Blue Chip Value Portfolio Series 9

Under normal circumstances, the Trust will invest at least 80% of the value of its assets in 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 aims to provide a portfolio of value securities that the Sponsor believes are issued by large-cap, high quality U.S. companies. A value security is a security with lower price-to-book ratios compared to the overall stock market. The final portfolio will reflect the Sponsor’s assessment of relative value, quality, the sustainability of current dividends (if applicable), potential growth in earnings and dividends, and historic returns on capital, as well as near-term risks and opportunities. The Trust may invest in foreign securities and real estate investment Trusts. There can be no assurance that any security held by the Trust will meet the Trust objective.

As a result of this strategy, the Trust invests significantly in the financials sector.

As of the date of deposit, the trust will hold a significant amount of its assets in the securities of U.S. and non-U.S. companies of large-capitalizations.

The Trust’s portfolio is constructed by the Sponsor using the methodology described below:

• Begin with an initial universe of securities in the Russell Top 200 Index with a FTSE/Russell value score above 0.7. As of April 30, 2024, the Russell Top 200® Index included securities with market capitalization ranges from approximately $42.1 billion to $2.89 trillion.
• Focus on factors including, but not limited to:
  • 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.
  • Growth. The Sponsor may screen for companies with a history of (and prospects for) above average growth of sales, earnings and dividends.
  • Profitability. The Sponsor may screen for companies with a history of consistent and high profitability as measured by return-on-assets, return-on equity, gross margin and net margin.
  • 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.
  • Balance sheet. The Sponsor favors companies that possess overall financial strength and exhibit balance sheet improvements relative to their peers and the marketplace.
  • Cash-flow adequacy. The Sponsor favors companies with recent earnings and operating cash-flow significantly higher than the dividends paid as of the company’s most recent financial reporting period.
• Select a portfolio of 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.

Index Definition: The Russell Top 200^® Index measures the performance of the largest cap segment of the US equity universe. It is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index and includes approximately 200 of the largest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership. The Russell 3000 Index is a market-capitalization-weighted equity index.

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. An outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”) was first detected in December 2019 and rapidly spread around the globe leading the World Health Organization to declare the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020 and resulting in major disruptions to economies and markets around the world. The complete economic impacts of COVID-19 are
  not yet fully known. The COVID-19 pandemic, or any future public health crisis, is impossible to predict and  could result in adverse market conditions which may negatively impact the performance of the trust and the trust's ability to achieve its investment objectives. 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 "value" stocks. Value stocks are issued by companies which, based upon their lower than average price/book ratios, are believed to be undervalued or inexpensive relative to other companies in the same industry or the economy as a whole. These common stocks were generally selected on the basis of an issuer's business and economic fundamentals or the securities' current and projected credit profiles, relative to current market price. Such securities are subject to the risk of misestimating certain fundamental factors and will generally underperform during periods when value style investments are "out of favor."
• The Trust invests significantly in the financial sector. As a result, the factors that impact the  financial sector will likely have a greater effect on this trust than on a more broadly diversified
  trust. Companies in the financial sector include banks, insurance companies and investment firms. The profitability of companies in the financial sector is largely dependent upon the availability and cost of capital which may fluctuate significantly in response to changes in
  interest rates and general economic developments. Financial sector companies are especially subject to the adverse effects of economic recession, decreases in the availability of capital,
  volatile interest rates, portfolio concentrations in geographic markets and in commercial and residential real estate loans, and competition from new entrants in their fields of business.
• 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.