Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001858681-25-000139
Chunk: 390

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 390
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enerating AUM due to an upsize in Atlas warehousing financing facilities and an increase in subscriptions, respectively. The increase in management fees earned from S3 Equity and Hybrid Solutions and AIOF III was driven by catch-up management fees on additional closes. Additionally, management fees increased due to the Bridge acquisition. The decrease in management fees earned from Fund IX and Fund VIII were correlated with the fee rate step-down of Fund IX and the expiration of Fund VIII’s fee-paying period, respectively.

Advisory and transaction fees increased by $233 million to $850 million in 2025 from $617 million in 2024. Advisory and transaction fees earned during 2025 were primarily attributable to advisory and transaction fees earned from companies in the (i) financial services, (ii) manufacturing and industrial, (iii) media, telecom and technology, (iv) natural resources and (v) leisure sectors.    

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Incentive fees increased by $41 million to $149 million in 2025 from $108 million in 2024, primarily attributable to sustained growth across a variety of perpetual capital vehicles.

Investment income increased $26 million in 2025 to $936 million compared to $910 million in 2024. The increase in investment income in 2025 was primarily driven by an increase in performance allocations of $36 million.

Significant drivers for performance allocations in 2025 were performance allocations primarily earned from Fund X, Credit Strategies, HVF II, Redding Ridge Holdings, Freedom Parent Holdings, and Accord+ II of $315 million, $108 million, $98 million, $70 million, $58 million and $39 million, respectively, partially offset by performance allocation losses from Athora and Fund IX of $56 million and $53 million, respectively.

See below for details on the respective performance allocations in 2025.

The performance allocations earned from Fund X in 2025 were primarily driven by the appreciation and realization of the fund’s investments in the (i) manufacturing and industrial, (ii) consumer and retail and (iii) consumer services sectors.

The performance allocations earned from Credit Strategies in 2025 were primarily driven by the net income generated by the fund’s investments.

The performance allocations earned from HVF II in 2025 were primarily driven by the appreciation and realization of the fund’s investments in private portfolio companies in the (i) consumer and retail, (ii) manufacturing and industrial, and (iii) transportation and logistics sectors.

The performance