Ridgepost Capital, Inc. Class A

Good morning and welcome to Ridge Post Capital's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. My name is Lateef and I will be coordinating your call today. Currently, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I will now pass the call to your host, Brian McKenna. Vice President, Investor Relations. Brian, please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for joining our call this morning. With us today, we have Luke Sarsfield, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Amanda Coussens, EVP, Chief Financial Officer. After our prepared remarks, RJ Jensen, EVP, Head of M&A and Strategy, and Sarita Jairath, EVP, Global Head of Client Solutions, will also be available for the Q&A session. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that this conference call as well as the presentation slides may include forward-looking statements within the meeting of the Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current plans, estimates, and expectations and are inherently uncertain. Actual results for future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties that are described in greater detail in our earnings release and in our periodic reports filed from time to time with the SEC. The forward looking statements included are made only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements as a result of new information or future events, except as otherwise required by law. Please note that during this call, will reference certain non-GAAP measures that we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's performance. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in the presentation slides posted on our website and in our filings with the SEC. In addition, we will provide certain historical performance metrics for our funds, and further details can be found in the presentation slides. Of course, past performance does not guarantee future results. Before I turn it over to Luke, I want to spend a minute sharing my perspective on why I'm so excited to be at Ridge Post Capital. I spent 12 plus years in Southside equity research covering financials, specifically the alternative asset managers and BDCs. So I've interacted with a number of different companies and management teams across the industry. So what stood out to me? First, the people, culture, and collaboration. Second, the durability of the model. Ridge Post Capital is one of the only pure play Capital Light, management fee-based alternative asset managers in the public markets. And third, which I think is most important, the firm continues to deliver impressive investment performance.

I'm thrilled to be here.