Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI) - 2024 Q1 - Quarterly Report

12 Derivative transactions include swaps, swaptions, U.S. treasury futures and "to-be-announced" securities ("TBAs"). A TBA contract is an agreement to purchase or sell, for future delivery, an Agency RMBS with a specified issuer, term and coupon. Swaps and swaptions are entered into by the Company solely for interest rate risk management purposes. TBAs and U.S. treasury futures are used to manage duration risk as well as basis risk and pricing risk on the Company's financing facilities for MSRs. The decisi ...