Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001514281-25-000086
Chunk: 188

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 188
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 arrangement. Refer to "—Margin requirements" below discussing instances where we may use liquidity to meet margin requirements. At June 30, 2025, we had $89.7 million of liquidity, which consisted of $88.7 million of cash and cash equivalents and $1.0 million of unencumbered Agency RMBS available to support our liquidity needs. Refer to the "Contractual obligations" section of this Item 2 for additional obligations that could impact our liquidity.

Margin requirements

The fair value of our loans and real estate securities fluctuate according to market conditions. When the fair value of the assets pledged as collateral to secure a financing arrangement decreases to the point where the difference between the collateral fair value and the financing arrangement amount is less than the haircut, our lenders may issue a "margin call," which requires us to post additional collateral to the lender in the form of additional assets or cash. Under our repurchase facilities, our lenders have full discretion to determine the fair value of the securities we pledge to them. Our lenders typically value assets based on recent transactions in the market. Lenders also issue margin calls as the published current principal balance factors change on the pool of mortgages underlying the securities pledged as collateral when scheduled and unscheduled paydowns are announced monthly. We experience margin calls in the ordinary course of our business. In seeking to effectively manage the margin requirements established by our lenders, we maintain a position of cash and, when owned, unpledged Agency RMBS. We refer to this position as our "liquidity." The level of liquidity we maintain to meet margin calls is directly affected by our leverage levels, our haircuts and the price changes on our assets. Typically, if interest rates increase or if credit spreads widen, then the prices of our collateral (and our unpledged Agency RMBS that constitute a portion of our liquidity) will decline, we will experience margin calls, and we will need to use our liquidity to meet the margin calls. There can be no assurance that we will maintain sufficient levels of liquidity to meet any margin calls. If our haircuts on existing financing arrangements increase, our liquidity will proportionately decrease. We intend to maintain a level of liquidity in relation to our borrowings that enables us to meet reasonably anticipated margin calls but that also allows us to be substantially invested in the residential mortgage market. We may misjudge the appropriate amount of our liquidity by maintaining excessive liquidity, which would lower our investment returns, or by maintaining insufficient liquidity, which may force us to liquidate assets into potentially unfavorable