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Kleinman: AI CapEx represents at least 2% of GDP growth
“That's representing at least a couple percent of GDP growth right now. That's driving massive investment in infrastructure and chip manufacturing and energy and all of these things.”
Kleinman: Mutual Funds and ETFs Will Blend Private Assets into Products
“Traditional asset managers, i.e. Mutual funds, ETFs, they're gonna start injecting some amount of private assets blended into their products.”
Kleinman: Apollo was first to house private credit and PE together
“We were the first folks to come out of the GFC saying, well, we should have private credit business and a private equity business under the same roof.”
Kleinman: Asset-backed lending yields 200 bps premium over corporate credit
“It's a different business, and you're getting paid a premium for that type of specialization to the tune of a couple hundred basis points over the single A, double A, triple B corporate cost of capital that company is.”
Kleinman: Private equity faces fourth or fifth year of depressed realizations
“We're going on to year four, year five of meaningfully depressed realizations for the market in general.”
Kleinman: 401(k) Market Is $13 Trillion with Essentially Zero Private Assets
“And for one K is going to open up to private assets. That's a 13 trillion dollar market that has essentially zero private assets in it.”
Kleinman: Private equity grew from under 0.5% of GDP in 1994 to 10–14% today
“Private equity probably represented less than a half a percent of GDP versus the 10, 12, 14% that it is today.”
Kleinman: Apollo Bought Compass Minerals Under 6x EBITDA, Made 5x Return
“We bought it at under six times enterprise value to EBITDA, but because of the nature of that business, much of its business went into highway salt. You were able to scale the business. It was a surprisingly more stable business than you would have thought, an…”