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- Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES; ARES-PA) serves as a leading global alternative investment manager, offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across credit, real estate, private equity, infrastructure, and secondaries asset classes. The firm provides flexible capital to established businesses through its Credit Group, which manages liquid and illiquid credit strategies including direct lending, syndicated loans, high-yield bonds, alternative credit, asset-backed securities, and opportunistic credit with approximately $359 billion in assets under management; Real Estate Group, focusing on public and private equity and debt strategies in the U.S., Europe, and Japan via open- and closed-end vehicles, separately managed accounts, non-traded REITs, and publicly traded REITs with about $104 billion in AUM; Private Equity Group, targeting corporate private equity, infrastructure, power, and special opportunities in North America, Europe, and Asia with roughly $25 billion in AUM; Infrastructure Group, originating debt and equity in digital, energy, transportation, utility, climate, and sustainable infrastructure with around $20 billion in AUM; Secondaries Group, investing in secondary markets across private equity, credit, real estate, and infrastructure with approximately $31 billion in AUM; and Other Businesses including Ares Insurance Solutions and insurance-related strategies. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Ares Management operates globally across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, managing over $546 billion in assets under management as of early 2025 with approximately 4,200 employees; its client base encompasses pension funds, insurance companies, banks, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments. Recent developments include the completion of the acquisition of GLP Capital Partners International in March 2025, bolstering capabilities in logistics, digital infrastructure, self-storage, and clean energy with over 1GW of IT capacity in hyperscale projects; a $350 million investment in MGT in December 2025, valuing the SLED services provider at $1.25 billion and creating the sector's first unicorn; the introduction of Marq in December 2025 to unify its global logistics platform within the Real Estate business; and the announced acquisition of BlueCove in October 2025 to launch Ares Systematic Credit, building on a 2023 minority stake amid AUM growth from $1.8 billion.