Newcastle Investment Corp. Information

Newcastle Investment Corp. (NYSE: NCT) is a real estate investment trust that focuses on investing in, and actively managing, real estate related assets and primarily invests in: (1) Senior Housing Assets and (2) Real Estate & Other Debt, in addition to other opportunistic investments. Our objective is to leverage our longstanding investment expertise to drive attractive risk adjusted returns that will help deliver strong and growing dividends to our shareholders. We target stable long term cash flows and employ conservative capital structures to generate returns throughout different interest rate environments. We take an active approach centered around identifying and executing on opportunities, responding to the changing market environment, dynamically managing our investment portfolio to enhance returns and strategically exiting investments to harvest gains. We are externally managed and advised by an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC and benefit from the resources of a highly diversified global alternative investment manager with $58.0 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2013. More detailed information about our business is included in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports describe, among other things, certain risks that could have a material adverse impact on our ability to achieve our business objectives, realize our expected investment returns, and pay dividends. We urge you to review these risks and the other information in our SEC reports.