Chimera Investment Corporation is a specialty finance company that invests, either directly or indirectly through its subsidiaries, in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, real estate-related securities and various other asset classes. The Company's targeted asset classes and the principal investments it expects to make includes RMBS comprising agency and non-agency RMBS; residential mortgage loans consisting of prime mortgage loans, jumbo mortgage loans, and Alt-A mortgage loans; Commercial Mortgage Loans consisting of First or second lien loans secured by multifamily properties, and mixed residential or other commercial properties; retail properties; office properties; or industrial properties, and Other Asset-Backed Securities is consists of debt and equity tranches of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and consumer and non-consumer asset backed securities (ABS).