Ares Management Corp (NYSE: ARES-PB)

Ares Management Corporation is a leading global alternative investment manager offering a range of investment strategies across credit real assets secondaries and private equity to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to its investor base.

The company generates revenue primarily through management fees and performance-based fees such as carried interest and incentive fees earned from managing investment funds and vehicles for institutional and wealth investors across its various investment strategies.

The company operates through the following segments: Credit Real Assets Secondaries Private Equity and Other Businesses.

• The Credit Group manages $406.9 billion of assets under management across liquid credit alternative credit opportunistic credit direct lending and APAC credit strategies serving as one of the largest managers of credit strategies in the non-investment grade credit universe.

• The Real Assets Group manages $139.1 billion of assets under management across real estate and infrastructure investment strategies with teams focused on equity and debt investments in real estate and infrastructure assets globally.

• The Secondaries Group manages $42.1 billion of assets under management across private equity secondaries real estate secondaries infrastructure secondaries and credit secondaries strategies investing in secondary markets across alternative asset classes.

• The Private Equity Group manages $25.3 billion of assets under management across corporate private equity and APAC private equity strategies focusing on growth buyout transactions and structured growth equity investments in North America Europe and the APAC region.

• Other Businesses manages $9.1 billion of assets under management including Ares Insurance Solutions strategic investments from company sponsored SPACs a venture capital business focused on growth-stage companies and applied artificial intelligence and other initiatives such as investments in structured financing vehicles.

Ares Management Corporation is a market leader in each of its investment groups based on assets under management and investment performance and competes globally with traditional asset managers business development companies specialized funds investment managers and other financial institutions in the intensely competitive alternative investment management industry.

The company serves over 2,850 direct institutional relationships including corporate and public pension funds insurance companies sovereign wealth funds banks investment managers endowments and foundations as well as a significant retail investor base across its publicly-traded funds sub-advised accounts and perpetual wealth vehicles.