Good morning and welcome to the American Capital Agency Third Quarter 2012 Shareholder Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions) After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. (Operator Instructions) Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Katie Wisecarver, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Katie.

Thanks, Frank. Thank you for joining American Capital Agency’s Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. Before we begin, I’d like to review the Safe Harbor statement. This conference call and corresponding slide presentation contains statements that to the extent they are not recitations of historical facts, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking statements are intended to be subject to the Safe Harbor protection provided by the Reform Act. Actual outcomes and results could differ materially from those forecast due to the impact of many factors beyond the control of AGNC. All forward-looking statements included in this presentation are made only as of the date of this presentation and are subject to change without notice. Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements are included in the Risk Factors section of AGNC’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. We disclaim any obligation to update our forward-looking statements unless required to by law. An archive of this presentation will be available on our website and the telephone recording can be accessed through November 16 by dialing 877-344-7529 or 412-317-0088. And the conference ID number is 10019151. To view the slide presentation, turn to our website agnc.com and click on the Q3 2012 Earnings Presentation link in the upper right corner. Select the webcast option for both slides and audio or click on the link in the Conference Call section to view the streaming slide presentation during the call. Participants on the today call include Malon Wilkus, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Sam Flax, Director, Executive Vice President and Secretary; John Erickson, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President; Gary Kain, President and Chief Investment Officer; Chris Kuehl, Senior Vice President of Mortgage Investments; Peter Federico, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer; Ernie Bell, Vice President and Controller; and Jason Campbell, Senior Vice President and Head of Asset & Liability Management. With that, I’ll turn the call over to Gary Kain.

Thanks, Katie, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. We recognize that there is a lot of uncertainty right now surrounding the Fed’s latest round of mortgage purchases and its impacts on the mortgage REIT space. Therefore, we do plan to dedicate a substantial amount of time on this call to QE3 and the implications for our business. But let me say up front, that we continue to be very comfortable with how our portfolio is positioned and we believe that prepayments on our specific mortgage assets will remain muted, despite a more challenging prepayment landscape. And yes, while spreads have compressed, we believe risk is also lower in today’s environment. Therefore, nothing has changed our view that an actively managed portfolio can continue to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns. So with that, let’s review the highlights for the third quarter on Slide 4. Our net comprehensive income, which incorporates both realized and unrealized gains and losses on assets and hedges, was $3.98 per share or $1.3 billion for the quarter. As a reminder, net comprehensive income is a complete mark-to-market earnings measure. Net spread income, which is what many people refer to as core income, dropped to $0.86 per share when we exclude $0.07 per share for the one-time premium catch-up amortization attributed to the increase in our CPR projections. The decline in this figure from last quarter was largely a function of faster prepayment projections produced by our models, which increased from 12% to 14% CPR. This projection is now around 50% higher than the actual Q3 CPR of 9%. Lower average leverage versus Q2 partially as a result of our share offering in July was also a factor. Now, taxable net income, which is not impacted by the changes in projected prepayment fees or by…

Thank you, Gary. Managing prepayment risk is even more critical now than it was in the past, given today’s low interest rate, high dollar price environment. On slide 12, we have a graph comparing the prepayment performance of several types of 30 year 4% pass-throughs, is clearly evident on this slide; prepayment performance continues to vary significantly across various types of mortgages, even at the same vintage and coupon. And as we will review in a minute, even relatively small differences in prepayment speeds can materially impact the returns on a levered mortgage position. With respect to the graph, just look at the two up streams. On the slower side, we see that lower loan balances, in this case loans between 85,000 and 110,000 as well as higher LTV HARP securities continue to perform well, prepaying around 10 CPR. Contrasts, that with the ARMs line, which represents full stack by conforming jumbo mortgages, which generally have loan balances averaging over 500,000. Despite the different speeds last month, these securities are still prepaying right round 50 CPR. Now the generic of TDA security shown in blue on the graph were also quite fast with speeds in the mid 30s. Now keep in mind that the October speeds in this graph are a result of the environment prior to QE3. But 30 year mortgage rate today is approximately 25 basis points lower, than rates driving the October speeds in this chart. We expect that today’s low rates coupled with the tremendous immediate attention given to QE3 should continue to drive prepayment speeds higher in the coming months on more generic securities. On the other hand, we expect that prepayment speeds on lower loan balance and higher LTV HARP securities will remain well behaved. Let’s turn to slide 13 to review the price…

Thanks, Chris. Today I’ll briefly review our financing and hedging activity for the quarter. I'll start by reviewing our financing summary on slide 16. At the end of the quarter our repo portfolio totaled $79 billion. The cost of our repo funding increased 4 basis points to 46 basis points at quarter-end, this increase was due primarily to generally higher costs across the repo market. Another driver of the cost increase was the continuation of a strategy that I’ve talked about for several quarters namely, the maturity expansion of our repo funding. Again, this quarter we increased the average maturity of our repo funding by 20 days, bringing the average original days to maturity to 141 days. As a result of this strategy we have reduced our reliance on one month funding and increased our ability to access longer term funding with maturities extending out as far as three years. We are very pleased with the progress we have made to date with regard to our funding and we are encouraged by the growing number of counter parties who are now willing to provide us repo funding with maturities of one year or longer. Over the last year, we have meaningfully reduced our repo rollover risk and significantly enhanced our liquidity position. Looking ahead, we will continue to source longer term funding in an opportunistic way. Turning to slide 17 and 18, I’ll briefly review our hedging activity. Our pay fixed swap for full year increased slightly during the quarter to $48.9 billion. During the quarter, $3.2 billion of pay fixed swaps easily mature or were terminated. We chose to terminate some of our shorter maturity swaps this past quarter because these swaps were no longer an effective hedge of the market value of our mortgage assets. We replaced these…

Thanks, Peter. Now, if we turn to Slide 20, we can look quickly at the business economics slide. As we usually do, let’s focus on the first column in the middle of the page. The asset yield declined 20 basis points as a function of faster prepayment projections and inter quarter activity. And this is a critical point for comparative purposes if we had used a CPR projection of 9%, which would have been equal to our actual prepayments for the third quarter, our asset yield as of September 30 would have been around 284, yes, above where it was at the end of Q2. So funding costs declined by about 8 basis points during the quarter leading to a 12 basis point decline in that margin. The lower margin and reduced leverage results in an approximately 2% reduction in the ROE from the prior quarter. Now as a reminder this table is based on our cost basis for assets and the original costs in the swap portfolio. Footnote one gives you the same figures on a mark-to-market basis. Now, before I open up the call to questions. Let me quickly summarize how we see the current landscape. The bottom line is that we remain confident that we can continue to produce attractive albeit lower risk-adjusted returns. Spreads on new purchases are generally around 10 to 20 basis points higher. That change is meaningful, but returns can still be in the low double digits if you buy the right assets. And yes, the prepayment landscapes is considerable more challenging, but as Chris mentioned, given the composition of our portfolio, we remain confident based on our portfolio will be well behaved. This should not only allow us to maintain reasonable yields on our existing portfolio, but also to minimize our reinvestment…

We will now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) First question comes from Steve DeLaney. Steven C. DeLaney – JMP Securities: Another excellent total return performance. Do you have me? Hello?

Yeah, we have you now dude. Steven C. DeLaney – JMP Securities: Okay, great. I’m sorry. Just I think grasped on another great total return, Gary. Look, you guys have built sort of a reputation and a track record of being able to look ahead and anticipate the next big shift in the market whether it was GSE delinquent loan, buyouts in the first half of 2011, or HARP 2.0 or QE3. I mean it’s been one thing after another. So thinking where we are sitting here with the election and who knows how that turns out, but I’ve seen a lot of post recently on Bloomberg from various strategists who were trying to at least doing a little gaming theory on what the outlook on mortgages might be one way or another. Apart from the politics of this, I would just be curious if you could share with us kind of as you look out over the next 6 to 9 months, what do you see as the greatest policy risk out there for mortgage investor, whether that be GSE policy, shifting Fed policy, we just love any thoughts you have there. And specifically if there is any view that you might have towards The FHFA and there, the job they are doing and the decisions they have to make with respect to the GSEs? Thanks. Sorry for the long question.

No. Thanks, Steve. Look we actually feel now that QE3 is not a question, but a reality that we feel that within the mortgage market, most of the information that we’re going to get, we already have. And so, what I would say is, I think that kind of changes whether they come from Washington or somewhere else right now in terms of kind of structure or policy, are going to be very much at the margin. And interestingly, I think when you ask specifically about FHFA, obviously there have been rumors of the potential for a change at the top of that organization and we applaud to Marco for the job he has done in a very difficult seat. And we would not want to see that, but what I think, what we’d like to stress is that, we have to respect to kind of the HARP program and some of the biggest impacts on the agency space. We think there is kind of a broad recognition whether its treasury, the Fed, whether it’s the GSE’s, whether it’s hard of where we are in terms of refinance policy. and I think the bigger differences related to obviously things like principal write downs and so forth, which are not really that big of an issue from the agency perspective, their big picture market issue. So what I’d like to say more in conclusion to this question is, we feel more comfortable right now than we have in ages with respect to policy risk and we feel like, we know the landscape that we’re facing. and we think that the moving parts at this point are going to be very marginal relative to some of the things we’ve seen in the past. Steven C. DeLaney – JMP Securities: So instead of sort of a repositioning tied to a single event, it sounds like your approach now looking for it will just good old-fashioned risk management with respect to managing duration risks being well hedged to protect against extension risk that type of thing. And so to that end, you didn’t make any comments on your call specifically about IO or MSRs, but are those products that you continue to sort of have in your tool kit as you look forward in to the eventual world of possibly higher rates?

Yeah, I mean, look, we’re going to always consider every instruments on that – that’s out there that we can source. And rather going to anything specific around kind of how we see the market and what transactions are, what specific strategies we have at this point, what I would just say is asset selection, even though the policy landscape is relatively straightforward, asset selection is going to be incredibly important as is hedging as you mentioned. And we actually feel like there going to be a lot of really good opportunities to continue to position the portfolio well as the landscape changes. And so again, not policy oriented landscape changes, but probably more rate and pricing oriented changes. And so we feel that this is a relatively comfortable environment right now. Yes, it’s a lower return environment, but I think we know the risks and we know how to manage them. Steven C. DeLaney – JMP Securities: Very good. Thanks so much for the color Gary.

Next question comes from Bill Carcache from Nomura. Bill Carcache – Nomura Securities International, Inc.: Good morning. Gary, you talked about the decrease in leverage, I was partly influenced by your offering. But I was hoping you could elaborate on how much of the decrease leverage is driven by the fact that, we are not in an environment where in Fed’s, but on prices. And you don’t really want to seek leverage up into that, and so, along those same lines, can we expect, or should we expect leverage to actually move a bit lower from here, and if so by how much if you could give some color on that?

Sure. What I would say is, when I made the comment about the offering that was really only related to the average quarterly leverage, and that's really important, in other words you do an offering clearly no matter what you are your offer, let on balance sheet leverage drops, that day a lot, right. And so the average leverage number was the only thing impacted by the offering. However, leverage was then built up again. One of the reasons actually the biggest reason why the leverage at the end of the quarter ended lower than where it [half] than the average leverage was just the back of book value was so much higher. And so if you adjust it for that, we actually ended the quarter with a significantly larger portfolio so to speak. So I think you need to, this was a quarter where leverage kind of moved a fair amount interim quarter, and that you also have to factor in the impact on book value on the end of quarter leverage number. Now, with respect to go-forward leverage, look, over, what I’d like to say at a high level is, if QE lasts a long time and if mortgages continue to tighten from here, we certainly see a world where our leverage, will be lower, six months to nine months from now. We will not take leverage off to try to offset spread tightening if we feel that their risk adjusted returns don't make sense. However, in the short run I think that's, it's very unclear and it’s dependant on prices and opportunities in the market and we would be willing to take leverage up in the short run kind of given that we know the environment that we are in. Again, over the long run in a QE3 environment the trend is probably toward lower leverage. Bill Carcache – Nomura Securities International, Inc.: Okay. That’s really helpful. And you also mentioned the 170 basis spread along with the 284 basis point asset yield; I want to just infer your actual CPR experience. Can you talk about – is that kind of fair with where we are today and I guess in terms of the sustainability of the dividend going forward, I guess, you got a significant buildup in your UTI, how comfortable are you enjoying that down, if you could just kind of give us some factor around that that would be helpful?

Sure. So let me break that into two questions. First, the numbers I threw out there, look, we obliviously have confidence in our projections, we feel that making projections make sense. We also know that that’s not the only way people in this space report returns. And so what we are trying to and that’s why just for comparative purposes trying to give you a field that if we look at things kind of more alike on an actual basis what kind of returns you would see, I mean, in the sense we don’t give ourselves to some of degree credit for our CPRs right now. It’s the way you think about it. I mean, we obviously make that money, but it just shows up directly in book value and in OCI, not through kind of the interest income line, because we amortize faster. So that’s what I was to trying to address by giving out the numbers at a 9 – at a projection basically of around 9%. Now that one put aside, let’s look at the dividend, what I want to stress with respect to the dividend is that we have quite a bit of flexibility. Our biggest constraints that we talked about this at in last quarter, are obviously taxable income and undistributed taxable income and clearly, we have a large amount of undistributed taxable income. What does that mean? It means, taxable income is unlikely to be a constraint any time soon with respect to the dividend. The other key thing is that we don’t want to put book value at risk by paying a larger dividend even if we have taxable income to do that. When you look at what’s happened with book value over the last year, okay, were actually since the beginning of…

Sure, well, I appreciate the question. There has been some discussion about the kind of counter party credit risk difference between swaps and swaptions. And at the end of the day, there is actually no difference between the credit risk created by a swaption versus a swaption and there’s really two reasons for that. one is that the underlying instrument in a swaption is simply a swap. So there the underlying instrument is exactly the same. And the second is that the counterparty has the exact same obligation to perform on a swap as they do want a swaption. So there is indistinguishable difference between the credit risk created by swaptions – in a swaption. Now from our perspective, the real issue is how do you manage overall counterparty credit risk with regard to derivatives, there’s only three things that we do, the first thing is obviously, we choose our counterparties carefully, and monitor the credit risk of our counterparties. The second which is an important one is that we size our derivative position with counterparties very carefully, because at end of the day, if there is the unlikely event for a counterparty problem we have to move our derivative position from one counterparty to another. So we want to be sure that we’re not overexposed in terms of the notional amount that we have out with any one counterparty. and then the final key point is that with all of our swaps and swaptions, we mark-to-market those positions on a daily basis and exchange collateral with the counterparty on a daily basis, hugely in the form of cash on mortgage securities. So we go home essentially every night with the position that has been fully collateralized. the risk then is that the counterparty has a problem overnight and that we have to move that position to another counterparty and during that time period, while you move a position from one counterparty to another, you’re exposed. That’s why I mentioned the point about making sure that our positions with any one counterparty are not too lot. So those are really the three things that we do from a credit perspective with regard to our derivatives and it makes us very comfortable what positions that we have.

I just want to quickly reiterate, I mean, Peter mentioned this, but again, both swaps and swaptions are basically, they are with the same counterparties, they’ve both collateralized daily with the exact same process. And so there really can’t be no difference in terms of the kind of credit risk essentially between our counterparty risk between the two instruments. But the Peter’s point, the bigger question is just how you manage that globally. Bill Carcache – Nomura Securities International, Inc.: That's really helpful. Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Next question is from Arren Cyganovich from Evercore. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: Thank you. You mentioned in your remarks that I believe you said you decreased the 3.5, 30 year exposure, I just think it was a little under to the portfolio to 3% coupons, can you kind of confirm that I heard that correctly? And also how you are managing the extension risk on a 3% 30 year fixed rate, I know you kind of touched on it in Peter's comments about, the duration being a little bit lower on assets with the models, it just seems like you have to be very careful on the liability side with that asset?

Sure. Look, and it’s a good question, Aaron. Thanks for asking. First off, I think what the comment was that we are, let's comfortable with generic 30 year 3.5% positions. We give you a lot of information on page 30, which allows you to distinguish between the generic positions and let’s say loan balance or HARP securities, which make up a lot of our 3.5s. So absolutely one should not infer from that comment that we're moving like a third of our position to 3s, it’s actually that position that Chris alluded to having reduced the size of, it’s actually a relatively small position at this point. It’s not immaterial; it’s just nowhere near the size as you’re alluding to. So just keep that in mind and that’s – we’ll evaluate those tradeoffs, and we certainly understand the difference in duration of the different instruments. Now with respect to hedging extension risk, I want to be very clear with Peter, I want to just highlight what Peter said earlier and I think it’s a critical point, swaption value or the price for options right now is pretty much on a record low level. And so you can buy options to protect from a rising rate scenario, which most like probably isn’t going to occur any time soon, but you can buy that protection at a very, very reasonable price right now. You can also pay on 5-year and 10-year swaps, which as we’ve kind of pointed out to you, we’ve been doing quite a bit. And so hedging duration and to some extent hedging extension risk and convexity as we call it, is cheaper than it’s ever been to do. And so it gives you more flexibility to participate in lower coupons. And as we’ve told you over the last few quarters and being concerned about being in higher coupons, we felt it’s been imperative to increase our hedge ratios and we’ve been doing exactly that. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: Okay. Thanks. That’s helpful. And I guess back to the 3.5% 30 years, I guess 31% of those you have in your lower loan balance and HARP is still pretty big than that would be?

No, I think you need to look on page 30, Aaron, and if you look at the bottom in the 3.5% coupons, what you will see on the table is two-thirds of those are HARP and low loan balance. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: All right, I’ll talk to you on offline because I am not seeing the numbers correctly there?

Okay. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: But the…

You know what, I think there may have been, one presentation may have been put up earlier that had numbers. So make sure you reload that presentation, there may have been an issue with the first one that went off and if you haven’t updated it, that might be explaining the difference. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: Okay, I’ll take a look. And then…

But the real number just for anyone listening, I mean, well of the acquisition – two thirds of the acquisition is HARP or lower loan balance. And again the aggregate of that whole line item given the specific more generic securities that we had, the actuals last month CPR for that entire line item was 4%. So there are some places clearly, it’s not an immediate concern from the prepayment side. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: Great, thanks. And then, just lastly, it seems though the larger banks continue to control capacity, by keeping rates a little bit higher, maybe you could give your thoughts on how much you think that’s impacting rates and what the potential is I guess for another leg lower once they’ve kind of get through this current influx of refi activity for pressure on those, on rates going forward. And then maybe the impact of the higher G-Fees that are coming through on rates in general?

Sure, I mean, obviously the higher G-Fees on net increase rates to borrowers by a small amount, but to your point, capacity constraints are big issue in the mortgage market right now, and even though mortgage rates have dropped post QE3, there is more room for them to drop from here. That being said, I think that what – it’s the actual rates that are going to be available to borrowers or still also going to be a function of what happens with interest rates. But I think you just have to be concerned, you can’t manage your position hoping that capacity constraints in a sense bail you out for an extended period of time. They really help over the short period of time and that rates don’t drop as much or as quickly because as you say there is a lot of volume, originators can keep rates higher. But overtime they will react with pricing and so we do feel that it’s very possible that mortgage rates to borrowers continue to drop over the next 3 to 6 months in the absence of a shock to interest rates. So when you put that together, it really just reiterates what we keep trying to tell people, this is an environment where you do have to hedge and you do have to protect against extension risk, but you just have to be careful on the prepayment side or your returns are going to be very weak. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners: Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next question comes from Bose George from KBW. Bose George – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: First just a follow-up on the capacity question, we’ve seen the MBA refi index, take down now for several weeks, is that consistent with your expectations and is that a capacity issue.

I think its partly a capacity issue, its partly the mortgage rates have also ticked up post QE3 and we talked about mortgage prices weakening a little bit. So I think what you’ve seen is that, you had a major dip in grades post QE3 rates have ticked back up, one factor is just mortgage prices, another factor is capacity and the fact that the refi index spiked for a couple of weeks to almost 6,000. But I think people should be very – shouldn’t be quick to like a lot of comfort around the decline in the refi and it is just still high. And as soon as it drops a lot more, you will see originators lower rates and that will bring in the refi and its back up. So our mindset is, this is not an environment where you’re necessarily going to see massive increases in prepayments, but you’re going to see noticeable increases in prepayments and – but they are going to be sustained longer than they otherwise would be because of the fact that there is plenty of room for originators to continue to lower rates as necessary to maintain volume. So, look, you’re going to see movements in the refi and that’s like you always do. But I think the challenge in this environment is maybe a little less of what you used to see 10 years ago, which is massive spikes and more of extended, but still very fast prepayments, and all you need to do is look at those yield table that Chris went over and you can see the impact of that on generic mortgage positions. Taking a step back though, we now have two or three years of really, really good information about how both lower loan balance and HARP securities can perform in these kind of environments. So, I want to reiterate my comfort with respect to our specific positions and I’m basing that both on our knowledge in the market, but even more so, on just what we’ve seen over the past few years. Bose George – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Okay, great. Thanks for that. And then just in terms of incremental spreads, the core spreads on your portfolio, should we just look at Slide 6 and look between the 12.5% and 15% and say range is somewhere in between I guess it’s 130 to 110?

I mean, look, that slide is designed to be our hypothetical kind of picture. There could be differences on those specific, there will be differences over time in the cost of funds, how much we choose to hedge, the prices of those securities move around. But that’s a component, the specified 30-year mortgages, that’s a reasonable representation of the yields on a specified 30-year mortgage. we obviously do 15 years as well, those are lower returns and lower spreads, but lower risk. So I would put that in a context – larger context, but you could certainly use that as a building block. Bose George – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Okay, thanks. And then just one final thing, just the 5 point got a difference between actual payments and your model number, is there a lot of flexibility in that number, and could you just sort of discuss that difference?

There really isn’t, I mean, as I’ve talked about in other calls, we have a very kind of the defined process for coming up with the repayment projections and they are based on a third-party vendor who is a leader in the marketplace, BlackRock Solutions. I want to be very clear, we don’t like – the process isn’t one we are Peter, Chris, Ernie and I get in a room and say it looks like 14 for this quarter where it is the flexibility with respect to that. It’s very much kind of model driven and it’s a very kind of rigid process, so to speak. And that’s really where those numbers come from. And let me be – take that one step further, the big inputs into the model are the mortgage rate, okay, were an imputed mortgage rate and also kind of mortgage prices are by definition are kind of a driver of those. And so if you look at kind of mortgage rates, which are based on general interest rates and mortgage prices, that’s the single biggest driver of the prepayment projections. Now overtime what happens is, we coupled with Blackrock will evaluate the performance of the model versus kind of what we've seen in terms of prepayments. And if there are differences then we may recommend changes or discuss kind of areas where the model is over or under predicting speeds, where Blackrock on their own may come and say, hey our model is not doing that well on this and we're going to update it. That happens as well under kind of pretty controlled environment. But those are the – that’s the part that the different let's say than the pure interest rate or mortgage price driven performance.

I would add to that a Blackrock were to make a change, it would be a change not unique to AGNC but a change that would apply to all of the users of their model.

The only other thing to keep in mind is that the CPRs that we’re forecasting are lifetime CPRs, and so when you compare that to our one month actual CPR in the case of 30 year, that's on a nine (inaudible) on average population. So as going season CPRs tend to increase somewhat and so that's also a factor when you compare those two numbers side-by-side. Bose George – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Okay, great. Thanks for that.

Next question comes from Daniel Furtado from Jefferies. Daniel Furtado – Jefferies & Co.: Good morning and thank you for the opportunity. Gary, why do you think the GPs have risen at GSEs and how much higher do you think they will go in 2013?

I think they've risen because realistically there is the GSEs have a lot of pricing power and some arguably had probably been working for a lot less than they probably should have been. So irrespective of what you think the actual credit cost is and whether they could have been making money before, I mean 95% of our volume is going to the GSEs, they have no competitors, there is no other alternative of, if they were, they should be raising prices and you’re seeing that. Obviously, they also care about mortgage rates and their in conservatorship, so they are not being as really private companies. But I think that they are trying to achieve and I think they are going in the right direction toward achieving the right balance. I don’t think that there is significantly, there is more than another 10 to 25 basis points achieved, these are going to go up. And I think that the GSEs are probably already quite profitable on their new business, given where GCs are currently. So I think when you think about it, there is still an upward bias in GCs, what FHFA, and the GSEs are doing makes total sense. But I wouldn’t expect more than another 10 to 25 basis points in today’s environment. Daniel Furtado – Jefferies & Co.: And so I guess, just to I understand you clearly, you view it as more of an attempt to improve profitability at the GSEs as opposed to putting more parity in the origination market between GSEs and other non-governmental originators?

I think it accomplishes both goals, but in a sense what I would say is, look, I think people, the government should make sure that the businesses, it’s profitable and that they are pricing it correctly, even though in a sense they have a monopoly in the GSE space. So I think that’s what you’re seeing. So I think you get, I mean, the good thing about this model is that the government should be able to run the GSEs in a very profitable manner, because government backed mortgage securities add a lot of value to the housing system. It allows leverage from not only REITs, but hedge funds and banks and other investors can leverage their investments in mortgage securities and can provide the $10 trillion that’s necessary for the housing market. Without the leverage in the system, you couldn’t get here. So the reality is the GSEs can run that business in a very profitable manner while still being pretty dominant, but if they raise the G-Fees in the direction that they are going, they will allow private capital on the credit side to come in an increased way. So I think it’s just – it makes sense kind of all the way around. Daniel Furtado – Jefferies & Co.: Great. Thanks for the commentary and nice quarter.

Thank you.

Next question comes from Mark Devries from Barclays. Mark C. DeVries – Barclays Capital: Gary, could you talk about the outlook for bank demand for MBS and is kind of lower return environment. Are we reaching a point where spreads are tight enough that you may certainly see them step away?

I think that it’s going to be difficult for banks to step away in a large kind of way because realistically they have incredible amounts of cash on hand, they have plenty of liquidity and there aren’t other alternatives for them in terms of investing capital. And I think one of the reasons you are seeing prices or mortgages I’ll say over the last three weeks weaken is that a number of investors have said, let me wait and hope something gets better. But I think there is even more cash on the sidelines and again it also comes from prepayment. Anyone who has a decent size mortgage portfolio is going to be getting reasonable amounts of prepayments back. And so banks are going to be even more flushed with cash and so I think what you will see is, a hesitancy by the reality is, I think, people need to be invested generally, and there are no better alternatives. Mark C. DeVries – Barclays Capital: Okay. Given the strong move we’ve already seen kind of price performance with specified pools, do you still see more upside there, because we see convergence on returns with specified pools with generic collateral?

We do think there is more upside; we still find value in call protected specified pools. if you think back to slide 14, there’s still a lot of relative value in call protected specified pools versus more generic securities. The absolute valuations are also really attractive despite the higher pay-ups, despite the fact that the Fed’s decent percentage of issuance. On certain segments, we still think that low double-digit gross ROEs are still achievable, and also as Garry mentioned in the pullback in spreads over the last few weeks, we also find value in lower coupons in the case of 30s, 30 year 3s, in the case of 15 year 2.5s.

One thing just to reiterate with Chris just said, just look at slide 14, and the returns on generic mortgages where you don’t have prepayment protection and this is a pretty recent slide, a couple of week ago, I mean on generic 3.5s, you can expect over the next year, over 30 CPR, something doesn’t change, all right. And the returns there are nothing special, and it’s a very different picture, if you look at the bottom of the page, and you look at the returns there. so I think practically speaking, as you see people who have the own pools coming into the marketplace. I mean it’s actually hard to decide to buy the top, they are visiting the clubs, where the generic one on the top yield table. Mark C. DeVries – Barclays Capital: Okay, and just one more quick question, was the four bip increase in the repo costs q-over-q, is that all related to the expansion of the terms of your repo.

No, it was actually more just – repo costs were just kind of generally higher throughout the quarter across the market. Maybe about one basis point was due to the extension. So it was more just a general elevation in repo costs in the marketplace. We started to see those levels come down a little bit so we were kind of optimistic that we might see a little bit improvement in the fourth quarter. Mark C. DeVries – Barclays Capital: Got it. Thank you.

Sure.

Next question comes from Edward Friedman from McLean & Partners. Edward Friedman – McLean & Partners: Hello, congratulations on a great quarter. I was wondering in light of the sharp increase in the book value and the none movement of your hedge portfolio, previously when interest rate declined sharply so you saw big jump in booking, the hedges sort of offset this. (Inaudible) mostly because of the decline in rates was consignment of specific pool and specific part of the market. I was wondering how do you plan to protect these gains in the future with the hedges not performing probably as a hedge on the part of the market.

Sure. So look it’s a good question and to your point and we had talked about this on our second quarter call, we think the bond market in a sense had more fully priced in QE3 and QE3s impact on the bond market would be less than QE3s impact on the mortgage market. And I think that’s exactly what you saw this quarter which was rallying interest rates, but it was relatively small, and so the fact that we were hedged more, didn’t really impact us that much. And going forward, we absolutely understand a point that if the Fed were to disappear tomorrow then mortgages will cheapen up very quickly and you get, and you don’t unwind this price performance. But let’s be practical I think, that’s not going to happen realistically, I think the shortest time frame that the Fed could exit the market would probably be in Q2 realistically, period could be sooner than that, but I think it’s unlikely. But and realistically what I think people should have learned from the last QE1 and even in treasures QE2 is that, the Fed’s impact on the market is more about how much they’ve absorbed and they call this the stock effect versus the flow effect, which is what they are doing on a monthly basis. And so, go into this just to say that, in the near-term, given that mortgages have cheapened up from, I mean they are still at higher prices and the lower coupons and where they were before QE3, but those price increases are not that, are not ridiculous at all given the new dynamics in the market. So we feel pretty good about kind of the support for the mortgage market over the near-term and actually feel that risk to book value, while clearly always there, are not as high as they’ve been in the past. Now over time, that will clearly change and it’s our job, I mean that’s what you’re relying on us to do is to manage the portfolio through changing market environments and hopefully, we’ve demonstrated over the years with that as market change, we’ll adjust our positions accordingly. Edward Friedman – McLean & Partners: Thank you very much.

Next question comes from Ken Bruce from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.

Ken, are you there? Kenneth Bruce – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: I’m here. Can you hear me?

Yeah, we can hear you. Kenneth Bruce – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: Great, thanks. My question picks up from where you just left off. When you look at what has been some modest improvement in the housing market are, does that give you any either reason for pause or how do you consider that in the context of what that may do to prepay speeds over time, and maybe in more so, importantly, how it changes the Fed’s willingness to pursue QE3, and maybe the broader re-complex?

Sure. look, I mean as we’ve stressed to investors on almost every call is, we think about a range of scenarios. If you think about QE3, on the two kind of end points, there is one scenario is one where the housing market gains a lot of steam and the economy turns around the fiscal cliff is avoided. Europe and China both started with the global economy gains momentum. And the Fed backs off pretty quickly from QE3, with probably we should see higher rates in that environment. We can’t discount that scenario. It certainly could happen, okay. And we understand that, and we absolutely are evaluating that as a realistic possibility, okay. On the other hands, there were a plenty of scenarios, the QE for ever is the one people throughout there were – the global economy doesn't improve much or gets worse. The U.S. economy continues to muddle through despite a stronger housing market. And in which case QE could go well into 2014, and so what we're trying to do as we've done in the past is recognize that both of those are real possibilities and try to manage our portfolio accordingly. We could very easily decide tomorrow that we want to sell the whole portfolio and go into cash, because we’re worried about the first scenario I went into. And in that case if that happened really, really quickly, we’ll be well-positioned. On the other hand, if the second scenario happens we will be tousled so to speak. So in reality, we've got to balance those two scenarios, and if you look at leverage, if you look at coupon selection, if you look at hedging, we feel that it is those tools as a whole that you use to kind of toggle through that. Kenneth Bruce – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: Yeah, and you've done a very good job of managing through what has been a very volatile market backdrop. So certainly congratulations for that. My next question is really more of a subtlety, but I'm hoping you might give us a little bit of sense as to how you think about relatives when you put that in the context of attractive returns, is that being defined in terms of a benchmark rate that you’re looking at or relative to other levered MBS strategies, how do you think about how you define attractive in this market?

Look, I mean I think you have to look at it from a big picture, I mean we've been very clear that I think it’s obvious overall kind of projected ROEs, the trend is lower. But I think you have to be practical about where returns are in other investments. You’ve got the ten year treasury at 170 basis points. You’ve got corporate debt spreads in a lot, you’ve got yields on those non agency, mortgages in a kind of we call it around 5% depending on the type. So you’ve got to be practical about where the return environment is, what are yields on what people called high yield, right. So what I’m saying there is that even at considerably tighter spreads, this sector can still produce reasonable risk adjusted returns from a big picture perspective. And I think that’s what people have to keep in mind. Kenneth Bruce – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: Agreed, well again nice quarter, very good job in a very difficult environment and thank you for your comments always appreciate it.

Well, thank you Ken.

Our last question comes from Jasper Burch from Macquarie. Jasper Burch – Macquarie Research: Good morning guys. I guess, just starting off with, I appreciate all the color on your CPR projections. I mean how they are imputed. I was just wondering, if sort of broader market, I mean do you have any views on regulatory changes, I know you said that most of spreads are behind us, but things like HARP changes, FHFA, rep and warranty release, I mean how they might impact the prepayment landscape.

The bottom line is we think that changes going forward will be very much on the margin. Again, the rep and warrant release is a small incremental change. We really don’t expect to see anything noticeable in terms of prepayment characteristics from that, I think it’s more of a long run, kind of issue that will allow people to change their business models somewhat, but it’s not going to have any kind of material impact in the near-term. with respect to changes to HARP 2.0, first of all, HARP 2.0 is working. second of all, there is a Menendez-Boxer bill out there that’s being discussed, which would change HARP 2.0 and let’s call it HARP 3.0. But what’s really interesting is that one part of that, the extension of the HARP eligibility date, which were probably at the biggest impact on the market was dropped from the first kind of submission to the second one, after the bill was discussed. and so all that built us at this point is, kind of make HARP 2.0 more effective for the universe, it touches so to speak, which are loans originated before May of 2009. and so from our perspective, that’s well less than 3% of AGNC’s portfolio. so it’s really a relevant in the grand scheme of things. so it’s again, when you think about this really bad refi bill that’s out there, and if that has is, which are probably more, it would affect less than 3% of our portfolio. It’s really hard for us to be overly concerned on that front. Jasper Burch – Macquarie Research: Okay, that’s fair. And again, that’s on you guys selection, which has obviously been your strength and it’s really recommendable. I was just wondering with 90 billion portfolio now, how large can you get before you start to lose some of that flexibility?

Look, I mean we get this question every quarter, I understand why on that. But I think what we continue to demonstrate is that, we can manage the portfolio as against margin. That isn’t to say that five at this point is an incremental positive, but just take a step back and look at what the Fed’s doing. The Fed is buying $70 million in agency MBS every month. What other market – there is no other market really outside of maybe treasuries where the Fed can do that. And so put that in perspective when you worry about a $90 billion portfolio that the Fed is buying $70 billion a month. Jasper Burch – Macquarie Research: That’s fair. And I guess on that point, with increased liquidity, you normally expect to see sort of declining in cost of funds or on the repo side, and I’m just wondering, can you just comment no sort of what are the dynamics going on the back end were despite massive Fed buying, increased liquidity, we are still seeing, I mean though an increase in repo rates across the agency in that space?

Yeah, I mean, there obviously has been a lot of shifting I would say in balance sheets really over the last nine to 12 months and I think we are still seeing that in some of our counterparties where there is some asset and balance sheet reallocation going. And I think that’s one of the reasons why rates have been somewhat elevated for the last couple of months. And we continue to see that, but at the same time, we also see other counterparties increasing their capacity to this sector and we are – we’ve been successful at finding new counterparties, I think, we’ll been able to add some new counterparties in the fourth quarter. So overall, I would say it’s been pretty balanced. But at the end of the day, there has been some capital being reallocated, which I think is up ultimately causing mortgage repo rates to stay where they are. Jasper Burch – Macquarie Research: Do you think that, those come back down sort of early next year?

I think, it’s possible, obliviously, global stability will matter and how the European situation evolves. But from our perspective, the key counterparties that we interface with, I think have – I have generally seen some stabilization. There still a little bit going on, but overall, I think that it’s fairly stable outlook. And we’re pretty positive about our capacity and our fund. And then as I mentioned earlier, we are really pleased with the fact that a year ago there was very little in the mortgage repo market being done beyond three months, and now we have counterparties who are willing to lend us three years or longer. So that’s been a very positive development, I think it’s indicative of the fact that the mortgage repo market is very strong. Jasper Burch – Macquarie Research: That’s helpful. Then I guess just one last question. Gary, you said that, you see sort of a low risk to book value decline. You went to a little bit talking about how asset values are holding up and I think that we along with probably most people think that as long as you and Fed are buying asset values are going to stay elevated. But I was just wondering, in terms of the actual redo on book value, I mean, shouldn’t we just mathematically expect book value to come down as the unrealized appreciation runs off as the portfolio recycles?

Well, I mean in our case, the portfolio recycles incredible slowly unless we proactively, which we probably will, choose to sell certain things and buy other things. But if you just think – and when we do that and that will hurt, maybe can hurt accounting yields, but that’s real, that’s accounting. But in terms of the portfolio, in our case, recycling, because of prepayments at our numbers, it’s going to take a really long time. That’s not going to necessarily be the case equally throughout the industry. But I think, you really need to kind of think about that when you talk about something like a 10% or even 14%, whatever the number is, when you think about those kind of numbers, that recycling is an incredibly slow process. And so look, we’re not saying that book values aren’t going to move around, and there will be definitely periods where book value doesn’t just go up, and investors should completely understand that. But what we’re really talking about, when we talk about the kind of the risk is to really big moves in book value relative to hedges. and we’re not saying that that’s a two-year statement that risk is low, but in the current environment right now, would be really hard to see book values or mortgages significantly underperformed other instruments, and that’s really kind of the only point we’re trying to make. Yeah. the environment is going to be different a year from now, and we’re not sure exactly how, but it will be different and it’s our job to make the right decisions to continue to position the portfolio correctly both on the asset side and on the hedging side. So with that, thank you guys for taking the time to call in, and really feel free to reach out to the team with any further questions.

We have now completed our question-and-answer session. I’d like to turn the call back over to Gary Kain for his concluding remarks.

Thanks again for call in. I know we changed the time of the call for obviously related to the weather, and we appreciate people working with us, and again, free to reach out to us if you need to.

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