Margin Disclosure Statement

Raymond James is furnishing this information to you to provide some basic facts about purchasing securities on margin, and to alert you to the risks involved with trading securities in a margin account. Before trading securities in a margin account, you should carefully review the margin agreement provided by Raymond James. Consult your financial advisor regarding any questions or concerns you may have with your margin accounts.

When you purchase securities, you may pay for the securities in full or you may borrow part of the purchase price from Raymond James. If you choose to borrow funds from Raymond James, you will open a margin account with us. The securities purchased are our collateral for the loan to you. If the securities in your account decline in value, so does the value of the collateral supporting your loan, and, as a result, Raymond James can take action, such as issue a margin call and/or sell securities or other assets in any of your accounts held at Raymond James, to maintain the required equity in the account.

It is important that you fully understand the risks involved in trading securities on margin. These risks include the following:

You can lose more funds than you deposit in the margin account. A decline in the value of securities that are purchased on margin may require you to provide additional funds to Raymond James to avoid the forced sale of those securities or other securities or assets in your accounts.

Raymond James can force the sale of securities or other assets in your accounts. If the equity in your account falls below the maintenance margin requirements, or below our higher "house" requirements, Raymond James can sell the securities or other assets in any of your accounts held at Raymond James to cover the margin deficiency. You also will be responsible for any shortfall in the account after such a sale.

Raymond James can sell your securities or other assets without contacting you. Some investors mistakenly believe that their firm must contact them for a margin call to be valid and that the firm cannot liquidate securities or other assets in their accounts to meet the call unless the firm has contacted them first. This is not the case. Most firms will attempt to notify their customers of margin calls, but they are not required to do so. However, even if Raymond James has contacted a customer and provided a specific date by which the customer can meet a margin call, we can still take necessary steps to protect its financial interests, including immediately selling the securities without notice to the customer.

You are not entitled to choose which securities or other assets in your accounts are liquidated or sold to meet a margin call. Because the securities are collateral for the margin loan, Raymond James has the right to decide which security to sell to protect our interests.

Raymond James can increase its house maintenance margin requirements at any time and is not required to provide you with advance notice. These policy changes often take effect immediately and may result in the issuance of a maintenance margin call. Your failure to satisfy the call may cause Raymond James to liquidate or sell securities in your accounts.

You are not entitled to an extension of time on a margin call. While an extension of time to meet margin requirements may be available to customers under certain conditions, a customer does not have a right to the extension.

For additional information about margin accounts, please visit the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website. It explains how margin accounts work – including the fact that margin account agreements may give brokers the right to sell an investor’s shares without warning to cover a margin call, and it features a margin calculator.