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'You're an idiot': Apollo CEO Marc Rowan has a word for any lenders that can't meet 5% private credit fund redemptions

Cnbc · · 967 words · By Eric Rosenbaum
AI Disruption of Software Valuations Corporate Governance and Redemption Limits Private Credit Market Stability
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Apollo Global Management has seen its stock swoon this year as a result of fears in the private credit market.”
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The provided evidence mentions analysts raising price targets and general sentiment deterioration for financial stocks, but does not explicitly confirm that Apollo's stock 'swooned' specifically due to private credit market fears this year.
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web search NEUTRAL — Polymarket priced a 99.1% implied probability of an EPS beat heading into the report, the third consecutive quarter in which the prediction market resolved “Yes.” The Gap Between Wall Street and the S…
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/05/12/wall-streets-verd…
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web search NEUTRAL — Barclays raises Apollo Global Management target price to $131.Apollo Global price target raised to $155 from $126 at TD Cowen. 5 days ago. Save for later.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management Ord Shs (NYSE:APO) is one of the stocks everyone’s discussing. Joseph Terranova, Senior Managing Director, Virtus Investment Partners, said in a recent program on CNBC that se…
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/analyst-says-stocks-like-…
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“Apollo has faced scrutiny for its decision to limit quarterly redemptions in a private credit fund to 5%”
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Multiple independent sources (Benzinga, LinkedIn) confirm that Apollo limited redemptions in its flagship fund to 5% and that CEO Marc Rowan commented on this decision.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tenneco, Inc. (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenneco
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets. As of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sun Country Airlines is an ultra-low-cost airline in the United States. Based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport with headquarters on airport property, Sun Country flies to around 140 des…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Country_Airlines
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“5% is a generally accepted standard in the industry [for private credit fund redemptions].”
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Multiple sources describe the 5% quarterly repurchase/redemption limit as a 'standard' or typical window for these types of funds.
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web search NEUTRAL — Two funds — Blackstone Private Credit Fund and Oaktree Strategic Credit Fund — exceeded the standard 5% quarterly repurchase limit to satisfy 100% of investor requests.
https://www.rastanger.com/news/quarterly-redemptions-exceed-…
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web search NEUTRAL — These funds typically offer a redemption window of up to 5% of net asset value each quarter. If applications exceed this limit, the manager can legally initiate a restriction mechanism.
https://www.coinlive.com/news/how-will-the-wave-of-redemptio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Many of the funds provide quarterly redemption opportunities while investing in loans that may remain outstanding for several years. The structure functions efficiently during stable market conditions…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/private-credits-2-trillion-st…
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“Its private credit fund, which received redemption requests representing 11% of assets, has roughly 12% of loans in software, the single biggest sector in Apollo Debt Solutions BDC.”
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Multiple sources (The Wall Street Times, NewsLab) specifically state that Apollo Debt Solutions BDC received 11.2% redemption requests and that software is the largest sector at 12.3%.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Private equity in the 2000s represents one of the major growth periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private equity industry, two distinct sub-industries, le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_in_the_2000s
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets u…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlyle_Group
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“The redemption requests which Apollo did meet equaled $750 million.”
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The evidence mentions a $750 million SPAC and $750 million in redemptions for 'Level Global', but does not confirm that Apollo met $750 million in redemption requests for the specific fund in question.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment. Apollo may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Apollo is one of the Olympian deities. His numerous functions include healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the tw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
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“We are a trillion-dollar manager”
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The claim states they are a 'trillion-dollar manager', but the Wikipedia entry for Apollo Global Management explicitly states that as of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets. As of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sun Country Airlines is an ultra-low-cost airline in the United States. Based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport with headquarters on airport property, Sun Country flies to around 140 des…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Country_Airlines
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tenneco, Inc. (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenneco
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“With $750 billion in credit investments, and $16 billion in retail investor assets”
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While the company is confirmed as a large asset manager, the specific figures of $750 billion in credit investments and $16 billion in retail assets are not explicitly confirmed in the provided evidence snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets. As of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sun Country Airlines is an ultra-low-cost airline in the United States. Based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport with headquarters on airport property, Sun Country flies to around 140 des…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Country_Airlines
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tenneco, Inc. (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenneco
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“BlackRock drew a similar line in the sand at the stated 5% limit”
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Independent sources confirm that BlackRock's HPS private credit fund honored a 5% redemption limit and deferred withdrawals exceeding that amount.
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web search NEUTRAL — The tension surfaced recently when BlackRock’s HPS private credit fund received redemption requests equal to 9.3% of assets, exceeding its 5% quarterly redemption cap. BlackRock honoured the 5% limit …
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/madison-macro_something-is-cr…
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web search NEUTRAL — BlackRock’s industry competitors have witnessed similar investor trends. Earlier this week, New York-based private‑investments giant Blackstone reported that clients pulled $3.7 billion from its $82 b…
https://www.ntd.com/private-credit-pressures-mount-as-blackr…
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web search NEUTRAL — The asset management giant recently released its fourth-quarter financial results, which exceeded expectations. BlackRock's adjusted earnings per share hit $11.93, surpassing both Citi's estimate of $…
https://in.investing.com/news/analyst-ratings/barclays-maint…
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“Enterprise software stocks are down 60-70%.”
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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the claim about enterprise software stock declines.
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“Last year, Apollo originated $310 billion in new investments, 80% of which was investment-grade financing”
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No evidence was found in the search results regarding the $310 billion origination figure or the 80% investment-grade financing split.
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“the largest issuers including Intel, BP, Shell, Air France, AB InBev, AT&T and Meta.”
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“The private credit market overall is $40 trillion, with $2 trillion of that total in the levered direct lending”
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“In the levered lending private credit space below investment grade... It's 0.4%.”
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“Investment-grade debt issued by tech companies has already risen 'from nothing,' Rowan said, to 11% of the index”
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