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Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc.

Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc.

Manager Commentary (unaudited)

As of December 31, 2016

Dear Shareholders,

We would like to start by saying thank you for your interest in the Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc. and the Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. (the “Funds”). We appreciate the trust and confidence you have placed with us through your investment in the Funds.

Despite a difficult beginning, 2016 ended up being a very positive year for the corporate credit markets with performance for both leveraged loans and high yield bonds exceeding the expectations of most as a number of catalysts played out in their favor. After concerns over commodity prices weighed heavily on high-yield in particular in late 2015, and leading into 2016, a move higher in these prices at a period of low interest rates in mid-February led to heavy inflows of capital into both high yield and leveraged loan mutual funds. This spurred a rally in both loans and bonds that continued, almost without interruption, over the balance of the year; using widely-reference indices, from its low point on February 11th the high yield market rallied +24.5% while from its low point on February 17th the leveraged loan market rallied +11.8%, both through year end. Where certain capital markets had broken down to an extent heading into the year that in many cases new syndications of leveraged loans could not be completed by banks due to a lack of demand, this early-2016 moderation created the type of conditions that allowed these markets to function again, at relatively attractive return profiles, in a manner that begat further, incremental improvement. With price points established and supply at the banks starting to clear, and the commodity environment diffused of much of the volatility that had marked it over the preceding two years, more normalized high yield and loan markets allowed for the kind of investment opportunities that the Funds can most directly benefit from.

There were many elements of both of these markets in 2016 that spoke to both the causes for the extended rally that we experienced and the reasons why this was occurring at all. Leveraged loan funds recorded inflows of $6.3Bn in 2016, including $5.0Bn into exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), but the annual number does not reflect the timing of inflows which was weighted very heavily towards the back half of the year – inflows were recorded in 23 of the last 26 weeks for a total inflow of $11.8Bn over that period versus an outflow of -$5.6Bn over the first 26 weeks of the year. Concurrently, after reaching a low of 1.36% on July 8th, the yield on the 10Yr US Treasury moved steadily higher over the back half of the year, hitting a high yield for 2016 of 2.60% on December 15th. Regardless of why rates were rising, either ahead of or after the election, the probability we are entering an environment of higher rates is being taken by the market to be rising and as such, floating-rate debt has been in growing demand. This move in interest rates did not, however, present an obstacle to continued outperformance for the high yield market; since the low point for the 10Yr US Treasury, through the end of the year, the high yield market returned +6.6%.

Against this rates backdrop and a broader environment that saw greatly reduced levels of volatility across nearly all of the capital markets towards year-end, fundamentals in the corporate credit market remain resilient. The lagging twelve-month leveraged loan default rate hit a ten-month low of 1.58% by principal amount at month-end December, this after falling for five consecutive months. Of the twenty issuers that defaulted in 2016, more than half were by companies in the oil & gas and metals & mining sectors. If you look at fundamental performance, we see similarly positive performance. Excluding commodity-oriented companies, revenue growth within high yield in Q3 ’16 year over year was +5.8%, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) growth was +6.1% year over year; the same analysis put Q3 leverage for non-commodity companies at 4.03x, lower quarter over quarter with higher levels of EBITDA. While this generalizes what is clearly a complicated picture across the various industries represented in the leveraged loan and high yield markets, the default rate remains low in an environment where the capital markets are open to companies looking to refinance debt and optimize capital structures, and fundamentals are generally benign.

Despite what was a broadly positive 2016 for the credit markets, or perhaps because of how well these markets have performed of late, we are expecting to deal with greater volatility than that which presented itself over the preceding three quarters in 2017. With a new administration potentially pursuing divergent policies around tax, trade, etc. against a changing rate environment, in which business models in various industries are regularly changing and coming under pressure from new competitors, the Funds should see the kind of opportunities to invest in the coming year that have historically been fruitful, periods of limited demand from other sources of capital. As such, we regularly work to identify opportunities within businesses where we see value when for market related reasons they become available at attractive prices, while positioning ourselves defensively when valuations may be more stretched.

We appreciate your interest and support in the Funds. If you have any questions about the Funds, please call 1-888-301-3838, or visit our website at www.agmfunds.com.

Sincerely,

Apollo Credit Management, LLC

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