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Record $36B quarterly fundraising drives 17% AUM growth and 20% fee-related earnings increase.

Despite a dip in realized performance income, Ares Management Corp (ARES) posts record quarterly fundraising and robust fee-related earnings growth, positioning for continued expansion.

Moby summary of Ares Management Corporation's Q2 2026 earnings call

Ares Management joins a small but growing number of large private-markets firms defying a market slowdown with quarterly growth both in its fundraising and capital deployment.

Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) reported second-quarter results marked by record fundraising, higher fee-paying assets under management and double-digit growth in fee-related earnings and realized income, as the alternative investment manager expanded activity across credit, real assets, secondaries and

ARES' Q2 earnings meet estimates as fee-related earnings and AUM grow y/y, even as revenues missed expectations.

Ares Capital and Blue Owl Capital reported resilient second-quarter results this week, while Ares Management posted record fundraising, highlighting continued institutional demand for private credit despite rising defaults, ‌retail redemptions and liquidity concerns. Ares Management, one of the industry's largest players, raised a record $36 billion ‌in the second quarter, including $23.7 billion for its credit strategies. Assets under management rose 17% from a year earlier to $671.3 billion.

Ares Management (ARES) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 0.00% and -4.16%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Alternative asset manager Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) will be announcing earnings results this Friday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.

Ares Management’s biggest private-credit fund took more losses from software loans in the second quarter. The $29 billion Ares Capital Corp. fund swung to a $188 million quarterly unrealized loss from existing loans compared with the same period in 2025, but the result was an improvement from a $306 million loss in the first quarter. While net new loan commitments declined by $323 million in the quarter, the fund did more new deals in June and July, especially with larger companies, fund executives said.

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Ares Management is scheduled to report its second-quarter results next week, and analysts expect a double-digit earnings growth.

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Despite the rising requests, fund managers returned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, down from the $7.4 billion they agreed to pay out in the prior period, according to data from investment bank Robert A. Stanger. Individual investors have awakened to the fact that they can’t exit from the funds—called business-development companies—as quickly as they entered, prompting more of them to start withdrawing. Fund managers are battening down the hatches for a prolonged period of elevated withdrawals.

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June 25 (Reuters) - Ares Management again capped withdrawals at its flagship private credit fund after redemption requests rose in the second quarter, according to a filing released Thursday.

Investors in one of Ares Management’s largest private-credit funds tried to withdraw about $1.5 billion of their money in the second quarter, representing 14.4% of the fund’s net asset value. Ares decided to limit redemptions to 5% of shares outstanding, the same cap the firm applied in the first quarter when investors asked to redeem 11.6%. The rise in withdrawal requests came from foreign investors; U.S. investors asked to redeem fewer shares in the second quarter compared with the first, Ares said in a letter to shareholders.

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Analysts expect high withdrawals to last more than a year, increasing the risk of forced liquidations.

Under pressure from investors, lenders are increasing costs and curbing sweeteners they used to win loans in an era of ultra-competition.

Private credit pioneer Ares Management disclosed ‌a wide array of new or increased stakes ‌in alternative asset vehicles including several direct lending funds in its quarterly ​13-F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. Ares, an alternative asset manager that said this month  it raised a record $30 billion during the first quarter, revealed that ‌it initiated a ⁠position in medical device manufacturer Integer Holdings during the same period, a stake that was ⁠valued at $53.3 million as of March 31. It also made smaller first-time investments in business development companies (BDCs) BlackRock TCP Capital and ​Carlyle Secured ​Lending.

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Ares Management’s first quarter saw strong revenue growth, with management attributing performance to robust institutional fundraising and broad-based product demand across its credit, real assets, and secondaries platforms. CEO Michael J. Arougheti emphasized that, despite a seasonal slowdown and geopolitical uncertainty, the firm’s deployment and fundraising remained resilient. He highlighted that “our pipeline of new institutional funds remains robust for this year and next year,” supporting