Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) Bank of America 31st Annual Financials CEO Conference September 23, 2026 6:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Marc Rowan – Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Conference Call Participants
Craig Siegenthaler – BofA Securities, Research Division
Presentation
Craig Siegenthaler
BofA Securities, Research Division
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to BofA’s 31st Annual European Financial Services Conference. This is Craig Siegenthaler. I run the North American diversified financials vertical. And I’m very pleased to introduce Marc Rowan, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Apollo Global Management. Marc co-founded the firm in 1990, and he served as CEO since 2021. He’s also a thought leader across financial services and a pioneer of the alt insurance model, which its largest competitors have replicated. Marc, thank you for joining us in London.
Marc Rowan
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Pleasure, always.
Craig Siegenthaler
BofA Securities, Research Division
So Apollo was founded in 1990 with a focus on private equity, but actually initially a little more of an investment banking focus. The firm now has evolved into a diverse global alternative asset management firm with scale across all 3 channels: Institutional, individual and their leading insurance platform. Apollo pioneered the retirement model with the creation of Athene and is also a first mover in investment-grade private credit and is also capitalizing on the industrial revolution. The firm now manages more than $1 trillion in AUM and is one of the 5 largest alt managers in the world across all metrics. So with that, let’s get started.
Question-and-Answer Session
Craig Siegenthaler
BofA Securities, Research Division
We’ll get started with the macro. The macro backdrop has definitely been more resilient than many expected, yet uncertainty remains geopolitically, fiscally and also in the rate trajectory. Marc, how are you reading the environment right