Apollo Investment Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2018, Announces Executive Officer Appointments, and Announces Changes to Fee Structure

Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Other Recent Highlights:

• Announces the following executive officer appointments
  • Howard Widra appointed Chief Executive Officer and named a Director
  • Tanner Powell appointed President
  • James Zelter to continue to serve as a Director

• Board of Directors approved the reduction in the asset coverage requirement in April ⁽¹⁾
• Announces changes to fee structure
  • Base Management Fee. Effective April 1, 2018, the base management fee has been permanently reduced from an annual rate of 2.0% of the Company’s gross assets to 1.5% of gross assets up to 1.0x debt-to-equity and to 1.0% of gross assets in excess of 1.0x debt-to-equity. The tiered management fee structure has been established as a result of the reduction in the Company’s applicable asset coverage test. ⁽¹⁾ For purposes of calculating the base management fee, the definition of gross assets has been revised to exclude cash and cash equivalents.
  • Incentive Fee on Income. The incentive fee on income has been revised to include a total return requirement with a rolling twelve quarter look-back beginning from April 1, 2018. The calculation of the incentive fee with the total return requirement will begin on January 1, 2019. The incentive fee rate and performance threshold remain 20% and 7% respectively. There is no change to the catch-up provision. For the period between April 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018, the incentive fee rate will be waived to 15%, subject to the 7% annualized performance threshold.

• Net investment income per share for the quarter was $0.15 compared to $0.16for the quarter ended December 31, 2017
• Net asset value per share as of the end of the quarter was $6.56 compared to $6.60 as of December 31, 2017, a 0.6% decline
• Continued to successfully execute portfolio repositioning strategy, including increasing core assets ⁽²⁾ to 77% of the portfolio and significantly reducing non-core assets
• Net leverage ⁽³⁾ as of the end of the quarter was 0.57x, compared to 0.62x as of December 31, 2017
• Declared a distribution of $0.15 per share
• Repurchased 1.9 million shares of common stock for an aggregate cost of $11.1 million during the quarter

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:AINV) or the “Company,” or “Apollo Investment,” today announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2018. The Company’s net investment income was $0.15 per share for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, compared to $0.16 per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2017. The Company’s net asset value (“NAV”) was $6.56per share as of March 31, 2018, compared to $6.60 as of December 31, 2017.

On May 17, 2018, the Board of Directors declared a distribution of $0.15 per share, payable on July 6, 2018 to shareholders of record as of June 21, 2018.

Mr. James Zelter, Director, commented, “Today’s executive officer appointments reflect the valuable contributions that Howard and Tanner have made implementing AINV's portfolio repositioning strategy over the past two years. I look forward to continuing to work with them as a Director of the Company and as Co-President of Apollo Global Management.” Mr. Zelter continued, “We are happy to announce changes to our fee structure which we believe more closely aligns the incentives of our manager with the interests of our shareholders and reflects our confidence in the strength of our business. The combination of our new fee structure and our active stock repurchase program demonstrate our commitment to creating value for our shareholders.”

Mr. Howard Widra, Apollo Investment’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer commented, “I am very pleased to be taking on the CEO role as we near the completion of our portfolio repositioning plan. We thank Jim for his contributions as CEO and we are delighted that we will continue to benefit from his strategic insights and counsel as a Director of the company.” Mr Widra continued, “With the recent passage of The Small Business Credit Availability Act, we believe that we will be able to accelerate our de-risking investment strategy. As previously announced, we intend to use the incremental investment capacity to invest in lower risk assets which we believe to be in the best interests of all of our constituents.”

EXECUTIVE OFFICER APPOINTMENTS

The Company announced today that it has made two executive officer appointments. Mr. Howard Widra, who has served as President of the Company since June 2016 has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Mr. James Zelter, who has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2006. Mr. Zelter will continue to serve as a Director and Mr. Widra has been named a Director. Mr. Tanner Powell has been appointed President of Company filling the vacancy created by Mr. Widra’s appointment. Mr. Powell will also continue to serve as Chief Investment Officer for the Company’s Investment Adviser. These appointments reflect Messrs. Widra and Powell’s ongoing contributions to the successful execution of the Company’s portfolio repositioning plan over the past two years.

Howard Widra

Mr. Howard Widra has been with Apollo Global Management, LLC and/or its affiliates since 2013. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Investment Corporation in May 2018 and previously served as President of Apollo Investment Corporation since June 2016. Mr. Widra is a co-founder of MidCap Financial, an $8 billion specialty finance business, and was formerly its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to MidCap, Mr. Widra was the founder and President of Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Widra was President of GE Capital Healthcare Commercial Finance and held senior roles in its predecessor entities including President of Heller Healthcare Finance, and COO of Healthcare Financial Partners. Mr. Widra holds a J.D., Cum Laude, from the Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Tanner Powell

Mr. Tanner Powell has been with Apollo Global Management, LLC since 2006. He was appointed President of Apollo Investment Corporation in May 2018 and has served as Chief Investment Officer for Apollo Investment Management, L.P., the Investment Adviser for Apollo Investment Corporation since June 2016. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Powell served as an analyst in Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Area (PIA), concentrating on mezzanine investing. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Powell was an analyst in the Industrials group at Deutsche Bank. Mr. Powell holds a B.A. from Princeton University.