Structured Products
Certain Risk Considerations
NO INTEREST OR DIVIDEND PAYMENTS OR VOTING RIGHTS - As a holder of any notes that may be issued by us, you may not receive any interest payments, and you will not have voting rights or rights to receive cash dividends or other distributions or other rights that holders of securities comprising the underlying index or basket may have.
CERTAIN BUILT-IN COSTS ARE LIKELY TO ADVERSELY AFFECT THE VALUE OF THE NOTES DESCRIBED ABOVE PRIOR TO MATURITY - While the payment at maturity described in the Offering Documents would be based on the full principal amount of any notes sold by JPMorgan Chase & Co., the original issue price of any notes we issue includes an agent's commission and the cost of hedging our obligations under such notes through one or more of our affiliates. As a result, the price, if any, at which an affiliate of JPMorgan will be willing to purchase such notes from you in secondary market transactions, if at all, will likely be lower than the original issue price and any sale prior to the maturity date could result in a substantial loss to you. The notes described will not be designed to be short-term trading instruments. YOU SHOULD BE WILLING TO HOLD ANY NOTES THAT WE ULTIMATELY ISSUE TO MATURITY.
POTENTIAL CONFLICTS - We and our affiliates play a variety of roles in connection with any potential issuance of the notes described in the Offering Documents, including acting as calculation agent and hedging our obligations under such notes. In performing these duties, the economic interests of the calculation agent and other affiliates of ours would be potentially adverse to your interests as an investor in such notes.
LACK OF LIQUIDITY - The notes described above will not be listed on any securities exchange. There may be no secondary market for such notes, and an affiliate of JPMorgan will not be required to purchase notes in the secondary market. Even if there is a secondary market, it may not provide enough liquidity to allow you to trade or sell any notes issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co. easily. Because other dealers are not likely to make a secondary market for such notes, prices for the notes described above in any secondary market are likely to depend on the price, if any, at which an affiliate of JPMorgan is willing to buy such notes.
JPMORGAN CREDIT RISK - Because any notes that may be issued by us would be our senior unsecured obligations, payment of any amount at maturity is subject to our ability to pay our obligations as they become due.
MANY ECONOMIC AND MARKET FACTORS WILL IMPACT THE VALUE OF THE NOTES DESCRIBED ABOVE - In addition to the level of the underlying index or basket on any day, the value of any notes that may be issued by us described above will be affected by a number of economic and market factors that may either offset or magnify each other, including:
- the expected volatility of the underlying index or basket;
- the time to maturity of the notes described in the Offering Documents;
- if the underlying index or indices are linked to equity securities, the dividend rate on the common stocks underlying the index or indices;
- if the underlying index or indices or basket are linked to commodities, the market price of the physical commodities upon which the futures contracts that compose the underlying index or indices or basket of commodities are based or the exchange-traded futures contracts on such commodities;
- interest and yield rates in the market generally;
- a variety of economic, financial, political, regulatory, geographical, agricultural, meteorological or judicial events; and
- our credit worthiness.