Interest rate hedging may fail to protect or could adversely affect us because, among other things:
As of September 30, 2009, we had entered into three interest rate swap agreements designed to mitigate the effects of increases in interest rates under a portion of our repurchase agreements. These swap agreements provide for fixed interest rates indexed off of one-month LIBOR and effectively fix the floating interest rates on $375.0 million of borrowings under our repurchase agreements. We intend to continue to add interest rate hedge positions according to our hedging strategy.
As of September 30, 2009, our book value per common share was $20.82.
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP, which requires the use of estimates and assumptions that involve the exercise of judgment and use of assumptions as to future uncertainties. Our most critical accounting policies involve decisions and assessments that could affect our reported assets and liabilities, as well as our reported revenues and expenses. We believe that all of the decisions and assessments upon which our consolidated financial statements are based are reasonable at the time made and based upon information available to us at that time. We rely upon independent pricing of our assets at each quarter’s end to arrive at what we believe to be reasonable estimates of fair market value. For a discussion of our critical accounting policies, see “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” beginning on page 5 of this report.
Results of Operations
The table below presents certain information from our Consolidated Statement of Operations for the three month periods ending September 30, 2009 and June 30, 2009:
| For the Three Months Ended |
in thousands, except per share amounts | September 30, 2009 | | June 30, 2009 |
| (unaudited) |
Revenue | | | |
Interest income | 10,983 | | — |
Interest expense | 2,070 | | — |
Net interest income | 8,913 | | — |
Other Income (loss) | (13) | | — |
Operating Expenses | 1,727 | | 84 |
Net income (loss) | 7,173 | | (84) |
Non-controlling interest | 970 | | — |
Net Income (loss) available to common shareholders | 6,203 | | (84) |
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Weighted average number of basic common shares outstanding | 8,886 | | NM |
Weighted average number of diluted common shares outstanding | 10,311 | | NM |
| | | |
Basic net income per average common share | 0.70 | | NM |
Diluted net income per average common share | 0.70 | | NM |
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Average total assets | 870,905 | | NM |
Average equity | 208,997 | | NM |
| | | |
Return on average equity | 13.73% | | NM |
NM = not meaningful
Net Income Summary
For the three months ended September 30, 2009, our net income was $7.2 million or $0.70 basic income per average share available to common shareholders.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, our net income was $7.0 million, due to operating losses incurred prior to our IPO.
Interest Income and Average Earning Asset Yield
We had average earning assets of $870.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009. Our primary source of income is interest income. Our interest income was $10,983 for the three months ended September 30, 2009. The yield on our average investment portfolio was 5.04%. The constant prepayment rate (“CPR”) of our portfolio impacts the amount of premium and discount on the purchase of securities that is recognized into income. At September 30, 2009, our 15 year Agency RMBS had a 3-month CPR of 10.8, the 30 year Agency RMBS portfolio had a 3-month CPR of 16.0, and our Agency Hybrid Adjustable Rate Mortgage (“ARM”) portfolio prepaid at a 20.5 CPR. Our Non-Agency RMBS portfolio paid at a 3-month CPR of 16.4 and our CMBS had no prepayment of principal. Overall, the weighted average 3-month CPR on our investment portfolio was 13.7.
Interest Expense and the Cost of Funds
Our largest expense is the interest expense on borrowed funds. We had average borrowed funds of $662.5 million and total interest expense of $2.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009.
Our average cost of funds was 1.25% for the three months ended September 30, 2009. Since a substantial portion of our repurchase agreements are short term, changes in market rates are directly reflected in our interest expense. Interest expense includes borrowing costs under repurchase agreements, the TALF borrowing, as well as and hedging costs for our cash flow hedges.
Net Interest Income
Our net interest income, which equals interest income less interest expense, totaled $8.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009. Our net interest rate margin, which equals the yield on our average assets for the period less the average cost of funds for the period, was 3.79% for the three months ended September 30, 2009.
Other Income (Loss)
Our other income (loss) relates to the unrealized loss on interest rate swaps of approximately $13,000, which represents the ineffective portion of the change in fair value of our interest rate swaps which is recognized directly in earnings for the three months ended September 30, 2009.
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Expenses
We incurred management fees of $753,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, which are payable to our Manager under our management agreement. This management fee and the relationship between the Company and the Manager are discussed further in our discussion of related party relationships.
Our general and administrative expense of $245,000 and $349,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, includes the salary and the estimated bonus of our CFO, amortization of equity based compensation related to anticipated quarterly grants of our stock to the Company’s independent directors, payable, subsequent to each calendar quarter, cash based payments to our Company’s independent directors, derivative transaction fees, software licensing, industry memberships, filing fees, travel and entertainment and other miscellaneous general and administrative costs.
Our insurance expense of $354,000 and $369,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, represents the cost of liability insurance to indemnify our directors and officers.
Our professional fees of $375,000 and $388,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, represents the cost of legal, accounting, auditing and consulting services provided to us by third party service providers.
Net Income and Return on Average Equity
Our net income was $7.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009. Our annualized return on average equity was 13.73% for the three months ended September 30, 2009.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Liquidity is a measurement of our ability to meet potential cash requirements, including ongoing commitments to pay dividends, fund investments and other general business needs. Our primary sources of funds for liquidity consists of the net proceeds from our common equity offerings, net cash provided by operating activities, cash from repurchase agreements and other financing arrangements and future issuances of common equity, preferred equity, convertible securities and/or equity or debt securities. We also have sought, and may continue to finance our assets under, and may otherwise participate in, programs established by the U.S. Government.
We generally maintain liquidity to pay down borrowings under repurchase arrangements to reduce borrowing costs and otherwise efficiently manage our long-term investment capital. Because the level of these borrowings can be adjusted on a daily basis, the level of cash and cash equivalents carried on the balance sheet is significantly less important than our potential liquidity available under borrowing arrangements. We currently believe that we have sufficient liquidity and capital resources available for the acquisition of additional investments, repayments on borrowings and the payment of cash dividends as required for continued qualification as a REIT.
As of September 30, 2009, we had entered into repurchase agreements with various counterparties for total borrowings of $615.0 million at a weighted average rate of 0.34% to finance our purchases of Agency RMBS and Non-Agency RMBS. We generally target a debt-to-equity ration of 6 to 8 times and as of September 30, 2009 had a ration of 7.8 times. The counterparty with the highest percentage of repurchase agreement balance had 33%. The repurchase obligations mature and reinvest every thirty days. Additionally, as of September 30, 2009, we secured borrowings of $64.8 million under the TALF at a weighted average rate of 3.87%. We generally seek to borrow (on a non-recourse basis) between 3 and 5 times the amount of our shareholder’s equity, which is consistent with funding limits under the TALF. The TALF loans are non-recourse and mature in July and August 2014.
As of September 30, 2009, the weighted average margin requirement, or the percentage amount by which the collateral value must exceed the loan amount, which we also refer to as the “haircut,” under all of our repurchase agreements was approximately 5.5% (weighted by borrowing amount). Across all of our repurchase facilities, the haircuts range from a low of 5% to a high of 7%.
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Declines in the value of our securities portfolio can trigger margin calls by our lenders under our repurchase agreements. An event of default or termination event would give some of our counterparties the option to terminate all repurchase transactions existing with us and require any amount due by us to the counterparties to be payable immediately.
As discussed above under “Market Conditions,” the residential mortgage market in the United States has experienced difficult economic conditions including:
| • | increased volatility of many financial assets, including agency securities and other high-quality RMBS assets, due to news of potential security liquidations; |
| • | increased volatility and deterioration in the broader residential mortgage and RMBS markets; and |
| • | significant disruption in financing of RMBS. |
If these conditions persist, then our lenders may be forced to exit the repurchase market, become insolvent or further tighten lending standards or increase the amount of required equity capital or haircut, any of which could make it more difficult or costly for us to obtain financing.
Effects of Margin Requirements, Leverage and Credit Spreads
Our securities have values that fluctuate according to market conditions and, as discussed above, the market value of our securities will decrease as prevailing interest rates or credit spreads increase. When the value of the securities pledged to secure a repurchase loan decreases to the point where the positive difference between the collateral value and the loan amount is less than the haircut, our lenders may issue a “margin call,” which means that the lender will require us to pay the margin call in cash or pledge additional collateral to meet that margin call. Under our repurchase facilities, our lenders have full discretion to determine the value of the securities we pledge to them. Most of our lenders will value securities based on recent trades in the market. Lenders also issue margin calls as the published current principal balance factors change on the pool of mortgages underlying the securities pledged as collateral when scheduled and unscheduled paydowns are announced monthly.
We experience margin calls in the ordinary course of our business. In seeking to manage effectively the margin requirements established by our lenders, we maintain a position of cash and unpledged securities. We refer to this position as our “liquidity.” The level of liquidity we have available to meet margin calls is directly affected by our leverage levels, our haircuts and the price changes on our securities. If interest rates increase as a result of a yield curve shift or for another reason or if credit spreads widen, then the prices of our collateral (and our unpledged assets that constitute our liquidity) will decline, we will experience margin calls, and we will use our liquidity to meet the margin calls. There can be no assurance that we will maintain sufficient levels of liquidity to meet any margin calls. If our haircuts increase, our liquidity will proportionately decrease. In addition, if we increase our borrowings, our liquidity will decrease by the amount of additional haircut on the increased level of indebtedness.
We intend to maintain a level of liquidity in relation to our assets that enables us to meet reasonably anticipated margin calls but that also allows us to be substantially invested in securities. We may misjudge the appropriate amount of our liquidity by maintaining excessive liquidity, which would lower our investment returns, or by maintaining insufficient liquidity, which would force us to liquidate assets into unfavorable market conditions and harm our results of operations and financial condition.
Forward-Looking Statements Regarding Liquidity
Based upon our current portfolio, leverage rate and available borrowing arrangements, we believe that the net proceeds of our common equity offerings and private placements, combined with cash flow from operations and available borrowing capacity, will be sufficient to enable us to meet anticipated short-term (one year or less) liquidity requirements to fund our investment activities, pay fees under our management agreement, fund our distributions to shareholders and for other general corporate expenses.
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Our ability to meet our long-term (greater than one year) liquidity and capital resource requirements will be subject to obtaining additional debt financing and equity capital. We may increase our capital resources by obtaining long-term credit facilities or making public or private offerings of equity or debt securities, possibly including classes of preferred stock, common stock, and senior or subordinated notes. Such financing will depend on market conditions for capital raises and for the investment of any proceeds. If we are unable to renew, replace or expand our sources of financing on substantially similar terms, it may have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
Contractual Obligations
On July 1, 2009, we entered into an agreement with our Manager pursuant to which our Manager is entitled to receive a management fee and the reimbursement of certain expenses. The management fee will be calculated and payable quarterly in arrears in an amount equal to 1.50% of our shareholders’ equity, per annum, calculated and payable quarterly in arrears. Our Manager will use the proceeds from its management fee in part to pay compensation to its officers and personnel who, notwithstanding that certain of those individuals are also our officers, will receive no cash compensation directly from us. We are required to reimburse our Manager for operating expenses related to us incurred by our Manager, including certain salary expenses and other expenses relating to legal, accounting, due diligence and other services. Expense reimbursements to our Manager are made in cash on a monthly basis following the end of each month. Our reimbursement obligation is not subject to any dollar limitation.
On September 30, 2009, we committed to invest up to $25.0 million in the Invesco Mortgage Recovery Feeder Fund, L.P. managed by our Manager, and may seek additional investments in this or a similar PPIF managed by our Manager. As of September 30, 2009, we have not funded any of the commitment. We intend to finance investments in certain non-Agency RMBS, CMBS and residential and commercial mortgage loans by contributing equity capital to a legacy securities PPIF managed by our Manager.
Contractual Commitments
As of September 30, 2009, we had the following contractual commitments and Commercial obligations:
| Payments Due by Period |
| Total | Less than 1 year | 1-3 years | 3-5 years | After 5 years |
$ in thousands |
Repurchase agreements | 614,968 | 614,968 | - | - | - |
TALF financing | 64,807 | - | - | 64,807 | - |
Total contractual obligations | 679,775 | 614,968 | - | 64,807 | - |
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We committed to invest up to $25.0 million in the Invesco Mortgage Recovery Feeder Fund, L.P. managed by our Manager, and may seek additional investments in this or a similar PPIF managed by our Manager. As of September 30, 2009, we have not funded any of the commitment.
Shareholders’ Equity
On July 1, 2009, we successfully completed our IPO, pursuant to which we sold 8,500,000 shares of our common stock to the public at a price of $20.00 per share for net proceeds of $165.0 million. Concurrent with our IPO, we completed a private placement in which we sold 75,000 shares of our common stock to our Manager at a price of $20.00 per share. In addition, our Operating Partnership sold 1,425,000 units of limited partnership interest in our operating partnership to Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Invesco, at a price of $20.00 per unit. The net proceeds to us from these private placements were $30.0 million. We did not pay any underwriting discounts or commissions in connection with the private placements.
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On July 27, 2009, the underwriters in our IPO exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 311,200 shares of our common stock at a price of $20.00 per share for net proceeds of $6.1 million. Collectively, we received net proceeds from our IPO and the related private placements of approximately $201.1 million.
Unrealized Gains and Losses
Unrealized fluctuations in market values of assets do not impact our GAAP income but rather are reflected on our balance sheet by changing the carrying value of the asset and shareholders’ equity under “Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss),” we account for our investment securities as “available-for-sale.” In addition, unrealized fluctuations in market values of our cash flow hedges that qualify for hedge accounting, are also reflected in “Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss).”
As a result of this mark-to-market accounting treatment, our book value and book value per share are likely to fluctuate far more than if we used historical amortized cost accounting. As a result, comparisons with companies that use historical cost accounting for some or all of their balance sheet may not be meaningful.
Dividends
We intend to make regular quarterly distributions to holders of our common stock. U.S. federal income tax law generally requires that a REIT distribute annually at least 90% of its REIT taxable income, without regard to the deduction for dividends paid and excluding net capital gains, and that it pay tax at regular corporate rates to the extent that it annually distributes less than 100% of its net taxable income. We intend to pay regular quarterly dividends to our shareholders in an amount equal at least 90% of our net taxable income. Before we pay any dividend, whether for U.S. federal income tax purposes or otherwise, we must first meet both our operating requirements and debt service on our repurchase agreements and other debt payable. If our cash available for distribution is less than our net taxable income, we could be required to sell assets or borrow funds to make cash distributions, or we may make a portion of the required distribution in the form of a taxable stock distribution or distribution of debt securities.
On October 13, 2009, the Company declared a dividend of $0.61 per share of common stock. The dividends will be paid on November 12, 2009 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on October 23, 2009.
Inflation
Virtually all of our assets and liabilities are interest rate sensitive in nature. As a result, interest rates and other factors influence our performance far more than inflation. Changes in interest rates do not necessarily correlate with inflation rates or changes in inflation rates.
Other Matters
We calculate that at least 75% of our assets were qualified REIT assets, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. We also calculate that our revenue qualifies for the 75% source of income test and for the 95% source of income test rules for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Consequently, we met the REIT income and asset test. We also met all REIT requirements regarding the ownership of our common stock and the distribution of our net income. Therefore, as of September 30, 2009, we believe that we qualified as a REIT under the Code.
We at all times intend to conduct our business so as not to become required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. If we were to become required to register as an investment company, then our use of leverage would be substantially reduced. The Investment Company Act exempts entities that are “primarily engaged in the business of purchasing or otherwise acquiring mortgages and other liens on and interests in real estate” (qualifying interests). Under current interpretation of the staff of the SEC, in order to qualify for this exemption, we must maintain at least 55% of our assets directly in qualifying interests and at least 80% of our assets in qualifying interests plus other real estate related assets. In addition, unless certain mortgage securities represent all the certificates issued with respect to an underlying pool of mortgages, the MBS may be treated as securities separate from the underlying mortgage loans and, thus, may not be considered qualifying interests for purposes of the 55% requirement. We calculate that as of September 30, 2009, we were in compliance with this requirement.
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ITEM 3. | QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK. |
The primary components of our market risk are related to interest rate, prepayment and market value. While we do not seek to avoid risk completely, we believe the risk can be quantified from historical experience and seek to actively manage that risk, to earn sufficient compensation to justify taking those risks and to maintain capital levels consistent with the risks we undertake.
Interest Rate Risk
Interest rate risk is highly sensitive to many factors, including governmental monetary and tax policies, domestic and international economic and political considerations, and other factors beyond our control. We are subject to interest rate risk in connection with our investments and our repurchase agreements. Our repurchase agreements are typically of limited duration and will be periodically refinanced at current market rates. We mitigate this risk through utilization of derivative contracts, primarily interest rate swap agreements, interest rate caps and interest rate floors.
Interest Rate Effect on Net Interest Income
Our operating results depend in large part upon differences between the yields earned on our investments and our cost of borrowing and interest rate hedging activities. Most of our repurchase agreements provide financing based on a floating rate of interest calculated on a fixed spread over LIBOR. The fixed spread will vary depending on the type of underlying asset which collateralizes the financing. Accordingly, the portion of our portfolio which consists of floating interest rate assets are match-funded utilizing our expected sources of short-term financing, while our fixed interest rate assets are not match-funded. During periods of rising interest rates, the borrowing costs associated with our investments tend to increase while the income earned on our fixed interest rate investments may remain substantially unchanged. This increase in borrowing costs results in the narrowing of the net interest spread between the related assets and borrowings and may even result in losses. Further, during this portion of the interest rate and credit cycles, defaults could increase and result in credit losses to us, which could adversely affect our liquidity and operating results. Such delinquencies or defaults could also have an adverse effect on the spread between interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities.
Hedging techniques are partly based on assumed levels of prepayments of our RMBS. If prepayments are slower or faster than assumed, the life of the RMBS will be longer or shorter, which would reduce the effectiveness of any hedging strategies we may use and may cause losses on such transactions. Hedging strategies involving the use of derivative securities are highly complex and may produce volatile returns.
Interest Rate Effects on Fair Value
Another component of interest rate risk is the effect that changes in interest rates will have on the market value of the assets that we acquire. We face the risk that the market value of our assets will increase or decrease at different rates than those of our liabilities, including our hedging instruments.
We primarily assess our interest rate risk by estimating the duration of our assets and the duration of our liabilities. Duration measures the market price volatility of financial instruments as interest rates change. We generally calculate duration using various financial models and empirical data. Different models and methodologies can produce different duration numbers for the same securities.
It is important to note that the impact of changing interest rates on fair value can change significantly when interest rates change materially. Therefore, the volatility in the fair value of our assets could increase significantly when interest rates change materially. In addition, other factors impact the fair value of our interest rate-sensitive investments and hedging instruments, such as the shape of the yield curve, market expectations as to future interest rate changes and other market conditions. Accordingly, changes in actual interest rates may have a material adverse effect on us.
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Prepayment Risk
As we receive prepayments of principal on our investments, premiums paid on these investments are amortized against interest income. In general, an increase in prepayment rates will accelerate the amortization of purchase premiums, thereby reducing the interest income earned on the investments. Conversely, discounts on such investments are accreted into interest income. In general, an increase in prepayment rates will accelerate the accretion of purchase discounts, thereby increasing the interest income earned on the investments.
Extension Risk
We compute the projected weighted-average life of our investments based upon assumptions regarding the rate at which the borrowers will prepay the underlying mortgages. In general, when a fixed-rate or hybrid adjustable-rate security is acquired with borrowings, we may, but are not required to, enter into an interest rate swap agreement or other hedging instrument that effectively fixes our borrowing costs for a period close to the anticipated average life of the fixed-rate portion of the related assets. This strategy is designed to protect us from rising interest rates, because the borrowing costs are fixed for the duration of the fixed-rate portion of the related target asset.
However, if prepayment rates decrease in a rising interest rate environment, then the life of the fixed-rate portion of the related assets could extend beyond the term of the swap agreement or other hedging instrument. This could have a negative impact on our results from operations, as borrowing costs would no longer be fixed after the end of the hedging instrument, while the income earned on the hybrid adjustable-rate assets would remain fixed. This situation may also cause the market value of our hybrid adjustable-rate assets to decline, with little or no offsetting gain from the related hedging transactions. In extreme situations, we may be forced to sell assets to maintain adequate liquidity, which could cause us to incur losses.
Market Risk
Market Value Risk
Our available-for-sale securities are reflected at their estimated fair value with unrealized gains and losses excluded from earnings and reported in other comprehensive income pursuant to ASC 320. The estimated fair value of these securities fluctuates primarily due to changes in interest rates and other factors. Generally, in a rising interest rate environment, the estimated fair value of these securities would be expected to decrease; conversely, in a decreasing interest rate environment, the estimated fair value of these securities would be expected to increase.
The sensitivity analysis table presented below shows the estimated impact of an instantaneous parallel shift in the yield curve, up and down 50 and 100 basis points, on the market value of our interest rate-sensitive investments and net interest income, at September 30, 2009, assuming a static portfolio. When evaluating the impact of changes in interest rates, prepayment assumptions and principal reinvestment rates are adjusted based on our Manager’s expectations. The analysis presented utilized assumptions, models and estimates of our Manager based on our Manager’s judgment and experience.
| Percentage Change in Projected Net Interest Income | Percentage Change in Projected Portfolio Value |
+1.00% | 1.2% | -2.9% |
+0.50% | -0.6% | -1.3% |
-0.50% | -9.8% | 1.1% |
-1.00% | -20.4% | 1.3% |
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Real Estate Risk
Residential and commercial property values are subject to volatility and may be affected adversely by a number of factors, including, but not limited to: national, regional and local economic conditions (which may be adversely affected by industry slowdowns and other factors); local real estate conditions (such as the supply of housing stock); changes or continued weakness in specific industry segments; construction quality, age and design; demographic factors; and retroactive changes to building or similar codes. In addition, decreases in property values reduce the value of the collateral and the potential proceeds available to a borrower to repay our loans, which could also cause us to suffer losses.
Credit Risk
We believe that our investment strategy will generally keep our credit losses and financing costs low. However, we retain the risk of potential credit losses on all of the residential and commercial mortgage loans, as well as the loans underlying the Non-Agency RMBS and CMBS that we hold. We seek to manage this risk through our pre-acquisition due diligence process and through the use of non-recourse financing, which limits our exposure to credit losses to the specific pool of mortgages that are subject to the non-recourse financing. In addition, with respect to any particular asset, our Manager’s investment team evaluates, among other things, relative valuation, supply and demand trends, shape of yield curves, prepayment rates, delinquency and default rates, recovery of various sectors and vintage of collateral.
Risk Management
To the extent consistent with maintaining our REIT qualification, we seek to manage risk exposure to protect our investment portfolio against the effects of major interest rate changes. We generally seek to manage this risk by:
| • | monitoring and adjusting, if necessary, the reset index and interest rate related to our target assets and our financings; |
| • | attempting to structure our financing agreements to have a range of different maturities, terms, amortizations and interest rate adjustment periods; |
| • | using hedging instruments, primarily interest rate swap agreements but also financial futures, options, interest rate cap agreements, floors and forward sales to adjust the interest rate sensitivity of our target assets and our borrowings; and |
| • | actively managing, on an aggregate basis, the interest rate indices, interest rate adjustment periods, and gross reset margins of our target assets and the interest rate indices and adjustment periods of our financings. |
ITEM 4T. | CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. |
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information we are required to disclose in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that the required information is accumulated or communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
We have evaluated, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2009. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective disclosure controls and
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procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives. Based upon our evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the applicable rules and forms, and that it is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
No change occurred in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) during the three months ended September 30, 2009 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. | LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. |
From time to time, we may be involved in various claims and legal actions arising in the orinary course of business. As of September 30, 2009, we were not involved in any such legal proceedings.
Other than the risk factors set forth below, there were no material changes during the period covered by this report to the risk factors previously disclosed in the final prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)4 on June 29, 2009 with the SEC in connection with our IPO.
There is no assurance that we will have sufficient capital to fund our commitment in the PPIF.
We committed to invest up to $25.0 million in the Invesco Mortgage Recovery Feeder Fund, L.P. managed by our Manager. As of September 30, 2009, we have not funded any of the commitment. A call on our commitment would require us to pay up to $25.0 in the Invesco Mortgage Recovery Feeder Fund, L.P. If we do not have sufficient capital to meet such a call, we may be forced to sell assets at significantly depressed prices to meet the call and to maintain adequate liquidity, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition, business, liquidity and ability to make distributions to our shareholders, and could cause the value of our common stock to decline. Moreover, to the extent we are forced to sell assets at such time, given market conditions, we may be selling at the same time as others facing similar pressures, which could exacerbate a difficult market environment and which could result in our incurring significantly greater losses on our sale of such assets. In an extreme case of market duress, a market may not even be present for certain of our assets at any price.
If our Manager underestimates the collateral loss on our CMBS investments, we may experience losses.
Our Manager values our potential CMBS investments based on loss-adjusted yields, taking into account estimated future losses on the mortgage loans included in the securitization’s pool of loans, and the estimated impact of these losses on expected future cash flows. Based on these loss estimates, our Manager either adjusts the pool composition accordingly through loan removals and other credit enhancement mechanisms or leaves loans in place and negotiates for a price adjustment. Our Manager’s loss estimates may not prove accurate, as actual results may vary from estimates. In the event that our Manager underestimates the pool level losses relative to the price we pay for a particular CMBS investment, we may experience losses with respect to such investment.
ITEM 2. | UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS. |
On June 25, 2009, the SEC declared effective our IPO registration statement, pursuant to which we registered 8,500,000 shares of our common stock. On July 1, 2009, we consummated our IPO and sold 8,500,000 shares of our common stock to the public at a price of $20.00 per share for an aggregate offering price of $170.0 million. In connection with the IPO, $11.0 million in underwriting discounts and commissions were paid, of which
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our Manager paid $8.5 million and we have paid $2.6 million. We received net proceeds from our IPO of approximately $165.0 million, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us and the offering expenses of approximately $5.0 million. On July 27, 2009, our IPO underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in connection with our IPO and purchased an additional 311,200 shares of our common stock at a price of $20.00 per share, resulting in additional net proceeds to us of $6.1 million, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions paid by us of approximately $93,000, and $311,200 paid by our Manager directly to our IPO underwriters. Our IPO is now complete.
The IPO was underwritten by Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, acting as the representatives of Barclays Capital Inc., Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Jackson Securities, LLC, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc., and the Williams Capital Group, L.P.
On July 1, 2009, concurrent with the consummation of our IPO, we completed a private placement in which we sold 75,000 shares of our common stock to our Manager, at a price of $20.00 per share. In addition, our Operating Partnership sold 1,425,000 OP Units to Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Invesco, at a price of $20.00 per OP Unit. The aggregate proceeds from these private offerings were $30.0 million. We did not pay any underwriting discounts or commissions in connection with these private placements. In conducting these private placements, we relied upon the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506 of Regulation D, as promulgated under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
We invested the net proceeds of the IPO and the private placements as described in this report under the caption “Investment Activities.”
ITEM 3. | DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES. |
None.
ITEM 4. | SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS. |
None.
ITEM 5. | OTHER INFORMATION. |
None.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| INVESCO MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC. |
November 9, 2009 By: /s/ Richard J. King
| Richard J. King |
| President and Chief Executive Officer |
November 9, 2009 By: /s/ Donald R. Ramon
Donald R. Ramon
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Item 6. Exhibits
Exhibit No. | | Description |
3.1 | | Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2009 (“Quarterly Report”). |
3.2 | | Amended and Restated Bylaws of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Amendment No. 8 to our Registration Statement on Form S-11, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 18, 2009 (“Pre-Effective Amendment No. 8”). |
4.1 | | Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 8. |
10.1 | | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2009, among Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (formally known as Invesco Agency Securities Inc.), Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc. and Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Quarterly Report. |
10.2 | | Management Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2009, among Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc., IAS Operating Partnership LP, IAS Asset I LLC, and Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Quarterly Report. |
10.3 | | First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of July 1, 2009, of IAS Operating Partnership LP., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to our Quarterly Report. |
10.4 | | 2009 Equity Incentive Plan of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. |
10.5 | | Form of Restricted Common Stock Award Agreement, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 8. |
10.6 | | Form of Stock Option Award Agreement, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 8. |
10.7 | | Private Placement Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2009, between Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. and Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to our Quarterly Report. |
10.8 | | Private Placement Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2009, between IAS Operating Partnership L.P. and Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to our Quarterly Report. |
31.1 | | Certification of Richard J. King pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
31.2 | | Certification of Donald R. Ramon pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
32.1 | | Certification of Richard J. King pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
32.2 | | Certification of Donald R. Ramon pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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