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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 5-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.
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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
indices, 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.
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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 indices or their component stocks), including trading in
the stocks that constitute the underlying indices as well as in
other instruments related to the underlying indices. As a result,
these entities may be unwinding or adjusting hedge positions during
the term of the securities, and the hedging strategy may involve
greater and more frequent dynamic adjustments to the hedge as the
final observation date approaches. Some of our affiliates also
trade the stocks that constitute the underlying indices and other
financial instruments related to the underlying indices on a
regular basis as part of their general broker-dealer and other
businesses. Any of these hedging or trading activities on or prior
to the pricing date could potentially increase the initial index
value of an underlying index, and, therefore, could increase the
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