Earn extra income on the fully-paid shares of stock held in your account by allowing FGS to borrow shares from you in exchange for collateral (either U.S. Treasuries or cash), and then lend the shares to traders who want to sell them short and are willing to pay interest to borrow them.

Each day that your stock is on loan, you will be paid interest on the collateral (U.S Treasury or cash) value for the loan based on market rates.

FGS pays you 50% of the income it earns from lending the shares.

The program is available to eligible FGS clients¹ who have been approved for a margin account, or who have a cash account with equity greater than USD 50,000 (or equivalent).

Simple and Automatic

FGS manages all aspects of share lending. Once you enroll, FGS will examine your fully-paid stock portfolio automatically. If you have stocks that are attractive in the securities lending market, FGS will borrow the stocks from you, secured by collateral (either US Treasuries or cash), and lend the shares.

Complete Transparency

When your stock is loaned out, you will see the interest rate that you are being paid on the collateral (U.S Treasury or cash) value along with the amounts earned by FGS from lending those shares. Other brokers with similar programs generally do not disclose the market rates to you, which allows them to pay you a small piece of the pie while holding on to most of the profits.

Earn Supplemental Income

Each day that your stock is on loan, you will be paid interest on the collateral (U.S Treasury or cash) value for the loan based on market rates.

Trade Your Loaned Stock with No Restrictions

You will see the loaned shares on your account statement, indicating that they are being loaned out. You are still the owner of the stock, which means you continue to have market risk and will recognize any profit (or loss) if the stock price moves. You can sell your shares at any time without restriction and can terminate your participation at any time for any reason.

Shares loaned out may not be protected by SIPC.

The Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 may not protect shares loaned out. This is why under SEC rules FGS must provide you with U.S Treasury or cash collateral in the same amount as the value of your shares to protect you in the very unlikely event that the stock is not returned to you.

Shares loaned out are typically used to facilitate short sales.

Shares are attractive in the stock loan market because other traders want to borrow and sell them short, possibly affecting the value of the shares.

Loan rates change frequently.

These rates and the interest you will receive may go down (or up) by 50% or more.

Loans may be terminated at any time by FGS.

Also, FGS does not guarantee that it will lend all eligible shares.

Voting rights go to the borrower.

During any period in which your securities are loaned out, you will forfeit your right to vote those shares by proxy.

Selling your shares or borrowing against them or withdrawing cash in a margin account will terminate the loan transaction.

If you sell the fully paid shares that have been lent out, or if you borrow the shares or withdraw cash in a margin account (such that the securities become margin securities and are no longer fully paid or excess margin securities) the loan will terminate and you will stop receiving loan interest.