Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001206774-25-000244
Chunk: 1

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 1
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 about our director candidates, executive officer and
director compensation and corporate governance. I look forward to sharing more information with you about Chimera at the Annual Meeting.

Your vote is very important.
Whether or not you plan to virtually attend the Annual Meeting, I urge you to authorize your proxy as soon as possible. You may authorize
your proxy on the Internet, by telephone, or by mail. Your vote will ensure your representation at the Annual Meeting regardless of whether
you attend via webcast on June 10, 2025.

Sincerely,

Phillip J. Kardis II

President and Chief Executive Officer

April 24, 2025

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS OF CHIMERA INVESTMENT
CORPORATION

| Time:                        
 Date:                        
 Place:                       | 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time                                                  
 Tuesday, June 10, 2025                                                   
 Virtual meeting via webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CIM2025 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| Purpose:                     | This year’s Annual Meeting will be held for the following purposes:      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|                              | ●                                                                        | To elect two Class III Directors, Brian P. Reilly and Cynthia B. Walsh, each to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2028 and until their successors are duly elected and qualify, and one Class II Director, Phillip J. Kardis II, to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2027 and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|                              | ●                                                                        | To consider and vote upon a non-binding advisory resolution to approve our executive compensation;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
|                              | ●                                                                        | To consider and vote upon the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025; and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|                              | ●                                                                        | To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Other Important Information: | ●                                                                        | We utilize the “notice and access” model rather than mailing full sets of proxy materials to stockholders, as we think, among other things, the Company benefits from the reduced costs associated with this method of delivery. Thus, on