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.
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.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) completed acquisition of BlueCove Limited and launched Ares Systematic Credit on February 3, 2026.
The integrated business, led by Alex Khein, comprises ~60 professionals in London and brings approximately $5.5 billion of AUM into the Ares Credit Group, which managed $397 billion of assets as of September 30, 2025.
The strategy offers systematic fixed-income approaches across high-yield, investment-grade corporates, convertibles, and liquid credit instruments using proprietary technology and research-driven methods.
Elara Caring announced a strategic investment from Ares and DaVita (DVA) to expand clinically advanced, in‑home care for complex and high‑acuity patients. The partners will co‑develop a kidney‑specific home care model and support Elara’s scale-up while Elara remains an independent company led by CEO Ananth Mohan.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, with closing expected later in 2026; financial terms were not disclosed.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) announced the tax characterization of its 2025 common stock distributions (CUSIP 04010L103). Total distributions for 2025 were $1.9200 per share, of which $1.356512 (70.65172%) is ordinary dividend eligible for the 20% qualified rate designation and $0.563488 (29.34828%) is nonqualified ordinary income. No portion was designated as capital gain dividend.
Per-payment ordinary rates were $0.339128 and 20%-rate amounts $0.140872; interest-related dividend percentages ranged ~84.75%–85.64% by payment date.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) led a $1.6 billion debt financing as administrative agent to support the merger of Suave Brands and Elida Beauty, creating Evermark, LLC. Evermark combines household personal care brands including Suave, Q-tips, ChapStick, Pond's, Caress, St. Ives, Noxzema and TIGI.
The financing supports Evermark's launch as a global personal care platform and reflects Ares' US Direct Lending scale and consumer vertical focus.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) announced that CEO Michael Arougheti will present at the Bank of America Securities 2026 Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 8:50am ET.
A live audio webcast will be available on the company's Investor Resources website and a replay will be posted shortly after the event.