Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) Business

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Overview

Founded in 1990, Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager and a retirement services provider. Apollo conducts its business primarily in the U.S. through the following three reportable segments: Asset Management, Retirement Services and Principal Investing. These business segments are differentiated based on the investment services they provide as well as varying investing strategies.

Our Businesses

Asset Management

Our Asset Management segment focuses on credit and equity investing strategies. These strategies reflect the range of investment capabilities across our platform based on relative risk and return. As an asset manager, we earn fees for providing investment management services and expertise to our client base. The amount of fees charged for managing these assets depends on the underlying investment strategy, liquidity profile, and, ultimately, our ability to generate returns for our clients. We also earn capital solutions fees as part of our growing capital solutions business and as part of monitoring and deployment activity alongside our sizable private equity franchise. After expenses, we call the resulting earning stream “Fee Related Earnings” or “FRE”, which represents the primary performance measure for the Asset Management segment. As of December 31, 2025, we had total AUM of $938.4 billion.

Our Asset Management segment had a team of approximately 4,130 employees, including 600 employees of Bridge as of December 31, 2025, with offices throughout the world. This team possesses a broad range of transaction, financial, managerial and investment skills. We operate our asset management business in a highly integrated manner, which we believe distinguishes us from other alternative asset managers. Our investment teams frequently collaborate across disciplines and we believe that this collaboration enables our clients to more successfully invest across a company’s capital structure. Our objective is to achieve superior long-term risk-adjusted returns for our clients. The majority of the investment funds we manage are designed to invest capital over a period of several years from inception, thereby allowing us to seek to generate attractive long-term returns throughout economic cycles. We have a contrarian, value-oriented investment approach, emphasizing downside protection, and the preservation of capital. We believe our contrarian investment approach is reflected in a number of ways, including:

•our willingness to pursue investments in industries that our competitors typically avoid;

•the often complex structures employed in some of the investments of our funds;

•our experience investing during periods of uncertainty or distress in the economy or financial markets; and

•our willingness to undertake transactions that have substantial business, regulatory or legal complexity.

We have applied this investment philosophy to identify what we believe are attractive investment opportunities, deploy capital across the balance sheet of industry leading, or “franchise,” businesses and create value throughout economic cycles.

Credit

Credit is our largest asset management strategy with $749.2 billion of AUM as of December 31, 2025. Our credit strategy spans third-party strategies and Apollo’s retirement services business across four main investment pillars: direct origination, asset-backed finance, opportunistic credit and multi-credit. Our credit strategy focuses on generating excess returns through high-quality credit underwriting and origination. Beyond participation in the traditional issuance and secondary credit markets, through our origination platforms and corporate solutions capabilities we seek to originate attractive and safe-yielding assets for the investors in the funds we manage. The investment portfolios of the credit-oriented funds Apollo manages include several asset classes as described below as of December 31, 2025:

•Direct Origination ($302.1 billion of AUM), includes large corporate direct origination, middle-market direct lending, and investment grade and performing credit mandates across managed accounts and CLOs. Apollo’s direct origination platform is built to offer companies a variety of financing solutions across investment grade and below investment grade, and public and private markets. The strategy is focused on first lien senior secured investments and is diversified across fixed and floating rate issuance, issuer type and sector;

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•Asset-Backed Finance ($282.7 billion of AUM), includes instruments that are supported first by the contractual cash flows of a pool of assets, and second by the liquidation value of those assets. Asset-backed finance encompasses diverse credit types, such as mortgages, consumer credit, receivables, aircraft lending, and inventory finance, in both whole loan and bond format across the capital structure;

•Opportunistic Credit ($50.0 billion of AUM), seeks to optimize both near- and longer-term relative value across market cycles by capitalizing on investment opportunities across the credit spectrum, spanning private and public markets as well as corporate and asset-backed credit. Using a flexible approach, the objective of the opportunistic credit strategy is to identify market inefficiencies and unique opportunities to generate excess returns; and

•Multi-Credit ($40.9 billion of AUM), targets investment grade and high yield performing credit, including income-oriented, senior loan and bond corporate credit, as well as asset-backed finance investments. The multi-credit strategy allocates capital across both public and private markets, seeking to generate enhanced yield and attractive risk-adjusted returns while prioritizing downside protection.

Equity

Our equity strategy represents $189.2 billion of AUM as of December 31, 2025. Across our equity strategy, we focus on creative structuring and sourcing while working with the management teams of the portfolio companies of Apollo managed funds to help transform and grow their businesses. Our flexible mandate and purchase price discipline allow us to embrace complexity and seek attractive outcomes for our stakeholders. Our equity team has experience across sectors, industries, and geographies spanning its private equity, hybrid value, secondaries equity, AAA, real estate equity, infrastructure and clean transition equity strategies. We have consistently produced attractive long-term investment returns in the traditional private equity funds we manage, generating a 39% gross IRR and a 24% net IRR on a compound annual basis from inception through December 31, 2025. Our equity strategy focuses on several investing strategies as described below as of December 31, 2025:

•Corporate Private Equity ($78.8 billion of AUM), which refers to our investment strategy focused on creating investment opportunities with attractive risk-adjusted returns across industries and geographies and throughout market cycles, utilizing our value-oriented investment approach. Through this strategy, we seek to build portfolios of investments that are created at meaningful discounts to comparable market multiples, thereby resulting in what we believe are portfolios focused on capital preservation. The transactions in this strategy include opportunistic buyouts, corporate carveouts and deleveraging investments. Corporate Private Equity also includes our secondaries equity strategy (“Secondaries”), which offers a comprehensive set of secondary and liquidity solutions;

•Hybrid Value ($17.7 billion of AUM), which refers to our strategy that focuses on investments that share features with both private credit and traditional private equity investments. Hybrid Value offers creative, partnership-driven solutions to counterparties seeking to fund growth initiatives, acquisitions, liquidity events for shareholders and balance sheet deleveraging. By employing a comprehensive and flexible investment approach, the hybrid value strategy aims to generate equity-like returns with credit-like downside protection across market cycles;

•AAA ($25.6 billion of AUM), which offers investors access to Apollo’s flagship private market strategy in a perpetual capital, semi-liquid structure. The strategy seeks to deliver consistent, equity-like returns with lower risk and more downside protection than both public equity and traditional private equity buyout strategies. AAA’s portfolio encompasses several investment strategies, such as core private equity, structured equity, traditional private equity, private credit, secondaries, and real assets;

•Real Estate Equity ($47.9 billion of AUM), which refers to our real estate income strategies encompassing core plus and net lease investments in the non-traded REIT and public and private real estate funds we manage, as well as our value add and opportunistic investments strategies that target investments in real estate assets, portfolios and platforms in regionally focused private funds in both the U.S. and Asia. In September 2025, we completed the acquisition of Bridge, a real estate fund manager with a core focus on residential and industrial properties in the U.S., further expanding our real estate equity product offerings. Our real estate strategy is supported by our vertically integrated approach to asset management, which provides a full suite of services spanning investment management and transaction advisory services, as well as property management, leasing, development and construction management functions and is led by specialized and experienced real estate professionals who bring deep sector knowledge across economic cycles; and

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•Infrastructure and Clean Transition Equity ($21.6 billion of AUM), which refers to the investment strategy of certain funds managed by Apollo that focus on investing in a broad range of infrastructure assets, including digital infrastructure, energy transition, transportation/logistics and sustainable living, as well as our clean transition equity strategy, our dedicated energy transition and decarbonization-focused private equity strategy. This investing strategy also includes the legacy natural resources-focused private equity funds we manage.

Perpetual Capital

Included within our investing strategies above is $535.6 billion of perpetual capital, out of the $938.4 billion of AUM as of December 31, 2025. Perpetual capital includes, without limitation, certain assets in our credit strategy, including assets relating to publicly traded and non-traded vehicles, certain origination platform assets and assets managed for certain of our retirement services clients. Perpetual capital assets may be withdrawn under certain circumstances and utilize a range of investment strategies, including those described previously.

Athene

Apollo’s asset management business, through its consolidated subsidiary, ISG, provides a full suite of services for Athene’s investment portfolio, including direct investment management, asset allocation, mergers and acquisitions asset diligence, and certain operational support services, including investment compliance, tax, legal and risk management support. See “Item 1. Business—Our Businesses—Retirement Services” for further details regarding Athene’s retirement services business. As of December 31, 2025, Apollo managed or advised $392.2 billion of AUM, of which $386.5 billion was Fee-Generating AUM, in accounts owned by or related to Athene (“Athene Accounts”).

Athora

Apollo’s asset management business, through its consolidated subsidiary, ISGI, provides investment advisory services to certain portfolio companies of Apollo funds and Athora, a strategic liabilities platform that acquires or reinsures blocks of insurance business in the German and broader European life insurance market (collectively, the “Athora Accounts”). As of December 31, 2025, Apollo, through its subsidiaries, managed or advised $57.2 billion of AUM and $55.2 billion of Fee-Generating AUM in Athora Accounts. See note 18 to our consolidated financial statements for details regarding the fee arrangements between the Company and Athora.

Athora Non-Sub-Advised Assets

This category includes the Athora assets that Apollo manages but are not sub-advised by Apollo nor invested in Apollo funds or investment vehicles. We refer to these assets collectively as “Athora Non-Sub-Advised Assets.” Our AUM within the Athora Non-Sub-Advised category totaled $34.7 billion as of December 31, 2025, of which $32.3 billion was Fee-Generating AUM.

Origination

Apollo’s integrated approach to origination is designed to provide scaled, long-term capital across market cycles. Our origination capabilities span asset classes, geographies, and multiple levels of the capital structure enabling us to structure solutions to our clients, including the funds we manage, Athene and third parties.

We originate assets through multiple channels including core credit, origination platforms, high grade capital solutions, and hybrid and equity strategies. For the year ended December 31, 2025, origination volumes were $309 billion, of which core credit and origination platforms represented approximately 45% and 40%, respectively, of total origination volumes.

Core credit origination at Apollo primarily consists of directly originated, predominantly investment-grade assets, including corporate lending and asset-backed finance. We also generate assets through a diversified ecosystem of 16 origination platforms across corporate credit, asset-backed finance, real estate, infrastructure and other private market asset classes. Our origination activities are primarily focused on investment-grade and high-quality credit exposures, with transactions evaluated and structured using Apollo’s disciplined underwriting and risk management frameworks.

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Origination supports our asset management and retirement services businesses primarily by facilitating capital deployment and portfolio construction. In our asset management business, origination enhances our ability to source assets in line with targeted returns. In our retirement services business, origination supports the creation of assets aligned with the long-duration liabilities. These integrated capabilities allow Apollo to provide flexible, bespoke capital solutions to support evolving financing needs across a range of capital formation clients.

Capital Solutions

Our capital solutions business focuses on (i) sourcing investment opportunities for asset management clients and their respective portfolio investments, (ii) maintaining relationships with the capital markets community in an effort to help clients and their respective portfolio investments to raise debt and equity capital, provide secondary market support and optimize capital structures through creative financing solutions, and (iii) structuring capital solutions in an effort to enhance our ability to syndicate, place, trade or otherwise transfer loans, securities and other financial instruments arising from financings in an effort to drive positive outcomes for our asset management clients and their respective portfolio investments. Our capital solutions business also provides a variety of services with respect to both security and non-security financial instruments, including loans, such as originating, arranging, structuring, syndicating and trading loans and private debt, as well as providing corporate finance advisory services and other similar services.

Capital Formation

Capital formation serves as the foundation to our asset management and retirement services businesses and origination activities. Within our asset management business, over the last 35 years, our capital formation has historically been focused on serving institutional investors through their respective alternatives portfolio allocation. Over time, our capabilities have expanded to address new sources of demand through discrete pools of capital, each encapsulating specific investment objectives, liquidity and other considerations. Capital formation aligns origination and structuring capabilities to support credit and equity investment opportunities for a diverse range of buyers.

We view the capital formation opportunity across the following discrete buyer pools:

•Institutional investors (alternative allocation)

In addition, we are increasingly focused on expanding to:

•    Institutional investors (fixed income and equity replacement)

•    Individuals

•    Insurance (Athene and third-party clients)

•    Traditional asset managers

•    Defined contribution / 401(k)

Across these pools of capital, we raise, allocate and manage capital across a range of structures, including closed-end funds, open-ended and evergreen vehicles, perpetual capital vehicles, publicly listed entities, insurance and retirement solutions and separately managed accounts. Capital deployment requirements may vary by vehicle structure. For closed-end funds we manage, investors generally provide capital through capital calls once investment opportunities are identified. Open-ended and evergreen vehicles we manage typically accept subscriptions and process redemptions in accordance with their respective governing documents. Perpetual capital vehicles, which represent nearly 60% of total AUM and over 70% of total fee-generating AUM, are highly scalable with the ability to deploy capital on an ongoing basis.

We source capital from a diverse base that includes public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, private wealth platforms, family offices, high net worth individuals, other institutional investors, as well as public market investors through certain perpetual capital vehicles. A significant portion of capital raised across our closed-ended strategies has historically come from existing investors.

We maintain a centralized and rigorous investment governance framework that applies across our capital base. This framework includes processes for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, structuring and negotiating transactions, monitoring portfolio positions and managing investment exits. We have established allocation policies and governance mechanisms designed to allocate investment opportunities among funds, vehicles and managed accounts in a

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manner consistent with applicable governing documents and investment objectives. Investment committees for the relevant funds, vehicles or accounts we manage review and approve investment decisions.

Our investment professionals are responsible for the end-to-end investment process and, where applicable, may commit capital alongside investors. We seek to align our economic interests with those of investors through investment terms, co-investment and governance arrangements. The design and management of each pool of capital reflects its investor base, regulatory constraints, liquidity profile and the investment strategy.

Within our retirement services business, capital formation is driven by the origination of long-duration, regulated capital aligned with liability profiles, liquidity characteristics and regulatory capital requirements. Athene generates recurring premium inflows through the issuance of retirement and savings products designed to reflect their long-term nature, regulatory requirements and targeted risk and return objectives. These activities are supported by Apollo’s origination, structuring and investment capabilities.

To support growth, flexibility and capital deployment at scale, Athene supplements its capital with dedicated, long-duration third-party capital through ACRA. Capital deployment across Athene’s balance sheet and third-party capital vehicles is subject to Athene’s internal capital models, regulatory requirements and transaction approval processes, and is governed under a centralized framework intended to align policyholder interests and third-party investor capital with Athene and Apollo’s investment discipline.

General Partner and Professionals Investments and Co-Investments

General Partner Investments

Certain management companies, general partners and co-invest vehicles are committed to contribute to the funds we manage and their affiliates. As a limited partner, general partner and manager of the Apollo funds, Apollo had unfunded capital commitments as of December 31, 2025 of $553 million.

Professionals Investments

To further align our interests with those of investors in the funds we manage, certain of our professionals have invested their own capital in the funds. Our professionals will either re-invest their performance fees to fund these investments or use cash on hand or funds borrowed from third parties. We generally have not historically charged management fees or performance fees on capital invested by our professionals directly in the funds.

Co-Investments

Investors in many of the funds we manage, as well as certain other investors, may have the opportunity to make co-investments with the funds. Co-investments are investments in portfolio companies or other fund assets generally on the same terms and conditions as those to which the applicable fund is subject.

Retirement Services

Our retirement services business is conducted by Athene, a leading financial services company that specializes in issuing, reinsuring and acquiring retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. Athene is led by a highly skilled management team with extensive industry experience and has its corporate headquarters located in West Des Moines, Iowa. Our asset management business provides a full suite of services for Athene’s investment portfolio, including direct investment management, asset allocation, mergers and acquisitions asset diligence, and certain operational support services including investment compliance, tax, legal and risk management support. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 2,010 employees supported our Retirement Services segment.

Our retirement services business focuses on generating spread income by combining the two core competencies of (1) sourcing long-term, persistent liabilities and (2) using the global scale and reach of our asset management business to actively source or originate assets with Athene’s preferred risk and return characteristics. Athene’s investment philosophy is to invest a portion of its assets in securities that earn an incremental yield by taking measured liquidity and complexity risk and capitalize on its long-dated, persistent liability profile to prudently achieve higher net investment earned rates, rather than assuming incremental credit risk. A cornerstone of Athene’s investment philosophy is that given the operating leverage inherent in its business,

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modest investment outperformance can translate to outsized return performance. Because Athene maintains discipline in underwriting attractively priced liabilities, it has the ability to invest in a broad range of high-quality assets to generate attractive earnings.

Our asset management expertise supports the sourcing and underwriting of assets for Athene’s portfolio. Athene is invested in a diverse array of primarily high-grade fixed income assets including corporate bonds, structured securities, and commercial and residential real estate loans, among others. Athene establishes risk thresholds which in turn define risk tolerance across a wide range of factors, including credit risk, liquidity risk, concentration risk and caps on specific asset classes. In addition to other efforts, Athene manages the risk of rising interest rates by strategically allocating a meaningful portion of its investment portfolio into floating rate securities. Athene manages its interest rate risk in a declining rate environment through hedging activity or the issuance of additional floating rate liabilities to lower its overall net floating rate position. Athene also maintains holdings in less interest rate-sensitive investments, including CLOs, non-agency RMBS and various types of structured products, consistent with its strategy of pursuing incremental yield by assuming liquidity and complexity risk, rather than assuming incremental credit risk.

Rather than increase its allocation to higher risk securities to increase yield, Athene pursues the direct origination of high-quality, predominantly senior secured assets, which it believes possess greater alpha-generating qualities than securities that would otherwise be readily available in public markets. These direct origination strategies include investments sourced by (1) affiliated platforms that originate loans to third parties and in which Athene gains exposure directly to the loan or indirectly through its ownership of the origination platform and/or securitizations of assets originated by the origination platform, and (2) our asset management team’s extensive network of direct relationships with predominantly investment-grade counterparties.

Athene uses, and may continue to use, derivatives, including swaps, options, futures and forward contracts, and reinsurance contracts, to hedge risks such as current or future changes in the fair value of assets and liabilities, current or future changes in cash flows and changes in interest rates, equity markets, currency fluctuations and longevity.

Products

Athene principally offers two product lines: annuities and funding agreements.

Annuities

Athene’s primary product line is annuities, which include fixed rate, indexed, payout and group annuities issued in connection with pension group annuity transactions and defined contribution plans.

Fixed Rate Annuities. Fixed rate annuities include annual reset annuities and multi-year guarantee annuities (“MYGA”). Fixed rate annuities earn interest at a set rate (or declared crediting rate), rather than at a rate that may vary based on an index. Fixed rate annual reset annuities have a crediting rate that is typically guaranteed for one year. After such period, Athene has the ability to change the crediting rate at its discretion, generally once annually, to any rate at or above a guaranteed minimum rate. MYGAs are similar to annual reset annuities except that the initial crediting rate is guaranteed for a specified number of years, rather than just one year, before it may be changed at Athene’s discretion. After the initial crediting period, MYGAs can generally be reset annually.

Fixed Indexed Annuities. FIAs are the largest percentage of Athene’s net reserve liabilities. FIAs are a type of insurance contract in which the policyholder makes one or more premium deposits that earn interest, on a tax deferred basis, at a crediting rate based on a specified market index, subject to a contractually specified cap, spread or participation rate. FIAs allow policyholders the possibility of earning interest without significant risk to principal, unless the contract is surrendered during a surrender charge period. A market index tracks the performance of a specific group of stocks or other assets representing a particular segment of the market, or in some cases, an entire market. Athene generally buys options on the indices to which the FIAs are tied to hedge the associated market risk. The cost of the option is priced into the overall economics of the product as an option budget.

Registered Index-Linked Annuities (“RILAs”). RILAs are similar to FIAs in offering the policyholder the opportunity for tax-deferred growth based in part on the performance of a market index. Compared to an FIA, RILAs have the potential for higher returns but also have the potential for risk of loss to principal and related earnings. RILAs provide the ability for the policyholder to participate in the positive performance of certain market indices during a term, limited by a contractually specified cap or adjusted for a contractually specified participation rate. Negative performance of the market indices during a

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term can result in negative policyholder returns, with contractually specified downside protection typically provided in the form of either a “buffer” or a “floor” to limit the policyholder’s exposure to market loss. A “buffer” is protection from negative exposure up to a certain percentage, such as 10 or 20 percent. A “floor” is protection from negative exposure less than a stated percentage (i.e., the policyholder risks exposure of loss up to the “floor,” but is protected against any loss in excess of this amount).

Payout Annuities. Payout annuities primarily consist of single premium immediate annuities (“SPIA”), supplemental contracts and structured settlements. Payout annuities provide a series of periodic payments for a fixed period of time or for the life of the policyholder, based upon the policyholder’s election at the time of issuance. The amounts, frequency and length of time of the payments are fixed at the outset of the annuity contract. SPIAs are often purchased by persons at or near retirement age who desire a steady stream of payments over a future period of years. Supplemental contracts are typically created upon the conversion of a death claim or the annuitization of a deferred annuity. Structured settlements generally relate to legal settlements.

Athene generates income on fixed rate, indexed and payout annuity products by earning an investment spread, based on the difference between (1) income earned on the investments supporting the liabilities and (2) the cost of funds, including fixed interest credited to customers, option costs on indexed products, the cost of providing guarantees (net of rider fees) and policy issuance, maintenance and distribution costs.

Private Placement Variable Annuities (“PPVA”). PPVAs are not registered with the SEC and currently are only offered by private placement to purchasers meeting the requirements as a qualified purchaser and/or an accredited investor under applicable federal securities laws. Variable annuities allow policyholders to participate directly in the investment experience of the underlying investment vehicles offered through the product. In a variable annuity, the policyholder assumes the full investment risk of the investment options chosen. The product allows the policyholder to allocate their money to a variety of variable separate account divisions that invest in a suite of underlying investment options and the potential to accumulate cash value on a tax-deferred basis. Athene’s PPVA products provide access to a suite of Apollo managed funds and other product offerings with no surrender charges and no GLWB or GMDB features. Athene generates income on its PPVA products by collecting a fee that is a function of the policyholder’s account value.

Income Riders to Fixed Annuity Products. The income riders on Athene’s deferred annuities can be broadly categorized as either guaranteed or participating. Guaranteed income riders provide policyholders with a guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit, which permits policyholders to elect to receive guaranteed payments for life from their contract without having to annuitize their policies. Participating income riders tend to have lower levels of guaranteed income than guaranteed income riders but provide policyholders the opportunity to receive greater levels of income if the policies’ indexed crediting strategies perform well. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 24% of Athene’s deferred annuity account value contained rider benefits.

Withdrawal Options for Deferred Annuities. After the first year following the issuance of a deferred annuity, the policyholder is typically permitted to make withdrawals up to 5% or 10% (depending on the contract) of the prior year’s value without a surrender charge or market value adjustment (“MVA”), subject to certain limitations. Withdrawals in excess of the allowable amounts are assessed a surrender charge and MVA if such withdrawals are made during the surrender charge period of the policy, which generally ranges from 3 to 20 years. The surrender charge for most Athene products at contract inception is generally between 7% and 15% of the contract value and typically decreases by approximately half a percentage point to one percentage point per year during the surrender charge period. The weighted average base surrender charge (excluding the impact of MVAs) was 6% for Athene’s deferred annuities as of December 31, 2025.

At maturity, the policyholder may elect to receive proceeds in the form of a single payment or an annuity. If the annuity option is selected, the policyholder will receive a series of payments over the policyholder’s lifetime or over a fixed number of years, depending upon the terms of the contract. Some contracts permit annuitization prior to maturity.

Group Annuities. Group annuities issued in connection with pension group annuity transactions usually involve a single premium group annuity contract issued to discharge certain pension plan liabilities. The group annuities that Athene issues are nonparticipating contracts. The assets supporting the guaranteed benefits for each contract may be held in a separate account. Group annuity benefits may be purchased for current, retired and/or terminated employees and their beneficiaries covered under terminating or continuing pension plans. Both immediate and deferred annuity certificates may be issued pursuant to a single group annuity contract. Immediate annuity certificates cover those retirees and beneficiaries currently receiving payments, whereas deferred annuity certificates cover those participants who have not yet begun receiving benefit payments. Immediate

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annuity certificates have no cash surrender rights, whereas deferred annuity certificates may include an election to receive a lump sum payment, exercisable by the participant upon either the participant achieving a specified age or the occurrence of a specified event, such as termination of the participant’s employment.

Athene earns income on group annuities based upon the spread between the return on the assets received in connection with the pension group annuity transaction and the cost of the pension obligations assumed. Group annuities expose Athene to longevity risk, which would be realized if plan participants live longer than assumed in underwriting the transaction, resulting in aggregate payments that exceed Athene’s expectations. However, Athene’s conservative underwriting process makes use of a wealth of reliable pre- and post-selection participant data, including mortality experience data, particularly for mid- to large-sized transactions, to mitigate this risk.

To better position Athene to expand distribution of annuities to defined contribution plans, it acquired Advantage Retirement Solutions, which was rebranded to Vitera, and made enhancements to its annuity offering with Vitera in 2025. Group fixed indexed annuities are issued as part of Vitera’s guaranteed lifetime income solution for defined contribution plans. This involves the use of a target date fund, which can serve as a defined contribution plan’s qualified default investment alternative. The target date fund provides guaranteed lifetime income by purchasing group fixed indexed annuities with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits that Athene issues to the target date fund. The fixed indexed annuities are an asset class within the target date fund’s asset allocation. The allocation to fixed indexed annuities begins, on average, at age 47 for each vintage of the target date fund and gradually increases with incremental purchases of group fixed indexed annuities to provide a pre-defined level of guaranteed income starting at age 65.

Athene generates income on group fixed indexed annuity products distributed to defined contribution target date funds in a similar manner to its fixed indexed annuities sold through the retail distribution channel. Specifically, Athene earns an investment spread, based on the difference between (1) income earned on the investments supporting the liabilities and (2) the cost of funds, including option costs, the cost of providing guarantees and institutional policy issuance, maintenance and distribution costs.

Funding Agreements

Funding agreements include those issued to institutions via direct issuances, those issued to the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) and those issued to special-purpose unaffiliated trusts in connection with Athene’s FABN and FABR programs. Funding agreements are issued opportunistically to institutional investors at attractive risk-adjusted funding costs. They are designed to provide an agreement holder with a guaranteed return of principal and periodic interest payments, while offering competitive yields and predictable returns. The interest rate can be fixed or floating. Athene also includes repurchase agreements with a term that exceeds one year at the time of execution within the funding agreement product category.

Life and Other

Life and other products include life insurance policies assumed through reinsurance transactions, guaranteed investment contracts issued in connection with defined contribution plans, other retail products, including legacy run-off or ceded business, and statutory closed blocks.

Guaranteed investment contracts are designed similar to funding agreements, where the contract holder is guaranteed a return of principal plus interest.

Distribution Channels

Athene has developed four dedicated distribution channels to address the retirement services market: retail, flow reinsurance, institutional, and acquisitions and block reinsurance, which support opportunistic origination across different market environments. Additionally, Athene believes these distribution channels enable it to achieve stable asset growth while maintaining attractive returns.

Retail

Athene has built a scalable platform that allows it to originate and rapidly grow its business in deferred annuity products. Athene has developed a suite of retirement savings products, distributed through its network of 41 independent marketing organizations (“IMOs”), 18 banks and 163 broker-dealers, collectively representing approximately 152,000 independent agents

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in all 50 states. Additionally, Athene distributes structured settlements through its network of specialized structured settlement annuity brokers. Athene is focused in every aspect of its retail channel on providing high quality products and service to its policyholders and maintaining appropriate financial protection over the life of their policies.

Flow Reinsurance

Flow reinsurance provides another channel for Athene to source liabilities with attractive crediting rates and offers insurance companies the opportunity to improve their product offerings and enhance their financial results. As in the retail channel, Athene does not pursue flow volume growth at the expense of profitability and will respond rapidly to adjust pricing for changes in asset yields.

Reinsurance is an arrangement under which an insurance company, the reinsurer, agrees to indemnify another insurance company, the ceding company or cedant, for all or a portion of certain insurance risks underwritten by the ceding company. Reinsurance is designed to (1) reduce the net amount at risk on individual risks, thereby enabling the ceding company to increase the volume of business it can underwrite, as well as increase the maximum risk it can underwrite on a single risk, (2) stabilize operating results by reducing volatility in the ceding company’s loss experience, (3) assist the ceding company in meeting applicable regulatory requirements and (4) enhance the ceding company’s financial strength and surplus position.

Within its flow reinsurance channel, Athene conducts third-party flow reinsurance transactions through its insurance subsidiaries. Flow reinsurance also includes recurring premium from block reinsurance transactions. As a reinsurer, Athene partners with insurance companies to develop solutions to their capital requirements, enhance their presence in the retirement market and improve their financial results. Athene targets reinsuring spread-based liabilities which can include FIAs, MYGAs, traditional one-year guarantee fixed deferred annuities, immediate annuities, whole life insurance, universal life insurance, indexed universal life insurance and institutional products.

Institutional

Athene’s institutional channel includes funding agreements, guaranteed investment contracts, pension group annuity transactions and group fixed indexed annuities issued in connection with defined contribution plans.

Funding Agreements. Funding agreements are comprised of funding agreements issued under Athene’s FABN program, secured and other funding agreements, which include Athene’s FABR program and direct funding agreements, funding agreements issued to the FHLB and long-term repurchase agreements. Athene’s FABN program allows its special-purpose, unaffiliated statutory trust to offer its senior secured medium-term notes. The notes are underwritten and marketed by major investment banks’ broker-dealer operations and are sold to institutional investors. The net proceeds from each sale are used to purchase one or more funding agreements from Athene subsidiaries with matching interest and maturity payment terms. Athene also established a secured FABR program in which a special-purpose, unaffiliated entity enters into a repurchase agreement with a bank and the proceeds of the repurchase agreement are used by the special-purpose entity to purchase funding agreements from Athene subsidiaries. In addition to the funding agreements issued to special-purpose unaffiliated trusts or other unaffiliated entities, Athene engages in direct issuances with various institutions. Athene is also a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and, through membership, has issued funding agreements to the FHLB in exchange for cash advances. Athene is required to provide collateral in excess of the funding agreement amounts outstanding, considering any discounts to the securities posted and prepayment penalties. Long-term repurchase agreements with a term that exceeds one year at the time of execution are also included within the funding agreement product category.

Guaranteed Investment Contracts. Guaranteed investment contracts are marketed to stable value fund managers to support stable value investment options within defined contribution plans.

Pension Group Annuities. Athene partners with institutions seeking to transfer and thereby reduce their obligation to pay future pension benefits to retirees and deferred participants through pension group annuities. Athene works with advisors, brokers and consultants to source pension group annuity transactions and design solutions that meet the needs of prospective pension group annuity counterparties and their participants, with a focus on medium- and large-sized deals involving retirees and/or deferred participants that are structured as either a buyout or a buy-in transaction.

Group Fixed Indexed Annuities. Group fixed indexed annuities are issued as part of Vitera’s guaranteed lifetime income solution through a target date fund within defined contribution plans. The defined contribution market involves several stakeholders, including asset managers and plan record-keepers. Vitera partners with select asset managers and plan record-

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keepers to market the guaranteed lifetime income target date fund to institutions that sponsor defined contribution plans to have these institutions add the guaranteed lifetime income target fund to their fund offering with a particular focus in having the target date fund deemed as the qualified default investment alternative. Vitera also has direct outreach efforts to larger institutions to market the product.

Acquisitions and Block Reinsurance

Acquisitions. Acquisitions are a complementary source of growth for our retirement services business. Athene has a proven ability to acquire businesses in complex transactions at favorable terms, manage the liabilities acquired and reinvest the associated assets.

Block Reinsurance. Through block reinsurance transactions, Athene partners with life and annuity companies to decrease their exposure to one or more products or to divest of lower-margin or non-core segments of their businesses. Unlike acquisitions in which Athene acquires the assets or stock of a target company, block reinsurance allows Athene to contractually assume assets and liabilities associated with a certain book of business. In doing so, Athene contractually assumes responsibility for only that portion of the business that it deems desirable, without assuming additional liabilities.

As Athene continues to expand into new markets and geographies, it has been disciplined in only retaining liabilities that are core to its strategy and competitive advantages. This can be accomplished through structural solutions, including mortality and longevity reinsurance.

Capital

Athene believes it has a strong capital position and is well positioned to meet policyholder and other obligations. Athene measures capital sufficiency using various internal capital metrics which reflect management’s view on the various risks inherent to its business, the amount of capital required to support its core operating strategies and the amount of capital necessary to maintain its current ratings in a recessionary environment. The amount of capital required to support Athene’s core operating strategies is determined based upon internal modeling and analysis of economic risk, as well as inputs from rating agency capital models and consideration of both NAIC risk-based capital (“RBC”) and Bermuda capital requirements. Capital in excess of this required amount is considered excess equity capital, which is available to deploy.

Deployable Capital

Athene’s deployable capital is comprised of capital from three sources: excess equity capital, untapped leverage capacity and available undrawn capital commitments from ACRA. As of December 31, 2025, Athene estimates that it had approximately $8.6 billion in capital available to deploy, consisting of approximately $3.2 billion in excess equity capital, $2.6 billion in untapped leverage capacity (assuming an adjusted leverage ratio of not more than 30%, subject to maintaining a sufficient level of capital required to maintain Athene’s desired financial strength ratings from rating agencies), and $2.8 billion in available undrawn capital at ACRA.

ACRA

To support growth strategies and capital deployment opportunities, Athene established ACRA 1 as a long-duration, on-demand capital vehicle. Athene directly owns 37% of the economic interests in ACRA 1 and all of ACRA 1’s voting interests, with ADIP I owning the remaining 63% of the economic interests. During the commitment period, ACRA 1 participated in certain transactions by drawing a portion of the required capital for such transactions from third-party investors equal to ADIP I’s proportionate economic interests in ACRA 1. The commitment period for ACRA 1 expired in August 2023.

To further support its growth and capital deployment opportunities following the deployment of capital by ACRA 1, Athene funded ACRA 2 in December 2022 as another long-duration, on-demand capital vehicle. Athene directly owns 37% of the economic interests in ACRA 2 and all of ACRA 2’s voting interests, with ADIP II owning the remaining 63% of the economic interests. ACRA 2 participates in certain transactions by drawing a portion of the required capital for such transactions from third-party investors equal to ADIP II’s proportionate economic interests in ACRA 2.

These strategic capital solutions are designed to provide Athene the flexibility to simultaneously deploy capital across multiple accretive avenues and sustain a profitable growth strategy at scale in a capital efficient manner, while maintaining a strong financial position.

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Uses of Capital

Athene’s capital deployment includes the payment for a business opportunity, such as the payment of a ceding commission to enter into a block reinsurance transaction, and the retention of capital based on Athene’s internal capital model. Currently, Athene deploys capital in four primary ways: (1) supporting organic growth, (2) supporting inorganic growth, (3) making dividend payments to AGM, and (4) retaining capital to support financial strength ratings upgrades. Athene generally seeks mid-teen or higher returns on its capital deployment.

Reinsurance

Internal Ceded Reinsurance

Subject to quota shares generally ranging from 80% to 100%, substantially all of the existing deposits held and new deposits generated by Athene’s U.S. insurance subsidiaries are reinsured to its Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries. Athene maintains the same reserving principles for its Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries as it does for its U.S. insurance subsidiaries. Athene also retrocedes certain organic and inorganic business to ACRA. Athene’s internal reinsurance structure provides it with several strategic and operational advantages, including the aggregation of regulatory capital, which makes the aggregate capital of its Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries available to support the risks assumed by each entity, and enhanced operating efficiencies. As a result of its internal reinsurance structure and third-party direct to Bermuda business, a significant majority of Athene’s aggregate capital is held by its Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries.

Third-Party Ceded Reinsurance

In addition, from time to time, Athene may opportunistically cede certain of its business from its U.S. insurance subsidiaries, or Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries, to third party reinsurers, to generate capital and/or limit exposure to certain risks.

Ratings

As of December 31, 2025, each of Athene’s significant insurance subsidiaries is rated “A+” or “A1” by the four rating agencies that evaluate the financial strength of such subsidiaries. To achieve its financial strength ratings aspirations, Athene may choose to retain additional capital above the level required by the rating agencies to support operating needs. Athene believes there are numerous benefits to achieving stronger ratings over time, including increased recognition of and confidence in its financial strength by prospective business partners, particularly within product distribution, as well as potential profitability improvements in certain organic channels through lower funding costs. Financial strength and credit ratings directly affect Athene’s ability to access funding and the related cost of borrowing, the attractiveness of certain Athene products to customers, its attractiveness as a reinsurer to potential ceding companies and the requirements for collateral posting on its derivatives. These ratings are periodically reviewed by the rating agencies.

Credit ratings represent the opinions of rating agencies regarding an entity’s ability to repay its indebtedness. Financial strength ratings represent the opinions of rating agencies regarding the financial ability of an insurer or reinsurer to meet its obligations under an insurance policy or reinsurance arrangement and generally involve quantitative and qualitative evaluations by rating agencies of a company’s financial condition and operating performance. Generally, rating agencies base their financial strength ratings upon information furnished to them by the respective company and upon their own investigations, studies and assumptions. Financial strength ratings are based upon factors of concern to policyholders, agents, intermediaries and ceding companies and are not directed toward the protection of investors. Credit and financial strength ratings are not recommendations to buy, sell or hold securities and they may be revised or revoked at any time at the sole discretion of the rating organization.

Principal Investing

Our Principal Investing segment is comprised of our realized performance fee income, realized investment income earned from our balance sheet investments, and certain allocable expenses related to corporate functions supporting the entire company. The Principal Investing segment also includes our growth capital and liquidity resources at AGM. Over time, we may deploy capital into strategic investments that help accelerate the growth of our Asset Management segment, by broadening our investment management and/or product distribution capabilities or increasing the scalability and/or efficiency of our existing operations. We believe these investments may translate into greater compounded annual growth of Fee Related Earnings.

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Given the cyclical nature of realized performance fees, earnings from our Principal Investing segment, or PII, are inherently more volatile in nature than earnings from the Asset Management and Retirement Services segments. We earn fees based on the investment performance of the funds, partnerships, and accounts we manage and compensate our employees, primarily investment professionals, with a meaningful portion of these proceeds to align our team with investors whose capital we manage and incentivize them to deliver strong investment performance over time. To enhance this alignment, we have increased the proportion of performance fee income we pay to our employees over time.

Competition

Asset Management

Within the asset management business, Apollo operates in an intensely competitive industry, and expects it to remain so. We compete globally and on a regional, industry and niche basis.

We face competition both in the pursuit of investor capital and in making investments on behalf of funds and accounts we manage across credit and equity asset classes. We compete for investor capital based on a variety of factors, including:

•investment performance as a metric for assessing excess return per unit of risk;

•investor perception of investment managers’ drive, focus and alignment of interest;

•quality of service provided to and duration of relationship with investors;

•business reputation; and

•the level of fees and expenses charged for services.

We have seen capital demand increasing over six discrete markets on a global basis: institutional investor alternative allocations, individuals, insurance, traditional asset managers, institutional investors for fixed income and equity replacement, and defined contribution/401(k). With the growing demand for capital, we expect the composition of competition may shift and evolve over time.

Competition is also intense for the attraction and retention of qualified employees. Our ability to continue to compete effectively within our industry will depend upon our ability to attract new employees and retain and motivate our existing employees.

Retirement Services

Athene faces competition from a variety of large and small industry participants, including diversified financial institutions and insurance and reinsurance companies. These companies compete in one form or another for the growing pool of retirement assets driven by a number of external factors such as the continued aging of the population and the reduction in safety nets provided by governments and private employers. In the markets in which Athene operates, scale and the ability to provide value-added services and build long-term relationships are important factors to compete effectively. Athene believes that its leading presence in the retirement services market, diverse range of capabilities and broad distribution network uniquely position it to effectively serve consumers’ increasing demand for retirement solutions.

Athene experiences competition in the annuity market from traditional carriers and new entrants. Principal competitive factors for fixed annuities are initial crediting rates, reputation for renewal crediting action, product features, brand recognition, customer service, distribution capabilities and financial strength ratings of the provider. Competition may affect, among other matters, both business growth and the pricing of products and services.

Reinsurance markets are highly competitive, as well as cyclical by product and market. Within the reinsurance market, Athene competes with other insurance and reinsurance companies based on many factors, including, among other things, financial strength, pricing and other terms and conditions of reinsurance agreements, reputation, service, and experience in the types of business underwritten. The impact of these and other factors is generally not consistent across lines of business, domestic and international geographical areas, and distribution channels.

Athene encounters strong competition within its institutional channel. With respect to funding agreements, namely those issued in connection with its FABN program, Athene competes with other insurers that have active FABN programs. Within the funding agreement market, Athene competes primarily on the basis of financial strength and interest rates. With respect to

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guaranteed investment contracts, Athene competes with other insurers that have an active guaranteed investment contract program primarily on the basis of interest rates. With respect to group annuities, Athene competes with other insurers that offer such annuities. Within the pension group annuities market, it competes primarily on the basis of participant security, price, underwriting, investment capabilities and its ability to provide quality service to the corporate sponsor’s pension participants. Within the group annuity market for defined contribution plans, Athene competes primarily on overall product features and design, brand recognition and financial strength ratings.

Finally, Athene experiences competition in the market for acquisition targets and profitable blocks of insurance. Such competition has intensified as insurance businesses become more attractive acquisition targets for both other insurance companies and financial institutions and as the already substantial consolidation in the financial services industry continues. Athene competes for potential acquisition and block reinsurance opportunities based on a number of factors including perceived financial strength, brand recognition, reputation and the pricing it is able to offer, which, to the extent Athene determines to finance a transaction, is in turn dependent on its ability to do so on suitable terms. Athene has demonstrated patience in only pursuing transactions that meet its internal risk and return objectives. With the backdrop of increasing competition, Athene believes its demonstrated ability to source and consummate large and complex transactions and its inroads in other adjacent markets, including the Japanese savings market, is a competitive advantage over other potential acquirers.

For additional information concerning the competitive risks that we face, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors—Operating Risks—We operate in highly competitive industries, which could limit our ability to achieve our growth strategies and could materially and adversely affect our businesses, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects.”

Human Capital

Apollo’s talent is instrumental to our success as a global alternative asset manager and retirement services provider. Investing in and fostering a modern and inclusive high-performance culture is core to operating our business and delivering positive outcomes for our shareholders and fund investors, and our employee value proposition is designed to engage and develop our talent to deliver maximum impact. We believe our commitment to expanding opportunity across our ecosystem is central to the Apollo business model, an integrated platform which fosters strong collaboration across businesses and functions. Rooted in our core values, we strive to build a culture where all of our people can excel and grow in their careers.

Talent Development

We believe that ongoing professional development is a critical part of our culture at Apollo and an important enabler of our investment process. Because of our entrepreneurial culture, the breadth of our integrated platform, and our reputation for strong investment performance, we believe we can attract, develop and retain top talent. We have development programs in place across a variety of levels which demonstrate our commitment to developing, engaging and retaining our employees. In addition to our training and annual review programs, we have instituted annual employee surveys that measure employee satisfaction and engagement and help evaluate and guide human capital decision-making. We work in partnership with our employees to maintain a strong culture which prioritizes excellence and outperforming expectations to advance our goal of being a modern high-performance workplace that is also great place to work.

Compensation and Benefits

We work to offer a compelling employee value proposition to reward strong performance and support our employees’ professional development and well-being. Our pay for performance compensation philosophy is designed to reward employees for performance and to align employee interests with the firm’s long-term growth and with our shareholders. All of our employees are granted stock through a range of equity-based compensation programs, including our One Apollo stock program. Our benefits programs are intended to support our employees and their families, and include healthcare, wellness initiatives, retirement programs, paid time off and family leave.

Expanding Opportunity

Apollo is committed to championing opportunity and fostering a culture of excellence where everyone has an opportunity to thrive. We make talent decisions based on the qualities necessary to succeed in our modern high-performance workplace, focusing on skills, experience, and performance that drive results, rather than demographic characteristics or preferences. Reducing individuals to a single trait – whether gender, race, or ethnicity – misses the full picture of their capabilities, contributions, and potential impact. At the same time, we believe that a workforce of extraordinary people from a wide range of

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backgrounds and viewpoints helps us solve complex problems, drive innovation, and achieve great results over the long term. We are committed to expanding opportunity across our ecosystem – our workplace, in our marketplace, and in the communities where we live and work – to ensure that we attract and grow the best talent and business partners from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences who can perform at the highest levels for Apollo.

Citizenship

Apollo seeks to actively invest in our communities and engage our employees and other stakeholders in meaningful and impactful Citizenship Programs. Apollo offers its employees philanthropic, volunteer, and other forms of engagement to strengthen communities and expand opportunity around the globe. To empower employees to give back, Apollo hosts volunteer events and provides Citizenship Grants for matching gifts and volunteer rewards each year. Apollo is proud to amplify the efforts of employees, supporting the communities in which they live and the causes and organizations of greatest importance to them.

Foundations

The Apollo Opportunity Foundation and the Athene Charitable Foundation are committed to strengthening the communities where our employees live and work by creating lasting, positive impact through purposeful engagement and investment.

The Apollo Opportunity Foundation was launched in February 2022 to expand opportunity in communities where our employees live and work around the globe by deploying our capital and engaging our people to invest in career education, workforce development and economic empowerment for all. Leading with an employee-driven approach, the Apollo Opportunity Foundation partners with organizations that are championed by Apollo employees to advance economic prosperity and expand opportunity.

The Athene Charitable Foundation is deeply committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where Athene employees live and work. Through hands-on volunteerism, strategic philanthropic giving, and purposeful community outreach, the Athene Charitable Foundation strives to create lasting, positive impact. Guided by four core pillars, education, human services, health and well-being, and environmental sustainability, the Athene Charitable Foundation’s efforts reflect a shared belief that strong communities are built when opportunity, compassion, and responsibility come together.

Regulatory and Compliance Matters

Our businesses, as well as the financial services and insurance industries generally, are subject to extensive regulation in the U.S. and around the world. Virtually all aspects of our business are subject to various laws and regulations, some of which are summarized below. Under these laws and regulations, agencies that regulate investment advisers, investment funds, insurance businesses, broker-dealers and other individuals and entities have broad administrative powers, including the power to limit, restrict or prohibit the regulated entity or person from carrying on business if it fails to comply with such laws and regulations.

Failure to comply with applicable regulatory and compliance requirements may result in a variety of consequences, including fines, administrative measures, suspension of voting rights, suspension of individual employees, limitations on engaging in certain lines of business for specified periods of time or mandatory disposal of interests in any affected regulated entity, revocation of investment adviser, insurance, broker-dealer and other registrations, licenses or charters, censures and other regulatory sanctions.

The legal and regulatory requirements applicable to our business are ever evolving and may become more restrictive, which may make compliance with applicable requirements more difficult or expensive or otherwise restrict our ability to conduct our business activities in the manner in which they are now conducted. Our businesses have operated for many years within a legal framework that requires us being able to monitor and comply with a broad range of legal and regulatory developments that affect our activities. However, additional legislation, changes in rules promulgated by self-regulatory organizations or changes in the interpretation or enforcement of existing laws and rules, either in the U.S. or elsewhere, may directly affect our mode of operation and profitability.

The complex regulatory frameworks governing financial institutions, insurance companies, insurance distributors and their respective holding companies and subsidiaries, as well as those with investments in them, are very detailed and technical. Accordingly, the discussion below is general in nature, does not purport to be complete and is current only as of the date of this report.

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Financial Services Regulation

Our financial services businesses, subsidiaries and/or affiliates are regulated under, among others, the Investment Advisers Act; the Investment Company Act; the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”); the Commodity Exchange Act; the U.K. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; the European Union Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and U.K. Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013; the European Union Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”) and the assimilated U.K. law version of MiFID; the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “FSOC”) and similar non-U.S. regulators; the Federal Reserve and the other U.S. federal prudential banking regulators; the SEC; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”); the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and National Futures Association; the U.S. Department of Labor; the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”); the Federal Communications Commission; banking and financial regulators in the European Union, its member states and the U.K.; as well as rules and regulations over credit risk retention, real estate investment trusts, broker-dealers, “over the counter” derivatives markets, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, gaming companies and natural resources companies.

Regulation under the Investment Advisers Act. We conduct our advisory business primarily through our directly owned investment adviser subsidiaries, including Apollo Capital Management, L.P., Apollo Investment Management, L.P., Apollo Credit Management, LLC, ARIS Management, LLC, Apollo Capital Credit Adviser, LLC, Apollo Real Estate Fund Adviser, LLC, Apollo Manager, LLC, Apollo S3 RIC Management, L.P. and Apollo MPS Management, LLC, each of which is registered as an investment adviser with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act. Apollo Capital Management, L.P. has a number of relying advisers that operate a single advisory business and rely on umbrella registration to be deemed registered as an investment adviser with the SEC. All of our SEC-registered investment advisers are subject to the requirements and regulations of the Investment Advisers Act, including, among other things, maintaining an effective compliance program reasonably designed for our business, maintaining a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and other established policies for personal trading, record keeping, marketing, disclosure, custody, and acting consistently with each advisers’ fiduciary duty to its clients.

Regulation as a Broker-Dealer. Apollo Global Securities, LLC (“AGS”), Griffin Capital Securities, LLC (“GCS”) and Athene Securities, LLC (“Athene Securities”), each of which is a subsidiary of Apollo, are registered as broker-dealers with the SEC and in the U.S. states and territories and are members of FINRA. Broker-dealers are subject to regulations that cover all aspects of the securities business, including, among other things, the implementation of a supervisory control system and effective compliance program, advertising, communications and sales practices, conduct of and compensation in connection with public securities offerings, trading practices and best execution, maintenance of adequate net capital and customer reserve accounts, financial and trade reporting, record keeping, and the conduct and qualifications of directors, officers, employees and other associated persons. State securities regulators also have regulatory oversight authority over AGS, GCS and Athene Securities. In addition, one of our non-U.S. subsidiaries, Apollo Capital Solutions Europe B.V., is regulated under relevant broker-dealer regulations in the Netherlands. See “—Regulated Entities Outside of the U.S.” below.

Regulation as a Commodity Pool Operator, Commodity Trading Advisor and Investment Company. Certain investment activities in which Apollo managers engage may subject those managers to provisions of the Commodities Exchange Act and oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and National Futures Association (“NFA”), including registration as a commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor. Apollo intends to rely on exemptions from registration when available.

In addition, certain of the funds we manage are registered management investment companies under the Investment Company Act, and are subject to extensive substantive regulation concerning the governance, registration, disclosures and operations of those funds.

Other U.S. and Foreign Regulation. We are also subject to laws and regulations governing payments and contributions to public officials or other parties, including restrictions imposed by the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as well as economic sanctions and export control laws administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of State. OFAC maintains and enforces economic sanctions against certain countries, regions, and persons in support of a variety of U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives, which prohibit U.S. persons from engaging in certain transactions with certain persons or entities.

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As a result of certain investments of ours and the funds we manage in financial institutions that operate outside of the U.S., Apollo is subject to regulatory supervision by international financial regulators, including European Union, European Union member state and U.K. financial regulators and applicable requirements set forth in the relevant banking, consumer finance and other financial services regulations of such jurisdictions. In certain cases, such regulations impose suitability and conduct standards on the Company and require notice to and in certain instances approval of, the relevant regulatory authority of an intent to increase or decrease holdings in the relevant entity outside of specified thresholds, or other contemplated changes in structure, or transactions. Failure to comply with these applicable requirements may result in a variety of consequences, including fines, administrative measures, suspension of voting rights, mandatory disposal of interests in the regulated entity or other regulatory sanctions.

Insurance Regulation

Our businesses, subsidiaries and affiliates are subject to a wide variety of insurance and insurance holding company system laws and regulations in both the U.S. and numerous other jurisdictions, including the European Union, Bermuda, the U.K., Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Canada and Malaysia.

United States

Within the U.S., each state’s insurance laws require each of our insurance company subsidiaries to be licensed and regulated by the commissioner, superintendent or director of the insurance department (each, a “Commissioner”) of its domiciliary state and each state in which it transacts insurance as an admitted insurer. The extent of such regulation varies by state, but as a general matter, state Commissioners have broad administrative powers over the business activities and financial aspects of our insurance company subsidiaries, including pursuant to state laws and regulations requiring the licensing of producers who sell the insurance company’s products, regulating premium rates and approving policy forms, establishing reserve requirements, solvency standards and minimum capital requirements, regulating the type, amounts and valuations of investments permitted, examining the business conduct of licensed insurance companies and other matters.

As the ultimate controlling entity, we are subject to the insurance holding company system laws of the domiciliary state of each insurance company subsidiary, which requires, among other filings, its annual registration statement filing with the Commissioner of its domiciliary state and the submission of our financial information and other information about the operations of companies within its holding company system, including submission of an annual enterprise risk report identifying material risks within the holding company system that could pose enterprise risk to our insurance company subsidiaries. These laws also impose restrictions and limitations on the ability of an insurance company subsidiary to pay dividends and make other distributions to its parent company. In addition, transactions between an insurance company and other companies within its holding company system, including sales, loans, investments, reinsurance agreements, tax allocation agreements, management agreements and service agreements, must be on terms that are fair and reasonable and, if material or within a specified category, require prior notice to and approval or non-disapproval by the applicable domiciliary state Commissioner.

All states have insurance laws that require regulatory approval of a direct or indirect change of control of an insurer, which would include a change of control of its holding company. Such laws prevent any person from acquiring direct or indirect control of any of our U.S. insurance subsidiaries or their holding companies unless that person has filed a statement with specified information with the Commissioner and has obtained the Commissioner’s prior approval. Under such state statutes, generally acquiring 10% or more of a voting interest in an insurer or its parent company is presumptively considered a change of control, although such presumption may be rebutted. Accordingly, any person who acquires 10% or more of a voting interest in a direct or indirect parent of any of our U.S. insurance subsidiaries without the prior approval of the Commissioner of the applicable state will be in violation of the applicable state’s law and may be subject to injunctive action requiring the disposition or seizure of those securities by the Commissioner or prohibiting the voting of those securities and/or to other actions determined by the Commissioner. Further, a willful violation of these laws is punishable in each state as a criminal offense.

These laws may discourage potential acquisition proposals and may delay, deter or prevent an acquisition of control of a direct or indirect parent of any of our U.S. insurance subsidiaries (in particular through an unsolicited transaction), even if the stockholders of such parent consider such transaction to be desirable.

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to limits, contractual obligations under insurance policies issued by insurance companies which later become impaired or insolvent. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on each member insurer doing business in a particular state on the basis of their proportionate share of the premiums written by all member insurers in the lines of business in which the impaired or insolvent insurer previously engaged. Most states limit assessments in any year to 2% of the insurer’s average annual premium for the three years preceding the calendar year in which the impaired insurer became impaired or insolvent. Some states permit member insurers to recover assessments paid through full or partial premium tax offsets, usually over a period of years. Assessments levied against Athene’s U.S. insurance subsidiaries by guaranty associations during the year ended December 31, 2025 were not material. While we cannot accurately predict the amount of any such future assessments, or past or future insolvencies of competitors which would lead to such assessments, it is possible that any such assessments with respect to pending insurers’ impairments and insolvencies may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity or cash flows, and any reserves we have previously established for these potential assessments may not be adequate.

Other Jurisdictions

The operations of our insurance subsidiaries and branches operating outside the U.S. are subject to the local regulatory and supervisory schemes in the jurisdictions in which they operate, which vary widely from country to country; however, regulators typically grant licenses to operate and control an insurance business in a specific jurisdiction. In general, insurance regulators in most jurisdictions have the administrative power to supervise the registration of agents, regulation of product features and product approvals, asset allocation, minimum capital requirements, solvency and reserves, policyholder liabilities, and investments. Regulatory authorities may also regulate affiliations with other financial institutions, stockholder structures and may impose restrictions on declaring dividends and the ability to effect certain capital transactions, and many jurisdictions require insurance companies to participate in policyholder protection schemes.

Many of the insurance regulatory frameworks that govern our and our affiliated funds’ insurance entities operating outside the U.S. require the prior consent of the applicable regulator in such jurisdictions before (1) any person can become a “controller”/“qualifying holder” or acquire a direct or indirect control/qualifying holding (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30% or 33% and 50%) in any regulated company, or over the parent undertaking of any such regulated company or (2) any increase of an existing holding that would result in a person reaching the applicable thresholds of the jurisdiction (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30% or 33% and 50%). In addition, certain regulators require the insurance entities or their controllers/qualifying holders to notify the appropriate regulator of any prospective changes in organizational structure of which they are aware, sometimes regardless of whether the controller/qualifying holder or the proposed controller/qualifying holder would be required to submit a change in control application or an application to acquire control/a qualifying holding as a result of such changes in organizational structure. Breach of the requirements to notify the relevant regulator of a decision to acquire or increase control/holding, or of the requirement to obtain approval before completing the relevant control/qualifying holding transaction may in some jurisdictions be a criminal offense attracting potentially unlimited fines. Regulators can also seek other remedies, including suspension of voting rights in the relevant insurance undertaking or having the purported acquisition annulled.

In particular, the BMA, which regulates Athene, Athora and Catalina (as defined below), maintains supervision over the “controllers” of all registered insurers in Bermuda. For these purposes, a “controller” includes (1) the managing director of the registered insurer or its parent company, (2) the chief executive of the registered insurer or of its parent company, (3) a stockholder controller, and (4) any person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of the registered insurer or its parent company are accustomed to act.

The definition of stockholder controller is set out in the Bermuda Insurance Act 1978 (the “Bermuda Insurance Act”) and generally refers to (1) a person who holds 10% or more of the shares carrying rights to vote at a stockholders’ meeting of the registered insurer or its parent company, (2) a person who is entitled to exercise 10% or more of the voting power at any stockholders’ meeting of such registered insurer or its parent company or (3) a person who is able to exercise significant influence over the management of the registered insurer or its parent company by virtue of its shareholding or its entitlement to exercise, or control the exercise of, the voting power at any stockholders’ meeting.

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Under the Bermuda Insurance Act, stockholder controller ownership is defined as follows:

Where the shares of a registered insurer, or the shares of its parent company, are traded on a recognized stock exchange, and such stockholder becomes a 10%, 20%, 33%, or 50% stockholder controller of the insurer, that stockholder shall, within 45 days, notify the BMA in writing that such stockholder has become, or as a result of a disposition ceased to be, a controller of any such category.

Any person or entity who contravenes the Bermuda Insurance Act by failing to give notice or knowingly becoming a controller of any description before the required 45 days has elapsed is guilty of an offense under Bermuda law and liable to a fine of $25,000 on summary conviction.

The BMA may file a notice of objection to any person or entity who has become a controller of any category when it appears that such person or entity is not, or is no longer, fit and proper to be a controller of the registered insurer. Before issuing a notice of objection, the BMA is required to serve upon the person or entity concerned a preliminary written notice stating the BMA’s intention to issue formal notice of objection. Upon receipt of the preliminary written notice, the person or entity served may, within 28 days, file written representations with the BMA which shall be taken into account by the BMA in making its final determination. Any person or entity who continues to be a controller of any description after having received a notice of objection is guilty of an offense and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $25,000 (and a continuing fine of $500 per day for each day that the offense is continuing) or, if convicted on indictment, to a fine of $100,000 and/or 2 years in prison.

The Bermuda Insurance Act regulates the insurance business of our Bermuda reinsurance subsidiaries, and provides that no person may carry on any insurance business in or from within Bermuda unless registered as an insurer under such act by the BMA. The BMA is required by the Bermuda Insurance Act to determine whether an applicant is a fit and proper body to be engaged in the insurance business and, in particular, whether it has, or has available to it, adequate knowledge and expertise to operate an insurance business. The continued registration of an insurer is subject to the insurer complying with the terms of its registration and such other conditions as the BMA may impose from time to time. The Bermuda Insurance Act also grants to the BMA powers to supervise, investigate and intervene in the affairs of insurers. The Bermuda Insurance Act imposes on Bermuda insurers solvency standards, as well as auditing and reporting requirements.

In the U.K., Apollo is considered the controller of certain insurance company (or equivalent) subsidiaries of Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. (“Catalina”), including Catalina Worthing Insurance Limited. In addition, Catalina Services UK Limited is also domiciled in the U.K. and provides insurance distribution services for purposes of certain U.K. insurance regulations.

Apollo is deemed to hold an indirect qualifying holding in Athora Deutschland Verwaltungs GmbH, Athora Deutschland Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Athora Deutschland GmbH, Athora Lebensversicherung AG and Athora Pensionskasse AG, which are either German regulated insurance undertakings or German insurance holding companies.

Apollo is deemed to hold an indirect qualifying holding in Athora Belgium S.A./N.V. (“Athora Belgium”), which is a Belgian licensed insurance and reinsurance undertaking. In addition, some of Athora Belgium’s subsidiaries are registered with the Belgian regulator as insurance brokers and are subject to supervision by the Belgian regulator as regards their insurance distribution activities.

Apollo is deemed to hold an indirect qualifying holding in Athora Netherlands N.V. (formerly known as: VIVAT N.V.), Proteq Levensverzekeringen N.V., and SRLEV N.V., which are either Dutch regulated insurance undertakings or a Dutch insurance holding company, and Zwitserleven PPI N.V., which is a Dutch premium pension institution.

Additionally, Catalina carries on insurance business through its Singapore-domiciled subsidiary Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. Ltd., which in turn operates through its subsidiaries in Malaysia.

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Regulation of an Insurance Group

Many insurers, including certain of our subsidiaries, operate within an insurance group structure with two or more affiliated persons, one or more of which is an insurer. U.S. state and international regulators have developed group supervisory frameworks in order to provide regulators with the ability to scrutinize the activities of an insurance group and assess its potential impact on individual insurers within the group.

Group supervisors may impose certain requirements on the insurance group, including to make provision for, among other things: (1) assessing the financial situation and the solvency position of the insurance group and/or its members and (2) regulating intra-group transactions, risk concentration, governance procedures, risk management and regulatory reporting and disclosure. These requirements as applied in substance to us or our affiliates have been applied as part of larger prudential regulatory initiatives.

Government agencies and insurance standard setters in the U.S. and worldwide have become increasingly interested in potential risks posed by the insurance industry as a whole, and to commercial and financial activities and systems in general, as indicated by the adoption in 2019 of the Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally Active Insurance Groups (“ComFrame”) by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (“IAIS”). ComFrame applies to all large internationally active insurance groups (“IAIGs”) designated as an IAIG by their group-wide supervisor. The Iowa Insurance Division (the “IID”) identified itself as the group-wide supervisor for Apollo (in a distinct capacity from its role as supervisor for Athene). In February 2024, the IID, in its capacity as the group-wide supervisor for Apollo, identified Apollo as meeting the criteria as an IAIG and further identified Athene as the head of the IAIG. In general, the head of the IAIG is the uppermost entity to which obligations associated with an IAIG designation attach. Athene will therefore be subject to the relevant capital standard that the U.S. applies to IAIGs. At this time, we do not expect a significant impact on Athene’s capital position or capital structure; however, we cannot fully predict with certainty the impact (if any) on Athene’s capital position or capital structure and any other burdens being named an IAIG may impose on Athene or its insurance affiliates.

Capital Requirements

Regulators of each jurisdiction in which we operate have discretionary authority in connection with our insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries’ continued licensing to limit or prohibit sales to policyholders within their respective jurisdiction or to restrict continued operation of insurers or reinsurers domiciled in their respective jurisdiction if, in their judgment, such entities have not maintained the required level of minimum surplus or capital or that the further transaction of business would be hazardous to policyholders or reinsurance counterparties.

Restrictions on Dividends and Other Distributions

Our U.S. insurance subsidiaries are also subject to restrictions on the payment of dividends. Any proposed dividend in excess of the amount permitted by law is considered an extraordinary dividend or extraordinary distribution and may not be paid until it has been approved, or generally a 30-day waiting period has passed during which it has not been disapproved, by the Commissioner. In addition, Bermuda regulated insurers are strictly prohibited from declaring or paying any dividends unless certain financial conditions are met or prior approval from the BMA is received.

Consumer Protection Laws and Privacy, Data Security and AI Regulation

Federal and state consumer protection laws affect our operations. As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to supervise and regulate institutions that provide certain financial products and services to consumers. In addition, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 implemented fundamental changes in the regulation of the financial services industry in the U.S. and includes privacy and security requirements for financial institutions, including obligations to protect and safeguard consumers’ nonpublic personal information and records, limitations on the re-disclosure and re-use of such information and requirements to notify customers and other individuals about their policies and practices relating to their collection and disclosure of such information and their practices relating to protecting the security and confidentiality of that information. Federal privacy and data security laws are enforced primarily by functional regulators (i.e., state insurance regulators for our insurance company affiliates) and by the SEC, CFTC and self-regulatory organizations for our affiliates registered with such functional regulators.

In addition to federal and other financial institution-specific privacy laws and regulations, an increasing number of states are considering and passing comprehensive privacy legislation, as well as laws or regulations around automated decision making or

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artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies. Moreover, the issues surrounding data security and the safeguarding of consumers’ protected information are under increasing regulatory scrutiny by state and federal regulators.

Regulated Entities Outside of the U.S.

Certain of our subsidiaries and the funds that we manage that operate in jurisdictions outside of the U.S. are licensed by or have obtained authorizations to operate in their respective jurisdictions outside of the U.S., and as a result are regulated by various international regulators and subject to applicable regulation. These registrations, licenses or authorizations relate to providing investment advice, discretionary investment management, arranging deals, marketing securities, capital markets activities and other regulated activities. Failure to comply with the laws and regulations governing these subsidiaries that have been registered, licensed or authorized could expose us to liability and/or damage our reputation.

Outside of the U.S., our subsidiaries and the funds that we manage, including Apollo Management International LLP, Apollo Credit Management International Limited, Apollo Asset Management Europe LLP, Apollo Investment Management Europe LLP, Apollo Investment Management Europe (Luxembourg) S.à r.l., Apollo Capital Solutions Europe B.V., Apollo Advisors (Mauritius) Ltd, AION Capital Management Limited, Apollo Management Singapore Pte. Ltd., Apollo Management Asia Pacific Limited and Apollo Management Japan Limited, are subject to regulation in the European Union, the Abu Dhabi Global Market, the U.K., India, Mauritius, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan.

Other Regulatory Considerations. Certain of our businesses are subject to compliance with laws and regulations of U.S. federal and state governments, non-U.S. governments, their respective agencies and/or various self-regulatory organizations or exchanges relating to, among other things, the privacy of client information, cybersecurity and AI. Any failure to comply with these regulations could expose us to liability and/or reputational damage.

Rigorous legal and compliance analysis of our businesses and investments is important to our culture. We strive to maintain a culture of compliance through the use of policies and procedures, such as our code of ethics, compliance systems, communication of compliance guidance and employee education and training. We have a compliance group that monitors our compliance with the regulatory requirements to which we are subject and manages our compliance policies and procedures. Our Chief Compliance Officer supervises our compliance group, which is responsible for addressing all regulatory and compliance matters that affect our activities. Our compliance policies and procedures address a variety of regulatory and compliance risks such as the handling of material non-public information, personal securities trading, anti-bribery, financial crimes compliance, valuation of investments on a fund-specific basis, document retention, potential conflicts of interest and the allocation of investment opportunities.

Apollo has established certain one-way and/or two-way information barriers in respect of discrete investment strategies (based on established policies and procedures in respect of information barriers), including certain secondary trading activities. Nonetheless, we generally operate without permanent information barriers between our asset management businesses. In an effort to manage possible risks resulting from our decision not to implement additional barriers, our compliance personnel maintain restricted securities lists and other internal controls. We could in the future decide that it is advisable to establish permanent information barriers, particularly as our business expands and diversifies. In such event our ability to operate as an integrated platform would be restricted.

Available Information

Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act are made available free of charge on or through our website at ir.apollo.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, part of this report or incorporated into any other filings we make with the SEC. The reports and the other documents we file with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

From time to time, we may use our website as a channel of distribution of material information. Financial and other material information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible at www.apollo.com.