New Residential Investment Corp. Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

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Minimum amount the entity has agreed to expend funds to purchase an interest in Excess MSRs.

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Equity Method Investment, Amount of Distributed Capital Recallable From Co-Investor

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=114001798&loc=d3e33918-111571