Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Portfolio Series 56

Under normal circumstances, the Trust will invest at least 80% of the value of its assets in preferred securities. The Sponsor has selected Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated (“Flaherty”) to serve as the Trust’s portfolio consultant. The portfolio consultant is responsible for assisting the Sponsor with the selection of the Trust’s portfolio.

The Trust may consist of a portfolio of exchange-listed preferred securities, which include traditional and hybrid preferred securities, and/or baby bonds selected from Flaherty’s proprietary preferred securities database and its internally generated credit research. The U.S.-listed 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 and master limited partnerships.

In choosing the securities the primary factors include, but are not limited to, credit quality of the issuer and the liquidity and yield of the security as of the Trust’s initial date of deposit. Certain of the securities are rated below investment-grade and are considered to be high-yield or “junk” securities. As a result of this strategy, the Trust is concentrated in the financial sector.

With assistance from Flaherty, the Sponsor has selected preferred securities and/or baby bonds believed to have the best potential for current income with the potential for capital appreciation. The Sponsor believes that an investment in a portfolio of preferred securities and/or baby bonds offers investors an opportunity to receive many of the income flow advantages of bonds. The Trust is diversified across the listed preferred and/or baby bonds market, with attention paid to the credit quality of the issuer and the liquidity and yield of the security. As of the Trust’s initial date of deposit (the “Inception Date”), at least 50% of the securities included in the Trust are rated investment-grade quality by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

See “Description of Ratings” in Part B of the prospectus for additional information regarding the ratings criteria.

Preferred Stock. As of the Inception Date, 86.49% of the Trust consists of preferred stocks, including the preferred stocks of real estate investment Trusts. Similar to bonds, preferred stocks offer a stated rate of return, paid in the form of a dividend, and are traded on the basis of their credit risk and yield. Dividend distributions of preferred stocks may be eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporations and typically count as qualified dividend income for individual investors.

Like common stock, preferred stocks usually are perpetual equity securities representing ownership in a company. Preferred stock ranks senior to common stock and preferred stockholders enjoy preference over common stockholders with regard to liquidations. Preferred stockholders may also forfeit or at least be limited in their voting rights. The preferred stocks included in the Trust, if applicable, are traded on the national stock exchanges.

Hybrid Preferred Securities. As of the Inception Date, 12.50% of the Trust consists of hybrid preferred securities, including the preferred securities of master limited partnerships. Hybrid preferred securities possess varying combinations of features of both debt and traditional preferred securities. As such, they may constitute subordinated debt or preferred shares in an issuer’s capital structure. Certain hybrid preferred securities are typically issued by corporations, generally in the form of interest-bearing notes or preferred securities, or by an affiliated business Trust of a corporation, generally in the form of beneficial interests in subordinated debentures issued by the corporation. Unlike preferred stocks, distributions for hybrid preferred securities are generally treated as interest rather than dividends for federal income tax purposes and therefore are not eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporations and typically do not count as qualified dividend income for individual investors.

Baby Bonds. As of the Inception Date, 1.01% of the Trust consists of baby bonds. Baby bonds are generally long-term, fixed-income senior debt securities that are issued in small denominations. As with other types of bonds, baby bonds usually have a stated maturity that is at least 10 years after they are issued, and some are issued for as long as 50 years. When a baby bond reaches maturity, the issuing organization is required to repay the principal to the bondholder. The distributions from baby bonds are generally treated as interest for federal income tax purposes and therefore, are not eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporations and do not count as qualified dividend income for individual investors.

Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated

Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated was formed in 1983 with the express intention of managing portfolios of preferred and debt securities for institutional investors. The firm has experience dating back to 1991 in managing preferred securities funds. Through its experience in the preferred and debt securities markets, Flaherty has developed the expertise necessary to implement the portfolio and interest rate management strategies necessary in seeking to obtain the highest sustainable income. In addition to receiving a portfolio consulting fee, the Trust pays Flaherty a licensing fee for the use of its intellectual property.

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, event such 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.
• The Trust invests in preferred stocks and hybrid preferred securities. Preferred securities are typically subordinated to bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure in terms of priority to corporate income and therefore will be subject to greater risk than those debt instruments. In addition, preferred securities are subject to other risks, such as having no or limited voting rights, being subject to special redemption rights, changing tax treatments and possibly being issued by companies in heavily regulated industries. Furthermore, certain hybrid preferred securities often contain deferral features, whereby the issuer may fail to make distributions without a default occurring.
• Certain of the preferred securities held by the Trust have “make whole” call options that generally cause the securities to be redeemable at any time at a designated price. Such securities are generally more likely to be subject to early redemption and may result in the reduction of income received by the Trust and the early termination of the Trust.
• Certain of the preferred securities held by the Trust are “noncumulative.” As a result, these securities will not distribute any unpaid or omitted dividends from the prior year. If an issuer chooses not to pay dividends in a given year, the Trust will not have the right to claim the unpaid dividends in the future.
• The Trust is concentrated 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 securities 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 non-payment 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 in falling rate environments.
• Certain of the securities held by the Trust may be rated as investment-grade by only one rating agency. As a result, such split-rated securities may have more speculative characteristics and are subject to a greater risk of default than securities rated as investment-grade by more than one rating agency.
• The Trust invests in securities that are not rated by one or more of the rating agencies. As a result, it may be difficult to assess the credit quality of such securities.
• The value of your units 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. The Trust may be subject to greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates.
• An insurer or an issuer of the securities may be unwilling or unable to make principal or interest payments and/or to declare dividends in the future, may call a security before its stated maturity or may reduce the level of distributions declared. Issuers may suspend distributions during the life of the Trust. This may result in a reduction in the value of your units.
• The financial condition of an issuer or an insurer of the securities may worsen or its credit ratings may drop, resulting in a reduction in the value of your units. This may occur at any point in time, including during the initial offering period. As the Trust is unmanaged, a downgraded security will remain in the portfolio.
• The Trust will receive early returns of principal if securities held by the Trust are called or sold before they mature. If this happens your income will decline and you may not be able to reinvest the money you receive at as high a yield or as long a maturity.
• 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 value of your investment may fall over time. The Trust will generally hold, and may, when creating additional units, continue to buy, the same securities even though a security’s outlook, rating, 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.