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Investment Product Guide-

Exchange Traded Funds and Warrants

I have read the Investment Product Guide of the above product,

and I acknowledge that I understand its features and risks.

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Warning:

This document covers certain structured products involving derivatives. Investment decision is yours but
you should not invest in the structured product unless (i) the intermediary who sells it to you/your
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your financial situation, investment experience and investment objectives; and/or (ii) you fully understand
and are willing to assume the risks associated with it.

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ETFs

What is an Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?

 The ETFs is to track the performance of an underlying index. Some ETFs gain exposure to the underlying
index by investing in shares, bonds, futures, commodities or other assets that make up the index
 Synthetic ETFs adopt a different replication strategy by investing in derivative instruments designed to
replicate the performance of index

Key features of ETFs

 Exchange trading - An ETF is structured as a mutual fund or a unit trust but its units, like a stock, are also
tradable on the Stock Exchange
 Index tracking - To achieve the index tracking objective, a fund manager may adopt one or more of the
following strategies:
 full replication by investing in a portfolio of securities that replicates the composition of the underlying
index;
 representative sampling by investing in a portfolio of securities featuring a high correlation with the
underlying index, but is not exactly the same as those in the index; or
 synthetic replication through the use of financial derivative instruments to replicate the index
performance.
 Synthetic replication is sometimes used by an ETF to raise efficiency and reduce cost. Where an ETF tracks
a market (or an index in a market) that has restricted access, it has no other choice but to adopt synthetic
replication through the use of financial derivative instruments.
 Trading price vs. Net Asset Value (NAV) - Each ETF has an NAV that is calculated with reference to the
market value of the investments held by it.
 Dividend entitlement - An ETF may or may not distribute dividends, depending on its dividend policy.

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ETFs
Risk Factors:

ETFs
 Product is NOT principal protected.
 Investors are exposed to Market risk such as economic, political, currency, legal and other risks of a specific
sector or market related to the index and the market that it is tracking.
 Liquidity risk exists when a particular instrument is difficult to purchase or sell
 There may be disparity between the performance of the ETF and the performance of the underlying index
due to, for instance, failure of tracking strategy, currency differences, fees and expenses.
 Since the trading price of an ETF is typically determined by the supply and demand of the market, the ETF
may trade at a price higher or lower than its NAV.

Synthetic ETFs
 Product is NOT principal protected.
 Investors are exposed to Market risk such as political, economic, currency and other risks related to the
synthetic ETF’s underlying index.
 Investors are subject to the credit risk of the counterparties who issued the derivatives and knock-on effect:
 Once a derivatives issuing counterparty defaults, a synthetic ETF may suffer losses.
 If a replacing counterparty cannot be found, the ETF may no longer be able to track the benchmark
index. In case the ETF is forced to liquidate the underlying assets, investors may suffer significant
losses.
 One derivatives counterparty goes bankrupt may have a knock-on effect on other derivatives
counterparties. Some synthetic ETFs have collateral to reduce the counterparty risk, but there may
be a risk that the market value of the collateral has fallen substantially when the synthetic ETF seeks
to realize the collateral. Investors may trade a synthetic ETF at a discount or premium to its Net Asset
Value (NAV). Where the index/market that the synthetic ETF tracks is subject to restricted access, the
efficiency in unit creation or redemption to keep the price of the synthetic ETF in line with its NAV may
be disrupted, causing the synthetic ETF to trade at a higher premium or discount to its NAV. Investors
who buy a synthetic ETF at a premium may not be able to recover the premium in the event of
termination.
 A higher liquidity risk is involved if a synthetic ETF involves derivatives which do not have an active
secondary market. Wider bid-offer spreads in the price of the derivatives may result in losses.
 There may be disparity between the performance of the synthetic ETF and the performance of the underlying
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index due to, for instance, failure of tracking strategy, currency differences, fees and expenses.
Warrants

What are Warrants?

 Warrants are an instrument which gives investors the right - but not the obligation - to buy or sell the
underlying asset (e.g. a stock) at a pre-set price on or before a specified date.

Key features of Warrants

 Compared with stocks, warrants have more attributes which include:


 Issuer: A warrant can be issued by a listed company (i.e. subscription warrant) or a third party such
as a financial institution (i.e. derivative warrant).
 Underlying asset: It can be a single stock, a basket of stocks, an index, a currency, a commodity, a
futures contract (e.g. oil futures) etc.
 Types of embedded rights: Don't mix up a call warrant with a put warrant. A call warrant gives you
the right to buy whereas a put warrant gives you the right to sell the underlying asset.
 Exercise price: The price at which you buy or sell the underlying asset in exercising a warrant.
 Conversion ratio: This refers to the number of units of the underlying asset exchanged when
exercising a unit of a warrant. Normally, in Hong Kong a derivative warrant on shares has the ratio of
1 (i.e.one warrant for one share) or 10 (i.e.10 warrants for one share).
 Expiry date: The date on which a warrant will expire and become worthless if the warrant is not
exercised.
 Exercise style: With an American warrant, you can exercise to buy/sell the underlying asset on or
before the expiry date. Whereas a European warrant allows exercise on the expiry date only.
 Settlement: A warrant can be settled by cash or physical delivery upon exercise.

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Warrants

 Derivative warrants are issued by financial institutions. Unlike subscription warrants which must be call
warrants, derivative warrants can be call or put warrants. Most of the derivative warrants in the market have
a shorter life, ranging from 6 months to 2 years normally, although the current Listing Rules allow a maximum
life of 5 years.
 Derivative warrants can be linked with a single stock, a basket of stocks, an index, a currency, a commodity
or a futures contract (e.g. oil futures). They can be settled by cash or physical delivery, which must be
specified by the issuers at launch.
 In exercising a call derivative warrant on a single stock with physical settlement, the issuer will deliver the
underlying shares to the warrant holder. This does not involve the issuance of new shares by the underlying
listed company as in the case of subscription warrants.
 Furthermore, every derivative warrant has a designated liquidity provider to help improve the liquidity of the
instrument in the market. Such a requirement does not apply to subscription warrants.

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Warrants
Risk Factors:

Warrants
 Product is NOT principal protected.
 Gearing risk: Although warrants often cost less than the price of the underlying assets, a warrant may change
in value to a much greater extent than the underlying assets. Although potential return on warrants may be
higher than that on the underlying assets, it should be noted that in the worst case the value of warrants may
fall to zero and holders may lose their entire investment amount.
 Limited life: Unlike stocks, derivative warrants have an expiry date and therefore a limited life. Unless the
warrants are in-the-money, they become worthless at expiration.


Derivative warrants
 Product is NOT principal protected.
 Issuer risk: Derivative warrant holders are unsecured creditors of the issuer and they have no preferential
claim to any assets an issuer may hold.
 Gearing risk: Although derivative warrants often cost less than the price of the underlying assets, a derivative
warrant may change in value to a much greater extent than the underlying assets. Although potential return
on derivative warrants may be higher than that on the underlying assets, it should be noted that in the worst
case the value of derivative warrants may fall to zero and holders may lose their entire investment amount.
 Limited life: Unlike stocks, derivative warrants have an expiry date and therefore a limited life. Unless the
derivative warrants are in-the-money, they become worthless at expiration.
 Time decay: So long as other factors remain unchanged, the value of derivative warrants will decrease over
time. Therefore, derivative warrants should never be viewed as products that are bought and held as long
term investments.
 Market forces: In addition to the basic factors that determine the theoretical price of a derivative warrant,
derivative warrant prices are also affected by the demand for and supply of the derivative warrants. This is
particularly the case when a derivative warrant issue is almost sold out and when there are further issues of
an existing derivative warrant.
 Turnover: High turnover should not be regarded as an indication that a derivative warrant’s price will go
up. The price of a derivative warrant is affected by a number of factors in addition to market forces, such as
the price of the underlying assets and its volatility, the time remaining to expiry, interest rates and the
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