Company: KW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058797
Chunk: 39

Company: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 39
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 the full scope of our operations and what our NEOs manage.                                                                                                                                                                                               
 •We invest cash from our own balance sheet, but also have a robust separate accounts and fund management business that produces meaningful levels of base management fees and carried interests, in addition to providing us with the equity to invest across the globe. 
 •Our NEOs actively manage all our real estate across the globe and investments from all our capital sources, including equity contributed by institutional investors into our investment platforms.                                                                      |

In selecting the Company’s peer group, the Compensation Committee sought to create a blend of diverse companies that would reflect the Company’s complex business model and global scope when viewed in totality. Our peer group includes select asset managers who engage in meaningful real estate activity and more sophisticated REITs that either operate globally, use significant strategic capital, and/or actively develop properties. Details of our use peer group data is on page 31.

26/Kennedy Wilson/ Proxy Statement 2025

#### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Program Alignment with Our Distinctive Business Model Our Compensation Committee, in consultation with its independent compensation consultant, has sought to create a compensation program that (i) provides long-term incentives that are strongly aligned with the long-term interests of our stockholders; (ii) provides our executive officers with short- and long-term incentives that directly support our strategic business plan and recognizes our unique public-company business model; (iii) reflects feedback from our ongoing stockholder engagement; (iv) emphasizes the importance of pay transparency; and (v) provides competitive compensation levels to retain and motivate a high caliber executive team capable of managing our sophisticated business model and global operations. A more in-depth overview of the elements of our compensation program and the key factors considered by the Compensation Committee in the establishment of our 2024 NEO compensation program are described in detail on page 29.

| Component               |     | Alignment with Strategy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |     |                                                                                                                                               |
| Base Salary             |     | •Provides a fixed level of cash compensation to attract and retain talented executives based on duties, experience and internal pay equity                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                               |
| Annual Cash Bonus       |     | •Formulaic calculation that is based 80% on objective financial goals that are directly tied to our near-term strategic objectives                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | •Formulaic calculation tied to the achievement of:                                                                                            
 •Growth in Investment Management Fees (excluding promote) (25%)                                                                               
 •Cash from Asset Sales (25%)                                                                                                                  
 •Unsecured