Apollo adds 150 executives to global heritage business

Apollo Global Management Inc. is expanding its global wealth business, attracting new hires at a rapid pace as it pushes to win the wallets of people seeking investments outside stocks and bonds.

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(Bloomberg) — Apollo Global Management Inc. is expanding its global wealth business, attracting new hires at a rapid pace as it pushes to win the wallets of people seeking investments outside stocks and bonds.

The alternative asset management giant has added around 150 people since May to the global wealth business, including senior hires of executives from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc, according to Stephanie Drescher, whom Apollo nominated last year to oversee the business of global heritage.

“When we think about investors who are eligible for alternatives today, the landscape has changed quite dramatically,” said Drescher, director of product and customer development at Apollo, on Thursday at the Bloomberg Wealth Summit in New York. “Being able to provide institutional-quality opportunities to people through financial advisors is absolutely what we and others seek to do.”

New York-based Apollo said in October on investor day that 2022 should be his best year for fundraising, and Drescher called global wealth a “key bet” and a major contributor to new funds.

The firm has said it expects global assets to increase to 30% of the new capital raised in the coming years, up from 5% last year, and could be even more. Drescher said Thursday that Apollo is still on track to achieve those goals.

Part of the plan to expand the business will involve facilitating access to private credit, real estate and purchase funds through technology.

“It's a question of when, not whether, it can be as simple as clicking” to invest in Apollo funds, Drescher said.

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Apollo Adds 150 in Global Wealth, Poaching From Goldman and HSBC

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