About Us

Chimera Investment Corporation invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, real estate-related securities and various other asset classes. Our objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors over the long-term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation, by maintaining a business model that evolves with market opportunities. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. We are externally managed by Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Annaly Capital Management, Inc.

Strategy

Chimera manages residential mortgage credit risk. We strive to achieve our objective of providing attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors over the long-term by investing in a diversified investment portfolio of RMBS, residential mortgage loans, real estate-related securities and various other asset classes.

In addition, we engage in transactions with residential mortgage originators in which we identify and re-underwrite residential mortgage loans owned by such entities, and rather than purchasing and securitizing such residential mortgage loans ourselves, we and the originator structure the securitization and purchase the resulting mezzanine and subordinate non-Agency RMBS. We have and may continue to engage in similar transactions with non-Agency RMBS in which we acquire originally AAA-rated non-Agency RMBS and re-securitize those securities.

We may use leverage to increase potential returns to our stockholders. Subject to maintaining our REIT qualification and availability of funding, we may use a number of sources to finance our investments, including repurchase agreements, warehouse facilities, securitizations, asset backed commercial paper and term financings.

Our strategy of balancing both interest rate and credit sensitive assets is designed to generate attractive, risk-adjusted returns in a variety of market conditions. Over time, we will modify our investment allocation strategy as market conditions change to seek to maximize the returns from our investment portfolio.