---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001408100-22-000104"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KW"
cik: "0001408100"
company_name: "Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T13:08:37.075617+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennedy-Wilson appoints Wade Burton to Board; he is President & CIO of Fairfax subsidiary Hamblin

## Summary
- Board size increased to 12; Wade Burton elected as director effective November 2, 2022.
- Burton is President & CIO of Hamblin Watsa (Fairfax subsidiary); Fairfax holds ~26M shares/warrants in KW.
- Burton receives $150k annual retainer and 15,000 RSUs vesting equally over three years.
- Fairfax and KW have real estate/debt relationships; in FY2021 Fairfax paid $8.2M mgmt fees, KW paid $10.9M interest.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001408100-22-000104
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KW
- cik: 0001408100
- company_name: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810022000104/0001408100-22-000104-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810022000104/kw-20221102.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408100-22-000104
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408100-22-000104.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408100-22-000104.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Wade Burton was elected as director at Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: elected Mr. Wade Burton as a director of the Company, effective November 2, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810022000104/0001408100-22-000104-index.htm

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