Ares Management

Ares Management, founded in 1997 and publicly traded, operates as a global alternative investment manager with over two decades of performance across credit, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure. For family offices seeking institutional-quality access to private markets, Ares offers a dedicated channel through Ares Wealth Management Solutions (AWMS), a division specifically structured to serve individual investors, financial advisors, and private wealth clients through private and non-listed fund vehicles.

The firm's scale is notable: it runs primary and secondary investment strategies across four distinct asset classes, with fundraising activity in the billions across each. Recent capital raises include $9.8 billion for an opportunistic credit strategy, $5.4 billion for U.S. And Europe value-add real estate, and a $1.7 billion private credit continuation vehicle. The breadth of the platform means family offices can access multiple alternative asset classes through a single manager relationship, rather than building separate manager relationships for credit, real estate, and infrastructure separately.

Key product and service attributes relevant to private wealth clients include:

• Private and non-listed fund vehicles distributed through AWMS
• Strategies spanning direct lending, opportunistic credit, CLOs, real estate equity and debt, private equity, infrastructure debt, and secondaries
• Public vehicles including BDCs and closed-end funds for more liquid exposure
• Dedicated wealth management contact line and email separate from institutional channels
• Secondary market capabilities across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure

The trade-off a family office accepts is that Ares is fundamentally an asset manager, not an advisory or reporting partner. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and minimum investment thresholds are not publicly disclosed. Smaller family offices may find access constrained by institutional minimums typical of this caliber of manager.

• Providing family offices and private wealth clients access to alternative investment funds
• Managing private credit and direct lending strategies
• Deploying capital into real estate equity and debt
• Executing secondary market transactions across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure
• Offering infrastructure investment strategies including infrastructure debt
• Distributing private and non-listed fund vehicles through the AWMS wealth channel

• Ares Wealth Management Solutions (AWMS) dedicated private wealth distribution channel
• Primary and secondary investment strategies across four asset classes
• European and U.S. Direct lending programs
• Opportunistic credit strategies
• Real estate value-add equity strategies (U.S. And Europe)
• Infrastructure opportunities and infrastructure debt
• CLO management within liquid credit
• Private equity secondaries
• Publicly traded BDC (Ares Capital Corporation, ARCC)
• Closed-end public funds (ACRE, ARDC)

Built for Single Family Office (SFO), Multi Family Office (MFO), Private Wealth Owners / Principals, Advisors / Wealth Advisors (RIA).

Dedicated phone and email contacts by asset class and investor type; separate Wealth Management Solutions line at (866) 324-7348; regional media contacts for Europe and Asia-Pacific.