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RISK FACTORS |
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• Your money
will be invested in securities issued by Morgan Stanley. At the time
of publication of this brochure, Morgan Stanley has a credit rating
of A+ by Standard & Poor’s and A1 by Moody’s Investor Services
Limited. These securities will be designed to provide the return for
your investment. In the event of Morgan Stanley going into
liquidation or failing to comply with the terms of the securities,
you may not receive the anticipated returns on your investment and
you may lose all or part of the money you originally invested. The
Plan is not a guaranteed investment.
• Credit
ratings are an independent measure of creditworthiness. They can be
applied to financial institutions and are assessed and reviewed by
independent companies known as ratings agencies (including Standard
and Poor’s and Moody’s Investor Services, amongst others). Credit
ratings for financial institutions can go up or down at any point in
response to changes in the financial position of the financial
institution in question.
• The Plan
has a maturity of five years and is intended as a medium term
investment. If you sell your investment before its maturity date you
may get back less than your Initial Investment. Prior to maturity,
limited liquidity for the securities will be provided in the
secondary market. This means that it may not always be possible to
sell the securities at certain times and that the price achieved may
be less than the original investment.
• The
structure and operations of Morgan Stanley are such that conflicts
of interest will occur in relation to the Plan. Morgan Stanley has
processes in place to identify these conflicts and ensure that they
are properly managed and/or disclosed to individual Planholders. For
more information, please refer to the Summary of our Conflicts of
Interest Policy contained within the Terms and Conditions of this
Plan.
• The growth
returns of the Plan are based on the price performance of the S&P
Global Infrastructure Index and do not include any return from
dividend income or participation in corporate actions, as would be
the case if you invested directly in the shares comprised in the S&P
Global Infrastructure Index. Accordingly, the return on the Plan may
be less than the return from a direct investment in such shares.
• If the
Early Exit Feature is triggered you will not participate in any S&P
Global Infrastructure Index growth above 30%.
• If the
Early Exit Feature is not triggered the Final Index Level will not
be based on a single reading of the S&P Global Infrastructure Index,
but on the average level of the Index on a given set of dates over
the final twelve months (13 observations), defined in the Returns At
Maturity section on page 2 of the brochure. Any increase or fall in
the level of the S&P Global Infrastructure Index at any time or on
any date other than its closing level on any of such given dates
will not be reflected in the determination of the return on the
Plan. There can be no assurance that the average S&P Global
Infrastructure Index level or that the Initial Index level will
reflect the then prevailing trend (if any) for the level of the S&P
Global Infrastructure Index or the market price of the shares
comprised in it. While the use of averaging may protect against
falls in the S&P Global Infrastructure Index on a specific date, it
may also significantly constrain the performance of the S&P Global
Infrastructure Index, as used to calculate the return on the Plan.
Accordingly, the calculation of the average S&P Global
Infrastructure Index level may result in a lower return than if a
single reading of the S&P Global Infrastructure Index was taken at
the Plan maturity.
• If you have
invested via an ISA and subsequently decide to withdraw, it may not
be possible to invest in another ISA of the same type for the same
tax year in which you have invested if your cancellation period has
expired. If you have invested via an ISA transfer, unless you are
able to find another plan manager to transfer your investment to,
any favourable tax treatment associated with that ISA holding will
be irrevocably lost.
• Your
circumstances could change, forcing you to withdraw and realise your
investment early. If this happens, you may get back less than the
amount you originally invested.
• The formula
under which the return on the Plan is likely to be calculated
provides that in certain circumstances calculation of the return may
be adjusted to take account of market disruption events interfering
with determination of the level of the S&P Global Infrastructure
Index. A relevant market disruption would be a suspension or
limitation of trading on the relevant exchanges of a material
proportion of the shares included in the S&P Global Infrastructure
Index, which would delay or prevent calculation of the official S&P
Global Infrastructure Index level. Should this occur, the return on
the Plan may be affected and may be more or less than would
otherwise have been the case. Similar provisions are also likely to
be included to address any charge, modification or failure in
respect of the calculation and announcement of the S&P Global
Infrastructure Index with similar consequences.
• Payments
scheduled to be made in respect of the securities in which the Plan
will invest your money may be delayed where market disruption events
occur (as described above), causing a delay to the availability of
published index levels for the S&P Global Infrastructure Index, and
potentially therefore delays in the Plan Manager making payments to
you. Where necessary in the event that any such payments are
delayed, corresponding adjustments will be made to the scheduled
dates for payment under the Plan.
• MSI plc
does not give investment advice. If you are in any doubt about the
suitability of this investment, you should contact your independent
financial adviser.
• Past
performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance and
should not be used to assess the risks associated with this
investment. In recent years the performance of the S&P Global
Infrastructure Index has been volatile. There can be no assurance as
to the future performance of the S&P Global Infrastructure Index.
Before making an investment in the Plan you should consider
whether an investment linked to the S&P Global Infrastructure Index
is suitable for you.
• The levels
and basis of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any
time. The value and availability of any tax relief depends on
individual circumstances. The favourable tax treatment of ISAs may
not be maintained throughout the term of the ISA and is subject to
changes in legislation.
• Tax
assumptions are based on our understanding of current legislation
and practice at the time of print and may be subject to future
change.
Please refer to the Brochure and the Terms & Conditions for full
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