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Buyout Firms Turning Into Asset Managers

Shift occurs as fresh capital, takeover targets become scare.

By Cristina Alesci, Jason Kelly, Bloomberg | Updated on June 01, 2011

After making their founders billionaires, buyout specialists such as Carlyle Group and KKR & Co. are turning into asset managers that run hedge funds and strip malls as fresh capital and takeover targets become scarce.

Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group LP, the biggest private-equity firm, is earning twice as much from owning property, including office buildings in India and senior communities, as from buyouts. New York-based KKR, whose co- founders Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts helped pioneer leveraged buyouts in the 1980s, now owns a stake in a 5,500-mile U.S. pipeline and lends to distressed companies.

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