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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-113059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001066656"
company_name: "Ceres Classic L.P."
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T10:38:15.381018+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ceres Classic L.P. appoints Benjamin Hammes as Chief Compliance Officer of General Partner

## Summary
- Effective April 3, 2025, Benjamin Hammes appointed Chief Compliance Officer of Ceres Managed Futures LLC, the General Partner.
- Hammes is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Co-CCO of Parametric Portfolio Associates.
- Prior CCO Christopher Smock's departure was effective April 3, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-113059
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001066656
- company_name: Ceres Classic L.P.
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1066656/000119312525113059/0001193125-25-113059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1066656/000119312525113059/d770501d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-113059
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-113059.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-113059.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Benjamin Hammes was appointed as Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner at Ceres Classic L.P..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner
  source text: Effective April 3, 2025, Benjamin Hammes was appointed Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1066656/000119312525113059/0001193125-25-113059-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christopher P. Smock departed as Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner at Ceres Classic L.P..
  - Action: no longer serves
  - Role: Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner
  source text: Effective April 3, 2023, Christopher P. Smock no longer serves as Chief Compliance Officer of the General Partner.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1066656/000119312525113059/0001193125-25-113059-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.