  We use the "conspiracy" between infrared (IR) renormalons and condensates in
the operator product expansion for correlation functions to make predictions
concerning the structure of singularities in the Borel plane for the
perturbative series in quantum field theories with different levels of
supersymmetry. The same conspiracy can be used for establishing the absence of
condensates or IR renormalons in gauge theories with an IR conformal regime or
fully Higgsed gauge theories. The absence of the renormalon-induced factorial
divergence implies that instanton contributions (where present) must be
well-defined. We show that the conventional bubble-chain method for detecting
renormalon-induced factorial divergences in these theories is not sufficient.
