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Strategic investment for sustainable returns in uncertain markets.

Combining risk management with targeted growth in insurance assets and beyond.

Preserving capital, unlocking potential.

Knighthead manages assets across a variety of investment vehicles including a sizable Insurance Asset Management business, a number of Closed-End Credit Vehicles, a dedicated Real Estate Lending Business, Evergreen Vehicle focused on long/short credit investments. We are fortunate not to be constrained by a narrow investment mandate. Managing long duration assets enables us to focus on long term goals.

Insurance Asset Management

Knighthead Annuity & Life Assurance Company (Knighthead Annuity) was formed as a greenfield insurance business in 2014 by the Knighthead partners and current Knighthead Annuity CEO. Knighthead’s expertise in managing insurance assets has matured organically through our relationship as the Investment Manager for Knighthead Annuity, allowing us to tailor appropriate investment programs for both the direct and reinsurance business portfolios.

Closed End Vehicles

Our closed-end vehicle platform is designed to give LP’s an opportunity to invest in special opportunities, market-wide dislocation, sector-wide dislocation, idiosyncratic opportunities, or increase exposure to high conviction long-only positions held in other vehicles.

Real Estate Lending

Knighthead Funding, LLC, together with its affiliates and funding entities (collectively “Knighthead Funding”), is a real estate finance company that specializes in originating and servicing commercial mortgage loans (“CMLs”) across the United States for reinsurance clients (the “Reinsurance Clients”) of Knighthead Annuity & Life Assurance Company. As the investment manager for these Reinsurance Clients, Knighthead Funding leverages extensive expertise in the CML Lending sector. Jonathan Daniel, Knighthead Funding’s portfolio manager, brings over 30 years of CML origination and asset management experience, and the entire Knighthead Funding team collectively encompasses over 275+ years of experience in asset management, credit investing, lending, and commercial real estate. Knighthead Funding operates as an affiliate of Knighthead.

Evergreen Vehicles

Knighthead Evergreen Vehicles focus on long-short credit investments specializing in event driven, distressed credit and other special situations across a broad array of industries. Capital in these vehicles is allocated into one of our core strategies which include both long and short positions that are typically at or near the top of a company’s capital structure.