Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001514281-25-000026
Chunk: 13

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 13
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, at fair value" line item on the consolidated balance sheets. The Legacy WMC CMBS primarily include fixed-rate and floating-rate CMBS, secured by, or evidencing an ownership interest in, a single commercial mortgage loan or a pool of commercial mortgage loans, and are included in the "Real estate securities, at fair value" line item on the consolidated balance sheets. We expect to either hold the Legacy WMC Commercial Investments until maturity or opportunistically exit these investments.

Our primary sources of income are net interest income from our investment portfolio, changes in the fair value of our investments or hedge portfolio, and income from our investment in Arc Home. Net interest income consists of the interest income we earn on investments less the interest expense we incur on borrowed funds, inclusive of our cost or benefit of hedging. Income from our investment in Arc Home is generated through its mortgage banking activities which represents the origination and subsequent sale of residential mortgage loans and servicing income sourced from its mortgage servicing rights.

We were incorporated in Maryland on March 1, 2011 and commenced operations in July 2011. We conduct our operations to qualify and be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, we generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our taxable income that we distribute currently to our stockholders as long as we maintain our intended qualification as a REIT, with the exception of business conducted in our domestic taxable REIT subsidiaries ("TRS") which are subject to corporate income tax. We also operate our business in a manner that permits us to maintain our exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act. 

Our Manager and TPG Angelo Gordon

We are externally managed by AG REIT Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Manager"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TPG Angelo Gordon, a diversified credit and real estate investing platform within TPG Inc. ("TPG"). TPG (Nasdaq: TPG) is a leading global alternative asset management firm.

On November 1, 2023, TPG acquired TPG Angelo Gordon (the "TPG Transaction"), pursuant to which TPG Angelo Gordon, including our Manager, became indirect subsidiaries of TPG. Pursuant to the management agreement with our Manager, the closing of the TPG Transaction resulted in an assignment of the management agreement. The independent directors of our Board of Directors unanimously consented to such assignment on July 31, 2023 in advance of the TPG Transaction closing. There were no changes to the