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Sep 2024
22m 19s

What is Apollo, anyway?

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
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Apollo Global Management is publicly traded and one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. But what does it really do? Today on the show, Rob Armstrong asks reporters Sujeet Indap and Eric Platt to describe the parts that make up Apollo. Also they go long Boeing and long News Corp. 


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