Ares Management Corporation reports developments across its global alternative investment management platform, including credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure strategies. Company news commonly covers quarterly results, fee and performance income, fundraising, fund closings, direct lending origination activity and dividend declarations on its common stock.
Updates also track Ares Credit funds, Ares Commercial Finance, value-add real estate vehicles, Asia credit and special situations strategies, and sub-advised credit products. Recurring themes include capital deployment, senior secured financing commitments, fundraising across asset classes, global platform expansion and operating leadership changes.
Middle River Power has completed its acquisition of Panoche Energy Center from an Ares (ARES) Infrastructure Equity fund.
Panoche is a fully contracted, 427-megawatt natural gas generation facility in Firebaugh, California. The acquisition follows Middle River Power's additions of the 240 MW Midway-Sunset facility in California and the 250 MW Brush facility in Colorado earlier this year.
Middle River Power expects to apply its hybridization strategy to Panoche, pairing thermal generation with energy storage to meet rising demand from utilities, data centers and industrial customers. Ares supported Panoche since its development twenty years ago.
Ares Management (ARES) has moved its third-quarter earnings conference call to 9:00am ET on Thursday, October 29, 2026. Results for the quarter ending September 30, 2026 will be released earlier that morning, before the New York Stock Exchange opens. The call will be available by telephone and live webcast, with an archived replay available through November 29, 2026.
Ares Management (ARES)'s private equity fund and LightBay Capital will remain Awayday's controlling shareholders following a closed Warburg Pincus investment.
The investment was made by the Warburg Pincus Capital Solutions Founders Fund. Awayday will use proceeds to return capital to existing equity investors, including the Ares fund, LightBay and rollover equity partners. It will also deliver proceeds to local operators and supporting team members. Investment terms were not disclosed. Awayday manages more than 18,000 vacation rental properties across the United States, supported by more than 1,800 team members.
Ares Capital (ARCC) will release its third-quarter earnings on October 27, 2026, before the Nasdaq Global Select Market opens. The results cover the quarter ended September 30, 2026. A webcast and conference call to discuss the results will follow at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time that day.
Ares Management (ARES) completed the final close of its inaugural Global Structured Solutions Fund and affiliated vehicles, raising approximately $4.2 billion.
The Fund exceeded its $1 billion target. Through the strategy, Ares’ Private Equity Secondaries team aims to provide flexible capital to fund managers, including support for managers’ own fund commitments, investor commitments to seed new strategies, and succession plans. Ares funds have deployed nearly $9 billion across structured solutions transactions since 2013. The broader Ares Secondaries Group managed $44 billion of assets as of June 30, 2026.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) announced that certain of its funds provided a $2.0 billion debt facility to Phoenix Tower International.
The facility forms part of PTI’s $6.5 billion multi-jurisdiction financing, with Ares funding approximately $1.8 billion at closing. The new facility will consolidate PTI’s existing loans and provide additional capacity for growth across existing and new markets globally. PTI operates more than 33,000 wireless sites across 23 countries. Ares Infrastructure Debt helped structure the transaction, extending Ares’ existing financing relationship with PTI.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) completed a Plenitude ownership and governance reorganization involving over €1 billion contributed by Ares Alternative Credit funds. Ares and Eni increased their capital contribution by approximately €1.5 billion, based on a €10.75 billion equity valuation before the new capital. Following completion, Ares holds 26.24% of Plenitude, Eni holds 65.03% and Energy Infrastructure Partners holds 8.73%. Ares initially acquired a 20% stake in 2025 for approximately €2 billion.
Ares and Eni will jointly control Plenitude. Ares will appoint three board members, including Stefano Questa as chairman. The company describes the transaction as strengthening Plenitude’s capital structure and supporting its long-term growth ambitions.
Ares Management (ARES) will release its third-quarter earnings on October 29, 2026, before the New York Stock Exchange opens. The results cover the quarter ending September 30, 2026.
A webcast and conference call will follow at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time that day. An archived replay will be available by telephone and through the Investor Resources section of the company website through November 29, 2026.
Harbor Capital Advisors marked five years as an ETF issuer on September 21, 2026, highlighting the five-year track records of the Harbor Ares Systematic High Yield ETF (SIHY) and Harbor Ares Systematic Multi-Sector Income ETF (SIFI), both subadvised by Ares Systematic Credit, an affiliate of Ares Management Corporation (ARES).
SIHY focuses on security selection in U.S. high yield bonds, while SIFI combines security selection with dynamic management of credit and duration across high yield and investment grade bonds. As of June 30, 2026, SIHY’s 5-year annualized return at NAV was 4.75% versus 3.82% for the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index (5-year figure as of September 14, 2026), and SIFI’s 5-year annualized return at NAV was 2.12% versus -0.59% for the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (5-year figure as of September 14, 2026). Gross expense ratios are 0.48% for SIHY and 0.50% for SIFI.
Harbor reports AUM of $69.9 billion as of June 30, 2026, while Ares reports over $671 billion in assets under management on that date.
Momentum Financial Services Group (AREA) has renewed and upsized its secured loan facility with Ares Alternative Credit funds to C$810 million. The commitment increased from C$657.9 million, an upsize of C$152.1 million, and includes an accordion feature that may provide up to an additional C$130 million of capacity. The facility’s term has been extended through January 2029. Momentum states that the larger facility will support growth in its Canadian loan receivables portfolio and help fund new products expected to launch in Canada and the United States. Ares Management Corporation (ARES) reports having over $671 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2026.