AI Agents Cut 3-Day Portfolio Builds to Minutes — Jack McDonald, Apollo & Michael Manapat, Rowspace
Apollo's CLO business used to spend 2–3 days building a single mock portfolio by hand in Excel.
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Key points
- Jack McDonald (Principal at Apollo and COO of Redding Ridge, Apollo's ~$50B structured credit and CLO manager) talks with Rowspace co-founder Michael Manapat about where AI becomes mission-critical in finance.
- 3:38 Portfolio construction: days → minutes
- 9:21 How Apollo became AI-native early
- 18:20 Advice for builders applying AI to finance
Sources (1)
- [1]AI Agents Cut 3-Day Portfolio Builds to Minutes — Jack McDonald, Apollo & Michael Manapat, RowspaceAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 16, 11:00 PM
Apollo's CLO business used to spend 2–3 days building a single mock portfolio by hand in Excel.
Jack McDonald (Principal at Apollo and COO of Redding Ridge, Apollo's ~$50B structured credit and CLO manager) talks with Rowspace co-founder Michael Manapat about where AI becomes mission-critical in finance.
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