The company focuseses on four targeted asset classes: residential mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities; corporate loans and debt securities; commercial real estate loans and debt securities; and asset-backed securities. According to the filing, the firm's income is generated "primarily from the difference between the interest and dividend income generated by our investments and the cost of our borrowings." The company believes multi-asset class strategy permits them to be "opportunistic and invest in those asset classes that generate attractive leveraged risk-adjusted returns."

Last month, Vornado Realty Trust, Bain Capital and KKR agreed to buy specialty toy and baby-product retailer Toys 'R' Us Inc. as well as the more successful Babies 'R' Us. The domestic 681 toy stores and 601 toy stores in other countries, plus 218 Babies R Us traded for $26.75 per share in cash or about $6.6 billion. KKR was also part of a partnership that took software company SunGard in a transaction valued at approximately $11.3 billion. Last year, the firm acquired bedding product giant Sealy Corp. for approximately $1.5 billion.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is manager of the REIT. Citigroup, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Bros. Inc., JPMorgan and Friedman Billings Ramsey were listed as underwriters of the offering.

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