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Through August 23, 2019, subscribers who bought 5 bonds of each BondSavvy corporate bond recommendation made $35 in investment returns for each dollar paid in BondSavvy subscription fees ⁽¹⁾. Individual investor subscribers pay a flat fee regardless of how much they invest, and they buy bonds online through their own brokerage. Subscribers who bought 25 bonds of each BondSavvy recommendation made $175 for each dollar paid in BondSavvy fees, and the BondSavvy fee represented 0.04% of what they invested. Here’s how it has worked:

If you bought this many bonds of each recommendation made from 9/26/17 through 5/31/19:

You have paid BondSavvy subscription fees of ⁽¹⁾:

Your net investment in individual corporate bonds has been ⁽²⁾:

You achieved this total return ⁽³⁾:

Your total return as a multiple of BondSavvy’s fee was:

Your return on investment net of BondSavvy subscription fees:

Annualized BondSavvy subscription fee as % of amount invested ⁽⁴⁾:

$526

$153,217

$18,300

35x

11.6%

0.18%

$526

$766,083

$91,498

174x

11.9%

0.04%

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^{PAST PERFORMANCE DOES NOT GUARANTEE FUTURE RESULTS. ACTUAL RESULTS MAY VARY BASED ON WHEN SUBSCRIBERS BOUGHT AND SOLD BONDS WE RECOMMENDED BUYING AND SELLING.

(1)}Assumes pro-rata subscription fee, from September 26, 2017 through June 30, 2019, for our current “Billed Biennially” plan for individual investors, which costs $23 per monthly billed biennially and has been in effect since October 2018. Prior to introducing this subscription plan, we had more-expensive subscription plans, which would have increased the fee assumption in this table. From September 26, 2017 through March 2018, our monthly fee was $75 and, from April 2018 through September 2018, our implied monthly fee under our two-year subscription plan was $29.

⁽²⁾Assumes subscriber invested in each BondSavvy recommendation made during the above period. Assumes proceeds from the sale of bonds through May 31, 2019 were reinvested in purchases of other BondSavvy bond recommendations. Amount invested reflects the market value for the purchased bonds. Please click here to see investment return details for each recommended corporate bond.

⁽³⁾Total investment returns include interest income and capital appreciation or losses for each corporate bond investment. Investment returns calculated from the day prior to the recommendation date until (i) August 23, 2019 for bonds that have yet to be sold or (ii) until the sell date for bonds that have been sold. Please click here for details on investment returns for each corporate bond investment recommendation and to see which recommendations have been sold.

⁽⁴⁾Assumes annualized subscription fee of $276, equivalent to $23 per month based on our current “Billed Biennially” subscription plan. Per footnote 1, prior to October 2018, BondSavvy had more-expensive subscription plans, which would have increased figures shown in this row of the table.

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