Ares Management overview
Stories about Ares Management
Ares’ public BDC agrees to buy Apollo-backed rival
The cash-and-stock deal calls for holders of MidCap Financial Investment Corp to receive a 30% premium to the pre-deal price.
Ares posts strong fundraising, deployment in Q2 despite BDC withdrawals
Ares Management raises a record $36.4bn in capital and deploys $36bn
BDC redemption requests in Q2: more of the same, if not worse
The trend among retail investors that started in Q1 accelerates, on average, and involves many of the same large fund managers.
Ares and Clearstream pen deal to expand wealth manager access
The deal will make Ares’s private markets products available to a wider range of wealth managers.
Ares names new Asia credit head
An ex-Goldman Sachs executive will succeed Edwin Wong, with new co-heads for the Asia special situations strategy also in place.
Ares supports Vantage Data Centers via a $2.4bn debt facility
The manager commits two-thirds, or $1.6bn, of the total, with $330m of it at closing.
Ares posts record AUM, driven by direct lending fundraising
While the firm’s fundamentals were solid, investors cautious about private credit’s future punished Ares’ shares.
PDI 200: HPS gains ground in our 2025 ranking
Ares retains the top spot in our ranking as North America asserts its dominance when it comes to capital accumulation.
Ares Management contact information
Offices
1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400, Los Angeles, 90067, United StatesContacts
| Name | Job title | Location | |
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Key Contact Mr. Anup Agarwal | Job titlePartner, Head & Chief Investment Officer of Ares Insurance Solutions | LocationLos Angeles, United States | Email  -------- |
| Key ContactMr. Michael Arougheti | Job titleDirector, Co-Founder & CEO | LocationNew York, United States | Email ------ |
| Key ContactMr. Jeremy Bergman | Job titlePartner, Head of Product Management & Investor Relations | LocationNew York, United States | Email ---------- |
| Key ContactMr. Kipp DeVeer | Job titleDirector, Co-President & Investment Committee Member | LocationNew York, United States | Email -------- |
Ares Management fund commitments
Known fund commitments: 5
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Ares Management funds managed
Funds in market: 16
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Closed funds: 64
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Stories that mention Ares Management
Consumer lending on the rise despite economic pressures
As banks sell US consumer loans and insurers bid up prices, private credit managers are split between leaning in, staying underweight and waiting for distress.
Three key trends in fund finance
Competitive pricing, innovation and a growing lender ecosystem are fuelling the products’ appeal.
PEI Private Credit 200: North American GPs reinforce their dominance
Our annual ranking of private credit's biggest fundraisers also shows capital raising increasing overall – and rising especially fast for the largest fund managers.
What follows the ‘SaaSpocalypse’?
The worst of the software sell-off phase may be over, but private credit firms are still assessing the extent to which it will impact US portfolios over the coming months and years. David Brooke reports.
North American GPs dominant as fundraising accelerates
Our PEI Private Credit 200 ranking shows capital raising increasing overall – and accelerating especially fast for the largest fund managers.
Apollo’s capital solutions business drives record fees in Q2
New York-based manager’s origination machine has grown AUM by 25% in one year to $1.05trn.
Oaktree adds quartet for new Asia private credit strategy
The private debt specialist GP has hired investment professionals from Singapore state fund GIC and rival managers Ares, Goldman Sachs and Partners Group.
Are BDC intermediary relationships changing?
While some managers suggest their relationship with intermediaries is the same, investor capital continues to leave non-listed BDCs.