The National Futures Association issued Notice I-14-13 advising of changes to CPO Form PQR and CTA Form PR that will be effective for the quarter ended June 30, 2014.  The Notice explains the changes “will simplify and make less burdensome the Forms’ questions relating to NFA’s request for information relating to any funds under management allocated to futures and swaps.”   The Notice provides brief descriptions of the changes.  The updated Forms will be available in the Easy File System the first week of July 2014 along with the updated PQR and PR templates with expanded help text.

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