2 2 Safe Harbor Statement NOTE: This presentation contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about projected future investment strategies and leverage ratios, financial performance, the projected impact of NOL carryforwards, future dividends paid to shareholders, and future investment opportunities and capital raising activities. The words “will,” “believe,” “expect,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “assume,” “project,” “plan,” “continue,” and similar expressions also identify forward-looking statements that are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Although these forward-looking statements reflect our current beliefs, assumptions and expectations based on information currently available to us, the Company’s actual results and timing of certain events could differ materially from those projected in or contemplated by these statements. Our forward-looking statements are subject to the following principal risks and uncertainties: our ability to find suitable reinvestment opportunities; changes in economic conditions; changes in interest rates and interest rate spreads, including the repricing of interest-earnings assets and interest-bearing liabilities; our investment portfolio performance particularly as it relates to cash flow, prepayment rates and credit performance; adverse reactions in financial markets related to the budget deficit or national debt of the United States government; potential or actual default by the United States government on Treasury securities; and potential or actual downgrades to the sovereign credit rating of the United States or the credit ratings of GSEs; the cost and availability of financing; the cost and availability of new equity capital; changes in our use of leverage; the quality of performance of third-party service providers of our loans and loans underlying our securities; the level of defaults by borrowers on loans we have securitized; changes in our industry; increased competition; changes in government regulations affecting our business; government initiatives to support the U.S financial system and U.S. housing and real estate markets; GSE reform or other government policies and actions; and an ownership shift under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code that impacts the use of our tax NOL carryforward. For additional information, see the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2011, June 30, 2011, and September 30, 2011 and other reports filed with and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. |