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When Private Equity Plays Hardball, Loans End Up Costing More

Appeared on September 11, 2026

Research by Marshall M. Austin Term Professor of Finance and Associate Dean for Research Greg Nini, PhD, was featured in a Sept. 10 story in Bloomberg News about companies owned by Apollo Global Management and a number of other private equity firms paying roughly one percentage point more to borrow in corporate loan markets.