Apollo’s Financial Institutions Group (FIG) sits at the intersection of Retirement Solutions and Asset Management, and was purpose-built to serve the retirement services ecosystem, including insurers, institutional investors, originators and others in financial services.
Apollo FIG has significant scale in both origination and capital raising capabilities, with a team that specializes in platform and asset sourcing, portfolio management, capital raising, M&A and more.
As of March 31, 2026
Platform Investing
Portfolio Management
M&A Transactions
Capital Raising
Institutional support, extensive infrastructure and global insurance regulatory experience underpin all our Financial Services capabilities.
Chris Edson
Partner, Co-Head of Global FIG
Vishal Sheth
Partner, Co-Head of Global FIG
Our Origination ecosystem spans 16 standalone platforms and thousands of professionals dedicated to high quality credit origination. In 2025, together with its platforms, Apollo originated approximately $309B of assets, with a focus on private investment grade credit well suited for long-term, principal-protected products.
Learn more about Apollo’s Origination Strategy and how it helps drive our business plans.
Athene was founded with aspirations to become a leading retirement services company.
MidCap Financial was acquired by an entity managed by Apollo as the firm’s first middle market origination platform.
Apollo affiliates made a strategic investment in Catalina Holdings to expand capabilities in the non-life insurance legacy sector.
AmeriHome was founded in 2013 by AmeriHome management, Apollo Funds and subsidiaries of Athene.
Redding Ridge was stood up as an independently-managed affiliate of Apollo in 2016 specializing in structured credit and CLO management.
Athora was established when AGER Bermuda Holdings Ltd. was deconsolidated from Athene.
In 2018, Venerable was stood up by an investor group led by Apollo following the acquisition of Voya Financial’s Closed Block Variable Annuity business.
In 2020, Athene made a strategic equity investment in Jackson National Life Insurance Company as part of a fixed annuity block reinsurance transaction.
In 2021, Apollo and Athene acquired a minority interest in Challenger to expand into Australia’s retirement services market.
In 2022, Apollo completed its merger with Athene, bringing the two strategic partners together in full alignment as one publicly-traded parent company under the Apollo name.
In 2022, LeasePlan USA and Wheels Donlen combined to create a unified fleet management business, with Athene serving as the lead investor in the transaction and being the majority shareholder of the new company.
Apollo launched ATLAS SP Partners as a high-growth specialty finance franchise in 2023 following Apollo affiliates’ purchase of a significant portion of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group.
