Arlington Asset Investment is an investment firm that focuses on investing in mortgage related assets. Co.'s investment capital is allocated between mortgage servicing right (MSR) related assets, credit investments, and agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Co.'s MSR related assets represent investments for which the return is based on the economic performance of a pool of specific MSRs. Co.'s credit investments include investments in mortgage loans secured by either residential, commercial real property or MBS. Co.'s agency MBS consist of residential mortgage pass-through certificates for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. government sponsored enterprise. The AAIC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the AAIC YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether AAIC YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the AAIC YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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