Strategy Spotlight
KPC African Debt
An absolute-return African debt strategy — sovereign and corporate, hard and local currency — accessed through KPC’s evergreen private markets platform.
KPC African Debt provides exposure to a strategy managed by an underlying sub-fund manager (the “Underlying Manager”). Investors in KPC African Debt do not invest directly in the Underlying Manager’s fund. Strategy, process, portfolio, and team information herein is sourced from the Underlying Manager and has not been independently verified by KPC. This material does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation, or an offer to buy or sell any security. See Important Disclosures and Endnotes.
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Section 1 · Overview
Strategy at a Glance
KPC African Debt provides eligible investors access to an absolute-return strategy investing across African (ex-South Africa) sovereign and corporate debt, in both hard and local currency. The strategy applies an Africa-specific analytical framework to identify dislocations at the intersection of a developing asset class — emerging market debt — and a frequently overlooked region.
The strategy targets equity-like absolute returns with controlled duration, seeking to mitigate the four principal risks of African debt — credit, duration, FX, and liquidity — through analysis, structuring, hedging, and allocation discipline.
Source: Underlying Sub-Fund Manager3Section 1 · Overview
Market Background: African Debt
African debt remains one of the most under-followed corners of emerging market fixed income, despite a deep and growing universe of issuers. The background below is general market context — not specific to the Underlying Manager or KPC African Debt.
A Large, Inefficient Opportunity Set
Listed African debt (ex-South Africa) spans dozens of sovereign and corporate issuers across local- and hard-currency markets, with aggregate outstanding measured in the hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars.5 The continent imports capital chronically to fund domestic investment, producing persistently high nominal yields relative to most other emerging and developed markets.
African debt is materially under-represented in mainstream EM benchmarks, leaving substantial portions of the opportunity set largely untouched by global allocators. The combination of high nominal yields, structural inefficiencies, and limited institutional coverage creates a fertile environment for specialist managers operating with local relationships and infrastructure.
Why a Specialist Africa-Focused Approach
- Persistently high nominal and real yields versus DM and broader EM debt
- Flat-to-inverted local curves and pricing dislocations create relative-value opportunities
- Limited sell-side coverage means fundamentals frequently lag price discovery
- On-the-ground presence and counterparty network are critical for execution and risk control
The strategy is designed to harvest structural alpha from inefficiencies in African debt markets — not to take a directional view on global rates, EM beta, or commodity cycles.5
Section 2 · Philosophy
Investment Philosophy
“Principal must be returned. High absolute yield is only attractive when paired with rigorous risk mitigation.”
Returns are sourced from country-by-country fundamental analysis and relative-value trading across African debt markets, with explicit attention to debt sustainability, FX stability, and liquidity. Capital preservation is treated as a precondition to compounding returns — not a trade-off against them.
Source: Underlying Sub-Fund Manager3Principal Preservation First
Every position is sized and structured so that the path to recovering principal is identifiable before yield is considered. Credit, duration, FX, and liquidity risks are explicitly underwritten on each trade.
Macro + Relative Value
Two complementary alpha sources: macro analysis to gauge debt sustainability and FX stability, and relative-value trading to identify dislocations and arbitrage opportunities across instruments, currencies, and curves.
Africa-Specific Framework
An analytical framework purpose-built for African markets — not retrofitted from broader EM templates — supported by local offices, counterparty relationships, and direct market access across multiple sub-regions.
Section 2 · Philosophy
Investment Approach
Hard Currency Sovereign & Corporate
- Debt-sustainability analysis on each sovereign and corporate issuer
- Focus on issuers where yield is mispriced relative to underlying credit fundamentals
- Duration and curve positioning calibrated against the Fund's overall risk budget
Local Currency Opportunities
- FX-stability analysis paired with local rate and curve assessment
- Hedging via NDFs, forwards, swaps, and FRAs to control residual currency exposure
- Selective participation where real yields and FX outlook both support the position
Relative Value & Arbitrage
- Cross-instrument, cross-curve, and cross-issuer dislocations expressed in defined-risk structures
- Selective use of derivatives — swaps, futures, options — to isolate the targeted exposure
- Net leverage used opportunistically and bounded by liquidity and risk parameters
Section 3 · Opportunity
The Investment Opportunity
Universe
African (ex-South Africa) sovereign and corporate debt across local and hard currency, plus swaps, forwards, futures, NDFs, FRAs, and options used to structure and hedge positions.
Why Now
African debt continues to offer some of the highest nominal yields in global fixed income, while remaining under-allocated by institutional investors and under-represented in mainstream EM indices. Structural inefficiencies in pricing, curve shape, and instrument selection create a persistent opportunity set.
Edge
An Africa-specific analytical framework, a senior team averaging more than two decades of African markets experience, and a direct presence in multiple African financial centers, supported by local counterparty and custody infrastructure across the continent.
The strategy seeks to convert structural inefficiencies in African debt into absolute, U.S.-dollar-denominated returns — with explicit attention to controlling the four principal risks of the asset class.
Source: Underlying Sub-Fund Manager3Section 4 · Process
Investment Process
Market Evaluation
Continuous screening of listed African debt (ex-SA) across sovereign and corporate issuers, in both local and hard currency, to map the available opportunity set by yield, sector, currency, and maturity.
Macro Analysis
Country-by-country debt sustainability and FX-stability work, aggregating macroeconomic data to form a substantive view of each issuer's current and forward trajectory before any position is sized.
Relative Value Analysis
Identification of dislocations and arbitrage opportunities across instruments, currencies, and curves; pricing is assessed against fundamentals and against comparable issuers in the universe.
Risk Minimization & Portfolio Construction
Each position is structured to mitigate the four principal risks — credit, duration, FX, and liquidity — through instrument choice, hedging (NDFs, forwards, swaps, FRAs), and sizing within defined portfolio limits.
Risk Management
Ongoing monitoring, pricing, and stress testing of positions and portfolio aggregates; positions are reassessed against thesis, liquidity, and risk-budget consumption.
Every position passes through the same Africa-specific analytical framework, and exposure is managed at the portfolio level — designed so that risk is identified, sized, structured, and monitored continuously rather than only at trade initiation.
Net leverage is used opportunistically and bounded by liquidity and risk constraints. Duration is actively managed within the target 0 – 4 year range.
Source: Underlying Sub-Fund Manager3Section 4 · Process
How an African Debt Trade Works
The two illustrative examples below are simplified, hypothetical representations of common trade types used in this strategy. They are intended to help advisors understand the mechanics — not to represent actual portfolio returns.
Hard-Currency Sovereign (Illustrative)
The Underlying Manager underwrites a U.S.-dollar-denominated sovereign bond where debt-sustainability analysis suggests the issuer’s repayment profile is materially stronger than the spread implies.
The trade isolates issuer-specific credit improvement; duration and FX exposures are controlled through instrument selection and portfolio-level limits.
Local-Currency Relative Value (Illustrative)
A local-currency rates position is established where the curve shape and real-yield profile diverge from the FX-stability outlook, with currency exposure explicitly hedged or sized within tolerance.
Hedging is treated as a primary risk-management tool, allowing the team to express a rates or curve view without taking on undifferentiated currency risk.
For illustrative purposes only. Hypothetical and not indicative of actual or future performance. Emerging markets debt strategies involve risks including sovereign, credit, currency, liquidity, and leverage risks as described in the Important Disclosures.
Source: Underlying Sub-Fund Manager3Section 5 · Portfolio
Current Portfolio Exposures
Indicative snapshot of the underlying strategy’s portfolio composition. Composition is dynamic by design — the book is research- and opportunity-driven, not benchmark-driven — and will change as theses develop and dislocations resolve.4
Regional Exposure (Africa ex-SA)
Sector & Currency Mix
Sector and currency weights reflect indicative gross exposure across sovereign and corporate issuers and will vary with the prevailing opportunity set.
Risk Posture (indicative)
Liquidity for each bond is stress-tested against rolling average daily volume; leverage is sized to remain consistent with liquidity and risk-budget constraints.6
Portfolio Structure
- Africa ex-South Africa sovereign and corporate debt across local and hard currency
- Derivatives (swaps, forwards, futures, NDFs, FRAs, options) used to structure and hedge
- Duration actively managed within the target 0 – 4 year range
- Net leverage used opportunistically and bounded by liquidity and risk parameters
Section 5 · Portfolio
Portfolio Construction & Risk Mitigation
How the Portfolio Is Built
- Each position selected on standalone merits and contribution to overall portfolio risk, not to fit a benchmark weight
- Diversified across regions, currencies, sectors, and maturities within the African ex-SA universe
- Position sizing reflects conviction, liquidity, and stress-tested loss tolerance
- Duration, FX, and leverage managed at the portfolio level within defined ranges
Risk Mitigation in Practice
- Credit risk underwritten through bottom-up debt-sustainability analysis on each issuer
- FX risk hedged or sized within tolerance using NDFs, forwards, and other derivatives
- Liquidity stress-tested against rolling average daily volume for each instrument
- Continuous monitoring, pricing, and stress testing of positions and portfolio aggregates
What this means for advisors: the strategy is designed to deliver U.S.-dollar absolute returns with low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income beta. Detailed historical return, volatility, and risk-adjusted metrics for KPC African Debt are provided in Section 6 of this presentation and in the companion Performance and Fund Terms summaries.
Section 6 · Performance
Performance Snapshot
Net performance for KPC African Debt is shown below. Performance is net of both underlying fund fees and KPC platform-level fees and expenses.1
KPC African Debt has historically delivered absolute, U.S.-dollar-denominated returns across a full credit cycle with low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income beta — sourced from issuer-by-issuer fundamental analysis and relative-value trading in a structurally inefficient asset class.
Periods of 12 months or less are cumulative; longer periods are annualized. Net of all KPC platform-level and Underlying Fund fees and expenses. 2026 figures are unaudited.
Synced — As of May 2026Section 6 · Performance
60/40 Portfolio Impact Analysis
Illustrative effect of adding a 20% allocation to KPC African Debt to a traditional 60% equity / 40% bond portfolio (reducing equity to 48% and bonds to 32%), since inception (Oct 2016 – May 2026).
Adding a 20% allocation to KPC African Debt to a traditional 60/40 portfolio is intended to improve risk-adjusted returns by introducing a return stream with low correlation to both equities and core fixed income.
Synced — As of May 2026Hypothetical illustration only. Combines historical index returns with KPC African Debt's net historical performance assuming periodic rebalancing. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Section 7 · Team
Management Team & Governance
The Underlying Manager is led by a Chief Investment Officer with prior senior global macro and credit trading experience at major investment banks and hedge funds, supported by senior portfolio managers, dedicated risk and compliance officers, and an experienced operations team across multiple African financial centers. Consistent with KPC’s anonymization policy for sub-fund managers, individuals are described by role and tenure rather than by name.7
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Former Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in global macro trading and credit at major global investment banks and a leading multi-strategy hedge fund. Leads market and country analysis, investment origination, portfolio management, and risk oversight for the strategy.
Senior Portfolio Manager & Partner
Leads portfolio management, trading, and product structuring; oversees risk analysis and the local counterparty network across African markets.
Portfolio Manager
Responsible for sovereign and corporate credit research, relative-value idea generation, and execution across both hard- and local-currency African debt.
Chief Risk Officer & Chief Compliance Officer
Dedicated risk monitoring, valuation oversight, and compliance functions for the investment management entities, including the Africa-based subsidiaries.
Firm Infrastructure
- Offices in London, Johannesburg, Mauritius, and multiple West/Central/East African cities
- Local trading and custody infrastructure across multiple African markets
- Dedicated risk, compliance, operations, and investor relations teams
Service Providers (Underlying Fund)
- Administrator: IQ-EQ (Mauritius) Ltd · Auditor: Grant Thornton
- Custody & Prime Brokerage: Standard Chartered Bank (Mauritius & UK)
- Underlying Fund regulated by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission; investment adviser FCA-regulated in the UK with an FSCA-regulated subsidiary in South Africa
Section 8 · Portfolio Fit
Considering an African Debt Allocation
Specialist African debt strategies are generally considered alongside, rather than in place of, traditional fixed income and emerging markets allocations. Advisors evaluating a potential allocation to KPC African Debt often consider the following questions.
What role might this strategy play?
Strategies of this type may be used by advisors seeking absolute, U.S.-dollar-denominated returns with low correlation to broad equity and developed-market fixed income benchmarks, sourced from structural inefficiencies in African debt markets. The 60/40 portfolio impact analysis (Section 6) illustrates this diversification effect.
What should clients understand about liquidity?
KPC African Debt is an evergreen vehicle with defined subscription and redemption terms, including a redemption notice period and fund-level gate, as set out in the KPC African Debt Fund Terms Summary.2 The Underlying Fund offers quarterly redemptions with 90 days’ notice; African market liquidity can be uneven and may extend execution periods.
Where can advisors find further performance detail?
Full net historical performance, monthly returns, and additional risk statistics for KPC African Debt are provided in the companion Performance summary, updated monthly and reflective of KPC platform-level fees and expenses.1
Section 9 · Disclosures
Important Disclosures
This presentation has been prepared by Kelly Park Investment LLC (“KPI”), an SEC-registered investment adviser doing business as KPC Private Funds (“KPC”), for the exclusive use of financial professionals. It is provided for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or interest in any fund, including KPC African Debt (the “Fund”). Any offer of interests in the Fund may be made only pursuant to the Fund’s confidential offering documents, including the private placement memorandum, subscription documents, and limited partnership agreement, which contain important information regarding investment objectives, risks, fees, expenses, and tax considerations and which qualify in their entirety the information set forth herein.
The Fund invests, directly or indirectly, in a strategy managed by an underlying sub-fund manager (the “Underlying Manager”) that is not named in this presentation. Investors in the Fund acquire an interest in the Fund itself and do not invest directly in, and are not investors of, the Underlying Manager’s fund. References to strategy, process, portfolio, philosophy, team, and firm characteristics in this presentation describe the Underlying Manager and its fund and are based on information provided by, or derived from materials prepared by, the Underlying Manager. Except where specifically identified as KPC Fund performance or Fund terms, information regarding the investment strategy, portfolio construction, investment process, market commentary, and personnel has been obtained from the Underlying Manager and has not been independently verified by KPC. Such information is subject to change without notice.
Registration as an investment adviser with the SEC does not imply any particular level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement by the SEC. This presentation should be read in conjunction with the Fund’s offering documents, the KPC African Debt Terms Summary, and the KPC African Debt Performance summary. Eligibility designations (e.g., Accredited Investor, Qualified Client, Qualified Purchaser) reflect applicable regulatory definitions and are determined based on an investor’s individual circumstances.
Investments in the Fund involve substantial risk, including the possible loss of all invested capital. Interests in the Fund are illiquid and subject to subscription, redemption, gate, lock-up, and other transfer restrictions described in the offering documents. Any illustrative or hypothetical examples included in this presentation, including any 60/40 portfolio impact analysis, are for discussion purposes only, do not reflect actual transactions or returns of the Fund or the Underlying Manager unless otherwise stated, and are not indicative of future results.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Net performance information for the Fund reflects the deduction of all Fund-level and KPC platform-level fees and expenses, including management fees and incentive allocations, and is current as of the date noted on the relevant slide. Index and benchmark comparisons are for illustrative purposes only; an investor cannot invest directly in an index. Forward-looking statements, including words such as “may,” “will,” “seeks,” “target,” or “expect,” involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially.
Portfolio composition, sector, geographic, and other exposures presented herein reflect a point in time as indicated and are subject to change without notice; they do not represent a current or future allocation and should not be relied upon as such. This presentation is confidential and intended solely for the recipient. It may not be reproduced, distributed, or shared, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of KPC Private Funds. Nothing herein constitutes legal, tax, accounting, or investment advice; prospective investors should consult their own advisors.
Section 10 · Endnotes
Endnotes & Sources
1. KPC African Debt Performance summary. Net performance figures reflect deduction of all Underlying Fund-level and KPC platform-level fees, expenses, and incentive allocations. Performance data flows from the KPC African Debt Fact Sheet and is updated monthly.
2. KPC African Debt Fund Terms Summary. Terms summarized are subject to the governing offering documents of the Fund and may change without notice. Service providers identified do not endorse or guarantee performance.
3. Information regarding the underlying strategy's investment philosophy, process, portfolio construction, and team is based on materials provided by the Underlying Manager, including investor presentations, due diligence questionnaires, and monthly factsheets, as compiled in KPC's internal Fund Evaluation materials. This information has not been independently verified by KPC and is subject to change without notice.
4. Underlying strategy portfolio composition (regional, sector, and currency exposure) reflects an indicative point in time per the Underlying Manager's most recent investor materials, as compiled in KPC's internal Fund Evaluation materials. Composition is dynamic and subject to change without notice.
5. African debt universe size, regional distribution, and yield characteristics reference third-party market data (Bloomberg) and general market commentary, as summarized in the Underlying Manager's investor materials; not specific to KPC African Debt.
6. Risk-mitigation framework (credit, duration, FX, liquidity) and stress-testing methodology as described by the Underlying Manager in due diligence materials provided to KPC. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
7. Underlying Manager team composition, tenure, and governance structure as described in due diligence materials provided to KPC, as compiled in KPC's internal Fund Evaluation materials. Individual names have been omitted from this presentation consistent with KPC's anonymization policy for sub-fund managers.
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