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In our view, secondaries’ turnkey access to a diversified portfolio makes the asset class an increasingly important complement and potential core portfolio allocation.

From digital to power grid modernization, from transport to environmental services, infrastructure represents a projected $75+ trillion in investment over the next decade. Apollo Partners Harry Seekings and Vittorio Lacagnina have spent decades in infrastructure investing, and here they discuss what Seekings sees as a “generational” opportunity. They also discuss how Apollo approaches the asset class across the full capital structure and why the potential for stable cash flows, inflation protection and low correlation to public markets can make infrastructure a significant portfolio diversifier for both institutional and wealth investors.

The fixed income playbook is changing with the rate selloff. Portfolios built in a different rate environment may be carrying a rate bet they didn't know they had. Duration has stopped working. Apollo's Ben Trombley breaks down why rates are staying higher for longer — and what investors should do about it.

Private equity has outperformed public equity in 97 of 100 quarters on a rolling 10-year basis. Here are six key considerations for wealth investors evaluating a PE allocation today.

As 2026 enters its final stretch, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok joins The Allocation to discuss the latest shifts in the economy and markets. On the heels of the Fed’s September rate hike, he shares his views on why inflation remains so sticky and what a “higher-for-longer” rate environment could mean for consumers, businesses and investors. Torsten also examines the continuing AI investment boom and its impact on economic growth, jobs and financial markets. Looking ahead, he highlights the key themes helping to shape his outlook for 2027.

Learn how solar energy markets are changing as curtailment, battery storage, grid constraints and rising electricity demand reshape investment opportunities.

Record issuance from the AI buildout is creating a broader menu of opportunities for fixed income investors across public and private markets. In our latest conversation covering the convergence of public and private debt markets, Apollo Partners Brian Weinstein, who leads Fixed Income Replacement, and John Cortese, Co-Head of Corporate Credit and Head of Trading, discuss how this issuance is changing market structure, creating dispersion and expanding the range of risks and opportunities fixed income investors may need to evaluate.

After four decades of offshoring, a combination of pandemic-era supply shocks, rising geopolitical competition, and renewed policy focus is driving a concerted effort to rebuild America's industrial base.

Between now and 2030, roughly $5 trillion will be spent building the infrastructure for AI. To justify that investment, businesses and individuals will need to spend $2 trillion a year on AI services. Whether AI can earn back what's being spent on it is a defining question of this investment cycle, with impacts to be felt across debt and equity markets. Rob Bittencourt, who leads Apollo Thematic Investing, has spent his career tracking exactly these kinds of non-linear shifts. In this conversation, Rob breaks down the state of AI adoption and what enterprise ROI pressure means for the cycle and investor portfolios. He also discusses two other themes his team is tracking: US reindustrialization and why private capital may be better positioned than public markets to finance it, and the forces that are beginning to reshape finance itself.