CYS is a specialty finance company that was created with the objective of achieving consistent risk-adjusted investment income. We seek to achieve this objective by investing on a leveraged basis in residential mortgage pass-through securities for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or Freddie Mac, or the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae, and collateralized by single-family residential mortgage loans. We refer to these securities as Agency RMBS. We have elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes.Our Chief Executive Officer and President, Kevin E. Grant, was a senior portfolio manager and member of the Aggregate Bond Team at Fidelity Investments, where he managed fixed income assets including the Mortgage Securities Fund, the Investment Grade Bond Fund, the Total Bond Fund, the fixed income portion of the Fidelity Puritan Fund and the Strategic Income Fund. Our investment team averages over 20 years’ experience in the fields of MBS, structured finance, and corporate finance. Our portfolio managers have experience managing assets through the various interest rate and credit cycles since the early 1980s, and have the proven ability to generate risk-adjusted investment income in these environments. The Company was founded in January 2006, and is managed by Cypress Sharpridge Advisors LLC, a joint venture between Cypress CSI Advisors LLC, a sponsor of private equity funds and leveraged buyouts of U.S. companies, and Sharpridge Capital Management, L.P., a specialist fixed income asset management company founded by Kevin E. Grant, our Chief Executive Officer.

CB Richard Ellis Investors (CBRE Investors) often has that urge. By 1998 CBRE Investors had $6 billion of assets under management in separate accounts and commingled funds. That same year CB Commercial, as the parent company was then known, acquired Richard Ellis International to create CB Richard Ellis, the leading global real estate services organization.

Klépierre loves to hear the clip-clop of feet through its properties. The firm owns some 275 shopping centers throughout Continental Europe, most of them acquired from or developed in cooperation with Spanish grocery retailer Centros Comerciales Carrefour . It also owns office properties in the Paris metropolitan area. Subsidiary Ségécé and its subsidiaries provide property management services for Klépierre and for other owners, with a total of about 375 properties under management. In 2003 Klépierre chose to operate under France's new SIIC tax classification, similar to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the US. French banking giant BNP Paribas owns about 52% of the company.

The Mitsui Fudosan Group, in pursuing its mission to "bring enrichment and greater comfort to urban areas," consistently aims for complete customer satisfaction through the full understanding of diversifying customers needs and ongoing creation of new value.It is partnering with others to build what will be Tokyo's tallest building at completion. Mitsui Fudosan is developing luxury and lifestyle properties to match Japan's shift from an industry-based economy to a services-based one.

IGB is a commercial property investor, builder, and developer active primarily in Malaysia. Its property investment and management arm, which accounts for about half of the group's revenues, owns and operate property assets including retail and office buildings throughout the Asia/Pacific region; it also provides commercial development services. IGB's Tan & Tan Developments subsidiary develops and sells real estate, including multifamily residential, hospital, office, and mixed-use properties. ENSIGNIA Construction provides construction and design services for other IGB arms and for commercial and civil engineering projects.

Since 1849, Nottingham Building Society has had a proud tradition of putting its customers first. The principles of the founders were to promote the culture of home ownership whilst providing a safe haven for savings. Over 160 years later, these ideals have helped The Nottingham grow to become a top 20 building society and influence why it intends remaining a traditional building society.With a network of branches in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, Nottingham Building Society is one of the most successful regional building societies in the UK.

The Corcoran Group has exemplified a steadfast commitment to service, creativity and hard work. The company was founded in 1973 as New York City began an historic transition from being a market predominately composed of rentals to one of individual ownership. Corcoran grasped the implications of this change by targeting specific neighborhoods and concentrating on higher-end properties. With that strategy, we quickly rose to prominence and thanks also to the acquisition of major real estate companies in Manhattan and Brooklyn, today we are the largest residential real estate firm in New York City.

The Related Group is America’s leading developer of sophisticated metropolitan living and the largest multi-family real estate development firm. Founded by Chairman Jorge M. Pérez, The Related Group has earned a national reputation for its visionary design and development of luxury condominiums, mixed-use center and affordable rental properties – often in emerging or undiscovered neighborhoods. And since its inception, the privately-held company has built and managed more than 77,000 condominium and apartment residences in major markets throughout Florida.

Seeking somebody to manage your multifamily properties? Don't skip Riverstone. Riverstone Residential provides third-party management services of apartment communities for property investors. It oversees some 650 high-rise, midrise, and garden-style properties (approximately 200,000 individual units) in major markets thoughout the US. Services include leasing and marketing, due diligence, resident screening, and debt collection. Riverstone serves institutional investors such as BlackRock as well as smaller investors such as Hamilton Zanze. The company was established when Trammell Crow Residential spun its property management business off in 2006.

Newcastle Building Society is one of the leading and strongest mutual building societies in the UK with in excess of £4.5 billion. We have more branches than any other building society in the North East, yet we are still small enough to care deeply about our members, employees and the communities we serve.As a mutual organisation, our profits are invested back into the business and not paid out in the form of dividends to a limited number of shareholders. We are committed to the principles of mutuality, which means putting you, the customer, first.You can view our Customer Charter which details the core values of our business and explains our service commitments.

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