Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP: Fund Rating and Research File

In brief

Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP at a glance

The fund relies on Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act and Rule 506(b), so its interests go only to qualified purchasers in a private offering. The adviser reports about 12 beneficial owners and none outside the United States. As an insurance-dedicated fund it is held through insurance company separate accounts, alongside the few other holders the Treasury rules allow, and a family reaches it through a policy whose insurer offers it.

Apollo Capital Management, L.P. reports the fund in its own Form ADV of 28 October 2026, which gives the controls and service providers below.

One point to raise with the insurer: the filing reports that 0% of the fund's assets were valued in the last fiscal year by a person that is not related to the adviser. JP Morgan Hedge Fund Services is the administrator. The figure does not show how prices were set or checked, which is a question for the insurer.

Apollo Capital Management, L.P. reports 1 regulatory action and 2 civil proceedings in Item 11 of its Form ADV between 2018 and 2025, 1 concerning the adviser itself and the rest other companies in its group, with reported sanctions of about USD 8.5 million. The full record is set out below.

The rating

Why Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP has four stars

Behind it is Apollo, with USD 718 billion under management and an SEC registration that goes back to 2007. Deloitte audits the fund every year and the accounts go to investors. Valuation is the weak point: the adviser reports that none of the assets were valued last year by a person outside its group. Apollo also discloses a 2025 action by the SEC, which weighs a little on the record.

The rating looks only at the areas below, which matter to a family holding the fund through a private placement policy. Past returns play no part: these funds do not report them in their SEC filings, and they say little about what a policy will earn.

Conduct and regulatory record

What regulators and courts have recorded against the manager, and for platform series against the platform, as the advisers report it to the SEC. Several proceedings on one set of facts count as one matter. Recent and serious matters count most, matters of other companies in the group count for less, matters of individuals are weighed by the person's role and their bearing on the business, and the size of the firm is taken into account.

Reported controls

What the adviser reports to the SEC for the fund: whether the accounts are audited every year by an accountant registered with the PCAOB and subject to its regular inspection, whether audited statements go to investors and what the audit opinion says, whether the administrator and custodian are outside the adviser's group, and what share of the assets was valued last year by a person not related to the adviser.

Depth and experience of the manager

The assets the manager runs, its investment staff and how long it has been registered with the SEC.

Fund scale and investor base

The fund's gross assets, the number of its owners and how long it has been offered.

Reporting and filings

Whether the fund and its adviser keep their SEC filings current and consistent with each other.

Fit for a life insurance policy

Whether the fund is insurance-dedicated, so that a policy can hold it, and the minimum it asks. Liquidity terms join this element as they are documented.

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The fund at a glance

Identity, offering and service providers

Identity

Legal nameApollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP

OrganisedDelaware limited partnership, 2022

SEC CIK0001957808 EDGAR

Private fund ID805-4351409300 ADV

Investment managerApollo Capital Management, L.P. IAPD

Offering, as filed on Form D

ExemptionsRule 506(b); Investment Company Act s. 3(c)(7)

First sale1 September 2023

Minimum investmentUSD 1 as filed (nominal)

Amount soldUSD 60.2 million to date

Investors in the offering16

Sales commissionsNone reported

Latest filingForm D/A, 17 February 2026 Source

Size and ownership, as filed on Form ADV

Gross asset valueUSD 58,978,830 (ADV filed 28 October 2026)

Beneficial ownersAbout 12

Owned by non-US persons0%

Service providers

AuditorDeloitte & Touche LLP

CustodianJPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

AdministratorJP Morgan Hedge Fund Services

Prime brokerNone reported

Valued by a person not related to the adviser0% of assets, last fiscal year

Figures are shown as filed, with their dates. Form D counts investors in the offering and Form ADV counts beneficial owners, so the two numbers need not match. Gross asset value counts total assets without deducting borrowings or other liabilities, so it is not a net asset value. The minimum on Form D can be nominal; the amount a family actually needs is set by the insurer and the policy.

Inside a policy

What to check before this fund goes into a policy

Why the wrapper matters here

Interest from loans and bonds is ordinary income for a US taxpayer, taxed at up to 37% plus the 3.8% net investment income tax, every year. Held through a policy that meets the tax rules, the same income compounds without a yearly tax bill. How the numbers work

Liquidity

The fund's redemption terms are not in its public filings. Read them in the offering documents and set them against the way the policy will need cash: loans, withdrawals and the insurer's own rules for moving between funds.

Who chooses the investments

The policyholder can choose this fund from the insurer's menu but cannot direct what the fund buys. That line comes from the investor control rules, and it is the reason the fund exists in a separate insurance-only form.

Diversification

A policy's separate account must meet the diversification test of section 817(h). Because the fund is reached only through insurance policies, the test can look through to its assets if the fund meets the conditions of the Treasury rules; whether a given account passes is a question for the insurer, not something these filings show.

Valuation

Apollo Capital Management, L.P. reports that none of the fund's assets were valued last year by a person outside its group. Ask the insurer how it checks the price at which the account buys, sells and reports this fund.

Fees

Management and performance fees are set in the offering documents and are not shown in these filings. They come on top of the policy's own charges.

This is research, not an offer of the fund or advice to buy it. Interests in the fund are available only through an insurance company, and only to investors who qualify.

The adviser's record

Regulatory and legal record of Apollo Capital Management, L.P.

The full list for the firm is in the manager file.

What the adviser itself discloses in Item 11 of its Form ADV, summarised from the disclosure pages, with a link to the filing. Item 11 is filed for the adviser as a whole, so under each matter the fund it concerns is read from the disclosure itself.

202513 January 2025

Regulatory action by US Securities and Exchange Commission: cease and desist

Fund concerned: none named in the filing. The matter concerns the adviser itself, not a specific fund, and none of the insurance-dedicated funds in this file is named.

On January 13, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued a settled administrative order finding that Apollo Capital Management, LP ("Apollo") willfully violated Section 204 of the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act") and Rule 204-2(a)(7) thereunder. The order also found that Apollo failed to reasonably supervise its employees within the meaning of Advisers Act Section 203(e)(6). Specifically, the order found that from at least December 2019 to January 13, 2025, Apollo personnel sent and received communications on platforms that were not approved for business purposes, many of which were not preserved by Apollo on firm systems. In numerous instances, ...

US Securities and Exchange Commission · Decision & Order of Offer of Settlement 13 January 2025 · USD 8.5 million · Concerns the adviser itself · Form ADV, Item 11 disclosure

201824 August 2018

Civil action brought by private plaintiffs: money damages

Fund concerned: ADT Inc. shares, a portfolio company. None of the insurance-dedicated funds in this file is named.

Private plaintiffs · Judgment Rendered 8 January 2021 · No monetary sanction reported · Concerns another company in the group · Form ADV, Item 11 disclosure

201821 May 2018

Civil action brought by private plaintiffs: money damages

Fund concerned: ADT Inc. shares, a portfolio company. None of the insurance-dedicated funds in this file is named.

Private plaintiffs · Dismissed 29 October 2019 · No monetary sanction reported · Concerns another company in the group · Form ADV, Item 11 disclosure

These are the matters Apollo Capital Management, L.P. reports in Item 11 of its Form ADV, filed 28 October 2026. A reported matter is a fact disclosed by the adviser, not a finding by PPLI.com about this fund. None of them concerns the fund's investments.

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Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP

Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP at a glance

Why Apollo Credit Strategies IDF, LP has four stars

Conduct and regulatory record

Reported controls

Depth and experience of the manager

Fund scale and investor base

Reporting and filings

Fit for a life insurance policy

Identity, offering and service providers

Identity

Offering, as filed on Form D

Size and ownership, as filed on Form ADV

Service providers

What to check before this fund goes into a policy

Why the wrapper matters here

Liquidity

Who chooses the investments

Diversification

Valuation

Fees

Regulatory and legal record of Apollo Capital Management, L.P.

Regulatory action by US Securities and Exchange Commission: cease and desist

Civil action brought by private plaintiffs: money damages

Civil action brought by private plaintiffs: money damages

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