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A mortgage REIT. They leverage the slope of the yield curve, to invest in mortgages. Rising rates are not necessarily a good thing for them. It really all revolves around their ability to leverage the spread in the yield curve. There is also some reinvestment risk. If existing pools of mortgages are maturing at higher rates than what you can invest in, that impairs profitability.
It is a mortgage REIT making money by borrowing on the short end of the curve and lending on the long end. The portfolio is much larger than the capital they have to play with, so there is volatility. If rates go up next year it creates refinancing risk for them. He is not comfortable with the leverage in the portfolio.
Dividend dropped 12%? He has not looked at this one for a few years. It is a rolling of US mortgages and real estate instruments and comes with a high yield. He has never found these types of products to make money for investors. You may not want this long term -- perhaps for a short term trade.