Hal Schwartz | Senior Vice President of General Counsel and Secretary |
Craig Knutson | President, Chief Executive Officer |
Steve Yarad | Chief Financial Officer |
Gudmundur Kristjansson | Co-Chief Investment Officer |
Bryan Wulfsohn | Co-Chief Investment Officer |
Charlie Arestia | JP Morgan |
Eric Hagen | KVW |
Henry Coffey | Wedbush |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the MFA Financial Inc., Third Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I'd now like to turn the conference over to our host, Mr.