Ridley Capital Group Announces New Real Estate Affiliate, OAI Capital

January 3, 2024 – Louisville, Kentucky. Ridley Capital Group announced that it has formed a real estate affiliate, OAI Capital, to focus on distressed commercial real estate assets across the U.S. through its sponsored private investment fund OAI Capital Real Estate Partnership.

OAI Capital is a majority owned entity of Ridley Capital Group, a full-service investment services company offering private investment funds, investment banking services, and specialty finance solutions for commercial real estate opportunities. 

OAI Capital and its affiliates are focused on allocating capital in distressed commercial real estate assets, including office, multi-family, hospitality, and mixed-use properties experiencing financial stress.

“We saw commercial properties sell at valuations we thought were compelling and believe this is the beginning of another deep decline in certain segments of the commercial real estate market,” said Shawn J. Ridley, Managing Partner of OAI Capital.

The swift rise in interest rates, maturing loans, and work migration away from traditional office environments are reasons for declining valuations. Banks have been quite flexible the last 18 months working with property owners suffering financial stress, but that has changed in 2024 given the volume of troubled loans and regulators stepping up its oversight. “We really don’t know how deep this commercial real estate will be, but we expect it to be deeper and wider than most currently believe it will be,” said Ridley.

OAI is a majority owned affiliate of Ridley Capital Group and will operate and manage all real estate acquisitions through its OAI Capital Real Estate Partnership.  Ridley Capital Group is a diversified investment firm with a focus on the management of proprietary and third-party private investment funds and providing corporations and commercial real estate companies capital consultation through its specialty finance group. 

Ridley Capital Enters Agreement with T2 Capital Management

Ridley to Provide Consulting Services to T2’s Flagship Fund

October 15, 2021 – Louisville, Kentucky

T2 Capital Management, a real estate investment management firm headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, and Ridley Capital Group entered into an agreement for Ridley to provide services to grow assets under management in the T2 Strategic Real Estate Income Fund (SREI), T2’s flagship fund established in 2014 to provide high current income for institutional and qualified investors. The T2 SREI Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by originating and investing in commercial real estate debt. Through September 30, 2021, the Fund has deployed more than $650 million in real estate investments and generated a net annual income yield to investors of >8.0%. Shawn J. Ridley, Managing Partner of Ridley Capital Group, said, “The T2 SREI Fund has offered consistently relatively high net income yields in returns since the inception of SREI in 2014.

About Ridley Capital Group: Ridley Capital Group is a diversified financial services firm providing capital consulting services to general partners, asset management firms, financial service companies, real estate companies and broad consumer product companies. Ridley entities also serve as general partner to the RCG Stable Fund and the RCG Select Opportunities Fund. For more information, email info@n0m.db0.myftpupload.com or call 502-654-8950.

Ridley Capital Group Launches Total Return Fund

The RCG Select Opportunities Fund is Fourth Fund

September 30, 2021- Louisville, Kentucky

Ridley Capital Group announced the launch of a total return investment fund – the RCG Select Opportunities Fund – the fourth offering since its inception in 2009. The fund will focus on providing investors with long-term capital appreciation and relatively high current income through the investment in public and private asset classes. “We expect returns in most asset classes to consolidate over the next few years,” commented Shawn J. Ridley, Managing Partner of
Ridley Capital Group. “Rising interest rates due to inflationary pressures and growing national debt will cause economic headwinds and create select opportunities in both public and private investment markets.” The management team of the Fund will deploy its extensive investment experience in balancing portfolio risk while utilizing its completive advantages to create sustainable value during both good and challenging markets. The Fund is an evergreen fund, which indicates it will be open to qualified new investors indefinitely.

This is the fourth investment fund offered by Ridley Capital Group since its founding in 2009, and its first evergreen fund with an investment objective of growth and income. The firm also manages the RCG Stable Fund, an alternative debt fund offering qualified investors high, stable monthly income by providing secured, short-term debt solutions to growing businesses. The Stable Fund is also an evergreen fund and remains open to investors. For more information, please email info@n0m.db0.myftpupload.com or call 502-654-8950.

About Ridley Capital Group: Ridley Capital Group is a diversified financial services firm providing capital consulting services to general partners, asset management firms, financial service companies, real estate companies and broad consumer product companies. Ridley entities also serve as general partner to the RCG Stable Fund and the RCG Select Opportunities Fund.

Ridley Capital Group Enters into Agreement with Prodigy Investments

Companies Believe First of Several Strategic Agreements

September 15, 2021 – Louisville, Kentucky

Ridley Capital Group announced that it entered into a strategic consultant agreement with Prodigy Investments to provide strategic capital assessment and planning for a significant mixed-use real estate development project sponsored by Prodigy. Ridley will determine appropriate risk-adjusted capital strategies in assessing the project’s best and most sustainable uses. In sequence, Ridley, its affiliates and strategic partners are expected to lead the structured capital formation in the first or second quarter, 2022.

About Ridley Capital Group: Ridley Capital Group is a diversified financial services firm providing capital and capital consulting services to general partners, partnerships, asset management firms, financial service companies, real estate companies and broad consumer product companies. Ridley affiliates also serve as general partner to several proprietary investment funds.

Ridley Capital Announces the Launch and Initial Funding of RCG Stable Fund.

October 7, 2019 – Louisville, Kentucky

Ridley Capital Group announced the formation and initial funding of the RCG Stable Fund Partnership, LLLP, an asset-backed, alternative lending vehicle to enable fundamentally stable businesses meet robust demand.  RCG Stable Fund offers investors with a high, monthly income and stability of principal while providing corporate borrowers with an alternative to banks or expensive equity capital.

The Fund intends to focus on companies in the financial services and niched consumer growth markets with strong cash-flows and stable customers.  The Fund lends on an asset-base, or secured basis, to reduce risk of capital loss.  Additionally, the Fund limits initial loans to one-year, but it has the ability to renew loan commitments up to 18 months.

The Fund is a private stable-priced investment vehicle available only through Ridley Capital Group, and will remain open to qualified investors for the foreseeable future.

For more information on the Fund’s investment objective, investor qualifications and Fund documents, please email info@n0m.db0.myftpupload.com or call (502) 654-8950. 

Ridley Capital Group Announces Sale of ABE.AI

January 2, 2019 – Louisville, Kentucky

ABE.AI, an artificial intelligence company focused on advancing ease to financial services to mobile consumers, and sponsored and funded by Ridley Capital Group, announced the close of its sale to Envestnet (ENV: NYSE). Terms are not publicly available.

Shawn Ridley, Managing Partner of Ridley Capital Group, commented that “ABE.AI is led by great talents, and I’m excited to see its powerful applications adopted by a powerful financial services company that wants to enhance customer engagement.” Ridley continued to say, “We started ABE with an idea, defined our cause, and engaged our market that is desperately in need of customer engagement.”