Management and Advisory Agreements

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Management and Advisory Agreements	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015
Agreements [Abstract]
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT	MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT On December 1, 2011, the Company executed a Management Agreement with Corridor InfraTrust Management, LLC (“Corridor”), a related party. Under the Management Agreement, Corridor (i) presents the Company with suitable acquisition opportunities consistent with the investment policies and objectives of the Company, (ii) is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Company, and (iii) performs such services and activities relating to the assets and operations of the Company as may be appropriate. A new Management Agreement between the Company and Corridor was approved by the Board of Directors and became effective July 1, 2013. The new agreement did not change in any respect the terms for determination or payment of compensation for the Manager, does not have a specific term, and will remain in place unless terminated by the Company or the Manager in the manner permitted pursuant to the agreement. The new management agreement was amended as of January 1, 2014, to change the methodology for calculating the quarterly management fee. The terms of the Management Agreement include a quarterly management fee equal to 0.25 percent (1.00 percent annualized) of the value of the Company’s Managed Assets as of the end of each quarter. For purposes of the Management Agreement, “Managed Assets” means the total assets of the Company (including any securities receivables, other personal property or real property purchased with or attributable to any borrowed funds) minus (A) the initial invested value of all non-controlling interests, (B) the value of any hedged derivative assets, (C) any prepaid expenses, and (D) all of the accrued liabilities other than (1) deferred taxes and (2) debt entered into for the purpose of leverage. For purposes of the definition of Managed Assets, the Company’s securities portfolio will be valued at then current market value. For purposes of the definition of Managed Assets, other personal property and real property assets will include real and other personal property owned and the assets of the Company invested, directly or indirectly, in equity interests in or loans secured by real estate or personal property (including acquisition related costs and acquisition costs that may be allocated to intangibles or are unallocated), valued at the aggregate historical cost, before reserves for depreciation, amortization, impairment charges or bad debts or other similar noncash reserves. On May 8, 2015, the Company entered into a new Management Agreement with Corridor, effective as of May 1, 2015 (the “New Management Agreement”), that replaced the prior Management Agreement. The following material terms of the prior Management Agreement, as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, are carried forward in the New Management Agreement: • Under the New Management Agreement, Corridor (i) presents the Company with suitable acquisition opportunities consistent with the investment policies and objectives of the Company, (ii) is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Company, and (iii) performs such services and activities relating to the assets and operations of the Company as may be appropriate. • The terms of the New Management Agreement provide for a quarterly management fee equal to 0.25 percent (1.00 percent annualized) of the value of the Company’s Managed Assets as of the end of each quarter. For purposes of the New Management Agreement, “Managed Assets” is determined in the same manner as under the prior Management Agreement, as described in Item 1 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K. • The New Management Agreement also includes a quarterly incentive fee of 10 percent of the increase in distributions paid over a distribution threshold equal to $0.125 per share per quarter, and requires that at least half of any incentive fees be reinvested in the Company’s common stock. The New Management Agreement varies from the prior Management Agreement in three principal ways. First, the new agreement eliminates the ability of the independent directors to terminate the agreement for poor investment performance. However, the New Management Agreement gives a majority of the stockholders of the Company, or two-thirds of the independent directors, the ability to terminate the agreement for any reason on thirty (30) days’ prior written notice, so long as that notice is delivered with a termination payment equal to three times the base management fee and incentive fee paid to the manager in the last four quarters. Second, the New Management Agreement clarifies that the manager is to be reimbursed for all fees and travel expenses incurred by its staff while conducting business expected to benefit the Company. Finally, the New Management Agreement, which does not have a specific term, and will remain in place unless terminated by the Company or Corridor in the manner permitted pursuant to the agreement, deletes certain references to the Investment Company Act of 1940 that are no longer relevant to the Company. The foregoing description of the terms of the New Management Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full terms of such agreement, which is incorporated by reference to the Registrant's form 10-Q, filed May 11, 2015. During the year ended December 31, 2015, and the first quarter of 2016, the Company and the Manager agreed to the following modifications to the fee arrangements described above: • in order to ensure equitable application of the quarterly management fee provisions of the New Management Agreement to the GIGS acquisition, which closed on June 30, 2015, the Manager waived any incremental management fee due as of the end of the second quarter based on the net impact of the GIGS Acquisition as of June 30, 2015; • in light of the Provision for Loan Loss recorded with respect to the Black Bison Loans as described in Note 6, the Manager voluntarily recommended, and the Company agreed, that effective on and after September 30, 2015, solely for the purpose of computing the value of the Company’s Managed Assets in calculating the quarterly management fee described above, the Company’s investment in the Black Bison Loans and the Black Bison Warrant will be valued based on their estimated net realizable value (which shall not exceed the amount of the Company’s initial investment) as of the end of the quarter for which the Management Fee is to be calculated; • in light of the provision for uncollectible interest recorded with respect to Black Bison loans as described in Note 6, the Manager voluntarily recommended, and the Company agreed, that the Manager would waive $133,194 of the total $278,619 incentive fee that would otherwise be payable under the provisions described above with respect to dividends paid on the Company’s common stock during the year ended December 31, 2015, and accordingly the Manager received an incentive fee of $145,425 for such period. Fees incurred under the Management Fee Agreement for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013 were $5.7 million, $3.5 million, and $2.6 million, respectively, and are reported in the General and Administrative line item on the Income Statement. The Company pays Corridor, as the Company's Administrator pursuant to an Administrative Agreement, a fee equal to an annual rate of 0.04 percent of the value of the Company's Managed Assets, with a minimum annual fee of $30 thousand. Fees incurred under the Administrative Agreement for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013 were $224 thousand, $134 thousand, and $112 thousand, respectively, and are reported in the General and Administrative line item on the Income Statement.