Harold Schwartz | SVP, General Counsel & Secretary |
Craig Knutson | President, CEO & Director |
Stephen Yarad | CFO & CAO |
Gudmundur Kristjansson | SVP & Co-CIO |
Bryan Wulfsohn | SVP & Co-CIO |
Eric Hagen | BTIG |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the MFA Financial, Inc.
Second Quarter Earnings 2021 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the conference over to Hal Schwartz. Please go ahead.