Ares Management
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager providing clients with a broad range of credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure investment solutions, with approximately $525 billion in assets under management as of 2025. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in 35 cities across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, Ares has built one of the most comprehensive and rapidly growing alternative investment platforms in the world. According to its website at ares.com, the firm operates across three primary business groups — Credit, Real Assets, and Private Equity — serving a global client base of institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, and retail investors through a diverse range of investment products and vehicles.
Ares' Credit Group, described at ares.com, is the largest component of the firm's platform and manages strategies spanning leveraged loans, high yield bonds, alternative credit, direct lending, structured credit, and real estate debt across global markets. The Credit Group's comprehensive approach to credit investing draws on Ares' deep research capabilities, extensive corporate relationships, and market presence across the full credit spectrum from investment-grade to distressed, providing the firm with a distinctive advantage in sourcing, evaluating, and managing credit investments across economic cycles. Ares Management is the sponsor of multiple business development companies and closed-end funds that provide individual investors with access to the firm's institutional-grade credit investment strategies through registered, publicly available investment vehicles.
Ares Management's Private Equity Group invests in buyout, growth equity, and special situations transactions across North America, Europe, and Asia, while its Real Assets Group manages investments in real estate equity and credit, infrastructure equity, and infrastructure debt. According to ares.com, the firm's multi-strategy, multi-geography platform creates significant synergies across its investment groups, with insights from credit markets informing equity underwriting, real assets expertise supporting both credit and equity investment decisions, and a shared operational infrastructure enabling efficient scaling across the platform's rapidly growing asset base. Ares' combination of scale, comprehensive strategy coverage, disciplined investment process, and global reach positions it as one of the most significant and influential participants in the global alternative investment management industry.