Indiana 46737 Telephone: (219) 833-1306 (address and telephone number of registrant's principal executive offices) Ms. Shira Del Pacult 5916 N. 300 West Fremont, Indiana 46737 Telephone: (219) 833-1306; Facsimile (219) 833-4411 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service of process) Copies to: William Sumner Scott, Esquire The Scott Law Firm, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 (954) 964-1546; Facsimile (954) 964-1548 Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement If any of the securities being offered on the Form are to be offered on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box: [X] If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. [ ] CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class Amount being Maximum Offering Maximum Aggregate Amount of of Securities Being Registered:(1) Price Per Unit: (2) Offering Price: Registration Fee: Registered: Limited Partnership 7,000 $1,000 $7,000,000 $2,065.00 Interests ("Units")
(1) This amount is based upon the number of Units to be initially offered. The exact number of Units issued will vary because of the issuance of additional Units for interest earned during the Escrow period. (2) Initial offering price per Unit prior to the sale of the Minimum; after sale of Minimum, trading will commence and the sales price per Unit will fluctuate each month to reflect expenses and additions and subtractions for trading results. The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission acting pursuant to said section 8(a), may determine. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Units Of Limited Partnership Interest MINIMUM 700 Units ($700,000) $1,000 per Unit until Minimum is Sold and, thereafter, at Month End Net Unit Value(1) Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") is a Delaware limited partnership formed January 12, 1998 which is managed by Ashley Capital Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, its general partner (the "General Partner"). The Partnership is organized to be a commodity pool to engage in the speculative trading of futures, commodity options and forward contracts on currencies, interest rates, energy and agriculture products, metals, and stock indices. The Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A grants full management control to the General Partner including the right, without notice to the Limited Partners, to employ, terminate, and change the equity assigned to independent trading managers ("Commodity Trading Advisors") to select trades. If subscriptions for Seven Hundred (700) Units ($700,000), (the "Minimum") have not been received and accepted by the General Partner within one year (the "Initial Offering Period") from the effective date of this prospectus (the "Prospectus"), this offering will terminate and all amounts paid by subscribers will be returned in the manner provided in the subscriber's Subscription Agreement. A prospectus to disclose all material information will be delivered to each subscriber either at or before the time of confirmation of the investment in the Units. THESE SECURITIES ARE SPECULATIVE AND INVOLVE A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. SEE "RISK FACTORS" ON PAGE 10 OF THE PROSPECTUS. Futures, commodity option, and forward trading are speculative, volatile and involve a high degree of risk. The investors could lose all, or substantially all, of their investment. The Partnership has substantial fixed management fees and commission costs which must be paid without regard to the profits earned by the Partnership. If only the Minimum is sold, the General Partner estimates the Partnership must generate a 25.7% return on investment during its first twelve months of trading to offset expenses and approximately 30.4% to offset both expenses and redemption charges due on Units redeemed as of the twelfth month after they are issued. If both expenses and redemption charges are not offset, investors will not receive any return on their investment. See "Charges to the Partnership". The transferability of the Units is restricted and there are limitations on investors' rights to surrender the Units to the Partnership for their Net Unit Value (the "Redemption Rights"). No public market for the Units exists and none is expected to develop. See "No Right To Transfer Units Limited Ability To Realize Return On Investment", and "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". The Partnership does not expect to make distributions. Limited Partners must rely on their limited right of transfer and redemption to realize a return on their investment. See "No Right To Transfer Units - Limited Ability To Realize Return On Investment", and "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". The General Partner and its principal and affiliates have conflicts of interest in regard to the management of the Partnership for the benefit of the investors. See "Conflicts of Interest". Investors will be taxed upon the profits, if any, earned upon their investment in the Partnership without the right to receive a distribution of any such profits. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Aspects". The General Partner has no experience in the management of commodity pools. See "Risk Factors" and "The General Partner". THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION HAS NOT PASSED UPON THE MERITS OF PARTICIPATING IN THIS POOL NOR HAS THE COMMISSION PASSED ON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT. THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION OR AGENCY, NOR HAVE ANY OF THEM CONFIRMED OR PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
Initial Price to Sales Proceeds to Public(1) Commissions(2) Partnership(3) Per Limited Partnership Unit $1,000 $60 $940 Total Minimum(4) $700,000 $42,000 $658,000 Total Maximum $7,000,000 $420,000 $6,580,000
See Notes on page i FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY 5916 N. 300 West - Fremont, Indiana 46737 Telephone: (219) 833-1306 NOTES: (1) Units are initially offered for sale at a fixed value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per Unit, which amount was arbitrarily established by the General Partner. The amount was not based on past or expected earnings and does not represent that the Units have or will have a market value of or could be resold or Redeemed at that price. When the General Partner has received and accepted subscriptions for a face amount, excluding commissions, of six hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars ($658,000), (the "Minimum"), the Partnership will commence trading operations. Until the 700 Units required to reach the Minimum are sold, all cash and subscription documents will be held in a separate escrow account (the "Escrow Account") in the name of the Partnership at Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 (the "Escrow Agent"). Any Units which remain unsold at the time the Minimum is reached may be offered for sale, from time to time, in the discretion of the General Partner, at a price equal to the Net Unit Value, as of the effective date of the purchase, which shall be the close of business on the last day of the month of acceptance of the Subscription Agreement. Net Unit Value is a reflection of the per Unit value of the Partnership and is calculated after the end of each month to reflect the results from trading after payment of expenses and fees. No escrow will be utilized for Units sold after the sale of the Minimum and the commencement of trading operations. The Units are being offered through Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, Indiana 46737 (219) 833-1306, (the "Selling Agent" or "FIC"), a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD") registered broker- dealer, on a "best efforts" basis. (2) See "Plan of Distribution, The Selling Agreement" for information relating to indemnification arrangements with respect to the Selling Agent and any Additional Sellers. Selling commissions of six percent (6%) of the subscription price, subject to waiver at the sole discretion of the General Partner, will be paid to the Selling Agent from the proceeds of subscriptions without regard to the amount invested. The Selling Agent will retain or distribute the sales commissions to the registered representatives of all of the dealers, including the principal and Affiliates of the General Partner who sold the Units. (3) Proceeds to the Partnership are calculated before deduction of Offering Expenses, estimated to be a total of $47,000, payable to the General Partner upon the Initial Closing, when the Minimum offering amount has been raised and Escrow funds are released to the Partnership. An additional $5,000 in organizational expenses will be amortized on a straight line method and paid to the General Partner over the first 60 months of the Partnership's operation. Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro-rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the Capital Accounts of the prior admitted Partners, in which the initial balance will be the amount the Partner paid for the Partner's Units, to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. (4) Seven Hundred (700) Units ($700,000 less sales commissions of $42,000) (the "Minimum") must be sold before any money will be made paid to the Selling Agent or cash and documents from any of the subscriptions received and deposited to the Escrow Account will be delivered to the Partnership. Once the Minimum is sold, the balance, up to a maximum of 7,000 Units ($7,000,000) will be sold, until they are either all sold or the General Partner elects to terminate this offering. There has been no promise by the Selling Agent, or any other person, to purchase any Units or any other form of firm underwriting commitment to assure the sale of the Units. The General Partner or the Selling Agent may engage additional registered broker dealers (the "Additional Sellers") to sell Units. The General Partner may accept or reject subscriptions within five (5) business days of receipt. If a subscription is rejected or if subscriptions for at least seven hundred (700) Units are not accepted during the Initial Offering Period of one year, or any extended Offering Period, all subscriptions will be returned to prospective subscribers as soon as practicable. At the time trading commences, interest earned on subscriptions held in escrow will be deposited in the Partnership's account and subscriber's will receive additional Units at the rate of $1,000 per Unit (rounded in the case of fractional Units to three decimal points) pro rata equal to the interest earned on their subscriptions, taking into account both the length of time and amount deposited to the Escrow Account. Subscribers whose subscriptions are rejected will be refunded their entire subscription payments together with the interest earned, if any, thereon. Cash from subscriptions held in the Escrow Account will be invested in short-term investments which meet applicable regulatory requirements such as United States Treasury Bills or other comparable interest-bearing instruments which are expected to be liquid, substantially risk-less instruments, with correspondingly low yields. i COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION RISK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION PERMITS YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN A COMMODITY POOL. IN SO DOING, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO LARGE LOSSES AS WELL AS GAINS. SUCH TRADING LOSSES CAN SHARPLY REDUCE THE NET ASSET VALUE OF THE POOL AND CONSEQUENTLY THE VALUE OF YOUR INTEREST IN THE POOL. IN ADDITION, RESTRICTIONS ON REDEMPTIONS MAY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO WITHDRAW YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE POOL. FURTHER, COMMODITY POOLS MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES FOR MANAGEMENT, AND ADVISORY AND BROKERAGE FEES. IT MAY BE NECESSARY FOR THOSE POOLS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THESE CHARGES TO MAKE SUBSTANTIAL TRADING PROFITS TO AVOID DEPLETION OR EXHAUSTION OF THEIR ASSETS. THIS DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT CONTAINS A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF EACH EXPENSE TO BE CHARGED THIS POOL AT PAGE 49 AND A STATEMENT OF THE PERCENTAGE RETURN NECESSARY TO BREAK EVEN, THAT IS, TO RECOVER THE AMOUNT OF YOUR INITIAL INVESTMENT, AT PAGE 41. THIS BRIEF STATEMENT CANNOT DISCLOSE ALL THE RISKS AND OTHER FACTORS NECESSARY TO EVALUATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS COMMODITY POOL. THEREFORE, BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COMMODITY POOL, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY STUDY THIS DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL RISK FACTORS OF THIS INVESTMENT, AT PAGE 10. YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT THIS COMMODITY POOL MAY TRADE FOREIGN FUTURES OR OPTIONS CONTRACTS. TRANSACTIONS ON MARKETS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING MARKETS FORMALLY LINKED TO A UNITED STATES MARKET, MAY BE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS WHICH OFFER DIFFERENT OR DIMINISHED PROTECTION TO THE POOL AND ITS PARTICIPANTS. FURTHER, UNITED STATES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPEL THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES OF REGULATORY AUTHORITIES OR MARKETS IN NON-UNITED STATES JURISDICTIONS WHERE TRANSACTIONS FOR THE POOL MAY BE EFFECTED. [The balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] ii NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF ALL STATES UNTIL 90 DAYS AFTER THE DATE HEREOF, ALL DEALERS EFFECTING TRANSACTIONS IN THE UNITS, WHETHER OR NOT PARTICIPATING IN THIS DISTRIBUTION, MAY BE REQUIRED TO DELIVER A PROSPECTUS. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE OBLIGATION OF DEALERS TO DELIVER A PROSPECTUS WHEN ACTING AS UNDERWRITERS OR BEST EFFORTS SELLERS AND WITH RESPECT TO THEIR UNSOLD ALLOTMENTS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS. THE SELLING AND ADDITIONAL SELLERS MUST ALSO DELIVER ANY SUPPLEMENTED OR AMENDED PROSPECTUS ISSUED BY THE PARTNERSHIP. NO DEALER, SALESMAN, OFFICER, EMPLOYEE OR AGENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP OR THE GENERAL PARTNER AND OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE, SUCH INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATIONS MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE PARTNERSHIP, THE GENERAL PARTNER, THE SELLING AGENTS, OR ANY OTHER PERSON CONNECTED WITH THIS OFFERING. THIS PROSPECTUS SPEAKS AS OF THE DATE OF ITS ISSUANCE. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE ANY IMPLICATION THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CORRECT AS OF ANY TIME SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE HEREOF OR THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE PARTNERSHIP SINCE THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS. THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY UNITS BY ANYONE IN ANY STATE IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION, OR PURCHASE IS NOT AUTHORIZED OR IN WHICH THE PERSON MAKING THE OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS NOT QUALIFIED TO DO SO, OR TO ANY PERSON TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION. THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION REQUIRE THAT NO COMMODITY POOL OPERATOR MAY SOLICIT, ACCEPT OR RECEIVE FUNDS, SECURITIES OR OTHER PROPERTY FROM A PROSPECTIVE PARTICIPANT IN A COMMODITY POOL WITHOUT FIRST DELIVERING A DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT (THIS "PROSPECTUS") TO SUCH PROSPECTIVE PARTICIPANT. THE GENERAL PARTNER MUST FURNISH ALL PARTNERS ANNUAL AND MONTHLY REPORTS COMPLYING WITH COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION ("CFTC") AND NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION ("NFA") REQUIREMENTS. THE ANNUAL REPORTS WILL CONTAIN CERTIFIED AND AUDITED, AND THE MONTHLY REPORTS UNAUDITED, FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN REGARD TO THE OPERATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP AND ITS GENERAL PARTNER THE DIVISION OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (THE "SEC") REQUIRES THAT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT BE SET FORTH HEREIN: ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, IS NOT A MUTUAL FUND AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO REGULATION UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940. CONSEQUENTLY, INVESTORS WILL NOT HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THE PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS OF SUCH LEGISLATION. INVESTORS MUST RELY ON THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE ISSUER AND THE TERMS OF THE OFFERING, INCLUDING THE MERITS AND RISKS INVOLVED. INVESTORS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THEY WILL BE REQUIRED TO BEAR THE FINANCIAL RISKS OF THIS INVESTMENT FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME. ACCORDINGLY, THE UNITS MAY BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE CONSENT OF THE GENERAL PARTNER, AND ONLY IF SUCH UNITS ARE SUBSEQUENTLY REGISTERED OR, IN THE OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY, SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY APPLICABLE FEDERAL OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND THE CERTIFICATE FOR UNITS, IF ANY, WILL HAVE A LEGEND TO DISCLOSE THAT THE UNITS ARE RESTRICTED FROM SALE OR OTHER TRANSFER WITHOUT PRIOR REGISTRATION OR OTHER LEGAL JUSTIFICATION. NO PUBLIC MARKET EXISTS OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP FOR THE UNITS AND, CONSEQUENTLY, PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS WHO DESIRE LIQUIDITY SHOULD NOT PURCHASE THE UNITS. EACH INVESTOR (PURCHASER OF UNITS) MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING SUITABILITY STANDARDS: (i) AN INVESTOR MUST HAVE (A) HAD AN ANNUAL GROSS INCOME IN EXCESS OF $45,000 IN THE LAST CALENDAR YEAR AND REASONABLY EXPECTS TO HAVE GROSS INCOME IN EXCESS OF iii $45,000 FOR THE CURRENT YEAR TOGETHER WITH A NET WORTH, EXCLUSIVE OF PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE, HOME FURNISHINGS, AND AUTOMOBILE OF $45,000; OR (B) THE INVESTOR HAS A NET WORTH (EXCLUSIVE OF PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE, HOME FURNISHINGS AND AUTOMOBILE) IN EXCESS OF $150,000; AND (ii) THE INVESTOR IS REPRESENTED BY A PURCHASER REPRESENTATIVE OR OTHERWISE DEMONSTRATES TO THE GENERAL PARTNER SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE TO ACCEPT THE RISKS OF THIS INVESTMENT. A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP OR OTHER ENTITY MAKING INVESTMENT MUST MEET THE FINANCIAL SUITABILITY REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED FOR NATURAL PERSONS. A QUALIFIED PENSION, PROFIT-SHARING OR KEOGH EMPLOYEE PLAN, THE FIDUCIARY FOR SUCH PLAN, OR THE DONOR OF ANY SUCH PLAN WHO DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY SUPPLIES THE FUNDS TO PURCHASE AN INTEREST (THE "UNITS") IN THE PARTNERSHIP MUST MEET THE MINIMUM FINANCIAL SUITABILITY STANDARDS. "ACCREDITED INVESTORS", AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED UNDER REGULATION D OF THE ACT, WHO MEET THE NET INCOME TEST IN (i) ABOVE, ARE DEEMED TO HAVE SUCH KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL BUSINESS MATTERS AS TO BE CAPABLE OF EVALUATING THE MERITS AND RISKS OF THE PROPOSED INVESTMENT AND, AT THE TIME OF INVESTING, CAN AFFORD A COMPLETE LOSS. THE ACT AND THE SECURITIES LAWS OF CERTAIN STATES GRANT PURCHASERS OF SECURITIES SOLD, EITHER IN VIOLATION OF THE REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION PROVISIONS OF SUCH LAWS OR WITHIN CERTAIN TIME LIMITATIONS, THE RIGHT TO RESCIND THEIR PURCHASE OF SUCH SECURITIES AND TO RECEIVE BACK THEIR CONSIDERATION PAID, PLUS INTEREST. THE GENERAL PARTNER EITHER INTENDS TO REGISTER THE UNITS FOR SALE OR BELIEVES THAT THE OFFERING DESCRIBED IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED OR QUALIFIED. MANY OF THESE LAWS WHICH GRANT THE RIGHT OF RESCISSION ALSO PROVIDE THAT SUITS FOR SUCH VIOLATIONS MUST BE BROUGHT WITHIN A SPECIFIED TIME, USUALLY ONE YEAR FROM DISCOVERY OF FACTS CONSTITUTING SUCH VIOLATION. SHOULD ANY INVESTOR INSTITUTE AN ACTION ON THE THEORY THAT THE OFFERING CONDUCTED AS DESCRIBED HEREIN WAS REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED OR QUALIFIED, THE PARTNERSHIP WILL CONTEND THAT THE CONTENTS OF THIS PROSPECTUS PROVIDED NOTICE OF SUFFICIENT FACTS TO COMMENCE THE TIME FROM WHICH AN ACTION FOR RESCISSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT. ALSO, SHOULD ANY INVESTOR CONTEND THE OFFER WAS NOT QUALIFIED FOR PRESENTATION OR THE INVESTOR NOT SUITABLE TO MAKE SUCH INVESTMENT, THE GENERAL PARTNER WILL PLEAD RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE INVESTOR IN THE SUBSCRIPTION DOCUMENTS. INVESTORS ARE TO COMPLETE ALL DOCUMENTS BEFORE SIGNING. NEITHER THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN, NOR ANY PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE CONSTRUED BY THE PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR AS LEGAL OR TAX ADVICE FOR THAT INVESTOR. EACH PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR SHOULD CONSULT HIS OWN LEGAL AND TAX ADVISORS TO ASCERTAIN THE MERITS AND RISKS DESCRIBED HEREIN PRIOR TO SUBSCRIBING TO PURCHASE UNITS IN THE PARTNERSHIP PURSUANT TO THIS OFFERING. VARIOUS SPECIFIC STATE NOTICES NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA INVESTORS CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A LIQUID NET WORTH OF $100,000 AND ANNUAL INCOME OF $50,000 TO BE ABLE TO PURCHASE PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS IN THIS COMMODITY POOL. THE TRANSFER OF THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS OFFERED AND SOLD PURSUANT TO THIS OFFERING CAN NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE GENERAL PARTNER AND FULFILLMENT OF OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, (a) THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, AS ISSUER OF A SECURITY UPON WHICH A RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER HAS BEEN IMPOSED MUST CAUSE A COPY OF RULE 260.141.11 TO BE DELIVERED TO EACH ISSUEE OR TRANSFEREE OF SUCH SECURITY AT THE TIME THE CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING THE SECURITY IS DELIVERED TO THE ISSUEE OR TRANSFEREE; AND, (b) IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR THE HOLDER OF ANY SUCH SECURITY TO CONSUMMATE A SALE OR TRANSFER OF SUCH SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSIONER (UNTIL THIS CONDITION IS REMOVED PURSUANT TO SECTION 260.141.12 OF THESE RULES), EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THE CODE. THE CERTIFICATES, WHETHER UPON INITIAL ISSUANCE iv OR UPON ANY TRANSFER, SHALL BEAR ON THEIR FACE, IN CAPITAL LETTERS OF 10-POINT SIZE, AS FOLLOWS: "IT IS UNLAWFUL TO CONSUMMATE A SALE OR TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, OR TO RECEIVE ANY CONSIDERATION THEREFOR, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIONS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXCEPT AS PERMITTED IN THE COMMISSIONER'S RULES". NOTICE TO IDAHO INVESTORS INVESTORS WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF IDAHO ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A NET WORTH OF $100,000 OR NET WORTH OF $50,000 AND ANNUAL INCOME OF $50,000 TO BE ELIGIBLE TO INVEST IN THIS OFFERING OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS IN THIS COMMODITY POOL. NOTICE TO MICHIGAN INVESTORS INVESTORS WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF MICHIGAN ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A NET WORTH OF $225,000 OR NET WORTH OF $60,000 AND TAXABLE ANNUAL INCOME OF $60,000 TO BE ELIGIBLE TO INVEST IN THIS OFFERING OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS IN A COMMODITY POOL. NET WORTH IN ALL CASES MUST BE CALCULATED EXCLUSIVE OF HOME, HOME FURNISHINGS AND AUTOMOBILES. IN ADDITION, NO MORE THAN TEN PERCENT (10%) OF THE INVESTOR'S NET WORTH MAY BE INVESTED IN THIS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. NOTICE TO OREGON INVESTORS INVESTORS WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF OREGON ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A NET WORTH OF $225,000 OR NET WORTH OF $60,000 AND ANNUAL INCOME OF $60,000 TO BE ELIGIBLE TO INVEST IN THIS OFFERING OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS IN THIS COMMODITY POOL. NOTICE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS THE SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND SEVERAL SELECTED STATES. HOWEVER, THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, RENOUNCED OR TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITS TERRITORIES, POSSESSIONS, AND ALL AREAS SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION ("UNITED STATES" OR IN CANADA (COLLECTIVELY, "NORTH AMERICA"), OR TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY PERSON WHO IS A NATIONAL CITIZEN OR A RESIDENT OR NORMALLY A RESIDENT THEREOF, THE ESTATES OF SUCH A PERSON OR ANY CORPORATION OR OTHER ENTITY CREATED OR ORGANIZED UNDER ANY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "NORTH AMERICAN PERSONS") UNLESS (i) THE SECURITIES ARE DULY REGISTERED UNDER THE APPLICABLE STATE ACT, OR (ii) AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE APPLICABLE STATE ACT AND THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO SUCH EFFECT REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO IT, OR (iii) SUCH SECURITIES ARE SOLD ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROCEDURES APPROVED BY SUCH FOREIGN STOCK EXCHANGE. [the balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] v TABLE OF CONTENTS COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION RISK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT ii NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF ALL STATES iii VARIOUS SPECIFIC STATE NOTICES iv NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA INVESTORS iv NOTICE TO IDAHO INVESTORS v NOTICE TO MICHIGAN INVESTORS v NOTICE TO OREGON INVESTORS v NOTICE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS v PARTNERSHIP AND GENERAL PARTNER IDENTIFICATION 1 SUMMARY OF THE OFFERING 1 RISK FACTORS 2 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 3 MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION 5 Business Objective and Expenses 5 Securities Offered 5 CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP 5 Compensation of the General Partner 6 Management and Incentive Fees 6 Charges to the Partnership 6 USE OF PROCEEDS 7 SELECTION OF COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS AND ALLOCATION OF EQUITY 8 FEDERAL INCOME TAX ASPECTS 8 No Legal Opinion As To Certain Material Tax Aspects 8 REDEMPTIONS 9 PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION 9 SUBSCRIPTION PROCEDURE 9 RISK FACTORS 10 NO PRIOR OPERATION EXPERIENCE OF THE GENERAL PARTNER 10 THE PARTNERSHIP WILL PAY SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES - INVESTORS HAVE LIMITED OPPORTUNITY TO REALIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT 10 NO RIGHT TO TRANSFER UNITS - LIMITED ABILITY TO REALIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT 11 INVESTORS MUST RELY UPON THEIR LIMITED RIGHT OF TRANSFER AND REDEMPTION RIGHTS TO REALIZE A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT 12 RELIANCE ON THE PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNER COULD BE RESTRICTIVE TO PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES 12 GENERAL PARTNER AND CTAs TO SERVE OTHER COMPETING BUSINESSES 12 PARTNERSHIP HAS NO OPERATING HISTORY 12 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE 13 LIMITED PARTNERS WILL BE TAXED ON PROFITS NOT DISTRIBUTED 13 PRESENT TRADE SELECTION METHODS SUBJECT TO SUDDEN ADVERSE CHANGE 13 LIMITED PARTNERS WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN MANAGEMENT 13 COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING IS SPECULATIVE AND VOLATILE - UNITS MAY NOT BE REDEEMABLE BEFORE SUBSTANTIAL DEVALUATION OF NET UNIT VALUE 13 LOW SECURITY DEPOSIT IN RELATION TO PRICE MOVEMENT 14 TRADE SELECTION MADE WITHOUT NOTICE TO PARTNERSHIP - PARTNERSHIP MAY BECOME DEVALUED BEFORE GENERAL PARTNER IS ABLE TO TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION 14 PARTNERSHIP COULD LOSE SUBSTANTIAL ASSETS DUE TO LACK OF MARKET LIQUIDITY 14 INCREASED TRADING EQUITY TO CTAs MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT THEIR PERFORMANCE 14 vi MINIMUM AMOUNT OF EQUITY MAY BE INSUFFICIENT FOR PROFITABLE OPERATION 15 PARTNERSHIP WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED IF PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITY RESULTS IN LOWER COMMISSIONS FOR OTHER ACCOUNTS 15 FAILURE OF COMMODITY BROKERS OR BANKS COULD RESULT IN LOSS OF ASSETS 15 COUNTERPARTY CREDITWORTHINESS MUST BE RELIED UPON IN FOREIGN MARKETS 15 TRADING ON FOREIGN EXCHANGES INHERENTLY RISKIER THAN U.S. MARKETS 16 TRADING FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO U.S. REGULATION AND ARE INHERENTLY RISKY 16 OPTIONS TRADING PUTS MORE PARTNERSHIP CAPITAL AT RISK 16 POSITION LIMITS MAY AFFECT PROFIT POTENTIAL 16 COMPETITION IS INTENSE 16 NO ASSURANCE THAT UNITS NECESSARY TO COMMENCE BUSINESS WILL BE SOLD - INVESTORS MAY LOSE USE OF INVESTMENT CAPITAL 17 COMMENCEMENT OF BUSINESS MAY OCCUR AT SUBOPTIMAL TIME FOR MAXIMIZING PROFITS 17 CHANGES IN THE SIZE OF THE PARTNERSHIP MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT CTAs' ABILITY TO TRADE PROFITABLY 18 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN NET WORTH OF THE GENERAL PARTNER MAY RESULT IN SUSPENSION OF TRADING AND SUSTAINED LOSSES 18 INABILITY TO MAINTAIN NET WORTH OF GENERAL PARTNER COULD RESULT IN POSSIBILITY OF TAXATION AS A CORPORATION 18 GENERAL PARTNER NOT TO ADVISE INVESTORS - INCLUDING RETIREMENT PLAN AND IRA PARTICIPANTS 19 INVESTORS NOT PROTECTED BY THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 19 POSSIBILITY OF AUDIT - PARTNERS MAY BE SUBJECT TO AUDIT AND PENALTIES 19 GENERAL PARTNER MAY SETTLE IRS CLAIM NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PARTNERS 19 POSSIBLE ADVERSE DETERMINATION BY THE IRS - PARTNERS MAY BE SUBJECT TO BACK TAXES AND PENALTIES 19 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 19 GENERAL PARTNER, THE CTAs, AND THEIR PRINCIPALS MAY PREFERENTIALLY MANAGE EQUITY FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS 20 POSSIBLE RETENTION OF VOTING CONTROL BY THE GENERAL PARTNER MAY LIMIT PARTNERS' ABILITY TO CONTROL CERTAIN ISSUES 20 GENERAL PARTNER TO REMAIN AGAINST POSSIBLE BEST INTEREST OF PARTNERSHIP 20 FEES AND CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP NOT NEGOTIATED AND MAY DISCOURAGE PROFITABLE TRADING 20 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE 21 GENERAL PARTNER TO DISCOURAGE REDEMPTIONS 21 CTAs MAY ENGAGE IN HIGH RISK TRADING TO GENERATE INCENTIVE FEES 21 IB AFFILIATED WITH THE GENERAL PARTNER WILL RETAIN A SHARE OF THE COMMISSIONS AND IS NOT LIKELY TO BE REPLACED 21 NO RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS PROCEDURES 22 INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL 22 THE PARTNERSHIP AND FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY SHARE THE SAME ADDRESS 22 MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION 22 THE PARTNERSHIP - GENERAL PARTNER - BOOKS AND RECORDS 22 THE COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS 23 THE ADVISORY CONTRACTS AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY 23 BUSINESS OBJECTIVE AND EXPENSES 23 EXPENSES PER UNIT FOR THE FIRST 12-MONTH PERIOD OF OPERATIONS 24 SECURITIES OFFERED 25 MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION 26 FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GENERAL PARTNER 26 INDEMNIFICATION 27 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FCM AND THE IB 28 vii RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CTAs 28 RISK CONTROL 28 CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP 29 COMPENSATION OF GENERAL PARTNER 29 MANAGEMENT FEE AND INCENTIVE FEES TO THE CTAs 29 FEES TO FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT AND INTRODUCING BROKER 30 ALLOCATION OF COMMISSIONS 30 OTHER EXPENSES 31 CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP 31 INVESTOR SUITABILITY 32 POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES 32 EQUITY MANAGEMENT 32 INVESTMENT DIVERSIFICATION 32 LIMITED LIABILITY 32 ADMINISTRATIVE CONVENIENCE 33 ACCESS TO THE CTAs 33 USE OF PROCEEDS 33 DETERMINATION OF THE OFFERING PRICE 34 NO MARKET AND LIMITATION OF RIGHT OF TRANSFER 34 THE GENERAL PARTNER 34 IDENTIFICATION 34 THE PRINCIPAL AND OFFICER OF THE GENERAL PARTNER 34 TRADING BY THE GENERAL PARTNER; INTEREST IN THE POOL 35 NO PRIOR PERFORMANCE AND REGULATORY NOTICE 35 TRADING MANAGEMENT 35 SELECTION OF COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS AND ALLOCATION OF EQUITY 35 THE ADVISORY CONTRACTS 35 FREQUENCY OF CTA AND EQUITY REALLOCATIONS 36 THE COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS 36 MICHAEL J. FRISCHMEYER 36 BUSINESS BACKGROUND 36 DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM 37 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA 38 Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule 39 Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only 40 Managed Account Program, Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. Fee Schedule 41 Financial Futures Managed Account Program 42 Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule 43 COMMODITECH, INC. 44 BUSINESS BACKGROUND 44 DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM 44 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA 45 Commoditech, Inc. - Program A 45 ROSENBERY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. 46 BUSINESS BACKGROUND 46 DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM 47 viii PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA 49 Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. - Progenitor 49 J.A.H. RESEARCH AND TRADING 50 DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM 50 Program I 50 Program II 51 BUSINESS BACKGROUND 51 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA 51 J.A.H Research and Trading - Program I - Capsule Performance of Accounts 51 J.A.H Research and Trading - Program II - Capsule Performance of Accounts 52 C&M TRADERS, INC. 53 BUSINESS BACKGROUND 54 DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM 54 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA 54 C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Composite 55 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF FREMONT FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 56 THE FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANTS 57 FEDERAL INCOME TAX ASPECTS 57 SCOPE OF TAX PRESENTATION 57 NO LEGAL OPINION AS TO CERTAIN MATERIAL TAX ASPECTS 58 PARTNERSHIP TAX STATUS AND NET WORTH OF THE GENERAL PARTNER 58 NO IRS RULING 58 TAX OPINION 59 PASSIVE LOSS AND UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME TAXES RULES 59 BASIS LOSS LIMITATION 59 AT-RISK LIMITATION 60 INCOME AND LOSSES FROM PASSIVE ACTIVITIES 60 ALLOCATION OF PROFITS AND LOSSES 60 TAXATION OF FUTURES AND FORWARD TRANSACTIONS 60 SECTION 988 FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS 61 CAPITAL GAIN AND LOSS PROVISIONS 61 BUSINESS FOR PROFIT 61 SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME AND TAX 61 INDIVIDUAL ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX 61 INTEREST RELATED TO TAX EXEMPT OBLIGATIONS 61 NOT A TAX SHELTER 62 TAXATION OF FOREIGN PARTNERS 62 PARTNERSHIP ENTITY-AUDIT PROVISIONS-PENALTIES 62 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, RETIREMENT PLANS AND IRA'S 62 THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT 63 FORMATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP 63 UNITS 63 MANAGEMENT OF PARTNERSHIP AFFAIRS 63 ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS 63 PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTING, REPORTS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS 63 FEDERAL TAX ALLOCATIONS 64 TRANSFER OF UNITS ONLY WITH CONSENT OF THE GENERAL PARTNER 64 TERMINATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP 64 MEETINGS 64 REDEMPTIONS 64 ix PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION 65 SUBSCRIPTION PROCEDURE 65 LEGAL MATTERS 66 LITIGATION AND CLAIMS 66 LEGAL OPINION 66 EXPERTS 67 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 67 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS A. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Balance Sheet as of April 30, 1998 Notes to Statement of Financial Condition B. ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. Balance Sheet and Income Statement as of April 30, 1998 Notes to Statement of Financial Condition APPENDIX I - COMMODITY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS; STATE REGULATORY GLOSSARY APPENDIX II - SUPPLEMENTAL PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FOR C&M TRADERS, INC. EXHIBIT A - LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT EXHIBIT B - REQUEST FOR REDEMPTION EXHIBIT C - SUITABILITY INFORMATION EXHIBIT D - SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY EXHIBIT E - ESCROW AGREEMENT EXHIBIT F - INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT - MICHAEL J. FRISCHMEYER EXHIBIT G - INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT - COMMODITECH, INC. EXHIBIT H - INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT - ROSENBERY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. EXHIBIT I - INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT - J.A.H. Research and Trading EXHIBIT J - INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT - C&M Traders, Inc. [The balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] x PARTNERSHIP AND GENERAL PARTNER IDENTIFICATION Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") is a Delaware limited partnership. Its main business office is 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, Indiana (219) 833-1306. It is managed by Ashley Capital Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, its general partner (the "General Partner"), with its main business office at c/o Corporate Systems, Inc. 101 North Fairfield Drive, Dover, DE 19901 (302) 697-2139. The Partnership is organized to be a commodity pool to engage in the speculative trading of futures, commodity options and forward contracts on currencies, interest rates, energy and agriculture products, metals, and stock indices. The Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A grants full management control to the General Partner including the right to employ independent trading managers ("Commodity Trading Advisors") to select trades. The other Exhibits and Appendices listed in the Index are included as part of this bound prospectus. The objective of the Partnership is substantial capital appreciation with controlled volatility. There can be no assurance that the Partnership will achieve its objectives or avoid substantial losses. The General Partner has no prior experience in the management of a commodity pool, however, the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Pacult, has been engaged in supervision of individual managed commodity accounts for over 16 years and is the principal of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. See "Description of the General Partner". The Partnership hereby offers to sell $7,000,000 of units of limited partnership interest (the "Units") under the terms and conditions described herein. The Units are initially offered at a value arbitrarily established by the General Partner at One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per Unit, with a minimum purchase, per investor, of 25 Units ($25,000); provided, however, the General Partner, in its sole discretion, may permit the purchase by an investor of less than 25 but more than 5 Units. Funds with respect to subscriptions received prior to the commencement of trading operations by the Partnership (and not rejected by the General Partner) will be deposited and held in a separate escrow account (the "Escrow Account") in the name of the Partnership at Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 (the "Escrow Agent"). If subscriptions for Seven Hundred (700) Units ($700,000), (the "Minimum Units") have not been received and accepted by the General Partner within one year (the "Initial Offering Period") from the effective date of this prospectus (the "Prospectus"), this offering will terminate and all amounts paid by subscribers, plus interest and without deduction for any commissions, fees or costs will be promptly returned in the manner provided in the subscriber's Subscription Agreement. If the General Partner receives and accepts subscriptions for at least the Minimum Units prior to the close of the Initial Offering Period, the money on deposit in the escrow account will be transferred to the Partnership's account, with each Limited Partner account credited with its pro rata share of the interested earned upon the escrow account. The Partnership will commence trading operations and, thereafter, Units may be offered for sale, from time to time, in the sole discretion of the General Partner, at the Net Unit Value computed as of the end of the month in which the subscription agreement was received. Net Unit Value is the per Unit value of the Partnership's Net Assets computed as of the end of each month, after additions for trading profits, if any, and deductions for trading losses, expenses, fees and reserves. If the Minimum Units are sold, this offering shall continue until the earlier of (i) such time as all of the Units offered hereby have been sold, or (ii) such earlier time as the offering is terminated by the General Partner, in its sole discretion. The transferability of Units is subject to the approval of the General Partner and no trading or market for the Units now exists or is expected to develop on any exchange or over the counter market. Consequently, Units should be purchased for long-term investment only. There also can be no assurance that any or all of the Minimum Units or any additional Units will be sold. SUMMARY OF THE OFFERING The following summary is qualified, in its entirety, by the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this Prospectus, in the Exhibits, and other documents identified herein. Reference to subsections in this Prospectus are in quotation marks. Terms with the initial letter capitalized are defined in the Glossary in Appendix I to this Prospectus. 1 RISK FACTORS An investment in the Partnership is speculative and involves substantial risks. See "Description of Charges", "Risk Factors", "Conflicts of Interest", and Exhibit A. The Partnership will be relying upon the General Partner to conduct the main business of the Partnership's affairs. The Limited Partners will not participate in the management of the Partnership, and the General Partner will have absolute discretion over the selection of the CTAs, the allocation of assets, and the commencement and cessation of trading. In that regard, the General Partner has no experience as a commodity pool operator and in conducting such business. The principal of the General Partner is, however, the principal of a company which serves as the General Partner of two other commodity pools. The Limited Partners will have a limited opportunity to realize a return on their investment. This is due to the substantial fees, commissions, and repayment of offering costs to which the Partnership will be subject, which amount to $153,000 during the first year of operation, if the Minimum of $700,000 is raised. The Partnership must earn income of $304.20 per Unit during the first year to permit an investor to redeem a Unit at the original offering price of $1,000. The Partnership does not expect to make distributions, and if it does, those distributions may be subject to being recalled if the Partnership becomes insolvent. Accordingly, the Limited Partners must rely upon their limited rights of transfer and redemption to realize a return on their investment. The Limited Partners will also be subject to redemption fees during the first two years of operation and there are restrictions upon the transfer and redemption procedures. Both the General Partner and the CTAs it selects to trade for the Partnership may serve other businesses with competing interests. See "Conflicts of Interest". As the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Del Pacult, is also a principal of the Introducing Broker, which receives fixed commissions for payment of brokerage commissions, it would be in Ms. Pacult's interest to select CTAs who minimize the number of trades at the expense of the Partnership. The General Partner is also required by federal law to maintain a minimum net worth. If the minimum is not maintained, the Partnership would be forced to suspend trading, in which case it could experience significant losses. The CTAs expect to conduct trades for both themselves and other clients, in addition to the Partnership. It would be possible for a CTA to experience limitations on the number of positions it may take, therefore not maximizing the profit potential, as a result of taking the same position with several clients' funds. It would also be possible for a CTA preferentially to liquidate positions in one account, while the others sustain significant losses. Futures, commodity options, and forward contract trading are speculative and volatile, and are thus inherently risky. In addition, only a fraction of the commodity contract value is required as a security deposit. Should a trade perform poorly, the Partnership is at risk of a demand for money to cover the balance of the transaction. Such a demand could deplete the Partnership of all its assets. The CTAs expect to sell option contracts, which often requires less security deposit. There are also limits placed upon (i) the total number of positions a trader may take; (ii) the total number of positions that may be taken by all traders in a given market as a whole; and (iii) the amount of change in price a given commodity may fluctuate in a given day. Such limits may restrict the profit potential of the Partnership. In addition, it is possible that a trader may not be able to liquidate a position due to successive daily changes in the price of a commodity reaching their maximum limit. There is no guarantee that Partners will be able to redeem Units before substantial losses are incurred through trading. The CTAs also expect to trade on foreign markets, which are not regulated by the United States and are thus inherently riskier to trade than U.S. markets. Specifically, there would be little recourse to recover trading assets lost as a result of the collapse of a foreign government of private institution. The trades will also be denominated in the foreign location particular to the location of the trade, and are thus adversely affected by inflation and currency fluctuation. The CTAs may also trade forward currency contracts not subject to U.S. regulation, in 2 which there are no limitations on daily price moves or on the number of positions available to be taken. The Partnership's assets are at greater risk by the CTAs taking positions on such foreign markets. There are also risks inherent to operation of the Partnership, including the intense competition in commodity futures trading, the lack of experience of the General Partner, the right of the CTAs to resign without notice, and the fact that trades are executed without notice to the Partnership. The Partnership will be competing with others who may have greater financial and analytical resources at their disposal. Additionally, the General Partner has no experience as a commodity pool operator, though the principal of the General Partner is the principal of a company which serves as the General Partner of two other commodity pools. The CTAs assigned by the General Partner have complete discretion over the execution of trades, and as a result, the Partnership may experience substantial losses before the General Partner is able to take remedial action. The Partnership will also be relying upon the solvency of the commodity brokers and banks which will hold a substantial portion of the Partnership's assets. A failure of one of these entities could result in unrecoverable loss to the Partnership's assets. There are several risks to investors due to the amount of capital raised through this offering, the timing of the commencement of business, and the amount of Partnership assets. There is no assurance that the Minimum of $700,000 will be raised through this offering. If it is not, investors will be fully refunded their subscription amount with interest, but will have lost the ability to invest their money during the escrow period. If the Minimum is raised, it may be at an inopportune time to maximize or realize trading profits. Increases or decreases in the amount of trading equity assigned to the CTAs may also adversely affect their performance and cause the Partnership to suffer losses. There are significant tax issues which present risks to investors. The Limited Partners will be subject to taxes on profits not distributed. The Partnership is currently not taxed as a corporation, but should the IRS rule to the contrary because a limited partner has taken management, the Partnership and its Partners may be subject to higher taxes on profits, as well as possible back taxes, interest, penalties, and an audit. The General Partner also has the power to settle IRS claims on behalf of certain Limited Partners when such settlement may not be in their best interest. Conflicts of Interest Significant potential and actual conflicts of interest may arise, including: (i) The principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Del Pacult, the General Partner, and the CTAs have the right to manage other commodity pools and/or accounts. They may also engage in trading for their own accounts without making those records available for inspection. It is possible for these persons to trade other accounts preferentially over the Partnership. Additionally, a CTA is limited in the number of simultaneous positions it may take, and may therefore favor accounts which offer greater financial incentives. (ii) The General Partner, its principal, Ms. Shira Del Pacult, and their Affiliates may, once the Minimum is sold, purchase enough Units in the Partnership to retain voting control. This may limit the ability of the Limited Partners to achieve a majority vote on such issues as amendment of the Limited Partnership Agreement, change in the basic investment policy of the Partnership, dissolution of the Partnership, or the sale or distribution of the Partnership's assets. The General Partner is not allowed to vote on the issue of its own removal, but it is not likely to voluntarily remove itself as it receives a fixed management fee of 3%. (iii) An Affiliate of the General Partner will receive the difference between the fixed commissions and the actual round-turn commissions paid from the Partnership's trading activities, creating a disincentive for the General Partner to replace the IB which is Affiliated with it even if such replacement may be in the best interest of the Partnership. (iv) A 9% fixed commission will be paid to the Introducing Broker (the "IB") Affiliated with the General Partner in lieu of round-turn brokerage commissions which has not been negotiated at arm's length, nor has the 3% management fee paid to the General Partner. It is not likely that the General Partner would remove itself or the IB even if it were in the best interest of the Partnership. 3 (v) The Selling Agent is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner and, therefore, no independent due diligence of the offering will be conducted for the protection of the investors. The General Partner has taken steps to insure that the Partnership equity is held in segregated accounts at the banks and futures commission merchant selected and has otherwise assured the Selling Agent that all money on deposit is in the name of and for the beneficial use of the Partnership. (vi) The General Partner selects the trading advisors for the Partnership and the trading advisors determine the frequency of trading, resulting in a conflict of interest of the General Partner between it selecting trading advisors who will trade to maximize profits rather than to minimize the number of trades; i.e., it is in the best interest of the General Partner to reduce the frequency of trading to maximize the difference between the fixed commission and the share of the fixed commission, after payment of the round- turn commissions, the IB Affiliated with it will receive. (vii) The General Partner has an incentive to discourage redemptions because the IB Affiliated with the General Partner receives a portion of the fixed commissions based on the Net Asset Value (the total assets of the Partnership minus commissions, fees, and other charges) of the Partnership assigned to be traded. (viii) The CTAs are compensated based on a percentage of the of the profits they generate and thus may have an incentive to engage in ill-advised trades. (iv) It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the General Partner to assure that these and future potential conflicts will not result in adverse consequences to the Partnership or the Limited Partners. The General Partner has not established formal procedures, and none are expected to be established in the future, to resolve potential conflicts of interest which may arise. See "Conflicts of Interest" and "Risk Factors". The following is a diagram of the Partnership structure and summary of commissions received. See "Charges to the Partnership". 4 MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION Business Objective and Expenses The Partnership will engage in the speculative trading of domestic and foreign commodity futures contracts and options at the direction of the independent commodity trading advisors (the "CTAs") it selects. See "Risk Factors", "Conflicts of Interest", "Use of Proceeds", "General Partner", "Commodity Trading Advisors", Appendix I and Exhibit A. See, "Experts" and the Financial Statements. The Partnership was organized in January 1998 and, except for the preparation of this Prospectus and the preparation to engage in the commodity trading business, has not yet engaged in business. The principal objective will be to generate increased capital. There can be no assurance that the Partnership can achieve this objective. Distributions of profits, if any, will be made at the sole discretion of the General Partner. The Partnership is subject to substantial charges, regardless of whether profits are earned. If there are no claims, the Partnership must earn approximately a 30.4% return on equity if the Minimum is sold, or a 23.2% return on equity if the Maximum is sold to permit the investor to Redeem a Unit at the sales price of $1,000 at the end of the first year of operation. In addition, Partners will be required to pay Federal, state and local taxes upon income, if any, in the year earned by the Partnership, although there will be no expectations of distributions of income during that, or any other, year. Accordingly, the purchase of Units in the Partnership is intended to be a long-term investment. Neither the General Partner nor any other person has made any promise or guarantee that the Partnership will be profitable or otherwise meet its objectives. Securities Offered Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") will offer and sell Limited Partnership interests in the Partnership which will have pro rata rights to profit and losses with all other owners equal to the Capital they have contributed. The Limited Partners will not be exposed to payment of debts of the Partnership in excess of their subscription amount; provided, however, in the event the Limited Partners were to receive distributions which represent a return of Capital, such distributions, in the event of insolvency of the Partnership, would have to be returned to pay Partnership debts. In addition, these limited partners will have no voice in the day to day management of the Partnership. They will have the right to vote on Partnership matters such as the replacement of the General Partner. These Limited Partnership interests are included in the definition of units (the "Units") which are offered for sale for One Thousand Dollars ($l,000) per Unit. This sales price per Unit was arbitrarily set by the General Partner without regard to expected earnings and does not represent present or projected market or Redemption value. Funds with respect to subscriptions received prior to the commencement of trading operations by the Partnership (and not rejected by the General Partner) will be deposited and held in a separate escrow account (the "Escrow Account") in the name of the Partnership at Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 (the "Escrow Agent"). If the General Partner has not accepted subscriptions for the 700 Units (the "Minimum") before the lapse of one year from the date of this Prospectus, (the "Initial Offering Period"), this offering will terminate and all documents and amounts deposited to the Escrow Account by subscribers will be returned, plus interest and without deduction for any commissions, fees or costs. Upon the sale of the Minimum, the Partnership will commence trading. The remaining 6,300 Units will be offered for sale at the Net Unit Value as of the close of trading on the effective date of such purchase, which will be the close on the last business day of the month in which the General Partner accepts a duly executed Subscription Agreement and capital contribution from the subscriber. No escrow will be utilized for Units sold after the sale of the Minimum. All subscriptions are irrevocable and subscription payments, after the statutory withdrawal period, if any, which are accepted by the General Partner, and either deposited in the Escrow Account or in the Partnership account, may not be withdrawn by subscribers. Although a maximum of $7,000,000 of Units are offered hereby, the Limited Partnership Agreement authorizes the General Partner to sell additional Units and there is, therefore, no maximum aggregate number or contribution for Units which may be offered or sold by the Partnership by future offerings. There cannot be any assurance that the Minimum Units or any additional Units will be sold and the General Partner is authorized, in its sole discretion, to terminate this, or any future, offering of Units. CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP This prospectus discloses all compensation, fees, profits and other benefits (including reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses) which the General Partner and its affiliates will earn in connection with the offering. 5 Compensation of the General Partner The Partnership will pay a fixed amount for brokerage commissions of nine percent (9%) per year, payable monthly upon the assets assigned by the General Partner for trading to Futures Investment Company, the introducing broker, (the "IB"), affiliated with the principal of the General Partner, for introducing trades through Vision Limited Partnership, the futures commission merchant (the "FCM"). See "The Futures Commission Merchant". The IB will pay all round-turn brokerage commissions, pit brokerage and other clearing expenses to the FCM, which will act in the normal capacity as a futures commission merchant and will hold the equity assigned by the General Partner for trading and will clear the trades entered by the CTAs pursuant to the power of attorney granted by the General Partner to the CTAs to trade on behalf of the Partnership. The past history of the frequency of trades by the CTAs has been at the rate of approximately 255 round turns per month for every million dollars ($1,000,000) of equity under management. In the unlikely event the CTAs trade 765 round turns for every million dollars ($1,000,000) in any month, the General Partner has the right, but not the obligation, to suspend trading until the commencement of the next month. This suspension of trading is to limit the exposure to loss to the General Partner to a defined amount determined by the maximum number of round turn commissions the IB will pay to the FCM during any one month. Trading will automatically resume the following month subject to the same maximum of 765 trades for that and any future month. From the 9% paid by the Partnership, the IB will pay six percent (6%) per year to the broker dealers and other duly licensed entities, pro-rated to the value of Units sold, who have facilitated the sale of Units, as trailing commissions, in exchange for services provided to the investors and the Partnership to communicate results to the investors and other similar assistance. Management and Incentive Fees The Partnership will pay a management fee to the General Partner at the annual rate of three percent (3%) of equity in the Partnership payable at the end of each month (1/4 of 1%) and a management fee to the CTAs of three percent (3%) per year, payable at the rate of one-quarter of one percent (1/4 of 1%) of the equity allocated to each CTA to trade at the close of each month, which are held in the trading account assigned to them at the futures commission merchant or merchants. The Partnership will also pay to the General Partner an allocation of profit, earned in the accounts assigned to each CTA, of fifteen percent (15%) of the New Net Profit for each CTA. New Net Profit is calculated for each quarterly period that the net value of the trading equity for a CTA as of the end of each quarterly period for each account exceeds the highest previous quarterly net value of the trading equity in that account for that CTA. The General Partner will be responsible for payment of all incentive fees to the CTAs. It will be possible for one of the CTAs to produce New Net Profit in the account assigned to him and be paid an incentive fee while the other CTA or CTAs produce losses which cause the Partnership to suffer a net loss for the quarter or the year. The Partnership also will be obligated to bear certain other periodic operating, fixed, and extra-ordinary expenses of the Partnership including, but not limited to, legal and accounting fees, defense and payment of claims, trading and office expenses, and sales charges. See "Description of Charges to the Partnership". Charges to the Partnership The following table includes all charges to the Partnership. 6 * Charges to the Partnership
Entity Form of Compensation Amount of Compensation Entity Form of Compensation Amount of Compensation General Partner Management fee 3% management fee of Net Asset Value Reimbursement of Offering Expenses Reimbursement of Offering Expenses upon the Initial Closing Reimbursement of Organizational Expenses Reimbursement of Organizational Expenses amortized over 60 months Selling Agents Sales Commission subject to waiver at the A one time charge of 6% of Gross Selling sole discretion of the General Partner Price of Units for Selling Commissions Trailing Commission Trailing Commissions of 6%, paid annually, from the 9% fixed commissions paid to the Introducing Broker Introducing Fixed Commissions 9% of assets assigned by General Partner for Broker Affiliated trading, less costs to trade to FCM and less with the General 6% trailing commissions paid to Selling Partner Agents which will include persons Affiliated with the General Partner Futures Commission Merchant Round-turn commissions paid from the fixed Brokerage Commissions negotiated with the commissions paid by the Partnership Introducing Broker; Reimbursement of delivery, insurance, Reimbursement by the Partnership of actual storage and any other charges incidental to payments to third parties in connection trading and paid to third Parties with Partnership trading Commodity Trading Advisors Fixed Management Fee 3% per year of the trading equity assigned to each CTA Incentive Fee 15% of the New Net Profits of the account for each quarterly period that the net value of the trading equity at the end of such quarterly period for a CTA exceeds the highest previous quarterly net value of the trading equity for that CTA. Third Parties Legal, accounting fees, and other actual Estimated at $23,000 for each year after expenses necessary to the operation of the the first ($18,000 for accounting and Partnership, and all claims and other $5,000 for legal). Claims and other costs extraordinary expenses of the Partnership. can not be estimated and will be paid as incurred.
See "Charges to the Partnership". Use of Proceeds The gross sales price, less 6% sales commissions (i.e., the net proceeds of the offering, together with the General Partner's capital contribution) will be used in the Partnership's business of speculative, high risk trading of commodity futures contracts, inter-bank forward currency contracts, and options upon those contracts. Additionally, the gross proceeds will be used to reimburse the General Partner for the Offering Expenses of $47,000 upon the Initial Closing (break of Escrow). Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro-rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the value of the Units of the prior admitted Partners to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. No limitations have been placed by the 7 General Partner upon the positions or types of contracts which may be traded by the CTAs who will trade for the Partnership. The General Partner has complete authority pursuant to the Partnership Agreement to determine, from time to time, the amount of equity deposited with the FCM and how much is used for other investments and on deposit in bank accounts. Upon the sale of the Minimum, the General Partner expects to deposit 3% of the prior month-end Net Asset Value to a regular checking account in the name of the Partnership to pay current expenses and Redemptions for the next month and the balance to be deposited with the FCM to be available for trading. From 5% to 40% of the Net Asset Value on deposit with the FCM is expected to be committed to margin to hold positions taken by the CTAs for the account of the Partnership. The General Partner will purchase Units to permit it to maintain not less than a one percent (1%) interest in the income, losses, gains, deductions and credits of the Partnership. In addition, the General Partner may purchase additional Units for the same price established, from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Offer, without payment of sales commissions. Selection of Commodity Trading Advisors and Allocation of Equity The General Partner is solely responsible for the selection of the CTAs and the allocation of equity to the CTAs it selects. The General Partner has entered in advisory contract with independent commodity trading advisors to direct all trading with the commodity broker, Vision Limited Partnership, (the "Futures Commission Merchant"). The Partnership will rely, pursuant to the Advisory Agreements and Powers of Attorney attached as Exhibits F, G H, I and J, upon Michael J. Frischmeyer ("Frischmeyer"), Commoditech, Inc. ("Commoditech") and Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. ("Rosenbery"), J.A.H. Research and Trading ("JAH"), and C&M Traders, Inc. ("C&M"), the Commodity Trading Advisors selected by the General Partner to trade the equity of the Partnership and to implement the trading methods and strategies. Upon the sale of the Minimum, the General Partner intends to assign 50% of total trading equity to Frischmeyer, 20% to Commoditech 20% to Rosenbery, 5% to JAH and 5% to C&M. See Exhibits F, G H, I and J. The General Partner intends to allocate substantially all of the Partnership's net assets as trading equity to the existing CTAs in the percentages disclosed. No additional CTAs are contemplated to be added due to the sale of only the Minimum or the Maximum; provided however, that the General Partner may, in its sole discretion and without notice to the Limited Partners, terminate any existing CTA, select additional CTAs, or change the allocation of equity among the CTAs. None of the CTAs currently selected are affiliates of the General Partner, or its principal, nor will the General Partner serve as CTA or select any other CTAs to trade for the Partnership which are affiliates of it or its principal. See "The Commodity Trading Advisors" for a summary of the CTAs' performance information. Federal Income Tax Aspects Partners must pay tax on any profits during the year earned by the Partnership even though no distributions may have been made during that year. The Partnership pays no income tax and prospective investors must recognize that the actual performance records set forth in this Prospectus do not reflect the taxes payable by investors on their investment. Partners will be taxed on interest income earned by the Partnership even though trading produces losses in excess of such interest income. The Partnership's fiscal year for financial reporting and for tax purposes will be the calendar year. The General Partner expects to delegate to Mr. James Hepner, certified public accountant, the responsibility for the preparation of the Partnership's Form K-1's which is the Internal Revenue Service form which reports the taxable income and loss to each individual Partner and which are included in the Partnership's tax return. The General Partner has or will make certain elections on behalf of the Partnership and has been appointed "tax matters partner" in the Limited Partnership Agreement to determine the Partnership's response to an audit and to bind certain Limited Partners to the terms of any settlement. Such settlement may not necessarily be in the best interest of such Limited Partners. The General Partner intends not to treat any part of the incentive profit sharing, brokerage commissions and other ordinary expenses of the Partnership as "investment advisory fees". A change in such treatment could result in the Partners recognizing taxable income despite having incurred a financial loss. No legal opinion will be requested by the Partnership in regard to any tax matter which involves the determination by the IRS of the facts related to the operation of the Partnership or as to any other matter which may be subject to Internal Revenue Service interpretation or adjustment upon audit. No Legal Opinion As To Certain Material Tax Aspects No legal opinion will be requested by the Partnership in regard to any State income tax issue. In addition, tax counsel to the Partnership can not opine upon any Federal income tax issue which involves a determination by the IRS of the facts related to the operation of the Partnership or as to any other matter which may be subject to Internal Revenue Service 8 interpretation or adjustment upon audit. For example, commodity trading adviser fees are aggregated with employee business expenses and other expenses of producing income and the aggregate of such expenses is deductible only to the extent such amount exceeds 2% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. The Federal income tax deductibility of these expenses depends upon factual determinations related to the operation of the Partnership by the General Partner. Accordingly, investors are encouraged to seek independent tax Counsel with regard to these matters. See "Federal Income Tax Aspects". Redemptions No Partner may redeem or liquidate any Units until six (6) months after the investment in the Partnership. A Limited Partner may thereafter request the Partnership, subject to payment of fees, if applicable, and other conditions, to redeem Units held by such Limited Partner at the Net Unit Value, adjusted to reflect certain reserves and contingencies, as determined at the end of the applicable monthly period. Redemption shall be after all liabilities, contingent, accrued, and reserved, in amounts determined by the General Partner have been deducted and there remains property of the Partnership sufficient to pay the Net Unit Value. A Limited Partner desiring to have Units redeemed must provide written notice to the General Partner by 12:00 noon on the tenth calendar day immediately preceding the last business day of the month in which the Units are requested to be redeemed. Under certain circumstances, the General Partner may honor requests for Redemption only in part and/or suspend Redemptions or delay payment of Redemptions These circumstances include, but are not limited to, the inability to liquidate positions as of such Redemption date or default or delay in payments due the Partnership from banks, brokers, or other persons. The Partnership may in turn delay payment to Partners requesting Redemption of Units of the proportionate part of the Net Unit Value represented by the sums which are the subject of such delay or default. The General Partner, in its sole discretion may, upon notice to the Partners, declare additional Redemption dates and may cause the Partnership to redeem fractions of Units and, prior to registration of Units for public sale, redeem Units held by Partners who do not hold the required minimum amount of Units established, from time to time, by the General Partner. Redemption of Units shall be charged a redemption fee, payable to the Partnership, to be applied first to pay organization costs and, thereafter, to the benefit of the other Partners in proportion to their Capital accounts, equal to four percent (4%) for all Redemptions effective during the first six (6) months after commencement of trading. Thereafter, there will be a reduction of one percent (1%) for each six (6) months the investment in the Units remained invested in the Fund after the initial six months; i.e., 7-12 months a Redemption fee of 3%, 12-18 months 2%, 18-24 months 1%, and, thereafter, no redemption fee. The principal of the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership at the time the Minimum number of Units are sold without payment of a Redemption fee. See the Limited Partnership Agreement, Exhibit A, and "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". Distributions will be made from the Partnership only in the sole discretion of the General Partner and no such distributions are expected to be made. Plan of Distribution The Units are being offered and sold through Futures Investment Company ("FIC"), the Affiliated IB of the principal of the general partner, and other broker dealers it, or those the General Partner may select, on a best efforts basis. The selling commission will be six percent (6%) of the gross subscription for all Units sold and be subject to waiver at the sole discretion of the General Partner. See "Subscription Procedure" and "Plan of Distribution". FIC is registered as a broker dealer with the SEC and is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"). Subscription Procedure The minimum investment per subscriber in the Partnership is $25,000. The General Partner may, in its sole discretion, agree to accept investments from a subscriber of less than $25,000; provided, however, no such subscription shall be less than $5,000. All investments are subject to compliance with the minimum suitability standards established by the state of residence of the investor. Unless higher amounts are otherwise specified for residents of a particular state, an investor must have at least either (i) a minimum net worth (determined exclusive of home, home furnishings, and automobiles) of $150,000, or (ii) a minimum annual gross income of $45,000 and a minimum net worth of $45,000 (once again determined exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles). In the case of sales to fiduciary accounts, the net worth and income standards may be met by the beneficiary, the fiduciary account, or by the donor or grantor who directly or indirectly supplies the funds to purchase the Units, if the donor or grantor is the fiduciary. In order to purchase 9 Units, an investor must complete, execute, and deliver to the General Partner, a Subscription Agreement, see Exhibit "D". RISK FACTORS Investment in the Units is speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and is suitable only for persons who have no need for liquidity in their investment and who can also afford to lose their entire investment in the Partnership. In addition to the Risk Disclosure Statements at the beginning and in the Summary of this Prospectus, investors should carefully consider the following risks and the conflicts of interests before subscribing for Units. All of these risks and conflicts are present, in different degrees, and without regard to whether the Minimum or the maximum number of Units are sold. NO PRIOR OPERATION EXPERIENCE OF THE GENERAL PARTNER The General Partner of this Partnership is a recently formed Delaware corporation which has not previously operated a commodity pool or engaged in any other business. However, both Frischmeyer and Commoditech, to whom 50% and 20% of the trading equity will be allocated, respectively, have been trading since 1981 and 1992, respectively. See "The Commodity Trading Advisors". In addition, the principal of the General Partner is the principal of the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership, and has over fifteen years of experience selecting commodity trading advisors to manage individual investor accounts and describing how individual managed futures accounts work to individual investors. See "No Prior Performance". THE PARTNERSHIP WILL PAY SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES - INVESTORS HAVE LIMITED OPPORTUNITY TO REALIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT The Partnership is obligated to pay fixed brokerage commissions of nine percent (9%) per year, payable monthly upon the assets assigned by the General Partner for trading, a management fee to the General Partner of three percent (3%) of Net Asset Value, payable monthly, and a management fee on the equity assigned to the CTAs of 3%, payable monthly, plus 10 $23,000 per year, ($5,000 in legal expense and $18,000 in accounting and audit charges), together with Offering Expenses estimated to be $47,000 and Organizational Expenses of $5,000, amortized on a straight line method over the first 60 months of the Partnership's operation. The General Partner has advanced the Offering Expenses but will be reimbursed for such expenses from the gross proceeds of the Offering from the break of Escrow at the time of the Initial Closing. Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the Capital Accounts of the prior admitted Partners to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. The Partnership expects to earn interest income. The Partnership must earn income of $304.20 per Unit during the first year to permit an investor to redeem a Unit at the original offering price of $1,000. The Partnership must pay variable operating expenses such as incentive fees to the CTAs, telephone, postage, and office supplies, and extra-ordinary expenses, such as claims and defense of claims from brokers, Partners, and other parties. The Partnership expects to pay $153,000 if the Minimum ($700,000) is raised, or $1,098,000 if the Maximum ($7,000,000) is raised, in commissions, fees and expenses during the first year of operation. In subsequent years, the Partnership will be subject to commissions, fees and operating expenses of $129,000 assuming gross capital of $700,000, or $1,073,000 assuming gross capital of $7,000,000. These estimates do not include incentive fees and other variable or unestimatable expenses. Also, because the incentive fees will be determined on a quarterly, rather than on an annual basis, and will be paid to the CTAs when profitable without regard to total income or loss of the Partnership during the period, the Partnership may be subject to substantial incentive fees in any given twelve (12) consecutive month period despite total losses which produce a decline in the Partnerships Net Assets for any such period. See "Description of Charges to the Partnership". The above charges may make it difficult for investors to redeem their Units at a price equal to or above the purchase price. NO RIGHT TO TRANSFER UNITS - LIMITED ABILITY TO REALIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT Units cannot be assigned, transferred or otherwise encumbered except upon certain condition, including the consent of the General Partner as set forth in the Limited Partnership Agreement, which also imposes certain conditions and restrictions on the ability of a transferee of a Unit to become a substituted Limited Partner. In no event may an assignment be made or permitted until after two years from the date of purchase of such assigned or transferred Units(s) by said Partner; and, provided, further, that full Units must be assigned and the assignor, if he is not assigning all of his Units, must retain more than five Units. Any such assignment shall be subject to all applicable securities, commodity, and tax laws and the regulations promulgated under each such law. The General Partner shall review any proposed assignment and shall withhold its consent in the event it determines, in its sole discretion, that such assignment could have an adverse effect on the business activities or the legal or tax status of the Partnership, including jeopardizing the status of or causing a termination of the Partnership for Federal income tax purposes or affecting characterizations or treatment of income or loss. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, No Right to Transfer Without Consent of General Partner" and Exhibit A, "The Limited Partnership Agreement", Article VIII which provides that no transfer of Units may be made without the written approval of the General Partner. See Article VI, paragraph 6.1 and 6.2, of the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A. Restrictions and conditions are also imposed upon a Partner's right and ability to cause the Partnership to redeem and liquidate the Partner's Units, including approval by the General Partner and certain liquidity conditions. Redemptions may also be honored only in part and/or delayed and/or suspended in certain circumstances. These circumstances include, but are not limited to, the inability to liquidate positions as of such Redemption date or default or delay in payments due the Partnership from banks, brokers, or other persons. The Partnership may in turn delay payment to Partners requesting Redemption of Units of the proportionate part of the Net Unit Value represented by the sums which are the subject of such delay or default. Redemption of Units shall be charged a redemption fee, payable to the Partnership, to be applied first to pay organization costs and, thereafter, to the benefit of the other Partners in proportion to their Capital accounts, equal to four percent (4%) for all Redemptions effective during the first six (6) months after commencement of trading. Thereafter, there will be a reduction of one percent (1%) for each six (6) months the investment in the Units remained invested in the Fund after the initial six months. The General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership at the time the Minimum number of Units are sold without payment of a Redemption fee. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". Further, substantial Redemptions of Units could require the Partnership to liquidate positions more rapidly than otherwise desirable in order to raise the necessary cash to fund the Redemptions, and, at the same time, cause a smaller equity base for the Partnership. The absence of buyers or sellers in the market could also make it difficult or impossible to liquidate positions in this circumstance on favorable terms, and may result in further losses to the Partnership which decrease the Net Unit Value of the remaining outstanding Units. 11 INVESTORS MUST RELY UPON THEIR LIMITED RIGHT OF TRANSFER AND REDEMPTION RIGHTS TO REALIZE A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT Since there is no assurance that the Partnership will distribute to the Partners any profits the Partnership may experience, the Partners will have to depend on their limited and restricted transfer and Redemption rights to realize their investment in the Units. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". RELIANCE ON THE PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNER COULD BE RESTRICTIVE TO PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES Limited Partners will be relying entirely on the ability of the General Partner to select and to monitor the commodity trading activity of the Partnership, including the CTAs and any additional or substituted trading advisors that may be retained in the future. Ms. Pacult is the sole principal and officer of the General Partner, is a principal of the IB and the Selling Agent, and the Partnership currently has no employees and, therefore, no report of executive compensation is made in this Prospectus. If Ms. Pacult were to become incapacitated or otherwise rendered incapable of performing her duties as principal of the General Partner, the Partnership would have to cease operations and trading until a replacement could be found. In addition, the General Partner must maintain sufficient net worth to make this offering pursuant to the rules and regulations of certain State Securities Administrators (the "NASAA Guidelines") and to maintain the tax status of the Partnership pursuant to the Rules and Regulations of the Federal Internal Revenue Service ("IRS Requirements"). To accomplish those results, the General Partner has entered into a Subordinated Loan Agreement dated February 1, 1998, with Ms. Pacult whereby Ms. Pacult has agreed to loan up to $100,000 to the General Partner to be repaid on January 12, 2019, or at such time as the General Partner has sufficient net worth to comply with NASAA Guidelines and IRS Requirements. In the event of Ms. Pacult's incapacity to supply the loan, the Partnership could be unable to secure a similar loan from another source and would have to cease operations and trading. GENERAL PARTNER AND CTAs TO SERVE OTHER COMPETING BUSINESSES The General Partner and its principal expect to manage additional pools in the future which may use one or more of the CTAs (and, thus, similar trading methods as the Partnership) and also use the IB that is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner to enable them to negotiate better terms for clearing and other services provided, which may produce better results for such other pools. See "Responsibility of the General Partner". The principal of the General Partner is also the principal of the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership, and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership, which use the same IB and one of the CTAs (Frischmeyer) as the Partnership. Each CTA currently manages other commodity accounts and may manage new or additional deposits to existing accounts, including personal accounts and other commodity pools. Although each CTA intends to use similar trading methods for the Partnership and all other discretionary accounts it manages, it may vary the trading method applicable to the Partnership from that used for other managed accounts. No assurance is given that results of the Partnership's trading will be similar to that of any other accounts which are now, or in the future, concurrently managed by any CTA. See "Risk Factors", "Trading Management", and "The Commodity Trading Advisors". PARTNERSHIP HAS NO OPERATING HISTORY As a newly formed commodity pool, the Partnership has no operating history, and therefore no history of generating profits. There is no way to predict the performance of the Partnership. Additionally, the General Partner has no prior experience as a commodity pool operator, though the principal of the General Partner is the principal of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. See "Description of the General Partner"; and, "No Prior Operation Experience of the General Partner" in this section. 12 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE Certain actual and potential conflicts of interest do exist in the structure and operation of the Partnership which must be considered by investors before they purchase Units in the Partnership. Specifically, the principal of the General Partner is also a principal of Futures Investment Company ("FIC"), the IB and Selling Agent. It would therefore be unlikely for the General Partner to replace FIC as the IB as it receives 9% in fixed commissions from the Partnership to pay round-turn brokerage commissions and trailing commissions. It would also be unlikely for the General Partner to dismiss FIC as the Selling Agent as it receives 6% trailing commissions from the IB. In addition, due to the Selling Agent's affiliation with the principal of the General Partner, no independent due diligence of the offering will be conducted for the protection of the investors. See "Risk Factors", "Conflicts of Interest", and the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A to this Prospectus. LIMITED PARTNERS WILL BE TAXED ON PROFITS NOT DISTRIBUTED The Partnership is not required to make any cash distributions from profits and the principal objective of the Partnership is to increase capital, not create cash flow. If the Partnership realizes profits for a fiscal year, such profits will be taxable to the Partners in accordance with their distributive share whether or not the profits have been distributed. Distributions to Limited Partners may not equal taxes payable by Partners with respect to Partnership profit. Also, the Partnership might sustain losses offsetting such profit after the end of the year, so a Partner might never receive a distribution in an amount equal to the distributive share of the Partnership's prior year's taxable income. See "Federal Income Tax Aspects" and Exhibit A, the Limited Partnership Agreement. PRESENT TRADE SELECTION METHODS SUBJECT TO SUDDEN ADVERSE CHANGE The Partnership will rely, pursuant to the Advisory Agreements and Powers of Attorney attached as Exhibits F, G H, I and J upon Frischmeyer, Commoditech, Rosenbery, JAH and C&M, the CTAs, for the implementation of trading methods and strategies. The Advisory Agreements provide that either the General Partner, or any CTA, may terminate the relationship for any reason without notice to the other or the Limited Partners, and under these circumstances, the General Partner has absolute discretion to choose alternate CTAs. If the services of any CTA becomes unavailable, for any reason, the General Partner will select one or more other trading advisors to trade for the Partnership. No assurance is provided that any other substitute traders or methods will perform profitably or will be retained on as favorable terms as the replaced CTA. LIMITED PARTNERS WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN MANAGEMENT Limited Partners will not participate in the management of the Partnership or in the conduct of its business. To the extent that a Limited Partner would attempt to become involved or identified with the management of the Partnership, such Limited Partner could be deemed a General Partner of the Partnership. No such right is conferred upon any Limited Partner by the Partnership Agreement. See Exhibit A, the Limited Partnership Agreement. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING IS SPECULATIVE AND VOLATILE - UNITS MAY NOT BE REDEEMABLE BEFORE SUBSTANTIAL DEVALUATION OF NET UNIT VALUE Commodity futures, forward, and option contract prices are highly volatile. Price movements are influenced by changes in supply and demand; weather; agricultural trade, fiscal, monetary and exchange control programs and policies of governments; national and international political and economic events; and, changes in interest rates. In addition, governments, exchanges, and other market authorities intervene to influence prices. In addition, notwithstanding that the analysis of the fundamental conditions by the Partnership's trader is correct, prices still may not react as predicted. It is also possible for most of the Partnership's open positions to move against it at the same time. These negative events may occur in connection with changes in price which reach the daily limit beyond which no further trading is permitted until the following day. It is possible for daily limits to be reached in the same direction for successive days. Should this occur and one of the CTAs has taken a position on behalf of the Partnership which is adverse to the daily move in a particular 13 commodity, the Partnership may not be able to exit the position. And when the market reopens, the position could cause a substantial loss to the Partnership. The loss could exceed not only the amount allocated for margin to establish and hold the position but also more than the total amount of equity in the account. Redemption only occurs at the end of the month and is based upon the Net Unit Value at that time. Investors could be prevented from being able to redeem the Units before significant devaluation occurs. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". LOW SECURITY DEPOSIT IN RELATION TO PRICE MOVEMENT The small amount of money to be deposited ("margins") to hold or short a contract relative to its value (typically between 3% and 20% of the value) permit a large percentage gain or loss relative to the size of a commodity account. A small price movement in the value of the contract bought or sold is expected to result in a substantial percentage gain or loss of equity to the Partnership. For example, if at the time of purchase, five percent (5%) of the price of the futures contract is deposited as margin, a five percent (5%) decrease in the value of the position will cause a loss of all of the equity allocated to the trade, which could equal all of the value of the account. In addition, the amount of margin assigned to a trade by the FCM is only a security deposit to hold the position. The loss on a position could be substantially more than the margin deposited and the value of the account. TRADE SELECTION MADE WITHOUT NOTICE TO PARTNERSHIP - PARTNERSHIP MAY BECOME DEVALUED BEFORE GENERAL PARTNER IS ABLE TO TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION The CTAs will enter trades on behalf of the Partnership directly with the FCM without the prior knowledge or approval of the General Partner of the methods used by the CTAs to select the trades, the number of contracts, or the margin required. In addition, the General Partner does not know the prior methods used by the CTAs to compile the track record disclosed in this Prospectus which was the basis for the selection of the CTAs by the General Partner to trade for the Partnership. Nor does the General Partner know how many times, if any, the trading methods of the CTAs have been changed in the past. The General Partner will not be notified of any modifications, additions or deletions to the trading methods and money management principles utilized by the CTAs. It is possible for the Partnership to experience sudden and large losses before the General Partner becomes aware of the need to take remedial action. PARTNERSHIP COULD LOSE SUBSTANTIAL ASSETS DUE TO LACK OF MARKET LIQUIDITY It is not always possible to execute a buy or sell order, due to market illiquidity. Such illiquidity can be caused by a lack of open interest in the contract, market conditions which produce no persons willing to take a particular side of a trade, or it may be the result of factors like the suspension of trading because of "daily price limits". Most United States commodity exchanges limit movement in a single direction in one trading day by rules referred to as "daily price limits". These limits provide that no trades may be executed at prices beyond the daily limits. Once the price of a futures contract for a particular commodity has increased or decreased by an amount equal to the daily limit, positions in the commodity can be neither taken nor liquidated unless traders are willing to effect trades at or within the limit. Commodity futures prices have occasionally moved the daily limit for several consecutive days with little or no trading. Similar future occurrences could prevent the Partnership from promptly liquidating unfavorable positions and subject it to substantial losses which could exceed the equity on deposit ("margins") for such trades. The inability to liquidate positions could frustrate the trading plan of the CTAs and cause losses to the Partnership in excess of the money invested. INCREASED TRADING EQUITY TO CTAs MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT THEIR PERFORMANCE Commodity trading advisors often are unable to adjust to a change in the size of the money they have under management. This is caused by numerous factors including, but not limited to, the difficulty of executing substantially larger trades made necessary by the larger amount of equity under management, by the restrictive effect of limits imposed by the CFTC on the number of positions that may be taken on certain commodities (Position Limits), or by a diminishment of the opportunity to Scale in Positions, or taking positions at different prices at different times and allocating those positions on a ratable basis, when available equity is reduced. See the definitions section, Appendix I, for the full definitions of Position Limits and Scale in Positions. The CTAs have not agreed to limit the amount of additional equity that they may manage, and they contemplate managing (and in all likelihood will manage) additional equity. Increased equity generally results in a larger demand for the same futures contract position among the accounts managed by a commodity trading advisor. CTA performance suffers when the total equity available for the CTA to trade increases to a level the market selected will not permit absorption of a position at the time the CTA selects. The Minimum/Maximum of 14 the Fund is not expected to be the problem. When the CTAs are allocated trading equity upon the sale of the Minimum or upon the sale of additional Units, their performance may unexpectedly suffer. Furthermore, a considerable number of analysts believe that a trading advisor's rate of return tends to decrease as the amount of equity under management increases. MINIMUM AMOUNT OF EQUITY MAY BE INSUFFICIENT FOR PROFITABLE OPERATION The Partnership will commence trading upon the sale of seven hundred (700) Units. The General Partner has caused the Partnership to accept the risks of trading and payment of Offering Expenses prior to the sale of the total offering. The General Partner believes $700,000 is sufficient equity for the Partnership to break escrow, pay selling expenses, be obligated to pay Offering Expenses, and commence trading. PARTNERSHIP WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED IF PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITY RESULTS IN LOWER COMMISSIONS FOR OTHER ACCOUNTS The General Partner, and its principal, have not made agreements with or on behalf of the Partnerships with third parties for the purpose of benefit, directly or indirectly, to either of them; however, the maintenance of the Partnership's Assets with the Partnership's FCM is expected to increase trading activities which may enable the IB Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner to negotiate a lower payment to the FCM for clearing the trades of other accounts, including partnerships, presently in existence or established in the future by the General Partner, its principal, or other customers of the IB Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner, or its principals, and their Affiliates. FAILURE OF COMMODITY BROKERS OR BANKS COULD RESULT IN LOSS OF ASSETS If the FCM engaged by the Partnership to execute trades were to become bankrupt, it is possible that the Partnership would be able to recover none or only a small portion of its assets held by such FCM. In addition, those funds deposited in the Partnership's account at a U.S. bank will be insured only up to $100,000 under existing Federal regulations. All insured deposits are subject to delays in payment and amounts on deposit in a single bank in excess of $100,000 would be subject to the risk of total loss. COUNTERPARTY CREDITWORTHINESS MUST BE RELIED UPON IN FOREIGN MARKETS The trading of commodities involves the entry of a contract or option to contract for the delivery of goods or money at a future date. The value of the contract or option is directly dependent upon the creditworthiness of the other party to the contract. The CTAs selected will engage in trading of commodities on United States Commodity Exchanges, foreign commodity exchanges, and the inter-bank currency markets. The commodity exchange contracts and options traded on United States Exchanges are subject to regulation pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act and are guaranteed by the credit of the members. Contracts and options upon foreign commodity exchanges and the inter-bank currency markets are usually not regulated by specific laws and are backed only by the parties to the contracts. It is possible for a price movement in a particular contract or option to be large enough to destroy the creditworthiness of the contracts and options issued by a particular party or all of the contracts and options of an entire market. In that situation, the CTA could lose 15 the entire value of a position with little recourse to regain any of its value. The CTAs expect to manage this risk by trading a widely diversified portfolio of futures markets. TRADING ON FOREIGN EXCHANGES INHERENTLY RISKIER THAN U.S. MARKETS The Partnership may trade in futures, forward and option contracts on exchanges located outside the United States where CFTC regulations do not apply, and trading on such exchanges may be subject to greater risks than trading on United States exchanges. The trades will be denominated in the foreign currency at the location of the trade. Accordingly, in addition to the price fluctuation of the position taken, the rate of inflation or other currency related factor may adversely affect the price. Thus, a trader is at greater risk to losing the value of a trade on foreign exchanges than on US exchanges, and may lose a significant portion of his allocated equity for trading. INVESTORS COULD INCUR SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES FROM THE PARTNERSHIP TRADING ON FOREIGN EXCHANGES TO WHICH THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUBJECT HAD IT LIMITED THE TRADING OF ITS CTAs ON BEHALF OF THE PARTNERSHIP TO U.S. MARKETS. TRADING FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO U.S. REGULATION AND ARE INHERENTLY RISKY The forward contracts are negotiated by the parties rather than by the open out-cry method used on United States exchanges. The Partnership may experience credit limitations and other disadvantages during negotiations that may compromise its ability to maximize profits. There are no limitations on daily price moves or position limits in forward contracts, although the principals with which the Partnership may deal in the forward markets may limit the positions available to the Partnership as a consequence of credit considerations. Accordingly, the Partnership is exposed to significant loss without the protective stops of the U.S. regulated markets. OPTIONS TRADING PUTS MORE PARTNERSHIP CAPITAL AT RISK The Partnership may engage in the trading of options (both puts and calls). No assurance can be given that a liquid market will exist for any particular commodity option or at any particular time after a position is taken. If there is insufficient liquidity in the option market at the time, the Partnership may not be able to buy or sell to offset (liquidate) the positions taken. Options trading allows the trade to be put in place with less equity on deposit to secure the risk of loss. And, therefore, the investor is exposed to the loss of a greater percentage of equity allocated to the trade because of the increased number of positions which can be held as contrasted with futures or physical positions. In the commodities markets the investor puts at risk more capital at risk than the amount committed to margin. The CTA may become subject to a margin call, or the request for the CTA to put more money in its account by the futures commission merchant to cover the losses sustained in a trade. In this situation, the overall performance of the Partnership may suffer due to the money lost on the trade and the possible need for additional capital to cover the margin call. POSITION LIMITS MAY AFFECT PROFIT POTENTIAL The CFTC and the United States commodity exchanges have established limits referred to as "Speculative Position Limits" or "Position Limits" (these are different from "daily limits" described above) on the maximum net long or net short futures or options positions which any person or group of persons may own, hold, or control in futures contracts, except position limits do not presently apply to certain currency futures contracts. No limitations have been placed by the General Partner upon the positions or types of contracts which may be traded by the CTAs who will trade for the Partnership. All commodity accounts owned, controlled or managed by a CTA and the advisor's principals will be combined for position limit purposes, to the extent they may be applicable. Thus, a CTA may not be able to hold sufficient positions for the Partnership to maximize the return on a particular trade on behalf of the Partnership due to similar positions taken for other accounts or entities, and the performance of the Partnership may not be as great as it could otherwise be. 16 COMPETITION IS INTENSE Commodity futures trading is highly competitive. The Partnership will be competing with others who may have greater experience, more extensive information about and access to developments affecting the futures markets, more sophisticated means of analyzing and interpreting the futures markets, and greater financial resources. The greater the experience and financial resources, the better chance an investor has to trade commodities at a profit. The Partnership will be limited by trading without the advantages of a warehouse to take delivery of commodities or a large capital base to hold positions during a period when prices do not perform as expected. NO ASSURANCE THAT UNITS NECESSARY TO COMMENCE BUSINESS WILL BE SOLD - INVESTORS MAY LOSE USE OF INVESTMENT CAPITAL Futures Investment Company and other broker dealers selected, if any, have no obligation to purchase Units or otherwise support the price of the Units. The broker dealer selling agreements obligate the broker dealers to use their best efforts only. See "Subscription Procedure and Plan of Distribution". If the Minimum is not sold within one year, investors will be promptly refunded the amount of their investment plus interest; however, they will lose the use of that investment capital during the period between the date of the investment to the lapse of the offering period. COMMENCEMENT OF BUSINESS MAY OCCUR AT SUBOPTIMAL TIME FOR MAXIMIZING PROFITS Upon the sale of the Minimum, the Partnership will encounter a start-up period during which it will incur certain risks relating to the initial assignment of equity to the CTAs and investment by the CTAs of its assigned trading equity in commodity trading positions. The Partnership may commence trading operations at a difficult time, such as after sustained moves in the commodities markets, which result in significant initial losses. Moreover, the start-up period also represents special risk in that the level of diversification of the Partnership's portfolio may be lower than in a Fully- Committed portfolio, where the objective percentage of equity is placed at risk or the CTA reaches the limit in number of positions. The CTAs divide the equity assigned to them into uniform dollar amounts to trade. For example, Mr. Frischmeyer uses his best efforts to trade every $40,000 the same. In other words, the Trading Matrix for Mr. Frischmeyer is $40,000. No assurance can be given that the CTAs' procedures for moving to a Fully-Committed Position within its allocated equity will be successful. For example, a CTA may have determined that the grains are in short supply and have taken a position in February while the Partnership is not ready to break escrow until May. The entry into the grains in May could be too late to experience the gains required to assume the risk of taking the position and the CTA may elect to defer taking a fully invested position until his grain trade is completed for his other accounts. See the Definitions in Appendix I for the full definitions of Trading Matrix and Fully Committed Position. 17 CHANGES IN THE SIZE OF THE PARTNERSHIP MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT CTAs' ABILITY TO TRADE PROFITABLY Similar to the effects of the commencement of business discussed in the previous risk factor, any substantial increase or decrease in the CTAs' trading equity could have an adverse effect on their trading, A CTA may be unable to adjust to and properly diversify a sudden increase in trading equity to be consistent with its Trading Matrix or trading strategy. A sudden decrease in equity due to Redemptions may cause the CTA liquidate a position before experiencing a profit, or the CTA may preferentially liquidate positions to experience as little loss as possible in such a way that results in an undiversified portfolio. There is no guarantee that the CTAs will be able to recover from such changes in trading equity. See also "Risk Factors, Increased Trading Equity to CTAs May Adversely Affect Their Performance", and "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemptions". FAILURE TO MAINTAIN NET WORTH OF THE GENERAL PARTNER MAY RESULT IN SUSPENSION OF TRADING AND SUSTAINED LOSSES The state securities administrators have established guidelines applicable to the sale of interests in commodity pool limited partnerships. Among those guidelines is the requirement that the Net Worth of a sole corporate general partner be equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of the offering; provided, however, such Net Worth is never to be less than $50,000 nor is it required to be more than $1,000,000. The General Partner intends to use its best efforts to maintain its Net Worth in compliance with these guidelines. There can be no assurance, however, that the General Partner can maintain its Net Worth in conformity with these requirements. The reduction in Net Worth to below these limits will cause a suspension in trading to either permit the General Partner to restore its Net Worth or to liquidate the Partnership. If trading is suspended, there is no guarantee that the CTAs will be able to liquidate their positions without sustaining losses, or that they will be able to trade profitably if trading resumes. Any successful claims against the General Partner are expected to be limited in amount of recovery to the amount of Net Worth maintained by the General Partner. INABILITY TO MAINTAIN NET WORTH OF GENERAL PARTNER COULD RESULT IN POSSIBILITY OF TAXATION AS A CORPORATION When a sole general partner is a corporation, as is the case in this Partnership, IRS Requirements include a "significant" Net Worth test as one of the elements examined to determine if a partnership will be taxed as a partnership rather than as an association taxed as a corporation. The General Partner, to qualify for the safe harbor ("Safe Harbor") definition of "significant" Net Worth is required to maintain a net worth of fifteen percent (15%) of the first $2,500,000 of capital contributions to all such partnerships or $250,000, whichever is less, and, ten percent (10%) of all capital contributions in excess of $2,500,000. The General Partner intends to use its best efforts to utilize this Safe Harbor or otherwise to satisfy the IRS requirements necessary to cause the Partnership to be taxed as a partnership and not as a corporation. The tax status of the Partnership has not been confirmed by a ruling from the IRS. No such ruling has been or will be requested on behalf of the Partnership. If the Partnership should be taxed as a corporation for Federal income tax purposes in any taxable year or years, (i) income or loss of the Partnership would not be passed through to the Partners; and, (ii) the Partnership would be subject to tax on its income at the rate of tax applicable to corporations; and, (iii) all or a portion of distributions, if any, made to Partners would be taxed to the Partners as dividend income; and, (iv) the amount of such distributions would not be deductible by the Partnership in computing its taxable income. See the "Federal Income Tax Aspects" section of this Prospectus. 18 GENERAL PARTNER NOT TO ADVISE INVESTORS - INCLUDING RETIREMENT PLAN AND IRA PARTICIPANTS The purchase of a Unit does not itself create an IRA and the creation and administration of an IRA are solely the responsibility of the investor. A retirement account should carefully consider the diversification of the retirement assets and one should not place more of those assets in this Partnership than the investor determines is prudent to allocate to highly speculative, high risk investments, such as the Partnership. If the investor invested a significant portion of the assets of their retirement plan or IRA assets in the Partnership, they could be exposing that portion to the possibility of significant loss. The General Partner does not undertake to advise investors in any manner (including diversification, prudence and liquidity) with respect to investment in the Partnership for any investor, including retirement accounts. Accordingly, investors must rely upon the experience of qualified investment counsel. INVESTORS NOT PROTECTED BY THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 The Partnership, the General Partner, Ms. Pacult, and the Commodity Trading Advisors are not required nor do they intend to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (or any similar state law) as either an investment company or investment advisor. Investors, therefore, are not accorded the protective measures provided by any such legislation. POSSIBILITY OF AUDIT - PARTNERS MAY BE SUBJECT TO AUDIT AND PENALTIES Historically, partnerships have had a higher percentage of returns audited by the IRS than other forms of business entities. In the event of any such audit of the Partnership's return, there can be no assurance that adjustments to the reported items will not be made. If an audit results in an adjustment, Partners may be required to file amended returns, may be subject to a separate audit, and may be required to pay back taxes, plus penalty and interest. GENERAL PARTNER MAY SETTLE IRS CLAIM NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PARTNERS The General Partner is named "tax matters partner" and has been granted the power to settle any claim from the IRS on behalf of each Limited Partner who holds one percent (1%) or less in the Partnership, who does not timely object to the exercise of such authority, after notice. Such settlement may not necessarily be in the best interest of the individual limited partner. See "Federal Income Tax Aspects". POSSIBLE ADVERSE DETERMINATION BY THE IRS - PARTNERS MAY BE SUBJECT TO BACK TAXES AND PENALTIES The General Partner has obtained the opinion of The Scott Law Firm, P.A. that the Partnership, as it is intended to be operated by the General Partner, will be taxed as a Partnership and not as an association taxable as a corporation. The Law Firm is not able to opine upon the tax treatment of certain Offering and operating Expenses as the determination depends upon questions of fact to be resolved by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership. For example, commodity trading adviser fees are aggregated with employee business expenses and other expenses of producing income and the aggregate of such expenses is deductible only to the extent such amount exceeds 2% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. It is the General Partner's position that the Partnership's intended operations will qualify as a trade or business. If this position is sustained, the brokerage commissions and performance fees will be deductible as ordinary and necessary business expenses. In the event of an adverse determination by the IRS, these expenses would be added back to the income earned by the Partnership and the Form K-1 submitted to each Partner revised upward to reflect this additional income. Were this event to occur, it is likely that the reporting year adjustment would be after the individual tax returns were filed by the Partners. The Partners would be required to file amended returns and pay interest and penalty, if any, related to the increase in tax assessed upon the increase in reportable income. Such increase in reportable income would not result in an increase in the Net Unit Value of the Units owned by the Partners. Syndication costs to organize the Partnership and Offering Expenses will not be deductible or amortizable by the Partnership or its Partners. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Significant actual and potential conflicts of interest exist in the structure and operation of the Partnership. The General Partner has used its best efforts to identify and describe all potential conflicts of interest which may be present under this heading and elsewhere in this Prospectus and the Exhibits attached hereto. Prospective investors should consider that the 19 General Partner intends to assert that Partners have, by subscribing to the Partnership, consented to the existence of such potential conflicts of interest as are described in this Prospectus and the Exhibits, in the event of any claim or other proceeding against the General Partner, any principal of the General Partner, the CTAs, any Principal of the CTAs, the Partnership's FCM, or any principal of the FCM, the Partnership's IB or any principal or any Affiliate of any of them alleging that such conflicts violated any duty owed by any of them to said subscriber. Specifically, the Selling Agent is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner and, therefore, no independent due diligence of the Partnership or the General Partner will be made by a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. member. GENERAL PARTNER, THE CTAs, AND THEIR PRINCIPALS MAY PREFERENTIALLY MANAGE EQUITY FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS The right of both Ms. Shira Del Pacult, the principal of the General Partner, and the General Partner to manage and the actual management by the CTAs of accounts they or their Affiliates own or control and other commodity accounts and pools presents the potential for conflicts of interest. There is no limitation upon the right of Ms. Pacult, the General Partner, the CTAs, or any of their Affiliates to engage in trading commodities for their own account. It is possible for these persons to take their positions in their personal accounts prior to the orders they know they are going to place for the money they manage for others. The General Partner will obtain representations from all of these persons and their Affiliates that no such prior orders will be entered for their personal accounts. The Partnership's CTAs will be effecting trades for their own accounts and for others (including other commodity pools in competition with this Pool) on a discretionary basis. It is possible that positions taken by the CTAs for other accounts may be taken ahead of or opposite positions taken on behalf of the Partnership. The General Partner and its principal, should they form other commodity pools, and the CTAs may have financial incentives to favor other accounts over the Partnership. In the event the General Partner, its principal, or any CTA, or any of their principals trade for their own account, such trading records shall not be made available for inspection. The General Partner does not presently intend to engage in trading for its own account; however, the principal of the General Partner does trade for her own account. The CTAs also intend to trade for their own accounts. Any trading for their personal accounts by the General Partner, any commodity trading advisor selected to trade for the Partnership or any of their principals could present a conflict of interest in regard to position limits (i.e., a trader may legally only take a set number of positions in all of its accounts combined), timing of the taking of positions, or other similar conflicts. The result to the Partnership would be a reduction in the potential for profit should the entry or exit of positions be at unfavorable prices by virtue of position limits or entry of other trades in front of the Partnership trades by the General Partner or CTAs responsible for the management of the Partnership. POSSIBLE RETENTION OF VOTING CONTROL BY THE GENERAL PARTNER MAY LIMIT PARTNERS' ABILITY TO CONTROL CERTAIN ISSUES There is no limit upon the number of Units in the Partnership the General Partner and its principal and Affiliates may purchase, and it is possible, though unlikely, that the General Partner and its Affiliates could purchase sufficient Units in the Fund to retain voting control. It will be possible for them to vote, individually or as a block, to create a conflict with the best interests of the Partnership. Such voting control may limit the ability of the Limited Partners to achieve a majority vote on such issues as amendment of the Limited Partnership Agreement, change in the basic investment policy of the Partnership, dissolution of the Partnership or the sale or distribution of the Partnership's assets. However, since the General Partner is not entitled to vote on questions related to its removal, that possibility does not present a conflict of interests to the partnership. GENERAL PARTNER TO REMAIN AGAINST POSSIBLE BEST INTEREST OF PARTNERSHIP The General Partner's financial interest in the operation of the Partnership in the form of the 3% management fee, creates a disincentive for it to voluntarily replace itself, even if such replacement would be in the best interest of the Partnership. FEES AND CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP NOT NEGOTIATED AND MAY DISCOURAGE PROFITABLE TRADING The three percent (3%) management fee to the General Partner and the amount of the fixed commission of nine percent (9%) per year in lieu of round-turn brokerage commissions, payable to the IB that is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner, have not been negotiated at arm's length. The General Partner has a conflict of interest between its 20 responsibility to manage the Partnership for the benefit of the Limited Partners and the General Partner's interest in receiving the management fee and the IB Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner receiving the difference between the fixed commission charged the Partnership and the actual transaction costs incurred by the FCM as a result of the frequency of trades entered by the CTAs. See "Charges to the Partnership". The General Partner will select the CTAs to manage the Partnership assets and the CTAs determine the frequency of trading. Because the IB Affiliated with the General Partner will receive the difference between the brokerage commissions and other costs which will be paid on behalf of the Partnership and the fixed commission, the General Partner's best interests are served if it selects trading advisors which will trade the Partnership's equity assigned to them in a way to minimize the frequency of trades to maximize the difference between the fixed commission and the round-turn commissions and other costs to trade charged by the FCM; i.e., it is in the best interest of the General Partner to reduce the frequency of trading rather than concentrate on the expected profitability of the CTAs without regard to frequency of trades. This conflict is offset by the fact the General Partner does not select any of the trades and the CTAs is paid an incentive of 15% of New Net Profits, or those Profits for each quarterly period that the net value of the trading equity at the end of such quarterly period for a CTA exceeds the highest previous quarterly net value of the trading equity for that CTA. The arrangements between the General Partner and the Partnership with respect to the payment of the commissions are consistent in cost with arrangements other comparable commodity pools have made to clear their trades. The General Partner has, however, assumed the risk of frequency of trading, up to a maximum of three times the normal rate by the CTAs and has assumed all liability for the payment of trailing commissions. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE Certain actual and potential conflicts of interest do exist in the structure and operation of the Partnership which must be considered by investors before they purchase Units in the Partnership. See "Risk Factors", "Conflicts of Interest", and the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A to the Prospectus. Specifically, the principal of the General Partner is also a principal of Futures Investment Company ("FIC"), the IB and Selling Agent. It would therefore be unlikely for the General Partner to replace FIC as the IB as it receives 9% in fixed commissions from the Partnership to pay round-turn brokerage commissions and trailing commissions. It would also be unlikely for the General Partner to dismiss FIC as the Selling Agent as it receives 6% trailing commissions from the IB. In addition, due to the Selling Agent's affiliation with the principal of the General Partner, no independent due diligence of the offering will be conducted for the protection of the investors. The General Partner has taken steps to insure that the Partnership equity is held in segregated accounts at the banks and futures commission merchant selected and has otherwise assured the Selling Agent that all money on deposit is in the name of and for the beneficial use of the Partnership. GENERAL PARTNER TO DISCOURAGE REDEMPTIONS The General Partner has an incentive to withhold distributions and to discourage Redemption because the General Partner receives compensation based on the Net Asset Value of the Partnership. CTAs MAY ENGAGE IN HIGH RISK TRADING TO GENERATE INCENTIVE FEES As a general rule, the greater the risk assumed, the greater the potential for profit. Because the CTAs are compensated by the General Partner based on 15% of the New Net Profit of the Partnership, it is possible that the CTAs will select trades which are otherwise too risky for the Partnership to assume to earn the 15% incentive fee on the profit should that ill-advised speculative trade prove to be profitable. IB AFFILIATED WITH THE GENERAL PARTNER WILL RETAIN A SHARE OF THE COMMISSIONS AND IS NOT LIKELY TO BE REPLACED The Partnership will pay a fixed brokerage commission of 9% per year, payable monthly upon the assets assigned by the General Partner for trading to Futures Investment Company, an introducing broker Affiliated with the General Partner. Futures Investment Company will retain so much of the fixed brokerage commission as remains after payment of the round turn brokerage commissions to the Futures Commission Merchant and the 6% per year trailing commissions to the associated persons who service the Partners' accounts in the Partnership. Because the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Pacult, is also a principal in the IB and the Selling Agent, there is a likelihood that the Partnership will continue to retain the IB even though other IB's may be available to provide better service to the Partners and their accounts. 21 NO RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS PROCEDURES As is typical in many futures partnerships, the General Partner has not established formal procedures, and none are expected to be established in the future, to resolve the potential conflicts of interest which may arise. It will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the General Partner to assure that these and future potential conflicts will not, in fact, result in adverse consequences to the Partnership or the Limited Partners. The foregoing list of risk factors and conflicts of interest is complete as of the date of this Prospectus, however, additional risks and conflicts may occur which are not presently foreseen by the General Partner. Investors are not to construe this Prospectus as legal or tax advice. Before determining whether to invest in the Units, potential investors should read this entire Prospectus, including the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A and the subscription agreement, and consult with their own personal legal, tax, and other professional advisors as to the legal, tax, and economic aspects of a purchase of Units and the suitability of such purchase for them. See "Investor Suitability". INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL The General Partner has employed The Scott Law Firm, P.A. to prepare this Prospectus, provide certain tax advice and opine upon the legality of the issuance of the Units. Neither the Law Firm, nor its principal, nor any accountant or other expert employed by the General Partner to render advice in connection with the preparation of the Prospectus or any documents attendant thereto, have been retained on a contingent fee basis nor do they have any present interest or future expectation of ownership in the Partnership or its General Partner or the Underwriter or the CTAs or the IB or the FCM. The Partnership and Futures Investment Company Share the Same Address Both the Partnership and the Introducing Broker/Selling Agent, FIC currently are located at 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737. It is possible, though unlikely, that mail correspondence, files, or other materials belonging to or intended for the Partnership could become intermixed with like items belonging to or intended for FIC. To prevent this from occurring, strictly separate mail receipt and files will be maintained for both entities. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION THE PARTNERSHIP - GENERAL PARTNER - BOOKS AND RECORDS Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Partnership"), was organized under the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act as of January 12, 1998. The principal office of the Partnership is located at 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737. Its telephone number is (219) 833-1306 and facsimile number is (219) 833-4411. The Partnership will terminate at 11:59 p.m. on January 12, 2019, or upon an event causing an earlier termination as set forth in the Limited Partnership Agreement. See Exhibit A - "Termination of the Partnership". The Partnership is managed by its General Partner, Ashley Capital Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, incorporated on October 15, 1996 (the "General Partner" and "Commodity Pool Operator"). The Partnership will not have officers or employees and, therefore, there is no report of executive compensation in this Prospectus. The General Partner's principal office is c/o Corporate Systems Inc., 101 North Fairfield Drive, Dover, Kent County, DE 19901. Ms. Shira Del Pacult is the sole principal, shareholder, director, and officer of the General Partner and has no ownership in any of the CTAs or the selling broker dealer. Mr. Michael Pacult, Ms. Pacult's husband, will have no ownership or role in the management of the General Partner, but will be an associated person, officer and fifty percent shareholder in the Affiliated Introducing Broker and Selling Agent, Futures Investment Company, which will be paid the fixed brokerage commissions by the Partnership. Mr. Pacult is expected to sell Units in the Partnership. The principal of the General Partner has over fifteen years of experience in the sale of commodity pool interests for other pool operators and the management of individual managed commodity accounts, and is the principal of the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. The books and records for the Partnership will be maintained for six years at 5916 N. 300 West, P. O. Box C, Fremont, Indiana 46737. A duplicate set of the books will be maintained by Mr. James Hepner, Certified Public Accountant, 1824 N. Normandy, Chicago, IL 60635, (773) 804-0074. Mr. Hepner will also prepare the Form K-1s for the Partnership. The General Partner will serve as tax partner for the Partnership. Frank L. Sassetti, & Co., 6611 West North Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302 will conduct the annual audit of the Partnership and its General Partner and also prepare the Partnership tax returns. 22 THE COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS The General Partner has initially selected five independent commodity trading advisors ("CTAs") to conduct trading on behalf of the Partnership. They are Michael J. Frischmeyer, who is to receive 50% of the assets assigned by the General Partner to trade, Commoditech, Inc., which is to receive 20% of such assets, and Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., which is to receive 20% of such assets, J.A.H. Research and Trading, which is to receive 5% of such assets, and C&M Traders, Inc., which is to receive the remaining 5% of such assets. The General Partner has provided the CTAs with a revocable power of attorney pursuant to the terms of an advisory contract between the Partnership and the CTAs to trade the account or accounts of the Partnership assigned by the General Partner to the CTAs to trade. The markets to be traded, the location of those markets, the size of the position to be taken in each market, the timing of entry and exit in a market are within the sole judgment of the CTAs. THE ADVISORY CONTRACTS AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY The General Partner will assign a portion of the Partnership assets to the CTAs it selects to trade. The terms of this assignment of assets is governed by Advisory Contracts and Powers of Attorney signed with each CTA. See Exhibits F, G H, I and J. The Advisory Contracts and Powers of Attorney granted by the Partnership to the CTAs is terminable upon immediate notice by either party to the other. Accordingly, neither party can rely upon the continuation of the Advisory Contracts and Powers of Attorney. Should the Partnership prove to be profitable it is unlikely the General Partner will terminate the Powers of Attorney granted to the CTAs responsible for the production of those profits. BUSINESS OBJECTIVE AND EXPENSES The General Partner organized the Partnership to be a commodity pool, as that term is defined under the Commodity Exchange Act, to trade exchange listed futures and options contracts and non-listed forward contracts and options to produce profits to the investors in the Partnership. The General Partner is authorized to do any and all things on behalf of the Partnership incident thereto or connected therewith. See Article II of the Limited Partnership Agreement, attached as Exhibit A. The plan of operation is for the General Partner to employ independent investment management to conduct this trading. The Partnership is not expected to engage in any other business. The objective of the Partnership is to achieve the potentially high rates of return which are possible through speculative trading in the contracts and in the markets identified in "The Commodity Trading Advisors". The General Partner intends to allocate substantially all of the Partnership Capital to conduct this trading with the CTAs identified in "The Commodity Trading Advisors". The CTAs have advised that they intend to allocate between 20% and 30% of the Capital assigned to them to trade to margin and secure the trading positions they select. There can be no assurance that the Partnership will achieve its business objectives, be able to pay the costs to do business, or avoid substantial trading losses. In that regard, the Partnership is subject to substantial fixed charges. The General Partner will be paid a management fee of three percent (3%) of the Net Assets of the Partnership; in addition, the CTAs will be paid a three percent (3%) management fee upon the equity assigned to them, and the Partnership will pay fixed brokerage commissions of nine percent (9%) of assets assigned by the General Partner for trading to the IB. Accordingly, to redeem a Unit at the original face value at the end of the first twelve months of trading and avoid a loss, the Partnership will need to generate, annually, interest income and gross trading profits of 30.4%, which includes the fixed costs of administration, which are estimated by the General Partner to be approximately $23,000 per year, ($5,000 for legal fees and $18,000 for accounting and audit fees), Offering Expenses estimated to be $47,000, and Organizational Expenses of $5,000, amortized on a straight line method over 60 months. The General Partner has advanced the Offering Expenses but will be reimbursed for such expenses from the gross proceeds of the Offering from the break of Escrow at the time of the Initial Closing. Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro-rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the Capital Accounts of the prior admitted Partners to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. Below is a chart setting forth expenses during the first twelve full months of the Partnership's operations. All interest income will be paid to the Partnership. The chart below assumes that the Partnership's Unit value remains at $1,000 during the first 12 months of the Partnership's operations. 23 Expenses per Unit for the First 12-Month Period of Operations Minimum Maximum Gross Units Sold $ 700,000.00 $7,000,000.00 Selling Price per Unit (1) $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00 Selling Commission (1) $ 60.00 $ 60.00 Offering and Organizational Expenses (2) 68.57 6.86 General Partner's Management Fee 30.00 30.00 Trading Advisors' Management Fees (3) 30.00 30.00 Trading Advisors' Incentive Fees on New Net Profits (4) 45.63 34.74 Brokerage Commissions and Trading Fees (5) 90.00 90.00 Redemption Fee (6) 40.00 40.00 Less Interest Income (7) (60.00) (60.00) Amount of Trading Income Required for the Partnership's Net Unit Value (Redemption Value) at the End of One Year to Equal the Selling Price per Unit (8) $ 304.20 $ 231.60 Percentage of Initial Selling Price per Unit 30.4% 23.2% Explanatory Notes: (1) Investors will initially purchase Units at $1,000 per Unit. After the commencement of trading, Units will be purchased at the Partnership's month- end Net Unit Value. A 6% sales commission will be deducted from each subscription. (2) The Partnership will reimburse the General Partner for Offering Expenses, estimated to be a total of $47,000, from the gross proceeds of the offering at the time of the break of Escrow for the sale of the Minimum. The Partnership will also reimburse the General Partner for $5,000 in Organizational Expenses to be amortized on a straight line method over the first 60 months of the Partnership's operation. Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro-rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the Capital Accounts of the prior admitted Partners to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. Offering and Organizational Expenses includes all Offering Expenses of $47,000 and one fifth ($1,000, or 12 months' worth) of the Organizational Expenses. The Partnership's actual accounting, auditing, legal and other operating expenses will be borne by the Partnership. and are included in the $47,000 in Offering Expenses. (3) The Partnership's CTAs will be paid a total monthly management fee of 1/4 of 1% of the trading equity allocated to them. (4) Each CTA will receive an incentive fee of 15% of New Net Profits each quarter earned upon the trading equity assigned to him to trade. The $45.63 of incentive fees shown above is equal to 15% of total trading income of $304.20 adjusted to earn sufficient income to return the original $1,000 to the investor upon Redemption at the end of the first year without computation of incentive fee upon the interest earned or the incentive fee to be paid and without reduction for brokerage commissions and after payment of management fees to the General Partner and the CTAs. (5) Brokerage commissions and trading fees are fixed at 9% of assets assigned by the General Partner for trading. For purposes of this calculation, the assumption is that all equity will be made available to the CTAs to trade. 24 (6) The Redemption Fee of 4% is computed upon the assumed $1,000 value of the Redemption at the end of the first year. (7) The Partnership will earn interest on margin deposits with its Futures Commission Merchant and Bank Deposits. Based on current interest rates, interest income is estimated at 6% of the Net Assets of the Partnership. (8) This computation assumes there will be no claims or extra-ordinary expenses during the first year. THE ABOVE PRESENTATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE REPRESENTATION BY THE PARTNERSHIP AS TO THE ACTUAL OPERATING EXPENSES OR INTEREST INCOME OF THE PARTNERSHIP. THERE CAN BE NO ASSURANCE THAT THE EXPENSES TO BE INCURRED BY THE PARTNERSHIP WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS AS PROJECTED OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO OTHER EXPENSES. In addition, Partners will be required to pay Federal, state and local taxes upon income, if any, in the year earned by the Partnership, although there will be no expectations of distributions of income during that, or any other, year. Accordingly, the purchase of Units in the Partnership is intended to be a long-term investment. Neither the General Partner nor any other person has made any promise or guarantee that the Partnership will be profitable or otherwise meet its objectives. The General Partner has made no guarantee that the Partnership will break even or produce any other rate of return per year. All interest income earned upon the Capital of the Partnership will be paid to the Partners in their pro rata share determined by the amount of Capital each Partner, including the General Partner, has contributed to the Partnership. The current rate of interest income expected is 6% per year. The General Partner estimates that 20% to 30% of total Capital, as that term is defined in Exhibit A, will be used for margin purposes each year. The specific futures contracts to be traded, the exchanges and forward markets, and the trading methods of the CTAs selected are identified in "The Commodity Trading Advisors". SECURITIES OFFERED Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") will offer and sell Limited Partnership interests in the Partnership which will have pro rata rights to profit and losses with all other owners equal to the Capital they have contributed but Limited Partners will have limited obligations to pay the debts of the Partnership in excess of their contribution to Capital plus their undistributed profits, less losses. The Limited Partners will not be exposed to payment of debts of the Partnership in excess of their Capital contributions; provided, however, in the event the Limited Partners were to receive distributions which represent a return of Capital, such distributions, in the event of insolvency of the Partnership, would have to be returned to pay Partnership debts. In addition, these interests will have no voice in the day to day management of the Partnership. They will have the right to vote on Partnership matters such as the replacement of the General Partner. See the Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A. These Limited Partnership interests are defined as the units (the "Units") which are offered for sale for One Thousand Dollars ($l,000) per Unit. This sales price per Unit was arbitrarily set by the General Partner without regard to expected earnings and does not represent present or projected market or Redemption value. Funds with respect to subscriptions received prior to the commencement of trading operations by the Partnership (and not rejected by the General Partner) will be deposited and held in a separate escrow account (the "Escrow Account") in the name of the Partnership at Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 (the "Escrow Agent"). If the General Partner has not accepted subscriptions for the 700 Units (the "Minimum") before the lapse of one year from the date of this Prospectus, (the "Initial Offering Period"), this offering will terminate and all documents and amounts deposited to the Escrow Account by subscribers will be returned, plus interest and without deduction for any commissions, fees or costs. Upon the sale of the Minimum, the Partnership will commence trading. The remaining 6,300 Units will be offered for sale at a price per Unit equal to the Net Unit Value as of the close of trading on the effective date of such purchase, which will be the close on the last business day of the month in which the General Partner accepts a duly executed Subscription Agreement and capital contribution from the subscriber. No escrow will be utilized for Units sold after the sale of the Minimum. All subscriptions are irrevocable and subscription payments, after the statutory withdrawal period, if any, which are accepted by the General Partner, and either deposited in the Escrow Account or in the Partnership account, may not be withdrawn by subscribers. Although a maximum of $7,000,000 of Units are offered hereby, the Limited Partnership Agreement authorizes the General Partner to sell additional Units and there is, therefore, no maximum aggregate number or contribution for Units which may be offered or sold by the Partnership. There cannot be any 25 assurance that the Minimum Units or any additional Units will be sold and the General Partner is authorized, in its sole discretion, to terminate this, or any future, offering of Units. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION This is the first offering of the Partnership's Limited Partnership Interests (the "Units"). The Limited Partnership Agreement permits future offerings of Units after the close of this offering. The Partnership has not commenced operations and none will commence until after the sale of 700 Units, $700,000 in face amount, before commissions, (the "Minimum") are sold and the Escrow is terminated. The Partnership has no prior operating history and, therefore, there is no discussion of results of operations. The Partnership will raise capital only through the sale of Units offered pursuant to this and future offerings, if any, and does not intend to raise money for any purpose through borrowing. The Partnership will make certain capital expenditures, such as for the preparation of this Prospectus and other expenditures to qualify the Units for sale, and for office equipment, and expects to allocate all of its capital not used to pay those capital and operating expenses to trading and other investments. There is no report of executive compensation in this Prospectus as the Partnership will not have any directors, officers or employees; furthermore, the Partnership will conduct all of its business through the General Partner. The General Partner has authorized the IB to select Vision Limited Partnership to serve as the futures commission merchant (the "FCM") to hold the funds allocated to the Commodity Trading Advisors to trade. On a daily basis, the FCM will transmit a computer run or facsimile transmission to the General Partner which will depict the positions held, the margin allocated and the profit or loss on the positions from the date the positions were taken. The General Partner will review these transmissions and based upon that review will determine and, with the advice of the CTAs, will make appropriate adjustments to the allocation of trading equity; provided, however, only the CTAs will make specific trades and determine the number of positions taken and the timing of entry and departure from the markets based upon the amount of equity available to trade. Most United States commodity exchanges limit fluctuations in commodity futures contracts prices during a single day by regulations referred to as "daily price fluctuation limits" or "daily limits". Once the price of a futures contract has reached the daily limit for that day, positions in that contract can neither be taken nor liquidated. Commodity futures prices have occasionally moved to the daily limit for several consecutive days with little or no trading. Similar occurrences could prevent the Partnership from promptly liquidating unfavorable positions and subject the Partnership to substantial losses which could exceed the margin initially committed to such trades. In addition, even if commodity futures prices have not moved the daily limit, the Partnership may not be able to execute futures trades at favorable prices, if little trading in such contracts is taking place or the price move in a futures or forward contract is both sudden and substantial. Other than these limitations on liquidity, which are inherent in the Partnership's proposed commodity futures trading operations, the Partnership's assets are expected to be highly liquid. Once the Minimum is sold and the Partnership commences operations, except for payment of offering and other expenses of the Partnership, the General Partner is unaware of any (i) anticipated known demands, commitments or required capital expenditures; (ii) material trends, favorable or unfavorable, which will effect its capital resources; or (iii) trends or uncertainties that will have a material effect on operations. From time to time, certain regulatory agencies have proposed increased margin requirements on commodity futures contracts. Because the Partnership generally will use a small percentage of assets for margin, the Partnership does not believe that any increase in margin requirements, as proposed, will have a material effect on the Partnership's proposed operations. Management cannot predict whether the Partnership's Net Unit Value will increase or decrease. Inflation is not projected to be a significant factor in the Partnership's operations, except to the extent inflation influences futures' prices. FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GENERAL PARTNER The General Partner has a fiduciary responsibility to the Limited Partners to exercise good faith and fairness in all dealings affecting the Partnership. In the event that a Limited Partner believes the General Partner has violated such fiduciary duty to the Limited Partners, a Limited Partner may seek legal relief for such Limited Partner or on behalf of the Partnership under applicable laws, including Delaware partnership and applicable Federal and state securities laws, to recover damages from or require an accounting by the General Partner. The Partnership Agreement conforms with the 26 Uniform Limited Partnership Act for the State of Delaware in regard to the definition of the fiduciary duties of the General Partner. In addition, Partners are afforded certain rights to institute reparations proceedings under the Commodity Exchange Act for violations of such Act or of any rule, regulation or order of the CFTC by the General Partner, the CTAs selected and the Introducing Broker and the Futures Commission Merchant. For example, excessive trading of the Partnership's account may constitute a violation of such Act. A Limited Partner may also institute legal proceedings in court for excessive trading and may have a right to institute legal proceedings in court for certain violations of applicable laws, including the Commodity Exchange Act or rules, regulations or orders of the CFTC. The General Partner will have certain defenses to claims that it is liable merely because the Partnership lost money or otherwise did not meet its business objectives. For example, the General Partner will not be liable for actions taken in good faith and exercise of its best business judgment. Also, the responsibility of a general partner to other partners is a changing area of the law and Limited Partners who have questions concerning the responsibilities of the General Partner should, from time to time, consult their own legal counsel. INDEMNIFICATION The Limited Partnership Agreement provides that the General Partner shall not be liable, responsible or accountable in damages or otherwise to the Partnership or any of the Limited Partners for any act or omission performed or omitted by the General Partner and which the General Partner determines, in good faith, to be within the scope of authority and in the best interest of the Partnership, except when such action or failure to act constitutes willful misconduct or a breach of the Federal or state securities laws related to the sale of Units. The Partnership shall defend, indemnify and hold the General Partner harmless from and against any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including attorneys' and accountants' fees and expenses incurred in defense of any demands, claims or lawsuits) actually and reasonably incurred and arising from any act, omission, activity or conduct undertaken by or on behalf of the Partnership and within the scope of authority granted the General Partner by the Limited Partnership Agreement, including, without limitation, any demands, claims or lawsuits initiated by another Partner. Applicable law provides that such indemnity shall be payable only if the General Partner (a) determined, in good faith, that the act, omission or conduct giving rise to the claim for indemnification was in the best interests of the Partnership, and (b) the act, omission or activity that was the basis for such loss, liability, damage, cost or expense was not the result of negligence or misconduct, and (c) such liability or loss was not the result of negligence or misconduct by the General Partner, and (d) such indemnification or agreement to hold harmless is recoverable only out of the assets of the Partnership and not from the Partners, individually. In addition, the indemnification of the General Partner in respect of any losses, liability or expenses arising from or out of an alleged violation of any Federal or state securities laws are subject to certain legal conditions. Those conditions presently are that no indemnification may be made in respect of any losses, liabilities or expenses arising from or out of an alleged violation of Federal or state securities laws unless (i) there has been a successful adjudication on the merits of each count involving alleged securities law violations as to the General Partner or other particular indemnitee, or (ii) such claim has been dismissed with prejudice on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction as to the General Partner or other particular indemnitee, or (iii) a court of competent jurisdiction approves a settlement of the claims against the General Partner or other particular indemnitee and finds that indemnification of the settlement and related costs should be made, provided, before seeking such approval, the General Partner or other indemnitee must apprise the court of the position against such indemnification held by the SEC and the securities administrator of the state or states in which the plaintiffs claim they were offered or sold Units in regard to indemnification for securities laws violations. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to the General Partner pursuant to the indemnification provisions in the Limited Partnership Agreement, or otherwise, the General Partner has been advised that, in the opinion of the SEC and the various state administrators, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. commodity pool guidelines and is, therefore, unenforceable. The clearing agreement to clear the trades made between the Partnership and Vision Limited Partnership, at paragraph 20, provides for indemnification from the Partnership to Vision Limited Partnership, including reasonable outside and in-house attorney's fees, incurred by Vision Limited Partnership arising out of any failure of the Partnership to perform its duties under the clearing agreement. 27 The General Partner has indemnified the Managing Dealer, Futures Investment Company, and the other Selling Agents that there are no misstatements or omissions of material facts in this Prospectus. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FCM AND THE IB The General Partner has initially engaged Futures Investment Company as the sole introducing broker (the "IB") to the Partnership. Ms. Pacult, the President and sole stockholder of the General Partner, is also a stockholder, director and officer of the IB. Accordingly, the General Partner is Affiliated with the IB. The IB has engaged Vision Limited Partnership to act as the sole futures commission merchant, (the "FCM") for the Partnership. The General Partner believes the rates to be charged to the Partnership by the IB for fixed commissions are competitive. In that regard, the General Partner is obligated by the NASAA guidelines to obtain the best commission rates available to the Partnership. Accordingly, the General Partner is free to select any substitute or additional futures commission merchants or introducing brokers at any time, for any reason, although it has a conflict in regard to the IB because of the Affiliation with the principal of the General Partner. The FCM and the IB may act for any other commodity pool for which the General Partner or Ms. Pacult, individually, as the case may be, will act, in the future, as general partner. Ms. Pacult is already the principal of the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. It is possible for the General Partner and any other commodity pools to obtain rates from the IB that are more favorable to such other accounts than the fixed commissions in lieu of round-turn commissions charged by the IB to the Partnership. The FCM has tentatively established the per round-turn commission rate to be paid by the IB for trades made by the Partnership at $11.00 per round-turn for US markets plus US floor brokerage fees of $2.50 and Exchange and NFA fees of $1.10 for Chicago markets and $2.70 for New York Markets. An additional $2.50 to $12.50 per round-turn will be charged for foreign markets plus Globex fees which are expected to range from $5.20 to $15.20 per round-turn. All of these costs will be paid by FIC from the 9% per year fixed commissions paid by the Partnership. Additionally, FIC will cover any such costs should they exceed the fixed commission. The FCM will credit the Partnership with interest at the prevailing rate on 100% of the available balances maintained in the Partnership accounts. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CTAs The Commodity Trading Advisors will be effecting trades for their own accounts and for others on a discretionary basis. They may employ trading methods, policies and strategies for others which differ from those employed for the Partnership and, as a consequence, such accounts may have trading results which are different (which could be better or worse) from those experienced by the Partnership. A potential conflict of interest arises in such cases in that it is possible that positions taken by the CTAs may be taken ahead of or opposite positions taken on behalf of the Partnership. See definitions in Appendix I for "Taking Positions Ahead of the Partnership". Where in any case trades are identical with respect to the Partnership and other accounts of the CTAs and where prices are different, the CTAs have informed the General Partner that, pursuant to CFTC Regulation 421.03, such Commodity Trading Advisor will utilize the "Average Price System" for those futures and options contracts where its use is authorized. See definitions in Appendix I for "Average Price System". The Commodity Trading Advisors have also informed the General Partner that where the Average Price System is not available, trades will be filled (both purchases and sales) in order based on the numerical account numbers, with the lowest price (on both purchases and sales) allocated to the lowest account number and in numerical matching sequence, thereafter. The past, present, and future trading methods to be utilized by the CTAs are proprietary in nature and will not be disclosed to the Partners. No notice will be given by the CTAs of any changes they may make in their trading methods to the Partners. See "Risk Factors, No Notice of Trades or Trading Method". RISK CONTROL The General Partner has obtained the commitment from the FCM that a report, as of the close of each business day, of the equity used for margin to hold the trades selected by the CTAs will be sent to the General Partner by overnight facsimile or computer transmission before the opening of trading on the next business day to permit the General Partner to review the percentage of equity used for margin and losses, if any. In the event the Net Unit Value falls to less than fifty percent (50%) of the Net Unit Value established by the greater of the initial offering price of one thousand dollars ($1,000), less commissions and other charges, or such higher value earned after payment of the incentive fee for the addition of 28 profits, the General Partner shall immediately suspend all trading, provide immediate notice as provided in the Partnership Agreement to all Partners of the reduction in Net Unit Value and afford all Partners the opportunity, for fifteen (15) days after the date of such notice, to Redeem their Units in accordance with the provisions of Article IX, Sections 9.5 and 9.6. No trading shall commence until after such fifteen day period. See Exhibit A attached. CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP Investors in the Partnership will pay the cost of operation of the Partnership. These charges are described in narrative form and in the chart which follows this narrative. This prospectus discloses all compensation, fees, profits and other benefits (including reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses) which the General Partner and its affiliates will earn in connection with the offering. Most of the charges to the Partnership were not the result of arm-length bargaining but rather were determined by the General Partner, its principal and their affiliates. COMPENSATION OF GENERAL PARTNER The General Partner will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the Net Asset Value of the Partnership payable at the end of each month (1/4 of 1%). The General Partner will receive an allocation of New Net Profit of fifteen percent (15%) on the trading accounts assigned to the CTAs, which will be paid directly to them. New Net Profits, as used herein, means the increase, if any, in the net value of the trading equity of a CTA due to trading activity at the end of each respective quarterly period over the net value of the trading equity at the end of the highest previous quarterly period. MANAGEMENT FEE AND INCENTIVE FEES TO THE CTAs In addition to the management fee to the General Partner and the 9% fixed commission, the Partnership will pay a management fee to the CTAs at the annual rate of three percent (3%), payable at the rate of one-fourth of one percent (1/4 of 1%) per month of the equity on deposit at the future commission merchant or merchants allocated to them to trade, computed and paid from said accounts to the CTAs. The Partnership also will be obligated to bear certain other periodic operating, fixed, and extra-ordinary expenses of the Partnership including, but not limited to, legal and accounting fees, defense and payment of claims, trading and office expenses, and sales charges. The Partnership will also pay to the General Partner an allocation of profit earned in the accounts assigned to each CTA of fifteen percent (15%) of the New Net Profit for each CTA which produced a New Net Profit. The General Partner will be responsible for payment of all incentive fees to the CTAs. New Net Profits, as used herein, means the increase, if any, in the net value of the trading equity for a CTA due to trading activity at the end of each respective quarterly period over the net value of the trading equity for that CTA at the end of the highest previous quarterly period. The net value of the trading equity assigned to each CTA, as of the close of business on the last business day of each month, determined before accrual of any incentive fee payable to a CTA, shall be used to compute the management and incentive fees to each CTA. The calculation of New Net Profits shall be adjusted to eliminate the effect thereon resulting from new subscriptions for Units received, if any, or Redemptions made, if any, during the month, and shall be decreased by any Capital, interest or other income earned on Partnership assets during the month which are not directly assigned to the CTAs to trade and are not related to such trading activity and regardless of whether such assets are held separately or in a margin account. These fees shall be payable by the Partnership, as to the management fee, or by the General Partner, as to the incentive fee, to each CTA within ten (10) business days after the close of the applicable accounting period. If a CTA should make trades which incur a net loss during any quarter, such loss will be carried forward for purposes of calculating the incentive fee to that CTA and will be charged against the net value of the CTA's assigned trading equity of any succeeding quarterly period. No incentive fee will be payable to a CTA until such losses have been offset by New Net Profits in such succeeding quarters. Because incentive fees are calculated separately for each CTA, it is possible that one or more CTAs may receive incentive fees, though the Partnership experiences a net loss due to trading losses created by the remaining CTA(s). In no event may a modification of the compensation to be paid to the CTA result in an incentive fee exceeding the above amount and any new contract with the CTA must carry forward all losses attributable to the CTA. For example, if in successive quarters the Partnership performance yields New Net Profits from trading activity of the funds on deposit with the FCM assigned to Frischmeyer of 29 $2,000, $8,000, ($4,000), ($3,000), $2,000, and $8,000, then the incentive fee at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) payable to him would be, respectively, $300, $1,200, $0, $0, $0, and $450. FEES TO FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT AND INTRODUCING BROKER The futures commission merchant for the Partnership is Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM"). The Partnership will pay a fixed commission of nine percent (9%) per year, payable monthly upon the assets assigned by the General Partner for trading to Futures Investment Company (the "IB") for introducing trades through the FCM. See "The Futures Commission Merchant". The IB, will pay to the FCM all clearing costs, including the pit brokerage fees, which shall include floor brokerage, NFA fees and exchange fees. The IB will pay six percent (6%) of the fixed commissions as trailing commissions to the Broker/Dealers and introducing brokers who are qualified to provide services to the investors. See "Charges to the Partnership, Allocation of Commissions". The IB will pay the remaining 3% to the FCM for clearing charges. The past history of the frequency of Trades by the CTAs have been at the rate of approximately 255 round turns per month for every million dollars ($1,000,000) under management. In the unlikely event the Commodity Trading Advisors effects round-turns of 765 or more for every million dollars ($1,000,000) in any month, the CPO has the right, but not the obligation, to suspend trading until the commencement of the next month. This suspension of trading is to limit the exposure to loss to the IB to a defined amount determined by the maximum number of round turns the General Partner will pay to complete in any one month. Trading will automatically resume the following month subject to the same maximum of 765 trades for that and any future month. The General Partner has reserved the right to change the IB, FCM, the fixed commission rate or to have the Partnership pay a per round-turn brokerage commission, at any time in the future, with or without a change in circumstances; provided, however, the brokerage commissions so charged can not exceed (i) 80% of the published retail rate of the IB and other similar introducing brokers, plus Pit Brokerage Fees, or (ii) 14% annually of the average Net Assets excluding the Partnership assets not directly related to trading activity; this 14% shall include Pit Brokerage Fees. In addition, to protect against excessive trading, the General Partner has the right, but not the obligation, to suspend all trading by the Partnership during any month in which the CTAs collectively trade at a rate of three times their normal frequency. See "Fiduciary Responsibility of the General Partner". The Partnership will also reimburse the FCM for all delivery, insurance, storage or other charges incidental to trading and paid to third parties. The General Partner does not anticipate significant charges of this nature. The fixed commission to be paid by the Partnership is fair and reasonable to the Partnership. This is an area of judgment which depends upon the value of similar services provided by the same CTAs for managed accounts and to other pools and, to some degree, the value of similar services by other public commodity pools, and this is not a matter upon which securities counsel will express an opinion. ALLOCATION OF COMMISSIONS The General Partner, either directly or indirectly, controls the allocation of the fixed commissions and the allocation may change, from time to time, without the knowledge or consent of the Partners. The commodity brokerage commissions are to be allocated as follows: The Partnership will pay the IB, Affiliated with the General Partner, a fixed brokerage commission rate of nine percent (9%) per year, payable monthly upon the assets assigned by the General Partner for trading. The IB will negotiate a round-turn commission rate per trade with the FCM. The difference between the 9% fixed commission rate and the per round turn commission negotiated, less trailing commissions paid to the persons who sold Units in the Partnership, will be retained by the IB Affiliated with the General Partner. If the trading commissions exceed the 9% less the trailing commissions, FIC will cover the difference. The IB will pay its associated persons and individual employee-broker (associated persons) of Futures Investment Company and the other broker dealers, through whom Units are sold. Such persons will include, but not be limited to, the principal of the General Partner and the husband of the principal of the General Partner, who is an associated person of the IB which is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner. The IB will pay six percent (6%) per year of the fixed commission to the Broker Dealer and Associated Persons of the IB and other duly licensed entities and persons, which may include the principal of the General Partner or other principals of the IB Affiliated with it, pro rated to the value of Units sold, who have facilitated the sale of Units, as trailing commissions in exchange for services provided to the investors and the Partnership. It is important that investment in the Partnership be maintained to permit diversification of risk over a large number of investors and to allow the long-term trading strategies of the CTAs to produce the opportunity for investment in the Partnership. To accomplish these objectives will require a continuous relationship with the Limited Partners to be aware of their investment objectives and changes in circumstances, if any. Neither the General Partner nor the IB have the staff or the time to maintain this 30 continuous contact and awareness. The IB will pay the trailing commissions to the Brokers for payment to the persons who made the sale of the Units as compensation for the effort required to maintain this continuous contact and awareness during the time the Limited Partner holds the Units. In addition the Brokers will communicate explanations of changes in operation methods, such as a changes in CTAs and results from operations, answer questions regarding the Partnership, and are expected to work to retain investment in the Partnership. OTHER EXPENSES The Partnership is obligated to pay legal and accounting fees, other expenses and claims. The General Partner projects the Offering Expenses of this offering to be $47,000 in addition to Organizational Expenses of $5,000 amortized on a straight line method over 60 months (see Appendix I, Offering Expenses and Organizational Expenses), and legal and accounting costs of approximately $23,000 ($18,000 for accounting and audit and $5,000 for legal) to be charged annually after the first year. In addition to management fees, incentive fees, brokerage commissions, and the actual cost of legal and audit services provided by third parties, the Partnership Agreement provides that all customary and routine administrative expenses and other direct expenses of the Partnership, will be paid by the Partnership. The General Partner will be reimbursed by the Partnership for direct expenses (such as delivery charges, statement preparation and mailing costs, telephone toll charges, and postage). CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP The following table includes all charges to the Partnership. 31 * Charges to the Partnership
Entity Form of Compensation Amount of Compensation Entity Form of Compensation Amount of Compensation General Partner Management fee 3% management fee of Net Asset Value Reimbursement of Offering Expenses Reimbursement of Offering Expenses upon the Initial Closing Reimbursement of Organizational Expenses Reimbursement of Organizational Expenses amortized over 60 months Selling Agents Sales Commission subject to waiver at the A one time charge of 6% of Gross Selling sole discretion of the General Partner Price of Units for Selling Commissions Trailing Commission Trailing Commissions of 6%, paid annually, from the 9% fixed commissions paid to the Introducing Broker Introducing Fixed Commissions 9% of assets assigned by General Partner for Broker Affiliated trading, less costs to trade to FCM and less with the General 6% trailing commissions paid to Selling Partner Agents which will include persons Affiliated with the General Partner Futures Commission Merchant Round-turn commissions paid from the fixed Brokerage Commissions negotiated with the commissions paid by the Partnership Introducing Broker; Reimbursement of delivery, insurance, Reimbursement by the Partnership of actual storage and any other charges incidental to payments to third parties in connection trading and paid to third Parties with Partnership trading Commodity Trading Advisors Fixed Management Fee 3% per year of the trading equity assigned to each CTA Incentive Fee 15% of the New Net Profits of the account for each quarterly period that the net value of the trading equity at the end of such quarterly period for a CTA exceeds the highest previous quarterly net value of the trading equity for that CTA. Third Parties Legal, accounting fees, and other actual Estimated at $23,000 for each year after expenses necessary to the operation of the the first ($18,000 for accounting and Partnership, and all claims and other $5,000 for legal). Claims and other costs extraordinary expenses of the Partnership. can not be estimated and will be paid as incurred.
INVESTOR SUITABILITY An investment in the Partnership is suitable only for a limited amount of the risk portion of an investor's total portfolio and no one should invest more in the Partnership than he or she can afford to lose. Investors contemplating even the Minimum investment in the Partnership of $25,000 must have (i) a net worth of at least $150,000 (exclusive of home, furnishings and automobiles), or (ii) an annual gross income of at least $45,000 and a net worth (as calculated above) of at least $45,000. NO INVESTOR MAY INVEST MORE THAN 10% OF SUCH INVESTOR'S NET WORTH IN THE PARTNERSHIP. THE FOREGOING STANDARD AND THE ADDITIONAL STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO RESIDENTS OF CERTAIN STATES AS SET FORTH IN THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE SUBSCRIPTION DOCUMENTS ARE REGULATORY MINIMUMS ONLY. POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES Although commodity trading is speculative and involves a high degree of risk (see "Risk Factors"), an investment in the Partnership will offer the following potential advantages: EQUITY MANAGEMENT The Partnership offers the opportunity for investors to place equity with professional CTAs who have demonstrated, in the judgment of the General Partner, an ability to trade profitably and to have that equity allocated to the CTAs in a manner which is intended by the General Partner to optimize the potential for profit in the future. The principal of the General Partner is the principal of the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership, and has over fifteen years of experience selecting commodity trading advisors to manage individual investor accounts and describing how individual managed futures accounts work to individual investors. This experience is expected to benefit the Partnership in the quality of commodity trading advisors selected and the explanation of the operation of the Partnership and the attendant risks of investment in the Partnership to prospective investors. INVESTMENT DIVERSIFICATION An investor who is not prepared to spend substantial time trading various commodity contracts or options may participate in these markets through an investment in the Partnership (with a minimum investment of only $25,000), thereby obtaining diversification from investments in stocks, bonds and real estate. 32 LIMITED LIABILITY A Limited Partner in the Partnership will not be subject to margin calls and cannot lose more than the amount of the Limited Partner's unredeemed capital contribution, the Limited Partner's share of undistributed profits, if any, and, under certain circumstances, any prior distributions and/or amounts received upon Redemption of Units and interest thereon; provided, however, the Limited Partner must not participate in the management of the Partnership. In the opinion of legal counsel to the Partnership, subject to the maintenance of the Partnership structure by the General Partner and no affiliation by the Limited Partner with any phase of management of the Partnership, there are no circumstances, including bankruptcy of the Partnership, which will subject the personal assets of a Limited Partner to the debts of the Partnership. See the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A. ADMINISTRATIVE CONVENIENCE The Partnership is structured so as to provide Limited Partners with certain services designed to alleviate the administrative details involved in engaging directly in commodities contract trading, including providing monthly and annual financial reports (showing, among other things, the Net Unit Value, trading profits or losses and expenses), and all tax information relating Limited Partner's interest in the Partnership. ACCESS TO THE CTAs The CTAs selected by the General Partner require a minimum account size substantially greater than the $25,000 minimum investment in the Partnership; e.g., Frischmeyer requires a minimum investment of $40,000. Accordingly, investors have access to the CTAs for a smaller investment, at substantially the same cost, than is available by a direct investment in a managed account with any particular CTA. USE OF PROCEEDS At the time of the sale of the Units, the only deduction prior to the delivery of the funds to the Partnership in furtherance of its business will be the six percent (6%) selling commission. After commencement of trading, the trades will be entered by the CTAs and the FCM will charge the Partnership account the per round turn commission in effect, from time to time. At the end of each month, the actual management fees and fixed commissions identified in this Prospectus, less the per round turn commissions already paid, will be deducted from the Partnership accounts. The General Partner will determine, in its sole judgment, from time to time, the percentage of the Partnership's Net Asset Value that will be on deposit with the FCM and how much will be used for other investments and held in bank accounts to pay current obligations. Other than the approximately three percent (3%) of the previous month end Net Asset Value the General Partner expects to be retained in the Partnership's bank accounts as a reserve to pay Partnership Expenses, and other similar current payments, the General Partner expects to deposit the Net Asset Value including the proceeds from interest and trading profits, in the commodity account with the FCM to be used by the Partnership to engage in the speculative trading of commodity futures contracts and options under the direction of the CTAs. The Partnership will use only cash and cash equivalents, such as United States Treasury Bills to satisfy margin requirements. All FCMs, CTAs, money market, other cash investment accounts, and banks selected by the General Partner to hold or trade assets of the Partnership will be based in the United States and be subject to United States regulations. The trades of the Partnership will be cleared by the FCM. The General Partner believes that between twenty percent (20%) to forty percent (40%) of the Partnership's assets will normally be committed as margin for commodity futures contracts but, from time to time, the percentage of assets committed as margin may be substantially more, or less, than such range. For purposes of the estimate of the amount of interest income to be earned upon the Capital of the Partnership, the General Partner has estimated that between 20% and 40% of the Capital will be used for margin upon trades and that the rate of interest to be paid on the available balances will be approximately 6%. The FCM may increase margins applicable to the Partnership at any time. The General Partner has advanced the Offering Expenses but will be reimbursed for such expenses from the gross proceeds of the Offering from the break of Escrow at the time of the Initial Closing. Upon admission of subsequent Partners to the Partnership, a charge will be made to such newly admitted Partners equal to their pro-rata share of the Offering Expenses which will be credited to the Capital Accounts of the prior admitted Partners to reimburse them for the Offering Expenses they advanced. In the event the General Partner does not sell a minimum of $700,000 in Partnership Units (the "Minimum") during the first one year of this Offering, the Escrow Agent will return all money deposited to the Escrow Account to the investors 33 together with their pro rata share of the interest earned without any deduction for fees or other costs promptly following the lapse of such Offering period. DETERMINATION OF THE OFFERING PRICE The Units are currently offered for sale for One Thousand Dollars ($l,000) per Unit, which amount was arbitrarily set by the General Partner. The amount was not based on expected earnings and is not a representation that the Units have or will have a market value of or could be resold or redeemed at that price. After trading operations have commenced, any remaining Units that are offered for sale shall be offered at a price per Unit equal to the Net Assets of the Partnership divided by the number of outstanding Units, or Net Unit Value, as of the close of business on the effective date of such purchase, which will be the last business day of the month in which the General Partner accepts a duly executed Subscription Agreement and the required applicable subscription amount from the subscriber. All sales will be subject to a sales commission of 6%, subject to waiver at the sole discretion of the General Partner, to be deducted from the proceeds prior to the issuance of Units. NO MARKET AND LIMITATION OF RIGHT OF TRANSFER None of the Units sold will be traded on any United States Market or any other Market. To the Contrary, before any transfer of Units may be made, the General Partner must grant its written approval. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Transfer of Units Only With Consent of the General Partner", "Plan of Distribution" and Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A. The Partners will have the right of Redemption. See "The Limited Partnership Agreement, Redemption". THE GENERAL PARTNER IDENTIFICATION The General Partner of the Partnership, Ashley Capital Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, c/o Corporate Systems, Inc. 101 N. Fairfield Drive, Dover, DE 19901 was incorporated on October 15, 1996, and it has not previously operated a commodity pool, though its principal, Shira Del Pacult, is the principal of Pacult Asset Management, Inc., a registered commodity pool operator which is the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. It was registered as a commodity pool operator on January 15, 1998. The balance sheet of the General Partner as of January 31, 1998, and an Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows and Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Equity are attached hereto. See "Experts". The General Partner has expended effort to permit the Partnership to be available for this Offering but has not yet engaged in the business of management of trading on behalf of the Partnership or any other business activities. Purchasers of Units in the Partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in the General Partner. THE PRINCIPAL AND OFFICER OF THE GENERAL PARTNER Ms. Shira Del Pacult, age 41, is the sole shareholder, director, principal, and officer of the General Partner, and is a principal and registered representative of Futures Investment Company, the Selling Agent, of which her husband is also a principal. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, at Berkeley, in 1979. From 1980 to 1981, she was employed by a real estate developer in Sonoma County, California, as an administrative assistant. From 1981 - 1983 she was employed by Heinold Commodities, Inc., Chicago, IL, to assist in the development of the Commodities Options Department. She became a senior account executive at Heinold and was a member of the President's Council, a select group appointed to advise the firm on all matters of business practice. In 1983, Ms. Pacult and her husband established Futures Investment Company, an Illinois corporation, to sell futures investments managed by independent commodity trading advisors to retail clients. Presently, Futures Investment Company is located at 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, Indiana, 46737, with clearing agreements with Vision Limited Partnership, and The Chicago Corporation. The Partnership intends to clear its trades through Vision Limited Partnership. Ms. Pacult is a member of the National Association of Introducing Brokers, and is an affiliated person and registered representative of Futures Investment Company, which is a member of the National Futures Association and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. In addition to the Units offered pursuant to this Prospectus, FIC offers for sale, on a best efforts basis, securities of other issuers and engages in other broker-dealer activities. Ms. Pacult is also the principal of Pacult Asset Management, Inc., a registered commodity pool operator which is the general partner of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, 34 Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership. Ms. Pacult intends to devote adequate time to handle properly the responsibilities of the General Partner; however, Ms. Pacult will provide less than her full time to the business affairs of the Partnership. Ms. Pacult and her husband, Michael, are included in the book Master Brokers: Interviews with Top Futures Brokers by John Walsh, ISBN 0-915513-61-7. TRADING BY THE GENERAL PARTNER; INTEREST IN THE POOL The General Partner and its principal, may, from time to time, trade commodity interests for their own accounts. The records of any such trading activities will not be made available to Limited Partners. As stated earlier, the General Partner will not knowingly take positions on its own behalf which would be ahead of identical positions taken on behalf of the Partnership. Once the Minimum is sold, the General Partner may purchase and hold Units. NO PRIOR PERFORMANCE AND REGULATORY NOTICE THIS POOL HAS NOT BEGUN TRADING AND DOES NOT HAVE ANY PERFORMANCE HISTORY. THE REGULATIONS OF THE CFTC AND NFA PROHIBIT ANY REPRESENTATION BY A PERSON REGISTERED WITH THE CFTC OR BY ANY MEMBER OF THE NFA, RESPECTIVELY, THAT SUCH REGISTRATION OR MEMBERSHIP IN ANY RESPECT INDICATES THAT THE CFTC OR THE NFA, AS THE CASE MAY BE, HAS APPROVED OR ENDORSED SUCH PERSON OR SUCH PERSON'S TRADING PROGRAMS OR OBJECTIVES. THE REGISTRATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROSPECTUS MUST NOT BE CONSIDERED AS CONSTITUTING ANY SUCH APPROVAL OR ENDORSEMENT. LIKEWISE, NO COMMODITY EXCHANGE HAS GIVEN OR WILL GIVE ANY SUCH APPROVAL OR ENDORSEMENT. TRADING MANAGEMENT SELECTION OF COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS AND ALLOCATION OF EQUITY The General Partner will select Commodity Trading Advisors for the Partnership by utilizing the best judgment of its principal and her sixteen year personal experience in the review of disclosure documents of CTAs. The Partnership will rely, pursuant to the Advisory Agreements and Powers of Attorney attached as Exhibits F, G H, I and J, upon Michael J. Frischmeyer, Commoditech, Inc. and Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., J.A.H. Research and Trading, and C&M Traders, Inc., the CTAs selected by the General Partner to trade the equity of the Partnership and to implement the trading methods and strategies. The General Partner intends to allocate substantially all of the Partnership's net assets as trading equity to the existing CTAs in the percentages disclosed. No additional CTAs are contemplated to be added due to the sale of only the Minimum or the Maximum; provided however, that the General Partner may, in its sole discretion and without notice to the Limited Partners, terminate any existing CTA, select additional CTAs, or change the allocation of equity among the CTAs. None of the CTAs currently selected are affiliates of the General Partner, or its principal, nor will the General Partner serve as CTA or select any other CTAs to trade for the Partnership which are affiliates of it or its principal. See "The Commodity Trading Advisors" for a summary of the CTAs' performance information. The General Partner will periodically review the performance of the Partnership to determine if the CTAs selected to trade for the Partnership should be changed or if other CTAs should be added. Due to the allocation of trading assets over multiple CTAs, it is possible for one of the CTAs to produce New Net Profit in the account assigned to him and be paid an incentive fee while the other CTA or CTAs produce losses which cause the Partnership to suffer a net loss for the Quarter or the year. From time to time, the General Partner may use computer generated correlation analysis or other types of automated review procedures to evaluate CTAs. THE ADVISORY CONTRACTS For the purpose of directing and effecting trades, the Partnership has entered advisory contracts and granted Powers of Attorney to the CTAs to trade. The CTAs have sole discretion, in the accounts so assigned, to determine the commodity futures trades made by the Partnership. The Partnership is bound by the directions of the CTAs given to the FCM under 35 the Powers of Attorney. The Powers of Attorney are subject to termination by either the General Partner or the respective CTAs upon written notice to the other and to the FCM. If the Powers of Attorney are terminated, the General Partner will undertake to manage the trading or will seek and retain a new CTA or CTAs. See Exhibits F, G H, I and J. FREQUENCY OF CTA AND EQUITY REALLOCATIONS The General Partner believes that a CTA should be retained on a medium to long-term basis and should be given the opportunity to implement fully his trading strategy or program. While it is not anticipated that frequent changes will be made to the number of CTAs advising the Partnership or that frequent reallocations of assets among existing CTAs will be made, the General Partner will retain the flexibility to replace CTAs or to reallocate the Partnership's assets among CTAs based upon its sole judgment and experience. From time to time, the General Partner may engage in reallocations of assets or add or replace CTAs on a frequent basis. Due to the allocation of trading assets over multiple CTAs, it is possible for one of the CTAs to produce New Net Profit in the account assigned to him and be paid an incentive fee while the other CTA or CTAs produce losses which cause the Partnership to suffer a net loss for the Quarter or the year. THE PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNER IS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNER OF ONE OTHER COMMODITY POOL WHICH COMMENCED TRADING IN NOVEMBER OF 1996, AND ONE OF THE COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS FOR THIS POOL, MICHAEL J. FRISCHMEYER, HAS SERVED AS THE COMMODITY POOL OPERATOR FOR TWO OTHER COMMODITY POOLS AND HAS TRADED BOTH OTHER COMMODITY POOLS AND INDIVIDUAL MANAGED ACCOUNTS. THIS POOL HAS NOT COMMENCED TRADING AND DOES NOT HAVE ANY PERFORMANCE HISTORY. THE COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS MICHAEL J. FRISCHMEYER Michael J. Frischmeyer is one of the Commodity Trading Advisors (collectively above called the "CTAs" and in this section called the "CTA"). The CTA conducts the business of the trading program described in this Disclosure Document as a sole proprietorship, and his Main Business Office and main business telephone are: 1422 Central Avenue, P.O. Box 898, Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501; (515) 955-3800; and, Facsimile: (515) 955-1444. The books and records of the CTA will be kept and made available for inspection at the Main Business Office. BUSINESS BACKGROUND The business background of the CTA for at least five (5) years is as follows: The CTA, Mr. Frischmeyer, was born in 1953. He graduated from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural business. From March of 1976 to November of 1979, Mr. Frischmeyer was an account executive in the commodity brokerage business of Stark Brokerage, Inc., Fort Dodge, Iowa. In November of 1979, he joined the newly organized North Iowa Commodities, now known as Iowa Commodities, Ltd. He is currently Vice President and owner of approximately 21% of the total outstanding stock of Iowa Commodities, Ltd. and is registered with the CFTC and the NFA as an associated person of Iowa Commodities, Ltd. (since 1984). Iowa Commodities, Ltd. serves as an introducing broker for various traders, and is registered as an introducing broker with the CFTC (though the NFA) and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Frischmeyer is registered with the CFTC and the NFA as a commodity trading advisor (since October 12, 1984), and, as a commodity pool operator (since April, 1987). He directs the trading for discretionary accounts for individuals and entities and devotes substantially all of his time to the futures and options trading business. Mr. Frischmeyer serves as both the commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor for two commodity pools and also advises other commodity pool operators and other traders and managers with respect to trading strategies including his role as the sole CTA for Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership, a publicly offered commodity pool in which Ms. Pacult, the principal of the General Partner for this pool also serves as the principal of the general partner. See "Performance Record of Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership". Mr. Frischmeyer was affiliated with R.G. Dickinson and Company, based in Des Moines, Iowa, as registered representative from January, 1986 through December, 1991. R.G. Dickinson is a securities broker-dealer. Mr. Frischmeyer became a registered representative with Broker-Dealer Financial Services, Inc., based in Des Moines, Iowa on January 1, 1992. Mr. Frischmeyer terminated his association with Broker-Dealer Financial Services Corporation on 36 December 31, 1994, and became a registered representative of Investment Guidance, Inc., effective January 1, 1995. Investment Guidance, Inc. is registered as a fully-disclosed broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission and member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. It serves as the underwriter for certain limited partnership commodity pool offerings, in addition to offering general brokerage services to the public. Additionally, please see "Performance of the CTA", below, for a detailed performance history of Mr. Frischmeyer. DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM The types of futures contracts and options which the CTA may trade for the Partnership include, without limitation, all domestic and foreign currency futures contracts and all domestic and foreign commodities, currencies and provisions, and options therefore, as are usually dealt in on exchanges or in the interbank foreign currency forward markets. The CTA's trading has been active in the soybean complex (beans, oil and meal), corn, wheat, cattle (live and feeder), live hog and pork belly contracts and interest rate futures (long-term treasury bonds, Eurodollars and others). The CTA's trading has also been active in foreign currencies and in stock index futures and options and in precious metals (primarily gold and silver) futures, as well as in futures and options on foreign futures and options exchanges. The futures and options traded by the CTA, including the trades to be made for the Partnership, will be traded on regulated exchanges located in the United States and in non-United States jurisdictions, including England, France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan and Singapore. No business will in any event be conducted which is forbidden by or will be contrary to any applicable law (whether laws of the United States or a foreign jurisdiction) or any lawful rules and regulations as are established by the regulated exchanges (whether United States exchanges or foreign exchanges) upon which futures or options are traded for the Partnership. Prospective clients should be aware, however, that trading on foreign exchanges will not be subject to the regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") and may involve greater risks than trading on exchanges located in the United States. In addition, the CTA will be effecting certain trades through the "GLOBEX" system, Project A and other systems, which are electronic order-entry and matching systems for futures and options. See "Risk Factors". The CTA contemplates trading the contracts identified on the following Futures Exchanges for the Partnership, although other exchanges may be used and other types of contracts or interests may be traded: FOREIGN FUTURES EXCHANGES: Deutsche Terminborse - DAX Index; London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) - 3-Month Sterling, 3-Month EuroDeutscheMark, 3-Month EuroLira, 3-Month EuroSwissFranc, German Bond, British Gilt, Italian Government Bond (BTP), FT-SE 100 Index; Marche A Terme Internationale de France (MATIF) - 3-Month PIBOR, French Notional Bond, CAC 40 Index; Mercado de Futuros Y Opciones (MEFF) - 3-Month MIBOR, Spanish Notional Bond; Montreal Stock Exchange - 3-Month Canadian Bankers Acceptance, Canadian Government Bond; Sydney Futures Exchange - 3-Month Australian Bills, 10 Year Australian Bonds; Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange (TIFFE) - EuroYen; Tokyo Stock Exchange - Japanese 10 Year Bond; Singapore International Financial Futures Exchange (SIMEX) - EuroDollars, Nikkei, Japanese 10 Year Bond. UNITED STATES FUTURES EXCHANGES: Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) - Corn, Soybeans, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Wheat, Treasury (10 year) Notes, Treasury Bonds, Municipal Bond Index; Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) - Live Cattle, Feeder Cattle, Live Hogs, Pork Bellies; International Monetary Market (IMM) a division of the CME - Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Deutsche Mark, French Franc, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, Eurodollars, British Pound, Mexican Peso; Index and Options Market (IOM) a division of the CME - S & P 500 Index, S & P Midcap 400 Index; New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) - NYSE Composite; Financial Instruments Exchange (FINEX) - U.S. Dollar Index, British Sterling- Deutsche Mark, Deutsche Mark-Yen, Deutsche Mark-French Franc, Deutsche Mark- Italian Lira; Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX) - Gold, Silver; Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) - Hard Red Winter Wheat, Value Line Index. The following description of the CTA's trading systems, methods and strategies is not intended to be exhaustive. In addition, the trading methods, systems and principles utilized by the CTA are proprietary and confidential and the following descriptions are general in nature. Further, in preparing the following discussion, the CTA may have chosen to refer to or emphasize only specific aspects of his trading systems, methods and strategies. Prospective clients should also be aware that there are numerous trading systems, methods and strategies utilized in the various futures and options 37 contexts and that the following discussion only addresses those systems, methods and strategies utilized by the CTA. Prospective clients will be unable to compare the CTA's systems, methods and strategies with any other trading systems, methods and strategies that are or may be utilized by other traders or commodity trading advisors or trading managers. The CTA will rely on his subjective judgment and discretion in the trading of Partnership accounts. The intent of such subjective judgment and discretion is to enhance returns and/or lower risks; however, there can be no assurances that such actions will be successful. One example of such subjective judgment or discretion may be determining the appropriate level of aggressiveness during periods of unusual uncertainty. In certain trades, the CTA will be utilizing a practice known as "Exchange for Physicals" ("EFP"). EFP is a practice whereby positions in certain futures contracts may be initiated or liquidated by first executing the transaction in the appropriate cash market and then arbitraging the position into the futures market (simultaneously buying the cash position and selling the futures position, or vice versa). Although it is not anticipated to occur, if the CTA's ability to engage in such transactions were to be restricted by the CFTC or other applicable authority, the current trading techniques employed by the CTA may be impaired to the detriment of clients of the CTA. PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA The performance capsules set forth below are presented on a composite basis. While there may be differences in the specific trades made in each account, the trading program and strategies employed for accounts traded in Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule and in his Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule are the same, and Mr. Frischmeyer does not believe there are substantial differences between the trading systems, money management policies or fee structures, or any other significant differences among the accounts comprising the respective composites which would make the use of a composite inappropriate. As much as possible, Mr. Frischmeyer attempts to trade all managed accounts proportionately the same. For example, if one account is twice the size of another, it will trade twice the number of contracts so that the two accounts would generate a similar rate of return. When reviewing the CTA's performance record, prospective clients should also be aware, however, that composite performance results tend to create an "averaging effect" on the performance of the accounts. Further, prospective clients should recognize that different accounts can have and have had varying investment results, even though they have been traded according to the same general trading approach. The reasons for this include numerous material differences between accounts, including the following: 1. The timing of the deposit of equity and the total period during which each account was traded. 2. The relative sizes of the accounts, which influences the number of interests and the number of contracts in each interest traded by accounts, as well as the diversification of the account and the design and execution of the CTA's methods. For instance, in the example given above, the larger account might not be exactly twice the size of the smaller account. The CTA may, from time to time, determine that certain trades may entail greater than ordinary risks, which may cause him to also determine that all accounts should trade a smaller than usual number of contracts. As a result, in some circumstances larger accounts may trade a reduced number of contracts in such trades and the small accounts may not participate in such trades. 3. The trading approach used-although all accounts may be traded in accordance with the same general trading approach, such approach can and does change periodically as a result of research and development by the CTA. 4. Split fills. When entering an order to buy or sell futures or options, the CTA will block his managed accounts (group them together) so that multiple accounts can be filled on one order. If fills occur at more than one price, a small difference in performance can result. In such instances (except where the Average Price System is applicable, described in the Sections entitled "Description of Trading Program" and "Conflicts of Interest"), the fills are arbitrarily allocated so that the highest prices (whether buys or sells) are successively allocated to the numerically highest account numbers. 5. Incomplete fills. Occasionally, a blocked order can be partially, but not completely filled at the price specified on the order. In such an instance, the CTA attempts to allocate one contract to each account, regardless of account size, and 38 then allocate the remaining fills in proportion to account capitalization, but some discrepancies may be unavoidable. See "Conflicts of Interest" above. 6. The size and time of payment of brokerage commissions and fees paid by the accounts. 7. The size and time and payment of administrative costs paid by the accounts. 8. The size and time and payment of interest income earned by the accounts. 9. The market condition in which accounts are traded, which in part determines the quality of trade executions. 10. The allocation of orders to open or close positions. Thus, the results of individual accounts, as a result of differences in the above factors, may experience better or worse than the composite performance results shown. Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule The following capsule shows the past performance of Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule since the inception of the Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule and year-to-date (through My 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Month 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 January (0.02) (2.36) (2.56) 1.45 N/A February (0.51) (1.79) (1.22) (5.86) N/A March (0.79) (1.79) (5.11) (2.88) 0.19 April (3.95) (3.17) 14.71 (7.88) (3.40) May (5.77) (0.94) (8.46) (6.24) 0.58 June (0.91) (10.26) (3.09) (6.47) July (3.28) 2.21 2.55 11.36 August (1.15) (7.38) 9.58 5.38 September (3.76) (7.53) 19.83 (0.55) October (0.11) 2.35 4.18 1.65 November (1.51) (0.47) (3.01) (1.62) December (0.66) (3.40) 12.87 (1.53) Year (10.68) (19.50) (25.86) 19.24 4.64 Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: Michael J. Frischmeyer Name of Trading Program: Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule ("Regular Program") Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March 1, 1976 Date When Client Funds Began Being Traded Pursuant To The Regular Program: March 1, 1994 Number of Accounts Directed Pursuant To The Regular Program: 206 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Frischmeyer: $24,994,287 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To The Regular Program: $15,958,421 Largest Monthly Draw-Down: 6-96/10.26% of client funds 39 Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down***: 12-95 to 5-98/71.75% of net asset value * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time- Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month- end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
As indicated above, the performance capsule is a composite consisting of 198 accounts, comprised of 130 at $40,000, 49 at $80,000, 7 at $120,000, 11 at $160,000, and 1 at $200,000. As also indicated above, Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule began in March of 1994. One hundred twenty-three (123) such accounts were opened in 1994, one hundred thirty-two (132) such accounts were opened in 1995, two hundred thirty (230) were opened in 1996, fifty-six (56) were opened in 1997, and nine (9) were opened in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). Three (3) of such accounts were closed in 1994, all of which were profitable. Forty-three (43) such accounts were closed in 1995, of which 29 were profitable, and 14 of which were unprofitable. Fifty-two (52) such accounts were closed in 1996, of which 22 were profitable, 30 of which were unprofitable, and 20 of which were closed for purposes of transferring to the accounts to another futures commission merchant. The CTA continued as the commodity trading advisor for all such 20 accounts. One hundred eighty (180) such accounts were closed in 1997, 17 of which were profitable, and 163 of which were unprofitable. Eighty-four (84) such accounts were closed in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998), 1 of which was profitable and 83 of which were unprofitable. The composite performance records of the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule do not include certain limited accounts (5 as of May 31, 1998) which are traded in the Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule, but which have not and will not, with the client's agreement, make any trades in any contracts, options or other interests in any grains, oil seeds or livestock which are otherwise made by the other accounts traded in the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule. Those accounts are collectively referred to in this Prospectus as the "Regular Fee Schedule- Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only". Although the Regular Fee Restricted Accounts are charged the same fees by the CTA as the other accounts traded in the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule, the CTA believes including the Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Accounts in his composite performance records for his Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule is inappropriate because the Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Schedule Accounts do not trade in any contracts, options or other interest in any grains, oil seeds or livestock. As indicated above, the Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Accounts were therefore also excluded from the composite performance records for the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule. Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only The following capsule shows the past performance of Regular Fee Schedule- Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only since the inception of trading of the first Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Account (in November, 1995) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule - Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Year-to-date Nov - Dec 1998 1997 1996 1995 2.71 (10.06) (18.40) (2.12) Name of Pool: Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule-Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March 1, 1976 40 Date When Client Funds Began Traded Pursuant To The Restricted Program: November 27, 1995 Number of Accounts Directed Pursuant To The Restricted Program: 5 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Frischmeyer: $24,994,287 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To The Regular Program: $174,823 Largest Monthly Draw-Down**: 7-96/7.84% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down***: 7-96 to 12-97/25.99% of net asset value * Rate of return is computed by dividing the net performance by the sum of the beginning net asset value and net additions, capital withdrawals and redemptions. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month- end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
The above performance capsule is a composite of five (5) Regular Fee Schedule- Regular Fee Restricted Accounts Only Accounts. One (1) such Account was opened in 1995, twelve (12) such Accounts were opened in 1996, and no such Accounts were opened in either 1997 or 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). Three (3) such Accounts were closed in 1996, all of which were unprofitable as of the date they were closed. Four (4) such Accounts were closed in 1997, all of which were unprofitable as of the date they were closed. One (1) such Account was closed in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998), which was unprofitable as of the date it was closed. The CTA has reserved the right, in his discretion, to negotiate and accept a different fee schedule for any particular account or accounts to be traded under his trading program, i.e., the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule. One account traded under the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule for which the CTA has agreed to a different fee schedule is Frischmeyer Fund, L.P., which is an Iowa limited partnership operating as a commodity pool. As of May 31, 1998, Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. had net assets of approximately $1,235,718. Given the size of Frischmeyer Fund, L.P., the CTA has agreed to receive a one percent (1%) annual management fee from Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. based upon the total equity of Frischmeyer Fund, L.P.'s account, rather than the four percent (4%) annual management fee based upon the incremental trading level of the account as is generally charged to accounts traded in the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule. (The fees charged Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. by the CTA are otherwise the same as those normally charged by the CTA to accounts traded in the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule.). The CTA has determined that the difference in the management fees charged to Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. makes the inclusion of Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. in the composite performance records of the CTA's Managed Account Program, Regular Fee Schedule inappropriate. The following paragraph therefore sets forth a separate performance capsule for Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. Managed Account Program, Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. Fee Schedule Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. is a single advisor pool that does not have a guarantee feature. The following capsule shows the past performance of Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. since the inception of trading by Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. and year- to-date (through May 31, 1998). The CTA has no authority to, and no offering of any interests in Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. is made by this Prospectus. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Managed Account Program, Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. Fee Schedule Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Year-to-date Feb - Dec 1998 1997 1996 1995 (9.79) (14.25) 12.69 (6.62) Name of Pool: Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. Type of Pool: Publicly offered, but currently closed to new investors 41 Date of Inception of Trading: March 15, 1995 Aggregate Gross Capital Subscriptions to the Pool: $2,658,017 Pool's Net Asset Value: $1,235,718 Largest Monthly Draw-Down**: 12-95/19.44% of net asset value Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down***: 10-95 to12-95/10.78% of net asset value * Rate of return is computed by dividing the net performance by the sum of the beginning net asset value and net additions, capital withdrawals and redemptions. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month- end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
Financial Futures Managed Account Program The following capsule shows the past performance of Financial futures Managed Account Program since the inception of trading of the first Financial futures Managed Account Program (in June, 1997) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Financial Futures Managed Account Program Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Year-to-Date June - Dec 1998 1997 (1.37)**** (9.36)**** Name of Pool: Financial Futures Managed Account Program Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March 1, 1976 Date When Client Funds Began Traded Pursuant To The Financial Futures program: June, 1997 Number of Accounts Directed Pursuant To The Restricted Program: 1 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Frischmeyer: $24,997,287 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To The Regular Program: $56,635 Largest Monthly Draw-Down**: 8-97/3.45% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down***: 6-97 to 5-98/5.86% of net asset value * Rate of return is computed by dividing the net performance by the sum of the beginning net asset value and net additions, capital withdrawals and redemptions. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month- end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value. **** The rates of return for 1995 and 1996 were affected by a misappropriation in 1995 of certain assets of Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. by its prior general partner and by the recovery of those assets by Frischmeyer Fund, L.P. in 1996. Mr. Frischmeyer was not involved in any way with the referenced events.
The above performance capsule is a composite of one (1) Financial Futures Managed Account Program Account. Four (4) such Accounts were opened in 1997, and no such Accounts were opened in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). Three (3) such 42 Account was closed in 1997, all of which were unprofitable as of the date they were closed. No such Accounts were closed in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule The following capsule shows the past performance of Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule for the most recent five calendar years and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998), as well as since inception through 1992. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule Percentage Rate of Return For the Most Recent Five Calendar Years and Year-to-Date (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Year-to-Date 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 (8.13) (17.89) (20.14) 42.34 9.71 166.90
Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule Percentage Rate of Return Since Inception Through December, 1992 (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 21.19 (4.96) (6.73) 54.84 86.89 100.09 (35.78) (4.62) 229.34 100.69 0.86 (25.34) Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: Michael J. Frischmeyer Name of Trading Program: Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule ("ICL Program") Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March 1, 1976 Date When Client Funds Began Being Traded Pursuant To The ICL Program: January 1, 1981 Number of Accounts Directed Pursuant To The ICL Program: 59 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Frischmeyer: $24,994,287 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To The ICL Program: $7,743,513 Largest Monthly Draw-Down**: 8-93/35.47% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down***: 4-96 to 5-98/75.75% of net asset value * Rate of Return is computed by dividing the net trading results by beginning net asset value for the period. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month- end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
No accounts in Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule were opened in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). Four (4) such accounts were opened in 1997. Eight (8) such accounts were opened in 1996, six (6) such accounts were opened in 1995, and twenty-one (21) such accounts were opened in 1994. Eight (8) such accounts were opened in 1993, and one (1) such account was opened in 1992, being a commodity pool which was created as a vehicle for existing managed accounts of less than $30,000 to permit participation in trades that would be unsuitable for a small account. In the course of consolidating those accounts, twenty-four (24) managed accounts were closed. The historical performance of each of those accounts was comparable to that shown in the composite performance record. The lifetime performance of such accounts is dependent upon when each account was opened. 43 One account in Mr. Frischmeyer's Managed Account Program, Iowa Commodities Fee Schedule was closed in 1992, one other was closed in 1993, three were closed in 1994, five such accounts were closed in 1995, no such accounts were closed in 1996, four such accounts were closed in 1997, and four such accounts were closed in 1998 (as of May 31, 1998). The account closed in 1992 had been traded for ten quarters from April, 1990 through September, 1992 and was unprofitable (as were all of Mr. Frischmeyer's managed accounts during that period). The account closed in 1993 was transferred to Mr. Frischmeyer in 1989, had been profitable, and was closed due to the dissolution of the partnership which owned the account. Of the three closed in 1994, one was opened in 1989 and was profitable, one was opened in 1990 and was profitable (closed for estate planning), and one was opened in 1976 and was closed due to a death. Of the five closed in 1995, one was opened in 1981 and was profitable, one was opened in 1984 and was profitable, and three were opened in 1994 and were unprofitable. Two of the accounts which were closed in 1995 were closed pursuant to reorganizations by the client, and resulted in two new accounts being opened in 1995. COMMODITECH, INC. Commoditech, Inc., a Missouri corporation, is one of the Commodity Trading Advisors (collectively above called the "CTAs" and in this section called the "CTA"),and its Main Business Office and main business telephone are: 4299, Rock Island Road, Arnold, Missouri 63010; (314) 464-5457; and, Facsimile: (314) 467-1906. The books and records of the CTA will be kept and made available for inspection at the Main Business Office. BUSINESS BACKGROUND The business background of the CTA for at least five (5) years is as follows: Commoditech, Inc. (the "CTA") was registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") as a Commodity Trading Advisor in August 1990 and is a member in good standing of the National Futures Association ("NFA"). Such registration and membership, however, in no way implies that the CFTC or the NFA has reviewed or approved the accuracy of the information contained in the CTA's application for registration or that the CTA has qualifications to provide the advisory services described herein. The CTA is a Missouri corporation organized in 1990 to serve as a commodity trading advisor. The sole principal of the CTA is Barry T. Johnson. Mr. Johnson obtained a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 1970. Since 1969 he has been employed by Union Carbide (1969), Monsanto Company (1970 to 1980) and by the Allis-Chalmers Corporation (1980 to 1990) in various engineering and management positions. His experience includes that of being the Plant Manager of a $150 million coal gasification plant and of holding the position of President of the Allis-Chalmers subsidiary which owned the plant. His most recent position, from 1990 to the present, has been as President of Commoditech, Inc. Mr. Johnson, born in 1948, was raised on a farm in Iowa, where he first became interested in commodity markets. In 1984, he combined his technical education and experience with his market interest and began to develop a computer-based trading system. In January 1988, after years of research and development, he began trading his own account to gain actual trading experience while continuing to test and develop the trading system. The CTA began trading its first client account in January 1992. The performance section of this document sets forth the actual, entire results of the CTA's managed accounts on the basis of monthly reporting periods. Additionally, please see "Performance of the CTA", below, for a detailed performance history of Mr. Johnson. DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM The trading method developed and employed by the CTA seeks substantial capital appreciation through speculative trading in commodity futures contracts, as defined and permitted by the CFTC, including, without limitation, futures contracts in agricultural products, metals, financial instruments, foreign currencies and stock indices, traded on commodity exchanges located in the United States. No assurance is given that this objective can be met. Commodity traders generally rely on either technical or fundamental analysis, or a combination thereof, in making trading decisions and attempting to identify price trends. Fundamental analysis looks at the external factors that affect the supply and demand of a particular commodity in order to predict futures prices. As an example, some of the fundamental 44 factors that affect the supply of a commodity (e.g., silver) include mining production, industrial reclamation, and strikes affecting the production and distribution of the commodity. The demand for silver consists of industrial production, manufacturing and world consumption, and is a product of many things, including general world economic conditions, as well as the cost of silver in relation to the cost of competing products such as gold and platinum. Technical analysis is not based on the anticipated supply and demand of the cash (actual) commodity; instead, it is based on the theory that a study of the markets themselves will provide a means of anticipating futures prices. Technical analysis of the markets generally will include a study of the actual daily, weekly and monthly price fluctuations, volume variations and changes in open interest, utilizing charts or computers for analysis of these items. The CTA uses a computer-based technical system for trading commodity futures contracts. On a daily basis, his self-developed trading system ("the System") calculates certain key parameters from current market data. The System produces "trading signals" if these calculated parameters are within predefined limits. For example, one of the key parameters is "trend-rate" which is calculated from moving-average price data over an 18 week period. Some of the other parameters include "price volatility" and certain mathematically-defined "price patterns". The acceptable limits of the System's key parameters are constants which are applied consistently to all of the markets traded. This is made possible by calculating each of the key parameters as a ratio to the specific market's price volatility. As a result, markets as diverse as coffee and the eurodollar can be traded using the same parameter limits. The CTA believes that standardizing the key parameters in this way and setting their acceptable limits as constants which are applied consistently to all of the markets is important in achieving acceptable repeatability of performance results. The System seeks to identify market conditions that favor price trending, and trading positions are taken only in the direction of the calculated 18-week price trend. Specific trading decisions are based on the theory that when the market price of a commodity reaches a threshold price (as calculated by the System), then there is a favorable probability that the market price will continue in that direction for the near term. Consequently, trades for both entering and exiting the market are normally made using "stop-orders" located at these calculated threshold prices. For example, in an upward-trending market, a long position may be taken at a set increment above a recent market low using a buy-stop order. The offsetting sell-stop order then follows at a set increment below the subsequent market high until it is executed, or until the position is otherwise closed out by the CTA on a market order. Conversely, in a downward-trending market, a short market position may be taken by selling at a set increment below a recent market high. As the trading methods and strategies of this trading program are proprietary and confidential, the above discussion is necessarily of a general nature. The risk management strategy employed by any commodities trader is equally important to the foregoing discussion of commodity and price selection. There is a wide distribution of results on individual trades. The worst trades are experienced when the market reverses direction immediately after opening a position and then continues in the unfavorable direction until the stop-loss order is executed. The best trades are experienced when the market makes a significant price move in the favorable direction before reversing course and executing the closeout stop order. Normal statistical variations are such that, at times, there will be a series of losing trades. The level of risk taken on individual trades must therefore be established to balance long-term rate of return with short-term loss containment. The amount of intended risk on any individual trade is a function of the location of the stop-order price, which is set by the trading system, and the number of contracts traded. The CTA determines the number of contracts such that the intended risk is within both the CTA's and the Client's risk tolerance. Typically, the risk level on individual trades ranges from 3% to 7% of the account's net asset value. The CTA trades a diversified mix of commodities which includes the British pound, Deutschemark, Yen, U.S. dollar index, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, eurodollar, T-bills, Treasury bonds, sugar, crude oil, copper, coffee, cotton, natural gas, orange juice, and others. Trading activity is typically in the range of two to six independent trades per month, although this varies widely depending on market conditions. 45 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA Commoditech, Inc. - Program A The following capsule shows the past performance of the Commoditech, Inc. - Program A since the inception of trading of the first Account (in January, 1992) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Commoditech, Inc. - Program A Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Month 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 January (3.08) 25.33 10.67 (17.68) (6.44) (5.58) February (4.03) 12.06 (11.95) 1.52 0.18 (7.95) March 8.06 (0.41) (3.13) 19.98 7.96 (1.37) April (2.70) 5.00 15.40 3.87 10.84 3.26 May (4.32) 0.67 (3.81) 6.17 17.57 3.38 June 0.35 (8.89) 6.40 21.75 4.25 July 18.42 0.57 (5.67) (1.33) (4.01) August (6.33) (2.25) 0.94 (15.04) (4.00) September 4.82 (3.95) 1.24 1.84 (0.33) October (15.82) 12.99 2.34 (7.07) 7.00 November 13.21 7.85 13.35 14.49 (17.66) December (7.54) (12.76) 8.92 (7.60) 1.89 Totals (6.43) 52.00 (4.17) 43.30 34.74 (21.34) Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: Commoditech, Inc. Name of Trading Program: Program A Acceptance Date of First Client Account: January 1992 Date CTA began trading client funds pursuant to Program A: January 1992 Number of client accounts using this trading program: 78 Total Assets managed under all trading programs of the CTA: $2,850,000 Total Assets managed under this trading program: $2,850,000 Worst Monthly Percentage Draw-down**: 11-93/21.49% Worst Peak-to-Valley % Draw-down***: 6-94 to 1-95/38.89% * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
ROSENBERY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., an Illinois corporation, is one of the Commodity Trading Advisors (collectively above called the "CTAs" and in this section called the "CTA"), and its Main Business Office and main business telephone are: 5445 N. Sheridan Rd. Suite 2706, Chicago, IL 60640; (773) 271- 7971; and, Facsimile: (773) 271-8371. The books and records of the CTA will be kept and made available for inspection at the Main Business Office. 46 BUSINESS BACKGROUND The business background of the CTA for at least five (5) years is as follows: Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., a Subchapter S Corporation chartered in the State of Illinois, manages individual commodity trading accounts. Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. is a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Com-mission (CFTC) since February 21, 1997 and a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) since February 21, 1997. Employing a proprietary technical trading program designed to overcome limitations common to small account management, Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. seeks the maximization of long-term asset appreciation relative to risk for accounts of $10,000 and multiples thereof. The program entails the buying and selling of U.S. Treasury 10-year Treasury Note futures contracts, 30-year Treasury Bond futures contracts and 30-year Treasury Bond option contracts. Futures positions may be long or short, while option positions may be long only. The trading of these contracts are executed only through domestic U.S. exchanges. Eric Rosenbery is the sole principal of Rosenbery Capital Management Inc. and is solely responsible for all trading and operational decision-making. Mr. Rosenbery has been the controlling principal since the inception of Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. In 1977, Eric Rosenbery received a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Physics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Upon graduation, Mr. Rosenbery was hired by the Borg-Warner Corporation as a Product Engineer for the Brummer line of automotive components. When Brummer was purchased in 1983 by Echlin Inc., Mr. Rosenbery relocated with the product line to the Echlin manufacturing facilities in McHenry, Illinois as a condition of the product line's sale and was named Chief Engineer of Echlin's newly-created Brummer Division. In addition to engineering and supervisory duties, Mr. Rosenbery was responsible for the on-site re-qualification of the Brummer OEM product line at Ford Motor Company's European manufacturing facilities in Basildon, England and Cologne, Germany. Mr. Rosenbery also served as the engineering liaison to Echlin's European sales representatives located in Hamburg, Germany. In 1985, Mr. Rosenbery began research into technical trading methods. By 1987, Mr. Rosenbery was trading sector mutual funds full-time for his own account and formed Oracle Weekly Publications, Inc., which later became Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. In 1990, Mr. Rosenbery began trading commodity futures and concentrated his research efforts on 10-year Treasury Notes and 30-year Treasury Bonds. On July 6, 1994, Mr. Rosenbery implemented Progenitor I, his first system devoted solely to capital market interest rates. Further development led to the implementation on Jan 2, 1996 of Progenitor II, which greatly increased the already-profitable performance of Progenitor I. On February 21, 1997, Mr. Rosenbery was granted registration as an Associated Person of Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. and was admitted as an NFA Associate Member. Additionally, please see "Performance of the CTA", below, for a detailed performance history of Mr. Rosenbery. DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM PROPRIETARY INDICATORS. It is the CTA's belief that a successful indicator must be self-generated and outside the public domain. Axiomatically, any truly predictive indicator can have only a briefly successful public life. Once publicly known, the indicator would be treated by the market as new information. In the same way that prices are discounted upon the release of new information, such as a government report, the indicator would likewise cause a similar price discounting. In addition to the narrowed window of opportunity, this indicator would ultimately lose its effectiveness by measuring its own discounted prices. Compounding this failure, attempts at modifying the indicator back to life would de-couple the indicator from its original philosophical basis and possibly lead to reverse-logic contrarian interpretations. Having tested numerous indicators, the CTA has found none sufficient to consistently offset transaction costs. The CTA therefore employs only proprietary indicators of his own design. PRICE THEORY. It is the CTA's belief that a non-random component exists within commodity prices and that price movement can be forecasted through mathematical analysis. Confirmatory to this belief, the CTA has identified four primary market mechanisms that account for much of the non-random behavior. Because commodities are traded by people, prices will be affected by market psychology and occasionally dominate normal supply and demand concerns until they are eventually corrected. Classical price theory addresses the linear interaction between supply and demand but 47 doesn't address the non-linear interaction between the rational and the semi- rational. Markets react not only to supply and demand, but also to their own reaction to supply and demand, all the while leaving numerous telltale "fingerprints" on prices. Normally dismissed as noise or selectively attributed to affirmative market fundamentals, the imbedded non-linear information in seemingly mundane prices can aid in forecasting which way a seemingly quiet market will eventually break. Through repeated human iterations, this positively-reinforced market feedback may evolve into range- bound "cyclical" markets, break-out into "trending" markets or climax in a panic. Each of these market types are of limited duration and often dissolve shortly after being identified. By being on-board at the start, with minimal lag time, these market inefficiencies can be efficiently exploited. Further, knowing the mechanisms that caused these market inefficiencies can aid in forecasting the market's eventual discounting back to equilibrium. SYSTEM DESIGN. Imbedded non-linear price information must be extracted and converted into a usable linear form because the act of trading, in itself, is linear. For example, a trader establishes a bullish position because his sentiment level reaches a specific threshold for bullish action. A trader does not, however, establish a bullish position because he reaches an undefined level of bearishness. A linear indicator generates signals that are directly proportional to the expected market outcome. In addition to its inherent rational logic, linear indicators can be combined to create a more powerful linear composite indicator. Here, strong sentiment in one direction will overrule weak sentiment in another direction by a quantifiable amount and render a more accurate forecast. Compounding this increase in accuracy, the random noise component of each indicator is largely canceled-out. This enhanced performance is extremely important because profits begin only after transaction costs are met. This enhanced composite indicator, more powerful than the sum of its parts, forms the heart of the CTA's trading system. This forecasting power is measured as a signal-to-noise ratio, which when implemented into a completed program, translates into the reward-to-risk ratio of actual trading. The degree of complexity in this system is well-beyond the scope of conventional fundamental analysis and owes its feasibility to the power of today's computers. Fully objective and mechanical, the system generates unambiguous buy and sell signals, allowing the CTA to concentrate on market monitoring and accurate order placement. THE SYSTEM. The system is based upon rationally-derived algorithms of market mechanisms coupled to specific aspects of trader mass-behavior. At the core of the system are four independent and quantitative indicator modules that each describe a particular market mechanism. Each reacts with opposing biases to price movement, thereby largely hulling-out random price noise when combined. The result is a highly distilled composite with a high signal-to- noise ratio. Acting upon the composite is a trade shell program that generates the actual buy and sell signals. If the composite is strongly positive, a buy signal is generated. If the composite is strongly negative, a sell signal is generated. When the composite reverses polarity, positions are exited. The system is in the market 72% of the time on average. A trade- saving filter consisting of robust short-term indicators is used to protect against "whip-saw" price action and control the frequency of trades in a cost- effective manner. Entries and exits are allowed only when confirmed by the filter and result in trade durations of 8 calendar days on average. In addition to lowering overall transaction costs, the lowered trading frequency minimizes the likelihood human error in program execution that is common to active trading. EXECUTION. The system derives its trading decisions primarily from daily settlement prices. Of all daily prices, the settlement price offers the truest insight into the state of the market. By closely monitoring prices during the final minutes of trading, the system generates buy or sell commands that are typically executed via market-on-close (MOC) orders. This eliminates the lag time of waiting until the next day's opening. Although one may question the propriety of acting on a price that technically hasn't occurred yet, the system usually generates buy and sell price ranges that are widely separated and rarely affected by moves occurring in the minutes between order placement and the market's close. Further, because of the system's trade- saving features, there is less than a 20% likelihood of any trade activity occurring on any given trading day. Adding to the benefit of end-of-day trading, markets are usually the most liquid at the close and result in a published price from which order fill quality can be definitively monitored. ACCOUNT SIZE, COMPOSITION AND OPTIONS. (This disclosure statement is not meant to offer an exhaustive description of options and describes only their generalized characteristics. Because the program allows the holding of only long options purchased at a premium, all subsequent use of the terms "option", "call" and "put" shall be taken to mean "long option", "long call" and "long put", respectively) Account size is measured in terms of "units". One unit consists of one 10-year Treasury Note or 30-year Treasury Bond futures contract, augmented at the CTA's discretion by the purchase of one 30-year Treasury Bond call and/or put contract. To definitively cap risk exposure, the CTA may substitute an additional option contract in lieu of the futures contract. An account controls one unit for every $10,000 account balance, rounded to the nearest $10,000. For example, an account with a balance of between $15,000 (inclusive) and $25,000 will control two units. Upon initiation of each new trading position, the CTA determines the appropriate 48 unit quantity for the account and places the forthcoming trades in the specified contract quantities. Typically, an account is increased by one unit for each $10,000 net profit (less applicable fees) and is decreased by one unit for each $10,000 net loss. It is advised that the account balance be maintained above $5,000 to reduce the likelihood of margin calls. PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. manages accounts that trade solely in capital market interest rate futures and options in unit blocks of $10,000. The trading system used was developed entirely by the CTA. Pursuant to the use of this specific product for the management of trading accounts, the CTA thoroughly researched the accuracy of the system's buy and sell signals within his own personal trading account. Implemented on July 6, 1994 and still in use, the system encompasses over 21/2 years of proprietary trading, leading to its use for managed accounts. The system has been slightly modified through use, but has remained the same since January, 1996. On December 23, 1996, the Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. began trading on behalf of clients as a registered CTA under the trading program "Progenitor". The following performance capsule reflects the results of such trading. Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. - Progenitor The following capsule shows the past performance of the Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. - Progenitor since the inception of trading of the first Account (in December 23, 1996) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. - Progenitor Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Month 1998 1997 1996 January (15.0) 25.5 N/A February 0.3 (14.8) N/A March (10.8) 22.2 N/A April 5.2 (19.7) N/A May (8.2) (6.0) N/A June 6.3 N/A July 1.9 N/A August (1.1) N/A September (3.8) N/A October 33.7 N/A November 3.1 N/A December 6.6 5.5 Year (26.6) 49.2 5.5 Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. Name of Trader: Eric Rosenbery Name of Trading Program: Progenitor Inception of Trading by CTA: December 23, 1996 Inception of Trading in Progenitor: December 23, 1996; July 6, 1994 (proprietary) Progenitor Accounts Under Management: 235 Total Assets managed by CTA: $2,871,775 Worst Monthly Percentage Draw-down**: 4-97/19.7% Worst Peak-to-Valley % Draw-down***: 1-98 to 5-98/26.6% Number of Accounts Closed with Profit: 7 since December 23, 1996 Number of Accounts Closed with Loss: 23 since December 23, 1996 49 * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
J.A.H. RESEARCH AND TRADING James A. Hyerczyk (d.b.a. J.A.H. Research and Trading) is one of the Commodity Trading Advisors (collectively above called the "CTAs" and in this section called the "CTA"). The CTA conducts the business of the trading program described in this Disclosure Document as a sole proprietorship as J.A.H. Research and Trading, and his Main Business Office and main business telephone are: 10561 Ridgewood Drive, Palos Park, Illinois 60464, (708) 448-6858, facsimile (708) 448-0723, e-mail jahtrade@ix.netcom.com. The books and records of the CTA will be kept and made available for inspection at the Main Business Office. DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM J.A.H. RESEARCH AND TRADING offers two separate trading programs for managed accounts based on the level of capitalization of each client's account. Accounts with a beginning equity balance which is less than $8,000 are traded pursuant to the Program II. Accounts with a beginning balance which is greater than $8,000 are traded pursuant to the Program I. When trading for the Partnership, the CTA intends to use the Program I strategy, detailed below under "Program I". The CTA will use the signals generated to trade the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Globex, the Kansas City Board of Trade, the Mid-America Commodity Exchange, New York Cotton Exchange, and the New York Mercantile Exchange markets. No other futures markets will be traded for the Partnership. Trading Philosophy of the CTA The trading philosophy of the Advisor was developed over thirteen years of research and back-testing in the futures industry. The main thrust of the Advisor's philosophy is that markets adhere to the principles of price, time and pattern and that the conclusions derived from the research and back- testing of these principles can be quantified and tested over a period of at least ten years of historical data to determine the probabilities of its success. During the early years of testing the Advisor discovered that many of the technical indicators and commercially available systems used and written about in technical manuals simply do not work consistently when tested objectively by computer. Most programs either focus too much on time or on price and subsequently ignore the important relationship between the two. In many cases an indicator or system would have a strongly positive return for a period of a few weeks or months, followed by many months of draw-down. In addition, he found that many systems only prove profitable if a particular commodity were chosen for inclusion in the testing or trading. In other words, one market which experienced a major trend provided all the profit and all the other markets continued to provide losses. Unless every market were traded, there was no assurance that a trader would be fortunate enough to have included the winning commodity in his or her trading with the particular system. It wasn't until he began to work with price, time and pattern that the Advisor consistently found positive results in simulated trading. His conclusion was that a trader needs the computer generated reports to filter the patterns, but he also needs the discretionary input in order to allow the system to be more adaptive to current market conditions. Program I The Program I is a proprietary, discretionary, and technical trading system. The Program attempts to profit from short-term to intermediate trends in the market. The Program was developed through extensive and on-going back testing of historical data based on price and time trading theories. The Program incorporates the use of price, time and pattern recognition. A mechanical trend indicator as well as geometrical angles are used to show trend, strength and direction. Various oscillators are also used to provide information on the market's trend, strength, momentum and 50 overbought/oversold conditions. The information obtained from the combination of the price and time analysis, and the oscillators are the basis of all trading signals. Each day the CTA analyzes his charts as well as the oscillators to identify current conditions that may have existed in the past that have a high probability of generating a successful trade. If conditions do exist, then at his discretion, the CTA will issue the appropriate buy, sell or flat signal. Risk management is an important aspect of the J.A.H. Research and Trading Program. Risk is measured on a trade-by-trade basis. If current conditions exist that conclude liquidation of a position is necessary, then at his discretion, the CTA will issue the appropriate signal. In summary, the Program I will incorporate trades in all United States Futures and Options Exchanges. The Program is discretionary with signals based on a combination of price, time, pattern and oscillators. The specific parameters of the J.A.H. Research and Trading model were developed through extensive and on-going back-testing of historical data to determine specific entry and exit points. Risk is measured on a trade-by-trade basis. Program II As stated above, the Advisor now offers the Program II to clients investing less than $8,000. The trading signals utilized by the Advisor in initiating and liquidating positions for accounts traded pursuant this program are identical to those employed by the Advisor on behalf of accounts traded pursuant to the Program I. The only major difference between the between these programs is that the accounts traded pursuant to the Program II will trade primarily (though not exclusively) in option contracts and "mini" futures contracts offered at the Mid-America Commodity Exchange. Additionally, the Advisor's risk management of accounts traded pursuant to this program will be adjusted in relation to the size of these accounts. For instance, the Advisor may enter a stop loss order closer to the initiation price of an account traded pursuant to this program than he would for an account traded pursuant to the Program I in order to protect the smaller balances of these accounts. As with the Program I, risk will measured on a trade-by-trade basis. BUSINESS BACKGROUND The name of the principal and sole-proprietor of J.A.H. RESEARCH AND TRADING is James A. Hyerczyk. Mr. Hyerczyk became registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor on August 9, 1989. Mr. Hyerczyk was admitted to membership in the National Futures Association effective December 28, 1995. Mr. Hyerczyk began his career in the futures industry in 1983 as an account executive with Data-Trend Commodities, an Introducing Broker of Chicago Grain. Throughout his career he has worked in the capacity of Director of Research for several Introducing Brokers. During this time period Mr. Hyerczyk has devoted a substantial amount of time researching and analyzing price and time trading strategies and systems. In May 1989, Mr. Hyerczyk became a sole- proprietor and formed Gann Research and Trading. This company was a daily futures advisory service which provided daily and intra-day Gann based support and resistance data to S&P 500 Stock Index future traders. In December 1992, Mr. Hyerczyk became an associated person of the staff of Hartfield Management, a CTA, and publisher of the Hightower Report. At the Hightower Report, Mr. Hyerczyk was responsible for all areas of technical analysis including daily commentary, special reports and the Techview Section of the bi-weekly letter. In 1993, Mr. Hyerczyk registered with the National Futures Association as a commodity trading advisor doing business as J.A.H. Research and Trading. His work has been published in Futures Magazine (September 1990) and the Gann/Elliott Trader Magazine (April 1988). He has also presented seminars for the Commodities Educational Institute (a Division of Oster Communication) and has lectured at the World Conference of Cycle-Economics as well as in the Soviet Union (1991), Guatemala (1995) and Malaysia (1995). Mr. Hyerczyk is also on the faculty of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he teaches a course called An Introduction to Gann Theory. He is a regular weekly commentator on the Money Radio Network in Pomona, California. Mr. Hyerczyk received a BA degree in Business Administration from St. Xavier College in Chicago in 1982 and a CPA Certificate from the State of Illinois in 1983. In addition, he received a Masters degree in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1996. Additionally, please see "Performance of the CTA", below, for a detailed performance history of Mr. Hyerczyk. 51 PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA J.A.H Research and Trading - Program I - Capsule Performance of Accounts The following capsule shows the past performance of Mr. Hyerczyk's trading as J.A.H. Research and Trading (Program I) since the inception of J.A.H. Research and Trading and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). J.A.H. Research and Trading - Program I Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Month 1998 1997 January (1.15) N/A February (7.67) N/A March (2.30) (1.89) April (0.74) (6.79) May (0.31) 9.46 June (0.20) July 2.96 August 5.25 September (0.25) October (3.33) November (0.28) December (7.38) Year (11.76) (3.60) Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: James A. Hyerczyk Name of Trading Program: J.A.H. Research and Trading Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March, 1997 Date When Client Funds Began Being Traded Pursuant To Program I: March, 1997 Number of Accounts: 326 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Hyerczyk: $2,268,465 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To Program I: $1,854,722 Largest Monthly Draw-Down** Since Inception and Year-to-Date (through May 31, 1998): 2-98/7.67% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down*** Since Inception and Year-to-Date (through May 31, 1998): 9-97 to 5-98/21.50% of net asset value Number of Accounts Closed with Profit: 1 Number of Accounts Closed with Loss: 190 * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
52 J.A.H Research and Trading - Program II - Capsule Performance of Accounts The following capsule shows the past performance of Mr. Hyerczyk's trading as J.A.H. Research and Trading (Program II) since the inception of the Program II and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). J.A.H. Research and Trading - Program II Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)*
Month 1998 1997 January (1.90) N/A February (7.70) N/A March (7.79) N/A April (3.05) (12.98) May (2.01) 13.33 June 0.77 July (0.17) August 2.13 September (0.27) October 0.65 November (3.18) December (9.98) Year (20.68) (11.36) Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: James A. Hyerczyk Name of Trading Program: J.A.H. Research and Trading Date Commodity Trading Advisor Began Trading Client Accounts: March, 1997 Date When Client Funds Began Being Traded Pursuant To Program II: April, 1997 Number of Accounts: 141 Total Assets Under Management of Mr. Hyerczyk: $2,268,465 Total Assets Traded Pursuant To Program II: $413,743 Largest Monthly Draw-Down** Since Inception and Year-to-Date (through May 31, 1998): 4-97/12.98% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down*** Since Inception and Year-to-Date (through May 31, 1998): 4-97 to 5-98/30.88% of net asset value Number of Accounts Closed with Profit: 4 since April, 1997 Number of Accounts Closed with Loss: 40 since April, 1997 Number of Accounts Closed with no change: 1 since April, 1997 * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
53 C&M TRADERS, INC. C&M Traders, Inc., a Florida Corporation is one of the Commodity Trading Advisors (collectively above called the "CTAs" and in this section called the "CTA"). Steven Midlarsky was previously registered as a CTA as a sole proprietorship effective 5/12/95, and transferred his status to C&M effective July 31, 1995. Steven Midlarsky is currently registered as the principal and associated person of the CTA. The Main Business Office and main business telephone of the CTA are: 1001 Yamato Road, Suite 307, Boca Raton, Florida 33487, (561) 995-8626, facsimile (561) 988-0210. The books and records of the CTA will be kept and made available for inspection at the Main Business Office. BUSINESS BACKGROUND The business background of the CTA for at least five (5) years is as follows: C&M Traders Inc. was incorporated in March, 1995, by Steven Midlarsky, its president and principal owner. Mr. Midlarsky was a principal owner of a wholesale meat distributor, called Crown Meat Company, Inc. from February, 1987 through September, 1991 located in New York City & Secaucus, New Jersey. From October, 1991 to the present Mr. Midlarsky has been trading cattle for himself from an office in Boca Raton, Florida. Mr. Midlarsky holds a Bachelors degree in Science from Tulane University. Heidi A. Brown, Vice President of C&M Traders, Inc., As Vice President, her responsibilities include but are not limited to: Investor Relations, Compliance with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Regulations and National Futures Association Rules. Ms. Browns' professional experience includes: Commercial and Residential Real Estate Sales, and Real Estate Property Management (12/88-7/93). In July, 1993, Brown began her career in managed futures with Hallett Capital Management, CTA, as an AP before being promoted to Director of Compliance until February, 1995. In February, 1995, Ms. Brown was recruited by Alaron to build their first branch office. Once the project was completed in September, 1995, Brown joined C&M Traders, Inc. Educational Background: Ms. Brown attended University of Kentucky and Florida Atlantic University, focusing on International Business and Finance. DESCRIPTION OF TRADING PROGRAM C&M Traders, Inc. is solely a "fundamental trader". Trading in Meats, mostly in live cattle as well as lean hogs. By being a "Fundamental trader," C&M Traders, Inc. carefully analyzes actual market conditions in the present and how they could effect the future condition of the markets traded. C&M Traders, Inc. program invests in futures or options on futures contracts that in the judgment of C&M Traders, Inc., offers special potential. Moreover, in certain instances C&M may trade short term market price movements depending on market conditions. There are no limitations to the domestic futures or options on futures contacts that may be considered for this program. C&M Traders, Inc. does not offer advice with respect to foreign futures and/ or options. C&M Traders, Inc., has no other restrictions or limitations on trading. It is C&M Traders, Inc. policy to attempt to minimize the differences in performance between accounts. However, the risk assumed and, consequently, the potential for profit experienced in a particular account at different times, or by different accounts at the same time, can vary significantly according to market conditions, the size of the account, the percentage gained or lost in the account, and the perceived risk aversion of that account's owner. For those and other reasons described in the performance record, no investor should expect the same performance as that of any other account traded previously, simultaneously, or subsequently by C&M Traders, Inc., or of the composite presented within. The exact nature of C&M Traders, Inc., methods are proprietary and confidential. The decision not to trade a certain position may result at times in missing price moves and hence profits or losses of great magnitude. There is no assurance the performance of C&M Traders, Inc. will result in profitable trading. PERFORMANCE RECORD OF THE CTA C&M Traders, Inc. program began with clients money July 1, 1993. Its performance through October 1997, as presented in the following Capsule Performance Record is a composite performance of numerous managed accounts. 54 Since the performance of the program is presented on a composite basis rather than account by account, each account's performance would differ from the composite figures shown. The information included in the performance record, in the opinion of C&M Traders, Inc. is accurate. The results set forth in the following Capsule Performance Record are not indicative of the results which may be achieved by C&M Traders, Inc., in the future, in part because past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Although it is C&M Traders, Inc. policy to attempt to manage all accounts equally, the risk assumed and, consequently, the potential for profit experienced by a particular account at different times, and by different accounts at the same time, may vary significantly according to market conditions, the size of a given account, the percent gained or lost in the account, and the perceived risk aversion of the account's owner. Furthermore, because C&M Traders, Inc., has modified and will continue to modify its trading methods, the results shown in the Capsule Performance Record do not necessarily reflect the precise trading methods which will be used by C&M Traders, Inc., on behalf of any account. Futures trading performance will also be affected by the increasing amount of funds directed by C&M Traders, Inc. "Slippage" (the difference between ideal and actual trade execution prices) will increase with the execution of larger orders. For all the above reasons, no investor should expect necessarily the same performance as that of any other account traded previously, simultaneously, or subsequently by C&M Traders, Inc., or the Composite presented herein. The accounts that comprise the Client Capsule Performance Record differ materially in the following ways: (1) Commissions range from $15.00 to $30.00 per round turn (2) Some accounts earn no interest, while others can earn interest on a considerable component of the funds in the account. (3) Fees range from 7 cents to $4.62 per round turn. There are no other material differences between these accounts. Proprietary trading began January 1992. Four accounts included in the Capsule. Three closed profitable. The accounts that comprise the Proprietary Capsule Performance Record differ materially in the following ways: (1) Commissions range from $8.50 to $25.00. Otherwise there are no material differences in the proprietary accounts traded. C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Composite The following capsule shows the past performance of the C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Composite since the inception of trading of the first Account (in July, 1993) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Composite Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)* Month 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 January 9.80 (11.00) (42.56) 22.47 0.00 February 4.48 (2.30) 46.30 (21.34) 0.00 March 5.30 (30.98) 4.11 45.66 0.00 April 4.12 7.45 (25.99) (19.86) 0.00 May (10.90) 12.13 27.68 3.11 377.50 June (8.70) (2.09) (56.09) 29.87 July (9.62) (3.30) 33.01 (14.40) August (4.30) 29.04 8.77 98.02 September 9.98 (0.90) 19.87 (19.88) October (5.40) 3.33 13.88 97.00 November 9.91 2.98 (18.63) 11.34 December (2.03) 2.33 12.13 (15.69) Totals 12.2 (35.70) 8.99 (8.25) 1131.20 55 Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: C&M Traders, Inc. Name of Trading Program: Live Cattle Inception of Trading: July, 1993 Number of client accounts using this trading program: 173 Total Assets managed under all trading programs of the CTA: $18,832,357 Total Assets traded pursuant to Program: $12,610,870 Worst Monthly Percentage Draw-down**: 06-95/56.09% Worst Peak-to-Valley % Draw-down***: 3-95 to 3-97/74.31% Number of Accounts Closed w/ Profits Since 7-1-93: 18 Number of Accounts Closed w/ Losses Since 7-1-93: 59 * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
Please see Appendix II for the supplemental proprietary trading history for the CTA. Performance Record of Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership In addition to the Partnership, the principal of the CPO is the principal of another CPO, Pacult Asset Management, Inc., which manages another commodity pool called Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership. Fremont Fund Limited Partnership is traded by Michael J. Frischmeyer, one of the CTAs selected for this Fund, as the sole CTA. No correlation is expected between the performance of the Fremont Fund and this Partnership because Mr. Frischmeyer is a CTA for both pools. Fremont Fund pays various expenses in relation its operation including a management fee to the CTA and the General Partner of 4% and 2% annually respectively charged 1/12th monthly, and a quarterly incentive fees of 15% of all new net profits. In addition, the fund pays _% per month, 9% per year, for trading. Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership The following capsule shows the past performance of Fremont Fund, LP for the period from inception of trading in November, 1996, through May 31, 1998. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)* Month 1998 1997 1996 January (1.48) (1.79) N/A February (0.92) 0.71 N/A March 0.74 (0.91) N/A April (3.46) (2.13) N/A May (2.30) (0.66) N/A June (0.39) N/A July (0.65) N/A August (2.57) N/A September (0.53) N/A October (0.76) N/A November (1.09) (8.83) December (2.13) 2.34 Year (7.24) (12.21) (6.69) 56 Name of Pool: Fremont Fund, LP How Offered: Publicly offered pursuant to Form S-1 Registration statement Number of CTAs: One Names of CTAs: Michael J. Frischmeyer, EPIC Trading Principal Protected: No Date of Inception of trading: November, 1996 Net Asset Value of the pool (as of May 31, 1998): $676,146 on total Units outstanding: 946.66 NAV Per Unit (as of May 31, 1998): $714 Largest Monthly Draw-Down** For The Regular Program Since Inception and Year- to-Date (through May 31, 1998): 12-96/8.83% of client funds Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down*** For The Regular Program Since Inception and Year-to-Date (through, May 31, 1998): 11-96 to 5-98/24.04% of net asset value * Rate of return is computed by dividing the net performance by the sum of the beginning net asset value and net additions, capital withdrawals and redemptions. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by a pool or account over the specified period *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
THE FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANTS Vision Limited Partnership located at One Whitehall Street, 15th floor, New York, New York, 10004, is the futures Commission Merchant for the Partnership. The following disclosures are provided regarding Vision Limited Partnership. In addition, since Vision is a non-clearing FCM, they have established an omnibus clearing arrangement with Lind-Waldock & Company. Lind-Waldock is located at 1030 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607. Lind-Waldock is a clearing member of all principal futures exchanges in the United States. See disclosures as to litigation during the past 5 years regarding Vision and Lind-Waldock & Company under "Legal Matters". FEDERAL INCOME TAX ASPECTS SCOPE OF TAX PRESENTATION This presentation is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (hereinafter collectively called the "Code") which were in effect as of August 1, 1998, and is based upon the express intention of the General Partner to cause the Partnership to invest only its equity capital and not to borrow funds from any source and the belief that all of the income generated by the Fund will be "qualifying income" and, therefore, the Fund will not be a publicly-traded entity. Any change in the Code or deviation from the intent to invest equity capital only, could alter this presentation and also present adverse tax consequences to the Partnership and the Partners, such as taxation as a corporation. This would result in the payment of tax by the Fund and the payment of a second tax by the investor rather than only by the investor if the Fund were taxed as a Partnership. In addition, if the Fund were taxed as a corporation, none of the deductions for expenses would pass through to the investor's tax return. Under current IRS guidelines, there exists a substantial possibility that the partnership's return will be examined. If the partnership is audited, 57 significant factual questions may arise which, if challenged by the IRS, might only be resolved at considerable legal and accounting expense to the Partners and the Partnership. Any adjustment made to the Partnership return will flow through to the Partners' returns and could result in a separate audit of the Partners' individual returns. The Partnership will report its income for tax and book purposes under the accrual method of accounting and its tax year will be the calendar year, or such other period as is required under section 706(b) of the Code. During taxable years in which little or no profit is generated from trading activities, a Limited Partner may still have interest income which will be taxed as ordinary income. THIS DISCUSSION ASSUMES THAT THE INVESTOR IS AN INDIVIDUAL AND IS NOT INTENDED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CAREFUL PLANNING, PARTICULARLY, SINCE CERTAIN OF THE INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE PARTNERSHIP WILL NOT BE THE SAME FOR ALL TAXPAYERS. ALL MATTERS UPON WHICH THE PARTNERSHIP HAS OBTAINED AN OPINION OF TAX COUNSEL ARE DISCUSSED UNDER THE CAPTION "TAX OPINION" BELOW. ACCORDINGLY, PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS ARE URGED TO CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THEIR TAX SITUATION. NO LEGAL OPINION AS TO CERTAIN MATERIAL TAX ASPECTS No legal opinion will be requested by the Partnership in regard any State income tax issue. In addition, tax counsel to the Partnership can not opine upon any Federal income tax issue which involves a determination by the IRS of the facts related to the operation of the Partnership or as to any other matter which may be subject to Internal Revenue Service interpretation or adjustment upon audit. For example, commodity trading adviser fees are aggregated with employee business expenses and other expenses of producing income and the aggregate of such expenses is deductible only to the extent such amount exceeds 2% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. The Federal income tax deductibility of these expenses depends upon factual determinations related to the operation of the Partnership by the General Partner. See "Federal Income Tax Aspects". PARTNERSHIP TAX STATUS AND NET WORTH OF THE GENERAL PARTNER If the Partnership were treated as an association or publicly traded partnership, taxable as a corporation, in any taxable year, the Partnership would pay taxes at the corporate rates upon its income and gains, items of deduction and losses would be deductible only by the Partnership and not by the Partners, tax credits would be available only to the Partnership and not to the Partners, and all or a part of the distributions to the Partners could be taxable as dividend income to the Partners and would not be deductible by the Partnership in computing its taxable income. This would substantially increase the total amount of taxes the Partnership and it Partners would pay each year. The Code, at Section 7701, provides the characteristics of a corporation which should not be present if a partnership is to be taxed as a partnership. Among those characteristics is a test for net capital to be met when the partnership has a sole corporate general partner, such as this Partnership. Among those requirements are that the General Partner, as such, will maintain a capital contribution in the Partnership in an amount not less than the greater of (i) $25,000 or (ii) one percent (1%) of the aggregate Capital Contributions, from time to time, of all Limited Partners (measured at the time of each respective investment) and sufficient net worth to enable the creditors of the Partnership to have a viable entity to hold responsible for Partnership debts. These tests are contained in Code Section 7701 to maintain its partnership taxation status. The General Partner will use its best efforts to satisfy these requirements. The IRS Code Section 7701 specifically provides a "safe harbor" which permits limited partnerships to be deemed to have met the net worth test when the General Partner's Net Worth is equal to (15%) of the first $2,500,000 or $250,000, whichever is less, and (10%) of all above $2,500,000 exclusive of the amount invested by the General Partner in this Partnership or any other partnership. There can be no assurance, however, that the General Partner can fulfill or maintain its Net Worth to meet this safe harbor test. Historically, the right of redemption, similar to the right available to Partners in the Partnership, renders a pool, such as the Partnership, a publicly traded partnership, taxed as a corporation. However, the Revenue Act of 1987 (the "1987 Act") Act provides an exception. The exception requires ninety percent (90%) or more of the partnership's gross income to be qualifying income. Qualifying income includes interest, dividends, and income from futures, options or forward contracts on commodities, if the buying and selling of commodities is a principal activity of the partnership. The General Partner intends to limit the sources of income so that the exception will apply to the Partnership. In addition, the General Partner has placed certain restrictions upon the right of redemption. See Exhibit A, "Right of Redemption". 58 NO IRS RULING THE PARTNERSHIP HAS NOT APPLIED FOR A RULING FROM THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (THE "IRS") REGARDING ITS STATUS AS A PARTNERSHIP OR WITH REGARD TO ANY OTHER TAX ASPECT, NOR DOES THE PARTNERSHIP INTEND TO SEEK A RULING. IN THE ABSENCE OF A RULING, THERE CAN BE NO ASSURANCE THAT THE IRS WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO TAKE A POSITION ADVERSE TO THE PARTNERSHIP. TAX OPINION The Partnership has obtained an opinion, which is not binding upon the IRS or the Courts, from The Scott Law Firm, P.A., that the Partnership will be taxable as a partnership and not as a corporation. Such opinion is based on the Code as of December 31, 1997, a review of the Limited Partnership Agreement, and is conditioned upon the following representations of facts by the General Partner: (a) at all times, the Partnership will be operated in accordance with the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act and the Limited Partnership Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A; (b) the General Partner will, at all times maintain not less than a one percent (1%) interest in the income, losses, gains, deductions and credits of the Partnership; (c) the aggregate deductions to be claimed by the Partners as their distributive shares of the Partnership net losses for the first two years of operation of the Partnership will not exceed the amount of equity capital invested in the Partnership; (d) no creditor who makes a loan to the Partnership, including margin accounts, will have or acquire, as a result of making the loan, any direct or indirect interest in the capital, profits or property of the Partnership, other than as a secured creditor; (e) the General Partner will at all times actively direct the affairs of the Partnership; (f) the General Partner will at all times possess substantial assets (exclusive of its interest in the Partnership or any other limited partnership) which can be reached by the general creditors of the Partnership within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701 2(d)(2) or the General Partner otherwise complies with the tax code general partner requirements imposed upon sole corporate general partners of limited partnerships; (g) interests in the Partnership will be transferable only upon approval of the General Partner and not, otherwise, be (1) traded on an established securities market, or (2) readily tradable on a secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof); (h) the Partnership will not be registered under the Investment Advisor's Act of 1940; and, (i) over ninety percent of the income earned by the Partnership will be Qualifying Income as that term is defined in the 1987 Act. The Law Firm is not able to opine upon the tax treatment of certain expenses as the determination depends upon questions of fact to be resolved by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership. In addition, commodity trading adviser fees are aggregated with employee business expenses and other expenses of producing income and the aggregate of such expenses is deductible only to the extent such amount exceeds 2% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. It is the General Partner's position that the Partnership's intended operations will qualify as a trade or business. If this position is sustained, the brokerage commissions and performance fees will be deductible as ordinary and necessary business expenses. Syndication costs to organize the Partnership and Offering Expenses will not be deductible or amortizable by the Partnership or its Partners. Any change in these representations or the operative facts will prevent reliance by the Partnership and the Partners upon the legal opinion from The Scott Law Firm, P.A. PASSIVE LOSS AND UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME TAXES RULES In addition to the imposition of a corporate level tax on publicly traded partnerships, special rules apply to partnerships in regard to the application of the passive loss and unrelated business income tax rules. In Notice 88-75 issued on June 17, 1988 (the "Notice"), the IRS provided guidance as to the operation of the Partnership. The General Partner intends to cause the Partnership to comply with the applicable provisions of these guidelines. In the event the Expenses of the Partnership were deemed not to qualify as deductions from trading profits, if any, the total taxes paid by the Partners would increase while the distributions to them would remain the same. BASIS LOSS LIMITATION Generally, the "basis" of a Partner's interest in the Partnership for tax purposes is equal to the cost decreased, but not below zero, by the Partner's share of any Partnership losses and distributions and increased by the Partner's share of any Partnership income. A Partner may not deduct losses in excess of the adjusted basis for the interest in the Partnership at the end of the partnership year in which such losses occurred, but may carry forward any excess to such time, if ever, as the basis for the interest in the Partnership is sufficient to absorb the loss. Upon the sale or liquidation of a Partner's 59 interest in the Partnership, the Partner will recognize a gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes equal to the difference between the amount realized by such Partner in the transaction and the basis for such Partner's interest in the Partnership at the time of such sale. For individuals, capital losses would offset capital gains on a dollar for dollar basis, with any excess capital losses subject to a $3,000 annual limitation. Accordingly, it is possible for the Partners to sustain a loss from the operation of the Partnership which will be not allowed as a deduction for tax purposes or limited to a $3,000 annual limitation. AT-RISK LIMITATION The election by a Partner to borrow the money to invest in the Partnership carries with it certain at risk limitations. Section 465 of the Code provides that the amount of any loss allowable for any year to be included in a Limited Partner's personal tax return is limited to the amount paid for the Units (tax basis) of the amount "at risk". Losses already claimed may be subject to recapture if the amount "at risk" is reduced as a result of cash distributions from the activity, deduction of losses from the activity, changes in the status of indebtedness from recourse to non-recourse, the commencement of a guarantee, or other events that affect the taxpayer's risk of loss. Partners should consider the "at-risk" provisions in arranging debt financing for purchase of an interest in the Partnership. INCOME AND LOSSES FROM PASSIVE ACTIVITIES Code Section 469 limits the deductibility of losses from business activities in which the taxpayer (limited to individuals, certain estates and trusts, personal service corporations or closely-held corporations) does not materially participate ("Passive Losses"). Under temporary Treasury Regulations, the trading of personal property, such as futures contracts, will not be treated as a passive activity and Partnership gains allocable to Limited Partners will not be available to offset passive losses from sources outside the Partnership and Partnership losses will not be subject to limitation under the Passive Loss Rules. ALLOCATION OF PROFITS AND LOSSES The allocation of profits, losses, deductions and credits contained in the Limited Partnership Agreement will be recognized for tax purposes only if the allocations have substantial economic effect. While the General Partner believes that the Limited Partnership Agreement either meets the requirements or satisfies a substitute "capital account equivalency" test, the Limited Partnership Agreement does not meet a third requirement, that a Partner must make a contribution to the Partnership equal to any deficit in the Capital account. Accordingly, under the regulations and the Limited Partnership Agreement, losses would not be allocable to a Partner in excess of the Partner's capital contribution plus properly allocated profits less any prior distributions. The General Partner intends to allocate income and losses in accordance with the Partnership Agreement which it believes complies with applicable Code Section 704. However, no assurances can be given that the IRS will not attempt to change any allocation that is made among Partners admitted on different dates which could adversely effect the amount of taxable income to one Partner as opposed to another Partner. TAXATION OF FUTURES AND FORWARD TRANSACTIONS The CTAs selected by the Partnership are expected to trade primarily in Section 1256 Contracts as defined in the Code. All Section 1256 contracts will be marked-to-market upon the closing of every contract (including closing by taking an offsetting position or by making or taking delivery, by exercise or being exercised, by assignment or being assigned; or by lapse or otherwise) and all open Section 1256 contracts held by the Partnership at its fiscal year-end will be treated as sold for their fair market value on the last business day of such taxable year. This will result in all unrealized gains and losses being recognized for Federal income tax purposes for the taxable year. As a consequence, the Partners may have tax liability relating to unrealized Partnership profits in open positions at year-end. Sixty percent (60%) of any gain or loss from a Section 1256 contract will be treated as long-term, and forty percent (40%) as short-term, capital gain or loss (the "60/40 Rule"), regardless of the actual holding period of the individual contracts. The character of a Partner's distributive share of profits or losses of the Partnership from Section 1256 contracts will thus be 60% long- term capital gain or loss and 40% short-term capital gain or loss. Each partner's distributive share of such gain or loss for a taxable year will be combined with its other items of capital gain or loss for such year in computing its Federal income tax liability. The Code contains certain rules designed to eliminate the tax benefits flowing to high-income taxpayers from the graduated tax rate schedule and from the personal and dependency exemptions. The effect of these rules is to tax a portion of a high-income taxpayer's income at a marginal tax rate of 39.6%. However, long-term capital gains are now subject to a maximum tax rate of 28%. Subject to certain limitations, a Limited Partner, other than a corporation, estate or trust, may elect to carry-back any net Section 1256 contract losses to each of the three preceding years. The marked-to-market rules do not apply 60 to interests in personal property of a nature which are actively traded other than Section 1256 contracts (termed "off-exchange positions"). SECTION 988 FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS A "Section 988 transaction" is defined as the entering or acquiring of any forward contract, futures contract, option or similar financial instrument if the amount to be received or to be paid by reason of a transaction is denominated in a nonfunctional currency (i.e., other than the dollar) or is determined by reference to one or more nonfunctional currencies. If the Section 988 transaction results in a gain or loss, it is considered to be a foreign currency gain or loss to the extent it does not exceed gain or loss realized by reason of changes in exchange rates. CAPITAL GAIN AND LOSS PROVISIONS If long-term capital gains exceed short-term capital losses, the net capital gain will be taxed at the same rates as ordinary income. Subject to an annual limitation of $3,000, the excess of capital losses over capital gains will be deductible by an individual against ordinary income. Excess capital losses which are not used to reduce ordinary income in a particular taxable year may be carried forward to, and treated as capital losses incurred in, future years. BUSINESS FOR PROFIT Code Section 183 sets forth the general rule that no deduction is allowable to an individual for an activity "not engaged in for profit". These are activities other than those constituting a trade or business or engaged in for the production or collection of income or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income. The determination of whether an activity is engaged in for profit is based on all facts and circumstances, and no single factor is determinative. The General Partner believes that the employment by the Partnership of independent CTAs with strong track records of production of profits, it is more likely than not, that the activity of the Partnership will be considered an activity engaged for profit. SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME AND TAX Section 1402 of the Code provides that an individual's net earnings from self- employment shall not include the distributive share of income or loss from any trade or business carried on by a partnership of which he is a Limited Partner. Therefore, a Limited Partner should not consider that the ordinary income from the Partnership constitutes net earnings from self-employment for purposes of either the Social Security Act or the Code. INDIVIDUAL ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX Non-corporate taxpayers are subject to the alternative minimum tax to the extent it exceeds their regular tax. For an entity taxable as an estate or trust, the first $22,500 of "alternative minimum taxable income" is exempt from the alternative minimum tax, while for an individual it is the first $33,750 of such income ($45,000 for a joint return; $22,500 for married taxpayers filing separately). The exemption amounts will be phased out at the rate of $.25 for each dollar of alternative minimum taxable income in excess of $150,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly, $112,500 for single taxpayers, and $75,000 for married taxpayers filing separately, estates and trusts. Alternative minimum taxable income in excess of the exemption amount, after any applicable phase-out, will be subject to a two-tiered rate schedule. Alternative minimum taxable income (net of exemption) up to and including $175,000 will be taxed at a rate of 26% and alternative minimum taxable income over $175,000 will be taxed at a 28% rate. Taxpayers liable for the alternative minimum tax are required to make estimated tax payments. INTEREST RELATED TO TAX EXEMPT OBLIGATIONS Section 265(a)(2) of the Code will disallow any deduction for interest on indebtedness of a taxpayer incurred or continued to purchase or carry obligations the interest on which is wholly exempt from tax. The IRS announced in Revenue Procedure 72-18 that the proscribed purpose will be deemed to exist with respect to indebtedness incurred to finance a "portfolio investment". The Revenue Procedure further states that a limited partnership interest will be regarded as a "portfolio investment", unless rebutted by other evidence. Therefore, in the case of a Limited Partner owning tax-exempt obligations, the IRS might take the position that any interest expense incurred by him to purchase or carry Units should be viewed as incurred by him to continue carrying tax exempt obligations and that such Limited Partner should not be allowed to deduct all or a portion of the interest on any such loans. 61 NOT A TAX SHELTER In the opinion of tax counsel, the Partnership does not constitute a tax shelter, as defined in Code Section 6111(c), since the General Partner intends to operate the Partnership so that the tax shelter ratio will not exceed two- to-one at the close of any of the first five years. Accordingly, the General Partner does not plan to register the Partnership as a tax shelter with the IRS. TAXATION OF FOREIGN PARTNERS An investment in the Partnership should not, by itself, cause a Foreign Partner to be engaged in a trade or business within the United States. A foreign person is subject to a 30% withholding tax (unless reduced or exempted by treaty) on certain types of United States source income which is not effectively connected with the conduct of a United States trade or business. This tax must be withheld by the person having control over the payment of such income. Accordingly, the Partnership may be required to withhold tax on items of such income which are included in the distributive share (whether or not actually distributed) of a Foreign Partner. If the Partnership is required to withhold tax on such income of a Foreign Partner, the General Partner may pay such tax out of its own funds and then be reimbursed out of the proceeds of any distribution to or redemption of Units by the Foreign Partner. PARTNERSHIP ENTITY-AUDIT PROVISIONS-PENALTIES The Code provides that the tax treatment of items of partnership income, gain, loss, deduction and credit will be determined at the partnership level in a single partnership proceeding. The Partnership Agreement has appointed the General Partner the "Tax Matters Partner" to settle any issue involving any partner with less than a one percent (1%) profits interest unless such a partner, upon notice, properly elects not to give such authority to the Tax Matters Partner. The Tax Matters Partner may seek judicial review for any adjustment to partnership income, but there will be only one such action for judicial review to which all partners will be bound. The Code provides that a partner must report a partnership item consistently with its treatment on the partnership return, unless the partner specifically identifies the inconsistency or can show that its treatment of the partnership item on its return is consistent with a schedule furnished to the partner by the Partnership. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in penalties for underpayment of tax and could result in an extended statute of limitations. The statute of limitations for adjustment of tax with respect to partnership items will generally be three years from the date of filing the partnership return. Code Section 6662 imposes a penalty for a substantial understatement of income tax equal to 20% of the amount of any underpayment attributable to that understatement. "Understatement" is defined as meaning the excess of the correct amount of tax required to be shown on the return over the amount of tax which is actually shown on the return. A substantial understatement exists for any taxable year if the amount of the "understatement" for the taxable year exceeds the greater of (1) 10% of the correct tax, or (2) $5,000 ($10,000, in the case of a corporation other than an S corporation or a personal holding company). EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, RETIREMENT PLANS AND IRA'S In considering an investment in the Partnership, a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") (such as, for example, a qualified pension, profit-sharing or stock bonus plan, or health and welfare plan), or of an Individual Retirement Account ("IRA") (collectively "Qualified Plans"), taking into account the facts and circumstances of such Qualified Plan, should consider applicable fiduciary standards under ERISA. The General Partner intends to limit the investment in the Partnership by benefit plan investors to less that 25% of the total equity invested in the Partnership. Prospective plan investors should consult their own legal and financial advisors regarding these and other considerations involved in an investment in the Partnership by a particular plan. ACCORDINGLY, THE PERSON WITH INVESTMENT DISCRETION SHOULD CONSULT WITH HIS OR HER ATTORNEY AS TO THE PROPRIETY OF SUCH AN INVESTMENT IN LIGHT OF CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARTICULAR PLAN. ACCEPTANCE OF SUBSCRIPTIONS ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION BY GENERAL PARTNER OR ANY OTHER PARTY THAT THIS INVESTMENT MEETS ALL LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OR IS APPROPRIATE WITH RESPECT TO INVESTMENTS BY ANY PARTICULAR 62 PLAN. THE PERSON WITH INVESTMENT DISCRETION SHOULD CONSULT WITH THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAN AS TO THE PROPRIETY OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE PARTNERSHIP. THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT This Prospectus contains an explanation of some of the more significant terms of the Limited Partnership Agreement, however, prospective investors are urged to read the Agreement in its entirety. See Exhibit A. FORMATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP The Certificate of Limited Partnership dated January 12, 1998 was filed on January 12, 1998, pursuant to the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act. The liability of a Limited Partner for the losses, debts and obligations of the Partnership is limited to the Limited Partner's Capital Contribution and share of any undistributed assets of the Partnership, so long as the Limited Partner complies with Article V of the Limited Partnership Agreement. The Limited Partnership Agreement provides that the death, incompetency, withdrawal, insolvency, bankruptcy, termination, liquidation, dissolution or other legal incapacity of a Limited Partner will not terminate or dissolve the Partnership, and that the legal representatives of such Limited Partner have no right to become a substituted Limited Partner solely by reason of such capacity or to withdraw the Limited Partner's interest except by redemption of Units. UNITS The number of Units held by a Partner will determine the Partner's percentage interest in the Net Assets of the Partnership, such percentage interest to be equal to an amount calculated by dividing the number of Units held by the Partner by the aggregate number of outstanding Units of the Partnership, from time to time. MANAGEMENT OF PARTNERSHIP AFFAIRS Responsibility for managing the Partnership is vested solely in the General Partner. The Limited Partners will not take part in the business or affairs of the Partnership nor have any voice in the management or operations of the Partnership. Any material change in the Limited Partnership Agreement or the Partnership's structure shall, however, require the prior written approval of the Limited Partners who collectively hold a majority of the Units of the Partnership; provided, however, the General Partner may change trading advisors, change the commodity contracts traded by the Partnership, and change the diversification of the Partnership's assets among the various types of or in the positions held in commodity contracts without a vote or other form of permission from the Limited Partners. The Limited Partners who collectively hold a majority of the Units of the Partnership may, to the extent permitted by law, without the concurrence of the General Partner, vote to (i) amend any term in the Limited Partnership Agreement and, if necessary, the Certificate of Limited Partnership including, but not limited to, the right to remove the General Partner and elect a new general partner. The General Partner has no authority to engage in the actual selection or frequency of trading. Trading must be done by independent CTAs selected by the General Partner. ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS The General Partner may from time to time, in its sole discretion, terminate any offering of Units, or register additional Units and/or make additional public or private offerings of Units. No Limited Partner shall have any preemptive, preferential or other rights with respect to the issuance or sale of any additional Units. There is no limit upon the amount of contributions or the maximum number of Units which may be issued, offered, or sold. PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTING, REPORTS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS Each Partner will have a Capital account, and its initial balance will be the amount the Partner paid for the Partner's Units. The Net Assets of the Partnership will be determined monthly, and any increase or decrease from the end of the preceding month will be added to or subtracted from the accounts of the Partners in the ratio that each account bears to all accounts. Distributions from profits or Capital will be made solely at the discretion of the General Partner. On a monthly basis the General Partner will cause to be reported to the Partners, the following information: the Net Unit Value as of the end of the month and as of the end of the previous month, and the percentage change in Net Unit Value between the two months; the amount of distributions during the month; the aggregate fixed commission in lieu of round-turn brokerage commissions, other fees, administrative expenses, and reserves for claims and other extra-ordinary expenses incurred or accrued by the Partnership during the month; and, such other information as the CFTC may, by regulation, require. Partners or their duly authorized representatives may, after adequate notice, inspect the 63 Partnership books and records at any reasonable time, to copy, at their expense said records related to the Capital Account of said Partner. FEDERAL TAX ALLOCATIONS At the end of each fiscal year the Partnership's realized capital gain or loss and ordinary income or loss will be allocated among the Partners, after having given effect to the fees of the General Partner and the Commodity Trading Advisors and each Partner's share of such items are includable in the Partner's personal income tax return. TRANSFER OF UNITS ONLY WITH CONSENT OF THE GENERAL PARTNER A purchaser is admitted to the Partnership and is registered on the records of the Partnership as the owner of those Units. The registered holder is entitled to receive all distributions, allocations of losses and withdrawals or reductions of Capital contributions with respect to such Units, and to vote on any matters submitted to the Limited Partners for voting. Units are transferable only with the written consent of the General Partner, whose consent will be withheld if, among other things, the transfer (i) is requested prior to two years from the date of purchase of such assigned or transferred Units(s) by said Partner; (ii) is not for the full Units or if the assignor, if he is not assigning all of his Units, will not retain more than five Units; (iii) will violate any applicable laws or governmental rules or regulations, including without limitation, any applicable Federal or state securities laws and the limited partnership laws of the State of Delaware; or (iv) will jeopardize the status of or cause a termination of the Partnership for Federal income tax purposes or affect characterizations or treatment of income or loss. TERMINATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP The Partnership will terminate at 11:59 p.m. twenty-one years from the date of the Partnership Agreement; by election of the General Partner, in its sole discretion, to terminate and dissolve the Partnership; the dissolution, death, resignation, withdrawal, bankruptcy or insolvency of the General Partner, unless the Limited Partners unanimously elect to carry on the business and a new general partner has been substituted; upon the occurrence of an event specified under the laws of the State of Delaware as one effecting dissolution; any event which shall make unlawful the continued existence of the Partnership; or, upon the unanimous vote of the Limited Partners. MEETINGS No regular meetings of the Partnership are required to be held, however, a meeting of the Partners for the purpose of acting upon any matter upon which the Partners are entitled to vote may be called by the General Partner at any time and shall be called by the General Partner, no more than 15 days after receipt by the General Partner, either in person or by certified mail, of a written request, accompanied by an advance of the costs to send notice of the meeting to all Partners, for such a meeting which sets forth the purpose thereof, which is signed by one or more of the Partners who collectively own 10% or more of the then outstanding Units. REDEMPTIONS No Partner may redeem or liquidate any Units until six months after the commencement of trading. Written notice must be received by the General Partner no later than 12:00 noon on the tenth calendar day immediately preceding the desired effective date of Redemption which must be as of the last day of the then current or a future month. The General Partner intends to use its best efforts to make payment of the Redemption request of the Partner's pro rata share of the Net Asset Value, as those terms are defined in Appendix I, within ten days following the effective date. However, investors should be aware that while the General Partner intends to so honor all proper Unit Redemption requests, circumstances existing in the Partnership's business at the time of such Redemption request. Specifically, the lack of sufficient cash due to the inability to liquidate positions as of the Redemption date or the accrual for contingent claims may cause the General Partner to suspend or delay Redemptions or to only partially honor such requests. The General Partner in its sole discretion may, upon notice to the Partners, declare additional Redemption dates and may cause the Partnership to redeem fractions of Units and, prior to registration of Units for public sale, redeem Units held by Partners who do not hold the required minimum amount of Units established, from time to time, by the General Partner. A Redemption fee payable to the Partnership of four percent (4%) of the value of the Redemption request which is received prior to the nineteenth day of the twelfth month after the commencement of trading. Thereafter, there will be a reduction in the Redemption fee of one percent (1%) for each six (6) months the investment in the Units remained invested in the Partnership after the initial six months; i.e., a 64 redemption during the next 7 to 12 months will be charged a 3% Redemption fee; 13 to 18 months 2%, 19 to 24 months 1% and, thereafter, no Redemption fee will be charged. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION The Units are being offered and sold through Futures Investment Company ("FIC"), 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, Indiana 46737, an NASD registered broker dealer and other broker dealers selected by the General Partner, on a best efforts basis. Ms. Pacult, the sole shareholder, director, and officer of the General Partner and her husband, Mr. Michael Pacult, are the sole owners of FIC. They are also associated persons and registered representatives of FIC who will earn sales and trailing commissions as a result of the Units they sell and service. A best efforts basis means there is no requirement that the General Partner or any broker dealer (sometimes referred to as the underwriter) to purchase any unsold Units, and no person or entity, including the General Partner and the broker dealer have any obligation, currently or are expected at any time in the future, to purchase any unsold Units. In addition, the General Partner may, in its sole discretion, terminate this offering of Units at anytime. There will be a selling commission of six percent (6%), subject to waiver at the sole discretion of the General Partner, paid to the broker dealers selected, from time to time, to sell Units. FIC, the broker dealer, is an Illinois corporation which was incorporated on December 6, 1983. Its registration as a fully disclosed broker dealer with the NASD became effective on July 28, 1997. The principal business functions of the broker dealer are currently the offering and trading of securities and commodities as a CFTC registered introducing broker. It is contemplated that the broker dealer will participate in the offering of other commodity pools sponsored by the General Partner or other persons or entities in competition with the Partnership. A minimum of 700 Units (the "Minimum") are currently offered for sale at a fixed value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per Unit, which amount was arbitrarily established by the General Partner. The amount was not based on expected earnings and does not represent that the Units have or will have a market value of or could be resold or redeemed at that price. When the General Partner has received and accepted subscriptions for the Minimum, the Partnership will commence trading operations. The remaining 6,300 Units will be offered at a price per Unit equal to the number of outstanding Units divided into the Net Asset Value of the Partnership as of the close of business on the effective date of such purchase, which will be the last business day of the month in which the General Partner accepts a duly executed Subscription Agreement and the required applicable subscription amount from the Partner in question. The General Partner will not grant its permission for any subscription documents or payments, once accepted, to be withdrawn by a subscriber. There can be no assurance that the Minimum or any additional Units will be sold. Funds with respect to subscriptions received and accepted by the General Partner prior to the sale of the Minimum will be deposited and held in a separate escrow account in the name of the Partnership at Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 (the "Escrow Agent") pending the General Partner's receipt and acceptance of subscriptions for at least the Minimum. The Broker Dealer, the Partnership and the Escrow Agent have entered into an escrow agreement. The Escrow Agent shall receive a fee for its services which will be paid by the General Partner without a right of reimbursement from the Partnership. Units purchased by the General Partner, its principals or any Affiliate shall not be counted in determining whether the Minimum has been subscribed for and sold. If subscriptions for at least the Minimum are not received and accepted by the General Partner prior to the close of one year from the effective date of the Prospectus, this offering shall terminate and the Escrow Agent is obligated to return all amounts paid by each subscriber, together with the original subscription documents, within ten days thereafter, without deduction for fees and costs, together with the subscriber's pro rata share of interest earned from their deposit to the Escrow Account. Upon the sale of the Minimum, the escrowed funds (together with the interest earned thereon) will be released for use by the Partnership on the first business day after which the Minimum contingency has been satisfied and this offering shall continue until the earlier of (i) such time as all of the Units offered hereby have been sold, or (ii) such time as the offering is terminated by the General Partner, in its sole discretion. No escrow will be utilized in regard to the sale of any Units after the sale of the Minimum. SUBSCRIPTION PROCEDURE In order to purchase Units, an investor must complete and execute a Suitability Questionnaire and a Subscription Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibits "C" and "D", and deliver the executed Subscription Documents to the Sales Agent and, if prior to the sale of the Minimum, all checks shall be made payable to "Star Financial Bank-Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP" to be delivered by the Sales Agent to the Escrow Agent within 24 hours after receipt for deposit to the Escrow Account. After the sale of the Minimum and the termination of the Escrow Account, all Subscription Documents shall be 65 sent by the Sales Agent to the General Partner with a check or money order made payable to "Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership" for investment in the Fund effective on the next admission date. Under no circumstances are any sales to be made for cash or any checks to be made payable to the General Partner or the Selling Agent or any of their registered representatives or affiliates. The minimum subscription per investor is $25,000; provided, however, the General Partner may reduce this minimum investment to $5,000 and investors may make additional investments above $25,000 in $1,000 increments. All Units subscribed for shall be recorded on the books of the Partnership subject to the collection of good funds. Any Units recorded in favor of a Subscriber who has not provided collectible funds (whether in the form of a bad check or draft, or otherwise) shall be cancelled. All subscriptions for Units are irrevocable by subscribers, subject only to possible rights under applicable Federal and state securities laws. The General Partner may reject any subscription, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion. Unless higher amounts are otherwise specified in the Subscription Agreement for residents of a particular state, an investor must have at least either (i) a minimum net worth (determined exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles) of $150,000, or (ii) a minimum annual gross income of $45,000 and a minimum net worth of $45,000 (once again determined exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles). In the case of sales to fiduciary accounts, the net worth and income standards may be met by the beneficiary, the fiduciary account, or by the donor or grantor who directly or indirectly supplies the funds to purchase the Units if the donor or grantor is the fiduciary. LEGAL MATTERS LITIGATION AND CLAIMS There have been no material administrative, civil or criminal actions against the General Partner (who is the Commodity Pool Operator), the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Pacult, the Commodity Trading Advisors, the Introducing Broker, and selling broker or any principal or any Affiliate of any of them, pending, on appeal, or concluded, threatened or otherwise known to them, within the five (5) years preceding the date of this PPM and there have been no such actions against the Futures Commission Merchants, except as follows: On June 30, 1993, the Eastern Regional Business Conduct Committee issued and concurrently accepted a full and complete settlement of a two-count complaint against Vision and Robert Boshnack. The complaint alleged two NFA rule violations: lack of supervision of Guaranteed IB's and use of deceptive and misleading promotional material. The matter was completely settled without Vision admitting or denying any violation, and without any findings of violations. The settlement included a monetary penalty of $100,000, undertakings of enhanced compliance procedures, and restriction of Mr. Boshnack's activity for a one year period. On December 31, 1997, the Business Conduct Committee of the NFA issued a two count complaint against Vision Limited Partnership. Count I alleges failure to supervise and Count II alleges improper handling of one block order. Vision denies the allegations and intends to vigorously defend the matter. On July 15, 1992, the Chicago Board of Trade ("CBOT") voted to accept an offer of settlement by Lind-Waldock concerning alleged violations of CBOT Regulations 332.08 and 465.01. The charges involved Lind-Waldock's alleged failure to submit executed orders for clearing and to include an account designation on an order. In settling this matter for a fine of $7,500, Lind- Waldock neither admitted nor denied violating the CBOT Regulations. There is currently no litigation pending or on appeal which, if successfully pursued by a plaintiff or appellant would have a material effect on the Partnership or the ability of the FCM or any CTA to serve the Fund. LEGAL OPINION The Scott Law Firm, P.A., 5121 Sarazen Drive, Hollywood, FL 33021, serves as special counsel to the Partnership and the General Partner in regard to the offering of Units and the preparation of this Prospectus, the legality of the Units offered, and the classification of the Partnership as a partnership for tax purposes. In addition, the Firm will advise the Partnership and its General Partner, from time to time, in regard to the maintenance of the tax status of the Partnership and the legality of subsequent offers, if any, of sale of Units to and transfers by investors. The General Partner has granted the right to The Scott Law Firm, P.A. to employ other law firms to assist in specific matters which may now, or in the future, relate to the sale of Units or the operation of the Partnership. 66 The Scott Law Firm, P.A. will not provide legal advice to any potential investors or any Partners other than the General Partner, in regard to this offering or any other matter. All parties other than the General Partner should seek investment, legal, and tax advice from counsel of their choice. EXPERTS The financial Statements of the Partnership and the General Partner included in this Prospectus have been audited by Frank L. Sassetti, & Co., 6611 West North Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302, as indicated in their reports included with each such statement. Such financial statements have been included herein and in any filings to the SEC, CFTC, NFA, and selected state administrators, relying upon the authority of Frank L. Sassetti, & Co., as experts in accounting and auditing, in giving said respective reports. The books and records of the partnership and the General Partner will be audited and the Partnership tax returns will be prepared by Frank L. Sassetti, & Co. The accountant who will establish the original books and records for the Partnership and handle the journal entries, prepare the monthly and annual statements of account and financial statements, and prepare the Partnership K- 1s, once trading commences, will be Mr. James Hepner, certified public accountant, 1824 N. Normandy, Chicago, IL 60635. The General Partner will serve as tax partner for the Partnership. The General Partner is required by CFTC rules and regulations to send monthly, unaudited, and annual statements of account and financial statements, audited by an independent certified public accountant, for the Partnership to each Partner. The unaudited monthly statements will be sent as soon as practicable after the end of each month and the audited annual financial statements will be sent within 90 days after the end of each calendar year. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Partnership, by its General Partner, has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the issuance and sale of the limited partnership interests (the "Units") under the Securities Act of 1933. This Prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the Form S-1 filing and reference is made to said Form S-1 and the Exhibits thereto (for example, the Selling Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, and the Customer Agreement). The description contained in this Prospectus to the exhibits to the Registration Statement are summaries. For further information regarding the Partnership and the Units offered, the Prospectus, including the Exhibits and other documents filed and periodic reports, may be inspected, without charge, and copied at the public reference facilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission at 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20549 and at its Northeast Regional Office, 7 World Trade Center, Suite 1300, New York, New York 10048; and Midwest Regional Office, Citicorp Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661 and copies of all or any part of this filing can be obtained by mail from the Securities and Exchange Commission, at such offices, upon payment of the prescribed rates. This document and other electronic filings made through the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system are publicly available through the Commission's Web site (http://www.sec.gov). In addition, the books and records for the Partnership will be maintained for six years at 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, Indiana 46737 with a duplicate set maintained at the offices of Mr. James Hepner, Certified Public Accountant, at 1824 N. Normandy, Chicago, IL 60635, (773) 804-0074. Prospective investors are invited to review any materials available to the General Partner relating to the Partnership; the operations of the Partnership; this offering; the commodity experience and trading history of the CTAs; the General Partner and the commodity brokers and their respective officers, directors and affiliates; the advisory agreements between the Partnership and the CTAs; the Customer Agreements between the Partnership and the Commodity Brokers for the Partnership; the Disclosure Documents of the CTAs; the forms filed with the NFA for any registered entity or person related to the Partnership; and any other matters relating to this offering, the operation of the Partnership, or the laws applicable to the offering or the Partnership. The officer and staff of the General Partner will answer all reasonable inquiries from prospective investors relating thereto. All such materials will be made available at any mutually convenient location at any reasonable hour after reasonable prior notice. The General Partner will afford prospective investors the opportunity to obtain any additional information necessary to verify the accuracy of any representations or information set forth in this Prospectus or any exhibits attached hereto to the extent that the Partnership or the General Partner possess such information or can acquire it without unreasonable effort or expense. Such review is limited only by the proprietary and confidential nature of the trading systems to be utilized by the CTAs and by the confidentiality of certain personal information relating to investors. [The balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] 67 ******************************************************************************* ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) PERIOD ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 (With Auditors' Report Thereon) GENERAL PARTNER: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. c/o Corporate Systems, Inc. 101 North Fairfield Drive Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901 To The Partners Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Dover, Kent County, Delaware INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP as of April 30, 1998, and the related statements of operations, partners' equity and cash flows for the initial period then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP as of April 30, 1998, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the initial period then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. May 20, 1998 Oak Park, Illinois 1 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) BALANCE SHEET APRIL 30, 1998 ASSETS Cash $ 1,953 Offering expenses (Note 1) 49,200 Organization costs (Note 1) 2,800 $53,953 LIABILITIES AND PARTNERS' EQUITY Liabilities - Due to general partner $52,000 Partners' Capital - Limited partners (1 unit) Initial capital contribution 1,000 Deficit accumulated during development stage (24) General partner (1 unit) Initial capital contribution 1,000 Deficit accumulated during development stage (23) Total Partners' Capital 1,953 $53,953 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 2 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS FOR THE INITIAL PERIOD ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 REVENUES $ Total Revenues EXPENSES Bank charges 47 Total Expenses 47 NET INCOME (LOSS) $ (47) NET INCOME (LOSS) - Limited partnership unit $ (24) General partnership unit $ (23) The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 3 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) STATEMENT OF PARTNERS' EQUITY FOR THE INITIAL PERIOD ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 Total Limited Partners General Partners Partners' Equity Amount Units Amount Units Amount Units Initial partner contributions $1,000 1 $1,000 1 $2,000 2 Net loss through April 30, 1998 (24) (23) (47) Balance - April 30, 1998 $ 976 1 $ 977 1 $1,953 2 Value per unit at April 30, 1998 $976.50 Total partnership units at April 30, 1998 2 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 4 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE INITIAL PERIOD ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Net loss $ (47) CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Initial partner contributions 2,000 NET INCREASE IN CASH 1,953 CASH - Beginning of period End of period $ 1,953 NON-CASH INVESTING ACTIVITIES Organization and syndication costs incurred and paid by affiliate $52,000 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 5 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 1. NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the Fund) was formed January 12, 1998. The Fund expects to engage in the speculative trading of futures contracts in commodities. Ashley Capital Management, Inc. is the General Partner and the commodity pool operator (CPO) of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership. The commodity trading advisors (CTAs) are expected to be Michael J. Frischmeyer, Commoditech, Inc., Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., J.A.H. Research and Trading and C & M Traders, Inc., who have the authority to trade so much of the Fund's equity as is allocated to them by the General Partner. Income Taxes - In accordance with the generally accepted method of presenting partnership financial statements, the financial statements do not include assets and liabilities of the partners, including their obligation for income taxes on their distributive shares of the net income of the Fund or their rights to refunds on its net loss. Offering Expenses and Organizational Costs - Offering expenses are to be reimbursed to the General Partner upon the initial closing. Organizational costs are capitalized and amortized over sixty months on a straight line method starting when operations begin, payable from profits or capital subject to a 2% annual capital limitation. All organizational costs incurred to date have been capitalized and no amortization expense has yet been charged. Registering Costs - Costs incurred for the initial filings with Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association (the "NFA") and the states where the offering is expected to be made are accumulated, deferred and charged against the gross proceeds of offering at the initial closing as part of the offering expenses. Recurring registration costs, if any, will be charged to expense as incurred. Revenue Recognition - Commodity futures contracts are recorded on the trade date and are reflected in the balance sheet at the difference between the original contract amount and the market value on the last business day of the reporting period. Market value of commodity futures contracts is based upon exchange or other applicable market best available closing quotations. 6 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 1. NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - CONTINUED Use of Accounting Estimates - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Statement of Cash Flows - For purposes of the Statement of Cash Flows, the Fund considers only cash and money market funds to be cash equivalents. Net cash provided by operating activities include no cash payments for interest or income taxes for the initial period ended April 30, 1998 since the Fund has no debt nor pays federal income taxes. 2. GENERAL PARTNER DUTIES The responsibilities of the General Partner, in addition to directing the trading and investment activity of the Fund, includes executing and filing all necessary legal documents, statements and certificates of the Fund, retaining independent public accountants to audit the Fund, employing attorneys to represent the Fund, reviewing the brokerage commission rates to determine reasonableness, maintaining the tax status of the Fund as a limited partnership, maintaining a current list of the names, addresses and numbers of units owned by each Limited Partner and taking such other actions as deemed necessary or desirable to manage the business of the Partnership. 3. THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT The Limited Partnership Agreement provides, among other things, that Capital Account - A capital account shall be established for each partner. The initial balance of each partner's capital account shall be the amount of the initial contributions to the partnership. 7 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 3. THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT - CONTINUED Monthly Allocations - Any increase or decrease in the Partnership's net asset value as of the end of a month shall be credited or charged to the capital account of each Partner in the ratio that the balance of each account bears to the total balance of all accounts. Any distribution from profits or partners' capital will be made solely at the discretion of the General Partner. Allocation of Profit and Loss for Federal Income Tax Purposes - As of the end of each fiscal year, the Partnership's realized capital gain or loss and ordinary income or loss shall be allocated among the Partners, after having given effect to the fees of the General Partner and the Commodity Trading Advisors and each Partner's share of such items are includable in the Partner's personal income tax return. Redemption - No partner may redeem or liquidate any units until after the lapse of six months from the date of the investment. Thereafter, a Limited Partner may withdraw, subject to certain restrictions, any part or all of his units from the partnership at the net asset value per unit on the last day of any month on ten days prior written request to the General Partner. A redemption fee payable to the partnership of a percentage of the value of the redemption request is charged during the first 24 months of investment pursuant to the following schedule: * 4% if such request is received ten days prior to the last trading day of the month in which the redemption is to be effective the sixth month after the date of the investment in the Fund. * 3% if such request is received during the next seven to twelve months after the investment. * 2% if such request is received during the next thirteen to eighteen months. * 1% if such request is received during the next nineteen to twenty-four months. * 0% thereafter. 8 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (A Development Stage Enterprise) NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 4. FEES The Fund will be charged the following fees on a monthly basis as of the commencement of trading. * A management fee of 3% (annual rate) of the Fund's net assets allocated to the CTAs to trade will be paid to the CTAs and 3% of equity to the Fund's General Partner. * An incentive fee of 15% of "new trading profits" will be paid to the CTAs. "New trading profits" includes all income earned by a CTA and expense allocated to his activity. In the event that trading produces a loss, no incentive fees will be paid and all losses will be carried over to the following months until profits from trading exceed the loss. It is possible for one CTA to be paid an incentive fee during a quarter or a year when the Fund experienced a loss. * The Fund will pay fixed commissions of 9% (annual rate) of assets assigned to be traded, payable monthly, to the introducing broker affiliated with the General Partner. The Affiliated Introducing Broker will pay the costs to clear the trades to the futures commission merchant and all PIT Brokerage costs which shall include the NFA and exchange fees. 9 ******************************************************************************* ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUR MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. FOUR MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Independent Auditors' Report 1 Financial Statements - Balance Sheet 2 Statement of Income and Retained Earnings 3 Statement of Cash Flows 4 Notes to Financial Statements 5 Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. To The Shareholders Ashley Capital Management, Inc. Fremont, Indiana INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. as of April 30, 1998, and the related statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows for the four months then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. as of April 30, 1998, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the four months then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. May 18, 1998 Oak Park, Illinois Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. 1 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. BALANCE SHEET APRIL 30, 1998 ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS Cash $ 3,910 Due from Atlas Futures Fund (Note 2) 52,000 Prepaid expenses 833 Total Current Assets 56,743 INVESTMENTS (Note 3) 977 $57,720 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Accounts payable $ 812 Due to affiliate (Note 2) 52,000 Total Current Liabilities 52,812 Long-Term Debt (Note 3) 4,000 STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY Capital stock (common 1,500 shares authorized, no par value; 1,000 issued and outstanding) 1,000 Accumulated deficit (92) Total Stockholder's Equity 908 $57,720 Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 2 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. STATEMENT OF INCOME AND RETAINED EARNINGS FOR THE FOUR MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 REVENUES $ EXPENSES Bank charges 69 Total Expenses 69 NET (LOSS) BEFORE EQUITY IN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (69) EQUITY IN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (23) NET INCOME (LOSS) (92) ACCUMULATED DEFICIT Beginning of period End of period $ (92) Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 3 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE FOUR MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1998 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Net income (loss) $ (92) Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities - Equity in limited partnership 23 Changes in operating assets and liabilities - Increase in accounts payable 812 Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 743 CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Purchase of investment interest in limited partnership (1,000) (Increase) in prepaid expenses (833) Net Cash Used by Investing Activities (1,833) CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Issuance of capital stock 1,000 Proceeds from long-term debt 4,000 Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities 5,000 NET INCREASE IN CASH 3,910 CASH - Beginning of period End of period $ 3,910 NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES - Organization and syndication costs incurred and paid by affiliate $52,000 Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements. 4 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 1. NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Ashley Capital Management, Inc. (the Company) was formed primarily to act as general partner of the Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the Fund). The responsibilities of the General Partner, in addition to the selection of trading advisors and other activity of the Fund, include executing and filing all necessary legal documents, statements and certificates of the Fund, retaining independent public accountants to audit the Fund, employing attorneys to represent the Fund, reviewing the brokerage commission rates to determine reasonableness, maintaining the tax status of the Fund as a limited partnership, maintaining a current list of the names, addresses and numbers of units owned by each Limited Partner and taking such other actions as deemed necessary or desirable to manage the business of the Partnership. Use of Accounting Estimates - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Statement of Cash Flows - Net cash provided by operating activities includes no cash payment for interest nor income taxes for the four months ended April 30, 1998. 2. CORPORATE AFFILIATION The Company's sole shareholder is also a joint owner of Futures Investment Company. In addition, the Company is a general partner of Atlas Futures Fund, a limited partnership. Also, the Company, in its capacity as general partner, has been incurring the organization and offering costs of Atlas Futures Fund, which total an estimated $52,000 as of the balance sheet date. These funds are not collateralized and bear no interest. Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. 5 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS APRIL 30, 1998 3. INVESTMENTS The Company purchased an interest as the general partner in a limited partnership with an initial investment of $1,000. The investment is being accounted for under the equity method and lost $23 during the period. 4. LONG-TERM DEBT The Company and its sole shareholder signed a subordinated loan agreement on October 24, 1996, whereby the Company can borrow up to $500,000 from the shareholder. The loan agreement bears interest at the rate of 12% per annum and is payable on February 1, 2019; however, under certain circumstances the borrower may repay the loan earlier. On April 16, 1998, the Company borrowed $4,000 against this commitment, which will mature February 1, 2019, in part to fund the expenses of the Company and to advance proceeds to the limited partnership. Purchase of units in the partnership will not acquire or otherwise have any interest in this Company. 6 ******************************************************************************* APPENDIX I COMMODITY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS Identification of the parties and knowledge of various terms and concepts relating to trading in futures and forward contracts and this offering are necessary for a potential investor to identify the risks of investment in the Fund. "1256 Contract". See "Taxation - Section 1256 Contract". "Additional Sellers". See definition of "Selling Agent". "Affiliated IB". The IB is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner. The IB has no affiliation with the Partnership. Also see definition of "IB". "Associated Persons". The persons registered pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act with the FCM, the Selling Agent, Additional Sellers, or the IB who are eligible to service the Partnership, the Partners and to receive Trailing Commissions. "Average Price System". The method approved by the CFTC to permit the CTA to place positions sold or purchased in a block to the numerous accounts managed by the CTA. See "The Commodity Trading Advisors" in the main body of the Prospectus. "Best Efforts". The term to describe that the party is liable only in the event they intentionally fail or are grossly negligent in the performance of the task described. "Capital" means cash invested in the Partnership by any Partner and placed at risk for the business of the Partnership. "CFTC". Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 2033 K Street, Washington, D.C., 20581. An independent regulatory commission of the United States government empowered to regulate commodity futures transactions under the Commodity Exchange Act. "Commodity". Goods, wares, merchandise, produce, currencies, and stock indices and in general everything that is bought and sold in commerce. Traded commodities on U. S. Exchanges are sold according to uniform established grade standards, in convenient predetermined lots and quantities such as bushels, pounds or bales, are fungible and, with a few exceptions, are storable over periods of time. "Commodity Broker". See definitions of "Futures Commission Merchant" and "IB". "Commodity Exchange Act". The statute providing the regulatory scheme for trading in commodity futures and options contracts in the United States under the administration of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which will provide the opportunity for reparations and other redress for claims. "Commodity Pool Operator" or "CPO". Ashley Capital Management, Inc., c/o Corporate Systems, Inc., 101 N. Fairfield Dr., Dover, DE 19901. A person that raises capital through the sale of interests in an investment trust, partnership, corporation, syndicate or similar form of enterprise, and uses that capital to invest either entirely or partially in futures contracts. "Commodity Trading Advisors" or "CTAs". Michael Frischmeyer, 1422 Central Avenue, Fort Dodge, IA. 50501; Commoditech, Inc., 4299 Rock Island Road, Arnold, MO 63010; Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., 5445 N. Sheridan Rd., Suite 2706, Chicago, IL 60640; J.A.H. Research and Trading, 10561 Ridgewood Drive, Palos Park, Illinois 60464; and, C&M Traders, Inc., 1001 Yamato Road, Suite 307, Boca Raton, Florida 33487. A person or entity which renders advice about commodities or about the trading of commodities, as part of a regular business, for profit. Particularly, those who will be responsible for the analysis and placement of trades for the Partnership. "Daily Price Limit". The maximum permitted movement in a single direction (imposed by an exchange and approved by the CFTC) in the price of a commodity futures contract for a given commodity that can occur on a commodity exchange on a given day in relation to the previous day's settlement price, which is subject to change, from time to time, by the exchange (with CFTC approval). 1 "Escrow Agent" and "Escrow Account". Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703 which was selected by the General Partner and the account which will hold all the subscription documents and proceeds until such time as either the Minimum is sold or the offering is terminated prior to the sale of such Minimum. "Exchange for Physicals" ("EFP"). EFP is a practice whereby positions in certain futures contracts may be initiated or liquidated by first executing the transaction in the appropriate cash market and then arbitraging the position into the futures market (simultaneously buying the cash position and selling the futures position, or vice versa). "Form K-1". The section of the Federal Income Tax Return filed by the Partnership which identifies the amount of investment in the Partnership, the gains and losses for the tax year, and the amount of such gains and losses reportable by a Partner on the Partner's tax return. "Fully-Committed Position". Each commodity trading advisor has an objective percentage of equity to be placed at risk. In addition, the CFTC places limits upon the number of positions a single commodity trading advisor may have in certain commodities. When either the objective percentage of equity is placed at risk or the commodity trading advisor reaches the limit in number of positions, the account or accounts have a fully-committed position. "Futures Commission Merchant" or "FCM". The Vision Limited Partnership, One Whitehall Street, 15th floor, New York, New York, 10004. The person that solicits or accepts orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery subject to the rules of any contract market and in connection with such solicitation or acceptance of orders, accepts money or other assets to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result from such orders for a commission. The IB will be responsible for the negotiation and payment of the commission to the FCM. "Futures Contract". A contract providing for (i) the delivery or receipt at a future date of a specified amount and grade of a traded Commodity at a specified price and delivery point, or (ii) cash settlement of the change in the value of the contract. The terms of these contracts are standardized for each Commodity traded on each exchange and vary only with respect to price and delivery months. A futures contract should be distinguished from the actual physical commodity, which is termed a "cash commodity". Trading in futures contracts involves trading in contracts for future delivery of Commodities and not the buying and selling of particular physical lots of Commodities. A contract to buy or sell may be satisfied either by making or taking delivery of the commodity and payment or acceptance of the entire purchase price therefor, or by offsetting the contractual obligation with a countervailing contract on the same exchange prior to delivery. "Futures Investment Company". The selling agent (the "Selling Agent") and introducing broker (the "IB"), 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 which will introduce the trades to the FCM for a fixed commission of 9% of equity on deposit at the FCM allocated by the General Partner to trade. The principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Del Pacult is also one of the principals of the IB, with her husband. "General Partner". Ashley Capital Management, Inc., c/o Corporate Systems, Inc., 101 N. Fairfield Dr., Dover, DE 19901. The manager of the Fund. "Gross Profits". The income or loss from all sources, including interest income and profit and loss from non-trading activities, if any. "Initial Closing". When the Minimum offering amount has been raised and Escrow funds are released to the Partnership for commencement of trading. "IB" or "Introducing Broker". The introducing broker, Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737, which will introduce the trades to the FCM for a fixed commission of 9% of equity on deposit at the FCM allocated by the General Partner to trade. The principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Del Pacult is also one of the principals of the IB, with her husband. "Introduction of Trades". The term used to describe the function performed by the broker which handles the relationship between the Partnership and the Futures Commission Merchant. See the definition of "IB". "Limited Partner". Persons admitted without management authority pursuant to the Partnership Agreement. 2 "Margin". A good faith deposit with a broker to assure fulfillment of the terms of a Futures Contract. "Margin call". A demand for additional monies to hold positions taken to maintain a customer's account in compliance with the requirements of a particular commodity exchange or of an FCM. "Minimum-Maximum Offering". The amount required to be invested before trading will commence, $700,000 and the amount which will terminate this offering, $7,000,000. "NASD". National Association of Security Dealers, Inc., the self regulatory organization responsible for the legal and fair operation of broker dealers such as the Selling Agent. "Net Assets" or "Net Asset Value" means the total assets, including all cash and cash equivalents (valued at cost plus accrued interest and earned discount), less total liabilities, of the Partnership (each determined on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied under the accrual method of accounting or as required by applicable laws, regulations and rules including those of any authorized self regulatory organization), specifically: (i) Net Asset Value includes any unrealized profit or loss on open security and commodity positions subject to reserves for loss established, from time to time, by the General Partner; (ii) All open stock, option, and commodity positions are calculated on the then current market value, which shall be based upon the settlement price for that particular position on the date with respect to which Net Asset Value is being determined; provided, however, that if a position could not be liquidated on such day due to the operation of the daily limits or other rules of the exchange upon which that position is traded or otherwise, the settlement price on the first subsequent day on which the position could be liquidated shall be the basis for determining the market value of such position for such day. As used herein, "settlement price" includes, but is not limited to: (1) in the case of a futures contract, the settlement price on the commodity exchange on which such futures contract is traded; and (2) in the case of a foreign currency forward contract which is not traded on a commodity exchange, the average between the lowest offered price and the highest bid price, at the close of business on the day Net Asset Value is being determined, established by the bank or broker through which such forward contract was acquired or is then currently traded; (iii) Brokerage commissions to close security and commodity positions, if charged on a round-turn basis, are accrued in full at the time the position is initiated (i.e., on a round-turn basis) as a liability of the Partnership; (iv) Interest earned on all Partnership accounts is accrued at least monthly; (v) The amount of any distribution made by the Partnership is a liability of the Partnership from the day when the distribution is declared by the General Partner or as provided in this Agreement and the amount of any redemption is a liability of the Partnership as of the valuation date; and (vi) Syndication Costs incurred in organizing and all present and future costs to increase or maintain the qualification of the Units available for sale and the cost to present the initial and future offering of Units for sale shall be capitalized when incurred and amortized and paid from Capital or Monthly Profit as required by applicable law. "Net Unit Value". The Net Assets of the Partnership divided by the total number of Units outstanding. "Net Gains". The net profit from all sources. "New Net Profit". The profit in excess of the highest prior level of equity, before charges and fees, earned by a commodity trading advisor. See "Description of Charges" and the "Limited Partnership Agreement". "Net Worth". The excess of total assets over total liabilities as determined by generally accepted accounting principles. Net Worth for a prospective investor shall be exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles. 3 "Offering Expenses". The Partnership will reimburse the General Partner for offering expenses, estimated to be $47,000, from the gross proceeds of the offering at the time of the break of Escrow for the Initial Closing. For purposes of limitation, the total Expenses, including the 6% sales commissions, can not exceed 15% of Capital raised pursuant to the Offering. Specifically, these expenses include SEC Registration Fee $1,724, NASD Filing Fee $1,000, Legal Fees $33,700, Accounting $1,500, Blue Sky Expenses $3,000, Printing $3,000, Miscellaneous $2,076 and Escrow Fees $1,000. The $47,000 in Offering Expenses includes the first year operating costs. Additionally, there are $5,000 in Organizational Expenses which will be paid to the General Partner, amortized on a straight line method over 60 months. "Organizational Expenses". The General Partner will be reimbursed for certain Organizational Expense in the amount of $5,000, to be amortized on a straight line method over the first 60 months of Partnership operation. Specifically, these include $500 in accounting fees, and $4500 in legal fees. "Option Contract". An option contract gives the purchaser the right (as opposed to the obligation) to acquire (call) or sell (put) a given quantity of a commodity or a futures contract for a specified period of time at a specified price to the seller of the option contract. The seller has unlimited risk of loss while the loss to a buyer of an option is limited to the amount paid ("premium") for the option. "Partners". The General Partner, all other general partners, and all Limited Partners in the Partnership. "Partnership" or ``Limited Partnership" or "Commodity Pool" or "Pool" or "Fund". The Atlas Futures Fund Limited Partnership, evidenced by Exhibit A to this Prospectus, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN (219) 833-1306. "Position Limits". The CFTC has established maximum positions which can be taken in some, but not in all commodity markets, to prevent the corner or control of the price or supply of those commodities. These maximum number of positions are called Position Limits. "Principal". Ms. Shira Del Pacult, the principal of the General Partner (who is also a principal of the IB). "Round-turn Trade". The initial purchase or sale of a futures or forward contract and the subsequent offsetting sale or purchase of such contract. "Redemption". The right of a Partner to tender the Units to the Partnership for surrender at the Net Unit Value, subject to certain conditions. See the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A to the Prospectus. "Selling Agent". The NASD member broker dealer, Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737, selected by the General Partner to offer the Units for sale. The General Partner and the Selling Agent may select Additional Selling Agents to also offer Units for sale. See "Plan of Distribution" in the Prospectus. "Scale in Positions". Some of the CTAs selected by the General Partner presently have a large amount of equity under management. In some situations, the positions desired to be taken on behalf of the Partnership and other accounts under management will be too large too be executed at one time. The CTAs intend to take positions at different prices, at different times and allocate those positions on a ratable basis in accordance with rules established by the CFTC. This procedure is defined as to "Scale in Positions". The same definition and rules apply when the CTA elects to exit a position. Taxation - "Section 1256 Contract" is defined to mean: (1) any regulated futures contract ("RFC"); (2) any foreign currency contract; (3) any non- equity option; and (4) any dealer equity option. The term RFC means a futures contract whether it is traded on or subject to the rules of a national securities exchange which is registered with the SEC, a domestic board of trade designated as a contract market by the CFTC or any other board of trade, exchange or other market designated by the Secretary of Treasury ("a qualified board of exchange") and which is "market-to-market" to determine the amount of margin which must be deposited or may be withdrawn. A "foreign currency contract" is a contract which requires delivery of, or the settlement of, which depends upon the value of 4 foreign currency which is currency in which positions are also entered at arm's length at a price determined by reference to the price in the interbank market. (The Secretary of Treasury is authorized to issue regulations excluding certain currency forward contracts from marked-to-market treatment.) A "non-equity option" means an option which is treated on a qualified board or exchange and the value of which is not determined directly or indirectly by reference to any stock (or group of stocks) or stock index unless there is in effect a designation by the CFTC of a contract market for a contract bond or such group of stocks or stock index. A "dealer equity option" means, with respect to an options dealer, only a listed option which is an equity option, is purchased or granted by such options dealer in the normal course of his activity of dealing in options, and is listed on the qualified board or exchange on which such options dealer is registered. With certain exceptions discussed below, the following rules apply to Section 1256 contracts. All Section 1256 contracts will be market-to-market upon the closing of every contract (including closing by taking an offsetting position or by making or taking delivery, by exercise or being exercised, by assignment or being assigned or by lapse or otherwise) and all open Section 1256 contracts held by the Partnership at its fiscal year-end will be treated as sold for their fair market value on the last business day of such taxable year. This will result in all unrealized gains and losses being recognized for Federal income tax purposes for the taxable year. As a consequence, the Partners may have tax liability relating to unrealized Partnership profits in open positions at year-end. Sixty percent of any gain or loss from a Section 1256 contract will be treated as long-term, and 40% as short-term, capital gain or loss (the "60/40 Rule"), regardless of the actual holding period of the individual contracts. The character of a Partner's distributive share of profits or losses of the Partnership from Section 1256 contracts will thus be 60% long-term capital gain or loss and 40% short-term capital gain or loss. Each partner's distributive share of such gain or loss for a taxable year will be combined with its other items of capital gain or loss for such year in computing its Federal income tax liability. The Code contains certain rules designed to eliminate the tax benefits flowing to high-income taxpayers from the graduated tax rate schedule and from the personal and dependency exemptions. The effect of these rules is to tax a portion of a high-income taxpayer's income at a marginal tax rate of 39.6%. However, long-term capital gains are now subject to a maximum tax rate of 28%. Subject to certain limitations, a Limited Partner, other than a corporation, estate or trust, may elect to carryback any net Section 1256 contract losses to each of the three preceding years. Net Section 1256 contract losses carried back to prior years may only be used to offset net Section 1256 contract gains, but not against other income. The net loss from Section 1256 contracts will be treated as 60% long-term capital loss and 40% short term capital loss. To the extent that such losses are not depleted by the carryback, they can be carried forward under the existing capital loss carry forward rules and will be treated as 60% long-term capital losses and 40% short-term capital losses. During taxable years in which little or no profit is generated from trading activities, a Limited Partner will, none-the-less, still have interest income. The marked-to-market rules do not apply to interests in personal property of a nature which are actively traded other than Section 1256 contracts (termed "off-exchange positions"). The gains and losses from off-exchange positions will not be subject to the 60/40 Rule, but will be treated in accordance with the general holding period rules and taxed at the same rates as ordinary income, on a dollar for dollar basis. Capital gain or loss with respect to property other than Section 1256 contracts generally will be long-term only if such contracts have been held for more than one year. See "Federal Income Tax Aspects". "Trailing Commissions". The share of the fixed commissions to be paid to the individual associated persons who work for the NASD member broker dealers or the IB who have either sold the Units to the Partners or are providing services to the General Partner or the other Partners. "Taking Positions Ahead of the Partnership". The allocation of trades by other than legally accepted methods by the CTA or other trader which favors parties who took the position unfairly. "Trading Matrix". The dollar value used by a commodity trading advisor to define the number of positions to be taken by the accounts under management. For example, each $40,000 in every account is traded the same by Mr. Frischmeyer. This is his trading matrix. Some other commodity trading advisors have a different trading matrix for different sized accounts. For example, they may trade all accounts over one million in size differently than accounts under one million. "Unit". The term used to describe the ownership of both the General and Limited Partner interests in the Partnership. "Unrealized Profit Or Loss". The profit or loss which would be realized on an open position if it were closed at the current settlement price or the most recent appropriate quotation as supplied by the broker or bank through which the transaction is effected. "Underwriter". See "Selling Agent". [The balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] 5 STATE REGULATORY GLOSSARY The following definitions are supplied by the state securities administrators responsible for the review of public futures fund ("commodity pool") offerings made to residents of their respective states. They belong to the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. which publish "Guidelines for the Registration of Commodity Pool Programs", such as the Fund, which contain these definitions. The following definitions are published from the Guidelines, however, the General Partner has made additions to, but no deletions from, some of these definitions to make them more relevant to an investment in the Fund. Administrator-The official or agency administering the security laws of a state. This will usually be the State of residence of the Fund or the domicile of the Broker or Brokerage Firm which makes the offer or the residence of the potential investor. Advisor-Any person who, for any consideration, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or indirectly, as to the value, purchase, or sale of commodity contracts or commodity options. This definition applies to the CTAs and, when it provides such advice, to the General Partner. Affiliate-An Affiliate of a Person means: (a) any Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote 10% or more of the outstanding voting securities of such Person; (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held with power to vote, by such Person; (c) any Person, directly or indirectly, controlling, controlled by, or under common control of such Person; (d) any officer, director or partner of such Person; or (e) if such Person is an officer, director or partner, any Person for which such Person acts in any such capacity. See "Conflicts". This applies to the fact that Ms. Shira Del Pacult is the sole shareholder and principal of the General Partner and also owns 50% of the outstanding voting shares and is a principal in the Affiliated IB. Capital Contributions-The total investment in a Program by a Participant or by all Participants, as the case may be. The purchase price, less sales commissions, for the Units. Commodity Broker-Any Person who engages in the business of effecting transactions in commodity contracts for the account of others or for his own account. See "The Futures Commission Merchant" and "Introducing Broker". Commodity Contract-A contract or option thereon providing for the delivery or receipt at a future date of a specified amount and grade of a traded commodity at a specified price and delivery point. Cross Reference Sheet-A compilation of the Guideline sections, referenced to the page of the prospectus, Program agreement, or other exhibits, and justification of any deviation from the Guidelines. This sheet is used by the State Administrator to review this Prospectus. Net Assets-The total assets, less total liabilities, of the Program determined on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles. Net Assets shall include any unrealized profits or losses on open positions, and any fee or expense including Net Asset fees accruing to the Program. Net Asset Value Per Program Interest-The Net Assets divided by the number of Program Interests outstanding. Net Worth-The excess of total assets over total liabilities are determined by generally accepted accounting principles. Net Worth shall be determined exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles. New Trading Profits-The excess, if any, of Net Assets at the end of the period over Net Assets at the end of the highest previous period or Net Assets at the date trading commences, whichever is higher, and as further adjusted to eliminate the effect on Net Assets resulting from new Capital Contributions, redemptions, or capital distributions, if any, made during the period decreased by interest or other income, not directly related to trading activity, earned on Program assets during the period, whether the assets are held separately or in a margin account. See "New Net Profit". Organizational and Offering Expenses-All expenses incurred by the Program in connection with and in preparing a Program for registration and subsequently offering and distributing it to the public, including, but not limited 6 to, total underwriting and brokerage discounts and commissions (including fees of the underwriter's attorneys), expenses for printing, engraving, mailing, salaries of employees while engaged in sales activity, charges of transfer agents, registrars, trustees, escrow holders, depositories, experts, expenses of qualification of the sale of its Program Interest under Federal and state law, including taxes and fees, accountants' and attorneys' fees. Participant-The holder of a Program Interest. A Partner in the Fund. Person-Any natural Person, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity. Pit Brokerage Fee-Pit Brokerage Fee shall include floor brokerage, clearing fees, National Futures Association fees, and exchange fees. These fees will be paid by the Introducing Broker from the fixed commissions. Program-A limited partnership, joint venture, corporation, trust or other entity formed and operated for the purpose of investing in Commodity Contracts. The Fund. Program Broker-A Commodity Broker that effects trades in Commodity Contracts for the account of a Program. See the "The Futures Commission Merchant" and "Introducing Broker". Program Interest-A limited partnership interest or other security representing ownership in a program. The "Units" in the Fund. See Exhibit A, the Limited Partnership Agreement. Pyramiding-A method of using all or a part of an unrealized profit in a Commodity Contract position to provide margin for any additional Commodity Contracts of the same or related commodities. Sponsor-Any Person directly or indirectly instrumental in organizing a Program or any Person who will manage or participate in the management of a Program, including a Commodity Broker who pays any portion of the Organizational Expenses of the Program, and the general partner(s) and any other Person who regularly performs or selects the Persons who perform services for the Program. Sponsor does not include wholly independent third parties such as attorneys, accountants, and underwriters whose only compensation is for professional services rendered in connection with the offering of the Units. The term "Sponsor" shall be deemed to include its Affiliates. Valuation Date-The date as of which the Net Assets of the Program are determined. For the Fund, this will be after the close of business on the last business day of each month. Valuation Period-A regular period of time between Valuation Dates. For the Fund, this will be the close of business for each calendar month and each calendar year. [The balance of this page has been intentionally left blank] 7 ******************************************************************************* APPENDIX II Supplemental Performance Information for C&M Traders, Inc. Please see "The Commodity Trading Advisors, C&M Traders, Inc." in the main body of this disclosure document for the business background and description of the trading program for C&M Traders, Inc. C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Proprietary The following capsule shows the past performance of the C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Proprietary since the inception of trading of the first Account (in January, 1992) and year-to-date (through May 31, 1998). PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. C&M Traders, Inc. - Live Cattle - Proprietary Percentage Rate of Return (Computed on a compounded monthly basis)* Month 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 January 21.66 (9.00) (38.66) 25.05 38.61 February 5.20 (0.30) 116.26 (35.10) 2.93 March 3.44 (34.55) 3.18 112.13 (1.90) April 1.01 20.71 (17.37) (25.02) 12.48 May (16.88) 25.66 (5.46) (3.32) 12.69 June (9.19) 3.80 3.47 (58.62) 21.24 July (13.43) (12.23) 43.17 72.75 (3.72) August (1.10) 10.26 12.71 69.28 September 19.76 11.84 14.95 (17.34) October 30.10 35.28 8.90 83.05 November 17.07 2.49 10.98 6.16 December (1.20) 3.52 32.11 (29.21) Totals 46.26 180.43 87.19 298.58 Name of Commodity Trading Advisor: C&M Traders, Inc. Name of Trading Program: Live Cattle Inception of Trading: July, 1993 Number of client accounts using this trading program: 6 Total Assets managed by CTA: $18,832,357 Total Assets traded: $6,221,487 Worst Monthly Percentage Draw-down**: 6-95/58.62% Worst Peak-to-Valley % Draw-down***: 11-92 to 2-93/70.32% Number of Accounts Closed with Profit: 3 since January, 1992 Number of Accounts Closed with Loss: 0 since January, 1992 * Rate of Return is computed by dividing net performance by beginning net asset value for the period. For those months when additions or withdrawals exceed ten percent of beginning net assets, the Time-Weighting of Additions and Withdrawals method is used to compute rates of return. ** "Draw-down" is defined by applicable CFTC regulations to mean losses experienced by an account over the specified period. *** Worst Peak-to-Valley Draw-Down means the greatest cumulative percentage decline in month-end net asset value due to losses sustained by a pool, account or trading program during any period in which the initial month-end net asset value is not equaled or exceeded by a subsequent month-end net asset value.
****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT A TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP THIS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT, (the "Agreement") dated the 1st day of February, 1998, by and among Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, as managing general partner (hereinafter referred to as the "General Partner"), and those who are admitted as partners, (hereinafter referred to as either "Limited Partners" or "Other General Partners"), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, (the General Partner, any Other General Partners, and the Limited Partners are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Partners"). WITNESSETH: IN CONSIDERATION of good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the General Partner and the initial Limited Partner entered into and formed a limited partnership (hereinafter called either the "Partnership" or the "Fund") pursuant and subject to the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act"), as follows: ARTICLE I Definitions and Risk Disclosure Statement Certain terms used in this Agreement shall have the special meaning designated below: 1.1 The term AFFILIATE means (1) any person controlled by or under common control with another person, (2) a person owning or controlling 10% or more of the outstanding voting securities of such other person, (3) any officer or director of such other person, and (4) if such other person is an officer or director, any other company for which such person acts as an officer or director. 1.2 When referring to the capital of the Partnership: (a) the term CAPITAL shall mean cash invested in the Partnership by any Partner and placed at risk for the business of the Partnership; (b) the term CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION shall mean, with respect to any Partner, the sum of all Capital contributed to the Partnership pursuant to Article I; (c) the term CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTION shall mean the amount set forth opposite the name of such Partner in the schedule of Partners, which amount shall be the purchase price, less sales commissions, if any, to be paid or paid by such Partner for the Unit or Units in the Partnership purchased by such Partner; (d) the term INITIAL CAPITAL shall mean the sum of all Capital Subscriptions received by the General Partner prior to commencement of trading; (e) the term NET ASSETS OR NET ASSET VALUE means the total assets, including all cash and cash equivalents (valued at cost plus accrued interest and earned discount), less total liabilities, of the Partnership (each determined on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied under the accrual method of accounting or as required by applicable laws, regulations and rules including those of any authorized self regulatory organization), specifically: (i) Net Asset Value includes any unrealized profit or loss on open security and commodity positions subject to reserves for loss established, from time to time, by the General Partner; (ii) All open stock, option, and commodity positions are calculated on the then current market value, which shall be based upon the settlement price for that particular position on the date with respect to which Net Asset Value is being determined; provided, however, that if a position could not be liquidated on such day due to the operation of the daily limits or other rules of the exchange upon which that position is traded or otherwise, the settlement price on the first subsequent day on which the position could be liquidated shall be the basis for determining the market value of such position for such day. As used herein, "settlement price" includes, but is not limited to: (1) in the case of a futures contract, the settlement price on the commodity exchange on which such futures contract is traded; and (2) in the case of a foreign currency forward contract which is not traded on a commodity exchange, the average between the lowest offered price and the highest bid price, at the close of business on the day Net Asset Value is being determined, established by the bank or broker through which such forward contract was acquired or is then currently traded; (iii) Brokerage commissions to close security and commodity positions, if charged on a round-turn basis, are accrued in full at the time the position is initiated (i.e., on a round-turn basis) as a liability of the Partnership; (iv) Interest earned on all Partnership accounts is accrued at least monthly; (v) The amount of any distribution made by the Partnership is a liability of the Partnership from the day when the distribution is declared by the General Partner or as provided in this Agreement and the amount of any redemption is a liability of the Partnership as of the valuation date; and (vi) Syndication Costs incurred in organizing and all present and future costs to increase or maintain the qualification of the Units available for sale and the cost to present the initial and future offering of Units for sale shall be capitalized when incurred and amortized and paid from Capital or Monthly Profit as required by applicable law. (f) the term PROFIT (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO UNITS means the product of A) the number of Units divided into B) an amount equal to the Net Profit (Loss) determined as follows: (1) the net of profits and losses realized on all trades closed out, plus (2) the net of any unrealized profits and losses an open positions as of the end of the period, less (3) the net of any unrealized profits and losses on open positions as of the end of the preceding period, minus, (4) the Expenses attributable to Units. Profit (Loss) shall include interest earned on Partnership assets, realized and unrealized capital gains or losses on U.S. Treasury bills, and other securities; (g) the term MANAGEMENT FEE shall mean three percent (3%) of the Net Assets of the Partnership computed on the close of business on the last day of each month and payable to the General Partner without regard to the income or loss of the Partnership for that period; (h) the term INCENTIVE FEE means a percentage of the profits accrued and paid to the General Partner, or its Affiliates, of up to fifteen percent (15%) of New Net Profit earned from inception of trading, through the date of the computation, based upon total Capital of the Partnership. The General Partner has the right to both reduce and, subsequently, increase the Incentive Fee to fifteen percent (15%) and below; presently, the Incentive Fee paid to the General Partner is paid to the CTA; (i) the term GROSS PROFIT OR LOSS means the income or loss from all sources, including interest income and profit and loss from non-trading activities, if any. (j) the term NEW NET PROFIT OR LOSS means the amount of income earned from trading, less the trading losses and brokerage commissions and fees paid to clear the trades which are incurred or accrued during the then current accounting period; and, (k) the term NET GAINS means net profit from all sources. (l) the term UNIT shall mean a partnership interest in the Partnership requiring an initial Capital Contribution of one thousand dollars ($1,000), less a sales commission, or the Net Asset Value of the initial Unit, as adjusted to reflect increases and decreases caused by receipt, accrual, and payment of profit, Expenses, losses, bonuses, and fees, from time to time. 1.3 When referring to costs and expenses of the Partnership to be allocated and charged pursuant to this Agreement: (a) the term EXPENSES shall mean costs allocated, incurred, paid, accrued, or reserved, including the fixed commissions payable to the Introducing Broker of nine percent (9%) of the total equity placed under management with the commodity trading advisors, which are, in the opinion of the General Partner, required, necessary or desirable to establish, manage, continue and promote the business of the Partnership including, but not limited to, all deferred organization costs, brokerage commissions, and all management and incentive fees payable to the General Partner or to independent investment and commodity trading advisors by the Partnership as negotiated and determined by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership on a basis consistently applied in accordance with generally accepted accounting principals under the accrual method of accounting or as required by applicable laws, regulations and rules including those of any authorized self regulatory organization with proper jurisdiction over the business of the Partnership; provided, however, Expenses shall not include salaries, rent, travel, expenses and other items of General Partner overhead and, provided, further, management fees, advisory fees and all other fees, except for incentive fees and commodity brokerage commissions, the actual cost of legal and audit services and extraordinary expenses, shall not exceed one half of one percent of Net Assets per month (not to exceed six percent annually). If necessary, the General Partner shall reimburse the Partnership no less frequently than quarterly, for the amount by which such aggregate fees and expenses exceed the limitations provided by NASAA Guideline IVC.1. During the period for which reimbursement is made up to an amount not exceeding the aggregate compensation received by the General Partner, including direct or indirect participations in commodity brokerage commissions charged to the Partnership. In addition, if reimbursement is required or ordinary expenses are incurred, the General Partner shall include in the Partnership's next regular report to the auditors a discussion of the circumstances or events which resulted in the reimbursement or extraordinary expenses; (b) the term NET UNIT VALUE shall mean the Net Asset Value divided, from time to time, by the total number of Units outstanding; (c) the term OFFERING PERIOD means the period of time established by the General Partner after the Partnership begins to offer to sell Units at the Net Asset Value per Unit; and, (d) the term SYNDICATION COSTS shall mean the promotion and syndication costs of the Partnership and the costs of the offering of Units, and to establish the initial business relationships on behalf of the Partnership, including all legal and printing costs to prepare the Disclosure Documents, registrations and filing fees, contract negotiation, and travel incurred which are deemed necessary or desirable by the General Partner to form the Partnership, be ready to engage in business, and to sell the Units. 1.4 The terms DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT, MEMORANDUM, OFFERING CIRCULAR, PROSPECTUS and REGISTRATION STATEMENT shall mean the document or documents, together with the exhibits and any subsequent continuations thereof, which describes this Partnership to persons selected by the General Partner including, but not limited to, potential purchasers of Units, or the Partners or to any government or self regulatory agency or to persons selected by the General Partner to participate in the affairs or provide services to the Partnership. 1.5 When referring to this Agreement and the Partners of the Partnership: (a) the term ACT shall refer to the partnership act of Delaware. (b) the term AGREEMENT refers to this Partnership agreement; (c) the term GENERAL PARTNER shall refer to Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, c/o Corporate Systems, Inc., 101 North Fairfield Drive, Dover, DE 19901 (302) 697-2139; (d) the term LIMITED PARTNER shall refer to any party listed on the Schedule of Limited Partners attached to this Agreement as Attachment I, as amended, from time to time, pursuant to Article VI hereof; (e) the term MAJORITY IN INTEREST shall refer to that number of Partners who collectively hold over 50% of all of the outstanding Units held by all Partners in the Partnership; provided, however, the Units held by the General Partner cannot be considered to determine a MAJORITY IN INTEREST or otherwise vote or consent regarding the question of removal of the General Partner or other matters specifically expressed in Article V, Section 5.3. In addition, see the rights and duties of the General Partner in Article IV and of the Limited Partners in Articles V; f) the term OTHER GENERAL PARTNER refers to any General Partner other than Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated; and (g) the term PARTNERS refers to the General Partner, any Other General Partner, and the Limited Partners, collectively. 1.6 RISK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION PERMITS YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN A COMMODITY POOL. IN SO DOING, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO LARGE LOSSES AS WELL AS GAINS. SUCH TRADING LOSSES CAN SHARPLY REDUCE THE NET ASSET VALUE OF THE POOL AND CONSEQUENTLY THE VALUE OF YOUR INTEREST IN THE POOL. IN ADDITION, RESTRICTIONS ON REDEMPTIONS MAY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO WITHDRAW YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE POOL. FURTHER, COMMODITY POOLS MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES FOR MANAGEMENT, AND ADVISORY AND BROKERAGE FEES. IT MAY BE NECESSARY FOR THOSE POOLS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THESE CHARGES TO MAKE SUBSTANTIAL TRADING PROFITS TO AVOID DEPLETION OR EXHAUSTION OF THEIR ASSETS. THE PARTNERSHIP'S DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT CONTAINS A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF EACH EXPENSE TO BE CHARGED THIS POOL AT PAGE 21 AND A STATEMENT OF THE PERCENTAGE RETURN NECESSARY TO BREAK EVEN, THAT IS, TO RECOVER THE AMOUNT OF YOUR INITIAL INVESTMENT, AT PAGE 16. THIS BRIEF STATEMENT CANNOT DISCLOSE ALL THE RISKS AND OTHER FACTORS NECESSARY TO EVALUATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS COMMODITY POOL. THEREFORE, BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COMMODITY POOL, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY STUDY THIS AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE PARTNERSHIP'S DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL RISK FACTORS OF THIS INVESTMENT, AT PAGE 6. YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT THIS COMMODITY POOL MAY TRADE FOREIGN FUTURES OR OPTIONS CONTRACTS. TRANSACTIONS ON MARKETS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING MARKETS FORMALLY LINKED TO A UNITED STATES MARKET, MAY BE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS WHICH OFFER DIFFERENT OR DIMINISHED PROTECTION TO THE POOL AND ITS PARTICIPANTS. FURTHER, UNITED STATES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPEL THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES OF REGULATORY AUTHORITIES OR MARKETS IN NON-UNITED STATES JURISDICTIONS WHERE TRANSACTIONS FOR THE POOL MAY BE EFFECTED. ARTICLE II Partnership Organization and Purpose 2.1 PARTNERSHIP NAME AND LOCATION OF BOOKS AND RECORDS. The name of the Partnership, as filed with the state of Delaware, shall be Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership. The address where the books and records of the Partnership will be maintained for inspection by the Partners is c/o Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 (219) 833-1306 or such other address as the General Partner shall, from time to time, determine. 2.2 PARTNERSHIP AFFILIATES. (a) POOL OPERATOR NAME AND PRINCIPALS. The General Partner shall serve as the commodity pool operator for the Partnership. Shira Del Pacult is the sole principal of the General Partner and is solely responsible for the business decisions of the Partnership, including, but not limited to, selection of the commodity trading advisors (the "CTAs"). THIS POOL HAS NOT BEGUN TRADING AND DOES NOT HAVE ANY PERFORMANCE HISTORY. THE REGULATIONS OF THE CFTC AND NFA PROHIBIT ANY REPRESENTATION BY A PERSON REGISTERED WITH THE CFTC OR BY ANY MEMBER OF THE NFA, RESPECTIVELY, THAT SUCH REGISTRATION OR MEMBERSHIP IN ANY RESPECT INDICATES THAT THE CFTC OR THE NFA, AS THE CASE MAY BE, HAS APPROVED OR ENDORSED SUCH PERSON OR SUCH PERSON'S TRADING PROGRAMS OR OBJECTIVES. THE REGISTRATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROSPECTUS MUST NOT BE CONSIDERED AS CONSTITUTING ANY SUCH APPROVAL OR ENDORSEMENT. LIKEWISE, NO COMMODITY EXCHANGE HAS GIVEN OR WILL GIVE ANY SUCH APPROVAL OR ENDORSEMENT. The General Partner has no prior experience in the management of a commodity pool, however, Ms. Pacult, has been engaged in supervision of individual managed commodity accounts for over 16 years and is the principal of both another public commodity pool, Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership and a privately offered commodity pool, Auburn Fund, Limited Partnership, which is being offered simultaneously with this Partnership. See "Performance of Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership" in the Partnership's Prospectus. (b) COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR NAMES AND PRINCIPALS. The General Partner has initially selected three independent CTAs to trade the assets of the Partnership. They are: Michael J. Frischmeyer who does business as a sole proprietorship; Barry T. Johnson, who conducts business as, and is the sole principal of, Commoditech, Inc.; and, Eric Rosenbery, who conducts business as, and is the sole principal of, Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc. Their performance records and business backgrounds are disclosed in the Partnership's Prospectus under "Trading Management". The CTAs will have no ownership in the Partnership and their compensation is described in 4.6(f). The CTAs will enter trades on behalf of the Partnership directly with the FCM without the prior knowledge or approval of the General Partner of the methods used by the CTAs to select the trades, the number of contracts, or the margin required. From 5% to 30% of the Net Asset Value on deposit with the FCM is expected to be committed to margin to hold positions taken by the CTAs for the account of the Partnership. (c) INTRODUCING BROKER AND FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT NAMES AND PRINCIPALS. Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 (219) 833- 1306 will server as the Introducing Broker ("IB") for the Partnership and will be paid a fixed amount for brokerage commissions of nine percent (9%) per year, payable monthly by the Partnership, for introducing trades through Vision Limited Partnership, the futures commission merchant (the "FCM"). The IB will pay the round-turn brokerage commissions, pit brokerage and other clearing expenses to the FCM, which will act in the normal capacity as a futures commission merchant and will hold the equity assigned by the General Partner for trading and will clear the trades entered by the CTAs pursuant to the power of attorney granted by the General Partner to the CTAs to trade on behalf of the Partnership. 2.3 MATERIAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND/OR CIVIL ACTIONS. There have been no material administrative, civil or criminal actions against the General Partner (who is the Commodity Pool Operator), the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Pacult, the Commodity Trading Advisors, the Introducing Broker, and selling broker or any principal or any Affiliate of any of them, pending, on appeal, or concluded, threatened or otherwise known to them, within the five (5) years preceding the date of this PPM and there have been no such actions against the Futures Commission Merchants, except as follows: (a) On June 30, 1993, the Eastern Regional Business Conduct Committee issued and concurrently accepted a full and complete settlement of a two-count complaint against Vision Limited Partnership and Robert Boshnack. The complaint alleged two NFA rule violations: lack of supervision of Guaranteed IB's and use of deceptive and misleading promotional material. The matter was completely settled without Vision admitting or denying any violation, and without any findings of violations. The settlement included a monetary penalty of $100,000, undertakings of enhanced compliance procedures, and restriction of Mr. Boshnack's activity for a one year period. (b) On December 31, 1997, the Business Conduct Committee of the NFA issued a two count complaint against Vision Limited Partnership. Count I alleges failure to supervise and Count II alleges improper handling of one block order. Vision denies the allegations and intends to vigorously defend the matter. (c) On July 15, 1992, the Chicago Board of Trade ("CBOT") voted to accept an offer of settlement by Lind-Waldock concerning alleged violations of CBOT Regulations 332.08 and 465.01. The charges involved Lind-Waldock's alleged failure to submit executed orders for clearing and to include an account designation on an order. In settling this matter for a fine of $7,500, Lind- Waldock neither admitted nor denied violating the CBOT Regulations. (d) There is currently no litigation pending or on appeal which, if successfully pursued by a plaintiff or appellant would have a material effect on the ability of either FCM to serve the Fund. 2.4 CHARACTER OF THE BUSINESS. The Partnership's business purpose is to increase Capital through the speculative and hedge trading of futures and options on futures. The General Partner is authorized to do any and all things on behalf of the Partnership incident thereto or connected therewith including, but not limited to: (a) trade, buy, sell or otherwise acquire, hold or dispose of all forms of investments (including tangibles and intangibles, foreign currencies, mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, stock and futures options, and any other securities or items which are now, or may hereafter be, the subject of barter or stock or futures trading), commodity futures, and forward contracts and any rights pertaining thereto. The Partnership shall carry on the foregoing activities through the exercise of judgment by its General Partner and/or the Investment and/or Commodity Trading Advisors and consultants and brokers selected by the General Partner. The General Partner may serve as an investment or trading advisor to the Partnership for management fees, incentive fee, reimbursement of costs and other remuneration at the same rates charged either by independent third parties for similar services to other partnerships or by the General Partner to others for the same service. (b) invest and trade, on margin or otherwise, in capital stocks, bonds, debentures, trust receipts and other obligations, instruments or evidences of indebtedness, gold, silver, cattle, corn, wheat, soybeans, or any other asset for which a trading market is maintained or otherwise paid for by cash or otherwise including, but not limited to, the right to sell short and to cover such short sales. (c) possess, sell, exchange, discount, transfer, mortgage, pledge, deal in, maintain multiple accounts for, and to exercise all rights, powers, privileges and other rights, incidental to ownership of the assets held by the Partnership. (d) borrow or raise monies and, from time to time without limit as to amount, to issue, accept, endorse and execute promissory notes, draft bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and the interest thereon by mortgage or pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust of the whole or any part of the property of the Partnership, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge of otherwise dispose of such instruments issued by the Partnership for its purposes; form and own one or more corporations to engage in such businesses as the General Partner shall deem advisable. (e) lend any of its properties or funds, either with or without security in furtherance of the objects and purposes of the Partnership as the General Partner shall deem advisable and consent. (f) rent or own and maintain one or more offices staffed as the General Partner shall determine and to do such other acts attendant thereto as may be necessary or desirable. (g) waive the sales commission to acquire investment Capital as the General Partner, in its sole discretion, may determine. (h) enter into, make and perform all contracts, surety and guarantees as may be necessary or advisable or incidental to the carrying out of the foregoing objects and purposes. 2.5 ADDRESS OF PARTNERS. The General Partner's address is listed in paragraph 1.5(a) hereof and the Limited Partners addresses are on record at the office of the General Partner to the Partnership. 2.6 TERM OF PARTNERSHIP. The term of the Partnership shall commence on the date of this Agreement and shall continue until dissolved or terminated pursuant to Article IX. 2.7 REGISTRATION. The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, shall have the authority, but not the obligation, to cause a Registration statement to be filed, and such amendments thereto as the General Partner deems advisable, with the appropriate Federal and state regulatory agencies, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the commission of securities for registration under the securities laws of the various states and any other jurisdiction desirable or proper to the sale of Units to qualify for public offerings. Each of the Limited Partners hereby confirm and ratify all action taken and things done by the General Partner with respect to such filings and public offerings. The General Partner may make such other arrangements for the sale of Units, including the private placement of Units, as it deems appropriate. ARTICLE III Capital Contributions and Allocation of Profits and Losses 3.1 CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF LIMITED PARTNERS. (a) Each Limited Partner has delivered to the Partnership an executed Subscription which has been accepted by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership, an Amended Certificate of Limited Partnership, and a check in the amount of his Capital Subscription. The Partnership shall use the funds thus contributed solely to pay, sales commissions, Expenses, Organization Costs and to otherwise make the payments required to be made by the Partnership to engage in active trading and to pay the management fees, if any, and, from profits, the incentive fees and distributions to Partners Capital Accounts. (b) Until such time as the General Partner elects to qualify the Partnership Units for public sale, the General Partner will establish, from time to time, the minimum amount which each Limited Partner will be required to contribute to Capital of the Partnership. Upon receipt of notice from the General Partner of such minimum (which will be equally applicable to all Limited Partners), each Limited Partner will be required to contribute sufficient Capital to equal or exceed such minimum or will withdraw and have his Units redeemed as a Limited Partner pursuant to Article IX, Section 9.4. The failure to contribute such Capital within ten days after receipt of said notice from the General Partner shall be a request for redemption by the Limited Partner. Upon election by the General Partner and qualification of the Partnership Units for public sale, there will be no further right of the General Partner to give notice of an increase in the minimum amount which all Limited Partners will be required to contribute to Capital of the Partnership other than as provided in Article VIII. Except for the increase in the minimum amount which all Limited Partners, in the sole discretion of the General Partner, shall be required to contribute to Capital or suffer redemption and amendments required by Article VIII, there will be no required contribution or assessments of the Limited Partners. 3.2 CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENERAL PARTNER. (a) The General Partner has not made and shall not be required to make any capital contribution to the Partnership except for purchases which are required by law. Currently, the General Partner is required by the applicable securities and tax laws to purchase (i) one percent (1%) or (ii) $25,000 of the total Capital paid in by the Limited Partners, which ever is greater. (b) The General Partner and the initial Limited Partner have contributed in excess of $1,000 to the Partnership. Immediately prior to the time the Partnership commences trading and as may be required, thereafter, as the result of the admission of additional Limited Partners, the General Partner shall make such additional contribution to its capital or to the Partnership so as to be certain that the General Partner has sufficient Capital at risk to prevent the Partnership from loss of that element of the Partnership test imposed by the Federal Internal Revenue Code and the Regulations promulgated thereunder to permit the Partnership to be taxed as a partnership and not as a corporation. The General Partner shall not reduce its Capital nor shall it make any assignment or transfer of its interest or withdrawal of its contribution while it is the General Partner which would reduce its percentage interest in the Partnership to less than its percentage interest at the time the Partnership commences trading. The General Partner may withdraw any excess above the required percentage without notice to the Limited Partners. (c) Partnership interests shall be evidenced by Units. The General Partner, on behalf of the Partnership, may, in accordance with applicable law and the Offering Memorandum of the Partnership, issue Units to persons desiring to become Limited Partners. For each Unit purchased during the initial Offering Period, a Partner shall contribute one thousand dollars ($1,000), less the sales commission, to the Capital of the Partnership. Thereafter, a Partner shall contribute an amount equal to the Net Asset Value of a Unit, plus the sales commission, if any, on the valuation date following acceptance of the purchase. The General Partner and Affiliates of the General Partner may purchase Limited Partnership Units with the same rights as other Limited Partners. (d) All subscriptions for Units made pursuant to the offering of the Units must be on the form provided with the Prospectus. No more than 5,000 Units (the "Maximum") will be sold and a minimum number of Units must be sold as follows: (i) If subscriptions for at least 600 Units at an initial Net Asset Value per Unit of $1,000 have been accepted (the "Minimum") by the General Partner within the initial Offering Period of up to one year from the commencement of the offering of sale of Units, including the Units subscribed for by the General Partner, the General Partner may, pursuant to Paragraph 12, execute, acknowledge, swear to, file and record on behalf of the Partnership and each Limited Partner an amended Limited Partnership Agreement, cause such subscriptions to be transferred from the escrow agent, First American State Bank, 1207 Central Avenue, Fort Dodge, IA 50501, to the Partnership's trading account and cause the Partnership to pay its organization costs pursuant to the agreements negotiated by the General Partner and, thereafter, the aggregate of all contributions to the Partnership shall be available to the Partnership to carry on its business; or (ii) If the General Partner has not received and accepted subscriptions for the Minimum Units prior to the close of the Minimum Units Offering Period, the offering of the Units shall terminate and all amounts paid by subscribers for Units shall be returned in the manner provided in the Prospectus. All Units subscribed for shall be issued to the collection of good funds, and any Units issued to a Subscriber who has not provided collectible funds (whether in the form of a bad check or draft, or otherwise) shall be canceled. 3.3 ALLOCATION OF PROFITS AND LOSSES (a) A distribution account shall be established for each Partner which shall include, as the initial balance thereof, each Partners' initial contribution to the Partnership expressed in total dollars and Units purchased. As of the close of business each month, allocations shall be made as follows: (i) The Incentive Fee. The incentive fee upon New Net Profit at the rate of up to (15%) shall be paid quarterly to the CTA but allocated to the Partners monthly. (ii) The Profit (Loss) Attributable to Units shall be added to (subtracted from) the distribution accounts of the Partners. Items of income, gain or loss, accrued and paid Expenses shall be added to (subtracted from) the distribution account of each Partner in accordance with the ratio that such distribution account bears to the sum of all of the Partners' distribution accounts. (iii) The amount of any cash distributions to a Partner during such month and any amount paid upon Redemption of Units as of the end of such month shall be subtracted from the distribution account of such Partner. (iv) The distribution account of any Unit which was redeemed shall be reduced by the Redemption Charge per Unit multiplied by the number of Units which were redeemed by the Partner represented by such distribution account. The Redemption Charge, if any, shall be first used to defray expenses and any excess treated as interest earned by the Fund. ARTICLE IV Rights and Obligations of the General Partner 4.1 GENERAL. The General Partner shall have full, exclusive and complete discretion in the management and control of the affairs of the Partnership to the best of its ability and shall use its best efforts to carry out the purposes of the Partnership set forth in Article II. In connection therewith, it shall have all powers of a general partner under the Act, including, without limitation, the power to: (a) enter into, execute and maintain contracts, agreements and any or all other instruments, and to do and perform all such things, as may be required or desirable in furtherance of Partnership purposes or necessary or appropriate to the conduct of Partnership activities including, but not limited to, contracts with third parties for: (i) brokerage services on behalf of the Partnership (which brokerage services may be performed by the General Partner or an Affiliate of the General Partner), specifically, Futures Investment Company, or any successor to its business, an Affiliated introducing broker of the General Partner may clear the trades and pay trailing commissions to its associated persons, including Affiliates of the General Partner and the General Partner, in consideration of the payment of nine percent (9%) of the total equity placed with the commodity trading advisor or advisors it selects, will cause and pay for the trades to be cleared through one or more futures commission merchants selected by the General Partner; (ii) trading advisory services relating to the purchase and sale of all stocks, options, commodity futures contracts, commodity options and contracts for forward delivery of foreign currencies on behalf of the Partnership (which advisory services may be performed by the General Partner or an Affiliate of the General Partner); and (iii) rent, salaries, computer, accounting, legal and other services attendant to the maintenance of the Fund. (b) open and maintain bank accounts on behalf of the Partnership with banks and money market funds. (c) deposit, withdraw, pay, retain and distribute the Partnership's funds in any manner consistent with the provisions of this Agreement. (d) supervise the preparation and filing of all documentation required by law including, but not limited to, Registration Statements to be filed with Federal and state agencies. (e) pay or authorize the payment of distributions to the Partners and pay Expenses of the Partnership. (f) invest or direct the investment of funds of the Partnership not involving the purchases or sale of stocks, futures contracts, options, and contracts for forward delivery of foreign currencies. (g) purchase, at the expense of the Partnership, liability and other insurance to protect the Partnership's proprieties and business. (h) borrow money from banks and other lenders for Partnership purposes, and may pledge any or all of the Partnership's assets for such loans. No bank or other lender to which application is made for a loan by the lender to which application is made for a loan by the General Partner shall be required to inquire as to the purposes for which such loan is sought and, as between the Partnership and such bank or other lender, it shall be conclusively presumed that the proceeds of such loan are to be and will be used for the purposes authorized under this Agreement. (i) confess judgment for and against the Partnership and control any matters affecting the rights and obligations of the Partnership, including the employment of attorneys, in the conduct of litigation and otherwise incur legal expenses and costs of consultation, settlement of claims, and litigation against or on behalf of the Partnership. 4.2 LOANS BY GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner or its Affiliates will be not be required to advance or loan funds to the Partnership. In the event the General Partner makes any advance or loan to the Partnership, the General Partner will not receive interest in excess of its interest costs, nor will the General Partner receive interest in excess of the amounts which would be charged the Partnership (without reference to the General Partner's financial abilities or guarantees) by unrelated banks on comparable loans for the same purpose and the General Partner shall not receive points or other financing charges or fees regardless of the amount. 4.3 TRANSACTION WITH PARTNERSHIP. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary which may be contained herein, the General Partner shall not: (a) sell, or otherwise dispose of, any of the Partnership's assets to the General Partner or its Affiliates. (b) subject to the provisions regarding and without diminishment of the right of the General Partner or any Affiliate to compensation for services provided to the Partnership as set forth in this Agreement, cause or permit the Partnership to enter into any agreement with the General Partner or an Affiliate which is not in the best interest of and for the benefit of the Partnership or which would be in contravention of the General Partner's fiduciary obligations to the Partnership or pursuant to which the General Partner or any Affiliate; (i) would provide or sell any services, equipment, or supplies at other than rates charged to others; or (ii) would receive from the Partnership, Units of Partnership interest in consideration for services rendered. 4.4 OBLIGATIONS OF GENERAL PARTNER. In addition to the obligations provided by law or this Agreement, the General Partner shall: (a) Devote such of its time to the business and affairs of the Partnership as it shall, in its discretion exercised in good faith, determine to be necessary to conduct the business and affairs of the Partnership for the benefit of the Partnership and the Limited Partners. (b) Execute, file, record and/or publish all certificates, statements and other documents and do any and all other things as may be appropriate for the formation , qualification and operation of the Partnership and for the conduct of its business in all appropriate jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the compliance, at its expense, with all laws related to its qualification to serve as the commodity pool operator of the Fund. (c) Retain independent public accountants to audit the accounts of the Partnership. (d) Employ attorneys to represent the Partnership. (e) Use its best efforts to maintain the status of the Partnership as a partnership for United States Federal income tax purposes. (f) Employ only independent CTAs which are registered pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act to conduct trading and to otherwise establish and monitor the trading policies of the Partnership; and the activities of the partnership's trading advisor(s) in carrying out those policies. (g) Review, not less often than annually, the brokerage commission rates charged to comparable funds to determine that the commission rates paid by the Partnership are comparable with such other rates. (h) Have fiduciary responsibility for the safekeeping and use of all funds and assets of the Partnership, whether or not in the General Partner's immediate possession or control, and the General Partner will not employ or permit others to employ such funds or assets in any manner except for the benefit of the Partnership. (i) Agree that so long as it remains the sole General Partner of the Partnership, it will use its best efforts to maintain the Partnership as a limited partnership as required by all applicable laws including, but not limited to the requirement of the United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, for the sole corporate general partner of a limited partnership to maintain its "Net Worth" (as defined below) sufficient to establish the sufficient assets test for a sole corporate general partner to be liable for the debts of the Partnership. The General Partner is authorized to reach the safe harbor for that test of an amount equal to no less than (i) the lesser of $250,000 or 15% of the aggregate capital contributions of any limited partnerships (including the Partnership, if applicable,) for which it shall act as general partner and which are capitalized at less than $2,500,000, and (ii) 10% of the aggregate capital contributions of any limited partnerships (including the Partnership, if applicable,) for which it shall act as general partner and which are capitalized at greater than or equal to $2,500,000 by use of promissory notes (valued at their fair market value) issued to the General Partner by one or more of its principals. For the purposes of this subparagraph, "Net Worth" shall be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, provided that all current assets shall be based on the lower of cost or the then current market value. The Units owned by the General Partner in the Partnership and in other partnerships in which it acts as a general partner shall not be included in calculating its Net Worth. A letter of credit may be included. The requirements of this subparagraph (i) may be modified if the General Partner obtains an opinion of counsel for the Partnership to effect that a proposed modification will not (1) adversely affect the classification of the Partnership as a partnership for Federal income tax purposes; (2) will not adversely affect the status of the Limited Partners as limited partners under the Act; (3) will not violate any applicable state securities or Blue Sky law or any rules, regulations, guidelines or statements of policy promulgated or applied thereunder including, but not limited to, the net worth required by Section II.B of the Guidelines for Registration of Commodity Pool Programs, as adopted in revised form by the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. as are in effect on the date of such proposed modification. (4) or otherwise adversely affect the Limited Partners. (j) Maintain a current list of the name, address, and number of Units owned by each Limited Partner at the General Partner's principal office. Such list shall be disclosed to any Partner or their representative at reasonable times, upon request, either in person or by mail, upon payment, in advance, of the reasonable cost of reproduction and mailing. The Partners and their representatives shall be permitted access to all other records of the Partnership, after adequate notice, at any reasonable time, at the offices of the Partnership. The General Partner shall maintain and preserve such records for a period of not less than six (6)years. 4.5 GENERAL PROHIBITIONS. The Partnership shall not: (a) borrow from or loan to any person, except that the foregoing is not intended to prohibit the incurring of any indebtedness to a Partner or an Affiliate with respect to the offering of Units for sale, Registration, or initiation and maintenance of the Partnership's trading positions. (b) commingle its assets with those of any other person, except to the extent permitted under the Securities and Exchange Act or the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations promulgated under each. (c) permit rebates or give-ups to be received by the General Partner or any Affiliate of the General Partner, or permit the General Partner or any Affiliate of the General Partner to engage in reciprocal business arrangements which would circumvent the foregoing prohibition; provided, however, that an Affiliate or the General Partner may provide goods or services, including brokerage, at a competitive cost to the Partnership. (d) engage in the pyramiding of its positions (i.e., the use of unrealized profits on existing positions to provide margins for additional positions in the same or a related stock or commodity); provided, however, that there may be taken into account the Partnership's open trade equity on existing positions in determining whether to acquire additional unrelated stock or commodity positions. (e) margins of all open positions in all stocks and commodities combined would exceed 250% of the partnership's Net Asset Value at the time such position would otherwise be initiated. (f) permit churning of the Partnership's trading account for the purpose of generating brokerage commissions to any person. (g) directly or indirectly pay or award any finder's fees, commissions or other compensation to any persons engaged by a potential limited partner for independent investment advice as an inducement to such advisor to advise the potential limited partner to purchase Units in the Partnership without the knowledge of such potential limited partner. (h) No Partnership funds will be held outside the United States. The Partnership funds committed to trading will be on deposit with and under the control of a futures commission merchant regulated pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act, as may be amended, from time to time. The funds not committed to trading will be in investments which are properly registered under the United States securities or other financial institution regulations. 4.6 FEES AND EXPENSES. (a) The Partnership shall pay all Organization Costs and offering Expenses incurred in the creation of the Partnership and sale of Units. The foregoing expenses may be paid directly by the Partnership or may be reimbursed by the Partnership to the General Partner or an Affiliate of the General Partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will reimbursement by the Partnership to the General Partner for Organization Costs and offering Expenses charged to the Partnership exceed an amount equal to 15% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Units. Organization Costs and Offering Expenses shall mean those Expenses incurred in connection with the formation, qualification and Registration of the Partnership and in distributing and processing the Units under applicable Federal and state law, sales commissions, and any other expenses such as: (i) registration fees, filing fees and taxes; (ii) the costs of qualifying, printing, amending, supplementing, mailing and distributing the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (iii) the costs of qualifying, printing, amending, supplementing, mailing and distributing sales materials used in connection with the issuance of the Units; (iv) salaries of officers and employees of the General Partner and any Affiliate of the General Partner while directly engaged in distributing and processing the Units and establishing records therefor; (v) rent, travel, remuneration of personnel, telegraph, telephone and other expenses in connection with the offering of the Units; (vi) accounting, auditing, and legal fees incurred in connection therewith; and (vii) any extraordinary expenses related thereto. Organization Costs and Offering Expenses do not include salaries, rent, travel, expenses and other items of General Partner overhead. (b) All operating expenses of the Partnership shall be billed directly to and paid by the Partnership. (c) The General Partner or any Affiliate of the General Partner may be reimbursed for the actual costs of any Expense including, but not limited to, legal, accounting and auditing services used for or by the Partnership, as well as printing and filing fees and extraordinary expenses incurred for or by the Partnership; provided, however, the limitations of contained in Article X - Exoneration and Indemnification contained in this Agreement will apply to restrict the purchase of certain insurance coverage and the assumption of the defense of certain claims. (d) The General Partner may establish its compensation, from time to time, for its services; provided, however, such charges shall be no more than: (i) A sales commission of up to six percent (6%) to be established, from time to time, by the General Partner, for sales of Units; (ii) A management fee of one quarter of one per-cent (1/4 of 1%) per month (3% per year) of the Net Asset Value of the Partnership, computed and paid to the General Partner on the close of business on the last day of each month; (iii) An incentive fee of up to fifteen percent (15%) of the first one hundred percent (100%) of New Net Profit, or less earned upon Capital, and prorated to consider the date of deposit of such Capital to the Partnership each year. The incentive fee at the rate of up to fifteen percent (15%) of New Net Profit will be paid quarterly. Each trading subaccount established by the General Partner shall be considered separately for purposes of incentive fee. The incentive fee will be non-refundable; i.e., in the event that the Partnership earns substantial New Net Profit during the first month of any year and, thereafter, suffers losses, the General Partner will not refund any of the profit incentive fee paid for the prior month or months. However, the Partnership will not pay or accrue to the General Partner any further incentive fee during that year until such time as the New Net Profit, when added to Net Asset Value, after additions, deductions of Redemptions and distributions, exceeds the highest Net Asset Value, computed for that year; i.e., incentive fees will only be earned and paid or accrued upon New Net Profit for that year; and (iv) A share of the brokerage commissions paid for trades made by the Partnership. Such commissions shall not be more than the average published fixed rate per month or per round-turn charged, from time to time, to public commodity pools by national brokerage firms for similar trading size, frequency, and style. (e) The General Partner is hereby authorized to employ brokers, attorneys, accountants, consultants, and administrative personnel who may be Affiliated with the General partner to perform Partnership business at the expense of the Partnership. The General Partner will advance the initial organizational expenses, estimated to be $70,000 for the first year, which will be repaid payable monthly over the first twenty-four months of operation by the Partnership at the rate of no more than 2% of Capital and no more than 15% of New Net Profits per year, until paid in full. After the first year, the Partnership will be subject to yearly legal and accounting fees of $18,000 and $15,000, respectively. (f) The General Partner is hereby authorized, individually or through an Affiliate, to employ non-affiliated independent investment and trading advisors to all or a portion of the Fund to be paid a management fee of up to six percent (6%) of the Net Asset Value assigned to such advisor per year and an incentive fee of up to fifteen percent (15%) on New Net Profit earned by such advisor. All incentive fees may be prorated and paid quarterly. 4.7 ACTIVITIES OF PARTNERS. (a) The General Partner and its Affiliates shall devote to the Partnership only such time as shall be reasonably required to fulfill their responsibilities hereunder. (b) Any Partner may, notwithstanding the existence of this Agreement, engage in whatever other activities they may choose, whether the same be competitive with the Partnership or otherwise, without having or incurring any obligation or conflict of interest in such activities with the Partnership or to any party hereto. The Partners are specifically authorized to deal with other partnerships and to acquire interests in positions and trading without having to offer participation therein to the Partnership or the other Partners. Neither this Agreement nor any activities undertaken pursuant hereto shall prevent any Partner, including the General Partner and its Affiliates and their officers, directors and employees, from engaging in the trading contemplated by this Partnership individually, jointly with others, or as a part of any other association to which any of them are or may become parties, in the same trades as the Partnership, or require any of them to permit the Partnership, the General Partner or any other Partner to participate in any of the foregoing. As a material part of the consideration for each party's execution hereof, each Partner hereby waives, relinquishes and renounces any such right or claim of conflict of interest and participation from any other Partner. (c) The General Partner is a corporation which was formed on October 15, 1996, and neither it nor its principals have any prior experience in the management of a partnership which trades commodity futures or options, or any other securities. The past and future results of trading by the principals of the General Partner, both within and without the partnership, will be confidential and not disclosed to the other Partners. Such positions taken by the principals may be the same as or different from any positions taken by the General Partner or any advisor to the Fund. Nothing in this Section, or elsewhere in the Partnership Agreement, shall permit the General Partner to violate its fiduciary or legal obligations to the Partnership. 4.8 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. Significant actual and potential conflicts of interest exist in the structure and operation of the Partnership. The General Partner has used its best efforts to identify and describe all potential conflicts of interest which may be present under this heading and elsewhere in the Partnership's Prospectus and the Exhibits attached thereto. Prospective investors should consider that the General Partner intends to assert that Partners have, by subscribing to the Partnership, consented to the existence of such potential conflicts of interest as are described in this Agreement and the Prospectus and its Exhibits, in the event of any claim or other proceeding against the General Partner, any principal of the General Partner, the CTAs, any Principal of the CTAs, the Partnership's FCM, or any principal of the FCM, the Partnership's IB or any principal or any Affiliate of any of them alleging that such conflicts violated any duty owed by any of them to said subscriber. Specifically, the Selling Agent is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner and, therefore, no independent due diligence of the Partnership or the General Partner will be made by a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. member. (a) MANAGEMENT OF OTHER EQUITY AND FOR THEIR OWN ACCOUNTS BY THE GENERAL PARTNER, THE CTAs, AND THEIR PRINCIPALS. The right of both Ms. Shira Del Pacult, the principal of the General Partner, and the General Partner to manage and the actual management by the CTAs of accounts they or their Affiliates own or control and other commodity accounts and pools presents the potential for conflicts of interest. There is no limitation upon the right of Ms. Pacult, the General Partner, the CTAs, or any of their Affiliates to engage in trading commodities for their own account. It is possible for these persons to take their positions in their personal accounts prior to the orders they know they are going to place for the money they manage for others. The General Partner will obtain representations from all of these persons and their Affiliates that no such prior orders will be entered for their personal accounts. The Partnership's CTAs will be effecting trades for his own accounts and for others (including other commodity pools in competition with this Pool) on a discretionary basis. It is possible that positions taken by the CTAs for other accounts may be taken ahead of or opposite positions taken on behalf of the Partnership. The General Partner and its principal, should they form other commodity pools, and the CTAs may have financial incentives to favor other accounts over the Partnership. In the event the General Partner, any of its principal, or any CTA, or any of their principals trade for their own account, such trading records shall not be made available for inspection. The General Partner and its principal do not presently intend to engage in trading for their own account. The CTAs do intend to trade for their own account. Any trading for their personal accounts by the General Partner, any commodity trading advisor selected to trade for the Partnership or any of their principals could present a conflict of interest in regard to position limits, timing of the taking of positions or other similar conflicts. The result to the Partnership would be a reduction in the potential for profit should the entry or exit of positions be at unfavorable prices by virtue of position limits or entry of other trades in front of the Partnership trades by the General Partner or CTAs responsible for the management of the Partnership. (b) POSSIBLE RETENTION OF VOTING CONTROL BY THE GENERAL PARTNER. There is no limit upon the number of Units in the Partnership the General Partner and its principal and Affiliates may purchase. It will be possible for them to vote, individually or as a block, to create a conflict with the best interests of the Partnership, in regard to the selection of commodity trading advisors which do not trade frequently to protect the nine percent (9%) fixed commission paid by the Partnership to the General Partner. (c) GENERAL PARTNER TO REMAIN AGAINST POSSIBLE BEST INTEREST OF PARTNERSHIP. The General Partner's financial interest in the operation of the Partnership, creates a disincentive for it to voluntarily replace itself, even if such replacement would be in the best interest of the Partnership. (d) FEES AND CHARGES TO THE PARTNERSHIP PAID TO GENERAL PARTNER NOT NEGOTIATED. The three percent (3%) management fee to the General Partner and the amount of the fixed commission of nine percent (9%) per year in lieu of round-turn brokerage commissions, payable to the IB that is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner, have not been negotiated at arm's length. The General Partner has a conflict of interest between its responsibility to manage the Partnership for the benefit of the Limited Partners and the General Partner's interest in receiving the management fee and the IB Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner receiving the difference between the fixed commission charged the Partnership and the actual transaction costs incurred by the FCM as a result of the frequency of trades entered by the CTAs. See "Charges to the Partnership" in the Partnership's Prospectus. The General Partner will select the CTAs to manage the Partnership assets and the CTAs determine the frequency of trading. Because the IB Affiliated with the General Partner will receive the difference between the brokerage commissions and other costs which will be paid on behalf of the Partnership and the fixed commission, the General Partner's best interests are served if it selects trading advisors which will trade the Partnership's Net Assets assigned to them in a way to minimize the frequency of trades to maximize the difference between the fixed commission and the round-turn commissions and other costs to trade charged by the FCM; i.e., it is in the best interest of the General Partner to reduce the frequency of trading rather than concentrate on the expected profitability of the CTAs without regard to frequency of trades. This conflict is offset by the fact the General Partner does not select any of the trades and the CTAs is paid an incentive of 15% of New Net Profits. The arrangements between the General Partner and the Partnership with respect to the payment of the commissions are consistent in cost with arrangements other comparable commodity pools have made to clear their trades. These arrangements are fair to the Partnership and its investors because the General Partner has assumed the risk of frequency of trading, up to a maximum of three times the normal rate by the CTAs and has assumed all liability for the payment of trailing commissions. (e) CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE. Certain actual and potential conflicts of interest do exist in the structure and operation of the Partnership which must be considered by investors before they purchase Units in the Partnership. See "Risk Factors", and "Conflicts of Interest" in the Partnership's Prospectus. In addition, the Selling Agent is Affiliated with the principal of the General Partner and, therefore, no independent due diligence of the offering will be conducted for the protection of the investors. The General Partner has taken steps to insure that the Partnership equity is held in segregated accounts at the banks and futures commission merchant selected and has otherwise assured the Selling Agent that all money on deposit is in the name of and for the beneficial use of the Partnership. (f) GENERAL PARTNER TO DISCOURAGE REDEMPTIONS. The General Partner has an incentive to withhold distributions and to discourage Redemption because the General Partner receives compensation based on the Net Asset Value of the Partnership assigned to the CTAs to trade. (g) HIGH RISK TRADING BY THE CTAs TO GENERATE INCENTIVE FEES. As a general rule, the greater the risk assumed, the greater the potential for profit. Because the CTAs are compensated by the General Partner based on 15% of the New Net Profit of the Partnership, it is possible that the CTAs will select trades which are otherwise too risky for the Partnership to assume to earn the 15% incentive fee on the profit should that ill-advised speculative trade prove to be profitable. (h) IB AFFILIATED WITH THE GENERAL PARTNER TO RETAIN A SHARE OF THE COMMISSIONS. The Partnership will pay a fixed brokerage commission of 9% per year, payable monthly to Futures Investment Company, an introducing broker Affiliated with the General Partner. Futures Investment Company will retain so much of the fixed brokerage commission as remains after payment of the round turn brokerage commissions to the Futures Commission Merchant and the 6% per year trailing commissions to the associated persons who service the Partners' accounts in the Partnership. Because the principal of the General Partner, Ms. Shira Pacult, is also a principal in the IB and the Selling Agent, there is a likelihood that the Partnership will continue to retain the IB even though other IB's may be available to provide better service to the Partners and their accounts. (i) NO RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS PROCEDURES. As is typical in many futures partnerships, the General Partner has not established formal procedures, and none are expected to be established in the future, to resolve the potential conflicts of interest which may arise. It will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the General Partner to assure that these and future potential conflicts will not, in fact, result in adverse consequences to the Partnership or the Limited Partners. The foregoing list of risk factors and conflicts of interest is complete as of the date of this Prospectus, however, additional risks and conflicts may occur which are not presently foreseen by the General Partner. Investors are not to construe this Prospectus as legal or tax advice. Before determining to invest in the Units, potential investors should read this entire Agreement as well as the Partnership's Prospectus and the subscription agreement, and consult with their own personal legal, tax, and other professional advisors as to the legal, tax, and economic aspects of a purchase of Units and the suitability of such purchase for them. See "Investor Suitability" in the Partnership's Prospectus. (j) INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL. The General Partner has employed The Scott Law Firm, P.A. to prepare this Prospectus, provide certain tax advice and opine upon the legality of the issuance of the Units. Neither the Law Firm nor its principal, nor any accountant or other expert employed by the General Partner to render advice in connection with the preparation of the Prospectus or any documents attendant thereto, have been retained on a contingent fee basis nor do they have any present interest or future expectation of ownership in the Partnership or its General Partner or the Underwriter or the CTAs or the IB or the FCM. 4.9 LIMITATION OF POWERS. Without concurrence of a Majority in Interest, the General Partner may not: (a) Amend this Agreement except for those amendments which do not adversely affect the rights of the Limited Partners. (b) Voluntarily withdraw as a General Partner. (c) Appoint a new General Partner or additional general partners; provided, however, additional general partners may be appointed without obtaining the consent of a Majority in Interest if the addition of such person is necessary to preserve the tax status of the Partnership as a partnership and not as a corporation; and such additional general partner has no authority to manage or control the Partnership and the admission of such additional general partner does not materially adversely affect the Limited Partners. (d) Sell all or substantially all of the Partnership assets other than in the ordinary course of business. (e) Cause the merger or other reorganization of the Partnership. (f) Dissolve the Partnership other than because of an event, which by law, requires such dissolution. ARTICLE V Rights and Obligations of Limited Partners 5.1 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. No Limited Partner shall be personally liable for any of the debts of the Partnership or any of the losses thereof. However, the amount committed by him to the Capital of the Partnership and his interest in Partnership assets shall be subject to liability for Partnership debts and obligations. Limited Partners may be liable to repay any wrongful distribution of profits to them and may be liable for distributions (with interest thereon) considered to be a return of Capital if necessary to satisfy creditors of the Partnership. 5.2 NO MANAGEMENT RIGHTS. No Limited Partner shall take part in the management of the business of the Partnership or transact any business for the Partnership. No Limited Partner, as such, shall have the power to sign for or to bind the Partnership. 5.3 CERTAIN RIGHTS. Provided the following, does not either (i) subject the Limited Partners to unlimited liability or (ii) subject the Partnership to be taxable as a Corporation for purposes of Federal Income tax laws, the Partners, by a vote of a Majority in Interest, without the necessity for concurrence by the General Partner, shall have the following rights in addition to those granted elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) Amend the Partnership Agreement; provided, however, any amendment which modifies the compensation or distributions to the General Partner or which affects the duties of the General Partner requires the consent of the General Partner. (b) The General Partner may be removed and a new General Partner elected in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) Cancel any contract for services with the General Partner, without penalty, upon 60 days written notice; provided, however, the maximum period of any contract between the General Partner and the Partnership is one year; and, provided further, should any amendment to this Partnership Agreement attempt to modify the compensation or distributions to which the General Partner is entitled or which affects the duties of the General Partner, such amendment will become effective only upon the consent of the General Partner. (d) The right to approve, prior to sale, the sale or distribution, outside the ordinary course of business, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Partnership. (e) Dissolve the Partnership. (f) Any material changes in the Partnership's basic investment policies identified in Article III including, but not limited to, the speculation and trade in commodity futures, forward futures contracts, and options upon those contracts both within and without the United States or the structure of the Partnership as a limited partnership requires prior written notification of a meetings which identifies the purpose of the meeting and the approval by a vote of the Majority in Interest of the Partners. 5.4 GENERAL PARTNER ACTION WITHOUT LIMITED PARTNER APPROVAL. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, particularly section 5.3, to the contrary, the General Partner may amend this Agreement without any vote, consent, approval, authorization or other action of any other Partner and without notice to any other Partner to: (a) add to the representations, duties or obligations of the General Partner or its Affiliates or surrender any right or power granted to the General Partner or its Affiliates in this Agreement for the benefit of the Limited Partners; (b) cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement which may be inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement, or make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement which will not be inconsistent with the intent of this Agreement; (c) delete or add any provision of this Agreement required to be so deleted or added by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or by a state securities law administrator or similar such official, which addition or deletion is deemed by such official to be for the benefit or protection of the Limited Partner or does not have a material adverse effect on the Limited Partners generally or the Partnership; (d) reflect the withdrawal, expulsion, addition or substitution of Partners; (e) reflect the proposal, promulgation or amendment of Regulations under Code section 704, or otherwise, to preserve the uniformity of interest in the Partnership issued or sold from time to time, if, in the opinion of the General Partner, the amendment does not have a material adverse effect on the Limited Partners generally; (f) elect for the Partnership to be bound by any successor statute to the Act, if, in the opinion of the General Partner, the amendment does not have a material adverse effect on the Limited Partners generally; (g) conform this Agreement to changes in the Act or interpretations thereof which, in the exclusive desecration of the General Partner, it believe appropriate, necessary or desirable, if, in the General Partner's reasonable opinion, such amendment does not have a materially adverse effect on the Limited Partners generally or the Partnership; (h) change the name of the Partnership; (i) conform the provisions of this Agreement to any applicable requirements of Federal of state law which, in the exclusive discretion of the General Partner, it believes appropriate, necessary or desirable, if, in the General Partner's reasonable opinion, such amendment does not have a material adverse effect on the Limited Partners generally or the Partnership; and (j) make any change which, in the exclusive discretion of the General Partner, is advisable to qualify or to continue the qualification of the Partnership as a limited partnership or a partnership in which the Limited Partners have limited liability under the laws of any state or that is necessary or advisable, in the exclusive discretion of the General Partner, so that the Partnership will not be treated as an association taxable as a corporation for Federal income tax purposes. 5.5 EXPULSION OF LIMITED PARTNERS. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) no Partner, including any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity may, at any time, have an ownership percentage of ten percent or more of the aggregate ownership percentages of the Limited Partners. If, at any time, the General Partner determines that any Limited Partner has an ownership percentage of ten percent or more, the Partnership may, in the General Partner's exclusive discretion, cause a Redemption by that Limited Partner of the number of Units necessary or advisable to reduce that Limited Partner's ownership percentage to less than ten percent. The Redemption shall be effective as of the next Redemption date or such other Redemption date, at the discretion of the General Partner. (b) the General Partner has the right, in its sole discretion, to raise or lower the minimum investment in the Partnership required for the admission or retention of Units in the Partnership by a Partner. In the event the General Partner does raise the minimum investment in the Partnership to an amount in excess of any Partners Capital account, the Partnership shall provide notice to the Partner of such event and allow the Partner 30 days to raise the Capital account for that Partner to such raised amount, or more. In the event the Partner does not so raise his Capital account to such minimum amount, the Partner shall be deemed to have elected to withdraw from the Partnership and all of his Units shall be redeemed at the next redemption date as provided in this Agreement. 5.6 NOTIFICATION. Notice shall be sent to each Partner within seven business days from the date of: (a) any decline in the Net Asset Value Per Unit to less than 50% of the Net Asset Value on the last Valuation Date; (b) any material change in contracts with the FCM or CTA including, but not limited to, any change in CTAs or any modification in connection with the method of calculating the incentive fee; (c) any other material change affecting the compensation of the General Partner, FCM, CTA or any Affiliated party; 5.7 NOTIFICATION CONTENTS. (a) a material change related to brokerage commissions shall not be made until notice is given and the Partners, after such notice, have the opportunity to Redeem pursuant to Article IX; (b) in addition, in regard to all other changes, the required notification shall describe the change in detail, include a description of the Partners' Redemption rights pursuant to Article IX and voting rights pursuant to this Article V and a description of any material effect such changes may have on the interests of the Partners. 5.8 EXERCISE OF RIGHTS. Upon receipt of a written request, executed by the holders of Units aggregating ten percent (10%) or more of the Units, for a vote upon and to take action with respect to any rights of the Partners under this Agreement, together with a check for the costs to distribute the request to all of the Partners, the General Partner shall call a meeting of all Partners of the Partnership in the time and manner as provided in Section 8.7 hereof. 5.9 EXAMINATION OF BOOKS AND RECORDS. A Limited Partner shall have the right to examine the books and records of the Partnership at all reasonable times, including the right to have such examination conducted at his sole expense by any reasonable number of representatives. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Partner may keep and withhold the names of the other Partners, specific trading and other designed information confidential from the Partners. ARTICLE VI Assignment of Limited Partnership Units; Admission of Limited Partners 6.1 RESTRICTION ON ASSIGNMENT. A Partner may not assign or transfer some or all of his Units in the Partnership without the written consent of the General Partner; provided, however, that in no event may an assignment be made or permitted until after two years from the date of purchase of such assigned or transferred Units(s) by said Partner; and, provided, further, that full Units must be assigned and the assignor, if he is not assigning all of his Units, will retain more than five Units. Any such assignment shall be subject to all applicable securities, commodity, and tax laws and the regulations promulgated under each such law. The General Partner shall review any proposed assignment and shall withhold its consent in the event it determines, in its sole discretion, that such assignment could have an adverse effect on the business activities or the legal or tax status of the Partnership. 6.2 QUALIFIED PLAN RESTRICTIONS. In no event shall a Partner be entitled to transfer all or part of a Partnership interest if, under applicable United States Department of Labor regulations, such transfer would result in Partnership interests, excluding the interests of the General Partner, valued at or in excess of twenty-five percent of the value of all outstanding Partnership interests, excluding the interests of the General Partner, being held by the following persons or entities: (a) employee benefit plans (as defined in section 3(3) of the Federal Employee Treatment Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), whether or not such plans are subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) plans described in section 4975 (e)(1) of the Code, and (c) entities (such as a common or collective trust funds of a bank) whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity. 6.3 DOCUMENTATION OF ASSIGNMENT. The General Partner shall furnish to the assigning Limited partner a proper form to duly effect such assignment. The General Partner shall not be required to recognize any assignment and shall not be liable to the assignee for any distributions made to the assigning Limited Partner until the General Partner has received such form of assignment, properly executed with signature guaranteed, together with the Certificate of Ownership originally issued to the Limited Partner (or an indemnity bond in lieu therefor) and such evidence of authority as the General Partner may reasonably request and the General Partner shall have accepted such assignment. ARTICLE VII Accounting Records, Reports and Distributions 7.1 DISTRIBUTIONS. Each Partner will have a Capital account, and its initial balance will be the amount the Partner paid for the Partner's Units. The Net Assets of the Partnership will be determined monthly, and any increase or decrease from the end of the preceding month will be added to or subtracted from the accounts of the Partners in the ratio that each account bears to all accounts. Distributions from profits or Capital will be made solely at the discretion of the General Partner. 7.2 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT. Proper books of account shall be kept and there shall be entered therein all transactions, matters and things relating to the Partnership's business as required by applicable law and the regulations promulgated thereunder and as are usually entered into books of account kept by persons engaged in business of like character. The books of account shall be kept at the principal office of the General Partner and each Limited Partner (or any duly constituted agent of a Limited Partner) shall have, at all times during reasonable business hours, free access, subject to rules of confidentiality established by the General Partner, the right to inspect and copy the same. Such books of account shall be kept on an accrual basis. A Capital account shall be established and maintained from each Partner, as set forth above. (a) Each Partner shall be furnished as of the end of each Fiscal Year with (1) annual financial statements, audited by a certified public accountant, within 90 days from the end of such year; together with such other reports (in such detail) as are required to be given to Partners by applicable law, specifically, annual and periodic reports will be supplied by the General Partner to the other Partners in conformance with the provisions of CFTC regulations for Reporting to Pool Participants, 17 C.F.R. Section 4.22, as amended, from time to time, and, (2) any other reports or information which the General Partner, in its sole discretion, determines to be necessary or appropriate. (b) Appropriate tax information (adequate to enable each Partner to complete and file his Federal tax return) shall be delivered to such Partner no later than January 31 following the end of each Calendar Year. 7.3 CALCULATION OF NET ASSET VALUE. Net Asset Value shall be calculated daily and reports delivered to Partners as of the last day of each month by the 20th of the following month. Upon request, the General Partner shall make available to any Partner the Net Asset Value per Unit. 7.4 MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS. The General Partner shall maintain all records as required by law including, but not limited to, (1) all books of account required by paragraph 7.1 of this Article VII; and, (2) a record of the information obtained to indicate that a Partner meets the applicable investor suitability standards. 7.5 TAX RETURNS The General Partner shall cause tax returns for the Partnership to be prepared and timely filed with the appropriate authorities. The General Partner shall cause the Partnership to pay any taxes payable by the Partnership; provided, however, that the General Partner shall not be required to cause the Partnership to pay any tax so long as the General Partner or the Partnership shall be in good faith and by appropriate means contesting the applicability, validity or amount thereof and such contest shall not materially endanger any right or interest of the Partnership. 7.6 TAX ELECTIONS The General Partner shall from time to time, make such tax elections or allocations deemed necessary or desirable to carry out the business of the Partnership or the purposes of this Agreement. The General Partner shall be authorized to perform all duties imposed by Sections 6221 through 6232 of the Internal Revenue Code on the General Partner as "tax matters partner" of the Partnership, including, but not limited to, the following: (i) the power to conduct all audits and other administrative proceedings with respect to Partnership tax items; (ii) the power to extend the statute of limitations for all Limited Partners with respect to Partnership tax items; (iii) the power to file a petition with an appropriate federal court for a review of a final Partnership administrative adjustment; and, (iv) a power of attorney on behalf of each Limited Partner having less than a 1% interest in the Partnership to enter into a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of, and binding upon, those Limited Partners unless any said Limited Partner shall have notified the Internal Revenue Service and the General Partner, within 30 days of service of the notice of claim up said Limited Partner, that the General Partner may not act on such Limited Partner's behalf. ARTICLE VIII Amendments of Partnership Agreement 8.1 RESTRICTION ON AMENDMENTS. No amendment to this Agreement shall be effective or binding upon the partners unless the same shall have been approved by a Majority in Interest of the Partners; provided, however, the General Partner may adopt amendments without such approval which are, in the sole judgment of the General Partner, deemed necessary or desirable to maintain the business or limited partnership or other favorable tax status of the Partnership, or permit a Public Offering of the Units, or to maintain the Partnership and the General Partner and its principals in compliance with the laws which govern the business, including the requirements of any self regulatory organization, or to substitute or add persons as Limited Partners. 8.2 ADMISSION OF ADDITIONAL PARTNERS. At any time, the General Partner may, in its sole discretion and subject to applicable law, admit additional Partners. Each newly admitted Partner shall contribute cash equal to the Net Asset Value Per Unit of the Partnership for each Unit to be acquired. The terms of any additional offering may be different from the terms of the initial offering. All expenses of any such additional offering shall be borne by the either the Partnership or the subscribers thereto, as determined in the sole discretion of the General Partner. Pursuant to Article VI, the General Partner may consent to and admit any assignee of Units as a substituted Partner. There is no maximum aggregate amount of Units which may be offered and sold by the Partnership or on the amount of contributions which may be received by the Partnership. 8.3 TERMINATION OF OFFERINGS; ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS. Notwithstanding anything stated herein to the contrary, the General Partner may from time to time, in its sole discretion, limit the number of Units to be offered, terminate any offering of Units, or register additional Units and/or make additional public or private offerings of Units. No Limited Partner shall have any preemptive, preferential or other rights with respect to the issuance or sale of any additional Units. No Limited Partner shall have the right to consent to the admission of any additional Limited Partners. 8.4 NOTICE OF RESTRICTED TRANSFER. Each certificate of Limited Partnership shall be subject to and contain the following notice: THE LIMITEDPARTNER MUST DETERMINE IF THE PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THIS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT MAY BE TRANSFERRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS AND REFERENCE MUST BE MADE TO THE OFFERING DOCUMENTATION AND LEGAL COUNSEL CHOSEN BY THE INVESTOR TO DETERMINE THE RIGHT OF THE INVESTOR TO RESELL THE UNITS EVIDENCED HEREBY. THESE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS SHALL NOT BE TRANSFERABLE BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER EXCEPT BY CONSENT OF THE GENERAL PARTNER AND AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED INTHE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT AND UPON THE ISSUANCE OF A FAVORABLE OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, AND/OR SUBMISSION TO THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY BE SATISFACTORY TO THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT BE IN VIOLATION OF THEUNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY RULE OR REGULATION PROMULGATED THEREUNDER, AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. 8.5 MEETINGS OF PARTNERS. Upon receipt of a written request, together with the costs to distribute such request to all Partners, executed by Partners holding ten percent (10%) or more of the Units, for the calling of a meeting of the Partners or should the General Partner desire a meeting for any purpose, the General Partner shall, within fifteen (15) days thereafter, provide written notice, either in person or by certified mail, after the date of receipt of said notice. Such written notice shall state the purpose of the meeting, specify a reasonable time, place, and date, which shall be not less than thirty (30) or more than sixty (60) days thereafter. An Amendment shall be adopted and binding upon all parties hereto if a Majority in Interest of the Partners vote for the adoption of such amendment. Partners may vote in person or by written proxy delivered to any such meeting. Meetings of Partners may also be held by conference telephone where all Partners can hear one another. 8.6 RIGHT OF GENERAL PARTNER TO RESIGN. The General Partner may resign or assign any portion of its interest in the Partnership at anytime to a third party and become a Limited Partner with respect to the balance of its interest in the Partnership, if any, if it provides one hundred twenty (120) days prior written notice to all other Partners of its intention to resign and states in such notice the name of the intended assignee who is to become substitute General Partner and the information reasonably appropriate to enable the Partner to decide whether or not to approve the substitution or, in the alternative, provide that the partners must elect a successor general partner. In the event of the voluntary withdrawal by the General Partner, the General Partner shall pay the legal fees, recording fees and all other expenses incurred as a result of its withdrawal. Upon resignation, the General Partner shall be paid the items identified in Section 8.7 below. 8.7 AMENDMENT INVOLVING SUCCESSOR GENERAL PARTNER. Should a resignation or an amendment to the Agreement provide for a change in the general partner upon the conditions provided in this Agreement, the election and admission of a person or persons as a successor or successors to the General Partner, shall require the following conditions: the General Partner shall retire and withdraw as General Partner and the Partnership business shall be continued by the successor general partner or general partners, and such amendment shall expressly provide that on or before the effective date of removal. (a) The General Partner shall be permitted to Redeem 100% of its Units ten (10) days prior to the effective date of its removal in cash equal to the Net Asset Value of such General Partner's interest in the Partnership. (b) The Partnership shall pay to the removed General Partner an amount equal to the Appraised Value of such General Partner's assets to be transferred to the successor General Partner to enable the successor to continue the business of the Partnership. The Appraised Value of the withdrawing General Partner's interest in the Partnership shall equal such General Partner's interest in the sum of (1) the Expenses advanced by the General Partner to the Partnership, (2) all cash items, (3) all prepaid expenses and accounts receivable less a reasonable discount for doubtful accounts, and (4) the net book value of all other assets, unless the withdrawing General Partner of the successor General Partner believes that the net book value of an asset does not fairly represent its fair market value in which event such General Partner shall cause, at the expense of the Partnership, an independent appraisal to be made by a person selected by the General Partner with approval of a Majority in Interest of the Partners to determine its value. (c) The successor General Partner or Partners shall indemnify the former General Partner for all future activities of the Fund. ARTICLE IX Dissolution, Liquidation and Redemption 9.1 DISSOLUTION. The Partnership shall be dissolved, and shall terminate and wind-up its affairs, upon the first to occur of the following: (a) the affirmative vote of a Majority in Interest of the Partners adopting an amendment to this Agreement providing for the dissolution of the Partnership; (b) the sale, exchange, forfeiture or other disposition of all or substantially all the properties of the Partnership out of the ordinary course of business; (c) the resignation of the General Partner after one hundred twenty days notice to the Partners, of the bankruptcy, insolvency or dissolution, or failure of the General Partner to maintain sufficient Net Worth to qualify the Partnership as a partnership for Federal Income Tax purposes or as required by the NASAA Guidelines in effect at the time the Units were sold, without a successor, promptly after any such event, but in no event beyond one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date of such event; (d) at 11:59 p.m. on the day which is twenty-one (21) years from the date of this Agreement; or (e) any event which legally dissolves the Partnership. 9.2 EFFECT OF LIMITED PARTNER STATUS. The death, legal disability, bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution, or withdrawal of any Limited Partner shall not result in the dissolution or termination of the Partnership, and such Limited Partner, his estate, custodian or personal representative shall have no right to withdraw or value such Limited Partner's interest in the Partnership except as provided in Paragraph 9.3. Each Limited Partner (any assignee thereof) expressly agrees that the provisions of the Act, as amended, titled "Powers of Legal Representative or Successor of Deceased, Incompetent, Dissolved or Terminated Partner", shall not apply to his interest in the Partnership and expressly waives any rights and benefits thereunder. Each Limited Partner (and any assignee of such Partner's interest) expressly agrees that in the event of his death, that he waives on behalf of himself and his estate, and he directs the legal representative of his estate and any person interested therein to waive the furnishing of any inventory, accounting or appraisal of the assets and any right to an audit or examination of the books of the Partnership. The General Partner may assign, sell, or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of its shares of common stock without any legal effect upon the operation of the Partnership and no Limited Partner may object to any such transfer. 9.3 LIQUIDATION. Upon the termination and dissolution of the Partnership, the General Partner (or in the event the dissolution is caused by the dissolution or the cessation to exist as a legal entity of the General Partner, voluntary withdrawal, bankruptcy or insolvency, such person as the Majority in Interest of the Partners may select) shall act as liquidating trustee and shall take full charge of the Partnership assets and liabilities. Thereafter, the business and affairs of the Partnership shall be wound up and all assets shall be liquidated as promptly as is consistent with obtaining the fair value thereof, and the proceeds therefrom shall be applied and distributed in the following order: (i) to the expenses of liquidation and termination and to creditors, including the General Partner, in order or priority as provided by law, and (ii) to the Partners pro rata in accordance with his or its Capital account, less any amount owed by such Partner to the Partnership. 9.4 RETURN OF CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION SOLELY OUT OF ASSETS. A Partner shall look solely to the properties and assets of the Partnership for the return of his Capital Contribution, and if the properties and assets of the Partnership remaining after the payment or discharge of the debts and liabilities of the Partnership are insufficient to return his Capital Contribution, he shall have no recourse against the General Partner or any other Limited Partner for that purpose. 9.5 REDEMPTION. A Partner (including any approved assignee who becomes a Limited Partner) may withdraw any part or all of his Capital Contribution and undistributed profits, if any, by requiring the Partnership to redeem any or all of his Units at the Net Asset Value thereof (such withdrawal being herein referred to as "Redemption"). Redemption shall be effective as of the last day of the period established, from time to time, by the General Partner for Redemptions. Such Redemptions shall be no less often than quarterly; provided, however, Redemption may be deferred until after the lapse of six months from the date of purchase of the Units. 9.6 REDEMPTION PROCEDURES. Redemption shall be after all liabilities, contingent, accrued, reserved in amounts determined by the General Partner have been deducted and there remains property of the Partnership sufficient to pay the Net Unit Value as defined in Paragraph 1.3(b). As used herein, "request for Redemption: shall mean a letter mailed or delivered by a Partner and received by the General Partner at least 10 days in advance of the effective date for which Redemption is requested. Upon Redemption, a Partner shall receive, on or before the last day of the following month, an amount equal to the Net Unit Value per Unit redeemed as of the date for which the request for Redemption was received, less accrued expenses and any amount owed by such Partner to the Partnership. Redemption is subject to a Redemption fee to be paid by the Partners as provided below; provided, however, no Partner other than the initial Limited Partner, may redeem any Units until the last day of the sixth month after the commencement of trading. All Redemption requests shall be subject to the following: (a) Under special circumstances including, but not limited to, the inability to liquidate positions as of such Redemption date or default or delay in payments due the Partnership from banks, brokers, or other persons, the Partnership may in turn delay payment to Partners requesting Redemption of Units of the proportionate part of the Net Unit Value represented by the sums which are the subject of such delay or default. (b) The General Partner in its sole discretion may, upon notice to the Partners, declare additional Redemption dates and may cause the Partnership to redeem fractions of Units and, prior to registration of Units for public sale, redeem Units held by Partners who do not hold the required minimum amount of Units established, from time to time, by the General Partner. (c) Redemption of Units shall be charged a redemption fee, payable to the Partnership, to be applied first to pay organization costs and, thereafter, to the benefit of the other Partners in proportion to their Capital accounts, equal to four percent (4%) for all Redemptions effective during the first six (6) months after commencement of trading. Thereafter, there will be a reduction of one percent (1%) for each six (6) months the investment in the Units remained invested in the Fund after the initial six months; i.e., 7-12 months a Redemption fee of 3%, 12-18 months 2%, 18-24 months 1%, and, thereafter, no redemption fee. The initial Limited Partner may withdraw from the Partnership at the time the Minimum number of Units are sold without payment of a Redemption fee. 9.7 SPECIAL REDEMPTION. In the event the Net Asset Value per Unit falls to less than fifty percent (50%) of the Net Asset Value established by the greater of the initial offering price of one thousand dollars ($1,000), less commissions and other charges, or such higher value earned after payment of the incentive fee for the addition of profits, the General Partner shall immediately suspend all trading, provide immediate notice, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, to all Partners of the reduction in Net Asset Value, and afford all Partners the opportunity for fifteen (15) days after the date of such notice to Redeem their Units in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.5 and 9.6, above. No trading shall commence until after such fifteen day period. ARTICLE X Nature of Partner's Liabilities for Claims 10.1 PROSECUTION OF CLAIMS. The General Partner shall arrange to prosecute, defend, settle or compromise actions at law or in equity or with any self regulatory organizations at the expense of the Partnership as such may be necessary or desirable to enforce, protect, or maintain Partnership interests. 10.2 SATISFACTION OF CLAIMS. The General Partner shall satisfy any claims against, errors asserted, or other liability of the Partnership and any judgment, decree, decision or settlement, first out of any insurance proceeds available therefor, next, out of Partnership assets and income, and finally out of the assets and income of the General Partner. 10.3 GENERAL PARTNER DECISION. The decisions made by the General Partner in regard to the prosecution or settlement of claims, errors, and other liabilities, will be final and binding without right of appeal or other legal action by the other Partners or the Partnership. 10.4 EXONERATION, INDEMNIFICATION, AND NO ANTICIPATION OF PAYMENTS. The General Partner shall not be liable to the Partnership or the Partners for any failure to comply with its obligations hereunder except for breach of fiduciary obligation owed to the partnership or negligence on its part in the management of Partnership affairs or violation of Federal and state securities laws in connection with the offering of Units for sale. In addition: (a) The General Partner will be indemnified for liabilities and expenses arising from any threatened, pending or completed action or suit in which it or any affiliate is a party or is threatened to be made a party by reason of the fact that it is or was the General Partner of the Partnership (other than an action by the Partnership or a Partner against the General Partner which is finally resolved in favor of the Partnership or Partner). The Partnership will indemnify the General Partner and its affiliates against expenses, including attorney's fees, judgments and amounts paid in settlement of an action, suit or proceeding if it has acted in good faith and in a manner it reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the Partnership, and provided that its conduct did not constitute negligence, willful or wanton misconduct or a breach of fiduciary obligations in the performance of its duty to the Partnership or a violation of the securities laws. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order or settlement against the Partnership shall not of itself create a presumption that the General Partner or any affiliate did not act in good faith and not in the best interest of the Partnership; provided, however, any advance of funds to the General Partner to pay such costs and expenses must be preceded by all of the following: (i) a determination by the General Partner that, in good faith, the course of conduct which caused the loss or liability was in the best interests of the Partnership; and, (ii) the General Partner was acting on behalf of or performing services for the Partnership; and, (iii) such asserted claim or liability or loss to the claimant was not the result of negligence or misconduct by the General Partner; and, (iv) such indemnification or agreement to hold harmless is recoverable only out of the assets of the Partnership and not from the Partners. In any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Partnership, to which the General Partner or an Affiliate was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party, involving an alleged cause of action by a Partner for damages arising from the activities of the General Partner in the performance of the sale of Units or management of the internal affairs of the partnership as proscribed by this Agreement or by Federal or the State of Delaware or any other state laws, the Partnership shall indemnify such General Partner against expenses, including attorneys' fees and costs, actually and reasonably incurred by such General Partner or Affiliate in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if it acted in good faith and in a manner it reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Partnership, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the General Partner shall have been adjudged to be liable for intentional misconduct, or breach of fiduciary obligations or violation of securities laws in the performance of its duty to the Partnership unless and only to the extent that the court or administrative proceeding in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application, that, despite the adjudication of liability, in view of all circumstances of the case, the General Partner or Affiliate is reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses as such court shall deem proper; provided, however, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, the Partnership shall advance or pay the General Partner or any of its Affiliates for legal expenses and other costs incurred as a result of any legal action which alleges a breach of the Federal or state securities laws only if the following conditions are satisfied: (i) the legal action relates to acts or omissions with respect to the performance of duties or services on behalf of the Partnership; (ii) the legal action is initiated by a third party who is not a Limited Partner, or the legal action is initiated by a Limited Partner and an independent arbitration panel, administrative law judge, or court of competent jurisdiction specifically approves such advancement; and, (iii) the General Partner or its Affiliates undertake to repay the advanced funds to the Partnership, together with the applicable legal rate of interest thereon, in cases which such party is not entitled to indemnification under NASAA Guideline II.F. To the extent that a General Partner or an Affiliate has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to above or in defense of any claim, issue or other matter related to the Partnership or any other Partner or person who applied to be a Partner, the Partnership shall indemnify such General Partner against the expenses, including attorneys' fees and costs, actually and reasonably incurred by it in connection therewith. (b) The indemnification of a General Partner shall be limited to and recoverable only out of the assets of the Partnership. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Partnership's indemnification of the General Partner shall be limited to the amount of such loss, liability or damage which is not otherwise compensated for by insurance carried for the benefit of the Partnership. (c) Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, the Partnership shall not advance the expenses or pay for any insurance to pay for the costs of the defense or any liability which is prohibited from being indemnified pursuant to NASAA Guideline II.F. Specifically, no indemnification which is the result of negligence or misconduct by the General Partner or for any allegation of a violation of the Federal or state securities laws by or against the General Partner, any broker/dealer or any other party unless there has been a successful adjudication on the merits of each count involving alleged securities law violation as to the General Partner or broker/dealer or such other party; or a court of competent jurisdiction approves a settlement of the claims against the General Partner or any broker/dealer or any other party and finds, specifically, that the indemnification of the settlement and related costs should be made after the court of law has been made aware that the Securities and Exchange Commission opposes such indemnification and the position of any applicable state securities regulatory authority where the Partnership Interests were offered or sold without the compliance with specific conditions upon such indemnification and the action covered satisfies the provisions of Section 10.4 (a) of this Agreement. Any change in the requirements imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the state securities administrators in regard to indemnification shall cause a corresponding change in the right of the General Partner to indemnification. (d) The indemnification of the General Partner provided in this Article shall extend to any employee, agent, attorney, certified public accountant, or Affiliate of the Partnership and the General Partner. (e) The Partnership shall indemnify, to the extent of the Partnership assets, each Partner against any claims of liability asserted against a Partner solely because he is a Partner in the Partnership. (f) In the event the Partnership or any Partner is made a party to any claim, dispute or litigation or otherwise incurs any loss or expense, as a result of or in connection with any Partner's activities unrelated to the Partnership business or as a result of an unfounded claim against the Partnership or any other Partner brought as a result of alleged actions by said Partner, the Partner which was responsible for the allegations which caused such loss or expense shall indemnify and reimburse the Partnership and all other Partners for all loss and expense incurred, including attorneys' fees and costs. (g) No creditor of a Partner shall have a right to vote Units. Nor may any Partner or creditor of a Partner anticipate any principal or income from the Fund prior to the approval of a Redemption Request or the payment of a distribution from the Fund. ARTICLE XI Power of Attorney 11.1 POWER OF ATTORNEY EXECUTED CONCURRENTLY. Concurrent with the written acceptance and adoption of the provisions of this Agreement, each Partner shall execute and deliver to the General Partner, a Power of Attorney (paragraph 5 of the Subscription Agreement). Said Power of Attorney irrevocably constitutes and appoints the General Partner as a true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent for such Partner with full power and authority to act in his name and on his behalf in the execution, acknowledgment and filing of documents, which will include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (a) Any certificates and other instruments, including but not limited to, a Certificate of Limited partnership and amendments thereto and a certificate of doing business under an assumed name, which the General Partner deems appropriate to qualify or continue the Partnership as a limited partnership in the jurisdictions in which the Partnership may conduct business, so long as such qualifications and continuations are in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or any amendment hereto, or which may be required to be filed by the Partnership or the Partners under the laws of any jurisdiction; (b) Any other instrument which may be required to be filed by the Partnership under Federal or any state laws or by any governmental agency or which the General Partner deems advisable to file; and (c) Any documents required to effect the continuation of the Partnership, the admission of the signer of the Power as a Limited Partner or of others as additional or substituted Partners or Limited Partners, or the dissolution and termination of the Partnership, provided such continuation, admission, dissolution or termination is pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. 11.2 EFFECT OF POWER OF ATTORNEY. The Power of Attorney concurrently granted by each Partner to the General Partner is a special Power of Attorney coupled with an interest, is irrevocable, and shall survive the death or legal incapacity of the Partner; and may be exercised by the General Partner for each Partner by a facsimile signature of one of its officers or by listing all of the Partners executing any instrument with a single signature of one of its officers acting as attorney-in-fact for all of them; and shall survive the delivery of an assignment by a Partner of the whole or any portion of his interest in the Partnership; except that where the assignee thereof has been approved by the General Partner for admission to the Partnership as a substituted partner, the Power of Attorney shall survive the delivery of such assignment for the sole purpose of enabling the General Partner to execute, acknowledge and file an instrument necessary to effect such substitution. 11.3 FURTHER ASSURANCES. Upon request, each Limited Partner agrees to execute and deliver to the Partnership, within thirty (30) days after receipt of a written request from the General Partner, a separate form of power of attorney granting the same powers described above; and such other further statements of interest, holdings, designations, powers of attorney and other instruments as the General Partner deems necessary or desirable. ARTICLE XII Miscellaneous Provisions 12.1 NOTICES. Notices, requests, reports, payments or other communications required to be given or made hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to be delivered when properly addressed and posted by United States registered or certified mail or delivered by independent courier which provides an record of receipt, postage or delivery fees prepaid, properly addressed to the party being given such notice at its last known address. Addresses shown on the Schedule of Limited Partners records of the Partnership shall be considered the last known address of each said party unless the General Partner is otherwise notified in writing. 12.2 NATURE OF INTEREST OF PARTNERS. The interest of each Partner in the Partnership is personal property. No Partner may anticipate the distribution or redemption of principal or income from the Partnership and no assignment to secure the position of a lender to a Partner shall be valid without the express written consent of the General Partner. 12.3 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Delaware. All Partners agree to consent to the jurisdiction and to bring all actions for claims related to the Partnership and the sale of the Units in the State and County of the principal office of the Partnership as it is established, from time to time, by the General Partner. Currently, the principal office of the Partnership is located in Kent County, Delaware. 12.4 SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST. This Agreement shall be binding on and inure to the benefit of he parties hereto and, to the extent permitted by this Agreement, their respective heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns. 12.5 INTEGRATION. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties pertaining to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings of such parties in connection herewith. Any amendment or supplement made hereto must be in writing. 12.6 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts. In such event, each counterpart shall constitute an original and all such counterparts shall constitute one agreement. The addition of Limited Partners pursuant to the power of attorney granted to the General Partner shall not be deemed amendments to alter the rights of the other Partners under this Agreement. 12.7 SEVERABILITY. Any provision of this Agreement which is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect in any jurisdiction shall be, as to such jurisdiction, ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability. The remaining provisions hereof in such jurisdiction shall be and remain effective. Any such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or in any way effect the validity, legality or enforceability of such provision or the remainder of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction. 12.8 WAIVERS. The failure of any Partner to seek redress for violation of or to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant or condition of this agreement shall not prevent a subsequent act, which would have originally constituted a violation, from having the effect of an original violation. 12.9 HEADINGS. The headings in this Agreement are inserted for convenience and identification only and are in no way intended to describe, interpret, define or limit the scope, extent or intent of this Agreement or any provision hereof. 12.10 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. This rights and remedies provided by this Agreement are cumulative and the use of any one right or remedy by any Partner shall not preclude or waive his right to use addition to any other rights such Partner may have by law, statute, ordinance or otherwise. 12.11 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO PARTITION. Each of the Partners irrevocably waives, during the term of the Partnership, any right that it may have to maintain any action for partition with respect to the property and assets of the Partnership. 12.12 INTEREST OF CERTAIN SECURED CREDITORS. No creditor who makes nonrecourse loan to the Partnership shall have or acquire at any time as a result of making the loan, any direct or indirect interest in the profits, Capital, or property of the Partnership other than as a secured creditor. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. General Partner: ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED By: s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Del Pacult President Initial Limited Partner: By: s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Del Pacult ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT B TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP REQUEST FOR REDEMPTION To: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. General Partner _____________________________ 5916 N. 300 West Our Social Security Number or P. O. Drawer C Taxpayer ID Number Fremont, IN 46737 Dear General Partner: The undersigned hereby requests redemption ("Redemption"), as defined in and subject to all the terms and conditions disclosed in the Offering Circular (the "Prospectus") delivered to the undersigned at the time of our purchase of limited partnership interests (the "Units") in Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund"), of _______________ Units (insert the number of Units to be Redeemed). This Redemption request, once approved and accepted by you as General Partner, will be at the Net Asset Value per Unit, as described in the Prospectus, as of the close of business at the end of the current month following such approval. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned is the true, lawful and beneficial owner of the Units to which this Request relates with full power and authority to request Redemption of such Units. Such Units are not subject to any pledge or otherwise encumbered. United States Taxable Limited Partners Only - Under penalty of perjury, the undersigned hereby certifies that the Social Security Number or Taxpayer ID Number indicated on this Request for Redemption is the undersigned's true, cared and complete Social Security Number or Taxpayer ID Number and that the undersigned is not subject to backup withholding under the provisions of section 3406(a)(1)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code. Non United States Limited Partners Only - Under penalty of perjury, the undersigned hereby certifies that (a) the undersigned is not a citizen or resident of the United States or (b) (in the case of an investor which is not an individual) the investor is not a United States corporation, partnership, estate or trust. SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE IDENTICAL TO NAME(S) IN WHICH UNITS ARE REGISTERED Please forward redemption funds by mail to the undersigned at: _____________________________________________________________________________ Name Street City, State and Zip Code Entity Limited Partner Individual Limited Partners(s) ________________________________ _______________________________ (Name of Entity) (Signature of Limited Partner) By: ________________________________ ________________________________ (Authorized corporate officer, partner, (Signature of Limited Partner) custodian or trustee) ________________________________ (Title) ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT C TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION REQUIREMENTS By executing the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney for Atlas Futures Fund Limited Partnership (the "Fund"), each purchaser ("Purchaser") of Limited Partnership Interests (the "Units") in the Partnership irrevocably subscribes for Units at a price equal to the Net Asset Value per Unit as of the end of the month in which the subscription is accepted as described in the Partnership's Offering Circular dated _______________, 1998, (the "Prospectus"). The minimum subscription is $25,000; additional Units may be purchased in multiples of $1,000. Subscriptions must be accompanied by a check in the full amount of the subscription and made payable to "Star Financial Bank-Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP". Purchaser is also delivering to the Selling Agent an executed Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney (Exhibit D to the Prospectus). Upon acceptance of Purchaser's Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney and subject to the termination of the Escrow, if it is in effect at the time of the Escrow, Purchaser agrees to contribute Purchaser's subscription to the Partnership and to be bound by the terms of the Partnership's Limited Partnership Agreement, attached as Exhibit A to the Prospectus. Purchaser agrees to reimburse the Partnership and Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated (the "General Partner") for any expense or loss incurred as a result of the cancellation of Purchaser's Units due to a failure of Purchaser to deliver good funds in the amount of the subscription price. By execution of the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney, Purchaser shall be deemed to have executed the Limited Partnership Agreement. As an inducement to the General Partner to accept this subscription, Purchaser (for the Purchaser and, if Purchaser is an entity, on behalf of and with respect to each of Purchaser's shareholders, partners or beneficiaries), by executing and delivering Purchaser's Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney, represents and warrants to the General Partner, the Commodity Broker and the Selling Agent who solicited Purchaser's subscription and the Fund, as follows: (a) Purchaser is of legal age to execute the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney and is legally competent to do so. Purchaser acknowledges that Purchaser has received a copy of the Prospectus, including the Limited Partnership Agreement, prior to subscribing for Units. (b) All information that Purchaser has heretofore furnished to the General Partner or that is set forth in the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney submitted by Purchaser is correct and complete as of the date of such Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney, and if there should be any change in such information prior to acceptance of Purchaser's subscription, Purchaser will immediately furnish such revised or corrected information to the General Partner. (c) Unless (d) or (e) below is applicable, Purchaser's subscription is made with Purchaser's funds for Purchaser's own account and not as trustee, custodian or nominee for another. (d) The subscription, if made as custodian for a minor, is a gift Purchaser has made to such minor and is not made with such minor's funds or, if not a gift, the representations as to net worth and annual income set forth below apply only to such minor. (e) If Purchaser is subscribing in a representative capacity, Purchaser has full power and authority to purchase the Units and enter and be bound by the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney on behalf of the entity for which he is purchasing the Units, and such entity has full right and power to purchase such Units and enter and be bound by the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney and become a Limited Partner pursuant to the Limited Partnership Agreement which is attached to the Prospectus as Exhibit A. ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT D TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP UNITS OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS Any person considering subscribing for Units should carefully read and review the Prospectus. The Units are speculative and involve a high degree of risk. No person may invest more than 10% of his or her liquid net worth (exclusive of home, furnishings and automobiles) in the Partnership. No entity-and, in particular, no ERISA plan-may invest more than 10% of its liquid net worth (readily marketable securities) in the Partnership. A Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page (the "Signature Page") is attached to these Subscription Instructions and the following Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney. The Signature Page is the document which you must execute if you wish to subscribe for Units. One copy of such Signature Page should be retained by you for your records and the others delivered to your Registered Representative. FILL IN ALL OF THE INFORMATION ON THE ATTACHED SIGNATURE PAGE, USING BLACK INK ONLY, AS FOLLOWS Item 1 - Enter the dollar amount (no cents) of the purchase. Items 2 - Enter the Social Security Number or Taxpayer ID Number and check the appropriate box to indicate the type of individual ownership desired or of the entity that is subscribing. In the case of joint ownership, either Social Security Number may be used. The Signature Page is self-explanatory for most ownership types; however, the following specific instructions are provided for certain of the ownership types identified on the Signature Page: Trusts-Enter the trust's name on Line 3 and the trustee's name on Line 4, followed by "Ttee." If applicable, use Line 7 also for the custodian's name. Be sure to furnish the Taxpayer ID Number of the trust. Custodian Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act-Complete Line 3 with the name of minor followed by "UGMA." On Line 7, enter the custodian's name followed by "Custodian." Be sure to furnish the minor's Social Security Number. Partnership or Corporation-The partnership's or corporation's name is required on Line 4. Enter a partner's or officer's name on Line 4. Be sure to furnish the Taxpayer ID Number of the partnership or corporation. A subscriber who is not an individual must provide a copy of documents evidencing the authority of such entity to invest in the Partnership. Item 8 - The investor(s) must execute the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page and review the representations relating to backup withholding tax or non-resident alien status underneath the signature and telephone number lines in Item 8. Item 9 - Registered Representative must complete. The Selling Agent's copy of the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page may be required to be retained in the Branch Office. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP UNITS OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST BY EXECUTING THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY SUBSCRIBERS ARE NOT WAIVING ANY RIGHTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY Ashley Capital Management, Inc. General Partner ____________________________ 5916 N. 300 West Social Security Number or P. O. Drawer C Taxpayer ID Number Fremont, IN 46737 Dear General Partner: 1. Subscription For Units. I hereby subscribe for the number of Limited Partnership Units ("Units") in Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Fund") set forth below (minimum $25,000) in the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page, at $1000 per Unit as set forth in the Prospectus (the "Prospectus") of the Partnership dated ____________, 1998. I have completed and executed a Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "D", and delivered the executed Subscription Documents to the Sales Agent and executed a check made payable to "Star Financial Bank-Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP" to be delivered by the Sales Agent to the Escrow Agent within 24 hours after receipt for deposit to the Escrow Account. The General Partner may, in its sole and absolute discretion, accept or reject this subscription, in whole or in part. If this subscription is accepted, I understand subscribers will earn additional Units in lieu of interest earned on the undersigned's subscription during any period of time, if any, such subscription is held in escrow. If this subscription is rejected, all funds remitted by the undersigned will be returned, together with any interest earned from escrow, if any. All subscriptions once submitted are irrevocable. 2. Representations and Warranties of Subscriber. I have received a copy of the Prospectus no less than five days prior to the effective date of my purchase. I understand that by submitting this Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney I am making the representations and warranties set forth in "Exhibit C - Subscription Requirements" contained in the Prospectus, including, without limitation, representations and warranties relating to my net worth and annual income. 3. Power of Attorney. In connection with my acceptance of an Interest in the Partnership, I do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint the General Partner, and its successors and assigns, as my true and lawful Attorney-in- Fact, with full power of substitution, in my name, place and stead, to (i) file, prosecute, defend, settle or compromise litigation, claims or arbitration on behalf of the Partnership; and, (ii) make, execute, sign, acknowledge, swear to, deliver, record and file any documents or instruments which may be considered necessary or desirable by the General Partner to carry out fully the provisions of the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Partnership, which is attached as Exhibit A to the Prospectus, including, without limitation, the execution of the said Agreement itself and by effecting all amendments permitted by the terms thereof. The Power of Attorney granted hereby shall be deemed to be coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and shall survive, and shall not be affected by, my subsequent death, incapacity, disability, insolvency or dissolution or any delivery by me of an assignment of the whole or any portion of my interest in the Partnership. 4. Irrevocability; Governing Law. I hereby acknowledge and agree that I am not entitled to cancel, terminate or revoke this subscription or any of my agreements hereunder after the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney have been submitted (and not rejected) and that this subscription and such agreements shall survive my death or disability. This Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana. 5. Suitability and Acceptance of Risks. In addition to the suitability requirements set forth in Exhibit C, I represent and warrant to the General Partner and Selling Agent that (i) I have the capacity of understanding the fundamental aspects of the Partnership (or, if I do not have such fundamental understanding, I have so advised the Selling Agent of such fact); and, (ii) I understand the fundamental risks and possible financial hazards of an investment in the Partnership (disclosed in the Prospectus and Amendment under "Risk Factors" identified on the face page, in the Summary, and described in the Prospectus at page 6), including, but not limited to, the lack of liquidity of my investment in the Partnership, the management and control by the General Partner, and the tax consequences of the investment. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Units of Limited Partnership Interests Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney Signature Page The investor named below, by execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney, by payment of the purchase price for Limited Partnership Interests (the "Units") in Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), and by enclosing a check payable to "Star Financial State Bank-Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP", hereby subscribes for the purchase of Units, at $1,000 per Unit. The named investor further, by signature below, acknowledges receipt of the Prospectus of the Partnership dated ___________, 1998 no less than five (5) days prior to the acceptance of the subscription by the General Partner or the purchase of Units in the Partnership and that such Prospectus includes the Partnership's Limited Partnership Agreement, and the Subscription Requirements and the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney set forth therein, the terms of which govern the investment in the Units being subscribed for hereby. By my signature below, I represent that I satisfy the requirements relating to net worth and annual income as set forth in Exhibit C to the Prospectus. 1) Total $ Amount __________________ (minimum of $25,000, unless lowered to less than $25,000 but not less than $5,000 by the General Partner; $1,000 minimum for investors making an additional investment) 2) Social Security Number _____-___-_____ Taxpayer ID # _____-___-_____ Taxable Investors (check one): O Individual Ownership O Trust other than a Grantor or Revocable Trust O Joint Tenants with Right of Survivorship O Estate O UGMA/UTMA (Minor) O Tenants in Common O Community Property O Partnership O Corporation O Grantor or Other Revocable Trust Non-Taxable Investors (check one): O IRA O Profit Sharing O IRA Rollover O Defined Benefit O Pension O Other (specify) O SEP 3) Investor's Name _________________________________________________________ 4) _________________________________________________________________________ Additional Information (for Estates, Trusts, Partnerships and Corporations) 5) Resident Address of Investor _________________________________________________________________________ Street (P.O. Box not acceptable) City State Zip Code 6) Mailing Address(if different) _________________________________________________________________________ Street City State Zip Code 7) Custodian Name and Mailing Address _________________________________________________________________________ Name Street (P.O. Box not acceptable) City State Zip Code SIGNATURE(S) - DO NOT SIGN WITHOUT FAMILIARIZING YOURSELF WITH THE INFORMATION IN THE PROSPECTUS AND AMENDMENT, INCLUDING: (I) THE FUNDAMENTAL RISKS AND FINANCIAL HAZARDS OF THIS INVESTMENT, INCLUDING THE RISK OF LOSING YOUR ENTIRE INVESTMENT; (II) THAT THE PARTNERSHIP IS THE FIRST CLIENT ACCOUNT TO TRADE IN THE ATLAS FUTURES FUND PORTFOLIO; (III) THE PARTNERSHIP'S SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES; (IV) THE PARTNERSHIP'S HIGHLY LEVERAGED TRADING ACTIVITIES; (V) THE LACK OF LIQUIDITY OF THE UNITS; (VI) THE EXISTENCE OF ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP; (VII) THAT UNITHOLDERS MAY NOT TAKE PART IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP; AND (VIII) THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARTNERSHIP. 8) INVESTOR(S) MUST SIGN X_________________________________________________________ Signature of Investor Date Telephone No. X_________________________________________________________ Signature of Joint Investor (if any) Date Executing and delivering this Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney shall in no respect be deemed to constitute a waiver of any rights under the Securities Act of 1933 or under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. UNITED STATES INVESTORS ONLY I have checked the following box if I am subject to backup withholding under the provisions of Section 3406(a)(1)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code: __. Under the penalties of perjury, by signature above I hereby certify that the Social Security Number or Taxpayer ID Number set forth in Item 2 above is my true, correct and complete Social Security Number of Taxpayer ID Number and that the information given in the immediately preceding sentence is true, correct and complete. NON-UNITED STATES INVESTORS ONLY Under the penalties of perjury, by signature above, I hereby certify that (a) I am not a citizen or resident of the United States or (b) (in the case of an investor which is not an individual) the investor is not a United States corporation, partnership, estate or trust: __. 9) REGISTERED REPRESENTATIVE MUST SIGN I hereby certify that I have informed the investor of all pertinent facts relating to the: risks; tax consequences; liquidity and marketability; management; and control of the Managing Owner with respect to an investment in the Units, as set forth in the Prospectus and Amendment. I have also informed the investor of the unlikelihood of a public trading market developing for the Units. I do not have discretionary authority over the account of the investor. I have reasonable grounds to believe, based on information obtained from the investor concerning his/her investment objectives, other investments, financial situation and needs and any other information known by me, that an investment in the Partnership is suitable for such investor in light of his/her financial position, net worth and other suitability characteristics. The Registered Representative MUST sign below in order to substantiate compliance with Article III, Section 34 of the NASD's Rules of Fair Practice. X__________________________________________________________ Registered Representative Signature Date X__________________________________________________________ Office Manager Signature Date (if required by Selling Agent procedures) 10) REGISTERED REPRESENTATIVE Name: Shira Del Pacult Address: 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 Tel. Number: (219) 833-1306 Registered Representative Number: 334 11) SELLING AGENT Name: Futures Investment Company Address: 5916 N. 300 West Fremont, IN 46737 Tel. Number: (219) 833-1306 ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT E TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT ESCROW AGREEMENT THIS ESCROW AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is made and entered into as of the ___ day of April, 1998, by and among Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703, (the "Escrow Agent"); Futures Investment Company, an Illinois corporation (the "Underwriter" or "Broker/Dealer"); and, Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership") acting by and through Ashley Capital Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, its general partner, (the "General Partner"). A. WHEREAS, the Partnership proposes to offer for sale to investors up to $7,000,000 of units (the "Offering") of limited partnership interest (the "Securities" or "Units") at an initial offering price of $1,000 per Unit; and B. WHEREAS, the Underwriter intends to sell, as an National Association of Securities Dealer, Inc. registered Broker/Dealer, the Securities, as the Partnership's agent, on a best-efforts, all-or-none basis for 700 Units (the "Minimum Offering"); and, thereafter, on a best-efforts basis until all remaining 6,300 Units are sold; or until the Offering is withdrawn or terminates; and C. WHEREAS, the Company and the Underwriter desire to establish an escrow account with the Escrow Agent in which funds received from subscribers will be deposited pending completion of the sale of the Minimum Offering during the time it takes to sell the Minimum Offering or the Offering is withdrawn or terminates, whichever occurs first, (the "Escrow Period"); and, Escrow Agent desires to serve as escrow agent, all in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein. WITNESSETH: NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree, as follows: 1. Establishment of Escrow Account. On or prior to the date of the commencement of the Offering, the parties shall establish an interest-bearing escrow account with the Escrow Agent, which escrow account shall be entitled the Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Escrow Account (the "Escrow Account"). During the Escrow Period, the Underwriter, through its registered representatives, will instruct subscribers, pursuant to the disclosures made in the Offering Circular, the Subscription Agreement, and the Broker/Dealer Selling Agreement, to make checks for subscriptions payable to "Star Financial Bank-Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP". Any checks received that are made payable to a party other than the Escrow Agent shall be returned to the Underwriter. 2. Escrow Period. The escrow period shall begin with the commencement of the Offering and shall terminate upon the earlier to occur of the following dates (the "Escrow Period"): A. the date upon which the Escrow Agent confirms that it has received in the Escrow Account gross proceeds from the sale of 700 Units of $700,000, before payment of sales commissions, in collected funds (the "Minimum Offering"); B. The expiration of nine (9) months from the date of the Offering Circular, or any extension thereof, utilized by the Partnership in offering the Securities; or C. The date upon which a determination is made by the Partnership and the Underwriter to terminate the Offering prior to the sale of the Minimum Offering. Although checks for the Minimum Offering may have been tendered prior to or on the close of the Escrow Period, in no event will the Escrow Funds be released to the Partnership until the Minimum Offering is received by the Escrow Agent in collected funds. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "collected funds" shall mean all funds received by the Escrow Agent which have cleared normal banking channels and are in the form of good funds on deposit. 1 During the Escrow Period, the Partnership and the Underwriter are aware and they understand that they are not entitled to any funds received into escrow and no amounts deposited in the Escrow Account shall become the property of the Partnership, the Underwriter, or any other entity or person, or be subject to the debts of the Partnership, the Underwriter, or any other entity or person. 3. Deposits into the Escrow Account. The Partnership and the Underwriter agree that they shall promptly review the subscription documents to determine the suitability of the subscriber for admission to the Partnership and reject or accept and transmit (and in all events by 12:00 noon of the next business day after receipt by them) all monies received from subscribers for the payment of Securities to the Escrow Agent for deposit in the Escrow Account together with a written account of each sale, which account shall set forth, among other things, the subscriber's name and address, the number of Securities purchased, the amount paid therefor, and whether the consideration received was in the form of a check, draft, or money order. All monies so deposited in the Escrow Account are hereinafter referred to as the "Escrow Funds". 4. Collection Procedure. The Escrow Agent is hereby authorized to forward each check, draft, or money order for collection and, upon collection of the proceeds of such instrument, deposit the collected proceeds in the Escrow Account. As an alternative, the Escrow Agent may telephone the bank on which the instrument is drawn to confirm that it has been paid. Any instrument returned unpaid to the Escrow Agent shall be returned to the Underwriter. In such cases, the Escrow Agent will promptly notify the Partnership of such return. If, for any reason, the Partnership elects to reject any subscription for which the Escrow Agent has already collected funds, the Escrow Agent shall promptly issue a refund check to the rejected subscriber. If the Partnership rejects any subscription for which the Escrow Agent has not yet collected funds but has submitted the subscriber's check for collection, the Escrow Agent shall promptly issue a check in the amount of the subscriber's check to the rejected subscriber after the Escrow Agent has cleared such funds. If the Escrow Agent has not yet submitted a rejected subscriber's check for collection, the Escrow Agent shall promptly return the subscriber's check directly to the subscriber. 5. Investment of Escrow Funds. The Escrow Agent may invest the Escrow Funds only in such accounts or investments as the Partnership may specify by written notice from a list of investments made available by the Escrow Agent for such purpose. The Partnership may only specify and the Escrow Agent may only make available investments in (1) bank accounts, (2) bank money market accounts, (3) short-term certificates of deposit issued by a bank, or (4) short-term securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government. 6. Compensation of Escrow Agent. As the Escrow Agent's total compensation for the performance of its escrow services, Escrow Agent shall receive an aggregate fee determined by multiplying the total number of checks received and issued by the Escrow Agent by $15.00 (the "Escrow Agent Fee"). The Escrow Agent Fee shall be payable by the General Partner in the event the escrow terminates prior to the sale of the Minimum or by the Partnership at the time of closing of the sale of the Minimum. within fifteen (15) days after the close of the Escrow Period. However, neither the Escrow Agent Fee, nor any indemnification for any damages incurred by the Escrow Agent or any monies whatsoever shall be paid out of or chargeable to the funds while on deposit in the Escrow Account. 7. Disbursements from the Escrow Account. A. Upon the receipt of gross proceeds as provided in 2A above, the Escrow Agent shall pay the Underwriter commissions of 6% of the gross sales price and shall remit the balance, including all accrued income, to the Partnership for deposit to Partnership accounts for use in its business. B. In the event the Escrow Agent does not receive deposits totaling the Minimum Offering prior to the termination of the Escrow Period, the Escrow Agent shall, within 10 business days of the termination of the Escrow Period, refund to each subscriber the amount received from the subscriber, without deduction, penalty, or expense to the subscriber, along with each subscriber's pro-rata share of any interest earned on the Escrow Funds at the rate established by the Escrow Agent, and the Escrow Agent shall notify the Partnership and the Underwriter of its distribution of the Escrow Funds. The purchase money returned to each subscriber shall be free and clear of any and all claims of the Partnership, the Underwriter, and the Escrow Agent or any of their creditors. 2 C. Upon completion of the payments described in either 7A or B above, and payment of the Escrow Agent Fee as provided in paragraph 6 above, this Escrow will terminate. 8. Obligations of Escrow Agent. Escrow Agent shall be obligated only for the performance of such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, and no additional duties shall be inferred herefrom or implied hereby. The Escrow Agent may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting on any instrument believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. 9. Controversies. Should any controversy arise among the undersigned with respect to this Agreement, or with respect to the right to receive all or part of the Escrow Funds, including accrued interest thereon, Escrow Agent shall have the right to institute an interpleader action in any court of competent jurisdiction in Steuben County, IN, to determine the rights of the parties. Should such an action be instituted, or should Escrow Agent become involved in litigation in any manner on account of this Agreement or the Escrow Funds (not involving willful misconduct, fraud, gross negligence or bad faith on the part of Escrow Agent), the Partnership and its General Partner shall either assume the defense or pay to Escrow Agent the reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by Escrow Agent, whichever the Partnership shall elect, together with any other expenses, losses, costs and damages suffered by Escrow Agent, in connection with and resulting from such litigation. 10. Limit of Escrow Agent Liability. Escrow Agent shall have no liability under, or duty to inquire into, the terms and provisions of any other document or instrument utilized in connection with the Offering, and it is agreed that the duties of Escrow Agent are purely ministerial in nature, and that Escrow Agent shall incur no liability whatsoever under this Agreement, except for acts or omissions of the Escrow Agent involving or constituting willful misconduct, fraud, gross negligence or bad faith. 11. Resignation. Escrow Agent may, at any time, resign hereunder by giving written notice of its intent to resign to the other parties hereto, at their respective addresses set forth below, at least ten (10) days prior to the date specified for such resignation to take effect, and upon the effective date of such resignation the Escrow Funds, including all accrued interest, shall be delivered by Escrow Agent to the person designated in writing by the Underwriter and the Partnership, whereupon all of Escrow Agent's obligations hereunder shall cease and terminate (except as hereinafter provided in this paragraph). If no such person shall have been designated prior to the effective date of such resignation, all obligations of Escrow Agent hereunder shall, nevertheless, cease and terminate (except as hereinafter provided in this paragraph). Escrow Agent's sole responsibility thereafter shall be to hold the Escrow Funds until such time as the Escrow Agent delivers the Escrow Funds and accrued interest to a person designated by the Partnership and the Underwriter or to the person designated by a court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this paragraph releases Escrow Agent or relieves it of any of its obligations that existed prior to the effective date of Escrow Agent's resignation, including, without limitation, liability for willful misconduct, fraud, gross negligence or bad faith. 12. Indemnification. The Underwriter and the Partnership agree to indemnify, defend and hold Escrow Agent harmless from and against any and all loss, damage, tax, liability and expense that may be incurred by Escrow Agent and arising out of or in connection with its acceptance of appointment as escrow agent hereunder, including reasonable attorneys' fees and other legal costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with its performance hereunder, except in the case of willful misconduct, fraud, gross negligence or bad faith on the part of Escrow Agent. The Partnership or the General Partner and not the Underwriter shall each pay of the cost of any indemnification of the Escrow Agent pursuant to this Agreement. The provisions of this paragraph shall survive the termination of this Agreement. Escrow Agent may consult with and rely on its attorneys with respect to any dispute not assumed or defended by the Partnership or its General Partner and the indemnification referred in this paragraph 12 shall include all reasonable and necessary attorneys' fees of Escrow Agent in connection with such consultation. 13. Notices. Any notice or demand desired or required to be given hereunder shall be in writing and deemed given when personally delivered (including delivery by commercial overnight courier service), or when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, sent certified or registered, and addressed as follows: 3 (a) If to the Partnership and its General Partner to: Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 with a copy to William S. Scott of The Scott Law Firm, P.A., 5121 Sarazen Drive, Hollywood, FL 33021. (b) If to the Underwriter, to: Futures Investment Company, 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737, Attn.: Compliance Department (c) If to the Escrow Agent, to: Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703, Attn: Mr. Thad Wright, Vice President or to such other address or person as hereafter shall be designated in writing by the party providing notice. 14. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana. 15. Titles or Captions. The titles or captions of sections and paragraphs in this Agreement are provided for convenience of reference only and should not be considered a part hereof for purposes of interpreting or applying this Agreement, and such titles or captions do not define, limit, extend, explain or describe the scope or extent of this Agreement or any of its terms or conditions. 16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and in making proof hereof it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart. 17. Amendments. No amendment, modification, supplement, termination or waiver of or to any provision of this Agreement nor consent to any departure therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the parties to this Agreement. 18. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns. 19. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matters hereof and supersedes all negotiations, preliminary agreements and all prior or contemporaneous discussions and understandings of the parties hereto in connection with the subject matters hereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP STAR FINANCIAL BANK By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. The General Partner By: s/ Shira Del Pacult By: s/ Thad Wright Ms. Shira Del Pacult Thad Wright President Vice President FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY By: s/ Shira Del Pacult Ms. Shira Del Pacult Vice President 4 ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT F TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT MICHAEL J. FRISCHMEYER THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered as of this 1st day of February, 1998 between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and Michael J. Frischmeyer, (the "CTA"). WITNESSETH: In consideration of the deposit by the Fund of equity to Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM") account number _______ (the "Account") and the grant of the power of attorney on the standard form of the FCM to the CTA to permit the CTA to enter trades for the Fund in the Account, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. The Fund shall initially deposit in the Account with the FCM, U.S. funds in the amount of _____________________ dollars ($_______). Subsequent deposits and accumulation of profits in the Account, less withdrawals and losses, shall be subject to this Agreement. At its sole discretion, the Fund may add or withdraw funds at any time from the Account by written request to the FCM with a copy to the CTA. 2. CTA will cause futures contracts, and when deemed advisable, options on futures and forward contracts, to be bought and sold on behalf of the Fund in the Account. CTA will have the sole authority to issue all necessary instructions to effect trading with the FCM for the Account. All such transactions shall be for the account and risk of the Fund. During the term of this agreement, the Fund agrees that they will not place orders in the Account without prior written consent of the Adviser. 3. The CTA's services are not rendered exclusively for the Fund and CTA shall be free to render similar services to others. The General Partner may change the FCM for the account assigned to the CTA at anytime upon written direction to the FCM and the CTA and CTA agrees to effect the transfer and sign the forms necessary to complete such change. 4. The IB shall charge the Fund a fixed commission of 9% of the Net Equity in the account assigned to the CTA payable at the rate of 3/4% per month. This payment to the IB will be for all round turns, pit brokerage, exchange, NFA fees and other clearing expenses arising from the trades placed by the CTA in the account for domestic trades. This does not include delivery or other exchange for physicals or trades made on foreign exchanges or forward markets. Those costs will be at rates to be negotiated by the General Partner with the IB or other party, as the facts determine, and charged to the Fund. 5. CTA will use its best efforts to obtain an equity run from the FCM before the opening of business the next trading day. Unless authorized in writing by the General Partner, the CTA will use only the equity in the Account or Accounts assigned to the CTA by the General Partner for margins to hold the positions taken by the CTA. No equity in the Account assigned to the CTA will be commingled or margined, for any purpose, with any other account at the FCM. The General Partner, upon written instruction to the FCM may terminate, for any reason, the power of attorney and suspend the trading authority of the CTA to enter trades with the FCM. In the event of a termination of the power of attorney, the CTA agrees that the FCM shall accept no further instructions from the CTA but shall place the Account upon liquidation only to be handled in written instructions from the General Partner to the FCM. 6. Fund agrees to execute, from time to time, the Acknowledgment of Receipt of Disclosure Document from the CTA. By signing, the Fund agrees that it has received and understands the most recent copy of the Adviser's Risk Disclosure Document. 7. The Fund agrees to execute the Advisers Managed Account Compensation Agreement authorizing the CTA to be paid its management fee from the Account. The CTA will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the equity on deposit in the Account payable on the first of each month computed upon the equity on deposit on the last day of the preceding month. In addition, the CTA will be paid an incentive fee of fifteen percent (15%), of the New Net Profit earned each quarter, which shall not be deducted from the Account, but will be paid upon submission of an invoice by the CTA to the General Partner of the Fund. 8. Fund and CTA agree that they have properly executed all the necessary account forms for opening the Account with the FCM; provided, however, any disputes will be submitted to arbitration only upon written agreement of the parties at the time such dispute arises and the terms of this Agreement will supersede any terms contained in any other agreement between the parties hereto and, in the event of any conflicts, the terms of this Agreement shall control. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and any dispute will be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Chicago, Illinois. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Mr. Michael J. Frischmeyer By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. s/ Shira Del Pacult s/ Michael J. Frischmeyer Ms. Shira Del Pacult Michael J. Frischmeyer President ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT G TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT BARRY T. JOHNSON - Commoditech, Inc. THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered as of this 1st day of February, 1998 between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and Commoditech, Inc., a Missouri corporation, (the "CTA"). WITNESSETH: In consideration of the deposit by the Fund of equity to Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM") account number _______ (the "Account") and the grant of the power of attorney on the standard form of the FCM to the CTA to permit the CTA to enter trades for the Fund in the Account, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. The Fund shall initially deposit in the Account with the FCM, U.S. funds in the amount of _____________________ dollars ($_______). Subsequent deposits and accumulation of profits in the Account, less withdrawals and losses, shall be subject to this Agreement. At its sole discretion, the Fund may add or withdraw funds at any time from the Account by written request to the FCM with a copy to the CTA. 2. CTA will cause futures contracts, and when deemed advisable, options on futures and forward contracts, to be bought and sold on behalf of the Fund in the Account. CTA will have the sole authority to issue all necessary instructions to effect trading with the FCM for the Account. All such transactions shall be for the account and risk of the Fund. During the term of this agreement, the Fund agrees that they will not place orders in the Account without prior written consent of the Adviser. 3. The CTA's services are not rendered exclusively for the Fund and CTA shall be free to render similar services to others. The General Partner may change the FCM for the account assigned to the CTA at anytime upon written direction to the FCM and the CTA and CTA agrees to effect the transfer and sign the forms necessary to complete such change. 4. The IB shall charge the Fund a fixed commission of 9% of the Net Equity in the account assigned to the CTA payable at the rate of 3/4% per month. This payment to the IB will be for all round turns, pit brokerage, exchange, NFA fees and other clearing expenses arising from the trades placed by the CTA in the account for domestic trades. This does not include delivery or other exchange for physicals or trades made on foreign exchanges or forward markets. Those costs will be at rates to be negotiated by the General Partner with the IB or other party, as the facts determine, and charged to the Fund. 5. CTA will use its best efforts to obtain an equity run from the FCM before the opening of business the next trading day. Unless authorized in writing by the General Partner, the CTA will use only the equity in the Account or Accounts assigned to the CTA by the General Partner for margins to hold the positions taken by the CTA. No equity in the Account assigned to the CTA will be commingled or margined, for any purpose, with any other account at the FCM. The General Partner, upon written instruction to the FCM may terminate, for any reason, the power of attorney and suspend the trading authority of the CTA to enter trades with the FCM. In the event of a termination of the power of attorney, the CTA agrees that the FCM shall accept no further instructions from the CTA but shall place the Account upon liquidation only to be handled in written instructions from the General Partner to the FCM. 6. Fund agrees to execute, from time to time, the Acknowledgment of Receipt of Disclosure Document from the CTA. By signing, the Fund agrees that it has received and understands the most recent copy of the Adviser's Risk Disclosure Document. 7. The Fund agrees to execute the Advisers Managed Account Compensation Agreement authorizing the CTA to be paid its management fee from the Account. The CTA will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the equity on deposit in the Account payable on the first of each month computed upon the equity on deposit on the last day of the preceding month. In addition, the CTA will be paid an incentive fee of fifteen percent (15%), of the New Net Profit earned each quarter, which shall not be deducted from the Account, but will be paid upon submission of an invoice by the CTA to the General Partner of the Fund. 8. Fund and CTA agree that they have properly executed all the necessary account forms for opening the Account with the FCM; provided, however, any disputes will be submitted to arbitration only upon written agreement of the parties at the time such dispute arises and the terms of this Agreement will supersede any terms contained in any other agreement between the parties hereto and, in the event of any conflicts, the terms of this Agreement shall control. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and any dispute will be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Chicago, Illinois. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Commoditech, Inc. By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. s/ Shira Del Pacult s/ Barry T. Johnson Ms. Shira Del Pacult Barry T. Johnson President President ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT H TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT ERIC ROSENBERRY - ROSENBERY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered as of this 1st day of February, 1998 between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., an Illinois corporation, (the "CTA"). WITNESSETH: In consideration of the deposit by the Fund of equity to Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM") account number _______ (the "Account") and the grant of the power of attorney on the standard form of the FCM to the CTA to permit the CTA to enter trades for the Fund in the Account, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. The Fund shall initially deposit in the Account with the FCM, U.S. funds in the amount of _____________________ dollars ($_______). Subsequent deposits and accumulation of profits in the Account, less withdrawals and losses, shall be subject to this Agreement. At its sole discretion, the Fund may add or withdraw funds at any time from the Account by written request to the FCM with a copy to the CTA. 2. CTA will cause futures contracts, and when deemed advisable, options on futures and forward contracts, to be bought and sold on behalf of the Fund in the Account. CTA will have the sole authority to issue all necessary instructions to effect trading with the FCM for the Account. All such transactions shall be for the account and risk of the Fund. During the term of this agreement, the Fund agrees that they will not place orders in the Account without prior written consent of the Adviser. 3. The CTA's services are not rendered exclusively for the Fund and CTA shall be free to render similar services to others. The General Partner may change the FCM for the account assigned to the CTA at anytime upon written direction to the FCM and the CTA and CTA agrees to effect the transfer and sign the forms necessary to complete such change. 4. The IB shall charge the Fund a fixed commission of 9% of the Net Equity in the account assigned to the CTA payable at the rate of 3/4% per month. This payment to the IB will be for all round turns, pit brokerage, exchange, NFA fees and other clearing expenses arising from the trades placed by the CTA in the account for domestic trades. This does not include delivery or other exchange for physicals or trades made on foreign exchanges or forward markets. Those costs will be at rates to be negotiated by the General Partner with the IB or other party, as the facts determine, and charged to the Fund. 5. CTA will use its best efforts to obtain an equity run from the FCM before the opening of business the next trading day. Unless authorized in writing by the General Partner, the CTA will use only the equity in the Account or Accounts assigned to the CTA by the General Partner for margins to hold the positions taken by the CTA. No equity in the Account assigned to the CTA will be commingled or margined, for any purpose, with any other account at the FCM. The General Partner, upon written instruction to the FCM may terminate, for any reason, the power of attorney and suspend the trading authority of the CTA to enter trades with the FCM. In the event of a termination of the power of attorney, the CTA agrees that the FCM shall accept no further instructions from the CTA but shall place the Account upon liquidation only to be handled in written instructions from the General Partner to the FCM. 6. Fund agrees to execute, from time to time, the Acknowledgment of Receipt of Disclosure Document from the CTA. By signing, the Fund agrees that it has received and understands the most recent copy of the Adviser's Risk Disclosure Document. 7. The Fund agrees to execute the Advisers Managed Account Compensation Agreement authorizing the CTA to be paid its management fee from the Account. The CTA will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the equity on deposit in the Account payable on the first of each month computed upon the equity on deposit on the last day of the preceding month. In addition, the CTA will be paid an incentive fee of fifteen percent (15%), of the New Net Profit earned each quarter, which shall not be deducted from the Account, but will be paid upon submission of an invoice by the CTA to the General Partner of the Fund. 8. Fund and CTA agree that they have properly executed all the necessary account forms for opening the Account with the FCM; provided, however, any disputes will be submitted to arbitration only upon written agreement of the parties at the time such dispute arises and the terms of this Agreement will supersede any terms contained in any other agreement between the parties hereto and, in the event of any conflicts, the terms of this Agreement shall control. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and any dispute will be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Chicago, Illinois. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Rosenbery Capital Management By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. s/ Shira Del Pacult s/ Eric Rosenbery Ms. Shira Del Pacult Eric Rosenbery President President ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT I TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT JAMES A. HYERCZYK (d/b/a J.A.H. RESEARCH AND TRADING) THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered as of this 28th day of April, 1998 between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and J.A.H. Research and Trading (the "CTA"). WITNESSETH: In consideration of the deposit by the Fund of equity to Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM") account number _______ (the "Account") and the grant of the power of attorney on the standard form of the FCM to the CTA to permit the CTA to enter trades for the Fund in the Account, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. The Fund shall initially deposit in the Account with the FCM, U.S. funds in the amount of _____________________ dollars ($_______). Subsequent deposits and accumulation of profits in the Account, less withdrawals and losses, shall be subject to this Agreement. At its sole discretion, the Fund may add or withdraw funds at any time from the Account by written request to the FCM with a copy to the CTA. 2. CTA will cause futures contracts, and when deemed advisable, options on futures and forward contracts, to be bought and sold on behalf of the Fund in the Account. CTA will have the sole authority to issue all necessary instructions to effect trading with the FCM for the Account. All such transactions shall be for the account and risk of the Fund. During the term of this agreement, the Fund agrees that they will not place orders in the Account without prior written consent of the Adviser. 3. The CTA's services are not rendered exclusively for the Fund and CTA shall be free to render similar services to others. The General Partner may change the FCM for the account assigned to the CTA at anytime upon written direction to the FCM and the CTA and CTA agrees to effect the transfer and sign the forms necessary to complete such change. 4. The IB shall charge the Fund a fixed commission of 9% of the Net Equity in the account assigned to the CTA payable at the rate of 3/4% per month. This payment to the IB will be for all round turns, pit brokerage, exchange, NFA fees and other clearing expenses arising from the trades placed by the CTA in the account for domestic trades. This does not include delivery or other exchange for physicals or trades made on foreign exchanges or forward markets. Those costs will be at rates to be negotiated by the General Partner with the IB or other party, as the facts determine, and charged to the Fund. 5. CTA will use its best efforts to obtain an equity run from the FCM before the opening of business the next trading day. Unless authorized in writing by the General Partner, the CTA will use only the equity in the Account or Accounts assigned to the CTA by the General Partner for margins to hold the positions taken by the CTA. No equity in the Account assigned to the CTA will be commingled or margined, for any purpose, with any other account at the FCM. The General Partner, upon written instruction to the FCM may terminate, for any reason, the power of attorney and suspend the trading authority of the CTA to enter trades with the FCM. In the event of a termination of the power of attorney, the CTA agrees that the FCM shall accept no further instructions from the CTA but shall place the Account upon liquidation only to be handled in written instructions from the General Partner to the FCM. 6. Fund agrees to execute, from time to time, the Acknowledgment of Receipt of Disclosure Document from the CTA. By signing, the Fund agrees that it has received and understands the most recent copy of the Adviser's Risk Disclosure Document. 7. The Fund agrees to execute the Advisers Managed Account Compensation Agreement authorizing the CTA to be paid its management fee from the Account. The CTA will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the equity on deposit in the Account payable on the first of each month computed upon the equity on deposit on the last day of the preceding month. In addition, the CTA will be paid an incentive fee of fifteen percent (15%), of the New Net Profit earned each quarter, which shall not be deducted from the Account, but will be paid upon submission of an invoice by the CTA to the General Partner of the Fund. 8. Fund and CTA agree that they have properly executed all the necessary account forms for opening the Account with the FCM; provided, however, any disputes will be submitted to arbitration only upon written agreement of the parties at the time such dispute arises and the terms of this Agreement will supersede any terms contained in any other agreement between the parties hereto and, in the event of any conflicts, the terms of this Agreement shall control. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and any dispute will be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Chicago, Illinois. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership J.A.H. Research and Trading By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. s/ Shira Del Pacult s/ James A. Hyerczyk Ms. Shira Del Pacult James A. Hyerczyk President ****************************************************************************** EXHIBIT J TO ATLAS FUTURES FUND DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT STEVEN MIDLARSKY - C&M TRADERS, INC. THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered as of this 28th day of April, 1998 between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and C&M Traders, Inc., a Florida corporation, (the "CTA"). WITNESSETH: In consideration of the deposit by the Fund of equity to Vision Limited Partnership (the "FCM") account number _______ (the "Account") and the grant of the power of attorney on the standard form of the FCM to the CTA to permit the CTA to enter trades for the Fund in the Account, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. The Fund shall initially deposit in the Account with the FCM, U.S. funds in the amount of _____________________ dollars ($_______). Subsequent deposits and accumulation of profits in the Account, less withdrawals and losses, shall be subject to this Agreement. At its sole discretion, the Fund may add or withdraw funds at any time from the Account by written request to the FCM with a copy to the CTA. 2. CTA will cause futures contracts, and when deemed advisable, options on futures and forward contracts, to be bought and sold on behalf of the Fund in the Account. CTA will have the sole authority to issue all necessary instructions to effect trading with the FCM for the Account. All such transactions shall be for the account and risk of the Fund. During the term of this agreement, the Fund agrees that they will not place orders in the Account without prior written consent of the Adviser. 3. The CTA's services are not rendered exclusively for the Fund and CTA shall be free to render similar services to others. The General Partner may change the FCM for the account assigned to the CTA at anytime upon written direction to the FCM and the CTA and CTA agrees to effect the transfer and sign the forms necessary to complete such change. 4. The IB shall charge the Fund a fixed commission of 9% of the Net Equity in the account assigned to the CTA payable at the rate of 3/4% per month. This payment to the IB will be for all round turns, pit brokerage, exchange, NFA fees and other clearing expenses arising from the trades placed by the CTA in the account for domestic trades. This does not include delivery or other exchange for physicals or trades made on foreign exchanges or forward markets. Those costs will be at rates to be negotiated by the General Partner with the IB or other party, as the facts determine, and charged to the Fund. 5. CTA will use its best efforts to obtain an equity run from the FCM before the opening of business the next trading day. Unless authorized in writing by the General Partner, the CTA will use only the equity in the Account or Accounts assigned to the CTA by the General Partner for margins to hold the positions taken by the CTA. No equity in the Account assigned to the CTA will be commingled or margined, for any purpose, with any other account at the FCM. The General Partner, upon written instruction to the FCM may terminate, for any reason, the power of attorney and suspend the trading authority of the CTA to enter trades with the FCM. In the event of a termination of the power of attorney, the CTA agrees that the FCM shall accept no further instructions from the CTA but shall place the Account upon liquidation only to be handled in written instructions from the General Partner to the FCM. 6. Fund agrees to execute, from time to time, the Acknowledgment of Receipt of Disclosure Document from the CTA. By signing, the Fund agrees that it has received and understands the most recent copy of the Adviser's Risk Disclosure Document. 7. The Fund agrees to execute the Advisers Managed Account Compensation Agreement authorizing the CTA to be paid its management fee from the Account. The CTA will be paid an annual management fee of three percent (3%) of the equity on deposit in the Account payable on the first of each month computed upon the equity on deposit on the last day of the preceding month. In addition, the CTA will be paid an incentive fee of fifteen percent (15%), of the New Net Profit earned each quarter, which shall not be deducted from the Account, but will be paid upon submission of an invoice by the CTA to the General Partner of the Fund. 8. Fund and CTA agree that they have properly executed all the necessary account forms for opening the Account with the FCM; provided, however, any disputes will be submitted to arbitration only upon written agreement of the parties at the time such dispute arises and the terms of this Agreement will supersede any terms contained in any other agreement between the parties hereto and, in the event of any conflicts, the terms of this Agreement shall control. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and any dispute will be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Chicago, Illinois. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership C&M Traders, Inc. By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. s/ Shira Del Pacult s/ Steven Midlarsky Ms. Shira Del Pacult Steven Midlarsky President President ****************************************************************************** FORM S-1 Registration No. PART II INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution. (b) The Selling Agreement between Futures Investment Company and the Registrant contains an indemnification from the General Partner to the effect that the disclosures in the Prospectus and this Amendment are in compliance with Rule 10b5 and otherwise true and complete. This indemnification speaks from the date of the first offering of the Units through the end of the applicable statute of limitations. The Partnership has assumed no responsibility for any indemnification to Futures Investment Company and the General Partner is prohibited by the Partnership Agreement from receiving indemnification for breach of any securities laws or for reimbursement for insurance for coverage for any such claims. See Article X, Section 10.4 (b) and (e). (d) There are no indemnification agreements which are not contained in the Limited Partnership Agreement attached as Exhibit A, the Selling Agreement or the Clearing Agreement. Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules. The following documents (unless indicated) are filed herewith and made a part of this Registration Statement: (a) Exhibits. Exhibit Number Description of Document (1) - 01 Selling Agreement dated February 1, 1998, among the Partnership, the General Partner, and Futures Investment Company, the Selling Agent (2) None (3) - 01 Articles of Incorporation of the General Partner (3) - 02 By-Laws of the General Partner (3) - 03 Board Resolution of General Partner to authorize formation of Delaware Limited Partnership (3) - 04 Amended and Restated Agmt. of Limited Partnership of the Registrant dated February 1, 1998 (included as Exhibit A to the Prospectus) (3) - 05 Certificate of Limited Partnership, Designation of Registered Agent, Certificate of Initial Capital filed with the Delaware Secretary of State, and Delaware Secretary of State acknowledgment of filing of Certificate of Limited Partnership (4) - 01 Amended and Restated Agmt. of Limited Partnership of the Registrant dated February 1, 1998 (included as Exhibit A to the Prospectus) (5) - 01 Opinion of The Scott Law Firm, P.A. relating to the legality of the Partnership Units. (6) Not Applicable (7) Not Applicable (8) - 01 Opinion of The Scott Law Firm, P.A. with respect to Federal income tax consequences. (9) None (10) - 01 Form of Advisory Agreements between the Partnership and the CTAs (included as Exhibits F, G, H, I & J to the Prospectus) (10) - 02 Form of New Account Agreement between the Partnership and the FCM (10) - 03 Form of Subscription Agreement and Power of Attorney (included as Exhibit D to the Prospectus). (10) - 04 Escrow Agmt. among Escrow Agent, Underwriter, and the Partnership. (included as Exhibit E to the Prospectus). (10) - 05 Introducing Broker Clearing Agreement by and between Vision Limited Partnership as futures commission merchant (the "FCM") and Futures Investment Company as introducing broker (the "IB") (11) Not Applicable - start-up business (12) Not Applicable (13) Not Required (14) None (15) None (16) Not Applicable (17) Not Required (18) Not Required (19) Not Required (20) Not Required (21) None (22) Not Required (23) - 01 Consent of Frank L. Sassetti & Co., Certified Public Accountants (23) - 02 Consent of James Hepner, Certified Public Accountant (23) - 03 Consent of The Scott Law Firm, P.A. (23) - 04 Consent of Michael J. Frischmeyer, CTA (23) - 05 Consent of Commoditech, Inc., CTA (23) - 06 Consent of Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., CTA (23) - 07 Consent of J.A.H. Research and Trading, CTA (23) - 08 Consent of C&M Traders, Inc., CTA (23) - 09 Consent of Futures Investment Company, as Selling Agent (23) - 10 Consent of Futures Investment Company, as Introducing Broker (23) - 11 Consent of Star Financial Bank, Angola, Indiana, Escrow Agent (23) - 12 Consent of Vision Limited Partnership (24) None (25) None (26) None (27) Not Applicable (28) Not Applicable (99) - 01 Subordinated Loan Agreement for Equity Capital (99) - 02 Representative's Agreement between Futures Investment Company and Shira Del Pacult (b) Financial Statement Schedules. No Financial Schedules are required to be filed herewith. Item 17. Undertakings. (a) (1) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement: (i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represents a fundamental: change in the information set forth in the registration statement; (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement. (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post- effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (c) The General Partner has provided an indemnification to Futures Investment Company, the best efforts selling agent. The Partnership (issuer) has not made any indemnification to Futures Investment Company. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant including, but not limited to, the General Partner pursuant to the provisions described in Item 14 above, or otherwise, the Registrant had been advised that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any such action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. ****************************************************************************** SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the General Partner of the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Fremont in the State of Indiana on this 4th day of May, 1998. ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP BY ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. GENERAL PARTNER BY: s/ Shira Del Pacult BY: s/ Shira Del Pacult MS. SHIRA PACULT MS. SHIRA PACULT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following person on behalf of Ashley Capital Management, Inc., General Partner of the Registrant in the capacities and on the date indicated. s/ Shira Del Pacult MS. SHIRA PACULT PRESIDENT Date: May 4, 1998 (Being the principal executive officer, the principal financial and accounting officer and the sole director of Ashley Capital Management, Inc., General Partner of the Fund) EX-1 2 ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Best Efforts Selling And Managing Dealer Agreement THIS AGREEMENT dated this 1st day of February, 1998, by and between Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, a Delaware Limited Partnership, (the "Fund" or Partnership") of 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 and Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, its general partner, (the "General Partner"); and, Futures Investment Company ("FIC" or "Managing Dealer") of 5916 N. 300 West, Fremont, IN 46737 and any other selling agents appointed by the General Partner to serve as additional selling agents ("Additional Selling Agents" or "Soliciting Dealer"), (FIC and Additional Selling Agents are collectively referred to as "Sales Agents"). WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the Fund was organized under a limited partnership agreement (the "Limited Partnership Agreement") and a Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 12, 1998, to engage in speculative trading of futures, options on futures and other commodity interests described in the Fund's final approved Disclosure Document dated February 1, 1998 (the "Disclosure Document" or "Prospectus"); and WHEREAS, the Fund proposes to offer and sell up to $7,000,000 of limited partnership interests (the "Units") as described in the Prospectus; and WHEREAS, the Sales Agents desire to promote, solicit, and complete the sale of the Units to customers identified by them upon the terms and in reliance upon the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein; and WHEREAS, the General Partner desires to compensate the registered representatives of FIC and the Additional Selling Agents who are also associated persons, qualified to receive commodity commissions, by the payment of a percentage of the round turn or fixed commodity commissions based upon a percentage of equity in lieu of round turn commissions (hereinafter such payments are called "Trailing Commissions") earned by the General Partner in consideration of said registered representatives and associated persons providing service to the Partnership and the investors sold by the Sales Agents so long as said investors remain Partners in the Fund; and WHEREAS, the President of the General Partner, individually, and FIC, as Broker/Dealer, have entered into a separate Agreement to define their activities related to the marketing and sale of securities and commodity products by the President of the General Partner as a registered representative of FIC. NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound hereby and in consideration of the mutual agreements, covenants, representations and warranties contained herein, agree as follows: I. Appointment of the Managing Dealer. The Partnership hereby engages the Managing Dealer to sell Units and to select and recommend Soliciting Dealers to serve on a non-exclusive, best efforts basis, to solicit and obtain applications and orders for the purchase of Units in the Fund to investors who meet the suitability standards established in the Prospectus and by applicable law upon the terms described in the Prospectus as required by applicable law and pursuant to this Agreement. The Managing Dealer and every Soliciting Dealer, will be, at the time of appointment and continuously during the time of their performance hereunder, members in good standing of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"), and will serve as independent contractors to the Partnership for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions for Units on a "best efforts" basis in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus. A. No Market to be Maintained. It is understood that neither the Managing Dealer nor any Soliciting Dealer shall have any commitment or obligation to sell the Units or provide a market for the Units, other than to use their best efforts to attempt to sell such Units. The Partnership may, but is not obligated, to engage other NASD-member firms to sell Units on terms substantially the same as the terms hereof; provided, however, in certain instances, the terms of such engagements with respect to compensation may provide for the payment of commissions and other fees of less than the amounts provided to the Managing Dealer. B. Allocation of Units. The allocation of Units among the Managing Dealer and any such other Soliciting Dealers shall, subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, be made by the Partnership, with approval of the Managing Dealer, in their sole discretion. The Partnership reserves the right to notify each Sales Agent by telegram or by other means of the number of Units reserved for sale for each Sales Agent. Such Units will be reserved for sale until the time specified in such notification. Sales of any reserved Units after the time specified in the notification or any requests for additional Units will be subject to rejection by the Partnership, in whole or in part. C. Duties of Sales Agents. The Sales Agents agree to act, subject to a $7,000,000 maximum upon total sales, including sales commissions, of Units by the Fund by the General Partner and all Sales Agents or termination as provided in this Agreement or the Prospectus, as the Sales Agents, to take the following actions: 1. Comply With Offering Procedures. Managing Dealer agrees to take, and agrees further to cause the Soliciting Dealers to take, those steps deemed necessary or desirable by legal counsel to the Partnership to comply with all laws and procedures applicable to the offering of Units for sale in the jurisdictions selected by the Partnership and approved by the Managing Dealer. The Partnership shall provide a legal opinion from its counsel, in satisfactory form and substance to legal counsel for the Managing Dealer, to advise the effective date of the Prospectus and to otherwise support the registration of the securities for sale together with a legal memorandum to identify the states and other jurisdictions, if any, in which the securities may be sold (the "Blue Sky Survey"). Sales Agents shall offer the Units for sale in those jurisdictions listed in said Blue Sky Survey and will use only the sales and advertising literature specifically supplied and authorized by the General Partner. Additional copies of the Prospectus will be supplied to Sales Agents in reasonable quantities upon request. The Partnership will also provide Sales Agents with reasonable quantities of supplemental literature, if any, prepared by the Partnership in connection with the offering of the Units. 2. Suitability Standards. Solicitation and other activities by the Sales Agents shall be undertaken only in accordance with this Agreement, the Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, the Blue Sky Survey and the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"), including, but not in any way limited to, Sections 8, 24, 25 and 36 of Article III of the Rules of Fair Practice. Each Sales Agent will procure information and documentation from each subscriber solicited by their registered representatives to demonstrate a reasonable basis to believe that the sale of Units solicited by it were to a subscriber who, on the basis of information obtained from the subscriber concerning his investment objectives, other investments, financial situation and requirements, and any other information known by the Sales Agent, after due inquiry, is or will be: (i) in a financial position appropriate to realize to a significant extent the benefits of the investment described in the Prospectus; and, (ii) the subscriber has a fair market net worth sufficient to sustain the risks inherent in the program, including loss of investment and lack of liquidity which shall be either: (a) a minimum annual gross income of $45,000 and a net worth (exclusive of home, home furnishings and automobiles) of $45,000; or (b) a net worth (determined with the foregoing exclusions) of $150,000; or (c) such other higher gross income and/or net worth requirements of the state where such investor resides; and, (iii) the Units are otherwise a suitable investment for the subscriber. Each Sales Agent shall maintain records disclosing the basis upon which they determined the suitability of any persons who purchased Units for a period of six years. 3. Authorized Communication. (a) Prospectus Review. Managing Dealer hereby affirms that it has reviewed the draft Prospectus furnished to it and has formed a reasonable basis to believe that all material facts related to the Partnership, the offering, and the proposed operation of the Partnership have been adequately and accurately disclosed and that such facts are sufficient for it to provide prospective investors with a basis for evaluating the merits of an investment in the Partnership. In making the foregoing affirmation, Managing Dealer, for itself and in the agreements it negotiates with the Soliciting Dealers, may make reference to descriptions in the Prospectus, other than the descriptions in the Summary, which are for convenience, only. Sales Agents agree to maintain files to disclose and preserve the basis upon which the determination of suitability for investment in the Partnership was reached as to each subscriber solicited by it for a period of not less than six years. The basis for determining suitability may include the Subscription Agreement and Power of Attor- ney and other certificates submitted by subscribers upon which the Sales Agents and the Partnership may rely, absent actual knowledge of or a reason to believe, any information contained in such documents is inaccurate. Specifically, each Sales Agent has reviewed and will cause its potential subscribers to review: (i) the Risk Disclosure Statement; (ii) the items of compensation relating to the Fund set forth under "Fees, Compensation And Expenses"; (iii) certain tax aspects of an investment in the Fund set forth under "Summary of Income Tax Consequences"; (iv) the financial condition and experience of the General Partner set forth under "General Partner"; and, (v) the risk factors relating to an investment in the Units set forth under "Risk Factors". (b) Each Sales Agent agrees to: (i) deliver to each person who subscribes for the Units, a Prospectus, as then supplemented or amended, no less than five days prior to the tender of his subscription agreement (the "Subscription Agreement"); (ii) comply promptly with the written request of any person for a copy of the Prospectus during the period between the effective date of the Prospectus and the later of the termination of the distribution of the Units or the expiration of 90 days after the first date upon which the Units were offered to the public; and, (iii) deliver in accordance with applicable law or as prescribed by any state securities administrator to any person a copy of any document included within the Prospectus. 4. Subscriptions. During the Offering Period, the Sales Agents shall cause the subscriber to deliver all qualification documentation, subscriptions for Units, and checks for payment for Units shall be delivered by the Sales Agents to the General Partner of the Fund for review and acceptance. (a) All checks shall be made payable to "First American State Bank- Escrow Agent for Atlas Futures Fund, LP", (the "Escrow Agent") to be deposited within 24 hours after receipt by Sales Agents to the Escrow Account as described in the Prospectus or, after the termination of the escrow, to "Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership" for investment in the Fund effective on the next admission date by the General Partner following the sale of the Minimum or, will be returned by the General Partner to the subscriber together with an explanation to the subscriber, with a copy to the Managing Dealer and the Soliciting Dealer, if applicable, of the reason for the refusal by the General Partner to accept the subscription on behalf of the Partnership. The Sales Agents may not accept cash for the sale of Units. Checks not made payable as described in the Prospectus and above will be returned to the subscriber. D. Payments to Managing Dealer. The Managing Dealer will be paid a one time sales commission of six percent ( 6%) of the gross subscriptions for all Units sold by the Sales Agents at the time of acceptance of the sale by the General Partner; provided, however, prior to the sale of the Minimum, checks for the gross sales price, including commissions, shall be made payable and deposited to Escrow as provided in the Prospectus. Upon the termination of the Escrow Agreement, the Managing Dealer will receive a check from the Escrow Agent in the amount of six percent (6%) of the gross subscriptions for all Units sold to that point in time. Managing Dealer will be solely responsible for negotiation of the amount, timing, and payment of the sales commissions to the Soliciting Dealers. The Partnership and its General Partner may not, under any circumstances, waive, modify, or otherwise adjust the sales commission to be paid pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. E. Payment of Trailing Commissions. The General Partner shall pay a portion of the fixed commodity commission, after payment of expenses, as Trailing Commissions to the Sales Agents, including the Affiliated Introducing Broker of the General Partner, which are qualified to receive such commissions on terms it shall negotiate with such Sales Agents. The term expenses means the amounts paid by the General Partner for clearing charges and fees to the FCM and other Clearing Brokers, the Cash FX Firm, if any, the Exchanges, and the NFA. The method and the amount of such commissions or fees paid by the General Partner to the Sales Agents shall be determined solely by negotiations between the General Partner and the Sales Agents; provided, however, no change shall be made to permit a retroactive adjustment to Trailing Commissions previously paid. Any such adjustment in rate of Trailing Commissions must have equal application to all Sales Agents. Such fees and charges paid by the Fund to the General Partner are described in detail in the Prospectus. F. Continuing Service. In consideration of the payment of Trailing Commissions related to the trade of commodities by the Partnership to the employers of the associated persons who are Commodity Futures Trading Commission registered or otherwise qualified to be paid Trailing Commissions, such employers and associated persons agree to provide services to the Fund, investors in the Fund, and the General Partner. Such services shall include, but are not limited to, (i) preparation of projections of methods to be used and costs to identify suitable investors to solicit to buy Units; (ii) establish a promotion budget for delivery of information regarding the Fund to the registered representatives of the Sales Agents; (iii) inquiring of the General Partner of the Fund, from time to time, at the request of an owner of Units to determine the net asset value of a Unit, the commodity markets traded, the advisors utilized, the Fund performance, and assisting, at the request of the General Partner, in the transfer and Redemption of Units sold by the Sales Agents; (iv) provide training and supervision of personnel to provide service to investors in the Fund; (v) maintain and distribute current copies of Prospectuses and financial reports; (vi) provide assistance and review in designing materials to send to Partners and potential investors and developing methods of making such materials accessible to Partners and potential investors; and, (vii) generally, take those steps necessary and desirable to aid in the retention of investment in the Partnership. II. Partnership Support to the Sales Effort. The Partnership will provide sales literature, memorandum, telephone consultations and any other reasonable services to support the selling efforts of the Sales Agents. A. Customer Support. The Partnership will provide copies of all communications required to keep the investors sold by the Sales Agents informed of the performance of the Partnership and required by law to be distributed to the purchasers of Units sold by the Sales Agents, including, but not limited to, the monthly and the annual audited financial statements for the Partnership. In addition, the Partnership shall provide prompt and professional courteous response to requests made for information and other service made directly to the Partnership by investors sold by the Sales Agents. B. Customers Protected. The Partnership and its affiliates agree, on a best efforts basis, to not solicit or do business with any customer or any person referred to the Partnership by the Sales Agents or by a person sold by the Sales Agents. If such business is done, knowingly or unknowingly, all sales commission payable as a result of sales to customers of Sales Agents or persons referred by customers of Sales Agents will be paid to the Sales Agents as provided in this Agreement for those Units sold to those accounts. In the event of a common prospect, the Sales Agent which first obtains a signed subscription from the customer receives the commission and the right to future referrals from that customer. The documentation used by the customer will identify the sales person and control the determination of who made the sale and, whenever possible, the customer will not be involved in the dispute. The Partnership will use its best efforts to keep the names of the customers and prospects of the Sales Agents confidential. III. Representations by All Parties. Each party hereto represents the following to the other party to this Agreement. Legal Compliance. The Parties hereto will use their best efforts to comply fully with all applicable laws and the rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers (the "NASD"), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and state securities administrators of the several states and various other jurisdictions applicable to each of them in regard to their activities under this Agreement which in any way effects the offer and sale of Units. A. Authority to Act. Each party to this agreement represents to the others that it is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the state of its formation, is a member in good standing of the self regulating organizations, if any, which regulate the sale of Units, has all the registrations, licenses and permits required to perform its duties hereunder, and has the full power and authority to act in its capacity in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and as described in the Prospectus. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of each party hereto and is a valid and binding agreement, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Each party has been afforded the opportunity to be represented by legal counsel of its choice. B. No Breach of Agreements. The entry of this Agreement will not cause a default of any other agreement to which any party hereto is a party. No party to this Agreement is in breach of any agreement to which it is a party which will be material to its performance under this Agreement nor will any party during the term of this Agreement be in contravention of or default under any order, law or regulation binding upon it. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms hereof will not constitute or result in a default under or contravene any provision by any party of the limited partnership agreement or any other agreement, order, law or regulation related to the Fund. IV. Representations of the Partnership. The Partnership represents and warrants to the Sales Agents that: A. All Material Facts Disclosed. The Prospectus contains all material statements and information required to be included therein by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Commodity Exchange Act, and the securities laws of the various states selected by the Partnership in which offers for the sale of Units will be made, as those laws may be amended, from time to time, during this offering and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; will conform in all material respects with the requirements of such laws and the rules and regulations thereunder; and, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply, with respect to the Sales Agents, to any statements or omissions in the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, which supplies the information and which is in writing and furnished by the Partnership to the Sales Agents prior to the sale in question. B. The Units are Valid. The Units, when issued and sold pursuant to the terms hereof and of the Prospectus, will be validly issued, fully paid and not subject to call or assessment, and the Partnership will apply the net proceeds received from the issuance and sale of the Units in the manner set forth in the Prospectus. C. Other Agreements Valid. The customer agreement with each clearing broker and/or foreign exchange clearing firm (the "Brokerage Agreements") and the Power of Attorney granted to the commodity trading advisor has, to the best knowledge of the General Partner after due inquiry, been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of the Fund and the other party to the agreement, and each is a valid and binding agreement of the Fund in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that the exculpation and indemnification provisions of such agreements may be limited by applicable law or this Agreement. D. Necessary Authority. The Fund has all necessary governmental, regulatory and commodity exchange approvals and licenses and has effected all filings and registrations required to conduct its business and perform its obligations as described in the Prospectus. The Fund will use its best efforts to be and remain qualified to offer and sell the Units in those jurisdictions in which the Units will be offered. The Fund is not and, upon implementation or consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the limited partnership agreement, will not be an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. V. Representations of the General Partner. The General Partner represents and warrants to the Sales Agents that: A. Government Authority. The General Partner has all governmental, regulatory and other approvals and licenses and has effected all filings and registrations including, without limitation, registration as a commodity pool operator under the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, and membership in NFA, as a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, required to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus or required to perform its obligations as described therein or under the limited partnership agreement, the power of attorney to the CTA, this Agreement and the Brokerage Agreements, and covenants that it will use its best efforts to maintain such approvals, licenses, filings, registrations, and memberships in full force and effect. B. Contracts and Information Complete. The limited partnership agreement, the power of attorney, the Brokerage Agreements and this Agreement have each been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the General Partner, and each is intended to be a valid and binding agreement of the Partnership and the General Partner in accordance with its terms. All references and information concerning the General Partner in the Prospectus supplied by it are accurate in all material respects and, as to it, the Prospectus does not contain any misleading or untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact which is required to be stated or which is necessary to prevent the statements therein from being misleading. C. Compliance with Partnership Requirements. The General Partner will purchase or subscribe for the Units of General Partnership Interest required of it as disclosed in the Prospectus and will have a net worth equal to or in excess of the requirements stated therein upon the offering described in the Prospectus and upon admission to the Fund of all limited partners who purchase Units during this Offering Period D. Fees and Costs Attendant to Partnership Offering. The Partnership will pay, or cause to be paid, all costs and expenses associated with this offering of the Partnership's Units, including (i) the preparation, printing and filing of the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto with the appropriate Federal and state regulatory agencies and the self regulatory agencies; (ii) the furnishing to the Sales Agents of copies of the Prospectus and of other documents required to be furnished, including costs of shipping and mailing; (iii) fees and disbursements of legal counsel, accountants, and other experts in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and, (iv) any other organization, escrow, and offering expenses of the Partnership associated with this Offering Period. The General Partner may be reimbursed by the Fund to the extent of any organization and offering expenses it has advanced. Each other party to this Agreement shall bear all of its own expenses under this Agreement, including fees and disbursements of its legal counsel, accountants and other experts. VI. Representations of the Sales Agents. The Sales Agents represent to the Partnership and the General Partner as follows: A. All Material Facts Disclosed. Sales Agents have disclosed all material statements and information related to the Sales Agents required to be disclosed to the General Partner by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Commodity Exchange Act, and any corresponding applicable state law, as amended, from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and, (i) all information furnished to the Partnership or the General Partner about the prospects and subscribers to the Partnership by the Sales Agents will be, to the best of Sales Agents knowledge and belief, complete, true and correct; and, (ii) all information furnished by the Sales Agents to prospects and subscribers regarding the Partnership will also be true and correct and will be in reliance upon and only the information furnished in the Prospectus, amendments thereto or in writing intended by the General Partner to be delivered to prospective investors. B. Agreements Valid. The Sales Agents have the authority to enter into this Agreement and all other agreements required to perform its obligations hereunder. C. Necessary Authority. The Sales Agents have all necessary governmental, regulatory and other approvals and licenses and has effected all filings and registrations required to conduct its business and perform its obligations as described in the Prospectus and this Agreement. The Sales Agents will use their best efforts to be and remain qualified to offer and sell the Units in those jurisdictions in which the Partnership and the Sales Agents agree the Units will be offered. Specifically, each Sales Agent represents that it is a broker or dealer as defined in Section 3(a)(4) or 3(a)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"); that it is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 15 of the Exchange Act; that it is a member of the NASD; that its customers' accounts are insured by the Securities Investors Protection Corporation ("SIPC"); and that, during the term of this Agreement, it will abide by all of the rules and regulations of the NASD including, without limitation, the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. Each Sales Agent agrees to notify the General Partner immediately in the event of (1) the termination of its coverage by the SIPC; (2) its expulsion or suspension from the NASD, or (3) its being found to have violated any applicable Federal or state law, rule or regulation arising out of its activities as a broker-dealer or in connection with this Agreement, or which may otherwise affect in any material way its ability to act in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Any Sales Agent's expulsion from the NASD will automatically terminate this Agreement immediately without notice. Suspension of any Sales Agent from the NASD for violation of any applicable Federal or state law, rule or regulation will terminate this Agreement effective immediately upon written notice by the General Partner of termination to Sales Agent. D. Use of Discretionary Authority. Sales Agents will not make sales of Units from a discretionary account over which it or any of its registered representatives or the affiliates of any of them have control without prior written approval of the customer in whose name such discretionary account is maintained. E. ERISA Assets. 1. Sales Agents understand that the Department of Labor views ERISA as prohibiting fiduciaries of discretionary ERISA assets from receiving administrative service fees or other compensation from funds in which the fiduciary's discretionary ERISA assets are invested. To date, the Department of Labor has not issued any exemptive order or advisory opinion that would exempt fiduciaries from this interpretation. Without specific authorization from the Department of Labor, fiduciaries should carefully avoid investing discretionary assets in any fund pursuant to an arrangement where the fiduciary is to be compensated by the fund for such investment. Receipt of such compensation could violate ERISA provisions against fiduciary self-dealing and conflict of interest and could subject the fiduciary to substantial penalties. 2. No Sales Agent will perform or provide any duties which would cause it to be a fiduciary under Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. For purposes of that Section, each Sales Agent understands that any person who exercises any discretionary authority or discretionary control with respect to any individual retirement account or its assets, or who renders investment advice for a fee, or has any authority or responsibility to do so, or has any discretionary authority or discretionary responsibility in the administration of such an account, is a fiduciary. VII. Indemnification and Limits. The parties hereto agree to provide indemnification upon the following terms and limits: A. Indemnification from General Partner to Sales Agents. The General Partner agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Sales Agents and each person, if any, who controls the Sales Agents within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses including, but not limited to, any investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claim asserted to which, jointly or severally, they, or any of them, may become subject as a result of any breach of fiduciary duty owed by the General Partner to the Partnership or under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, any other Federal or state statutory or foreign law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses or actions with respect thereto arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; except insofar as any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission was made in the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Fund expressly for use therein by the Sales Agent or any other independent third party; provided, however, in no event shall the General Partner's agreement to indemnify contained herein inure to the benefit of the Sales Agents or any person controlling the Sales Agents on account of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arising from the sale of Units to any person by the Sales Agents if such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arise out of or are claimed to be based upon an untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission in a Prospectus if a subsequent Prospectus or supplemental Prospectus shall correct, prior to the delivery to the Sales Agents by such person of his subscription, the untrue statement or omission or the alleged untrue statement or omission which is the basis of the loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action for which indemnification is sought, or a copy of such subsequent Prospectus was not sent or given to such person simultaneously with or prior to the receipt by the Sales Agents of such person's subscription. In addition, this indemnification will not apply to any claims asserted as a result of the alleged misstatement of fact by any party other than the General Partner, or any other authorized representative of the Partnership or which was properly treated by (i) the Prospectus, as amended, from time to time, or (ii) written material furnished by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership for the purpose of delivery to prospects or subscribers. B. Indemnification from Sales Agents to Other Parties. The Sales Agents agree to indemnify and hold harmless the General Partner, the Fund, and each person, if any, who controls either of them within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses including, but not limited to, any investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claim asserted to which, jointly or severally, they, or any of them, may become subject under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, any other Federal or state statutory or foreign law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as the losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses indemnified against arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission which was made to a prospect or subscriber to Units by the Sales Agents or either of them; provided, however, that the obligation of the Sales Agents to indemnify the Fund or the General Partner, or any person who controls them, hereunder shall be limited to the total price of the Units sold by the Sales Agent; and, provided, further, that the final award or court order specifically find the Sales Agent was guilty of such misrepresentation. C. Sales Agents Responsible for Payment of Commissions. Provided the General Partner properly pays the sales or Trailing Commissions to the Managing Dealer or the Sales Agent which sold the Units, such Managing Dealer or Sales Agent agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Fund and the General Partner from all claims, including attorney fees and costs, from any person who asserts they are entitled to a portion of the Trailing Commissions or are entitled to a portion of the Sales Commissions paid to the Managing Dealer pursuant to a Soliciting Dealer Agreement with the Partnership. D. Limits upon Indemnification. The obligation to provide the above described indemnification's are conditioned upon and subject to the following limitations: 1. Provide Notice. As condition precedent to indemnification under this Agreement, a party must, within ten days after receipt of information to inform it of the existence of a potential claim or the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against it for which it will make a claim for indemnification from another party under this Agreement, provide a complete description of the claim and give notice to the indemnifying party of all facts related to such claim including, but not limited to, sending a copy of all papers served. The failure to provide such timely notice shall be a waiver of indemnification under this Agreement but such omission shall not be a waiver of any liability of any person under common law or statute or any other basis other than under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement. In case any such action, suit or proceeding shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall have properly notified the indemnifying party of such claim, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate in the defense of such claim and, if it so elects, individually or jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party. After notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses, other than reasonable costs of investigation requested by the indemnifying party, subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof and shall not be responsible for the quality of the defense or the outcome of the case. 2. Legal Counsel. The indemnified party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action in which the indemnifying party has so assumed the defense, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment of counsel by such indemnified party has been authorized by the indemnifying party, (ii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the indemnifying party and the indemnified party in the conduct of the defense of such action (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (iii) the indemnifying party shall not in fact have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action, in each of which cases, the fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any action or claim effected without its consent. In the case of (ii) above, the indemnifying party, or the indemnifying parties, if an indemnified party shall have a claim for indemnification against more than one indemnifying party, shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel for the General Partner and the Fund and any person who controls them within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act. 3. General Partner Liability Limitation. Any exculpation provisions of the Limited Partnership Agreement shall not relieve the General Partner from any liability it may have or incur to the Fund under this Agreement, nor shall the General Partner be entitled to be indemnified by the Fund, pursuant to any indemnification provisions contained in the Limited Partnership Agreement or the Brokerage Agreements, against any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense it may incur under this Agreement. VIII. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated upon the following terms and conditions: A. Without Cause. This Agreement may be terminated without cause by any party upon forty-five (45) days notice to the other parties. B. With Cause. Any party may terminate this Agreement at anytime for cause if the General Partner commits a breach of fiduciary duty owed to the Fund, any domestic or international event, act or occurrence has materially disrupted, or in the opinion of the General Partner will, in the immediate future, materially disrupt the commodities markets; or, any party to this Agreement breaches a material term of this Agreement including, but not limited to, fails to cure any law or rule violation attendant to its right to perform under this Agreement or makes any false statement or omission to any prospect or subscriber of Units or required to be made under this Agreement. C. Payments after Termination. The Partnership will continue to pay Sales Commissions and Trailing Commissions provided by this Agreement, after termination of this Agreement, for any reason, for all Units sold by the Sales Agents during the term of this Agreement; provided, however, to receive trailing commissions, the Sales Agents must continue to service the holders of Units after such termination. No such commissions, if any, shall be paid until after the break of escrow as provided in the Prospectus for the sale of Units in the Fund. IX. General Provisions. The following general terms are to apply to this Agreement. A. Reference to Prospectus. The Sales Agents acknowledge receipt of a copy of the draft Prospectus referred to above and, subject to the delivery by the General Partner of all marked copies, revisions, Amendments and Addenda thereto, all filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission, together with an opinion from counsel for the Partnership that they are complete and that the Units are available for sale in the states identified in the Blue Sky Survey (which shall not be an opinion of counsel), the Sales Agents will distribute the offering in accordance with the instructions of the Partnership. Terms with the first letter capitalized which are not defined is this Agreement are defined in the Prospectus. B. Survival of Representations. The representations contained in this Agreement made by any party shall survive the issue, sale and payment for the Units hereunder and the termination of this Agreement as to all Units which remain in the Partnership. The fact a party may conduct a due diligence review to determine the accuracy of one or all of the representations made in this agreement shall not be deemed a waiver or apply estoppel or otherwise legally affect such representation should at some later time any such representation be proved untrue. C. Independent Contractors. The parties hereto, subject to the procedures established by the Partnership to preserve the legality of the offering and to assure that all persons solicited will be pre-qualified as suitable to become investors in the Partnership, shall be free to exercise their independent judgment as to the performance of their obligations under this agreement. The parties hereto shall be free to devote whatever time they choose to any other business of their choice. The Sales Agents are independent from the General Partner and the Partnership; the relationship of the Sales Agents with the General Partner and the Partnership are as independent contractors. The parties agree that in each transaction in the Units of the Fund and with regard to any services rendered pursuant to this Agreement: (a) each Sales Agent is acting as agent for the subscriber; (b) each transaction is initiated solely upon the order of the subscriber; (c) as between each Sales Agent and its customer, the customer will have full beneficial ownership of all Units of the Fund; (d) each transaction shall be for the account of the subscriber and not for the Sales Agent's account; and (e) each transaction shall be without recourse to Sales Agent provided that Sales Agent acts in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Neither the Managing Dealer nor any other Sales Agent shall have any authority in any transaction to act as agent for the General Partner or as agent for the Fund. D. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement has been and is made solely for the benefit of the parties hereto to the extent expressed herein, for the benefit of persons controlling any of such parties hereto and the respective successors and assigns of such controlling persons, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. There may be no assignment of this Agreement. E. Notices. Any notices under this Agreement shall be given or confirmed in writing and sent registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed as to such person at the address in the caption of this Agreement or to such other address as changed from time to time by either party hereto by written notice to the other. F. Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter contained herein. G. Arbitration. Any controversy or disagreement between the parties to this Agreement shall be determined by binding arbitration in the City of Ft. Lauderdale, State of Florida, by a single arbitrator knowledgeable in the securities or commodities business in accordance with the rules and regulations as promulgated by the American Arbitration Association and judgment on any award so made may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. In the event a party is required to retain legal counsel to enforce or defend its rights under this Agreement, the loser of any such dispute agrees to pay all costs including all reasonable attorney fees and court costs, attendant to the protection of its rights hereunder. Specifically, and not by way of limitation to the foregoing, should either party lose an arbitration claim and subsequently file a court action, such losing party shall pay the legal fees and costs of the party defending the attempted avoidance of the arbitration award. H. Applicable Law and Severability. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Florida. If any of the provisions of this Agreement are held unlawful, void or unenforceable, such event shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions. I. Captions. All captions used herein are for convenience only, are not a portion of this Agreement and are not to be used in construing or interpreting any aspect of this Agreement. J. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Fund, the General Partner, and the Sales Agent have executed this Agreement on the day and year first above written. Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership Ashley Capital Management, Inc. By: Ashley Capital Management, Inc. Its General Partner By: ___________________________ By: __________________________ Shira Del Pacult Shira Del Pacult President President Futures Investment Company By: ___________________________ Shira Del Pacult President EX-3.001 3 STATE OF DELAWARE SECRETARY OF STATE DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS FILED 09:00 AM 10/15/1996 960299517 - 2675076 Certificate Of Incorporation ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED A Delaware Stock Corporation Article I The name of the corporation is: Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated Article II This Corporation is formed to serve as general partner or managing member of limited partnerships or limited liability companies, and also provide asset management services; and, also for all other lawful business acts, purposes, and activities available to a Delaware corporation. Article III The method of the election of the Board of Directors will be determined by the shareholders in the By-Laws of the Corporation. This Corporation may engage in activity outside the Stae of Delaware for any purpose. Article IV The Corporation shall have, and there shall be authorized for issue, one thousand (1,000) shares of a single class of no par value common stock. Article V The Registered Office and Agent of the Corporation shall be Corporate Systems, Inc., 101 North Fairfield Drive, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901 for service of process and all other matters. Article VI The initial incorporator shall be Shira Del Pacult, 2990 W. 120, Fremont, Indiana 46737. I, THE UNDERSIGNED, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the state of Delaware, do make, file and record this Certificate and do certify that the facts herein stated are true, and I have, accordingly, hereunto set my hand this 15th day of October, 1996. s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Del Pacult EX-3.002 4 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED BY-LAWS ARTICLE I NAME AND LOCATION Section 1.01. Name. The name of the Corporation is ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED. Section 1.02. Principal Office. The principal office of the Corporation shall be c/o Corporate Systems Inc., 101 North Fairfield Drive, Dover, DE 19901. The Corporation may, however, change its principal office, maintain another office or offices and the business of the corporation may be transacted at such other place or places in the State of Delaware, or elsewhere, as the Board of Directors may, from time to time, determine. ARTICLE II SHAREHOLDERS Section 2.01. Annual Meetings. Annual meetings of the shareholders shall be held on the second Tuesday of April in each year if not a legal holiday, and if a legal holiday, on the next business day, at 10 o'clock a.m., at the principal business office of the Corporation, or at such other date, time and place as may be fixed by the Board of Directors. Written notice of the annual meeting shall be given at least ten days prior to the meeting to each shareholder entitled to vote. Any business may be transacted at the annual meeting without mention of the subjects to be covered in the notice calling such meeting unless such subjects must be covered by specific expression in these by-laws or by law. Section 2.02. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the shareholders may be called at any time, for the purpose or purposes set forth in the call, by the President, any member of the Board of Directors, or the holders of at least one-fifth of all the shares outstanding and entitled to vote by delivering a written request to the Secretary of the Corporation. Special meetings shall be held at the registered office of the Corporation or at such other place as may be fixed by the Board of Directors. Written notice of special meetings shall be given at least ten days prior to the meeting to each shareholder entitled to vote. No business may be transacted at any special meeting other than the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of meeting. Section 2.03. Organization. The Chairman of the Board, if one has been elected and is present, or if not, the President of the Corporation, or in his absence, the Vice President having the greatest seniority, shall preside, and the Secretary, or in his absence any Assistant Secretary, shall take the minutes of all meetings of the Shareholders. Section 2.04. Quorum. A shareholders' meeting duly called shall not be organized for the transaction of business unless a quorum is present. A quorum shall consist of the holders of 66 2/3% of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by these Articles or by-laws. The meeting may continue to do business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of such number of shareholders as would leave less than a quorum in attendance. If a meeting cannot be organized because a quorum has not attended, those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time to such time (not more than 30 days after the next previous adjourned meeting) and place as they may determine, without notice other than by announcement at the meeting of the time and place of the adjourned meeting; in the case of the adjournment of any meeting called for the election of directors, those who attend the second of such adjourned meetings, although entitled to cast less than a majority of votes entitled to be cast on any matter to be considered at the meeting, shall nevertheless constitute a quorum for the purpose of electing directors. Section 2.05. Meeting by Telephone. One or more of the shareholders may participate in any annual or special meeting of the shareholders by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear all others participating in the meeting. Participation in this manner by a shareholder will be attendance in person for all purposes under these by- laws. Section 2.06. Voting. Each shareholder entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy. Unless another date has been fixed as provided by Section 5.06 of these by-laws as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting, no person to whom shares of stock have been transferred on the books of the Corporation within the 10 days preceding the date of such meeting shall be entitled to notice of or vote in such meeting. Any actions taken by the shareholders upon any matter shall be valid, only if at least a majority of the votes cast with respect to any such resolution or matter are cast in favor thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by the then Articles or by-laws of the Corporation. Section 2.07. Cumulative Voting. In each election of Directors, every shareholder entitled to vote shall have the right to multiply the number of shares which he holds of record and which are entitled to vote, by the total number of Directors to be elected in the same election to determine the number of votes to which he is entitled in such election, and he may cast the whole number of such votes for one candidate or he may distribute them among any two or more candidates. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes up to the number of Directors to be elected shall be elected. Section 2.08. Informal Action by Shareholders. Except as otherwise required by law, any action which may be taken at a meeting of the shareholders may be taken without a meeting (and without notice), if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of record of 66-2/3% of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such matter. Such consent shall be forthwith filed with the secretary of the Corporation and shall become effective 10 days after the Secretary has given written notice of such action to each shareholder of record entitled to vote on such matter; entitled to vote on the matter have consented to the proposed action, such consent shall be effective upon filing with the Secretary and the foregoing notice may be dispensed with. ARTICLE III DIRECTORS Section 3.01. Number, Election and Term of Office. The number of Directors which shall constitute the full Board of Directors shall be fixed by the Board of Directors but shall be no less than three or, if there are fewer than three shareholders, the number of shareholders. A full Board of Directors shall hold office from the time of their election but each Director shall be responsible from the time he accepts office or attends his first meeting of the Board. Each Director shall serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and thereafter until his successor is duly elected and qualifies or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. Section 3.02. Regular Meetings; Notice. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such time and place as shall be designated by the Board of Directors from time to time. Notice of such regular meetings of the Board shall not be required to be given, except as otherwise expressly required herein or by law. However, whenever the time or place of regular meetings shall be initially fixed and then changed, written notice of such action shall be given promptly to each Director not participating in such action. Any business may be transacted at any regular meeting. Section 3.03. Organization. At all meetings of the Board of Directors, the presence of at least a majority of the Directors at the time in office shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If a quorum is not present at any meeting, the meeting may be adjourned, from time to time, by a majority of the Directors present until a quorum as aforesaid shall be present; provided, however, that notice of the time and place to which such meeting is adjourned shall be given to any Directors not present either by being sent by telegraph, facsimile, or given personally or by telephone at least 8 hours prior to the hour of reconvening. Resolutions of the Board shall be adopted, and any action of the Board at a meeting upon any matter shall be valid and effective, with the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the Directors present at a meeting duly convened. The Chairman of the Board, if one has been elected and is present, or if not, the President, shall preside at each meeting of the Board. In the absence of the Chairman and President, the Directors present shall designate one of their number to preside at the meeting. The Secretary, or in his absence, any Assistant Secretary, shall take the minutes at all meetings of the Board of Directors. In the absence of the Secretary and an Assistant Secretary, the presiding officer shall designate any person to take the minutes of the meeting. Section 3.06. Meetings by Telephone. One or more of the Directors may participate in any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee of the Board of Directors by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all person participating in the meeting are able to hear each other. Participation in a meeting in this manner by a Director will be considered to be in attendance in person for all purposes under these by-laws. Section 3.07. Presumption of Assent. Minutes of each meeting of the Board shall be made available to each Director at or before the next succeeding meeting. Each Director shall be presumed to have assented to such minutes and agreed to the action taken thereat unless his objection thereto shall be made to the Secretary within two days after such meeting. Section 3.08. Catastrophe. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Articles or these by-laws, during any emergency period caused by a national catastrophe or local disaster, a majority of the surviving members (or the sole survivor) of the Board of Directors who have not been rendered incapable of acting because of incapacity or the difficulty of communication to transportation to the place of meeting shall constitute a quorum for the sole purpose of electing directors to fill such emergency vacancies, and a majority of the directors present at such a meeting may act to fill such vacancies. Directors so elected shall serve until such absent directors are able to attend meetings or until the shareholders act to elect directors for such purpose. During such an emergency period, if the Board is unable to or fails to meet, any action appropriate to the circumstances may be taken by the officers of the Corporation as may be present and able. Questions as to the existence of a national catastrophe or local disaster and the number of surviving members capable of acting shall be conclusively determined at the time by the Board of Directors or the officers so acting. Section 3.09. Resignations. Any Director may resign by submitted to the Chairman of the Board, if one has been elected, or to the President or the Secretary, his resignation which shall be come effective upon its receipt by such officer or as otherwise specified therein. Section 3.10. Committees. Standing or temporary committees may be appointed from its own number by the Board of Directors from time to time, and the Board may from time to time invest committees with such power and authority, subject to such conditions as it may see fit. An Executive Committee may be appointed by a majority of the full Board, it shall have all the powers and exercise all the authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation except as specially limited by the Board. The Board may designate one or more Directors as alternate members of any committee to replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting; and in the event of such absence or disqualification, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another director to act at the meting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any action taken by any committee shall be subject to alteration or revocation by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that third parties shall not be prejudiced by such alteration or revocation. ARTICLE IV OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Section 4.01. Executive Office. The Executive Officers of the Corporation shall be the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and one or more Vice Presidents, including a Vice President or General Counsel, Finance and Regulation, and Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as the Board may from time to time determine, all of whom shall be elected by and serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person. Each executive officer shall hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting of the Board of Directors and thereafter until his successor is duly elected and qualifies or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. Section 4.02. Additional Officers; Other Agents and Employees. The Board of Directors may, from time to time, appoint or hire such additional officers, assistant officers, agents, employees and independent contractors as the Board deems advisable; and the Board or the President shall prescribe their duties, conditions of employment and compensation. Subject to the power of the Board, the President may employ from time to time such other agents, employees, and independent contractors as he may deem advisable for the prompt and orderly transaction of the business of the Corporation, and he may prescribe their duties and conditions of their employment, fix their compensation and dismiss them, without prejudice to their contract rights, if any. Section 4.03. The Chairman. The Chairman of the Board shall be elected from among the Directors, shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board, and shall have such other powers and duties as may be, from time to time, prescribed by the Board. Section 4.04. The President. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation. Subject to the control of the Board of Directors, the President shall have general policy supervision of and general management and executive powers over all the property, business operations, and affairs of the Corporation and shall see that the policies and programs adopted or approved by the Board are carried out. The President shall exercise such further powers and duties as from time to time may be prescribed to these by-laws or by the Board of Directors. Section 4.05. The Vice President. The Vice Presidents may be given by resolution of the Board general executive powers, subject to the control of the President, concerning one or more or all segments of the operations of the Corporation. The Vice Presidents shall exercise such further powers and duties as from time to time may be prescribed in these by-laws or by the board of Directors or by the President. At the request of the President, or in his absence or disability, the senior Vice President shall exercise all the powers and duties of the President. Section 4.06 The Vice President, Finance and Regulation. The Board of Directors shall annually elect a Vice President, Finance and Regulation, who shall be an executive officer and who shall be responsible for maintaining on a current basis the Corporation's status with such governmental or self-regulatory bodies as the Board of Directors shall cause the Corporation to register with and who shall insure that the Corporation complies with all rules and regulations applicable to all governmental and self-regulatory bodies having jurisdiction over the Corporation. Section 4.07. The Secretary and Assistant Secretaries. It shall be the duty of the Secretary (a) to keep or cause to be kept at the registered office of the Corporation an original or duplicate record of the proceedings of the shareholders and the Board of Directors and a copy of the Articles and of the by-laws; (b) to attend to the giving of notices of the Corporation as may be required by law or these by-laws; (c) to be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the Corporation and see that the seal is affixed to such documents as may be necessary or advisable; (d) to have charge of and keep at the registered office of the Corporation, or cause to be kept at the office of a transfer agent or registered with the State of Delaware, the stock books of the Corporation and an original or duplicate share registered, giving the names of the shareholders in alphabetical order and showing their respective addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number and date of certificates issued for the shares, and the date of cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation; and (e) to exercise all powers and duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or by the President form time to time. The Secretary by virtue of his office shall be an Assistant Treasurer. The Assistant Secretaries shall assist the Secretary in the performance of his duties and shall also exercise such further powers and duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the President or the Secretary. At the direction of the Secretary or in his absence or disability, an Assistant Secretary shall perform the duties of the Secretary. Section 4.08. The Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers. The Treasurer shall (a) be responsible for the custody and maintenance of the Corporation's contracts, insurance policies, leases, deeds and other business records; (b) see that the lists, books, reports, statements, tax returns, certificates and other documents and records required by law are properly prepared, keep and filed; (c) be the principal officer in charge of tax and financial matters, budgeting and accounting of the Corporation; (d) have charge and custody of and be responsible for the corporate funds, securities and investments; (e) receive and give receipts for checks, notes, obligations, funds and securities of the Corporation, and deposit monies and other valuable effects in the name and to the creditor of the Corporation in such depositories as shall be designated by the Board of Directors; (f) subject to the provisions of Section 6.01 of the by-laws, cause to be disbursed the funds of the Corporation by payment in cash or by checks or drafts upon the authorized depositories of the Corporation, and cause proper vouchers to be taken and preserved for such disbursements; (g) render to the President and the Board of Directors whenever they may require it an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and reports as to the financial position and operations of the Corporation; (h) cause to be kept appropriate, complete and accurate books or records of account of all its business and transactions, and (i) exercise all powers and duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or by the President from time to time. The Treasurer by virtue of his office shall be an Assistant Secretary. The Assistant Treasurers shall assist the Treasurer in the performance of his duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the President or the Treasurer. At the direction of the Treasurer or in his absence or disability, an Assistant Treasurer shall perform the duties of the Treasurer. Section 4.09. Vacancies. Vacancy in any office or position by reason of death, resignation, removal, disqualification, disability or other cause, shall be filled in the manner provided in this Article IV for regular election or appointment to such office. Section 4.10. Delegation of Duties. The Board of Directors may in its discretion delegate from the time being the powers and duties, or any of them, of any officer to any other person whom it may select. ARTICLE V SHARES OF CAPITAL STOCK Section 5.01. Share Certificates. Every holder of fully-paid stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to a certificate or certificates, to be in such form as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe, and signed (in facsimile or otherwise, as permitted to law) by the President or a Vice President and the Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer which shall represent and certify the number of shares of stock owned by such holder. The Board may authorize the issuance of certificates for fractional shares or, in lieu thereof, script or other evidence of ownership, which may (or may not) as determined by the Board entitle the holder thereof to voting, dividends or other rights of shareholders. Section 5.02. Transfer of Shares. Transfers of shares of stock of the Corporation shall be made on the books of the Corporation, subject to the restrictions contained in Article X hereof, only upon surrender to the Corporation of the certificate or certificates for such shares properly endorsed, by the shareholder or by his assignee, agent or legal representative, who shall furnish proper evidence of assignment, authority or legal succession, or by the agent of one of the foregoing thereunto duly authorized by an instrument duly executed and filed with the Corporation, in accordance with regular commercial practice. Section 5.03. Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Certificates. New certificates for shares of stock may be issued to replace certificates lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated upon such conditions as the Board of Directors may, from time to time, determine. Section 5.04. Regulations Relating to Shares. The Board of Directors shall have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations not inconsistent with these by-laws as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates representing shares of the Corporation. Section 5.05. Holders of Record. The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock of the Corporation as the holder and owner in fact thereof for all purposes and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided by the laws of Delaware. Section 5.06. Fixing of Record Date. The Board of Directors may fix a time not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to the date of any meeting of shareholders, or the date fixed for the payment of any dividend or distribution, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of shares will be made or go into effect, as a record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any such meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any such dividend or distribution, or to receive any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in respect to any such change, conversion or exchange of shares. In such case, only such shareholders as shall be shareholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any such meeting, or entitled to receive such dividend, or to receive such allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any shares on the books of the Corporation after any record date fixed as aforesaid. Section 5.07. Preemptive Rights. Each holder of any of the shares of the capital stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to a preemptive right to purchase or subscribe for (i) any unissued capital stock of any class; (ii) any additional shares of capital stock of any class to be issued upon any increase in the authorized capital stock of the Corporation (iii) any other securities which pursuant to their terms are convertible into capital stock of any class of the Corporation or which carry with them any right to purchase capital stock of any class, whether said unissued stock or other securities shall be issued for cash, property, or any other lawful consideration. ARTICLE VI CORPORATE AUTHORITY Section 6.01. Notes, Checks, etc. All notes, bonds, drafts, acceptances, checks, endorsements (other than for deposit), guarantees, and all evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation whatsoever, shall be signed by such officers or agents of the Corporation, subject to such requirements as to countersignature or other conditions, as the Board of Directors from time to time may determine. Facsimile signatures on checks may be used if authorized by the Board of Directors. Section 6.02. Execution of Instruments Generally. Except as provided in Section 6.01, all deeds, mortgages, contracts and other instruments requiring execution by the Corporation may be signed by the President, any Vice President or the Treasurer, and authority to sign any such contracts or instruments, which may be general or confined to specific instances, may be conferred by the Board of Directors upon any other person to persons. Any person having authority to sign on behalf of the Corporation may delegate from time to time by instrument in writing all or any part o such authority to any person or persons if authorized so to do by the Board of Directors. Section 6.03. Voting Securities Owned by Corporation. Securities having voting power in any other corporation owned by this Corporation shall be voted by the President, unless the Board confers authority to vote with respect thereto, which may be general or confined to specific investments, upon some other person. Any person authorized to vote securities shall have the power to appoint proxies with general power of substitution. Section 6.04. Corporate Seal. The Board of Directors shall prescribe the form of a suitable corporate seal which shall contain the full name of the Corporation and the year and state of incorporation. Section 6.05. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on such day as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors. Section 6.06. Financial Reports to Shareholders. The Board shall have discretion to determine whether financial reports shall be sent to shareholders, what such reports shall contain, and whether they shall be audited or accompanied by the report of an independent or certified public accountant. Section 6.07. Banking. The Board shall establish the Corporation's primary bank and shall also establish accounts with such other banks as may be convenient to the conduct of the Corporation's business. ARTICLE VII CONFLICT OF INTERESTS Section 7.01. Transaction Valid. No contract or other transaction between the Corporation and another person shall be invalidated or otherwise adversely affected by the fact that any one or more shareholders, directors or officers of the Corporation: (i) is pecuniarily or otherwise interested in, or is a shareholder, director, officer, or member of, such other person; or (ii) is a party to, or is in any other way pecuniarily or otherwise interested in, the contract or other transaction; or (iii) is in any way connected with any person pecuniarily or otherwise interested in such contract or other transaction. Section 7.02. Full Disclosure. The event of interest described in Section 7.01 shall be fully disclosed in writing delivered by such interested person prior to the meeting in the same manner as the notice of the meeting of the Board of Directors or the shareholders, as the case may be; and in any action of the shareholders or of the Board of Directors of the Corporation authorizing or approving any such contract or other transaction, such interest person or persons shall not vote but any and every shareholder or director may be counted in determining the existence of a quorum and in determining the effectiveness of action taken, with like force and effect as thought he were not so interested, or were not such a shareholder, director, member or officer, or were not such a party, or were not so connected. Such director, shareholder or officer shall not be liable to account to the corporation for any profit realized by him from or through any such contract or transaction approved or authorized as aforesaid. As used in these by- laws, the term "person" includes a corporation, partnership, firm; association or other legal entity and the term: "his" includes references to both male and females. ARTICLE VIII INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHER PERSONS Section 8.01. Indemnification. The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted by law (a) any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, join venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests to the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful; and (b) any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, join venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense of settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Corporation. Section 8.02. Good Faith. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably belied to be in, or not opposed to, the best interest of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. Section 8.03. Exclusion. No indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the court of common pleas of the county in which the registered office of the Corporation is located or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court of common pleas or such other court shall deem proper. Section 8.04. Mandatory Indemnification. To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or the matter was resolved, settled or compromised, with the Consent of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors in regard to any action, suit or proceeding referred to in this Article VIII or in the prosecution of any claim based upon this Section 8.04, he shall be indemnified against and reimbursed for expenses (including attorneys' fees and costs) actually and reasonably incurred. Section 8.05. Determination of Standard of Conduct. Any indemnification under this Article VIII (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Article VIII. Such determination shall be made: (1) By the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (2) If such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a majority vote of a quorum of disinterest directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (3) By the shareholders. Section 8.06. When Indemnification Shall Be Made. Expenses incurred in defending any suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative may be paid by the Corporation from time to time in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized in the manner provided in this Article VIII upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee or agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized by this Article VIII. Section 8.07. Non-exclusivity. Article VIII shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any law, these by-laws, agreement approved by the disinterested Directors, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, both as to action in his official capacity, and shall continue to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his heirs, executors and administrators. Section 8.08. Insurance. The Corporation shall have power, but not the obligation, to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of this Article VIII. ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS Section 9.01. Amendments. These by-laws may be amended, altered, restated, and repealed, and new by-laws may be adopted, only by a majority of the Shareholders of the Corporation at any regular or special meeting called for that purpose. These by-laws were submitted and approved by the sole shareholder of the Corporation at a Special Meeting of the Shareholder held on October 24, 1996. _________________________ Ms. Shira Del Pacult Sole Shareholder These by-laws were prepared by: William Sumner Scott The Scott Law Firm, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 954-964-1546 Facsimile 954-964-1548 EX-3.003 5 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED FIRST WRITTEN ACTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS On the 24th day of October, 1996, Shira Del Pacult, the sole Director of ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED (the "Corporation") took the following actions: SALE OF STOCK The Corporation has received a subscription in the amount of $1,000 in full payment for 1,000 shares of no par common stock of the Corporation and that 1,000 shares of the Corporation's common stock, no par value, should be issued. The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the proper Officers of the Corporation are hereby authorized and directed to duly execute and deliver unto Shira Del Pacult a certificate in the form adopted by the Corporation to evidence the issuance of 1,000 shares of fully paid and non-assessable, no par, common stock of this Corporation. ELECTION OF OFFICERS The following person was nominated and elected as the Officer of the Corporation to hold the offices designated and to serve until her successor is chosen and qualified: President, Chief Executive Officer , Vice President, Regulation and Finance, Treasurer and Secretary Shira Del Pacult INCORPORATION EXPENSES The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the Treasurer be, and he hereby is authorized to pay all fees and expenses incident to and necessary for the organization of the Corporation. SEAL AND RECORD BOOKS The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: That the seal, an impression of which is affixed to the by-laws shall be acquired by the Secretary and such duplicate seals as deemed appropriate may be maintained by the officers of the Corporation; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: The Secretary shall establish such minute books and to otherwise maintain the records of the Corporation. AUTHORITY TO DO BUSINESS The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That for the purpose of authorizing the Corporation to do business in any Commonwealth, State, territory or dependency of the United States or any foreign province, state or country, in which it is necessary or expedient for the Corporation to transact business, the proper officers of this Corporation are hereby authorized to appoint and substitute all necessary agents or attorneys for service of process, to designate and change the location of all necessary certificates, reports, powers of attorney, and other instruments as may be required by the laws of such commonwealth, state, territory, dependence, province or country; and whenever it is expedient or necessary for this Corporation to cease doing business within such commonwealth, state, territory, dependence, province, or country such Officers are authorized to do such acts as are necessary to withdraw therefrom, including, but not limited to, the revocation of any appointment of agent or attorney for service of process, and filing of certificates, reports revocation of appointment, or surrender of authority. BANK ACCOUNTS AND FINANCIAL RECORDS The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: That the President together with the Treasurer of this Corporation, be, and they hereby are, authorized in the name of this Corporation and on behalf of this Corporation, to (i) open and maintain bank accounts in such banking institutions as they, shall, from time to time, deem necessary or appropriate; and (ii) give instructions as to whom the transfer or withdrawal of funds from any such account shall be made; and (iii) close any such account of such time as they may determine; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: That this Corporation does hereby assume full responsibility for all payments made by any banking institution in good faith and in reliance upon the facsimile signature of any Officer or employee of this Corporation authorized by virtue of the foregoing resolution to sign checks drawn against any bank account of this Corporation; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: The Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain the financial records, engage accountants and auditors, and file the Federal and state tax returns of the Corporation. GOVERNMENT PERMITS AND/OR CONSENTS The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the President, the Executive Vice President, or any Vice President of the Corporation be and each of them hereby is, authorized to execute and deliver, from time to time, in the name and on behalf of the Corporation any and all applications, indemnities, guaranties, surety bonds, and financial statements any such officer deems necessary or desirable to obtain certificates, licenses, permits or other forms of consent from any government agency to maintain and operate the Corporation in the normal course of the Corporation's business activity. AUTHORITY TO ACT AS GENERAL PARTNER The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: That the Corporation be, and hereby is, authorized to enter into the investment business as a General Partner for Limited Partnerships and to hire agents, legal counsel and accountants to further their entry into the investment business; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: That the Corporation be, and hereby is, authorized to act as General Partner for the formation of Limited Partnerships and cause Private Placement Memorandums, Registration Statements and all other forms of qualification documents necessary to sell interests in such Limited Partnerships to be filed with the Federal and state authorities and all other notices and filings and other legal documents to be prepared and filed accordingly to law to permit the Limited Partnerships to sell interests and engage in business as contemplated in the respective Limited Partnership agreements; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: That all efforts made by the promoters of the Corporation prior to the incorporation of the Corporation, specifically the retention of legal counsel and other steps in preparation to form the Corporation and all other activities to further the business of the Corporation are hereby ratified and confirmed. AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT COMMODITY BUSINESS The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: Shira Del Pacult, President of the Corporation, shall have sole authority over the commodity department of the Corporation. Ms. Pacult will be solely responsible for the management and supervision of the associated persons, the approval of customers accounts for suitability, and the implementation of the business plan of the commodity department; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: The Corporation will report to the CFTC or the National Futures Association ("NFA"), as required by law, within 20 days, any change in the management of the commodity department which relates to the delegation of authority to Ms. Pacult; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: Ms. Pacult is authorized to file such forms with the CFTC and the NFA to permit the Corporation to become registered as a commodity pool operator and to become a member of the NFA and which are necessary or desirable to permit the Corporation to be engaged in the business of management of the commodity business as the General Partner of a commodity pool to be called Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership. COMMODITY COMPLIANCE The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: The Corporation hereby adopts the compliance procedure documents presented to the Corporation by the Chairman today. The compliance department of the Corporation shall become familiar with the procedures described and is authorized to employ such consultants as the President deems necessary or desirable to assist in the implementation of full and complete compliance with all actions described; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: The President is authorized to cause amendments, from time to time, to the Commodity Compliance Procedures Manual of the Corporation to reflect changes required or deemed desirable to keep the Corporation in complete compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and rules related to the CFTC regulated business; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: The officers of the Corporation are hereby authorized to take all actions required to maintain NFA membership including, but not limited to, compliance with all rules of the NFA which will govern the activities of the Corporation as a commodity pool operator. COMMODITY CLEARING AGREEMENT The Chairman reported that it was necessary and desirable to enter into a clearing agreement with Vision, Ltd. to serve as the Futures Commission Merchant for the Limited Partnership to be formed by the Corporation as General Partner to be known as the Atlas Futures Fund. The following resolutions were adopted: RESOLVED: That the officers of the Corporation are authorized and directed to enter into a clearing agreement with Vision, Ltd. on behalf of the limited partnership to be formed under the name Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, upon such business terms as evidenced by the officers signature on such clearing agreement; and RESOLVED, FURTHER: Ms. Pacult is authorized and directed to deliver such financial information and take such other steps as she deems necessary or desirable to permit the Corporation to function as a General Partner of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, and to maintain trading accounts through Vision, Ltd. as contemplated by the foregoing resolution. APPOINTMENT OF LAW FIRM The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the Corporation employ The Scott Law Firm, P.A. to serve as general counsel to the firm pursuant to the terms of the contract reviewed by the Board today. APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the Corporation employ Joel M. Friedman, Two Prudential Plaza, 180 North Stetson Avenue, Suite 850, Chicago, IL 60601- 6712, to serve as tax counsel to the Corporation for the year ended 1996 in accordance with their engagement letter reviewed by the Board today. ELECTION AS S CORPORATION The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That this Corporation elect to be treated as a "Small Business Corporation" under Sections 1244 and 1372(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and the Officers be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to execute such election on Form 2553 and deliver the same to the Internal Revenue Service.. LOAN FROM SHAREHOLDER The following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED: That the Corporation borrow up to $500,000 from the shareholder to be repaid, on demand, with interest at twelve percent per year. There being no further business to be considered, the sole Director of Ashley Capital Management, Inc. executed this Written Action on the date first above written. s/ Shira Del Pacult Ms. Shira Del Pacult Sole Director EX-3.005 6 STATE OF DELAWARE SECRETARY OF STATE DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS FILED 09:00 AM 01/12/1998 981013347 - 2849932 Certificate Of Limited Partnership ATLAS FUTURES FUND, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP NOW COMES, Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, as General Partner, to certify and acknowledge the formation of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, a Delaware Limited Partnership, to be effective upon the date of this Certificate to evidence said formation witht the Secretary of the State of Delware. FIRST: NAME The name of the Limited Partnership is: Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership SECOND: REGISTERED AGENT AND REGISTERED OFFICE Corporate Systems Inc., 101 N. Fairfield Dr., Dover, DE 19901 (Kent County). THIRD: THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE SOLE GENERAL PARTNER The sole General Partner is: Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, 101 N. Fairfield Drive, Dover, Delware 19901. FOURTH: THE PURPOSE OF THE FUND The Fund shall act as the vehicle to acquire capital to be traded by one or more professional commodity trading advisors and for any other purposes the Partners may legally determine. The Fund shall have initial capital of $2,000. There will be no other contribution to capital prior to the release of escrow pursuant to the terms of the escrow agreement established pursuant to the terms of the offering documents used to sell limited partnership units in the Fund. The terms of operation of the Fund shall be as stated in the Limited Partnership Agreement, as may be amended, from time to time, pursuant to its terms, without amendment to this Certificate. WHEREFORE, this Certificate of Limited Partnership of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, was signed by the sole General Partner fo the purposes stated herein on this 12th day of January, 1998. Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated By: s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Del Pacult EX-5 7 THE SCOTT LAW FIRM, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 (954) 964-1546 Facsimile (954) 964-1548 August 10, 1998 To: The Board Of Directors Ashley Capital Management, Inc. c/o Corporate Systems, Inc. 101 North Fairfield Drive Dover, Delaware 19901 Dear Board of Directors, We have acted as your counsel in connection with the organization of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), wherein your firm serves as the General Partner and the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-1, expected to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Registration Statement"), relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of $7,000,000 of Limited Partnership interest (the "Units") in the Partnership. Based upon our familiarity with the organization of the Partnership and the representations made to us by your firm of the methods to be used to operate the Partnership, we are of the opinion that the Units to be offered for sale as described in the Registration Statement, when sold in the manner and under the conditions set forth therein, are duly authorized and will be legally issued and fully paid and non-assessable. We are also of the opinion that purchasers of the Units, upon admission to the Partnership by the General Partner, will become limited partners in the Partnership and that their liability for the losses and obligations of the Partnership will be limited to the extent provided by the Indiana Uniform Limited Partnership Act and the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Partnership. Very truly yours, The Scott Law Firm, P.A. S/ William Sumner Scott William Sumner Scott For the Firm WSS:lf EX-8 8 THE SCOTT LAW FIRM, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 (954) 964-1546 Facsimile (954) 964-1548 August 10, 1998 Ashley Capital Management, Inc. General Partner Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership 5916 N. 300 West Fremont, Indiana 46737 Re: REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-1 Dear General Partner: We have acted as your counsel in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about August 11, 1998, (the "Registration Statement") relating to Units of Limited Partnership Interest ("Units") of Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), a limited partnership organized under the laws of the state of Delaware. We have reviewed such data, documents, questions of law and fact and other matters as we have deemed pertinent for the purpose of this opinion. Based upon the foregoing, we hereby confirm our opinion expressed under the caption "Federal Income Tax Aspects" in the Prospectus (the "Prospectus") constituting a part of the Registration Statement that: (i) the Partnership will be treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes (assuming that substantially all of the gross income of the Partnership will constitute "qualifying income" within the meaning of section 7704(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended)(the "Code")); and (ii) the allocations of profits and losses made when Unitholders redeem their Units should be upheld for federal income tax purposes; (iii) based upon the contemplated trading activities of the Partnership, the Partnership should be treated as engaged in the conduct of a trade or business for federal income tax purposes, and, as a result, the ordinary and necessary business expenses incurred by the Partnership in conducting its commodity futures trading business should not be subject to limitation under section 67 or section 68 of the Code; (iv) the Profit Share should be respected as a distributive share of the Partnership's income allocable to Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership; and (v) the contracts traded by the Partnership, as described in the Prospectus, should satisfy the commodities trading safe harbor as described in section 864(b) of the Code. We also advise you that in our opinion the description set forth under the caption "Federal Income Tax Aspects" in the Prospectus correctly describes (subject to the uncertainties referred to therein) the material aspects of the United States Atlas Futures Fund, Limited partnership August 10, 1998 Page 2 federal income tax treatment to United States individual investors, as of the date hereof, of an investment in the Partnership. This opinion speaks as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update this opinion as of any future date. This opinion shall not be used for any purpose without our written consent. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an Exhibit to the Registration Statement and to all references to our firm included in or made a part of the Registration Statement. Very truly yours, s/ William S. Scott William Sumner Scott For the Firm The Scott Law Firm, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 (954) 964-1546 facsimile (954) 964-1548 WSS/lf EX-23.001 9 CONSENT FRANK L. SASSETTI & CO. The undersigned, Frank L. Sassetti & Co., Certified Public Accountants, hereby consents to the use of the audit reports and certifications for the period ended April 30, 1998, for Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership and Ashley Capital Management, Inc. in the Form S-1 Registration Statement filed by the Fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the securities examiners of the states selected by the General Partner. The undersigned hereby further consents to inclusion of its name and the other information under the section "Experts" in the said Registration Statement. Without further consent of the undersigned, the General Partner will cause such changes to the Form S-1 as are appropriate in response to the comments of said Commission and administrators and, thereafter, deliver the Prospectus to prospective investors with respect to the offering of up to $7,000,000 aggregate amount of limited partnership interest (the "Units") in Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership. s/ Robert W. Krone Robert W. Krone, CPA Frank L. Sassetti & Co. 6611 West North Avenue Oak Park, Illinois 60302 (708) 386-1433 Date: August 10, 1998 EX-23.002 10 CONSENT OF JAMES D. HEPNER, CPA I hereby consent to inclusion of my name under the section "Experts" in the Form S-1 Registration Statement with respect to the offering of up to $7,000,000 aggregate amount of limited partnership interests (the "Units") in Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the securities administrators for the states selected by the General Partner. Without further consent of the undersigned, the General Partner will cause such changes to the Form S-1 as are appropriate in response to the comments of said Commission and administrators and, thereafter, deliver the Prospectus to prospective investors. s/ James D. Hepner James D. Hepner 1824 N. Normandy Chicago, IL 60635 Date: March 10, 1998 EX-23.003 11 CONSENT BY LEGAL AND TAX COUNSEL The Scott Law Firm, P.A., (the "Undersigned"), hereby consents to being named as legal and tax counsel in a Form S-1 Registration Statement and the inclusion of the legal opinions rendered by the Undersigned as Exhibits 5 and 8 thereto filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, in connection with a proposed offering of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Registration Statement. s/ William S. Scott William S. Scott The Scott Law Firm, P.A. 5121 Sarazen Drive Hollywood, FL 33021 (954) 964-1546 Facsimile (954) 964-1548 Florida Bar Number #947822 Dated: May 4, 1998 EX-23.004 12 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR Michael J. Frischmeyer 1. Michael J. Frischmeyer, Commodity Trading Advisor, (the "Undersigned" or "CTA"), hereby consents to being named as CTA in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and to the states selected by the General Partner of the Fund in connection with the offering and sale of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that he furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular, and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of his background, trading history, and the information required to be supplied in the Prospectus thereto and do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to him or his trading ability or methods or risks which are necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to keep his track record in accordance with applicable law and to supply such track record and all other information, in the form required, to permit the General Partner, from month to month, to keep the Partners of the Fund properly informed as required by law. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the Fund, and its General Partner, in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the Fund. s/ Michael J. Frischmeyer Michael J. Frischmeyer 1422 Central Avenue P.O. Box 898 Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501 Date: March 6, 1998 EX-23.005 13 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR BY BARRY T. JOHNOSON (COMMODITECH, INC.), CTA 1. Barry T. Johnson as president of Commoditech, Inc., Commodity Trading Advisor, (the "Undersigned" or "CTA"), hereby consents to being named as CTA in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and to the states selected by the General Partner of the Fund in connection with the offering and sale of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that he furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular, and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of his background, trading history, and the information required to be supplied in the Prospectus thereto and do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to him or his trading ability or methods or risks which are necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to keep his track record in accordance with applicable law and to supply such track record and all other information, in the form required, to permit the General Partner, from month to month, to keep the Partners of the Fund properly informed as required by law. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the Fund, and its General Partner, in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the Fund. s/ Barry T. Johnson Barry T. Johnson President Commoditech, Inc. 4299, Rock Island Road Arnold, Missouri 63010 Date: March 6, 1998 EX-23.006 14 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR BY ERIC ROSENBERY (ROSENBERY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.), CTA 1. Eric Rosenbery, as president of Rosenbery Capital Management, Inc., Commodity Trading Advisor, (the "Undersigned" or "CTA"), hereby consents to being named as CTA in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and to the states selected by the General Partner of the Fund in connection with the offering and sale of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that he furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular, and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of his background, trading history, and the information required to be supplied in the Prospectus thereto and do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to him or his trading ability or methods or risks which are necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to keep his track record in accordance with applicable law and to supply such track record and all other information, in the form required, to permit the General Partner, from month to month, to keep the Partners of the Fund properly informed as required by law. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the Fund, and its General Partner, in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the Fund. s/ Eric Rosenbery Eric Rosenbery President Rosenbery Capital Mangement, Inc. 5445 N. Sheridan Rd. Suite 2706 Chicago, IL 60640 Date: March 17, 1998 EX-23.007 15 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR James A. Hyerczyk (d/b/a J.A.H. Research and Trading) 1. James A. Hyerczyk (d/b/a J.A.H. Research and Trading), Commodity Trading Advisor, (the "Undersigned" or "CTA"), hereby consents to being named as CTA in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and to the states selected by the General Partner of the Fund in connection with the offering and sale of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that he furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular, and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of his background, trading history, and the information required to be supplied in the Prospectus thereto and do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to him or his trading ability or methods or risks which are necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to keep his track record in accordance with applicable law and to supply such track record and all other information, in the form required, to permit the General Partner, from month to month, to keep the Partners of the Fund properly informed as required by law. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the Fund, and its General Partner, in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the Fund. s/ James A. Hyerczyk James A. Hyerczyk d/b/a J.A.H. Research and Trading Date: August 10, 1998 EX-23.008 16 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR C&M Traders, Inc. 1. C&M Traders Inc., Commodity Trading Advisor, (the "Undersigned" or "CTA"), hereby consents to being named as CTA in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") and to the states selected by the General Partner of the Fund in connection with the offering and sale of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that it furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular, and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of its background, trading history, and the information required to be supplied in the Prospectus thereto and do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to it or its trading ability or methods or risks which are necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to keep its track record in accordance with applicable law and to supply such track record and all other information, in the form required, to permit the General Partner, from month to month, to keep the Partners of the Fund properly informed as required by law. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the Fund, and its General Partner, in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the Fund. s/ Steven Midlarsky Steven Midlarsky President C&M Traders, Inc. Date: August 10, 1998 EX-23.009 17 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY SELLING AGENT 1. Futures Investment Company (the "Undersigned") hereby consents to being named as Selling Agent in a Form S-1 Registration Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, in connection with a proposed offering of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said registration statement. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that it furnished the statements and information set forth in the Prospectus with respect to the Undersigned, its directors and officers, that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of Form S-1 and do not omit any material information required to be stated therein with respect of any such persons, or necessary to make the statements and information therein, with respect to any of them, not misleading. 3. If Preliminary Registration Statements are distributed, the Undersigned hereby undertakes to keep an accurate and complete record of the name and address of each person furnished a Registration Statement and, if such Registration Statement is inaccurate or inadequate, in any material respect, to furnish a revised or a Registration Statement to all persons to whom the securities are to be sold at least 48 hours prior to the mailing of any confirmation of sale to such persons, or to send such a circular to such persons under circumstances that it would normally be received by them 48 hours prior to their receipt of confirmation of the sale. FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY By: s/ Michael Pacult Micael Pacult President Date: May 4, 1998 EX-23.010 18 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY INTRODUCING BROKER 1. Futures Investment Company (the "Undersigned") hereby consents to being named as Introducing Broker in a Form S-1 Registration Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, in connection with a proposed offering of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said registration statement. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that it furnished the statements and information set forth in the Prospectus with respect to the Undersigned, its directors and officers, that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of Form S-1 and do not omit any material information required to be stated therein with respect of any such persons, or necessary to make the statements and information therein, with respect to any of them, not misleading. 3. If Preliminary Registration Statements are distributed, the Undersigned hereby undertakes to keep an accurate and complete record of the name and address of each person furnished a Registration Statement and, if such Registration Statement is inaccurate or inadequate, in any material respect, to furnish a revised or a Registration Statement to all persons to whom the securities are to be sold at least 48 hours prior to the mailing of any confirmation of sale to such persons, or to send such a circular to such persons under circumstances that it would normally be received by them 48 hours prior to their receipt of confirmation of the sale. FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY By: s/ Michael Pacult Micael Pacult President Date: May 4, 1998 EX-23.011 19 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY ESCROW AGENT 1. Star Financial Bank, 2004 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703, (the "Undersigned"), hereby consents to being named as Escrow Agent in a Form S-1 Registration Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, in connection with a proposed offering of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said registration statement. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that it furnished the statements and information set forth in the offering circular with respect to the Undersigned and that such statements and information are accurate, complete and fully responsive and do not omit any material information with respect of the Escrow Agent, the Escrow Account, or the Escrow Agreement, required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements and information therein not misleading. * Print Name: ________________________ Print Title: _______________________ Date: __________________, 1998 * Out for signature EX-23.012 20 CONSENT AND CERTIFICATION BY FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT 1. Howard Rothman, (the "Undersigned") of Vision Limited Partnership, Futures Commission Merchant, (the "FCM"), first duly authorized by the FCM, hereby consents to The Chicago Corporation being named as a FCM in a Form S-1 Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Atlas Futures Fund, Limited Partnership, (the "Fund") in connection with a proposed offering of limited partnership interests (the "Units") to the public as described in said Prospectus. 2. The Undersigned hereby certifies that the statements and information set forth in the Prospectus with respect to the FCM are accurate, complete and fully responsive to the requirement of disclosure of the material facts related to it and the relationship of the FCM with the Fund and such disclosures do not omit any information required to be stated therein with respect to the FCM which are necessary to make the statements and information therein with respect to it, not misleading. 3. The Undersigned agrees to perform the terms of the New Account Forms and to supply all information required, including, but not limited to, daily trade confirmation, monthly account statements and daily account runs. The Undersigned agrees further to take those actions reasonably required of the FCM by any regulatory or tax authority to keep the FCM and its customers in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the operation of the FCM. s/ Howard Rothman Print Name: Howard Rothman Title: President Vision Limited Partnership 15th Floor New York, NY 10004 Date: February 9, 1998 EX-99.001 21 ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED SUBORDINATED LOAN AGREEMENT FOR EQUITY CAPITAL AGREEMENT dated October 24th, 1996, between Ms. Shira Pacult, (the "Lender") and Ashley Capital Management, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation,(the "Borrower"). I. THE TERMS OF THE LOAN In consideration of the loan of up to five hundred thousand and no/100 dollars ($500,000)(the "Payment Obligation"), and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Borrower promises to pay to the order of the Lender, or her assigns, on demand anytime after February 1, 2019, at the principal office of the Borrower, the amount of Payment Obligation loaned, as evidenced by the promissory notes in substantially the form attached hereto, from the Borrower, together with interest thereon payable at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum from the date the Payment Obligation is loaned to the Borrower, to the date of repayment of such Payment Obligation by the Borrower to the Lender. The Borrower may immediately record this loan agreement as an account receivable and anticipate the loan of the Payment Obligation to the Borrower from the Lender but the Lender is not obligated to contribute any more than the maximum amount of the Payment Obligation expressed above in the form of either a loan or equity contribution to the Borrower. During the first three (3) years of this Agreement, the Borrower shall have the right, but not the obligation, to deliver a promissory note, or notes, in the form attached to this agreement and to otherwise provide notice to the Lender of the amount of money to be advanced and the name of the bank where the deposit is to be made for the account of the Borrower. Within ten days after receipt of such notice, Lender shall deposit the amount evidenced by the note, up to the maximum provided above, to the designated bank. The cash proceeds to be paid by Lender to Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be used and dealt with by the Borrower as a contribution to equity capital and shall be subject to the risks of the business of the Borrower which includes, but is not limited to, serving as the General Partner (sic commodity pool operator) of limited partnerships (sic pools) whose interests are sold to the public to raise equity to engage in the business of commodity trading. The Borrower shall have the right to deposit any cash proceeds of this Subordinated Loan Agreement in any account or accounts in its own name in any bank or trust company free from any security interest of the Lender. The Lender irrevocably agrees that the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect to the payment of principal and interest shall be and are subordinate in right of payment and subject to the prior payments or provision for payment, in full, of all claims of all other present and future creditors of the Borrower arising out of any matter occurring from the date of the loan to the date of repayment. 1 Upon loan of the amount of the Payment Obligation requested by Lender to Borrower or after the lapse of three (3) years following the execution of this Agreement, there shall be no further obligation of the Lender to advance any additional funds pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; i.e., all obligation of Lender to loan money to Borrower, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, shall expire on October 24, 1999, and all loans made to Borrower to that date shall be fixed as an obligation of Borrower to be repaid pursuant to the terms of the Notes. II. PERMISSIVE REPAYMENTS At the option of the Borrower, but not at the option of the Lender, payment of all or any part of the Payment Obligation amount hereof prior to the maturity date may be made by the Borrower; provided, however, such prepayment may be made only after receipt of an audit report of the Borrower conducted by an independent certified public accountant which discloses that the net capital or equity of the Borrower is above the percentage required to maintain the Fremont Fund, Limited Partnership, as a partnership, for tax purposes. The requirement of the audit shall be for the protection of the limited partners in the Fund and any of them shall have the right to demand, at their expense, a copy of the audit submitted to support any such repayments made in advance of the above due date. The Borrower agrees that if its obligation to pay the Payment Obligation is not made within ten days after the due date, the Borrower will immediately commence a rapid and orderly complete liquidation of its' business. III. LIMITATION ON WITHDRAWAL OF EQUITY CAPITAL AND INDEBITNESS As long as this subordination loan agreement remains unpaid, the Borrower will make no distributions in the form of dividends or pay salaries to any director or officer who is also a shareholder. The Borrower will not make any other loans or indebitness which is senior to or pari parsu with this subordinated loan agreement. IV. SUBORDINATION OF ACCRUED INTEREST PAYABLE The Lender and the Borrower hereby elect to have all eligible accrued interest payable, on this loan, considered as additional subordinated capital for purposes of computing equity. Any Repayments shall be first be allocated to accrued interest and the balance, if any, to principal. V. GENERAL In the event of the appointment of a receiver or trustee of the Borrower or in the event of its insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganizations whether or not pursuant to bankruptcy laws, or any other marshaling of the assets and liabilities of the Borrower, the Payment Obligation of the Borrower shall mature, and the holder hereof shall not be entitled to participate or share, ratably or otherwise, in the distribution of the assets of the Borrower until all claims of all other present and future creditors of the Borrower, whose claims are senior hereto, have been fully satisfied. This Agreement shall not be subject to cancellation by either the Lender or the Borrower, and no payment shall be 2 made, nor the Agreement terminated, rescinded or modified by mutual consent or otherwise. The Borrower may not be transfer, sell, assign, pledge, or otherwise encumber or otherwise dispose of this Agreement, and no lien, charge, or other encumbrance may be created or permitted to be created thereon. The Lender irrevocably agrees that the loan evidenced hereby is not being made in reliance upon the standing of the Borrower as a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA") or upon the NFA surveillance of the Borrowers financial position or its compliance with the by-laws, rules and practices of the NFA. The Lender is affiliated with the Borrower and either is personally aware of all material facts or has made such investigation of the facts attendant to the provision of this loan, including the employment of independent legal counsel other than The Scott Law Firm, P.A., to confirm the need for and the reasonableness of the terms of this subordinated loan agreement. The Lender is not relying upon the NFA to provide any information concerning or relating to the Borrower and agrees that the NFA and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have no responsibility to disclose to the Lender any information concerning or relating to the Borrower which they may now, or at any future time, have. The term "Borrower", as used in this Agreement, shall include the Borrower, its successors and assigns. The term "Payment Obligation" shall mean the obligation of the Borrower to repay cash loaned to it pursuant to this Subordinated Loan Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon the Borrower and the Lender, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns. Any controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be submitted to and settled by arbitration pursuant to the by-laws and rules of the American Arbitration Association. The Borrower and the Lender shall be conclusively bound by such arbitration. This instrument embodies the entire agreement between the Borrower and the Lender and no other evidence of such agreement has been or will be executed. This Agreement shall be deemed to have been made under, and shall be governed by, the laws of the State of Delaware in all respects. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have set their hands and seal as of the date above. Borrower: ASHLEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INCORPORATED By: s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Pacult, President Lender: s/ Shira Del Pacult Shira Pacult, Individually 3 EX-99.002 22 FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE'S AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT, made at Fremont, Indiana, this 28th day of July, 1997, between, FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY, hereinafter referred to as FUTURES INVESTMENT and Shira Del Pacult, its Registered Representative, hereinafter referred to as "Representative". In consideration of the mutual covenants herein, the parties hereby agree as follows: I. APPOINTMENT Of REPRESENTATIVE FUTURES INVESTMENT hereby appoints Representative to act as Sales Representative in connection with the sales of registered and unregistered securities. At all times you shall act as an independent contractor, nothing contained in this agreement shall be construed to create the relationship of employer and employee between you and us. Representative agrees not to hold himself out as Officer, Director or employee of FUTURES INVESTMENT. Subject to the terms conditions contained herein, in your capacity as an independent contractor you shall represent us in soliciting application for the purchase of securities of any investment company or other issuer for which we act as dealer or underwriter, and you shall be free to exercise your own judgment as to the persons whom you will solicit and the time, place and manner of solicitation. You shall pay your expenses in connection with your business as a Sales Representative hereunder. II. BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF REPRESENTATIVE. Representative shall devote his/her best efforts to the performance of this Agreement. FUTURES INVESTMENT will assist in obtaining the necessary license and surety bonds for those States which require surety bonds and the Representative shall bear the cost of these license and bonds Representative shall not interview prospects or solicit application until he has secured all licenses required by law and obtained a surety bond satisfactory to FUTURES INVESTMENT. This Agreement shall terminate upon cancellation of such bond or non-renewal or cancellation of any license which Representative is required to have to perform this Agreement. III. UNDERTAKING BY REPRESENTATIVE (a) No Violation of FUTURES INVESTMENT's Interests. Neither during the period of this Agreement nor thereafter shall Representative, (1) use any information acquired by him/her during the period of this Agreement in a manner adverse to the interests of FUTURES INVESTMENT or the issuer of a Security, or (2) do any act to damage the good will of FUTURES INVESTMENT or such an issuer. (b) Collections. Representative shall report and remit promptly all payments for or security to FUTURES INVESTMENT without commingling the same with his/her own funds. (c) Branch Office. Representative will act in the capacity of independent contractor and will not perform any acts which would lead anyone to believe FUTURES INVESTMENT has a full branch office at any other location except FUTURES INVESTMENT's home office without written approval from FUTURES INVESTMENT. (d) Trafficking or Switching. Representative shall not make any agreement with any person for repurchase or resale of a Security nor twist or switch securities of any other company, or twist Insurance policies to the detriment of the client. (e) Sales Literature. Representative must obtain the specific written approval of FUTURES INVESTMENT, before he/she may use any material concerning a Security, the issuer thereof, or FUTURES INVESTMENT. (f) Policies of FUTURES INVESTMENT. Representative shall abide by all rules, regulations and policies of FUTURES INVESTMENT. These policies will be considered matters of company policy and will be updated, changed, expanded and deleted, from time to time, as deemed appropriate and will not alter or supersede this contract. (g) Authority Limited. Representative shall have no authority to alter or amend the provisions of a Security nor to incur any, liability on behalf of FUTURES INVESTMENT or the issuer of a Security. (h) Compliance with Regulations. Representative agrees to explain fully all facts pertinent to any security offered to a prospect and to simultaneously deliver all required and necessary approved offering documentation in connection therewith. Representative shall not make false statements, or deliver broker dealer only materials, or misrepresent or omit to state material facts to any client or prospective client. Representative shall adhere to and abide by the rules and regulations of FUTURES INVESTMENT and the rules of fair practice as prescribed by the NASD and shall comply with all general rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as well as with the Securities and Exchange Commission Statement of Policy, all Federal Board regulation and all securities acts and regulations of the states in which Representative is licensed to transact business. Representative represents that he/she is completely familiar with such regulations. (i) Exclusive. Representative agrees that during the term of this Agreement, he/she will not enter into any sales agency, brokerage or other agreement with any dealer, or issuer of securities other than FUTURES INVESTMENT and that he/she will not otherwise, directly or indirectly, place orders of any kind with any such other person or entity without the prior express written consent of FUTURES INVESTMENT. (j) Notification and Approval. Representative will inform FUTURES INVESTMENT in writing of any other financial planning product which he/she Intends to sell, or service he/she intends to provide and will not offer said product or service to the public without the prior written consent of FUTURES INVESTMENT. IV. COMMISSION PAYMENTS TO REPRESENTATIVE Your sole compensation will be commission earned with respect to sale made by you, but only In accordance with and subject to the applicable Commission Schedule Issued by FUTURES INVESTMENT and In effect at the time of the sale. Our Commission Schedules are subject to change from time to time by us without the approval of Representative. Your commission are payable as set forth In the Commission Schedule attached and made a part of this Agreement, subject to receipt by us of full payment for the securities sold In the case of cash sales, open account sales, or other voluntary Investment program sales and receipt by us of the full dealer concession for the securities sold. You may not assign, hypothecate or otherwise encumber your right to receive commission without our prior written consent. All expense Incurred by Representative in the solicitation and sale of investments hereunder shall be borne by the Representative. Neither FUTURES INVESTMENT nor any Issuer of Investment units shall be liable to Representative for the payment of commissions or expenses. V. LOSS AND LIMITATIONS ON THE PAYMENT OF COMMISSIONS. a) Violation of this Agreement. A breach by Representative of any provision of this Agreement shall terminate this Agreement and Representative shall not be entitled to receive any payment which he/she would otherwise be entitled to receive from FUTURES INVESTMENT. b) Claims, Controversies and Settlements. In event of any claim of misrepresentation or the use of unfair or inequitable methods, or lack of proper registration by Representative in regard to the sale of any Security for which commission are or become due to Representative, or failure of Representative to remit any collection, FUTURES INVESTMENT may withhold to the extent it deems necessary, any commissions or other amount to which Representative is or may become entitled, pending disposition or settlement of such matter, and in the event it is established that representative was guilty of wrong-doing FUTURES INVESTMENT may retain such withheld amounts and any future amounts received to pay any such disposition or settlement. FUTURES INVESTMENT may effect settlement with a Security holder or issuer in accordance with its business judgment and refund in whole or in part any sum paid by such a holder. Upon the making of a settlement or refund, whether or not a claim or misrepresentation was made by a certificate holder or stockholder, FUTURES INVESTMENT shall be entitle to charge back to Representative the whole or such proportionate part of the withheld amounts. Representative may not make any settlement or refund to a holder or stockholder without the prior written approval of FUTURES INVESTMENT. As used In this paragraph, settlement includes a cancellation of Security or any adjustment made with a holder of a Security To the extent that FUTURES INVESTMENT Incurs expense in excess of such withholding, Representative shall be responsible for payment thereof upon written demand by FUTURES INVESTMENT, Including any expenses In collecting the excess from Representative. c) Right of Offset. FUTURES INVESTMENT reserves the right to apply any sum payable by FUTURES INVESTMENT to Representative against any indebtedness of Representative to FUTURES INVESTMENT or for which FUTURES INVESTMENT may become liable. VI. TERMINATION. Death, Disability or Retirement. This Agreement shall be terminate by death, inability of Representative to perform duties under this Agreement due to physical or mental disability or retirement of Representative. Proof of these occurrences shall be in the form required by FUTURES INVESTMENT. FUTURES INVESTMENT agrees that should Representative become unwilling or unable to hold the registration(s) necessary to obtain such trailing commissions whether through death, disability, or otherwise, that these commissions will then be paid to her husband, Michael Pacult, who will then service the clients, subject to his being properly registered with the necessary regulatory agency(ies). If both Michael and Shira Pacult should become unwilling or unable to hold the registration(s) necessary to obtain such trailing commissions whether through death, disability or otherwise, FUTURES INVESTMENT agrees that these commissions will then be paid to the person designated by the Pacults or, in case of death, their heir(s) as designated in the Pacults' testamentary documents, who will then service these clients, subject to their being properly registered with the necessary regulatory agency(ies). (a) Termination by the Parties. This Agreement may be terminated by FUTURES INVESTMENT without Cause upon thirty (30) days written notice to Representative and for Cause may be terminated immediately without prior notice by FUTURES INVESTMENT. This Agreement may be terminated by Representative upon written notice to FUTURES INVESTMENT. FUTURES INVESTMENT agrees that all trailing commissions paid to FUTURES INVESTMENT by the issuer, underwriter, sponsor or other distributor of direct participation securities as a result of the solicitation and servicing of clients by Representative will be paid to him/her, less the percentage to which FUTURES INVESTMENT is entitled pursuant to the Commission Schedule in effect at the time such commission payments are made. Should the relationship between FUTURES INVESTMENT and Representative be terminated by either party for any reason, FUTURES INVESTMENT consents to the payment of all such commissions to the broker-dealer designated by him/her and agrees that it will instruct all issuers, underwriters, sponsors or other distributors of such securities to transfer all commission payments to the broker-dealer designated by him/her within five days of such designation and request. (b) Return of Records. Representative upon termination of this Agreement, shall return to FUTURES INVESTMENT all supplies, books, video tapes, cards, Customer records and all other materials and property furnished to him/her by FUTURES INVESTMENT. VII. PRIOR AGREEMENTS. This Agreement shall supersede all former Agreement which have existed between the parties hereto relative to the sale of securities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this agreement on the date first above written. FUTURES INVESTMENT COMPANY SALES REPRESENTATIVE By: s/ Michael Pacult s/ Shira Del Pacult Michael Pacult Shira Del Pacult President -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----