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November 18, 2025
Akila Grewal Discusses the Enduring Growth of Private Credit and More on Bloomberg Open Interest
This interview originally aired on Bloomberg TV on November 12, 2025.
On Bloomberg Open Interest, Akila Grewal, Partner and Global Head of Product at Apollo, discusses private credit as an enduring, expanding asset class and Apollo’s focus on long-duration strategies and the growing Sports Capital ecosystem.
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In a Bloomberg Open Interest interview, Akila Grewal, Partner and Global Head of Product at Apollo, discusses private credit as an enduring and growing asset category. She discusses Apollo’s focus on long-duration investment strategies, the increasing role of private investment-grade credit and the broad opportunity set offered through the Apollo Sports Capital platform.
Our view is that it's going to continue to grow. Our view is that private credit is an enduring asset category, and we've expanded the definition of what that means.
We focus not just on kind of direct lending — of course, we have a big franchise that does that — but I think our leg up has really been the fact that we have an insurance balance sheet that has allowed us to originate private assets and private credit across the risk-return spectrum, right?
Everything from investment grade lower returning through to higher returning opportunities for third-party investors, and having a broad aperture in terms of what private credit really means, I think is something that we will continue to see going forward.
“…it's going to continue to grow. Our view is that private credit is an enduring asset category…”
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