Private markets firm KKR has appointed Lauren Goodwin as managing director and chief investment strategist for its global wealth solutions business.
Goodwin, who previously served as chief market strategist at New York Life Investments, will focus on developing new practical tools for financial advisors and adapt KKR’s differentiated market insights for wirehouses, registered investment advisors (RIAs), private banks, and independent broker-dealers.
She will also adapt macro insights from KKR’s global macro & asset allocation (GMAA) team and geopolitical analysis from the KKR’s global institute (KGI) to provide advisors with education, applied research, and portfolio frameworks to help them incorporate private markets thoughtfully into client portfolios.
“Advisors have more information at their disposal than ever, but the macro landscape has only grown more complex and investors are under increasing pressure to rethink how they build portfolios,” said Goodwin. “The firm’s culture, scale, and dedication to the wealth channel will enable us to deliver uniquely actionable frameworks and insights to help advisors use private markets as a tool to enhance client portfolios,” she added.
Goodwin previously also worked at Wells Fargo, Frontier Strategy Group, J.P. Morgan, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She is a CFA charterholder.
Henry McVey, KKR’s balance sheet chief investment officer and head of GMAA, said: “Lauren has a proven ability to help advisors apply market insights directly to the portfolio decisions they make every day. In this evolving investment environment, how portfolios are constructed becomes even more critical, and we believe private markets play an increasingly important role as core building blocks.”
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“At a time when the asset management landscape is shifting rapidly and access to institutional-quality private market strategies has the potential to be transformative for individual investors, Lauren will strengthen how we engage with and support advisors in all market environments,” added Doug Krupa, KKR’s partner and head of global wealth solutions, Americas.
Among other things, KKR’s global wealth solutions team has launched the K-Series evergreen products on over 180 distribution platforms, enabling advisors to participate in all four of the firm’s private market asset classes – private equity, credit, real estate, and infrastructure.
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