investment would be at risk and you could
lose some or all of your investment. As a result, the market value
of the securities prior to maturity will be affected by changes in
the market’s view of our creditworthiness. Any actual or
anticipated decline in our credit ratings or increase in the credit
spreads charged by the market for taking our credit risk is likely
to adversely affect the market value of the
securities.
■As
a finance subsidiary, MSFL has no independent operations and will
have no independent assets. As a finance subsidiary, MSFL has no
independent operations beyond the issuance and administration of
its securities and will have no independent assets available for
distributions to holders of MSFL securities if they make claims in
respect of such securities in a bankruptcy, resolution or similar
proceeding. Accordingly, any recoveries by such holders will be
limited to those available under the related guarantee by Morgan
Stanley and that guarantee will rank
pari passu
with all other unsecured, unsubordinated
obligations of Morgan Stanley. Holders will have recourse only to a
single claim against Morgan Stanley and its assets under the
guarantee. Holders of securities issued by MSFL should accordingly
assume that in any such proceedings they would not have any
priority over and should be treated
pari passu
with the claims of other unsecured,
unsubordinated creditors of Morgan Stanley, including holders of
Morgan Stanley-issued securities.
■Not
equivalent to investing in the underlying indices.
Investing in the securities is
not equivalent to investing in any underlying index or the
component stocks of any underlying index. Investors in the
securities will not have voting rights or rights to receive
dividends or other distributions or any other rights with respect
to stocks that constitute any underlying
index.
■Reinvestment
risk.
The term of your investment in
the securities may be shortened due to the automatic early
redemption feature of the securities. If the securities are
redeemed prior to maturity, you will receive no further payments on
the securities and may be forced to invest in a lower interest rate
environment and may not be able to reinvest at comparable terms or
returns. However, under no circumstances will the securities be
redeemed at any point other than the specified early redemption
date.
■The
securities will not be listed on any securities exchange and
secondary trading may be limited, and 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
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.
■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