KKR

Kkr & Co. Inc.

A global alternative asset manager that invests other people's money across private equity, credit, and infrastructure, and sells retirement and life insurance under the Global Atlantic brand it acquired in 2021. Three Bear Stearns colleagues—Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts—founded the firm in 1976, famously hatching the idea at a New York City restaurant called Rose and Joe's; the name comes from their surnames.