KFI is delivering products and returns to satisfy a broad range of investment mandates. As an investment manager, KKR Fixed Income has a highly disciplined investment approach, focused on fundamental, long-term value investing.

KFI’s Competitive Advantage
As an affiliate of KKR, KKR Fixed Income (KFI) has a number of competitive advantages:

  • Superior Investment Opportunity Set — KFI 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. KFI 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. KKR Fixed Income believes that its industry focus, when combined with its global network and the industry-specific knowledge that it has developed over time, provides KFI with an important source of proprietary investments.
  • Proprietary Due Diligence — Through KFI's proprietary due diligence, and the intellectual capital of its people, and diversity, depth, and breadth of its collective knowledge and experience, KFI is able to critically access and evaluate investments and act quickly if necessary. KFI draws on the expertise of KKR Fixed Income 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, KFI is able to gain advantages in structuring and pricing investments. Through KKR Capital Markets, the broker-dealer, KFI 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. KFI has market leadership in developing unique, flexible, long-term financing for its credit portfolios.
  • Pricing Power — When negotiating investments, KFI 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 — KFI 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.