Over the last several years, Apollo Asset Management Inc.'s parent company, Apollo Global Management Inc., has made significant changes to enhance its corporate governance, including changes to improve the effectiveness of its board. We also view senior management as effective, and we think it has breadth and depth of experience as well as minimal key-man risk. We revised our assessment of Apollo's management and governance to positive from neutral and affirmed the 'A' issuer credit rating. The stable outlook reflects our expectation that Apollo Asset Management Inc. (AAM) will maintain leverage below 1.5x for the next 12-24 months. We expect the company to continue to grow its assets under management (AUM) and maintain strong investment performance and exceptional liquidity. We