APO

Apollo Global Management

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Is APO Halal?

Private equity and credit firm — riba-based lending.

What You Should Know

Apollo is a major alternative asset manager focused on credit, private equity, insurance and retirement services. Its March 2026 Form 10-Q reports $467,530 million of assets, $14,220 million of debt, $22,570 million of unrestricted cash, $11,165 million of receivable inputs and $5,059 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 3.04%, liquidity/assets is 4.83% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 7.22%; interest income is not separately allocated from material net investment income, while the core riba-based lending model remains impermissible.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Credit-focused business (riba)
  • Debt-financed private equity
  • Conventional insurance and fixed-income investments
  • Interest-income allocation unavailable

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
3.04%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

14,220 / 467,530

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
4.83%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

22,570 / 467,530

Receivables + cash / assets
7.22%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

33,735 / 467,530

Non-compliant income / revenue (upper bound)
100.00%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

5,059 / 5,059

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 3.04%, liquidity/assets is 4.83% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 7.22%; the conservative upper-bound non-compliant-income input is 100.00% of revenue and the core financial-services activity fails.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 3.04%, liquidity/assets is 4.83% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 7.22%; the core credit, insurance and conventional-investment activity independently fails.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 3.04% and liquidity/assets is 4.83%; the core financial-services activity remains impermissible under the qualitative assessment.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; market-cap methods cannot cure the core credit and insurance failure.

Business-activity disclosure

Apollo is an alternative-asset manager with credit, private-equity, insurance and retirement-services businesses. Riba-based credit and conventional investment activity are core under the existing qualitative assessment.

Limitation: The consolidated filing combines asset management, insurance, retirement services and VIE activity; net investment income is not allocated into a universal prohibited-income numerator.

Purification

Apollo does not separately disclose a complete interest-income or prohibited-activity numerator across its credit, insurance and investment businesses. The full-revenue non-compliant-income input is a conservative upper-bound screen, not a purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Apollo's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt includes $6,380 million in Asset Management and $7,840 million in Retirement Services; liabilities of consolidated VIEs are not double-counted as parent debt.
  • Unrestricted cash and cash equivalents total $22,570 million across Asset Management, its VIEs and Retirement Services; restricted cash is excluded.
  • Receivable inputs include $10,304 million reinsurance recoverable and $861 million due from related parties. Quarterly total revenues are $5,059 million; net investment income is $5,139 million but interest is not separately allocated.
  • Private credit, leveraged buyouts, insurance and conventional investment portfolios are core activities rather than incidental exposures.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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