Annaly Capital Management, Inc. functions as a multifaceted investment management firm, concentrating its efforts on mortgage financing and lending to the corporate middle market. Its varied investment holdings include agency and non-Agency residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, along with mortgage servicing rights, residential mortgage loans, credit risk transfer securities, corporate debt instruments, and various other commercial real estate ventures. The company operates under the tax classification of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), which allows it to avoid federal corporate income tax, provided it distributes its taxable profits to its shareholders.