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PHILADELPHIA-RAIT Financial Trust has revealed that AmericanHome Mortgage Investment Corp. failed to make its payment on RAIT'strust preferred financing due on July 30. All other issuers ofRAIT's trust preferred securities did meet their obligations, thelocally based financial REIT says in a statement.

RAIT says its net equity exposure to AHM is approximately $95million resulting from trust preferred financing RAIT provided toMelville, NY-based AHM in 2005. In tandem with the announcement,RAIT pushed its second-quarter conference call ahead one day toAug. 2 from the originally scheduled Aug. 3, and says it willfurther discuss its exposure to the troubled AHM at that time.

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