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Redeemable Capital Shares
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Federal Home Loan Banks [Abstract]  
Redeemable Capital Shares

5.

Redeemable Capital Shares

Shares are classified as “redeemable” for financial statement purposes, since they are subject to redemption. Shares are issued and redeemed continuously in Baskets in exchange for Australian Dollars. Individual investors cannot purchase or redeem Shares in direct transactions with the Trust. Only Authorized Participants (as defined below) may place orders to create and redeem Baskets. An Authorized Participant is a Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) participant that is a registered broker-dealer or other institution eligible to settle securities transactions through the book-entry facilities of the DTC and which has entered into a contractual arrangement with the Trust and the Sponsor governing, among other matters, the creation and redemption process. Authorized Participants may redeem their Shares at any time in Baskets.

Due to expected continuing creations and redemptions of Baskets and the two-day period for settlement of each creation or redemption, the Trust reflects Shares created as a receivable on the trade date. Shares redeemed are reflected as a liability on the trade date. Outstanding Shares are reflected at a redemption value, which is the NAV per Share at the period end date. Adjustments to redeemable capital Shares at redemption value are recorded directly to redeemable capital shares and retained earnings.

Activity in redeemable capital Shares is as follows:

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2018

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

U.S. Dollar

Amount

 

 

Shares

 

 

U.S. Dollar

Amount

 

Opening Balance

 

 

1,650,000

 

 

$

116,248,970

 

 

 

1,700,000

 

 

$

133,025,963

 

Shares Issued

 

 

100,000

 

 

 

7,094,912

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares Redeemed

 

 

(250,000

)

 

 

(17,792,563

)

 

 

(50,000

)

 

 

(3,929,418

)

Adjustment of Redeemable Capital Shares

   to Redemption Value

 

 

 

 

 

1,075,454

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,440,921

)

Ending Balance

 

 

1,500,000

 

 

$

106,626,773

 

 

 

1,650,000

 

 

$

126,655,624

 

The Trustee calculates the Trust’s NAV each business day. To calculate the NAV, the Trustee subtracts the Sponsor’s accrued fee through the previous day from the Australian Dollars held by the Trust (including all unpaid interest, if any, accrued through the preceding day) and calculates the value of the Australian Dollars in USD based upon the Closing Spot Rate. If, on a particular evaluation day, the Closing Spot Rate has not been determined and announced by 6:00 PM (London time), then the most recent Closing Spot Rate will be used to determine the NAV of the Trust unless the Trustee, in consultation with the Sponsor, determines that such price is inappropriate to use as the basis for the valuation. If the Trustee and the Sponsor determine that the most recent Closing Spot Rate is not an appropriate basis for valuation of the Trust’s Australian Dollars, they will determine an alternative basis for the valuation. The Trustee also determines the NAV per Share, which equals the NAV of the Trust, divided by the number of outstanding Shares. Shares deliverable under a purchase order are considered outstanding for purposes of determining NAV per Share; Shares deliverable under a redemption order are not considered outstanding for this purpose.