Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0001055160-25-000011
Chunk: 7

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: 11-K
Chunk 7
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 Assets Available for Benefits.

In addition to the self-directed brokerage account option and employer stock, set out below are the investment options made available under the Plan as of December 31, 2024:

| Name of Fund / Security             |     | Name of Fund / Security               |     | Name of Fund / Security                                              |
| Fidelity 500 Index Fund             |     | Fidelity Freedom 2045 Fund            |     | Fidelity Total Bond Fund                                             |
| Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund      |     | Fidelity Freedom 2050 Fund            |     | Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund                                        |
| Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund      |     | Fidelity Freedom 2055 Fund            |     | Fidelity Value Fund                                                  |
| Fidelity Extended Market Index Fund |     | Fidelity Freedom 2060 Fund            |     | Goldman Sachs Inflation Protected Securities Fund Investor Shares    |
| Fidelity Freedom 2015 Fund          |     | Fidelity Freedom 2065 Fund            |     | Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund Class T                              |
| Fidelity Freedom 2020 Fund          |     | Fidelity Freedom Income Fund          |     | JP Morgan U.S. Value Fund Class R6                                   |
| Fidelity Freedom 2025 Fund          |     | Fidelity Global ex U.S. Index Fund    |     | MassMutual Premier Small Cap Opportunities Fund Administrative Class |
| Fidelity Freedom 2030 Fund          |     | Fidelity Government Money Market Fund |     | MFA Financial, Inc. Common Stock                                     |
| Fidelity Freedom 2035 Fund          |     | Fidelity Overseas Fund                |     | MFA Financial, Inc. Preferred Stock                                  |
| Fidelity Freedom 2040 Fund          |     | Fidelity Small Cap Growth Fund        |     | Allspring Special Small Cap Value Fund - Class Admin                 |

#### 4. Fair Value Measurements
The framework for measuring fair value provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements), and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described as follows:

Level 1 – Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Plan has the ability to access.

Level 2 – Inputs to the valuation methodology include: (1