Apollo's CLO portfolio builds cut from 2–3 days to minutes with AI, says Redding Ridge COO
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-10-17
AI Engineer conference interview: Jack McDonald (Principal at Apollo, COO of Redding Ridge, Apollo's $50B structured credit/CLO manager) and Rowspace co-founder Michael Manapat on AI in finance. Apollo's CLO team used to build a mock portfolio by hand in Excel over 2–3 days — now minutes. They also automated a weekly trade reconciliation that took 2–3 people, explain why plugging into a generic LLM isn't enough (one data point, 20 sources, only one right), and why embedding engineers with the front office earns trust.
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