Blue Chip Dividend Portfolio Series 18

Under normal circumstances, the Trust will invest at least 80% of the value of its assets in dividend-paying securities of blue chip companies. A blue chip company is a nationally recognized company with a long-term reputation for quality, reliability and financial strength. The Trust consists of a portfolio of securities that the Sponsor believes are large-cap, high quality U.S.-traded dividend-paying securities that have historically paid above average dividend income. The Sponsor believes that dividends are often a good indicator of a corporation’s current financial condition and may signal management’s belief in a profitable future for the corporation. The U.S.-traded common stocks held by the Trust may include the common stocks of U.S. and non-U.S. companies. The Trust may also invest in real estate investment trusts.

As of the date of deposit, the Trust will hold a significant amount of its assets in dividend paying large-capitalization U.S. common stocks.

The Sponsor selects U.S.-traded companies that it believes should be core holdings of a diversified dividend-paying portfolio. To select the portfolio the Sponsor follows a disciplined process which includes a qualitative financial analysis.

The sponsor begins with a universe of all dividend-paying equity securities currently traded in the United States as of the security selection date. The sponsor then reduces the universe by sorting companies based on their indicated dividend yields and excluding those in the bottom 20% per sector. From this sub-universe of companies, the sponsor identifies companies for inclusion in the portfolio through a qualitative financial analysis which is based on, but not limited to, the following factors:

• Profitability & Growth. The Sponsor favors profitable companies with consistent profit margin expansion and prospects for above average growth of dividends, sales and earnings.
• Cash-flow Adequacy. The Sponsor favors companies with recent earnings, operating and free cash-flow higher than the dividends paid over the last/trailing 12 months.
• Balance Sheet Strength. The Sponsor favors companies that possess overall financial strength and exhibit balance sheet improvements relative to their peers and the marketplace.
• Valuation. The Sponsor favors companies whose valuations appear to be attractive based on measures such as price-to-earnings, price-to-book and price to cash-flow.
• Industry Leadership. The Sponsor favors companies that possess a strong competitive position among their domestic and global peers. Examples of a strong competitive position include, but are not limited to, possessing proprietary technology or processes, a brand strength, network effects, superior management or an absolute cost advantage.

From the remaining universe, the Sponsor selects a final portfolio of dividend-paying securities by selecting the most attractive candidates, as determined by the Sponsor, from each sector for expected performance and risk, while maintaining diversification with limits on sector and market capitalization.

As with all investments, you may lose some or all of your investment in the Trust. No assurance can be given that the Trust’s investment objective will be achieved. The Trust also might not perform as well as you expect. This can happen for reasons such as these:

• Securities prices can be volatile. The value of your investment may fall over time. Market value fluctuates in response to various factors. These can include stock market movements, purchases or sales of securities by the Trust, government policies, litigation, and changes in interest rates, inflation, the financial condition of the securities’ issuer or even perceptions of the issuer. Changes in legal, political, regulatory, tax and economic conditions may cause fluctuations in markets and securities prices, which could negatively impact the value of the Trust. Additionally, events such as war, terrorism, natural and environmental disasters and the spread of infectious illnesses or other public health emergencies may adversely affect the economy, various markets and issuers. For example, the ongoing conflicts in the Ukraine and Gaza, the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, and federal regulatory restrictions on U.S. corporate issuer investments in China and Russia have all recently affected issuers and markets. The complete economic impact of any such future event may be difficult or impossible to predict. Units of the trust are not deposits of any bank and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
• Share prices or dividend rates on the securities in the Trust may decline during the life of the Trust. There is no guarantee that share prices of the securities in the Trust will not decline and that the issuers of the securities will declare dividends in the future and, if declared, whether they will remain at current levels or increase over time.
• The Trust invests in dividend-paying securities. The Trust’s investment in dividend-paying securities could cause the Trust to underperform similar funds that invest without consideration of a company’s track record of paying dividends. Securities of companies with a history of paying dividends may not participate in a broad market advance to the same degree as most other securities, and a sharp rise in interest rates or economic downturn could cause a company to unexpectedly reduce or eliminate its dividend. There is no guarantee that the issuers of the securities held by the Trust will declare dividends in the future or that, if declared, they will remain at their current levels or increase over time.
• The Trust invests in U.S.-listed foreign securities. Investment in foreign securities presents additional risk. Foreign risk is the risk that foreign securities will be more volatile than U.S. securities due to such factors as adverse economic, currency, political, social or regulatory developments in a country, including government seizure of assets, excessive taxation, limitations on the use or transfer of assets, the lack of liquidity or regulatory controls with respect to certain industries or differing legal and/or accounting standards.
• The Trust may be susceptible to potential risks through breaches in cybersecurity. A breach in cybersecurity refers to both intentional and unintentional events that may cause the Trust to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption or lose operational capacity. Such events could cause the Sponsor of the Trust to incur regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional compliance costs associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss. In addition, cybersecurity breaches of the Trust’s third-party service providers, or issuers in which the Trust invests, can also subject the Trust to many of the same risks associated with direct cybersecurity breaches.
• The Trust is subject to risks arising from various operational factors and their service providers. Operational factors include, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Trust’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. Additionally, the Trust may be subject to the risk that a service provider may not be willing or able to perform their duties as required or contemplated by their agreements with the Trust. Although the Trust seeks to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures, there is no way to completely protect against such risks.
• Inflation may lead to a decrease in the value of assets or income from investments.
• The Sponsor does not actively manage the portfolio. The Trust will generally hold, and may, when creating additional units, continue to buy, the same securities even though a security’s outlook, market value or yield may have changed.

See “Investment Risks” in Part A of the prospectus and “Risk Factors” in Part B of the prospectus for additional information.