Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. (KCSI) is a publicly held company with its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri with two lines of business: financial services and transportation. In Financial Services, KCSI owns the Janus group of mutual funds as well as the Berger Funds and Nelson Asset Management in the UK. KCSI also owns a significant interest in publicly traded DST Systems (DST). KCSI's transportation business operates the NAFTA Railway, one of the leading railroad systems in the US and Mexico. In 2000 KCSI spun off its Financial Services division into a separate company called Stilwell Financial, Inc., Warburg Pincus became an investor in KCSI in mid-1988 through purchases of stock in the open market and from an affiliate of the company. WP invested $39 million to purchase a 10% interest in the in KCSI. During the period of its investment WP provided strategic advice to KCSI management that resulted in the eventual separation of the company's businesses described above. WP distributed its investment to its limited partners in March 1994 at a value of $210 million.

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