The Carlyle Group Issues 2010 Annual Report

Washington, DC – Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group today released its 2010 annual report, a 60-page document available to the public on Carlyle’s website at www.carlyle.com.

David M. Rubenstein, Carlyle Co-founder and Managing Director, said, “We are proud to present our eleventh consecutive annual report to our investors and the public. This year we focused on Carlyle’s culture of performance, highlighting our innovation, diversity in investments, experience to generate solid performance and collaboration in sharing knowledge and expertise around the world.”

Mr. Rubenstein continued, “The past year has been a period of exciting change and growth at Carlyle with new people, new geographies and new businesses. Our global market strategies team has deepened and broadened its product offering with a major CLO purchase, the establishment of an energy mezzanine team and the purchase of a majority stake in Claren road, a hedge fund managed with $5 billion in assets under management. It’s been twenty four years since we started Carlyle, but with so much opportunity before us, each day is a new beginning.”

Highlights:

• $6.4 billion return to investors in first quarter 2011
• $7.5 billion returned to investors in 2010
• Carlyle invested $7 billion in equity in 2010 on six continents across corporate private equity, real assets and global market strategies
• Fourteen investment case studies, including: AlpInvest (one of the world’s largest investors in private equity); Claren Road (a long-short corporate credit hedge fund manager); kbro Limited (Taiwan’s largest cable television operator); Booz Allen Hamilton (provider of management and technology consulting services); Multiplan (the largest healthcare preferred provider in the US); Grupo Qualicorp (a full-service provider of health services management in Brazil); and White Tower Portfolio (six landmark, income-producing office properties)
• Carlyle’s commitment to Corporate Citizenship including its partnerships with the Environmental Defense Fund, Junior Achievement and the Robert Toigo Foundation
• $4 billion of employee after-tax investments committed alongside Carlyle funds
• 990 professionals in 19 countries manage $106.7 billion in 84 funds across three segments (corporate private equity, real assets and global market strategies)

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The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with $106.7 billion of assets under management committed to 84 funds as of December 31, 2010. Carlyle invests across three asset classes - corporate private equity, real assets and global market strategies - in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services, telecommunications & media and transportation. Since 1987, the firm has invested $68.7 billion of equity in 1,035 transactions. The Carlyle Group employs more than 990 people in 19 countries. Web: www.carlyle.com; Video:www.youtube.com/OneCarlyle

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