rights with respect to the
underlying stock, and investors will not participate in any
appreciation of the underlying stock over the term of the
securities. As a result, any return on the securities will not
reflect the return you would realize if you actually owned shares
of the underlying stock and received the dividends paid or
distributions made on them.
■The
securities will not be listed on any securities exchange and
secondary trading may be limited. Accordingly, you should be
willing to hold your securities for the entire 3-year term of the
securities. The securities will not be listed on any
securities exchange. Therefore, there may be little or no secondary
market for the securities. MS & Co. may, but is not obligated
to, make a market in the securities, and, if it once chooses to
make a market, may cease doing so at any time. When it does make a
market, it will generally do so for transactions of routine
secondary market size at prices based on its estimate of the
current value of the securities, taking into account its bid/offer
spread, our credit spreads, market volatility, the notional size of
the proposed sale, the cost of unwinding any related hedging
positions, the time remaining to maturity and the likelihood that
it will be able to resell the securities. Even if there is a
secondary market, it may not provide enough liquidity to allow you
to trade or sell the securities easily. Since other broker-dealers
may not participate significantly in the secondary market for the
securities, the price at which you may be able to trade your
securities is likely to depend on the price, if any, at which MS
& Co. is willing to transact. If, at any time, MS & Co.
were to cease making a market in the securities, it is likely that
there would be no secondary market for the securities. Accordingly,
you should be willing to hold your securities to
maturity.
■The
rate we are willing to pay for securities of this type, maturity
and issuance size is likely to be lower than the rate implied by
our secondary market credit spreads and advantageous to us. Both
the lower rate and the inclusion of costs associated with issuing,
selling, structuring and hedging the securities in the original
issue price reduce the economic terms of the securities, cause the
estimated value of the securities to be less than the original
issue price and will adversely affect secondary market
prices.
Assuming no change in market
conditions or any other relevant factors, the prices, if any, at
which dealers, including MS & Co., may be willing to purchase
the securities in secondary market transactions will likely be
significantly lower than the original issue price, because
secondary market prices will exclude the issuing, selling,
structuring and hedging-related costs that are included in the
original issue price and borne by you and because the secondary
market prices will reflect our secondary market credit spreads and
the bid-offer spread that any dealer would charge in a secondary
market transaction of this type as well as other
factors.
The inclusion of the costs of
issuing, selling, structuring and hedging the securities in the
original issue price and the lower rate we are willing to pay as
issuer make the economic terms of the securities less favorable to
you than they otherwise would be.
However, because the costs
associated with issuing, selling, structuring and hedging the
securities are not fully deducted upon issuance, for a period of up
to 6 months following the issue date, to the extent that MS &
Co. may buy or sell the securities in the secondary market, absent
changes in market conditions, including those related to the
underlying stock, and to our secondary market credit spreads, it
would do so based on values higher than the estimated value, and we
expect that those higher values will also be reflected in your
brokerage account statements.
■The
estimated value of the securities is determined by reference to our
pricing and valuation models, which may differ from those of other
dealers and is not a maximum or minimum secondary market
price. These pricing and valuation models are
proprietary and rely in part on subjective views of certain market
inputs and certain assumptions about future events, which may prove
to be incorrect. As a result, because there is no market-standard
way to value these types of securities, our models may yield a
higher estimated value of the securities than those generated by
others, including other dealers in the market, if they attempted to
value the securities. In addition, the estimated value on the
pricing date does not represent a minimum or maximum price at which
dealers, including MS & Co., would be willing to purchase your
securities in the secondary market (if any exists) at any time. The
value of your securities at any time after the date of this
document will vary based on many factors that cannot be predicted
with accuracy, including our creditworthiness and changes in market
conditions. See also “The market price will be influenced by many
unpredictable factors” above.
■Hedging
and trading activity by our affiliates could potentially affect the
value of the securities. One or more of our affiliates and/or
third-party dealers expect to carry out hedging activities related
to the securities (and to other instruments linked to the
underlying stock), including trading in the underlying stock. As a
result, these entities may be