HilltopSecurities Inc. Sweep Account Disclosure

Sweep accounts are a service provided by Hilltop Securities Inc. (“HTS”) to its customers offering you the option of transferring excess cash balances in your securities accounts to either (i) our Bank Insured Deposit (“BID”) program, which is an account at a participating bank whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), or to (ii) a money market mutual fund. A sweep of your excess cash allows you to earn interest on those funds while retaining the flexibility to quickly access that cash to purchase securities or withdraw it.

To participate in the sweep account program, you must select a sweep account product upon account opening by affirmative written consent. If you decline participation in the sweep account program, fail to make a selection by affirmative written consent, or if your account is otherwise ineligible to participate, your excess cash balances must be retained in an interest-bearing Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) insured credit interest program (“CIP”) account held at HTS. Unlike cash accounts, retirement accounts are required to participate in a sweep account program by selecting a sweep account product by affirmative written consent prior to account opening. Retirement accounts may not select CIP. For existing accounts, you should notify your financial professional if you wish to sweep cash balances to the BID program or a money market mutual fund, or if you wish to make a change in your current sweep product selection.

HTS is, and your financial professional may be, a member of SIPC, which protects securities customers of its members against the loss of cash and securities up to $500,000 (including a $250,000 limit for claims for cash). An explanatory brochure is available at www.sipc.org or by calling 202.371.8300. In addition, HTS has purchased Excess SIPC Insurance which covers the net equity of customers’ accounts up to an aggregate of $200 million from underwriting syndicates at Lloyd’s of London.

The customer securities component, which restricts coverage with respect of any one customer, will be a maximum of $25,000,000 with the aggregate coverage of cash set at $900,000.

SIPC and Excess SIPC covers accounts of the member firm in the event of a member’s bankruptcy or insolvency. Coverage does not apply to losses due to market fluctuation or to any decline in the market value of your securities.

It is important that you understand the unique nature, insurance coverage and risk associated with each type of account and account category. SIPC coverage does not protect cash balances created and maintained solely for the purpose of earning interest, so funds in money market or CIP accounts must be intended for future reinvestment.

HTS may temporarily suspend or discontinue the sweep arrangement at any time without advance notice to you. HTS may change your sweep account terms and conditions, or change the timing or frequency of the sweep, by giving you thirty (30) days prior written notice to the extent possible. If HTS fails to sweep your excess cash balances in the manner described in the Customer Information Brochure, HTS’ liability is limited to the actual amount of the dividends or interest you would have earned had the sweep been performed. HTS may automatically sweep funds from your sweep account to your brokerage account anytime without advance notice to you to pay for securities transactions and withdrawal requests, satisfy a debit balance, settle any other obligation you owe HTS, pay your margin loan, provide necessary collateral in your margin account, or for any other permissible purposes. Should you wish to access these funds or information regarding the fund rates, please contact your financial professional. With ongoing changes to the rates of return for the available sweep options, your personal financial circumstances and market conditions, you should always consider all of your investment options.

Bank Insured Deposit Program

The BID program is an FDIC-insured account that sweeps excess cash to participant banks in increments of $250,000, to achieve FDIC insurance coverage up to $5 million per account owner (for an individual account) or up to $5 million per each individual owner of a joint account (e.g., for a joint account with two individual owners – up to $10 million), depending on the number of participant banks in the program.

The FDIC insures bank deposit accounts such as checking, interest-bearing checking and savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, and certificates of deposit (CDs) if an insured bank or savings association fails. Your bank deposits are generally insured up to $250,000 per account owner, while your IRA and other qualifying self-directed retirement funds on deposit are separately insured up to $250,000. The FDIC does not insure the money you invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, life insurance policies, annuities, or municipal securities, even if you purchased those products from an insured bank. Previously existing or additional bank accounts at the same bank may affect your insurance coverage. If your funds on deposit at any one bank exceed the applicable FDIC insurance limit of $250,000 per account owner ($250,000 for qualifying retirement accounts), the FDIC will not insure your funds in excess of the limit. If you have a deposit with one of the participant banks that is separate from a balance in the BID, you should notify your financial professional if the combined deposits are in excess of $250,000 and such excess funds will be placed with another participant bank, if available. Additional information regarding FDIC coverage is available at www.fdic.gov. Please consult your financial professional, as certain types of accounts may not be eligible to invest in the BID.

For a list of Bank Insured Deposit participant banks, please click here: Participant Banks

For the Bank Insured Deposit Terms and Conditions, please click here: BID Terms and Conditions

Bank Insured Deposit Annual Percentage Yield* (as of 4/1/2022): 0.01%

Beginning on or about June 1, 2022, HTS will implement certain changes to the BID program and its governing Terms and Conditions. Specifically, the program will switch from paying interest at a single rate, to a “tiered” interest rate system, which will pay different rates of interest based on five different deposit tiers. Generally speaking, higher cash deposit balances will receive higher rates of interest than deposits with lower balances. The amount of interest paid will be determined by the amount of interest paid by the banks participating in the program, minus the amount of fees charged by us, as broker-dealer or custodian, in accordance with the following tiers:

Tier

Deposit Level

Tier 1

$0 to $49,999.99

Tier 2

$50,000 to $249,999.99

Tier 3

$250,000 to $499,999.99

Tier 4

$500,000 to $999,999.99

Tier 5

$1,000,000 or more

The applicable interest rate tier will be determined based on the amount of cash available in your brokerage account on a per account basis. Cash available in one brokerage account will not be aggregated to include cash which may be contained in other brokerage accounts you hold with us for purposes of qualifying for a higher interest rate tier. In other words, the amount of cash available in each specific brokerage account can only be used to qualify for one individual interest rate tier under the BID program.

Interest on funds in a BID account is accrued daily, compounded monthly and credited to your account monthly. Interest begins to accrue on the date of deposit in the bank up to, but not including, the date of withdrawal. The daily balance method is used to calculate the interest on these accounts. The daily rate is 1/365 of the interest rate. Account rates are set in accordance with other bank products and may be changed at any time. The rate of return paid on BID funds may vary from the rates of return available to depositors making deposits with the bank directly, through other types of accounts at your financial professional, or with other depository institutions in comparable accounts. The bank deposit account may be more profitable to HTS and its affiliates, than other available sweep options. You should compare the terms, rates of return, required minimum amounts, charges and other features with other accounts and alternative investments.

We anticipate receiving fees, including fees for administrative services, and other financial benefits for providing sweep funds on deposit with the BID program. A portion of fees received may be paid to your financial professional.

Money Market Funds

Money market mutual funds, which may also be available as customer selected sweep options, are treated as securities and are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940. Certain types of accounts, including corporations, partnerships and employee benefit plans, may not be eligible to invest in the funds. Please consult your financial professional for additional information. We anticipate receiving fees or other financial benefits based on your sweep account balance. For money market funds, those benefits include annual payments based on the amount you invest in the sweep account. A portion of fees received may be paid to your financial professional. Please note that shares in a money market fund are not FDIC-insured, not guaranteed by the Federal government, and are not deposits or obligations of any bank or guaranteed by any bank. There can be no assurance that a money market fund will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1 per share. Tax-exempt money market funds may be subject to the alternative minimum tax. See the money market fund prospectus for more complete information, including terms, management fees, prevailing rates and expenses. You can obtain a prospectus by contacting your registered representative. You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks and expenses carefully before investing.

* The 7-day yield and annual percentage yields are subject to change without notice.

Revised, 4/1/2022