Episodes

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Global Head of Content Strategy J.P. Vicente discuss the growing list of headwinds facing the economy, including tariffs, trade deal uncertainty, and geopolitical conflict. Torsten also explores potential implications for capital markets and much more.

Listen to Torsten Sløk, Apollo’s Chief Economist, and Jim Vanek, Partner and Co-Head Global Performing Credit, discuss why demand for private credit is expected to remain strong as the need for direct, larger, and more flexible financing is sticky and likely to be reinforced by economic uncertainty.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Robert Bittencourt, Partner and Co-Head of Opportunistic Credit at Apollo, discuss the impact of the Trump administration’s new trade regime on credit markets. In an environment of heightened uncertainty and ongoing trade negotiations, what should be the focus?

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk speak with Matt O’Mara, Apollo Partner and co-head of Apollo Aligned Alternatives, about how a combination of expensive public assets, recalcitrant inflation, and higher-for-longer interest rates could be creating new challenges for 60/40 portfolios and an attractive entry point to private markets.

Listen to Torsten Sløk, Apollo's Chief Economist and John Cortese, Partner and Global Head of trading at the Firm, explore a lesser-known area of private credit—Investment Grade Private Credit, or Private IG. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss what Private IG is, the key differences with public investment grade credit, secular drivers, its potential role in portfolios, and much more.

Listen to Torsten Sløk, Apollo’s Chief Economist and Alex Wright, Partner and Global Wealth Strategist at the firm, discuss the role of private markets in diversifying portfolios against a backdrop of significantly elevated public market valuations.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk discuss his 2025 Economic Outlook, with forecasts for GDP, inflation, and monetary policy. Plus: What are the implications for capital markets?

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Jim Vanek, Co-Head of Global Performing Credit at Apollo, discuss their views on what’s next for credit markets amid the Fed’s shift to easing monetary policy and the election of Donald Trump as the next US President.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Jess Lipsey, a Partner in the Real Assets Group at Apollo, discuss their views on what might come next for real estate in general and real estate equity in particular, in the wake of an aggressive rate cut by the US Federal Reserve.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk discuss his views on what the recent rate cut by the US Federal Reserve means for the future of US growth and inflation. Also: What impact will lower rates have on financial markets?

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Matt O’Mara, partner in Apollo’s Insurance Solutions Group, discuss how the structured nature of private market transactions can help align risk levels and returns, and how that dynamic is helping risk premia hold up in private markets.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok and Alex Wright, Global Wealth Strategist in Apollo’s Client and Product Solutions Group, discuss their views on where to find attractive risk premia at a time of elevated interest rates and lofty valuations. They also tackle a top-of-mind question: Is the private credit market growing too fast?

Listen to Apollo’s Global Head of Content Strategy for Client and Product Solutions J.P. Vicente and Chief Economist Torsten Sløk discuss the precarious outlook for the US economy as policymakers try to tame inflation without sending the economy into recession. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that includes the outlook for GDP growth, inflation, interest rates, and consumer spending.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk speak with Randy Anderson, a partner in the Real Assets Group at Apollo, about how surging interest rates have contributed to unprecedented conditions in the US real estate market, and how opportunities can be found as rates stay higher for longer.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok speak with Matt O’Mara, Partner in Apollo’s Insurance Solutions Group, about how alternative investments can help mitigate volatility at a time of high asset-class correlation, and how adding alternatives with a focus on factors such as cash-flow generation and valuation can make portfolios more resilient.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk speak with Jim Vanek, Co-Head of Global Performing Credit at Apollo, about what a “higher for longer” interest-rate environment can mean for investors in private credit. Their wide-ranging conversation assesses current market conditions, discusses how the private credit market is growing and evolving, and identifies areas where they see opportunities arising for investors in the months ahead.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and co-head of Sponsor and Secondary Solutions (S3) Steve Lessar discuss how private equity secondary markets can create opportunities for investors seeking diversification in an environment where rates are seen higher for longer and public equity valuations remain lofty. It’s a wide-ranging conversation, covering different types of secondaries, how to deploy them in portfolios, and much more.

Listen to J.P. Vicente, Apollo’s Global Head of Content Strategy for Client and Product Solutions and Alexander Wright, Partner and Global Wealth Strategist at the Firm, discuss the current state of the capital markets, including reading the Fed’s tea leaves, asset allocation in 2024, and the growing deployment of alternatives in wealth portfolios.

Listen to Apollo’s Global Head of Content Strategy for Client and Product Solutions J.P. Vicente and Chief Economist Torsten Sløk discuss the implications of the Fed’s surprising December 2023 “pivot” and its potential effects on the economy and capital markets in 2024. It’s a wide-ranging conversation, covering the outlook for rates, inflation, consumer spending, corporate profits, bank lending, and a whole lot more.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and Vice Chairman of Global Real Estate Philip Mintz discuss where they see opportunities amid a still-volatile macroeconomic environment. They cover a lot: credit, equity, and real estate relative valuations; real-estate investments in the sunbelt and other “non-gateway” cities; what portfolio allocations might look like in 2024, and much more.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok speak with Olivia Wassenaar, Head of Sustainability and Infrastructure at Apollo, about the outsized and unprecedented investment required for the clean transition. Olivia and Torsten acknowledge the scale and cost of the climate crisis while also voicing optimism about the power and potential of public and private capital in addressing these challenges.

Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk talk to Jim Vanek, Co-Head of Global Performing Credit, about what’s happening in the credit markets, potential opportunities in private credit, and what to watch out for. Jim and Torsten engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the economy, the credit markets, the importance of vintage, and delve into details around potential opportunities in private credit.

Listen to Chief Economist Torsten Sløk talk with Matt O’Mara, a Partner in Apollo’s Insurance Solutions Group, and Keith Black, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Massachusetts, about the concept of public equity replacement. Drawing from the work presented in their latest white paper, Matt and Keith argue how a portfolio of alternatives can keep the positive traits of public equity while mitigating its vulnerabilities. Learn how, why, and much more in this thought-provoking episode.

Listen to Chief Economist Torsten Sløk discuss his mid-year outlook for the economy, markets, and rates. In a broad-ranging conversation with Global Head of Content Strategy J.P. Vicente, Torsten argues that the economic outlook has worsened over the past six months, and the question now is whether we will see a soft landing or a hard one. Also, he provides his views on inflation, what’s next for the Fed, China’s outlook, and what it all can mean for investor portfolios.