Apollo World hires BlackRock veteran

Apollo World Administration employed BlackRock veteran Rick Moreno to bolster the buyout big’s U.S. crew focusing on funding corporations for the ultra-rich.

Moreno lately joined Apollo to steer its West Coast household workplace protection and might be based mostly in each the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, an Apollo spokesperson stated. He labored at BlackRock for greater than a decade in complete and was most lately a managing director on the world’s largest asset supervisor.

A consultant for New York-based BlackRock declined to remark.

Personal fairness corporations are more and more wanting outdoors their conventional institutional-investor base reminiscent of pension funds and endowments for sources of capital amid a tough fundraising setting. Blackstone and KKR & Co. are additionally constructing models to deal with the world’s wealthy.

On the similar time, demand for personal belongings is booming amongst household places of work, the sometimes discreet managers for the monetary affairs of the rich that surged in quantity over the previous 20 years. BlackRock stated lately buyers together with household places of work are set to spice up allocations to non-public fairness and personal credit score this yr regardless of recession fears and rising rates of interest.

Apollo started constructing its household workplace crew after hiring Brian Feurtado final yr from BlackRock and has since assembled a roughly 10-person unit with plans to extend that quantity sooner or later.

The West Coast is a significant hub for US household places of work with California ranked because the second-most fashionable location for such corporations after New York, based on a 2023 report from KPMG and recruitment agency Agreus Group. Bayshore World, the household workplace of Alphabet founder Sergey Brin, is predicated in Palo Alto, whereas San Francisco-based Medley Companions manages the private wealth of Renaissance Applied sciences founder Jim Simons and his household.

Moreno began his profession at Accenture and in addition labored at Salomon Brothers for greater than a decade, based on his LinkedIn profile. He first joined BlackRock within the early 2000s and left in 2012 to develop into a director at KKR. He re-joined the asset supervisor in 2021.