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Marc Rowan predicts disastrous returns for private equity enterprise software deals
“I personally expect the returns from private equity in the ground to be disastrous. Because so much of exposure is to enterprise software, and this does not mean that enterprise software companies are going out of business. Far from it. It means that the prosp…”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 33:47 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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Marc Rowan predicts blue-collar ascendancy and white-collar decline from AI
“What I've said previously is I think we're going to see a little bit of blue collar ascendancy and white collar decline.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 36:36 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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Rowan: Vast majority of UPenn donors reduced annual donations to $1
“Vast majority of donors decided to give the university a dollar per year versus whatever their donation was.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 41:35 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rowan: Apollo assumes AI will replace or enhance every job
“We operate under the assumption that every job is going to be replaced or enhanced.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 30:04 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rowan: Five banks and five tech firms will dominate fixed income
“And so the same thing, by the way, is happening in the global fixed income market dominated historically by 10 large banks. It's about to be dominated by five large banks and five large tech companies. As much concentration as exists in the equity market, That…”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 11:03 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Held up
Rowan: Apollo investment grade private products will offer daily pricing by June
“And so, we're starting with our investment grade private suite of products, and we will be daily estimated value by June 30.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 17:55 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2026
Rowan: Apollo will expand daily valuations across entire credit business by September
“This is about creating an ecosystem, and by the end of September, this will be across the entirety of our credit business.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 18:18 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Open · timeframe May 2027
Marc Rowan predicts credit spreads will widen from AI concentration
“I think spreads are gonna widen.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 26:57 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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Rowan: Credit makes up 80% of Apollo's assets, private equity only 10%
“80% of the assets under management are credit, and the vast majority of that is investment grade. And the other two hundred billion, or 20% of it, half of it is what we call hybrid equity, partner-like equity, and half of it is traditional private equity in a …”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 9:21 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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Rowan: Tech and industrial giants dominate private investment grade issuance
“But if you think of the largest issuers of private investment grade, it's Intel, it's Air France, it's EDF, it's AT&T, it's Meta, it's BP Energy, and so on, and you're hearing lots of public companies.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 20:12 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Rowan: 30% of private equity capital went to enterprise software last decade
“30% of the private equity industry over the past decade has been devoted to enterprise software.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 33:41 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Rowan: Top 10 stocks account for nearly 50% of S&P 500
“10 stocks right now in the US are nearly 50% of the S&P, and they're all levered to the same trend.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 10:44 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rowan: Industrial companies will stay private longer
“We, we're gonna see the same thing happen with industrial companies. Lots of industrial companies are just gonna decide to stay private longer for all the reasons we know.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 11:56 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Held up
Rowan: Apollo is committed to establishing a second headquarters
“But we are committed to a second headquarters. We want access to a second talent pool.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 28:39 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Marc Rowan predicts a surge in tech growth and finance partnerships
“The number of partnerships I believe that are going to Sprout up, whether it is the open AI ecosystem that they're building to be able to democratize their LLM, or is the anthropic ecosystem that is being built to democratize their way of doing things. I think…”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 32:15 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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Rowan: Apollo Global Management manages over $1 trillion in assets
“The firm today is a little bit over a trillion dollars in assets under management, which is just a measure.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 9:09 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
a16z Assertion Open · timeframe May 2029
Marc Rowan: Hybrid capital is Apollo's fastest-growing business
“We call that hybrid for us. That's our fastest growing business.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 24:13 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
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