- What does APO invest in?
- Apollo Global Management, Inc. operates as a prominent investment management firm, primarily concentrating its efforts across credit, private equity, and real estate asset classes. Within its private equity division, Apollo engages in a broad spectrum of transactions, ranging from traditional management buyouts, recapitalizations, and distressed acquisitions to corporate carve-outs, growth capital infusions, turnaround financing, bridge loans, strategic acquisitions, and industry consolidation initiatives. This also includes debt investments in real estate and corporate partnerships, along with investments in distressed assets and special situations within the middle market. Its client base is diverse, encompassing sovereign wealth and endowment funds, as well as various other institutional and private investors. The firm constructs and oversees bespoke portfolios for clients and actively manages a suite of investment vehicles, including hedge funds, real estate funds, and private equity funds. Globally, Apollo also deploys capital in fixed income and alternative investment markets. Its fixed income strategies span a wide array, featuring income-oriented senior secured loans, corporate bonds, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), structured credit products, opportunistic and non-performing loans, distressed debt, mezzanine financing, and other value-oriented fixed income instruments. Apollo seeks investment opportunities across numerous sectors, such as chemicals, energy (including oil, gas, natural resources), metals and mining, agriculture, consumer and retail, distribution and transportation, financial and business services, manufacturing and industrial, media (distribution, cable, entertainment), telecommunications, technology, packaging and materials, and satellite and wireless communications. Geographically, the firm targets investments in Africa, North America (with a strong emphasis on the United States), and Europe, while also making significant inroads into Western Europe and Asia. Its investment methodology combines contrarian insights with a rigorous focus on intrinsic value and distressed situations. Apollo typically commits equity capital ranging from $10 million to $1.5 billion per transaction, generally pursuing companies with an enterprise value between $750 million and $2.5 billion. Proprietary in-house research underpins its investment selection process. The firm is open to acquiring both minority and controlling stakes in its portfolio companies. Established in 1990 and headquartered in New York, New York, Apollo maintains additional offices across North America, Asia, and Europe to support its global operations.
- What is the expense ratio of APO?
- An expense ratio for Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) is not available from our data sources — neither our market-data feed nor the SEC's structured prospectus and annual-report datasets report one for this share class. The fund's prospectus on the issuer's site carries the authoritative fee.
- How big is APO?
- Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) manages $68.62B in total assets. AUM determines bid-ask liquidity and the fund's vulnerability to closure — funds below ~$50M are at higher risk of liquidation.
- Is APO actively managed or an index fund?
- APO's management style is described in the fund's prospectus. See the description on the Summary tab for the published strategy.
- When was APO launched?
- Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) launched in March 2011 and is managed by the fund issuer.
- How has APO performed?
- APO's total return — price change plus reinvested distributions — is charted at the top of this page. Switch the price chart to Total Return and pick a 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, or 10-year window to read the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over each horizon.
