Closed-End Senior Loan & Income Portfolio Series 7

As with all investments, you can lose money by investing in the Trust. The Trust also might not perform as well as you expect. This can happen for reasons such as these:

• Stock 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.
• The Trust includes securities of closed-end funds. Closed-end funds are actively managed investment companies that invest in various types of securities. Closed-end funds issue shares of common stock that are traded on a securities exchange. Closed-end funds are subject to various risks, including management’s ability to meet the closed-end fund’s investment objective, and to manage the closed-end fund portfolio when the underlying securities are redeemed or sold, during periods of market turmoil and as investors’ perceptions regarding closed-end funds or their underlying investments change. Closed-end funds are not redeemable at the option of the shareholder and they may trade in the market at a discount to their net asset value. Closed-end funds may also employ the use of leverage which increases risk and volatility.
• The value of the fixed-income securities in the closed-end funds will generally fall if interest rates, in general, rise. Typically, fixed-income securities with longer periods before maturity are more sensitive to interest rate changes. A closed-end fund or issuers of securities included in a closed-end fund may be unwilling or unable to make principal payments and/or to declare dividends in the future, may call a security before its stated maturity, or may reduce the level of dividends declared. In addition, a closed-end fund may also reduce its dividend. This may result in a reduction in the value of your units.
• The financial condition of a closed-end fund or issuers of securities included in a closed-end fund may worsen or its credit ratings may drop, resulting in a reduction in the value of your units. In addition, the financial condition of a closed-end fund may also worsen. This may occur at any point in time, including during the primary offering period.
• Certain closed-end funds held by the Trust may invest in bonds that are rated below investment grade and are considered to be “junk” securities. Below investment grade obligations are considered to be speculative and are subject to greater market and credit risks, and accordingly, the risk of nonpayment or default is higher than investment grade securities. In addition, such securities may be more sensitive to interest rate changes and more likely to receive early returns of principal.
• Certain closed-end funds held by the Trust may invest in bonds that are rated as investment grade by only one rating agency. As a result, such split-rated securities may have more speculative characteristics and are more subject to a greater risk of default than securities rated as investment grade by both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.
• Certain closed-end funds held by the Trust invest in senior loans. Borrowers under senior loans may default on their obligations to pay principal or interest when due. This non-payment would result in a reduction of income to the applicable closed-end fund, a reduction in the value of the senior loan experiencing non-payment and a decrease in the net asset value of the closed-end fund. Although senior loans in which the closed-end funds invest may be secured by specific collateral, there can be no assurance that liquidation of collateral would satisfy the borrower’s obligation in the event of non-payment of scheduled principal or interest or that such collateral could be readily liquidated. Senior loans in which the closed-end funds invest: generally are of below investment grade credit quality; may be unrated at the time of investment; generally are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or any state securities commission; and generally are not listed on any securities exchange. In addition, the amount of public information available on senior loans generally is less extensive than that available for other types of assets.
• The sponsor does not actively manage the portfolio. The Trust will generally hold, and may continue to buy, the same securities even though the security’s outlook, rating, market value or yield may have changed.
• Inflation may lead to a decrease in the value of assets or income from investments.
• In addition to expenses of the units of the Trust, the Trust is subject to various expenses of the closed-end funds.
• Please note that the sponsor may be engaged as a service provider to certain closed-end funds held by the Trust and therefore certain fees paid by the Trust to such closed-end funds will be paid to the sponsor for its services to such closed-end funds.