Apollo’s Co-President Sees ‘Collective Delusion’ as Deal Valuations Soar
- Valuation multiples are rising ‘incredibly dramatically’
- Dealmakers pay up thanks to historically low interest rates
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Apollo Global Management Inc. Co-President Scott Kleinman said record-low interest rates are causing a “collective delusion” on deal valuations.
Near-zero interest rates are having “a whole variety of unintended consequences” and are causing valuation multiples to rise “incredibly dramatically,” Kleinman said in an on-stage discussion Wednesday with Bloomberg News’s Jan-Henrik Foerster at the SuperReturn conference in Berlin.