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Brightspeed: Broadband Across the Land
In 2021, Apollo Private Equity Funds agreed to acquire Lumen Technologies’ ILEC assets and associated operations to create Brightspeed Internet. Learn more about Brightspeed’s strategy to help bridge the digital divide.
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In conversation with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., CEO Marc Rowan discusses why, amid a growing retirement crisis, investors need to re-evaluate their understanding of private markets. Much like public markets, investments in the private markets can be either safe or risky; the main difference between public and private is liquidity, not risk.
Private-equity secondaries have developed into a core alternatives allocation for many investors. Led by the expanding opportunity in GP-led secondaries and heightened liquidity needs, we believe the secondaries market for PE will double or triple in size in the next five years.
At a recent event with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Apollo CEO Marc Rowan discussed why we believe private credit, and the depth and diversity of its funding sources, promotes resiliency in the US financial system.