Ares Management Corporation 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026

Modified · Overview

Ares is a leading global alternative investment manager with $484.4622.5 billion of assets under management and over 3,2004,250 employees in over 3555 offices in more than 1525 countries. We offer our investors a range of investment strategies and seek to deliver attractive performance to an investor base that includes approximately 2,700over 2,850 direct institutional relationships and a significant retail investor base across our publicly-traded funds, sub-advised accounts and perpetual wealth vehicles. Since our inception in 1997, we have adhered to a disciplined investment philosophy that focuses on delivering strong risk-adjusted investment returns through market cycles. Ares believes each of its distinct but complementary investment groups in Credit, Real Assets, Private Equity Secondaries and SecondariesPrivate Equity is a market leader based on assets under management and investment performance. We believe we create value for our stakeholders not only through our investment performance, but also by expanding our product offerings, enhancing our distribution channels, increasing our global presence, investing in our non-investment functions, securing strategic partnerships and completing strategic acquisitions and portfolio purchases.