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accession: "0001104659-25-120663"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RWT"
cik: "0000930236"
company_name: "REDWOOD TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:27:20.201433+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Redwood Trust approves $10.8M in 2025 year-end LTI awards and 2026 NEO compensation increases

## Summary
- CEO Christopher Abate awarded $3.26M in equity (DSUs: $652,500, csRSUs: $815,625, PSUs: $1,794,375).
- President Dashiell Robinson awarded $2.7M; CFO Brooke Carillo awarded $2.625M; no salary increase for Robinson.
- 2026 base salaries: Abate +2.6%, Carillo +1.7%, all others unchanged; target bonuses: Abate +5%, Carillo +4.2%, others unchanged.
- PSUs vest based on three-year Core Segments EAD ROE and relative TSR vs comparator group; payout range 0-250% of target.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-120663
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RWT
- cik: 0000930236
- company_name: REDWOOD TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465925120663/0001104659-25-120663-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465925120663/tm2533313d1_8k.htm

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