Amendment to Management Agreement among Ceres Managed Futures LLC, Orion Futures Fund L.P., and Winton Capital Management Limited (January 1, 2012)
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This amendment updates the management agreement between Ceres Managed Futures LLC, Orion Futures Fund L.P., and Winton Capital Management Limited. The main change allows the advisor to use leverage up to 1.5 times the assets allocated by Ceres Managed Futures LLC to manage the partnership's assets, unless otherwise agreed in writing. All other terms of the original agreement remain unchanged.
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EXHIBIT 10.1
AMENDMENT TO THE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
This AMENDMENT dated as of the 1st day of January, 2012, to the MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT made as of the 12th day of May, 2003, among CERES MANAGED FUTURES LLC (formerly CITIGROUP MANAGED FUTURES LLC), a Delaware limited liability company (“CMF”), ORION FUTURES FUND L.P. (formerly SALOMON SMITH BARNEY ORION FUTURES FUND L.P.), a New York limited partnership (the “Partnership”) and WINTON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED, a United Kingdom company (the “Advisor”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, CMF, the Partnership and the Advisor wish to amend the Management Agreement dated as of May 12, 2003, to increase the amount of leverage used to manage the Partnership’s assets.
NOW, therefore, the parties agree as follows:
1. The first sentence of Section 1(c) shall be deleted and replaced by the following:
The allocation of the Partnership’s assets to the Advisor will be made to the Program as described in the Disclosure Document, provided that CMF and the Partnership agree that the amount of leverage applied to the assets of the Partnership allocated to the Advisor by CMF shall be up to (but not in excess of) 1.5 times the assets of the Partnership allocated to the Advisor by CMF (the “Trading Level”), unless otherwise agreed by the parties hereto in writing. The Advisor shall trade the Partnership’s assets on the basis of the Trading Level.
2. In all other respects the Management Agreement remains unchanged and of full force and effect.
THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment has been executed for and on behalf of the undersigned as of the day and year first above written.
CERES MANAGED FUTURES LLC
By /s/ Walter Davis
Walter Davis
President
ORION FUTURES FUND L.P.
By: Ceres Managed Futures LLC
(General Partner)
By /s/ Walter Davis
Walter Davis
President
WINTON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED
By /s/ Rajeev Patel
Rajeev Patel
Director, Winton Capital Management Limited
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