Investment
Summary
Principal at Risk
Securities
The Enhanced Trigger Jump Securities Based
on the Value of the Worst Performing of the Dow Jones Industrial
AverageSM,
the Russell 2000®
Index and the S&P
500®
Index due March 31, 2028 (the “securities”) can
be used:
■As
an alternative to direct exposure to the underlying indices that
provides a fixed return of 45% (to be determined on the pricing
date) if the final index value of
each
underlying index is greater than or equal to its respective
downside threshold value;
■To
enhance returns and potentially outperform the worst performing of
the Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM,
the Russell 2000®
Index and the S&P
500®
Index in a moderately bullish or
moderately bearish scenario;
■To
obtain limited protection against the loss of principal in the
event of a decline of the underlying indices as of the valuation
date, but only if the final index value of
each
underlying index is
greater than or
equal to its respective downside threshold
value.
If the final index value of
any underlying index is less than its downside
threshold value, the securities are exposed on a 1-to-1 basis to
the percentage decline of the final index value of the worst
performing underlying index from its respective initial index
value.
Accordingly, investors may
lose their entire initial investment in the
securities.
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Maturity:
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5 years
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Upside
payment:
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At least $450 per security (45% of the
stated principal amount, to be determined on the pricing date),
payable only if the final index value of each underlying index is
greater than or equal to its respective downside threshold
value
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Downside threshold
value:
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For each underlying index, 70% of the
respective initial index value
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Minimum payment at
maturity:
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None. Investors may lose their entire
initial investment in the securities.
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Interest:
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None
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The original issue price of each security
is $1,000. This price includes costs associated with issuing,
selling, structuring and hedging the securities, which are borne by
you, and, consequently, the estimated value of the securities on
the pricing date will be less than $1,000. We estimate that the
value of each security on the pricing date will be approximately
$926.00, or within $40.00 of that estimate. Our estimate of the
value of the securities as determined on the pricing date will be
set forth in the final pricing supplement.
What goes into the estimated
value on the pricing date?
In valuing the securities on the pricing
date, we take into account that the securities comprise both a debt
component and a performance-based component linked to the
underlying indices. The estimated value of the securities is
determined using our own pricing and valuation models, market
inputs and assumptions relating to the underlying indices,
instruments based on the underlying indices, volatility and other
factors including current and expected interest rates, as well as
an interest rate related to our secondary market credit spread,
which is the implied interest rate at which our conventional fixed
rate debt trades in the secondary market.
What determines the economic
terms of the securities?
In determining the economic terms of the
securities, including the upside payment and the downside threshold
values, we use an internal funding rate, which is likely to be
lower than our secondary market credit spreads and therefore
advantageous to us. If the issuing, selling, structuring and
hedging costs borne by you were lower or if the internal funding
rate were higher, one or more of the economic terms of the
securities would be more favorable to you.
What is the relationship
between the estimated value on the pricing date and the secondary
market price of the securities?
The price at which MS & Co. purchases
the securities in the secondary market, absent changes in market
conditions, including those related to the underlying indices, may
vary from, and be lower than, the estimated value on the pricing
date, because the secondary market price takes into account our
secondary market credit spread as well as the bid-offer spread that
MS & Co. would charge in a secondary market transaction of this
type and other factors. 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
indices, and to our secondary market credit spreads, it would do so
based on values higher than the estimated value. We expect that
those higher values will also be reflected in your brokerage
account statements.
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.