SERVICER ADVANCE INVESTMENTS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Investments, All Other Investments [Abstract]

Rithm Capital’s Servicer Advance Investments consist of arrangements to fund existing outstanding servicer advances and the requirement to purchase all future servicer advances made with respect to a specified pool of residential mortgage loans in exchange for the basic fee component of the related MSR. Rithm Capital elected to record its Servicer Advance Investments, including the right to the basic fee component of the related MSRs, at fair value pursuant to the fair value option for financial instruments to provide users of the financial statements with better information regarding the effects of market factors.

A taxable wholly owned subsidiary of Rithm Capital is the managing member of Advance Purchaser LLC (the “Buyer”), a joint venture entity, and owned an approximately 73.2% interest in the Buyer as of December 31 2020. In July 2021, Rithm Capital entered into a purchase and sales agreement with certain third-party co-investors whereby Rithm Capital agreed to purchase from certain third-party co-investors approximately 16.1% of aggregate interest in the Buyer, increasing Rithm Capital’s ownership of the Buyer to approximately 89.3% as of December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2022, third-party co-investors, owning the remaining interest in the Buyer, have funded capital commitments to the Buyer of $75.0 million and Rithm Capital has funded capital commitments to the Buyer of $627.4 million. The Buyer may call capital up to the commitment amount on unfunded commitments and recall capital to the extent the Buyer makes a distribution to the co-investors, including Rithm Capital. As of December 31, 2022, the noncontrolling third-party co-investors and Rithm Capital had previously funded their commitments, however, the Buyer may recall $71.5 million and $597.9 million of capital distributed to the third-party co-investors and Rithm Capital, respectively. Neither the third-party co-investors nor Rithm Capital is obligated to fund amounts in excess of their respective capital commitments, regardless of the capital requirements of the Buyer.

The Buyer has purchased servicer advances from Mr. Cooper, is required to purchase all future servicer advances made with respect to this portfolio of loans from Mr. Cooper, and receives cash flows from advance recoveries and the basic fee component of the related MSRs, net of compensation paid back to Mr. Cooper in consideration of Mr. Cooper’s servicing activities. The compensation paid to Mr. Cooper as of December 31, 2022 was approximately 9.2% of the basic fee component of the related MSRs plus a performance fee that represents a portion (up to 100%) of the cash flows in excess of those required for the Buyer to obtain a specified return on its equity.

Rithm Capital has determined that the Buyer is a VIE. See Note 21 for information regarding the assets and liabilities related to this consolidated VIE.

Rithm Capital also acquired a portion of the call rights related to this portfolio of loans.

The following table summarizes Servicer Advance Investments, including the right to the basic fee component of the related MSRs:


	Amortized Cost Basis		Carrying Value(A)		Weighted Average Discount Rate		Weighted Average Yield		Weighted Average Life (Years)(B)
December 31, 2022
Servicer Advance Investments	$	392,749	$	398,820	5.7	%	5.6	%	8.4
December 31, 2021
Servicer Advance Investments	$	405,786	$	421,807	5.2	%	5.5	%	6.9

(A)Represents the fair value of the Servicer Advance Investments, including the basic fee component of the related MSRs.

(B)Represents the weighted average expected timing of the receipt of expected net cash flows for this investment.

The following table provides additional information regarding the Servicer Advance Investments and related financing:


	UPB of Underlying Residential Mortgage Loans		Outstanding Servicer Advances		Servicer Advances to UPB of Underlying Residential Mortgage Loans		Face Amount of Secured Notes and Bonds Payable		Loan-to-Value (“LTV”)(A)				Cost of Funds(C)
									Gross		Net(B)		Gross		Net
December 31, 2022
Servicer Advance Investments(D)	$	17,033,753	$	341,628	2.0	%	$	319,276	90.2	%	88.3	%	6.5	%	5.9	%
December 31, 2021
Servicer Advance Investments(D)	$	20,314,977	$	369,440	1.8	%	$	356,580	91.4	%	90.7	%	1.3	%	1.2	%

(A)Based on outstanding servicer advances, excluding purchased but unsettled servicer advances.

(B)Ratio of face amount of borrowings to par amount of servicer advance collateral, net of any general reserve.

(C)Annualized measure of the cost associated with borrowings. Gross cost of funds primarily includes interest expense and facility fees. Net cost of funds excludes facility fees.

(D)The following table summarizes the types of advances included in Servicer Advance Investments:


	December 31,
	2022		2021
Principal and interest advances	$	66,892	$	67,014
Escrow advances (taxes and insurance advances)	155,438		174,681
Foreclosure advances	119,298		127,745
Total	$	341,628	$	369,440

The following table summarizes interest income related to Servicer Advance Investments:


	Year Ended December 31,
	2022		2021		2020
Interest income, gross of amounts attributable to servicer compensation	$	15,821	$	12,501	$	34,262
Amounts attributable to basic servicer compensation	(891)		(1,798)		(3,248)
Amounts attributable to incentive servicer compensation	27,075		(9,025)		(12,832)
Interest income from servicer advance investments	$	42,005	$	1,678	$	18,182

See Note 19 regarding the financing of Servicer Advance Investments.