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Form 10-K for CURRENCYSHARES SWISS FRANC TRUST


30-Dec-2008

Annual Report


Item 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

MOVEMENTS IN THE PRICE OF SWISS FRANC

The investment objective of the Trust is for the Shares to reflect the price of the Swiss Franc plus accrued interest, less the expenses of the Trust's operations. The Shares are intended to provide institutional and retail investors with a simple, cost-effective means of gaining investment benefits similar to those of holding Swiss Francs. Each outstanding Share represents a proportional interest in the Swiss Francs held by the Trust. The following chart provides recent trends on the price of the Swiss Franc. The chart illustrates movements in the price of the Swiss Franc in USD and is based on the Noon Buying Rate as determined by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Historical values of the Noon Buying Rate can be obtained at http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/fxrates/noon.cfm.

NAV PER SHARE; VALUATION OF THE SWISS FRANC

The following chart illustrates the movement in the price of the Shares based on
(1) NAV per Share, (2) the "bid" and "ask" midpoint offered on the NYSE (prior to October 30, 2007) and NYSE Arca (on or after October 30, 2007) and (3) the Noon Buying Rate, expressed as a multiple of 100 Swiss Francs (Noon Buying Rate
x 100):

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LIQUIDITY

The Sponsor is not aware of any trends, demands, conditions or events that are reasonably likely to result in material changes to the Trust's liquidity needs. The Trust's Depository, JP Morgan Chase, London branch, maintains two deposit accounts for the Trust, a primary deposit account that earns interest and a secondary deposit account that does not earn interest. Interest on the primary deposit account accrues daily and is paid monthly. The interest rate paid as of October 31, 2008 was an annual nominal rate of 0.68%. The following chart provides the daily rate paid by the Depository since the Shares began trading on the NYSE:

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In exchange for a fee, the Sponsor bears most of the expense incurred by the Trust. As a result, the only ordinary expense of the Trust during the periods covered by this report was the Sponsor's fee. Each month the Depository deposits into the secondary deposit account accrued but unpaid interest and the Trustee withdraws Swiss Franc from the secondary deposit account to pay the accrued Sponsor's fee for the previous month plus other Trust expenses, if any. When the interest deposited exceeds the sum of the Sponsor's fee for the prior month plus other Trust expenses if any, then the Trustee converts the excess into USD at a prevailing market rate and distributes the USD as promptly as practicable to Shareholders on a pro rata basis (in accordance with the number of Shares that they own). Distributions paid during the current reporting period follow (annualized yield reflects the estimated annual yield an investor would receive if a monthly distribution stayed the same for the entire year going forward, and is calculated by annualizing the monthly distribution and dividing by the Trust NAV for the dates listed below):

                            FXF Distribution History



                  Date        Value       NAV     Yield   Annualized Yield
                10/1/2008   $ 0.09226   $ 89.22   0.10%        1.22%
                9/2/2008    $ 0.09298   $ 90.34   0.10%        1.26%
                8/1/2008    $ 0.09155   $ 95.43   0.10%        1.13%

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires the Sponsor's management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of the assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the period covered by this report.

In addition to the description below, please refer to Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements for further discussion of our accounting policies.

The functional currency of the Trust is the Swiss Franc in accordance with Financial Accounting Standard 52, Foreign Currency Translation.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The Trust was formed on June 8, 2006 and the Shares commenced trading on the NYSE on June 26, 2006. The primary listing of the Shares was transferred to NYSE Arca on October 30, 2007. As of October 31, 2006, the number of Swiss Francs owned by the Trust was 30,000,000 resulting in a redeemable capital share value of $24,163,303. As of October 31, 2007, the number of Swiss Francs owned by the Trust was 215,000,000 resulting in a redeemable capital share value of $185,725,448.

During the year ended October 31, 2008, an additional 7,200,000 shares had been created in exchange for 720,000,000 Swiss Francs and 3,900,000 shares were redeemed in exchange for 390,000,000 Swiss Francs. As of October 31, 2008, the number of Swiss Francs owned by the Trust was 545,000,000 resulting in a redeemable capital share value of $467,489,087.

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