Last week, Jana Weiss Markowicz, Ares’ Chief Operating Officer for U.S. Direct Lending, and Jeff Taylor, CFA, Global Chief Operating Officer within Ares Wealth Management Solutions, led panel discussions at the Financial Times’ Future of Asset Management. Jana spoke on a panel about the future of private credit, exploring private credit’s performance and the sectors and geographies of interest in today’s market; Jeff spoke on a panel about convergence of asset and wealth management, discussing how private markets are accelerating the integration of the two, the role of retail capital and more. A few photos from their panels below.
About us
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of June 30, 2025, Ares Management Corporation's global platform had approximately $572 billion of assets under management with approximately 4,100 employees operating across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention: https://www.aresmgmt.com/fraud-awareness
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- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CA
- Type
- Public Company
- Specialties
- Private Equity, Credit, Real Estate, Strategic Initiatives, Alternative Asset Management, Financial Services, Investment Management, and Direct Lending
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Employees at Ares Management
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Erik Starck
Managing Director, Ares AI and Innovation Group
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Nicolai Wadstrom
Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital and AI & Innovation Groups at Ares Management. Repeat Founder, Venture Capital Investor, Keynote Speaker…
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Mark Mavroudis
Managing Director at Ares Management
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Bryan Southergill
Partner at Ares Management
Updates
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We are excited to share that Ares Private Equity funds have closed the acquisition of a significant minority stake in EP Wealth Advisors, a leading registered investment advisor (RIA) platform. This investment will provide growth capital and strategic support to allow EP Wealth to advance several key corporate goals, including investing in talent acquisition and technology, enhancing client-facing offerings and services and pursuing M&A partnerships. More on Ares’ equity investment in the full release: https://lnkd.in/e5Jfdehv
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Last week, Ares hosted an event for Women in Wealth where we invited Lindsay Shookus, seven-time Emmy-winning producer, and Katlyn Gao, Co-Founder and CEO of League One Volleyball (LOVB), to discuss their careers in sports, media and entertainment and how they—in their unique ways—have gone against an established ‘playbook’ to innovate in their industry. More from Christina Fast Adamson, Co-Head of U.S. within Ares Wealth Management Solutions, below.
My parents taught me early: don’t follow the playbook — write your own. That mindset shaped my path in sports, business, and leadership—and it all came full circle last week at Ares’ Women in Wealth: Rewriting the Playbook event in NYC, where I was joined by 100 female professionals in the wealth management community. I had the joy of hosting a fireside chat with my cousin, Lindsay Shookus — 7-time Emmy-winning producer and a force behind some of the most iconic live entertainment on television. Her career is a masterclass in leading with trust, navigating unpredictability, and finding power in vulnerability. And I was equally inspired listening to Katlyn Gao, Co-Founder and CEO of League One Volleyball (LOVB), whose vision for reshaping women’s sports is bold, inclusive, and deeply entrepreneurial. She’s not just rewriting the playbook—she’s building a whole new league. From live content to live competition, both conversations explored how trust, teamwork, and innovation scale across industries and how many women are leading the charge. Here’s to rewriting the playbook—and trusting the team around you as you do it. #InTeamworkWeTrust #RewritingThePlaybook #WomenInWealth #Leadership #LOVB #AresManagement
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Promote Giving is a new collective of funds committed to donating the equivalent of at least 5% of performance fees to charitable organizations focused on healthcare, education and other drivers of human well-being. Ares is proud to be a founding signatory of this groundbreaking model for philanthropy within the investment industry. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e2m-CDdx #PromoteGiving
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Ares CFO Jarrod Phillips breaks down the performance of the direct lending market over the last 20 years and shares why the asset class has garnered steadier returns relative to the public markets. More from Jarrod here: https://lnkd.in/eay5xBkG
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As volatile headlines continue to grab attention, global equity and debt markets persist in navigating the noise. We assess the impacts of these headlines, the health of global economies—specifically the state of job markets, inflation and what that means for interest rates—and how investors are responding in our quarterly Global Credit Monitor. Learn more in the full article, Puzzle Pieces Coming Together: https://lnkd.in/evY6XMdJ
Headlines day-to-day remain loud and volatile, but global equity and debt markets are persisting in navigating the noise, with equity markets near record levels and credit spreads remaining near historical heights across the credit spectrum in the last quarter. The medium-term outlook looks clearer for now, and is certainly an improvement over the second quarter, which has resulted in M&A activity picking up in the last few months. However, activity remains well off record 2021 M&A levels and global credit activity remains more heavily weighted to refinancings instead of new-money deals. While the equity market and private and public credit markets are firmly open for business, and private equity and corporates are keen to transact, it’s been the IPO market that has been muted until recently. Interestingly, in the last two months we have seen a material step-up in activity, particularly in the U.S. and parts of Asia, which could be the key catalyst to properly unlock M&A and create further credit opportunities more broadly. But is it all positive? From a credit-risk perspective, we believe we should remain focused on the broader health of global economies while also balancing that with our bottom-up analysis, specifically the state of job markets, inflation, and what that means for the interest rate outlook (which are likely to be unsynchronized globally, presenting additional considerations). We are pleased to share the latest quarterly Ares Global Credit Monitor: https://lnkd.in/ggNfqk95 Looking at the S&P 500 and EURO STOXX 50’s second quarter earnings results, over 75% of companies reported as in line or ahead of expectations. That said, the impact of tariffs was always going to take a while to be felt given the amount of activity experienced in the lead-up to implementation. The real impact is likely to start being felt in the next couple of quarters, and while the U.S. administration’s next steps continue to be uncertain, the early expectation of pro-business legislation seems to be coming through. Meanwhile, potential escalation of geopolitical risks continues to be an area of focus, but to date has had limited direct impact on global credit markets. Digging a bit deeper, what does a rate-cutting U.S. Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) mean for credit spreads? History is likely a good guide, with Bank of America recently having completed some interesting analysis on credit spreads largely being correlated when the Fed cuts rates after a pause at current levels for at least six months. As with equities, credit markets tend to rally ahead of the event as well as after… Ares Management #investing #markets #leveragedfinance #privatecredit #directlending
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Co-President Kipp deVeer sat down with Bloomberg’s Lisa Abramowicz for a live broadcast from the Greenwich Economic Forum. They discussed 2025 deal volumes, recovery in the second half of the year and the New Economy as an exciting sector for investors seeking diversification opportunities in real assets. More below.
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CEO Michael Arougheti sat down with CNBC’s Leslie Picker to discuss the retail opportunity across private markets, why it is particularly compelling for investors seeking to diversify their portfolios and more. Find their full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eaNCJSwh
Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti discusses how individual investors have been driven to alternatives to find diversification as the public markets become more concentrated. Watch the full conversation and sign up for the Inside Alts newsletter: cnb.cx/4nyse3q
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Head of Credit Secondaries Dave Schwartz contributed to Ares’ latest Perspectives article on the liquidity solutions investors are seeking in today’s market. More from Dave on the value of holding deep market knowledge, capital scale and certainty and the ability to execute quickly. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e3Ch32KH
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Ares is proud to announce that it has raised approximately $5.3 billion of capital for its Infrastructure Secondaries strategy, inclusive of the final closing of its latest dedicated fund, Ares Secondaries Infrastructure Solutions III (ASIS III), General Partner commitments and affiliated vehicles. The total capital raised is among the market’s largest infrastructure secondaries campaigns to date. The Ares Infrastructure Secondaries team is part of the broader Ares Secondaries Group, which has established a more than 30-year track record and managed nearly $34 billion in assets across the infrastructure, real estate, private equity and credit asset classes, as of June 30, 2025. Congratulations to the team for this exceptional achievement that reinforces Ares’ ability to deliver creative liquidity solutions for investors and capitalize on the investment opportunity ahead! More in the full release: https://lnkd.in/e7P9TT6u
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