Julie Solomon, Partner and Head of Real Estate at Ares Management, discusses the impact of recent interest rate increases on the real estate sector and the broader market. Although challenges persist for lower-quality office assets and properties in secondary markets, she says overall lending conditions are expected to remain supportive for well-positioned real estate investments. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ares Management Corporation Partner & Head of Real Estate Julie Solomon and Stonepeak Partners Co-President Luke Taylor discuss where private capital is flowing across AI infrastructure, power and connectivity, speaking with Bloomberg’s moderator at Bloomberg Invest New York 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)

Apollo Global Management Inc.’s John Zito said the turmoil facing private credit could endure well into next year, but downplayed the idea that the wave of withdrawals in some funds are a problem.

Ares Management Partner and Head of Real Estate Julie Solomon says this higher interest rate environment has created a lot of discipline in real estate markets. She speaks at Bloomberg Invest on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

"There’s an argument that someone of our size and global reach should be larger, generally in private equity," Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti says during a discussion with Bloomberg's Dani Burger at Bloomberg Invest. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti says the outbreak of war in the Middle East hasn’t changed his investment expectations for how 2026 will play out during a discussion with Bloomberg's Dani Burger at Bloomberg Invest. (Source: Bloomberg)

A forecast last week from UBS Group AG analysts that private credit default rates could reach 15% was “absolutely wrong,” Ares Management Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Mike Arougheti said.

Ares Management Corporation Co-Founder & CEO, Michael Arougheti, discusses the private credit cycle, firm growth and the push to expand access beyond traditional institutional investors. He spoke with Bloomberg’s Dani Burger at Bloomberg Invest 2026 in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ares Management Corp. closed an $850 million deal that allowed an asset that its private equity business bought in 2018 to be rolled into a new vehicle.

Ares Management Corp. emerged as the primary buyer for a private credit portfolio sold by Arcmont Asset Management in the market for secondhand stakes, according to people familiar with the matter.

Optimum Communications Inc. said a top law firm’s withdrawal from representing it under pressure from Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, Oaktree Capital Management and others showed that they were participating in a cartel against it.

Around three years ago, after deciding it wanted to start placing bigger sports bets, Ares Management Corp. wrote a check for over $400 million to a maverick investor pushing a new model of football ownership.

Ares Management Corp. has moved to weaken John Textor’s operational control of his football club group, after continued losses and tension over one of the credit investor’s biggest sports bets.

Despite years of solid returns, direct lenders can't shake concerns about the once-niche corner of global finance.

Sports investing is turning into a private capital arms race. KKR has doubled down on its push into the sector, buying Arctos, as Apollo Global Management and Ares Management outline major investment plans of their own. Dave Dase, Global Co-head of Sports Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about sports as an asset class. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ares Management Corp. is engaged in an increasingly bitter dispute with John Textor, the majority shareholder of Eagle Football Holdings LLC, over the unwinding of one of its biggest sports investments.

Ares Management Corp. is leading a private credit financing of about €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) for Scandinavian software business EG A/S, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Secondaries firm Coller Capital closed a deal to extend the life of an Ares Management Corp. private credit portfolio, amassing more than $1.3 billion in total commitments.

Ares Management Corp. Chief Executive Officer Michael Arougheti downplayed the idea of trouble in the private credit market and fears of AI disruption, two factors that hammered shares of alternative asset managers recently.

Ares Management Corp. is providing $2.4 billion of debt financing to Vantage Data Centers, part of which may be used to fund the build-out of infrastructure supporting Oracle Corp.’s partnership with OpenAI.