(1)	Estimated on the most recent close price of the registrant's shares on the NASDAQ and provided solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933. This amount represents the proposed maximum aggregate offering price of the securities registered hereunder to be sold by the selling stockholders specified herein.

(2)	Calculated at a rate of $128.80 per $1,000,000 of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.

(3)	Includes shares issuable under certain warrants issued by the registrant.

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•	the borrower's credit strength, including the borrower's credit history, debt-to-income ratios and cash reserves and the willingness of a borrower with sufficient resources to make mortgage payments when the mortgage balance exceeds the value of the home;

•	the loan product, which encompasses the loan-to-value ("LTV") ratio, the type of loan instrument, including whether the instrument provides for fixed or variable payments and the amortization schedule, the type of property, the purpose of the loan and the interest rate;

•	origination practices of lenders;

•	the percentage coverage on insured loans;

•	the size of loans insured; and

•	the condition of the economy, including housing values and employment, in the geographic area in which the property is located.

•	for loans with higher LTV ratios compared to loans with lower LTV ratios;

•	for loans with higher debt-to-income ratios;

•	for loans to borrowers with lower credit scores compared to loans to borrowers with higher credit scores;

•	during periods of economic contraction and housing price depreciation, including when these conditions may not be nationwide, compared to periods of economic expansion and housing price appreciation;

•	for adjustable rate mortgages (or, "ARMs") when the reset interest rate significantly exceeds the interest rate of loan origination;

•	for loans in which the original loan amount exceeds the GSEs' established conforming loan limit compared to loans below that limit; and

•	for cash out refinance loans compared to purchase or rate and term refinance loans.

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•	current and future economic conditions, including continued slow economic recovery from the most recent recession or the potential of the U.S. economy to reenter a recessionary period, borrower access to credit, levels of unemployment, interest rates and home prices;

•	the level of defaults, the claim rates on loans in default and the claim severity within NMIC's mortgage insurance portfolio;

•	potentially negative economic changes in geographic regions where our insurance in force is more concentrated;

•	the rate at which our MI portfolio remains in force (persistency rate);

•	future levels of new insurance written (and the profitability of such business), which will impact future premiums written and earned and future losses;

•	the performance of our investment portfolio and the extent to which issuers of the fixed-income securities that we own default on principal and interest payments or the extent to which we are required to impair portions of the portfolio as a result of deteriorating capital markets;

•	our limited operating history, which adds to the speculative nature of our loss estimates; and

•	our operating performance for at least the next few years, which likely will continue to be an unreliable indicator of future performance due to the nature of the MI business and our expectation

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•	continue to implement and improve our operational, credit, financial, management and other internal risk controls and processes and our reporting systems and procedures in order to manage a growing number of client relationships;

•	scale our technology platform; and

•	attract and retain management talent.

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•	the level of current mortgage interest rates compared to the mortgage rates on the insurance in force, which affects the vulnerability of the insurance in force to refinancings (i.e., lower current interest rates make it more attractive for borrowers to refinance and receive a lower interest rate); and

•	mortgage insurance cancellation policies of mortgage investors along with the current value of the homes underlying the mortgages in the insurance in force.

•	lenders using government mortgage insurance programs, including those of the FHA and the VA;

•	state-supported mortgage insurance funds in several states, including California and New York;

•	lenders and other investors holding mortgages in portfolio and self-insuring;

•	investors using credit enhancements other than MI, using other credit enhancements in conjunction with reduced levels of MI coverage, or accepting credit risk without credit enhancement;

•	lenders originating mortgages using “piggy-back” structures to avoid MI, such as a first mortgage with an 80% LTV and a second mortgage with a 10%, 15% or 20% LTV (referred to as 80-10-10, 80-15-5 or 80-20 loans, respectively) rather than a first mortgage with a 90%, 95% or 100% LTV that has MI; and

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•	if borrowers pay cash versus securing mortgage financing, which has occurred with greater frequency in recent years.

•	restrictions on mortgage credit due to more stringent underwriting standards and liquidity issues affecting lenders;

•	the level of home mortgage interest rates;

•	the health of the real estate industry and the national economy as well as the conditions in regional and local economies;

•	housing affordability;

•	population trends, including the rate of household formation;

•	the rate of home price appreciation, which in times of heavy refinancing can affect whether refinance loans have LTVs that require MI; and

•	U.S. government housing policy encouraging loans to first-time homebuyers.

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•	general market conditions, including price levels and volume and changes in interest rates;

•	national, regional and local economic or business conditions;

•	the effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies, including the interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve;

•	our actual or projected financial condition, liquidity, operating results, cash flows and capital levels;

•	changes in, or failure to meet, our publicly disclosed expectations as to our future financial and operating performance;

•	publication of research reports about us, our competitors or the financial services industry generally, or changes in, or failure to meet, securities analysts' estimates of our financial and operating performance, or lack of research reports by industry analysts or ceasing of coverage;

•	market valuations, as well as the financial and operating performance and prospects, of similar companies;

•	future issuances or sales, or anticipated issuances or sales, of our common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for our common stock;

•	expenses incurred in connection with changes in our stock price, such as changes in the value of the warrant liability;

•	the potential failure to establish and maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting;

•	additions or departures of key personnel;

•	our failure to satisfy the continued listing requirements of the NASDAQ;

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•	our failure to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and

•	our treatment as an “emerging growth company” under the federal securities laws.

•	institute a more comprehensive compliance function within legal, finance, accounting, operations and internal audit;

•	maintain a board of directors comprised of a majority of “independent directors” and recruit new directors as necessary;

•	design, establish, evaluate and maintain a system of internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX and the related rules and regulations of the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;

•	comply with rules promulgated by the NASDAQ or other stock exchange on which our common stock may be quoted or listed;

•	prepare and distribute periodic public reports in compliance with our obligations under the federal securities laws;

•	establish new internal policies, such as those relating to disclosure controls and procedures as well as controls to prevent insider trading;

•	incur increased costs for professional services for independent auditors and attorney fees (annual compliance and additional fees), as well as public relations and information technology;

•	enhance insurance coverage for Directors and Officers (“D&O”) and Errors and Omission (“E&O”) policies;

•	involve and retain to a greater degree outside counsel and accountants in the foregoing activities; and

•	establish an investor relations function.

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•	provide that special meetings of our stockholders generally can only be called by the chairman of the board of directors or the president or by resolution of the board of directors;

•	provide our board of directors the ability to issue undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which may be established and the shares of which may be issued without stockholder approval, and which may grant preferred holders super voting, special approval, dividend or other rights or preferences superior to the rights of the holder of common stock;

•	provide our board of directors the ability to issue common stock and warrants within the amount of authorized capital;

•	provide that, subject to the rights of the holders of any series of preferred stock with respect to such series of preferred stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by our stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of our stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders;

•	provide that stockholders seeking to bring business before our annual meeting of stockholders, or to nominate candidates for election as directors at our annual meeting of stockholders, generally must provide timely advance notice of their intent in writing and certain other information not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the meeting; and

•	eliminate the ability of stockholders to act by consent in lieu of a meeting.

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•	our status as a recently organized corporation and lack of operating history;

•	receipt of a certificate of authority to act as a mortgage insurer in Wyoming and, of the 49 states and D.C. where NMIC has received certificates of authority, approvals of our insurance rates in the state of Washington and policy forms in Florida, Alaska and Maryland;

•	retention of our existing certificates of authority in states where we have obtained them and our ability to remain a mortgage insurer in good standing in those states;

•	changes in the business practices of the GSEs, including modifications to their mortgage insurer eligibility requirements or decisions to decrease or discontinue the use of MI;

•	our ability to remain a qualified mortgage insurer under the requirements imposed by the GSEs;

•	actions of existing competitors and potential market entry by new competitors;

•	changes to laws and regulations, including changes to the GSEs' role in the secondary mortgage market or other changes that could affect the residential mortgage industry generally or MI in particular;

•	changes in general economic, market and political conditions and policies, interest rates, inflation and investment results or other conditions that affect the housing market or the markets for home mortgages or MI;

•	changes in the regulatory environment;

•	our ability to implement our business strategy, including our ability to attract customers, implement successfully and on a timely basis, complex infrastructure, systems, procedures, and internal controls to support our business and regulatory and reporting requirements of the insurance industry;

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•	failure of risk management or investment strategy;

•	claims exceeding our reserves or amounts we had expected to experience;

•	failure to achieve the results shown in the financial projections;

•	failure to develop, maintain and improve necessary information technology systems or the failure of technology providers to perform;

•	ability to recruit, train and retain key personnel; and

•	emergence of claim and coverage issues.

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•	the significant conditions and factors that have affected our operating results, including the costs associated with the key start-up activities in which we are engaged and development of our investment portfolio;

•	the factors we expect will impact our future results as our mortgage insurance business continues to grow, and certain issues impacting our holding company, NMIH;

•	our sources and uses of liquidity and capital resources;

•	our operating results, which were primarily driven by our start up activities;

•	disclosures related to market risk exposures and off-balance sheet and other contractual arrangements; and

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•	critical accounting policies that require management to exercise significant judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain.

•	we obtained certificates of authority for NMIC from state insurance regulators to write mortgage insurance in 49 states and D.C.;

•	in January 2013, NMIC obtained approvals from the GSEs as a qualified mortgage insurer;

•	we made substantial progress in the design, development and implementation of our information technology platform;

•	we established customer relationships with mortgage originators; and

•	we have attracted and retained our employee base and support systems.

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•	NMIC (i) refrain from paying any dividends; (ii) retain all profits; and (iii) other than in Florida, maintain a risk-to-capital ratio not to exceed 20 to 1, for three years from the date of GSE Approval (i.e., until January 2016); and

•	certain start-up compensation expenses and equity compensation in the form of stock options and restricted stock units shall not be allocated to or assumed as a cost or expense by NMIC.

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Establish connectivity with the industry's largest providers of mortgage servicing systems, which automate loan servicing functions such as payment processing, escrow administration, default management, investor accounting, loan modifications, and year-end reporting. We have completed integration with the largest and leading servicing system providers, LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServ™ , which combined process more mortgages in the United States by dollar volume than any other servicing system, creating significant opportunity to efficiently conduct business with large lenders and aggregators that require this integration;

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Establish connectivity with leading third party providers of loan origination systems, which provide the functionality to automate the mortgage loan origination process, including point of sale support, processing, settlement services, document preparation and tracking, underwriting, closing and funding. We have begun the process of integrating with the leading third-party loan origination systems, and we expect to complete some of these integrations this year, including Ellie Mae Encompass360®, RealEC®, FICS Loan Producer®, and Mortgage Builder. By mid-2014, we believe we will be integrated with additional leading third-party loan origination systems.

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Integrate with those lenders that maintain their own proprietary loan origination and servicing systems, recognizing that the time-lines for these integrations are heavily dependent upon the lenders' internal technology resource time-lines and availability. Many lenders require us to engage in their third party review processes before we can conduct integration testing with such lenders. While we are currently working through this process with some lenders, no direct lender connectivity has been completed as of the date of this prospectus.

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•	Obtaining approval from National Account lenders to be an authorized MI provider enables Regional Accounts to sell loans with insurance from NMIC to those National Accounts.  Consequently, these approvals are critical to making inroads with Regional Accounts.  As discussed above, 18 of the 36 National Accounts have indicated that they intend to do business with us.

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Achieving connectivity with the largest loan servicing systems. Many of the loan servicers in the industry who sub-service loans originated by Regional Accounts that do not conduct their own servicing operations rely primarily on the two most significant servicing systems, LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServTM, to subservice these loans. As discussed above in “Development of Our IT Platform,” we have completed integration with LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServTM. Attaining connectivity with these servicing systems is one of the important steps with respect to both National and Regional Accounts purchasing MI from NMIC.

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Achieving connectivity with leading third-party loan origination systems utilized by Regional Accounts. As discussed above, we have begun the process of integrating with some of the leading providers of automated loan origination systems, including Ellie Mae Encompass360®, RealEC®, FICS Loan Producer® and Mortgage Builder. The Regional Accounts who originate loans using these leading third-party loan origination systems will be able to automatically select NMIC as an MI provider within those systems. The progress we have made to date connecting with these loan origination systems is another significant achievement with respect to our readiness to engage with the Regional Accounts.

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new insurance written, which is the aggregate principal amount of the mortgages that are insured during a period. Many factors affect new insurance written, including, among others, the volume of low down payment home mortgage originations (which tend to be generated to a greater extent on the level of purchase financings as compared to refinancings) and the competition to provide credit enhancement on those mortgages, which includes competition from the FHA, other mortgage insurers, lenders or other investors holding mortgages in their portfolios without insurance, piggy-back loans and GSE programs that may reduce or eliminate the demand for MI and other alternatives to MI;

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cancellations, which reduce insurance-in-force. Cancellations due to refinancings are affected by the level of current mortgage interest rates compared to the mortgage rates on our insurance in force. Refinancings are also affected by current home values compared to values when the loans became insured and the terms on which mortgage credit is available. Cancellations also include rescissions, which require us to return any premiums received related to the rescinded policy, and policies canceled due to claim payment, which require us to return any premium received subsequent to the date the insured mortgage defaults. Finally, cancellations are affected by home price appreciation, which may give homeowners the right to cancel the MI on their loans. Based on current market conditions, we expect our MI policies to have a persistency rate of approximately 80%;

•	premium rates, which are based on the risk characteristics of the loans insured, the percentage of coverage on the loans, competition from other mortgage insurers, and general industry conditions; and

•	premiums ceded under reinsurance agreements.

•	the state of the economy, including unemployment and housing values, each of which affects the likelihood that borrowers may default on their loans and have the ability to cure such defaults;

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•	the product mix of insurance-in-force, with loans having higher risk characteristics generally resulting in higher defaults and claims;

•	the size of loans insured, with higher average loan amounts tending to increase losses incurred;

•	the loan-to-value ratio, with higher average loan-to-value ratios tending to increase losses incurred;

•	the percentage of coverage on insured loans, with deeper average coverage tending to increase incurred losses;

•	changes in housing values, which affect our ability to mitigate our losses through sales of properties with loans in default as well as borrower willingness to continue to make mortgage payments when the value of the home is below or perceived to be below the mortgage balance;

•	higher debt-to-income ratios, which tend to increase incurred losses;

•	the rate at which we rescind policies. Because of tighter underwriting standards generally in the mortgage lending industry, we expect that our level of rescission activity, as well as that of the MI industry in general, will be lower than recent rescission activity experienced by the MI industry; and

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the distribution of claims over the life of a book. Historically, the first two to three years after loans are originated are a period of relatively low claims, with claims increasing substantially for several years subsequent and then declining. Factors, such as persistency of the book, the condition of the economy, including unemployment and housing prices, and others, can affect this pattern. See “Mortgage Insurance Earnings and Cash Flow Cycle.”

•	as stated above, the typical distribution of claims over the life of a book results in fewer defaults during the first two to three years after loans are originated, usually peaking in years three through six and declining thereafter;

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we expect that the frequency of claims on our initial primary books of business should be between 3% and 4% of mortgages insured over the life of the book. For claims that we may receive, we expect the severity of the loss to be between 85% and 95% of the coverage amount. Based on these expectations, we believe that the loss ratio over the life of each book will be between 20% and 25% of earned premiums. Because we expect the losses on insured mortgages to develop over time, we believe that the reported loss ratio in our first 2-3 years of operation will be less than 10% of earned premiums; and

•	under the pool insurance agreement between NMIC and Fannie Mae, as discussed in this prospectus, NMIC is responsible for losses only to the extent they exceed a deductible.

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•	Expected Life - 6 years

•	Risk free interest rate - 0.85%

•	Dividend yield - 0.00%

•	Expected stock price volatility - 39.00%

•	Projected forfeiture rates - 1.00%

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•	the prices of our common stock sold to outside, non-affiliated investors in arms-length transactions;

•	our operating and financial performance;

•	current business conditions and projections;

•	our stage of development;

•	the hiring of key personnel;

•	the likelihood of obtaining the regulatory approvals necessary to write mortgage insurance in all 50 states and Washington D.C.;

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•	the likelihood of obtaining GSE approvals;

•	the history of the company and the introductions of new products and services;

•	any adjustment necessary to recognize a lack of marketability for our common stock;

•	the market performance of comparable publicly traded companies; and

•	the U.S. capital market conditions.

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Changes to the level of interest rates. Increasing interest rates may reduce the value of certain fixed-rate bonds held in the investment portfolio. Higher rates may cause variable rate assets to generate additional income. Decreasing rates will have the reverse impact. Significant changes in interest rates can also affect persistency and claim rates to the extent that the investment portfolio must be restructured

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•	Changes to the term structure of interest rates. Rising or falling rates typically change by different amounts along the yield curve. These changes may have unforeseen impacts on the value of certain assets.

•	Market volatility/changes in the real or perceived credit quality of investments. Deterioration in the quality of investments, identified through changes to our own or third party (e.g., rating agency) assessments, will reduce the value and potentially the liquidity of investments.

•	Concentration Risk. If the investment portfolio is highly concentrated in one asset, or in multiple assets whose values are highly correlated, the value of the total portfolio may be greatly affected by the change in value of just one asset or a group of highly correlated assets.

•	Prepayment Risk. Bonds may have call provisions that permit debtors to repay prior to maturity when it is to their advantage. This typically occurs when rates fall below the interest rate of the debt.

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•	Level 1 - Unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical assets or liabilities;

•	Level 2 - Prices or valuations based on observable inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities; and

•	Level 3 - Unobservable inputs that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. Level 3 assets and liabilities include financial instruments whose value is determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or similar techniques, as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant management judgment or estimation.

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•	our intent to sell the security and whether it is more likely than not that we would be required to sell the security before recovery;

•	extent and duration of the decline;

•	failure of the issuer to make scheduled interest or principal payments;

•	change in rating below investment grade; and

•	adverse conditions specifically related to the security, an industry, or a geographic area.

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•	Expected Life - 6 years

•	Risk free interest rate - 0.85%

•	Dividend yield - 0.00%

•	Expected stock price volatility - 39.00%

•	Projected forfeiture rate - 1.00%

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•	Expected Life - 5 years

•	Risk free interest rate - 0.86%

•	Dividend yield - 0.00%

•	Expected stock price volatility - 39.00%

•	Projected forfeiture rate - 1.00%

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Pursue new opportunities to source mortgage insurance business. Following the financial crisis and placement of the GSEs under the conservatorship of the FHFA in 2008, regulators have sought to develop strategies and programs to reduce U.S. taxpayer exposure to the mortgage markets and to transfer mortgage credit risk to the private market. We believe that this policy direction will continue, and may lead to additional opportunities for the mortgage insurance industry, and NMIC in particular. As discussed in this prospectus, NMIC has entered into a pool insurance agreement with Fannie Mae, pursuant to which NMIC insures approximately 22,000 residential mortgage loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of approximately $5.2 billion (as of September 1, 2013). We intend to analyze future risk sharing transactions as they arise.

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Manage expenses to maximize operating leverage. We are constructing a brand new, scalable and flexible mortgage insurance platform that we believe can support significant growth with further investment. We believe that the scalability of our platform and our focus on controlling staffing, operating capital and other expenses will allow us to deliver enhanced earnings over time. We believe that the benefits of an efficient expense structure provide us with greater flexibility.

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Promote the role and benefits of private mortgage insurance by actively engaging with policymakers, regulators and industry participants. We believe that a strong, viable private MI market is a critical component of the U.S. housing finance system. Mortgage insurance provides private capital to mitigate mortgage credit risk within the system, supports increased levels of homeownership, offers liquidity and process efficiencies for lenders, and provides consumers with lower-cost products and increased choice of mortgage and homeownership options. We meet frequently with regulatory agencies, including our state insurance regulators and the FHFA, the GSEs, our customers and other industry participants to promote the role and value of private mortgage insurance and exchange views on the U.S. housing finance system. We believe we have

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Conservative balance sheet with strong financial position and disciplined risk management philosophy. We believe that our strong financial position has been a critical component in gaining the confidence of our customers and growing our business. We are not encumbered by a high risk, legacy book of business written during the credit bubble of the pre-2009 period. We have established risk management controls throughout our organization that we believe will support our continued financial strength. Risk management is deeply incorporated into our business decisions and processes, including customer and policy acquisition, underwriting and credit approval, ongoing portfolio monitoring, loss reserving and claims management, investment allocation and capital management.

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Experienced management team with a focus on long-term value creation. We have assembled a senior management team with extensive experience developing and operating MI companies. Our Chief Executive Officer, Bradley M. Shuster, was responsible for international operations for PMIC, coordinating both acquisitions in Australia and de novo operations in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. Before leaving PMIC in 2008, Mr. Shuster was responsible for the sale of PMIC's Australian operations to QBE Group for approximately $1.0 billion. In addition to Mr. Shuster, the other members of the Company's executive management team collectively average over 25 years of mortgage or financial services industry experience. See "Management—Directors and Executive Officers."

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Improving fundamentals of the housing market.  The U.S. housing market continues to recover from the financial crisis, with, as we discuss below, purchase money mortgage originations representing an increasing percentage of total originations, the rate of household formation growing, new housing starts and home sales increasing, mortgage foreclosure activity declining, and home prices increasing across most of the country from depressed levels. We believe that recent data supports continued recovery from the financial crisis:

◦	Household formation was 1.0 million in 2012, compared to a financial crisis low of 0.4 million in 2008, per the U.S. Department of Commerce.

◦	The S&P Case-Shiller 20 City Index of residential housing prices has increased over the past seven quarters through September 30, 2013, and rose an aggregate of 12% for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013.

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High credit quality of new mortgage originations.   The credit quality of a mortgage loan is driven primarily by the credit profile of the borrower, as well as the type and value of the housing collateral supporting the loan. Borrowers with strong credit profiles are generally less likely to become delinquent with payments or to default on their mortgage loans. Following the financial crisis, mortgage lenders have significantly tightened their underwriting standards, generally limiting the availability of loans to borrowers with high FICO scores and low ratios of debt to income who can fully document their income and assets. From 2010 through 2012, the average borrower FICO score

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Growing demand for private mortgage insurance.   In 2012, $547 billion, or approximately 31%, of the $1.75 trillion aggregate mortgage originations were covered by mortgage insurance. Prior to the financial crisis, private mortgage insurers accounted for a majority of the insured mortgage origination market. From 1993-2007, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, private mortgage insurers covered, on average, over 60% of the total insured mortgage volume. During the financial crisis, government agencies began to insure an increasing percentage of the market as legacy private mortgage insurers dealt with financial losses. Private mortgage insurers have since regained an increasing share of the insured mortgage market. These gains have been driven in part by multiple increases in the FHA's mortgage insurance premium rates and upfront fees since 2010, as well as the inflow of private capital into the sector to support new entrants and to recapitalize legacy private mortgage insurers. We believe the private mortgage insurance industry benefits from both a larger origination market and increased private mortgage insurance penetration.

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Significant barriers to entry.  We believe the private mortgage insurance industry has significant barriers to entry due to the substantial capital necessary to fund operations and satisfy GSE requirements, the need for a customer-integrated operating platform capable of issuing and servicing mortgage insurance policies, the competitive positions and established customer relationships of existing mortgage insurance providers, and the need to obtain and in order to conduct MI business nationwide, the need to obtain and maintain insurance licenses in all 50 states and D.C. Additionally, the resource commitment required by customers, and larger lenders in particular, to connect to a new mortgage insurance platform, such as ours, is significant, and absent a critical need, such as the capital constraints in the MI industry during the financial crisis, they have historically in our view been reluctant to make such an investment. We were formed at a time when the severe dislocation in the private mortgage insurance industry caused by the financial crisis created a need for newly capitalized mortgage insurers and this has facilitated our efforts to establish relationships with lenders.

•	the level of MI coverage, subject to the requirements of the GSEs' charters (which may be changed by federal legislation) as to when MI is used as the required credit enhancement on low down payment mortgages;

•	the amount of loan level delivery fees (which result in higher costs to borrowers) that the GSEs assess on loans that require MI;

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•	whether the GSEs influence the mortgage lender's selection of the mortgage insurer providing coverage and, if so, any transactions that are related to that selection;

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the availability of different loan purchase programs from the GSEs that allow different levels of MI coverage. For example, the GSEs allow lenders to deliver loans with “standard coverage” from an MI company, or, in exchange for lenders paying higher fees, lower “charter minimum” coverage levels. Historically, the large majority of loans are insured at “standard coverage” levels. If the relationship between the cost of mortgage insurance and the fees charged by the GSEs for various coverage levels changes, lenders may prefer to obtain “charter minimum” coverage levels on their loans;

•	the underwriting standards that determine what loans are eligible for purchase by the GSEs, which can affect the quality of the risk insured by the mortgage insurer and the availability of mortgage loans;

•	the terms on which MI coverage can be canceled by the borrower before reaching the cancellation thresholds established by law;

•	the terms that the GSEs require to be included in MI policies for loans that they purchase;

•	the programs established by the GSEs intended to avoid or mitigate loss on insured mortgages and the circumstances in which mortgage servicers must implement such programs; and

•	the minimum capital levels required to be maintained by MI companies.

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•	single — all premium is paid upfront and the premium is earned based on published earnings tables which factor in the LTV and loan term;

•	annual — premium is paid in advance covering the subsequent 12 months and the premium is earned over the year, with renewals received prior to the expiration of the current coverage;

•	monthly — coverage begins on the loan close date and when the premium is received and the lender is billed each month for the next month's coverage; and

•	monthly Advantage — coverage begins as of the loan close date, when we receive notice of such close date and the lender is billed for the previous month's coverage every month.

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•	Obtaining approval from National Account lenders to be an authorized MI provider enables Regional Accounts to sell loans with insurance from NMIC to those National Accounts.  Consequently, these approvals are critical to making inroads with Regional Accounts.  As discussed above, 18 of the 36 National Accounts have indicated that they intend to do business with us.

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Achieving connectivity with the largest loan servicing systems. Many of the loan servicers in the industry who sub-service loans originated by Regional Accounts that do not conduct their own servicing operations rely primarily on the two most significant servicing systems, LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServTM, to subservice these loans. As discussed above in "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Factors Affecting Our Operating Results—Start-up Operations—Development of Our IT Platform", we have completed integration with LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServTM. Attaining connectivity with these servicing systems is one of the important steps with respect to both National and Regional Accounts purchasing MI from NMIC.

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Achieving connectivity with leading third-party loan origination systems utilized by Regional Accounts. As discussed above, we have begun the process of integrating with some of the leading providers of automated loan origination systems, including Ellie Mae Encompass360®, RealEC®, FICS Loan Producer® and Mortgage Builder. The Regional Accounts who originate loans using these leading third-party loan origination systems will be able to automatically select NMIC as an MI provider within those systems. The progress we have made to date connecting with these loan origination systems is another significant achievement with respect to our readiness to engage with the Regional Accounts.

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•	non-delegated — we underwrite the insurance application and provide a response to the lender, prior to the loan closing; or

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delegated — if deemed eligible by NMIC, certain loan originators may bind our mortgage insurance coverage following their own underwriting review. Loans submitted through the delegated program must meet certain eligibility rules. The delegated program is only available to customers that have strong underwriting experience. In addition, similar to the non-delegated program, we have processes in place to perform quality assurance reviews of our customers' underwriting of all delegated loans within several months of the loan closing date.

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•	the borrower's credit strength, including the borrower's credit history, debt-to-income ratios and cash reserves and the willingness of a borrower with sufficient resources to make mortgage payments when the mortgage balance exceeds the value of the home;

•	the loan product, which encompasses the LTV ratio, the type of loan instrument, including whether the instrument provides for fixed or variable payments and the amortization schedule, the type of property, the purpose of the loan and the interest rate;

•	origination practices of lenders;

•	the percentage coverage on insured loans;

•	the size of loans insured; and

•	the condition of the economy, including housing values and employment, in the geographic area in which the property is located.

•	for loans with higher LTV ratios compared to loans with lower LTV ratios;

•	for loans with higher debt-to-income ratios;

•	for loans to borrowers with lower FICO credit scores compared to loans to borrowers with higher FICO credit scores;

•	during periods of economic contraction and housing price depreciation, including when these conditions may not be nationwide, compared to periods of economic expansion and housing price appreciation;

•	for ARMs when the reset interest rate significantly exceeds the interest rate of loan origination;

•	for loans in which the original loan amount exceeds the GSEs' established conforming loan limit compared to loans below that limit; and

•	for cash out refinance loans compared to purchase or rate and term refinance loans.

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Credit risk profile. Our insured loan portfolio's credit risk profile is measured by credit score, loan-to-value, debt-to-income ratio, occupancy type, purpose (e.g., owner-occupied) and other factors. This risk profile is directly impacted by our credit guidelines, pricing and operational quality. The risk profile of our new business is also affected by the mortgage market and macroeconomic conditions. Key drivers include regulatory and/or tax changes affecting the economics of residential mortgage lending; regulatory changes impacting the relative attractiveness of MI to our customers; and consumer attitudes about the relative attractiveness of real estate as an investment; structural changes to the industry made to reduce the role of the federal government (and develop a long-term plan for the GSEs).

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Changes in home prices. A decline in home prices typically makes it more difficult for a borrower to sell or refinance his or her home, generally increasing the likelihood of a default followed by a claim. In addition, a decline in home prices typically increases the severity of any claim we may pay. The inability to sell or refinance homes, due to a decline in home prices, typically leads to an increase in persistency. Conversely, an increase in home prices potentially makes it easier for a borrower to sell or refinance his or her home, decreasing the likelihood of a claim on a loan in default, decreasing the severity of any claim we may pay and decreasing the policy persistency.

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Changes in employment and income, healthcare and divorce. Borrowers able to make only small down payments often have more difficulty weathering financial hardships caused by unemployment or income reductions, or life events involving illness or divorce, because they may not have large amounts of personal savings or available credit. If they do have a significant amount of available credit, they are more likely to increase leverage to levels that prove unsustainable over the long run. Rising unemployment will increase the number of borrowers unable to remain current on their home mortgage and increase the number of new claims. Conversely, as the unemployment rate decreases, portfolio delinquency rates will fall as fewer borrowers become unemployed and those that do are able to find new jobs more quickly.

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Changes in interest rates. Increasing interest rates directly impact the borrower's ability to pay by causing their debt payments to rise. Higher payments on adjustable rate mortgages and other variable rate consumer secured and unsecured debt reduce borrowers' ability to pay and increase the frequency of loss. Conversely, falling interest rates make variable rate consumer debt payments more affordable and reduce loss frequency. Changes in interest rates will also indirectly impact the portfolio's credit risk characteristics through their effect on economic growth rates, the affordability of housing, loan persistency and other factors.

•	Regional economic developments. Credit performance in specific geographic regions can vary substantially from the national mean based on the impact of regional developments. These developments may include economic booms or busts in particular industries accounting for a material share of total employment, the impact of natural disasters and other factors.

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Changes in home prices. A decline in home prices typically makes it more difficult for a borrower to sell or refinance his or her home, generally increasing the likelihood of a delinquency followed by a claim. In addition, a decline in home prices typically increases the severity of any claim we may pay. The inability to sell or refinance homes, due to a decline in home prices, typically leads to an increase in persistency, which for monthly or annual products will mean continued premiums. Conversely, an increase in home prices potentially makes it easier for a borrower to sell or refinance his or her home, decreasing the likelihood of a delinquency followed by a claim, decreasing the severity of any claim we may pay and decreasing the policy persistency and correspondingly reducing premium streams on monthly or annual products.

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Changes in unemployment. Increases in the unemployment rate typically impair a borrower's ability to remain current on his or her home mortgage, increasing the likelihood of a delinquency followed by a claim. Conversely, as the unemployment rate decreases, a borrower's ability to remain current on their home mortgage typically improves, decreasing the likelihood of a delinquency followed by a claim.

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Changes in interest rates. An increase in interest rates typically leads to lower home affordability and less refinancing activity. This may decrease mortgage origination volume thereby reducing the number of low down payment loans available for us to insure. However, an increase in interest rates typically leads to a higher mix of purchase versus refinance activity which results in a higher overall penetration rate of MI. The higher penetration rate is also a result of overall lower total originations during a high interest rate environment. Higher interest rates also typically lead to higher persistency of our MI policies. Conversely, a decrease in interest rates typically leads to an increase in low down payment loans available for us to insure, a decrease in the penetration rate of MI and a decrease in the persistency of MI policies from higher refinance activity.

•	Process design and execution. New processes and procedures may not appropriately take into account scenarios that were unforeseen or misunderstood. Employees may make mistakes when executing defined processes and procedures.

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Vendor Performance. One component of our strategy is to leverage vendors for key functions including system development, website hosting, insurance approval, underwriting assurance review audits and human resources management, among others. Vendors may overstate their capabilities and/or be unable to meet promised service levels. Mistakes or failures may lead to business disruptions and/or losses.

•	System Functionality and Reliability. Systems may not be developed on time, be properly designed, perform as specified or be sufficiently reliable. Utility disruptions may bring systems down for extended periods.

•	Damage to Physical Assets and Human Resources. Aside from work-at-home employees residing across the country, our operations and staff are housed in a single building in a shoreline location near a major earthquake fault. This concentrated exposure leaves us more exposed to natural disasters, vandalism, terrorism and other sources of damage.

•	Fraud. Insured institutions may attempt to collect insurance benefits based on fraud and misrepresentation, and employees may attempt to misappropriate company assets.

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•	Inadequate Internal Controls. Various internal controls have been established to manage operational and other risks. Inadequate internal controls expose us to greater operational risk.

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Establish connectivity with many of the industry's largest providers of mortgage servicing systems, which automate loan servicing functions such as payment processing, escrow administration, default management, investor accounting, loan modifications, and year-end reporting. We have completed integration with the largest and leading servicing system providers, LPS MSP and Fiserv LoanServ™ , which combined process more mortgages in the United States by dollar volume than any other servicing system, creating significant opportunity to efficiently conduct business with large lenders and aggregators that require this integration;

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Establish connectivity with leading third party providers of loan origination systems, which provide the functionality to automate the mortgage loan origination process, including point of sale support, processing, settlement services, document preparation and tracking, underwriting, closing and funding. We have begun the process of integrating with the leading third-party loan origination systems, and we expect to complete some of these integrations this year, including Ellie Mae Encompass360®, RealEC®, FICS Loan Producer®, and Mortgage Builder. By mid-2014, we believe we will be integrated with the other leading third-party loan origination systems.

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Integrate with those lenders that maintain their own proprietary loan origination and servicing systems, recognizing that the time-lines for these integrations are heavily dependent upon the lenders' internal technology resource time-lines and availability. Many lenders require us to engage in their third party review processes before we can conduct integration testing with such lenders. While we are in the process of working through this process with some lenders, no direct lender connectivity has been completed as of the date of this prospectus.

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•	be initially capitalized in the amount of $200 million and that its affiliate reinsurance companies, NMRI One and NMRI Two, be initially capitalized in the amount of $10 million each;

•	maintain minimum capital of $150 million;

•	operate at a risk-to-capital ratio not to exceed 15:1 for its first three (3) years and then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	insure only (i) GSE-eligible loans or (ii) loans that are GSE-eligible, other than as related to loan amount subject to additional portfolio limitation requirements;

•	obtain prior written approval to enter into any transaction involving the issuance of insurance on other than an individual loan “flow” basis;

•	have and maintain a fully operational business and technology platform;

•	not declare or pay dividends to affiliates or to NMIH for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	not enter into capital support agreements or guarantees for the benefit of, or purchase or otherwise invest in the debt of, affiliates without the prior written approval of the GSEs for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	not invest in or make loans to affiliates for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	not enter into reinsurance or other risk share arrangements without the GSEs' prior written approval for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements; and

•	at the direction of one or both of the GSEs, re-domicile from Wisconsin to another state.

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•	licenses to transact business;

•	policy forms;

•	premium rates;

•	insurable loans;

•	annual and other reports on our financial condition;

•	the basis upon which assets and liabilities must be stated;

•	requirements regarding contingency reserves;

•	minimum capital levels and adequacy ratios;

•	reinsurance requirements;

•	limitations on the types of investment instruments which may be held in an investment portfolio;

•	the size of risks and limits on coverage of individual risks which may be insured;

•	special deposits of securities;

•	limits on dividends payable;

•	claims handling; and

•	conformance with the operating plan filed with each licensing state, unless modified by an approved amendment.

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a.	The net income of the insurer for the calendar year preceding the date of the dividend or distribution, minus realized capital gains for that calendar year; or

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b.	The aggregate of the net income of the insurer for the 3 calendar years preceding the date of the dividend or distribution, minus realized capital gains for those calendar years and minus dividends paid or credited and distributions made within the first 2 of the preceding 3 calendar years.

•	The insurance subsidiaries must give the WOCI up to 90 days', rather than 30 days', notice of a proposed dividend.

•	The insurance subsidiaries must give the WOCI up to 60 days' notice of any proposed substantive change in their business plans. The WOCI may disapprove the proposed changes, and the insurance subsidiaries must conform at all times to their filed business plans.

•	The insurance subsidiaries' directors and officers may be disapproved by the WOCI.

•	The insurance subsidiaries' investments are restricted unless otherwise approved by the WOCI.

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•	Recommendation One:  Privatized system of housing finance with the Federal government's role limited to providing assistance for narrowly targeted groups of borrowers, leaving the vast majority of the mortgage market to the private sector;

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•	Recommendation Two:  Similar to One, but with ability for the Federal government to scale up to a larger share of the market if private capital withdraws in times of financial stress; and

•	Recommendation Three: Similar to Two, but with assistance to low- and moderate-income borrowers and with the Federal government providing catastrophic reinsurance behind private capital for securities of a targeted range of mortgages.

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•	we are exempted from compliance with Section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley, which otherwise would have required our auditors to attest to and report on our internal control over financial reporting;

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we are not required to comply with any new or revised financial accounting standard until such date as a private company (i.e., a company that is not an “issuer” as defined by Section 2(a) of Sarbanes-Oxley) is required to comply with such new or revised accounting standard. As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable with another public company which is neither an EGC nor an EGC which has opted out of using the extended transition period;

•	we may elect to not comply with Item 402 of Regulation S-K, which requires extensive quantitative and qualitative disclosure regarding executive compensation, but instead disclose the more limited information required of a “smaller reporting company”;

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in the event that we register our common stock under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, the JOBS Act will also exempt us from the following additional compensation-related disclosure provisions that were imposed on U.S. public companies pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act: (i) the advisory vote on executive compensation required by Section 14A(a) of the Exchange Act, (ii) the requirements of Section 14A(b) of the Exchange Act relating to stockholder advisory votes on “golden parachute” compensation, (iii) the requirements of Section 14(i) of the Exchange Act as to disclosure relating to the relationship between executive compensation and our financial performance, and (iv) the requirement of Section 953(b)(1)of the Dodd-Frank Act, which will require disclosure as to the relationship between the compensation of the Company's chief executive officer and median employee pay.

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•	the integrity of the financial statements of the Company;

•	the independent auditor's qualifications and independence;

•	the performance of the Company's internal audit function and independent auditors;

•	the Company's system of disclosure controls and system of internal controls over financial reporting; and

•	the Company's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

•	overseeing our executive compensation program, including approving corporate goals relating to compensation for our Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives and determining the annual compensation of our Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives;

•	reviewing and approving the compensation policy recommended by management with respect to other employees;

•	determining, subject to ratification by our independent directors, the compensation of our independent directors; and

•	preparing the Compensation Committee Report and reviewing the Compensation Discussion and Analysis included in our proxy statements.

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•	identifying individuals qualified to become Board members, and recommending to the Board nominees for election for the next annual meeting of stockholders;

•	reviewing the qualifications and independence of the members of the Board and its committees on a regular periodic basis;

•	recommending to the Board corporate governance guidelines and reviewing such guidelines, as well as the Nominating and Governance Committee charter to confirm that they remain consistent with sound corporate governance practices and with any legal requirements;

•	leading the Board in its annual review of the Board's performance; and

•	recommending committee assignments for members of the Board.

•	discussing, reviewing and monitoring the Company's mortgage insurance products, including premium rates, underwriting guidelines and returns;

•	reviewing and approving the Company's investment policy;

•	reviewing the mortgage insurance operating environment, including the state of local and regional housing markets, competitive forces affecting the Company and the Company's relationships with residential mortgage lenders and investors; and

•	assisting the Board in its oversight of the Company's risk management policies, procedures and processes.

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(1)	The named executive officers were paid as consultants to the Company prior to its capitalization. Amounts shown include consulting fees earned during 2011 and 2012. The entire amounts shown were paid in 2012 upon capitalization.

(2)	Bonus amounts were earned in 2012 but paid in 2013.

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The amounts in this column reflect the grant date fair value of the restricted stock units awarded to our named executive officers in 2012 calculated in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (“FASB ASC Topic 718”). The amounts included in this column for the restricted stock unit awards subject to performance-based vesting conditions are calculated using a Monte Carlo Simulation model based on the average outcome of 150,000 simulations using the assumptions set forth in note 11 of the consolidated financial statements. The grant date fair value of the performance shares does not correspond to the actual value that may be recognized by each of the named executive officers with respect to these awards, which may be higher or lower based on the company’s performance and stock price fluctuations. Under ASC Topic 718, the vesting condition related to the performance shares granted to named executive officers is considered a market condition and not a performance condition. Accordingly, there is no grant date fair value below or in excess of the amounts reflected in the table above that could be calculated and disclosed based on achievement of market conditions.

(4)

The amounts included in this column reflect the grant date fair value of stock option awards granted to our named executive officers in 2012. The grant date fair value was determined in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. The grant date fair value of the stock options is estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. See note 11 of the consolidated financial statements for an explanation of the assumptions made in valuing these awards.

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In April 2012, Mr. McCourt entered into a letter agreement with the Company to serve as its Executive Vice President of Insurance Operations and Chief Risk Officer. At that time, Mr. McCourt was issued 151,250 stock options and 123,750 restricted stock units ("RSUs"). In October 2012, the Company and Mr. McCourt mutually agreed to terminate his April 2012 letter agreement and enter into a new letter agreement pursuant to which Mr. McCourt began serving as the Company's VP of Administration. In connection with the change to his terms of employment, Mr. McCourt forfeited 131,250 of his stock options and 113,750 of his RSUs. The values shown for Mr. McCourt's stock and option awards were calculated based on their values, as of the date of the grants, without giving effect to the forfeitures. As of December 31, 2012, Mr. McCourt held 10,000 RSUs valued at $67,900 and 20,000 option awards valued at $77,600.

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•	100% of the outstanding RSU grants vest as follows:

◦	1/3 of the performance shares will vest when our stock price equals or exceeds $12.50 for a 30-day trading period;1

◦	1/3 of the performance shares will vest when our stock price equals or exceeds $14.00 for a 30-day trading period; and

◦	1/3 of the performance shares will vest when our stock price equals or exceeds $16.00 for a 30-day trading period.

◦	1/2 of the time-vested shares will vest on the second anniversary of the grant date; and

◦	1/2 of the time-vested shares will vest on the third anniversary of the grant date.

•	100% of the stock option grants vest as follows:

◦	1/3 of the stock options will vest on the first anniversary of the grant date;

◦	1/3 of the stock options will vest on the second anniversary of the grant date; and

◦	1/3 of the stock options will vest on the third anniversary of the grant date.

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(1)	Represents stock options that vest (subject to continued employment on the vesting date) as follows:

•	1/3 vest on the first anniversary of the grant date;

•	1/3 vest on the second anniversary of the grant date; and

•	1/3 vest on the third anniversary of the grant date.

(2)	The per share exercise price is equal to the price of a share of our common stock in our private placement.

(3)

Represents performance shares outstanding as of December 31, 2012. As explained above under the heading - Equity Awards Granted to Certain Named Executive Officers, these performance shares were scheduled to vest in 33.3% increments in the event that the Company achieved a stock price of $12.50, $14.00 and $16.00, in each case, for a 30-day trading period. As noted above, in February 2013, the performance share awards were amended so that two-thirds of the grant remained performance shares and one-third of the grant was converted to time-vested shares.

(4)	As of December 31, 2012, there was no public market for our common stock, and therefore we did not have a public valuation for our security. Our securities previously traded in the FBRPlusTM system. To determine the value of unearned shares that have not vested, we used the 30-day average for the 30-day trading period ending on December 31, 2012 of $10.75 per share.

(5)	In 2012, Mr. McCourt was originally issued 151,250 stock options and 123,750 RSUs. In October 2012, Mr. McCourt forfeited 131,250 of his stock options and 113,750 of his RSUs.

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•	the acquisition by any individual, entity or group of “beneficial ownership” (pursuant to the meaning given in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more (on a fully diluted basis) of either (i) the outstanding shares of our common stock or (ii) the combined voting power of our then outstanding voting securities, with each of the foregoing subject to certain customary exceptions;

•	the replacement of a majority of the directors that constituted our Board as of the closing of the private placement by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by at least two-thirds of the directors on the Board as of the closing of the private placement, subject to certain exceptions;

•	approval by our stockholders of our complete dissolution or liquidation; or

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a merger of the Company, the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of our assets or any other business combination of the Company with any other corporation, other than any merger or business combination which would result in (i) the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to the transaction continuing to represent at least 50% of the total voting power of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such transaction, (ii) no person (other than any employee benefit plan sponsored or maintained by the surviving company) becoming the “beneficial owner,” directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the total voting power of the parent company (or, if there is no parent company, the surviving company) and (iii) members of the Board as of the execution of the initial agreement providing for the transaction constituting at least two-thirds of the members of the board of directors of the parent company (or, if there is no parent company, the surviving company) following the consummation of the transaction.

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(1)	Under the terms of Messrs. Shuster’s and Sherwood’s respective employment agreements, each would be entitled to be paid his respective annual base salary in effect at the time of termination and any earned and unpaid annual bonus for a prior award period, both to the extent not previously paid (other than any deferred portion of such earned and annual bonus).

(2)	Under the terms of their respective employment arrangements, each would be entitled to be paid the amounts of any Accrued Benefits through the date of termination to the extent not previously paid or provided.

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As provided in Messrs. Shuster’s and Sherwood’s respective employment agreements, amount includes the sum of (i) Mr. Shuster’s or Mr. Sherwood’s annual base salary plus (ii) his 2012 target annual bonus, which was 100% of the annual base salary. Further, upon a Qualifying Termination at December 31, 2012, Messrs. Shuster and Sherwood would have remained eligible to receive in the future 50% of the GSE Approval bonus and 50% of the bonuses payable upon the filing and effectiveness of this registration statement.

(4)	With a Qualifying Termination, any outstanding stock options that were not then exercisable and vested would have become fully exercisable and vested at the date of termination.

(5)	With a Qualifying Termination, unvested performance shares would have remained outstanding and subject to vesting upon the later of (i) GSE approval (which was achieved in January 2013) or (ii) the achievement of the applicable stock price goals.

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As provided in Messrs. Shuster’s and Sherwood’s respective employment agreements, amount includes three times the sum of (i) Mr. Shuster’s or Mr. Sherwood’s annual base salary plus (ii) his 2012 target annual bonus, which was 100% of the annual base salary. Further, upon a Qualifying Termination at December 31, 2012 following a change in control, Messrs. Shuster and Sherwood would have remained eligible to receive in the future 50% of the GSE Approval bonus and 50% of the bonuses payable upon the filing and effectiveness of this registration statement.

(7)	Upon a change in control, any outstanding stock options that were not then exercisable and vested would have become fully exercisable and vested immediately.

(8)	Vesting of performance shares following a change in control shall be determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board based upon the Committee’s determination regarding the extent the stock price goals with respect to the performance shares have been met. The performance shares would not have vested prior to GSE approval (which was achieved in January 2013).

(9)	As provided in Mr. Pachura’s letter agreement, amount includes the sum of (i) Mr. Pachura’s annual base salary plus (ii) his 2012 target annual bonus, which was 75% of the annual base salary.

(10)	As provided in Mr. Pachura’s letter agreement, amount includes one and one-half times the sum of (i) Mr. Pachura’s annual base salary plus (ii) his 2012 target annual bonus, which was 75% of the annual base salary.

(11)	Under any of the hypothetical scenarios, Mr. McCourt would not have been entitled to receive cash severance payments.

(12)	Upon a change in control, with or without a termination, Mr. McCourt’s outstanding stock options that were not exercisable and vested would have become fully exercisable and vested immediately. At $10.75 per share, the cash value of Mr. McCourt’s options at December 31, 2012 was $15,000.

(13)	Upon a change in control, with or without a termination, vesting of Mr. McCourt’s outstanding performance would have been subject to the same conditions as described in note (8) above.

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(1)	To compensate Messrs. Dean and Gambs for their overall contribution to the Board and the Company prior to their departures in July 2012, we paid each of them $16,250 during their Board membership and an additional $98,750 upon the Company's receipt of GSE Approval.

(2)	Michael Embler, James G. Jones, Michael Montgomery and John Brandon Osmon were elected to the Company's Board of Directors on July 17, 2012.

(3)	James H. Ozanne and Steven L. Scheid have been members of the Company's Board since its capitalization on April 24, 2012.

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The stock options and RSUs granted to each non-employee director in 2012 vest in two equal installments on each of the second and third anniversary of the date of grant. As of December 31, 2012, each of Messrs. Ozanne and Scheid held stock options with respect to 75,625 shares of our common stock and 61,875 RSUs and each of Messrs. Embler, Jones, Montgomery and Osmon held stock options with respect to 37,813 shares of our common stock and 30,940 RSUs.

(5)	Each of Mr. Dean and Mr. Gambs forfeited their stock options and RSUs in connection with their ceasing to be members of the Company's Board. The value of their stock and option awards are presented without giving effect to the forfeitures and prior to their redistribution to Messrs. Embler, Jones, Montgomery and Osmon.

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(1)	the acquisition by any individual, entity or group of “beneficial ownership” (pursuant to the meaning given in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more (on a fully diluted basis) of either (a) the outstanding shares of our common stock or (b) the combined voting power of our then outstanding voting securities, with each of clauses (a) and (b) subject to certain customary exceptions;

(2)	a majority of the directors who constituted our board of directors as of the closing of this offering are replaced by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by at least two-thirds of the incumbent directors then on the board of directors, subject to certain exceptions;

(3)	approval by our stockholders of our complete dissolution or liquidation; or

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a merger of the Company, the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of our assets, or any other business combination of the Company with any other corporation, other than any merger or business combination which would result in (a) the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to the transaction continuing to represent at least 50% of the total voting power of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such transaction, (b) no person (other than any employee benefit plan sponsored or maintained by the surviving company) is or becomes the “beneficial owner,” directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the total voting power of the parent company (or, if there is no parent company, the surviving company) and (c) at least two-thirds of the members of the board of directors of the parent company (or, if there is no parent company, the surviving company) following the consummation of the transaction were members of the board of directors at the time the execution of the initial agreement providing for the transaction was approved.

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•	each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of our common stock;

•	each named executive officer;

•	each of our directors;

•	all of our named executive officers and directors as a group; and

•	each selling stockholder.

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•	any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;

•	any act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

•	any act related to unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions or payment of dividends; or

•	any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

•	we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, subject to limited exceptions; and

•	we may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of our current or former directors, officers, employees or agents against any liability asserted against them and incurred by them in any such capacity, or arising out of their status as such.

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•	a citizen or resident of the United States;

•	a corporation (or other entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or D.C., or a non-U.S. corporation treated as such;

•	an estate, the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source; or

•	a trust if (a) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (b) such trust has made a valid election to be treated as a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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•	the gain is effectively connected with a trade or business carried on by the non-U.S. holder within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment of such non-U.S. holder);

•	the non-U.S. holder is an individual and is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of disposition and certain other conditions are satisfied; or

•	we are or have been a U.S. real property holding corporation (a “USRPHC”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time within the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the disposition and the non-U.S. holder's holding period of our common stock and certain other conditions are satisfied. We believe that we are currently not, and we do not anticipate becoming, a USRPHC.

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•	a U.S. person;

•	a “controlled foreign corporation” for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

•	a foreign person 50% or more of whose gross income from certain periods is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business; or

•	a foreign partnership if at any time during its tax year (a) one or more of its partners are U.S. persons who, in the aggregate, hold more than 50% of the income or capital interests of the partnership or (b) the foreign partnership is engaged in a U.S. trade or business,

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•	ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker dealer solicits purchasers;

•	block trades in which the broker dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;

•	purchases by a broker dealer as principal and resale by the broker dealer for its account;

•	an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;

•	privately negotiated transactions;

•	broker dealers may agree with the selling stockholders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share;

•	a combination of any such methods of sale; and

•	any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.

•	engage in short sales of shares of the common stock in the course of hedging their positions;

•	sell shares of the common stock short and deliver shares of the common stock to close out short positions;

•	loan or pledge shares of the common stock to broker-dealers or other financial institutions that in turn may sell shares of the common stock;

•	enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions that require the delivery to the broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares of the common stock, which the broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell under the prospectus; or

•	enter into transactions in which a broker-dealer makes purchases as a principal for resale for its own account or through other types of transactions.

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•	the Company's intent to sell the security or whether it is more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the security before recovery;

•	severity and duration of the decline in fair value;

•	the financial condition of the issuer;

•	failure of the issuer to make scheduled interest or principal payments;

•	recent credit downgrades of the applicable security or the issuer below investment grade; and

•	adverse conditions specifically related to the security, an industry, or a geographic area.

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•	be initially capitalized in the amount of $200 million and that its affiliate reinsurance companies, NMI Re One and NMI Re Two, be initially capitalized in the amount of $10 million each (as of September 30, 2013, NMI Re Two was merged into NMIC, with NMIC surviving the merger. See Note 1. Organization);

•	maintain minimum capital of $150 million;

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•	operate at a risk-to-capital ratio not to exceed 15:1 for its first three (3) years and then pursuant to the GSE Eligibility Requirements then in effect;

•	not declare or pay dividends to affiliates or to the Company for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	not enter into capital support agreements or guarantees for the benefit of, or purchase or otherwise invest in the debt of, affiliates without the prior written approval of the GSEs for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements;

•	not enter into reinsurance or other risk share arrangements without the GSEs' prior written approval for its first three (3) years, then pursuant to the Eligibility Requirements; and

•	at the direction of one or both of the GSEs, re-domicile from Wisconsin to another state.

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a)	$700,000 to be paid 10 days after obtaining the funding required for Government Sponsored Entity (“GSE”) approval

b)	$300,000 to be paid upon completion of deployment of the Insurance Management System and user acceptance testing

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+	Confidential treatment granted as to certain portions, which portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.