Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 116

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 116
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| Wellington Management Group LLP(6)                           
 c/o Wellington Management Company LLP                        
 280 Congress Street                                          
 Boston, MA 02210                                             |     |                    7,874,818 |     | 7.71%      |     |              |
| Vaughn Nelson Investment Management, L.P.(7)                 
 600 Travis Street                                            
 Suite 3800                                                   
 Houston, TX 77002                                            |     |                    5,602,534 |     | 5.49%      |     |              |

| (*) | Represents less than 1% of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock. |

| 1. | The business address of each director and Named Executive Officer is c/o MFA Financial, Inc., One Vanderbilt Avenue, 48thFloor, New York, New York 10017. |

| 2. | Each director and Named Executive Officer has sole or shared voting and investment power with respect to these shares. Amounts exclude any RSUs that do not settle within 60 days of the Record Date. |

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 91 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

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| 3. | Each stock unit represents the right to receive one share of Common Stock and will be settled in an equivalent number of shares of Common Stock. The fully-vested RSUs beneficially owned by our executive officers reflect PRSUs that vested at the end of 2023, but which do not settle until January 2025. |

| 4. | On its Form 13F filed with the SEC on February 11, 2025, Vanguard Group, Inc. reported having investment discretion over an aggregate of 10,111,403 shares of Common Stock as of December 31, 2024, comprised of the following: (i) sole voting authority with respect to no shares of Common Stock, (ii) shared voting authority with respect to 62,307 shares of Common Stock, (iii) no voting authority on non-routine matters with respect to 10,049,096 shares (see page4of this Proxy Statement for a discussion of non-routine matters), (iv) sole investment discretion with respect to 9,929,769 shares of Common Stock and (v) shared investment discretion with respect to 181,634 shares of Common Stock. The ownership percentage reported in the table is based on the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding as of the Record Date and does not reflect any