ASSET MANAGEMENT

Approach

As an affiliate of KKR, KAM has a number of competitive advantages:

  • Superior Investment Opportunity Set — KAM offers superior access to sourcing investment opportunities through KKR private equity professionals, our private equity management teams, key investors, and our deep industry relationships and contacts. KAM has the ability to tap broad expertise in 14 primary industry groups, including chemicals, consumer products, education, energy, financial services, health care, hotels/leisure, manufacturing, media, recycling, retail, technology, telecommunications and transportation. KAM believes that its industry focus, when combined with its global network and the industry-specific knowledge that it has developed over time, provides KAM with an important source of proprietary investments.
  • Proprietary Due Diligence — Through KAM's proprietary due diligence, and the intellectual capital of its people, and diversity, depth, and breadth of its collective knowledge and experience, KAM is able to critically access and evaluate investments and act quickly if necessary. KAM draws on the expertise of KAM professionals, KKR private equity professionals, the KKR ‘knowledge library’, senior advisors, KKR Capstone, relationships and contacts.
  • Capital Markets Intelligence — By leveraging the power of KKR, KAM is able to gain advantages in structuring and pricing investments. Through KKR Capital Markets, the broker-dealer, KAM has access to a global team solely focused on capital markets that will work to improve its financing terms and execution across the entire portfolio. KAM has market leadership in developing unique, flexible, long-term financing for its credit portfolios.
  • Pricing Power — When negotiating investments, KAM is able to aggregate demand across multiple funds, and has the ability to raise capital with the help of KKR Capital Markets.
  • Robust Credit Monitoring/Oversight — KAM has extensive experience and the resources for documenting, servicing and monitoring investments. As an example, its public entity, KKR Financial Holdings LLC (NYSE: KFN), is SOX compliant.