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Management
This presentation, and comments made in the associated conference call today may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include information concerning future results of operations, our ability to maintain or improve book value, the stability of earnings and dividends, our ability to provide a competitive dividend, our views on the economy, current prices of mortgage-backed securities, the positioning of our portfolio to meet current or future economic conditions, our ability to continue performance trends, our portfolio prepayment fees, and the credit quality of our assets. In addition, words such as beliefs, expects, anticipates, intends, plans, estimates, projects, forecast and future or conditional verbs such as will, may, could, should, and would, as well as any other statements that necessarily depend 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 to any forward-looking statements later it turns out to be inaccurate.