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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 10-Q

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2003

Commission File No.: 0-50231

Federal National Mortgage Association

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Fannie Mae

     
Federally chartered corporation
  52-0883107
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
  20016
Washington, DC
  (Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)
   

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (202) 752-7000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

o Yes                    x No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).

o Yes                    x No

As of the close of business on April 30, 2003, there were 979,823,235 shares of common stock outstanding.




 

CROSS-REFERENCE INDEX TO FORM 10-Q

             
Page

PART I
  FINANCIAL INFORMATION     1  
ITEM 1.
  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS     27  
    Independent Accountant’s Review Report     27  
    Statements of Income     28  
    Balance Sheets     29  
    Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity     30  
    Statements of Cash Flows     31  
    Notes to Financial Statements     32  
ITEM 2.
  MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS     1  
    Selected Financial Data     1  
    Results of Operations     3  
    Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results     7  
    Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements     17  
    Critical Accounting Policies     18  
    Risk Management     18  
    Liquidity and Capital Resources     24  
    Performance Outlook     25  
    Pending Accounting Standards     26  
ITEM 3.
  QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK     39  
ITEM 4.
  CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES     39  
PART II
  OTHER INFORMATION     40  
ITEM 1.
  LEGAL PROCEEDINGS     40  
ITEM 2.
  CHANGES IN SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS     40  
ITEM 3.
  DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES     40  
ITEM 4.
  SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS     40  
ITEM 5.
  OTHER INFORMATION     41  
ITEM 6.
  EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K     41  
SIGNATURES     42  
CERTIFICATIONS     43  

The interim financial information provided in this report reflects all adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for such periods. Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature, unless otherwise disclosed in this Form 10-Q. The results of operations in our interim financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. The interim financial information should be read in conjunction with Fannie Mae’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on our Web site at www.fanniemae.com/ir and the SEC’s Web site at www.sec.gov under “Federal National Mortgage Association” or CIK number 0000310522. We do not intend these internet addresses to be active links. Therefore, other than our 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K, the information that appears on these Web sites is not incorporated into this Form 10-Q.


 

PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 
Item 2.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected financial data includes performance measures and ratios based on our reported results and core business earnings, a supplemental non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) measure used by management in operating our business. Our core business earnings measures are not defined terms within GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”)—Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results” for a discussion of how we use core business earnings measures and why we believe they are helpful to investors. Our results for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 are unaudited and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) necessary for a fair presentation. We have reclassified certain prior period amounts to conform to our current presentation. Results for the reported period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year.

                 
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars and shares in
millions, except per
share amounts)
Reported Earnings Data:
               
Net income
  $ 1,941     $ 1,209  
Preferred stock dividends
    (30 )     (33 )
     
     
 
Net income available to common stockholders
  $ 1,911     $ 1,176  
     
     
 
Basic earnings per common share
  $ 1.94     $ 1.18  
Diluted earnings per common share
    1.93       1.17  
Weighted-average diluted common shares outstanding
    990       1,002  
Cash dividends per common share
  $ .39     $ .33  
Net interest yield, taxable-equivalent basis
    1.60 %     1.31 %
Return on average assets
    .85       .59  
Average equity to average assets
    1.9       2.3  
Return on common equity
    53.6       29.1  
Ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges and preferred stock dividends(1)
    1.27:1       1.15:1  
Core Business Earnings Data:(2)
               
Core business earnings(3)
  $ 1,851     $ 1,519  
Core taxable-equivalent revenues(4)
    3,604       2,840  
Net interest margin, taxable-equivalent basis
    1.25 %     1.15 %
Core return on average assets(5)
    .81       .74  
Core return on average realized common equity(6)
    28.0       25.8  
                   
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


Balance Sheet Data:
               
Mortgage portfolio, net
  $ 823,329     $ 797,693  
Liquid assets
    61,142       61,554  
Total assets
    913,264       887,515  
Borrowings:
               
 
Due within one year
    395,531       382,412  
 
Due after one year
    478,389       468,570  
Total liabilities
    895,360       871,227  
Preferred stock
    3,078       2,678  
Stockholders’ equity
    17,904       16,288  
Core capital(7)
    29,517       28,079  
Total capital(8)
    30,309       28,871  

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Three Months Ended
March 31,

Other Performance Measures: 2003 2002



Average effective guaranty fee rate(9)
    .203 %     .186 %
Credit loss ratio(10)
    .004       .005  
Administrative expense ratio(11)
    .073       .073  
Efficiency ratio(12)
    9.5       10.2  
Mortgage purchases
  $ 132,005     $ 90,946  
MBS issues acquired by others(13)
    203,934       106,804  
Outstanding MBS(14)
    1,107,520       896,310  


  (1)  “Earnings” consists of (a) income before federal income taxes and (b) fixed charges. Fixed charges represent interest expense.
 
  (2)  See “MD&A—Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results” for additional discussion of our supplemental non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) core business earnings measures.
 
  (3)  Core business earnings is a non-GAAP measure developed by management in conjunction with the adoption of FAS 133 to evaluate and assess the quality of Fannie Mae’s earnings from its principal business activities on a consistent basis. Core business earnings is presented on a net of tax basis and excludes changes in the time value of purchased options recorded under FAS 133 and includes purchased options premiums amortized on a straight-line basis over the original estimated life of the option.
 
  (4)  A non-GAAP measure that includes revenues net of operating losses primarily on low-income housing tax credit limited partnerships and purchased options premiums amortization expense, adjusted to include taxable-equivalent amounts of tax-exempt income using the applicable federal income tax rate of 35 percent.
 
  (5)  A non-GAAP measure calculated based on core business earnings less preferred stock dividends divided by average assets.
 
  (6)  A non-GAAP measure calculated based on core business earnings less preferred stock dividends divided by average realized common stockholders’ equity (common stockholders’ equity excluding accumulated other comprehensive income).
 
  (7)  The sum of (a) the stated value of common stock, (b) the stated value of outstanding noncumulative perpetual preferred stock, (c) paid-in capital, and (d) retained earnings, less treasury stock. Core capital represents a regulatory measure of capital.
 
  (8)  The sum of (a) core capital and (b) the total allowance for loan losses and guaranty liability for MBS, less (c) the specific loss allowance. Total capital represents a regulatory measure of capital. Specific loss allowances totaled $16 million at March 31, 2003 and $19 million at December 31, 2002.
 
  (9)  Calculated based on guaranty fee and related income from outstanding MBS. We use the term “MBS” (mortgage-backed securities) to refer to mortgage-related securities we issue and on which Fannie Mae guarantees payment of interest and principal.

(10)  Charge-offs, net of recoveries, and foreclosed property income as a percentage of average mortgage portfolio (on an amortized cost basis) and average outstanding MBS.
 
(11)  Administrative expenses as a percentage of average net mortgage portfolio and average outstanding MBS.
 
(12)  Administrative expenses as a percentage of core taxable-equivalent revenues.
 
(13)  MBS issued by Fannie Mae and purchased by investors other than Fannie Mae.
 
(14)  MBS held by investors other than Fannie Mae.

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Fannie Mae is the nation’s largest source of funds for mortgage lenders and investors. Although we operate under a federal charter, we are a private, shareholder-owned company. Our purpose is to facilitate the flow of low-cost mortgage capital to increase the availability and affordability of homeownership for low-, moderate-, and middle-income Americans. We operate exclusively in the secondary mortgage market by purchasing mortgages and mortgage-related securities, including Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities, from primary market institutions, such as commercial banks, savings and loan associations, mortgage companies, securities dealers, and other investors. We provide additional liquidity in the secondary market by issuing and guaranteeing mortgages and mortgage-related securities. We generate revenue from these activities through our two primary lines of business: Portfolio Investment business and Credit Guaranty business.

This report on Form 10-Q highlights significant factors influencing Fannie Mae’s results of operations and financial condition. Management’s Discussion and Analysis and other sections of our Form 10-Q contain forward-looking statements based on management’s estimates of trends and economic factors in the markets in which Fannie Mae is active as well as the company’s business plans. Such estimates and plans may change without notice and future results may vary from expected results if there are significant changes in economic, regulatory, or legislative conditions affecting Fannie Mae or its competitors. For a discussion of these factors, investors should review our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002. We undertake no duty to update these forward-looking statements.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Overview

Our reported net income for the first quarter of 2003 totaled $1.941 billion, an increase of 61 percent over our first quarter 2002 reported results of $1.209 billion. Diluted earnings per share (“diluted EPS”) increased 65 percent to $1.93 from $1.17 in the first quarter of 2002. Our reported results are based on generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), which include the effects of Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (“FAS 133”). FAS 133 generates significant volatility in our reported net income because it requires that we record in our income changes in the time value of purchased options that we use to manage interest rate risk, but it does not allow us to record in earnings changes in the intrinsic value of some of those options or similar changes in the fair value of options in all of our callable debt or mortgage assets. We expect purchased options expense to vary, often substantially, from period to period with changes in interest rates, expected interest rate volatility, and derivative activity.

Reported net interest income for the first quarter of 2003 increased 39 percent to $3.368 billion, while guaranty fee income increased 34 percent to $547 million. These increases were driven primarily by growth in our mortgage portfolio and outstanding MBS and increases in our reported net interest yield and average guaranty fee rate. Our market—residential mortgage debt outstanding—remained strong during the first quarter of 2003, growing at an estimated annualized rate of 11 percent despite continued economic uncertainty and market volatility. The record pace of mortgage originations carried over into the first quarter of 2003 from 2002 due to sustained strong demand for housing and a further decline in mortgage rates to record lows in March 2003, fueling another surge in refinancing activity. Increased demand for fixed-rate mortgages among commercial banks and other investors during the first quarter of 2003 resulted in relatively tighter mortgage-to-debt spreads. To meet the increased demand of investors, we stepped up our issuance of MBS and selectively grew our mortgage portfolio at an annualized rate of 13 percent. In addition, we continued to benefit from the unusually steep yield curve and low short-term interest rates that persisted throughout the quarter.

Management also tracks and analyzes Fannie Mae’s financial results based on a supplemental non-GAAP measure called “core business earnings” (previously referred to by us as “operating net income”). While core business earnings is not a substitute for GAAP net income, we rely on core business earnings in operating our business because we believe core business earnings provides our management and investors with a better measure of our financial results and better reflects our risk management strategies than our

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GAAP net income. We developed core business earnings in conjunction with our January 1, 2001 adoption of FAS 133 to adjust for accounting differences between alternative transactions we use to hedge interest rate risk that produce similar economic results but require different accounting treatment under FAS 133. For example, our core business earnings measure allows management and investors to evaluate the quality of earnings from Fannie Mae’s principal business activities in a way that accounts for comparable hedging transactions in a similar manner. We discuss our core business earnings results in “MD&A— Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results.”

Net Interest Income

Table 1 presents Fannie Mae’s net interest yield based on reported net interest income calculated on a taxable-equivalent basis. The net interest yield calculation subsequent to our adoption of FAS 133 does not fully reflect the cost of our purchased options (see “MD&A— Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results— Core Net Interest Income” for a discussion of our supplemental non-GAAP measures, core net interest income and net interest margin).

Table 1: Net Interest Yield

                     
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Interest income:
               
 
Mortgage portfolio
  $ 12,590     $ 12,171  
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    306       405  
     
     
 
 
Total interest income
    12,896       12,576  
     
     
 
Interest expense:(1)
               
 
Short-term debt
    750       784  
 
Long-term debt
    8,778       9,362  
     
     
 
 
Total interest expense
    9,528       10,146  
     
     
 
Net interest income
    3,368       2,430  
 
Taxable-equivalent adjustment on tax-exempt investments (2)
    123       123  
     
     
 
Taxable-equivalent net interest income
  $ 3,491     $ 2,553  
     
     
 
Average balances:(3)
               
Interest-earning assets:(4)
               
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
  $ 804,804     $ 715,604  
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    67,135       65,165  
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets
    871,939       780,769  
   
Interest-free funds(5)
    (28,432 )     (23,970 )
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets funded by debt
    843,507       756,799  
     
     
 
Interest-bearing liabilities:(1)
               
 
Short-term debt
    210,409       131,421  
 
Long-term debt
    633,098       625,378  
     
     
 
Total interest-bearing liabilities
  $ 843,507     $ 756,799  
     
     
 
Average interest rates:(2, 3)
               
Interest-earning assets:
               
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
    6.28 %     6.85 %
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    1.84       2.52  
     
     
 
 
Total interest-earning assets
    5.94       6.49  
   
Interest-free return(5)
    .17       .18  
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets and interest-free return
    6.11       6.67  
     
     
 
Interest-bearing liabilities:(1)
               
 
Short-term debt
    1.39       2.36  
 
Long-term debt
    5.55       5.99  
     
     
 
 
Total interest-bearing liabilities
    4.51       5.36  
     
     
 
Net interest yield
    1.60 %     1.31 %
     
     
 


(1)  Classification of interest expense and interest-bearing liabilities as short-term or long-term is based on effective maturity or repricing date, taking into consideration the effect of derivative financial instruments. In the first quarter of 2003, we revised our method of classifying interest expense between short-term and long-term on certain derivative instruments. This reclassification does not affect Fannie Mae’s total interest expense. We reclassified $41 million between short-term and long-term interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2002 to conform to our current presentation.
 
(2)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustments to permit comparison of yields on tax-exempt and taxable assets based on a 35 percent marginal tax rate.
 
(3)  Averages have been calculated on a monthly basis based on amortized cost.
 
(4)  Includes average balance of nonaccrual loans of $5.8 billion and $4.2 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.
 
(5)  Interest-free funds represent the portion of our investment portfolio funded by equity and non-interest bearing liabilities.

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Reported net interest income for the first quarter of 2003 increased 39 percent over the first quarter of 2002 to $3.368 billion, driven by a 12 percent increase in our average net investment balance and a 29 basis point expansion in our reported net interest yield to 1.60 percent. Our average net investment balance (also referred to as total interest-earning assets) consists of our mortgage portfolio (net of unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities and deferred balances) and nonmortgage investments. Our net interest yield benefited from an increase in the amount of purchased options used as a substitute for callable debt. The cost of purchased options is not included in our reported net interest income and net interest yield. However, the interest expense on callable debt is included in reported net interest income.

A rate/volume analysis of the changes in our reported net interest income between the first quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2002 is shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Rate/Volume Analysis of Changes in Reported Net Interest Income

                               
Attributable to
Changes in(1)
Increase
(Decrease) Volume Rate



(Dollars in millions)
First Quarter 2003 vs. First Quarter 2002
                           
Interest income:
                           
 
Mortgage portfolio
  $ 419     $ 1,443     $ (1,024 )    
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    (99 )     12       (111 )    
     
     
     
     
 
Total interest income
    320       1,455       (1,135 )    
     
     
     
     
Interest expense:(2)
                           
 
Short-term debt
    (34 )     358       (392 )    
 
Long-term debt
    (584 )     114       (698 )    
     
     
     
     
 
Total interest expense
    (618 )     472       (1,090 )    
     
     
     
     
Change in net interest income
  $ 938     $ 983     $ (45 )    
     
     
     
     
Change in taxable-equivalent adjustment on tax-exempt investments(3)
                         
     
                     
Change in taxable-equivalent net interest income
  $ 938                      
     
                     


(1)  Combined rate/volume variances, a third element of the calculation, are allocated to the rate and volume variances based on their relative size.
 
(2)  Classification of interest expense and interest-bearing liabilities as short-term or long-term is based on effective maturity or repricing date, taking into consideration the effect of derivative financial instruments.
 
(3)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustments to permit comparison of yields on tax-exempt and taxable assets based on a 35 percent marginal tax rate.

Guaranty Fee Income

Guaranty fee income grew 34 percent over the first quarter of 2002 to $547 million. The increase in guaranty fee income was driven by a 23 percent growth in average outstanding MBS and a 9 percent increase in the average effective guaranty fee rate on outstanding MBS.

Average outstanding MBS totaled $1.076 trillion in the first quarter of 2003, compared with $877 billion in the first quarter of 2002. MBS issues acquired by other investors totaled $204 billion in the first quarter of 2003, versus $107 billion in the first quarter of 2002. We expanded our issuance of MBS and curbed our purchase of mortgages and MBS in response to the increased demand for fixed-rate mortgages among commercial banks and other investors. The effective guaranty fee rate increased to 20.3 basis points in the first quarter of 2003 from 18.6 basis points in the first quarter of 2002 as a result of higher fee rates on new business and additional income from the accelerated revenue recognition of net deferred price adjustments due to increased mortgage prepayments.

Fee and Other Income, Net

Fee and other income totaled $114 million in the first quarter of 2003, up from $4 million of income in the first quarter of 2002. During the first quarter of 2003, we experienced a significant increase in transaction, technology, and multifamily fees due to a surge in business volumes associated with significant refinance activity. Transaction, technology, and multifamily fees totaled $245 million for the quarter, an

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increase of $156 million over the first quarter of 2002. The increase in transaction fees was partially offset by higher operating losses stemming from growth in our tax-advantaged investments in affordable housing projects, a reduction in miscellaneous other income, and a $83 million increase in impairment write-downs on various investments.

Credit-Related Expenses

Credit-related expenses, which include our provision for losses and foreclosed property income, totaled $20 million in the first quarter of 2003, compared with $22 million in the first quarter of 2002. Our provision for losses decreased $5 million from the first quarter of 2002 to $23 million. Foreclosed property income totaled $3 million in the first quarter of 2003, compared with $6 million in the first quarter of 2002.

Credit-related losses, which include charge-offs plus foreclosed property income, remained very low in the first quarter due to continued home price gains resulting from the strong housing market, the use of credit enhancements to minimize our credit losses, and aggressive management of problem loans. Credit-related losses totaled $20 million in the first quarter of 2003 and $22 million in the first quarter of 2002.

Administrative Expenses

Administrative expenses totaled $344 million in the first quarter of 2003, an increase of 19 percent over the first quarter of 2002. On January 1, 2003, we adopted the expense recognition provisions of the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation under Financial Accounting Standard No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (“FAS 123”) and began expensing all new stock-based compensation. The above-average growth in administrative expenses was due primarily to costs incurred in reengineering Fannie Mae’s core technology infrastructure to enhance our ability to process and manage the risk on mortgage assets and the expensing of all new stock-based compensation.

We evaluate growth in administrative expenses based on growth in core taxable-equivalent revenues and our average book of business. Core taxable-equivalent revenues is a supplemental non-GAAP measure discussed further in “MD&A—Core Business Earnings and Business Segment Results.” Despite the above-average growth in administrative expenses, our efficiency ratio—the ratio of administrative expenses to core taxable-equivalent revenues—declined to 9.5 percent in the first quarter of 2003 from 10.2 percent in the first quarter of 2002. The ratio of administrative expenses as a percentage of our average book of business was .073 percent in the first quarter of 2003, the same level as first quarter 2002.

Purchased Options Expense

Purchased options expense totaled $625 million in the first quarter of 2003, down from $787 million in the first quarter of 2002. The mark-to-market of the time value of our purchased options will vary from period to period with changes in interest rates, expected interest rate volatility, and derivative activity. FAS 133 requires that we record changes in the time value of our purchased options in earnings, but we are not allowed under FAS 133 to recognize in earnings changes in the intrinsic value of some of these options.

Debt Extinguishments

We recognized $392 million in losses from the call and repurchase of $48 billion in debt in the first quarter of 2003. In comparison, we recognized $172 million in losses on the call and repurchase of $30 billion of debt in the first quarter of 2002. We regularly call or repurchase debt as part of our interest rate risk management strategy.

Income Taxes

Our effective tax rate on reported net income in the first quarter of 2003 was 27 percent based on a provision for federal income taxes of $707 million. In comparison, our effective tax rate for the same prior year period was 23 percent and our tax provision totaled $362 million in the first quarter of 2002. Because

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of the significant increase in our pre-tax reported income, our tax-exempt income and the tax credits we receive on our tax-advantaged investments provided less relative tax benefit to our reported effective tax rate. Our effective tax rate based on core business earnings, which is adjusted for the impact of FAS 133 on our purchased options, was 26 percent in the first quarter of 2003, unchanged from the same period last year.

CORE BUSINESS EARNINGS AND BUSINESS SEGMENT RESULTS

Management relies primarily on core business earnings, a supplemental non-GAAP measure developed in conjunction with our adoption of FAS 133, to evaluate Fannie Mae’s financial performance. While core business earnings is not a substitute for GAAP net income, we rely on core business earnings in operating our business because we believe core business earnings provides our management and investors with a better measure of our financial results and better reflects our risk management strategies than our GAAP net income. Core business earnings excludes the unpredictable volatility in the time value of purchased options because we generally intend to hold these options to maturity, and we do not believe the period-to-period variability in our reported net income from changes in the time value of our purchased options accurately reflects the underlying risks or economics of our hedging strategy. Core business earnings includes amortization of purchased options premiums on a straight-line basis over the original expected life of the options. The net amount of purchased options amortization expense recorded under our core business earnings measure will equal the net amount of purchased options expense ultimately recorded under FAS 133 in our reported net income over the life of our options. However, our amortization treatment is more consistent with the accounting for embedded options in our callable debt and more accurately reflects the underlying economics of our use of purchased options as a substitute for issuing callable debt—two alternate hedging strategies that are economically very similar but require different accounting treatment.

Management also relies on several other non-GAAP performance measures related to core business earnings to evaluate Fannie Mae’s performance. These key performance measures include core taxable-equivalent revenues, core net interest income, and net interest margin. We discuss these measures further in this section and provide a discussion of our business segments, which we also evaluate based on core business earnings. Our core business earnings measures are not defined terms within GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

Core Business Earnings

Core business earnings for the first quarter of 2003 grew 22 percent over the first quarter of 2002 to $1.851 billion due primarily to strong growth in our core net interest income and guaranty fee income. Highlights of our first quarter 2003 performance compared with first quarter 2002 include:

  •  27 percent increase in core taxable-equivalent revenues to $3.604 billion
 
  •  23 percent increase in core net interest income to $2.604 billion
 
  •  10 basis point increase in the net interest margin to 1.25 percent
 
  •  34 percent increase in guaranty fee income
 
  •  $110 million increase in fee and other income to $114 million
 
  •  Decline in our credit loss ratio to .4 basis points from .5 basis points
 
  •  Losses of $392 million from the call and repurchase of debt compared with $172 million
 
  •  25 percent annualized growth in our combined book of business (gross mortgage portfolio and outstanding MBS) during the first quarter of 2003, compared with 18 percent annualized growth in the first quarter of 2002

While our core business earnings measures should not be construed by investors as an alternative to net income and other measures determined in accordance with GAAP, they are critical performance indicators for Fannie Mae’s management. Core business earnings is the primary financial performance measure used by Fannie Mae’s management not only in developing the financial plans of our lines of business and

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tracking results, but also in establishing corporate performance targets and determining incentive compensation. In addition, the investment analyst community has traditionally relied on our core business earnings measures to evaluate Fannie Mae’s earnings performance and to issue earnings guidance. We believe these measures also can serve as valuable assessment tools for investors to judge the quality of our earnings because they provide more consistent accounting and reporting for economically similar interest rate risk hedging transactions, which allows investors to more readily identify sustainable trends and gauge potential future earnings trends.

The following table shows our line of business and consolidated core business earnings results for the first quarter of 2003 and 2002. The only difference between core business earnings and reported net income relates to the FAS 133 accounting treatment for purchased options, which affects our Portfolio Investment business. Core business earnings does not exclude any other accounting effects related to the application of FAS 133. The FAS 133-related reconciling items between our core business earnings and reported results have no effect on our Credit Guaranty business.

Table 3: Reconciliation of Core Business Earnings to Reported Results

                                           
Three Months Ended March 31, 2003

Reconciling Items
Total Core Related to
Portfolio Credit Business Purchased Reported
Investment Guaranty Earnings Options Results





(Dollars in millions)
Net interest income
  $ 3,186     $ 182     $ 3,368     $     $ 3,368  
Purchased options amortization expense
    (764 )           (764 )     764 (2)      
     
     
     
     
     
 
Core net interest income
    2,422       182       2,604       764       3,368  
Guaranty fee income (expense)
    (404 )     951       547             547  
Fee and other income, net
    123       (9 )     114             114  
Credit-related expenses(1)
          (20 )     (20 )           (20 )
Administrative expenses
    (101 )     (243 )     (344 )           (344 )
Purchased options expense under FAS 133
                      (625 )(3)     (625 )
Debt extinguishments
    (392 )           (392 )           (392 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income before federal income taxes
    1,648       861       2,509       139       2,648  
Provision for federal income taxes
    (484 )     (174 )     (658 )     (49 )(4)     (707 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Net income
  $ 1,164     $ 687     $ 1,851     $ 90     $ 1,941  
     
     
     
     
     
 
                                           
Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

Reconciling Items
Total Core Related to
Portfolio Credit Business Purchased Reported
Investment Guaranty Earnings Options Results





Net interest income
  $ 2,269     $ 161     $ 2,430     $     $ 2,430  
Purchased options amortization expense
    (310 )           (310 )     310 (2)      
     
     
     
     
     
 
Core net interest income
    1,959       161       2,120       310       2,430  
Guaranty fee income (expense)
    (318 )     726       408             408  
Fee and other income, net
    61       (57 )     4             4  
Credit-related expenses(1)
          (22 )     (22 )           (22 )
Administrative expenses
    (85 )     (205 )     (290 )           (290 )
Purchased options expense under FAS 133
                      (787 )(3)     (787 )
Debt extinguishments
    (172 )           (172 )           (172 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income before federal income taxes
    1,445       603       2,048       (477 )     1,571  
Provision for federal income taxes
    (427 )     (102 )     (529 )     167 (4)     (362 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Net income
  $ 1,018     $ 501     $ 1,519     $ (310 )   $ 1,209  
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Credit-related expenses include the income statement line items “Provision for losses” and “Foreclosed property income.”
 
(2)  Represents the straight-line amortization of purchased options premiums that we allocate to interest expense over the original expected life of the options. We include this amount in core business earnings instead of recording changes in the time value of purchased options because this treatment is more consistent with the accounting for the embedded options in our callable debt and the vast majority of our mortgages.
 
(3)  Represents changes in the fair value of the time value of purchased options recorded in accordance with FAS 133. We exclude this amount from our core business earnings measure because the period-to-period fluctuations in the time value portion of our options do not reflect the economics of our current risk management strategy, which generally is to hold our purchased options to maturity or exercise date. Consequently, we do not expect to realize the period-to-period fluctuations in time value. In addition, the accounting for purchased options under FAS 133 is inconsistent with the accounting for embedded options in our callable debt and mortgages.
 
(4)  Represents the net federal income tax effect of core business earnings adjustments based on the applicable federal income tax rate of 35 percent.

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The guaranty fee income that we allocate to the Credit Guaranty business for managing the credit risk on mortgage-related assets held by the Portfolio Investment business is offset by a corresponding guaranty fee expense allocation to the Portfolio Investment business in our line of business results. Thus, there is no inter-segment elimination adjustment between our total line of business guaranty fee income and our reported guaranty fee income. For line of business reporting purposes, we allocate transaction fees that we earn for structuring and facilitating securities transactions primarily to our Portfolio Investment business. We allocate technology-related fees that we earn from providing Desktop Underwriter and other technology services to our customers and fees we earn for providing credit enhancement alternatives to our customers primarily to our Credit Guaranty business.

Core Taxable-Equivalent Revenues

Core taxable-equivalent revenues for the first quarter of 2003 increased 27 percent over the first quarter of 2002 to $3.604 billion primarily due to strong growth in core net interest income and guaranty fee income. Table 4 reconciles core taxable-equivalent revenues to taxable-equivalent revenues and provides a comparison between the first quarter of 2003 and 2002.

Table 4: Core Taxable-Equivalent Revenues

                   
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Net interest income
  $ 3,368     $ 2,430  
Guaranty fees
    547       408  
Fee and other income, net(1)
    114       4  
     
     
 
 
Total revenues
    4,029       2,842  
Taxable-equivalent adjustments:
               
 
Investment tax credits(2)
    216       185  
 
Tax-exempt investments(3)
    123       123  
     
     
 
Taxable-equivalent revenues
    4,368       3,150  
Purchased options amortization expense(4)
    (764 )     (310 )
     
     
 
Core taxable-equivalent revenues
  $ 3,604     $ 2,840  
     
     
 


(1)  Includes net losses on certain tax-advantaged investments totaling $71 million and $65 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.
 
(2)  Represents non-GAAP taxable-equivalent adjustments for tax credits related to operating losses on certain affordable housing tax- advantaged equity investments and other investment tax credits using the applicable federal income tax rate of 35 percent.
 
(3)  Represents non-GAAP adjustments to permit comparisons of yields on tax-exempt and taxable assets based on a 35 percent marginal tax rate.
 
(4)  Represents non-GAAP adjustment for straight-line amortization of purchased options premiums that would have been recorded prior to the adoption of FAS 133 in 2001.

Core Net Interest Income

Table 5 reconciles taxable-equivalent core net interest income to our reported net interest income and presents an analysis of our net interest margin. Our taxable-equivalent core net interest income and net interest margin are significantly different than our reported taxable-equivalent net interest income and net interest yield because our core measures include the amortization of our purchased options premiums on a straight-line basis over the life of the option, which is not in accordance with GAAP.

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Table 5: Net Interest Margin

                     
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003
2002
(Dollars in millions)
Net interest income
  $ 3,368     $ 2,430  
 
Purchased options amortization expense(1)
    (764 )     (310 )
     
     
 
Core net interest income
    2,604       2,120  
 
Taxable-equivalent adjustment on tax-exempt investments (2)
    123       123  
     
     
 
Taxable-equivalent core net interest income
  $ 2,727     $ 2,243  
     
     
 
Average balances:(3)
               
Interest-earning assets:(4)
               
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
  $ 804,804     $ 715,604  
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    67,135       65,165  
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets
    871,939       780,769  
 
Interest-free funds(5)
    (28,432 )     (23,970 )
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets funded by debt
    843,507       756,799  
     
     
 
Interest-bearing liabilities:(6)
               
 
Short-term debt
    210,409       131,421  
 
Long-term debt
    633,098       625,378  
     
     
 
Total interest-bearing liabilities
  $ 843,507     $ 756,799  
     
     
 
Average interest rates:(2, 3)
               
Interest-earning assets:
               
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
    6.28 %     6.85 %
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    1.84       2.52  
     
     
 
 
Total interest-earning assets
    5.94       6.49  
   
Interest-free return(5)
    .19       .18  
     
     
 
Total interest-earning assets and interest-free return
    6.13       6.67  
     
     
 
Interest-bearing liabilities:(6)
               
 
Short-term debt
    1.66       2.56  
 
Long-term debt
    5.94       6.15  
     
     
 
 
Total interest-bearing liabilities
    4.88       5.52  
     
     
 
Net interest margin
    1.25 %     1.15 %
     
     
 


(1)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustment for straight-line amortization of purchased options premiums that would have been recorded prior to the adoption of FAS 133 in 2001.
 
(2)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustments to permit comparison of yields on tax-exempt and taxable assets based on a 35 percent marginal tax rate.
 
(3)  Averages have been calculated on a monthly basis based on amortized cost.
 
(4)  Includes average balance of nonaccrual loans of $5.8 billion and $4.2 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.
 
(5)  Interest-free funds represent the portion of our investment portfolio funded by equity and non-interest bearing liabilities.
 
(6)  Classification of interest expense and interest-bearing liabilities as short-term or long-term is based on effective maturity or repricing date, taking into consideration the effect of derivative financial instruments. The cost of debt includes expense for the amortization of purchased options. In the first quarter of 2003, we revised our method of classifying interest expense between short-term and long-term on certain derivative instruments. This reclassification does not affect Fannie Mae’s total interest expense. We reclassified $41 million between short-term and long-term interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2002 to conform to our current presentation.

Core net interest income for the first quarter of 2003 increased $484 million or 23 percent over the first quarter of 2002 to $2.604 billion. The increase was due primarily to a 12 percent increase in our average net investment balance (total interest earning assets) and a 10 basis point increase in the net interest margin to 1.25 percent. Table 6 shows a rate/volume analysis of changes in core net interest income between the first quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2002.

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Table 6: Rate/Volume Analysis of Changes in Core Net Interest Income

                           
Attributable to
Changes in(1)
Increase
(Decrease) Volume Rate



(Dollars in millions)
First Quarter 2003 vs. First Quarter 2002
                       
Interest income:
                       
 
Mortgage portfolio
  $ 419     $ 1,443     $ (1,024 )
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    (99 )     12       (111 )
     
     
     
 
 
Total interest income
    320       1,455       (1,135 )
     
     
     
 
Interest expense:(2)
                       
 
Short-term debt
    (34 )     358       (392 )
 
Long-term debt
    (584 )     114       (698 )
     
     
     
 
 
Total interest expense
    (618 )     472       (1,090 )
     
     
     
 
Change in net interest income   $ 938     $ 983     $ (45 )
     
     
     
 
Change in purchased options amortization expense(3)
    (454 )                
     
                 
Change in core net interest income
  $ 484                  
Change in taxable-equivalent adjustment on tax-exempt
investments(4)
                     
     
                 
Change in taxable-equivalent core net interest income
  $ 484                  
     
                 


(1)  Combined rate/volume variances, a third element of the calculation, are allocated to the rate and volume variances based on their relative size.
 
(2)  Classification of interest expense and interest-bearing liabilities as short-term or long-term is based on effective maturity or repricing date, taking into consideration the effect of derivative financial instruments.
 
(3)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustment for straight-line amortization of purchased options premiums that we would have recorded under GAAP prior to adopting FAS 133.
 
(4)  Reflects non-GAAP adjustments to permit comparison of yields on tax-exempt and taxable assets based on a 35 percent marginal tax rate.

Business Segment Results

Portfolio Investment Business

Our Portfolio Investment business manages the interest rate risk of Fannie Mae’s mortgage portfolio and nonmortgage investments. Core business earnings generated by our Portfolio Investment business are primarily reflected in core net interest income. Core business earnings for the first quarter of 2003 for our Portfolio Investment business increased 14 percent over first quarter 2002 to $1.164 billion. We selectively grew our mortgage portfolio during the first quarter of 2003 at an annualized rate of 13 percent, which was significantly less than the growth rate of our outstanding MBS but above the estimated 11 percent growth rate of our market of residential mortgage debt outstanding. Our overall mortgage portfolio growth slowed during the first quarter of 2003 and contracted in March 2003 as the level of liquidations remained high, and we experienced strong competition for mortgages among banks and other investors that narrowed spreads between mortgage yields and our debt costs (mortgage-to-debt spreads) and produced less attractive purchase opportunities.

We had expected our net interest margin to begin to decline in early 2003 as interest rates leveled off or moved higher. However, interest rates dropped further in the early part of 2003, resulting in an increase in projected mortgage liquidations and a continuation of the unusually steep yield curve. In response to these conditions, we maintained an unusually high percentage of short-term financing at a lower cost for longer than we had anticipated, which reduced our interest expense and caused our net interest margin to rise further. The difference in the timing between the settlement of mortgage commitments, mortgage liquidations, and funding also had a favorable impact on our net interest margin.

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Mortgage Portfolio

Table 7 summarizes mortgage portfolio activity on a gross basis and average yields for the first quarter of 2003 and 2002, and Table 8 shows the distribution of Fannie Mae’s mortgage portfolio by product type at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

Table 7: Mortgage Portfolio Activity(1)

                                                     
Purchases Sales Repayments(2)



Three Months Three Months Three Months
Ended March 31, Ended March 31, Ended March 31,



2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002






(Dollars in millions)
Single-family:
                                               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
  $ 928     $ 1,255     $ 58     $ 6     $ 4,282     $ 2,841  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Conventional:
                                               
   
Long-term, fixed-rate
    105,784       74,262       959       2,558       94,057       50,928  
   
Intermediate-term, fixed-rate
    19,570       11,868       200       74       4,301       4,304  
   
Adjustable-rate
    3,555       1,514       54       114       2,414       2,390  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Total conventional single-family
    128,909       87,644       1,213       2,746       100,772       57,622  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Total single-family
    129,837       88,899       1,271       2,752       105,054       60,463  
Multifamily
    2,168       2,047             379       554       509  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Total
  $ 132,005     $ 90,946     $ 1,271     $ 3,131     $ 105,608     $ 60,972  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Average net yield
    5.34 %     6.31 %                     6.61 %     7.01 %
Annualized repayments as a percentage of average mortgage portfolio
                                    52.3 %     33.8 %


(1)  Excludes premiums, discounts, and other deferred price adjustments.
 
(2)  Includes mortgage loan prepayments, scheduled amortization, and foreclosures.

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Table 8: Mortgage Portfolio Composition(1)

                         
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Mortgages
               
 
Single-family:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
  $ 5,653     $ 5,458  
     
     
 
 
Conventional:
               
     
Long-term, fixed-rate
    106,017       103,220  
     
Intermediate-term, fixed-rate(2)
    59,764       54,503  
     
Adjustable-rate
    9,395       9,045  
     
     
 
       
Total conventional single-family
    175,176       166,768  
     
     
 
Total single-family
    180,829       172,226  
     
     
 
Multifamily:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
    1,273       1,353  
 
Conventional
    13,531       12,218  
     
     
 
Total multifamily
    14,804       13,571  
     
     
 
Total mortgages
  $ 195,633     $ 185,797  
     
     
 
Mortgage-related securities
               
 
Single-family:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
  $ 29,578     $ 33,293  
     
     
 
 
Conventional:
               
   
Long-term, fixed-rate
    518,194       510,435  
   
Intermediate-term, fixed-rate(2)
    49,203       39,409  
   
Adjustable-rate
    14,686       13,946  
     
     
 
     
Total conventional single-family
    582,083       563,790  
     
     
 
Total single-family
    611,661       597,083  
     
     
 
Multifamily:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
    7,635       7,370  
 
Conventional
    7,286       7,050  
     
     
 
Total multifamily
    14,921       14,420  
     
     
 
Total mortgage-related securities
  $ 626,582     $ 611,503  
     
     
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
               
 
Single-family:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
  $ 35,231     $ 38,751  
     
     
 
 
Conventional:
               
   
Long-term, fixed-rate
    624,211       613,655  
   
Intermediate-term, fixed-rate(2)
    108,967       93,912  
   
Adjustable-rate
    24,081       22,991  
     
     
 
     
Total conventional single-family
    757,259       730,558  
     
     
 
Total single-family
    792,490       769,309  
     
     
 
Multifamily:
               
 
Government insured or guaranteed
    8,908       8,723  
 
Conventional
    20,817       19,268  
     
     
 
Total multifamily
    29,725       27,991  
     
     
 
Total mortgage portfolio
    822,215       797,300  
 
Unamortized premium, discount, and deferred price adjustments, net(3)
    1,193       472  
 
Allowance for loan losses(4)
    (79 )     (79 )
     
     
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
  $ 823,329     $ 797,693  
     
     
 
Average net yield
    6.21 %     6.45 %


(1)  Data reflects unpaid principal balance adjusted to include mark-to-market gains and losses on available-for-sale securities.
 
(2)  Intermediate-term, fixed-rate consists of portfolio loans with contractual maturities at purchase equal to or less than 20 years and MBS and other mortgage-related securities held in portfolio with maturities of 15 years or less at issue date.
 
(3)  Includes net unamortized premiums of $769 million at March 31, 2003 and $135 million at December 31, 2002 related to available-for-sale and held-to-maturity mortgage-related securities.
 
(4)  Guaranty liability for probable losses on loans underlying MBS is included in “Guaranty liability for MBS.”

Nonmortgage Investments

Nonmortgage investments consist of our Liquid Investment Portfolio (“LIP”) and other nonmortgage related investments. Nonmortgage investments decreased 8 percent to $55 billion at March 31, 2003, from $60 billion at December 31, 2002.

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Table 9 shows the composition, weighted-average maturities, and credit ratings of our available-for-sale and held-to-maturity nonmortgage investments at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

Table 9: Nonmortgage Investments

Nonmortgage Investments Classified as Available-for-Sale

                                                     
March 31, 2003

Weighted
Gross Gross Average
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair Maturity % Rated A
Cost Gains Losses Value in Months or Better






(Dollars in millions)
Available-for-sale:
                                               
 
Asset-backed securities
  $ 24,998     $ 76     $ (135 )   $ 24,939       32.0       100.0  
 
Floating rate notes(1)
    12,772       10       (18 )     12,764       13.2       90.8  
 
Taxable auction notes
    3,488                   3,488       .4       100.0  
 
Corporate bonds
    1,689       35       (1 )     1,723       17.2       49.1  
 
Commercial paper
    432                   432       .4       100.0  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    103                   103       1.3       47.3  
 
Other
    50                   50       10.7       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 43,532     $ 121     $ (154 )   $ 43,499       22.9       95.2  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
                                                     
December 31, 2002

Weighted
Gross Gross Average
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair Maturity % Rated A
Cost Gains Losses Value in Months or Better






Available-for-sale:
                                               
 
Asset-backed securities
  $ 22,281     $ 98     $ (68 )   $ 22,311       30.0       100.0  
 
Floating rate notes(1)
    11,754       10       (29 )     11,735       10.6       87.6  
 
Taxable auction notes
    949                   949       .2       100.0  
 
Corporate bonds
    1,149       42             1,191       12.8       25.2  
 
Commercial paper
    100                   100       2.2       100.0  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    112             (4 )     108       2.5       43.5  
 
Other
    400                   400       1.1       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 36,745     $ 150     $ (101 )   $ 36,794       22.0       93.5  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  As of March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, 100 percent of floating rate notes repriced at intervals of 90 days or less.

Nonmortgage Investments Classified as Held-to-Maturity

                                                     
March 31, 2003

Weighted
Gross Gross Average
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair Maturity % Rated A
Cost Gains Losses Value in Months or Better






(Dollars in millions)
Held-to-maturity:
                                               
 
Repurchase agreements
  $ 9,133     $     $     $ 9,133       .5       100.0  
 
Federal funds
    950                   950       1.0       100.0  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    745                   745       .8       100.0  
 
Eurodollar time deposits
    200                   200       .3       100.0  
 
Other
    633                   633       8.6       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 11,661     $     $     $ 11,661       1.0       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
                                                     
December 31, 2002

Weighted
Gross Gross Average
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair Maturity % Rated A
Cost Gains Losses Value in Months or Better






Held-to-maturity:
                                               
 
Repurchase agreements
  $ 20,732     $     $     $ 20,732       .5       100.0  
 
Federal funds
    150                   150       1.9       100.0  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    402                   402       1.0       100.0  
 
Eurodollar time deposits
    1,398                   1,398       .8       100.0  
 
Commercial paper
    100                   100       .7       100.0  
 
Other
    268       1             269       4.9       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 23,050     $ 1     $     $ 23,051       .6       100.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

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Our nonmortgage investments combined with cash and cash equivalents represent our total liquid investments. Liquid investments totaled $61 billion at March 31, 2003, compared with $62 billion at December 31, 2002.

Debt Securities

Total debt outstanding increased 3 percent to $874 billion at March 31, 2003 from $851 billion at December 31, 2002. Table 10 compares debt issuances and repayments between the first quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2002.

Table 10: Debt Activity

                   
Three Months
Ended March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in billions)
Issued:
               
 
Amount
  $ 651     $ 524  
 
Average cost
    1.41 %     2.12 %
Redeemed:
               
 
Amount
  $ 628     $ 517  
 
Average cost
    1.71 %     2.25 %

We adjust the maturity and redemption value of our outstanding debt to show the effect of our use of derivatives to supplement our issuance of debt and to hedge against fluctuations in interest rates. Table 11 shows the amount and cost of effective short- and long-term outstanding debt at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, while Table 12 shows the maturity and cost of our effective long-term debt.

Table 11: Effective Short-Term and Long-Term Debt

                   
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Outstanding:
               
Short-term:(1)
               
 
Net amount
  $ 173,243     $ 192,702  
 
Cost
    1.36 %     1.52 %
 
Weighed-average maturity (in months)
    4       3  
 
Percent of total debt outstanding
    20 %     23 %
Long-term:(2)
               
 
Net amount
  $ 693,891     $ 651,827  
 
Cost
    5.20 %     5.48 %
 
Weighed-average maturity (in months)
    73       75  
 
Percent of total debt outstanding
    80 %     77 %
Total:
               
 
Net amount(3)
  $ 867,134     $ 844,529  
 
Cost
    4.60 %     4.81 %
 
Weighed-average maturity (in months)
    56       58  


(1)  Represents the redemption value of short-term debt adjusted to include the effect of derivative instruments that replicate short-term, variable-rate debt securities and exclude short-term debt securities that have been economically converted into long-term debt funding through interest rate swaps.
 
(2)  Represents the redemption value of long-term debt adjusted to include the effect of short-to-long interest rate swaps that economically convert short-term debt securities into long-term debt securities and exclude long-term debt securities that have been economically converted into short-term funding through interest rate swaps.
 
(3)  Represents the redemption value of outstanding debt at period end. Excludes the effect of amortization of premiums, discounts, issuance costs, and hedging results.

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Table 12: Maturities of Effective Long-Term Debt

                                 
Assuming Callable Debt
Redeemed at Initial
Contractual Maturity Call Date


Amount Accounting Amount Accounting
Outstanding(1) Cost(2) Outstanding(1) Cost(2)




(Dollars in millions)
Currently callable
  $       %   $ 12,080       5.17 %
2003
    58,529       4.89       211,343       4.51  
2004
    102,033       4.42       162,230       5.31  
2005
    93,165       4.36       79,467       5.45  
2006
    74,704       4.61       68,929       5.28  
2007
    79,758       5.08       49,167       5.63  
2008 and later
    285,702       6.00       110,675       5.90  
     
     
     
     
 
    $ 693,891       5.20     $ 693,891       5.20  
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Amount outstanding includes long-term debt, effective fixed-rate debt and notional amount of long-term interest rate swaps. Also includes debt linked to swaptions, which makes it effective callable debt. Excludes effective variable-rate debt.
 
(2)  Accounting cost represents the monthly equivalent yield that discounts the amount due at maturity to the net proceeds over the expected life of the security. Includes the impact of debt swaps.

Seventy-two percent of our mortgage portfolio had option-embedded protection at March 31, 2003, a decrease from 75 percent at December 31, 2002, but still above the average range of the past three years. Option-based derivative instruments represented 40 percent and callable debt accounted for 60 percent of the $591 billion in option-embedded debt outstanding at March 31, 2003. In comparison, option-based derivative instruments represented 42 percent and callable debt accounted for 58 percent of the $601 billion in option-embedded debt outstanding at December 31, 2002. Table 13 presents option-embedded debt instruments as a percentage of our net mortgage portfolio at March 31, 2003 and 2002, and December 31, 2002.

Table 13: Option-Embedded Debt Instruments

                         
Three Months
Ended
March 31,

December 31,
2003 2002 2002



(Dollars in millions)
Issued during period
  $ 67     $ 65     $ 384  
Outstanding
    591       406       601  
Percentage of net mortgage portfolio
    72 %     55 %     75 %

Credit Guaranty Business

Our Credit Guaranty business has primary responsibility for managing all of our mortgage credit risk. Core business earnings generated by our Credit Guaranty business are primarily reflected in guaranty fee income. First quarter 2003 core business earnings for our Credit Guaranty business grew 37 percent over first quarter 2002 to $687 million. The increase in core business earnings for our Credit Guaranty business was driven primarily by a 31 percent increase in guaranty fee income. Guaranty fee income for our Credit Guaranty business increased largely due to 18 percent growth in our average book of business and a 2 basis point increase in the average fee rate to 20.2 basis points. The average fee rate for our Credit Guaranty business includes the effect of guaranty fee income allocated to the Credit Guaranty business for managing the credit risk on mortgage-related assets held by the Portfolio Investment business. It therefore differs from our consolidated average effective guaranty fee rate, which excludes guaranty fees on MBS held in our portfolio because these fees are reported as interest income.

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OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

We enter into off-balance sheet arrangements to facilitate our statutory purpose of providing mortgage funds to the secondary market and reduce Fannie Mae’s exposure to interest rate fluctuations. These arrangements may involve elements of credit and interest rate risk in excess of amounts recognized on Fannie Mae’s balance sheet. Table 14 shows our off-balance sheet arrangements at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, which primarily include outstanding MBS and commitments to purchase mortgage assets or issue and guarantee MBS.

Table 14: Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

                   
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in billions)
Contractual amounts:
               
 
Outstanding MBS(1)
  $ 1,108     $ 1,029  
 
Master commitments:
               
 
Mandatory
    53       41  
 
Optional
    12       6  
 
Portfolio purchase commitments:
               
 
Mandatory
    73       85  
 
Optional
    3       3  
 
Credit enhancements
    12       12  
Other investments
    3       3  


(1)  MBS held by investors other than Fannie Mae.

Table 15 summarizes outstanding MBS at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, and issued and guaranteed MBS for the quarters ended March 31, 2003 and 2002.

Table 15: Outstanding MBS(1)

                 
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Outstanding MBS(2)
  $ 1,107,520     $ 1,029,456  
Total MBS outstanding(3)
    1,637,474       1,538,287  
                 
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


MBS issues acquired by others
  $ 203,934     $ 106,804  
Total MBS issued(4)
    292,574       173,916  


(1)  MBS may be resecuritized to back Fannie Megas, Stripped MBS (“SMBS”), or REMICs. With respect to those MBS, the amounts shown only include the principal amount of the MBS once. Amounts also include guaranteed REMICs created from whole loans not owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae.
 
(2)  MBS held by investors other than Fannie Mae.
 
(3)  Includes $530 billion at March 31, 2003 and $509 billion at December 31, 2002 of MBS in Fannie Mae’s portfolio.
 
(4)  Total issued for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 includes $89 billion and $67 billion, respectively, of MBS purchased by Fannie Mae. Total issued for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 excludes $6 billion and $2 billion, respectively, of MBS that Fannie Mae issued from loans in our portfolio.

REMIC issuances totaled $73 billion in the first quarter of 2003, compared with $37 billion in the first quarter of 2002. Lower interest rates continued to fuel MBS issuances, making more collateral available for REMICs. The REMIC market continued to be attractive to investors because of the effect of the steeper yield curve. The outstanding balance of REMICs (including REMICs held in Fannie Mae’s portfolio) was $369 billion at March 31, 2003, compared with $347 billion at December 31, 2002.

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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Fannie Mae’s financial statements and reported results are based on GAAP, which requires us in some cases to use estimates and assumptions that may affect our reported results and disclosures. We believe the application of the following accounting policies involve the most critical or complex estimates and assumptions used in preparing Fannie Mae’s financial statements: determining the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses and guaranty liability for MBS; projecting mortgage prepayments to calculate the amortization of deferred price adjustments on mortgages and mortgage-related securities held in portfolio and guaranteed mortgage-related securities; and estimating the time value of our purchased options. We discuss the assumptions involved in applying these policies in Fannie Mae’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K under “MD&A—Application of Critical Accounting Policies.”

We evaluate our accounting estimates and assumptions on an on-going basis. As of March 31, 2003, we had not made any significant changes from our audited 2002 financial statements to the estimates and assumptions used in applying our critical accounting policies. While we believe our estimates and assumptions are reasonable based on historical experience and other factors, actual results could differ from those estimates and these differences could be material to the financial statements.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Fannie Mae is exposed to several major areas of risk, including interest rate risk and credit risk, that are discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation—Risk Management.”

Interest Rate Risk Management

Interest rate risk is the risk of loss to future earnings or long-term value that may result from changes in interest rates. We utilize a wide range of risk measures and analyses to manage the interest rate risk inherent in the mortgage portfolio, including ongoing business risk measures and run-off measures of the existing portfolio. We rely on net interest income at risk as our primary ongoing business measure of interest rate risk and the portfolio duration gap as our primary run-off measure of interest rate risk. We disclose our net interest income at risk and duration gap measures on a monthly basis. We believe these measures together provide a more informative profile of our overall interest rate risk position than either measure alone.

• Net Interest Income at Risk

Net interest income at risk measures the projected impact of changes in the level of interest rates and the shape of the yield curve on the mortgage portfolio’s expected or “base” core net interest income over the immediate future one- and four-year periods. Our net interest income at risk disclosure represents the extent to which our core net interest income over the next one-year and four-year periods is at risk due to a plus or minus 50 basis point parallel change in the current Fannie Mae yield curve and from a 25 basis point change in the slope of Fannie Mae’s yield curve. We selected these shocks for our monthly disclosure because they capture approximately 95 percent of historical changes in interest rates over a one-month reporting period.

Table 16 compares our March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 net interest income at risk over a one-year and four-year period under each of the interest rate scenarios. A positive number indicates the percent by which projected adjusted net interest income could be reduced by the rate shock. These calculations reflect management’s assumptions of most likely market conditions. Actual portfolio core net interest income may differ from these calculations because of specific interest rate movements, changing business conditions, changing prepayments, and management actions.

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Table 16: Net Interest Income at Risk

                                 
Assuming a 50 basis Assuming a 25 basis
point change in point change in slope
interest rates of the yield curve


One-year Four-year One-year Four-year




March 31, 2003
    1.7 %     2.8 %     4.4 %     6.7 %
December 31, 2002
    .6       1.6       4.7       6.6  

• Duration Gap

We apply the same interest rate process, prepayment models, and volatility assumptions used in our net interest income at risk measure to generate the portfolio duration gap. However, we do not incorporate projected future business activity or nonmortgage investments into our duration gap measure. The duration gap measures the difference between the estimated durations of portfolio assets and liabilities and summarizes the extent to which estimated cash flows for assets and liabilities are matched, on average, over time and across interest rate scenarios. A positive duration gap signals a greater exposure to rising interest rates because it indicates that the duration of our assets exceeds the duration of our liabilities. A negative duration gap signals a greater exposure to declining interest rates because the duration of our assets is less than the duration of our liabilities.

In March 2003, we began reporting our duration gap as a weighted average for the month. Previously, we had reported the duration gap as of the last business day of each month. We believe that reporting a weighted average monthly duration gap provides a more representative measure of our portfolio’s risk position for the month and reduces the effect of any financial anomalies that may occur on the last day of the month. Fannie Mae’s duration gap at March 31, 2003 calculated on a monthly average basis was minus 2 months. In comparison, the duration gap calculated at month end was minus 3 months at March 31, 2003 and minus 5 months at December 31, 2002. We generally have maintained an internal range of plus or minus 6 months for Fannie Mae’s duration gap to signal when and to what extent we should consider rebalancing actions. However, this range serves only as a reference point and does not represent an absolute limit. Over the past decade, Fannie Mae’s duration gap has been wider than plus or minus 6 months approximately one-third of the time.

Derivatives

Derivative instruments are important tools that we use to manage interest rate risk and supplement our issuance of debt in the capital markets. We are an end user of derivatives and do not take speculative positions with derivatives. We primarily use interest rate derivative instruments as a substitute for notes and bonds we issue in the debt markets. The ability to either issue debt securities or modify debt through the use of derivatives increases our funding flexibility and potentially reduces our overall funding costs. The funding flexibility provided by using derivatives also helps us to better match the cash flow variability inherent in mortgages. The types of derivatives we use—primarily interest-rate swaps, basis swaps, swaptions, and caps—are generally regarded in the marketplace as relatively straightforward interest rate derivatives.

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Table 17 summarizes the notional balances and fair values of our derivatives by type at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

Table 17: Derivative Notional Amounts and Net Fair Values

                                   
March 31, 2003 December 31, 2002


Notional Net Fair Notional Net Fair
Amounts Values(1) Amounts Values(1)




(Dollars in millions)
Pay-fixed swaps
  $ 196,327     $ (17,839 )   $ 168,512     $ (17,892 )
Receive-fixed swaps
    70,341       4,377       52,370       4,010  
Basis swaps
    21,715       5       25,525       4  
Caps and swaptions
    375,218       12,690       397,868       12,834  
Other
    13,757       (983 )     12,320       (987 )
     
     
     
     
 
 
Total
  $ 677,358     $ (1,750 )   $ 656,595     $ (2,031 )
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Based on end of period fair values, estimated by calculating the cost, on a net present value basis, to settle at current market rates all outstanding derivative contracts.

Table 18 shows the additions and maturities of derivatives by type during the first quarter of 2003, along with the expected maturities of derivatives outstanding at March 31, 2003.

Table 18: Derivative Activity and Maturity Data

                                                                     
Pay-Fixed/Receive-Variable
Swaps(2)

Receive-Fixed
Pay Receive Pay-Variable/ Basis Caps and
Amount Rate(3) Rate(3) Swaps Swaps Swaptions Other(4) Total








(Dollars in millions)
Notional Amounts:(1)
                                                               
Notional balance at December 31, 2002
  $ 168,512       6.07 %     1.67 %   $ 52,370     $ 25,525     $ 397,868     $ 12,320     $ 656,595  
 
Additions
    32,515       3.12       1.36       29,409       5,975       18,350       5,138       91,387  
 
Maturities(5)
    4,700       5.50       1.69       11,438       9,785       41,000       3,701       70,624  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Notional balance at March 31, 2003
  $ 196,327       5.59 %     1.39 %   $ 70,341     $ 21,715     $ 375,218     $ 13,757     $ 677,358  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Future Maturities of Notional Amounts:(6)
                                                               
 
2003
  $ 21,705       4.91 %     1.39 %   $ 8,294     $ 10,550     $ 95,668     $ 5,593     $ 141,810  
 
2004
    15,550       5.54       1.39       9,700       10,695       42,750       1,200       79,895  
 
2005
    17,530       4.56       1.39       7,405       175       28,350       612       54,072  
 
2006
    16,940       5.02       1.36       5,565       100       13,200             35,805  
 
2007
    16,650       5.27       1.38       7,175       100       23,775       3,342       51,042  
 
Thereafter
    107,952       6.04       1.40       32,202       95       171,475       3,010       314,734  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 196,327       5.59 %     1.39 %   $ 70,341     $ 21,715     $ 375,218     $ 13,757     $ 677,358  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Dollars represent notional amounts that indicate only the amount on which payments are being calculated and do not represent the amount at risk of loss.
 
(2)  Notional amounts include callable swaps of $35 billion and $35 billion with weighted-average pay rates of 6.74 percent and 6.75 percent and weighted-average receive rates of 1.40 percent and 1.68 percent at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, respectively.
 
(3)  The weighted-average interest rate payable and receivable is as of the date indicated. The interest rates of the swaps may be variable rate, so these rates may change as prevailing interest rates change.
 
(4)  Includes foreign currency swaps, futures contracts, and derivative instruments that provide a hedge against interest rate fluctuations.
 
(5)  Includes matured, called, exercised, and terminated amounts.
 
(6)  Based on stated maturities. Assumes that variable interest rates remain constant at March 31, 2003 levels.

At March 31, 2003, over 99 percent of the $677 billion notional amount of our outstanding derivative transactions were with counterparties rated A or better both by Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) and Moody’s

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Investors Service (“Moody’s”). Our derivative instruments were diversified to reduce our credit risk concentrations among 22 counterparties at March 31, 2003, compared with 21 counterparties at December 31, 2002. At March 31, 2003, seven counterparties with credit ratings of A or better represented approximately 73 percent of the total notional amount of outstanding derivatives transactions. The outstanding notional amount for each of these seven counterparties ranged between 5 percent and 15 percent of our total outstanding notional amount at March 31, 2003. Each of the remaining counterparties accounted for less than 5 percent of the total outstanding notional amount at March 31, 2003. In comparison, eight counterparties with credit ratings of A or better represented approximately 76 percent of the total notional amount of outstanding derivatives transactions at December 31, 2002.

Our primary credit exposure on a derivative transaction is that a counterparty might default on payments due, which could result in Fannie Mae having to replace the derivative with a different counterparty at a higher cost. Although notional amount is a commonly used measure of volume in the derivatives market, it is not a meaningful measure of market or credit risk since the notional amount does not change hands other than in the case of foreign currency swaps. Counterparties use the notional amounts of derivative instruments to calculate contractual cash flows to be exchanged. However, the notional amount is significantly greater than the potential market or credit loss that could result from such transactions. The replacement cost, after consideration of offsetting arrangements such as master netting agreements and collateral held, to settle at current market prices all outstanding derivatives in a gain position is a more meaningful measure of our credit market exposure on derivatives. Table 19 shows our exposure on derivatives at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 by maturity and counterparty credit ratings based on these maturities.

Table 19: Derivative Credit Loss Exposure(1)

                                                                                   
March 31, 2003 December 31, 2002


Credit Rating Credit Rating


AAA AA A BBB Total AAA AA A BBB Total










(Dollars in millions)
Less than 1 year
  $     $ 72     $ 1     $     $ 73     $     $ 69     $ 6     $     $ 75  
1 to 5 years
          407       149             556             486       116             602  
Over 5 years
    21       1,297       2,379             3,697       21       1,334       2,328             3,683  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Subtotal
    21       1,776       2,529             4,326       21       1,889       2,450             4,360  
 
Maturity Distribution Netting(2)
    (21 )     (342 )     (707 )           (1,070 )     (21 )     (368 )     (670 )           (1,059 )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Exposure
          1,434       1,822             3,256             1,521       1,780             3,301  
Collateral Held
          1,228       1,772             3,000             1,382       1,722             3,104  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Exposure Net of Collateral
  $     $ 206     $ 50     $     $ 256     $     $ 139     $ 58     $     $ 197  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Notional Amount
  $ 19,146     $ 330,972     $ 326,990     $ 250     $ 677,358     $ 21,045     $ 316,813     $ 318,487     $ 250     $ 656,595  
 
Number of Counterparties
    3       11       7       1       22       2       11       7       1       21  


(1)  Represents the exposure to credit loss on derivative instruments, which is estimated by calculating the cost, on a present value basis, to replace all outstanding derivative contracts in a gain position. Reported on a net-by-counterparty basis where a legal right of offset exists under an enforceable master settlement agreement. Derivative gains and losses with the same counterparty in the same maturity category are presented net within the maturity category.
 
(2)  Represents impact of netting of derivatives in a gain position and derivatives in a loss position for the same counterparty across maturity categories.

Our derivative credit loss exposure, net of collateral held, was $256 million at March 31, 2003, compared with $197 million at December 31, 2002. We expect the credit exposure on derivative contracts to fluctuate as interest rates change. Our derivative credit loss exposure, net of collateral held, at March 31, 2003 represented less than two weeks of annualized pre-tax core business earnings.

At March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, 100 percent of our exposure on derivatives, before consideration of collateral held, was with counterparties rated A or better by S&P and Moody’s. Five counterparties with credit ratings of A or better accounted for approximately 92 percent of our exposure on derivatives before consideration of collateral held at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002. Seventy-nine

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percent of our net exposure of $256 million at March 31, 2003 was with four counterparties rated AA or better by S&P and Aa or better by Moody’s. The percentage of our exposure with each of these four counterparties ranged from 19 to 20 percent. In comparison, six counterparties rated AA or better by S&P and Aa or better by Moody’s accounted for 71 percent of our net exposure of $197 million at December 31, 2002.

Fannie Mae has never experienced a loss on a derivative transaction due to credit default by a counterparty. The credit risk on our derivative transactions is low because our counterparties are of very high credit quality. Our counterparties consist of large banks, broker-dealers, and other financial institutions that have a significant presence in the derivatives market, most of whom are based in the United States. We manage derivative counterparty credit risk by contracting only with experienced counterparties that have high credit ratings. We initiate derivative contracts only with counterparties rated A or better. As an additional precaution, we have a conservative collateral management policy with provisions for requiring collateral on our derivative contracts in gain positions. Additional information on derivative instruments is presented in the Notes to Financial Statements.

Credit Risk Management

Credit risk is the risk of loss to future earnings or future cash flows that may result from the failure of a borrower or institution to fulfill its contractual obligation to make payments to Fannie Mae or an institution’s failure to perform a service for us.

Mortgage Credit Risk

As shown in Table 20, our overall credit performance remained relatively stable in the first quarter of 2003 compared to the first quarter of 2002.

Table 20: Mortgage Credit Performance

                                                   
Number of
Credit-Related Properties Serious
Losses(1) Acquired Delinquency Rate(2)



Three Months Three Months
Ended March 31, Ended March 31,


March 31, December 31,
2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002






(Dollars in millions)
Single-family
  $ 19     $ 21       5,918       4,337       .57 %     57 %
Multifamily
    1       1       1             .09       .05  
     
     
                                 
 
Total
  $ 20     $ 22                                  
     
     
                                 
 
Credit loss ratio(3)
    .004 %     005 %                                
Charge-off ratio(4)
    .005 %     .007 %                                


(1)  Includes charge-offs and foreclosed property income.
 
(2)  The serious delinquency rate for single-family is based on conventional loans in our single-family mortgage credit book of business for which we have access to loan level performance data. It includes loans 90 days or more past due and loans in the process of foreclosure and is calculated based on number of loans. The serious delinquency rate for multifamily includes loans 60 days or more past due and is calculated based on UPB.
 
(3)  Represents annualized credit losses divided by average book of business.
 
(4)  Represents annualized charge-offs divided by average book of business.

Our credit loss ratio—annualized credit losses as a percentage of Fannie Mae’s average book of business— was .4 basis points in the first quarter of 2003, compared with .5 basis points in the first quarter of 2002. Our book of business includes mortgages and MBS in our mortgage portfolio and outstanding MBS held by other investors. While the number of single-family properties acquired rose by 1,581 to 5,918 properties, our total credit-related losses, which include charge-offs plus foreclosed property income, decreased slightly to $20 million in the first quarter of 2003 from $22 million in the first quarter of 2002.

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Table 21 compares the serious delinquency rates for conventional single-family loans with credit enhancements and without credit enhancements at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

Table 21: Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rates(1)

                                   
March 31, 2003 December 31, 2002


Serious Serious
Book Delinquency Book Delinquency
Outstanding(2) Rate(3) Outstanding(2) Rate(3)




Credit enhanced
    26 %     1.34 %     27 %     1.29 %
Non-credit enhanced
    74       .30       73       .31  
     
             
         
 
Total conventional loans
    100 %     .57 %     100 %     .57 %
     
             
         


(1)  Includes loans for which we have access to loan level performance data.
 
(2)  Reported based on unpaid principal balance.
 
(3)  Reported based on number of loans.

The serious delinquency rate for conventional loans in our single-family mortgage credit book at March 31, 2003 remained unchanged from the December 31, 2002 rate of .57 percent. The serious delinquency rate for conventional loans in our single-family mortgage credit book without credit enhancement was ..30 percent at March 31, 2003, compared with ..31 percent at December 31, 2002. The serious delinquency rate for conventional loans in our single-family mortgage credit book with credit enhancement increased to 1.34 percent from 1.29 percent at the end of 2002. These loans have a higher risk profile and tend to be more sensitive to changes in the economy than loans without credit enhancement.

Institutional Counterparty Credit Risk

Non-derivative institutional counterparty risk primarily includes exposure created through the potential nonperformance of our counterparties on mortgage insurance policies, other credit enhancement arrangements with lenders and others, mortgage servicing contracts with lenders, and liquidity investments in corporate obligations or nonmortgage asset-backed securities.

Mortgage Servicers

We have purchased mortgage-related securities secured by manufacturing housing loans that were issued by entities other than Fannie Mae both for our portfolio and, to a limited extent, for securitization into REMIC securities we have issued and guaranteed. At March 31, 2003, we owned or guaranteed approximately $9.7 billion of these securities, approximately 70 percent of which are serviced by Conseco Finance Corp. On March 14, 2003, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a final order approving the servicing arrangements for the securities serviced by Conseco Finance. The order, based upon an agreement reached between Conseco Finance, CFN Investment Holdings (the new owner and servicer), Fannie Mae and other certificate holders, provided for revised servicing fees and an enhanced servicing protocol. CFN is expected to complete the acquisition in the second quarter of 2003.

On May 1, 2003, S&P downgraded a number of the securities serviced by Conseco Finance. As of May 13, 2003, a substantial majority of our securities were rated AA- or better by S&P (or were insured by counterparties rated AA- or better by S&P), and virtually all of the securities had investment grade ratings (or were insured by counterparties that had investment grade ratings). Additional downgrades may occur in the future. Management believes that any potential impairment that might be recorded in the future will not be material to Fannie Mae’s operating results.

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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Liquidity

Our primary sources of liquidity include proceeds from the issuance of debt, principal and interest received on our mortgage portfolio, guaranty fees earned on our MBS, and principal and interest received on our liquid investment portfolio. Primary uses of liquidity include the purchase of mortgage assets, repayment of debt, interest payments, administrative expenses, taxes, and fulfillment of Fannie Mae’s MBS guaranty obligations. Our mortgage asset purchases based on unpaid principal balance totaled $132 billion in the first quarter of 2003. We issued $651 billion in debt to fund those purchases and to replace maturing, called or repurchased debt.

As part of our voluntary commitments, we have publicly pledged to maintain a portfolio of high-quality, liquid, nonmortgage-related securities equal to at least 5 percent of total on-balance-sheet assets. Our liquid assets totaled $61 billion at March 31, 2003, compared with $62 billion at December 31, 2002. The ratio of our liquid assets to total assets was 6.7 percent at March 31, 2003 and 6.9 percent at December 31, 2002.

Our credit quality is continuously monitored by rating agencies. At the end of March 2003 and year-end 2002, our senior unsecured debt had a rating of AAA by S&P, Aaa by Moody’s, and AAA by Fitch, Inc, unchanged from the ratings at December 31, 2002. Our short-term debt was rated A-1+, Prime-1 or P-1, and F1+ by S&P, Moody’s, Fitch, respectively, at March 31, 2003, also unchanged from the ratings at December 31, 2002.

Capital Resources

Fannie Mae is subject to capital adequacy standards established by the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (“1992 Act”) and continuous examination by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (“OFHEO”), which was established by the 1992 Act. The capital adequacy standards require that our core capital (defined by OFHEO as the stated value of common stock, the stated value of outstanding noncumulative perpetual preferred stock, paid-in capital, and retained earnings, less treasury stock) equal or exceed a minimum capital standard and a critical capital standard. Core capital excludes accumulated other comprehensive income/loss (“AOCI”) because AOCI incorporates unrealized gains (losses) on derivatives and certain securities, but not the unrealized losses (gains) on the remaining mortgages and securities or liabilities used to fund the purchase of these items. Table 21 compares Fannie Mae’s core capital and total capital at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 to our capital requirements. Total capital is defined by OFHEO as core capital plus the general allowance for losses. Core capital grew to $29.5 billion at March 31, 2003 from $28.1 billion at December 31, 2002, while total capital increased by $1.4 billion to $30.3 billion at March 31, 2003.

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Table 21: Capital Requirements(1)

                 
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Core capital(2)
  $ 29,517     $ 28,079  
Required minimum capital(3)(4)
    28,226       27,203  
     
     
 
Excess of core capital over minimum capital
  $ 1,291     $ 877  
     
     
 
Total capital(5)
  $ 30,309     $ 28,871  
Required risk-based capital(6)
    Not available       17,434  
             
 
Excess of total capital over required risk-based capital (6)
    Not available     $ 11,437  
             
 
Required critical capital(7)
  $ 14,414     $ 13,880  
Excess of core capital over required critical capital
    15,103       14,199  


(1)  Amounts at March 31, 2003 represent estimates, pending OFHEO’s certification, which is generally provided no later than 3 months following the end of each quarter.
 
(2)  The sum of (a) the stated value of common stock; (b) the stated value of outstanding noncumulative perpetual preferred stock; (c) paid-in capital; and (d) retained earnings, less treasury stock. Core capital excludes accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI).
 
(3)  The sum of (a) 2.50 percent of on-balance sheet assets; (b) .45 percent of outstanding MBS; and (c) .45 percent of other off- balance sheet obligations, which may be adjusted by the Director of OFHEO under certain circumstances (See 12 CFR 1750.4 for existing adjustments made by the Director of OFHEO).
 
(4)  These amounts do not reflect the effect of the December 31, 2002 balance sheet reclassification of amounts associated with the guaranty obligation for MBS that we own from our “Allowance for loan losses” to a “Guaranty liability for MBS.”
 
(5)  The sum of (a) core capital and (b) the total allowance for loan losses and guaranty liability for MBS, less (c) the specific loss allowance. Specific loss allowances totaled $16 million and $19 million at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, respectively.
 
(6)  Amounts are not available until the end of June 2003. OFHEO reports on Fannie Mae’s risk-based capital at the end of each quarter on a quarterly lagged basis.
 
(7)  The sum of (a) 1.25 percent of on-balance sheet assets; (b) .25 percent of outstanding MBS; and (c) .25 percent of other off-balance sheet obligations, which may be adjusted by the Director of OFHEO under certain circumstances.

Common shares outstanding, net of shares held in treasury, totaled approximately 981 million and 989 million at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, respectively. During the first quarter of 2003, Fannie Mae issued approximately .8 million common shares from treasury for employee and other stock compensation plans. As part of the continuation of our capital restructuring program, we repurchased 8.6 million common shares during the first quarter of 2003 at a weighted average cost $62.21 per share. We raised additional equity of $396 billion during the first quarter of 2003 from the issuance of 8 million shares or $400 million of variable rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series K on March 18, 2003. Preferred stock accounted for 10.4 percent of our core capital at March 31, 2003, versus 9.5 percent at December 31, 2002. On April 29, 2003, we issued 6.9 million shares at $50 stated value, or $345 million, of fixed rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series L that was rated AA by S&P, Aa3 by Moody’s, and AA by Fitch.

Subordinated debt serves as a supplement to our equity capital, although it is not a component of core capital. By the end of 2003, we intend to issue sufficient subordinated debt to bring the sum of total capital and outstanding subordinated debt to at least 4 percent of on-balance sheet assets, after providing adequate capital to support off-balance sheet MBS. Subordinated debt totaled $10 billion at March 31, 2003. Total capital and outstanding subordinated debt represented 3.7 percent of on-balance sheet assets at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002. We issued $1.5 billion of additional subordinated debt on April 21, 2003.

PERFORMANCE OUTLOOK

Based on higher than expected core business earnings in the first quarter of 2003, we now expect the growth rate in our 2003 core business earnings to be moderately higher than our previous outlook. We also expect the pattern of change in the net interest margin to result in stronger quarterly growth in core business earnings in the first half of 2003 than in the second half. As interest rates stabilize or begin to move higher, we expect our net interest margin to move to more normal, historical levels of around 100 basis points or slightly lower by the end of 2003 or early 2004. We are anticipating reduced losses on debt calls and repurchases in 2003, which should partially offset the effects of a lower interest margin during

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the latter part of the year. Although mortgage-to-debt spreads were relatively narrow during the first quarter, we continue to expect mid-teens portfolio growth for the year. We believe credit-related losses will rise moderately in 2003 as compared with 2002, paced by a likely increase in acquisitions of foreclosed properties. However, we expect our credit loss ratio to remain under one basis point in 2003. We expect the growth rate in administrative expenses to decline moderately in 2003 from the 2002 growth rate, but remain above historical levels as we complete our core infrastructure project.

Our earnings and net interest margin outlook are based on core business earnings, our supplemental non-GAAP measures. We are unable to provide an outlook for our reported net income and net interest yield—the most comparable GAAP measures—because the mark-to-market changes in the time value of purchased options that we are required to include in our GAAP earnings cannot be predicted and have a significant effect on these measures. We cannot reliably project mark-to-market changes because they depend not only on the volume and mix of purchased options used to finance Fannie Mae’s mortgage portfolio, but also on unpredictable market variables such as changes in interest rates and expected interest rate volatility that may fluctuate substantially from period to period.

PENDING ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

Commitments to Purchase or Sell Mortgages and Mortgage-Related Securities

In April 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Financial Accounting Standard No. 149, Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (“FAS 149”). FAS 149 will require Fannie Mae to account for commitments to purchase or sell mortgages and mortgage-related securities entered into after June 30, 2003 as derivatives. We expect these derivatives to qualify as cash flow hedges of forecasted mortgage purchases or sales. Therefore, we will record changes in the fair values of these derivatives as assets or liabilities with a corresponding increase or decrease in AOCI. We do not anticipate that this amendment will have a material effect on Fannie Mae’s net income.

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Item 1. Financial Statements

Independent Accountant’s Review Report

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Fannie Mae:

We have reviewed the accompanying balance sheet of Fannie Mae as of March 31, 2003 and the related statements of income, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2003 and 2002. These condensed financial statements are the responsibility of Fannie Mae’s management.

We conducted our review in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures to financial data and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

Based on our review, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the condensed financial statements referred to above for them to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have previously audited, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, the balance sheet of Fannie Mae as of December 31, 2002 (presented herein) and the related statements of income, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein). In our report dated January 14, 2003, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

  /s/ KPMG LLP
 
  KPMG LLP

Washington, D.C.

April 10, 2003

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Statements of Income
(Dollars and shares in millions, except per share amounts)
                     
Three Months
Ended March 31,

2003 2002


(Unaudited)
Interest income:
               
 
Mortgage portfolio
  $ 12,590     $ 12,171  
 
Nonmortgage investments and cash equivalents
    306       405  
     
     
 
   
Total interest income
    12,896       12,576  
     
     
 
Interest expense:
               
 
Short-term debt
    750       784  
 
Long-term debt
    8,778       9,362  
     
     
 
   
Total interest expense
    9,528       10,146  
     
     
 
   
Net interest income
    3,368       2,430  
     
     
 
Other income:
               
 
Guaranty fee income (includes imputed interest of $3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 — see Note 2)
    547       408  
 
Fee and other income, net
    114       4  
     
     
 
   
Total other income
    661       412  
     
     
 
Other expenses (income):
               
 
Provision for losses
    23       28  
 
Foreclosed property income
    (3 )     (6 )
 
Administrative expenses
    344       290  
 
Purchased options expense
    625       787  
 
Debt extinguishments, net
    392       172  
     
     
 
   
Total other expenses (income)
    1,381       1,271  
     
     
 
Income before federal income taxes
    2,648       1,571  
Provision for federal income taxes
    (707 )     (362 )
     
     
 
Net income
  $ 1,941     $ 1,209  
     
     
 
Preferred stock dividends
    (30 )     (33 )
     
     
 
Net income available to common stockholders
  $ 1,911     $ 1,176  
     
     
 
 
Basic earnings per common share
  $ 1.94     $ 1.18  
 
Diluted earnings per common share
  $ 1.93     $ 1.17  
 
Cash dividends per common share
  $ 0.39     $ 0.33  
 
Weighted-average common shares outstanding:
               
 
Basic
    987       996  
 
Diluted
    990       1,002  

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Balance Sheets
(Dollars in millions, except per share amounts)
                         
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Unaudited)
Assets
               
 
Mortgage portfolio:
               
   
Mortgage-related securities:
               
     
Held-to-maturity
  $ 455,094     $ 437,932  
     
Available-for-sale
    172,257       173,706  
     
     
 
       
Total
    627,351       611,638  
   
Loans held-for-investment
    195,620       185,652  
       
Allowance for loan losses
    (79 )     (79 )
       
Unamortized premiums, discounts, and deferred price adjustments, net
    424       337  
   
Loans held-for-sale
    13       145  
     
     
 
 
Mortgage portfolio, net
    823,329       797,693  
 
Nonmortgage investments:
               
     
Held-to-maturity
    11,661       23,050  
     
Available-for-sale
    43,499       36,794  
 
Cash and cash equivalents
    5,982       1,710  
 
Accrued interest receivable
    5,129       4,915  
 
Acquired property and foreclosure claims, net
    1,157       1,033  
 
Derivatives in gain position
    3,772       3,666  
 
Other
    18,735       18,654  
     
     
 
Total assets
  $ 913,264     $ 887,515  
     
     
 
 
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
               
Liabilities:
               
 
Debentures, notes and bonds, net:
               
   
Senior debt:
               
     
Due within one year
  $ 395,531     $ 382,412  
     
Due after one year
    468,386       458,600  
   
Subordinated debt:
               
     
Due after one year
    10,003       9,970  
     
     
 
       
Total
    873,920       850,982  
 
Accrued interest payable
    8,627       8,379  
 
Derivatives in loss positions
    5,522       5,697  
 
Guaranty liability for MBS
    729       729  
 
Other
    6,562       5,440  
     
     
 
   
Total liabilities
    895,360       871,227  
     
     
 
 
Stockholders’ Equity:
               
 
Preferred stock, $50 stated value, 100 million shares authorized — 61.6 million shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2003 and 53.6 million shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2002
    3,078       2,678  
 
Common stock $.525 stated value, $.39 of dividends per share paid in 2003 and $1.32 of dividends per share paid in 2002; no maximum authorization — 1,129 million shares issued
    593       593  
 
Additional paid-in capital
    1,835       1,839  
 
Retained earnings
    30,909       29,385  
 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (11,612 )     (11,792 )
     
     
 
      24,803       22,703  
 
 
Less: Treasury stock, at cost, 148 million shares at March 31, 2003 and 140 million shares at December 31, 2002
    6,899       6,415  
     
     
 
 
Total stockholders’ equity
    17,904       16,288  
     
     
 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 913,264     $ 887,515  
     
     
 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
(Dollars and shares in millions)
                                                                           
Accumulated
Net Additional Other Total
Common Shares Preferred Common Paid-In Retained Comprehensive Treasury Stockholders’
Outstanding Stock Stock Capital Earnings Income (Loss) Stock Equity








(Unaudited)
Balance, December 31, 2002
    989     $ 2,678     $ 593     $ 1,839     $ 29,385     $ (11,792 )   $ (6,415 )   $ 16,288      
 
Comprehensive income:
                                                                   
   
Net income
                            1,941                   1,941      
   
Other comprehensive income, net of tax effect:
                                                                   
     
Net cash flow hedging gains
                                  402             402      
     
Unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities
                                  (222 )           (222 )    
                                                             
     
   
Total comprehensive income
                                                            2,121      
 
Dividends
                            (417 )                 (417 )    
 
Shares repurchased
    (9 )                                   (535 )     (535 )    
 
Preferred stock issued
          400             (4 )                       396      
 
Treasury stock issued for stock options and benefit plans
    1                                     51       51      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
Balance, March 31, 2003
    981     $ 3,078     $ 593     $ 1,835     $ 30,909     $ (11,612 )   $ (6,899 )   $ 17,904      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Balance, December 31, 2001
    997     $ 2,303     $ 593     $ 1,651     $ 26,175     $ (7,065 )   $ (5,539 )   $ 18,118      
 
Comprehensive income:
                                                                   
   
Net income
                              1,209                   1,209      
   
Other comprehensive income, net of tax effect:
                                                                   
     
Net cash flow hedging gains
                                  2,526             2,526      
     
Unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities
                                  (208 )           (208 )    
                                                             
     
   
Total comprehensive income
                                                            3,527      
 
Dividends
                            (362 )                 (362 )    
 
Shares repurchased
    (7 )                                   (585 )     (585 )    
 
Preferred stock redeemed
          (375 )                                   (375 )    
 
Treasury stock issued for stock options and benefit plans
    2                   54                   76       130      
 
Treasury stock issued for special contribution
    4                   136                   164       300      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
Balance, March 31, 2002
    996     $ 1,928     $ 593     $ 1,841     $ 27,022     $ (4,747 )   $ (5,884 )   $ 20,753      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Statement of Cash Flows
(Dollars in millions)
                   
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Unaudited)
Cash flows from operating activities:
               
Net income
  $ 1,941     $ 1,209  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
               
 
Amortization of discount/premium and deferred price adjustments
    1,319       1,625  
 
Provision for losses
    23       28  
 
Loss on debt extinguishments
    392       172  
 
Purchased options expense
    625       787  
 
Deferred income taxes
    (324 )     (325 )
 
Other increases, net
    1,315       1,361  
     
     
 
Net cash provided by operating activities
    5,291       4,857  
     
     
 
 
Cash flows from investing activities:
               
 
Mortgage portfolio purchases
    (132,833 )     (90,861 )
 
Proceeds from sales from mortgage portfolio
    1,313       3,060  
 
Mortgage portfolio principal repayments
    104,802       60,485  
 
Net proceeds from disposition of foreclosed properties
    674       497  
 
Purchases of held-to-maturity nonmortgage investments
    (532,817 )     (308,572 )
 
Maturities of held-to-maturity nonmortgage investments
    544,207       322,208  
 
Purchases of available-for-sale nonmortgage investments
    (21,520 )     (17,026 )
 
Maturities of available-for-sale nonmortgage investments
    13,406       20,564  
 
Proceeds from sales of available-for-sale nonmortgage investments
    1,326       1,053  
     
     
 
Net cash used in investing activities
    (21,442 )     (8,592 )
     
     
 
 
Cash flows from financing activities:
               
 
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt
    76,547       61,791  
 
Payments to redeem long-term debt
    (69,255 )     (38,911 )
 
Proceeds from issuance of short-term debt
    573,219       460,680  
 
Payments to redeem short-term debt
    (559,120 )     (478,442 )
 
Net payments to purchase or settle hedge instruments
    (422 )     (736 )
 
Net payments from stock activities
    (546 )     (1,226 )
     
     
 
Net cash provided by financing activities
    20,423       3,156  
     
     
 
 
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    4,272       (579 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    1,710       1,518  
     
     
 
Cash and cash equivalent at end of period
  $ 5,982     $ 939  
     
     
 
 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
               
Cash paid during the period for:
               
 
Interest
  $ 8,990     $ 9,584  
 
Income taxes
    70       172  

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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FANNIE MAE

Notes to Financial Statements
(Unaudited)

1.     Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2003 may not necessarily be indicative of the results for the year ending December 31, 2003. The unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with Fannie Mae’s audited financial statements and related notes included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on March 31, 2003. We have reclassified certain amounts in 2002 to conform to the current presentation.

2.     New Accounting Standards

Stock-Based Compensation

Effective January 1, 2003, Fannie Mae adopted the expense recognition provisions of the fair value method of accounting for employee stock compensation pursuant to Financial Accounting Standard No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (“FAS 123”). Prior to this date, we used the intrinsic value method under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (“APB 25”) and disclosed the pro forma effect of the fair value method. Under the fair value expense recognition provisions of FAS 123, compensation expense is recognized over the vesting period based on the fair value of stock based compensation as of the date of grant. We elected to apply the prospective method of adoption described in the transition provisions of Financial Accounting Standard No. 148, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure (“FAS 148”). In accordance with these provisions, we will determine the fair value of all new stock-based compensation awarded on January 1, 2003 and thereafter at the grant date and recognize this amount as expense over the vesting period. We will continue to account for stock-based compensation awarded prior to January 1, 2003 under APB 25.

The effect on net income and diluted earnings per share in the first quarter of 2003 from the prospective adoption of the fair value method was not material to our financial results. If compensation cost for all options granted had been determined based on the fair value at grant date consistent with the FAS 123 fair value method, our net income and earnings per share would have been as follows for the first quarters of 2003 and 2002.

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Three Months
Ended March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in millions,
except per share
amounts)
Net income available to common stockholders, as reported
  $ 1,911     $ 1,176  
Plus: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net income, net of related tax effects
    15       9  
Less: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value method for all awards, net of related tax effects
    (28 )     (27 )
     
     
 
Pro forma net income available to common stockholders
  $ 1,898     $ 1,158  
     
     
 
Earnings per share:
               
 
Basic – as reported
  $ 1.94     $ 1.18  
 
Basic – pro forma
    1.92       1.16  
 
Diluted – as reported
    1.93       1.17  
 
Diluted – pro forma
    1.92       1.16  

Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees

In November 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Interpretation No. 45, Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others (“FIN 45”). FIN 45 requires that upon issuance of a guarantee, the guarantor must disclose and recognize a liability for the fair value of the obligation it assumes under that guarantee. The initial recognition and measurement requirement of FIN 45 is effective for guarantees issued or modified after December 31, 2002. FIN 45 applies primarily to MBS issued and guaranteed by Fannie Mae, acting as trustee, to investors other than Fannie Mae on or after January 1, 2003. We use the term “MBS” (mortgage-backed securities) to refer to mortgage-related securities we issue and on which Fannie Mae guarantees payment of interest and principal.

Under FIN 45, we are required to recognize the fair value of our guaranty obligations as a liability. We will record a corresponding amount on our balance sheet as an asset because we are compensated for assuming the guaranty obligation. We will subsequently allocate the cash received related to the guaranty fee receivable between a reduction of the receivable and interest income using an imputed interest rate calculated based on the present value of the estimated future cash flows of the guaranty fee receivable. We will include the imputed interest income recognized on the guaranty fee receivable in our income statement as a component of “Guaranty fee income.” As we reduce the guaranty fee receivable, we will amortize the guaranty fee obligation by a corresponding amount and recognize the reduction of the guaranty fee obligation in our income statement as “Guaranty fee income.” Hence, the guaranty fee income reported in our income statement subsequent to the adoption of FIN 45 will equal the cash received on our guaranty obligation and be comparable to guaranty fee income reported prior to our adoption of FIN 45.

During the first quarter of 2003, we recognized a guaranty fee obligation of $728 million in accordance with FIN 45 and a corresponding guaranty fee receivable of $728 million. The guaranty fee obligation is included in our March 31, 2003 balance sheet under “Other liabilities” and the guaranty fee receivable is included in our balance sheet under “Other assets.” During the first quarter of 2003, we recognized approximately $3 million of imputed interest income on the guaranty fee receivable that is a component of guaranty fee income and amortized approximately $4 million of the related guaranty fee obligation into guaranty fee income.

Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (“VIE”)

FASB Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (“FIN 46”), was issued in January 2003. FIN 46 requires that if an entity has a controlling financial interest in a variable interest entity, the assets, liabilities and results of activities of the variable interest entity should be included in the consolidated financial statements of the entity. The provisions of FIN 46 are effective immediately for all

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arrangements entered into after January 31, 2003. For those arrangements entered into prior to January 31, 2003, the FIN 46 provisions are required to be adopted at the beginning of the first interim or annual period beginning after June 15, 2003. We do not believe FIN 46 will have a material impact on Fannie Mae’s financial results.

3.     Mortgage Portfolio

Mortgage-Related Securities

We classify mortgage loans on our balance sheet as either held-for-investment or held-for-sale. Our mortgage portfolio also includes mortgage-related securities, including MBS, that we classify as either held-to-maturity or available-for-sale. The following table shows gross unrealized gains and losses on mortgage-related securities at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

                     
March 31, 2003

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost(1) Gains Losses Value




(Dollars in millions)
Held-to-maturity portfolio
  $455,094   $18,581   $(215)   $ 473,460  
Available-for-sale portfolio
  166,003   6,663   (409)     172,257  
                     
December 31, 2002

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost(1) Gains Losses Value




Held-to-maturity portfolio
  $437,932   $18,325   $(133)   $ 456,124  
Available-for-sale portfolio
  167,202   6,885   (381)     173,706  


(1)  Amortized cost includes unamortized premiums, discounts, and other deferred price adjustments.

We recorded the following gross realized gains and losses from the sale of mortgage-related securities classified as available-for-sale during the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002.

                 
Three Months
Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in
millions)
Gross realized gains
  $ 12     $ 3  
Gross realized losses
    1       14  

Retained Interests

In some cases, we create real estate mortgage investment conduits (“REMICs”) using assets from our mortgage portfolio and retain an interest in the REMICs. In these instances, we measure our retained interests by allocating the carrying amount of the assets we retained based on their fair value at the transfer date relative to the assets we sold. We are a passive investor with regard to the transferred assets, as our continuing involvement is limited to guaranteeing some of the assets underlying these REMICs.

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The following table shows the book value and fair value of our retained interests in REMICs, the weighted-average life, the key assumptions used in measuring the fair value of retained interests at the time of securitization and sensitivities of the key assumptions at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.

                     
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


Net book value of retained interests (dollars in billions)
  $ 35.8     $ 41.9  
 
Fair value of retained interests
    36.6       42.7  
Weighted-average life
    3.8  years     3.7  years
 
Key assumptions at date of securitization:
               
 
Weighted-average life
    6.0  years     6.0  years
 
Average lifetime constant prepayment rate (“CPR”) prepayment speed assumption
    16.1  %     16.1  %
 
Average discount rate assumption
    5.2       5.2  
 
Estimated effect on fair value of adverse change in assumptions (dollars in millions):
               
 
Prepayment speed assumptions:
               
   
 5 percent change in 12 month CPR
  $ (73 )   $ (68 )
   
10 percent change in 12 month CPR
    (143 )     (131 )
   
15 percent change in 12 month CPR
    (211 )     (203 )
 
Average 12 month CPR prepayment speed assumption
    48.6  %     49.2  %
 
Discount rate assumptions:
               
   
 5 percent change
  $ (323 )   $ (358 )
   
10 percent change
    (592 )     (711 )
   
15 percent change
    (878 )     (1,049 )
 
Average discount rate assumption
    3.0  %     3.3  %
 
4. Allowance for Loan Losses and Guaranty Liability for MBS

We maintain a separate allowance for loan losses for our mortgage portfolio as well as a guaranty liability for our guaranty of MBS. The following table summarizes changes during the first quarter of 2003.

                         
Combined Allowance
Allowance Guaranty for Loan Losses and
for Loan Liability Guaranty Liability
Losses for MBS for MBS



(Dollars in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2002
  $ 79     $ 729     $ 808  
Provision
    2       21       23  
Charge-offs
    (2 )     (21 )     (23 )
     
     
     
 
Balance at March 31, 2003
  $ 79     $ 729     $ 808  
     
     
     
 

The following table summarizes the unpaid principal balance (“UPB”) of impaired loans and specific loss allowance on these loans at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002. We recognized an estimated $2 million in interest income during the first quarter of 2003 on loans that were impaired at March 31, 2003. During the first quarter of 2002, we recognized an estimated $1 million in interest income on loans that were impaired at March 31, 2002.

                 
March 31, December 31,
2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
UPB of impaired loans
  $ 311     $ 314  
UPB of impaired loans with specific loss allowance
    145       137  
Specific loss allowance on impaired and restructured loans
    16       17  
UPB of impaired loans without specific loss allowance
    166       177  
Average UPB of impaired loans(1)
    305       285  


(1)  Average UPB of impaired loans calculated on a monthly average basis.

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5.     Nonmortgage Investments

We classify and account for nonmortgage investments as either held-to-maturity or available-for-sale according to Financial Accounting Standard No. 115, Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities (“FAS 115”). The following table shows the amortized cost, fair value, yield, and remaining maturities of our held-to-maturity and available-for sale investments.

                                                     
March 31, 2003 December 31, 2002


Amortized Fair Amortized Fair
Cost(1) Value Yield Cost(1) Value Yield






(Dollars in millions)
Available-for-sale:
                                               
 
Due within one year
  $ 11,974     $ 11,974       1.91 %   $ 8,844     $ 8,851       2.31 %
 
Due after one year through five years
    6,560       6,586       2.22       5,620       5,632       2.42  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
      18,534       18,560       2.02       14,464       14,483       2.35  
 
Asset backed securities(2)
    24,998       24,939       1.97       22,281       22,311       2.22  
     
     
             
     
         
   
Total available-for-sale
    43,532       43,499               36,745       36,794          
     
     
             
     
         
Held-to-maturity:
                                               
 
Due within one year
    11,612       11,612       1.69       23,016       23,017       1.76  
 
Due after one year through five years
    49       49       4.94       34       34       6.21  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total held-to-maturity
    11,661       11,661       1.70       23,050       23,051       1.76  
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 55,193     $ 55,160       1.93 %   $ 59,795     $ 59,845       2.08 %
     
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Amortized cost includes unamortized premiums, discounts, and other deferred price adjustments.
 
(2)  Contractual maturity of asset-backed securities is not a reliable indicator of expected life because borrowers generally have the right to repay their obligation at any time.

The unrealized gains and losses in our available-for-sale and held-to-maturity nonmortgage investments at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 are as follows:

Nonmortgage Investments Classified as Available-for-Sale

                                     
March 31, 2003

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost Gains Losses Value




(Dollars in millions)
Available-for-sale:
                               
 
Asset-backed securities
  $ 24,998     $ 76     $ (135 )   $ 24,939  
 
Floating rate notes(1)
    12,772       10       (18 )     12,764  
 
Taxable auction notes
    3,488                   3,488  
 
Corporate bonds
    1,689       35       (1 )     1,723  
 
Commercial paper
    432                   432  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    103                   103  
 
Other
    50                   50  
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 43,532     $ 121     $ (154 )   $ 43,499  
     
     
     
     
 
                                     
December 31, 2002

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost Gains Losses Value




Available-for-sale:
                               
 
Asset-backed securities
  $ 22,281     $ 98     $ (68 )   $ 22,311  
 
Floating rate notes(1)
    11,754       10       (29 )     11,735  
 
Taxable auction notes
    949                   949  
 
Corporate bonds
    1,149       42             1,191  
 
Commercial paper
    100                   100  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    112             (4 )     108  
 
Other
    400                   400  
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 36,745     $ 150     $ (101 )   $ 36,794  
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  As of March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, 100 percent of floating rate notes repriced at intervals of 90 days or less.

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Nonmortgage Investments Classified as Held-to-Maturity

                                     
March 31, 2003

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost Gains Losses Value




(Dollars in millions)
Held-to-maturity:
                               
 
Repurchase agreements
  $ 9,133     $     $     $ 9,133  
 
Federal funds
    950                   950  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    745                   745  
 
Eurodollar time deposits
    200                   200  
 
Other
    633                   633  
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 11,661     $     $     $ 11,661  
     
     
     
     
 
                                     
December 31, 2002

Gross Gross
Amortized Unrealized Unrealized Fair
Cost Gains Losses Value




Held-to-maturity:
                               
 
Repurchase agreements
  $ 20,732     $     $     $ 20,732  
 
Federal funds
    150                   150  
 
Auction rate preferred stock
    402                   402  
 
Eurodollar time deposits
    1,398                   1,398  
 
Commercial paper
    100                   100  
 
Other
    268       1             269  
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total
  $ 23,050     $ 1     $     $ 23,051  
     
     
     
     
 

We recorded the following gross realized gains and losses from the sale of nonmortgage investments classified as available-for-sale during the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002.

                 
Three Months Ended
March 31,

2003 2002


(Dollars in millions)
Gross realized gains
  $ 2     $ 1  
Gross realized losses
          2  

6.     Earnings per Common Share

The following table shows the computation of basic and diluted earnings per common share:

                                 
Three Months Ended March 31,

2003 2002


Basic Diluted Basic Diluted




(Dollars in millions,
except per share amounts)
Net income
  $ 1,941     $ 1,941     $ 1,209     $ 1,209  
Preferred stock dividends
    (30 )     (30 )     (33 )     (33 )
     
     
     
     
 
Net income available to common stockholders
  $ 1,911     $ 1,911     $ 1,176     $ 1,176  
     
     
     
     
 
Weighted average common shares outstanding
    987       987       996       996  
Dilutive potential common shares(1)
          3             6  
     
     
     
     
 
Average number of common shares outstanding used to calculate earnings per common share
    987       990       996       1,002  
     
     
     
     
 
Net earnings per common share
  $ 1.94     $ 1.93     $ 1.18     $ 1.17  
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Dilutive potential common shares consist primarily of the dilutive effect from employee stock options and other stock compensation plans.

7.     Line of Business Reporting

The following table reconciles our line of business core business earnings to our reported GAAP net income results for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002.

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Three Months Ended March 31, 2003

Total Core Reconciling
Portfolio Credit Business Items Related to Reported
Investment Guaranty Earnings Purchased Options Results





(Dollars in millions)
Net interest income
  $ 3,186     $ 182     $ 3,368     $     $ 3,368  
Purchased options amortization expense
    (764 )           (764 )     764  (2)      
     
     
     
     
     
 
Core net interest income
    2,422       182       2,604       764       3,368  
Guaranty fee income (expense)
    (404 )     951       547             547  
Fee and other income, net
    123       (9 )     114             114  
Credit-related expenses(1)
          (20 )     (20 )           (20 )
Administrative expenses
    (101 )     (243 )     (344 )           (344 )
Purchased options expense under FAS 133
                      (625 )(3)     (625 )
Debt extinguishments
    (392 )           (392 )           (392 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income before federal income taxes
    1,648       861       2,509       139       2,648  
Provision for federal income taxes
    (484 )     (174 )     (658 )     (49 )(4)     (707 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Net income
  $ 1,164     $ 687     $ 1,851     $ 90       1,941  
     
     
     
     
     
 
                                           
Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

Total Core Reconciling
Portfolio Credit Business Items Related to Reported
Investment Guaranty Earnings Purchased Options Results





Net interest income
  $ 2,269     $ 161     $ 2,430     $     $ 2,430  
Purchased options amortization expense
    (310 )           (310 )     310  (2)      
     
     
     
     
     
 
Core net interest income
    1,959       161       2,120       310       2,430  
Guaranty fee income (expense)
    (318 )     726       408             408  
Fee and other income, net
    61       (57 )     4             4  
Credit-related expenses(1)
          (22 )     (22 )           (22 )
Administrative expenses
    (85 )     (205 )     (290 )           (290 )
Purchased options expense under FAS 133
                      (787 )(3)     (787 )
Debt extinguishments
    (172 )           (172 )           (172 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income before federal income taxes
    1,445       603       2,048       (477 )     1,571  
Provision for federal income taxes
    (427 )     (102 )     (529 )     167  (4)     (362 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
Net income
  $ 1,018     $ 501     $ 1,519     $ (310 )     1,209  
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Credit-related expenses include the income statement line items “Provision for losses” and “Foreclosed property income.”
 
(2)  Represents the straight-line amortization of purchased options premiums that we allocate to interest expense over the original expected life of the options. We include this amount in core business earnings instead of recording changes in the time value of purchased options because this treatment is more consistent with the accounting for the embedded options in our callable debt and the vast majority of our mortgages.
 
(3)  Represents changes in the fair value of the time value of purchased options recorded in accordance with FAS 133. We exclude this amount from our core business earnings measure because the period-to-period fluctuations in the time value portion of our options do not reflect the economics of our current risk management strategy, which generally is to hold our purchased options to maturity or exercise date. Consequently, we do not expect to realize the period-to-period fluctuations in time value. In addition, the accounting for purchased options under FAS 133 is inconsistent with the accounting for embedded options in our callable debt and mortgages.
 
(4)  Represents the net federal income tax effect of core business earnings adjustments based on the applicable federal income tax rate of 35 percent.

The only difference between our core business earnings and reported net income relates to the accounting treatment for purchased options under FAS 133. This difference only affects our Portfolio Investment business. Core business earnings and reported net income are the same for our Credit Guaranty business. The Portfolio Investment business represented $893 billion, or 98 percent of total assets, at March 31, 2003 and $869 billion, or 98 percent of total assets, at December 31, 2002.

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8.     Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

The following table shows the outstanding notional balances of derivatives at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 based on the hedge classification. We had no open hedge positions on the anticipatory issuance of debt at March 31, 2003.

                                                           
March 31, 2003 December 31, 2002


Cash Flow Fair Value No Hedge Cash Flow Fair Value
Hedges Hedges Designation Total Hedges Hedges Total







(Dollars in millions)
Interest rate swaps:
                                                       
 
Pay-fixed
  $ 172,476     $ 23,751     $ 100     $ 196,327     $ 152,157     $ 16,355     $ 168,512  
 
Receive-fixed and basis
    51,009       41,047             92,056       48,259       29,636       77,895  
Interest rate caps
    106,393                   106,393       122,393             122,393  
Swaptions:
                                                       
 
Pay-fixed
    131,975                   131,975       129,225             129,225  
 
Receive-fixed
    50,050       86,800             136,850       51,500       94,750       146,250  
Other(1)
    8,125       5,535       97       13,757       8,200       4,120       12,320  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Total
  $ 520,028     $ 157,133     $ 197     $ 677,358     $ 511,734     $ 144,861     $ 656,595  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 


(1)  Includes foreign currency swaps, forward starting swaps, asset swaps, and other derivatives used to hedge anticipated debt issues.

FAS 133 requires that changes in the fair value of derivative instruments be recognized in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met. Although Fannie Mae’s derivatives may be effective economic hedges and critical in our interest rate risk management strategy, they may not meet the hedge accounting criteria of FAS 133. At March 31, 2003, we had $197 million in outstanding notional amount of derivatives that did not qualify for hedge accounting under FAS 133, which we are required to mark-to-market through earnings.

The following table shows the change in AOCI, net of taxes, associated with FAS 133 for the three months ended March 31, 2003:

         
FAS 133
Impact
on AOCI

(Dollars in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2002
  $ (16,251 )
Losses on cash flow hedges, net
    (840 )
Reclassifications to earnings, net
    1,242  
     
 
Balance at March 31, 2003
  $ (15,849 )
     
 

Item 3.     Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Quantitative and qualitative disclosure about market risk is set forth on pages 18 to 21 of this Form 10-Q under the caption “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Risk Management — Interest Rate Risk Management” and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 4.     Controls and Procedures

Within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

In addition, based on this most recent evaluation, we have concluded that there were no significant changes in our internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect those controls subsequent to the date of their last evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

In the ordinary course of business, we are involved in legal proceedings that arise in connection with properties acquired either through foreclosure on properties securing delinquent mortgage loans we own or by receiving deeds to those properties in lieu of foreclosure. For example, claims related to possible tort liability and compliance with applicable environmental requirements arise from time to time, primarily in the case of single-family REO.

We are a party to legal proceedings from time to time arising from our relationships with our seller/servicers. Disputes with lenders concerning their loan origination or servicing obligations to us, or disputes concerning termination by us (for any of a variety of reasons) of a lender’s authority to do business with us as a seller and/or servicer, can result in litigation. Also, loan servicing and financing issues have resulted from time to time in claims against us brought as putative class actions for borrowers. We also are a party to legal proceedings from time to time arising from other aspects of our business and administrative policies.

Claims and proceedings of all types are subject to many uncertain factors that generally cannot be predicted with assurance. However, in the case of the legal proceedings and claims that are currently pending against us, management believes that their outcome will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Item 2. Changes in Securities and Use of Proceeds

      (a) None.

      (b) None.

  (c)  The securities Fannie Mae issues are “exempt securities” under laws administered by the SEC to the same extent as securities that are obligations of, or guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States. Registration statements with respect to offerings of Fannie Mae securities are not filed with the SEC, except for the voluntary filing on March 31, 2003, of Form 10 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to Fannie Mae common stock.

  During the quarter ended March 31, 2003, Fannie Mae sold 8,000,000 shares of Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series K, through a syndicate of underwriters led by Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. The aggregate offering price was $400,000,000, and the aggregate underwriting discount was $3,500,000. The proceeds from this sale were used for general corporate purposes.
 
  In addition, on April 29, 2003, Fannie Mae sold 6,900,000 shares of Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series L, through a syndicate of underwriters led by Lehman Brothers and Goldman, Sachs & Co. The aggregate offering price was $345,000,000, and the aggregate underwriting discount was $3,018,750. The proceeds from this sale were used for general corporate purposes.

      (d) Not applicable.

 
Item 3.  Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.
 
Item 4.  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

None.

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Item 5.  Other Information

None.
 
Item 6.  Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

      (a) Exhibits:

     
Exhibit 4.1
  Certificate of Designation of Terms of Fannie Mae Preferred Stock, Series K (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to Fannie Mae’s registration statement on Form 10, filed March 31, 2003)
Exhibit 4.2
  Certificate of Designation of Terms of Fannie Mae Preferred Stock, Series L.
Exhibit 12
  Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Stock Dividends
Exhibit 99.1
  Certification of CEO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Exhibit 99.2
  Certification of CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

      (b) Reports on Form 8-K

  No reports on Form 8-K were filed during the first quarter of 2003. However, we filed the following Current Reports on Form 8-K subsequent to the end of the first quarter of 2003 through the filing date of this report.

  1.  Report dated April 15, 2003, pursuant to Item 9, regarding the reporting of Fannie Mae’s earnings for the first quarter of 2003 and certain other data, filed April 15, 2003.
 
  2.  Report dated May 13, 2003, pursuant to Item 5, regarding the reporting of Fannie Mae’s monthly summary financial information for the month of April 2003, filed May 14, 2003.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

  Federal National Mortgage Association

Date: May 15, 2003

  By:  /s/ J. TIMOTHY HOWARD

            J. Timothy Howard
          Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  By:  /s/ LEANNE G. SPENCER

            Leanne G. Spencer
          Senior Vice President and Controller

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CERTIFICATIONS

PURSUANT TO SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT RULE 13a-14

I, Franklin D. Raines, certify that:

  1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Fannie Mae (formally, the Federal National Mortgage Association);
 
  2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
 
  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
 
  4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:

  a)  designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
 
  b)  evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and
 
  c)  presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

  a)  all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and
 
  b)  any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and

  6. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

Date: May 15, 2003

  /s/ FRANKLIN D. RAINES
_________________________________________
Franklin D. Raines
Chairman of the Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer

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I, J. Timothy Howard, certify that:

  1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Fannie Mae (formally, the Federal National Mortgage Association);
 
  2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
 
  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
 
  4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:

  a)  designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
 
  b)  evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and
 
  c)  presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

  a)  all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and
 
  b)  any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and

  6. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

Date: May 15, 2003

  /s/ J. TIMOTHY HOWARD
_________________________________________
J. Timothy Howard
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

     
Exhibit 4.1
  Certificate of Designation of Terms of Fannie Mae Preferred Stock, Series K (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to Fannie Mae’s registration statement on Form 10, filed March 31, 2003)
Exhibit 4.2
  Certificate of Designation of Terms of Fannie Mae Preferred Stock, Series L.
Exhibit 12
  Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Stock Dividends
Exhibit 99.1
  Certification of CEO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Exhibit 99.2
  Certification of CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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