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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to KKR's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen only mode. Following management's prepared remarks, the conference will be open for questions. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

I will now hand the call over to Craig Larson, Partner and Head of Investor Relations for KKR. Craig, please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our second quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. This morning, as usual, I'm joined by Rob Lewin, our Chief Financial Officer as well as Scott Nuttall, our Co Chief Executive Officer. We would like to remind everyone that we'll refer to non GAAP measures on the call, which are reconciled to GAAP figures in our press release, which is available on the Investor Center section at kkr.com.

And as a reminder, we report our segment numbers on an adjusted share basis. This call will contain forward looking statements, which do not guarantee future events or performance. So please refer to our earnings release as well as our SEC filings for cautionary factors about these statements. So first, beginning with our results that we've just announced for the second quarter. We're pleased to be reporting fee related earnings of $0.98 per share, total operating earnings of $1.33 per share and adjusted net income of $1.18 per share.

All of these figures are among the highest we've reported in our history as a public company. Now going into more detail, management fees in the quarter were $996,000,000 With Americas fourteen turning on in Q2 alongside of our broader fundraising initiatives and continued deployment, management fees in total are up 18% on a year over year basis. Total transaction and monitoring fees were $234,000,000 in the quarter. Capital markets transaction fees were 200,000,000 driven by activity with infrastructure and private equity, with just over half of Capital Markets fees this quarter coming from our activities in Europe. Fee related performance revenues in the quarter were 54,000,000 That figure is up 45% year over year with the growth here driven by the performance allocation from our offshore infrastructure K Series vehicle.

Fee related compensation was again right at the midpoint of our guided range, which as a reminder is 17.5%. Other operating expenses for the quarter came in at $172,000,000 So in total, FRE was $887,000,000 or the $0.98 per share that I mentioned a moment ago, and our FRE margin came in at 69%. Looking at fee related earnings more broadly for a moment and the results you've seen over the last twelve months, driven by healthy management fee growth and a strengthening in our capital markets activities alongside of operating leverage, FRE per share increased 33% for the twelve month period ended 06/30/2025 compared to 06/30/2024, with a three sixty basis point improvement in our FRE margin. Now back to the quarter. Insurance segment operating earnings came in at $278,000,000 so modestly ahead of the $250,000,000 plusminus level we discussed last quarter, which is where we continue to expect to see insurance operating earnings over the next few quarters.

And remember that this line item alone does not capture how our model works in all of our insurance related economics, recognizing the economics that show up within our asset management segment. So when you include the management fees from the approximately $50,000,000,000 of AUM from our Ivy sidecar and co invest vehicles, capital markets fees also associated with Global Atlantic as well as the management fees from our investment management agreement with GA, our all in pretax ROE continues to approach that 20% level. Strategic Holdings operating earnings were $29,000,000 So total operating earnings, which again represents the more recurring components of our earnings streams, $1.33 per share. And over the last twelve months, nearly 80% of our segment earnings were driven by our more recurring earnings streams, demonstrating in our view the durability that you're seeing across our business model. Turning to investing earnings.

Realized performance income was $419,000,000 and realized investment income was $154,000,000 These earnings were driven by a combination of public secondary sales and private transactions as well as K Prime's annual crystallization alongside with dividends and interest income. And finally, turning to investment performance in Page 10 of our earnings release. Broadly, when you look at the statistics on the page, you're seeing healthy investment performance on behalf of our clients across asset classes during periods of time with uncertainty alongside a real spikes in volatility. Looking at the statistics themselves, the private equity portfolio was up 5% in the quarter and 13% over the last twelve months. Within real assets, the opportunistic real estate portfolio was up 3% in the quarter and 7% over the LTM.

Infrastructure, up 3% in the quarter and appreciated 14% over the latest twelve months. In credit, the leverage credit composite was up 2% in the quarter and up 7% over the last twelve months, with the alternative credit composite up 19%, respectively, over those same periods. And with that, I'm pleased to turn the call over to Rob.

Thanks a lot, Craig, and thanks to everyone for joining our call this morning. As Craig just walked through, our model continues to deliver consistent results. I'd like to begin by highlighting our deployment and monetization activity, which demonstrates the strength of our global and diversified platform. KKR has been around now for forty nine years and has navigated a range of macroeconomic backdrops over those five decades. We understand that volatility and uncertainty create opportunity and have positioned our firm to ensure that we are maximizing that opportunity on behalf of our clients.

We build portfolios for the very long term. And when you invest in companies and assets for five to ten plus year horizons, you need to be thoughtful about the excuse me. You need to be thoughtful about how the world is going to evolve, and we have found it less important to try and time the market. It is why we are so disciplined in linear deployment and creating outperformance through our approach to value creation at the asset level. Since the start of the year, we've deployed nearly $37,000,000,000 of capital, with around half of that deployed in the second quarter.

Within private markets, nearly 50% of our year to date activity has been outside of The US, and we've been balanced in deploying capital across traditional private equity, growth equity, infrastructure and real estate. In credit, we've deployed £18,000,000,000 of alternative capital since January, diversified largely across direct lending and asset based finance. ABF in particular is an area where we continue to see a lot of growth opportunity, which I'll touch on in a bit more detail in a few minutes. Importantly, there remains a healthy pipeline for deployment in the 2025, and we feel well positioned with a 115,000,000,000 of uncalled capital. As a result of this consistent approach to investing, we also have a mature portfolio that we can monetize opportunistically.

Over the last twelve months, realized performance and investment income totaled €2,600,000,000 That number is up over 20% from the same period a year ago. Even with that healthy momentum on monetizations, our unrealized carried interest across our global portfolio today stands at a record 9,200,000,000.0. And that number is up roughly 30 from 7,100,000,000.0 just twelve months ago. Looking at our private equity portfolio specifically, approximately 60% is marked at over 1.5 times our cost. And on average, our public names are marked at over five times our cost.

So our portfolio is in very good shape, and, ultimately, that is the most important indicator of future monetizations. I would say that it is really our global footprint that is a large driver of the continued deployment and monetization activity that we are seeing across the firm. As an example, we've seen robust activity out of Asia recently, where we have nine offices, nearly 600 executives, and manage over 75,000,000,000 of assets. Over the past twenty years, we've built a very large, localized business, and we've grown and diversified. Today, traditional private equity comprises less than half of our Asia AUM.

That's compared to approximately 90% in 02/2019. Just to give you a sense of our activity here, we recently signed a definitive agreement to exit an investment in a pharmaceutical company in India, closed on our previously announced exits of a telecom tower company in The Philippines and a grocery store chain in Japan, invested in a leading agricultural infrastructure business in Australia and a new financial services platform in Singapore, and established a battery energy storage joint venture in Korea. As you can hear, we got a lot going on across Asia and really continue to be at the forefront of activity in the region. To close-up my remarks this morning on monetizations, if you take a look at our pending monetizations as we head into the 2025, so transactions that are signed but not yet closed, we have direct line of sight to north of $800,000,000 of monetization related revenue, the vast majority of which will be performance income. This is a healthy figure for us and consistent with the overall health of our portfolio.

Now turning to the fundraising environment and a few other notable items for the quarter. In Q2, we raised $28,000,000,000 of capital and continue to see meaningful progress across asset classes. We held the final close in the second vintage of our asset based finance drawdown fund and parallel separately managed accounts with a total of 6,500,000,000 in commitments. This is more than triple the 2,100,000,000.0 predecessor pool of capital. The composition of investors in the fund is encouraging with approximately 50% of limited partners new to the KKR Credit platform, and commitments are roughly evenly split across clients from The US, Europe, and Asia.

More broadly, our ABF business continues to see meaningful growth with AUM increasing over 20% from this time last year to 75,000,000,000. We see ABF as a $6,000,000,000,000 addressable market today, increasing to over 9,000,000,000,000 over the next four years. The alternative credit ecosystem overall, including not only ABF but also direct lending and capital solutions, is now larger than the traditional high yield and leveraged loan markets combined. So ABF is a growing market with secular tailwinds for our industry, and we believe that we are already a leader in the space today. In real assets, we've begun raising capital for our Asia infrastructure strategy.

And as we think about demand, we feel encouraged by our historical success in this asset class and the differentiated investment returns that we've been able to achieve as well as the depth of our Pan Asian presence and breadth of our global connectivity. Turning to wealth. K Series AUM was 25,000,000,000 across private equity infrastructure, real estate and credit as of June 30. That figure compares to 11,000,000,000 just a year ago. We've been really pleased here to see inflows continue to track at or ahead of our expectations despite the market volatility that we've experienced year to date.

As you know, in April, we launched two public private solutions through our strategic partnership with Capital Group, making the KKR platform available to an even broader universe of clients. Our continued momentum is earmarked most recently with the filing of a registration statement with the SEC for a public private equity product, which on the private side, we'll be investing in a K Series private equity vehicle as well as PE co invest opportunities. And looking ahead, we continue to work on a real asset product. We feel great about our partnership with Capital Group and believe that there is more to do together as partners. Next, I'd like to give a brief update on our insurance business.

First, with a focus on elongating and further diversifying our liabilities. Over the last four months, we successfully issued approximately $2,500,000,000 of funding agreements with a weighted average duration of eight years through separate transactions in The U. S, Europe, Japan and Canada. We believe the local currency liability funding will also help support asset origination outside of The US, and you should expect us to continue to be active here with a real focus on the longer duration parts of the FABN market. Alongside of this, we continue to make very good progress on the addition of alternatives to the portfolio where we believe that we have a differentiated sourcing advantage as a firm.

We expect these changes will ultimately drive up overall returns while at the same time naturally reducing our leverage profile. And second, an update on third party capital, which is a critical component of our strategy at Global Atlantic. Earlier this week, Japan Post Insurance announced that it would invest 2,000,000,000 through a new vehicle managed by Global Atlantic, expanding our existing strategic partnership. As we have talked about since our initial purchase of Global Atlantic, our ability to marry third party capital alongside the GA balance sheet is a real differentiator for us. Our IV sidecar vehicles, which pay fee and carry similar to a drawdown credit or PE fund, allow us to grow GA in a very capital efficient way.

More specific to the Jan Japan Post commitment, this is another milestone in that effort. And when you aggregate the JPI commitment and where we stand on our IV strategy capital raise, we currently have approximately 6,000,000,000 of third party capital capacity versus IV two, which is at 2,700,000,000.0. Once this new capital is put to work, we expect it will translate to over 60,000,000,000 of additional fee paying AUM. So we are seeing significant momentum in an important part of our strategy and are pleased by the receptivity of our client base to insurance as a new and compelling asset class. The last item I wanted to touch on is more of a strategic update.

Yesterday, we announced an expansion of our life sciences footprint through the acquisition of a majority stake in Healthcare Royalty Partners or HCR, a leader in biopharma royalty investing. The company's total AUM of approximately $3,000,000,000 is largely perpetual in nature. As part of this transaction, HCR's approximately 30 employees will continue to focus on royalties and credit investing opportunities and will collaborate closely with KKR's existing teams. HCR builds on KKR's long long standing experience in health care investing across traditional private equity and middle market funds, our dedicated health care strategic growth strategy, as well as our existing strategic investment in Cataleo Capital. This acquisition is also very consistent with our framework for evaluating strategic asset manager M and A.

HCR brings us long duration, unique and largely perpetual capital, access to large addressable markets where HCR is already a top three player, and importantly, we believe that HCR will bring additional origination capacity to our overall platform, primarily across Global Atlantic and our credit pools of capital. Thank you all for joining our call this morning. Our team remains very excited around the business momentum that we are seeing across the firm and importantly, how that will translate into further P and L outcomes. And to be clear, given all of this momentum, we continue to feel confident in our ability to achieve the 2026 guidance that we shared last year across both our fundraising and our core financial metrics, which include FRE per share, TOE per share and, of course, ANI per share. And now before we move on to questions, I'd like to briefly hand it off to Scott.

Thank you, Rob. Before we start today, we want to acknowledge the tragic events of earlier this week. We all have a lot of friends at Blackstone, and a number of people here were friends with Wesley. Our hearts and thoughts are with all of the victims and their families. We mourn with them. Operator, let's please open the line.

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. We ask that all callers limit themselves to one question. If you have additional questions, you may requeue, and those questions will be addressed time permitting. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad.

A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. Participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question comes from the line of Craig Siegenthaler with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, Scott, Rob. Hope everyone's doing well, and thanks for taking my question. You you called out K Series credit in the release, and we wanted to circle back on K Fit. You know, this this was previously somewhat of a gap for K Care and Wealth, but it's been progressing as of late. So I was hoping you could update us on the fundraising front, progress on platform additions, and and how this product is differentiating itself versus an increasingly crowded field of players in private wealth.

Hey, Craig. It's Craig. Why don't I start on that? And just to, to take a step back for a moment on case series more broadly before diving into credit, just to level set for everyone, as of June 30, we had approximately a 120,000,000,000 of assets under management from individuals, and that number does not include policyholders at Global Atlantic. So if anything, again, that figure is understated as you think of the breadth that we have and the presence that we have, with individuals.

And in terms of case series, Rob gave some of these stats, obviously. A year ago, we were at 11,000,000,000 of AUM. And as we look at where we are today, we're at 25,000,000,000, so early days. But we are really encouraged about the progress that we have. I think that is particularly true in infra and private equity, which are newer asset classes for more mass affluent investors.

And in terms of credit, if if you look at the decisions that and and how we're situated, we did make the active decision to launch PE and infra ahead of our private BDC. And I think we did wanna be earlier to market in these newer asset classes. And when you look at market share across new capital rates across all of these different strategies, we ranked second on a year to date basis. So I think we we feel very good about our progress. In terms of KFIT specifically, we do have a specific allocation to asset based finance as we as we think about how to position and how to differentiate KFIT relative to, as you noted, a space where you have a lot of competition.

And it's early days. We are continuing to see progress from here as it relates to distribution partners. We did raise more capital on k fit in q two than we have in its history. So we are seeing progress, albeit off a lower base and where we see lots of continued opportunities for runway for us. And then just to be clear, we also are converting what is called KCOP, which was a multi sector credit vehicle to a primarily asset based finance focused vehicle, which we're calling KABF.

And so I think as we look at this opportunity in asset based finance, it feels to us like there is real demand for a dedicated evergreen ABF product that's tailored to individuals. And it felt to us like converting KCOP was the best way for us to develop this this solution efficiently. This is contingent, to be clear, on a a proxy that we have with Kaycox shareholders. We do anticipate that conversion to take effect on or around the August. So I think at the heart, lots of progress.

It does feel like there's a lot more for us to do on this front most specifically. And then just to be clear, everything that we've launched with Capital Group is incremental, to all of this.

Hey, Craig. It's Scott. I think that's well said. You know, the main difference, I think, we're hearing in the market is this allocation to asset based finance as part of KFit. I think that's helping.

We're getting added to more platforms every quarter. So appreciate you pointing out the the momentum that we're starting to see there. We'll keep you posted on k a b f that Craig just referenced. We're optimistic about that. And as you know, it's early days with capital, in terms of what we've done there.

And as a reminder, that public private solution that we've launched with our partner has a 40% allocation to what we do, about 20 of those points to direct lending, 20 to asset based finance. So we'll we have another avenue to the wealth channel through, through our partnership with, with Capital. So we'll keep you posted, but appreciate you highlighting it.

And, you know, Craig, there's just one other thought here. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, if you do look at case fit returns, whether that's on a year to date basis or on an inception to date basis, they're as good as it gets in the industry in terms of private BDCs. So I think if if we continue to perform from an investment standpoint, that again will bode exceptionally well in terms of, where we think we can end up in terms ultimately in the size of the vehicle.

Our next question comes from the line of Alex Blostein with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.

Hey. Good morning. Thank you guys for taking the question. I wanted to zone in a little bit on the institutional dynamic. The environment, of course, has changed drastically, relative to prior, quarter's call.

I know we've talked, in the past more about more of a, I guess, a barbelled approach to institutional fundraising. But given a better outlook for monetization activity, obviously, a much healthier equity market as well, is that still the case? How are you sort of gauging the pulse of institutional clients as you go through this fundraising cycle?

Thanks for the question, Alex. Scott, I I would say, as you can tell from our numbers, I mean, we've been really busy on the fundraising front.

109,000,000,000 in the last twelve months. If you look at the last couple of years, 217,000,000,000. So, you know, pretty consistent momentum throughout. So we read the same headlines you do. But as we look at kind of what's happening here in the firm, we remain very, very active.

I'd say investors are kinda back to or getting back to business as usual. So we're having highly constructive discussions on multiple fronts and around the world. And I think the punch line that probably matters for most of the people listening is last April, we had shared a target for fundraising for 2024 through 2026 at over 300,000,000,000. We're halfway through those thirty six months, and we're ahead of pace and feel really good about the target we shared with you, including the plus behind the 300,000,000,000. So I would say the institutional investors we're talking to is a little bit of a different story depending on where you are and what you're talking about.

But I'd say infrastructure people still trying to catch up to their allocation. Same thing with private credit with increasing interest in asset based finance. Rob mentioned this development of insurance as an asset class that we think has has a attractive opportunity on the forward. And I think most of the noise has been around, private equity and how those with mature programs on the institutional front are thinking and acting. But given the fact that we have sent back so much cash relative to that which we've called, and as a reminder, over the last eight years approaching two to one dollars back to dollars called, We are finding that to be a very productive set of discussions and very much business as usual for us.

The other thing I'd call out is we've referenced this before, but I think it's actually accelerating as a theme. We are finding institutions consolidating their relationships. They wanna do more with fewer partners, so we're having more strategic partnership dialogues, more multiproduct dialogues, and that plays to our strengths, as you know. Then you add on private wealth and capital group and GA. It just feels really good right now.

Our next question comes from the line of Steven Chubak with Wolfe Research. Please proceed with your question.

And appreciate you guys taking my questions. So I did wanna circle back ABF deployment opportunity. The strong fundraise in AVF vehicle is juxtaposed with the announcement of the Harley Davidson deal. Right now, you took a stake in the financing unit, purchased a significant portion of the loan portfolio. Was hoping to whether you could speak to opportunities to consummate similar transactions with other retail participants.

I'm just trying to gauge whether there's more of a one off or where other retail firms might be open to exploring similar transactions just given the positive reaction to HRD shares following the announcement.

Yeah. Steven, thanks for the question. Why why don't I start broadly on ABF, and then we can talk about Harley Davidson. So just to level set again on page 13 of our release, we detail, in our Credit and Liquid strategies business, the composition of our 290 somewhat billion of AUM. And within, private credit, you've you've seen that grow at a very healthy rate.

We're up 20% year over year, a 120,000,000,000 of AUM. 75 of that is is asset based finance. That that year over year growth is in the mid twenties. So I think with 75,000,000,000 of of ABF AUM growing at a at a north of 20% year over year rate, you get a sense of the significance of this business and the growth trajectory that we've that you've seen. And Rob had mentioned in our prepared remarks just how we feel we're really well positioned strategically looking forward from here.

And look in this environment, back to your more specific question on Harley Davidson and the outlook, but we think this should be a wonderful environment for asset based finance. And this is one of the things that Henry McVeigh and our macro team have actually written about as opportunities for us and as we think about this overall environment. Our companies that that wanna see, or or electing to go in a more capital like fashion, and if there's a way for them to free up capital and use that capital for other strategic initiatives. And I think at the heart, that's what you saw in the Harley Davidson deal. So, again, they sold the majority of their motorcycle loan portfolio, and then there's also a long term flow partnership to sell new motorcycle loan originations.

Look. I think as we look at Harley Davidson, it's a company, obviously, with a truly iconic brand, a really passionate loyal customer base. But it it is another example of this broader trend, and you've seen this in a number of instances for us, whether this is Discover, PayPal, BMO Financial Group, GreenSky Home Loan Improvements. Again, you've just seen a handful of these instances of companies electing to go capital light to free up capital to pursue other strategic objectives, and it was great from our standpoint to see the reaction in their stock. I think it was up 12% or 13%.

So it certainly seemed to be very well received by Harley Davidson shareholders. Again, they reacted very positively to the news.

Our next question comes from the line of Glenn Schorr with Evercore. Please proceed with your question.

Hi. Thanks very much. You will ask I think it was after the quarter you announced just the other day the the first investment with Energy Capital Partners relationship, that big 50,000,000,000 announcement. And so my question is, I I get the huge benefit of having dedicated twenty four seven power in your building. The the question I have is, do you have those type of relationships pre leased and pre spoken for?

Or are we if we build it, they will come and there's so much demand that we're we're gonna start leasing it. I'm I'm just curious on how you put that money to work, how and and what year the cash flow start beginning. Just curious on how that ramps because the the the TAMs are so big. I'm I'm I'm looking to get a little bit of context.

It's Craig. Why don't why don't I start? So just to be clear, we are not speculative builders. So the the answer to the question, yes. The project's already been leased to, in our view, a very attractive counterparty.

And I think the other broad point, as as you know, there is just a massive need for capital. And in many ways, the opportunity is broader than just data centers. So there's gonna be need for data centers certainly, but at the same time, you need massive investment in fiber, massive investment in mobile infrastructure at the same time to support the growth in data creation and consumption. And so for us, when we look at our digital infrastructure presence and you add what we've done in those three pieces together, in total, there's over 40,000,000,040 of equity invested across these areas. Now to be clear, that does include co investment and co underwrite, but it certainly gives you a very good sense of how active we've been in this area.

And I think one of the things that plays to our strengths here is the connectivity and the culture you have across the firm. So, again, we're able to invest in these themes across a whole bunch of different pools with different risk return, different geographic exposures, etcetera. And so if you look at just the data center piece in that, we have exposure across global, in for Asia, in for our real estate, core private equity, our wealth strategies in addition to Global Atlantic. So it is a huge mega theme. I think you're gonna hear more from us over time, related to this.

And, again, thanks for the question. We do look at last night's announcement. It's just a really interesting, really interesting direction of travel as it relates to the intersection of both as it relates to infrastructure, as well as energy infrastructure and the need to link power as a solution.

And, Glenn, it's Scott. To your question on timing, so construction's already underway. Expected completion date fourth quarter next year. Just give you a sense of when to start to turn on in the lead times.

Our next question comes from the line of Ben Budish with Barclays. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, good morning and thank you for taking my question. Helpful updates on Global Atlantic in the prepared remarks. I was wondering if you could unpack a little bit more of just the performance in the quarter itself. What specifically changed that led to the outperformance versus your prior guide of kind of around $250,000,000 for the next couple of quarters? And then as we think longer term, how important is the sort of elongation of the liability profile?

How dependent is that on the FABN market or of pivoting the liability profile of your retail flows? Does one matter more than the other? And how long may that take to kind of get to where you want it to be? Thank you.

Thanks a lot, Ben, for the question. It was definitely a solid quarter for Global Atlantic in Q2, $278,000,000 of operating earnings. To be clear, there was some variable investment income that drove that number.

And so as we've previously provided a guide of plus or minus $250,000,000 of operating earnings, our expectation for the foreseeable future is that is still the right number to model going forward. As it relates to the evolution of the business, I think there's really three things going on simultaneously. Number one, third party capital is a big advantage for us, and we talked about where we stand today relative to where we were when we had IB2, which we're still investing as a strategy. We're north of double the amount of capital and that's a really important strategic imperative, so a lot of good momentum there. In terms of the liabilities and wanting to elongate those liabilities, it's definitely not just the FABN channel, but that's a component.

We're seeing that more in the individual channel as well. We continue to have an active pipeline on the block side, which is longer duration liabilities too. And so there's a number of different ways that we can effectuate longer duration liabilities, but I think that's going to be ultimately a multiyear process. And alongside that, as we are elongating our liabilities, we're going to methodically take up our allocation to alternatives, and we're making good progress there too. We're still only about 1% allocated to alternatives.

At Globe Atlantic, industry average is closer to five percent, And so we've got some work there to go, but we're not in a rush. We're going to make sure we do this in the right way and to ensure that when all elements of those business model come together, it'll really set us in a very differentiated way from the industry, and I think to be really beneficial to our shareholders over the long term. So we're excited with the progress, but still relatively early days.

Our next question comes from the line of John Barnidge with Piper Sandler. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity. Can you talk about the opportunity presented for the company from potential four zero one k retirement reform and how meaningful this could be? Thank you.

So, John, a couple of thoughts just to begin. Look at the heart. We are encouraged to hear the policymakers are discussing ways to help make private market investments more available to US retirement plans. And I think as we hear this, I think we we have two overarching thoughts that I think the first, and this is a phrase that our public affairs team uses internally, that we think in many ways, this is about giving similarly situated people similar options. And what we mean by that is that right now across many states in The US, if you're a teacher, probably 30% or so of your retirement is provided through alternative investments.

That percentage, though, for a dentist is gonna be closer to zero. And so in many ways, this is about giving people an option to increase, to allocate a portion of their savings to higher performing asset classes, no different than what we've seen from institutions over the last many number of decades. And I think the second part of this is that we think at the heart, fiduciary should be able to act as fiduciaries and increase the investment options that are available to fiduciaries to consider on behalf of their clients. So back to your question in terms of what this means for us. Look.

We think there's a real opportunity here. That's true for individual investors. That's also true for firms like ours. It's a massive market. I think these statistics are broadly well known.

But in The US, retirement is a 40,000,000,000,000 market with defined contribution being 12,000,000,000 or if not even north of that. It does make a lot of sense to us, the target date funds, which have been taking 60% plus of share, of four zero one k flows, if you will, is where you'll probably see alternatives first. So, again, if you think of someone who's early in their retirement planning, it just makes sense to us that someone who's early in that glide path, with that really long term vision is where ALLS can be most relevant. And so I think as we think about this opportunity, we do look at it as a very interesting long term opportunity. No no question.

But it is a long term opportunity. And we don't think you should expect this to be like flipping a switch, but it is incremental to everything that you see across the firm currently, and we think we're really well positioned. We do think brand will matter. We think track records, investment expertise will matter, and we think depth and breadth of origination will matter. And these are all things that we think are truly differentiated aspects, of KKR.

And given all of that, again, just to be clear, we are dedicating the resources against this that you'd expect.

Hey, John. It's Scott. Yeah. Think to your question, we don't we don't know the quantum, and we don't know the timing. But I think Craig said it right.

This is all incremental to everything that we've talked about and the longer term vision that we've shared for the firm in the past. So we're trying to make sure we're well positioned as it plays out. Craig referenced it, but 60% of four zero one k flows go to target date funds. If you think of that format, it just makes sense for an individual investor because probably the allocation to alternatives and private markets should be different for somebody who's 30 versus someone who's 70. And so it's a nice format to be able to provide that flexibility.

The target date mark market is very concentrated. The top five players have over 80% market share. Our partners at Capital Group are one of those five players. So you can imagine we're having discussions as to what the future might look like together. But not a lot more color to share with you today, but we'll keep you posted over time as this plays out.

Our next question comes from the line of Michael Cyprys with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question.

Hey. Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. More of a bigger picture question for you guys on AI and blockchain Just as you look out over the next five, ten years, curious how you see the industry evolving given potential changes here from AI to blockchain. Curious how you're adjusting your business model.

What steps are you guys taking today and might take in the coming years? And what does this all mean for your business? Thank you.

Really interesting, question. Again, not surprisingly, lots of activity around this across the globe, both as we're considering our portfolio as well as as we're considering new investments. So very early, but I think what we'd say at this stage, a couple of thoughts first. Our areas of focus are broad, certainly. And we're we're first focused on building smarter solutions at our companies.

And I think that framework is one where we're looking to bring solutions that deliver more value to our customers. I think there's a second aspect, and that's helping our people at our portfolio companies be even more productive so they can do more, solve more, and have a better experience on the job. And then finally, in some cases, it's reimagining business models to unlock even bigger upside. And and I think in addition to the portfolio companies and and opportunities, again, like, back to Glenn's question earlier on data centers. So this this is increasing our opportunity set even at the same time.

And so, again, we've talked a lot about digital infrastructure on these calls and all the activity that you're seeing. But there's just some AI is creating a massive need, for capital and solutions. And we wanna make sure as we look to position ourselves strategically that we're bringing the right resources to bear for us across those opportunities. So it it's our it's our portfolio companies. It's new investments.

It's areas like digital infra, and I'm sure there'll be more to come over time as it relates to other aspects. And I think, you know, you have seen other signs of of this for us. Again, I'd I'd point you back to, and, Mike, I expect you'll remember this. But even back in '22, you know, we partnered with a firm to offer a tokenized interest in our health care growth fund. So, again, this was the first time that one of our strategies was offered in a digital blockchain format.

So it was not a a significant part of that fundraise, and I think these aspects are not material as we think of the go forward fundraise for us. But do you think it's a sign of of the creativity that you're gonna see in our firm as we look at evolving even the more traditional parts of our business model?

Hey, Michael. It's Scott. Appreciate the question. Look, it's early. You know, we're still learning from our companies.

We're spending a lot of time with young companies in the AI space and their founders and helping to connect dots between what they're building and how an alternative asset management firm actually functions. So when it comes to how we run KKR, which I think is part of the thrust of your question, we're still figuring that out, and we're connecting those dots. So far, it's clear, it's gonna help make our teams more productive. It'll help us scale the firm using technology in a way that we've never been able to before. But the specific answers to exactly what does that mean, that's what we're still working on.

But we'll keep you posted, but it's clear that, there's meaningful opportunity, especially as we approach areas like private wealth, scale our insurance businesses to do this some of this stuff in a different way operationally.

Our next question comes from the line of Bill Katz with TD Cowen. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, everybody. So just coming back, one of the pushbacks we get on KKR and the group at large is as the industry continues to scale, particularly in private credit, that the ability to drive differentiated returns goes down. We don't agree with that. We think scale will win. But that being said, I'm sort of curious if you could maybe update us on your origination platform.

I know a couple of your peers do a pretty good job of delineating what their capacity is. I'd be curious maybe get a little bit of a refresh of just number origination platforms you have and why you think that could translate into the ability to generate further alpha. Thank you.

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