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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.
Town Lane and Gillon Property Group acquired Watters Creek Village, a 460k SF grocery-anchored mixed-use center in Allen, Texas, on April 1, 2026. An Ares Real Estate fund (ARES) provided debt financing to support the transaction.
The 46-acre site includes ~360k SF of retail anchored by Market Street and ~100k SF of boutique office space along U.S. Highway 75 (≈200k vehicles/day). The JV plans signage, tenant upgrades, marketing, and community programming, with SHOP Companies leading retail leasing and Thirty-Four Commercial handling office leasing.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) completed the final close of Ares Special Opportunities Fund III (ASOF III) and related vehicles, raising over $9.8 billion of capital, including $8.3 billion of equity commitments, exceeding its target and prior vintage fund size.
The Opportunistic Credit strategy will deploy private debt, equity and hybrid solutions to middle-market companies and may opportunistically purchase stressed public corporate credits. The team comprises 33 investment professionals and the broader Ares Credit platform reports $405 billion AUM as of December 31, 2025.
Convene Hospitality Group (NYSE:ARES) secured $230 million in strategic growth capital on March 24, 2026 to accelerate global expansion across its multi-brand hospitality platform. The financing includes credit from TPG and additional equity from existing shareholders including Ares funds. Funds will support development, technology, production and selective acquisitions, and CHG plans new New York openings in 2026.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) closed a single-asset continuation vehicle with approximately $850 million of commitments to hold Convergint Technologies, L.P., alongside Leonard Green & Partners’ Sage Fund and Vintage Strategies at Goldman Sachs. Ares will also make a substantial new investment and retain a shared control position with co-sponsors LGP and Harvest Partners.
Since Ares’ 2018 investment, Convergint has roughly quadrupled Adjusted EBITDA, delivered robust organic growth and completed over 40 acquisitions, supporting its global service-based systems integration platform.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) announced that CEO Michael Arougheti will present at the 2026 RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 12:15pm ET. A live audio webcast will be available via the Investor Resources section of the company website, with a replay posted shortly after the event.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) priced its second European Direct Lending CLO, EDL CLO II, at over €300 million. The vehicle holds directly originated loans to 70+ Western European middle-market companies, is weighted to senior-secured floating-rate loans, and will be rated by S&P and KBRA.
Ares said EDL CLO II is among the first multi-currency middle-market CLOs in Europe. Ares’ European Direct Lending strategy has ~100 investment professionals, managed over $84 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025, and its CLO franchise has issued 108 CLOs since 1999.
Radial Power announced commissioning of two rooftop solar projects—Tuscany 6 (446.6 kWDC) and Tuscany 9 (855.8 kWDC)—hosted on Ares real estate (NYSE:ARES) in Austin. Together they supply ~1.97 GWh annually and qualify for the ITC plus the domestic content bonus under Austin Energy’s Solar Standard Offer program.
The installations are the first projects completed under Austin Energy’s SSO program and use underutilized rooftop space to support local decarbonization and energy resilience.
Ares (NYSE:ARES) reported record U.S. direct lending originations of approximately $19.4 billion closed in Q4 2025 across 119 transactions, and approximately $55.0 billion closed in the 12 months ended December 31, 2025 across 358 transactions.
Selected Q4 transactions included senior secured facilities supporting acquisitions, recapitalizations, and corporate growth for companies such as Bain Capital/Concert Golf Partners, Moderna, TPG/Pike Corporation, and others.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2025. Q4 GAAP net income was $54.2 million and Q4 EPS was $0.08. After-tax realized income was $529.1 million; fee related earnings were $527.7 million.
The firm exceeded $600 billion AUM, recorded over $100 billion of fundraising and investing in 2025, closed the GCP International acquisition, and announced a 20% increase in its quarterly common dividend to $1.35 per share.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) announced a Q1 2026 dividend of $0.48 per share, payable March 31, 2026 to holders of record March 13, 2026. Ares reported Q4-2025 GAAP net income of $293M ($0.41/share) and core EPS of $0.50. For FY-2025, GAAP net income was $1,299M ($1.86/share); portfolio investments at fair value totaled $29,485M and NAV was $19.94 per share. Debt outstanding was $16.0B with approximately $5.5B available borrowing capacity. Q4-2025 gross commitments were $5.8B with exits of $4.7B.