Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000930236-25-000007
Chunk: 175

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 175
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 fees, incentives or other income in connection with these initiatives. For example, since 2023, we have established two joint ventures with large institutional investors to invest in residential investor bridge loans originated by CoreVest. To the extent we pursue additional, similar initiatives to establish joint ventures or form investment vehicles or funds with third-party investors, our efforts may not be successful, including any efforts we make to engage in the investment advisory business. 

Decisions we make about our business strategy and investments, as well as decisions about raising capital or returning capital to shareholders and investors (through dividends or repurchases of common stock, preferred stock, or convertible or other debt), could fail to improve our business and results of operations.

Over recent years, we have announced several new initiatives to expand our mortgage banking activities and alter our investment portfolio, including by expanding our mortgage banking activities to include, for example, acquiring and originating loans secured by non-owner occupied rental properties generally made up of one to four units and residential bridge loans (which we collectively refer to as “residential investor” real estate loans), and optimizing the size and target returns of our investment portfolio. As examples, since 2019, we have completed the acquisitions of three residential investor real estate loan origination platforms, CoreVest, 5 Arches, LLC (“5 Arches”), and Riverbend Funding, LLC (“Riverbend”), which we combined into a single platform, through which we now originate, acquire, and sell or securitize residential investor loans. We have also completed strategic investments in, may make additional investments in, or raise or allocate additional capital to fund, internal or third-party residential consumer and residential 

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investor mortgage origination platforms, HEI origination platforms, including the launch of our internal Aspire HEI origination platform in 2023, investment advisory or asset management initiatives, and our RWT Horizons® venture investing initiative, through which we invest in early-stage companies strategically aligned with our business across the lending, real estate, and financial technology sectors to drive innovations across our residential consumer and residential investor mortgage loan platforms. Other new investment initiatives include investing in residential securities collateralized by re-performing and non-performing mortgage loans, multifamily loans and securities, subordinate lien residential loans and securities, HEI, investments in excess mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”) and servicer advance investments related to pools of single-family and small-balance multifamily residential mortgage loans, and a multifamily investment fund to acquire workforce housing properties. We also occasionally sell