Financial Services

Our Approach

Apollo’s Financial Institutions Group (“FIG”) sits at the intersection of Retirement Solutions and Asset Management, and was purpose-built to serve the retirement services ecosystem, including insurers, institutional investors, originators and others in financial services.

Apollo FIG has significant scale in both origination and capital raising capabilities, with a team that specializes in platform and asset sourcing, portfolio management, capital raising, M&A and more.

By the Numbers

16
Dedicated Origination Platforms
$354B+
Total Insurance AUM
450+
FIG and Insurance Professionals
3,900
Origination Platform Employees
$40B+
Equity Capital Raised
30+
Global Insurance Regulatory Relationships

 

As of December 31, 2023

           

Capabilities

Platform Investing

  • Investing in asset and liability origination platforms
  • Creative partnership platforms with banks and other financial partners
  • De-novo platform establishment 

Portfolio Management

  • Asset-liability matching
  • High-grade asset sourcing
  • Portfolio management for affiliated and third-party balance sheets
  • Separately managed accounts 

M&A Transactions

  • Reinsurance M&A solutions
  • Pension group annuities  
  • Flow transactions
  • Regulatory-driven banking solutions 

Capital Raising

  • Re/insurance investment vehicles and capital raising expertise
  • Investment solutions for pensions, sovereigns and other institutions
  • Product partnership and sub-advisory

Institutional support, extensive infrastructure and global insurance regulatory experience underpin all our Financial Services capabilities. 

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“The experience and scale we’ve built in Financial Services allows us to serve some of the world’s largest insurers, investors and financial institutions. The FIG team is a critical engine of ingenuity at Apollo.” 

Chris Edson
Partner, Co-Head of Global FIG

“We are proud to be a go-to solutions provider in the industry. We can move quickly and solve for some of the most complex corporate and investment needs.” 

Vishal Sheth
Partner, Co-Head of Global FIG

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Origination Strategy

Our Origination ecosystem spans 16 standalone platforms and thousands of professionals dedicated to high quality credit origination. In 2022, together with its platforms, Apollo originated approximately $100B of assets, with a focus on private investment grade credit well suited for long-term, principal-protected products.

Learn more about Apollo’s Origination Strategy and how it helps drive our business plans. 

History of Key Financial Services Milestones

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