Harold Schwartz | SVP, General Counsel & Secretary |
Craig Knutson | President, CEO & Director |
Stephen Yarad | CFO |
Gudmundur Kristjansson | SVP & Co-CIO |
Bryan Wulfsohn | SVP & Co-CIO |
Eric Hagen | KBW |
Steven Delaney | JMP Securities |
Richard Shane | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to MFA Financial Inc.
First Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. And as a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. I'd now like to turn the conference over to our host, Hal Schwartz.