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Management
This presentation, and comments made in the associated conference call today, may include statements and information that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the US securities laws. Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, targets, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions and future performance. Forward-looking statements also include statements regarding the scale and our ability to quickly invest the proceeds of our May 2010 follow-on offering, the reduction of our expense ratio, improved stock liquidity, interest rates and their effect on prepayment risk and premium agency positions, the ability of our investment strategy to protect against prepayment and margin call risk, the impact of government-sponsored entities loan buyouts on our second quarter 2010 results, low loan balance pools vulnerability to government-sponsored entity loan buyouts, the PPIP Fund, our flexibility to successfully invest in various market cycles, economic and mortgage market recovery and its impact on our assets, commercial loan opportunities and our potential performance in a rising rate environment, shareholder benefit from our diversified investment strategy and manager's experience, and investment opportunities in the mortgage market. In addition, words such as anticipate, believe, will, expects and plans, as well as other statements that necessarily depends on future events, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees, and they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from our expectations. We caution investors not to rely unduly on any forward-looking statements and urge you to carefully consider the risks identified under the captions Risk Factors, Forward- Looking Statements, and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. All written or oral forward-looking statements that we make, or that are attributable to us, are expressly qualified by this cautionary notice. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update the information in any public disclosure if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate.