Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001206774-25-000244
Chunk: 5

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 of a quorum at the Annual Meeting.

Discretionary voting occurs
when a bank, broker or other holder of record does not receive voting instructions from the beneficial owner and votes those shares in
its discretion on any proposal as to which the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) permit such bank, broker, or
other holder of record to vote. When banks, brokers, and other holders of record are not permitted under the NYSE rules to vote the beneficial
owner’s shares on a proposal, and there is at least one other proposal on which discretionary voting is allowed, the affected shares
are referred to as broker “non-votes.” Broker “non-votes” will be treated as present for purposes of determining
the presence of a quorum at the Annual Meeting.

Proposals No. 1 and 2 are considered
“non-routine” matters that brokers may not vote on without instruction from beneficial owners. As a result, a broker non-vote
will be treated as present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum at the Annual Meeting but will not be voted on these proposals.
Abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on each of the proposals. Proposal No. 3 is, however, a proposal for which
brokers do have discretionary voting authority.

Annual Meeting Admission and
Process

You may attend the virtual Annual Meeting if you are a stockholder
of record, a proxy of a stockholder of record, or a beneficial owner of our common stock with evidence of ownership. If you attend the
virtual Annual Meeting, you will be able to vote your shares and submit questions. Your vote is important. Even if you plan to attend
the live webcast of the Annual Meeting, we encourage you to vote as soon as possible by visiting the voting website www.proxyvote.com
and submitting your vote in advance of the meeting. Make sure to have your proxy notice available and follow the instructions on the
voting website.

You can submit questions by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CIM2025
and entering the control number included on your proxy notice, or otherwise provided by your bank, broker or other nominee. Only stockholders
with a valid control number will be allowed to ask questions. We will try to answer as many stockholder questions as time permits. We
reserve the right to edit profanity or other inappropriate language and to exclude questions regarding topics that are not pertinent
to Annual Meeting matters or Company business. If we