Ares Management
also referred to as: ares
34 statements across 7 episodes · 14 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2022 by Pete Stavros · said 122 times in 19 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Kipp deVeer (63), Ted Seides (28), Joel Holsinger (8), Vincent Daniel (3), Manny Citron (3), Mike Kelly (2), Ian Charles (2), Daniel Adamson (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2025 33 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
- Kipp deVeer – Scaling for Private Wealth Globally in Credit (Private Wealth 5, EP.449)
- Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 64 mentions in 4 episodes 16 per episode
- Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
- Marc Lasry – Avenues of Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.315)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Ares Management, oldest first
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Sep 26, 2022 bullish
May 15, 2023 neutral
Lasry: Mega-firms like Ares and Oaktree now rely on bank leverage
“What you're finding is the larger firms, whether it's Aries, Oaktree, will go out and end up doing these bilateral deals, and they'll end up using the leverage from a bank To generate the return. So I think, I would tell you, 10 years ago, people didn't really…”
Jul 24, 2023
Ares Manages Over $360B in AUM With $250B in Credit
“So Aries today is about 2600 people. We have 30 offices. The rough breakdown today is about 700 in New York, 700 in L.A. And about 400 in London. And then the balance are either folks out originating new deals or looking for clients. 360 something billion of A…”
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Jul 24, 2023 bullish
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Ares Managed $3B in CLOs With Just 65 Employees in 2004
“But at the time when I got there, it was about 65 people. It was LA only. I think we managed probably three billion of CLO money, largely bank loans, but some high yield in there too, because they were all market value CLOs. And Tony and Ben Rosenthal were get…”
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Jul 24, 2023
Junior Private Credit Sourcers Need 20 to 30 Sponsors for Deal Flow
“If you're covering large cap sponsors that do high volume, you know, the Advents or the Premieres, you know, Hellman Friedman, a couple of those will keep you pretty busy. And those obviously sit with probably our most experienced people. And then if you go do…”
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Contagion Risk Interconnects the Top 8 to 10 Alternative Asset Managers
“If something happens to Blackstone or Apollo or KKR, we're going to get the same question. What does your exposure look like? How do you guys think about this? So it's, yeah, there's an interrelatedness of eight or 10 of these companies for sure.”
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Multi-Product Platforms Originate Better Deals Than Single-Strategy Credit Funds
“If you're just a Mez fund, you only get calls on Mez deals. If you're just a Unitranche guy, you just get calls on Unitranches, right? So, and by the way, sometimes being in the Unitranche is better risk reward than being in the Mez and sometimes it's the othe…”
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Ares Caps Single-Position Fund Allocations Mostly Under One Percent
“We really don't like running portfolios probably more than two and a half percent positions just from an overall risk management perspective, but we're big enough now that most of the allocations to funds are less than one percent.”
Jul 24, 2023 bullish
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Feb 10, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
DeVeer: Retail Alternative Fund Fees Are Identical Across Major Managers
“If you were to launch a non-traded BDC today, you'd say, who are the biggest non-traded BDCs? What are their fees? Boom, by the way, they're all exactly the same, and they haven't moved much. That's true of the other asset classes as well, so everybody's a car…”
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
DeVeer: Ares Expects 20% of New Capital From Wealth, Trailing Peers
“Most firms like Aries expect that 40% of their capital raising going forward will come from the wealth channel. That's not our expectation, but I mean, I think if we think about sizing new capital on an annual basis, my guess is something like 20% of our forec…”
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
DeVeer: Blackstone Held 60% Share in Private Wealth Alternatives Around 2021
“When we were in the midst of negotiating the acquisition, we saw it as an asset that we could unlock, but it was really interesting period of time in 2002 1001, whenever it was, Blackstone, because of their early lead in the market, had a roughly 60, 65% marke…”
Jun 2, 2025 bullish
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Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Jun 2, 2025 bullish
Jun 2, 2025 bullish
Apr 9, 2026
Apr 9, 2026 positive
Ares won Milken family office deal over competitors due to philanthropic alignment
“We did something with Mike and Lowell Milken on their family office. Mike absolutely loved that we had this alignment and we had this transaction. On a deal where it's a tie with three or four people, it's like, I think I'd rather partner with this person. He'…”
Apr 9, 2026 positive
Ares completed billions in deals with asset managers joining Promote Giving
“We've now done deals with most of the groups because in this whole process of putting this together, you're all talking to each other at the top of the house level. And part of the conversation is we should be partnering with you on this. We've already done a …”