Market Insight
April 01, 2026
Preparing for All-Weather Scenarios
Private credit is a $40 trillion market spanning corporate and asset backed credit, and one that’s largely investment grade. Recently though, market volatility and the potential for increased AI-disruption has led to a lot of questions specifically around the sub-investment grade direct lending market. Recently, Alex Wright, Partner, and Global Wealth Strategist, sat down with Jim Zelter, Apollo’s firm President and a credit market veteran for over 40 years.
Credit markets are entering a period of transition. At Apollo’s 2026 Credit Annual Meeting, partners across the firm discussed the technological disruption, refinancing pressure from higher rates and geopolitical uncertainty that are beginning to drive greater dispersion across sectors, borrowers and capital structures.
Apollo Multi-Asset Prime Securities, or AMAPS, is a structured credit product enabling access to more diversified and higher-credit-quality assets that are risk-managed every day.
Sony is reshaping its business around long-duration content and global distribution. In conversation with Bloomberg’s David Westin, CEO Hiroki Totoki explains how private capital and partners like Apollo Global Management support large-scale transformation with flexible, duration-matched financing.