October 14, 2024· 47 min

Apollo Explains How Big Tech Is Disrupting Credit Markets

Orality
Model
85%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,534 words)
M:94%
HostTracy Alloway(2,001 words)
M:28%
GuestRob Bittencourt(4,421 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic50%
absolutely, totally, basically
Engagement65%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
know (92x), like (81x), think (64x)
Parallelism80%
And I'm Jill Weisenthal...., So And, yeah, it's still I mea..., But I think, like, at one poin...
Sound Patterns67%
58 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases7%
you know what, i mean, if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging10%
could, probably, maybe
Passive Voice5%
are tasked, are used, be provided
Abstract Nouns26%
investment, business, equity
Subordination6%
because, provided, while
Sentence Length36%
Avg: 13.9 words/sentence
Word Complexity51%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style35%
559 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
apply, absolutely, totally

Description

Big tech stocks have had an enormous impact on the stock market, with Magnificent 7 companies like Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia now dominating equity indices and basically dictating the path of benchmark returns. And of course, there's been loads of discussion about the real transformational value of AI and whether it's all going to end up being one big bubble. But tech investing and big disruptive trends like AI aren't just for equity investors. They're playing out in the credit market, too. And of course, building the data centers and producing the chips that power AI requires huge amounts of capital — much of which is sourced via bonds and loans. Increasingly, a lot of that capital is coming from private credit players, one of the biggest of which is Apollo Global Management. In this episode, we speak with Rob Bittencourt, a partner at Apollo and co-head of opportunistic credit, about how the tech story is playing out and what Apollo is doing in the space. Read More: Private Credit to Outperform in a Downturn, Apollo’s Zelter Says Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.